The sniper starts from the bright sword escape period

Chapter 430 The Mansion of the Five Armies of the Ming Dynasty
Therefore, when Zhu Biao brought Bailixiu's words to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally agreed with the establishment of the establishment, the examination of the industry, and the opportunity for craftsmen to take the exam to become officials.

In fact, the most important thing for Zhu Yuanzhang is to hope that the Mohist children can fight against the Confucian students in the court. If the Confucian children did not control public opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang would not spend so much thought on abolishing a prime minister. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang Naturally, the superior does not want his court to be monolithic.

After all, the six departments in the court today are basically Confucian students who study Confucianism.

Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Biao's narration, he hoped that the Mohism developed by Bailixiu would not only occupy the Ministry of Industry, but also the Ministry of War.

As for why the officials of the Ministry of War are not military generals but civil officials, this has to explain the Ming Dynasty's military command system.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty made many improvements and innovations on the basis of inheriting the systems of previous dynasties.The military organization of the Ming Dynasty had two systems, the Xingzheng System and the Combat System.These two organizations coordinated with each other and checked each other, so that the emperor firmly held the arbitrary power of Gan Gang.

The highest administrative institution of the Ming Dynasty army is the Dudufu of the Five Armies, and the Dudufu of the Five Armies is the collective name of the five Dudufu, namely: the Dudufu of the Central Army, the Dudufu of the Left Army, the Dudufu of the Right Army, and the former Dudufu. The military governor's mansion and the rear military governor's mansion.

The highest officials of each governor's mansion are the left and right governors, and the official ranks are Zhengyipin.

From this point of view, the military generals of the Ming Dynasty are of a higher rank than civil officials. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang can also be regarded as the emperor on horseback.

After the left and right governors, the leadership of the governor's mansion is as follows: from the first rank of the governor Tongzhi, to the second rank of the governor's affairs.Those who can serve as governors are generally important military generals with the titles of Duke, Marquis, and Bo.

The Dudufu of the Five Armies has its own jurisdiction throughout the Ming Dynasty. Each Dudufu manages the daily activities of the troops in its own jurisdiction. The governors of the Dudufu can also participate in the central military decision-making of the Ming Dynasty.In the event of a war, the Dudufu is responsible for the specific tactics.

In addition to the Dudufu of the Five Armies, there was another military management organization in the Ming Dynasty, which was the Ministry of War among the six ministries.The Ministry of War is in charge of personnel, logistics, ordnance, military registration and other affairs of the national army.

To put it bluntly, this is a logistics department, and Zhu Yuanzhang has also fought in wars, so he naturally understands how dependent the army that uses firearms is on logistics. Therefore, it is definitely better to let Mohists who can make new-style firearms into the military department than those Confucian scholars too much.

However, it is worth mentioning that this system changed during the Zhengde period. Since the "Tumu Fort Change" in the 14th year of Zhengde, a large number of governors of the five armies were killed on the battlefield.Yu Qian, who was then Minister of the Ministry of War, acted cheaply and assigned the management and command of the army to the Ministry of War.

Since then, the power of the Dudufu of the Five Armies has been greatly weakened.Then in the late Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies had been completely reduced to an institution in name only.

Both the Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of War of the Five Armies are the administrative system of the imperial court, and then the administrative affairs of the army at the local level are managed by the commanding department of the capital.The leadership of the Du Commander Division is as follows: one Du Commander of the second rank, two Du Commander Tongzhi of the second rank, and four Du Commanders of the third rank.

The lower-level military organizations of the Commanding and Envoy Division are composed of Wei, Qianhusuo, and Baihusuo, named after their geographical locations.Theoretically, each guard should have 120 soldiers, that is, five thousand households, each with 110 soldiers, and each hundred households with [-] soldiers.The chief of the Wei is the commander of the third rank, the chief of the Qianhusuo is the Qianhu of the fifth rank, and the chief of the Baihusuo is the Baihu of the sixth rank.In addition, the Ming Dynasty also set up a garrison Qianhusuo directly under the control of the capital commander, and the staffing was the same as that of ordinary Qianhusuo.

In the middle and early Ming Dynasty, there were 490 three guards and 350 nine guarding thousands of households in the whole country.In addition, there are 74 Jingwei guards around the capital, of which 33 guards were drawn up to form the Shangzhi Army of Guards, responsible for protecting the safety of the palace, including the famous Jinyiwei.

So if the 490 three guards are all full, then the Ming Dynasty has more than 270 million troops.

Of course, this is only in the early and mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, because of the serious corruption in the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers in the guards had already fled from their households.

However, compared with the Xingzheng system of the Ming Dynasty army, the combat system is relatively simple and clear.When a war breaks out, the governors or high-ranking generals of the five armies' governor's mansions will be appointed as temporary generals or generals, and the troops will be mobilized from all guards in Ming Dynasty to the front line.

After the war, the general or general handed over the command during the war, and the troops returned to their respective guards to serve.Therefore, the generals or generals of the Ming Dynasty were actually temporary workers, and they usually had no military power in their hands.

However, in some fixed defensive locations, such as the "nine border towns" along the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, there will always be a permanent commander in chief as the highest military command.

In addition, in the late Ming Dynasty, it became common practice for civil officials to restrain military generals. Therefore, it was the governor-general appointed by the court who really had command and decision-making power on the battlefield, and the chief military officer was only responsible for obeying orders and leading troops to fight.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty is more complicated than that of previous dynasties. The key reason is that the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, set up layers of restraint in order to prevent the military institutions and generals from becoming self-respecting. A power structure in which military power is separated.Therefore, when a war breaks out, institutions and individuals such as the governor's office of the five armies, the Ministry of War, the general or the general, the commander-in-chief, and the governor do not count. Only the emperor can really have the final say.

Bailixiu gave ten days, but when Bailixiu was invited by Zhu Biao to the blacksmith workshop of the Bingzhan Bureau again ten days later, he was speechless after seeing the firing device made by the blacksmiths.

Because these blacksmiths actually changed the position of the primer from the bottom of the cartridge case to the top, and then left a small hole at the top, and then there was an iron fence in the small hole.

Bai Lixiu only saw a blacksmith who was showing him hold a firecracker in one hand, and then took out a small hammer with the other hand, and hit the iron gate in the small hole above the firecracker.

After the demonstration by the blacksmiths, Zhu Biao smiled and said to Bailixiu:

"What do you think of this launch method, sir?"

Bai Lixiu looked at the bullet holes far away from the bull's-eye, and said to Zhu Biao speechlessly:
"Hasn't Your Highness noticed that the accuracy of this kind of shooting is very poor?"

After Zhu Biao heard Bai Lixiu's words, he realized that the impact point of the lead bullet was far away from the bull's-eye, and he almost missed the target.

Then Zhu Biao asked people to continue shooting a few times, and found that there was not much improvement. It was okay at fifty paces, but the target was seriously missed after a hundred paces. Stable when fired.

(End of this chapter)