Although the military service system is aimed at every citizen of the Ming Dynasty, even men and women.

However, Zhu Youzhen also said that it is not strictly required that every citizen must perform military service.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is not a small country, and it does not need tens of millions of troops, which is also a burden on the finances of the imperial court.

The reason why it is necessary to show that everyone has the obligation to join the army is only to facilitate the direct requisition of any manpower, material and financial resources in wartime.

As for non-wartime, it all depends on whether or not to serve voluntarily.

In fact, it is similar to the conscription system, but it is only the emperor Zhu Youzhen recruiting soldiers instead of generals recruiting private soldiers.

Of course, although Zhu Youzhen said in front of the ministers that military service was not strictly enforced, all the people must strictly enforce it, and like the Tartars, it is necessary to ensure that every ordinary person can operate basic firearms and have basic military qualities.

"After the conclusion of this court meeting, the cabinet should send a note to the Ministry of Rites and the Guozijian that a regulation must be drawn up, requiring the Guozijian and the local government schools and the military offices of all prefectures and counties to conduct regular military training every year, and the local guards and gendarmes have the obligation and responsibility to conduct military training for these students and local adult people."

Zhu Youzhen didn't know what the real effect of military training in middle schools and universities would be in later generations, after all, China in later generations was an era of peace.

But in his view, this kind of comprehensive and universal military training can at least enable the common people not to panic in the face of war, or in the event of a large-scale war, it can turn ordinary people into main battle soldiers who can obey the command in the shortest possible time.

It can transform the population controlled by a regime into actual potential military power.

"Just now you said that the command system of the Ming army is too complex and chaotic, and there are too many governors, governors, commanders, and even commanders and generals, and I also know this, from now on, I have decided to divide the existing control of my Ming Dynasty into twelve theaters, and let Ma Shiying, the secretary of the military department, tell you about the specific division and military command system of the twelve theaters."

Ma Shiying, the secretary of the Ministry of War, stood up with a radiant look: "Colleagues, by the holy decree, Huguang, Fengyang, Yingtian, Huaiyang, Susong, Shandong, Henan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Yunnan-Guizhou, and Liangguang are now divided into twelve theaters, and each theater has a general army and a governor; The Commander-in-Chief is responsible for command, and the Governor is responsible for the propaganda of military discipline, and is also accountable to His Majesty, without going through the Ministry of War or the Cabinet. ”

As soon as Ma Shiying said this, the other officials all showed surprise, and no one expected that the general soldier and the governor were jointly responsible for the emperor Zhu Youzhen.

This meant that the emperor would have direct control over the military.

"In addition, the general army has a deputy chief soldier, a general officer, a deputy general, a staff general, a guerrilla, etc., of which the general officer is responsible for strategy and is responsible for the general army; Under the governor, there is a governor, the governor commands the civil affairs of the war zone, and is responsible to the governor, that is to say, from now on, each war zone has both civil and military forces, and the division of labor is different, in principle, the governor has the final decision, and His Majesty will directly issue an order to decide on the candidates for the governor and the general army of the provinces, and the previous governor will be banned and ready to accept new appointments! ”

After Ma Shiying, the secretary of the Ministry of War, finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen personally made a supplementary explanation.

Although Zhu Youzhen was not a strict soldier in his previous life, he was also a person who had invaded the military ideas of various famous modern and modern masters for a long time, and he also knew what kind of army would have combat effectiveness.

Now he is doing this, which is nothing more than to change the Ming Dynasty's old practice of emphasizing civil and military affairs, eliminating the distinction between civil and military, and distributing power according to operational needs.

Naturally, the general army is not necessarily a military attaché, he can be a former civilian official, and the governor is not necessarily a civilian official, or a former civilian official.

The distinction between civil and military in the era of small-scale peasant economy is no longer suitable for this era of hot weapons.

Specific appointments are naturally meritocratic and appointee-based.

After all, in the current war, the bravery of the generals has less and less influence on the success or failure of the entire war, and more about who is better at commanding and who is better at coordinating forces.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen wanted to make the appointment mechanism of the army commander of the Ming Dynasty completely flexible, that is, the meaning of whoever is powerful will command.

Zhu Youzhen did not intend to let the military department no longer manage the power to transfer troops and the power to appoint and dismiss commanders in the world's armies, which is naturally beneficial to reduce the power of the military department and let the military power fall into his own hands.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen is a person after all, and it is impossible to have a lot of time to coordinate all aspects of military operations, and he also needs a central organization to be responsible for the overall coordination of his Ming military operations.

But Zhu Youzhen didn't want the cabinet to take on this responsibility, after all, although this would weaken the power of the military department, it would also make the cabinet's authority greater.

Zhu Youzhen can let the cabinet have more power than the six ministries in the area of civil affairs, but he cannot control the power of the world's soldiers and horses, after all, that will have an impact on his dictatorship.

Zhu Youzhen wants to re-establish a military organ, which is equivalent to his own military secretariat, which will be responsible for handling daily military affairs for himself.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

As for the military department, it is not that he no longer has great power, at least he is responsible for military training and army recruitment, and the military police in guard posts throughout the country are also in charge of the military department.

From a certain point of view, it can be understood that the future field troops, that is, the Guards, will only obey the orders of the Ming Emperor, and will not obey the orders of the military department.

And the rest of the armies are basically the same as before.

At this point, the military meeting held by Zhu Youzhen in Huai'an Mansion can be regarded as basically over.

In this meeting, as the emperor, as the supreme commander of the Ming Dynasty, he clarified the main military strategic purpose, that is, to unite with the Kou and the capture of the Emperor.

Then, the military system was divided into two systems: the field guard army and the local military police, and the military geography was also used to divide the Ming control area into 12 theaters, and the command system was redefined.

In this way, the originally complex and disordered military system of the Ming Dynasty began to clearly know what its mission was.

The Field Guards were only responsible for foreign warfare and were only under the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, and were not responsible for tuntian and local law and order.

The local gendarmes are responsible for the construction of tuntian, highways and bridges, and the maintenance of local law and order.

After determining the basic military regime.

Next, what Zhu Youzhen had to do was to train the recruits of the Field Guards he had recruited.

How to train troops is not a simple proposition for Zhu Youzhen.

Moreover, there are more than half a million conscripts in front of him, and even this number will get bigger and bigger.

Of course, there are not many soldiers, and Zhu Youzhen will not integrate all the 500,000 conscripts into the field army.

What's more, there are other armies in the Ming Dynasty that still have combat effectiveness that need to be integrated into the Guards.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian can only formulate the most demanding conditions to screen the applicants, and can only train in batches and regions.

Zhu Youzhen decided to draw up the establishment of 12 guards armies in accordance with the 12 theaters, with a quota of 50,000 for each army and a quota of 600,000 for the guards.

That is, each theater of operations has a group of guards responsible for field tasks in this theater.

Naturally, it is impossible for these 600,000 guards to be trained in Huai'an Mansion together.

Zhu Youzhen asked the 12 theaters to be responsible for the training of 50,000 people at the same time, and as for the results of the training, it naturally depends on the ability of the local chief military officers.

The armies of Huaiyang, Fengyang, and Yingtian were unified in Huai'an for training, which were the three important armies defending Gyeonggi, and they were regarded as the Praetorian Guards among the guards, so they naturally had to be controlled by Zhu Youzhen personally.