Daming Military Empire

Chapter 582

Zhu Cijiong sat quietly in the Imperial Study Room of the Qianqing Palace, feeling a little empty in his heart, and also a little bit worried, because the empress Qin Mingyue took the eldest prince Zhu Hegui to the station in the west of the city to visit Qin Gongming. This precious son is out of the palace for the first time, and it is a lie to say that he is not worried.

Fortunately, Empress Qin Mingyue is a master herself, and she brought along a bunch of eunuchs specially trained by Cao Huachun, accompanied by the loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu, so she didn't have to worry too much about safety, but it was the first time her son left her house, so she was always worried.

Just as he was sitting there thinking wildly, Cao Huachun walked in, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Sun Yuanhua, Minister of the Ministry of War, begs to see you."

Just in time, find something to distract your energy, Zhu Cijiong sat up straight when he heard the words, and said loudly: "Xuan"

He is very satisfied with these cronies. Not only are they strong in work ability, but they also know their own preferences. They all know that they don't like people who follow others. After Bi Maokang knew that Qin Liangyu was going, he chose not to go.

This is the right thing to do. If a second-class army general comes to Beijing, he is also the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, the Minister of the Sub-Auxiliary Ministry of the Cabinet, and the Minister of the Ministry of War, and a large number of people go to greet him, it would be a bit too much. If it is grand, it will not only delay the business, but also make it difficult for people to see it. It is enough to have a first-rank member as a representative.

Sun Yuanhua came in soon, and after the emperor and ministers saw the ceremony, he took out a stack of official documents from his arms, and handed them to Zhu Cijiong respectfully.

Zhu Cijiong originally thought that this was the specific plan of the Army Military Academy. After all, Qin Gongming led the Liao army to escort 20 prisoners. The construction of the northwest part of the capital could start immediately. It is the plan of Tunwei Great Migration.

In fact, Sun Yuanhua proposed the relocation of the guards at the beginning of the year. At that time, Zhu Cijiong also agreed very much. However, Sun Yuanhua has been very busy during this period. Some time ago, the armored combat vehicle was designed and the samples were made, so he had time to consider the plan to relocate the guards.

This plan is very detailed. At the beginning of the article, Sun Yuanhua listed all the commanders, guards, and thousands of households in the Ming Dynasty. This item alone has more than ten pages, and Zhu Cijiong's eyes are dazzled. He can't remember so many guards and thousands of households, so he can only quickly scan them. When he turned to the end of this item, he finally saw a total statistical amount. Daming now has 42 commanders and envoys. , 351 guards, more than 280 thousand households, and a terrifying number of military households of more than [-] million!

This seems to be more than the Hongwu period at the beginning of the Li Dynasty, because at that time the total strength of Ming Dynasty was only about 270 million, why there were more than [-], these were mainly Zheng Zhilong's surrendered men, all of them were the Ming Navy The soldiers of the regular army are gone, so it is impossible not to give them military status.

Faced with such a large number of military households, Zhu Cijiong is really overwhelmed. It takes a lot of effort to count, deploy, and mobilize them one by one!

Fortunately, he doesn't need to do this. The Fifth Army Commander's Mansion and the Ministry of War are for this, and now there are only some honorary titles left in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, and the actual things have actually been brought together to the Ministry of War.

This time, Sun Yuanhua not only made a plan for the large relocation of the guards, but also put forward standardized suggestions for the management of the capitals, guards, and thousands of households in various places.

He suggested that, except for the 17 guards of the Jinyi Guards, all the other guards should be unified into five guards. In this way, the more than 40 existing provinces and the Zhili Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty only need to station 200 guards. Multiple guards, others can be relocated to Siberia;

He also suggested that the original guards of thousands of households and chieftains of thousands of households should be merged into regular guards, and each guard would have five thousand households under its jurisdiction. one hundred;
He also suggested that the drills of the guards be resumed. Every year during the slack season, all guards must organize their subordinates to drill for a month to ensure the quality of the Ming army's soldiers;
These suggestions are all in Zhu Cijiong's heart, so he naturally won't object. He even wanted to stand up and pat Sun Yuanhua on the shoulder to praise him. However, the most critical part of this plan is the specific plan for the relocation of Tunwei. He hasn't read it yet, so he can only turn back patiently.

According to Sun Yuanhua's previous suggestion, after the reorganization of the guards, the total number of guards in the Ming Dynasty will be close to 200, while the guards required by the commanders and envoys in all provinces only need more than 200, that is to say, the remaining [-] guards are all Can move to Siberia.

Naturally, this relocation cannot be done indiscriminately. Tunwei is not just a place to rest. They still have to marry and have children, and they have to farm and eat. Some military households have more than ten people in three generations. We must solve the problem of food and housing for them, but there is no food for the guards. If you don't give them arable land, they will starve to death.

According to Sun Yuanhua's plan, the first batch of more than 100 million military households will be relocated to the Siberian Plateau, where cultivated land is not the most important, but mainly mountainous and forest land. The border seal period is long, and only five or six months a year are suitable for farming. Naturally, the harvest cannot be compared with that of the inland of the Ming Dynasty.

According to this situation, Sun Yuanhua suggested that the land allocated to Tunwei should be divided into three categories, that is, cultivated land, grassland and forest land, and the area must be doubled.

Like cultivated land, each household in the Tunwei is generally about 250 mu. When it comes to Siberia, a family with [-] mu will not be able to eat enough, at least [-] mu. Therefore, Sun Yuanhua suggested that if the Tunwei moved to Siberia allocates farmland, At least five times for each household, allocating [-] mu;
There are also grasslands and woodlands, which can only rely on farming and hunting, and the required area is even wider. For this type of guard, Sun Yuanhua suggested that the area should be expanded by at least a hundred times, that is to say, each household should be allocated at least 6000 Mu, calculated in this way, each thousand households is only [-] to [-] mu, an area of ​​less than [-] square kilometers, [-] households, [-] to [-] people, which is really not much.

Zhu Cijiong was naturally very satisfied with the large relocation plan of the guards. After reading it, he praised Sun Yuanhua, and ordered Cao Huachun to immediately draw up an order. According to the content suggested by Sun Yuanhua, he ordered the commanders of all provinces to start immediately. Reorganization, according to the requirements of the Ministry of War, and combined with the opinions of military households, all the redundant guards were reorganized, ready to accept the dispatch of the Ministry of War and move to Siberia.

At the same time, he also issued an order to order the Ministry of Households to immediately send officials to Siberia to measure the land, count the population, plan the area, and draw out the river valleys and grasslands required by the original nomads. .

In fact, the population of the Siberian Khanate is not large, and most of them are concentrated in the Siberian plains. The nomadic tribes on the Siberian plateau have a total population of only a few hundred thousand. In such a vast area, the migration of more than 100 million garrison guards is no pressure in the past. No, even most of the place is still empty.

With the migration of the Tunwei, the resident population structure of Siberia has undergone a fundamental change. In the past, the population of the entire Siberian Khanate was only about 200 million, but this time the Tunwei planned to move there has more than 200 million households, 1000 How many people!
(End of this chapter)