"Your Majesty." Zhou Yanru got up and saluted the emperor, "The old minister thinks that the thieves are powerful, and the soldiers are besieging Luoyang, and the Central Plains are in danger of erosion." At this time, the imperial court must send troops to support, in order to protect in case, the old minister recommended that the king of the county personally lead the troops south to rescue Luoyang, and supervise the Central Plains to suppress bandits. ”

"I won't." Zhu Cihong directly vetoed it. "The imperial brother is the minister who cares about my life, and I can't leave the imperial brother for a moment."

"Your Majesty, Henan Zuo Liangyu has always been domineering, and now he has been repeatedly defeated by thieves, afraid of war, if there is no important minister to supervise Henan, I am afraid that I will not be able to save the chaos in Henan. The king of the county is like a god with soldiers, and the army is looking forward to it, and the king of the county will go out of Beijing to supervise the Central Plains, and he will inevitably succeed. The sooner you put down the banditry in Henan, and the sooner you return to peace in the Central Plains. Zhou Yanru said.

The thieves in Henan did not get up in a day, in fact, the thieves have been attacking the city and plundering the land in the past few months, although the local military and political circles in Henan have deliberately concealed it, but the imperial court cannot be ignorant. It's just that everyone was busy fighting in Beijing before, and they didn't have time to take care of him, and they didn't think that the thieves could make any more waves.

And now, the thieves have swept through the Central Plains, the kings of the clan and the county have been killed, and all the soldiers have besieged Luoyang, how can they still turn a blind eye. However, Zhou Yanru was not so worried about the people of Henan, he saw a good opportunity, an opportunity to drive Liu Jun out of Beijing.

Let Liu Jun supervise the Central Plains to suppress bandits, just to drive Liu Jun out of Beijing.

Zhou Yanru's intentions, Liu Jun can see through at a glance.

"Your Majesty, it's just a remnant of bandits, why be afraid?" Liu Jun got up, "The minister thinks that he only needs to immediately send an order to Zhang Shan, the chief military officer of Huguang, and order him to lead his troops into Henan to suppress bandits, and the soldiers and horses will be successful." ”

"Zhang Shan is only the chief military officer of Huguang, and when he entered Henan to fight, he was afraid that Zuo Liangyu would not cooperate, and the local government would not listen to the order. It is still necessary to supervise important ministers like the king of the county to command Henan. Wu Fu also stood up in solidarity with Zhou Yanru.

Many officials in the hall were surprised, but they didn't expect that the two people, who had always been bitter enemies, actually had the same attitude.

"That's not that hard. Give Zhang Shan the title of commander-in-chief of the Central Plains Suppression of Bandits, so that the civil and military officials of Henan will be subject to his control, cooperate with the suppression of bandits, and give him a Shang Fang sword, which is enough. Liu Jun said with a smile.

At this time, Liu Jun would never leave Jingshi easily. Without him in charge, it would be difficult to integrate the Beijing army as soon as possible, and as soon as he left, Zhou Yanru and the others would definitely find a way to work together to deal with him.

Zhou Yanru and Wu Fu were resolutely opposed.

In the end, after arguing for a long time, Liu Jun suddenly threw out a new proposal.

"Your Majesty. Since the abolition of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, all military affairs have been assigned to the Ministry of War, which is in charge of both military affairs and military orders, which is inconsistent with the legal system of the ancestors. Moreover, now that the captives outside the customs have not been extinguished, they are still eyeing each other, and there are bandits in the Central Plains who are still in peace and are making chaos everywhere. The minister thought that in order to strengthen the coordination between His Majesty and the imperial court for the war situation in the world, another military aircraft department should be established. ”

Liu Jun proposed. Establishment of a Military Aircraft Division. This military aircraft department is the military staff advisory body of the emperor and the prime minister's office, which is responsible for communicating with the imperial court and military towns in various places, and is responsible for transmitting the military decisions of the emperor and the prime minister's office.

"The Ministry of War should only be responsible for military affairs and have the right to command the military. The right to transfer troops should no longer be asserted, and the right to transfer troops should be a system of military orders. Military, government, and military orders should be separated, and the power to command troops and the power to transfer troops cannot belong to the same one. ”

The purpose of setting up the Military Aircraft Department was to usurp the power of the military department. The transfer of troop transfer authority from the military department to the military aircraft department. Liu Jun did this not to make another move, but to seize power, and he was not only satisfied with only managing the two armies under the governor of Zhili. He, the minister who cares about his life, wants to control the power of the world's troop transfer through the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department, even if it is temporary, he cannot hold this right alone.

"Your Majesty, the Military Aircraft Department is Your Majesty's Military Staff Advisor's Office, reporting directly to Your Majesty."

When Zhu Cihong heard that the Military Aircraft Department had directly reported to him, it meant that he had the right to directly participate in the decision-making of troop deployment and command, and he couldn't help but be very interested.

"Your Majesty, the minister believes that in the future, the military aircraft department will be in charge of military affairs. In addition to the Ministry of War, there should also be a separate Privy Council. After that, the military department was in charge of military affairs, and the Privy Council was in charge of military orders. One has the right to command the army, and the other has the right to transfer the army. ”

Zhou Yanru saw that the emperor was very interested in this proposal, and his face couldn't help but change slightly.

He interrupted Liu Jun and asked, "Before, it was also the king of the county who proposed to abolish the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Governor's Office of the World, but now after a short time, he wants to set up the Military Aircraft Department and the Privy Council, what is the difference between this Privy Council and the original Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies?" Isn't this a change of day, like child's play? ”

"Of course it's not that simple." Liu Jun said, "I originally set up the military department and the governor's office of the five armies, and were in charge of the military, government and military orders. However, with the abolition of the guard, the Governor's Mansion has already existed in name only, and its functions and powers have been usurped by the Ministry of War. After the removal of the guards in various places, the governor's office of the five armies naturally had no reservation. ”

"However, the lack of separation between military orders and military administration is also a major hidden danger. In order to make the overall deployment of troops more efficient and clearer, it is necessary to re-separate the military-government-military order system. The establishment of the Privy Council is not the restoration of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Jun took out a scroll and opened it.

Above is a chart, which clearly re-indicates the future command system of the Ming army with graphics, which is clear at a glance.

On this map, the Ming Emperor is the supreme commander and decision-maker of the entire Ming army, and under the emperor, it is the military aircraft department dominated by the ministers of the four orders.

Then down there, the Ministry of War and the Privy Council.

In the future, the military department will be a military and political system, responsible for the army's administration, logistics, equipment, selection, promotion, rewards and punishments, and so on. Under the Ministry of War, in addition to the original divisions, there will also be army divisions, navy divisions, general armament departments, and general logistics departments.

The Privy Council, on the other hand, is a military order system with a dispatcher. The Privy Council has a Privy Council, and under it there is a General Staff Department and the Headquarters of the Five Armed Forces, who lead all military districts and military towns in the world.

In Liu Jun's command system, the Military Aircraft Department became the highest military decision-making center, and the Military Department was changed to a military and political system, which was responsible for the administrative and logistical system. The chain of command of the Ming army will be the basic chain of the emperor, the military aircraft department, the privy envoy, the general staff, the headquarters of the five armies, the military regions, and the military towns, which will be responsible for the operational command, control, coordination and training of the Ming army.

"The Military Aircraft Department is directly responsible to the emperor, and its members are the ministers of the four orders, the secretary of the military department, the privy envoy, the chief of the general staff, the commanders of the five armies of the front and back, the commander of the army, the commander of the navy, the director of the general armament department, and the director of the general logistics department."

The core members of the entire Military Aircraft Department have reached 16.

The Military Aircraft Department is the superior of the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, and communicates with the Emperor, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Ministry of War and the Privy Council below.

This is a very complicated structure, but smart people such as Zhou Yanru, Wu Fu and others can still see Liu Jun's true intentions at a glance, and they have gone around in such a big circle, in fact, they are coming for military power.

If Liu Jun had not removed the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, it would have been difficult to snatch the command from the military department. Now they went around in a big circle, first abolished the Fifth Military Department, and then turned around and said that the military department had too much power and that there was no distinction between military and government and military orders, and then turned around and set up a Privy Council and a special military aircraft department, and the core power of the military department was immediately deprived.

made it so complicated, just to hide his ambition to seize power.

It's just that he is so smart that he didn't directly get a privy council, but also set up another military aircraft department, pulled the emperor in, and made him the top decision-maker of the military aircraft department.

In this way, the military department is equivalent to becoming the governor's office of the five armies in the past, without the right to transfer troops, only administrative logistics are left, what is the difference between this and the military department in the Northern Song Dynasty?

On the contrary, the really most important power of the Ministry of War was transferred to the Privy Council, and through this General Staff Department and the Fifth Army Headquarters, it held the right to transfer troops. The military towns to which they belong directly hold the command authority.

"I'm against it." Zhou Yanru said angrily.

"I'm against it too." Wu Fu also stood up and said.

Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also spoke out against it, if he really did this, then what else would he have to do as the secretary of the Ministry of War.

At this time, Liu Zongzhou spoke.

As one of the four lives, his attitude is extremely crucial. Now on the scene, Zhou Yanru and Wu Fu teamed up to pair Liu Jun 2 to 1, accounting for the majority and opposing opinions.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that this proposal of the county king is Lao Cheng's proposal to seek the country. The Governor's Office of the Five Armies has indeed existed in name only, and the Ministry of War is in sole charge of the power to command and transfer troops, which is inconsistent with the ancestral system. Now the king of the county proposed to establish a privy council to be in charge of military orders, the military department to be in charge of military affairs, and the military and government and military orders to be separated, which is a good thing. Mutual restraint can last for a long time. His Majesty is young, and then set up a military aircraft department, which is responsible for coordinating the military department and the Privy Council, and serves as an adviser to His Majesty's staff, which is also a good suggestion. The old minister agreed with the proposal of the county king, and believed that the military aircraft department and the privy council should be established. ”

Two to two.

Four ministers of life, two to two, equal.

At a critical time, it depends on the emperor's attitude.

"Then according to the proposal of the county king, set up the Military Aircraft Department and the Privy Council." The emperor made a final word. "This matter is the sole responsibility of the county king."

The first Privy Envoy, and finally the current Ministry of Industry Shangshu Fan Jingwen served as the Privy Envoy. Although Fan Jingwen is the current secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he has visited the secretary of the Ministry of War and counsellor in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and has the name of knowing the soldier. Later, because he admonished Chongzhen on the Zodiac Monday, he angered Chongzhen and was demoted. After that, Mei Zhihuan entered the cabinet and used him to enter the court, and once again became the official of the Ministry of Industry.

This can be regarded as a relatively capable and practical official.

For this privy envoy, Liu Jun did not fight, nor did he want to concurrently serve or use his own people. According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to use a military force to become a military secretary or privy envoy in the future.

Liu Jun doesn't care too much about who is the privy councillor, the most critical thing in the Privy Council is the chief of the general staff and the five commanders, these six people are the most important people in the Privy Council, not to mention, there is a military aircraft department above the Privy Council.

As for the military department, Liu Jun simply let Zhou Yanru and them recommend officials to serve as commanders of several services. Compared with similar theater commanders such as the commanders of the five armed services, the commanders of these services are actually only in charge of administrative logistics. (To be continued.) )

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