Chapter 131: Organizing the Guards (Seventh update, additional update for 1,500 orders!)
Ma Wensheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, and Wang Shu, the official minister, were busy preparing to implement the big plan.
Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao has begun preparations to train his own strong army.
Of course, in terms of system, all the armies of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how strong or weak they are, are nominally Zhu Houzhao's armies. Only the emperor Zhu Houzhao has the highest command authority over the army.
After all, the Ming Dynasty was a highly centralized dynasty with an autocratic monarchy. Since the monarch was autocratic, it meant that the army was legally under the jurisdiction of the emperor.
This is one of the reasons why Zhu Houzhao has been able to severely crack down on Qingliu civil servants with a high profile.
But in fact, who owns the Ming Dynasty's army is more complicated.
The main military system of the Ming Dynasty was mainly the garrison and field system, and the sources of soldiers were mainly hereditary military households under the household registration system.
Before the implementation of the military recruitment system, most military households were actually farmers, tenant farmers of guard officers, and were not considered soldiers at all!
But the soldiers with real combat effectiveness are all servants of the officers, and they are private slaves of the officers. They only listen to the orders of the officers themselves, because their salaries and supplies are provided by the officers privately, but they are still soldiers of the imperial court on the surface.
Many times, these officers were military landlords, or even a kind of miniature warlords. The military households were their tenants and the servants were their guards. They and their servants and tenants formed the military system of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, strictly speaking, apart from regimental camps and forbidden troops, Zhu Houzhao did not have his own army.
But there is no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the regiments and soldiers was very weak. After all, the world had been at peace for a long time, and the status of military personnel was low. These officers and soldiers who truly belonged to Zhu Houzhao had already lost their fighting spirit under the double oppression of civilian officials and ministers.
Zhu Houzhao has no way to change the guard system now. After all, if he abolishes the guard system now, it means that he will deprive all officers in the world of the privilege of legally enslaving military households, which will arouse resistance from all military landlords in the world.
So now, if Zhu Houzhao wants to train a strong army of his own, the only thing he can do is to train regiments and camps and ban soldiers.
In the 18th year of Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao took advantage of the opportunity when the regiment camp and the imperial soldiers were not issued Lumi to reissue Lumi and gathered the morale of the regiment camp and the imperial soldiers. Because of this, he was able to rely on this army to reorganize the Jinyiwei and successfully execute them. Kill Wang Yue, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and other rebels.
But now, the combat effectiveness of this army has not been improved, and there are even many redundant personnel. And many of the officers of this army are princes and nobles who are waiting to die. Many of them can no longer draw their bows and ride horses, especially It's the younger generation.
When Zhu Houzhao wanted to reorganize the army, the first thing he had to do was to eliminate redundant personnel, especially grassroots officers and soldiers.
However, the most difficult thing about eliminating redundant personnel is not the elimination, but the issue of placement after elimination. After all, these officers and soldiers also have to support their families. Zhu Houzhao can prevent them from serving as soldiers, but he cannot let them lose hope of survival.
For this reason, Zhu Houzhao specially summoned Xu Jin, a scholar of Wuyingdian University and Minister of War, to discuss the matter. According to Xu Jin's suggestion, it is best to allocate land to these retrenched officers and soldiers, let them convert to civilian status, and become real self-cultivated farmers. Pay food and work as an errand!
But the problem is, how much unclaimed land in the world can be divided? Before the land is cleared, the Ministry of Household Affairs only has the fish scale book and the yellow book that have not been reconstructed for many years.
Zhu Houzhao thought that since he could not turn these redundant members of the army into peasants for the time being, it would be better to turn them into workers. In short, it was better than letting them become refugees or reduced to slaves. It was better to organize them into a team of workers for himself as the emperor, and through engineering construction Let these redundant employees create their own value through labor.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao simply did not lay off these redundant personnel and decided to organize them into engineering corps.
Of course, the engineering corps here is not exactly the same as the engineering corps of later generations, at least they do not have the technical skills of the engineering corps of later generations. The engineering corps that Zhu Houzhao is organizing now are more of just workers for engineering construction.
In addition, Zhu Houzhao also decided to uniformly convert these engineering soldiers to civilian citizenship in the future, and allow the engineering soldiers to apply for retirement to engage in other industries, and even take the imperial examination to become officials.
After all, although Zhu Houzhao could not immediately abolish the hereditary military registration system, he could still convert some military households to civilian registration, especially the regiments and soldiers in the capital. However, Zhu Houzhao cannot tell the regiment camp and the forbidden soldiers about his idea yet, because he believes that as long as the officers and soldiers of the regiment camp and the forbidden soldiers know about it, the soldiers among these officers and soldiers will definitely want to change their nationality. After all, People of this era knew that civilian households had more freedom than military households.
At the beginning, Zhu Houzhao just decreed that the regimental battalions and forbidden soldiers should be combined into the Ming Dynasty Guards!
The main responsibility of these two armies is to guard the capital and guard the palace. The joint formation of the Guards naturally integrated the meaning of protecting the emperor and the stability of the capital, and also facilitated unified training and organization.
Zhu Houzhao first asked Xu Jin, Minister of the Ministry of War, to re-count the current actual number of Ming Guards, and re-screen, and finally screened out only nearly 70,000 sharp soldiers.
Compared with the 100,000 elite soldiers Yu Qian selected from the three major battalions during the Jingtai period, this number is naturally much smaller. However, for Zhu Houzhao, if the nearly 70,000 elite soldiers were trained into strong soldiers, it would not be a big deal. Not too much.
Zhu Houzhao asked the Ministry of War and the Royal Horse Supervisor to reorganize these 70,000 sharp soldiers into five divisions.
Each division is still led by the commander-in-chief, and those below the division are organized into brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, and corps.
Each division has two brigades, each brigade has three regiments, each regiment has three battalions, each battalion has five companies, each company has ten teams, each team has three corps, and every five men form a corps.
Although this is a modern military establishment, it had already begun to appear in the Zhou Dynasty, and people in the Ming Dynasty can understand it now.
The formation of the Guards is only the beginning, and the training of the Guards is the top priority.
However, training 70,000 people is not a small project. Even if Zhu Houzhao is a time traveler, he has experienced two military trainings, or he can train one or two people according to the gourd, but it does not mean that he can directly train 70,000 people.
However, he invited an officer who was good at training an army of 70,000. This person was Qiu Yue, the Ningxia guerrilla general.
In the early days of Zhengde, it was Qiu Yue who impressed Zhu Houzhao most about the military attache.
In the original history, this man had a record of putting down the rebellion of Anhua King Zhu Chixiu on the 18th. Later, he put down many rebellions, and was finally awarded the title of Count of Xianning, which shows that his military ability is very strong.
After all, it was not easy to get a title in the Ming Dynasty, especially by relying on military merit. Generally, such people were people with strong military ability. Moreover, Qiu Yue was from a military family and had practical experience in leading troops in border towns. Training in Utah is undoubtedly the most suitable.
Because of this, Zhu Houzhao chose to summon Qiu Yue to Beijing, preparing to let him train the Guards for him.
Qiu Yue's loyalty is naturally credible. After all, in the original history, he did not betray the imperial court when King Zhu Zhixiu of Anhua of Ningxia rebelled, let alone the rebellion of King Zhu Zhixiu of Anhua has not yet occurred.
However, Qiu Yue has not started training the Guards yet, because the reorganization of the Guards has not yet been completed. In the Ming Dynasty, an era of mixed use of hot and cold weapons, it will also take time to rationally allocate arms during the reorganization process.
Now Qiu Yue is working as an instructor at the Capital University, and he is training Zhu Houzhao, Wang Yangming, Yan Song and other literati as well as a group of distinguished disciples.
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