Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 426, About the Planning of the Army
In Datong, Shanxi, Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao and his party were not in a hurry to return to the capital.

After finally coming out once, Zhu Houzhao would not want to go back at all for a while. As for Liu Jin, of course he came out with a purpose. Now the matter is only half completed, and the remaining half has not been completed, so naturally he is not in a hurry to go back.

Rewarding the three armies is only a superficial matter for Liu Jin. This time, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao showed that their real purpose was to cause trouble.

The military power has always been in the hands of the civil official group, and the civil official group has been continuously suppressing the military general Xungui group. They are not at all concerned about the construction of the Ming army in all aspects, and even continue to suppress it.

Over time, the Ming army, which could have been crying at the Tartars, has been turned into a sheep that can only rely on the tall city walls to guard, and it can almost be said that it has lost most of its combat effectiveness.

Finding a way to take back the military power from the civil service group to the emperor's hands is the most important step.

If the military power is not brought back, no matter how powerful an army is built, it will soon be spoiled by the civil official group. The civil official group does not want the military power of the Ming Dynasty to be strong, and it does not like the emperor to expand the territory.

In their view, the emperor should rule from the top down, and the most ideal state is to hand over the power to these ministers and rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.

As for foreign enemies, they are nothing to worry about. They just want money, food, and women. Just send them out. Of course, Daming has more backbone in this regard. Praise ministers and pay tribute.

So naturally these civil official groups do not have the characteristics of expanding the territory, they are only suitable for fighting in the nest, and they are weak to the outside world. Many times they hope that they can use their so-called benevolence and righteousness to justify the other party.

But it turns out that this set is absolutely unworkable.

To deal with foreign enemies, only fists, only powerful force can make the other party understand your strength and obey you. This has been the case since ancient times, both in ancient and modern China and abroad.

The only way to open up territories is on horseback. I have never heard of people who can open up territories with just one mouth.

In order to colonize the world and start the age of great voyages, the Ming Dynasty must have a strong force. How can it conquer the natives without strong force?
Without strong force, how can we defeat the European colonialists and robbers?
Without strong force, how can you protect your achievements?

Therefore, it is necessary to take action against Ming's army, regain the general power from the civil official group, and then build a strong army that will continue to fight in all directions.

Of course, regaining military power is only the first step. The real important thing is to reform the military system of Ming Dynasty.

The current military system in the Ming Dynasty is linked to the household service system. Military households will always be military households, and they will be military households for generations.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang was very talented and thought out a policy that could support millions of soldiers without spending money, that is, the military household system.

He divided the Ming army into many guards, and each guard was stationed in one place, and then allocated a large area of ​​land to this guard, allowing the soldiers of these guards to cultivate the land themselves, so that the court did not need to spend a penny It will be able to raise these millions of soldiers.

The advantage of this system is that as Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang saw, because of the land, the military households in these guards can be self-sufficient, and there is no need for the court to allocate additional food to feed these military households.

However, Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang came from a humble background and lacked a long-term vision in doing things.

Regarding this point, some people may object, but Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a comrade who lacks long-term vision. Regarding this point, the military household system is one, and the other is the enfeoffment system.

In terms of enfeoffment system, Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang enfeoffed each of his sons to various places, and each of them was a prince with local and military power. This also laid the groundwork for Zhu Di's subsequent seizure of the throne of Emperor Jianwen.

Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang just saw that this power was always in the hands of his old Zhu family, and wishful thinking that the successor he chose was in the center, and the other feudal princes and kings would wholeheartedly submit to the successor he chose.

However, they did not see the danger of the country splitting at all. In history, the Eight Kings Rebellion of the Jin Dynasty was caused by the princes and kings having too much power and having the right to have soldiers. Fighting and almost dying.

There is also the Han Dynasty in history, because Liu Bang entrusted too many princes and kings, and the princes and kings were so powerful that generations of emperors of the old Liu family were troubled by cleaning up these princes and kings.

He, Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, was short-sighted, and he also engaged in entrusting princes and kings. When he was around, his sons were naturally honest, and no one dared to say 'no' to him.

But as soon as Comrade Zhu died, his grandson was immediately taken away by his son, which is enough to show that the enfeoffment system was a very failed system.

This also shows that Comrade Zhu's vision is very short-sighted.

Going back to the military household system, according to the system established by Comrade Zhu, he can indeed feed millions of troops without spending money, and even the frontier troops rely on the salt introduction system to support them, which saves a lot financial burden.

But time is changing and everything is changing.

Because of the military household system, all the warriors he honed to conquer the world and be good at fighting became farmers who cultivated the land. At first, there was nothing, but after one or two generations, the warriors who could defeat Beiyuan became honest and honest. , farmers who can only cultivate land.

And because of the military household system, these military households can't engage in other industries and can only serve as soldiers. The population and number of military households are constantly expanding, but the land given to military households is always only so much.

This will lead to the life of military households becoming more and more impoverished. Gradually, by the time of the Hongzhi Dynasty, the military household system has basically been corrupted. It is even a problem for military households to eat, and they are still expected to go to war?

In addition, because it is hereditary, these military households still need to endure the exploitation of hundreds and thousands of households. These thousands of households and hundreds of households not only invade the fields belonging to the guards, but also enslave and exploit these military households. households as their own slaves.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to fight against the heroes of the Quartet. Because of this system, the combat power plummeted. When it came to the civil fort change, the Ming army was defeated. In addition to the blind command of the eunuch Wang Zhen, it was very important. One reason for this is that under the military household system at that time, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was already pitifully low.

It is no longer Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's powerful army fighting in all directions, but a group of peasants with temporary weapons. It is simply ridiculous to expect them to defeat the Tartars.

From these two aspects, it can be seen that Comrade Zhu's vision is really bad, he sees very short-term and does not see long-term.

In addition, Comrade Zhu is very mean to the officials. The salary of the Ming officials is the lowest in the history.

Therefore, corruption became common in the Ming Dynasty. Even Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang's thin skin and solid grass still could not prevent the emergence of this phenomenon, because officials are also human beings, and they also have to eat enough.

Recapture the military power from the civilian clique and reform the military system of Ming Dynasty.

The guard system has been completely corrupted, and there is no value for its continued existence. In fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, in order to deal with border troubles, the Ming Dynasty had to reform the military household system and gradually cultivated some professional soldiers.

Therefore, in Liu Jin's plan, in the future, the Ming Dynasty will still gather professional soldiers and conscripts of later generations. When a soldier is a soldier, he can be a soldier with peace of mind, and he can train when he needs training, instead of being a soldier and a farmer at the same time.

Moreover, with the germination of capitalism, technology will also slowly develop, and the weapons and equipment used will continue to innovate. At that time, it will no longer be a fight with swords, but a confrontation between giant ships and cannons.

The traditional military household system cannot satisfy this at all. It is necessary to combine professional soldiers and conscripts to cultivate a strong army that meets the requirements of the times.

Of course, this is all Liu Jin's long-term plan, but now he has a very headache. It is definitely not an easy task to regain the general power from the civil official group.

The civil official group will not easily release the military power. This is the power they took from the civil fort change with great difficulty. How can they easily get more?
Therefore, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao are patrolling the frontier army at this time. The most important thing is to make troubles.

　Make complaints about Comrade Zhu, I hope everyone will spray lightly~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)