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"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that martial arts should be the same as Wenju, forming a customization, in order to promote the prosperity of my Ming military. The fastest and most stable update dìng"

Li Yuntian saw that Emperor Xuande and Yang Shiqi were looking at him with great interest, so he groaned for a while, and said in an orderly manner, "According to the minister, my Ming Dynasty's military cannot rely only on those honors in the court, although they can fight well, but the descendants of later generations will be able to enjoy their achievements because of the grace of their ancestors, and they will definitely lose their vigor and lack of progress, so the minister feels that the military should be standardized and the best materials should be selected." ”

"Choosing the best materials?" Emperor Xuande's brows furrowed slightly, and his face showed a thoughtful look.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that instead of just reusing Xun Qi, it is better to control the world's martial arts, enter to open up the territory, and retreat to defend the country."

Li Yuntian saw that Emperor Xuande seemed to be a little moved, and said while the iron was hot, "In this way, those honorable relatives will also be prepared for danger in times of peace and serve His Majesty wholeheartedly." ”

"How to regulate martial arts? And how to control the world's martial arts? Hearing this, Yang Shiqi couldn't help frowning and said, "Zhao Song's martial arts can be called complete, with three levels of decomposition test, provincial test and palace test, but the military strength is still weak, and the only way to defend Jiangnan is to rely on the great river to defend the south of the Yangtze River." ”

"Pavilion Elder, according to the opinion of the lower officials, although the Zhao and Song Dynasty martial arts system is complete, but the court all attach importance to literature and light on military force, and when commanding the army, the military is controlled by civil and military, and the general is from the middle of the imperial court, so that the Zhao and Song Wuju exist in name only, and in the end of the Song Dynasty, no one among the famous generals comes from the martial arts."

Li Yuntian had already been prepared, bowed slightly to Yang Shiqi, and said in a deep voice, "Therefore, Xia Guan feels that the civil and military should be divided and ruled, so that the martial arts and the literary juju are respected by the people of the world, so that the martial arts can be as prosperous as the literary ju, and attract talents." ”

"Civil-military division?" It was the first time for Emperor Xuande to hear this kind of strange statement, and his eyes couldn't help but "reveal" a suspicious look, and he was a little curious about Li Yuntian's remarks. [29015671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty] 290 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 293

"His Majesty, Wen Yianbang, governs the people's livelihood; Determine the country with force, defend the territory and expand the territory. The civil and military generals perform their duties in order to complement each other. ”

Li Yuntian nodded solemnly at Emperor Xuande, and said in a deep voice, "Therefore, Weichen feels that he can follow the example of the cabinet, and the military department, the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion and the Five Military Governor's Mansion will set up a military cabinet, the cabinet will manage the people, and the military cabinet will unify the army. ”

"The Pavilion?" At this moment, the eyes of Emperor Xuande and Yang Shiqi both "revealed" a look of surprise, Li Yuntian's idea can be described as unique, and no one has ever mentioned it.

"Your Majesty, according to the minister's opinion, the members of the military cabinet all work for Your Majesty, make military suggestions for Your Majesty, and have the duty of transferring troops, but have no right to hold troops."

Li Yuntian knew that his proposal was very novel to Emperor Xuande and Yang Shiqi, so he explained it in detail:

"Among them, the Governor's Mansion is in command of military posts above the level of affairs, which are appointed by His Majesty and handed over to His Excellency the Army; The commander of the guard and the guard of the thousand households shall be reported to the military cabinet by the governor's office, and shall be appointed by the military lord after the permission of His Majesty; The position of 1,000 households and 1,000 households shall be reported to the Governor's Office to which he belongs, and shall be appointed by the Governor's Office below; The position of 100 households and 100 households shall be reported to the subordinate capital department by each health office, and the department shall be appointed by the following divisions. ”

"As a result, there will be clear levels at all levels in the army, appointments will be orderly, and military power will be in the hands of His Majesty." In the end, Li Yuntian couldn't help but conclude.

"Li Yushi, the military department, like the military cabinet, is also a transfer of troops but not a command of troops, except for that set of appointment system, this officer does not feel that there is any difference between the two sides." Yang Shiqi's brows furrowed slightly, and he quickly raised a question.

"Cabinet Elder, the biggest difference between the military cabinet of the lower officials and the military department is its role and internal system."

Li Yuntian bowed slightly to Yang Shiqi and replied solemnly, "According to the expectations of the lower officials, the three major yamen under the military cabinet are the General Staff Department, the Logistics Department and the Supervision Department. ”

"The General Staff Department is in charge of military intelligence spying and operational deployment, the Logistics Department is in charge of grain and herb medicine, and the Supervision Department is in charge of countering rebellions.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that not only can the military cabinet set up three major yamen of staff, logistics and inspectors, but also the governor's office and the local capital division, and even the guards and guards of thousands of households, can also be set up accordingly, so as to correspond to the military cabinet, clarify the functions and powers, and share the worries of the chief officials at all levels."

As he spoke, Li Yuntian turned to Emperor Xuande and said quietly, deliberately aggravating his tone on "sharing worries for chief officials at all levels".

In the past, most of the lower-level military attachés in the army were appointed by the commanders at all levels, and all of them were their confidants.

According to Li Yuntian's system, the officials of the three major yamen will be appointed by the higher departments, so that the power of the chief officials at all levels will be virtually restricted. [29015671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty] 290 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 293

After listening to Li Yuntian's explanation, Emperor Xuande's eyes couldn't help but light up, Li Yuntian's military cabinet system not only made the military cabinet's right to transfer troops and the power of the governors to command troops complement each other and perfectly combined, but also completely limited the possibility of military generals at all levels to support their own troops.

What is particularly important is that since the military cabinet is held by the military attaché, this excludes the outside interference of the Ming military and creates a rare opportunity for development.

"Your Majesty, although Li Yushi's idea is wonderful, the court's relatives will definitely not sit idly by, and the consequences may be unimaginable." Yang Shiqi's brows couldn't help but furrow deeper.

Li Yuntian's use of military tactics to draw materials, coupled with the appointment and dismissal of military posts at various levels, not only abolished the hereditary system in the army, but also damaged the core interests of those nobles in the DPRK and China, and moved the military power in their hands, and the nobles of the DPRK and the DPRK will definitely attack them en masse.

When Emperor Xuande heard this, his eyes gradually dimmed, and it was difficult to implement Li Yuntian's vision, first of all, it was difficult to cross the threshold of the honorable nobles in Beijing.

"Cabinet Elder, the lower officials believe that this matter can be implemented in an orderly and gradual manner, first follow the example of the cabinet to set up a military cabinet, determine the members of the military cabinet, in order to compete with the governors of each prefecture, as for other affairs to be promoted in the future."

Li Yuntian naturally knew that his military pavilion concept could not be achieved overnight, so he calmly said to Yang Shiqi, his words were full of worry:

"Don't hide from the elders, in the opinion of the lower officials, the establishment of the imperial court system and regulations should be adapted to the time and local conditions, Emperor Taizu established a hereditary military rank when the soldiers were brave and brave, which had little impact on the morale of the army, but the times have changed, because there is no promotion system, the disadvantages of the hereditary military position are becoming more and more prosperous, and the officers and men in the army have no enterprising ambition, low morale, and low combat effectiveness."

"Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong are both emperors of great talent, on the battlefield, open up territory, invincible, the elder of the pavilion has gone through four dynasties, presumably Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong know a lot about the combat power of our Ming army, think which is stronger and which is weak?"

After pondering for a while, Li Yuntian asked Yang Shiqi with a solemn expression and asked meaningfully.

Although Li Yuntian did not say it explicitly, it was obvious that he was alluding to Emperor Yongle's "Fengtian Jingjing" incident, and it was not appropriate to say it explicitly.

During the period of Emperor Jianwen, the Ming army experienced the recuperation of the Hongwu Dynasty, and the combat effectiveness was not only not enhanced but weakened, and the southern army composed of elite Jingwei could not eliminate the northern army of the Yongle Emperor in the good situation of the large number of people.

At that time, Emperor Hongxi only led 10,000 soldiers, and with the assistance of the people, he defended the city of Beijing, blocking the hundreds of thousands of southern troops led by Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, from outside the city.

As for the cause of the defeat of the Southern Army's siege, the outside world blamed Li Jinglong's improper command, accusing him of being a gentleman, unscrupulous and arrogant, and "lustful" and discouraged.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Jinglong's ignorance of the military is only one reason for the failure, and there is another important factor:

Although the number of the northern army is small, but the Yongle Emperor rewards and punishments are clear, following the Yongle Emperor will have the merit of the dragon, the official into the knighthood, the wife and the son, so the momentum of the northern army is like a rainbow, everyone in the war, all of them are brave, in order to make military merits to be promoted, which is why there are those who have made great achievements in the later Jing Nan Honor.

On the other hand, in the Southern Army, due to the hereditary military position, there is no hope for soldiers to advance, and the work of counterinsurgency will also fall on the heads of officers at all levels, so the morale is low, and the soldiers will naturally not devote themselves to Emperor Jianwen.

Otherwise, if Emperor Jianwen had the elite soldiers in the early years of Hongwu, Emperor Yongle would be defeated immediately, and it would not have caused him to lose his throne, and when the northern army attacked the city of Nanjing, he would have disappeared, and even the emperor was deprived.

Yang Shiqi went through four dynasties as mentioned earlier, but if it is subdivided, it is actually five dynasties, namely Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi and Xuande.

However, because Emperor Yongle seized the throne of Emperor Jianwen, the era name of Emperor Jianwen was also removed, so that the four years of the Jianwen Dynasty were merged into the Hongwu Dynasty:

The Hongwu Dynasty originally had thirty-one years, and after Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, he did not recognize Emperor Jianwen as the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, so the four years of the Jianwen Dynasty were regarded as an extension of the Hongwu Dynasty, so the Hongwu Dynasty became thirty-five years.

It is precisely for this reason that Ming Taizong is not Emperor Jianwen, but Emperor Yongle.

However, in order to make his biological father's tablet of Xingxian Wang enter the main hall of the Taimiao of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiajing Emperor of later generations changed the temple number of the Yongle Emperor Ming Taizong to Chengzu, which is the famous "Great Discussion Ceremony Dispute" in the Ming Dynasty.

The main hall of the Taimiao of the Ming Dynasty enshrines the tablets of the nine emperors, of which the center is naturally the founding Emperor Taizu, and the other emperors can only be called "Zong".

With the increase of emperors in later generations, when there are more than nine emperor tablets in the main hall of the Taimiao, then someone's tablet will be invited out of the main hall and moved to the temple, and the rule followed is "close to the temple".

What is "closeness"? It means that the tablet of the emperor who is furthest from the current emperor's relationship will be moved to the temple in the apse of the Taimiao.

But there is an important rule, that is, the founding emperor Taizu "never exists", that is, the tablet of Ming Taizu will always be in the center of the main hall of the Taimiao.

As a result, the throne farthest from the Jiajing Emperor's nitrogen relationship is naturally Ming Taizong.

But Emperor Taizong Yongle of the Ming Dynasty was such a divine martial artist, not only seized the throne of Emperor Jianwen through the Battle of Jingjing, but also expanded the territory and submitted to the Quartet.

Emperor Jiajing was self-aware, so he naturally did not dare to provoke Emperor Yongle, so the civil officials under him came up with a way to change the temple name of Emperor Taizong of Yongle to "Chengzu", and became the emperor of the "ancestor" generation of the Ming Dynasty like Emperor Hongwu.

This also means that Emperor Yongle is also like Emperor Hongwu, and the tablet will live in the main hall of the Taimiao Temple forever.

Therefore, Emperor Jiajing moved the tablet of Emperor Hongxi of Mingrenzong to the temple of the apse of the Taimiao, and invited the tablet of his biological father Xingxian Wang to the main hall of the Taimiao Temple, becoming Mingruizong.

So Emperor Yongle has become the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty since the Jiajing Dynasty, and there was a strange phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, the temple number has two "ancestor" emperors, Taizu and Chengzu, but there is no Taizong.

Today, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has been much weaker than that of the Yongle Emperor, and the garrisons in various places are not only loosely trained, but also have insufficient soldiers and low morale, which is embarrassing for the task.

Even the Jingwei, which the Ming Dynasty was proud of, was in a deteriorating state in the army, and it was not optimistic, and it was bound to be difficult to resist foreign enemies in the long run.

Emperor Xuande and Yang Shiqi did not know the current situation of the Ming army, but Li Yuntian knew a lot about it from Zhou Zheng, so he worriedly made suggestions to Emperor Xuande