Faced with Zhu Yijun's words, Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "The minister doesn't care what the background of the generals of the Praetorian Guard is, the honorable or ordinary generals can do it, there is only one thing that the minister cares about." ”

"Oh? What's up? Zhu Yijun was still a little surprised when he heard Gao pragmatic say that he didn't mind Xungui.

"The generals of the Praetorian Guard must have experience in warfare and excel in their performance." He paused for a moment and said: "Although the situation of the noble leader is becoming less and less nowadays, it is not completely impossible, as long as he has combat experience and shows the ability to meet the requirements of the Praetorian Guard's generals, then the minister also does not mind recommending such a noble to become the general of the Praetorian Guard." ”

Then he finally summed it up: "In a word, it is four words: those who can live in it." ”

Zhu Yijun nodded slightly, indicating that he understood, but he did not express his position immediately, but thought about it.

Gao Pragmatic knew very well what Zhu Yijun was worried about, and added: "The emperor may have two doubts, one is that the border army or local generals may perform better, but the emperor is not familiar with them, and even some of them are not loyal, maybe they have been promoted all the way up from an ordinary soldier, so ...... It is difficult to judge how faithful they are. ”

Zhu Yijun didn't say whether he was committal, but asked, "What about the second point?" ”

"The second point is that the emperor may be worried about the attitude of the nobles. After all, my Chaojing camp has been centered on the nobles for two hundred years, and if the emperor suddenly replaces them, will it cause the dissatisfaction of the nobles. ”

Zhu Yijun smiled bitterly: "It seems that you are sure to convince me?" ”

That's the default.

Gao Pragmatic smiled and said, "Actually, these two items are not difficult. Let's start with the first one, the question of loyalty after the border army or local generals come to the Praetorian Guard. ”

"Your Majesty, the first thing we have to make clear is that the Praetorian Guard should have existed as the core force of my Ming Dynasty from the very beginning. This means that the Praetorian Guard will enjoy the best treatment, the best armament, the most rigorous training, and the most glorious reputation.

So, what does it mean for a general to be transferred to the Praetorian Guard? It means that he has been closely watched by the Ministry of War, the Cabinet, and even the Emperor himself, which in itself is an extremely high honor. Think about it, after an ordinary general has obtained such a sense of honor and satisfaction, will he do his best to repay the emperor's favor, or will he have the intention of revenge? There is no doubt that it must be the former, or at least that he must be thinking of repaying the emperor's favor in the short term. ”

"In the short term?" Zhu Yijun actually understood Gao Pragmatic's analysis and agreed with it, but this "short term" made him a little unable to figure it out.

"In the short term, of course, this statement is more cautious." Gao pragmatic said: "But for the Praetorian Guard, this kind of caution is very necessary. Therefore, in addition to the above, we also need to have institutional restrictions, such as the tenure system. ”

Zhu Yijun suddenly said: "Oh, you mean that just like a civil official, the exam is once every three years and the general exam every nine years?" ”

"Nine years is too long!" Gao pragmatically said solemnly: "You can't let a general stay in the position of the main general of the Praetorian Guard for nine years, this is the way to get trouble." ”

Zhu Yijun was slightly stunned, but immediately nodded with satisfaction, and Wen Yan asked, "Then what do you mean?" ”

"One term for three years, up to two terms." Gao pragmatic and decisively said: "This regulation is specifically aimed at the chief officer of the Praetorian Guard - according to the habit of the garrison, this is called the commander, of course, if you want to call the commander, it is also okay." Generally speaking, in principle, the term is mainly for one term, and if the performance is indeed outstanding, the Ministry of War and the cabinet believe that the loyalty is commendable and the ability is outstanding, and they can report to the emperor, and ask the emperor to make the final decision to determine whether the member is re-elected. But in any case, it is an iron rule that the maximum number of consecutive re-elects, that is, the total length of the term cannot exceed six years. ”

"I see what you mean." Zhu Yijun nodded, thought for a moment, and asked, "The establishment you said is different, it shouldn't just be the fact that the term of office of the chief official is limited to death, right?" Let's talk about the rest. ”

Gao pragmatic nodded, and said: "The overall establishment of the Praetorian Guard, from top to bottom, is a total of eight levels: army, town, association, standard, battalion, company, platoon, and shed, of which the town is the basic structure - the meaning of this basic structure is that if the Praetorian Guard needs to be dispatched, it is usually impossible for the whole army to be dispatched, so it is dispatched in the town. ”

Zhu Yijun nodded and asked, "How many towns are the Praetorian Guards going to divide into?" ”

"Five." Gao pragmatic said: "At present, the ministers have roughly set up, and it is planned that the quota of officers and soldiers in each town is 12,512 people, which is composed of infantry, horses, artillery, engineering, baggage and other arms, and each town has a commander, a deputy commander, and a chief of staff. ”

Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand to stop him and asked, "I understand the foot, horse, and cannon, but what is the matter with the work and baggage?" Didn't it say that soldiers, farmers, and craftsmen should be separated? ”

"Yes, they are separated, but these sappers and baggage soldiers are not simply craftsmen and farmers, these people are regarded as war soldiers like infantry, horses, artillery, etc., and they also need to master special skills."

"Do you have a special skill for this?" Zhu Yijun was stunned and said: "I wonder if the sapper you are talking about, its task is probably to repair weapons and armor, this is what ordinary military craftsmen do." Not to mention the baggage, pushing a cart to pick up food or something, a strong man can do it, and he can count them as soldiers? ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "Your Majesty, before the military industry was private, why were more than ninety percent of the muskets in the army unusable, do you remember the reason?" ”

"Oh......" Zhu Yijun said suddenly: "You have to talk about the truth of how much money you take and how much work you do." Let me guess, this time you also have to say that if you count them as soldiers, their treatment will be much better, so you will work harder, because you will definitely have to get that set of military product quality supervision system into it, which weapon is repaired, and the responsibility must be implemented by the people, right? In this way, in order to keep this golden job, these people can't help but work with 12 points of strength, and the success rate of this maintenance will definitely increase significantly, right? ”

Gao Shicheng smiled and arched his hand: "The emperor has seen thousands of miles, it seems that the emperor's tricks have been figured out by the emperor." ”

Zhu Yijun smiled and waved his hand: "It's still familiar to you, I just remembered it when I heard you say so." But he immediately had some doubts: "But this only needs sappers, what's the use of baggage soldiers?" It's okay to be a porter, and you can save a lot of money, so you don't have to keep it in peacetime. ”

You've really got into the money.

But Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "It will not be so simple in the future, because there are more and more artillery now, and according to the report made by Jinghua Ordnance Industry to the minister, it is difficult to maintain only the four models of one, two, three and four, and it will inevitably be subdivided in the future." At present, it is imperative to subdivide the land and sea, and of course, the part of the sea does not need to be detailed for the time being......"

"Wait a minute, why is it imperative to subdivide land and sea?" Zhu Yijun obviously does not understand this "imperative".

Gao pragmatic explained: "Because we are short of copper in the Ming Dynasty, the largest production area is Yunnan, but according to the minister's understanding, the copper mines in Yunnan are now not enough just for coinage, this time Myanmar may be able to provide some supplements, but it is still a drop in the bucket, so we must try to reduce the casting of copper cannons and change to iron cannons."

It's just that there is a difference between this iron cannon and a copper cannon after all, and it is used on land, and with the update of technology, the iron cannon is not unavoidable. But it can't be done at sea, because of the relationship between the climate and the environment at sea (Zhu Yijun can understand the high humidity, but Gao Shishi is afraid that he can't understand the high salt, so he only talks about the climate and environment), the iron cannon is too easy to rust, and it can't be used after rusting, so the cannon at sea still has to use bronze. In this way, the subdivision of land and sea must be done as soon as possible. ”

"I see, or you think about it comprehensively, I am indeed short of copper, and it is really important to save the copper used to cast the cannon." Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "So you mean that because these cannons are difficult to transport, there must be special people, that is, the so-called baggage soldiers, to do this work?" ”

"Yes, and in fact, it is not only artillery, including palm grenades (grenades) and other weapons, which are flammable and explosive, and they also need to be transported by professional baggage soldiers to be safer, so as not to cause unnecessary losses - whether it is the loss of personnel or the loss of the weapon itself."

That's right, Zhu Yijun can bear the loss of personnel, but Zhu Yijun can't bear the loss of the weapon itself, because ...... Expensive! Jinghua's things are good, and they are really expensive, at least much more expensive than when there was no military industry and private industry before!

Of course, Zhu Yijun is understandable about this kind of expensiveness. Because as far as he knows, although Jinghua's artillery is nearly three times more expensive than before, it has basically never exploded or anything like that, and a cannon is more durable than the previous ten cannons, and this account is still very cost-effective as a whole, not to mention that Jinghua's artillery is far more powerful than the previous artillery.

Thinking that these baggage soldiers were for the service of those expensive Jinghua artillery and firearms, Zhu Yijun felt that it was still very necessary, and nodded: "In this case, it makes sense." How many people are there? Twelve thousand five in a town, what about the levels below? ”

"Please take a look at the emperor." Gao pragmatic took out a piece of Chen from his arms and handed it to Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun took it and looked at it, and it was written on the establishment of a town: two associations for each town's infantry team, and four thousand and thirty-eight officers and soldiers for one association; 1,756 officers and soldiers per standard for each standard (the number of officers and soldiers for the horse standard is slightly less, 1,117); Each standard is divided into three battalions, each battalion has four companies, each company has three rows, and each row has three sheds...... Wait a minute.

One standard for the horse team and one artillery team, three battalions for each standard, four companies of horses and three artillery teams for each battalion; one battalion of engineers, four companies per battalion, three platoons per company; There is one battalion of baggage teams, four teams per battalion.

The infantry company, artillery company, and engineer company each company have three rows, and each row has three sheds; There are two rows of horses, two sheds in each row; There are two rows of baggage, each row of three sheds. There is also a military music golden drum team.

Each branch of the armed forces has two main and deputy heads, four regular soldiers, and eight deputy soldiers. The town had 748 officers and clerks, 10,436 Benme, and 1,328 soldiers, making a total of 12,512.

Zhu Yijun didn't know much about these details, but after reading it, he had a general impression, which made him think too much about distinguishing good from bad. However, he believes in Gao Pragmatism very much, and thinks that since Gao Pragmatism can win the two battles of Annan and Dingbei, his understanding of the battle array is of course the first-class in the world, so since Gao Pragmatism is compiled like this, he must have his own reason, and he just needs to choose trust and be done.

This idea is perfectly in line with Emperor Longqing's teaching to him back then: It doesn't matter if I don't understand, the person I trust just understands, just let him do it, and all I need to do is to fully support him.

However, he really looked up to Gao Pragmatic, the young Sima, this time, because Gao Pragmatic's Praetorian Guard establishment almost directly copied the establishment of the Beiyang New Army in later generations - except for changing the "team" to the "company" that he was more familiar with, he simply didn't move anything.

I didn't even change the word "shed" to "class", because it might be confused with the word "class" in the squad army.

However, the system of the Beiyang Army can really be used now, because under his pragmatic interference, the Ming Dynasty has paid more and more attention to firearms and artillery, and it has been able to adapt to the establishment of the Beiyang New Army.

Of course, the specific combat effectiveness is definitely far from comparable, at least Jinghua's current artillery is definitely far from being compared with the Krupp artillery commonly used in Beiyang, and there are no machine guns such as Shui Lianzhu and Makqin. This statement is purely based on the rate of use of firearms.

After all, the establishment of this kind of thing, we must adapt to the level of weapons and equipment, and use the three-three system of later generations for the ancient cold weapon army, which is likely to be suicide, but fortunately, the Ming army is now becoming more and more hot-weaponized, and only with high pragmatism can the special establishment of the Beiyang New Army in the transitional period be used.

Zhu Yijun looked at it for a long time, and finally found a problem, and asked: "Why is there as many as 748 officers and clerks in this town?" ”

That's a good question, in the ancient military system, how could such a large number of secretaries have such a large staff? Zhu Yijun asked quite a good level this time.

Gao explained with relief: "Because in addition to the higher-level army headquarters, each town also has a staff battalion office, a law enforcement battalion office, a supervision and operation battalion office, and an inspection battalion office. The functions of these establishments will be explained in detail by the Minister at that time, and in short, these are all necessary institutions to ensure combat effectiveness. ”

In fact, the role of these institutions is still very well understood, and Zhu Yijun understands most of it just by "as the name suggests", so he nodded in approval.

He looked at it and felt that there didn't seem to be a big problem, so he asked a matter that he was most concerned about: "The first commander of the Praetorian Guard, have you already been chosen?" ”

Gao pragmatically said: "There is indeed a minister who thinks that the most suitable person at present, but it is just ...... This person's task now is also relatively important, so the minister is still a little hesitant. ”

Zhu Yijun became interested and asked, "Who is this person?" ”

Gao pragmatic said: "Qi Jiguang." ”

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