Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 143 Recruits
Yang Chao had thought about this question countless times, but in the end he felt desperate.

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing: "I can't do anything. I shouldn't do anything. Maintaining stability is the most important thing."

Chongzhen's succession to the throne was originally a mess, and Chongzhen was too anxious. After being emperor for more than ten years, he changed more than 50 cabinet ministers, including more than a dozen chief ministers. Only Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren lived for a long time, but both of them were rated as treacherous ministers in later generations, because they were able to serve as chief assistants, not because they could do things, but because they were good at deceiving the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen also liked to kill people, not to mention sending civilian officials to lead the army. It is good to win, but to kill people if they fail. The number of civil servants who led the soldiers killed may be [-] if not [-].

These people have no experience in leading troops, and their failures are their capital. At least they can accumulate experience. After killing them, they have to send a new one to continue to accumulate experience. It is a waste of the country.

A total of two chief ministers were killed, eleven governors were killed, and fifty cabinet bachelors were dismissed. It is not considered that they committed suicide in fear of crime. Such a court does not seem to be stable in any way.

If the court is not stable, it will be strange if the world can be stable.

If it was Yang Chao, he would definitely not kill Wenchen.

In Yang Chao's view, Emperor Chongzhen's murder of civil servants was more likely to vent his personal anger than to strictly enforce the laws of the country.

If you say that you have lost a battle, the most responsible are the generals who lead the troops, but the generals hold heavy troops, especially in the late Ming Dynasty when the army was seriously privatized. Just cannon fodder.

Therefore, the emperor did not dare to kill generals.

But he dared to kill civil servants, so he killed them. This is not to vent personal anger.

The Ming Dynasty is hard to return, but at any time, there is the most correct choice. Obviously, Emperor Chongzhen did not make the right choice.

At the wrong time, doing the wrong thing.

If another person becomes the emperor, he can be gentle, maintain a stable command structure, first quell the civil unrest, and then talk about reform.

Although the stalls that Emperor Chongzhen took over were terrible, but the Ming Dynasty was so big, the imperial examination selection system has always been perfect, and talents are still emerging in an endless stream.

For example, Xiong Tingbi, this person is capable, but his personality is too unlikable. History books commented that if there was such a person, Liaodong would not be lost, but this person was killed by the emperor.

There are also Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others who are proficient in military strategy, civil and military.

It's a pity that Hong Chengchou was defeated and surrendered, Lu Xiangsheng died of internal fighting, and Sun Chuanting was almost killed by the emperor. He was taken out of prison when he had no other choice. Sun Chuanting, who was temporarily ordered, died on the battlefield later.

In addition to these people, hundreds of civilian officials died on the battlefield, and many of them were very upright.

The situation is not good, but it is useless to have someone in hand. This is the reason why Emperor Chongzhen had to hang himself in the end.

Yang Chao's emotion made Li Xiangjun and Gu Mei stop talking. They know the overall situation of the world, but it's okay to let them play the piano and sing, and let them evaluate the state affairs, so they don't have that vision. They also feel helpless. We can only passively hope that the world will produce a hero who can sweep away the decline and rejuvenate Daming.

Of course, the two of them just lamented how difficult the country's affairs were, but they didn't believe that the Ming Dynasty would perish.

This kind of psychology is difficult to understand, and it is easy to understand. Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the calmness of people from the common people to the emperor is confusing.

It probably has something to do with the fact that the Ming Dynasty encountered this situation more than once. Back then, the Oirat army surrounded the capital for several months and captured an emperor, and the Ming Dynasty did not perish.

Therefore, everyone has no doubt that the Ming Dynasty will survive this crisis and become a prosperous celestial state again.

Yang Chao naturally knew that the catastrophe of the Ming Dynasty was coming, maybe he was the only one who believed in it, and he was the only one who had a sense of urgency, the sense of urgency to destroy the country.

Yang Chao returned to the barracks in the afternoon.

"My lord is back!"

Hu Quan yelled, and suddenly there was a huh-la-lah, and a large group of young and strong men dressed in various clothes and looking a little thin fell to their knees.

Yang Chao immediately asked everyone to get up.

These people were all recruits recruited by Hu Quan. Before that, they sat on the ground in twos and threes, listening to Hu Quan explain the rules of the barracks to them.

A few days ago, when the recruitment documents were issued, Yang Chao planned to recruit the full number of soldiers. After preparing for these two days, he asked Hu Quan and others to recruit soldiers.

"Have you recruited enough?"

Yang Chao took a look, there were about 100 people.

Hu Quan nodded and said, "That's enough."

Hu Quan just went out this morning, and he brought back 150 soldiers when he came back in the afternoon, which is not low efficiency.

Yang Chao said: "There are no difficulties."

Hu Quan said with a smile: "No. Wherever I go, I will confess like an old man, for fear that I won't recruit their soldiers."

After learning about the situation with Hu Quan again, Yang Chao realized that this time, Yang Chao asked Hu Quan to recruit soldiers at the Navy Guard by the Yangtze River, but he didn't let him go to the three hundred households where he recruited soldiers last time. They were recruiting troops from other Hundred Households and Thousand Households. Yang Chao didn't want a large number of small groups to appear in his army.

In the end, even though he had never recruited soldiers in those military stations, Yang Chao's fame had passed on. It wasn't because Yang Chao was a celebrity in Nanjing, or because Yang Chao was very famous in Shili Qinhuai. How could those poor military households care? What Qinhuai River, how can you care if you are romantic or not, the reason why they have heard of Yang Chao's name is because Yang Chao's soldiers can always lead the army's salary.

The hundred soldiers that Yang Chao recruited a few months ago were all the military households of the Right Guard of the Navy. Since they entered the barracks, they had never been deducted from the military pay, and they were paid two coins on time every month. They all lived in the barracks, so they had money and had nowhere to spend it, so they all passed it home.

The water military guards have lived on both sides of the Yangtze River for more than 200 years. Now they have become villages and towns, but they are closely connected with each other. The relationship between relatives and friends has been compiled into a network. Soldiers in the barracks, and The news that their family members would get enough military pay for Yang Chao's military service had already spread.

Such a good treatment is naturally enviable.

It also happened before that the military households of the Navy Guards entrusted Yang Chao's soldiers to intercede with Yang Chao, hoping that Yang Chao could recruit some relatives into the barracks. Expelled Yang Chao and drove them all away. They had heard that Yang Chao had driven away dozens of soldiers of the Xiaoling Guard.

Many guards were eager to join Yang Chao's Zuo Si, so it was so easy for Hu Quan to recruit so many soldiers this time.

Just looking at the soldiers recruited by Hu Quan with yellow and thin faces, it seems that it takes a long time for their bodies to recover.

Hu Quan came back early, but the other team hadn't come back yet. This time, Yang Chao had 350 soldiers, so Hu Quan was asked to recruit 150. In addition, Lu Mo and Zhao Kang were in a group to recruit [-] soldiers.

Hu Quan is back, but Lu Mo and Zhao Kang haven't come back yet.

It wasn't until the sun went down that they saw the two men walking back to the barracks with a large group of young men, yelling.

Obviously, the efficiency of Lu Mo and Zhao Kang is much worse than that of Hu Quan.

But after seeing the soldiers recruited by the two, Yang Chao changed his mind, because the soldiers recruited by the two were more energetic and stronger.

"My lord, the bid is not a disgrace!"

Zhao Kang reported very positively.

Originally, Yang Chao didn't intend to let Zhao Kang go. During this period of time, he has been ignoring this cousin, which made Zhao Kang feel a sense of crisis. Seeing that the end of the year is coming, he is becoming less and less competitive. The soldiers have always been in the middle class. In terms of merit, Wang Pu has already beheaded nine Jiang bandits, but he was unlucky.

Yang Chao had said long ago that several Banner Generals would be raised at the end of the year. Now it seems that Wang Pu will definitely be able to occupy one, many men may also be able to occupy one, and Lu Mo may also occupy one. This is already three Banner Generals. Now, there are two banner chiefs, Chen Kuan and Li Fu, in the battalion. If there is no special performance, Zhao Kang feels that his chances are slim.

I had been training soldiers all the time before, but I couldn't do it anyway, because others were also holding back their energy to train soldiers, and everyone was equally divided, and there was no difference at all, so when Yang Chao sent someone to recruit soldiers, and only let Hu Quan and Lu Mo go, Zhao Kang couldn't sit still, he took the initiative to find Yang Chao again, and asked himself to recruit soldiers.

Yang Chao met Zhao Kang this time, and after listening to Zhao Kang's words, he was also very satisfied with his initiative to ask for something, because my cousin finally had a sense of urgency, and was no longer as confident as before, thinking that he was Yang Chao's cousin , Promotion should have an advantage over others.

In fact, Yang Chao also wanted to promote his cousin. No matter what, relatives are easier to believe, but there has been no chance.

After his cousin asked, Yang Chao agreed after a little thought, but asked him to go to the same team as Lu Mo to recruit soldiers, and told him to strictly control, so don't embarrass himself this time.

After Zhao Kang got this opportunity, he really exploded with enthusiasm that he never had before. When recruiting soldiers, he selected them one by one and strictly eliminated them. Hu Quan went to three hundred households by himself and recruited 150 soldiers. After Lu Mo went to five hundreds of households and one thousand households, he recruited the full number of soldiers. As a result, his soldiers were all really young and strong.

After returning to the camp, seeing the soldiers recruited by Hu Quan, Zhao Kang heaved a sigh of relief, he finally surpassed others, so he dared to actively show his merits to Yang Chao.

Yang Chao looked at it and nodded with satisfaction: "You guys did a great job!"

Zhao Kang naturally looked happy, and Lu Mo was also very satisfied. He spent a lot more energy than others, and it was not in vain.

Yang Chao asked again: "Have you checked the documents and military records?"

The reason why they only planned to let Hu Quan and Lu Mo go was because they were the only ones who could read and write, and they needed to sign paperwork during the recruitment process, so illiteracy was not an option.

Lu Mo said: "The verification is correct, several hundreds and thousands of households have all been drawn and pledged."

After recruiting soldiers, the name is registered and made into a book, and then hundreds and thousands of households in the local military station sign for confirmation. However, military households are generally illiterate, and even if there are not many literate hundred and thousand households, it is often enough to draw a bet.

These military registers will be handed over to the Ministry of War to be registered, and they will become registered battalion soldiers.

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay, first let these soldiers familiarize themselves with the barracks, tell them the rules, and then disband."

There are 450 available soldiers under him, and the total number of soldiers is also full. If you want to expand, you have to be promoted. If you are promoted to a thousand generals, you can have two chief divisions under your command, with eight or nine hundred to one thousand soldiers Forehead.

(End of this chapter)