Zhu Jie's face froze when he heard this, it seems that he did a little reckless in this matter, now he has promised that Mo Nan Mongolia will be handed over to the hands of the Bahrain Ministry, naturally he can't break his promise, but if he really slaughters Sangmu and comes to the door, when the time comes, he can't stand it if he cries his nose and wipes his tears, but Concubine Yu has just entered the palace not long ago......

"Let me think about this matter, no matter what, the matter of Bahrain Khan, I have already promised, and there is nothing to change, as for the Horqin Department, I can only let them suffer a little grievance."

Zhu Jie said, "The Mongol tribes have now surrendered, and it is our good fortune to be able to avoid another war, and with the withdrawal of the towns outside the Guan, it is time for the imperial court's defense to be improved." ”

Sun Chuanting and Xu Yifan were stunned for a while, this was still talking about the affairs of the Mongolian tribes, and the emperor actually brought the topic to the entire military defense of the imperial court.

"Your Majesty, do you still want to make a big deal against the army? There's no need for that, right? ”

Xu Yifan was stunned and said: "Now the combat power of the Tianwei Army and the Three Towns of Nanjing can sweep the world, such a powerful army, at least in ten years, there is no strength to compete with us, and the minister really can't see where there is any need for improvement......

"Confused!"

Zhu Jie's face sank, and he shouted, "Yifan, the Tianwei Army and the Three Towns of Nanjing are indeed powerful, but this does not mean that we can sit back and relax!" We still have things to do! Now there are more than 300,000 officers and soldiers in the guards and other towns in the Ming Dynasty, and among these guards and towns, except for only a few military towns, the rest of the combat power is scum to the extreme, and the military salaries wasted on them alone are as high as millions of taels every year! Millions of taels! With such a huge number, even if it is used to supervise the construction of warships, it can build a huge fleet in a short period of time! Why do we still keep these people to occupy the pit and not? ”

Xu Yifan came to his senses, the emperor was not talking about the Tianwei Army, but the officers and soldiers of the guards in various places, indeed, these officers and soldiers of the guards, even if they are used to suppress bandits, have no chance of winning, once they encounter a strong enemy, they are not sure, and there is not much difference between existence and non-existence.

"What does the emperor mean is to abolish all the officers and soldiers of these guards, or some of them?"

Xu Yifan asked.

Zhu Jie nodded and said: "Yes, in the future, in the Ming Dynasty, all the guards will be abolished, and each person will retain the strength of one town to maintain local security, and all the officers and soldiers of the guards in each province will be selected to supplement the local military towns, with a limit of 20,000 people per military town, and strict training will be carried out to improve combat effectiveness; The rest of the eliminated officers and soldiers are all retired, and the imperial court will subsidize them with severance silver according to the situation, well, it will be set at one year's military salary, and at the same time, each officer and soldier will be exempted from all taxes within five years after retiring from active duty. ”

Xu Yifan and Sun Chuanting's hearts jumped, using a year's military salary to make the severance silver for each officer and soldier to retire from active service, this is not a small expense, you know, now almost every province has a town of troops, the strength ranges from thousands to 30,000, plus the officers and soldiers of the guard, the strength is at least 350,000, according to the emperor, each province retains a military town of 20,000 people, and the rest of the departments are all withdrawn, at least 100,000 troops must be reduced! The treasury must come up with at least two or three million taels of silver, of course, this is not counting the share that the Tianwei Army and the three towns of Nanjing have occupied, and there are 50,000 Beijing battalions, at least 150,000 troops, that is to say, the officers and soldiers of the guards in the provinces may only need to leave 100,000 people, and they need to lay off 250,000 people, spending more than 5 million silver!

Although the Kannai has now been pacified, the two years of the war have made the treasury finances very tight, where to exchange the five million taels of silver? Isn't that a joke?

Zhu Jie continued: "The three towns of Nanjing are still in charge of the defense of Jiangnan Zhili and are responsible for the defense of Jiangnan; Huang Degong Wuchang Town is responsible for the defense of Huguang, once the bolt is going to go to sea on an expedition, the three towns of Nanjing will be accompanied; Fujian and Guangdong set up two towns of Fuzhou and Guangzhou; Jiujiang Town was established in Jiangxi; Kaifeng Town was established in Henan; Shaanxi set up Xi'an Town, the first town of Tianwei Army transferred to Lanzhou, supplemented five cavalry battalions, responsible for the defense of Gansu and Xiji; Two towns of Kunming and Guiyang were set up in Guizhou, Yunnan, and the second town of Tianwei Army was transferred to Chengdu to be responsible for the defense of the three southwestern provinces; Tongzhou Town was transferred to Jinan and was responsible for the defense of Shandong; The 50,000 Beijing battalion was stationed in two towns to defend the capital and guard the safety of the capital; The third town of the Tianwei Army was stationed in Baoding Mansion, responsible for the defense of Gyeonggi and defending the capital; The fourth town of the Tianwei Army was stationed in Shengjing; The fifth town of the Tianwei Army is stationed in naturalization, and the rear town of Nanjing is stationed in Taiyuan, so that the six towns of Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Henan, and Shaanxi that need to be reorganized are ......"

Xu Yifan and Sun Chuanting's faces became even more bitter, this adjustment is really big enough, not only the two of them, but even Huang Zongxi, the head of the household department on the side, was a little dumbfounded, the reduction of so many soldiers, it means that the household department has to come up with an extra budget of millions of taels of silver, but it is going to die......

"Your Majesty, this action is too big, you can't move lightly in a hurry, once it causes a mutiny in the army, it will become a big trouble for your henchmen!"

Sun Chuanting said urgently.

Zhu Jie stretched out two fingers and replied: "Two years, don't say that I don't give you time, Yifan, it's up to you, within two years, all the guards and soldiers must be abolished, how to do it, that's your business, I don't have time to pay more attention to it!" ”

Xu Yifan has become a bitter gourd face, this hot potato, it's too hot......

"Your Majesty, look, have you forgotten something?"

Li Yan said with a smile.

Zhu Jie was stunned and said, "Brother Li, have you forgotten something?" ”

Li Yan's face was straight, and he replied: "There are military towns in all provinces, but what about our Cao Yun? The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the lifeblood of the south-to-north grain transfer, has always been important to the imperial court, the Grand Canal stretches for thousands of miles, through several provinces, the management is not easy, the minister thinks that a separate army should be set up to manage all the canal transport! In the past, there has always been a governor of Caoyun who was responsible for the affairs of Caoyun and the river, due to the invasion of Manchuria, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was abandoned, and it was thought that the officers and soldiers of the guards could be eliminated, and a part of them were allocated to prepare for the construction of a town, which was responsible for the safety of the Caoyun, and at the same time renovated the river and revitalized the river, killing two birds with one stone! Moreover, the minister does not recommend that the entire Tianwei army be dismantled to various places, and a strong force should be retained to be stationed in Gyeonggi all the year round to guard the safety of Gyeonggi, although the 50,000 Beijing battalion is strong, but after all, the army has been formed for too short a time, and the combat power is not as good as the Tianwei army, and the army is divided into provinces to defend, so it is better to retain a considerable mobile force and can rush to the aid of the Quartet at any time......"

(End of chapter)