After reporting to Chongzhen on the review and summary of the military exercise made by the General Staff, Sun Chengzong then presented a complete plan for the reform of the military system of the Gyeonggi Governorate.

This plan draws lessons from this military exercise, and is also in line with the demand for the reorganization of the armed forces under the name of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office and the unification of power under the name of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, which was proposed at the beginning of the year.

Mao Yuanyi explained the main contents of this plan to Chongzhen, first of all, the training camp of the new army, the Beijing camp and the western Liaoning border army led by Zuo Liangyu, which were originally clearly distinguished, will be disrupted as much as possible in this reorganization plan.

Originally, the command levels of the new army were platoons, companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, but the problem of poor command exposed by the military exercise caused the General Staff Headquarters to readjust the command center of the army.

The establishment of infantry is as follows: every five people are a team, and there is a captain; For every ten people, there is a tithe, and a tithe is set up; Three tithes in a row; Four rows for a company; four companies as a battalion; Four battalions as a regiment; Three regiments are one division. A battalion was reduced to 540 men, a regiment was 2,325 men, and an infantry division was 7,600 men.

There were 5,400 chariot divisions and 3,200 cavalry divisions. The Gyeonggi Governorate has 2 cavalry divisions, 2 chariot divisions, and 2 infantry divisions, totaling 32,400 men, in addition to two recruit training divisions, each with 5,000 men, to replace the retired soldiers of each army.

As a result, the officers and soldiers of the various ministries under the name of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office will be unified into the new Royal Army, and there will be no connection with their previous origins.

Wu Huai still led his first cavalry division, and the original Fifth Cavalry Wing was upgraded to the Fifth Cavalry Division, and the first cavalry division allocated a wing to strengthen the Fifth Cavalry Division, and the General Staff added a lot of manpower to these two cavalry divisions at the same time, which greatly reduced Wu Huai's influence on these two cavalry divisions.

Except for Wu Huai still leading the first cavalry division, the other five armies were led by Zuo Liangyu, Heiyunlong and others. Most of the graduates of military academies, such as Yan Yingyuan and Jin Guofeng, were promoted to positions at the regimental and battalion levels.

With this plan, the General Staff's control over the Gyeonggi Governor's Office was strengthened, and the increase in the power of the General Staff was also the enhancement of Chongzhen's control over the Gyeonggi Army.

After listening to the entire reorganization plan, Zhu Youzhen was only silent for a while before saying: "Then according to the request of the General Staff, according to this reorganization plan, the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Government will be reorganized, but I hope that the entire plan can be completed by the end of July and early August, and the new Royal Army can be preliminarily completed by the end of August."

The non-commissioned officers of the first battalion and some military attachés who performed poorly in peacetime were reorganized into local garrison units and transferred to Shanghai. Then, with them as the core, recruit some local people to form the Shanghai Garrison Division to defend Shanghai. The authority to administer the force is vested in the General Staff, and local officials are not allowed to interfere, but in emergency situations, they can accept requests from local officials to maintain local law and order or protect civilians. ”

For Chongzhen's proposal, Mao Yuanyi was naturally happy. Since its establishment, the General Staff has been competing with civilian officials, border town generals, and inland guards for control of the army, but with the exception of the newly established new army, the management of the old army has been slow to progress.

In particular, with regard to the military forces in the Jiangnan region, the orders issued by the General Staff Headquarters to restructure and rectify the military forces were often disobeyed by the generals of the local guard or obstructed by the nobles of Nanjing.

Even though Lu Shanji and others set up a military academy in Nanjing, but without the emperor's local deterrence, the nobles in Nanjing still controlled the local army and guards, so that the influence of the General Staff could not get any response in the local area.

If there is such an army transferred from the north, then at least it can be regarded as inserting a nail in the Jiangnan region, so that the officers trained by the Nanjing Military Academy will not be squeezed out by those Nanjing nobles and generals.

Mao Yuanyi just agreed, and Chongzhen continued: "In addition to the reorganization of the army under the name of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, the Jinyi Guards in the city and the guards of the Imperial City are pro-army, and the General Staff Department has also drawn up a reorganization plan.

Not to mention the guards and pro-army, since it is a pro-army, it will inevitably go to the battlefield in the future, so it will be reorganized according to the combat army. As for the Jinyi Guard, now that the patrol police and the security forces have been separated, the patrol police do not have to pay attention to it, and a division is selected from the security forces as the garrison of the inner city of the capital, and the rest is still used as an armed garrison force to maintain law and order in the capital. ”

Before Mao Yuanyi could speak, Sun Chengzong had already hurriedly said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, is it inappropriate to let the General Staff reorganize the guards and the Jinyi Guard?" These two troops have always been personally led by His Majesty, and the nobles are to be followed, and foreign ministers are not allowed to intervene. Although the General Staff is loyal to its subordinates, it may be suspected of abusing its power if it interferes in the affairs of His Majesty's pro-army. ”

Regarding Sun Chengzong's worries, Zhu Youzhen didn't take it to heart, he said indifferently: "The General Staff is just reorganizing and training these two troops, and their leadership power still belongs directly to me, so it is not an act of arbitrary power.

What's more, now these two armies have not been on the battlefield for a long time, and in addition to guarding the inside and outside of the imperial city, maintaining law and order in the capital, arresting officials and key criminals, etc., there is still half an army there.

Although I asked Lian Shanxiang to slightly rectify the military discipline of the guards and pro-army last year, it was not the right way to train the army after all. This time, in the name of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office's reorganization of the army, the two armies will also be completely reorganized, and I can feel more at ease. Otherwise, if I really go to war, how can I count on them to defend me..."

When Chongzhen was discussing with Sun Chengzong and others about the reorganization of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion and the guards and Jinyiwei, Zhang Xiezheng took a cadre of military academy instructors to pick up the naval cadets who had returned from the northward trial.

Of the 70 naval cadets, they lost one-tenth of their members in one voyage, and this high attrition ratio made Zhang Xie's face extremely ugly.

Zhang Xie was forced by Chongzhen's handwritten letter to go to Beijing to serve as the principal of the Naval Officers Academy. Although at first, he was still skeptical. But when he could really educate and train these naval cadets according to his own ideas without hindrance, the doubts he had when he first went to Beijing were long gone.

Teaching and educating people was originally Zhang Xie's ambition on weekdays, and he accepted many disciples when he was in his hometown. When he first came into contact with these naval cadets, he felt that each of them had a lot of problems. But after getting along for more than half a year, it can be regarded as establishing a lot of feelings.

The cadets who can enter the naval academy, no matter what their identity and family background were before entering the school, as far as they are concerned, still have certain talents. After all, Chongzhen established the Army and Navy Military Academy to train command talents for the army, not to help the nobles and the children of the generals gild.

With Zhang Xie's efforts, the three student groups from Hanmen, Xungui, and Jiangmen, which were originally divided and opposed within the school, also slowly began to heal some rifts.

Seeing that his education began to bear fruit, Zhang Xie was naturally very pleased. Zhang Xie was supportive of Chongzhen's selection of a few Westerners to teach him the experience of navigation and the techniques and tactics of naval warfare.

But to let a Dutchman as the captain of the "Zheng He" take the naval cadets for sea trials, he was opposed. As a native of Fujian, he is also the author of the compilation of "East and West Foreign Examinations".

He is no stranger to the evil deeds of the Yi people in Southeast Asia, and he is also deeply wary of these Western Yi people. In his opinion, it is one thing to hire these Westerners as instructors, and it is another thing to appoint them as captains of warships of the Ming Navy to sail and fight.

Judging by the behavior of these Westerners in Southeast Asia, they will never be loyal to their employers, and after learning the truth of their employers, they will often collude with other Yiren to betray their employers, thus bringing disaster to the countries that employ them.

Fujian and Guangdong have tortuous coastlines, and they are the areas with the most good ports in the south of the Ming Dynasty, so after the Xiyang Yi people appeared in Southeast Asia, they wanted to occupy the good ports of the two places by force several times in order to obtain trade with the Ming Dynasty. In these small-scale wars, the Western-Yiren finally retreated due to their lack of strength.

However, it has also aroused the concern of people of insight in the two places about coastal defense, and Zhang Xie is one of these people. Although the wars set off by the Westerners in Fujian and Guangdong were not as powerful as the Japanese rebellion in the Jiajing period. However, the strong ships and sharp cannons of the Westerners still left a lot of impressions on them. For example, the Hongyi cannon and the turtledove gun were new weapons that the Ming army learned from these Westerners.

However, Zhang Xie's opposition to Edmond Dantès as the captain of the "Zheng He" was finally suppressed by Chongzhen.

But today, Zhang Xie looked at the more than 60 Navy cadets who had returned from the voyage with gloomy expressions, as well as the several urns they were holding in their hands, and immediately felt heartache and anger.

After picking out a few representatives of the cadets and learning what had happened, he immediately decided to write to the emperor and ask for the dismissal of Edmond Dantès from his post as captain of the "Zheng He".

In his opinion, Edmond Dantès's behavior was completely reckless for human life. Edmond Dantès ignored the fact that many of these naval cadets were at sea for the first time, and directly trained them at the request of a skilled sailor, resulting in several casualties, which was a dereliction of duty.

Zhang Xie's anger also aroused the support of the cadets of the Naval Academy, who also did not want to end their lives or careers after a voyage.

When this enthusiastic letter was placed in front of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen had just learned about the casualties on board the "Zheng He" during this trip to the north.

Although he was saddened by the loss of these naval cadets, Zhu Youzhen had no intention of punishing Edmond Dantès.

For this reason, Chongzhen had to personally summon Zhang Xie and Edmond Dantès into the palace, hoping to mediate between the two.

Even in front of Chongzhen, Zhang Xie was still unwilling to give up his claims, insisting on dismissing the instructor of the Edmond Dantès Naval School and the captain of the "Zheng He". He believes that a person who cannot take care of his cadets and subordinates cannot serve as an officer of the Ming Navy.

Zhu Youzhen had to say to Edmond Dantès: "Edmond, in your former country, what is the approximate percentage of a captain who wants to train a captain who can sail to the sea?" How many of the colleagues who used to be on board with you are still left? ”

Although Edmond Dantès's face was ugly, he still replied to Chongzhen: "From an ordinary sailor to a merchant captain, there is probably one out of every 3 or 40 sailors.

And if you want to become a merchant captain who can cross the ocean, there are about 2 or 3 out of every 10 ordinary captains. But a good captain who can sail the world is rare to find one out of 10 merchant captains who can trade across the ocean..."