The eunuch Wei Zhongxian sent a memorial to each imperial minister, which contained the concept of the new military system formulated by the emperor himself.

Privy Councilor Li Jing and Minister of War Xu Shiji, these two ministers who are now in charge of military orders and have great military power, took the lead in watching.

In fact, Emperor Luo Cheng’s plan was not very complicated, but it was indeed a completely innovative system.

The emperor planned to dismiss the three yamen.

In the future, there will be no distinction between the northern yamen, the southern yamen and the inner yamen.

There will be no distinction between the palace soldiers, imperial guards, or personal troops.

The knights, who were awarded the title of elite veterans, will replace the past military soldiers and become the grassroots core of the future army.

The conscript system will replace the original government system and recruitment system.

In the future, only those elite veterans will be awarded the title of knight and become professional non-commissioned officers. The court will give them more Yongye fields than ordinary people, and will be awarded them war horses, armor, weapons and other equipment.

The knights became professional non-commissioned officers and took turns to work. When they were last, they entered the army to train and lead the troops. When they were not on the day, they could rest and farm at home, etc. If they were in war, they would be recruited according to the scale of the war.

The knights were provided with equipment by the court and paid military salaries when the previous round was on duty, and basic allowances were given when they were not on duty. Military salaries and rewards were given when they were summoned to fight. If there were military achievements, there would be rewards.

It turns out that those ordinary government soldiers recruited and were all cancelled and replaced by conscripts.

What is a conscript?

Every young and healthy man who is over 18 years old has the obligation to serve the court for three years for free. The service prosecutors are given priority for the condition of being healthy, having a large family, and wealthy. Those who are ordered to serve in the army for three years. There is only basic allowances and no food or wages during the service period, but the court is responsible for food and clothing. If you make contributions in the war, you will also be rewarded.

The court implemented the military region system based on roads, and the left and right governors were the commanders of the military region. However, although each military region had military regions, military, wings, regiments and camps, they were stationed and trained, and were only used as places for raising generals and sending their salaries. This was the order of the officers' transfer and transfer of military power. The military region could only be in the regiment camp. The military region could not directly lead the army, nor could it be directly mobilized.

On the other hand, Luo Cheng asked the army to rotate, and the army in important cities such as Jingji will select elite troops from each military region to form a guard and rotate regularly.

Middle and senior officers do not command troops. The power of command is usually given to the regiment battalion officers, and the training and daily management are given to the cavalry commanders. Middle and senior officers usually stay in various roads or capitals, responsible for studying tactics, teaching and training young officers and non-commissioned officers, etc. When encountering war, the Privy Council and the Ministry of War will select troops to command the expedition.

"The court will plan to establish 36 military regions, each of which will be organized into two armies, but in the absence of war, each military region will only be half-organized."

"Knights will be divided into knight commanders, knights, attendant knights, and apprentice knights, corresponding to sergeant commanders, senior non-commissioned officers, intermediate non-commissioned officers, and low non-commissioned officers."

"The ratio of knights to full-groups at all levels is one to five, and the ratio of officers to full-group soldiers is one to twenty."

Li Jing quickly calculated in his mind that the whole country had 36 military regions, each with two armies, and one army had a full 12,000 troops, which means that if the full rank was full, the whole country would maintain 864,000 troops.

The emperor said that only half of the troops were maintained normally, so there were only 432,000 troops.

However, the knights and officers are still full, so the actual number may reach about 500,000.

But the number of knights is a bit amazing. One to five, that is, 20% of the army are knights and more than 860,000 people. Wouldn't there be more than 170,000 knights? Even if the knights are divided into four levels, and the fields, equipment, military pay and allowances given by knights of different levels are different, isn't this a little too many?

However, considering that there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the southern court of the imperial court before, the reduction was more than half.

If the officers account for 10 to 20, that would have to be more than 40,000. Even if the low-level officers account for the majority, it would be amazing.

Can 170,000 knights, more than 40,000 officers, and then about 300,000 conscripts support the security of the huge territory of the Qin Empire?

"Sage, aren't the imperial guards and the inner army reserved at all? It depends entirely on the military guards?" Fang Xuanling asked with some concern.

The safety of the emperor and the capital is the most important. If he only relies on the military region's military roster to take the turn, he always feels that it is not enough.

Wei Zheng proposed, "Why not keep the personal army of the inner corps?"

First, the personal army of the inner yamen mainly included the descendants of honorary and loyal martyrs, and second, they always believed that the emperor should have a special guard.

But the emperor shook his head.

In what form should the private army of the inner yamen be retained? Or in the current situation? Then the personal army retained in this way will still be the guards of the capital in the future, and will only increase the silver-like gun tips. If the private army of the inner yamen be retained in the current military region, conscript conscripts and the permanent knights, the private army that has been stationed in the capital for a long time will sooner or later fall and detachment, and it will be useless to stay.

It is better to be decisive and draw elite guards from the 36 military regions. As long as the rotating plan is done well, it can ensure that the guards' soldiers are loyal and reliable, and can also restrain each other and will not cause trouble.

But the emperor still kept a hand.

His military region system did not become a military military system. The relationship between the military region and the various dynasties was parallel or even unrelated. Although the governors of the dynasty commanded a military region, they were just like the generals of the original guards, but they were nominally generals of the guards, but they could not command the soldiers and horses of each guard. Only when they received the emperor's edict, received the order of the Privy Council, and the military talismans of the Ministry of War, could they mobilize troops in the name of the general manager of the wartime camp.

Moreover, even if these governors can receive the order of transfer and military talismans, they are only responsible for military affairs, logistics, money, grain, and weapons, and still have to be under the supervision of the Censorate.

On the other hand, after establishing a military region and implementing the military region system, each military region has corresponding defense and defense areas. Once there is war in the area, the court can immediately order the dispatch of officers from the local military region to recruit knights from the local military region, mobilize soldiers from the local battalion regiments, and quickly form a field army, or defend or attack, which can avoid the wasted time of drawing soldiers from other places and will not miss the opportunity to fight.

Of course, the emperor's deeper good intentions should be avoided from the eventual phenomenon of strong branches and weak trunks in the Qin army. It is impossible to have strong borders and weak internals. The army must be firmly controlled in the center of the court and in the hands of the emperor.
Chapter completed!