Ming Dynasty capital Yingtianfu Jiangbei New Capital Wenhua Hall in the Forbidden City, Ming Emperor Zhu Jingyuan has been reading various year-end reports these days.
Since the early years of the Grand Duke, although the Ming Dynasty has not carried out comprehensive mobilization, the entire empire's resources and manpower have been tilted towards war to a large extent.
Now that the large-scale war has completely ended, the most important thing that must be done is to adjust the policy orientation again.
Eliminate excessive unnecessary military forces and focus on developing technology and industry.
Before the Taixi War, at the end of Ankang, the total number of the Ming Dynasty's standing army was about 10 million.
In the early years of the Ecumenical Period it continued to increase to 20 million people.
This includes a main force of 14 million and a servant army of about 6 million.
The members of the main force of the Ming Dynasty are all people who have the status of Ming Dynasty citizens, or people who can already enjoy the treatment of Ming Dynasty citizens.
Among them are people from the Ming Dynasty in the narrowest sense, that is, Han people whose ancestral home is in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty. However, my current household registration may be anywhere in the world.
It also includes the Mongolian and other local marginal ethnic groups that have been listed as the Ming Dynasty according to the regulations of Emperor Shizu, as well as their children with the Han people.
In addition, there are mixed descendants of the Ming Dynasty, Koreans and Japanese.
There are also mixed descendants of the Ming Dynasty and the Yin people and a few Yin people who have been completely naturalized.
In addition, there are young people who have passed the general education examination among the mixed descendants of Ming people and people of various ethnic groups in Nanyang.
Now their unified ID card is the general education examination certificate promoted by Zhu Jingyuan, which will soon be officially changed to the Ming Dynasty ID card.
There is no difference in their status in the general education examination certificate, and there is no difference in their daily management methods and treatment.
The servant army is people who do not have Ming citizenship or do not enjoy the treatment of citizens.
The main force is completely unified in terms of documents and treatment, and their status is exactly the same.
But the interior of the servant army system is a bit complicated. They are obviously divided into several different levels.
The first level is those who have the status of citizens of the Ming Dynasty. They are the highest status among the servants.
Including pure blood naturalized Koreans and Japanese who are already very rare.
As well as the equally rare mixed-race descendants of the Ming nationality and other indigenous people who have not yet obtained the general education examination certificate.
The second level is those who have the right of residence in the Ming Dynasty, or have the citizenship of a vassal country of the Ming Dynasty, or enjoy the treatment of citizens of the vassal country.
Including indigenous servant armies from Yinzhou, Siam, Burma, Java, Luzon and Nanyang Islands.
As well as the servants and soldiers of foreign tribes such as Xianbei, Kazakh, Khiva, Persia, and Egypt.
There are also the Taixi natives of the Dongyi Kingdom in Yinzhou.
The third level is the marginalized people who have no formal citizenship rights, that is, people who only have slave status. Their status is of course the lowest in the entire system.
Slavery had been completely abolished in the Ming Dynasty, so only a handful of slave armies from vassal states followed their masters on the battlefield.
Most of them are servants organized by the black nobles of Mozhou, and all of them are slaves.
However, Da Ming knew that the combat effectiveness of the slave army was very poor, so he did not let them enter the main battlefield of the western continent at all, but directly abandoned them in the Mozhou colony.
It continued to defend the borders with the colonies of Germany, Lucia, and Italy, but no large-scale battles actually occurred.
In addition, after the Ming Dynasty officially entered the war, it also commanded more than two million British troops.
Louis XVII, Napoleon and others also organized a large number of Thai and Western immigrant servants in Yinzhou, totaling more than two million.
Throughout the war, the Ming Dynasty mobilized and controlled a total of 24 million troops.
This is a very scary scale.
The Ming Dynasty recruited a large number of servant armies with the idea of consuming the manpower of these vassal states.
But most of the war was one-sided.
Even if the combat effectiveness of the servant army is not as good as the main force, the enemy has been frightened by the Ming Dynasty's main force and divine punishment weapons, and cannot exert its full combat effectiveness.
In addition, the war lasted for a total of one and a half years, and there was no repeated back and forth.
In the end, the total loss of Ming troops was less than one million, and the total number of injured personnel was less than three million.
Now, most of the 23 million troops will be disarmed and returned to their fields.
The key point is to specifically arrange how many people will retire, how many troops will be retained, and where they will be mainly located.
The western continent is the latest area to be conquered, and it is also the area with the largest foreign population and the most complex population, so it is obvious that the largest number of troops must be deployed.
Zhu Jingyuan discussed with relevant personnel several times and finally decided not to station foreign servant troops on the western continent.
First, arrange two million of the Ming Dynasty's main army to continue to serve as a regular army under the jurisdiction of the Dudu Mansion, responsible for suppressing and controlling the situation in the entire western Thai continent.
They will also receive land in Western Europe or share dividends from development companies in various places.
In addition, arrangements were made for the main force of the Ming Dynasty, three million, to retire in the western continent and dispersed to settle in the fiefdoms of various large and small vassals on the western continent.
Become the direct guards, royal guards and grassroots officials of each vassal country.
This total of five million soldiers and local armed personnel, plus their family members who immigrated to Western Europe with them, is the basic force for Ming Dynasty to control the Western continent.
Most of the Ming Dynasty soldiers who settled in the west would directly summon their family members from their hometown to come with them after being allocated land and wealth.
Ordinary retired soldiers at the lowest level may immigrate with their families if their families do not have any other industries.
Their parents, brothers and sisters will go, and some will bring their in-laws and families.
Because if they were just ordinary workers in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, they would be small farmers with at least two hundred acres of land in the fiefdom of Taixi.
There are dozens of potential lower-class Thais at their disposal...
Originally, the life of ordinary working-class families in the Ming Dynasty was not that bad, but when they arrived in Taixi, they directly became the ruling class.
He is an absolute "superior person".
The appeal of this social change in status is powerful.
According to statistics and estimates from the management agencies of the three regions of Taixi, Xianbei, and Rome, on average, one retired soldier can bring over ten immigrants.
If they are squires or countrymen, as the lowest level of actual feudal lords, they may bring dozens or hundreds of people there.
For a baron like Wu Xiongying, if the original family is not big enough, a few people may be left to manage the original industry, and the entire family will move there.
If the scale of the industry of origin is relatively large, a large number of family members will be directly arranged to go over and open another family branch in the fiefdom of Taixi.
Therefore, the five million soldiers placed in the western part of the country, and the number of Ming immigrants eventually brought to the western part of the country may reach more than 50 million.
They are all considered to be the ruling class in the western continent. They all control enough social wealth, and they themselves have no competition pressure or too much pressure in life.
Of course, these Ming immigrant families themselves would continue to have children normally.
Conservative estimates suggest that if each Ming woman only gave birth to five children, the number of Ming people on the western continent could increase to 100 million in twenty years.
Adding in the Ming merchants and officials who immigrated on their own, the number will definitely exceed 100 million.
As the absolute ruling class in the area, these Ming immigrant families would naturally accept a large number of Thai and Western women to join them.
Then they will produce mixed descendants whose number may also exceed 100 million.
The Taixi people have been continuing to migrate to Mozhou, and a large number of Taixi women have joined the Ming Dynasty families. The number of local Taixi people will continue to decrease.
Twenty years later, the number of Thais in the entire Thai continent should be reduced to less than 300 million.
If the population is calculated as a family unit, the total population of the Ming Dynasty family, which includes a large number of Thai and Western women, may exceed that of the indigenous Thai and Western families.
If this trend continues for another generation, pure-blooded Thais may become a minority group.
At the same time, both the main force of the Ming Dynasty and the armed forces of the vassal states will gradually reduce their size as the situation stabilizes in the region.
Eventually it was reduced to the level of one million main troops and one million vassal armed forces.
Because the number of foreigners here will not disappear quickly, a sufficient military force must always be maintained as the ultimate guarantee of social stability.
Apart from the western continent, the place with the most complicated situation is Ximo Continent.
Most of the old nobles and officials in the western continent, as well as a large number of young officers and soldiers, were gradually concentrated on this land.
The total area of this land is more than 10 million square kilometers.
There are at least 150 million Mo people living here, including the indigenous people who have always lived here, and the same people who have been to Yinzhou and been sent back.
There are also the Tianzhu people who migrated from Tianzhu in the UK, and their descendants who multiplied in the British colonies.
The total number may have exceeded 50 million.
When Britain first sold slaves to Tianzhu, it basically only sold young and middle-aged males.
However, as the slave trade lasted longer and the transportation capacity of slaves became looser, some people began to traffic in young women from Tianzhu.
This was not only to allow the Tianzhu people to continue to reproduce more people, but also to provide entertainment tools for the rulers of the British colonies.
Then the Taixi people from Yinzhou immigrated.
After the World War ended twenty years ago, the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in Yinzhou were ceded to the Ming Dynasty in large areas.
After the war, a large number of Yinzhou Portuguese and some Yinzhou Spanish came directly from Yinzhou to Mozhou under the guidance of the Portuguese and Spanish courts.
Then there are the new immigrants from mainland Thailand.
After the end of the World War and before the start of the new Atlantic-Spanish War, in the past ten years, the European and Spanish countries were vigorously developing the Mozhou colony.
Courts and people from various countries migrated to Yinzhou in large numbers.
Finally, there are the new immigrants after the war.
After Spain and France exchanged colonies with the Ming Dynasty, immigrants from Canada and Mexico would be sent to Mexico one after another.
After Zhu Jingyuan reaches an agreement with Charlotte, the Europeans from the United Kingdom and the United States will also be sent to Mexico one after another.
The old aristocrats on the Thai mainland, officials at all levels of the original imperial court, a large number of Thai military officers and soldiers, as well as a large number of wealthy businessmen and factory owners.
Will be gradually exiled to the Mozhou Continent after the war.
After occupying Constantinople and the Black Sea Strait, the Ming Dynasty's huge naval fleet and merchant ships began to transport these people to Mozhou.
After more than a year of continuous transportation, the number of Taixi people on the Mozhou continent has exceeded 100 million.
It will continue to grow rapidly to more than 200 million people in the next few years.
Among them, the population from France, Spain, Ottoman, Austria and other countries will be sent to the territory of the corresponding monarch as a matter of course.
The monarchs and courts of these countries that had become foreign vassals still existed and did not require the Ming Dynasty to worry too much.
But the population from Germany, Lucia, and Italy can only be directly controlled by the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the Dudu Mansion retains a main force composed of two million Ming people here, and a servant army composed of a total of two million foreign ethnic groups.
Including Nanyang people, Yinzhou people, Taixi people, Tianzhu people, Persians, Egyptians, Kazakhs, Xianbei Mongols, etc.
They are all soldiers who have performed meritorious service in battle, and they will also receive rewards of different levels.
Like the local garrison in the western mainland, it has at least two hundred acres of land.
All the original Mexican armies will continue to be commanded and managed by their original black noble masters.
This part of the garrison will also be reduced as the situation stabilizes.
In the end, only one million main troops were retained, and all the servant armies of all ethnic groups were abolished.
Except for the two regions of Mozhou and Taixi, other regions controlled by the Ming Dynasty are generally relatively stable.
There are now one million Ming Dynasty main troops in the Yinzhou area, and one million Yinzhou servants.
In the future, the Yin servant army will be gradually dismantled, leaving only one million Ming main troops.
The mainland of Ming Dynasty and other remaining areas will temporarily retain two million Ming Dynasty's main army and two million servant troops of various ethnic groups.
In the future, the servant army will be gradually cut off, leaving only the main force of the Ming Dynasty.
Now the Ming Dynasty will currently retain a total of 7 million main troops and 5 million servant troops of various ethnic groups.
A total of 12 million formal armed forces.
If you include the three million armed forces managed and supported by the vassals at all levels in the West, the total is fifteen million.
The total number of registered armed forces is now twenty-three million.
Eight million troops will be retired directly.
These troops were mostly secondary units, mostly reserves called up during preparations.
After the war began, they basically did not participate in any bad battles, and the establishment was basically full.
Most of the time, I just followed the main force and occupied some residential areas and military strongholds.
Then he followed the Thai exiles and immigrants who were escorted for a period of time.
Most people have no actual merit and experience no actual risks.
It is equivalent to going to the army to receive training, then working at a relatively hard job for two or three years, and finally receiving full pay and retirement allowance.
Just do whatever you need to do after you get home.
In the future, the size of Ming's main force will be gradually reduced to five million.
In addition to the armed forces of the foreign vassal states, all the servant armies directly under the imperial court will be abolished.
The military is the highest-level violent institution, and its main role in history is to fight against forces outside the country.
After the Ming Dynasty now de facto controls the world, the direct role of the army has disappeared.
Unless there is a large-scale rebellion in some places, declaring independence or even becoming emperor, then there will be a chance for the army to directly appear.
But this possibility is getting lower and lower. If the scale is not large enough, Jin Yiwei can handle it directly.
Therefore, the number of troops must be greatly reduced.
However, low possibility does not mean that there is no possibility, and various unexpected events must be guarded against.
Moreover, the army is the largest centralized personnel organization that the imperial court can directly control.
According to experience in previous lives, if a large-scale natural disaster occurs, the military is the largest force that can be quickly deployed for rescue.
The local government offices and Jinyiwei systems are too scattered and cannot organize large-scale rescue operations at all.
Therefore, regular armies must still be retained, and they must be present on every continent.
Zhu Jingyuan plans to gradually hand over large-scale livelihood projects, large-scale infrastructure construction support work, and aerospace exploration-related matters to the military in the future.
