"What? The Jinyi Personal Army?" Prince Zhu San was stunned. "Encyclopedia Guard? The Jinyi Guard's reputation is not very good."

"Bad," Zhu Heying smiled and said, "So what if the reputation is not good? As long as the reputation of this Jinyi Personal Army is great enough! We are now running the Ming Dynasty court. How can this Ming Dynasty court have no Jinyi Guard?"

Eunuch Pang, who was standing by, echoed: "That's right, we have East Factory, West Factory, and Inner Factory. How can we not have Jinyiwei?"

Military advisor Zhuge also shook the fan of the lion-headed goose feather, and smiled and said to Zhu Tianwang: "King, Jinyi's personal army has a reputation, and everyone in the world knew about it back then. Even now, there are many people in Chaozhou who know that Jinyi's personal army is the personal army of the Emperor Ming Dynasty. This personal army is the power of the Emperor's personal army under the imperial edict. Who doesn't want it?

Therefore, the hundreds of households and thousands of households of the Jinyiwei still have many Chaozhou clan leaders who want to turn the ruled township into our place of convening troops, then we must send out a large number of official positions of the Jinyiwei. How can the officials of the Jinyiwei have no yamen for the Jinyiwei?"

Zhuge Sanhe said this, and the king Zhu also felt that it was reasonable for the Dongchang. The reputation of the Jinyiwei was smelly and fragrant, which was said by the scholars and officials. For the common people or figures below, being able to become a Dongchang man or a Jinyiwei tiqi and become a hawk in the court is really a glorious and graceful thing.

"Then what kind of military system should this Jinyi personal army use?" Tian Wang Zhu asked again.

Zhu Hezang replied: "The military system of Jinyi's personal army can only be based on military affairs and the people. In addition, the Lin and Qiao Lin's family members who have come here, how many people do we have now?"

"When I go back to the prince," said Mr. Guo. "The population of Lin and Qiao families has not been calculated yet, but they must have exceeded one thousand people. Including them, the population of the people under the jurisdiction of the State Administration has exceeded 32,000, of which Ding Zhuang, who can serve in the army, must have five or six thousand people. However, these people have to guard their own family business and have to work hard to make a living, so it is not easy to concentrate."

Zhu Heying has not been in vain during this period. The twenty or thirty towns and fifty or sixty surnames around Jieyang County have been cut and changed their clothes and accepted the leadership of the State Administration.

Every big surname that recognizes Zhu San and his son as their lords will send a group of children to follow Zhu Hejian back to Jieyang City. These children will participate in a "lifelong" exam. Those who pass the exam will become students in the Tianwang Palace Youth Hall. Those who fail the exam will become apprentices in the fifth factory.

In addition, the big surnames who lived outside Jieyang Island were also moved or defended according to the arrangements of Zhu Hetong. The hometowns were next to Nanxi and Beixi, which facilitated the sending of troops in Jieyang City to support. Moreover, the big surnames that had a solid building to rely on were divided into two parts. Some people followed Zhu Hetong to Jieyang Island, while some people insisted on it. The rest of the houses all went to the island.

As for the big surnames who lived on Jieyang Island but were not in Jieyang City, they have been strengthening their enclosures these days and preparing to fight with the invading Qing army.

Therefore, Zhu San and his son now have more than one castle, and a big city and dozens of small cities, the ability to counter-encircle and suppression is much better than just guarding a lonely city in Jieyang.

However, there are many disadvantages of having too many strongholds, which is that it is difficult to concentrate strength. The thousands of strong men are both productive and combat power, and are usually scattered in various surrounding buildings. They can only be gathered when absolutely necessary.

"Then how many elite soldiers are we at hand?" asked the Heavenly King Zhu again.

"Brave Su, how many permanent soldiers do we have?" Zhu Heying himself didn't know the specific number, so he gave the problem to the brave Su Suyong who was in charge of this matter.

Of course, the king Zhu doesn't know how many soldiers he lie flat, while Zhu and the monk don't know how many soldiers he lie down, and this number is changing every day now that the third prince Zhu is erected. In addition, Daboling also summoned Su Li's old subordinates in the name of Dadu Sister-in-law, so during this period, heroes come to join the gang every day.

Because Su Yong was the clan brother of Dadu Su and was the chief of Dadu Su's personal soldiers, he naturally became the second-ranked figure of the old Su family. Daboling officially entered Zhu Heying's sect. He was the leader of the Su family, so Zhu Heying asked him to take charge of the people.

"Report to the prince," Su Yong said, "As of last night, the standing troops under the jurisdiction of the State Administration had reached 1,108."

Zhu Heying nodded with a smile and asked the military advisor Zhuge again, "Military advisor, how many half-best boys are available in the Young Master Hall of the Heavenly Palace?"

"There are three hundred and twenty-six people," Zhuge Sanhe said, "it already includes the three-leader young soldiers who followed the prince."

Zhu Heying then asked: "Where are the apprentices? How many apprentices are there in the fifth factory?"

"There are no less than a thousand people, of which there are more than 800 people on Jieyang Island."

The person who answered this question was Eunuch Pang. Although he was just the governor of the East Factory, he could also take care of the other four factories.

Zhu Hezang nodded and smiled, "That's more than two thousand people! With five or six thousand village soldiers, we're almost ten thousand!"

He turned his head to Zhu Tianwang and said, "Bad, are you satisfied?"

"Full, satisfied!" King Zhu Tian nodded and thought to himself: "I didn't do anything, and my soldiers and generals were almost over ten thousand. Could it be that I really want to have a world of tyrants? But can I afford to support so many soldiers?"

Thinking of this, King Zhu Tian asked again: "Scared, we have so many soldiers and we still have a stall in the imperial court. Is there enough money to spend?"

"Save some flowers!" Zhu Heying smiled and said, "Bad, we are now retro original Confucians. We are noble in morality and can preserve the laws of nature and eliminate human desires, so we save money."

He paused and glanced in the lobby. Seeing that the "Original Confucian scholars" present were all very virtuous, he smiled and said, "When the New Year is over, our court will officially open, and we will pay everyone a salary and military salary. We can save money, but the military salary to the people below cannot be too small. The starting price is two taels of silver per month, and another five dou of rice will be paid!

The regular soldiers and young students both have to pay wages and pay grain. This monthly expense alone costs three to four thousand taels of silver, and also spend money to purchase armor, equipment, clothing, gunpowder and other utensils. So we can only take less for the time being and share the joys and sorrows with the people below. Do you have no objection?"

"A thousand taels a month have to buy equipment and gunpowder. It's almost the New Year. There's always a lot of money left. How can this money be enough?" Zhu Tianwang's face collapsed while calculating the expenses. "Sweetheart! We don't have much foundation at hand, so we can't help spending money like this. You have to think of a way. By the way, last time the boss Hui seemed to say that Huang Wu from Zhangzhou was rich, why don't we send troops to grab one?"

After listening to the advice of King Zhu Tian, ​​Zhu Heying was really amused and crying. The boss Hui said casually, but he took it seriously!

Where is Zhangzhou? The headquarters of the Fujian Governor! Not only are there soldiers from the Haicheng Gong family, but also the model soldiers of the Fujian Governor. There is also a Zhangzhou General Zhao Desheng, who is an old subordinate of Wu Sangui. The Guanning Army is even more capable of fighting than Liu Jinzhong. Moreover, the troops of these families have already exceeded 10,000!

If Zhu Heying could easily take Zhangzhou, why wouldn’t he send troops to pull out Mianhu Village and conquer Haiyang City? Wouldn’t it be nice to “dominate Chaozhou” first?

Thinking of this, Zhu Hezhang shook his head and said, "Dad, we can't afford to fight Zhangzhou for the time being, but don't worry, everything is hosted by me and the military advisor, Mr. Qi, Eunuch Pang, Mr. Guo and Sister Ling. And someone will soon send us silver!"

"Send us the money?" King Zhu was stunned, "Who are you talking about?"
Chapter completed!