Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen first convened a meeting of the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhou Yuji, Liu Fangliang, He Xin and other people who have become old and toothless who have followed him to conquer the world have all entered the Qianqing Palace.

On the same day, Zhu Youzhen first promulgated the military rank of "marshal" awarded to this group of veteran meritorious heroes.

This kind of military rank is already considered an honorary military rank, and he, Zhu Youzhen, is the generalissimo, and the marshal is naturally second only to him.

Although it is only an honorary military rank, it can be regarded as giving these old heroes a status above 10,000 people, but I am afraid that the new emperor will have to treat these people who are second only to their father in the army when they ascend the throne.

Zhu Youzhen is a total of the top ten marshals!

The first is Zhou Yuji.

As the founder of the First Army, Zhou Yuji is also a general who has made the first contribution.

Zhu Youzhen had just crossed at that time, and when the thieves were approaching the city, he made a big gamble and asked Zhou Yuji to lead his troops into King Qin.

And Zhou Yuji really chose to rush to the capital King Qin without hesitation, and made the first contribution to saving Zhu Youzhen, which also allowed Zhu Youzhen to put down the shameless Wenchen, laying the foundation for going south and revitalizing the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Later, the First Army, under the leadership of Zhou Yuji, was stationed in Shandong, fought several fierce battles with the Manchus, and participated in the Northern Expedition.

It can be said that Zhou Yuji became the first marshal, well-deserved, and at the same time, Zhu Youzhen crowned him as the king of Ningnan and allowed him to stay in the capital, and his sixteen sons, regardless of their concubines, were all given titles to Oceania, South America, Africa and other places to establish states.

Then came He Xin.

He is the martial artist who has accompanied Zhu Youzhen for the longest time, and has always maintained the stability of the central government, and it is understandable to become a marshal.

And he was also named the king of Dongxiang by Zhu Youzhen, which is the highest title eunuch since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and his nephew He Fang established the Duchy of Dongxiang in New Zealand.

And then there's Liu Fangliang.

This thief-turned-peasant rebel general would never have imagined that he would be one of the top ten marshals today.

But he deserved to be a marshal, and from the beginning of Zhu Youzhen's subdued army to the south, the peasant army he brought with him became one of the backbones of Zhu Youzhen's later conquest of the world.

Later Ming history experts in the Ming Dynasty commented on his joining that year:

"The annexation of Liu Fangliang's peasant army to Gaozu marked the transformation of the army that followed Gaozu south from an army that belonged only to the bureaucracy to an army of a nation, and it was precisely because of this that Gaozu could recklessly suppress the gentry who rebelled against him without fear of army mutiny in Jiangnan."

Liu Fangliang was followed by Huang Degong.

Although Huang Degong was one of the four towns in Jiangbei from the beginning and was a powerful warlord in the Ming Dynasty at that time, he did not secretly have the ambition to be the emperor.

He also had no complaints about Zhu Youzhen's reorganization of his army and taking away his military power in the later period.

That's why.

Although Huang Degong was not a general with a brilliant record, with his qualifications and high style, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen also made him the fourth marshal of the Ming Dynasty.

The fifth marshal is Liu Kongzhao, who founded the navy, although Liu Kongzhao is not a famous naval general, but he has the highest seniority in the navy, so he should be worthy of it.

Then came the sixth marshal, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, who gave him to the highly decorated Yan Yingyuan.

As a famous general in a hundred battles, Yan Yingyuan is still a hot military figure in the Ming Dynasty today, and he has just conquered the entire southern Xinjiang, and it is well deserved to become the sixth marshal.

And the seventh marshal is Zheng Chenggong, who has a record at sea, and no one can surpass him.

Then the eighth place is Dingding Liaodong, Qin Zuoming who took the old lair of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The ninth place is Chen Zilong, who swept Mo Nan and Mo Bei.

The tenth place is the most junior and even surrendered to the general, but he made meritorious contributions in the destruction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and overseas land battles, and his record is not inferior to Yan Yingyuan's Li Dingguo.

The sons of these people were given knighthoods and granted them to establish a state overseas.

In addition, there are ten generals.

The first is Gu Yanwu, who founded the modern military education of the Ming Dynasty.

The second is Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who has made outstanding contributions in intelligence.

The third is Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Dongchang Investigation Bureau, who has made outstanding contributions in maintaining internal stability.

It is worth mentioning that if Wang Chengen had not died, Wang Chengen would have been a marshal.

The fourth is the veteran Jiao Lian, whose qualifications are not much worse than Yan Yingyuan, and how much worse than Li Dingguo in terms of military merits.

The fifth is Wang Fuzhi, who was born as a literati.

The sixth is Zhang Huangyan, the first assistant of the current cabinet.

The seventh is Gu San Mazi, who was born in the navy, and is now renamed Gu Chushi.

The eighth is Zhu Youzhen's most trusted guard, Li Ruolian.

The ninth is Zhang Juzheng, who has been in charge of the royal guard, and Zhang Tongchang is the successor.

The tenth is Song Yingxing, who has made outstanding contributions to the manufacturing of military machinery in the Ming Dynasty.

Song Yingxing is also the oldest person among them, and even the person who has more health care doctors than he is the emperor.

Then there is the determination of generals, major generals, colonels, colonels, majors, etc.

Zhu Youzhen issued an edict that the top ten marshals and the top ten generals are honorary titles, and the generals in the future can only reach the highest general, no matter how great their merits are.

But successive emperors can directly succeed the generalissimo.

Due to the re-examination of military ranks, the re-discussion of meritorious service activities led to the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen sealing more than 120 countries within a year.

But that's exactly what it is.

There are more than 120 Han Chinese countries on the whole earth.

Plus the previous one.

There are a total of 247 Han Chinese countries in the whole world.

The largest of these countries is naturally the Ming Central Empire, in addition to him, the largest is the Ming Yongli Empire established by Guiwang Zhu Youlang in the Americas, he already has an army of 100,000 and has just taken the Mexican region.

The Tang Empire of the Ming Dynasty, established by Tang King Zhu Yujian, had just expanded to the Mississippi River and north to Alaska.

The Duchy of Ningnan of the Great Ming Dynasty on the Black Sea had just occupied Greece and was ready to take a sword against Western Europe.

Yan Yingyuan's descendants forcibly occupied a territory in southern France and established the Duchy of Daming Zhijiang, and repeatedly repelled the French army, and also launched an attack on Paris during the reign of Louis XV.

And in the fifty-sixth year of Chongzhen.

Zhu Youzhen also revoked the Zheng group's tariff privileges, for which the two sides launched a civil war, and the Zheng group was eventually defeated.

The island of Taiwan came under the jurisdiction of the Central Empire.

And it is worth mentioning that the supreme commander of the Ming Dynasty who participated in this war was Zheng Chenggong himself.

After the Central Empire made him the supreme leader of the navy, he could no longer tolerate the presence of a powerful navy outside of the central navy.

Gu Yanwu, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, had a bad relationship with the English Stuart Dynasty because of the opium trade, and finally forcibly occupied England, forcing the Stuart Dynasty to cut England to the Ming Dynasty.

In the sixty-fifth year of Chongzhen, a Ming dynasty founded by the descendants of Li Dingguo, the Ming Dynasty suddenly attacked Scotland and destroyed the Stuart Dynasty.

As a result, England was completely occupied by the Han Chinese.

With the help of the technology provided by the Central Empire, the crazed Han Chinese state replicated and expanded like a virus and bacteria, squeezing less and less living space for other civilizations, and finally died out completely.