The prince and his entourage turned around the street corner, Liu Daxia waved his hand, and everyone returned to Mingxuan Pavilion.

At this moment, the news that Ming Zhongxin and his entourage were going outside the Beijing Division was transmitted to all parts of the Beijing Division.

There was another storm in the Jingshi.

After all, they don't know what Ming Zhongxin is doing, and they are not sure in their hearts!

For a while, secret agents came out frequently, of course, these secret agents were hiding from Dongchang and Jinyiwei, otherwise, they would be mistaken for the thieves who attacked Ming Zhongxin before, wouldn't they be unjustly panicked!

So, there are frequent actions in secret, but there is a harmony on the surface, and there is such a strange atmosphere in the Jingshi!

However, none of this has anything to do with Ming Zhongxin.

Although it is indeed a little strange for Ming Zhongxin and the others, there is a book prepared by the brocade clothes and guards, so it is naturally unimpeded, so they left the Beijing Division.

Under the guidance of Long Xing, Ming Zhongxin and the others found the right direction and went straight to the barracks.

In the distance, the military camp stood solemnly, and a solemn aura of slaughter came to the face.

The source of the army in the early Ming Dynasty was the original soldiers of the generals, that is, the so-called conscription, the Yuan soldiers and the group of male soldiers who were attached, and the most important source was the selection, that is, the collection of troops, which was drawn from the household registration and belonged to the form of conscription. In addition, there are also methods such as simple extraction, charging and collection. In addition, the Ming Dynasty began to use the conscription system, which began to coexist with the guard system.

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the implementation was the system of guards. The guard system is to set up a guard garrison in military important places throughout the country, and there are 5,600 people in the guard army, and there are thousands of households, hundreds of households, general flags and small flags and other units in order, each guard is subordinate to the five military governors' offices, and is also subordinate to the military department. The source of the army is the hereditary military household, and each household sends one person to serve as a soldier in the Zhengding Zhiwei Station, and the soldiers take turns guarding the garrison and the tuntian, and the income from the tuntian is used to supply the needs of the army and generals. Its goal is to raise soldiers without consuming the country's financial resources, but after Ming Xuanzong, due to social stability and relative peace, the officers of the guard began to occupy the military land and exploit the soldiers, and the living standards and social status of the soldiers became lower and lower, and the deserters gradually increased, so the armament was gradually abolished

The Ming Dynasty conscription system began in the orthodox years, and unlike the guards, the conscription is not hereditary, although it is a soldier, but it belongs to the civilian nationality. Upon completion of the period of service, he shall be discharged from the army. In the beginning, the recruits did not have a formal establishment like the Guards, and they were often expanded or downsized as needed. The recruitment of soldiers is completely a combat unit, unlike the guards who need to transfer some soldiers to work in the tuntian, the food supply of the recruited soldiers, the military salary comes completely from the direct expenditure of the state finance, and does not come from the tuntian, and the salary is also higher than that of the guards and the people.

First of all, it should be made clear that whether it is recruitment, conscription, or the system of guards, there is no distinction between superior and inferior, advanced and backward, but different management measures should be adopted in response to different situations. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the advantage of the system is that when the productive forces are destroyed and the social output is weak, the system can effectively save military expenditures, ensure the self-sufficiency of the army, and reduce the burden on the people. However, the defect is that, on the one hand, in addition to fighting, the garrison army also has to assign some soldiers to engage in the task of tuntian to ensure the supply of military food, so the garrison army is divided into the defender and the tun army, of which the defender is the combat force, and the tun army is responsible for the group. On the other hand, because the guard army is hereditary, once the peace period is long, it is easy for the old and the young to mix in the army, and the combat effectiveness is easy to decline. At the same time, if the officers encroached on the fields that the state supplied the army, the soldiers would become the personal serfs of the military commanders, which would result in fewer defenders and less combat. Therefore, the design of the guard system is similar to the government soldier system in the Tang Dynasty. It is used as a system to maintain a large demand for armament when social production is not restored.

The advantage of recruiting soldiers is that the soldiers who recruit soldiers can have more choices, and they do not necessarily have to recruit from the military households. At the same time, the source of recruitment is mostly from civilian nationality, so it can be replenished quickly after loss. In addition, the recruitment does not need to be engaged in the task of tuntian like the Weisho army, so the recruitment can be regarded as a full-time soldier, which determines that the recruitment can mobilize more combat soldiers than the Weisuo army under the same amount, and at the same time, the salary is higher, which can make the soldiers more motivated to fight. However, while the advantages are obvious, the disadvantages are also obvious, due to the separation from production, then the food, military salaries need to be directly responsible for the state finance, therefore, compared with the guard army, the maintenance cost of the battalion sentinel army, which is mainly recruited, is higher. In the event of a deficit or bankruptcy in the country's finances, it is difficult to guarantee the salaries of conscripts. In addition, compared to the Guards, they are also unstable, because they are from the civilian nationality, so they do not have the military status of the Guards, so when they are not needed, they can be dismissed at any time, and stability cannot be guaranteed. What is more critical is that whether the recruits can be used or not depends entirely on the recruiters and the generals in charge, if the training is satisfied, they can become the backbone force, if the training is poor, the combat effectiveness is very low. More importantly, due to the irregular source of soldiers, the recruited soldiers are also uneven. If the selection of those responsible for recruitment is poor, the proportion of low-quality soldiers recruited will also increase, so that the army is more likely to mutiny and collapse.

Previously, because of the sudden arrival of the fire sieve, several roads from Daqingshan entered Weiyuanwei (now Zuoyunxi, Shanxi), and the guerrilla general Wang Gao and Du commanded Deng Hong to lead the army to meet the attack, and was defeated in an ambush, and more than 900 people were killed. At this time of emergency, Hongzhi urgently ordered Pingjiang Bo Chen Rui to be the general of Jinglu, as the chief military officer, the eunuch Jin Fu supervised the army, and the household servant Xu Jin supervised the military affairs and went to the imperial palace.

Of course, it is so urgent that it is inevitable that there will be no time to recruit troops, so in fact, the source of troops this time is drawn from the armies near the left and west of the Beijing Division, and of course, it is also drawn from the army that is friendly with Chen Rui, the uncle of the Pingjiang River, after all, this is to go to Shanxi to directly form combat strength to resist the enemy, which requires that the quality of this group of troops must be extremely high.

Speaking of which, I can't help but talk about the military system of the Ming Dynasty.

The system of military organs in the Ming Dynasty was adjusted and changed several times before it was relatively fixed. In terms of the central military leadership organ, in the early days of the Yuan Dynasty uprising, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, acted independently as the marshal of the capital and personally commanded the entire military.

Later, the Privy Council was changed to the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and a Metropolitan Governor was set up, nominally to "control the Chinese and foreign military", and all military and political affairs, large and small, including the appointment and dismissal of officers, the deployment of troops, campaign command, and strategic considerations, were all decided by the Marshal of the Metropolitan Government, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office was only in charge of daily affairs such as logistics and support, military household management, performance appraisal, and horse administration.

Of course, the Metropolitan Governor also had to lead the army into battle, but he could only advance and stop under orders, and was not allowed to make arbitrary claims. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, set up four departments in Xingzhongshu Province, including households and rites, and did not set up two departments of officials and soldiers, which shows that personnel and military power cannot be borrowed from others.

Even so, in the first year of Wu (1364 AD), some adjustments were made to this, although the Dadu Governor's Office was still retained, but the post of Dadu Governor was abolished, and the left and right governors, Tongzhi governors, deputy governors, and Tongdu governors were replaced, all of whom were governors of the Dadu Governor's Office. Obviously, the purpose of this is to divide the power among the many officials.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the six departments under the Zhongshu Province already had military departments, which was indispensable for a unified empire. In the early Ming Dynasty, the military administrative work such as the appointment and dismissal of military attachés, performance appraisal, shadow raids, army training, logistics and support, and management of military households that were originally under the control of the majority of the governors were placed under the control of the military department, and the metropolitan governor's office only retained the power to command the national army.

In the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380 AD), while abolishing Zhongshu Province, Zhu Yuanzhang also announced a complete reorganization of the Dadu Governor's Office, and set the Dadu Governor's Mansion into the front, rear, center, left, and right five military governors.

The simultaneous major changes in Zhongshu Province and the Dadu Governor's Mansion were the two wings of the major reorganization of the central military and political system of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and their significance was really comparable. At that time, it was also stipulated that the governors of the five armies were not under the control of each other, and should work directly with the military department, and the unified performance should be submitted to the emperor for ruling. There is also a small group of governors in each governor's office, including the left and right governors, the governors of the same knowledge, the governors, the deputy governors, etc., all of whom are responsible officials, and the imperial court designates each governor's office to command the divisions, guards, and offices of the whole country, and cannot be changed at will. At this point, the departments of the unified army were divided into five, and the number of leaders increased from one to dozens. It is impossible for any governor to lead his own army to confront the imperial court.

In fact, any of the governors' offices and any of them did not even have the power to lead their own troops. Because the Ming Dynasty also stipulated: the military department has the right to send troops but not the right to command the troops, and the governor's office of the five armies has the right to command the army but not the order to send troops. When there is a military operation, the military department asks to appoint a certain governor to lead the troops into battle, and assign the soldiers of the other prefectures, guards, and offices to its command.

At the end of the military operation, the generals returned to the original governor's office, and the soldiers returned to the original work institute. This system is obviously aimed at preventing the loss of military power and deliberately restricting the authority of the generals, and the inevitable result is that they have to pay the price of greatly weakening their own military might.

Therefore, this time Shanxi put down the turmoil, Pingjiang Bo Chen Rui served as the chief military officer, although he had the right to command the army, but there was no order to send troops, and the eunuch Jin Fu supervised the army, and the household servant Xu Jin supervised military affairs, which was a constraint on it.

In fact, Chen Rui just caught up with the general of Xuanwu Town to lead the Wuju people to escort the deputy capital Yushi Gu Zuo back to Beijing, so Chen Rui happened to lead the troops to bring the Wuju people to the battlefield and go to meet the fire sieve army.

Not to mention, under the leadership of Pingjiang Bo Chen Rui, this improvised army really repelled the Fire Sieve Division, oh, it can't be said to be repulsed, it's just that the enemy of the Fire Sieve has robbed enough, so it retreated in April.

Chen Rui was overjoyed when he attacked this, and immediately went to the court, saying that the army was everywhere, and the army of the fire screen was repulsed, and asked the court for credit.

Of course, the imperial court will reward it. However, in May, the fire sieve had 50,000 people and rode into the Datong Left Guard (now Zuoyun, Shanxi), this time, Pingjiang Bo Chen Rui did not dare to lie again, so he had to attack, but his strategy was to clear the wilderness, so that the fire sieve army drove straight in, plundered, and then retreated.

At this time, Chen Rui got a bargain and immediately went to the court and won a great victory.

Hongzhi was overjoyed, so he ordered him to return to Beijing to report on his work and report his affairs to show the prestige of the Ming army.

Therefore, Chen Ruicai led a military horse to return to the Beijing Division, of course, those martial arts are indispensable. Of course, if Chen Rui wants to enjoy this kind of glory, he will inevitably bring his cronies with him, after all, fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders. Therefore, this army is the one with whom he is befriended.

This also caused the pattern of martial arts people being incompatible with him, so the martial arts people, oh, it shouldn't be said that the martial arts people of the Ming family all gathered together, so what happened before.

Of course, since this army can be advertised by Chen Rui as making meritorious contributions in repelling the enemy of the fire screen, it must have its elite.

And now the camp tent that appeared in front of Ming Zhongxin was extremely reasonable. The camp is rectangular in shape and is surrounded by moats and earthen walls. The earthen wall is 3.5 meters high and is formed by piling up earth excavated from trenches close to the fence posts. Wooden towers were built on both sides of the gates of the fortification, on which arrows could be used to shoot at incoming enemies. In the center of the camp was a square with the commander's tent and altar, and in the rest of the place there were soldiers' tents in turn.

At this time, groups of soldiers outside the camp were patrolling, looking calm and looking really decent.

Of course, according to Long Xing, this Chen Rui is just tight on the outside and loose on the inside, just making a show.

After all, his return to Beijing this time is for the purpose of showing off and boasting, and he must make a show so that he can meet the investigation of the military department and His Majesty at any time.

Of course, this was what he thought before, but after his own confrontation with the students, he no longer dared to underestimate this Chen Rui.

And Ming Zhongxin will not, after all, this time it is obviously aimed at himself and the Ming family, there must be someone behind this, the only thing that cannot be determined is that the force behind this is the Maitreya Society or the hidden force in the Jingshi, which is very important! It will also determine the subsequent response.

Of course, it is impossible to be sure now, but saving people is certain, as for finding out the details, this must be cautious and cautious, otherwise don't save people but fold yourself in.

Ming Zhongxin carefully checked the layout of the barracks, and combined with what Long Xing said, he had a number in his heart. Beckoning to the front, General Liu instantly turned around and asked with a face.

Ming Zhongxin leaned into his ear and commanded softly.

General Liu was stunned for a moment, then nodded and agreed.

After Ming Zhongxin made some arrangements.

General Liu led his team around a slope.

Ming Zhongxin called the head of the family sent by Guo Xiaohouye, and gave another order.

After some arrangement, each performs its own duties.

The students were full of coldness, looking at the military camp in the distance coldly, obviously resentful, if they ordered to attack the camp tent at this time, I was afraid that these students would never consider the casualties and rush in directly.

Of course, how could Ming Zhongxin let them do it so recklessly!

Ming Zhongxin waved his hand, and everyone slowly approached the barracks by taking cover.