I recommend the book "Rebirth of Nanming as an Emperor" written by a book friend, and if you are interested, you can take a look.

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The result of this imperial meeting was to increase the military strength and consolidate the border defense, so as to prevent the Mongols from suddenly attacking and being in a hurry.

And before the completion of the reform in the north, try to stabilize the situation as much as possible, and no longer launch large-scale wars with foreign countries, but foreign colonial wars will continue.

The focus of the imperial court in the coming years will still be on internal reforms, so a stable situation is needed to ensure that the reforms can be completed smoothly.

Especially at present, those old interest classes are already full of vigilance about reform and may jump out at any time to make trouble. At this critical juncture, it is indeed inappropriate to wage war everywhere.

In order to meet the needs of the situation, after the imperial meeting, Zhu Youxiao convened a meeting of the general headquarters to make new changes to the military.

The main reason for this change was to increase the establishment of the Ming National Defense Force, and the size of the National Defense Force was set at 1 million people, mainly the production corps, and the soldiers were mainly compulsory soldiers.

In addition, the size of the Daming Field Army will be increased to 400,000, organized into 25 infantry divisions, 20 cavalry divisions, and 3 artillery divisions.

The size of the Marine Corps was expanded to 100,000 men and organized into 10 infantry divisions.

The garrison has 50 garrison brigades with a strength of 250,000.

The size of the local armed police force is set at 100,000, distributed in various New Deal areas, and is a military force that can be directly mobilized by the local government.

The total number of troops is 1.85 million, and the number of professional soldiers is small, most of them are conscripts. At the same time, most of them are production corps, and local garrison brigades will carry out production.

Only the 500,000 troops of the field army and the Marine Corps do not need to be engaged in production, and these troops either fight wars. Either train the troops. The local armed police are used to maintain law and order. Regular training is also required.

The production corps of the Wehrmacht will be distributed along the defense line. The focus is still distributed on the border with Mongolia, although these production corps do not spend so much time on training, but after all, they are firearms troops, and they can go to the battlefield after a few months of training, not to mention five years of service, and they can be trained during the agricultural slack period.

Although these production corps are not as elite as the field army, their combat effectiveness is not too bad, and they have a large number of reliable firearms. It was more than enough to deal with the Mongols, and they were fully capable of holding up the border defense. In the event of a large-scale war, these Wehrmacht forces can be drawn to fight.

These units are further divided into the Northeast Military Region, the Northwest Military Region, the Central Military Region, and the Nanyang Military Region.

The center of the Northeast Military Region was located in Shenyang, the center of the Northwest Military Region was located in Urumqi, and the center of the Central Military Region was located in Baoding. The center of the Nanyang Military District is located in Manila, Luzon.

At the same time, because of the increase in the number of war horses, Zhu Youxiao decided to equip the infantry of the field army with substitute horses to enhance the mobility of the field army. Coupled with the constant construction of highways. In the future, the field army can quickly rush to the theater of operations.

The Northwest Theater, the Northeast Theater, and the Nanyang Military Region all have national defense as their main purpose, and it is unlikely that they will pose much of a threat to the central power.

Naval side. Three fleets, the Central Fleet, the Beiyang Fleet, and the Nanyang Fleet, were established, with the Central Fleet being the strongest and responsible for external naval warfare. The Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet were responsible for assisting customs, clearing pirates, rescuing merchant ships and fishing boats, exploring various sea areas, and assisting the marines in suppressing the riots and natives.

The North and South Fleets will be equipped mainly with cruisers and frigates.

The Central Fleet will be equipped with 20 2,000-ton battleships, which will be equipped with large-caliber heavy guns, and after the completion of these battleships, these battleships will be able to serve for at least 30 years, which is a relatively cost-effective military investment.

And the battleships of small tonnage, some will be decommissioned, and some will be incorporated into the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet.

As a result of this restructuring, the military structure has been formally perfected.

The old frontier army will be completely dismantled by the eighth year of the Apocalypse, and the local guard posts in the New Deal area will also be completely abolished.

In the military aspect, Zhu Youxiao has already grasped it thoroughly.

This military power is also the capital of Zhu Youxiao to travel to this era and settle down.

This restructuring will be roughly completed within three years, and it will be ten years when Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, which can really be described as ten years of sharpening a sword.

Those generals who followed Zhu Youxiao to establish the new army were all promoted one by one at this time, and after the restructuring, eight army commanders emerged, all of whom were Zhu Youxiao's old subordinates who had organized and trained the new army.

Sun Chuanting served as commander-in-chief of the Northeast Military Region, Lu Xiangsheng was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Northwest Military Region by Zhu Youxiao, and Gao Bangzuo served as commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Military Region.

These appointment decrees were issued one by one, and the fastest one to rise was Lu Xiangsheng, who was also at the level of a rocket. However, Lu Xiangsheng has just commanded the army to recover the Western Regions, and the credit is big enough, although he is younger, he can't find fault with his promotion to commander-in-chief of the Northwest Military Region.

However, the ministers were no longer surprised by the emperor's behavior, and Sun Chuanting was also flying up like a rocket.

For these guys who are running up like rockets, others can only look at and envy, but there are not many who can enter the emperor's eyes, but these people who have been quickly promoted are all very good, and many ministers admire the emperor's talent.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao's talent can only be said to be average, but the traverser can naturally distinguish some loyal traitors.

The personnel changes did not end, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli were transferred back to Beijing by Zhu Youxiao, Yuan Keli served as the secretary of the military department, and Sun Chengzong served as the chief of staff of the general headquarters.

Jiannu has been wiped out, and the northeast region is now stable, and the two old ministers, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli, are naturally going to be transferred back.

And Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng happened to be in the prime of life, and it was time for them to be put in charge of military affairs.

Zhu Youxiao planned in his heart that Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, two courtiers who were loyal and capable to the imperial court, could work for him for at least thirty or forty years, and there would be no problem in transferring them out to work for a while. And Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli, the two old ministers, were transferred back, and they didn't have to travel everywhere.

Sun Chengzong was relieved after receiving the order. Sun Chuanting came. handed over the position to Sun Chuanting. Then rush to the capital.

Previously, Sun Chengzong had held heavy power in the Northeast all these years, and he was also worried about the emperor's suspicion, so this time the emperor transferred him back to Beijing to serve, which was naturally relieved.

As the emperor, the possibility of Sun Chengzong's rebellion was very low, at this time the northeast region was pacified, the field army was withdrawn from the northeast region one after another, and the military strength in Sun Chengzong's hands had been greatly weakened. Zhu Youxiao was not worried.

Sun Chengzong, who was transferred back to Beijing, served as the chief of staff of the Supreme Command, and his status was second only to Zhu Youxiao, but the military power was in the hands of Zhu Youxiao, so there was no hidden danger for this.

Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli, who were transferred back to Beijing, soon took over the work.

At this time, the Ministry of War was equivalent to the Ministry of National Defense, and the Supreme Command Department was the specific military command department, which was the product of Zhu Youxiao's military centralization.

Reforms are continuing, both military and administrative.

After Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan provinces were included in the scope of reform at this time, the new deal area became even more vast. There is no longer just one northern province and the three eastern provinces, as well as those overseas areas.

These three provinces were included in the reform. The population of the Xinzheng area has increased by more than 60 million, while the population of Beizhili has reached more than 30 million, and the population of the Northeast region has also exceeded 10 million, and the total number of Hanmin population in the New Deal area has exceeded 100 million.

The reform was fully supported by the interest group of the state-owned capital consortium, as well as by the private factory owners in the newly expropriated areas.

The New Deal reform means that more people will be included in the system, and the market will become larger. And not a little bit bigger, but exponentially.

When the market is bigger, the more money you make.

The investment and construction of the official and state-owned capital consortia have provided jobs for the common people, and wealth has continuously penetrated into the grassroots people, so that the grassroots people have purchasing power and the demand for commodities can further increase.

Moreover, after the enclosure movement is launched, the level of urbanization will continue to increase. The population is concentrated in cities and towns, and the natural economy in the countryside will be quickly replaced by a commodity economy.

When the time comes, industries such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation will be driven.

For the state-owned capital consortium, the reform of the New Deal is definitely a process of a large amount of assets. First of all, all mining in the newly expropriated area will be monopolized by a state-owned capital consortium, and all privately owned minerals will be nationalized and private mining will be prohibited.

The metallurgical industry is also an industry monopolized by a state-owned capital consortium, and private capital such as metalworking can enter.

Banks owned by various countries will also be set up in administrative areas to absorb deposits, and local banks and pawnshops will be closed.

Those Shanxi Jin merchants are going to vomit blood this time. They were also the most opposed to reform among the northern merchants, but King Fu's rebellion failed, and they did not dare to jump out against the court now.

There is really no way to do the Jin business, has successively shut down the ticket number for settlement, this business is really unable to continue, and the network of Shanxi ticket numbers has been fragmented. With the rise of state-owned banks, these ticket numbers have gradually lost their competitiveness.

In addition, the roads are also the assets of the state-owned capital consortium, which are built by enterprises under the state-owned capital consortium, but also accept private investment.

The state-owned capital consortium is also enclosing land in the New Deal area, and the main force of the enclosure movement is still these state-owned capital consortiums, and there is more and more land in their hands anyway, and the good assets are in the hands of the state-owned capital consortium, which is basically only in and out.

There are many sources of these lands, some of which were bought with money, some of which were liquidated by banks after the bankruptcy of merchants' mortgages, and some of which were obtained by raiders.

Real estate development or something, the state-owned capital consortium will naturally not let go, these are all interests. Of course, in some areas, state-owned capital consortia will compete with private capital.

However, the most profitable in these years is industry, and the state-owned capital consortium currently monopolizes mining and metallurgy, and at the same time, by virtue of patent law, it monopolizes the production of many commodities by virtue of those technical patents.

In particular, those emerging industries are basically monopolized by state-owned capital consortia. For example, mechanical manufacturing, chemical industry, and so on.

Once reformed, too many new interests were created, and under the impetus of a group of new capital forces, traditional interest groups have been suppressed.

While Zhu Youxiao was concentrating on internal reform, technological inventions were constantly emerging and improving.

The first telegraph route was finally built, from Beijing to Tianjin, although it was not very far, but after this telegraph line was put into operation, it was an immediate success. The speed of communication from Beijing to Tianjin is so fast that people in this era feel unimaginable.

The advent of the telegraph made it very easy for the state-owned capital consortium to operate commercially.

What do you rely on to make money these days?

It's just by communicating faster than others, so it's too easy to make money.

In this era of underdeveloped communications, whether the market demand and the scale of production can match are actually not clear to everyone. As a result, commodity price fluctuations are very normal, and sometimes they fluctuate quite a lot.

Just like the tea and vegetable trafficking business in later generations, when the telephone was not popularized in the rural areas, the business was very good, and the sellers could grasp the price initiative, but later when the telephone was popularized in the rural areas, the sales business gradually became difficult.

Therefore, the speed of information acquisition is the key to commercial profitability, and in later generations, most of the valuable information is monopolized, and ordinary people do not have much access to it.

Where there is demand, where is the nearest place to have goods, the telegraph is definitely a weapon for business operations, with this thing, it will be very convenient to coordinate goods in the future.

One step ahead is an artifact, and one step behind is ****. Therefore, although the telegraph is not as good as the communication tools of later generations, its value in this era is incomparably great.

And the key is that this technology is in the hands of the imperial court, laying lines, and opening a telegraph company all require the nod of the imperial court and private capital to enter, and obviously the telegraph industry is also something that will be monopolized.

After the first telegraph line was successfully put into internal operation, the plan for the large-scale telegraph was born, and Yang Guorui proposed the establishment of a telegraph company to first lay the telegraph to all areas of the New Deal.

"The telegraph company is indeed going to set up one, but don't open it to civilian use first, and use it in a few years within the imperial court." Zhu You proofread Yang Guorui and ordered.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yang Guorui wrote it down, and then went to ask people to prepare for the establishment of a telegraph company.

In July of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the 'Daming Telegraph Company' was formally established, and the emergence of the new technology of telegraphy made it possible to build one more thing, and an industry appeared, and the economy was driven by the new demand generated by these new technologies.

However, these telegrams are not open to civilian use for the time being, this thing is a commercial weapon, and with this thing, the state-owned capital consortium can kill many private businessmen. Capital is a game in which big fish eat small fish, and the state-owned capital consortium has now become a big fish, so it is natural to eat small fish everywhere.

The telegraph will not be open to civilian use for several years. The opening up of the civil sector is also a gradual opening up, for example, in areas where the state-owned capital consortium has an absolute advantage, the telegraph will be opened to civilian use.

At the same time, the telegraph will also change the control of the imperial court over the local situation, as long as the telegraph is used in the military and administrative systems, the imperial court's control over the local situation will be greatly enhanced.

In addition to the maturity of telegraph technology, there has also been a breakthrough in new spinning machines, and the number of spindles driven by a hydraulic spinning machine has been increasing, and finally even reaching the level of driving 1,000 spindles at the same time, and the productivity of the textile industry has begun to expand rapidly. (To be continued.) )