In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 287 Enthroned as Emperor
Lin Rui just eradicated the nobles in the capital and stopped, without further pursuing the civil servants and other wealthy households.

After all, most of the civil servants' family properties are in other places. If you plunder them, you won't be able to get much money. Moreover, most of the civil servants in the Ming Dynasty have a virtuous character. Killing this group of Beijing officials will be the same as recruiting another group, so It would be better to leave them to continue to perform their duties. Anyway, we can only rely on them to govern the country for a long time.

The people who had moved from Datong had not yet arrived, and Lin Rui's energy was limited, so he did not take any unnecessary actions, but focused on reorganizing the army.

After all, although he conquered Beijing and Chongzhen also issued an edict to abdicate, he estimated that except for Beizhili, Shandong and Shanxi, it would depend on whether he could send troops to other places.

Especially Chuang Wang who is entrenched in Henan, the Jiangnan area, and remote areas such as Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi, all of which have vassal kings.

Lin Rui first mixed the [-] captured traitor soldiers and Liu Zeqing's [-] soldiers and horses, and organized two towns. These two towns belonged to the garrison, and were designated the First Town and the Second Town of the Chinese Garrison Army.

Yang Guozhu served as the chief military officer of the first town. He then selected two confidants with the rank of generals from the infantry battalion as deputy chief soldiers, and then paired them with the corresponding military judges, logistics officers, and military and political officers, and then the first town set off directly. Heading to Shandong.

Bai Guangen served as the chief military officer of the second town, and the number of troops was also around [-]. After being equipped with the corresponding deputy chief military officers, military law, logistics, military and political affairs and other close officers, they went directly to Shanxi.

Nowadays, there are no decent Ming troops in Shandong and Shanxi. After the 6 people in the two towns passed, these two provinces were basically firmly controlled by Hua.

In Lin Rui's plan, each province will be stationed in a town's garrison in the future, with a number of [-] to [-] people, while most of the field armies will be stationed in the capital and important areas.

In the future, the field army will be mainly responsible for external combat missions, while the garrison army will be mainly responsible for maintaining local security and suppressing rebellions.

After the two garrison towns were organized, only Wu Sangui's 4 Guanning cavalry and nearly [-] infantry prisoners were left, as well as more than [-] Korean servants and Zu Dashou's troops waiting to be dealt with.

As for the tens of thousands of so-called Beijing camps, they were directly demobilized. In Lin Rui's view, those ragtag groups were not even qualified as logistics soldiers, and were not even qualified to escort grain and grass.

Not even as good as those North Korean servants. At least those North Korean soldiers were obedient and told them to go east and never dare to go west.

In fact, what Lin Rui valued most was the [-] young infantrymen. Although these people were a little scared in the battle that day, they had been trained rigorously by Lu Xiangsheng for so long, and they had experienced a cruel bloody battle. , can be directly supplemented by various battle regiments entering the field and used as real infantry.

In the end, Lin Rui decided to draw some officers from the three field legions as a basis, and then remove [-] captured infantry to form a fifth legion. The extra people would be replenished to the three old legions.

After some reorganization, except for the lack of one firearms battalion, all four legions were fully staffed, except that the long archers of the fifth legion became ordinary archers.

Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Cavalry serves as the cavalry battalion under the Fifth Army Corps.

After careful consideration, Lin Rui chose Wu Sangui to serve as the commander of the fifth army, while Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing served as deputy army commanders respectively.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Lin Rui really couldn't find a confidant general who could take charge of his own affairs. Compared with other generals in the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui's ability was indeed superior.

As for whether he is loyal or traitorous, or what his character is, Lin Rui doesn't care at all. In his opinion, as long as he has the ability and is willing to obey and do things, it will be fine.Anyway, the mid-level and senior officers of the Fifth Army were all his direct descendants, and with the checks and balances of Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing, even if Wu Sangui had second thoughts, he would not be able to cause any big trouble.

What's more, now that China has taken over the general trend of the world, those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish. This is not just talk. It is the experience and wisdom passed down by our ancestors for thousands of years. As long as you are a little smarter, you can see the situation clearly. People know what to do.

The Wu family and his son are definitely the best among them.

Zu Dashou's more than 2 soldiers and horses were organized into the third garrison town. Lin Rui, the [-] Korean servants, did not let them eat, but were escorted to repair the official road from Xuanfu to the capital. .

After the fifth army was reorganized, Lin Rui asked Huang Ben to lead the [-]-strong army of the second army, carrying a large amount of food and baggage, as well as thousands of noble children who were about to be exiled, and rushed to Liaodong in a mighty manner.

Although Lin Rui wanted to go south to the Central Plains immediately to unify the world, there was really no suitable candidate to serve as the commander of the army, and he himself would definitely have to stay in the capital, so he had no choice but to postpone his move south.

Lin Rui was really helpless about this. The magnificent country now had hundreds of thousands of troops. Apart from Namu Zhong, he could no longer find a handsome man who could be trusted and could stand alone. It was really embarrassing.

Think about the self-made founding emperors of the past dynasties. Which one did not have a lot of good ministers and counselors under his command?Are the generals as talented as the clouds?
For example, Han Xin, Xiao He, Zhang Liang, etc. under Liu Bang, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu...

Of course, Lin Rui also knew that the reason why this happened when he arrived was not because he really had no talented generals under his command.

But the opponent was too weak, and his rise was too fast, so fast that these talented generals had no time to grow or hone their skills.

After all, the true talents of a general are gained from battle after battle, from the accumulation of countless corpses.

Although the Chinese army has fought many battles in the past seven or eight years, almost continuously, there were only two real battles, and the others were small casual attacks, which are incomparable with those dynasties that unified the world in history.

The boy who first followed him is only 23 now. The oldest Zhou Meng Huang Ben is only 28, and he himself is only 23 years old this year. Such a young founding emperor and army are definitely the first in history. suffered.

It was not until the end of June that Hong Chengchou, Zhang Xiuying and others arrived in Beijing with personnel from various departments, accompanied by most of the First Army Corps. The team stretched for dozens of miles and contained more than [-] people.

On the first day of July, Lin Rui also officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the Huangji Hall, with the country name Dahua and the era name Shenwu.

Since the world has not been unified, there are no large-scale awards for the founding of the country. Even the queen has not been canonized. Only Zhang Xiuying, Lin Xiuyun, Lin Xiaocui, Lin Beier, Hailanzhu, and Lu Waner have been canonized as imperial concubines.

As for Namu Zhong, Lin Rui originally wanted to canonize her as queen, but she was opposed by almost all the Han civil servants and generals under his command. In addition, Namu Zhong had not returned yet, so he put it aside.

(End of this chapter)