Xinshun 1730

Chapter 219
The memorial had only read a few pages, and there was already chaos in the courtroom. The ceremonial officials and the censors reprimanded them a few times and asked for silence, and then they endured their voices until the long memorial was read.

Once finished reading, a group of people will have a stomach full of things to say.

What is this for?
Military reform, military reform, the pace of this reform is inevitably too big, right?

With such a change, what power does the military government have left?
What is the Ministry of the Navy?Does China need a navy?

Since ancient times, the Celestial Dynasty has not needed a navy, so what is the Navy Department?

Isn't the emperor wanting to learn from Yongle in the previous dynasty and want domestic funds to control trade?If this is done, wouldn't it be smuggling and pirates everywhere?Jiangnan trade earns more than tens of millions of dollars every year. If the emperor controls trade, it will be a catastrophe for the world.

There is also the military training office, the staff department, the military academy...the military government has lost the power and responsibility of the military selection department, so what is the use of keeping the military government?

The Temple of Heavenly Blessing has already robbed a lot of authority, so is it possible that the emperor wants to abolish the military government?

Why do we have to reform the military?

Just buy some new muskets, wouldn't it be good to change them?

Changed to this, what's the difference?

Everyone in Yichao listened with question marks all over their heads.

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

However, the emperor did not give everyone a chance to discuss today, and waved his hand and said, "This matter will be discussed after Eagle Sobo returns to the court. I will copy this memorial later, and you can go back and think about it carefully."

"Disperse!"

An unquestionable retreat made everyone hold their words in their stomachs.

There are tens of thousands of words of memorabilia, all kinds, involving various aspects, and I haven't heard them all after listening to them only once.

But since they are able to stand in this position, none of them are easy-going people, they are all selected from among the [-] million people in the world. Not to mention they all have the ability of photographic memory, but they can still grasp the key points.

Within a few days after retiring from the court, dozens of copies of this memoir were handed over to various ministers, nobles, etc., for them to read carefully and prepare for the big court discussion in a few days.

All the ministers who are usually up and down are all dumbfounded. Did the emperor instruct Liu Yu to think about this military reform?Or was it really Liu Yu who mentioned it?

In the past, this matter is easy to refute.

The laws of the ancestors should not be changed lightly, as it is a major issue for the country, random changes will cause major problems.

But this time the Battle of the Western Regions was really beyond the expectations of the court, and the silent Qingzhou Army really achieved such terrible results.

With the results of this battle as a support, refuting from this direction will be useless.

If you want to refute, you must always find an entry point.

But where should the entry point be?

After the memorandum was distributed to the ministers, compared with the above content, the matter of the Ministry of the Navy was directly ignored, and it was a bit difficult to only look at the content about the army's military reform.

If you want to refute, the key point is whether this series of military reforms in the memorial is necessary?
If you only need to change your guns and adopt a new formation, then there is no need to mobilize the government's authority.

But for these, you need to find someone who knows the soldiers to refute, especially the general in charge of the army.Words against the military reform came out of their mouths.

This general cannot be honored.

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

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

Looking for Jiang Chen, the general who has been guarding the northwest all this time, but Jiang Chen closed the door and did not see any visitors. He did not express any attitude in private at all.

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

It is normal to drink soldiers' blood and eat empty pay when stationed outside.

However, those who are stationed abroad are not eligible to participate in court discussions.

For those who are eligible to participate in court discussions, they no longer need such low-level means as drinking soldiers' blood and eating empty salaries.

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

Most of them are from good families. For them, as long as they don't keep their land privileges, they can change as they like, and it doesn't matter.

It's nothing more than the fact that in the past, it was necessary to practice matchlock guns with spear formations, but now it has been changed to pure team flintlock guns, the difference is not big.

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

The Beijing camp is stable, and the Qingzhou Army stationed in the capital after returning from the west is even more stable.

For them, it has no influence at all, and they may even be promoted to small officers in some military training offices, and go to various places to train new troops.

This military reform also does not include the military 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 who touch the interests are the guardians of the various places, because they are the easiest to drink the blood of soldiers.

However, they were neither qualified to participate in court discussions, nor capable of raising their arms and attacking the Qing emperor's side in the capital. The main reason was that they could not defeat the Qingzhou army, nor the Beijing camp dominated by the group of good families.

Everyone in the military government felt that there was no way to support it alone, and it was obvious that the emperor was going to hold the military power firmly in his hands.

As for what to do with it in your hand, it is unknown.

Once the military training office is established, the number of people who practice each year is fixed, and the regular discharge system makes it possible to drink soldiers' blood only in the military training office.

However, the official position of the military training department is too small, and the training is concentrated, and it is easy to cause incidents by drinking the blood of soldiers.

Once the training is completed, they will be assembled into battalions, reorganized for training, and arranged to be stationed in various places.

It is not easy to drink the blood of soldiers stationed in various places. The emperor will definitely send people to inspect and inspect at any time and enter Beijing in turn.

In the long run, the entire military reform plan is to maintain a standing army of 20 across the country.

Starting from scratch, after all the military reforms, millions of taels of military expenditure can be saved every year. In the long run, there is no way to say that this is a waste of money and people.

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

The staff department and the like are only set up first, and the early-stage troop training department only drills [-] to [-] troops. The old troops will be gradually dismantled, or after selection, they will go to the Western Regions, Liaodong and other places to farm.

In terms of money, the accumulated level of military expenditure has saved a lot. The speed of the Western Region's pacification is far beyond everyone's expectations. There is money in the treasury now.

As far as armaments are concerned, Weihai already has an arsenal that can manufacture both guns and cannons, and the price offered is not high, which is slightly higher than the matchlock guns currently used in the military.

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

Moreover, there is a system of camping and learning, changing teaching materials, and changing the focus, which will not be too much of a hindrance.

For a while, those who opposed the military reform panicked, not knowing where to start their opposition.

If we want to guard against the disaster of the feudal town, but this time the military reform has indeed brought the military power back to the central government, and the command power is in the hands of the emperor.

The General Staff Headquarters or the Privy Council, once established, is actually still a civilian in charge of the army, but this civil official is not another civil official, and the difference lies in whether it comes from the practical study of the Sanshe method or the imperial examination method.

It's not that one who has learned how to count and geometry is considered a general.

Veterans with military exploits are in the staff headquarters, but they don't actually have military power.

In fact, the military power was firmly in the hands of the emperor. Generals were appointed to coordinate when going out, and the newly drilled troops were all regular standing troops.

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

After the military reform, the huge logistical requirements made it impossible for anyone to support such an army without the central government's finances.

The military officers will not be converted to civilian officials, but the talents of Wude Palace still have the opportunity to be transferred to civilian officials and mixed with sand.

The fixed training place also makes the new troops trained in each place all carved out of the same mold.

There are only a few types of formations, and even the orders are the same, so it is not a problem to parachute to take charge of the army.

It is said that the separation of soldiers will cause a decrease in combat effectiveness. The problem is that even if such an army decreases in combat effectiveness, it will still crush the surrounding forces.

The Pingzhun incident has proved this point, so what kind of battle did Liu Yu fight?But it happens to be able to win.

Without Liu Yu, would Xiao Ce Ling Dunduobu be able to break through the phalanx?

The military academy was established near the capital, and the lower-level military officers were all disciples of the emperor, noble sons, even if a certain place wanted to rebel, why would the lower-level military officers obey their orders?

The minister of the military government went back and pondered for a long time, and always felt that this was like the Privy Council in the Song Dynasty, and it seemed that the way was to follow the system of the Song Dynasty.But if you think about it again, it's not quite so.

In the future, the military government is afraid that it will be reduced to the miserable situation after Yuanfeng's restructuring. Its management of chariots, horses, and guards of honor will become a complete empty shell?Is the inertia that has continued since the Civil Fort really going to be shattered?

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Liu Yu, who returned to the capital from Weihai, also closed the door to see no visitors, put an end to all rumors, and waited for the big court meeting.

Although the emperor should support this court discussion, if he can't tell the truth, or even loses in the court meeting, the emperor's face will not look good.

Now that he has the title of Uncle Eagle, he is truly qualified to participate in court meetings, instead of only having the right to observe as before.

If such a blockbuster comes first after being knighted, the emperor will definitely seize the opportunity and let Liu Yu be a sinner's lonely minister.

While hiding from others, he returned to the capital with great difficulty, and did not hide from Tian Zhenyi who had been trapped in Duke Qi's mansion.

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

The content of the letter was rather simple, it just told Liu Yu to stick to one thing:

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

It goes without saying that this matter can strengthen the military, because it has been proved that it is equal to World War I.The ministers of the DPRK and China are not blind, and they will not object from this perspective.

As long as we focus on one thing, that is, this military reform is good for those who are honored, good families, and people who have learned the Sanshe method, and that's enough.

Who supports and who opposes must be clarified.

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

There is no prime minister in this dynasty, and there are no three provinces.

Your majesty pretending to maintain himself is an illusion of sharing the world with Confucian scholar-bureaucrats; courtiers pretending to maintain himself is an illusion of co-governing with iron-boned monarchs and ministers.

Everyone knows there is no such thing, but they all pretend to have it. After a long time of pretending, they are so deceived that they believe it.

In the end, it was His Majesty who made the final decision. What His Majesty needed was not the third elder brother to convince everyone, but to see that there were many people in the court who supported him, and it was enough to leave a face of [the court discussion has passed and many people support].As for [There are also many people who object], it will just prove that His Majesty has a unique vision to overcome all opinions, just like the darkness can best set off the light.

(End of this chapter)