Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 250 Rectifying the Restructuring System of the Beijing Camp
The first year of Qianxi.

March 27.

After the dispersion of the dynasty, Wuying Hall.

Zhu Gaoxu was sitting behind the imperial table. The five Dukes of the Ming Dynasty who were in charge of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, including Duke Xu Huizu of Wei, Duke Li Jinglong of Cao, Chang Jizu, Duke of Licheng, Sheng Yanyi, Duke of Licheng, and Qiu Fu, Duke of Qi, all sat at the bottom left of the imperial table. On the square chair.

"The manuscript you are holding in your hands is my idea for the restructuring of the capital camp. You must read it carefully so that I can check for any omissions and fill in the gaps."

"The minister waits for the order."

After everyone respectfully accepted the order, they opened the folded manuscripts in their hands and read them carefully.

Zhu Gaoxu planned to carry out reforms in the structure of the Beijing camp and the sources of officers and soldiers.

The first is to reform the organizational structure. The details of the new system are as follows.

There are five people in a team, with a team leader.

There are two soldiers and one Shi. There is one chief of the ninth rank, two corps commanders, three musketeers, three sword and shield bearers, three cotton armor soldiers, and one cook. The number of soldiers in each Shi is about ten people.

The Sanshiyi team has a captain of the eighth grade and a deputy captain of the eighth grade. Each team has about forty soldiers.

Three teams have one sentry, and each sentry is additionally equipped with a cavalry officer, an artillery officer, and a messenger team. The total strength is about 120 people. There is a seventh-rank sentry commander, a seventh-rank deputy sentry commander, and both the chief and deputy sentry commanders. There are six guards on duty in two shifts.

There are four sentries and one camp. Each camp has about 500 troops. There are one chief of the sixth rank, one of the sixth rank of Fuxuan, and one deputy chief of the sixth rank. The chief and deputy chiefs are also equipped with eight guards each. Two shifts are on duty.

Santun Yiqu, with a troop strength of about 500, is set up with one chief of the fifth rank, one chief staff officer of the fifth rank, one deputy chief of the fifth rank, one chief of the fifth rank Fuxuan, and one chief of the sixth rank. There is one deputy Qu Fuxuan, and the main and deputy tune leaders are each equipped with ten guards, who are on duty in two shifts.

There is a Qubu military account in Qubu, referred to as Qubu military account. The commander of Qu is in charge and handles daily official documents. The staff officer, deputy commander, Qu Fuxuan and deputy Qu Fuxuan also usually work in the military account of Qubu.

In addition, Qubu's military account has one clerk, 24 messengers, one accompanying army medical officer, five accompanying army doctors, and a team of guards directly under Qubu.

Four to six songs form a battalion. The strength of a battalion is about 7000 to 2000. There is a fourth-grade battalion commander, a fourth-grade battalion staff officer, a deputy battalion commander of the fourth grade, and battalion Fuxuan, etc. officer.

Both the chief and deputy battalion commanders are assigned fifteen escorts, who are on duty in three shifts.

The battalion also has a military account for military affairs, referred to as the military account at the battalion headquarters, where the battalion commander sits and handles daily official documents. Officers such as the battalion staff officer, deputy battalion commander, battalion Fuxuan, and deputy battalion Fuxuan usually also work in the battalion headquarters military account.

In addition to the same staff as the Qubu military tent, the battalion headquarters military tent has scribes, accompanying military medical officers and doctors, and also has logistics troops directly under the battalion headquarters, scout posts, artillery stations, cavalry stations, messenger teams, guard posts, and Two fourth-grade quartermasters and two military judges.

Three or more battalions form an army, with each army having a standing strength of about [-] to [-]. There is a third-rank military commander, a third-rank deputy military commander, a third-rank staff admiral, and a third-rank fuxuan. There is one commander each, including a commander of the Ordnance Department, a commander of the Munitions Department, a commander of the Training Department, and a commander of the Military Law Department.

The Siwu military tent set up by the military is the former Chinese military tent, referred to as the military headquarters. It is staffed by the Rongzheng admiral and deputy Rongzheng admiral to handle daily official affairs.

The Military Headquarters consists of the Staff Department, the Propaganda Department, the Ordnance Department, the Munitions Department, the Training Department, and the Military Law Department, which are headed by the staff admiral and the respective commanders.

In addition to the same staff as the battalion headquarters and the military headquarters, the military headquarters has scribes, military medical officers and doctors, and also has logistics battalions, cavalry battalions, artillery battalions, scout camps, guard camps, messenger camps, and military law camps directly under the military headquarters. .

According to Zhu Gaoxu's wishes, the original Fifth Army Battalion, Three Thousand Battalions, and Shenji Battalion would be disrupted and then merged and reorganized into the First Beijing Army, the Second Beijing Army, and the Third Beijing Army.

Then there is the innovation of the source of soldiers in the Beijing camp, that is, the adoption of a recruitment system.

Zhu Gaoxu believed that the early Ming Dynasty was a pioneering era, and the advantage of the Wei system was the integration of military and peasantry, which could solve the problem of insufficient agricultural production in the early Ming Dynasty.

The first year of Qianxi was already seven years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty. With the gradual recovery of agricultural production during the Yongle period, and the population of the Ming Dynasty increasing and even doubling, it was somewhat inappropriate to implement the Wei system.

Of course, in the newly established provincial jurisdictions such as Beiting, Anxi, Puchang, Liaodong, and Guizhou, the Weisuo system should continue to be implemented, at least for another 60 years.As for other provinces and the capital, the imperial court should gradually and plannedly reform the military system and gradually replace the guard system with a new military system.

Yongle Emperor Zhu Di was also very clear about this.

Therefore, after he moved the capital to Beijing, he formally established a Beijing camp establishment, trained more than [-] standing troops, and gradually replaced the original garrison troops with professional soldiers in major fortresses in northern Xinjiang.

However, Zhu Gaoxu knew very well that the interior of the Ming Dynasty was vast and vast, and there were still many empty guard posts in various provinces with land and registration but no soldiers. This was because of the serious occupation of officers and the increasing number of soldiers fleeing the guard posts.

Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to rectify the capital camp, bring the recruitment system to the forefront, and gradually use it in conjunction with the guard system.

"Your Majesty wants to reform the organizational structure of the capital camp and replace the old system with military, battalion, qu, tun, sentry, team, and team. I have no objection. After all, the organization of qu and tun was already in existence during the Qin and Han Dynasties. The army, camp, sentry, and team , and even the preparations are always made in this dynasty."

Wei Guogong Xu Huizu was the first to read the manuscript. He bowed his hands to Zhu Gaoxu and said with a serious face: "We even set up military accounts at all levels to handle official affairs, and set up the Staff Department, the Fu Xuan Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Munitions Department under the military headquarters. , the Military Training Department and other departments, decentralizing power while simultaneously promoting it, which I wholeheartedly agree with. However, I am uneasy about using the recruitment system to recruit soldiers for the Beijing camp."

Qi Guogong Qiu Fu put down the manuscript, and continued Xu Huizu's words, asking: "Wei Guogong, the military equipment of the Beijing camp has been slack, and it has lost its former glory. You and I both know this. What does the current situation of the various guard posts in the interior have to do with the Beijing camp?" The difference? Faced with such a dilemma, His Majesty proposed the method of recruiting troops, and he followed the trend. How could Duke Wei feel uneasy? "

"I just want to ask, this method of recruiting troops is done by the imperial court, but can the local government do it? Can the local wealthy families do it?"

Xu Huizu asked instead without answering.

Qiu Fu said without hesitation: "Without His Majesty's order, who would dare to recruit troops privately? Can't they rebel?"

"If you recruit three thousand young men as servants to look after their homes and homes, what will you do with them?"

Xu Huizu continued to ask.

Qiu Fu said: "Except for the imperial court, who in the world has so much money to support three thousand servants?"

"What about Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants?" Xu Huizu replied.

Qiu Fu frowned and said, "What does Wei Guogong mean?"

Xu Huizu said with a worried look on his face: "Yes, what I'm worried about is not the recruitment system itself, but the beginning of recruitment. All the big businessmen in the world have millions of assets. Their assets combined, I'm afraid, can be comparable to our Ming Dynasty treasury." .”

When he said this, he faced Zhu Gaoxu, clasped his fists and saluted: "Your Majesty, if the imperial court wants to implement the recruitment system, it must issue a set of strict orders to prohibit the private recruitment of young men and women secretly by the private sector and local yamen. It must openly recruit young men and limit the number of young men. This is illegal. The order will punish you with treason!"

"My original intention was to combine the garrison system and the recruitment system to form a new military system, that is, the compulsory army, which is the military service system that combines the original garrison soldiers with the recruitment system, and the militia with the reserve force. The compulsory soldiers are mainly responsible for garrisoning, and the recruitment is mainly for war. "

Zhu Gaoxu said bluntly: "I didn't expect that Wei Guogong was far-sighted and thought of the stability of the Ming Dynasty from the recruitment system. It is worthy of being the gancheng of the country that my father has relied on for many years!"

"Your Majesty is overrated."

Xu Huizu immediately bowed and saluted.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Li Jinglong, Sheng Yanyi, and Chang Jizu with gentle eyes, and asked loudly: "Dong Cao Guo, Duke Licheng, and Duke Kaiguo have also read the manuscript. Do you have any suggestions for my idea of ​​restructuring the Beijing camp?" ?”

"I believe that the imperial court should guard against subtle changes and avoid the occurrence of what Wei Guogong is worried about. When the military recruitment system is implemented, a new military service law should be promulgated or the laws and regulations related to military recruitment should be improved."

Li Jinglong said respectfully.

Sheng Yanyi and Chang Jizu agreed: "I second the proposal."

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