The court in the first year of Chongzhen was much more harmonious than Zhu Youjian's previous life.

In the previous life, Zhu Youjian was very dissatisfied with the cabinet elders, the Afu Eunto Party. When the Donglin Party impeached the Eunuch Party, he made a major change in the cabinet, and all four cabinet ministers resigned.

Then, in order to compete for the remaining positions in the cabinet and the six eunuchs, there were swords and swords fighting openly and secretly in the court all day long, setting off fierce party struggles, even within the Donglin Party, they were fighting for each other, so that many state affairs were delayed.

In this life, Zhu Youjian, who has experienced the subjugation of the country and experienced life and death, has matured a lot. He no longer chooses people based solely on his likes and dislikes, nor does he depend on whether he is a Qingliu with an excellent reputation or an eunuch with a poor reputation, but

Everything is based on the stability of the court.

So so far, except for one round of replacement of the six ministries, the four cabinet ministers are all safe and sound. With the four cabinet ministers here, everything in the state affairs is running normally, which saves Zhu Youjian a lot of trouble.

In the great Ming Dynasty, there were 13 provinces with hundreds of millions of people. Things happened every day. Countless memorials were sent to the cabinet and then to the inner palace. If every memorial was read carefully, it would be the same as in the previous life.

Buried in a sea of ​​memorials, I have no time or energy to think about other things.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian changed his strategy. After the Chinese New Year, he reorganized the ceremonial department. In addition to Wang Chengen, he also established six ceremonial supervisors and eunuchs Bingbi. Each eunuch Bingbi was responsible for one of the six departments.

Go through the memorials first. These memorials have been reviewed by the cabinet and given opinions on how to deal with them. If there are no major problems, the eunuch who holds the pen will directly wear red, and then hand it over to the eunuch Liu Ruoyu for sealing.

The eunuchs in charge of rites all came to the palace to study in the inner study hall when they were young. Many of the eunuchs were very knowledgeable, even as good as those who were Jinshi. And the eunuch in charge of rites was the place where they assisted the emperor in handling state affairs. Under the influence of their ears and eyes, these eunuchs who wrote pens were not as capable as others.

Not bad. Someone like Wei Zhongxian who is illiterate but can become the eunuch admiral of the East Factory is really unusual.

Only for very important state affairs, memorials would be sent to Zhu Youjian for his review.

With the decentralization of power, Zhu Youjian has a lot more time every day and has enough energy to care about the most important things, such as the new imperial guards, the arsenal, and the Academy of Sciences.

The craftsmen of the arsenal worked hard for more than two months. By March, they had produced more than 2,000 Rumi guns, 100 Crouching Tiger cannons, and more than 80 Folan machine cannons, plus a swarm of bees.

There are a number of various rocket firearms such as the Flying Dragon. These weapons are enough to equip thousands of new soldiers.

Xiyuan's new imperial guard army has gone through another two months of training in formation and military posture. The strict training has made them highly obedient and collective. Regardless of their personal martial arts skills, but from the overall appearance, they seem to be the spirit of this era.

The best-looking army! This is not a boast, but the impression the people in the capital have of them.

Zhu Youjian did not keep them in Xiyuan for training all day, but would take a day off every ten days. They could go out and walk around the city to buy some personal belongings. Then the people in the capital were very surprised to see a complete army

Different armies.

When the soldiers of the New Guards Army go out on the streets, they are always neatly dressed, with three people in a row and two people in a row. Even when they go shopping, they maintain a neat formation. They never look like the soldiers from the Beijing Camp who are lazy and idle.

When soldiers buy things, they always pay according to the price. They never buy or sell by force, let alone rob people of their property.

In just a few months, they won the praise of the people in Beijing, comparing them to the Yue family army of the former Song Dynasty who "frozen to death without demolishing their houses, and starved to death without looting"!

Of course, the new army of the Imperial Guard has such military discipline. First, it is because of Zhu Youjian's requirements for them. Zhu Youjian completely built it according to the army in his mind hundreds of years later; and secondly, it is because of the strict military laws set by Lu Xiangsheng for the army. These

There are as many as forty or fifty articles in military law, and each article needs to be memorized.

Anyone who commits any crime will be severely punished; of course, the most important thing is that every guard soldier can have enough food and clothing, and a generous salary in his pocket, and the status of the emperor's personal soldiers gives them a high sense of honor.

In addition, most of them are simple farmers, so it is natural for them to behave like this.

Zhu Youjian once went out of the palace incognito several times while the new imperial guards were on vacation to personally observe the discipline of the imperial guards. Once, he even took Li Banghua, who was responsible for rectifying the Beijing camp, with him.

The results he saw made Zhu Youjian smile, but also made Li Banghua very frustrated. Compared with the imperial guards, the performance of the Beijing camp soldiers was really a mess.

Under Li Banghua's rectification, the Beijing camp has actually improved a lot. A large number of vacancies have been eliminated according to the military register, and those who have taken advantage of their pay have been eliminated. A total of more than 72,000 soldiers have been reorganized. The original total number of soldiers in the military register is 12

More than 10,000 people, nearly half of whom were emptied of money. Just by eliminating those who raked in money and squandered wages would save the court hundreds of thousands of dan in money and food every year.

However, most of the more than 70,000 people are old and weak. Many of them are gray-haired and already in their forties and fifties. There are also many who are so thin that they can be knocked down by the wind. There are at most 30,000 young and strong people who can really be used.

people.

In the past, the capital camp was said to have 200,000 soldiers, but now it only has 30,000 available soldiers, most of whom are soldiers. This is the current situation of the capital camp.

Although he knew it in his heart, when he saw this situation again, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but be furious. The Beijing camp, which spent millions of money and food every year, no longer had the strength to fight!

However, who can be blamed for this situation? Blame those nobles who embezzled military pay and took advantage of their quotas? Or those high-ranking officials who enslaved the soldiers in the Beijing camp and occupied the horses in the Beijing camp?

Three feet of ice did not last in a day, and there were too many reasons for the disadvantages in the Beijing camp. Fortunately, the new army of the imperial guards had formed a camp, which gave Zhu Youjian the confidence. He immediately ordered the dismissal of all the original generals of the Beijing camp, guerrillas and above

All of them should be dismissed from office! Regardless of whether these people are princes or direct descendants of princes!

If in the past, the imperial court had launched a large-scale attack on the Beijing camp, and the action was so large, there would have to be trouble, and a mutiny would not be impossible. This was also the last life, even if he knew that the Beijing camp was in ruins, Zhu Youjian would not make a big move against the Beijing camp.

The main reason was not unwillingness, but the consequences were too serious. At that time, he could only form the Yongwei Battalion based on the Four Guards of Tengxiang. He did not dare to let the nobles lead the Yongwei Battalion, and instead placed it under the supervision of Yuma.

But now, Xiyuan is guarded by 10,000 guards, half of whom have been equipped with the most advanced firecrackers and artillery. Zhu Youjian no longer has any fear.

And when the Beijing camp went to war, no one had the courage to jump out and shout. A mutiny was even more unthinkable. Xu Xiancun's Jin Yiwei was cunning and cunning, and Xiyuan's imperial guards were elite and sharp. No one dared to risk it under the emperor's feet.

The danger of decapitation.

All the officers who originally received soldiers' pay and blood were dismissed, and the guilty ones were sent to the Liaodong Army, and were replaced by a large number of newly admitted military officers.

Where did Wu Jinshi come from? He was just admitted!

In February of the first year of Chongzhen, the triennial examination had ended, and a total of 300 Jinshi examinations had been admitted. While the Jinshi examination was attracting much attention, the martial arts examination was also conducted in a low-key manner, and more martial arts examinations were admitted.

, reaching more than five hundred.

Zhu Youjian put all these Wu Jinshis into the Beijing camp to replace the original officers, and made a complete change. Li Banghua used these Wu Jinshis as the backbone to reorganize and train the Beijing camp.

Of course, the nobles also need to be appeased. Zhu Youjian put more than 20 nobles, including Liu Shaozong and Li Guojie, in the Beijing camp, and they all served as mid-level and senior officers. Of course, it was impossible to directly serve as deputy general of the general army, unless they were appointed in the future.

Great work. Li Guoji and these people have undergone rigorous training. Not only their ability to lead troops, at least they have the appearance of soldiers.

As for their fathers, the nobles who originally served in the Beijing camp, such as Xiangcheng Bo Li Shouqi, etc., were all sent to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion to serve as idle posts.
Chapter completed!