At the end of August of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Liu Jun entered the palace to face the saint and reported to the emperor the serious problems of the troops in the capital. ●⌒,. Zhu Cixuan was very surprised when he heard that the three towns of the imperial guard camp had 90,000 troops, but in the end there were less than 30,000 troops. Although he was young, he knew the seriousness of the problem.

Immediately, Zhu Cilang sent people to summon Zhou Yanru, Wu Yan, and Liu Zong Zhou San to order ministers, and also summoned Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War and several ministers to the palace.

Several people were hurriedly summoned into the palace, and they were secretly surprised to see Liu Jun sitting in the study room playing chess with the emperor. When the emperor placed the account book of Wang Dehua's in front of the people, they were even more surprised.

But none of these things surprised them even more.

"Your Majesty, don't listen to the one-sided words." Chen Xinjia has no way to go now, so he can only hold on.

Zhu Cilang was very angry when he saw that Chen Xinjia was still stubborn at this time. "Summon Wang Dehua to come."

As soon as this statement was made, even Zhou Yanru and others were shocked. No one expected that Wang Dehua, the governor of the Imperial Guard, would actually make his head.

Zhou Yanru's mind was turning quickly. Chen Xinjia seemed to be over. Now he had to consider how to abandon his soldiers and protect his car. It doesn't matter if the Imperial Guard Battalion took the opportunity to investigate in depth. Zhou Yanru was very worried that Liu Jun would take this opportunity to further intervene in the Beijing camp.

"Your Majesty, this matter is a matter that I have failed to investigate. Please hand it over to the Prime Minister for investigation."

Originally, Chongzhen established a minister of Guru, so the emperor was young and before he took power, all military and national affairs were all subject to the Prime Minister's office. It can be said that, but Zhu Ciyang was the emperor after all, and the Ming Dynasty was his family. If he wanted to intervene, what else could Zhou Yanru, the great steward, say?

Wang Dehua entered and paid homage to the emperor.

"Wang Dehua, tell the adults about the real situation in the Jingying, and the plans of Xu Yongzhen and the others."

Wang Dehua claimed that, and then he deducted military pay from the Beijing camp, occupied the military pay, bought idle soldiers and other disadvantages. He also pointed out that the three towns of the Imperial Guard Camp had a cap of 90,000 soldiers, but in fact, less than 30,000, and there were many old and weak people who had made a name. What's more serious is that in order to deal with this point verification, they were also planning to collude with the other two major camps and six towns, and borrowed troops to fake substitute for the point verification and escape.

"Your Majesty, this is the crime of deceiving the king!" Liu Jun threw out a big hat first.

Liu Zongzhou also stood up at the right time. "Your Majesty, I request a thorough investigation!"

Zhou Yanru frowned. He was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with Liu Zongzhou now. He controlled the Censorate and had the power to supervise impeachment, but his attitude was observed. After Liu Jun joined the Prime Minister's Office, Liu Zongzhou supported him quite well.

"Your Majesty, we will investigate immediately."

Liu Jun sneered, "Gemaster Zhou, how do you plan to investigate thoroughly? The three camps and nine towns are still the same as the original Beijing camp from top to bottom. They are so bad. Such soldiers still expect them to guard the capital and protect Your Majesty?" He turned to face the emperor, "Your Majesty, I think that those Beijing troops cannot even protect themselves. For the sake of Your Majesty's safety, we should immediately rectify the Beijing troops."

"Prince, don't be too hasty when it comes to Beijing camp. It will be bad if it causes an accident." When Zhou Yanru said this, he was already a little bit of a secret threat.

"What the Master said makes sense. If these arrogant soldiers are really forced to force each other, they may be in chaos." As he said that, Liu Jun's words suddenly changed.

"Your Majesty, I think that the guards' personal army should be rebuilt immediately to protect the Forbidden City and the Imperial City. From today on, the Imperial Guard Camp will only be responsible for the guards of the inner and outer cities of the capital."

The little emperor glanced at Liu Jun, "Are those Beijing troops still trustworthy?"

"Your Majesty. There are 30,000 elite Beiyang soldiers stationed in Lugou Bridge and Xishan outside the city. Why not select loyal and brave elites from them, and then use their heroic ministers and brave children to form a new guard army?" The person who spoke was Wang Dehua. He finally saw the saint, so of course he should try his best to show his strength in order to return to the palace.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a personal guard was established to support the twelve guards, responsible for protecting the left and right sides and guarding the palace guards. They were guards directly under the emperor. These personal guards were directly under the emperor and did not belong to the Ministry of War or the Five Prefectures.

During the Yongle Dynasty, ten guards were added, and four guards were added in the Xuande Dynasty, and finally they were called the Twenty-Six Guards.

The purpose of this personal army was to establish an imperial guard that had always been controlled by the emperor himself. However, as the emperor's power was gradually taken by civil servants, especially after being invaded by the cabinet, the twenty-six guards of the personal army, except for one Jinyiwei, were gradually controlled by the Ministry of War.

When the Beijing Camp was integrated and the Nine Towns were established, the three major camps of the Beijing Army and the personal guards were integrated. The first town now contains the original personal guards.

However, the Beijing army had long been corrupt, and the guards' personal army were not much better.

Now, Wang Dehua proposed to draw elite troops from the Beiyang Town soldiers outside the city to reorganize a personal guard army directly under the emperor. This proposal really made Zhu Cilang very moved.

Since he was a child, he often heard that his father Chongzhen was trapped in the military. Therefore, he is now very interested in military affairs and is even more moved by the proposal of having a personal army that directly belongs to him.

He looked at Liu Jun, "Brother, what do you think?"

"It is their honor to be selected as the guards' personal army. And from the perspective of His Majesty's safety, it is indeed necessary to establish a guards' personal army, independent of the Beijing camp. In this way, the palace city has guards' personal army, and the inner and outer cities have guards of the Beijing camp, which is the right way to restrict and supervise each other." Liu Jun naturally agreed with this proposal, and Wang Dehua's proposal was actually instructed by him.

On the surface, a new guard army was established, which did not belong to the three camps of the capital, nor to the five prefectures of the Ministry of War. It seemed that Liu Jun, the governor of Zhili, had his power cut off. In fact, if the guard army was selected from Beiyang Town, his actual control would be enhanced.

Besides, Liu Jun didn't care much about the guardianship of the Palace City and the Imperial City. When he had not even controlled the Beijing Army, there was no need to rush to fight for the control of the Palace City and the Imperial City. Now he appropriately put down his power to prevent everyone from staring at him.

Wang Dehua suggested that the emperor agreed, and then Liu Jun supported it, and the matter was almost settled.

Zhou Yanru also expressed his support. He felt that agreeing to establish a personal guard army at this time could weaken some of Liu Jun's power. After all, Liu Jun, the governor of Zhili, originally commanded all the troops in the capital, but now it is better to split one. Moreover, agreeing to establish a personal guard army at this time can also divert the emperor's attention from the corruption of the Beijing camp, and he can also be exempted from some responsibility.

Wu Yan and Liu Zongzhou also agreed.

Chen Xinjia did not want to agree. The Ministry of War's power has become increasingly greater and greater in recent years. Not only did it invade the rights of the Governor's Office of the Five Army, but even the personal guards were included in the command. Except for one Jinyiwei and the others could not control, the other twenty-five guards were actually no different from ordinary Beijing troops.

Even after sorting out the Jingying camp and establishing the Ninth Camp, the entire capital and the entire capital were all under the Ministry of War.

Of course he did not want to build a guard army independent of the Ministry of War and the Five Military Mansions, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor. But at this time he dared not object. He was still holding a pot of shit on his head.

It turned out that the guards' personal army were divided into two parts, one was the guards' personal army, and the other was the guards' personal army. Liu Jun suggested that the guards' personal army be divided into three parts, the guards' personal army, the guards' personal army of the imperial city, the guards' personal army, and the guards' personal army of the guards' personal army, and the guards' personal army of the guards, and another guards' personal army of honor were built to take charge of the golden drum flags used by the imperial carriage.

The imperial city guards were guarding the personal army, the palace city guards were guarding the personal army, and the royal guards were also equipped with a royal guard of honor. There was no commander of the personal army, but the three guards each had a commander. They were directly under the emperor's direct command.

The personal army of the Imperial City guards are responsible for guarding the Imperial City, and are also responsible for preventing theft and fire from invading the bandits. The personal army of the Palace City guards guards the Forbidden City, responsible for patrolling the palace city, guarding the palace gates, errands and other duties, and guarding the absolute peace of the palace city.

The guards and personal troops are responsible for guarding the left and right to protect the emperor's safety.

As for the number, each unit has three thousand personal troops, one thousand honor guards, and a total of ten thousand horses.

"Brother, can I choose these ten thousand guards personally?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

"Of course, your Majesty. It is their glory to be selected by your Majesty to join the personal guards."

"I want to choose from the Beiyang soldiers outside the suburbs of Beijing." Zhu Cixuan said excitedly.

At this time, Zhou Yanru suddenly submitted a memorial requesting that the Beijing army guarding the inner city be separated from the governor of Zhili and form a single army. His reason was that the governor of Zhili was too many troops, which was not conducive to mutual supervision.

After saying that, Zhou Yanru looked at Liu Jun with some smugness.

"Your Majesty, I agree with the proposal of Master Zhou Ge. The troops and horses of the three towns of the Imperial Guard Camp can be integrated, the elderly and the weak can be removed, and the empty quotas can be cleared. Then add some elite troops, replenish equipment, and form a single army. I think that this unit can be named the Imperial Guard, and its commander can be called the Admiral, and its full name is the Admiral, the Nine Gates of the Inner City of the Capital and the Seven Gates of the Outer City."

"Its duty is to guard the inside and outside the capital, inspect, access control, night patrol, ban, baojia, arrest, etc.."

Zhou Yanru was a little surprised to hear that Liu Jun had handed over the guards of the capital to the imperial guards so happily.

However, in this way, there will be only six towns left in the nine towns in the capital.

The guards' personal army guarded the imperial city and the guards' left and right. The imperial guards were responsible for defending the inner and outer cities of the capital. They were no longer under the command of the governor of Zhili. The guards' personal army were directly under the command of the emperor, and the imperial guards were under the Ministry of War.

However, what Zhou Yanru did not expect was that Liu Jun seemed a little crazy today.

After stripping out all the defensive troops of the capital, Liu Jun asked the emperor again. Seeing that the capital army had a serious empty space, he reorganized and cleaned up the two major camps of the security camps, Changping, Tongzhou and Miyun, and changed from towns to divisions. Each division was compressed and reorganized into 15,000 people in the three associations, and garrisoned the three towns of Shanhai, Tianjin and Baoding. They were also reorganized from towns to divisions, with 15,000 people in each jurisdiction."

Even the Imperial Guards only had a town size, with a quota of 30,000.

As a result, the entire capital of the capital had 10,000 guards and 30,000 guards. The police camp was renamed the garrison army, with 45,000 troops, and the garrison army was renamed the garrison army, and only 45,000 troops were retained.

The total number of troops in the entire Gyeonggi area was only 130,000, and they were divided into three large pieces.

There were 10,000 guards directly under the emperor, 30,000 guards directly under the Ministry of War, and 60,000 guards subordinate to the Governor of Zhili.

It turned out to be 270,000 soldiers from the capital, but after the reorganization, there would be only 130,000 soldiers left, and this would still include Liu Jun's 30,000 Beiyang soldiers. This is equivalent to the original 270,000 soldiers from the capital, nine towns in the capital, and in the end, only 100,000 soldiers were retained.

And they must be recruited according to the best. If the conditions are not suitable, they will be dismissed and eliminated and recruited new troops.

Even Chen Xinjia was shocked by Liu Jun's plan. Other generals were afraid that they would have few soldiers and never complain about the number of soldiers. Only Liu Jun, who originally had 270,000 soldiers in nine towns, plus 300,000 Beiyang soldiers, had 300,000 troops. But he was going to do this, but in the end, only 130,000 were left.

When everyone was amazed, Liu Zongzhou was the first to stand up and once again the first to support Liu Jun.

For this stubborn old man, he was not good at people and things. Liu Jun's plan felt that it would be beneficial to the Ming court, so he naturally supported it with all his strength.

After this plan is passed, the court's food and salary expenditure will be reduced a lot and the troops will be sufficient. Especially after the troops in the capital were divided into these three parts, there is no need to worry about important officials like Liu Jun controlling the troops in the capital.

The King of Liaodong is a real person, Liu Zongzhou sighed in his heart.

Liu Jun also stated again that as long as the troops in the capital are rectified according to this plan, he is willing to be responsible for raising the military pay of the 130,000 people and the equipment replacement of the 130,000 people.

On the same day, the order to reorganize the Beijing Army was passed through the Ministry of War, the Cabinet and the Prime Minister's Office, the Lijian and the Sitongzheng, and the Six Sections. Finally, it became a formal and effective order, and it was issued to the military camps of the three major camps and nine towns of the Beijing Capital.

With this order, countless officials were dismissed, transferred, and demoted. Six internal and external admirals, six governors, and six inspectors all received the transfer order.

Now the entire Beijing army system only retains one governor of Zhili, one admiral of the Nine Gate, and three deputy generals, as well as the personal commander of the army. In addition, two generals were established and guarded the two armies.

It turned out that the seven governors, except for Liu Jun who served as the governor of Shuntian, all the other six governors were abolished, and the corresponding six governors were also abolished.

Now as a province, Zhili has only one governor and governor, and another inspector, and all the other governors and inspectors have been removed, reducing the overlap in power of affairs.

The generals of the guards and garrisons in the two towns, including the military supervisors and civil servants in the military supervisors, replaced the supervision of the generals by the original governors and the inspectors, but also highlighted the command power of the officers.

It was also at this meeting that the Governor and the Governor were formally established as local official officials, instead of just temporary dispatching officials. The Governor was from the first rank and the Governor was from the second rank.

Each person declared the Political and Envoy Department, and the name was officially changed to the Provincial Department.

Each province has a governor, and one province or several provinces has a governor. For example, although an important Zhili province has only one governor, it has a governor and governor, and no other governor is established.

Southern Zhili also officially established a province, divided into two, Jiangbei Province north of the Yangtze River, Jiangnan Province south of the Yangtze River, Jiangnan Province two provinces south of the Yangtze River and Jiangbei Province and Jiangxi Province three provinces were established as the governor, and one governor was established for each of the three provinces.

The Ming Dynasty was officially divided into 21 provinces, Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangbei, Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou.

Based on the original thirteen provinces of the two capitals, Hubei Province was divided from Huguang Province, Taiwan Province, and Taiwan Province, Shaanxi Province was divided from Shaanxi Province, and Gansu Province. The two capitals were established in Zhili, Jiangbei and Jiangnan Province, plus the two provinces outside the pass and Liaodong and Liaoxi provinces separated from Shandong Province, which made the Ming Dynasty's provinces reach twenty-one.

The Governor of Zhili, the Governor of Shandong, the Governor of Liaoxi, the Governor of Liaodong, the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the Governor of Shanxi, the Governor of Sanjiang, the Governor of Sichuan and Lake, the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the Governor of Henan, the Governor of Southeast, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Twenty-one provinces are divided into twelve Governors.
Chapter completed!