Under the respectful gaze of Weng Tonghe, the minister of the Imperial Study, Zhu Jishi finally finished reading this amendment to the Education Law that would bring culture and fighting spirit to the working class of the Ming Empire in the future, and then brought up a brush to sign himself at the end of the bill. The name of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, this is not the only bill he needs to sign today. After months of debate and revision, the "Ming Dynasty Compulsory Military Service Law", the "Ming Dynasty Army and Navy Preparatory Military Service Law", and the "Ming Dynasty Army and Navy Volunteer" Five bills related to maintaining the military power of the Ming Dynasty are now on Zhu Jishi's desk.

Yes, the military service system linked to land is about to die. Because in the past eighteen years, the Ming Dynasty has allocated nearly 100 million mu of land to soldiers and officers fighting for it! These lands are mainly It is concentrated in the 18 provinces of the Han area, Liaoning Province, Jiaozhou Province, and these twenty provinces are now difficult to distribute fertile land. Although there is still a large amount of land in more distant areas, these lands are for the Han area. The people are somewhat lacking in attraction - after all, you can get land there even when you join a collective farm. Who is willing to undertake 20 years of military service?

Therefore, the Ming Empire must start to implement the compulsory military service system like France and Prussia. The compulsory military service will not last as long as 10 to 20 years, the army will only last for 3 years, and the navy will be served for 5 years. You can act as a "volunteer soldier" and continue to serve in the army for no more than 10 years. Of course, the military pay received by the volunteer soldiers is much higher than that of the conscript. Consolidators who retire normally can also choose to transfer to the reserve service. They participate for no more than 30 days a year. Military training (15 days during the New Year holiday). And receive one month of volunteer soldiers’ military pay.

In addition, in order to take care of the interests of the most important friendly Japanese Empire, the lower house of the Constitutional Assembly of the Ming Empire also formulated a "Japanese Volunteer Military Art of the Ming Army and Navy" to allow the Japanese to enter the Ming Army and Navy as mercenaries from the legislative perspective. The green light also allows them to enjoy the same treatment as the nationality of the Ming Dynasty, and they can also have dual nationality between the Ming Dynasty and Japan after joining the army. It can be said to be extremely generous. Of course, the number of Japanese volunteer soldiers is limited and must not exceed the Ming Dynasty Army and Navy There are also restrictions on the promotion issue. The maximum rank of Japanese volunteer soldiers who can be awarded is the colonel. If you want to be promoted to a higher position, you must give up your Japanese nationality and completely naturalize it to a Ming citizen.

According to the plan of the Ming Dynasty Marshal's Office, the Ming Dynasty's Army and Navy will take 10 years to complete the transition from mercenaries to conscripts and volunteers. After completing the transition, the total number of standing troops of the Ming Dynasty's Army and Navy will remain at around 1.1 million (of which the navy will be in the Navy. 100,000), second only to Russia's 1.4 million, ranking second in the world. However, considering the 80,000 standing troops of the Western Qing Dynasty, the 150,000 standing troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the 20,000 standing troops of the Kingdom of Korea. The 100,000 standing troops of the Japanese Empire also have Siam The 50,000 troops of the Luo Kingdom, and the Ming Empire actually has as many as 1.5 million soldiers. It is actually the largest armed force in the world. In addition, in an emergency, the Ming army and navy can also use the "Da Ming Dynasty" The Army and Navy Preparatory Military Service Law and the Ming National Mobilization Law will be urgently expanded. The total number of Ming Army and Navy personnel can be expanded to 2 million within one year, to 5 million within two years, and to 10 million within three years... It sounds a bit scary!

And what appeared at the same time as these bills was of course the wave of retired soldiers who had served in the Ming army for many years...

"Your Majesty, it's almost time to go to the Army Officer's School to attend the veteran's retirement ceremony." Weng Tonghe saw that Zhu Jishi had signed all the bills one by one, and then he quickly reminded the emperor.

To be honest, the emperor Zhu Jishi really doesn't have much private time, and his every day is full of various itineraries. He either holds a meeting of the imperial court, summons military generals, or meets with political party representatives, and urges them to pass the Formulating various bills and participating in veteran retirement ceremony was also an important itinerary for Emperor Zhu during this period.

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The Royal Army Officer School of the Ming Dynasty is near Fort Maria. After more than ten years of development, the military education system of the Ming Dynasty Army and Navy has been fully mature. It not only has the largest army officer school in the world and the fourth largest naval officer school in the world, but also A Army University specializing in training staff talents has also opened 10 Junior Military Academy in Nanjing, Guangzhou, Dongwanlu, Wuchang, Xi'an, Beijing, Chenyang, Hezhong, Seoul, and Edo, as a preparatory school for the Army Officer's School. , extending officer education to the development of military quality. At the same time, the training of army and naval officers from Japan, North Korea, Siam and other countries was fully incorporated into the Ming Dynasty military education system.

In addition to the Army and Navy Officer School, Army and Navy University and Junior Military Academy, the Ming Army Education Directorate also opened a series of artillery academy, cavalry academy, logistics academy, engineering academy, military police academy, communication academy, military medical academy and maritime academy, etc. Military colleges recruit graduates from Army Academy or ordinary middle schools to train them to become technical officers. It is worth mentioning that except for Artillery Academy, these military colleges are all military and civilian, and all the trained are military and civilians. Dual-purpose talents. In addition, all the naval schools in the Ming Dynasty that train seafarers also have military courses. Some graduates will enter the Ming Navy to serve, while the rest are Ming Navy reserve soldiers.

In short, the current Ming officer training has been completely formed, and the course has changed from copying Britain and France to based on the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty, and has its own characteristics. I dare not say that it is ahead of the world, and it is not behind first-class powers like Britain and France. Of course, maintaining such a high level of military education and a huge army is also a very expensive thing. Many people have raised objections to this. In addition to following France and Mexico in the North American war, it is roughly peaceful at home and abroad. It's okay, and there will be about 120 million silver dollars in military expenditure every year, accounting for 40% of the central fiscal revenue of the Ming Empire, which is a bit outrageous. Can't we spend our limited financial resources more than preparing for war What is meaningful? For example, increasing education funds and implementing comprehensive compulsory education? However, with the insistence of Zhu Jishi, the founding emperor, the high military budget can always be passed by high votes in the Constitutional Assembly. Let the Ming Empire maintain a powerful military strength that is enough to prevent any powerful country in the world from silencing for a long time!

The convoy drove into the straight road inside the gate of the Royal Army Officer's School of Ming Dynasty. The teaching buildings were all Chinese and Western-style buildings, standing solemnly on one side of the road. On the other side of the road was a large playground covered with cinders. Wearing gray military uniforms The Ming army officers and soldiers had already formed a dense array of square formations on the playground, with tens of thousands of people - of course they were not non-commissioned officers from the officers' school, but older veterans who were about to retire from the Ming army. Opposite, that is, the front of the No. 1 building of the Officer's School, is a line of five "Heroic Walls" made of granite, one and a half meters tall and eighteen meters long. The two sides of the wall are densely engraved with orchids. Since the War of Liberation, the total number of troops and naval soldiers and armed civilians who sacrificed their lives for the revival and strength of the Ming Empire has exceeded 220,000... These also include Japanese people who died in the Russian War and North American War. Volunteer soldiers.

In addition, there are more than 200,000 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers who did not leave their names and more Chinese people who died in the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty colonial rule. They also own two monuments of unknown heroes in the Royal Army Officer School of the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!