Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 75 Rebuilding the Banner Guard and Jin Yiwei

Not to mention how powerful this can make the country, see the Qing Dynasty. Although the imperial power was greatly strengthened, the country's governance and diplomacy were in a mess, but at least it made the civil servants incapable of confronting the emperor, thus shutting them up completely.

And Liu Bao, who was standing by the side, heard that Zhu Cilang trusted him so much, not only let him be the highest official position among the eunuchs, the eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies and Bingbi, but also the chief eunuch in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I am afraid that such favor Only Gao Lishi can enjoy it in history.

Soon, the former Internal Affairs Office of the Prince's Mansion was transformed into the Internal Affairs Office, and the original ten treasuries of the Imperial Palace in the Ming Palace were also incorporated into it, and all the things that Zhu Cihong obtained from the house raids before were naturally transported into the Ministry of Internal Affairs. library.

Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs, that is, Zhu Cihong's small treasury, all the property owned by Zhu Cihong is on the list in front of Zhu Cihong. Zhu Cihong picked up the list, and saw that there were many items densely written on it.

In terms of silver alone, there are broken silver, small silver ladles of one tael or five taels, relatively large silver ingots of 50 taels, and whole pieces of Kuping silver, Western silver coins, which are specially melted and minted by rich families. Well, the silver cakes hidden in the ground.

Of course, Zhu Cihong wouldn't care too much about these details, after all, who has the time to look at them bit by bit, he's not an accountant, he's the emperor, he just needs to take a rough look.

Gold, a total of more than [-] taels.

Silver, a total of more than 14 taels.

Fifteen thousand pieces of silk and cloth in total.

There are a total of [-] mu of land, most of which are in Jiangnan, Huainan and other places.

There are more than one hundred large and small houses. These houses are mainly obtained from the confiscated houses in Jinling City, and the big families usually have more than one house.

Most of them were stolen from King Fu's house, a small part was originally stored in the ten warehouses of the Jinling Imperial Palace, and a part was the property of Zhu Cihong's original internal affairs office of the Prince's Mansion.

Looking at so many properties, Zhu Cihuang had a grand goal in mind, that is to rebuild the Jinyiwei of the standard-bearer guard.

The emperor's pro-army in the Ming Dynasty was the Shangzhiwei pro-army, also known as the guard Shangzhijun. The Shangzhiwei was not a single guard, but a huge army composed of twelve guards in total.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, a guard had 600 men, and the total strength of the Shangzhi Guard was 200. Of course, this is on paper, and the actual situation will definitely be different.

The standard-bearer guard and the Jinyi guard are the two most important guards. Among them, the standard-bearer guard is responsible for the emperor's travel, such as Luanjia, attendants, and guest guards.

The work of the Jinyiwei is more complicated. The famous Jinyiwei is not only wearing a flying fish suit, carrying an embroidered spring knife, arresting people everywhere, and climbing on the roof of the minister's house to spy on their secret captains and wrestlers.

There is also a department like the General of the Han Dynasty who is in charge of guards, who is around the emperor, and who is somewhat similar in nature to the standard-bearer guards.

Since the capital was breached by Li Chuang and Chongzhen was hanged on Meishan, the Shangzhi Guards who had guarded the Emperor of Heaven for more than [-] years were also destroyed.

But now that Zhu Cihong is the emperor, he must have people around him, let alone troops, otherwise those civil servants will look down on you and make noise in the capital all day long.

To rebuild these two guards, the most important issue is money, but manpower is not a problem. Jinling City has a population of more than one million, and Nanzhili is a densely populated and economically prosperous area. Recruiting soldiers could not be easier.

Even if the local good people don't come to serve as soldiers, Zhu Cihong can still recruit military households from various guards and let them come to serve as soldiers. Anyway, this is the purpose of setting up military households, an anti-human thing, from the beginning.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about separating the military households from the civilian households, so that in the future, soldiers in the army could be transferred exclusively from the military households without affecting the life and production of the civilian households at all.

It's a pity that he didn't expect that in the last years of the dynasty, these military households would become the gravediggers of Ming Dynasty. Because of the increasingly difficult life, coupled with the inappropriateness of civil officials, they can still be human beings when they surrender to the thieves. You peeled.

So this scene appeared at the gates of Jinling City, in the streets and alleys, in front of the gates of various yamen.

"Don't miss it when you pass by. The emperor rebuilds his army, recruits good people and strong men as soldiers, pays one tael of silver per month, and makes a uniform in winter and summer every year."

The staff at the recruiting station kept yelling at the passing pedestrians, but after yelling for a long time, they saw that the crowd of onlookers increased, but they couldn't see the strong men who came to sign up.

Even two scholars came over to join in the fun and gathered around to watch.

"Hey, Brother Wang, look at what's written on the recruiting station. It even recruits scholars to serve as soldiers. I don't know who came up with the ghost idea. It's just a whimsical idea. Scholars in my generation would not be thieves even if they starved to death. Jun, you say yes."

Yang Pu was a Juren who went south to Jinling to escape the disasters of war in the Central Plains. Because the road was not peaceful, he invited Wang Ruoyuan, a Juren from a nearby county, to be with him along the way.

"I don't think this is whimsical. Look at what is written on the paper. Boys enlisted in the army are given a small banner, scholars enlisted in the army are awarded the general banner, recruits enlisted in the army are awarded a hundred households, and tributes enlisted in the army can be given the same background as a Jinshi. Give it to Qianhu."

"And you see, those above are the emperor's own army, the standard-bearer guards and the brocade guards, which are different from ordinary soldiers."

Wang Ruoyuan didn't have that much resistance to being a soldier, what's more, people with merit and fame don't go to serve as soldiers, but as officers. If they go as tributes or Jinshi, they will directly give a thousand households and let you bring thousands of people. This is almost directly making you a general.

He thought, if he can't do well in his studies and official career, there's nothing wrong with being a general, he just wants to fight for his future.

Besides, among the ancients, I don’t know how many people who threw their pens into the army, such as Ban Chao, and Zu Di, even my court has a lot of civil servants who lead the army in battle. The closer ones are like Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Hong Chengchou, and the ones farther away are Yuan Chonghuan , Yu Qian, Wang Ruoyuan thought.

Yang Pu scoffed at Wang Ruoyuan's statement, and said disdainfully, "Everything is low-grade, but reading is good, even if the military achievements are as high as the sky, what's the use?"

"Besides, now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, and the Holy Son of Heaven returns, he will definitely open Enke to recruit scholars, recruit talented people, revive Ming Dynasty, and return to the old capital."

Yang Pu thought to himself, as long as the emperor opened Enke, even if he didn't open Enke, it would be time to hold a general examination. At that time, as long as he just passed one of the exams, he would be much better than sitting in a thousand households, and a fool would go to the army.

　I finally finished the update today, so tired!I have an exam tomorrow (_)
　　
　
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