Today's Li Jiancheng is very happy, although Ling Xue next to him still ignores him, but after this battle, maybe he has also grown a lot. At this moment, he really thought about what direction he should take this next step. Whether to continue to engage in industry or to turn to culture, Li Jiancheng shook his head after the last refusal, and the latest thing to be carried out in the present urgent task should definitely be military construction.

When you have hard power in your hands, you can say anything. It's as if TMD almost made him Li Jiancheng run away this time, if he had an army in his hand, he would never come up with such a strategy!

The construction of the army is definitely a matter of urgency at present, although he Li Jiancheng has not yet come up with a modern thermal weapon, but he can also let people wait for weapons, and must not let weapons wait for people!

Thinking of doing it is also Li Jiancheng's style, and when he turned around, Li Jiancheng called Wang An over, and Li Jiancheng asked: "Wang An, you tell me, how many people are in my forbidden army in this capital?" ”

Wang An stepped forward and replied, "Your Majesty is talking about the Praetorian Guards?" If it is the pro-army of the forbidden army under His Majesty, then there are now 26 guards, with a total of about 150,000 people! This also counts the brocade guard. ”

The military system of the Ming Dynasty was that the guard was under the jurisdiction of a thousand households, a thousand households under the jurisdiction of a hundred households, a hundred households under the jurisdiction of the general flag, and a small flag under the general banner, and the small flag was the most basic combat unit. Of the 394 guards of the regular army, 65 of them were independent and unconstrained, and they were generally located in key areas or in parts that could not be connected between the two guards. Normally, one guard commands five stations with 5,600 soldiers.

Li Jiancheng was shocked when he heard this, it turned out that he also had 150,000 junior brothers in his hands, and there was no problem at all in forming a field army. Li Jiancheng thought for a while and continued to ask: "Then how many troops are stationed in the entire Beijing Division!" ”

Wang An then replied: "Under Your Majesty, the entire army of the Jingshi Gongwei has a total of 72 guards, which is expected to be more than 400,000 people. ”

400,000 people Li Jiancheng was shocked again, these 400,000 people are just the capital. And how many troops are there in the country? Judging from the percentage that Li Jiancheng understands, this number is definitely more than two million!

Thinking of the figure of these two million people, Li Jiancheng remembered another question about finance, that is, military salaries! Speaking of military salary, Li Jiancheng remembered the finances, judging from the annual income of less than 5 million taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty at this time, even if no one had one tael a year, half of the military expenses were gone, not to mention that one tael per person per year was possible? In the Ming Dynasty, during the Chongzhen period, only the military salary cost 12 million taels of silver every year, and this figure directly increased by more than five times.

Here I have to say that some of the armies of the Ming Dynasty adopted the system of 'hereditary soldiers of the Tun army and Tuntian'! This system is Zhu Yuanzhang's thought, in his mind, to use the world military system, and the implementation of the tuntian system. According to the regulations, the border army guards the city in three points and the tun in seven points; The inland army is divided into two to defend the city, and eight is divided into tun. Each soldier was given a share of land (about 20 acres), and the government provided cattle, farm tools, and seeds, and handed over grain according to the portion. In this way, the army would be able to provide for itself locally, thereby reducing the burden on the state to raise troops.

Zhu Yuanzhang's idea is good, but people are not as good as the sky, and the increasingly serious disasters in the world during the Xiaoice River period have caused extremely serious damage to agriculture, and the number of military services is declining rapidly every year. Under such circumstances, the Tuntian army still had to pay a large amount of grain to the DPRK, and even the monthly rations were accompanied and had to be pasted upside down, so the situation gradually worsened than that of the peasants! In addition, in the Ming Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's ideology of emphasizing literature over military force was continued, and the social and political status of the military was becoming increasingly low. With the changes in society, some soldiers even evolved into slaves, and officers were free to carry the burden of labor as they pleased. In addition, the corruption of the politics of the Ming Dynasty drove the corruption of the army, which directly led to the fact that most of the army had almost no combat effectiveness.

The hereditary military household system even forcibly drew some people to become soldiers, and they were not allowed to choose freely, and they could not even turn into peasants. Therefore, under such conditions, there has been an incident of military households fleeing, and the number of military households fleeing in the three years of orthodoxy today exceeds 1.6 million, and the officers are greedy for bribes and indulge the soldiers to flee, and the military households will not be held accountable for their escape, because the monthly ration of the military household who escaped in this way is his!

With such a large number of flight rates, the people left behind are naturally only old, weak, sick and disabled, which is also for what kind of Jiajing period, a few thousand Japanese can enter Nanjing, you can imagine how much the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army has declined! It is also because of this that the Ming Dynasty had to re-adopt the conscription system, and the conscription system can choose the quality of the source of soldiers, so that the military strength of the Ming Dynasty has been somewhat rebounded. But then there is its strange financial problem, the recruitment of soldiers and hereditary soldiers are different, that means high military funds, Hongzhi years to recruit soldiers 'people to silver five taels' silver five can be folded rice seven stone to ten stone, than the orthodox initial recruitment to cloth two times higher, to Jiajing 29 just nine sides of the recruitment of silver required as high as 590,000 taels, so what is the development of the Chongzhen years of the annual military capital as high as 12 million taels.

This is how it also continued the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, and in the end, the money that was really sent to the soldiers was still nothing, just ask how much combat effectiveness such an army can have? At worst, it only adds to the burden of the state.

Li Jiancheng knows that the army has always been truly combative, and that is not a split of sentiment, and it is nonsense to sacrifice one's life to serve the country with righteousness and loyalty. All decisions are still interests, and the army without the temptation of exact actual interests is a lion napping just a big cat, and only fresh meat is in front of it, it is a real beast. In order to motivate the fighting power of the army, it is necessary to have an atmosphere of emptiness; The honor of Chongwu and the exact actual reward!

At this time, the system of the Ming Dynasty was not perfect, and the army was old, weak, sick and disabled. Thinking of this, he Li Jiancheng was sad for a while! Forming a new army this time is definitely not an easy job! Maybe everything has to be done by him Li Jiancheng himself, and if he wants to form a new atmosphere, the original system and ideas will all have to be broken and reshaped!

Li Jiancheng's face changed, he became extremely serious, and he said to Wang An: "Wang An, you go and give me an order to 26 Wei Qinjun, so that they can immediately start screening soldiers, according to my requirements, the age must not be less than 18 years old, more than 25 years old, and the elevation should be around 6 feet (about 31 centimeters in the Ming Dynasty), and not less than five and a half feet." The body should also be strong, not too thin, and have a certain amount of stamina, not necessarily their elite, but they must meet my requirements. You have transferred 30,000 men of such soldiers to me in the twenty-six guards, remember that they are soldiers, and there can't be an officer, understand? All the people I want are soldiers, and these people will be monitored by the Jinyi Guard for the time being, let Luo Sigong go and find a good camp for me to settle them all first, and I will go to order troops the day after tomorrow! ”

Wang An was shocked when he heard this, is the emperor going to refine the new army? That's a big deal. Wang An nodded and said, "It's the slave who understands, and he will give the order immediately!" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "Hmm! In addition, there is another matter, you immediately send a decree to the whole country, so that all the local and military officers' armies will send a soldier into Beijing in a hundred-to-one way, and the banner will be said that I want to see the quality of the local army, and see what the local army of our Ming Dynasty is like! All you have to do is make sure they send me the best, the most elite soldiers, and remember that there is nothing but no officers! In the end, you can say that the soldiers in some places are good, I have rewards, and I may send people to check the appearance of the soldiers, and this matter should be made more powerful, do you understand what I mean? ”

Wang An immediately understood when he heard this, the emperor is the Ming Xiu plank road dark Chen Cang, in this way, the best soldiers must be sent in this place, although it is only one in a hundred miles, but with the Ming army's more than two million troops, 20,000 troops can be drawn, and these 20,000 people can definitely compare to the normal 100,000 troops! Wang An nodded again and again: "The old minister understands, the old minister must handle this matter well!" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, Li Jiancheng's own meaning was actually similar to what Wang An thought, but he was going to let 20,000 people be used as non-commissioned officers of his modern army, Li Jiancheng thought that as long as he used three or five years to cultivate this 50,000-strong army, he would definitely be able to pull up a 100,000-strong army after the Apocalypse. When that time comes, it will be much easier for Li Jiancheng to carry out military reform in the future. Since you want to train your own officer system, you must first build a military school, didn't Lao Jiang just rely on being a principal to get mixed up? Speaking of construction, then we have to go and see how the cement is doing!

Li Jiancheng turned his head to Ling Xue and said suspiciously: "Secretary Ling, that encyclopedia has been read like this, is there anything you don't understand, and if you don't understand, you can ask me!" ”

It's a pity that Ling Xue didn't pay attention to him at all, it seemed that she had completely mastered his temper Li Jiancheng, she knew that talking to this rogue emperor couldn't take advantage, as long as she ignored him, he would express everything.

As the saying goes, if you can't eat grapes, say that grapes are sour, Li Jiancheng is the one who can't eat grapes, Li Jiancheng scolded the thief in his heart, which turtle king bastard said that the traverser Wang Ba shook his anger and the girls were all upside down? For what Lao Tzu has become the emperor, there is still a sister upside down, and he still looks like a dead beggar in vain, the sky, the earth! That's not right, the traverser's routine is not like this!

Hey, Li Jiancheng sighed, but fortunately Li Jiancheng is a person who is good at betraying his feelings, he knows very well that it is very difficult to understand between people, and sometimes we need to have a choice to sell our feelings, and it is precisely because of this that he is positive and optimistic. Li Jiancheng said, "Okay, Secretary Ling, accompany me to see something interesting, and see what changes will occur when things of different natures are combined in this world!" ”