Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 88 Twelve Theaters
Although the military service system is aimed at every citizen of Ming Dynasty, it is not even limited to men and women.

But Zhu Youjian also said that it is not strictly required that every citizen must perform military service.

After all, Ming Dynasty is not a small country, nor does it need an army of tens of millions of people, which would also be a burden on the court's finances.

The reason why it is necessary to show that everyone has the obligation to join the army is just to facilitate the direct requisition of any human, material and financial resources during wartime.

As for non-combat times, it all depends on voluntary service or not.

In fact, it is similar to the recruitment system, but it is just that the emperor Zhu is recruiting soldiers instead of generals recruiting private soldiers.

Of course, although Zhu Youjian stated that military service is not strictly enforced in front of the officials, all the people must be strictly enforced, just like the Tartars, so that every common people can operate basic firearms and have basic military literacy .

"After the court meeting is over, the cabinet will send a note to the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial College to draw up a regulation, requiring the Imperial College, local government schools, and state and county barracks to conduct regular military training every year. The local military police have the obligation and responsibility to treat these students. Conduct military training with local adult civilians."

Zhu Youjian didn't know what the real effect of the middle school and university military training in later generations was. After all, China was a peaceful era in later generations.

But in his opinion, this kind of comprehensive and popular military training can at least keep the common people from panicking in the face of war, or in the event of a large-scale war, it can turn ordinary people into capable soldiers in the shortest possible time. Soldiers who obey orders.

It can convert a regime's controlled population into actual potential military power.

"Just now you said that the command system of the Ming army is too complicated and chaotic. There are too many governors, governors, admirals, and even the generals, and there are many orders. I also know this. It is divided into [-] theaters, and I will let Ma Shiying, Minister of the Ministry of War, tell you about the specific division of the [-] theaters and the military command system."

Ma Shiying, Minister of the Ministry of War, stood up energetically: "My colleagues, according to the sacred order, now divide Huguang, Fengyang, Yingtian, Huaiyang, Susong, Shandong, Henan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong into ten divisions. There are two war zones, each with a commander-in-chief and a governor-general; the commander-in-chief is in charge of command, and the governor-general is responsible for military discipline propaganda, and they are both responsible to His Majesty, without going through the Ministry of War and the cabinet."

As soon as Ma Shiying said this, the other officials were all surprised. No one expected that the general soldier and the governor would be directly responsible to the emperor Zhu Youjian.

This means that the emperor will directly control the military power.

"In addition to this, the general army consists of deputy general soldiers, chief ministers, deputy generals, generals, guerrillas, etc. Among them, the chief minister is responsible for strategy and is responsible to the general army; Responsibility, that is to say, from now on, each war zone will be civil and military simultaneously, and the division of labor will be different. In principle, the governor has the final decision-making power, and His Majesty will directly decree to decide the candidates for the governors and chief soldiers of each province. All previous governors will be banned and they are ready to accept new appointments! "

After Ma Shiying, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Zhu Youjian personally made a supplementary explanation.

Although Zhu Youjian was not a strict soldier in his previous life, he was also a person who had infiltrated the military thoughts of famous modern and modern scholars for a long time, and he also knew what kind of army would have combat effectiveness.

What he is doing now is nothing more than to change the old Ming Dynasty's ethos of emphasizing literature and suppressing military affairs, to eliminate the distinction between civil and military, and to distribute power according to combat needs.

Naturally, the chief soldier does not have to be a military officer, he can be a former civil servant, and the governor is not necessarily a civil servant, or a former civil servant.

The distinction between civil and military in the era of small peasant economy is no longer suitable for this era of hot weapons.

Specific appointments are naturally merit-based and appointed according to their aptitude.

After all, in today's war, the bravery of generals has less and less influence on the success or failure of the entire war, but more on who is better at commanding and who is better at coordinating forces.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian wanted to make the appointment mechanism of Ming's army commanders completely flexible, that is to say, whoever is powerful will command.

Zhu Youjian did not intend to let the Ministry of War take charge of the power to deploy troops and the power to appoint and remove commanders in the world. Naturally, it would be beneficial to reduce the power of the Ministry of War and let the military power fall into his own hands.

Of course, Zhu Youjian is a person after all, and it is impossible for him to have a lot of time to coordinate all aspects of military operations. He also needs a central organization to be responsible for the overall coordination of his Ming military operations.

But Zhu Youjian didn't want the cabinet to take on this responsibility. After all, although this would weaken the power of the Ministry of War, it would also increase the power of the cabinet.

Zhu Youjian can allow the cabinet to be superior to the six ministries in terms of civil affairs, but he cannot control the power of the military and horses in the world. After all, that will affect his dictatorship.

Zhu Youjian wants to re-establish a military organization, which is equivalent to his own military secretariat, and will be responsible for his daily military affairs.

Of course, this is something.

As for the Ministry of War, it is not that it no longer has great power. At least he is responsible for military training and army recruitment. In addition, the military police of guards all over the country are also in charge of the Ministry of War.

From a certain point of view, it can be understood that in the future, the field troops, that is, the Guards, will only obey the orders of the Ming Emperor, not the Ministry of War.

And the rest of the army is basically the same as before.

At this point, the military meeting held by Zhu Youjian in Huai'an Mansion is basically over.

In this meeting, as the emperor, as the supreme commander of the Ming Dynasty, he clarified the main military strategic purpose, that is, to unite the invaders and suppress the captives.

Then, the military system was divided into two systems, the Field Guards and the Local Gendarmerie, using the Recruitment System and the Guards System. Military geographic factors were also used to divide the control area of ​​the Ming Dynasty into twelve theaters, and the command system was redefined.

In this way, the originally complex and disordered military system of Ming Dynasty began to clearly understand what their missions were.

The field guards are only responsible for foreign warfare, and only obey the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, and are not responsible for farming and maintaining local law and order.

The local military police are responsible for tasks such as farming, road and bridge construction, and local law and order maintenance.

After determining the basic military system.

Next, what Zhu Youjian has to do is to train the field guard recruits he recruited.

How to train soldiers is not a simple proposition for Zhu Youjian.

Moreover, there are more than 50 applicants in front of him, and this number will even increase.

Of course, there are not many good soldiers, and Zhu Youjian will not incorporate all 50 conscripts into the field army.

What's more, Daming still has other troops that still have combat effectiveness that need to be reorganized into the Guards.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian can only formulate the most stringent conditions to screen candidates, and can only conduct training in batches and regions.

Zhu Youjian decided to formulate the establishment of twelve guards based on twelve theaters. Each army has a quota of 5 troops and a quota of 60 guards.

That is to say, each theater has a group of guards responsible for field missions in this theater.

Naturally, it is impossible for these 60 guards to be trained together in Huai'an Mansion.

Zhu Youjian asked twelve war zones to be responsible for the training of 5 people at the same time. As for the training effect, it naturally depends on the ability of the local commander-in-chief.

The armies in Huaiyang, Fengyang, and Yingtian are unified in Huai'an for training. These are the three important armies that defend Gyeonggi. control.

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