Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 295 Reevaluate Zhang Juzheng

Qi Changguo couldn't help being grateful to Zhu Youxiao. He didn't expect that His Majesty would still think of his father today.

You know, since Zhang Juzheng fell from power, his father has been demoted again and again.Among the government and the opposition, no one has thought of their Qi family army, the mighty Qi family army that shakes the world.

However, Zhu Youxiao's compliments to his father and him made him feel like he had eaten honey. His excited eyes flashed with tears, and he nodded emphatically.

Zhu Youxiao patted him on the shoulder, and asked Qi Changguo: "I heard from Mr. Li Ge's report that the soldiers in your Yiyang station are well-trained, and they are quite well-informed by the Qi family army. Can you let me take a look."

"The minister has brought them all into Wuchang City according to the order, please Your Majesty to review!" Qi Changguo solemnly bowed his hands to Zhu Youxiao, and after speaking, he turned around and waved his hands as a gesture of invitation.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and left the main hall of the palace. As soon as he came to the school grounds, he saw Qi Changguo's Yiyang guards standing in an orderly manner on the school grounds. Although most of them were not tall, they were all full of energy. Strong and strong.

Zhu Youxiao has to admit that Qi Jiguang is really good at training soldiers, and many of his ideas are not behind modern military theories, as can be seen from the Yiyang soldiers brought out by his son today.

However, due to its precision, this kind of corps that mixes and fights in various combinations has limited its number to not be too large, so it is not suitable for promotion. Dozens or even millions of troops in the entire Ming Dynasty are also assembled in this way. .

It can be understood that the Qi Family Army can be regarded as the embryonic form of a special forces unit in a sense, and it is suitable for dealing with sports guerrilla or unconventional combat units.

The Japanese pirates back then were exactly such enemies. As a complex of pirates and Japanese ronin, they could not organize large-scale battles with hundreds of thousands of troops, but they had strong individual combat capabilities and were good at raids and penetrations. This point, using the exquisite and complex mandarin duck tactics, forms the combat advantage of combined forces against individual soldiers.

The Praetorian Guard now has the most conventional infantry, cavalry, and artillery on the ground, as well as a navy that has just been established, and now only the air force and special forces are missing.

However, the establishment of the Air Force, like the Navy, has to wait for the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Ordnance Department to develop the latest scientific research results before they can have the most basic foundation to form the Air Force, a technical arm with strong professional skills. .

However, in order for Daming to gain a dominant position in the sea and air in the future, these developments must also be accelerated.

But the most urgent task now is to use the foundation of Qi Changguo and his Yiyang soldiers to create a Ming special forces unit.

"Qi Changguo, let me ask you, your father was able to form the Qi family army based on the Yiwu miners and put down the Japanese pirates, but now I ask you to build another Qi family army by selecting soldiers from the imperial guards and even the whole country. Can you fight against the wolf soldiers from the southwest, the pirates from the southeast, the barbarians from the South China Sea, and the Tartars outside the pass?"

The meaning of Zhu Youxiao's question is obvious, that is, to ask whether Qi Changguo can create a special forces unit that can defeat all arms in a small-scale war.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao asked such a question is naturally not groundless. You must know that Qi's army went to the north after suppressing the Japanese pirates in the south, and its performance against the Tartars was no worse than that of Li Chengliang's cavalry.

Qi Changguo didn't even dare to say that, as Qi Jiguang's heir, although he inherited his family education, he didn't dare to say that he wanted to be compared with the Qi family army founded by his father.

"You don't have to be self-effacing. As the saying goes, the blue is better than the blue. It is also a common thing. Looking at the morale of your Yiyang soldier, I can guess that you not only have the true inheritance of Qi Shaobao, but also have further effects. Moreover, I believe that if your father is reborn, I naturally hope that you can bring out better soldiers than him." Zhu Youxiao said, and asked again: "How is it, do you have confidence?"

Qi Changguo is not a stupid person either, so he naturally knew that His Majesty meant to reuse him, so he also gritted his teeth and said: "My minister complies with the order, please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will be able to train an army that can win every battle."

"Don't brag, you won't be allowed to recruit yet. All of your Yiyang soldiers will be reorganized into the Imperial Guard and reorganized into the Imperial Guard system, and your position of a thousand households will also be dismissed." , I gave Liu Ruoyu the preaching order, you will enter the Royal Military Academy to participate in the third period of officer cadet training, study for one year, and after one year of graduation, I will re-grant you a position and recruit soldiers again?"

Zhu Youxiao didn't wait for Qi Changguo to answer, and said again: "Although I know that your father is a genius military strategist, to my Ming Dynasty, he is like Song Zhiyue Wumu, but many military theories are not all known. , I let you go to the Royal Military Academy to let you understand at least the most avant-garde military concepts at present, and it can also be regarded as broadening your horizons. I will make the Royal Academy of Sciences, Royal Academy of Engineering, Ordnance Department and Imperial Academy open to you for free , You can learn more about it, future wars will be far more complicated than this, and even one day, the cavalry that dominates the world will become history, while special troops like the Qi family army will become the norm."

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he looked at Qi Changguo. He knew that even though Qi Changguo was well-versed in literature, science and martial arts, he would not be able to digest his own words, just like Chang Yanling and Qin Botong in those days. Only after you have explored and learned by yourself will you gradually understand the theoretical knowledge you have instilled in them.

And now what Zhu Youxiao has to do is to see if Qi Changguo can give up his position as a thousand households in order to create a stronger Qi family army (special forces), willing to start from scratch, and go to the Royal Military Academy, everything starts from scratch .

This is a difficult choice for many people, just like you are already a commander of 0 points 0 districts in the army, but now you are asked to go back to school and start as an ordinary student.

The same is true of Qi Changguo. Since Zhang Juzheng fell, his Qi family has been going downhill, and there is no support in the court, and he has spent a lot of effort to keep his thousand households. Now he suddenly gave up. It's a test.

However, once Qi Changguo thought about the fact that everything about his Qi family was given by His Majesty the Emperor, now that His Majesty asked him to give up his official position and go to the Royal Military Academy, he could only obey.

"I obey the decree, please Your Majesty remove me from the position of Yiyang Thousand Households! Let me rush to the capital to participate in the assessment of the Royal Military Academy!"

Qi Changguo bowed heavily to Zhu Youxiao.

"I'm sure, the specific purpose, I will let Mr. Li Ge prepare it and hand it over to you." Zhu Youxiao asked Qi Changguo to retire as soon as he said, and as soon as he left, Zhu Youxiao took the head of the East Factory. Wu Jin called and said: "I will pass on my decree to Liu Ruoyu, the supervisor of ceremonies who is in charge of recruiting students at the Royal Military Academy. This time, when the third batch of military cadets is selected at the end of the year, no matter how outstanding his performance is, Qi Changguo will be dismissed by me. If he participates in the second supplementary recruitment selection, he will be directly selected for the third phase of the top student training, and after the training is over, he will be directly awarded the rank of colonel commander!"

Wang Chengen saw that Zhu Youxiao was still promising Qi Changguo that he would go to the Royal Military Academy at first, but now he asked Dongchang to pass a secret decree to Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch who is in charge of the admissions work of the Royal Military Academy, and the eunuch of the East Factory, asking him Qi Changguo was deposed in the third round of military officer admission examinations, which made Wang Chengen very curious, and couldn't help asking: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, why is this so. I don't understand?"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smiled: "If you don't trip Qi Changguo, can he realize how difficult it is to enter the Royal Military Academy? He can study steadily for a year in the Royal Military Academy in the future. , don't think he is very humble to me, let me tell you, a general like him has a sense of arrogance in his bones, how can he become a calm and calm famous general without experiencing setbacks; It’s like the Imperial Academy to literati, if Qi Changguo can’t even accept this small setback, how can I rest assured that he will be in charge of the special forces unit and complete various complicated tasks in the future.”

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Hearing what Zhu Youxiao said, Wang Chengen couldn't help flattering Zhu Youxiao.And Zhu Youxiao didn't say much, just smiled lightly.

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Although Chu Huakui's rebellion ended, Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to leave Huguang directly. Zhu Youxiao planned to meet the gentry in Huguang again.

Even, I have to go to Jiangling once.

And this time, in suppressing the rebellion of the king of Chu, Zhu Youxiao naturally gained a lot. Not only did he get a huge amount of natural property and family property from the king of Chu, Zhu Huakui, but he also deposed the kings of Chu and Lu together. Waiting for many vassal kings, almost tens of thousands of the hundreds of thousands of imperial relatives and nobles in the entire Ming Dynasty were implicated, and because of this they lost the right to legally parasitize, and these tens of thousands of people were almost all the upper echelons of the Ming clan. , occupying more than half of the resources of the clan of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the financial pressure on the central court will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

Moreover, in addition to this, Zhu Youxiao also issued a decree to continue to encourage relatives of the emperors and relatives to do business and trade, and the Royal Bank will give them preferential loans. Of course, if you are interested in doing other jobs, if you just want to be a simple The artist, Zhu Youxiao also agrees.

But there is also a red line, Zhu Youxiao does not allow vassal kings to participate in the military, and even in politics, they cannot have too much power.

When Zhu Youxiao arrived at Jiangling City, the officials of Jiangling City, like Jiangling County Magistrate Chai Shuo, were already waiting outside the city gate. However, Zhu Youxiao did not exchange greetings with these local officials. He went straight to the place where Zhang Juzheng lived.

But because Zhang Juzheng has now become a typical example of powerful and treacherous officials in the entire Ming Dynasty, his hometown in Jiangling has long been dilapidated, and his private gardens have even been divided up by other powerful factions.

The magistrate of Jiangling suddenly knew that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao was coming, so he was in a hurry. He did not expect that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao would suddenly visit Zhang Juzheng.

In his opinion, he thought that his majesty came to Jiangling because he was going to Xianling to worship his ancestors, but he didn't expect to come to see Zhang Juzheng!

The magistrate of Jiangling secretly regretted that he didn't renovate Zhang Juzheng's old house in order to deceive him, but now his Majesty saw that Zhang Juzheng's house had become so dilapidated that even his ancestral hall had no roof.

Seeing that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao was frowning all the time, the magistrate of Jiangling couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not lose his temper at the magistrate of Jiangling County, and suddenly he said very gently: "I am a loyal minister. Although Zhang Juzheng was suspected of arrogating the young master in order to order the world back then, in the final analysis, everything he did at that time The measures and the new coup d'état are all based on the will of the late emperor, and it is not an act of disloyalty or injustice. Moreover, during his ten years in power, my Ming Dynasty was indeed thriving, unlike the years before and after my accession to the throne. The situation, foreign affairs, wars continue, dozens of cities have been lost in a row, and I have seen countless Ming people being slaughtered by barbarians without moving, and the internal party disputes are also intensifying within the imperial court. The Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party can be said to have no peace in the country, and the people are suffering unspeakably, if Mr. Zhang Ge is in power for another ten years, how could such a result occur."

Only then did Chai Shuo, magistrate of Jiangling County, realize that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao meant to vindicate Zhang Juzheng, otherwise, he wouldn't be saying good things about Zhang Juzheng in every sentence, and his compliments were endless.

Although Chai Shuo, the magistrate of Jiangling County, had fiercely opposed Zhang Juzheng's New Deal because of the matter of measuring the acres of land, but now that His Majesty mentions it again, he can only nod submissively.

At the same time, in order to increase his good impression in front of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, Jiangling County Magistrate Chai Shuo had to promise: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely renovate Zhangge's mansion and ancestral hall to commemorate the Mr. Zhang Ge has made great contributions to my Ming Dynasty."

"Well, it's good that you understand," Zhu Youxiao told Li Mingrui after speaking: "The right minister of the Ministry of punishment and the secretary of the ceremonial supervisor who caused Zhang Ge's hometown to starve to death because of being detained back then Eunuchs, etc., must be severely punished! If they are still alive, let them also taste the taste of being starved to death; if they are already dead, we will take over their family property to expand the strength of our Daming state-owned capital."

After speaking, Zhu Youxiao walked to Zhang Juzheng's spiritual seat in person, and personally put three sticks of incense on Zhang Juzheng.

The news that Zhu Youxiao re-evaluated Zhang Juzheng as a loyal minister and ordered people to renovate the Zhang family's mansion and ancestral hall spread like wildfire as soon as it was published in the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Zhu Youxiao's comments on Zhang Juzheng caused an uproar in the world. No one expected that His Majesty would overthrow Emperor Wanli's denial and denunciation of Zhang Juzheng again, but re-choose to affirm Zhang Juzheng. It is to affirm the New Deal by rehabilitating Zhang Juzheng, and pave the way for the promotion of the New Deal in the future, and to encourage more ministers to dare to participate in the reform of the New Deal, especially those officials who are determined to innovate .

But as a result, Zhu Youxiao's actions have aroused the vigilance of a large number of conservative or selfish officials. They feel that they must stop His Majesty's crazy move, otherwise they will have to face the danger of losing their privileges. Just like those princes.

(End of this chapter)