Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

These fishermen are the people of Ming Dynasty.

What the prince of Xiao Liuqiu did was tantamount to killing the people of the Ming Dynasty at will.

No wonder Zhu Biao was so angry.

You must know that due to historical reasons, Xiaoliuqiu has received goodwill and funding from the Central Plains dynasties in almost all dynasties.

In the Han Dynasty, Xiaoliuqiu (Taiwan) and Daliuqiu were a whole, named "Eastern Anchovy". According to official records, they were under the administrative jurisdiction of Kuaiji County.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Ryukyu and Taiwan were renamed "Yizhou".

It was not until the hundreds of years of turmoil in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties that they were separated.

Therefore, regardless of the size of Ryukyu, it is actually China's territory.

It is precisely because of this relationship that the Ming Dynasty had always taken great care of Xiaoliuqiu. Even after the tribute system was changed, the requirements for it were the lowest.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to pursue peaceful rule over these small neighboring countries. It would be best if he could do so without bloodshed, and he could even give them a certain degree of autonomy.

It was directly internalized into the vassal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, just like those princely fiefdoms.

But this does not mean that Ming Dynasty must do this.

Because this line is used by the strong to restrain themselves, not by the weak to restrain the strong. If the weak rely on this line and have nothing to worry about, then this line has no value in existence.

"Then fight!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly.

It was just that they had just experienced the turmoil involving the consort Ouyang Lun and Zhu Liangzu's case, and I didn't know whether the Huaixi generals were frightened and had not yet recovered, or whether they had discussed it in advance.

When Zhu Yuanzhang proposed to send troops to attack Xiaoliuqiu, none of the Huaixi generals who were supposed to actively seek battle took the initiative to volunteer.

Unfortunately, Xu Da, Tang He and others happened to have important responsibilities and were away from the capital.

Moreover, at this time, some civil servants came to remonstrate, saying that the court should not use weapons rashly just for a few fishermen. Saying how long and good the relationship between Xiaoliuqiu and Ming Dynasty is, you can send an envoy to condemn Xiaoliuqiu and ask the other party to pay compensation.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned pale after hearing these words.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang could directly force the decree, but in this case, the taste would change. He could only temporarily disperse the court and say that the matter would be discussed separately.

Zhu Biao saw all this in his eyes. After going to court, he went straight out of the city and got on the northbound train to Yangzhou without saying anything else.

Yangzhou City, Shenhou Mansion.

Regarding what happened in Fujian Province, Yang Xian knew the news much earlier than Zhu Yuanzhang and the others, because the merchant ship that rescued the fishermen came from Mingji.

Listen to Zhu Biao describe his and Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to send troops, as well as the objections of some courtiers and ministers.

Yang Xian said: "King Wen practiced benevolence and righteousness and ruled the world, King Yan practiced benevolence and righteousness and lost his country. This is benevolence and righteousness that was used in the past but not today. Some small places are like villains, fearing power but not virtue. .”

"According to what those ministers said, it was just a few fishermen who died. It was just a minor matter. That's because those who died were not their family members."

"Besides, do we have to wait until another Goryeo incident occurs before sending troops?"

"You must know that the Goryeo Kingdom captured Tieling at that time. If their coach Li Chenggui had not restrained himself, the people of the entire Tieling City would have been in a state of despair."

"If you remain patient and calm every time and teach the other side a lesson after the fact, even if you can inflict a blow on the other side, it will also increase the cost of governance! The struggle process should not be turn-based, but should have awe engraved in the opponent's genes for a long time. There. The vengeful rabbit cannot replace the gentle lion as the king of the forest."

Yang Xian looked at Zhu Biao and slowly said: "Your Highness, those ministers said that our Ming Dynasty should have the demeanor of a great country. This is true, but you need to know that all benevolence and kindness in this world must be accompanied by Sharp."

Zhu Biao stood up and gave a solemn salute to Yang Xian.

Yang Xian's words also strengthened Zhu Biao's determination to send troops.

Yang Xian then analyzed the situation in the court for Zhu Biao at this time, and he said: "These Huaixi military generals, whether unintentionally or intentionally, this time is a rare opportunity for His Highness and His Majesty."

"What opportunity?" Zhu Biao asked subconsciously.

"Army reform!"

After Yang Xian implemented the New Deal, he successively reformed the civil service system, tax system, and education. This time it was finally the army's turn.

For an emperor, the two most core powers are the army and government.

The best means to safeguard imperial power is the violent group of the army.

As long as the imperial power firmly controls the army, no opponent or enemy can shake the imperial power.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang beat those old brothers.

Yang Xian said: "If you want to avoid this situation happening in the court today, in addition to King Zhongshan and Marshal Tang, the court must train a group of young generals to replace the current positions of these Huaixi generals."

"The best way is to set up a royal military academy in the capital to train high-level officers of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Biao said: "Why didn't I think of it? Since a school can be established to train teachers, then naturally a school can be established to train high-level military officers. Then the principal of this school will be none other than Yang Qing."

Yang Xian shook his head and replied: "The principal of this Royal Military Academy must and can only be His Majesty."

You must know that the army is involved, which is the core power of the emperor.

For most emperors, let alone outsiders, even their biological sons are no exception. Whoever touches them will die.

Yang Xian knew that Zhu Biao didn't think much about it, he didn't think about it, he just said it casually.

But even with Zhu Yuanzhang's permission, Yang Xian would not do this job, especially now that Yang Xian has such a high influence in the army.

It would inevitably make Zhu Yuanzhang think too much, but he would be on guard and taboo.

With the system in place, Yang Xian's ultimate true goal is the pinnacle of science.

Therefore, he will never fall into the mud of power struggle because of such dispensable things.

Yang Xian said: "You can let King Zhongshan, Tang Shuai, and Cao Guogong be responsible for teaching. Your Majesty usually has many things to do, and you really can't spare the time. Just put up a name. All you want is this level of fame and righteousness."

"Also, the Governor's Office must be reformed now. Only in this way can things like Zhu Liangzu's situation never happen again!"

You must know that in the Hongwu Dynasty, local counties and counties had no right to intervene when military households broke the law.

This is also the reason why people from the Guangzhou Army and Horses Division are so domineering, and even directly arrest the local prefect’s Yamen servants and imprison them in the Army and Horse Division.

Even Zhu Liangzu, who was stationed in Guangdong, was not restrained at all.

Today, the Ming Dynasty's military organization is called the Governor's Office, which was the earliest Privy Council. The first Governor was Zhu Wenzheng. The great power of the Governor can be seen from the things he is responsible for, which is to control domestic and foreign military affairs.

Therefore, the Governor's Office is in charge of more than just marching and fighting.

This was only one of the functions of the Military Office at this time, and the Prison Department was responsible for the punishment of military households in various guards across the country.

In other words, if a military household breaks the law, the local government offices at all levels cannot control it. If you want to file a lawsuit, you can only go to the Criminal and Prison Department of the Metropolitan Governor's Office to drum up your grievances.

In the early Ming Dynasty, even the Ministry of War had no right to interfere with the affairs of the governor's house.

Moreover, the Governor's Office has a law on farming. In terms of production, military households are also completely self-sufficient.

For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang even said very proudly at the time, "I raise millions of soldiers without costing the people a grain of rice."

But in this way, it is tantamount to completely cutting off the military households and ordinary people in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing is that the power of the Metropolitan Governor's Office is too expanded.

In fact, in Yang Xian's view, the Metropolitan Governor's Office needs immediate restructuring more than the Zhongshu Province.

In the original time and space, several years later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally realized that the Governor's Office had too much power. While abolishing the prime minister system, he also abolished the Governor's Office in order to prevent excessive concentration of military power. It was changed to the central, left, right, front and rear military governor's offices, which respectively managed the capital and various garrison posts. Each of the Five Army Commandery Offices has left and right commanders, the first grade; the commanders are all in the same position, the first grade; and the governors are the second grade. The officer in charge of the central military governor's office shall be the officer in charge of the five armies.

But even the Five Military Governor's Office, which was divided into five, still had too much power in Yang Xian's opinion in the early Ming Dynasty.

Today, the Ming Dynasty's army has about one million soldiers and horses.

But you have to know that among more than one million people, behind every Ming army is a family.

In the Hongwu Dynasty of Ming Dynasty.

The average family consists of five people.

In other words, the Governor's Office controls the Ming Dynasty's million-strong army and the four million or so family members of this million-strong army!
You must know that even under the leadership of Yang Xian, after so many years of rapid development in the Ming Dynasty, by the eleventh year of Hongwu, the population of the Ming Dynasty was only about 60 to 70 million.

Military households accounted for almost one-tenth of the total population of the Ming Dynasty!

After listening to Yang Xian's words, Zhu Biao also realized the seriousness of the matter.

In other words, as long as something happens to the Governor's Mansion, it will definitely be a major event that will cause the sky to fall.

Now the chief governor is Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong.

As his adopted son and nephew, he was brought up by Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma since he was a child.

Zhu Yuanzhang can still rest assured.

But what happens next?

Therefore, restructuring is imminent and power must be consolidated. There is no longer a need for a governor-general. The commander-in-chief of the three armies must be the emperor himself.

"Not only the governor's office must be changed, but the guard system must also be changed." Yang Xian then said, since it needs to be changed anyway, let's take advantage of this opportunity when Lao Zhu is also dissatisfied with the current operation of military institutions and directly change it in place at once.

"Yang Qing, the Wei Institute system was created by Mr. Liu." Zhu Biao said.

The Ming Dynasty's health system was the result of discussions between Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen at that time.

They learned from the former Tang Dynasty's military system, but of course they did not accept it in full.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen, the monarchs and ministers, had an in-depth discussion on why such a good military system in the former Tang Dynasty ended up being completely useless, and even was even directly abolished in the end.

Liu Bowen pointed out the key reasons.

One of the most important points is that soldiers under the Fu army system must provide their own horses, weapons and other things.

The reason for Mulan's Ci describes that before Hua Mulan joined the army on behalf of her father, she "bought horses from the east market, saddles from the west market, bridles from the south market, and long whips from the north market." It was precisely because the Northern and Southern Dynasties where Hua Mulan lived at that time also used the military system.

Under the government soldier system, the government only issued heavy weapons and war horses, and the rest of the pack horses, light weapons, equipment, and rations needed to be prepared by the government soldiers themselves. (In modern times, the countries are responsible for the tanks, machine guns, rocket launchers, helmets, and body armor. The rest of the military uniforms, carrying equipment, rifles, bayonets, bedding, and even individual soldier rations are completely provided by the soldiers themselves - yes, there are also mobile vehicles. You also have to prepare your own. It’s unimaginable now.)
In the early Tang Dynasty, the court was rich. In addition to granting land to the soldiers, their families could receive a large pension after the soldiers died in battle. In this way, the Tang army was naturally not afraid of death.

But after years of war, even if it was as wealthy as the Tang Dynasty, there was no surplus food in the warehouse!

No court can guarantee that it will always be at its peak.

After the completion of unification in the Tang Dynasty, although it continued to expand externally, the land grant to the soldiers was never guaranteed (there are many examples in the documents unearthed in Dunhuang where one hundred acres were supposed to be granted, but twenty acres were actually granted).

After that, not to mention the land grant, even the pension gradually fell into arrears, and later it was simply not given, and the combat effectiveness of the government soldiers naturally decreased sharply.

Without money and land, who would work hard?

In the later stages of the government's military system, not only the soldiers were poor, but the generals were also poor.

At first, those generals did not dare to blatantly drink the blood of their soldiers.

But those who can be generals still have brains.

Some of them quickly discovered the loopholes in the system and began to make a fortune.

This loophole is the weapons of those fallen soldiers.

After all, after a big battle, weapons were scattered everywhere, and the owners all died in the battle.

Does anyone know whose weapons and horses belong to them?

At first, all these weapons and horses were left at the disposal of these generals, and no one paid attention to them.

But gradually, some unscrupulous generals gradually discovered.

The more soldiers under his command die, the greater the benefits.

For them, the best outcome of a war is a tragic victory.

In this way, the imperial court can reward them, and they can pick up more weapons and war horses.

As for how to cash out and profit.

As mentioned before, Liu Bowen pointed out that the biggest problem of the Fu Army System is that the soldiers of the Fu Army System have to provide their own horses, weapons and other things.

These unscrupulous generals just resold the weapons and horses they picked up to new recruits.

Wouldn't this just form a complete industrial chain?

It's simply not true.

For a time, the unscrupulous generals began to make a fortune from the war.

But as time passed, the soldiers below were not fools either.

I worked hard to guard the border for the imperial court and wanted to buy some weapons from the commander.

As a result, what I bought turned out to be the relics of my second uncle and third uncle.

Whoever it was as this new recruit would be unbearable!
In this situation, why fight?

The basis of the military system was the highly feudal military landlord class.

A side effect of the continuous expansion of government soldiers since the Sui and Tang Dynasties is that the ordinary peasant class cannot afford the huge expenditure of government soldiers.

This is also the reason why the government army system was eliminated. (End of chapter)