Lin Jing's outburst made Zhu Chunchen flustered, but he was also a little aggrieved. After all, in the past six years as the governor of Beijing Camp, although he had also paid for it, Beijing Camp's long-standing shortcomings had a long history, and he had something to do with it.
What's the relationship?
Of course, the prince was angry, and Zhu Chunchen could only avoid the sharp edge for the time being. Although he could not keep his position as a military officer in the Beijing camp, it was equivalent to getting rid of the trouble in the Beijing camp. When Li Banghua arrived, let him have a headache!
After everyone dispersed, Chen Xinjia sighed and said: "Your Highness, the matter in the capital camp cannot be solved by just replacing one general. Although Duke Cheng Guo is stupid and incompetent, the root of the problem is not with him.
On the body."
Lin Jing nodded and said: "Of course I understand this truth. Now my father has asked Li Banghua to rectify the capital camp. Although I can't help him with other things, I can at least make him less constrained. Now that there is such a thing
, I believe there will be far fewer people reaching out to the Beijing camp."
Chen Xinjia smiled slightly, nodded and said: "The evils in the Beijing camp are so deep that no ordinary person can break them. Even Li Banghua may not be able to work hard. The prince's current efforts have actually made Li Banghua's situation much better."
Lin Jing and Chen Xinjia, surrounded by a group of royal guards, headed towards the imperial city.
"Bu Tang, the current shortcomings in our military system of the Ming Dynasty are by no means limited to the Beijing camp. The military system of local guards also has serious shortcomings. I wonder what the Bu Tang thinks?"
When Chen Xinjia heard Lin Jing's words, he immediately felt a headache. The prince's question was too big and not easy to answer.
In this way, the world was stabilized and the country of the Ming Dynasty was as solid as iron. Hu Dingliangyun’s contribution is indispensable.”
Chen Xinjia first said a lot of politically correct nonsense, and then said cautiously: "It's just that time has changed, the guard system has gradually collapsed, and sergeants have fled in large numbers. Although there are still millions of registered guards, only three actually exist.
One in a hundred, those who can fight will probably not survive..."
When it comes to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xinjia is naturally very good at it. He quickly pointed out the core problem of the current military system of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the guard system is no longer suitable for the current situation.
In the more than two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the Ming court has successively implemented three types of military service systems, namely the world military system, the recruitment system and the conscription system. In the early Ming Dynasty, there was no recruitment system and conscription system, only the world military system, which was the guard system.
The system has two main tasks, one is to guard the place, and the other is to farm and produce. Those who guard the place are called garrison, and those who farm and produce are called garrison. The whole system is a self-sufficient armed group.
On the surface, Shibei's creation is simply perfect. In Zhu Yuanzhang's words, "I can raise millions of soldiers without costing the people a grain of rice!"
But the problem is that as an armed group, the army must continuously enhance its combat effectiveness and eliminate the weak in order to adapt to the needs of war. Due to its own characteristics, the military system must be a mixed army of old and young, which makes the army
Its combat effectiveness declined very quickly.
Therefore, the Battle of Jingnan in the early Ming Dynasty basically demonstrated the shortcomings of the guard system itself. The reason why Zhu Di relied on a small number of border troops plus some Mongolians to defeat Zhu Yunwen's imperial army, and with the guard
This is inseparable from the sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the system's soldiers.
Of course, after Zhu Di became emperor, he did not make major changes to the guard system. Instead, he continued this system, which caused a large number of guards officers and soldiers to flee. In many places, the escape rate could even reach more than half.
Later, the military power of the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed after Tumu Fortress, which made the top management of the Ming Dynasty start to learn from the pain and decided to implement a recruitment system. Yu Qian, the Minister of the Ministry of War, reformed the establishment of the Beijing camp, selected 100,000 elites from the three battalions, and divided them into ten battalions for training in preparation.
An emergency call was made, called the Tenth Regiment Battalion, and the combat effectiveness of these ten regiments and battalions quickly benefited the Mingting high-level officials.
Later, during the Jiajing period, armaments were depleted and guard posts were empty. The military struggle in the Ming Dynasty became more and more intense. In addition to dealing with the Mongols in the north, Japanese pirates also needed to be dealt with in the east. Therefore, the recruitment system began to be implemented more widely, such as in the coastal areas of Zhejiang.
Basically, 70% of the Ming army was recruiting soldiers. Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang both recruited soldiers personally.
The recruitment system is generally more advanced than the garrison system. Its implementation enabled the Ming army to break away from the past state of being both soldiers and farmers, and began to become a real standing army. Moreover, because recruitment could specifically select young and middle-aged men, plus salaries
It was twice or even several times higher than that of the Guard Army, which resulted in a large number of brave men joining the army, which significantly improved the army's combat effectiveness.
But the problem is that although the recruitment system is good, the cost of food and salary is several times that of the guards, and the court's financial revenue has not increased. In addition, after Jiajing, internal and external troubles became serious, which led to a huge increase in military salaries, especially for a large number of soldiers.
Frequent mobilization of guest armies, as well as rewards of silver, pensions, and increased weapons and equipment, etc., greatly increased military expenditures. For example, the three major levies in Wanli cost as much as 11 million taels of silver.
The changes in the military pay system increased the financial difficulties of the Ming Dynasty, which in turn destroyed the financial foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen had to increase the military pay by three times. Moreover, when collecting taxes, corrupt officials enriched their own pockets, making it impossible for the majority of farmers to afford it, resulting in
More and more peasants joined the ranks of the uprising.
Lin Jing sighed softly: "The guard system has reached a point where it has to be abolished. If all the guard land is turned into civilian land, the tax base can be increased, and the saved money can also be used to train a new army."
"Your Highness, at this time when the imperial court is facing internal and external troubles, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to make any big moves."
Chen Xinjia shook his head slightly. Why didn't he want to do this? But there was no possibility of doing this. The reason was that there were a large number of interests attached to the guard system, and they would not sit back and watch the court reform it.
, and even because of the wide range of implications, the abolition of the Weisuo system itself was more difficult than the abolition of the Jingying camp.
Lin Jing nodded slightly. No one who got into the Ministry of War was an easy person. Chen Xinjia would never go against the people of the world for this matter... After all, Ming Dynasty has reached the terminal stage of cancer. Thinking about light
There is no way he can be saved by taking medicine, even if Lin Jing is a time traveler.
There is actually only one best way, and that is to use Ming's body, which is destined to die, to absorb enough nutrients, and then cultivate new power on it, so that in the future we can completely revolutionize the world.
When he thought of this, Lin Jing had no intention of continuing the conversation with Chen Xinjia. He only hoped that he could cultivate his own prince's military camp as soon as possible and establish the Deyu Guards. At that time, Lin Jing could really do what he wanted.