Chapter 6 Military Region and Military Ranks (I)

The atmosphere of the Korean discussion today is obviously different from the past, tense and depressing, especially the generals' faces are extremely solemn. Rumors of military reform have been uploaded from the local area to the capital. When they learned that military reform is imperative, many military generals suddenly became very confused.

At the beginning, he was afraid that rumors would cause the military to shake. Zhu Yinglong ordered several confidant officials who participated in the military reform to keep secrets. All the terms of the military reform were discussed and decided secretly. Even the emperor's close friends only knew that the court would change the military, but there was no way to know the time and content of the military reform.

Today's court discussion will unveil the mystery of military reform, and the fate of the Ming generals will be rewritten as a result!

The solemn atmosphere continued until the emperor arrived in the court!

As soon as he entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Zhu Yinglong felt that the atmosphere today was very different. Although it was silent in the past, it was not like today. The air square Buddha solidified, making people breathless.

"Go to court!"

Sitting upright on the dragon throne, Zhu Yinglong looked down at the ministers in the hall in a cold eyes and said, "In recent days, many rumors about military reform have been spread to my ears. No matter who spreads the rumors, I will definitely pursue the crime of spreading them without authorization and shaking the morale of the military. However, the rumors are not entirely rumors!"

There was no uproar in the hall, and it was obvious that all the officials knew it.

"At present, the Ming army system is very chaotic. The new army, border army, local army, local army, local army, and private armed forces, some of which are missing from the garrison army, etc. The troops are chaotic and the military system is chaotic. Once something happens, the court will find it difficult to dispatch it. In view of this, I feel that the court's military system has reached a point where it is necessary to change, so I decided to reform the army!" Zhu Yinglong said heavily.

The hall was silent, and it was heard that the system of the three provinces and six ministries has almost been overthrown by Zhu Yinglong. The reform of the political system has entered a substantial stage and has begun to show results. It is constantly expanding and consolidating. Although the military reform has been mentioned, Zhu Yinglong's mind has been focused on political reform at that time. The domestic rebellion suppression work has not yet ended, so the military reform has naturally been delayed. Now the domestic bandit crisis has almost been wiped out, and military reform has been put on the agenda. This is a matter of course, but based on the content of the military reform, it can be inferred from the political reform that the military reform will definitely be shocking and shocking the world.

"Before the military reform, I would like to ask you my dear friends, what is the military spirit of the Ming army? Who can answer it, I have a lot of rewards!" What an army needs most is not excellent preparation or excellent quality of soldiers. What is most needed is the soul of the army. If the army is there, the army will disappear and the army will collapse.

"Defend the country!"

"Serve the country with loyalty!"

"I swear to be loyal to the emperor to death and return the emperor's body!"

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The answers are different, but they are still a certain distance from the answer in Zhu Yinglong's mind.

"The military spirit is an ideal and a belief. It is necessary to let every soldier and general know why he fought and who he fought for. Yes, they need to obey the military orders of the court and follow my command. But they protect not only me, but the millions of people of the Ming Dynasty. So what I want to say is that the military spirit of the Ming army in the future is to fight for the people, fight for the nation, and fight for the country. Anyone who offends our Ming Dynasty will be punished even if it is far away!"

Warriors are weapons. Although the country is big, they will forget the war. This is a concept that all Confucian students have adhered to after Dong Zhongshu respected Confucianism for thousands of years. They would rather use beauties and wealth to exchange for humiliating peace, but rather let the warriors take up swords and guns to defend their interests. This is like a man being castrated. No matter how powerful he is, he always has the same kind of man below one person or above ten thousand people. Even if this man is a useless beggar, at least this beggar has the dignity of being a man!

How can the Chinese nation endure being a castrated man? He wants to be reborn, he wants to cheer up again, take out the man's blood, sweep across the Liuhe River, and shock all directions!

Everyone looked at the passionate emperor standing up and waving his arms, with excitement, excited and excited blood, and worried limbs trembling constantly.

Most of the people standing here are civil officials, so Zhu Yinglong did not expect anyone to show up in a passionate and high-pitched scene. Besides, these people are not as easy to incite as those simple soldiers. He said this just to tell the civil and military officials present what the army is used for?

This is a very serious proposition. It can be said that no one can answer it in full. The army is the violent machine of the country. Everything it does seems to exist for violence. The battlefield, blood and killing seem to be the reason for its existence!

The army is also the most taboo thing for the people, because it controls the power that ordinary people cannot control. Therefore, there are not many troops in history that really make the people like and love from beginning to end, and they are usually privately imprinted privately, such as the "Yue Family Army". If there is no soul figure like Yue Fei, it is unknown whether the Yue Family Army can be liked and loved by the people.

The army in power in the court will turn good and bad, and even go to the opposite side of the people and become the people who hate the most. What is the reason for this? This involves the concept of the belonging of the army and who to fight for.

What the monarch of any dynasty fears is rebellion, and one regards the army as his own private property, the army in the hands of a wise monarch can naturally defend his country and expand his territory. However, if the army is controlled by a foolish monarch, it will naturally become a tool for him to do evil or accomplice to the people. Therefore, Zhu Yinglong always believes that no matter how advanced a country's political system is, if its army is just a tool for being used by private, then this country will not last long. Of course, here

There is also an opposing side of contradiction and unity. The army is a very special group and can easily be stamped with personal imprints. This seems to be an insolvent knot. As long as the army exists for a day, it is impossible to completely eliminate personal influence and can only be downplayed. Therefore, the ideological work of the army is particularly important. Therefore, Zhu Yinglong specially added the important work of "literacy" in the military reform. Of course, the title of "political commissar" did not appear in this time and space, so this work is undertaken by a newly established official position like "senator".

The army is the pillar of a country. As long as the army does not deteriorate or collapses, the country will not perish.

If any minister said such ruthless words in front of the ministers, he would be drowned immediately by spitting out the water, and even implicated in the nine tribes, and be regarded as crazy by the people of the world. However, if such words come from the emperor's mouth, it will be different. Everyone will be moved unanimously, saying that the emperor is a good emperor who loves the people as his son, an emperor for the eternal age, and a memory forever!

The military reform edict has been written long ago, and the Secretariat has sent 10,000 copies. After the edict is read during the court discussion, it will be ordered to send it to all parts of the country quickly.

The military reform edict first redefines the Ming Dynasty's arms, which is the first step of the military reform. Otherwise, the military reform will be too chaotic and it will be difficult to lay off and reorganize.

The arms were transformed into three major categories: cavalry, infantry and navy, with the smallest number of cavalry, and the total number of cavalry in the country was only more than 100,000, and those with horses and cavalry were counted (of course, not this number). The most infantry were, with a total of more than 2 million in the country, and various organizational structures, local soldiers, and caverns were counted in it. The remaining navy currently has about 50,000 units, and this time the military reform of the navy basically does not need to be moved.

Next are the seven major military regions, which are unprecedented in history. This is also the place where the soldiers care about the most. The differences in regions are related to which military region they will be classified into. Especially the military region chief generals are the most concerned about by all the civil and military officials. No matter who they are, once they become the military region chief general, they will be in charge of heavy troops and territorial officials, with great power. If the military and political separation is not implemented now, then they will be a prince, which is no different from opening a government office and building a yamen!

The division of the seven military regions is the core part of the entire military reform. From north to south, the seven military regions are:

Liaodong Military Region, Commander of the Military Region: Yuan Chonghuan, Deputy Commander: Man Gui, Zu Dashou, Chief of Staff: Zhao Rujiao, under his command, 20,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry, organized two divisions, 160,000 infantry, 20,000 troops, reorganized into twelve divisions and an independent brigade, with a total force of about 160,000. He was stationed in the front line of Jinzhou, Liaodong, Dalinghe, Ningyuan, and Shanhaiguan, and belonged to the front-line army.

Northwest Military Region, Commander of the Military Region: Xiong Tingbi, Deputy Commander: Lu Xiangsheng, Chief of Staff: Wu Xiang, with 18 brigades under his command, totaling 120,000 people. Since Xiong Tingbi has been dismissed and reorganized, there is almost no movement in the Northwest Army, which is to transform the brigade into nine divisions and another directly under the teaching brigade, defending the western border, Lanzhou, Gansu, and Shaanxi, and belonging to the front-line army.

Beijing Military Region, Commander of the Military Region: Lu Haotian, the youngest commander among the seven major military regions, deputy commanders, Huang Degong, Ma Xianglin (not knowing in advance, Huang Degong is still in Wuchang), Chief of Staff: Yu Guangjie (temporary serving), with a 24th brigade of troops under his command, including four cavalry brigades, which were reorganized and turned into twelve divisions, with about 140,000 people, defending the Shandong Peninsula, Tianjin, from the capital to the Datong Line, Datong Prefecture is also under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Military Region, and the general front-line army.

Wuhan Military Region: Acting Commander of the Military Region: Zuo Liangyu, Deputy Commander: He Renlong, with 80,000 infantry troops under his command. After reorganization, he added a direct regiment to six divisions and a second-line corps to defend the mainland.

Nanjing Military Region: Military Region Commander: Hong Chengchou, Deputy Commander: Xiong Zhaolian, Zheng Nansheng, Chief of Staff: Song Xiance, defended Jinan to Nanjing and then to the coastal front line of Zhejiang and Fujian. The most powerful troops and the widest distribution, about 200,000 people. After the reorganization, there were sixteen divisions, one directly under the artillery brigade, one directly under the teaching brigade, and the front-line army.

Guangzhou Military Region: Military Region Commander: Chang Yanlin, Deputy Commander: Mu Tianbo, Yang Zhaoji, Chief of Staff: Xu Kongzhen (descendants of Xu Da), with a force of about 100,000, including about 10,000 mountain jungle troops, the rest are infantry, a small number of cavalry, and eight divisions are reorganized to defend the front line of Guangdong and Yunnan, and belong to the second-line army.

Southwest Military Region: Military Region Commander: Qin Liangyu (the only female lead general), Deputy Commander: Liu Zeju, Qin Bangping, Chief of Staff: Qin Minping, with a force of 160,000, defending Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and after reorganization, there were about 14 divisions, temporarily belonging to the Second-line Army.

In this way, the regular first and second-tier troops in the country, as well as the Shanghai Army, totaling about one million. Other local troops, including the old and weak in the seven major military regions, are now being abolished. The abolished military can be carried out for military farming, and the imperial court provides land, and some of them will be distributed to go home to farm. There are also the remaining young and strong people. The imperial court will all form a military regiment, as the reserve force of the army and maintain local public security. If there is really no place to go, you can build roads. In short, there are many ways!
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