In the opinion of Xu Wanghua, the first assistant of the cabinet, the Ming Dynasty has stabilized, and it is completely possible to start a comprehensive conquest of the Eight Banners Army in Liaodong and Liaonan, after all, this is the most important thing at present, after so many years by the emperor's side, Xu Wanghua of course knows some of the emperor's thoughts, the Eight Banners Army in the north and the Qing Kingdom have always been a huge threat, and if you don't pay attention to it, it may cause huge turmoil in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

However, a few months have passed, and the emperor has not mentioned the conquest of the Eight Banners Army, but has spent time on the cabinet, the imperial court and the reorganization of the army, which makes Xu Wanghua feel strange.

Not only Xu Wanghua, but also Zhou Yanru, the second assistant of the cabinet, and other cabinet ministers also expressed their incomprehension of this, and even the busiest Zuodu Yushi Wen Zhenheng mentioned the conquest of the Eight Banners Army in the early dynasty.

The responsibilities of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have long been unusual, directly responsible to the emperor, not subject to the control of the cabinet, supervising all the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and impeachment and false accusations without evidence are strictly prohibited, which makes Wen Zhenheng under great pressure, and the establishment of branches of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the provincial capital and prefecture to clarify its responsibilities is not as simple as lip service.

It's a pity that the emperor seems to be indifferent to all this.

The difference is that the emperor invested a lot of energy and began to implement many reforms on the Zheng family.

The first reform is to adjust the composition of officers at all levels of the Zheng Jiajun; in the past, the officers at all levels of the Zheng Jiajun basically had no scholars, and even those who showed off their talents were very few, and almost all of them grew up and promoted from the fighting, but now the emperor has specially decreed that officers above the guerrilla general level of the Zheng Jiajun will need to have the status of raising more than one person in the future, unless it is a special circumstance.

The second reform is the complete abolition of the military household system and the change of the army to a recruitment system. This point of thorough reform is very crucial, it can be said that the construction of the army before the Ming Dynasty was completely negated, and it is precisely because of the abolition of the military household system that the seven military regions can be established, and the provincial command divisions can be abolished, but with the implementation of the abolition of the military household system. The sergeant's salary was also fully guaranteed, and all its expenses were directly borne by the imperial court.

The third reform is to relax the restrictions on the recruitment of non-commissioned officers, and encourage young people with a certain degree of knowledge to enter the army, and these people can be promoted preferentially if they perform well.

The fourth reform is the most critical reform, that is, on the identity of civil officials and military attachés, the Ming court has always emphasized civil affairs over military force, but the emperor decreed. If an officer in the army enters the ranks of the civilian service, it is only a lower-level arrangement, for example, a guerrilla general of the fifth rank is from the fifth rank when he becomes a civilian official.

Moreover, the distinction between civilian and military attaches is no longer unbreakable, and civilian officials may enter the army at any time to become military attachés, and military attaches can also enter the civilian ranks at any time.

At the same time, the emperor also spent the greatest effort to rectify the water division.

The supreme commander of the naval divisions stationed in Penglai and Fujian was directly concurrently served by Zheng Jinhong. This was completely beyond everyone's expectations, even if it was the chief and deputy chief soldiers of the Zheng family's army. None of them paid special attention to the sailors.

The emperor's reshaping of the army has caused huge repercussions in the court, and there are still many voices of opposition, after all, hundreds of years or even close to a thousand years have passed, and it has become a habit to emphasize literature over military force.

But the emperor was unmoved and insisted on doing so.

The fifth day of November in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. On the fifth day of November in the first year of Ruiyuan, Qianqing Palace.

The early dynasty has ended, and this time the dispute over the reform of the army has reached its peak, and the reason is that the emperor decrees. It is required that among the many two-rank jinshi trained by Guozijian, some of the jinshi with excellent grades will be selected to directly enter the Zheng Jiajun and serve as officers at all levels of the Zheng Jiajun, but these two-list jinshi are very unable to figure it out and are unwilling to enter the Zheng Jiajun.

Of course, it is impossible to say that these two Jinshi did not obey the order, but they did not form a good understanding ideologically, and it was difficult for them to bear the heavy responsibility when they entered the Zheng family's army.

The emperor then left the cabinet ministers and officials above the third rank in the court, and wanted to specifically explain the matter of sending two Jinshi into the Zheng family army as officers.

According to the previous arrangement, the lecture hall is slowly changing, and it has become a school for the special training of officers at all levels of the Zheng Jiajun, and all the officers at all levels of the Zheng Jiajun must enter the lecture hall for training, which is slowly changing its functions, and if the training is not qualified, they will not be able to continue to serve as officers at all levels of the Zheng Jiajun.

The cabinet ministers and most of the officials of the DPRK and the central government believed that it was enough to train the officers of the Zheng Jiajun by the lecture hall, and there was no need to transfer the two lists of jinshi from the Guozijian into the Zheng family's army, and besides, the selection of officers could be carried out completely through the method of martial arts.

Zheng Xunrui looked at the many ministers and spoke in a solemn tone.

"I have decided to carry out a large-scale reform of the Zheng Jiajun, you Aiqing have ideas, if you Aiqing figure it out, there will not be so many discussions below, and there will be no resistance when the two Jinshi of the Guozijian enter the Zheng Jiajun, so I think the root is still in your Aiqing, and today I will talk to you about this matter carefully."

"The army is the foundation of the country, without a strong army, everything is impossible, even if my Ming Dynasty is rich, the people are living a good life, there is money and food in their hands, but there is no guarantee of a strong army, such wealth is short-lived, it is impossible to maintain."

"The painful lessons of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, all of you Aiqing should understand, and it is from this aspect that I have made up my mind to build the Zheng family army."

"Good iron does not hit nails, good men are not soldiers, this is a popular saying that has been circulated among the people for many years, Xiucai meets soldiers, it is unreasonable, and it also describes the quality of the sergeant, why such an understanding is formed, that is, the court thinks that as long as the soldier can charge into battle and kill the enemy, he does not need to have any knowledge, which leads to the low quality of the sergeant."

"I have been founding the Ming Dynasty for more than 300 years, this understanding has been deeply rooted, the military household system is even more low in the quality of the sergeants, there are very few literate people in the army, it is difficult to pick out one among the thousands, even the sergeants themselves think that knowledge has no role for them, as long as they can charge and kill the enemy."

"Is this really the case, I think this understanding is very wrong, extremely stupid, during the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, the situation of killing good and risking merit has repeatedly appeared, when the rogue is wanton, the common people even support the rogue and hate the imperial army, which also leads to the continuous development and growth of the rogue, and finally even entered the capital and forced the emperor to hang himself."

"The army needs to have a military soul, and the sergeants need to have quality, and it is by no means a good thing to show that the soldiers are unreasonable, and once the sergeants have no quality and are not constrained by military discipline and regulations, they will become unscrupulous, infringe on the interests of the people, and do all kinds of evil, resulting in a decline in the overall quality of the army.

"When the Zheng family army was formed, strict military discipline and military regulations were established, and now these military discipline and military regulations have become the military soul of the Zheng family army, such a military soul must continue and develop, but how to do this, it is necessary to improve the overall quality of the army, improve the quality of the individual sergeants, and be able to do this, Zheng Jiajun will be able to be strong for a long time."

"Zheng Jiajun still undertakes countless tasks, there are Eight Banners Army and Mongolian tribes in the north, and there are many barbarians overseas, which all need the soldiers of Zheng Jiajun to defeat and completely conquer, maybe ten years, maybe decades, or even longer, how the imperial court maintains the strong combat effectiveness of Zheng Jiajun, one of which is to improve the quality of officers and sergeants."

"The army of the Tang Dynasty was powerful in all directions, and people did not dare to look sideways, and the reason was nothing more than three aspects, one is that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, personally led the army to fight, and had an extraordinary influence on the army, and the second is that the sufficient national strength and prosperous economy provided a strong guarantee for the army, and the third is that the quality of officers and sergeants is extremely high, and the sergeants are mainly composed of children of good families and well-behaved scholars, they have very good knowledge, and have a strong sense of national identity and honor, such high-quality sergeants, It is inevitable to form an army that is brave in battle and stubborn in will. ”

"The negative example is also obvious, that is, the army of the Yuan Dynasty, its combat effectiveness is extremely strong, it can be described as invincible across the four seas, but it is a pity that after the Yuan Dynasty unified the Central Plains, its rule only lasted less than 90 years, and then collapsed, there are many reasons for this, and the low quality of the army is also the main reason.

"During the period of my Great Ming Qi and Chongzhen, the low quality of the army was also obvious, and all of you Aiqing knew it."

"The army is the most important weapon of the country, I don't understand, why would anyone think that a sergeant doesn't need any knowledge, and any big boss can be a good sergeant."

"Of course, I don't mean that ordinary sergeants should also be full of knowledge, that is impossible and unnecessary, but the quality of officers must not be sloppy, officers must have good knowledge."

"The Ming Dynasty has slowly stabilized, in this case, I and the imperial court have higher requirements for the Zheng family, the officers at all levels of the Zheng family army must be high-quality talents, capable of civil and military skills, to a certain extent, the senior officers of the Zheng family army in terms of comprehensive ability, even stronger than the civil servants in the court."

"I have made a decision, this cannot be changed, first of all, the cabinet ministers, officials above the third grade, the understanding must be unified, in the future, the squire of the six ministries, the imperial history of the Imperial Court and other officials, the adjustment of entering the Zheng family army as an officer, may become the norm, and the matter of Zheng family army officers entering the court as an official will also appear from time to time." (To be continued.) )