Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 478, Emperor Hongzhi feels relieved

In the Qianqing Palace of the Imperial Palace in the capital, in the huge study of Emperor Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi sat on his large desk and was carefully reading the courses and content taught by the Daming Royal Military Academy.

Emperor Hongzhi attached great importance to the Daming Royal Military Academy.

This military academy entrusted Emperor Hongzhi's hopes and dreams of strengthening the army and strengthening the country, and it is also the core and focus of the new military system reform.

Of course, as an emperor, Emperor Hongzhi, like other emperors, still attaches the most importance to the loyalty of the army.

Whether the army can be firmly controlled in its own hands, and whether the generals of the army can always keep the center of themselves are very important things.

The emperors of all dynasties are actually very clear that there will be many problems in using civil servants to lead the army, which will lead to the decline of the army's combat power, but they have always insisted on this point. Why?
It's not because civilians are in charge of the army, which makes people feel more at ease. After all, a scholar rebelled and failed in ten years.

Therefore, it is better for the combat effectiveness of this army to decrease, and it is better for the flesh and blood to be softer when it is outside, that is to ensure its absolute rule and safety, and it will support the civilian group to suppress the military general Xungui group.

But when Emperor Hongzhi came here, Emperor Hongzhi also knew this, but now the time has come for Daming to change the military system, and the reform may cause many problems and turmoil, but this is not the case, if it continues like this, Daming is doomed. perishing.

Because the military household system has been completely corrupted, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is very low. The seemingly incomparably powerful Ming is actually more like a paper tiger, which can be broken as soon as it is stabbed.

The prairie people in the north can go south every year, Japanese pirates and pirates are rampant in the southeast coastal area, and the chieftains in the southwest are not stable. These are enough to illustrate this point.

Although Daming is big, it is really not strong, it is a paper tiger.

In the past, this paper tiger could barely handle it, and it could last for more than a hundred years, but now it can't.

The rise of Ming's emerging capitalism and the rapid expansion of overseas interests all determine that Ming must build a powerful army to protect Ming's interests.

Emperor Hongzhi is now the biggest capitalist. Every year, he can earn tens of millions of taels of silver just by doing business in North Korea and Japan. In addition to the gold in Huangjinzhou, the products produced by many factories and industries are also needed domestically and abroad. market.

This determined that Emperor Hongzhi, as an emerging capitalist, had to consider his own interests.

If you want to do business in Japan and North Korea, the Japanese pirates and pirates must be attacked; if you want to go to Huangjinzhou to dig gold and do business with descendants of Yin merchants, you also need strong force.

This year, the Nanyang and Australia routes will be opened. There are more pirates in the Nanyang and Australia regions, and the aborigines in the Nanyang region are very fierce. This also requires strong force.

In short, whether it is the urgent need now or the consideration of the future, a strong army is needed.

This is why he made up his mind to change the military system.

When the military system needs to be reformed, he is also worried about whether the reformed army can be in his own hands and whether he will be loyal to him. This is also very important.

"Good, good~"

"This textbook is well written, Liu Jin is really reassuring in his work~"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the teaching textbooks of the military academy and laughed happily.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty written on the book are all very perfect, and they are all like gods. Even the emperor Hongzhi's father Ming Xianzong, the famous faint emperor, is also written very perfectly. One side keeps zooming in, so that Emperor Hongzhi can't help but want to pay homage.

Regarding the description of Emperor Hongzhi himself, it is the deep heart of Emperor Hongzhi, who is kind-hearted, loves the people like a son, is diligent and thrifty, is diligent in government affairs, speaks widely, is not close to women, knows people and uses them well, strives to govern, and smashes the Tartars, etc. Wait.

The Emperor Hongzhi in the book is almost the most perfect emperor, one emperor through the ages, the greatest emperor in history, and the god believed by countless people of Ming Dynasty.

The content written was the kind that even Emperor Hongzhi would blush after reading it.

"Xiao Jing, is the situation at the military academy the same as the report?"

After Emperor Hongzhi pondered for a while, he asked Xiao Jing next to him.

He is also now habitually asking Xiao Jing, and looking at the report from the factory guard.

"Returning to Your Majesty, there is no difference. The Royal Military Academy emphasizes loyalty and honor most. It emphasizes that soldiers must be loyal to His Majesty and swear allegiance to His Majesty to the death. If the King wants his ministers to die, the ministers have to die."

Xiao Jing hurriedly replied respectfully.

In fact, Jin Yiwei and Factory Guard have arranged a lot of spies in the Daming Royal Military Academy, some of them entered as recruits, some entered as instructors, and some were staff members of the military academy.

In short, the power of the factory guards is pervasive, penetrating into every aspect of the Daming Royal Military Academy and the New Army, and reports are continuously sent to Emperor Hongzhi's desk every day.

"Hmm~"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded in satisfaction.

The new army is too important, and Emperor Hongzhi's money is spent like running water. Let alone whether this can build a strong army, at least for now, it is at least very loyal to him.

They are brainwashing every day, and they are constantly telling the glorious deeds of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, saying that without Zhu Yuanzhang, there would be no Ming Dynasty, without the beautiful life of the Han family, and so on.

"How is the prince doing at the military academy?"

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi thought of Zhu Houzhao again. He knew that Zhu Houzhao liked military affairs.

This point was also collectively opposed by the civil officials, especially the elders of the three cabinets in the cabinet, and Yang Tinghe, Zhu Houzhao's teacher, who directly submitted several requests for dictionaries.

Yang Tinghe felt that he had no face to be a teacher for Zhu Houzhao, and he, a student of Confucianism, went to the military academy to hang out with Qiu Ba and others.

How could these instructors and teachers in the military academy compare with him, he even felt as if he had been insulted.

Naturally, there are reasons for the opposition of the civil official group. The prince was honed in the military academy, and he was naturally closer to these soldiers, which was extremely detrimental to the civil official group.

The prince is related to the future, and the civil service group has always attached the most importance to it. In many cases, it doesn't matter if they can't fight now, and they have already made a move in terms of successors.

Emperor Hongzhi is a typical example.

His father Ming Xianzong likes to use the power of the factory guards. Dongchang and Jinyiwei are not enough, and the West Factory was established separately. When Ming Xianzong was in power, the entire government and the public were shrouded in the shadow of the factory guards. The factory owner is even more domineering and arrogant.

The civil servants can't compete with the factory guards, so what should we do?
Start with the successor, so I concentrated on cultivating Emperor Hongzhi, and led Emperor Hongzhi to the side. Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi trusted civil servants very much and reused civil officials, but he was very cold about the factory guards.

As soon as Emperor Hongzhi came to power, the West Factory was immediately abolished, and the factory guards were thrown into limbo, and the spring of the civil servants came.

Now the prince went to the military camp to mix with the military generals Xungui's children and alienate them civil servants. This is not a good thing.

Zhu Houzhao didn't like them civil servants at first, he worshiped Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and it was even more unfavorable for them to go to the military academy to hone his skills.

When Zhu Houzhao becomes emperor, where will these civil servants live?
So, the ministers in the court now write letters to Emperor Hongzhi almost every day, asking him to recall the prince so that he can no longer hang out in the military academy. At the same time, he also asks Emperor Hongzhi to choose a famous teacher for the prince to teach him.

Emperor Hongzhi ignored these memorials.

He is no longer the former Emperor Hongzhi, and he has seen the faces of these civil servants clearly, and believes in his intuition and judgment even more.

He felt that it was actually a good thing for Zhu Houzhao to go to the military academy to practice and practice. Exercise, learn military knowledge, and become familiar with the army will be good for Zhu Houzhao to control the army in the future.

"Returning to Your Majesty, Your Highness has performed very well in the military academy, ranking among the best in all assessments."

Xiao Jing replied respectfully.

"This kid has liked this kind of thing since he was a child. Let him go. Maybe it's good to practice and practice in the military academy."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded in satisfaction.

For his own son, he knew everything about it clearly, where he went every day, what he did, etc., he knew everything clearly.

After all, there is only one son, and he takes it very seriously, and places very high hopes on it. After all, Zhu Houzhao will inherit the Ming Dynasty.

"He hasn't been in contact with anything now, has he?"

Then Emperor Hongzhi seemed to think of something again, and asked after pondering for a while.

"Returning to Your Majesty, Your Highness has no contact with anything. No one in the East Palace dares to let His Highness contact. After entering the military academy, there will be no chance to contact him."

"Now His Highness is putting all his energy into studying in various aspects of the military academy."

Xiao Jing quickly replied.

He clearly knew what Emperor Hongzhi was referring to. Ever since Liu Jin said that contacting men and women too early would lead to infertility, Emperor Hongzhi had issued a death order in this regard.

Many books and pictures collected by Zhu Houzhao were confiscated, and all the maids in the Prince's Mansion of the East Palace were replaced with eunuchs. It was even more decreed that whoever misled Zhu Houzhao in this respect would punish the nine clans.

He was really frightened by Liu Jin's words.

Just a single seedling, if Zhu Houzhao was infertile due to premature exposure to some aspect, and lived a short life, where would the great Ming Dynasty go?

　In history, Zhu Houzhao's desolation was endless, and his lack of heirs should be related to this.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)