Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 314 The Governor’s Mansion reappears in the world
Before Emperor Qianxi of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Gaoxu promulgated this decree to "reform the military system," he did not reveal the slightest news to the outside world, and even the cabinet advisers were unaware of it.

Only the eleven civil servants of the six ministries and nine ministers, including Xia Yuanji, Yu Yanzhao, Jian Yi, and Liu Jing, whom he regarded as his confidants, as well as Wei Guogong Xu Huizu, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong, Licheng Duke Sheng Yanyi, Qi Guogong Qiu Fu, and Cheng Seven distinguished ministers, including Hou Zhuneng, Hou Zhangfu of Xincheng, and Hou Chenmao of Ningyang, knew the details.

Therefore, before the imperial edict in the hands of Prince Zhu Zhanyu has been read out, the vast majority of officials in the Fengtian Palace have already stirred up huge waves in their hearts.

The imperial edict made it very clear that in order to consolidate the border defense and protect the territory and the people, nine governor's offices were set up to control the soldiers and horses of the guards all over the world!

There are two extremely key words here, one is "Dudu Mansion" and the other is "Tianxia Guards Station".

Before "called the King of Wu Establishment", Zhu Yuanzhang had established a "Grand Governor's Office" to "control all Chinese and foreign military forces." In charge of the Governor's Mansion.

In the 13th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of Hu Weiyong's case to abolish the Zhongshu Province, and at the same time, he reformed the Metropolitan Governor's Office and divided it into five Governor's Offices: Central, Left, Right, Front and Back. Each guard station and the outer guard station are in charge of the guard station.

The five governor's offices are collectively called the Five Military Governor's Offices. Under each governor's left and right governors, there is a governor's co-president and a governor's official who share the responsibilities.

In this way, the number of governors increased from the original one to five, and the number of governors increased to twenty. The original power of "the great governor to control Chinese and foreign military affairs" was further divided into twenty small parts.

Many officials are thinking that Emperor Qianxi set up nine governor's offices to control the "Tianxia Guards", which is equivalent to transferring the powers of the Fifth Army Commander's Office to the nine governor's offices. Will the Five Army Commander's Office be abolished?

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was established by Emperor Taizu Gao and was an ancestral system. The decree issued by Emperor Qianxi was obviously suspected of changing the ancestral system.

Will the Supreme Emperor be furious when he learns the news?
While most of the courtiers were full of thoughts, Prince Zhu Zhanyu handed over the imperial edict to the young eunuchs on the left and right.

The two eunuchs slowly unfolded the imperial edict. Zhu Zhanyu placed his left hand on his lower back, pressed his right hand lightly on the edict in front of him, and continued to read loudly:
"Each governor's office has a first-grade military staff governor and a military and political governor, who are jointly in charge of the headquarters' military affairs."

"It has jurisdiction over the Staff Department, Fu Xuan Department, Ordnance Department, Munitions Department, Troop Training Department, Military Law Department and other departments. Each department has a senior and second-grade commander to be in charge of the affairs of the department."

"The original Central, Left, Right, Front, and Rear Military Governor's Offices were merged into the Metropolitan Governor's Office, which consisted of six departments including the Military Staff Department, the Military Administration Department, the Ordnance Department, the Munitions Department, the Military Law Department, and the Fu and Propaganda Department, as well as the Military Intelligence Department, the Military Information Department, and the Military Propaganda Department. There are six departments including the Honors Department, the Military Training Department, the Recruitment Department, the Military Inspectorate Department, and the Military Xuanjing Department.”

"There is a first-rank left governor to be in charge of the Military Staff Department. There is a first-rank right governor to be in charge of the military affairs department. The remaining four departments each have a first-rank governor to be in charge of the affairs of the headquarters. Each of the six departments has a second-rank commander. Take charge of the affairs of this department.”

“The Military Intelligence Department is responsible for intelligence information, the Military Honors Department is responsible for verifying military merits, the Military Training and Recruitment Department is responsible for military training and recruitment, the Military Inspectorate is responsible for the supervision of all armies, and the Military Xingjing Director is responsible for the inspection of all armies and review of military legal dispositions And the final military judgment. I admire this."

"The minister waits for the order!"

As the crown prince Zhu Zhanyu said "I appreciate this" at the end, all the military officers and ministers in the Fengtian Palace bowed and saluted.

Jian Yi, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Yu Yanzhao, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and other civil servants from the six ministries and nine ministers also saluted and shouted "obey the decree."

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, the other civil servants had no choice but to follow suit, bow and salute and shout "obey the decree".

Except for a few military attaches who knew about it in advance, the other military attaches were all excited by this imperial edict!
They worked hard and shouted "obey the decree" loudly, as if they wanted to express their support for Zhu Gaoxu's decree in this way.

In the view of these military attachés, the establishment of the nine governor's offices and the reappearance of the major governor's office showed that Emperor Qianxi attached great importance to military affairs.

In particular, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion consists of six departments, each of which has a governor, and the lowest rank of these governors is the first grade.

The governors of the nine governor's offices are also from the first rank, and the commanders of the departments under the capital are from the second rank, which is exactly the same as the six ministers.

This undoubtedly shows that military generals have a higher status than civil servants.

However, in the eyes of most civil servants, the reappearance of the Governor's Palace meant that their Emperor Qianxi was probably going to start fighting again.

Previously, there were governors divided by powers in the Ming Dynasty, mainly including river governors and water transport governors.

In the early days of Yongle's capital move, before the planting of winter potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops was promoted on a large scale in Liaodong and other places, the capital's food was mainly provided by the local government, and most of it needed to be transported by water.

This type of transportation by water is called water transportation.

In addition to transporting grain, most of the taxes collected from various parts of the south also needed to be transported by waterway.

The Governor of Water Transport is specifically responsible for water transport, and the Governor of River Channels is responsible for the management of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Yongding River, and Yellow River.

At that time, under Zhu Gaoxu's suggestion, Zhu Di established the governors of Nanhe and Donghe respectively.Among them, the Governor of Nanhe is responsible for the Jiangnan water system, and the Governor of Donghe is responsible for the Shandong and Henan water systems.

In other words, Zhu Gaoxu has now established nine governor's offices, and each governor's office has two governors in charge of the military. This is also a precedent to follow.

"The prince just announced my decree, did any of you ministers not hear it clearly?"

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the civil service class order with cold eyes and asked without emotion.

All civil servants were silent.

Zhu Gaoxu then stroked his beard and said: "Wei Guogong, Cao Guogong, Licheng Duke, Qi Guogong, Chenghou, Xinchenghou and Ningyanghou listen to the order."

Xu Huizu and other seven people bowed out.

"I order you to follow the new military system of the Beijing Camp and select elite backbones from the provincial capitals and prefectures and counties in the country according to the recruitment system to form 36 armies. Each governor's office has four armies under its jurisdiction."

Zhu Gaoxu ordered.

The so-called "Beijing Camp New Military System" is an army with the recruitment system as the core and established according to the organization of the army, battalion, song, tun, sentry, team and even.

A team of five people, a team of two teams, a team of three teams, a post for three teams, a camp for four posts, a song for three soldiers, four to six songs form a battalion, and more than three battalions form an army.

Each post is equipped with an additional cavalry unit, an artillery unit, and a messenger team, so its strength is about 120 people.

The strength of a camp is about 500, the strength of a song is about 500, the strength of a battalion is about 7000 to 2000, and the strength of an army is about [-] to [-] standing troops.

It can be said that the strength of a battalion under the new military system is at least close to that of the two guards under the original guard system.

As for the strength of an army, it may not be as strong as the original Dusi, but the four armies added together have at least 10 soldiers.

These are elite soldiers selected according to the recruitment system, not the original hereditary guardsmen.

"According to the new military structure of the reorganization of the Beijing camp, the former Chinese military account was renamed as the Siwu military account, or military office for short, with the Rongzheng admiral and deputy Rongzheng admiral sitting in charge to handle daily official affairs."

Zhu Gaoxu continued: "The military office has a staff office, a propaganda office, an ordnance office, a military supplies office, a training office, and a military law office. Each office has a commander in charge of its own affairs. In addition to being supervised by the admiral of the headquarters, each office has In addition to being under control, it is also subordinate to the various departments of the Dudu Prefecture, and all parts of the military headquarters are managed by the departments of the Dudu Prefecture at the next higher level."

"You must remember that each governor's office must have a 600-person guard team to guard the governors, divided into three teams on duty in turn. In addition to the same as the military headquarters, battalion headquarters, and Qubu, the governor's office also has scribes, attendants, In addition to military medical officers and soldiers, it is also necessary to set up guard camps, command songs, and military law songs directly under the governor's office."

"The minister waits for the order."

Xu Huizu and others bowed and received their orders.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's wishes, the troops of the nine governor's offices will be selected from the original capital guards and prefectures and counties across the country. Ordinary people can take advantage of this imperial court's military restructuring to choose to join the army.

The early Ming Dynasty was a pioneering era, and the advantage of the Wei system was that the army and farmers were integrated into one, which could solve the problem of insufficient agricultural production in the early Ming Dynasty.

The second year of Qianxi was already the eighth year since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. As the population of the Ming Dynasty increased and even doubled, it had become inappropriate to implement the Wei system on a large scale.

Except for the newly established provinces such as Beiting, Anxi, Puchang, Liaodong, and Guizhou, which should continue to retain the garrison system for decades, other provinces should gradually and plannedly carry out the reform of the military system and gradually transform the garrison system into Replace the weapon system with a new one.

Last time, he took advantage of the opportunity to rectify the capital camp and introduced the recruitment system.

Facts have proved that this is in line with the development of the times, and the combat effectiveness of the three armies of the Beijing Camp has been greatly improved.

Zhu Gaoxu took advantage of the implementation of the governor system this time and specifically recreated the later "military regions" in the form of "dudufu".

Only after the reorganization of the new armies in the nine governor's offices is completed can he proceed to the next stage of reform.

(End of this chapter)