Reborn as a tyrant in the Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty maintained a culture of emphasizing civility and military power, especially since the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was emptied out and the Ministry of War controlled absolute real power. This led to the formation of a political tone in the Ming Dynasty that valued civility over military affairs.

If we are in a period of peace, this tone can indeed stabilize the country and avoid bad things such as the separation of feudal towns, the self-respect of the army, and the loss of a big tail.

However, today's Ming Dynasty is in a turbulent period that is both internal and external. If this tone cannot be changed, it will have serious consequences.

Since the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Saarhu, the Ming Dynasty has suffered frequent defeats in Liaodong, losing a large number of elite men and losing a large number of territorial cities, all of which prove that the blind command and random operations of civilian officials have seriously harmed the Ming Dynasty. Due to the internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty, changes must be made!

Qianqing Palace.

Dong Nuan Pavilion.

Several days have passed since Zhu Youxiao took action to rectify the government and the public, but this trend of suspicion has not ended yet. The civil and military officials in the government and the government cannot guess the emperor's thoughts. This is actually a very subtle existence.

Just like on the card table, the cards held by others are all exposed cards, but the dealer's cards are hidden cards. No one knows what cards the dealer will play, so how can you play this card!

And this is exactly what Zhu Youxiao wants.

He just wants to adopt the strategy of 'defeat the light with darkness, and beat the slow with speed', and regain the initiative that was lost in the past by playing cards again and again, in order to achieve the purpose of reshuffling the cards!

"Tell me everything."

Zhu Youxiao sat firmly on the throne, looked around at the cabinet ministers standing in front of the emperor, and said in a calm tone: "When chaos broke out under the rule of the capital and the capital, Huang Degong's Ministry was ordered to wipe out the bandits, not only Zhao Ni, who was wandering in many places. Bandits, and even wiped out all the bandits in many places in the capital."

"This has played an extremely important role in stabilizing the order of the capital and the capital, effectively suppressing the inflated food prices, and appeasing the people who have been stirred up. It has played an extremely important role. The memorial submitted by the Ministry of War must be heavily rewarded to show the dignity of the imperial court. What are you doing? Thought?"

"Your Majesty, I feel that the imperial court's reward for Huang Degong's ministry is indeed the right thing to do."

Gu Bingqian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, glanced at Yuan Keli, with some hesitation between his brows, but he quickly stepped forward and bowed: "However, I feel that the reward for promoting Huang Degong to be the deputy chief military officer is too generous. In the final analysis, Huang Degong's department is in Gyeonggi Province. What is being eliminated in various places is the bandit forces, not the powerful enemies that invaded our country."

"If there is such a generous reward for solving some stragglers, this is definitely not a good thing for the court. After all, in the important border areas of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Liaoqian area, many of them are facing the ruthless Jianlu Eight Banners. If this matter is If it spreads to the border, I'm afraid the border guards will be dissatisfied."

"For the purpose of stabilizing all parties, I believe that it is most appropriate to promote Huang Degong to the post of general and choose a place to lead his troops to station. This will not only demonstrate the majesty of the imperial court, but also stabilize local order."

"I second the proposal!"

"I second the proposal!"

Wei Guangwei, Zhu Yanxi, Zhou Rupan, Huang Liji and others seconded the proposal.

Regarding today's impromptu imperial meeting, and what is to be discussed is the issue of rewarding generals, this makes Gu Bingqian and Wei Guangwei and other cabinet ministers have their own ideas in their hearts.

The emperor's attitude towards civil servants was completely different from that towards military generals.

This is not a good signal for the emperor to embrace martial arts.

Gu Bingqian and Wei Guangwei couldn't understand that Huang Degong's unit was only to suppress some bandit forces, and the emperor would specially promote Huang Degong to be the deputy chief military officer. If this spread to other officials in other dynasties, it would inevitably cause new turmoil and controversy.

What's more, before this, so many things happened in the outer court, but the emperor had nothing to say, which in itself was not conducive to the stability of the court.

"A deputy chief military officer is considered a generous reward?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled and looked at Gu Bingqian and the others, "Gu Qing just mentioned that what Huang Degong's troops were wiping out in various parts of the capital were bandit forces, not powerful enemies that invaded our dynasty."

"Then I would like to ask you, since these bandits are all stragglers, why did the central government and local officials fail to eliminate them before this?"

"Watching these bandit forces wreaking havoc on the place, robbing homes and houses, and plundering property, and allowing the place to suffer these undeserved banditry?"

Zhu Youxiao knew better than anyone what Gu Bingqian and the others thought. It was just that Huang Degong's imperial edict was too heavy, and he felt that this was a bad sign.

But Principal Zhu You decided to do this.

Let’s ask the cabinet to issue an edict!

If you want to reverse the culture of the noble and the military and warm the cold hearts of military generals, you have to do it with practical actions.

Otherwise everything is fake.

What's more, deep in Zhu Youxiao's heart, there is still a strategic plan to conquer Liaodong and reverse the long-term decline of Liaodong through a great victory.

If we can't warm the hearts of some generals before this battle and make them more motivated to fight, then this battle will be impossible to win!

By relying on civilian officials to lead the troops in war, Zhu Youxiao was simply seeking death.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to make the same mistake again and become the second Mingmen Emperor.

"Your Majesty, this is definitely not about sitting back and watching."

Wei Guangwei bowed and said: "In fact, it was the previous turmoil in the DPRK, especially the Donglin Party members with ulterior motives, who disrupted the order of the DPRK, which caused..."

"Don't shirk responsibility from me!!"

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and interrupted: "When something happens, you just want to push it away first. The Donglin Party members have their faults, but you are not at fault?"

"It's not long since you joined the cabinet to serve as governor, right? Haven't you thought about this before? If that's the case, why did I select you to join the cabinet?"

This is what Zhu Youxiao dislikes the most.

When something happens, just think about passing the blame instead of thinking about how to solve it.

The Donglin Party has many problems, but this cannot be used as a reason to prevaricate him. Are all the problems in Ming Dynasty caused by the Donglin Party?

Are the Qi, Chu, Zhejiang and other factions all good?

All the crows in the world are as black.

We must always be vigilant against the emperor who is above us, and we must pay special attention to those below who are involved in party struggles.

The problem that exists in the Ming Dynasty now, especially the serious imbalance of central finance, is that various parties and factions have usurped the interests of the country during the endless party disputes.

In essence, the battle between the Donglin Party and the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang Party, including the current eunuch Party, is that they want to control the central authority and then reduce the taxes that are heavily involved on themselves, so as to pass on this part of the taxes. to other groups to maintain their own vested interests.

"Let's take a look at the memorials compiled by the Ministry of War."

Seeing that the cabinet ministers were silent, Zhu Youxiao picked up a pile of memorials, threw them in front of Gu Bingqian and the others, and said in a stern tone: "Under the rule of Beizhili, there are still many bandit forces. These were not seen in the past. Submitted to the emperor, if Yuan Keli hadn’t submitted it, I still wouldn’t know about it!!”

"If anyone opposes this matter and thinks it is unfair, fine, then whoever opposes it will recruit troops for me to suppress these bandits. If anyone cannot make a difference in the short term and effectively stabilize this good place, then I will be implicated." Who are the nine tribes!!"

The Ming Dynasty is in chaos today. In a sense, the successive emperors of the Ming Dynasty have given too much face to these civil servants and made them forget their identities.

If you get too used to it, something will happen!

Something big will happen!

Zhu Youxiao doesn't want to spoil them now. If he continues to spoil them, the Ming Dynasty will die!

"The imperial edict I drafted will be issued to me by the cabinet!"

Looking at the people with different expressions, Zhu Youxiao said in a cold tone: "Don't think that I am rewarding Huang Degong generously. In this edict, I also made it clear that within six months, Huang Degong's troops will completely wipe out the bandits in Beizhili." No matter how big or small the power is, if Huang Degong fails to completely wipe it out by the time limit, I will definitely punish him severely!!"

An army that cannot see blood is a straggler, and cannot truly withstand the test. For Zhu Youxiao, he does not need such an army.

Those who have merit will be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes will be punished.

This is the basis of running an army.

Zhu Youxiao wants to use his own method to gradually transform the army controlled by the center to his satisfaction. Only in this way can the army controlled by the center have the possibility to go to the battlefield. Time is right. It's too urgent for Zhu Youxiao, he can't waste any more time, especially at the military level! !