The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 96
After the dynasty was dispersed, the civil servants all went back.

The military generals and nobles were invited to the Qianqing Gate. Obviously, they were just going through the motions in the Huangji Hall. How to form the five armies has to be discussed in detail.

"See Your Majesty!"

"Sit everyone!"

With a wave of Zhu Cihong's hand, hundreds of generals sat next to each other on the small stools on both sides, only the red lady sat beside Zhu Cihong.

Except for the British Duke and the dozen or so people who were rewarded, none of the nobles were invited, and most of them were generals in the army headed by the five generals.

"Gentlemen, now that the north is rotten and wasteful, and I have exempted the tax burden for three years, I am afraid it will be difficult to support hundreds of thousands of troops in a short period of time, so I want all the troops to farm near the capital and be self-sufficient... "

Zhu Cilang glanced at the generals, and then carefully stated his plan for farming.

That is, except for the Central Army, the other four armies have [-] regular soldiers, and the military pay is halved to one tael per month. After all, the battle is over, which was normal in ancient times.

For the time being, more than 100 million refugees in the capital were organized as military households, and the Fourth Army led them to farm fields to raise pigs. These ordinary military households did not receive military pay.

In peacetime, they farmed and raised pigs, and in wartime they recruited young and strong soldiers as auxiliary soldiers. They ate big pots of rice, worked in a unified manner, and implemented militarized management.

There is no way, just 100 million shi of grain. If we don't do this, we will definitely run out of grain before the grain from Jiangnan arrives.

Each army farms at least 200 million mu of land. Anyway, the landlords and gentry near the capital are either dead or have surrendered to bandits. If they don’t hold them accountable, it’s not too much to hand over some land to make up for their crimes, right?

What's more, in most areas of Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion, except for the people in the city, there are no ordinary people in the four fields. They either fled to the capital at the beginning, or were driven to the capital by the Tartars.

The land of each army will be allocated to the combatants and meritorious personnel in name, and the minimum is ten acres.

But it will take another three years of service before you can really retire to plant your own land, which will be temporarily managed by the various armies, and the military households will farm, and the income will naturally belong to the collectives of the various armies.

The [-] regular soldiers usually train and help out during the farming season. Similarly, ordinary military households cannot be idle in normal times. In addition to building water conservancy projects, the young and old must find time to practice for a period of time every year.

The reason why it is done like this is also a helpless move.

It is impossible for him to distribute the land to those refugees for free, otherwise the refugees who do nothing will sit on the land equally, and their wives and children will be hot on the kang.

However, when fighting in battle, the soldiers defending their homes and the country have to train every day, and they have not been allocated land. Who will be willing to be a soldier in the future?Who is willing to bravely kill the enemy?Give the court to give him the emperor to go all out?

Of course, the land cannot be directly distributed to these soldiers, otherwise they will all break up to farm the land, and the wives and children are hot on the kang, should we still fight?
After all, these 10 soldiers are all elite veterans, so Zhu Cihong chose a compromise method. Three years later, these veterans were retired one after another and distributed to various parts of the country, and Tian was redistributed locally.

And with this kind of example and a three-year buffer period, those reserve recruits in the military households will also grow up, and they can be incorporated into the regular soldiers at any time. When encountering a war, don't they all scream?Race to kill the enemy first?
"Huang Degong, you lead the right army of 30 troops and [-] military households. You are responsible for guarding the passes of Shanhaiguan and Jizhen, training the army and farming, and you must not slack off!"

"The minister obeys the order."

Huang Degong replied solemnly.

Obviously, I also know that this is definitely an arduous task. It is easy to do military training, but I don't have the slightest confidence in managing 30 military households to farm and raise pigs.

Wu Sangui's heart skipped a beat. According to common sense, he should go to Ji Town, Shanhaiguan, but this kind of thought can only be stuffed in his heart.

"Zhou Yuji, you lead the rear army of 30 and [-] military households to practice and farm in an enclosure near Tongzhou."

"It's Your Majesty."

Zhou Yuji hurriedly replied, feeling the same great pressure.

"Wu Sangui, you lead the former army of 30 and [-] military households, and are responsible for training troops and farming in the enclosure south of the capital."

"It's Your Majesty!"

Wu Sangui also had no choice but to answer honestly, now he can't have any small thoughts.

"British Lord, you also led the left army of 30 and [-] military households to Sanhe County in the north to take charge of farming."

"The minister leads the order!"

There are many domestic servants in the British public, and they don't worry much about farming and raising pigs. They only worry about not confining their own fields.

"The imperial concubine is in full charge of the distribution and reorganization of the main soldiers of each army. As for the military households, I will send people to count and compile the books, and then distribute them to the armies."

"Yes!"

The red lady hurriedly replied.

"All armies must be reorganized within half a month and go to the station. All preparations for farming must be made before September [-]th. I allow you to recruit some literati staff to assist you."

Zhu Cihong exhorted again with a stern face.

This year's autumn harvest is definitely over. If we wait until next spring to sow, we will have to eat another year of dry rice, so he plans to plant winter wheat so that we can harvest next May.

If God opens his eyes, the Fourth Army will be self-sufficient in the future and can hoard a large amount of military rations.

"In the future, the logistics work of each army and the payment of military salaries will be entirely in the charge of the horse supervisor. The horse supervisors of each army and battalion will send eunuchs to supervise the army. These eunuchs are not allowed to interfere with military training and garrisoning the fields. If there is any violation, the military salary may be deducted , Extortion, extortion and other acts, the commander-in-chief of each army can directly impeach him, and I will definitely punish him severely."

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, not only did everyone not feel surprised, but they felt that it was too normal. Of course, some generals secretly complained.

"Cao Huachun, you also have to restrain the eunuchs under your command. At the same time, if any general in any army blackmails and abuses soldiers and military households, he must report it in time, and we must not tolerate it!"

Zhu Cihong didn't care what they thought, and looked at Cao Huachun again and said.

He must control the logistics of each army. If it weren't for the fact that these eunuchs are useless, even the personnel and military laws of the army must be split up and controlled by him.

Now it can only be delegated to the chief officers of the various armies, and let them recommend the promotion and dismissal of middle and senior officers, and then set up a military and political supervisor in the inner court to manage the appointment and dismissal, and set up a military law supervisor, ordnance supervisor, and the four supervisors are directly responsible to the emperor.

"Slaves must restrain their subordinates."

Cao Huachun hurriedly replied that he was the only eunuch in the inner court who attended the meeting, and the eunuchs with palm prints of the other three eunuchs have not yet been found.

Everyone also understood that His Majesty completely excluded civil servants from the military, and that the Ministry of War might become useless in the future, so everyone had no idea about it, since civil servants and eunuchs are not good things anyway.

But with the respect His Majesty attaches to the commanders of each army, as long as you don't get caught, you won't be afraid of the eunuchs in the army. After all, there is an imperial concubine.

"I won't hide from you today. Jin Yiwei has placed a large number of spies in each army, so every move in each army, and any violation of laws and regulations, can never be hidden from me!"

"The ministers must be loyal to the court, loyal to His Majesty, obey the law and fulfill their duties in order to repay the grace of God."

Everyone stood up and knelt down to express their loyalty.

My heart is tense, this Yumajian and Jinyiwei are both bright and dark, so I have to be more careful in the future.

"Get up!"

"I have always distinguished rewards and punishments, only watching their actions, not listening to their words!"

"I know that among the generals of the Ming Dynasty, domestic servants were prevalent. This was caused by the court's long-term lack of pay. From now on, there will be no shortage of pay in the army, so the servants have to be cancelled, and they must be incorporated into the main army.

But I allow you to keep some personal guards. The big governor can form a personal guard battalion of 3000 people, the governor's capital is [-], and the total army is [-]. Below the total, the number of soldiers should not exceed [-]. Violators will be punished as conspiracy! "

He also knew that it was unrealistic not to allow the generals of the Ming Dynasty to adopt some servants, otherwise no one would dare to go to the battlefield, so he could only change slowly.

Sure enough, the generals were relieved to hear that they could keep some of them, otherwise they really didn't know what to do.

"The last thing, that is, every year from now on, I will randomly select 1 soldiers from each army to conduct the parade. They will be ranked according to their performance. No. 3000, the overall salary of the whole army will be increased by 2%. I will also select 1000 soldiers from among them. People are organized into the Imperial Forest Army, the No.3 army's overall military salary is increased by 4%, and 5 people are selected to be incorporated into the Imperial Forest Army, No.[-] has no rewards and no faults, No.[-] The entire army's overall military salary is reduced by [-]%, and No.[-] is reduced by [-]%."

"As for the specific content of the parade competition, we will discuss it after the reorganization of each army!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Everyone bowed in unison.

I have already admired His Majesty's methods and threw myself into the ground.

In the future, if any general slackens training and slows down the whole army, it may be difficult for him to survive in the army.

And if any army is at the bottom every year, even the governor will be affected, which will cause the dissatisfaction of the entire army. After all, it is related to the interests of everyone.

At this moment, the five governors all felt tremendous pressure, and they all felt competitive.

(End of this chapter)