The reform of the Ming military system can be regarded as an urgent matter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The current Ming Dynasty is like a thin iron shell that looks very the outside, with the residual power of the years, protecting this shell from being easily destroyed by external forces, but the inside is empty, like cotton wool.

Once someone opens a gap in the thin iron shell from the outside, they will know that the Ming Dynasty has reached the point where the outside is strong and the middle is dry.

With just a hard poke, this seemingly flowery Daming will collapse with a bang, piercing through thousands of holes and falling apart.

It can be said that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many Ming troops who could have the strength to fight, and most of them were concentrated in the Liaodong area, and they were engaged in a long-term tug-of-war with the Jurchens.

The finances of the Ming court were also mostly concentrated in Liaodong to maintain this huge border defense line, so as not to collapse under the continuous attacks of the Jurchens, barely maintaining the appearance of giants.

If there is really a mistake in the border defense of Liaodong and the Jurchens invade the interior of the Central Plains, it will be like entering the back garden of the Jurchens, as if they were entering a no-man's land on the land of the Central Plains, and they will be free to enter and exit.

Let this Ming Dynasty, which is already in the midst of natural disasters, add man-made disasters, causing more people to be displaced, and under the famine and man-made disasters, the Central Plains will surely float corpses for thousands of miles, and the grass will be sold for itself, and the children will be eaten.

Treating terminally ill patients, and patients who know that they are dying, Li Mu believes that the only way to save them is to use a two-pronged approach, using fierce medicine in the body for treatment, and at the same time using a sharp knife to remove the ulcers outside the body, which is the best treatment.

Even if this would put the patient into a period of weakness, it would be much better than waiting to die.

Li Mu is using this method to treat Daming, from the establishment of the inspection team, to inspect and investigate the civil officials in Daming, which is to feed the first pair of fierce medicine to the Ming Dynasty.

Now it is the turn of the Ming army to drink this bloody potion and speed up the refining process of this rusty treasure knife, so that it can become extremely sharp again, and can be used to kill the enemy.

"From today, the Ministry of War will set up a statistical group of the Daming Guards to make statistics on all the guards in the Ming Dynasty, check the real number of registered soldiers, and register the number of young and strong people." Li Mu stood in the main hall and looked around at the military department officials and said warningly.

"The Jinyi Guard will supervise the daily statistical work of the Ministry of War, and if there is anyone who conceals the report, whether it is a local official or a statistical official of the Ministry of War, the Jinyi Guard will deal with it on the spot in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to escort it back to the capital for trial."

Regarding the chaos of the guard office at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Mu learned some about it through historical materials, and the local guard office will always produce a phenomenon similar to overreporting and private reporting.

As for the deduction of military salaries, it is a common phenomenon, and these deducted military salaries are used by those officials on private families, that is to say, in the late Ming Dynasty, many generals were using the military salaries issued by the imperial court to support their own private army.

Li Mu will never tolerate this.

An official of the Ministry of War said: "But my lord, if this is the case, there will definitely be resistance in the local area." ”

"It's okay, Jin Yiwei has a knife in his hand, suppressing these resistances." Li Mu reiterated once again indifferently.

He didn't pay attention to strategy when dealing with civilian officials, and let him be reasonable when he treated these ruffians who didn't have much culture? That is dreaming, and it is purely playing the piano to the cow, when he was in the Tang Dynasty, he did not tell the sergeant of the Quanzhou Navy Division half of the truth, he did not develop that habit, for the army, there is only one word, listen to it, listen to it, and listen to it if you don't listen, otherwise it's easy to say, either get out of the way, or be punished.

The duty of a soldier is to obey orders, to obey the will of the state, to protect the sanctity of the state, and to live and work in peace and contentment for the people, unless the order violates these preconditions.

Seeing that Li Mu was unreasonable, the official looked at Zhang Yan after the dragon case, hoping that the Empress Dowager would be able to stop this unrealistic proposal, but received a tearful answer.

Zhang Yan saw the gaze of the officials of the Ministry of War, and said very trustingly: "What Li Aiqing said is what the mourning family wants to say." ”

This answer really hurt the officials of the Ministry of War, especially next, no matter what Li Mu said, Zhang Yan said it with a smile.

"Well, what Li Aiqing said is what the mourning family wants to say."

"Well, what Li Aiqing said is what the mourning family wants to say."

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"I hope that the Ministry of War will remember that the process of reforming the Ming military system will definitely cause certain losses, as long as it does not hurt the country, I think the Queen Mother will agree." After speaking, Li Mu glanced at Zhang Yan on the dragon chair.

All the officials of the military department also looked at Zhang Yan on the dragon chair, waiting for the final conclusion.

"The mourning family believes that Emperor Taizu was able to establish the Ming Dynasty from the end of the Wei Dynasty, and now compared with Emperor Taizu back then, these losses are bearable by the mourning family and the imperial court." Zhang Yan was silent for a while, looked at everyone present and said.

"Come to think of it, the people will support it when they know it, and when future generations talk about today's court meeting, they will also praise Li Aiqing's proposal, understand the current mood of the mourning family, and the good intentions of the ministers."

"The ministers are willing to bear it together with the Queen Mother." Needless to say, Zhang Yan said so much, the only core is to express support for Li Mu's proposal, and the ministers can only bow down to receive orders.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Zhang Yan stood up at this time and said: "Daming is now suffering from internal and external troubles, and the mourning family feels that the majesty of Daming is not something that a traitor can bully at will, and the border pass in Liaodong is not a traitor who can come and leave if he wants." ”

"As Li Aiqing said, a traitor like the Jurchens who does not know the grace of the great tomorrow can only be convinced by severe punishment of other vassal states."

"The mourning family thinks that it is okay to make the Jurchen a family that will never recruit peace."

Zhang Yan's decision also officially put the Ming and Jurchen on the table of feud, and there was no room for maneuver, it is true that even without this holy decree, there was no room for maneuver between the Ming and Jurchen in history.

The change of dynasties has never had feelings to talk about, and the loser can only accept the fate of being eliminated, swept into the garbage heap of history, and appear in the annals of history.

"The Queen Mother's Holy Judgment." The Cabinet and the Ministry of War could only agree.

Next, Li Mu briefly explained the compulsory military system and the regularization of the army to the officials of these military departments.

However, Li Mu made a slight modification to the compulsory military system in this plane, that is, the two-year and three-year compulsory military system was temporarily changed to a minimum ten-year compulsory military system.

After all, cold weapons are different from hot weapons, and the extension of the military system is only good for the Ming army, and there is no harm, in addition to having more veterans, there is also a need to reduce the frequency of the replacement of the old and new armies, which is very important for the cold weapon army.

Of course, during the discussion, Li Mu also encountered a difficult problem, if the army is regularized, it will have to face the problem of a soldier who does not work, and he must rely on the state to support him during his tenure.

In this way, the cost of the regular army of the entire Ming Dynasty is greater than that of a Liaodong frontier, and with the tax revenue of the imperial court's microblog, it is estimated that it will not be able to feed many regular troops at all.

Fortunately, there is a lot of silver stored in the palace, that is, the large amount of silver obtained by Li Mu's family, and only a small part of it was used by Jinyiwei in the early stage.

Now it can be used to support the early regularization of the Ming army, which also makes Li Mu not think about how to solve the problem of weak taxation in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Li Mu was not stupid enough to forcibly tax the localities, and the entire Ming Dynasty was in a state of turmoil, swaying, and there were signs of collapse at any time.

If taxes are forcibly levied, the local government will force these extra taxes on the people, and in this way, the people will be forced to go to extremes and rebel.

The reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty is not only the external environment of the Jurchen invasion of the border, but also the internal evil survival environment, the persecuted people set off a huge peasant uprising.

There is a good saying that an uprising and rebellion without the participation of the people cannot be called an uprising, but only a rebellion.

The drought in Shaanxi was quickly extinguished under Li Mu's intervention, which also indirectly solved a big trouble for Daming, that is, Li Zicheng, who was on an errand at the Shaanxi Post Station, would not lose his job because of the drought.

In Shaanxi, which is in the midst of disaster relief, even if the historical king Li Zicheng really lost his job, he did not have the innate conditions to incite the people to revolt and rebel with him.

30 million quintals of grain is enough for the entire Shaanxi people to eat without working for a year, not to mention that the Chinese people are a nation that is very persistent in the land, and even in the disaster year, they must sow hope for the coming year on the land.

Therefore, Li Mu prepared a new gift for this industrious people, a drought-tolerant grain, so that they can sow seeds smoothly even in disasters and plant hope for the next year.

They can get food through labor with their hands, and as long as they have food in their hands, this industrious nation is not willing to do this kind of uprising and rebellion.

Relying on hard-working hands to change life, there is no peasant uprising and rebellion in the Central Plains.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others can only be drowned in the history that Li Mu understands.

Having said so much, Li Mu still can't avoid a very practical problem, that is, how to quickly change the tax problem of the imperial court.

More than 100 million taels of silver will always run out, and only by finding a new way of wealth can the entire Ming court be able to operate normally, and the reform of the military system and the regularization of the army can be effectively continued.

This item is inseparable from silver, it can be said that without silver, everything is not easy to carry out, and it will be very difficult for Li Mu to carry out any transformation of Daming smoothly in the future.

Whether it is the army, the imperial court, or the local government or the people, so that the future disaster relief will not escape a single word of money.

Ask a country, what is the most profitable government to do? Extracting oil, one might say? Scalping resources? Human trafficking, etc., these are all ways for an ordinary person to think of money, but they are not the most profitable.

If there is a country that makes the most money, Li Mu will say that it is currency issuance, and only the state is qualified to do this business and dare to do this business.

If others dare to do it, the only end is to kill their heads and destroy their homes.

As long as the right to issue currency is in charge of the currency, it is equivalent to controlling the economic lifeline of a country and the people's money bags.

Some people say that even if you have the right to issue currency, you can't print currency casually, and if you print it casually, won't that cause the currency in the hands of the people to depreciate?

No, printing money is also one of the benefits of issuing money, and it is also the largest part of the profit.

Li Mu knows one thing that when the United States is in a financial crisis, it can always survive safely, and the method used is to share the financial crisis of his country equally with the world.

To be exact, it is divided equally among the countries that have a reserve of U.S. currency.

How to pass it on? The way to do this is to print more currency, devalue the U.S. currency in those countries, and force money from those countries that have U.S. currency reserves to spend it.

By analogy, the biggest interest point in a country's currency issuance is actually to gradually devalue the currency held by its own people.

Of course, the methods used in this are not necessarily all the printing of additional currency, and there are always many ways to obtain sufficient benefits from the currency issued.

Abolishing the old currency and issuing a new currency is a good way to do this.

Currency is the basis of a country's economy, and it is also the place where the people's livelihood of a country is controlled, and it can also control the loyalty of the army.

And Li Mu's financial path for the Ming Dynasty's taxation is to gradually reform the Ming Dynasty currency issuance, which is the fastest and best way to get money.

However, Li Mu did not intend to let the imperial court preside over the reform and issuance of the Ming currency, in order to firmly control the imperial court, he would let the internal government establish the Ming Royal Bank to carry out this reform and issue a new Ming currency.

Things are not done overnight, and the new currency reform and issuance of the Ming Dynasty need to take its time, not only taking into account the issue of how to prevent counterfeiting, but also pay attention to the issue of silver reserves.

It is impossible to rely only on the 100 million taels of silver in the palace, especially since the beginning of the military reform, the 100 million taels of silver will be spent like flowing water, and it may be spent before the monetary reform begins.

Another point is how to improve the anti-counterfeiting of currency, in the Ming Dynasty to issue a new currency, Li Mu can not use silver as the main body of currency, paper money is the king, copper money is supplemented.

Especially from the Jiaozi used in the Song Dynasty for business and trade, to the silver stamps that are popular in the Ming Dynasty now, they are all common paper money in ancient times, and it is even more impossible for him to change them more and more.

The interests in the issuance of paper money are more criminal than metal money, and it can be said that metal money is sometimes a fucking money-losing goods.

The problem of silver reserves and the anti-counterfeiting of banknotes are all problems that can only be solved in this plane after Li Mu returns to the original plane.

In other words, only after Li Mu returns from the original plane next time, can the Daming Royal Bank start the issue of currency.

Now the most important thing is the reform of the military system, as well as the border defense problem in eastern Liaodong, as long as the stubborn disease of the Jurchen is solved, the internal turmoil in the Ming Dynasty is a small problem, which can make Li Mu play with his head and toss at will. (To be continued.) )