[You asked: "Your Majesty, the whole country of the Ming Dynasty has standing troops, garrison troops, cantonment troops, and war preparation troops...... A series of troops added up, a total of eight million, although the number of troops was reduced to six and a half million after the great disarmament, but the minister felt that this total strength was still a bit too much. ”】

[Your Majesty muttered: "What, do you Yu Qian think that there are too many Ming troops and too many expeditions, and you want to persuade me to rest and recuperate? ”】

[You said solemnly: "There is no word peace in the eyes of the Ministry of War, only World War I, and there is no Ministry of War in the Ming Dynasty to seek peace!" ”】

[Nine years ago, you had sparse "May Your Majesty restrain your belligerent heart, change with the people, and show grace to the world", time has passed, nine years later, you have already gone through thousands of tempers, where Your Majesty's sword is pointed, the military department will kill where! 】

Zhu Di is happy, this is right, the Ming Dynasty should be so tough!

All dynasties and dynasties have left different impressions on future generations.

The impression of Daqin is the great ideal of creating a great unification; The impression of Liu Han is that of the domineering of the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition; The impression of Li Tang is that all countries are strong and prosperous; The impression of the two songs, the cowardice of sending and begging.

And Da Ming always gives people a sense of poor beauty......

Ahem, Daming gives people a tough style!

This is my Da Ming!

Peace? Talk about!

You have millions of troops, you dare to talk to me about peace?

["I understand what you mean, you just want to say that the Ming army is enough, with four or five million troops can sweep the world, and retaining so many troops is too consuming for national strength. Your Majesty said, "I am also aware of this matter, even if the strength of the Ming Dynasty has surpassed that of any dynasty, but the burden of the army of eight million to the Ming Dynasty is still too heavy, so I have come to a major disarmament and reduced the number to six and a half million." ”】

[It is true that even though it is the Hengjing Dynasty, which is now unprecedentedly strong, the burden brought by the total strength of eight million troops is still too heavy. 】

[The Ming Dynasty continued to expand its territory, including the twenty southwestern countries into its territory, while assimilating foreign races, while migrating the Ming people into separate territories, and the population of the Ming Dynasty surged. 】

[With a larger population and more troops, there are also management problems. If the previous system is still managed by the empty shelves of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Military Department, it is obvious that it will not be managed. With such a large number of troops, if there is a mismanagement discord, it will lead to a huge disaster. 】

[As the secretary of the Ministry of War, you know very well that it is impossible to manage these eight million troops by relying on the Ministry of War alone, and even if you can manage it, the disadvantages of the Ministry of War's own excessive power will be revealed. The army of eight million is no longer just the spear and shield of the Ming Dynasty, this is a coal mine, and a little spark will make the coal mine burn more and more fiercely until the Ming is burned to ashes. 】

[During the Tianbao period, the Anshi Rebellion brought about by the left general An Lushan and the eunuch Shi Siming caused the once-prosperous Li Tang to fall into irreparable weakness. For an extremely powerful country, the most lethal thing is not external troubles, but internal strife, and now the Ming Dynasty of the Hengjing Dynasty is so similar to Li Tang of the Tianbao Dynasty. 】

Zhu Di nodded, this was also what worried him the most.

"A strong army is an invincible blade, but if this blade is too sharp, I'm afraid it will hurt itself."

The army of eight million, even if it was cut to six and a half million, was still an extremely large number.

The most typical example is that after Tang Taizong's "Zhenguan Governance", Tang Gaozong's "Yonghui Governance", Wu Zetian's "Governance of Hong Zhenguan, Political Enlightenment Kaiyuan" and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era", it reached the peak of the complete body of the Tang Dynasty.

However, an Anshi Rebellion made the capital Chang'an fall, the Tang Emperor fled, and the war became a mess for a while, so that this extremely powerful empire fell from prosperity to decline, and it collapsed.

The biggest factor in the Anshi Rebellion was the excessive power of the local warlords.

The sergeants recruited by the government military system were bribed and co-opted by local generals, and the warlords from other provinces were intertwined and inseparable. The Tang Dynasty's establishment of the system of knots in the border defense made the power of the warlords swell more and more, and even formed a situation in which the warlords had both their land, their people, their armour, and their wealth, resulting in a situation in which the tail could not be lost.

The border army of the Tang Dynasty continued to expand, accounting for more than eighty percent of the country's military strength, and the army that was really under the jurisdiction of the emperor was not only insufficient, but also far from being comparable in strength with the border army.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not have the system of the Tang Dynasty's festival envoys, Zhu Di actually had alternative products according to his own analysis.

It is impossible for the provincial army to be without a supreme commander, and if there is a supreme commander, there will be hidden dangers. Previously, Lao Zhu's plan was to make this supreme commander a member of the royal family, and the same was true for the vassal king to go out of the town.

[In order to deal with the hidden dangers of the army, His Majesty made a drastic decision: since the beginning of the third year of Hengjing, the commanders of all provinces will be transferred to other provinces, and the governors of the five armies will be released, and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion will be restored. 】

[This is a very bold policy, the predecessor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was the Generalissimo's Mansion, the Privy Council, and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, but the grandfather felt that the power was not dedicated to one department, and the matter was not left in the shadows, so he divided the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion into five. 】

[Grandpa Tai's original intention is good, and he wants to use the Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of War to involve each other to achieve a balanced effect, so as to ensure that the military power will not be controlled by one person. After the death of the grandfather, the power of the military department has been above the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, making the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies completely furnished. 】

[Your Majesty's means of dealing with it is to release the governors of the five armies, and change the original front, rear, center, left, and right armies to the eastern, western, southern, northern, and central five armies. The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has set up the left Metropolitan Governor and the right Metropolitan Governor, which is a positive product. 】

[Although the governor of the five armies was cut by half in rank, there have been earth-shaking changes in real power, and he can directly manage the commanders and envoys in the province under his jurisdiction, from a false official to a real first product. 】

[And although the Metropolitan Governor's Office nominally governs the soldiers and horses of the world, it is greatly superior to the military department in terms of status and power. In fact, when the Metropolitan Governor's Office was established, a large part of the power was taken back by the emperor, and the Zuo Metropolitan Governor in the real sense was actually the emperor. 】

[In the end, a magical equilibrium situation was formed: the commanders of the provinces were under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office was under the jurisdiction of the Emperor. The power of the military department has been slashed, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has no way to check and balance them, but now that there is the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the Military Department can no longer do whatever it wants. 】

[In order to eradicate the problem of protecting officials and officials after the whole system is solidified, the officials in this system will be continuously transferred and adjusted, for example, the Left Governor of the Eastern Army, who has worked in the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion for seven or eight years, will be transferred to the Western Army, and then transferred to the Northern Army in a few years...... After a circle, it is time to return to the hometown, and the same is true for the officials of the provincial capitals. 】

[If it were in a normal period, this policy should be difficult to implement. Because this involves the movement of the military headquarters and the provinces, and even millions of troops, it is easy to have a negative impact once there is a change. However, His Majesty chose the time for the implementation of this policy just after the end of the great disarmament, when the armies everywhere were at their weakest, and the policy of changing the armies was easily implemented. 】

Zhu Di held his forehead: "Damn, my brain is not enough." ”

Isn't this a nesting doll!

The big ones are small, the small ones are even smaller, and after the set, the problem of excessive power in the military department is clamped, and at the same time, the military department is used to clamp down on the governor's office, and finally the regular transfer of officials is used to prevent these people from colluding with friends.

How did the fourth child grow his brain, and how did he come up with such a damaging move?

Seeing this, the old man finally figured out how the eight million army of Hengjing Dynasty came from.

After the annexation of the 20 southwestern countries, the population increased through continuous migration and assimilation, and replenished the army with abundant manpower; In addition, the five military governors were delegated and the metropolitan governors were established, and the strategy of regular transfers was arranged to stabilize the imperial power and prevent the breeding of local warlords.

Zhu Di also had to admit at this time that in terms of power and politics, Emperor Hengjing was far superior to him.

[You asked tentatively: "Your Majesty is probably here for more than just a gossip, right?"] ”】

[You're the brain axis, but you're not stupid. 】

["Yu Qing knows me. His Majesty chuckled, "I have come to discuss with you about the issue of military households and military camps. ”】

[You gasped: "Your Majesty wants to abolish the military household and military tun, this is not possible, Your Majesty!" ”】

[The military cantonment system is the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty's national defense, and the reason why the Ming Dynasty can feed the most troops in the poorest situation is precisely because of the benefits of the military household military cantonment system. 】

[The sergeant has three points to defend the city, and seven points to plant. There are also 28, 46, 19, and middle half cases. All of them are poor due to the fertileness of the soil and the slowness of the place. Let the people of the army farm the land to feed the army, and the grandfather once said proudly: "I raise millions of soldiers, and it doesn't cost the people a grain of rice." ”】

[His Majesty shook his head: "It's not abolition, it's rectification.] ”】

When the Ming Dynasty first founded the country, the implementation of the guard system, the sergeant has a fixed monthly salary, called the monthly grain, initially in accordance with the provisions of the month of the month, the standard is the horse army monthly rice two stones, the general flag of the infantry army one and a half stone, the small flag one stone two, the flag army one stone.

In addition to the monthly rations, the imperial court also issued monthly salt to the soldiers, the standard was two catties for the family, and one catty for none, but after the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the monthly salt was changed to treasure money, and supplies such as winter clothes, cloth and cotton were issued from time to time. Generally speaking, when the Ming Dynasty was just founded, it was called a nourishment, and it was not a problem to feed a family.

However, in the middle and late Hongwu Dynasty, there began to be records of folding, that is, not all of them were given, and other things were folded and distributed. Later, after the implementation of the garrison, the flag army had no money, and could only rely on the military fields to support themselves, and even winter clothes and cotton were only issued by the flag army guarding the city, and the flag army that farmed the land had nothing.

Moreover, the military household of the Ming Dynasty is hereditary, and the daughter-in-law of the sergeant who is married has to live in the guard, and the children and grandchildren are tied to the army, and after the death, the son takes over and continues to farm for the imperial court.

But Zhu Di felt that there was nothing wrong with it, because the Ming Dynasty had always been very poor, and he couldn't afford to support these millions of troops.

When the time comes, the people of the world will be the opposite, what should be done?

[Your Majesty muttered: "Have you ever thought that one day, the sergeant will have no military land, what should he do? ”】

[You still think Your Majesty is joking: "How is this possible, no matter how poor the imperial court is, it is impossible to recover the military land and destroy the Great Wall. ”】

["The imperial court will not take back the military land, but the leading generals and the gentry will meet, land annexation has been a matter since ancient times, and they will covet this abundant military land and try their best to take it away from the soldiers. His Majesty said in a deep voice, "The sergeants have no money, they rely on the military field to barely feed their family, if the military land is taken away again, how will they live?" Moreover, the military household of the Ming Dynasty is hereditary, not only can he not live, but his children and grandchildren will not survive, of course, there is another possibility, that is, his children and grandchildren have starved to death with the sergeant before inheriting the identity of the sergeant. Faced with this situation, what would you do if you were a sergeant? ”】

You fell silent, and that's what you didn't think. 】

Zhu Di was also silent, because he knew that what Emperor Hengjing said was the truth.

The old man who has simulated history knows very well that after a hundred years, this kind of land annexation will become more and more serious, and the imperial court will become poorer and poorer because of the land annexation of local gentry, and there is no military land, and military rations cannot be paid.

After Emperor Jiajing succeeded to the throne, there was a science and Taoist official who played: The border army in the Xuanfu area has not been fed for several months, and the hungry eyes are glowing green. There is even more miserable, some of the sergeants' daughters-in-law also went to the dry meat business, this is also no way, it is really impossible to survive, and the officials patrolling the border feel that these sergeants who defend the border for the Ming Dynasty are too miserable.

It is not uncommon for the flag army to be occupied and military rations to be deducted.

Xiong Tingbi, the general of Liaodong, found that an officer asked the dun army to catch fish for him, and then it was women and children who guarded the dun, so that this benevolent brother was stunned.

Is this a border army on the?

Any beggar from the street and a change of clothes is more like a border army than these border soldiers!

[You were silent for a long time and asked, "How does Your Majesty plan to improve?" ”】

[Your Majesty smiled calmly, with a strategizing attitude, as if he had been prepared. 】

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly, he was also looking forward to Zhu Gaoxian's answer.

Stinky boy, if I don't tell you Lao Tzu in reality, I will expose you in the simulation!

【……】

[Yu Qian's random identity fragment simulation ends.] 】

A big question mark appeared on Zhu Di's head.

Nima's Beast Simulator!

Playing with me at the most critical moment, right?

Come on, pull this simulator out to peel and pull the grass, punish the ten clans, and copy the melon vines!

Outrageous!