I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 253 Gongsha Sirao

In the establishment of the Beijing camp, there are three posts with 500 people per division, and one thousand general.

Some time ago, Zhu and Guo were envious of Sun Xinji's rapid promotion to President Qian. Unexpectedly, today, they were promoted to President Qian by the emperor himself. They were extremely excited at this moment.

When the nobles on the side heard this, they were secretly surprised that these two people were such young talents and had great luck. What's more, the emperor favored them. They will have a bright future in the future.

With these two people as role models, they became more serious about sending their own children to train with the emperor. The emperor really didn't just talk about it. He not only gave his students official positions, but also promoted them quickly.

"Well, I believe you will live up to my expectations. Get up."

Zhu Youxiao nodded with a smile on his face, turned around and sat down on the throne neatly, and asked them to stop kneeling and stand up directly.

"By the way, these two are not the only heroes today. The artillery watch was developed by Sun Yuanhua and the Western instructors. I also asked them to come to the Beijing camp. I wonder where they are now?"

The raising of the gun and the cannon watch just now were all attributed to Sun Yuanhua, which made Zhu Youxiao want to see him immediately.

Sun Yuanhua and the Portuguese instructor Gongsha Sirao had been waiting for the order in the distance for a long time. When they heard the emperor's summons, they immediately came to see him.

"Sun Yuanhua, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry, and Sirao, the instructor Gongsha, pay homage to Your Majesty."

"Get up!"

Zhu Youxiao looked at the red-haired and blue-eyed Portuguese next to Sun Yuanhua with great interest. He had heard of this man in his previous life. In history, due to Xu Guangqi's suggestion, Chongzhen once hired a Portuguese artillery team. The leader was this man. .

Finally, Sun Yuanhua became the governor of Denglai and recruited the remnants of Liaodong refugees in Denglai. He asked Sirao from Gongsha to train Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others. In the end, the two rebelled, and he also tried his best to help Sun Yuanhua defend the city in Denglai for more than a year. , he fulfilled his duty and finally died in Denglai.

From this, Zhu Youxiao had a very good impression of Gongsha Xi Lao. No matter where he came from, at least he had professional ethics. He took money to do things and had principles in doing things.

"This Westerner can already speak Chinese?"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but asked curiously when he heard that Xi Lao of Gongsha actually said to greet him in Chinese.

Seeing that the emperor seemed to be asking what he said, the Westerner looked puzzled and looked anxiously at Sun Yuanhua for help.

"Your Majesty, this Portuguese instructor doesn't know Chinese. Wei Chen specially taught him this sentence, and it took him a while to learn it."

"Haha, you are quite thoughtful. I have also heard about your development of the artillery watch. I am very pleased. Now the Krug artillery has such power, and you owe a share of the credit."

Upon hearing this, Sun Yuanhua immediately leaned over and said:

"I don't dare to be greedy for credit. Your Majesty has treated me with deep kindness. I am just doing my duty."

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied when he heard that Sun Yuanhua was so humble and self-sufficient. It was rare for him to be both talented and not arrogant.

"I feel very relieved when you say this. I will keep this credit in my heart. When you develop a flintlock gun in the future, I will reward you well."

Hearing what the emperor said, Sun Yuanhua knew that the emperor was still very concerned about flintlock guns. During this period, he also found a lot of firearms talents to develop them together. At present, he has some ideas, and I believe there will be results soon. .

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I will live up to your Majesty's trust and will do my best to do a good job in this matter and ensure the success of the development."

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and then turned his attention to Xi Lao from Gongsha. He was also very interested in this person.

"Government affairs are busy these days. What does this Western instructor mainly teach on weekdays, and what are the results?"

"Your Majesty, Gongsha mainly teaches artillery skills in Licaolan Field. He is mainly responsible for calculating the artillery list. The ministers only serve as assistants."

"Well, this is also a meritorious service, so I will reward him with 100 taels of silver as a credit."

After hearing the translator on the side, Sirao of Gongsha immediately bowed and thanked him.

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about these false gifts. The wages of the Portuguese here were already generous. As far as he knew, Gongsha's Sirao's salary was 100 taels per year, plus an additional five taels per month, and the rest were paid annually. The salary is 50 taels, and an additional [-] taels of food money is given every month.

This amount of money is equivalent to his year's salary, which is naturally very important to these people.

Later, Zhu Youxiao watched the elite troops of Zhenwu and Yaowu take turns to perform drills, and was very satisfied.With this level of training, it is estimated that it is more than enough to deal with the Bailian rebels. He can rest assured to arrest Xu Hongru in advance. Even if he rebels in advance, he is not too worried. He only needs to send the Beijing camp and the border troops to suppress it. "My lords, I came here today to test the results. Now it seems that the Beijing Camp is ready for battle, but it is only the Zhenwu and Yaowu armies. The Sixth Army and the Fourth Army of the Jingying Camp are still preparing for training. Just wait until enough generals and firearms from the Ordnance Bureau can catch up.

Therefore, I thought that although the Military Academy has not yet been established, with the support of Licaolanchang, the Military Academy can be fully operational.The first step is to recruit people. In the past, the maximum number of students in Licaolanchang was 100. Now I am planning to expand the number of students to 300, with a three-year period.One-third comes from the frontier army, one-third comes from local recommendations and military examinations, and the other third comes from our nobles.

At that time, any interested children in your family can take the exam, and those who pass the exam will be admitted to study.

Don't be stingy when the time comes. Be sure to recommend all the outstanding children from your family to come here to study. After graduation, they can come to the Beijing camp to work.Honors and honors are based on meritorious service, but you must never forget your origins, you all understand! "

The British princes and others were all smart people, so they naturally knew the emperor's purpose and intention of bringing them here alone this time. Now that the emperor had said so, they quickly bowed to express their stance.

"What your Majesty is saying is that before, I was blind to this and didn't see much of it. But now that I see the improvement in the capital, Guo Zuoguang and others have made great contributions to win your Majesty's trust. I am also very moved. Go back and ask all the children at home to participate in the competition and strive to enter the Military Academy to honor your ancestors."

Sun Tingxun, the last uncle from Yingcheng, stood up first to speak. Because someone in his family worked in the capital last year, he was implicated in the rectification of the capital. Thanks to the emperor who said that as long as he handed over the stolen money, everything would be fine, and his family was able to avoid disaster. .

Now that he was able to follow him, it was because he had made great efforts to persuade the British Duke to ask for the opportunity. The purpose was to express his stance to the emperor at the right time and regain the emperor's trust.

Now that he saw the emperor saying this, he immediately told everything in his mind without hesitation.Zhu Youxiao immediately expressed joy upon hearing this, and was quite satisfied with his remarks.

"It's very good. Knowing your mistakes can make a lot of improvements. As long as you focus on serving the country, I can use it."

With Sun Tingxun, the uncle of Yingcheng, as an example, other nobles also expressed their opinions, saying that they would send their own children to study.

Seeing these nobles vying to express their loyalty, Zhu Youxiao seemed to be filled with pride, narrowing his eyes slightly and looking at everyone.

It seems that what can unite a group of people around them must be interests. If they only train soldiers in the grass field and do not assign positions to the students in the Beijing camp, they will only feel that they are acting on a whim and are not interested, and even I feel like I'm being frivolous and having fun.

It's just that they didn't expect that they would clean up the Beijing Camp first, clearing out a large number of original vested interests, and vacating a large number of positions for these students, and these students were promoted quickly after arriving at the Beijing Camp.Only when they see such benefits, those nobles who can't afford to do it early will rush to support themselves in doing this.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao felt very tired. The nobles in the imperial court were really like mud and couldn't hold up a wall. He had to deliberately promote them to wake them up.No wonder in history, when the Ming Dynasty fell, the nobles and nobles were of no use.

Now, if we weren't really short of talents and needed to recruit people to fill the capital camp and contain the civil servants, we would definitely not use and reuse these rice bags.

From this, he also secretly made up his mind, thinking that this was just a temporary measure, and he would definitely train more people from the grassroots in the future.Let them become a new noble group through military exploits in the future and squeeze these people out.

"Okay, it's good if you have this intention. Today's inspection of the Beijing camp is very good. I think we should not just stand here and watch, but go down and have a look. Chen Liangbi, you can lead the way."

Chen Liangbi had been ready for a long time. Now, following the emperor's instructions, he immediately led everyone off the platform and led the emperor around the school grounds while explaining.

So under the leadership of Chen Liangbi, Zhu Youxiao once again had close contact with the Krug cannon. It was also the first time for him to see the Type C Krug cannon. It did look much smaller than the previous Krug cannon at Licaolan Field.But there is a greater need for such small artillery on the battlefield, which is more portable.

Under Zhu Youxiao's special instructions, Chen Liangbi also accompanied and led Zhu Youxiao's group to the Zhenwu Army's camp. Although for the emperor's safety, the personnel and tents inside had been selected long ago, Zhu Youxiao still asked Zhu Youxiao to Wait for everyone to watch with gusto.

After a brief reading, it was getting late, and it was not convenient for Zhu Youxiao to spend the night in the Beijing camp. So under the persuasion of the nobles, he got into the chariot again and was greeted by Jiang Lin and others. Went back to the Forbidden City.

Looking at the emperor's team going away, Jiang Lin and others also breathed a sigh of relief, finally completing the mission without any danger.

"General Huang Shen, General Sun Shen, I didn't expect you two to be so deeply favored by the emperor. It's really enviable."

They returned to the school grounds and looked at the Yongyi and Wuyi battalion soldiers cleaning up the mess in the school grounds. They couldn't help but sigh to Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan.

"Your Majesty, Commander-in-Chief, thank you very much. After arriving at the capital camp, it's all thanks to you two and Governor Chen for your care. I'm very grateful."

Huang Degong naturally knew that they were kind to them because they saw the emperor's face, so he immediately answered the message and started praising them.But Jiang and Lin shook their heads upon hearing this. The emperor's meaning was not obvious yet.

"The emperor attaches great importance to you, and your future will naturally be limitless, and you will rise to the top. We, General Tan, have discussed that in the future, when supplying the two armies, we will put you first. I hope you will not let down His Majesty's love."

Now that they have seen the emperor's attitude, the generals will not offend Huang Degong and others, just to save face.

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