Chapter 876 The mission goes to the West, the army is reorganized

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 876 The mission goes to the West, the army is reorganized

The five things mentioned in the first Wuyingdian meeting after Zhu Yurao's return were all major matters, and of course they could not be discussed in one day.

Except for the first thing, which is a pure notification, the implementation of the other four things requires detailed plans discussed by the Military Academy or the Cabinet.

When everything was initially planned, it was already more than half a month later.

On May 16, the 17th year of Zhaowu, Zheng Sen, secretary of the Secretariat of the Ming Empire, was awarded the title of diplomatic ambassador of Honglu Temple and was appointed by Emperor Zhaowu as the chief envoy to the Western countries.

In addition, Kuang Lu, the deputy diplomatic envoy of Honglu Temple, and Yan Ermei, the diplomatic envoy, were appointed as deputy envoys of the mission.

Subsequently, a delegation of more than 500 people left Nanjing and was escorted to Nanhai Province by warships sent by Qinglong Camp.

In Nanhai Province, the mission will join the Third Nanyang Fleet and the First Western Fleet to form a large team of more than 20,000 people and head to the Western Sea.

At the same time, the other three things set by Zhu Yuluo were also implemented in an orderly manner.

Local governments at all levels are applying to the Department of Education of the Ministry of Rites to establish universities, and lower high schools, junior high schools, and elementary schools are reviewed and approved by the local administrative offices.

Some local officials were very flexible and found that the education funds in public funds were not enough to build more schools, so they mobilized private businessmen and gentry to apply for the establishment of private schools.

After deliberation, the Department of Education decided to allow localities to have a certain number of private schools at the primary and junior high levels.

As for high schools and universities, they are still completely handled by the government.

However, the conditions for local establishment of private vocational schools are relatively relaxed, and the intention to encourage private vocational schools is obvious.

For a time, many wealthy people who were keen in politics and business invested money to establish various vocational schools. First, they hoped to cultivate professionals as soon as possible for use in their own factories and companies; second, they hoped to carve up the pie of vocational teaching.

With the large number of private elementary schools, junior high schools, and vocational schools popping up, some chaos will inevitably occur. At present, local governments are supportive and have not implemented strict controls. As for what will happen in the future, it is hard to say.

Of course, if you touch some of the court's bottom lines, you will definitely be struck by the court's iron fist.

Among the several things at present, the one that Zhu Yurao attaches most importance to and is most concerned about is the reform of the army.

After more than three months of deliberations and related examinations and verifications, the Military Academy finally came up with a practical new army organization.

The team system at the lowest level remains basically unchanged.

However, the original five teams and one sentry was changed to four teams and one sentry.

The general above the sentry post was replaced by the battalion-level organization.

A battalion has five posts, including four main posts, one battalion for the artillery team, one for the reconnaissance team, one for the communications team, and one for the service team.

In other words, the "battalion" will become the smallest complete combat unit in the Ming army.

At the same time, in the official establishment of the Ming Dynasty Army, titles such as "Qian Zong", "guerrilla", "participating general", and "general soldier" were cancelled, and were renamed battalion commander, regiment commander, and division commander.

Three battalions form a regiment, and the regiment commander directly leads a battalion, who also serves as the commander of the first battalion of the regiment.

If it is an independent regiment, it can have four or five battalions.

A division has three regiments and one guard battalion, totaling 10,000 people. The so-called guards are the original soldiers.

Under the new organization, the Yulin Army still has five subordinate numbers, but the Suzaku Army has only one battalion, the Huben and Xiaoqi Army each have five battalions, and the Shenji and Qinglong Army have ten battalions each.

That is to say, there are a total of 31,000 people in the imperial army.

This number of people seems to be very few to protect the imperial city, but if you include the imperial guards, it is enough.

Because under the new organization, the Imperial Guard was directly expanded to ten divisions!

Its soldiers mainly come from the original five towns of the Imperial Guard, as well as the border troops in each town, and a small number of outstanding soldiers from the garrison.

Under the new organization, the Imperial Guard will adopt a rotational garrison system. In normal times, only six divisions will be left to guard the capital, and the remaining four divisions will be sent to the border to perform border guarding or combat tasks. This will ensure the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guard and avoid the prohibition. The guardsmen became useless due to long-term defense of the capital.

When Zhu Yushuo was there, she could actually guarantee the combat effectiveness of the imperial guards. Therefore, this change was actually a preparation for Zhu Hechen to rule the Ming Empire in the future.

These 100,000 Imperial Guards are always the first to be equipped with formal equipment by the Ming Dynasty. As for the Royal Guards, they will use some secret weapons that other armies will not use, and have stronger combat effectiveness.

With these hundreds of thousands of strong troops, plus the border guards, it is impossible for all the garrison to rebel at once, which is enough to ensure the stability of Zhu Hechen and the subsequent generations of Ming emperors.

Because the Ming Empire now has thirty-three provinces (after Jiaozhi, Cangnan and Beihai provinces were added), the border defense army has also been expanded, increasing to twenty-eight divisions.

The garrison was further reduced.

In the interior provinces of the Ming Empire, except for Southern Zhili, Northern Zhili, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc., which are more important, or where chieftain forces still remain in the territory, there is basically no garrison stationed with an entire division. Became an independent group.

There may be at least one independent group, and at most two independent groups.

For important statuses such as border provinces and Zhili, division-level garrisons will be arranged.

However, in border provinces, the main force is actually the border guards; in Zhili, the main force is the imperial guards and border troops.

The garrison still plays a supporting role.

Only in the provinces of Nanhai, Myanmar, Cangnan, Jiaozhi, and the Western Regions, the responsibilities and tasks of the garrison are slightly heavier.

Therefore, even though the Ming Dynasty currently has thirty-three provinces, and some provinces are very large, the garrison with the main responsibility of guarding the local area after the reorganization in the 17th year of Zhaowu only had 530,000.

In other words, the four major orders of the reformed Ming Dynasty Army, namely the Royal Forest Army, the Imperial Guard, the Border Guard Army, and the Garrison Army, together amount to less than one million!

This seems a bit small for such a large empire.

But if you include the Ming Dynasty's military guards in overseas capitals and the local patrol police, which are mainly veterans, the number of soldiers that the Ming Dynasty can mobilize is definitely more than 1.5 million!

If the armies led by each feudal king could be counted, it would definitely exceed two million!

In addition, the combat effectiveness of a country's army cannot only be judged by quantity, but also by quality. Quality includes the combat literacy and equipment of soldiers.

The equipment of the Ming Dynasty's army is definitely the best in the world at present, and no other country can catch up with it.

As for the combat literacy of the Ming Dynasty Army, in the past ten or twenty years of battles, the training of the army and military academies has reached the world's top level.

Zhu Yurao believed that after this reform, even excluding equipment factors, the Ming Army would be able to occupy the title of the world's first-class military for a hundred years!

Speaking of which, during this army reorganization, many soldiers in the garrison retired due to age and other reasons. Even the border guards and the Praetorian Guard also had a small number of soldiers retire.

If things were as usual, it might be a bit difficult for the Ming Empire to place these retired soldiers.

But now, under Zhu Yuluo's decision, the Ming Empire has added three major capitals in South America, East Africa, and South Africa, and needs to recruit more than 100,000 guards, so these retired soldiers have no worries about their way out.

In addition, private businesses that cooperate with the capital to develop overseas businesses also need to recruit mercenaries. Although the work is more dangerous, the money is better.

This gives veterans more choices.

When all the things Zhu Yuluo decided were implemented, the Ming Empire was like a giant dragon that had just warmed up, waving its claws, twisting its huge body, stirring up the storm in this world...

In September, the seventeenth year of Zhaowu.

Mughal capital, Delhi.

In the most splendid hall of the Red Fort, the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, who had succeeded to the throne for more than two years, was sitting on a gold chair studded with gems, reading a book.

He was already frowning, but the more he looked at these books, the more he frowned.
Chapter completed!