The chief assistant of the cabinet, Ma Wensheng, and Wang Shu, the Minister of Personnel, were busy preparing to implement the plan.

Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao has begun to prepare to train his own strong army.

Of course, in terms of system, all the troops of the Ming Dynasty now belong to Zhu Houzhao's army nominally, regardless of their strength, and only the emperor Zhu Houzhao has the highest command of the army.

After all, the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty with a monarchy and a high centralized power. Since it was a monarch who could be an autocratic, it means that the army was only under the rule of the emperor in terms of law.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Houzhao has been able to crack down on Qingliu civil servants with a high attitude.

But in fact, it is quite complicated to belong to the Ming army.

The main military system of the Ming Dynasty was mainly the military farming system of the garrison, while the source of military personnel was mainly the hereditary military households with household registration.

Before the implementation of the recruitment system, most military households were actually farmers, tenants of military officers from the garrison, and they were not considered soldiers at all!

However, soldiers who truly have combat effectiveness are all servants of officers and private slaves of officers. They only obey the officers' own dispatch, because their salaries and supplies are provided by the officers privately, but they are still soldiers of the court on the surface.

Many times, these officers were military landlords, or even a miniature warlord, while military households were their tenants, and servants were their escorts. They and his servants and tenants formed the military system of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, strictly speaking, except for the regiment camp and the injunction, Zhu Houzhao did not have his own army.

But there is no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the regiment battalion and the injunction soldiers is very weak. After all, the world has been peaceful for a long time and the military has a low status. These officers and soldiers who truly belong to Zhu Houzhao have long been wiped out under the dual oppression of civil servants and civil servants.

Zhu Houzhao has no way to change the system of the ward. After all, if he abolishes the system of the ward, it means that he will deprive all the officers of the world of the privilege of legally enslaving military households, which will arouse the resistance of all the military landlords in the world.

Therefore, now, if Zhu Houzhao wants to train his own strong army, the only thing he can do is to train the regiment camp and the imperial guards.

In the 18th year of Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao used the opportunity of the regiment camp and the imperial guards to reissue the Lumi to reissue the Lumi to gather the morale of the regiment camp and the imperial guards. This was why he was able to rely on this army to reorganize the Jinyiwei and successfully kill Wang Yue, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and other rebels.

But now, this army has not improved its combat effectiveness, and it even has many redundant personnel. Many of the officers of this army are also nobles who are waiting to die. Many of them can no longer pull their bows or rides, especially the younger generation.

When Zhu Houzhao wanted to train this army, the first thing he had to do was to eliminate redundant personnel, especially grassroots officers and soldiers.

However, the most difficult thing in the revocation of redundant personnel is not the revocation, but the issue of resettlement after the revocation. After all, these officers and soldiers also have to support their families. Zhu Houzhao can prevent them from joining the army, but they cannot let them have no hope of survival.

For this reason, Zhu Houzhao specially summoned Xu Jin, the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace and Minister of War, to discuss the matter. According to Xu Jin's suggestion, it is best to distribute land to these decommissioned officers and soldiers, so that they can be converted into nationality, become real self-cultivated farmers, and pay grain as a service!

But the question is, how many unowned lands are there in the world? Before the acres of land were cleared, the Ministry of Revenue did not know the fish scale book and yellow book that had not been rebuilt for many years.

Zhu Houzhao thought that since he could not make these military redundant personnel who would be reborn in the future, it would be better to become workers than to make them refugees or become slaves. It would be better to organize a team of workers as his emperor and let these redundant personnel create their own value through labor through engineering construction.

So Zhu Houzhao simply did not eliminate these redundant personnel and decided to organize them into engineering soldiers.

Of course, the engineers here are not exactly the same as those in later generations. At least they do not have the technicality of engineers in later generations. The engineers Zhu Houzhao now have to organize are more of the workers who are carrying out engineering construction.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao also decided to convert these engineers into civilians in the future, allowing engineers to apply for retirement to work in other industries, and taking the imperial examination and becoming officials are even more allowed.

After all, although Zhu Houzhao could not immediately abolish the hereditary military system, it was still possible to convert some military households into civilians, especially the regiment camps and the injunctions in the capital.

However, Zhu Houzhao cannot tell the regiment battalion and the Imperial Army about his thoughts, because he believes that as long as the officers and soldiers of the regiment battalion and the Imperial Army know, the soldiers among these officers and soldiers will definitely want to be converted to nationality. After all, people in this era know that civilian households are more free than military households.

At the beginning, Zhu Houzhao only issued an order to combine the regiment camp and the imperial guards into the Ming Dynasty!

The main responsibilities of these two armies are to guard the capital and guard palaces. The combination of the guards naturally integrates the meaning of protecting the emperor and the capital city, and it is also easy to carry out unified training and training.

At the beginning, Zhu Houzhao asked the Minister of War Xu Jin to re-count the actual number of the Ming Guards and re-screen, and finally screened out only nearly 70,000 sharp soldiers.

Compared with the 100,000 elite soldiers selected by Yu Qian from the three camps during the Jingtai period, this number is naturally much smaller, but for Zhu Houzhao, if the 70,000 sharp soldiers are trained into strong soldiers, it is not a small number.

Zhu Houzhao asked the Ministry of War and the Imperial Horse Supervisor to reorganize the 70,000 sharp soldiers into nearly seven armies.

Each army is still led by the commander commander, while the army below is the Qi family army, flags, departments, bureaus, and battalions. Each army has three battalions, each battalion has three departments, each department has three flags, each flag has three teams, each team has twelve people.

This is also possible to directly organize the Qi family army and allocate the officers of the Guards according to their official positions in the regiment battalion and the imperial guards.

If you rashly use modern military organization, it will easily lead to chaos in the organization.

The formation of the Guards is just the beginning, and training the Guards is the top priority.

However, training for 70,000 people is not a small project. Even if Zhu Houzhao is a time traveler, he has experienced two military trainings or can train one or two people by copying each other, 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, who was Ningxia guerrilla general Qiu Yue.

In the early days of Zhengde, the one who impressed Zhu Houzhao the most about military officers was Qiu Yue.

In his original history, this person had the record of pacifying the rebellion of King Zhu Ao of Anhua King on the 18th day. Later, he quelled many rebellions and was eventually awarded the title of Xianning Bo, which shows that his military ability is very strong.

After all, it was not easy to get a title in the Ming Dynasty, especially to get a title by relying on military merits. Generally, people like this are people with strong military capabilities. Moreover, Qiu Yue was born in a military family and had practical experience in leading troops in border towns. Especially his training is undoubtedly the most suitable one.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Houzhao chose to summon Qiu Yue to Beijing and prepare to let him train the Guards for him.

Qiu Yue's loyalty is naturally credible. After all, in history, Zhu Zhili, the King of Anhua, Ningxia, rebelled, and he did not betray the court, let alone the rebellion of Zhu Zhili, the King of Anhua, has not yet occurred.

However, Qiu Yue has not started training the Guards yet, because the restructuring of the Guards has not yet ended. In the era of mixed use of hot and cold weapons in the Ming Dynasty, it will take time to reasonably allocate troops during the restructuring process.
Chapter completed!