The military reform of the Ming Empire is being carried out cautiously, and it is still the pattern of the old strong and the new weak, and the new forces can only penetrate into the old forces little by little, and then envelop the division and collapse, and the famous generals of Man Gui and Zu Dashou are the breakthrough points chosen by Zhu Jian.

It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning, this is true at all, the first batch of political work officers trained by the Imperial Military Academy looks like there are hundreds of people, but if they are dispersed to various units, the scum is gone, Zhu Jian desperately recruits and trains brainwashing fanatical loyalists, and builds fanatical and loyal Imperial SS troops, but these are all things in the future, there is a shortage of talents, and there is a great shortage of fanatical and loyal political work officers, so they can only graduate early and be assigned to the major new armies.

It is necessary to install fanatical and die-hard political work officers in all the armies, but now there is a great shortage of political work officers, so we can only prioritize them first, such as Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Regiment, Li Xin's Shenji Battalion, and Cao Bianjiao's Wolf Battalion, which only assigned a very small number of political work officers, Cao Wenzhao's Guangping Army, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, and Qin Liangyu's White Pole Army had to install a large number of political work officers, and finally had to set aside several batches of political work officers and military instructors, and a small number of grassroots officers were prepared for Xiang Mangui, Zu Dashou and other old army generals who were willing to make progress and were willing to keep up with the pace of the times.

After Zu Dashou went back in a hurry, he muttered to his father Zu Chengxun for a night, and after that, the father and son of the Zu family personally went out of the city to greet a team of political work officers, military instructors and a small number of grassroots officers sent by the above, and began to receive training in the new army.

The restructuring of the old army is not so easy, let alone a new military training should be carried out immediately, Zu Chengxun is the chief military officer of Jinzhou, Zu Dashou is the deputy chief military officer of Liaoyang City, and he has an army of 50,000 or 60,000 troops, of course, this is data on paper, in fact, excluding the imaginary number of empty salaries, the real number is about 30,000.

The 30,000 men and horses of the two armies are still very bloated, and their combat strength is scum, and they have to get rid of tens of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people, and the remaining 20,000 people have to receive new-style military training, and half of them have to be eliminated.

In order to avoid these forced retirement of the old, weak, sick and disabled and the old oil soldiers to make trouble and mutiny, all according to the standard retirement allowance payment, the imperial court bears one-third, and the remaining two-thirds is borne by the ancestral father and son.

Although the ancestral family is a moat, but to spit out the meat that has been eaten into the stomach, Zu Chengxun is still a little painful, but he is reluctant to give up the big cake drawn by the Son of Heaven, look at the father and son of Da Cao and Xiao Cao, now the scenery is tight, if you don't want to be retired early and fade out of the military circles, you can only accept the conditions of the Son of Heaven and accept the adaptation.

As for supporting the army and respecting themselves, stirring up the soldiers to make trouble or something to coerce the Son of Heaven to compromise, don't even think about it, since the news of the fair payment of the Guangping Army spread, the soldiers of all armies were very dissatisfied, and they did not slaughter the bosses who withheld and greedy their military salaries, and they still wanted to fool them into making trouble?

Moreover, if you really want to make trouble, it is not enough to be stationed in the Phoenix Legion, Shenji Battalion, Tianxiong Army, Guangping Army, and Royal Guards Independent Division stationed in the nine sides.

Maybe there are really a few stupid pens with brains in the water who dare to make trouble, but the father and son of the ancestral family don't have the guts, and they are much smarter than many nine-sided generals, the opportunity is fleeting, and if you don't grasp it, it will be over.

Of course, the father and son of the ancestral family also have their conditions, that is, their subordinates can't move, this is the bottom line, the subordinates are all private armed forces that they have raised out of their own pockets, and they rely on these subordinates to fight wars and save their lives in peacetime, although most of them spend the money of the imperial court, but their private treasures, whoever moves will die.

Zhu Jianjian is through the public, of course, he knows the doorway inside, so he will not be stupid enough to move these generals as life-saving treasures of the private soldiers, aside from the problem of loyalty, if you want to buy these private soldiers crazy songs, the silver invested alone is not cost-effective at all, and the stupid pen is only doing a loss-making business, not to mention that these private soldiers are not reliable at all in terms of loyalty.

The elimination, dismissal and resettlement of the old, weak, sick and disabled are quite smooth, but there are still some troubles in eliminating those old oil soldiers who have developed bad habits, all of them are veterans under the father and son of the ancestral family, although oil, but also elite, have made military exploits, and it hurts to eliminate any one, the father and son of the ancestral family were shaken for a while, and came forward to intercede.

"General Zu, the new army is taking the route of elite soldiers, and it will be this mode in the future."

A political work officer tried to persuade Zu Chengxun that instead of spending a lot of military spending and materials to raise a bunch of war scum, it is better to concentrate all the resources to build a high-combat power and an elite who can fight and dare to fight, look at General Xiaocao's wolf battalion, Red Concubine Niangniang's Phoenix Legion, General Li Xin's Shenji battalion, General Gao Jie's Royal Guards Independent Battalion, which battle is not outnumbered, even if it is besieged by the Jin Army's iron cavalry in the wild, it is not still calmly fought out of the encirclement, the battle damage is very small, and it is also a great meritorious service?

Looking back at the so-called elite border army, which army dares to fight a field battle with the Jin Army's iron cavalry? Even if there were, for example, the border army led by General Cao before was well prepared, and the crowd was outnumbered, although the Jin army was repulsed, but the battle loss rate was amazing, six or seven to one was good, and the exaggerated even reached more than ten to one, although the battle report was a big victory, but the actual battle damage was clear to everyone, you don't know the son of heaven? The reason why the Son of Heaven approved Inspector Hong's good news was to give Inspector Hong face and face to you generals.

These are not the point, the most important thing is that with the development of imperial science and technology, swords and other cold weapons will be slowly eliminated, muskets and artillery and other hot weapons will dominate the battlefield, the mode of war has also completely changed, and then hold the old ideas and old concepts do not change, will be eliminated, look at the major new armies, all of them are muskets and artillery, soldiers equipped with military thorns will only be used when the ammunition is exhausted, and when the emperor personally designed the sapper shovel mass production and equipment, the soldiers will definitely prefer to use this multi-functional sapper shovel that can be dug and shoveled, can be cut, split and sawed.

This political work officer was very eloquent, and he explained to the father and son of his ancestors the new concept and mode of warfare dominated by Rewu, which was equivalent to opening a new window and door for them.

Okay, it's okay to say it's a fool, Zhu Jian wants to fool and divide these old warlords, and these political work officers and military instructors prepared for them are not only die-hard, but also have to be mentally awake and eloquent.

Can't stand the pleading of the ancestral father and son, and finally the military instructor compromised, everyone trained together, fair competition, survival of the fittest, so that no one had anything to say, even the ancestral father and son wanted to provoke and want to intercede, they were embarrassed, and they could only warn their officers and soldiers again and again that they didn't want to be retired, so they would practice with their lives.