Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 326 Extra: The real obstacles to the military reform in the second year of Qianxi
In the seventh year of Hongwu, Ming Dynasty had 320 internal and external guards.

In the 23rd year of Hongwu's reign, the Ming Dynasty had a total of 540 internal and external guards.

In the 17th year of Yongle, there were three inner and outer guards in the Ming Dynasty.

In the 21st year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty had a total of 650 internal and external guards. According to statistics from the Ministry of War, the total number of troops was more than 320 million.

From the 22nd year of Yongle to the second year of Qianxi, the Ming Dynasty did not add new guards, so the theoretical number of guards in the country was still more than 320 million.

This does not include the Jisi Guardhouse.

Jisiwei, so the local indigenous leaders are governors, governors, commanders, qianbaihu, commanders envoys, town governors and other officials, are given the seal of the imperial edict, have jurisdiction over the governor's guard station, and are in charge of local military and civilian affairs.

The officials appointed in these Jisi Guard Stations were hereditary from each tribe, and the local military and political affairs were all managed by them. They were allowed to control their own people and govern according to customs. They were directly under the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty and were equivalent to autonomous counties (districts) in later generations.

As of the second year of Qianxi, among the more than 180 guards under the jurisdiction of the Nurgan Dusi, more than 200 guards were Jisi guards. The more than [-] guards under the Sixth Capital Division of the Desert were all Jisi guards. The guards under the Old Gangdu Division were all Jisi guards. More than a dozen guards were all under the direct control of the imperial court.

The reality is that in addition to the garrison posts under the jurisdiction of Beiting, Anxi, Liaodong, Guizhou, Nurgan, Jiugang and other provinces, more than [-]% of the troops in the garrison posts of other provinces are vacant. It is not empty talk that military households are fleeing seriously.

In addition, at least half of the health posts in six newly established provinces will be retained, and the health posts under the jurisdiction of Nurgan, Jiugang and other cities will not participate in the adaptation.

Therefore, among the 650 guards in the Ming Dynasty, only 200 actually needed to be adapted, and the total number of guards for a thousand households was about [-]. The real number of guards should be close to [-] million.

An army under the new soldier system has at least 3 soldiers and can reach as many as 8 soldiers. On average, the 36 armies have about 200 million soldiers.

In other words, when selecting guard soldiers to form a new army, almost all of them will be selected as long as they are not old, weak, sick or disabled, and those who are not enough will be recruited from the private sector.

It would be a relief for them if the old, weak, sick and disabled who failed to be elected could be transferred to the militia.

Because the old, weak, sick and disabled account for about 140% of the total, more than [-] million guardsmen will eventually be recruited as professional soldiers.

During the reform of the military system, the former Dusi was transferred from the second-rank Dudu Commander Tongzhi and the third-rank Dudu Commander Qianshihui to the second-rank Commander of the Dudu Mansion under the jurisdiction of the staff, Fu Xuan, munitions, and military law departments.The nine governor's offices only have eighteen first-rank governors, but they need [-] second-rank commanders.

If the Ming Dynasty does not include the Jisi Dusi including Nurgan Dusi and Old Gang Dusi, there are 36 Dusi that need to be reorganized. In total, there are 72 second-rank commanders, [-] subordinate second-rank commanders, and [-] The third grade of Mingzheng all commanded the affairs.

Zhu Gaoxu only needs to promote the commander-in-chief and the commander-in-chief of the governor's office to the second-rank commanders of various departments in the governor's office, and then promote the second-rank commanders to the governor-general of the military staff and military and political affairs of the governor-general to complete the construction of the governor-general. The top-level military attache structure.

Calculated in this way, there is exactly one carrot and one hole, and there is no vacancy.

However, not every high-ranking official of the Dusi was full-staffed. For example, after Han Guan, the commander-in-chief of the Guangxi Dusi, died violently, Zhu Gaoxu ordered his colleague Zhi Shanyun, the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, to act as the commander-in-chief.

Another example is that the capital commander of Guizhou Dusi has always been vacant. Previously, Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Cheng served as the deputy commander and magistrate of Guizhou to act as the deputy commander of the capital. After Gu Cheng died of illness, there were only two senior military commanders in Guizhou Dusi, and they have been under the supervision of Huguang and Guizhou. The commander-in-chief Xiao teaches restraint to this day.

Although Yunnan is guarded by the Mu family, there are no vacancies among the senior officers of the Yunnan Capital Command and Envoys Department.

In fact, by mid-July of the second year of Qianxi, among the nine governor's offices established by Zhu Gaoxu, only the governor's office in Shaanxi and Pu, the governor's office in Anbei, and the governor's office in Guangdong and Guangxi had completed the establishment of top-level military attachés. The other six governor's offices still had top-level officials. There is a vacancy.

As for the former third-rank guard commanders and military commanders who were transferred from the third-rank guard commander to the third-rank military affairs admiral and staff admiral, or from the third-rank deputy military and political admiral and the military staff, Fu Xuan, military supplies, military law, etc. Command the envoy from the third rank.

As mentioned earlier, the number of guards actually facing disbandment and reorganization was about 36, but the new army reorganized and reorganized by the imperial court was only [-] troops.

Therefore, excluding the more than 80 guards with vacancies for guard commanders, there are still more than 300 guard commanders, but only 72 can stand out and become the third-grade military and political admirals and staff admirals under the new army system.

The remaining 700 or so third-grade guard commanders will compete with the more than 36 third-grade guard commanders across the country for the 180 third-grade deputy military admirals and the [-] third-grade military commanders. Quotas for commanders in various places.

Calculated in this way, in the end there will still be more than [-] former third-grade guard generals who will not be eligible for military-level military positions under the new recruit system.

(End of this chapter)