Liankou Ping.

Zhu Youzhen finally determined the basic military strategy of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

"I don't care what you advocated before, and how much you hated the thieves before, but from now on, as officials of the imperial court, you can only have one consensus, that is, the Tartars who enter the customs are our biggest rivals, and if we don't drive away the Tartars, we don't want to sit on this half of the country!"

Zhu Youzhen said and looked at Gao Hongtu, Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi: "I know that you hate thieves, hate them for being cruel to the gentry, and hate them for ruining your family business, but do you think I don't hate it, I also hate, my ancestral tombs have been destroyed by them, and my Jingshi has been occupied, I can't wait to eat Li Zicheng alive!" ”

"But this is also our own fault, we annexed the land, exploitation is too heavy, the people rebelled, become thieves, it is a last resort, the water can carry the boat or overturn the boat, we can also taste the lesson, we should learn from the pain, with the heart of the sea to tolerate the things that cannot be tolerated, after all, they are also my Ming people, now the Tartars have the disaster of Jinmeng going south, you can't take it lightly, from today on, the thieves are mainly appeased, and the Tartars are mainly confrontational!"

"Obey the command!" The ministers hurriedly began to express their positions.

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Okay, how to appease and resist, Ma Shiying, the secretary of the Ministry of War, will stay and discuss with me later, and next, we have to mention the matter of army restructuring and training, Wu Yingdian University scholar Li Banghua is right, the army of my court is now bullying and bullying the common people." ”

Ning Wubo, who was born in the official army, and Zhou Yuji, originally heard Li Banghua say that his official army could only bully and bully the common people, and he was already unconvinced.

Now, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen also said so.

Zhou Yuji naturally couldn't bear it, and came out to argue with a red face: "Your Majesty, Li Ge's words are also false, the officials and soldiers can not only bully the common people, what kind of thing are thieves, a group of guys who can only wield hoes, back then, Weichen fought bloody battles with the Manchus in Beijing and Shandong, and the Tartar was not three-headed and six-armed, Lao Tzu still killed him seven in and seven out!" ”

"What's the spirit, Li Zicheng entered Shanxi, didn't you run away like this? You were still the chief military officer of Shanxi at that time? ”

As a senior general of the former Chuang Army, Liu Fangliang was attached to Zhu Youzhen, but he did not look at the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers, and now he heard that Zhou Yuji was not convinced, so he went back directly, and there was no lack of ridicule in the words, and he didn't care that this was above the court.

Zhou Yuji, as a military attaché, was naturally not polite, and directly rushed up and raised his big fist: "Dead harrier, what do you know, this official is entering the king of Jingqin by the order of His Majesty, aren't you the general of the right battalion system who broke into the thief, and there are still 100,000 troops, why was it captured by our official army in Baoding Mansion!" ”

"That's your trick!"

Liu Fangliang roared at Zhou Yuji on the spot, if he didn't know that he was in the court, he would have pulled out his knife and killed Zhou Yuji on the spot, and then he had to hold back: "Besides, it was also Your Majesty who personally appeased and gave you a gift from a high-ranking official, so he was willing to surrender, what does it have to do with you Zhou Yuji, you have the ability, let's go to the battlefield to compare, believe it or not, I can subdue you with three punches!" ”

"It's better than that, I've never been afraid of anyone in my life, dead harrier!" Zhou Yuji replied.

"You!" Liu Fangliang immediately rolled up his sleeves and fought with Zhou Yuji.

"Alright!"

Zhu Youzhen shouted at this time, and hurriedly asked Huang Degong and Gao Jie to stop the two: "This is the matter of the court to discuss the army, not a martial arts training ground, are there any rules!" ”

The two of them fell silent.

"The country has a good general, the nation is fortunate, why should the two Aiqing fight, you Zhou Yuji was a Tartar meritorious service and an official into the guerrilla, with a group of Beijing camp with low combat effectiveness, he fought with the Tartars in the city of Beijing, and later in Shandong Yang Liuqing also fought a beautiful battle with the Houjin Tieqi, brave and good at fighting, naturally different from Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's generation;

You Liu Fangliang can become a general of the right battalion system of the army who commands an army of 100,000 from an ordinary person, naturally his strength should not be underestimated, the great Sima Ma Shiying and Jingnan Hou Huang Degong have suffered losses in your hands, and after you entered Henan, the official army has been defeated and retreated, I naturally will not underestimate you, but you can't be arrogant, ask Zhou Yuji for advice on how to kill a Tartar, you haven't even cut a Tartar. ”

Zhu Youzhen said this, so that Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang both had nothing to say.

But at the same time, the two of them were also quite happy in their hearts, after all, His Majesty valued them very much, and remembered their great achievements so clearly.

Ma Shiying and Huang Degong both smiled awkwardly, and did not argue that they would suffer at the hands of Liu Fangliang back then, but they were more refined than Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang.

But Liu Fangliang still couldn't help but pout, thinking that His Majesty had just mentioned that he hadn't even cut off a Tartar's head, it was like being ridiculed by others that he was still a virgin, which made him feel ashamed.

Liu Fangliang can't wait to run north now to kill a few Tartars.

"The combat strength of the officers and troops is not strong, not because their swords are unfavorable, nor because the firearms are not fierce, but because of the people, the sloppy military discipline and the arrears of military salaries are the two major drawbacks.

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen personally pointed to the markers on the map, and put forward the drawbacks of the current military system of the Ming Dynasty, and then mentioned the problem of raising private soldiers by officials.

The ministers also spoke one after another, proposing that the military system of the Ming Dynasty was too complicated, and that the military affairs of a province had a governor and a general military officer, and there were often cases of passing the buck to each other and preserving strength.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen decided to divide the Ming army into two systems, one was a field army system with the Guards as the establishment, and the other was a military police unit based on the original guards, the former was responsible for external operations, and the latter was responsible for suppressing bandits and maintaining law and order internally.

Naturally, the Guards adopted a conscription system, selecting outstanding personnel from among the military police of each guard post or directly recruiting outstanding personnel in the conscription for field training.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the military police of the guard post are based on the existing guard soldiers, and all the old and weak officers and soldiers are assigned to the guard posts, and in the future, those who are injured in the field army or cannot participate in field missions for other reasons will also be assigned to the guard posts.

The so-called conscription is the latest military service system proposed by Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen planned to ban the system that had existed in the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years and divided various occupations into various origins, such as military registration and craftsman registration.

In this way, the hereditary lineage of officers and soldiers will be banned, which will undoubtedly liberate the freedom of the low-level soldiers and civilians, so that they can do business and even study and participate in the imperial examination, so as to avoid continuing to be exploited by the officers.

And the officers also did not have the power to exploit the soldiers for a long time and control the soldiers as domestic slaves, which could avoid the emergence of warlords and military landlords.

For the source of soldiers in the Ming army, Zhu Youzhen adopted the conscription system, that is, any Ming citizen has the obligation to join the army for three years after reaching the age of 16 to serve the country.