The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 157 Five Armies and Ten Towns
The closing ceremony of the first phase of the Martial Arts Hall came as scheduled, and it was held in the square of the Emperor's Great Hall, making it very grand.

All civil and military officials in the capital were present to watch the ceremony, including the five generals and some senior generals of the five armies.

Even the general officers of the towns stationed in the northern provinces had all arrived in the capital three days ago, including Qin Liangyu's niece and grandson who came from Shizhu.

Originally, Zhu Cihong wanted to announce Qin Liangyu to Beijing, but considering that she was too old, in her 70s, she was specially allowed to send her nephew in the next generation to come to Beijing to face the saint instead of her.

But Qin Liangyu's husband, son, and daughter-in-law almost all died for the Ming Dynasty, and now there is only one niece and grandson left, which can be said to be full of loyalty.

Although Zhu Cihong canonized Zhang Xianzhong as the King of Shu at the beginning, the stone pillar guarded by Qin Liangyu was not assigned to him, and he also promoted the Shizhu Xuanfu Division to a pure military town like Xuanfu.

At this moment, the square in front of the Great Hall of the Emperor is full of stars. Almost everyone knows that His Majesty is not just holding a graduation ceremony for these 3000-odd disciples.

The [-] students, dressed in brand-new military uniforms and armor, stood upright on the square. Everyone was full of energy, and their faces were full of firmness and confidence.

Looking at these 3000 people, almost all the generals had green lights in their eyes, full of affection. This is the subconscious reaction of a battle-hardened general.

As for all the civil servants, their faces were solemn, and they were very worried that if this went on like this, the civil servants would never have a bright future.

The graduation ceremony was very simple. 3000 people knelt down with a bowl of wine, toasted the emperor, thanked him for his kindness, and kowtowed nine times after drinking.

And although there are many court ladies and eunuchs who teach them literacy and some storytellers in the entire lecture hall, these people can only be called teaching, and the real teacher is only Zhu Cihong.

Usually in private, Zhu Cihong allowed them to call themselves teachers, but no one dared to call them that, they all called him His Majesty.

Zhu Cihong did not force this, but stipulated that students must address the emperor as teacher at the opening and closing ceremonies in the future.

After all, there will be more students in the future, and it is impossible for him to teach in person, at most, to be there in person at the beginning and end of the school year to motivate them, or to attend a class occasionally on a whim.

Don't look at it as just a teacher, but it has a huge effect, and it really determines the teacher-student relationship.

Otherwise, if you never even called him a teacher, how can you talk about being the emperor's disciple?

Zhu Cihong sat on the grand teacher's chair. After drinking the wine toasted by his disciples and thanking him, 3000 people came to the front and knelt down one by one to accept the emperor's personal instruction.

Zhu Cihong just gave everyone a word of encouragement, and then gave each of them a sword.

The styles of the swords are all the same, they are made of fine steel, the hilt is engraved with dragon patterns, the body of the sword is engraved with the four characters of loyalty, bravery, wisdom and martial arts, as well as small characters such as the date number and gift from the emperor Shenwu, the benefactor.

This is definitely a treasure that can be passed on to the family, so when each student took the sword with both hands, they were all trembling with excitement.

And all the generals who watched the ceremony, their eyes were red when they saw this scene.

This is the first phase, so each of Zhu Cihong gave a sword as a gift. In the future, there must be an assessment, and only the best can get it.

Without a certificate, soldiers don't need that thing. This sword is the best proof that they are the emperor's disciples and students in the martial arts hall.

More than [-] people, although each of them only gave a word or two of encouragement, still opened from morning to afternoon.

Not all of the 100 people will be sent to the various armies, but 100 people will be left as instructors.

The next day, Zhu Cihong held a military-political joint meeting in the Emperor's Great Hall, and carried out a thorough reform of Ming's military system.

The first is to completely abolish the five military governors' mansions, and re-establish a major governor's mansion, with five supervisors under it, namely the military and political supervisor, the imperial horse supervisor, the ordnance supervisor, the military law supervisor, and the capital supervisor.

In the future, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion will be in charge of the mobilization, personnel, military law, logistics, equipment, training and other related matters of all armies in the world, as well as the management of various guards.

The Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion has one Metropolitan Governor, one Governor on the left and one on the left and one on the left, and one on each of the five supervisors.

Zhu Cihong personally held the post of Metropolitan Governor, and Hong Niangzi served as the left governor and concurrently served as the commander of the Chinese army. The right governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was temporarily vacant.

The title of the chief officer of the Five Armies was also changed from the original governor to the commander of the army.

Hong Niangzi's Central Military Governor is also completely abolished, even if the left military commander is also a special case, this will not happen again in the future.

Then there is the reform of the military establishment. In the future, the Ming army will be divided into four types: Imperial Forest Army, Field Army, Standing Army and Reserve Army.

Needless to say, the Royal Forest Army is the emperor's pro-army and is responsible for guarding the imperial city of Miyagi. It has ten battalions of about 5 people, one of which is a women's battalion.

The field army is temporarily organized into five legions and several towns.

The five legions are the five armies of the original front, back, left, and right sides. Each army has ten battalions under its jurisdiction, each battalion has more than [-] people, and there is one battalion commander. There are two sword and shield battalions, two short spear battalions, one long spear battalion, and one bow battalion. Crossbow battalion, cavalry battalion, firearms battalion, artisan battalion, supply battalion.

Each battalion has five bids under its jurisdiction, each with more than 1200 people, and there is one bidder in charge.

Each bid has five teams under its jurisdiction, each team has more than 240 people, and there is one team leader.

Each team has five banners, 48 ​​people in each banner, and one banner chief.

Each flag has four divisions under its jurisdiction, each division has 12 people, with one division leader and two corps leaders.

The new military system is divided into seven levels from top to bottom: army, town, battalion, standard, team, flag, and even.

Each legion has about 6 soldiers, including 12000 sword and shield soldiers, 12000 short spearmen, 6000 spearmen, 6000 long spearmen, 6000 crossbowmen, and 6000 crossbowmen. And 12000 horn bows, [-] cavalry, [-] firearms soldiers, [-] artisan auxiliary soldiers, [-] equipment carts, and [-] mules and horses.

With such an organization, each legion can carry the food for March and fight independently.

Both the army and the town are directly under the Governor's Mansion. The difference is that the town has a smaller establishment and fewer people, but it can also fight independently.

Each town has a general officer, about 3 to [-] people depending on the situation, and four to six battalions under its jurisdiction. The other establishments are the same, mainly used to guard various areas.

The Department of Liu Zeqing in Shandong was compiled as the first town, the Department of Gaojie in Henan was the second town, the Department of Liu Liangzuo in Shanxi was the third town, the Department of Liu Fangliang in Xuanfu was the fourth town, the Department of Wu Sanfu in Datong was the fifth town, and the Department of Tang Tong was the sixth town , Nanyang Zuo Menggeng's Department is the seventh town, Shizhu Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers are the eighth town, and Nanjing's more than 8 troops are tentatively designated as the ninth and tenth towns.

A total of five armies and ten towns, about 50 field troops.

As for the standing army and the reserve army, the rest of the re-registered officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were not incorporated into the five armies and ten towns were all established as the standing army and their ranks remained unchanged.

Including reforms and guards that have not been abolished in various places, all of them are temporarily reserve forces and remain unchanged.

In the future, the two armies will definitely reorganize and reform, but for the time being, Zhu Cihong has no energy to manage them.

(End of this chapter)