Chapter 566: Withdraw the garrison from Hezhou Prefecture to deploy troops and generals. Only by training talents can you know how to be loyal and loyal, so that soldiers with lofty ideals will have no regrets!

After all the ministers of the Military Council took their seats in Wuying Hall (there were many people attending this meeting, it was not convenient to sit down), Zhu Ayao returned to the throne and said in a clear and clear voice: "Today's meeting of the Military Council is to discuss the northwest border defense.

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After saying that, Zhu Aelao asked people to distribute the prepared pile of brochures.

The contents of the booklet mainly cover the situation of many forces in the northwest, as well as some changes in the northwest in the past two or three years, etc.

The main reason is to prevent the ministers from being blind to the situation in the northwest and having no idea.

This kind of meeting method did not exist in Ming Dynasty before. Therefore, it was the first time for Zhang Huangyan and others to participate in such a level meeting. It was both new and exciting.

Because the ministers in the Military Affairs Council had little understanding of the Northwest before, there was no debate at this military affairs meeting.

Li Yan, Zhu Dadian and others mainly improved Zhu Yuluo's decision, while others made some minor additions.

Even so, the meeting lasted two hours.

In the end, the Military Council initially made the following decision—

The newly formed four-town border defense army was initially planned to have Li Guo as the commander-in-chief of the 15th town, Xin Sizhong as the commander-in-chief of the 16th town, Li Ren as the commander-in-chief of the 17th town, and Wang Fuchen as the commander-in-chief of the 18th town.

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The border defense troops of the four towns were ordered to complete the re-equipment and additional training as soon as possible, set off immediately after receiving the order from the Military Council, and arrive at their respective stations as soon as possible.

As for the location of each town's garrison, it is related to the border town's inclusion in the provincial government system previously implemented by Zhu Yushuo.

In the provincial government system, Zhu Aolao clearly classified the former Shaanxi Xingdusi (mainly referring to: Suzhou, Ganzhou, Shandan, Yongchang, Liangzhou, Zhenfan, Xining, Zhenlang and other military posts), as well as the former Shaanxi Chief Secretary

Lintao Prefecture, Gongchang Prefecture, Taozhou Guard, Minzhou Guard, and Jinglu Guard under its jurisdiction were officially divided into Gansu Province.

In addition, Gansu Province also took charge of some chieftains in Qinghai who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Since all the military offices were abolished in this restructuring, in fact, today's Gansu Province in the Ming Dynasty has the following prefectures from northwest to southeast:

Suzhou (formerly Suzhou Guard, Zhenyi Guard, Gaotaishao), Ganzhou (formerly Ganzhou Guard, Shandan Guard), Liangzhou (formerly Liangzhou Guard, Zhenfan Guard), Xining Prefecture (Xining Guard), Zhuang

Langfu (the original town of Langwei, Gulangsuo, Nianbosuo and the large and small Songshan area between the inner and outer Great Walls).

In addition, there are: Lintao Prefecture, Gongchang Prefecture, Taozhou, Minzhou, Jingzhou (formerly Jinglu Guards), and several Qinghai chieftains who submitted to them.

The governor's seat, that is, the provincial capital, will be located in Lanzhou, the guarding place in Ganzhou, the original Lintao Prefecture.

In Shaanxi, the guards in Ningxia Town were merged into Ningxia Prefecture, and the guards in Yansui Town (Yulin Town) were merged into Yansui Prefecture.

However, at this military meeting, Zhu Yurao directly revealed that in the future, the Ming Dynasty will expand its territory to the north, and Ningxia and Yansui may be transformed from prefectures to provinces.

This time, except for Ningxia and Yansui, which were changed from border towns to border prefectures, and some prefectures were cut off and given to Gansu, other prefectures under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi basically remained unchanged, and the provincial capital was still set in Xi'an.

However, as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Lu Daqi led his governor to garrison Biao Town in Guyuan Prefecture, Pingliang Prefecture, the old seat of the former three governors of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, at this military affairs meeting, the 16th town led by Xin Sizhong was ordered to garrison Suzhou, and the old Gansu army was reorganized into a town garrison to assist in defense.

Li Guo was ordered to lead the 15th town to garrison Ganzhou, and Li Ren was ordered to lead the 17th town to garrison Xining Prefecture.

He also ordered the Shaanxi garrison led by He Zhen to garrison Zhuanglang Mansion.

Then he ordered Wang Fuchen to lead the 18th Town and the Luodai Division of the Shaanxi Garrison to garrison Ningxia Prefecture.

As for Niu Chenghu's troops originally stationed in Ningxia Prefecture, they were reorganized into a town garrison and transferred to Gansu to assist in the defense of Ganzhou.

Yansui Prefecture has Gao Yigong, and Sun Shoufa each leads a town of Shaanxi garrison to garrison.

The original Shaanxi garrison still has Bai Guangen's troops and a new garrison in one town (mainly composed of the Shaanxi Rebels and Green Camp soldiers who surrendered during the Northern Expedition).

Bai Guangen made a memorial after the Northern Expedition, hoping to retire and return to his hometown, disarm and return to his fields.

Zhu Yushuo naturally agreed and granted him the title of Cavalry Commander (not hereditary) to show that he was not a mean and ungrateful person, but a magnanimous person - after all, Bai Guangen had surrendered to Li Zicheng.

It happened that Liu Rukui and Niu Wancai, the former Shun Army demoted generals at Chengdu Military Academy, finally graduated, so they were appointed as deputy commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi garrison in these two towns, acting as commander-in-chief. They would be promoted to full-time positions after meritorious service.

Zhang Guangcai, Feng Shuangli, and Ma Yuanli, who were under Lu Daqi's command during the Northern Expedition, all belonged to the Sichuan garrison. Because the invasion of the Xikang area by the Heshuote Khanate made the border defense situation in western Sichuan tense, these Sichuan garrison troops were all transferred back.

Wang Xiang and Bai Wen's selected Chongqing garrison, which originally belonged to Li Dingguo, were also transferred back to Chongqing and were responsible for guarding the place. After all, Chongqing also had many chieftains and its geographical location was important.

According to the recent memorial from Lu Daqi, he sent Liu Rukui's troops to garrison Taozhou and Niu Wancai's troops to garrison Minzhou.

Because these two places are bordering Qinghai, although those close to the Ming Dynasty are mostly chieftains who have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

But these chieftains are not as obedient as those in Sichuan and Chongqing. In addition, the power of Gushi Khan is now at its peak in the west. It is difficult to say whether these chieftains are loyal to Gushi Khan or to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Taozhou and Minzhou, which border Qinghai, still need troops stationed there.

In order to enable the military towns in Gansu to cooperate with each other, the military affairs meeting also ordered Li Guo to act as the acting admiral of Gansu's military affairs.

The generals of Li Guo and various military towns in Gansu and Shaanxi were all dispatched by Lu Daqi.

Compared with the previous Ming Dynasty system, the section of governors and troops commanding has been reduced.

But Gansu also needs governors - now Zhu Yu'ao is still worried about the candidate for governor of Gansu.

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After the military meeting ended, Zhang Huangyan and three other new scholars, as well as Liu Shixun, the staff officer of the General Staff Department, were left to talk.

There is no need to say anything about Zhang Huangyan.

Chen Bangyan was a candidate in the provincial examination the year before last. He took part in the joint examination in Nanjing in February. Although he only ranked among the top three, he got the same rank as Jinshi.

But Zhu Yuluo knew about this person through later history, so he specially sent him to the Military Academy for internship.

Liu Shixun was the former deputy general of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, Huang Binqing, the military commander-in-chief Qianshi.

He can be regarded as one of the classic examples of those who gave up literature and embraced martial arts during the Chongzhen period. He was a martial arts scholar in the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign. He was also well versed in poetry and history, and was well versed in strategies. However, he was still somewhat bookish and lacked practical experience.

However, Zhu Yuyao had high hopes for this person, hoping that he could grow into a Confucian general like Lu Xiangsheng who was both civil and military.

Therefore, after Huang Binqing's department accepted the reorganization, Zhu Yushuo asked Liu Shixun to enter the general officer training class of Nanjing Military Academy.

As for Yan Ermei, his experience in later history is somewhat legendary.

He was a native of Peixian County, Xuzhou. He was a scholar at the age of sixteen and passed the imperial examination in the third year of Chongzhen (27 years old). He was a member of Fushe and was as famous as Zhang Fu and Chen Zilong.

Because he opposed the eunuch party, he was framed and could not participate in the general examination, and his official career was temporarily cut off.

But Yan Ermei did not hate the entire Ming Dynasty like Chen Zhilin did, and then defected to the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing army entered the pass, Yan Ermei joined Shi Kefa as an aide very early.

He proposed that Shi Kefa take advantage of the Shun army's counterattack against the Qing Dynasty to march into Shandong and Henan to regain the lost territory, but Shi Kefa did not accept it, so he left in disappointment.

Later, Xuzhou and Yangzhou fell one after another, and Yan Ermei spent all her wealth to organize anti-Qing activities.

In order to conceal his identity, he even became a monk and called himself Monk Dudong.

Since 1645, the 43-year-old Yan Ermei has been living in exile across the country, determined to regain his sight. Although he has suffered many hardships, he remains indomitable and never gives up his ambition!

It was not until 1673, the twelfth year of Kangxi's reign, that the 70-year-old Yan Ermei returned to her hometown when she saw that she was old and had no hope of reviving the country.

Even so, before his death, he still told his descendants to abide by the customs of the Ming Dynasty and not serve in the Qing Dynasty.

In the 18th year of Kangxi's reign, 77-year-old Yan Ermei passed away with regret...

'Absolutely a die-hard visionary!'

This is Hao Guangming's evaluation of Yan Ermei.

Zhu Yuluo also approved it.

Summoning Yan Ermei this time, Zhu Yurao was ready to entrust him with an important task so that he would have no regrets in this life and witness the Ming Dynasty becoming stronger than ever before.

Second update.

Good night~
Chapter completed!