New Shun 1730

The court was already in chaos after reading a few pages of the memorial. The ceremonial officials and censors scolded several times and asked for silence, and then they kept their voices to themselves until the long memorial was finished.

Once it was finished, a group of people had a lot to say.

What is this for?

Military reform, military reform, this step of reform is bound to be too big, right?

After this change, what power will the military government have left?

What is the Ministry of the Navy? Does the Celestial Empire need a navy?

Since ancient times, the Celestial Empire has not needed a navy, so why should there be a Ministry of the Navy?

Is the emperor going to learn from the previous Yongle and use the treasury to control trade? If so, wouldn’t there be smuggling everywhere and pirates rampant? The trade in Jiangnan earns more than 10 million silver coins every year. If the emperor controls trade, it will be a great disaster for the world.

And this training department, the staff department, the military academy... The military government no longer has the power and responsibilities of the military selection department, so what is the use of keeping the military government?

Tianyou Palace has seized a lot of power. Could it be that the emperor wants to abolish the military government?

Why must the military reform be carried out?

Can't we just buy some new muskets and change the equipment?

What difference does it make if it is changed like this?

Everyone in the court was full of questions.

Some were puzzled, some were shocked, some were panicked, and some were angry.

However, the emperor did not give everyone a chance to discuss it today. He waved his hand and said, "This matter will be discussed after Ying Suo Bo returns to the court. I will copy this memorial in a while. You can go back and think about it carefully first."

"Dismiss the court!"

The voice of dismissal without question made everyone hold back their words.

The memorial of tens of thousands of words, all kinds of things, involving various aspects, was not heard in full after only listening to it once.

But since they can stand in this position, none of them is easy to be with. They are all top people selected from 200 million people in the world. Not to mention that they all have the ability to remember everything they have seen, but they can still grasp the key points.

A few days after the court was dismissed, this memorial triggered dozens of copies, which were handed over to various ministers, nobles, etc., asking them to read carefully and prepare for the court discussion for a few days.

All the ministers who usually change their minds were confused. Was the idea of ​​military reform instructed by the emperor to Liu Yu? Or was it really proposed by Liu Yu?

If it were in the past, this matter would be easy to refute.

The laws of the ancestors cannot be changed lightly. The army is a major event of the country. If it is changed randomly, there will be big problems.

However, this time the battle in the Western Regions was really beyond the expectations of the court. The Qingzhou army, which was silent, really achieved such a terrible result.

With this result as support, the rebuttal from this direction is powerless.

If you want to refute, you must always find a breakthrough point.

But where should the breakthrough point be?

After the memorial was distributed to the various ministers, comparing the above content, the Navy Department’s affairs were directly ignored, and only the content about the army reform was looked at, which was a bit difficult to deal with.

If you want to refute, the key is whether the series of military reforms in the memorial are necessary?

If you only need to replace guns and adopt new formations, then there is no need to use the power of the government.

But to do this, you need to find someone who knows about the military to refute, especially the generals who are in charge of the army. Let them speak out against the military reform.

This general cannot be a noble.

Because for the nobles, this military reform is not only harmless to them, but beneficial.

At least it can ensure that the nobles always have a certain status, and there is no need to worry about losing the right to speak completely like the previous dynasty.

Find Jiang Chen, the general who has been guarding the northwest, but Jiang Chen closed the door and did not see guests, and did not express any attitude in private.

Such a change will definitely affect the interests of many people.

It is normal to drink the blood of soldiers and eat empty salaries when stationed outside.

But those stationed outside are not qualified to participate in court discussions.

Those who are qualified to participate in court discussions no longer need to use low-level means such as drinking the blood of soldiers and eating empty salaries.

The most important Beijing camp in the capital is very stable.

Most of them are from good families. As long as their land privileges are not affected, they can change whatever they want. It doesn't matter.

It's just that they used to practice matchlock guns with spear formations, but now they have changed to pure flintlock guns. There is not much difference.

Moreover, the military rank system in the military reform can increase their income.

The Beijing camp is stable, and the Qingzhou army that returned from the west to the capital is even more stable.

For them, there is no impact at all, and they may even be promoted to some minor officials in the training department and go to various places to train new troops.

This military reform does not include the government soldiers north of Liaodong. Their blood tax privileges are still there, and they have never been under the jurisdiction of the military government.

The military generals whose interests are affected are the garrison commanders in various places, because they are the easiest to suck the blood of soldiers.

However, they are neither qualified to participate in the court discussion nor have the ability to raise their arms and attack the capital to clear the court. The main reason is that they can't beat the Qingzhou army or the Beijing camp composed of good families.

The military government felt that it was difficult to support the army alone, and it was obvious that the emperor was preparing to firmly grasp the military power in his hands.

As for what he would do with it, it was unknown.

Once the training office was established, the number of people trained each year and the regular retirement system meant that the blood of soldiers could only be drunk here.

However, the position of the training office was too small, and the training was centralized, so it was easy to drink the blood of soldiers.

Once the training was completed, they had to be assembled into battalions, reorganized and trained, and arranged to be stationed in various places.

It was not easy to drink the blood of soldiers when stationed in various places. The emperor would definitely send people to inspect and review at any time and take turns to enter the capital.

In the long run, the entire military reform plan is to allow the country to maintain a standing army of 200,000.

Starting from scratch, after the entire military reform, millions of taels of military expenditure can be saved every year, and in the long run, there is no way to say that this is a waste of money and labor.

In the short term, the pace of military reform is not very fast.

The General Staff and the like are just set up first, and the early training department only trains 30,000 to 50,000 troops. The old troops will be gradually disbanded, or selected and sent to the Western Regions, Liaodong and other places to cultivate land.

In terms of money, the accumulated military expenditure has saved a lot, and the speed of pacification in the Western Regions has far exceeded everyone's expectations. The treasury is now rich.

In terms of armaments, Weihai already has an arsenal that can make both guns and cannons, and the price given is not high, just a little higher than the matchlock guns used in the army now.

In terms of talent, the proportion of officers in the previous Qingzhou Army was seriously exceeded, and many people could be promoted as battalion officers or officers in the training department.

Moreover, there is a three-house system for military training, and changing textbooks and focus will not be a big obstacle.

For a time, those who opposed the military reform were panicked and didn't know where to oppose.

If we want to prevent the disaster of the feudal lords, this military reform has indeed returned the military power to the central government, and the command power is in the hands of the emperor.

Once the General Staff or the Privy Council is established, it is actually still a civil official who controls the army, but this civil official is not the other civil official. The difference lies in whether it comes from the three-house system of practical learning or the imperial examination system.

It doesn't mean that you can be a military general just by learning how to calculate geometry.

The veterans with military merits are in the staff to maintain order, but they don't actually have military power.

The military power is actually firmly in the hands of the emperor. When going out to war, he appoints a general to coordinate, and the newly trained troops are all regular standing troops.

And because the exercises are all the same drill manuals, they can be directly integrated in one place when they are actually fighting.

The huge logistical needs after the military reform make it impossible for anyone to support such an army without the central government's finances.

Officers will not be transferred to civil officials, but talents in the Wude Palace still have the opportunity to transfer to civil officials and add sand.

The fixed training place makes the new army trained in various places all cut out of the same mold.

There are only a few kinds of formations, and even the orders are the same, so it is not a problem to parachute in to command the army.

It is said that the separation of soldiers and generals will cause a decline in combat effectiveness. The problem is that even if the combat effectiveness of such an army declines, it will crush the surrounding forces.

The Pingzheng incident has proved this point. Everyone thinks that what kind of battle Liu Yu fought? But he can win.

Without Liu Yu, can Xiao Ce Lingdun Duobu break through the square formation?

The military academy was opened near the capital, and the grassroots officers were all disciples of the emperor and the sons of nobles. Even if a certain place wanted to rebel, why would the grassroots officers obey orders?

The Minister of the Military Government went back and pondered for a long time. He always felt that this was like the Privy Council in the Song Dynasty, and it seemed that the path should also follow the system of the Song Dynasty. But after thinking about it carefully, it was not quite.

The military government will probably fall into the same miserable state as after the Yuanfeng reform, managing carriages and ceremonial guards, and becoming a complete empty shell? Is the inertia that has continued since the Tumu Fortress really going to be broken?

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Liu Yu, who returned to the capital from Weihai, also closed the door and did not see guests, cutting off all rumors, waiting for the big court meeting.

Although the emperor should support this court meeting, if he can't come up with a plan, or even loses miserably in the court meeting, it will not look good for the emperor.

Now that he has the title of Ying Suo Bo, he is truly qualified to participate in the court meeting, instead of just having the right to listen as before.

After being conferred the title, there is such a heavy bomb first. The emperor will definitely seize the opportunity to make Liu Yu a lone minister who offends others.

When he was hiding from others, he finally returned to the capital, and did not hide from Tian Zhenyi who had been trapped in the Duke of Qi's mansion.

He also secretly wrote a letter to Tian Zhenyi about this matter. In Tian Zhenyi's reply, he still called him the third brother as usual.

The content of the letter was simple. It just told Liu Yu to stick to one thing:

Don't say that this matter is good for your majesty's centralization of power, because your majesty is not stupid, and your majesty knows better than anyone whether it is good or not.

There is no need to say that this matter can enhance military strength, because the Pingzheng War has proved it. The ministers in the court are not blind, and they will not oppose it from this perspective.

Just hold on to one thing, that is, this military reform is good for nobles, good family children, and people who come from the three-school law of practical learning, that's enough.

Who supports and who opposes, you have to make it clear.

The court discussion is a place for quarrels. Don't try to persuade those who oppose, just hold on to those who support.

There is no prime minister in this dynasty, nor are there three provinces.

Your majesty pretends to have it to maintain the illusion that he is sharing the world with Confucian scholars; the court officials pretend to have it to maintain the illusion that they can be a strong monarch and ministers who rule together.

Everyone knows that there is no such thing, but they all pretend to have it. After pretending for a long time, they deceive themselves into believing it.

The final decision was made by His Majesty. His Majesty did not need the third brother to convince everyone, but just wanted to see that there were many people in the court who supported it, so that he could leave a face of "the court has discussed it and many people support it". As for "many people also oppose it", it will prove in the future that His Majesty has a unique vision and can overcome all objections, just like darkness can best set off light.