Zhu Youzhen first threw out the idea of the establishment of the new army, and after discovering that a few people present had no intention of objecting, he continued to say: "The General Staff Headquarters should assist in the establishment of the logistics department of the new army and draw up a logistics regulation that can be used in a standardized manner. ”

"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this regulation?" After hearing so many new terms, Mao Yuanyi finally couldn't help but ask.

"The regulations are made on the basis of certain specific matters, and can be implemented by reference to the examples, once they have been formulated and implemented, they cannot be changed or terminated without the permission of the Ministry of War or the Ministry of War, and those who violate them will be dealt with by military discipline." Zhu Youzhen looked at him and said without hesitation.

Yuan Chonghuan on the side suddenly had a hint of enlightenment, "Chongzhen is not a random toss, but has already thought deeply about the reform of the military system. It's just that, as Chongzhen said, he is just a young man in the deep palace who is ignorant of the world, who is behind the emperor's advice? ”

Not only Yuan Chonghuan thought of it, but Lu Shanji also understood. The two glanced at each other worriedly, and learned each other's thoughts at the moment.

The idea of the two now is to wait and see what happens before the advisor next to the emperor is exposed. Otherwise, if you rashly oppose Chongzhen's idea of military system reform, I am afraid that the next step will be impossible to understand what Chongzhen really wants to do.

Looking at the few civilian officials who had never reacted, Zhu Youzhen continued to say tentatively: "The General Staff Headquarters also needs to assist in the establishment of a military judge system and formulate various regulations in the army, such as combat regulations, internal affairs regulations, queue regulations, etc.

In short, when a civilian is drafted into the barracks, his every move must live, rest, and fight under the guidance of the regulations, and he must not be allowed to appear in the barracks with the laissez-faire of civilians. ”

Sun Chengzong's face changed, and he finally objected: "Your Majesty, ruling the army with severe punishment is naturally the first priority of strengthening the army throughout the ages.

But is Your Majesty's idea a little behind closed doors, the minister has seen the Qi family army led by Qi Jin, although he is strict in governing the army, there is an orderly order between the ranks. But he has not heard of the soldiers who have no time to discipline the sergeants with military orders.

There are already 17 prohibitions and 54 beheadings in the barracks, and in addition to the many orders that His Majesty said, I am afraid that the sergeants have not yet entered the battle, and they have no fighting spirit.

As the saying goes, the way of civil and military affairs lies in one relaxation. It is precisely because of the strict military discipline in wartime that the sergeants should be given a little rest on weekdays, and the sergeants should not be forced to overdo it, Your Majesty. ”

Lu Shanji also supported from the side: "Your Majesty, what Scholar Sun said is right, most of the people in the army are family people. In wartime, military discipline should be strictly enforced, and civilians were forbidden to enter the barracks without permission.

But when they are stationed in the old camp on weekdays, they still have to isolate the sergeants from seeing their relatives, and I am afraid that the sergeants will make a noise..."

After calmly listening to the opinions of several civilian officials, Zhu Youzhen asked the three military attaches in turn. Regarding this kind of matter related to vital interests, Yu Zhigao, You Shiwei, and Wu Huai naturally also oppose it.

After Zhu Youzhen finished asking, he said calmly: "The seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four slashes that Mr. Sun said are indeed harsh, and I think it can be revised again.

In addition, the punishment in the military cannot be regarded as murder, and the significance of military discipline is to restrain the actions of soldiers, not to kill soldiers.

In order to prevent the commander-in-chief of the army from arbitrarily punishing non-commissioned officers, no one except military judges will be allowed to enforce military law in the future. The chief officer may request a military judge to review the case, but has no right to interfere with the military judge's enforcement of military discipline.

Military judges may not dispose of military commanders at the same level, but may report to the military judge at the level above. In addition, no military attaché at the level of the general corps of the armed forces has the right to try them, except for the military tribunals under the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces. ”

Chongzhen's statement made Yu Zhigao and other military attaches a lot easier. In the past, even if it was a general soldier, when he encountered a governor and governor with Shang Fang's sword, he would be terrified. Because these literati marshals like nothing more than to take the heads of unruly military generals to intimidate the military to erect their prestige in the army.

In such a situation where life may be at risk, what kind of military general dares to oppose the plan that a few scholars come up with at a military meeting?

As a result, the pre-war military strategy meeting often became a meeting of the governors and governors to lay out their battle plans, and even some generals did not understand what they were going to do, they only remembered that they must rush to a certain place before a certain day of a certain month, otherwise it would be a crime of missing the deadline.

Now according to the emperor's change, although the officer lost the right to punish the subordinate sergeants at will. But in the same way, the officers no longer have to be afraid of the superiors and civilian commanders, and find excuses to dispose of them at will.

The three military attaches immediately turned to support Chongzhen's reform of military discipline and punishment powers, but Sun Chengzong and others disagreed, after all, such a thing as military discipline would never be imposed on civilian officials.

"The purpose of the ordinance is to make a civilian a soldier who acts according to orders in the shortest possible time. I don't believe that a person who is usually unwilling to obey even military orders will obey the command of his generals and fight the enemy when he goes to the battlefield.

Therefore, I want to separate the soldiers from the common people, so that they will develop the habit of acting according to orders from the moment they enter the barracks. Only in this way will the army not disperse in a hurry after it goes to the battlefield.

The purpose of the ordinance is not to punish the sergeant, so when the sergeant violates the requirements of the minor order, the main thing is to persuade and educate, and the military discipline punishment is imposed if the sergeant does not change his ways.

Naturally, those who violate wartime regulations should be dealt with severely. However, for those who violate the usual rules such as daily life and rest, they will be lenient as much as possible.

All humiliating punishments in the military should be abolished, and corporal punishment should not cause maiming to anyone, otherwise law enforcement personnel should be held accountable. ”

Regarding Chongzhen's statement, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan both nodded in agreement, both of whom had once commanded a large army alone. For them, the most difficult thing for them to command an army is not to arrange a battle plan, but how to make these sergeants act according to their own arrangements.

In order to be able to effectively command the army under their command, they are accustomed to promoting some military attachés with close trust as commanders of the army. But even so, they can only call on a very small part of the army, and they are always skeptical of most of the rest of the army.

The hereditary military attache system of the Ming Dynasty has essentially formed an intertwined network of relationships in various places, and it is undoubtedly a myth that a civilian official with a few staff members takes office and wants to completely control an army that has been run by these local generals for decades or even hundreds of years.

When the authority of the Ming court has not yet degenerated, the local military leaders will be slightly restrained, but when the authority of the central government is not so awe-inspiring and inviolable, the military leaders will quickly advance on the road of the warlords of the divided side.

For example, after the Ming army was defeated by Jiannu in Liaodong, the generals in Liaoxi began to have the idea of supporting the army to protect themselves.

The thoughts of these generals are actually very simple, their own army will definitely not be able to defeat Jiannu, and the imperial court does not seem to be able to send a stronger army to attack Jiannu, and they still need to rely on them to resist Jiannu's attack on Guannai.

In this way, they suddenly eliminated a lot of fear of the imperial court. Since the imperial court could not send people to deal with Jiannu, it also showed that the imperial court could not send troops to deal with itself.

In order to allow them to defend Shanhaiguan from the attack of Jiannu, the military salary reported by the Jiangmen of Liaoxi was almost never rejected, and the payment of food and salary was much more timely than before.

For Liaoxi Jiangmen, there is no better time than now. As long as they can confront Jiannu like this, they don't have to go to the battlefield to fight hard, and they can still get enough and enough military salaries, who wants to destroy such a good situation?

Therefore, when Sun Chengzong said that he wanted to recover the eight cities outside the Guanwai, the Liaoxi generals were still able to reluctantly obey, but when Sun Inspector wanted to let these troops cross the Liao River and go to war with Jiannu, the Liaoxi generals began to drag their feet.

Ma Shilong, the general transferred by Sun Chengzong from Ningxia, was pitted by these Liaoxi troops. And Yuan Chonghuan saw Sun Chengzong's attempt to transfer generals from other places to break the Liaoxi General's attempt to defeat the Liaodong Army.

He tried to find a gap from the inside of the Liaoxi Jiangmen and support the personnel inside the Liaoxi Jiangmen, so as to break the control of the Liaoxi Jiangmen over the Liaodong Army.

Both of them had experience in commanding troops, so they immediately resonated with Chongzhen's idea of using orders to control the army.

After thinking about it for a long time, Sun Chengzong still raised a question: "Your Majesty, governing the army by rules seems to indeed make the sergeants obey the military orders.

But after all, it is still people who carry out military orders, if these sergeants have been in the army for many years and months to obey military orders, then if the generals and commanders in the army have different aspirations, and the sergeants are ignorant and obey the orders, then wouldn't it be a disaster? ”

After listening to Sun Chengzong's words, Zhu Youzhen subconsciously wanted to refute whether this old man was thinking too much and too long-term.

However, when he looked up at Sun Chengzong, who had a white beard and a long clock, he couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart, this old minister was not fighting for his own fame and fortune, but really working hard for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen calmed down when he thought of this, and he tried his best to explain to Sun Chengzong: "I feel that it is impossible to completely eliminate the influence of generals on the army in this world.

All we can do is try to prevent the worst from happening. But if you refuse to strengthen your control over the army just because you are worried about the general's rebellion, it will undoubtedly be a waste of food.

The current system of demobilization and retirement of non-commissioned officers can change the tradition of soldiers to the greatest extent. The fact that military and political orders are no longer concentrated on one person has greatly reduced the possibility of rebellion.

Of course, in addition to this, I believe that it is necessary to carry out cultural and ideological education for the sergeants, so as to prevent the sergeants from having a foolish allegiance to someone. ”

Zhu Youzhen paused, and finally said resolutely: "Starting from the platoon level, set up a missionary, in addition to teaching sergeant culture, to be responsible for propagating patriotic education. In the army, there is no longer propaganda to serve the country, but to promote the defense of the homeland and the country..."