Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 876
The five matters mentioned in the first Martial Arts Hall meeting after Auntie Zhu's return were all major matters, and of course it was impossible to discuss them in one day.

Except for the first thing which is a pure notification, the implementation of the other four things requires the Military Council or the Cabinet to discuss a detailed plan.

When everything was preliminarily discussed, it was already half a month later.

On May 17, the [-]th year of Zhaowu, Zheng Sen, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Ming Empire, was awarded the title of Diplomatic Ambassador of Jiahonglu Temple, and was appointed by Emperor Zhaowu as the chief envoy of the mission to Western countries.

In addition, Kuang Lu, Deputy Diplomatic Envoy of Honglu Temple, and Yan Ermei, Minister of Foreign Affairs, were appointed as Deputy Envoys of the Mission.

Subsequently, a mission of more than 500 people left Nanjing and was escorted by warships sent by Qinglongying to Nanhai Province.

In Nanhai Province, the mission will join the Third Nanyang Fleet and the First Western Fleet to form a large team of more than 2 people to go to the Western Ocean.

At the same time, the other three things that Auntie Zhu had set were also being carried out in an orderly manner.

Local governments at all levels are applying to the Tixue Department of the Ministry of Rites for the establishment of universities, and the lower high schools, junior high schools, and elementary schools are reviewed and approved by the Tixue Yamen at the local level.

Some local officials were very flexible and found that the education funds in the public funds were not enough to build more schools, so they mobilized private merchants and gentry to apply for the establishment of private schools.

After deliberation, the Education Department decided to allow a certain number of private schools at the primary and junior high levels.

As for high schools and universities, they are still completely handled by the government.

However, the conditions for establishing private vocational schools in local areas are relaxed, and the meaning of encouraging private vocational schools is obvious.

All of a sudden, many politically and business-savvy rich men paid for the establishment of various vocational schools.One is to cultivate professionals as soon as possible for use by their own factories and firms; the other is to share the cake of vocational education.

There are a large number of private primary schools, junior high schools, and vocational schools, and some chaos will inevitably occur.At present, the governments in various places have not implemented strict control in the spirit of support. As for what will happen in the future, it is hard to say.

Of course, if some bottom line of the imperial court is touched, it will definitely be hit by the imperial court's iron fist.

Among the few things at present, the reform of the Army is the most important and most concerned thing for Aimee Zhu.

After more than three months of deliberations and relevant inspections and verifications, the Military Affairs Council finally came up with a practical new army establishment.

The five, even, and team systems at the bottom remain basically unchanged.

However, from the original five teams with one whistle, it was changed to four teams with one whistle.

The general above the post is replaced by the battalion-level organization.

The first battalion has five posts, including four main posts, one battalion belongs to the artillery team, one battalion belongs to the reconnaissance team, one battalion belongs to the communication team, and one battalion belongs to the service team.

In other words, the "battalion" will become the smallest complete combat unit in the Ming army in the future.

At the same time, titles such as "Chief General", "Guerrilla", "General" and "General Soldier" were canceled in the official establishment of the Ming Army, and the titles were changed to battalion commander, regiment commander, and division commander.

Three battalions form a regiment, and the regiment leader directly leads a battalion, that is, he also serves as the commander of the first battalion of the regiment.

If it is an independent regiment, it can have four or five battalions.

A division has three regiments and a guard battalion, totaling 1 people.The so-called guards are the original soldiers.

Under the new system, the Yulin Army still has five divisions, but the Suzaku Army has only one battalion, the Huben Army and the Xiaoqi Army each have five battalions, and the Shenji Army and Qinglong Army Banner each have ten battalions.

That is to say, the Royal Forest Army has a total of 1000 people.

It seems that there are very few people guarding the imperial city, but if you count the imperial guards, it is enough.

Because of the new establishment, the Imperial Guard was directly expanded into ten divisions!

Its soldiers mainly come from the original five towns of the Imperial Guard, as well as the border troops of each town, and a small number of outstanding soldiers in the garrison.

Under the new organization, the imperial guards will adopt a rotation system.In peacetime, only six divisions are left to guard the capital, while the remaining four divisions are sent to the frontier to perform border defense or combat missions, so as to ensure the combat effectiveness of the imperial guards and prevent the imperial guards from becoming waste due to long-term guarding of the capital.

When Aimee Zhu is here, she can actually guarantee the combat effectiveness of the imperial guards.Therefore, this change is actually a preparation for Zhu Hechen to rule the Ming Empire in the future.

The [-] imperial guards will always be the first to be equipped with formal equipment by Daming.As for the imperial forest army, they will use some secret weapons that other armies will not use, and their combat effectiveness will be stronger.

With these 10,000+ strong troops, plus the frontier guards and garrison troops, it is impossible for all of them to rebel at once, which is enough to ensure the stability of the rule of Zhu Hechen and subsequent generations of Ming emperors.

Because the Ming Empire now has 33 provinces (after Jiaozhi, Cangnan and Beihai provinces were added), the border guards were also expanded to 28 divisions.

The garrison was further reduced.

Except for Nanzhili, Beizhili, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc., which are relatively important, or where there are still remnants of chieftain forces in the territory, the provinces in the interior of the Ming Empire basically did not have a garrison of an entire division. became an independent group.

At least one independent group, as many as two independent groups.

Because of important identities such as border provinces and Zhili, a division-level garrison will be arranged.

However, in the border provinces, the frontier guards are actually the main force; in Zhili, the imperial guards and frontier troops are the main force.

The Garrison remains a supporting role.

Only in the provinces of the South China Sea, Burma, Cangnan, Jiaozhi, and the Western Regions, the responsibilities and tasks of the garrison are slightly heavier.

Therefore, even though Daming currently has 33 provinces, and some provinces are particularly large, the garrison that can defend the local area as the main responsibility has only 17 after the reorganization in the 53th year of Zhaowu.

In other words, after the reform, the four major ranks of the Ming Army, the Royal Forest Army, the Imperial Guard Army, the Frontier Guard Army, and the Garrison Army, combined together, are less than 100 million!

This seems a little small for a huge empire.

However, if you count the guards of the overseas capitals of the Ming Dynasty and the local patrol police who are mainly veterans, the number of soldiers that the Ming Dynasty can mobilize is definitely more than 150 million!

If the armies of the feudal kings can also be counted, they must exceed 200 million!
In addition, the combat effectiveness of a country's army should not only depend on quantity, but also on quality.The quality includes the combat quality and equipment of the soldiers.

The equipment of the Ming Army is absolutely top-notch in the world at present, and no country can catch up.

As for the fighting literacy of the Ming Army, in the past 20 years of fighting, the training of the army and military academy has reached the top level in the world.

Aimee Zhu believes that after this reform, even if the equipment factor is excluded, the Ming Army will be able to hold the title of world-class army for hundreds of years!
Speaking of which, during the reorganization of the army, many soldiers in the garrison retired due to age and other reasons, and even a small number of soldiers in the border defense army and the Imperial Guard retired.

As usual, how to accommodate these retired soldiers may be a bit difficult for the Ming Empire.

But now, under the decision of Aunt Zhu, the Ming Empire has set up the three major divisions of South America, East Africa, and South Africa, and needs to recruit more than [-] guards, so these veterans have no worries about their way out.

In addition, the business houses that the private sector cooperates with the capital to expand overseas also need to recruit mercenaries.Although the work is more dangerous, the money is better.

This gives veterans more choices.

When Auntie Zhu's decisions are all implemented, the Ming Empire is like a giant dragon that has just warmed up, waving its dragon claws, twisting its huge body, stirring up the situation in this world...
Zhaowu 17th year, September.

The Mughal capital, Delhi.

In the most glorious hall of the Red Fort, the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who has been on the throne for more than two years, is sitting on a golden chair studded with precious stones, flipping through a book.

He was already frowning tightly, but now the more he looked at these documents, the more he frowned.

(End of this chapter)