After Zhu Youzhen briefly introduced the investigation report of Jinyiwei, he solicited the opinions of Sun Chengzong and others, and ordered the blockade of all passes on the Great Wall in the name of the General Staff Headquarters, and the time was tentatively set for three months. In addition, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the case of smuggling grain and other military materials to the enemy in Xuanfu Town, and in particular, it is necessary to carry out key control over Zhangjiakou, the largest material export gateway.

Since last year, the wartime base camp has begun to reorganize the army under the name of Xuanfu Town, and some of the generals and officials of Xuanfu Town have been transferred out of the local area. The new army trained by Yuan Chonghuan was stationed in Datong and Fengzhen to monitor the newly established Inner Mongolian Zhuqi and the Chahar Department of Tumochuan.

The current Xuanda border town is no longer the lawless self-reserve of some hereditary generals. With the support of the General Staff and the public resentment stimulated by the Houjin invasion, Jinyiwei was able to carry out a comprehensive and thorough cleanup of the smuggling groups in Xuanzhen and Zhangjiakou.

In addition to blocking Zhangjiakou, the outlet for the flow of materials, Zhu Youzhen immediately asked Jinyiwei to mobilize the greatest forces, and in addition to controlling social order in Beijing, Tongzhou, and Tianjin, he also sent personnel to cooperate with the local county officials and gentry to set up checkpoints at various intersections in the north.

The purpose of setting up these checkpoints is to find out Houjin's spies. The people who fled from the northern theater and went south can be roughly examined, but for those who still have to go to Zunhua, Qian'an, and other places at this time, they must be closely examined, and they are not allowed to go north without special reasons.

In addition, Jinyiwei should also cooperate with the counties to set up camps for displaced people to settle the people who fled south, and prohibit these people from running around and causing panic among the people in the Gyeonggi area.

An hour before this military discussion, all the discussions were about the tasks of Jinyiwei, and when these issues were discussed, Zhang Shijie and other Jinyiwei commanders left first, preparing to carry out the orders issued by the emperor.

When only the officials of the General Staff Headquarters were left in the conference room, Zhu Youzhen changed his tone and said sternly to these staff officers: "War is the highest form of struggle between groups and groups, nations and nations, and countries and countries. The loser will lose everything, and the winner will win everything.

As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I will lead you and all the people to make every effort to strive for this victory, so as to safeguard the interests of the Ming Dynasty and the interests of the people.

The purpose of the existence of the Ming army is to fight a war and protect the interests of the Ming people. Now the invasion of the Later Jin Dynasty has almost become a foregone conclusion, so what you have to consider is how to defeat the invasion of the Later Jin Dynasty and defend the people of the Jizhou region and the entire Beizhili region to continue to live and work in peace and contentment.

Other issues have nothing to do with you, and I hope that you will only focus on the issue of war, and not be influenced by public opinion in society and make wrong judgments. ”

The emperor's sudden warning surprised Sun Chengzong, but he quickly returned to normal. A few days ago, Chongzhen united with the northern gentry to suppress the southern gentry group behind the salt merchants in the court, and in the current situation, I am afraid that there will be some unwilling people who will jump out and disturb people's hearts, in order to be able to attack the northern gentry through the invasion of foreign enemies, so as to create a chance for themselves to turn over.

Now this warning is obviously to ask these staff officers not to interfere in the political affairs of the court. Sun Chengzong quickly replied to Chongzhen gently on behalf of his subordinates, saying that the General Staff would definitely educate the insiders well and would not let them do anything to disappoint the emperor.

As a result, today's military discussion has officially begun to get to the point. Compared with several cabinet ministers, the members of the General Staff regarded the Houjin invasion as an excellent opportunity to prove the ability of the General Staff and the formation of the new army.

Although the Cabinet approved the plan to prepare the local governor's offices and train a new type of army. However, with the exception of the five prefectures in the southwest, Gyeonggi, Xuandae, Henan, and Gansu, the generals and local governors of other regions were not very interested in establishing local governors.

The reason why the five localities of Southwest, Xuanda, Henan, and Gansu were able to establish the governor's offices first was entirely because of last year's war and the great drought in Shaanxi, which forced the armed forces in these places to obey the orders of the General Staff Headquarters for reorganization. There is not much to say about the Gyeonggi region, which itself is under the direct control of the imperial court.

The reason why the generals and local governors of the garrison were unwilling to respond to the establishment of local governors by the General Staff was that they were unwilling to hand over the power in their hands.

After the establishment of the local governor's office, the local guard offices, which were originally independent kingdoms, were broken, and the dictatorial power of the guards generals over the military households will also be taken back by the governor's office, which is certainly not acceptable to those guards.

The local governors were also not interested in establishing a local governor's office, they already controlled the local guards, and even if they didn't have a local governor's office, they could still command the local guards at will. On the contrary, after the establishment of the local governor's office, the governor's power to control the local army came to naught.

Therefore, as long as it is not faced with the crisis of war and the financial problems of the guard, no one is willing to let the imperial court send officials to reduce the power in their hands. However, neither the generals of the guards, the deputy envoys of the soldiers, nor the local governors dared to openly oppose the reform plan approved by the cabinet.

They only adopted passive resistance, and kept sending inscriptions to the imperial court, claiming that changing the ancestral system without authorization would affect the loyalty of the local guards and troops to the imperial court, thus causing local unrest. The Imperial Court was not required to be too radical in its efforts to establish local prefectures, but to establish them gradually and appropriately over a period of 3-5 years, or 8-9 years.

The General Staff Headquarters was originally a new organization established with Sun Chengzong's protégés and former officials as the core, and when it first began to appear, it was to integrate the unified management power of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies over the troops of the various guards, and to set up the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, which was full of nobles and generals.

Since it was the rights and interests of the nobles and the military attache group that were at the loss, everyone was very supportive of the work of the General Staff at the beginning. In the eyes of many officials, Sun Chengzong was at least a member of the civilian clique, and the establishment of the General Staff was tantamount to expelling the last existence of the noble military generals clique in the DPRK and China, and allowing the civilian officials to completely control the affairs of the imperial court, which was a good thing.

Just when they were still actively supporting the General Staff Headquarters' action to seize power over the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, because of several corruption cases that occurred in the Military Department, the General Staff Headquarters immediately turned around and took up a lot of power from the Military Department, and seized the logistical supply of the border army first under the pretext of separating military orders from military administration.

The logistical supply of the border troops has always been in the hands of the troops dispatched by the Ministry of War. Bingbei Road appeared in the Hongxi period, and began to be set up in the local area in the Zhengde and Jiajing periods, and was regarded as a permanent institution. According to the different responsibilities of the military preparation road, there are also three kinds of names: military preparation, military patrol, and sea patrol, and each province holds this position according to the judge's officer, but the military department is responsible for the setting up and cutting of the military department, so the military department is regarded as a branch of the military department in the local area.

In addition to the power of supervision, judicial power, and military power, even local civil affairs can sometimes be interrogated. Of course, the most important responsibilities of the military garrison are: managing military affairs, training the army and local people in the guard, arresting thieves and suppressing civil unrest, managing the soldiers, horses, money, grain, and tuntian of the guard, and inspecting the defense of rivers and lakes.

In general, a military garrison is equal to a small governor's house. The General Staff established governorships in various places, and the first thing to deprive them of was the power of these military authorities. Once they lose their military positions, these officials also lose the greatest piece of power in their hands.

Therefore, the most active in the confrontation with the General Staff is the military preparation in these places. The plans drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters for the restructuring of the guards, the organization and training of the new army, and the establishment of a logistics system for the local armed forces were often resisted by all the efforts of these troops as soon as they arrived in the localities, and they could not be implemented.

In the battle of Fengzhen last year, relying on the rare victory of the Ming army, the General Staff Department pulled out the military garrison roads in Datong, Xuanfu and other places in one fell swoop, and established its own logistics management system. However, the generals and military officials in other parts of the Ming Dynasty were more honest, but they were still secretly resisting the orders issued by the General Staff.

At such a moment, if the most sinister enemy of the Ming Dynasty can be defeated, and the Jurchen army is regarded as invincible in the field by the Ming army everywhere, then the orders issued by the General Staff can make these guards generals feel awe.

No matter how corrupt the army of the Ming Dynasty is, the essence of the army determines that whoever is strong in force will have the greatest right to speak in the army. Those soldiers only rely on the imperial court system to call the guards around the country, and they are still officials who are outside the military system.

Once the majesty of the imperial court is lost behind these soldiers, the guards can completely ignore these civil officials who have no strength. By the time these soldiers tried to use the Guards against the orders of the General Staff, they had lost their most powerful symbol of power.

This is also why, when Chongzhen was martyred and Beijing fell, almost overnight, the generals of the guards in the Ming Dynasty became the leaders of warlords of all sizes, and they were no longer willing to follow the orders of the civilian officials. Because from this day on, these civil officials lost the jurisprudence of the imperial court and the reason for the loyalty of these guards.

For example, in response to the orders of the General Staff Headquarters, the generals of the various garrisons are either complaining in letters or looking for a way through connections, and want to delay it for a few days. There is no general who has the audacity to incite his subordinates to rebel against the orders of the imperial court.

Most of these guards were hereditary military attachés, and the hundreds of years of peace have also allowed these military attache families to form a deep relationship with the local gentry and the nobles in Beijing. They are engaged in such small actions below, and the General Staff is not too brutal.

Only when the General Staff revealed in the Jurchens the force they now possessed, these guards generals would be in awe and would not think about what they didn't have.

Therefore, as soon as the military discussion began, the staff officers of the General Staff Headquarters were quite enthusiastic. They soon formulated a plan to mobilize the military and civilians of Shanxi, Beizhili, Shandong, Liaoxi, and Xuanda to participate in the war.

It is planned to take Zunhua City-Santunying-Qianxi as the first line of defense, and Jizhou-Yutian-Fengrun-Qian'an as the second line of defense. Sanhe, Tangshan, and Qinhuangdao were the three logistics bases, mobilizing 107,000 troops to participate in the battle, with Liaoxi Town, Jizhou Town, and Gyeonggi New Army as the main force of the operation.