In the capital city, in a military camp located outside the suburbs, Zhu Youxiao is conducting a review of the newly formed nine infantry divisions.

Amid the sound of war drums, the infantry divisions of various Beijing camps successfully completed various changes of formations with the rhythm of the drum beats. Sun Chuanting said to Zhu Youxiao happily: "Your Majesty, it seems that the Beijing camp has already had initial combat effectiveness."

"No, not bad." Zhu Youxiao smiled and nodded, looking at the army in front of him, he was in a very happy mood, and said to Sun Chuanting: "The next military system reform can also be carried out."

Sun Chuanting nodded. The reform that Zhu Youxiao mentioned was actually the establishment of the "Supreme Command". After the establishment of the "Supreme Command", military affairs will not be discussed in the court, but will be handled within the command and listed as confidential. As is now, major military resolutions will be openly discussed in front of a group of civil and military officials. As long as someone pays money to bribe one or two officials, the military resolutions will be leaked to the wild boar skin immediately.

So in mid-July 2nd year of the Tianqi period, the Ming Dynasty's "Supreme Command" was established. Zhu Youxiao served as the commander of the command, with a general staff department under it, and Sun Chuanting served as chief of staff.

The distribution of military pay, appointment of military officers, and the transfer of troops were all assigned to the "Supreme Command". After the establishment of the Supreme Command, the military rank system was quickly formulated. The military ranks were divided into 3 levels and 11 levels, namely the general, the school, and the lieutenant.

General: First-class general, general, lieutenant general, major general.

School: colonel, lieutenant colonel, major.

Captain: Captain, Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant.

Corresponding to the position is the rank of platoon leader as major.

The new military rank system is only used for the new army. The old army and military officers of the past are still used in the ninth rank system.

Soldiers are divided into top-level privates, second-level privates, and privates. At the same time, the non-commissioned officers are added. Non-commissioned officers are not classified as ranks. They are not counted as officers, but are reserve officers. When there are shortage of grassroots officers, they will be transferred from non-commissioned officers.

At the same time, the "Central Military Region" was established in the capital, and all the Beijing troops were classified into the Central Military Region and became the "Central Military". At this time, the Central Army had 14 infantry divisions, with numbers 001~014. Tengxiang Cavalry Division. It is also under the Central Military Region organization, with numbers set as 015,016. During the military mobilization period, all written words were used to avoid leaking military secrets. It is difficult for the enemy to distinguish the types of troops by relying on the number.

The military pay was re-established. In terms of military pay, the privates were 2 yuan per month. The privates were 2.5 yuan, the privates were 3 yuan, and the privates were 5 yuan. The lieutenant was 20 yuan, the lieutenant was 30 yuan, the captain was 40 yuan, the major was 60 yuan, the lieutenant was 100 yuan, the colonel was 150 yuan, the colonel was 200 yuan, the major general was 260 yuan, the lieutenant general was 350 yuan, the general was 500 yuan, and the first-class general was 1,000 yuan.

Such military pay is definitely very generous. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also created a brochure to distinguish the level of military officers. The military uniforms of officers are of the same style, with only different brochures.

After some reforms, the Ministry of War is only responsible for military budgeting and other work, and no longer interferes in specific military operations.

Everyone can see that Zhu Youxiao's reform was to centralize military power. However, at this time, no one in the court could stop Zhu Youxiao's reform behavior of "big strides forward".

Ye Xianggao, who is always paying attention to the political situation, learned that the emperor had established the Supreme Command, and had to sigh: "The emperor has trained another 100,000 Beijing camps, which is already full of wings. No one in the Northern Zhili can violate the imperial power. We civil officials, please stop thinking about manipulating the emperor."

After great ups and downs, Ye Xianggao understood that Zhu Youxiao was not something they could control. The Donglin Party itself is a civil servant interest group and has no military power. If you meet a more stupid emperor, you can still manipulate the imperial power through brainwashing. But when Zi Zhu Youxiao today, his benevolence, righteousness and morality cannot fool him, so he will keep a close eye on the interests.

Fang Congzhe, who lives in Beijing, saw that the current emperor was engaged in military centralization, so he was completely at home to retire. When Chen Yan visited him, Fang Congzhe was sitting leisurely in the yard basking in the sun while drinking tea, saying to Chen Yan: "Just like today's governance, I have nearly 160,000 troops in my hands. The Ming Dynasty is worry-free. I don't have to worry about national affairs anymore. I can spend my old age at home."

"The emperor is indeed a wise king. He not only understands the sufferings of the people, but also knows how to solve them. He is especially good at developing business. Now that the business is prosperous in Beizhili, people's livelihood is no longer a problem." Chen Wei couldn't help but sigh, and then said with a worried look: "It's just that the emperor is preparing for a lot of war recently. I'm afraid that the government will not be able to hold on!"

"What is the emperor doing?" Fang Congzhe asked.

"The emperor wants to buy horses, and he needs a large number of war horses. He said in person that it is best to have 20,000 to 30,000 horses. As long as you can buy them, it doesn't matter. This silver probably can't stand such tossing." Chen Yan said with some pain. The price of war horses is really expensive! If you buy 20,000 horses, it will cost at least 10,000 taels. Next, the expansion of cavalry will be a lot of money.

"The emperor is still very cautious in character, otherwise he would not have waited until he controls the military power before carrying out major reforms. Since the emperor has done so, then you don't have to worry about money." Fang Congzhe said calmly. Since Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he has made many "extraordinary" actions, which is no longer surprising now.

Zhu Youxiao did want to buy horses. After forming the "Supreme Command", he immediately asked the General Staff to go to Wusizang (Tibet), the ground (Yarkang Khanate in Xinjiang), and the Mongolian tribes to buy war horses.

At this time, the diplomatic environment of the Ming Dynasty was still good. Tibet often paid tribute, although it was to purchase tea at a low price. The Yarkand Khanate also traded with the Ming Dynasty. Although the Mongolian tribes still went south from time to time to plunder, their official relations were still passed. At this time, the Mongolians were also threatened by wild boar skins, and were not yet colluded by wild boar skins and went south together to plunder.

The court lacked war horses. First, it was because it was paying tribute too frequently, which allowed Tibet and other regions to exchange tea through tribute, so it was unwilling to accept the court's tea horse trade pricing. Another reason was that private smuggling trade broke the Ming Dynasty's averaging trade status with these ethnic minorities.

But it doesn't matter. As long as they are willing to sell war horses, they can't spend more money. There is nothing more in the Ming Dynasty, just a lot of money.

The imperial court had no money in the past, which did not mean that Zhu Youxiao had no money at this time.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty really lacked war horses, so they had to buy them even if they pinched their noses. Anyway, they would buy war horses first, and then snatch those vast grasslands in the future.

Without cavalry, it is obviously a bit of a dream to capture those grasslands. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!