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Chapter 771 Plan to Strengthen the Nation (six more)

Zhu Yousong first threw out his goal of strengthening the country. When all the officials were shocked, they were all excited. For thousands of years, there have been so many emperors in the past.The Ming Dynasty lasted nearly 300 years and experienced seventeen emperors. Only their Majesty Zhu Yousong could have such a powerful plan.

"Your Majesty has such lofty ambitions? Is this trying to overtake Taizu and Chengzu?" Civil and military officials, male and female generals, thought to themselves, and everyone was surprised.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was the founder of the Ming Dynasty. He led the Huaixi 24 generals to conquer the world and created the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years. Guozuo has long been a god-level existence in people's minds.Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, also known as King Yan, launched the Battle of Jingnan. After seizing the country from his nephew, he drove north to Mengyuan, established Yanjing and the current Beijing as his capital, and carried out a series of military and political reforms. Daming is stronger than ever.

These two people, in the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, no one can surpass them.

But now Emperor Hongguang's plan to strengthen the country is to clearly unify the world. Not to mention Taizu and Chengzu, it is Tang Zong Songzu, Qin Huang Hanwu, all of them are nothing to worry about, it is Genghis Khan and Temujin who opened up the largest territory. Father and son , I am afraid I dare not have such extravagant hopes.

Your Majesty, is this just wishful thinking?

No, you have no jokes, the words are the edicts, and the words are golden, above the court, in front of all the officials, how can you just talk about it as a child's play?

But can it be achieved?

His majesty has mastered the world, strategized, and became a great treasure. In just a few years, all the impossible things have now been realized, and the goal of strengthening the country will definitely become a reality.This is great, the Tartars outside the customs, the Japanese pirates in the East China Sea, and the Western powers all have to pay homage to them, and I am the only one?

Thinking of this, all the civil and military officials, male and female generals, even the general standing in the Golden Palace, the maid who opened the barrier fan behind Zhu Yousong, and even the too-young eunuch in the hall all held their heads high and their bodies taller than usual. , the blood in the cavity boiled.

All of them held their breath and focused their attention on listening to their Majesty's continuation.

Zhu Yousong's plan to strengthen the country is based on the stable political economy of the Ming Dynasty, and the talent strategy is the first to be promoted.

Zhu Yousong said: "If you want to achieve the career of being a king, you must first get the talent of being a king. In the past, the Duke of Zhou won Lu Wang, the great man got Zhang Liang, and Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage in Zhuge three times. , must first win the world's strong man."

With a few words, all the officials were amazed.

Then Zhu Yousong delivered an edict to implement the talent strategy, increase the intensity of selecting talents and appointing talents, and select talents by establishing a fair and transparent imperial examination system, including literary and martial arts examinations.In addition, Lu Jiude, the eunuch who controls the East Factory, went to Jiangxi Xinfeng on his behalf to invite Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng to change Donglin Academy into Daming Royal Military and Political Academy, and Xu Guangqi's "Original Geometry" ", "Taixi Water Law", "Nongzheng Quanshu", and Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu" positioning study materials.But still retain the Tao of Confucius and Mencius and Neo-Confucianism of Song and Zhu.

After Lu Jiude led the decree and left, Zhu Yousong passed a secret decree to Li Quan, and now Li Quanguan has been promoted again. He used to be the second in command of Jinyiwei, and he was also in charge of Qianhu in Dongchang.

Now Zhu Yousong has promoted him to be the commander of Jinyiwei, and he is in charge of Jinyiwei's northern and southern governors. That is to say, all the more than 1 Jinyiwei in Ming Dynasty are under his command.

In addition, he still holds an important position in the East Factory, and still works part-time as the prisoner Qianhu of the East Factory.

Zhu Yousong asked him to find a person. His name was Tang Ruowang, a German citizen, but he had lived in China for decades, so he had to be found as soon as possible.

Although there are many Jinyiwei and the power of Dongchang is also great, but finding someone is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

Zhu Yousong pointed out the direction for them, and asked them to go to the border of the Qing Dynasty outside the pass to find him. After finding this person, they must bring him back safe and sound, and etiquette is indispensable.

Li Quan was not an official in the court before, so of course he didn't know who this Tang Ruowang was.However, he quickly figured out the ins and outs of Tang Ruowang by checking the information and asking the veterans in the court.Knowing its value, he understood His Majesty's intentions, and Li Quan acted immediately.

The second essence of Zhu Yousong's plan to strengthen the country is to reform the army and train a new army.

First of all, he rewarded a group of meritorious ministers.For example, He Zhaoxiong, the head of the state, was rewarded with wearing animal costumes, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were bestowed with brocade robes and jade belts, and they were promoted to rank.Liu Zhaoji is still Minister of the Ministry of War, but has the title of Prince and Taifu. Zheng Hongkui is still the commander of the Beijing camp, in charge of 1 soldiers in the Beijing camp, but he has been revoked as the governor of the five armies. It is undoubtedly true that all the duties of the governor's office of the five armies belonged to him. It was a promotion, and the annual salary also increased by 3/[-].

Zhang Huan, Ma Wannian, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu, Gao Yigong, and many other generals, men and women, all men and women with meritorious service will be rewarded.

Thank you all.

Then Zhu Yousong started from the imperial camp and reformed the army.Rebuild the Musket Camp, that is, the Musket Camp in the imperial camp. The imperial camp initially had 5000 people, and later expanded to [-]. Now Zhu Yousong has laid off staff.

The imperial battalion is fixed at 4000 people, including 3000 armored cavalry, which is his ace division.A battalion of a thousand guns.Other arms such as engineering troops, artillery battalions, etc. are not included in the imperial battalion.

The Royal Battalion was the First Imperial Guard, responsible for the personal safety of the emperor, the Jinyiwei was the Second Imperial Guard, and Dongchang was the Third Imperial Guard.Second, the Third Imperial Guard is responsible for the safety of the palace, and is the emperor's special intelligence agency, capable of monitoring and directly arresting hundreds of officials and people from all walks of life, superior to the three law divisions.

The imperial guards are under the direct control of the emperor, and the commanders of the three major imperial guards are directly responsible to the emperor and belong to the Ministry of War.

Then an expeditionary army was established, which belonged to the central army to distinguish it from the armies of the local provinces.The expeditionary force was selected from various branches of the local battalions, as well as the Beijing battalion, or recruited according to needs.

The main function of the expeditionary force, as the name suggests, is to expand the territory and conquer the four directions.The main task of the local army is to maintain law and order and the normal order of the yamen.

The expeditionary force is mainly composed of five major parts: horse army, infantry, navy, artillery, and special forces.

The special combat troops are composed of bow and arrow battalions, musket battalions, white barracks battalions, engineering troops and demolition troops.

The bow and arrow battalion here is not composed of ordinary archers. Zhu Yousong wants to train these few bow and arrow battalions into a sniper battalion. Of course, Zhang Huan is in charge of the archery instructor of the special warfare battalion.

According to the idea of ​​training first and then fighting, each battalion of each service organizes and recruits troops first, selects seedlings, and then starts training.

Li Zicheng, Li Dingguo, Ma Wannian, and Lu Xiao are responsible for the selection and training of the horse army; Zhang Xianzhong, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, etc. are responsible for the selection and training of the infantry; He Zhaoxiong and Liu Wenxiu are responsible for the selection and training of the navy Responsible for selection, recruitment and training, the artillery is of course in charge of Li Zhushi, and of course they all play the role of instructors first.

The initial quota for the expeditionary force is 30, of which 5 are for the horse army, 10 for the infantry, 5 for the navy, 3 for the artillery battalion, and 2 for the special forces battalion.

In addition, there is a comprehensive supply battalion, with 5 comprehensive supply battalions, under the joint supervision of Liu Zhaoji, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Li Guofu, the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor, and Zhang Nai and Shuangxi are responsible for supplying food, ammunition, and military equipment for various arms during wartime.

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