"This is the inheritance law of the Guards! These traitors are causing harm to the country and the people..."
Zhu Yaofei couldn't help but cursed!
He had known for two hundred years that these Scout Guards were not good people... It was just that the combat effectiveness of this kind of army captured from babies was too guaranteed, so he decided to do something big.
When Zhu Cixiang organized the Scout Guards, he had no conditions for compulsory education. Of course, there was no possibility of compulsory military service. There was no compulsory education, and the land was not divided equally. At most, it was the "obligation to tie people with ropes." "Military Service System", does Mao have combat effectiveness?
Moreover, the world empire established by Zhu Cixiang was very vast and required troops to be sent to all parts of the world, similar to the British Empire back then. At the same time, the mainland of the Ming Dynasty was relatively safe and did not require a large number of conscripts who could be mobilized quickly. Having hundreds of thousands of recruited soldiers (including about 100,000 elite guards) was enough to deter all parties.
Therefore, it is necessary, or even the only option, to maintain a small number of particularly elite Guards troops that can be deployed quickly and can be stationed overseas for a long time to perform combat missions.
When he was organizing the Scout Guards, Zhu Cixiang had a backup plan. He also worked hard to cultivate the noble officer corps. Moreover, it is also prohibited for officers who were born in the Scout Guards to return to manage the Guards, so as to prevent the officers and soldiers from becoming one and forming a group...
It's a pity that Zhu Cihong's arrangement back then was ruined by the unscrupulous descendant Zhu Bolian!
After he broke the iron law that a Scout was not allowed to serve as a Guards officer, the Guards group began to form.
At the same time, as generations of retired Guards officers and soldiers either settled down as civilians in Yingtian Mansion or went to various places to take exams and seek positions, a peripheral group of the Guards gradually formed. Most of the members of this peripheral group of the Guards are well-educated, have a relatively strong "national consciousness", and are keen on politics and serving as officials. Over time, middle-level clusters were formed that were neither high nor low.
Later, something that made Zhu Yaofei even more angry appeared in "General History of the Ming Dynasty".
The Wuwei Emperor Zhu Xianba, who was pushed to power by the Guards, had no idea how to control these violent Guards, and he had nothing to do with the group of "Guard students" (from retired Guards families) in Yingtian Mansion. Method. I had no choice but to resort to the ancestral method of marrying pajamas, and chose a queen who came from a Guards family, and another imperial concubine who also came from a Guards family (both were female college students at Jinling), hoping that Rely on them to pacify the Guards and the outlying groups of the Guards.
But this concubine is dedicated to supporting her and can be regarded as a good wife. But the two of them also gradually took control of the government, eclipsing Emperor Zhu Jinglei, and the Ming Empire entered a decades-long era of feminism.
However, the heroine Bingzheng is not a problem for Zhu Yaofei - the emperor was reincarnated, and there is nothing he can do about his lack of ability. Why not find a more capable queen to assist him?
What really makes Zhu Yaofei popular is that Zhu Xianba's concubines have many progressive ideas! This was actually Zhu Cihong's own fault. He established the ancestral system of "examination to select concubines (queen)" and "female education" for future generations of Zhu family emperors. So the selected concubines are all female intellectuals! Of course my thinking is more advanced...
The Scout Guards system seemed backward and dangerous to Zhu Xianba's two concubines. Although they were from the outer clusters of the Guards, they did not agree with the Guards system. In their view, officers trained in military academies plus conscripts are the guarantee of national security.
So after the two of them assisted the government, they began to end the Scout Guard system. Of course, because the country they manage also has strong financial resources. Therefore, this reform can be made relatively stable.
First of all, the Ming Dynasty stopped recruiting Scouts and instead recruited the same number of "publicly funded students" from border military towns to attend middle school in Yingtianfu... If they have excellent grades, the state can fund them and let them rise all the way up. , until graduating from college.
Secondly, the Ming court began to select professional soldiers from the Guards and the ordinary New Army - the backbone of the army under the compulsory military system, including officers and non-commissioned officers. Because the quality of the Guards was much higher than that of the ordinary New Army, the proportion of those selected was Extremely high. For the Guards officers and soldiers, it is definitely an opportunity for promotion.
Third, the defeated Guardsmen and new officers and soldiers will receive generous retirement pensions and vocational training opportunities, or the state will pay to send their families to settle in the New World or the Southern Continent. In short, there is still a way out.
"But no matter how good the Guards are, they are still private soldiers of the royal family!" Zhu Yaofei almost shed tears when he saw it, and just lamented, "The compulsory soldiers come from the people... they are more likely to make revolutions! And a large number of Guards officers and soldiers are They have become the backbone of the Continental Army. If these people change their yamen, will they no longer be radical or militant?"
This was a disastrous situation. The more militant and radical Guards officers were combined with the conscripts who were more prone to revolution. Coupled with the intensified social contradictions in the primary stage of capitalism... Zhu Yaofei did not dare to look down!
But he didn't dare to look, and he couldn't change anything. Finally, Zhu Yaofei sighed and started browsing again.
After reading a few more pages, he discovered that the Ming Dynasty had indeed begun to expand its military preparations for a new world war.
The purpose of the new world war is, of course, to defend the unity of the world!
What a good excuse!
Due to the opposition between the European revolution and the two major military groups in America, the originally "unified world" has now been divided again - the resurgent Napoleonic Empire did not surrender to the Ming Empire, and the independent Mexican Republic did not surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
The Commonwealth of America, the United Kingdom of New England, and the Great Soviet Khanate refused to accept the edict issued by the Ming Dynasty prohibiting alliances. In fact, there is also a fight for independence!
In addition, the Indian Li Dynasty next door to the Ming Dynasty also carried out a series of reforms after the First World Unification War, developed industry and commerce, established a new army and navy mainly composed of Chinese and Burmese people, greatly increased its strength, and began to seek India Unite.
With Napoleonic Rome, the Commonwealth of America, the United Kingdom of New England, the Republic of Mexico, the Great Soviet Khanate, and Li's India, these "unsubmissive states", the Ming Empire has no shortage of enemies!
The arrival of the second industrial revolution gave the Ming Empire the confidence to launch a new world war.
Compared with the previous wave of industrial revolution, the second industrial revolution that occurred after the first world unification war was simply an explosion of productivity!
Daming's steel production capacity jumped from hundreds of thousands to millions of tons to about 20 million tons!
Coal production capacity has also increased from a few million tons to more than 200 million tons.
The invention and application of electricity pushed the second industrial revolution to its climax!
At the same time, the invention and popularization of telegraphs and telephones also further strengthened the central and local governments of the Ming Empire.
At the same time that a new wave of industrial revolution broke out, the Ming Empire, which had more financial and material resources, also began a new round of infrastructure construction climax.
Including Xichu, Zhungar, Khoshot, Chahar, Tumut, North Korea, Annan, Siam, Laos, Chenla, Siberia (not the whole of Siberia, just part of the Republic of Siberia), etc., are responsible for the Ministry of Railways of the Ming Dynasty The total mileage of railway operations, including the planned, constructed and contracted feudal railways, reached an astonishing 400,000 miles at the end of 1900!
Steadyly occupy the first place in the world!
The second largest country in the world is the United States of New Zealand, which dominates the New World. At the end of 1900, it owned 150,000 miles of railways. Although the United States did not own the Great Lakes region, it relied on the iron ore in the American Gulf region and the coal mines in the northern part of the Big Rock Mountains. , as well as Qingguo's coal mines, as well as the rich oil in California and Texas, the United States has also developed into a leading industrial country in the world.
By around 1900, the second industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty and the United States of New Zealand was basically completed, and industrial production capacity reached a jaw-dropping level.
But where is the market for so many industrial products?
Moreover, the local working people of the Ming Dynasty were never very wealthy, and their dissatisfaction with the imperial court was growing day by day. They had to find a way to divert their attention!
A new world unification war seems to be the only option!
