Gather together!

Chen Wudi, Qian Degong, Mou Wenshou, Huang Degong, Yang Yufan and Li Ying gathered in the Grand Governor's Office for a rare gathering. These days, they were also very busy and dizzy to settle their subordinates and build houses and camp.

After a simple chirping, Zhu Guoqiang looked at them and said.

"Just some ideas, let me tell you."

After a pause, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"The General's Mansion is in charge of the troops in Dalian. In the future, the affairs of commanding troops, managing troops, promoting officials, military merits and paying, military armor, knife and weaponry, etc. will all be with the General's Mansion. Therefore, today I invite you to come here, and there are some things to discuss with you."

Of course, they had no objection to this. In fact, as general officers, they are usually responsible for leading troops, fighting, training, etc. As for other matters, they are all under the jurisdiction of the Governor. Of course, they will inevitably appoint private individuals and will inevitably be deducted. However, generally speaking, they still agree that soldiers are soldiers of the court. Now that the court has placed them under the command of the general, these matters are naturally the general.

Of course, if it was a few years later, Zhu Guoqiang would have a headache. After all, the warlordization at that time was no longer a tendency, but a de facto warlordization. The current Ming army generals are still accustomed to the military orders of civil servants and military-political separation. This trick is not a clever one, but it will be the same after hundreds of years. The core of its core is to strengthen supervision, restrict the power of the military leaders, and prevent warlords from appearing. This is also the core of the separation of military orders and military-political orders throughout the ages.

Zhu Guoqiang then mentioned the idea of ​​"eliminating the weak and retaining the strong" to reorganize the army.

"... With the money and food in Shandong, it will definitely not be able to raise an army of more than 200,000 water and land. Therefore, this is necessary to "repel the weak and retain the strong"!"

Huang Degong, Mou Wenshou, Yang Yufan and others frowned slightly when they heard the prince saying that they wanted to "eliminate the weak and retain the strong". They all knew that they were half an outsider, so they were naturally a little worried, worried that their troops would be cut. Huang Degong didn't say anything, but Mou Wenshou regarded himself as the prince's confidant and asked in a low voice:

"How does the prince plan to lay off troops?"

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile and shook his head.

""Eliminating the weak and retaining the strong" is not a simple layoff. Now is not a peaceful era. If all layoffs are removed, what should we do when we use troops in the future?"

Of course, disarmament cannot be laid off. When is it now?

A chaotic world!

In times of trouble, large-scale disarmament is not the one who lets the donkey kick it.

"This "elimination of weakness" is not simply elimination, but rather they are placed on the spot in Dalian, farming and working here, but they still have to retain their military status."

"Is the prince going to be at the Lushun Fuxingwei Station?"

Huang Degong and the others were shocked when they heard this. Most of the people in this room were from hereditary officers. Even if Huang Degong was also from a military household, they certainly knew the disadvantages of military households and garrisons.

"Please think twice. Although the officers and soldiers in the army currently have military households, they are all recruited soldiers. If they know that the prince is weak and listed them as military households, it will inevitably make people feel disturbed and may cause trouble!"

They almost subconsciously thought that the officers and soldiers would definitely be very resistant. After all, they don’t know all the benefits of guards, but they know very well. You must know that many of the soldiers are from military families. How could they get out of the wolf’s mouth? They go into the tiger’s den again?

"I know, what do you want to say, why don't I know the disadvantages of the garrison. The garrison's officials were seriously corrupt, not only the embezzlement of soldiers and land, but the soldiers were also suffering from the exploitation and extortion of officials. Since the Zhengtong period, there have been military households, so when Emperor Shenzong came to Emperor Shenzong, he began to change to the system of camp soldiers and recruiting troops. The garrison has only retained the framework until now. Don't I know this, but the system of the garrison is not useless..."

When Mou Wenshou was about to speak, he was blocked by Zhu Guoqiang's wave of his hand.

"I know what you want to say! However, the ward system I want to promote is different from the ward system in the old ward system, but it is essentially different. In addition to each soldier giving 100 acres of land, giving farm tools, seeds, and giving fifteen taels of Anjia silver, there are other preferential treatments."

In fact, Zhu Guoqiang has always been thinking about how to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. For this reason, he has consulted a lot of information. Many of the information mentioned that the modern army was composed of a small number of elite officers and a large number of trained poor cannon fodder soldiers. As consumables, soldiers became mechanical combat puppets under the training of military sticks and whips, and became an integral part of the military formation. They were more afraid of the whips in the hands of officers than the bullets of the enemy.

But there is another saying that the combat effectiveness of modern military forces is maintained by nationalism and patriotism. Which one is correct? In fact, both are correct, but the former is before the 19th century and the latter is after the awakening of European nationalism in the early 19th century.

Of course, for the Ming Dynasty, the first one is more in line with the reality of the Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Guoqiang relied on cruel military laws to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, but this was only temporary, and what he needed was a long-term system.

Finally, after thinking about it, he still turned his attention to the ward station! The ward station system may have various shortcomings, but it does not mean that there is no room for improvement. As long as it is improved, the ward station system is actually quite good.

"What are these preferential treatments? That is, the military soldiers of the garrison do not collect grains and grains, and soldiers do not serve in labor service or various corvee labor!"

Finally, Zhu Guoqiang threw out his killer weapon.

"In other words, it means not paying food and not serving as a job."

"What's not paying food! Don't be a job!"

Everyone was shocked. In fact, the military households of the Ming Dynasty did not pay food or perform labor service. However, this was just nominal.

In fact, the military households of the Ming Dynasty, to put it bluntly, similar to the military farming soldiers of the Wei Dynasty, more than half of the food they received from the military farming should be handed over as "grain", and even the exploitation rate in many areas was as high as more than 70%, which was almost equal to the serfs of the state. In name, the grains belong to the state and were used as military rations for combat flag troops, but in essence they were dominated by hereditary officers. Not only that, hereditary generals seized large quantities of military farming and enslaved military households to farm, and the military households became serfs of military generals. In this case, it was natural for military households to be discriminated against and fled. Except for hereditary officers, who are willing to "dedicate their lives to their descendants" to act as slaves.

It is precisely because they know the various things that they feel that restoring the ward system will definitely cause chaos.

But now when the prince said this, everyone only saw the benefits. However, unlike others' surprise, Huang Degong, who was born in an ordinary military household, had a joy flashed through his eyes. What does this seemingly simple "not paying food, not serving as a job" mean to ordinary soldiers?

"Criminal Master, if this is the case, the brothers will definitely be very happy. "If you don't pay food, don't take part in the job." Even scholars are just like this!"

"Oh, even scholars are not as good as those. You must know that they can only exempt two stones of food and two people. They can be as good as this. The prince, is it not necessary for military households to do labor service?"

"Yes, if you don't pay food or work as a servant, then what do you want them to do?"

Facing their inquiry, Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"Of course they are required to serve in the military! This means that they do not pay food or work as a job, they do not pay land taxes, do not pay granules, and do not pay tuitions or other miscellaneous taxes. If they do not serve in labor service, the garrison will not send them to serve in the military service. Of course, this means from time to time that they do not need to serve in the military service, and they still have to spend some time every year for training."

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the garrison "defend the city three parts and 7 parts of military farming". When they arrived in the mainland, they were "defend the city two parts and 8 parts of military farming". But in fact, whether it was the ordinary garrison's eight garrisons and two or the public's military farming, the full-time military farming production would always account for the majority. Military farming was the main business of the official army and the foundation of survival. Over time, most soldiers became farmers.

Of course, Zhu Guoqiang would not make the same mistake in history. After all, what he needed was an army with strong combat power, not a farmer. And there were many successful experiences to learn from in another world.

"Well, how do you say this training? It means practicing for a day every few days, in a unit of a hundred households, and in a slack season every year, in a unit of a thousand households, training for two months. When the age of 40, you can be exempted from training. Usually, you only train locally. When you need to be recruited, the General's Office will order the recruitment..."

In fact, to put it bluntly, it turns the ward station into a reserve service. The ward station system has many disadvantages, but it has more benefits. The simplest thing is to say that all the benefits of ward are to achieve the fastest actual occupation of the unmanned zone and the newly conquered zone. Just like in Yunnan, the Tang Dynasty called Nanzhao, the Song Dynasty called Dali, and even when it was the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties, it was also local chieftain autonomy. Why did it become the mainland in the Ming Dynasty?

Isn’t it because the Mu family led more than 100,000 military households to station troops in various parts of Yunnan with military offices? In this way, Yunnan became a part of China after hundreds of years. How could the chieftains in Guizhou and other places agree to change their territory and return to the current? It is because of the existence of military offices. Military offices are the best way to erode the new affiliation areas. What if hundreds of thousands of military households were transferred to the Honghe Basin after the capture of Annan in the sixth year of Yongle, what would happen?

Jiaozhi will definitely become an integral part of China.

The garrison has many benefits and is not familiar with the disadvantages. At least for the people here, they can't see any good things about the garrison. After all, the garrison has been infamous for so many years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to convince them to accept the re-establishment of the garage station, you must let them see the real benefits, and for Zhu Guoqiang, this is not a big deal.

If you don’t work as a military household, you won’t pay any food. This is a great benefit!

How about it, were you scared?
Chapter completed!