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Now, Zhu Youjian's attitude towards military meritorious soldiers has finally appeared.It is neither a title nor a title, just a small medal.

"Da Ming will never forget you, and I will not forget you either. You have already made sacrifices, and I will naturally not abandon you.

Therefore, I tell you that from now on, your medals can be linked to your rank.After the Ming Dynasty, only the size of the contribution and the level of the rank can be divided, and the military medal is the best proof of your contribution! "

"Wow..." There was thunderous applause from the ground.

Why? It is because although Daming's training is noble, he is also suppressed by civil officials and bows his head in front of the rank.

The most noble classes in Ming Dynasty were all tested, not typed.Now it's all right, you can advance to the noble class even in war, and the fighters really have their day, who can be unhappy?

Especially the more than 500 people who have already won medals on the field, all of them are already talented people!Even if it is the least popular ninth rank, it is still a rank.

Zhu Youjian believes that once the news comes out, the military system will be overjoyed, and not many people will miss the meritorious system anymore.Everyone in the whole Ming Dynasty is jealous of the exams. After studying for a few years and taking the exams, one can instantly become a famous singer and become a master.Who will be convinced that no one will be successful after fighting a war for a lifetime?

"It's good to be the number one scholar outside the Donghua Gate!", "The number one scholar, even though hundreds of thousands of soldiers will be restored to Youji, will be forced to be captured in the poor desert, and the triumphant songs will be returned. And also!"

These two words of Han Qi and Yin Zhu were equivalent to directly breaking the kneecaps of the Han military warriors. From then on, the warriors were reduced to low status, and the civilian officials were three levels inferior.

This kind of argument that only one can read is a good man is really time to change it.

After the medal awarding ceremony was over, Zhu Youjian, Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, Feng Houdun and others entered the meeting room.

In fact, the three of them are okay, because they are not in the military system themselves, they are officials, they are regarded as civil servants, and Zhu Youjian forcibly sent them into the military system.

However, they are also people who have led the army for several years, so they naturally know what it means to be a soldier.But Yan Yingyuan's complexion has never been good.

"The living people are so comforting, but the dead heroic spirits, I feel very guilty. Is Yan Aiqing blaming me for forgetting the tens of thousands of people in Jiangyin City?"

"I don't dare to complain, but I can't forget." Yan Yingyuan vented his pent-up grievances at once, and the old man cried on the spot, his choked-up crying was very miserable.

"There are more than 5 people! Not a single idiot, they are all dead." Yan Yingyuan finally howled.

The Xuzhou city defense battle was the battlefield with the largest casualties of the Ming army in the Jianghuai War.Zhu Youjian did not participate in it, but anyone can imagine how tragic it was.

Zhu Youjian was stunned, he didn't know how to appease Yan Yingyuan, which was the second reason why he didn't come to see Yan Yingyuan until now.

"Bang Dang!" The door of the conference room was pushed open, and a large group of soldiers stood at the door, all of them lowered their heads and their eyes were red.

"Your Majesty, we don't want these medals anymore, give them to the people of Jiangyin City!"

Silence, eerily silent in the hall.

Zhu Youjian wiped his tears and said: "I have already ordered Xiong Lijing of the Thirteenth Army to go to Jiangyin to announce the imperial decree. Jiangyin has been exempted from tax for five years, all orphans will be placed in Nanjing Orphanage, and all elderly people will be paid monthly; in addition, Nanjing to Songjiang The new official road must pass through Jiangyin; Xing Hongyan will build a combat ration processing base in Jiangyin."

"My minister, Yan Yingyuan, on behalf of the fathers and fellow villagers of Jiangyin, thank the emperor for his kindness." Yan Yingyuan knelt on the ground and knocked down heavily.

The debt owed will have to be repaid sooner or later, and Zhu Youjian knows that he will not be able to hide sooner or later.

Chapter 428: New Song Liaoxia

The designation of the Xuzhou Army was cancelled, but the retreat of the Xuzhou Army has whetted the appetite of the entire army.

There are arrangements for retirement, and ranks for meritorious service. These good things are things that the eight members of Daming Qiu never dared to think about before.Now all the officials and people in Jiangnan know one thing - there is a way out of being a soldier.

"Your Majesty, the distribution plan for retired soldiers and captives has come out. The retired soldiers are mainly concentrated in the field armies and garrisons in Hubei and South Zhili, as well as some disabled soldiers of the Sichuan Army, and older officers and generals at all levels. The total number is 11 million people.

There are [-] garrisons transferred from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, including the [-]th Army stationed in Zhejiang, the reorganized Fujian garrison, and the Jiangxi garrison.

The general principle is that those selected by the field army will be incorporated into the local garrison, and the old, weak and remnant soldiers eliminated by the local garrison will be placed in post stations on the spot to maintain roads and guard roads.

The establishment of each army has been completed, but all units are missing.The most serious understaffing is one-third.The Thirteenth Army and the original Zhengjia infantry in Fujian have been mixed and organized into two marine brigades, which are also short of personnel.

But now the recruiting work is progressing slowly, because it is wartime, and the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are unwilling to serve as soldiers, so it is difficult to recruit.Only one province in Jiangxi barely recruited [-] young men. "

Li Yan's work was very effective. In just over a month, the reorganization of so many troops was successfully completed.If Zhu Youjian did this by himself, he would be exhausted.Even for later generations, it will take one or two years to reorganize and reorganize the entire army on a large scale.

Fortunately, Ming's current army has simple equipment and simple generals.The weapons are nothing more than guns, and the army is mainly the officer corps pulled together by the Xijun, Chuangjun and Zhu Youjian himself.

"Send people to Guangdong and Guangxi to recruit soldiers, and tell those leaders that those who can catch up can eat meat, those who can't catch up can drink soup, and those who don't want to catch up with the excitement don't blame the day lily for being cold." The control of the leaders has always been poor, and if you want to get along in Guangxi, you have to look at the winks of those leaders.

"Why don't you move to Hunan?" Li Yan was very surprised. There were tens of thousands of troops in Hunan, but Zhu Youjian seemed to be avoiding Hunan on purpose.

"That's He Tengjiao's army, not my Ming's army." As soon as Zhu Youjian said that, Li Yan's heart trembled.It turned out that the emperor was worried about He Tengjiao personally!

Zhu Youjian was really worried about He Tengjiao. This guy was average in ability but suspicious.He obviously has only soldiers but no generals, yet he likes to use the army for his own selfish purposes.This is a frail scholar who wants to be a warlord in his heart but has no ability.The real history is that Nanming lost several good opportunities to him.

Now Zhu Youjian has more soldiers but not many soldiers. He has captured so many golden soldiers but he doesn't use any of them.However, the regular army of the Ming Dynasty was seriously short of personnel, which was hard to bear.

If it was replaced by other people, it would definitely absorb captives on a large scale, and it would be no problem to expand the army to more than 150 million people at once. After a harvest of one or two crops, they would directly launch the Northern Expedition.And many dynasties have done so.

But Zhu Youjian didn't do that. He would rather use the peasant army who fled to the south to appease him than the northern army that surrendered several times, at least not now.

"The soldiers recruited from Fujian and Zhejiang will be incorporated into the Marine Brigade. If it is really difficult to recruit, they will be recruited from Hubei. Those refugees who have come out of the mountains have settled down on the plains, recruiting some young people to defend their homes and the country. It is always possible.

In addition, in order to make up for the vacancies after recruitment, two more farms can be built in Hubei to ensure the necessary grain production. "

"I heard that Dorgon has come back to Hong Chengchou again?" Zuo Maodi asked.

Now the real strategic core figures around Zhu Youjian are Li Yan and Zuo Maodi. These two people have more comprehensive views. They are actually civil servants and familiar with the military. They are more suitable than pure military cadres and administrative cadres.

"What will Hong Chengchou think? He must think who we should fight first?" Li Yan said.

"All our armies are basically in the training period and can't move. The only thing that can move is the navy, but Houjin doesn't pay attention to the navy at all, and it's useless to fight." Zuo Maodi spread his hands and expressed helplessness.

"Since they don't feel sorry for themselves, they should knock it out. Anyway, Hou Jin's naval dream is not going to last long. After it is knocked out, it won't cause trouble for us." Zhu Youjian turned his head, and the three parties are hostile to Ming's current forces. The strongest, if there is no movement, everyone will be guessing.It's better to make some noise, or make final preparations for the recovery of Taiwan.

"I think it's OK. Except Huaisi because of the war and floods, all other provinces have bumper harvests this summer. Especially Sichuan, Jianghan, and Henan have rare bumper harvests. If the accumulation of autumn harvests is added, it's just enough to feed Guanzhong. For the common people. It may be difficult to feed the population of North China," Li Yan said.

"So, Hong Chengchou thinks that we will fight Wu Sangui first?" Zhu Youjian thought about it for a while, and he found that when Li Yan talked about food, he actually meant a strategic issue beyond the truth.

"No, Hong Chengchou is not thinking about the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Han Dynasty. What he wants to do is the Three Kingdoms of Liao, Song and Xia." Zuo Mao was the first to speak, and the three immediately opened the map, and then swipe along the map one by one.

"It's true." Zhu Youjian was shocked, why these people's vision is so sharp.

Kong Yanzhi came to Nanjing, indicating that Houjin was about to give up Shandong.In this way, it is meaningless to guard the south of Beizhili.And the territory occupied by Houjin now happens to be a large part of the Liao Kingdom.

The Guanning Army in Guanzhong is really similar to Xixia.

"Hmph, he, Hong Chengchou, really knows how to dream. Don't worry about how he plans, let's get rid of his navy first. I'm not Zhao Guangyin, and I don't know how to play infantry with him."

Zhu Youjian glanced at the map contemptuously. If the military strategy of the Northern Song Dynasty was put on the navy, I'm afraid there would be nothing wrong with Empress Dowager Xiao at all.

"Hong Chengchou wants to support Dayuer to become the Empress Dowager Xiao?" Li Yan also turned the corner.

Zhu Youjian looked at the map and pondered for a while and shouted: "Ji Biao, go and inform Fang Jinnan, and send over the information about the capital in the last two months."

"Yes!"