The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 461: Tatars and Jurchens are ready to make a move
The military examination and the palace examination are over.

This time, Wanli selected more than a thousand military scholars.

Because he wanted to keep some capable and battle-hardened officers in Japan.

These are the dukes and nobles who were enfeoffed here.

They conquered Japan, but the brutal and violent nature of the Japanese pirates was not so easy to change.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to change one's nature, and it is not so easy to turn all the Japanese pirates into honest slaves.

Now they have tens of millions of troops pressing here, and he has used the Kyushu Rebellion and the military examinations to establish his authority, so the Japanese pirates are temporarily frightened.

It is not impossible that once their army withdraws from Japan, the Japanese pirates here will become active again.

Therefore, he wanted to leave some capable and battle-hardened generals here to suppress the rebellion.

Originally, after meritorious officers were granted titles of nobility and dukedom, even if they had fiefdoms, they would basically hand over the fiefdoms to their families to manage while they continued to lead their armies to fight everywhere.

As for why this happened, one reason was that they themselves wanted to make achievements, and another reason was that Wanli never cared about whether the newly promoted dukes and nobles would continue to lead troops in battle or stay in their fiefdoms to retire.

This issue also needs to be properly regulated.

After all, warriors study hard and practice diligently in order to achieve great things.

If these princes and nobles always control the military power, then the military men who pass the military examination will have no soldiers to lead.

In recent years, it was mainly because he was frantically expanding the army, so the new military scholars were able to be assigned powerful positions and a large number of troops.

Now, all the garrison troops that the Ming Dynasty could recruit have basically been recruited, the military expansion has basically come to an end, and the military officers and commanders are all fully staffed.

In this situation, where can the newly-minted Jinshi lead the troops to fight?

If the newly-minted Jinshi cannot lead troops into battle and achieve great things, then the military spirit that the Ming Dynasty had finally developed would decline rapidly.

This was the case after the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties. Military men had almost no chance of being granted titles or noble rank, so the military spirit naturally declined.

Since the Yongle Dynasty, there were very few people in the Ming Dynasty who were granted titles or noble rank for their military achievements. As a result, the military spirit was no longer popular, and the Ming Dynasty gradually declined.

This has a lot to do with the fact that the civil officials, in order to fight for power and profit, induced the emperor to stop fighting and support the people, and it also has a lot to do with the emperor's lack of ambition.

Both Renzong and Xuanzong probably thought that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was already large enough and there was no need to expand it further, so they favored civil officials and adopted the policy of stopping the war and supporting the people.

This time, the civil servants directly turned the Ming Dynasty into a woman!

Naturally, he would not follow the old path of Renzong and Xuanzong. He knew very well that this world was like a big jungle where the strong preyed on the weak.

Once the Ming Dynasty stops fighting and takes care of its people, it will become a big piece of fat meat that everyone will want to take a bite of.

The problem is that although the civil officials cannot induce him to stop fighting and support the people, if the dukes and nobles always control the military power, the martial spirit that has been flourishing with great difficulty will decline.

How to solve this problem?
He had been thinking about this issue during the military examination and the palace examination.

This can actually be seen from the civil service system.

For example, when evaluating performance, those who have no achievements will be demoted or even dismissed.

This is actually easier to assess in the military.

If you are not a member of the Jinyiwei or the Imperial Guards who basically do not have to participate in wars, then having no military merits is equivalent to having no achievements.

For example, if you don't have the title of military scholar, you can't be promoted to a powerful military position above the rank of lieutenant general.

This cannot be fully promoted for the time being, because cheating in the military examination was prevalent in the past, and it is difficult to pass the military examination with real ability. It is like Qi Jiguang, a god of war who wrote several military books, but he still failed to pass the military examination!

If we only look at fame and honor now, it will definitely not work. We also have to look at actual ability.

However, in the future it will depend on your achievements.

This may be a bit rigid in judging fame and fortune, but it does make sense.

There are only two possibilities for not having any honors or achievements. Either you have never learned military tactics and have never participated in the military examination, or you have not learned military tactics or martial arts well and cannot pass the military examination.

In all likelihood, the ability of these officers to command troops is not as strong as those officers with honors.

Especially for naval officers, if they don't have any achievements, they are really not suitable to command troops, because naval officers need to understand muskets, artillery, naval warfare tactics, and even astronomy, geography and other knowledge. If they have not learned these or have not learned them well, they are really not suitable to serve as officers in the navy.

For example, based on age and physical condition, except for particularly important generals, those who are too old and weak will have to retire.

After the palace examination for military examinations, Wanli began to implement a new military career system.

On September Bingyin, the emperor issued an edict requiring all the generals and deputy generals of the Beijing camp, navy, and border troops to report the military achievements of their officers.

If one frequently participates in wars but has no military merit or his military merit is less than 30% of that of officers of the same rank, he will be persuaded to retire and will be compensated with ten years' food and salary.

In addition, officers and soldiers over fifty years of age who are physically weak and frail will be allowed to retire with an honorary salary of fifteen years.

All dukes, marquises, and nobles who wished to retire from military service for various reasons were free to submit a petition for leave, with a lump sum payment of twenty years' food and salary. Furthermore, the military began implementing a new military rank system: from now on, those without military juren (military examination) credentials could not be promoted to guerrilla general or above, and those without military jinshi credentials could not be promoted to lieutenant general, deputy general, or general.

The military system was first promoted in the navy. Officers in the navy who did not have the titles of military candidate or military jinshi could choose to retire or transfer to the garrison camp.

This imperial edict caused quite a stir in the army.

However, the general and the deputy general did not move, and the officers under their command did not dare to disobey.

After such a reorganization, the combat effectiveness of the Beijing Army, the Navy and the Border Army will only be stronger.

Next, Wanli began to consider the issue of Mori Terumoto.

This guy can be said to be the only remaining powerful daimyo in Japan, and his strength is quite strong.

If there is anyone in Japan who has the potential to turn the world upside down, it must be this guy.

Moreover, this guy's territory spans Kyushu Island and Honshu Island, which also has a great impact on their defense of Japan.

He also had to banish this guy from Japan.

The question is, where should this guy be assigned?

Although the territory of the Ming Dynasty is vast, it seems that there is no place that can accommodate this guy.

This guy's territory is not small, and there are millions of acres of arable land. It is really not easy to find such a large piece of land to replace this guy.

That morning, he was in the Cunxin Hall of the Eastern Palace, teaching the eldest son, Zhu Changluo, the art of governing a country while considering the problem of Mao Li Terumoto, when Li Xuancheng suddenly poked his head in and said, "Your Majesty, the Navy Commander-in-Chief Deng Zilong requests an audience."

Deng Zilong has been coming here frequently these days, because the navy is the most severely reorganized this time, and most of the navy officers have to be replaced.

Upon hearing this, Wanli said without hesitation: "Announce."

He thought Deng Zilong was here to discuss the replacement of naval officers again, but he didn't expect Deng Zilong to come in with an urgent report in both hands and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, an urgent report from the Peking Military Commission."

Are the Tatars and Haixi Jurchens unable to resist taking action?
Wanli took the urgent report and saw that it was true.

Qi Jiguang reported that there had been frequent exchanges between the Haixi Jurchens and the Tatars recently.

Buyan Khan ordered his subordinates to prepare to gather troops.

The Tatars gathered their troops extremely quickly. It only took a few days from the time they gave the order to the time their troops gathered.

These guys are finally going to take action, their chance has come.

The Nurgan Regional Military Commission was a territory larger than the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

If the territory of the Tatar tribe is added, it is possible for the current territory of the Ming Dynasty to double!

When Wanli saw the urgent news, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.

He has been waiting for this day for a long time.

By the way, don’t the Tatars and Haixi Jurchens know how powerful the Ming Dynasty is now?
Do they still dare to start a war and seek death?

In fact, the reason why Buyan Khan was in a hurry to conquer the Jianzhou Jurchens was because the Ming Dynasty was too powerful at that time.

He knew very well that with the Tatars' existing territory and population, they were no match for the Ming Dynasty.

It would be different if we could capture Nurgandusi.

He also knew that the territory of Nurgandusi was comparable to the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

If we can take over such a large territory, even if we cannot defeat the Ming Dynasty, we will have enough room to maneuver.

Now the Tatars' territory is right next to the Beijing Xingdusi, and he doesn't have enough depth to hide from the Ming cavalry.

Therefore, he wanted to defeat the Jianzhou Jurchens and seize the Nurgan Regional Administration.

As for the Haixi Jurchens, they simply had a grudge against the Jianzhou Jurchens, and they were afraid that the Jianzhou Jurchens would become too powerful.

If the Jianzhou Jurchens became too powerful, they would be finished.

The reason why they didn't dare to take action was because Wanli sent the Liaodong Town cavalry to intimidate Kaiyuan and Tieling areas.

Now the Liaodong cavalry seems to have gone to Japan for reinforcement, and Wanli doesn't seem to be playing the feint to the east and attack in the west anymore. They have been waiting for several months without seeing any movement, and finally can't help but take action.

They probably never dreamed that Wanli was still playing a feint to the east and attack in the west with them!

This time, Wanli waited in Japan for several months, and also used the territory of the Mori family to strictly block the news of Honshu Island.

Even such a major event as the annihilation of Japan was not announced by Wanli. He conducted the military examinations, the palace examinations, and the enfeoffment of dukes and nobles in Japan, and never conveyed the order to the Ming Dynasty.

He was just waiting for the Tatars and Haixi Jurchens to take action.

(End of this chapter)