I am the king of the dead

Chapter 155 Soldiers Push the Chessboard
The painting by Zhu Chun was presented by Chen Xun to the Empress Dowager Sun. The birthday of the Empress Dowager Sun is coming, and the gift for the Longevity Festival is also a Ming tradition.

When Xing'an reported this matter, Zhu Qiyu thought for a long time, but finally did not stop him.

He wanted to see if the Empress Dowager Sun accepted or not.

Zhu Qiyu's previous birthday was in November. After the defeat of Oirat last year, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was renewed and extremely busy. Zhu Qiyu directly ordered to stop his Longevity Day affairs and focus on state affairs.

This year's New Year's Eve, Zhu Qiyu stopped the officials' New Year ceremony again.

Zhu Qiyu wants to see whether the Empress Dowager Sun will accept or not accept the gift for the Longevity Day, and he also wants to see who will give the gift and how expensive it is.

He also wanted to see who among the courtiers in the world would dare to send congratulatory gifts before him, the emperor.

Lu Zhong put a list in front of His Majesty, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, this is the tongue that Yu Shaobao caught in Daxing before, and all the people who found out are here."

Lu Zhong's ability to handle cases is extremely strong, but because people's livelihood is involved, the investigation of this matter is mainly based on interviews, which is quite troublesome.

Lu Zhong and Xia Heng, the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, cooperated actively, and finally found out the complicated route of spreading rumors, but they only caught some good-for-nothing people who chewed their tongues.

"Who is promoting this matter?" Zhu Qiyu looked at it for a long time. The whole list was dominated by the three aunts, six women and beggars walking around the streets, but there was no real mastermind. This incident revealed a strangeness.

The people on this list are extremely concentrated, with three aunts, six women and beggars on the street as the mainstream. It can be seen that a pair of invisible hands are pushing.

But tracing back to the source is really too difficult.

Zhu Qiyu didn't blame Lu Zhong for not finding out who was behind the scenes.

There are really too many beggars in the capital.

Wucheng Bingma Division, for example, Dongcheng Bingma Division has more than 2000 beggars, and Wucheng Bingma Division has more than 1 beggars.

These are official beggars with beggar status. They are idle, idle, tyrannical young men, holding a wine bottle in one hand, begging along the street for food, wine and belongings, called Huazi.

These official beggars, when they meet thieves, go with them to rob. When they are caught, they ask their fellow beggars.

Roughly equivalent to the beggars.

There are temporary beggars under the official beggars, all because of famine or loss of land, they have become temporary beggars, and it is impossible to find out.

For example, the rumors about Zhen, Zhen, and Goujiaozhen before were the masterminds found from top to bottom through the investigation of Yanxing Building.

Now it is too difficult to go from bottom to top.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Lu Zhong's memorial and said: "Can't you find it? The capital should go back to the camp, let the capital send 2 people into the city, and capture all these beggars to the capital."

"Ah?" Lu Zhong looked at His Majesty dully, a little dazed.

Zhu Qiyu said with certainty: "That's right, take all these beggars into the army."

"On the school grounds, it's good to practice. Yu Shaobao said that the country bullies can get rid of their habits if they are caught in the army."

"Isn't this a ready-made example? The beggars are caught in the barracks and see the effect."

Lu Zhong scratched his head and said, "The minister leads the order."

Yu Qian and Zhu Qiyu disagreed on some details of the Farm Law.

What Zhu Qiyu meant was that those guys who eat too much, are lazy, and don't work, just don't count points, and all of them will starve to death.

Yu Qian felt that they could be educated, and it would be good to throw them into the army for a few years.

Zhu Qiyu has always felt that this method is not very reliable. Now that there is a realistic social model, you will know if you try it. If you can really transform them into human beings and stop being muddled, it may be a merit of enlightenment.

Lu Zhong's expression is still a little confused, can this solve the problem?

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said, "You think I'm going to make things difficult for these beggars, right?"

Although Lu Zhong looked a bit embarrassed, he still nodded and said: "Your Majesty, beggars are a persistent disease in the capital, and this move may cause criticism."

"Besides, the Beijing camp is the Son of Heaven's own army, so it's a big deal. If these people are mixed in, wouldn't it cause chaos in the Beijing camp's military discipline?"

"Your Majesty is stupid, please clarify."

Zhu Qiyu looked at Lu Zhong, he usually obeyed Zhu Qiyu's orders, and now he finally learned to think, which is a good thing.

He shook his head and said: "Nowadays, families of powerful officials like to recruit family members. They are called foster sons, but they are actually slaves."

"These so-called adopted sons, how do they work for the powerful families of internal and external officials? They organize groups on the streets."

"The beggars are indeed miserable, but how do these beggars survive? Are they begging on the street? Or are they following robbers?"

"Actually, they are all powerful families, just raising them."

Being a family member of a powerful family is quite a lot of work. Not everyone can do it, and it has to be selected.

And these so-called family members, who do things for the head of the family, naturally have to employ people, who should they employ?

Brokers, compradors, bandits, bandits, beggars.

"Yu Shaobao said that in the battle of Xuanfu, the most important thing is to cut the wings of the Wala. If the Tatars and Wuliangha go straight to Jiajiaying, Yang Hong can still attack everywhere like this, laying pocket formations for the Wala people, waiting Did the Oirats get in?"

"Obviously not."

"The attack group is small, it can become the norm. All these beggars in the street are brought into the Beijing camp, and they are sent to the army for five years. They don't need to fight, but they must build bridges, pave roads, set up camps and nails, and daily training must also be done. .”

Zhu Qiyu understood Lu Zhong's two concerns, he was afraid that these beggars would enter the camp and disturb the military discipline of the Beijing camp, but they could be incorporated into the engineering camp as auxiliary soldiers.

Why do future generations need to crack down on small groups of people every now and then, and carry out special operations against gangsters and evil?
This is something that must be done to maintain the rule and stability. It can cut off the wings of the powerful family and prevent the powerful family from taking power.

They used their power to enrich themselves, ruining the reputation of the emperor and the foundation of Ming Dynasty.

The Powerful Family did not have the awareness to maintain the foundation of Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Qiyu helped them realize it.

"Your Majesty is wise, but my subjects are dull. I would like to obey His Majesty's instructions." Lu Zhong bowed his head and took orders. There were many things that caused criticism. He just didn't know the purpose of His Majesty's mobilization of these beggars. Now he fully understands.

Obviously, these professional beggars of beggar status are not really miserable, but just the right and left hands of the influential family.

"Go." Zhu Qiyu nodded and said.

Lu Zhong bowed his head and said: "I will take my leave."

Zhu Qiyu looked at Lu Zhong's back. As his name suggests, Lu Zhong is loyal enough, and he is making progress now. He is becoming more and more comfortable in handling large and small cases.

"Xing'an, are you ready for the Empress Dowager's birthday gift?" Zhu Qiyu stood up and was going to inspect the martial arts hall to see how the class was going.

Xing'an bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, everything is ready, I think it will not be too late to send it after a few days."

"Yes." Zhu Qiyu walked out of the second floor of the main building.

Although Xing'an's meaning is not very clear, but this errand was handled extremely properly.

Why wait a few days?

It is to see which courtiers are so filial and give gifts before the emperor gives gifts. These people have to make a list of people to pay attention to, pay more attention at ordinary times, and just look for them if anything happens.

Don't fishermen always like to make nests when they fish?Zhu Qiyu used the Queen Mother's Longevity Festival to make a nest.

"Xing'an, don't you think it's a shame that the emperor, my emperor, fights with his courtiers every day?" Zhu Qiyu suddenly asked as he walked.

Xing'an shivered, but didn't reply, only His Majesty could know what His Majesty was thinking, and he pretended he didn't hear it.

In fact, from Xing'an's point of view, which emperor does not intrigue with his courtiers?Otherwise, what's the use of eunuchs?
It's a strange thing not to intrigue. Your Majesty's place is not bad. In the court, Yu Shaobao is in front of him, so he can't form a joint force.

Zhu Qiyu suddenly remembered Yu Qian's sentence, the system of the country, the frontier government is governed by civil officials, the military officials are the generals, and the internal officials are the guardians.

The layout of the martial arts hall consists of four rows of houses. Zhu Qiyu just simply inspected it. When he went up to the second floor, he saw Shi Heng competing against a map.

This map is another little invention of Zhu Qiyu, called Bingtui.

Contour lines are drawn on the Kanyu map, as well as various water patterns, military fort layouts, etc., and each grid on it represents ten miles of land.

In the flag box next to it, there are small flags of various colors representing different arms, and various celestial phenomena representing rain, snow, hail, strong wind, etc., all available.

It is a kind of small military deduction game created by Zhu Qiyu. It is used by the military officers in the lecture hall for entertainment in their spare time. If there is no entertainment, it is easy to breed gambling.

"See Your Majesty." Seeing Zhu Qiyu approaching, Shi Heng quickly stood up and saluted.

"Come on, let's talk." Zhu Qiyu sat opposite Shi Heng and said with a smile.

Shi Heng bowed his head and said: "The minister is in charge of Wala, and your majesty is in charge of Ming Dynasty."

Three people are required to play this game of pushing the military flag. The maps are made in triplicate. The two players each hold one set, and the referee gets one set.

And there is a curtain in the middle of the table, the referee can see the layout of the two sides, but the two sides of the game have black eyes, playing with small flags, simulating an army battle.

Zhu Qiyu and Shi Heng each took a map of Xuanfu and began to form troops.

The rules are not complicated. The cavalry can walk two squares in one round, the infantry can walk one square in one round, and the food and supplies can only walk one square in two days. Such rules are almost formulated according to the actual marching speed.

Zhu Qiyu and Shi Heng started to deploy the army formation. As soon as the battle started, Xing'an immediately said, "It's raining heavily."

Zhu Qiyu's infantry met Shi Heng's cavalry. Once it rained, the road would be muddy, the bowstring would be soft, and the firearms could not be fired.

Zhu Qiyu's infantry can be said to have taken advantage of it.

Yu Qian obviously had something to do. After reporting outside, he walked in. Seeing the chess game, Yu Qian was also very interested.

"It's raining again..." Xing'an watched the situation silently. Even the referee, Xing'an, was always raining, but he couldn't stand Zhu Qiyu's micromanagement. It was really bad.

Zhu Qiyu's central army has been surrounded by all Shi Heng's Wala troops.

The scene of the sudden change in the civil castle reappeared.

As soon as Shi Heng saw that he was about to win, he immediately started to play stinky chess. In a few moves, Zhu Qiyu's central army actually broke through the encirclement and defeated Shi Heng's main force.

Shi Heng immediately said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty really has a clever plan. When planning a strategy, he uses soldiers like a god to win a decisive victory thousands of miles away!"

Zhu Qiyu sneered twice, threw the flag in his hand, shook his head and said, "Are you thinking of words before you start?"

"Hey." Shi Heng patted his head and said, "No, Your Majesty, well done."

In addition to being very good at fighting tough battles to the death, Shi Heng is also very good at flattering. Yu Qian dislikes this flattering appearance very much.

Fortunately, His Majesty never cared much about such flattery.

"One more." Zhu Qiyu cheerfully opened up the pawns and pushed the chessboard, and played against Shi Heng again.

Of course it was Zhu Qiyu who ruled the Ming side and won a complete victory!

Shi Heng knew that His Majesty was just looking for fun. Although he could win, it was unnecessary.

"Yu Shaobao come for a game?" Zhu Qiyu stood up, he knew clearly that he couldn't beat Shi Heng.

Yu Qian sat down and started playing chess with Shi Heng.

Shi Heng's forehead soon became sweaty.

　Ask for a ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)