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Chapter 853 Itching
Is the emperor trying to hide armor for himself?
Luo Sigong always felt that there was something wrong with the words that flashed through his mind.

Looking at the bewildered Jinyi Shishi, the little emperor showed a smile that he thought was inscrutable.

Luo Sigong thought and thought, and asked the emperor: "Your Majesty, I dare to ask, what does Your Majesty want them to do?"

He intends to persuade the emperor, as a hereditary royal guard who has been favored by the emperor for generations, he believes that he is obliged to stop such absurd behavior of the emperor. Now that the reform of the guards in all provinces of the world is coming to an end, more and more people from the background The generals of the Wutang were transferred to various places, and the armies of various places were replenishing a large number of new firearms.

Especially for guns and guns, some guards lack resources and connections, and even the gunners don't need armor and have to prepare enough guns. This thing is a big gap. The emperor's lion opens his mouth once and the military department must call in more than [-] Rod bird gun, this batch of weapons Tengxiang Erwei must not run out.

Instead of letting the weapons fall into the warehouse and eat ashes, it is better to let other guards that are short of ordnance replenish them as soon as possible.

The point is that in anyone's eyes, Tengxiang's left and right guards are troops that will not leave Beijing to go out to fight. Even if they are well-equipped, what's the use?
The little emperor raised his hand approvingly, signaling to Luo Sigong that the question was on point, and he said, "What to do, of course it is to go on an expedition outside the Great Wall."

He has thought about everything about Tengxiang's left and right backs.

The Ministry of War and the cabinet agreed to let him command the two guards, but the number of troops is too small, which is contrary to the grand blueprint of Xiao Wanli.

In his eyes, the situation on the northern border should be as it is now, with a large standing army, some elites, and a main force that will play a decisive role in the war.

In the past, these three were the guards, camp recruits, and generals, but in the eyes of the emperor, they should be the guards, camp recruits, generals, and his relatives.

To achieve this goal, 1 people are not enough, at least [-] are needed.

He only has two guards, how can there be [-] troops?
The reserve team, like the training of Beiyang soldiers, has one guard trained and one guard in the process of training at all times.

Copying this situation to the Tengxiang left and right guards who have just entered the recruitment process is to train at the same time, two main guards and two reserve guards.

Anyway, he could afford it, and besides, no one ever said that the guard couldn't have a reserve team.

It's just that no one can do it.

But Wanli can!
It just so happened that the banner troops of Tengxiang's left and right guards were all taken away by Chen Ju, and the remaining three melons and Zaogou troops hadn't hooked up much for a year. This time Wanli didn't hook up the army-directly transferred from the Beijing camp.

"By the way, there is a shortfall of more than 4 in the Beijing camp. If I withdraw another [-], there will be a shortfall of nearly [-]. What's more, I don't feel very relieved to check this matter."

Wanli said to Luo Sigong: "You have gone back, and quietly sent Tiqi to investigate, to find out all the battalion sentries and guards, and report back to me the situation of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and don't leak the news, do you know? "

This is Jin Yiwei's old profession, Luo Sigong immediately clasped his fists and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely handle this matter well!"

It's not that little Wanli can't trust eunuchs, the ones he trusts the most in this world are eunuchs and Jinyi, but this kind of thing can't be decided just by believing.

One person can not accept bribes, and two people can not be dissuaded by others, but there are too many people sent out, and it is not the mission to check the vacancy of the Beijing camp.

Now that Tiqi has changed to do this, the rewards he will get in the future are likely to be another amount.

Xiao Wanli had some guesses in his heart. According to the shortage of other guards, he felt that the Beijing camp might only have 20 troops.

Among the two 10,000+ people, Wanli doesn't know whether there are [-] young and strong people suitable for serving as soldiers.

None of this fits with his concept of the army in mind.

Ever since he was a child, he had read the war strategies compiled by Nanyang, and there was any army in it. Except for Chen Mu's headquarters, the mixed suzerain army had a clear distinction between the regular army and the elite in terms of battlefield responsibilities.

It is very obvious that a small number of elites are supplemented by a large-scale regular army to form the main force on the battlefield.

Among those armies, there are distinctions between strong and weak, and fine and vulgar, but the regular army only looks weak, and they are young and strong in Nanyang who meet the regulations. They have also received long-term training and study for a minimum of half a year. Whether the equipment is excellent or not, whether it uses the world's first-class firearms or not.

That is also Wanli's ideal guard army, a young banner army full of vitality, equipped with breastplates, hats and bird guns.

Limited by financial resources, their equipment, physique, and artillery may be inferior to the best army, but morale and training are essential.

Because Wanli has seen too many battles of the Nanyang Army, what makes people lose their advantage is often not fatal blows in one or several battles, but deserters with low morale and collapse at the touch of a button.

Once the first batch of deserters appear on the battlefield, cities after cities may be handed over.

A country cannot be protected by an army like that.

What Wanli has been thinking about for a long time is disarmament. Starting from the Beijing camp, 5 people will be abolished first, and the remaining [-] people will be abolished if there is still no cure. Army retired.

Of course, he didn't want to completely abolish all the guards. Although those generations of flag troops are not good at fighting and can run, once they are completely abolished, it will be difficult to make a living. The condition for them to continue to survive is to have a field. .

Therefore, Xinmingzhou and Yazhou are good places to go. As long as they are given land, those half-soldiers and half-farmers can lead a good life with their families, and the problem of redundant soldiers in the court can also be solved.

To accomplish all this, Wanli must start by recruiting elite soldiers and training strong soldiers, at least allowing them to protect the border against possible attacks, and then talk about slowly withdrawing troops.

Otherwise, this is a fool's dream.

After Luo Sigong left, little Wanli climbed onto the boat table with his arms propped up, and while no one was lying on the deck, he looked up at the hanging palace lanterns, squinting his eyes and wandering in the ocean of fantasy.

He was imagining when he could go to Tianjin Beiyang again, and sail freely on the sea on a huge warship. At the same time, he couldn't help thinking about where the Wanli should sail according to its speed.

At the same time that Emperor Wanli was dreaming, the cabinet received a letter from Nanyang, saying that the Shuanglin Ship, which followed the Wanli Ship as an envoy, had been ordered to return, with animals and plants from America on board.

Xiao Wanli can feel that the imperial court's development in Asia is gratifying, and domestic problems can be solved from abroad. He knows this feeling better than anyone else!
But when he vaguely saw the cargo list delivered to the Forbidden City by fast horses and fast boats, the most gratifying thing happened to him. Not only were there countless rare goods from Asia, but especially at the bottom of the letter was Chen Mu. How does the little emperor feel about the warehouse where the towering and good materials are difficult to transport, and the suggestion of building the Chaotian Palace in Yazhou?
He was very itchy to see it!
"Does this mean... I have a chance to go to Asia?"

(End of this chapter)