Longevity Begins with Jinyiwei Chapter 324

The reform policy is already an established policy. In fact, even when the Ming Dynasty was in a state of faltering, the promotion of reform has not stopped, and it has been carried out in accordance with the policy of prioritizing the south and the north.

However, after the Shaanxi Rebellion was quelled, the north and the south became the north and the south, and the north and the south were completely reversed!

Now that Li Xiu has returned to Beijing, the reorganization and restructuring of the Ming military system is naturally in full swing.

In fact, looking at the past dynasties, it is difficult to find that a country's military system can be as chaotic and corrupt as the Ming Dynasty.

In the past dynasties, the military service system is nothing more than the guard system or the government military system and the recruitment system. Most of them choose a path. If the two coexist, they should be used in combination. and make reasonable adjustments to the structure.

However, this was not the case in Daming. In the Jiajing period, when recruits had already accounted for more than two-thirds of the army's posts, they had not made any general adjustments to the Weisuo system.

Without reducing the number of military households and fields, and without reforming the garrison, the imperial court repeatedly responded to the increasingly frequent peasant uprisings and foreign enemy invasions by increasing the number of soldiers recruited. He paid the rations of the recruits by way of taxation on the land of the people.

In this way, a vicious circle is naturally formed.

Guards are unusable, recruit soldiers, lack of money, levy taxes, peasant uprisings, recruit soldiers, and then lack money, and then levy taxes...

There is no doubt that if this vicious circle is ten percent, it must be on the road to subjugation.

What Li Xiu has to do now is naturally impossible to eliminate the Weisuo system at once, and it is impossible to do this in a short period of time.

What we can do is to grasp the balance between the garrison and the recruitment, and adjust a healthy military ecology.

Li Xiu never hoped that Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang would raise a million troops without spending a grain of rice in the world.

The formation of the Weisuo system is also due to the integration of soldiers and farmers, to solve the problem of insufficient productivity at the beginning of the country after a long period of war and chaos in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty.

As the saying goes, as much as you give, you can get as much as you give, and the giving and the gain are always proportional to each other, he always thought so.

The guard system, the integration of the military and the people, in other words, is a military reclamation that forms a system.

Once any army is involved in other sidelines that are not war, it is inevitable that it will be difficult to form an effective combat force.

For example, after a day's work, how can there be time and energy to train soldiers? What's more, long-term military camps and military reclamation will inevitably lead to loose discipline. It's about form, and it's superficial, so let alone fighting power.

In this way, although the guards system is retained, in Li Xiu's plan, more of it is regarded as a self-sufficient garrison force, a reserve force, just as much as possible to improve the supervision measures and improve the social status of the military. , to ensure that combat power is not lost too quickly.

After all, in any era, a professional army is extremely expensive.

The guard system can be seen as a combination of the reclamation corps, the militia system and the armed police in later generations. As a supplement to the professional army, it relieves the pressure of the professional army.

The recruitment of soldiers is the main battle force, and a strong recruitment main battle force is reserved within the financial surplus. The martial arts institute is used to cultivate and improve the quality of the Ming soldiers. The recruited soldiers will be the backbone, and the guards will be the branches and leaves, completing a short-term expansion.

Of course, retaining the guardhouse system is also a helpless move limited by national strength. After all, given the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, if the guardhouse system is suddenly eliminated, then, not to mention how the millions of military households will be placed, it will be the national defense pressure. As a result, it must also be a skyrocketing military investment.

Even if the fiscal and taxation reforms are completed in the future, it will certainly be a huge burden on Ming's finances.

Moreover, in the bright future, the center of gravity should gradually turn to the ocean, and establish a powerful navy to expand the territory.

The consumption of financial resources is bound to be a huge hole.

Of course, if in the future, the Ming Dynasty opens up the ocean, plunders overseas wealth, and the national strength skyrockets, it will be able to build a complete national defense system and the guard system and gradually withdraw from the stage of history.

Before this point can be achieved in the future, after the rotten guard system has been repaired and perfected, it must continue to play its historical role and continue to shine for the Ming Dynasty.

In this case, the basic plan of the Weisuo must be kept, and the focus of reform is also on the Weisuo.

As for the recruitment of soldiers, or battalions, which exist in various places in the Ming Dynasty, they are naturally reformed and trained, and the fittest will be eliminated.

Obviously, how to arrange pensions for the eliminated soldiers is also a big problem.

Therefore, even if it is only the reform of the military system, it has already involved all aspects of the country. What is needed is not only the power of Li Xiu, the Duke of Qin, but the cooperation of the entire court center and even the entire Ming ruling class. .

Fortunately, now that Daming's internal and external troubles are temporarily suppressed, Li Xiu also has enough time and energy to pay attention to this aspect.

Of course, reforms are in full swing, and the war has never stopped.

The rebellion of the people in northern Xinjiang was not the only place in Shaanxi. The reason why Shaanxi was settled and the world was safe was only because Shaanxi was the most troubled and the most noisy.

In Sichuan, Shandong and other northern provinces, civil unrest and mutiny are large or small, and they are still spreading.

As the leader of everything, Li Xiu naturally would not be blinded by this so-called brilliance.

However, just after the war ended, the military was exhausted, and the award was not implemented, so Li Xiu was not in a hurry.

When the reward was implemented and the army rested for more than a month, Li Xiu also issued a military order, mobilizing tens of thousands of troops from the Jingji area to pacify the civil unrest in various provinces.

However, this time, the chief generals of the various ministries that Li Xiu used were not the veteran generals of the past, but Li Dingguo, the new generation generals that Li Xiu had cultivated for a long time.

Leading an army alone and going abroad is undoubtedly the best training.

Li Xiu has always spared no effort in cultivating the talents of his subordinates. In the current situation, he also needs more people who can stand alone to stabilize the situation for him.

"For the time being, I can't go to Jiangnan..."

In the study room of Duke Qin's mansion, Li Xiu, who had just issued the order to send troops to the provinces to suppress the rebellion, stood in front of the map and muttered to himself.

In the end, the biggest reason for deciding on the reform strategy of putting the south first and then the north was that they did not want to touch the vested interests in the north and prevent the already corrupted situation in the north from getting out of control.

But obviously, things backfired, and the plan could not keep up with the changes. In the original plan, to pacify the chaos in the northern Xinjiang, he went to Jiangnan, and personally sat in Jiangnan to pacify the chaos and thoroughly implement the reform.

But now, whether it is the Korean war in Liaodong or the situation in the grasslands, he needs to pay attention at all times, not to mention the large or small civil unrest in various places and the implementation of reforms.

In this case, the reforms should be carried out in both the north and the south. Between the south and the north, the north must be emphasized.

On the Jiangnan side, we can only let the chaos continue for the time being, and let Yan Shun and the officials and businessmen affiliated to him, Li Xiu, continue to fight with the officials and businessmen in Jiangnan.

After he has completely stabilized the situation in the northern Xinjiang, and then to the south of the Yangtze River, military reform and tax reform will go hand in hand.

As his thoughts flowed, Li Xiu also slowly shifted his gaze away from the map, and finally settled on the memorials on reforms that were piled up on the desktop.

There are guards in various places who conduct their own inspections under military orders and report on their own initiative, and there are inspection teams that have now spread all over the Ming Dynasty and reported the inspection situation.

These memorials were taken together to form a detailed situation of the reform of the Ming military system.

He, on the other hand, needs to summarize the general trend of the reform based on these circumstances, and adjust the direction and importance of the reform in a timely manner.

In this kind of reform involving the entire world, it is better to kill the wrong than let it go. Naturally, such a strategy must not appear.

The butcher's knife has already fallen, and I don't know how many lives have been killed. The killing of chickens and monkeys has undoubtedly been completed.

Now, what I want is that there is no doubt about the crime!

While pacifying and stabilizing people's hearts ~www.mtlnovel.com~ slowly push forward the reform until the final consummation!

Once it is consummated, even if the fiscal and taxation reform has not been completed, Daming's precarious situation will be completely stable, and all the difficulties will have the confidence and foundation to face.

"almost…"

Li Xiu picked up a playbook, and there was also a faint turbulence flashing in his eyes.

Since the reform was launched at the beginning of the first year of Jingwu, it is now approaching the end of the year.

Despite the chaos in the middle and the backlash, the reform is still unswervingly implemented.

And as he stabilized the internal and external troubles in the north, it is undoubtedly the general trend of skyrocketing reforms, and the resistance to implementation has also disappeared a lot.

Now, the reform of the dozens of guards in the most important places in the world that he originally deployed by the martial arts institute is nearing completion.

The balance of reform, after this chaos, has completely tilted to his side. This military reform involving the entire Ming Dynasty, the dawn of victory, has already appeared.

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