My Daming New Empire

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Others still don't know Zhu Di's thoughts, they always feel that Zhu Di treats the grandson too leniently, and treats the prince too harshly.This selection of talents for the country is a major event during the period when the prince supervised the country, so what's the point of confessing to the grandson!

At noon, the official affairs of the day will be dealt with.Those who have a job in the cabinet go to work in the afternoon, and those who don't have a job also have the job of compiling books in the palace and the Imperial Academy.

Zhu Di is going out of the palace today to be a guest at the British government, so it's time to set off at this time,

Saying goodbye to everyone, Zhu Zhanji brought Huang Yuan to the Counseling Department at Donghuamen.

Sitting down in the room, Zhu Zhanji sent the others away, and then said frankly to Huang Yuan: "In two days, the emperor's grandfather will announce to the world that my father and king will go to Jiayuguan to supervise the army."

Huang Yuan shook his body, looked at Zhu Zhanji in disbelief, wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything.

Letting the crown prince leave the capital, and the grandson supervise the country, is afraid that it will cause huge disturbances.Although Huang Yuan is already a member of Zhu Zhanji, he is afraid that Zhu Zhanji will not be able to cope with the pressure in the court.

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "I told you this to remind you that this time the Navy will provide the greatest support for the Western Expeditionary Force. You can choose battleships, transport ships, and logistics generals at will."

Huang Yuan calmed himself down and asked, "Your Highness, who will be the commander of the navy?"

"Liu Jiang will personally lead the army and become the chief officer of the navy."

As soon as he heard that Liu Jiang, the naval captain who appreciated him from the very beginning, led the army himself, Huang Yuan gained confidence.He bowed and said: "I will definitely live up to the entrustment and solve all logistical worries for His Majesty's personal conquest."

Zhu Zhanji laughed and patted him on the shoulder. "Work hard, the future belongs to us!"

Chapter 39 Great Court Meeting

On the thirtieth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Di mobilized the Beijing army through the Ministry of War, and a large number of Beijing troops were mobilized and entered Yingtian Mansion.

However, everyone knew that Zhu Di had the intention of going west, and the mobilization of the Beijing army at this time did not attract any special attention from everyone.

After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the country, he adopted Liu Ji's suggestion, set up a military defense law, established guards across the country, and controlled the vital organs.

The central government set up the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, which was later changed to the Five Armed Forces Governor's Mansion. It is the highest military institution and is in charge of the military registration of the national guards.

The Ministry of War is responsible for conquest, garrison, training, and logistics.

In case of war, the Ministry of War will dispatch the army according to the emperor's order, appoint a military leader, issue a seal letter, and lead the army dispatched from the guard to go out.At the end of the war, the leading officers handed over their seals to the court, and the officers and soldiers returned to their guard posts.

This system of separating the power of commanding the army from the power of dispatching the army, and the system of not specializing the army and not privately serving the generals, aims to ensure the emperor's control over the national army.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into the Beijing Army and the Local Army, and the Commander and the Commander were established as the highest permanent officers of the army.

The Beijing army is divided into Jingbing and Jingwei. During Zhu Yuanzhang's period, there were 48 guards.

In the original history, because Zhu Di moved his capital to Beiping, he set up a maximum of 72 guards.

The Beijing Army is an elite force for battle, and there are no captains and admirals except commanders.

Including the chief governor of the five armies' governor's mansion, there is only one guard horse under his jurisdiction.

In order to prevent dictatorship, although the Beijing army is elite, its scale is slightly smaller, with 3000 people in one guard, which is also the highest number of pro-military members of the noble class.

As for the clan prince, basically there are only two guards at most, and the number cannot exceed 6000.

Zhu Gaochi has only two guards, 6000 people, and a grandson like Zhu Zhanji who currently has the right to lead the army is the only one in Ming Dynasty.

The local army includes guards, border soldiers and militia.

The guards are deployed in various important military towns in the interior and key areas of coastal defense in the southeast.The frontier soldiers are the garrison troops defending against the Mongolian cavalry in the north. They are deployed in nine military towns starting from the Yalu River in the east and reaching Jiayuguan in the west. They are called "Nine Frontiers" in history.

The militia is an armed force that is not registered in the military and is assigned by the government to maintain local law and order. It is called minzhuang, volunteers or archers, machine soldiers, and fast hands in the interior, native soldiers in the northwest frontier, and Miao soldiers and wolf soldiers in the southwest minority areas. Soldiers and other chieftain soldiers.

In addition, there are mining soldiers, salt soldiers, and monk soldiers (Shaolin soldiers, Wutai soldiers) formed by different industries and classes. In case of war, they are often called out and return to the original site after the war.

At the local level, there is a capital command envoy (referred to as the capital) and a command envoy, who is the local military commander.

Under the capital, guards or establishments were set up in prefectures and counties in important areas.The general guard is led by the commander of the guard, and has jurisdiction over 5 thousand households, with a total of 5600 people.

Qianhusuo is led by Qianhu, governing ten Baihusuo, with a total of 1120 people, and Baihusuo is led by Baihu, and governs two general banners, with a total of 112 people.The general banner governs 5 small banners, with a total of 50 people; the small banner has 10 people.

洪武26年，定全国都司、卫所，共设都司17个、行都司3个、留守司1个、内外卫329个、守御千户所65个。

In the 13th year of Yongle, three water villages of the Dusi level were added in Nanyang.According to the total statistics of the Ming army, it reached more than 270 million people.

Zhu Di's mobilization of troops was not to worry about rebellion, but to frighten all civil and military officials.He always likes to show off his martial arts, and is used to simple and crude methods of cutting messes quickly.

Zhu Di can move troops without any scruple, but Zhu Zhanji dare not make the slightest move.

There are some things that Zhu Di can do, but he cannot.

Just like the transfer of troops this time, Zhu Di must be afraid that the prince will be transferred away, and all the officials will oppose it as a deterrent.

Zhu Gaochi is his son, he can do this.

But Zhu Zhanji is the grandson, and none of his soldiers can move.As long as he moves, this kind of arrangement against his father will make him lie on the pillar of shame for treason and injustice for the rest of his life.

The Great Court Meeting on February [-]st was held as scheduled.

In the early morning of this day, all the chief officials and important auxiliary officials of the seventh rank and above in the capital, nearly a thousand people, lined up densely from Fengtian Temple to the square outside Fengtian Temple.

Only officials of the fourth rank and above can enter the hall, and the fourth rank officials must be the chief official.

When the first morning light shines on the earth, civil and military officials, amidst the sound of instrumental music at Honglu Temple, prostrated together with great gifts and shouted long live three times.

In Fengtian Hall, Zhu Di sat high on the dragon chair on the third floor. On the second floor below him, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji stood sideways and lined up on the left and right.

Today's Great Court Meeting has two major issues. One is that the Ming Dynasty officially implemented the budget system, and the Ministry of Household Affairs has already made the annual budget of each department.

Funds are divided into budgetary and extrabudgetary funds. Budgetary funds are equal to the average of public expenditures in the past three years, plus [-]%.

This alone has met almost everyone's expectations.

Therefore, in the first half of the court meeting, it can be said that everyone was happy.

At the court meeting presided over by Jian Yi, even the opponents voted unanimously today to allow this bill to pass.

Under the auspices of Jian Yi, a series of matters that were difficult to make decisions by the ministries were quickly decided after orderly discussions among the ministers.

Zhu Di rarely exercised his veto power today, and most of the decrees were passed smoothly.

Many civil officials thought that in order to go out smoothly, the emperor Zhu Di had also begun to compromise with them.

It only took an hour to deal with all the important government affairs accumulated during these days, which more than doubled the previous work efficiency.

At that time, Wang Yan officially announced the official implementation of the budget system of various ministries.

Chen Xuan, the admiral of the Daming Development Bank, also promised that all the funds will be in place this afternoon.

Wang Yan waited for Chen Xuan to finish playing, looked at Zhu Di's face, Zhu Di nodded slightly, and looked at Fang Bin, who was fourth on the left below.