Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation not far away, Zhu Youxiao pointed to the Ningxia Weikan map spread out and said: "The imperial court has closed the port market since last autumn, and the Tatars have also sent troops to break through the customs several times this year. Although they were all beaten They have gone back, but they may not be willing. The days of lack of food and salt will only be more difficult than when we opened the market in Daming.

I am worried that this year will be colder than last year, and that the Tatars will not be able to survive due to shortages of food, salt and iron, etc., so they will gather more troops in winter and take advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River to plunder the Tumo River.

Without the obstruction of the Yellow River, there are too many places where Tatars can cross the border. "

Following the instructions of Zhu Youxiao's fingers, these people in the Hall of Mental Cultivation could more or less guess what the emperor hadn't said. Without the deep and fast-flowing Yellow River as a barrier, the Great Wall alone cannot prevent those who lack food and clothing. Tatar.

Cui Jingrong immediately guessed the purpose of the emperor. He thought that it would be a matter of time to use troops against the Tatars anyway, so he stood up and made a bold suggestion.

"Your Majesty, I think it's better to choose a suitable commander-in-chief to lead the army, mainly the soldiers of the imperial army who came back from Liaodong to train. Well, they have also come back to rest for three months. Add some more troops to make up five healthy soldiers. Ten thousand, choose a day to set off and go to Tumochuan to wait for the rabbit.

If the Tatars don't come to close the customs, that's all. Then wait until next spring when the flowers bloom, and cooperate with the forbidden army in Liaodong to send troops to Tatars in two directions.If they dare to send troops to attack, we will take advantage of the situation and fight back.Is this appropriate? "

appropriate!Of course it is very appropriate.

Zhu Youxiao immediately showed approval.The other courtiers also felt that they understood the emperor's intentions. This is to set aside the civil servants and the cabinet, and first set the rhythm of using troops against the Tatars.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao really didn’t want to put aside the civil servants’ plan to use troops, because those civil servants had to make a budget for next year, and he inadvertently remembered last night that in the first month of the second year of the apocalypse in history, the Tatars used troops against Tumochuan and crossed The frozen Yellow River penetrated more than 600 miles into the interior of the Ming Dynasty, killing and kidnapping tens of thousands of people, and only returned when they were satisfied with the robbery.

Sending troops to Tumochuan now should be able to prevent this from happening in time.

At this time, a newcomer from the Ministry of War stepped forward. It was Li Banghua, who was sent to the Ministry of War this year, and served as a doctor in the Ministry of War.

The servant of the Ministry of War, Xiong Tingbi, has been on temporary duty since he took office, and the other servant is the son of a British prince, who is now leading the army to clean up the remnants of the Jurchens in Liaodong.Cui Jingrong didn't want to make things difficult for him as a servant, so he used several doctors from the Ministry of War. The first to bear the brunt was Yang Lian, who was the Minister of Gu Ming, and the second was Li Banghua, who had recovered this year.Because the latter was well prepared in Yizhou, he was transferred to the capital at the end of autumn, and the emperor sent him to the Ministry of War as a doctor.

Cui Jingrong tried to use Li Banghua several times, and found that although Li Banghua was a bit stubborn, he was very thoughtful and organized, and more importantly, he was willing to work hard and dare to do things.Therefore, even though Li Banghua's teacher was Zou Guanghua, and Zou belonged to the list of people whom His Majesty disliked, he still boldly used Li Banghua to rectify the Beijing camp.

For this reason, the British public, who controls the Beijing camp, showed him a lot of face.However, when he presented Li Banghua's list of occupations and hypocrisy in the Beijing camp, the British Duke was immediately speechless.

Occupation and impersonation in the Beijing camp have been banned repeatedly, and the British Duke has been troubled by this matter for many years.However, there were too many nobles involved, and he couldn't offend them all, so he only controlled the situation within a limited range, and kept his eyes closed, acquiescing to occupation and hypocrisy.

To put it bluntly, occupation means that soldiers act as domestic slaves for the generals in the battalion.Taking the food and salary from the imperial court, he gave the battalion commanders of the headquarters to do farming, house repairing and other labor-intensive tasks.These people did not participate in the training of the Beijing camp at all, so they had to count soldiers every time they went out to choose soldiers who could go into battle.

As for impostors, that's the empty pay.Even the British Duke himself did this, not to mention the generals in the Beijing camp under his management.The Beijing Camp has long been controlled by the nobles of the capital, which is like the Imperial Academy and the Imperial Academy for civil officials.Spend some money to stuff the children in, and after a few years of graduation, with the title of supervisor, you can get an official position.Each of the honorable families has children who are named in the Beijing camp, and they will be promoted according to the seniority of the year, and then they will be appointed as a few Zhuang Ding, and they will receive a false salary. Is it rare?

The Beijing camps in the Northern Song Dynasty were all like this.

However, Cui Jingwen used Li Banghua to clean up the military affairs, and the British public did not dare to say that Cui Jingrong exceeded the scope of his duties.Li Banghua worked seriously, and all the soldiers of that battalion lined up in whichever battalion he went to.Thanks to his good memory, he saw the 10,000+ soldiers of the Forbidden Army once or twice, and he was able to pick out the soldiers who came from other battalions to make up the number.After a few times, when no one dared to check the number of people in Li Banghua's hands.

So the occupation and hypocrisy became known to the world.

Cui Jingrong asked Li Banghua to deal with the occupation of slaves according to the law.The Duke of England looked at Cui Jingrong's face, turned around and wanted to smooth over those generals and nobles, and not allow them to stand up to Li Banghua, otherwise they would make trouble in front of the emperor, and even he would have to pay for it.

Therefore, Li Banghua cleared out nearly [-] soldiers and nearly [-] impostors in one month.

However, Li Banghua's subsequent handling methods made the generals of the military battalions wish they could strangle him to death with their own hands.Because he sent the clerks of the Ministry of War to register the number of years that the enlisted soldiers had worked for the generals one by one, and then the Ministry of War issued a document ordering those generals who used the enlisted soldiers to return the military salaries received by the soldiers.

Someone returned several thousand taels of silver to the Ministry of War for this, so they wanted to hate Li Banghua to the core!

The most difficult thing for British officials was that Cui Jingrong took the fake list provided by Li Banghua and forced the fake honorary sons and servants to serve in the army.

But to make the British public worry enough, to follow Cui Jingrong's path is to isolate himself among the nobles.

At this time, Li Banghua proposed to send troops to Tumochuan, and Li Banghua took out the memorial from his sleeve pocket. The British prince felt that something bad might happen.

His intuition was right, Li Banghua had been waiting for a chance to face the saint.Because his occupation of the Qing Dynasty and investigation of impostors violated the interests of all the generals in the Beijing camp, Cui Shangshu's request for impostors to serve in the military camp made all the nobles hate him.Because some honorable children can ride horses and hunt, and killing the enemy in battle is to give military merit to the opponent.

He, Li Banghua, was not beaten by the nobles because of the virtues of his ancestors.

"Your Majesty, Li Banghua, the doctor of the minister's military department, has something to report."

Li Banghua was serious, he had only seen the Son of Heaven from a distance at the Dachao Meeting, and it was the first time for him to meet the Emperor at such a close distance.However, if he knew that he was one of the young ministers of Guanglu Temple who might be appointed by the emperor, one of the Xiaojiuqing, and he would go to the Ministry of War to be a doctor on his own, he might not be so nervous.

Li Banghua handed the booklet to the eunuch next to the emperor, recited the booklet with a little nervousness about his two-month rectification of the Beijing camp, and explained the key points.

"Your Majesty, Cui Butang ordered the hypocrites to enter the camp. So far, I have not received the support of the British Duke. Most of the hypocrites are still at ease in the capital. If the troops are ordered immediately, I ask your majesty to forgive the fact that the Beijing camp cannot be full. Hold on."

The Duke of England's complexion was unreadable, it was like picking his face in front of the emperor.

Zhu Youxiao flipped through the notes submitted by Li Banghua, and caressed those noble children and servants who were named in the Beijing camp with his fingers.There was a smile on his face, but what he said was permeating.

"I rectified the clan, and I meant to rectify the nobles, so these people came in. Cui Qing, send a letter ordering these hypocrites to serve in the barracks in the next day. If they miss the time, they will be executed. If you are sick, please ask the imperial physician Go for treatment.

This time I went to Tumochuan, if these people were unusable for the battle, they would be reduced to auxiliary soldiers in the army.Whoever dares to tamper with it will take the honor of the ancestors in exchange. "

Cui Jingrong's indistinct expression of emotion and anger, which he had cultivated for many years, was immediately broken by the direct and straightforward support given to him by the Ministry of War from the emperor.

"Your Majesty is wise, I immediately ask the clerk of the Ministry of War to order those hypocrites to enter the barracks."

His voice was filled with irrepressible ecstasy.

Zhu Youxiao raised his finger to Cao Huachun, "Cao Huachun, go to the Ministry of War and the Mansion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies to pass on my oral instructions."

"Yes, my lord. The servants will go now."

Cao Huachun repeated the emperor's oral order, and immediately took the two eunuchs to deliver the decree.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the Dukes of England and Dingguo, who used soldiers to do chores for him.But at a time when he was so active in planning to use troops abroad, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers occupying him, and thousands of people pretending to be false, he shook his head slightly, not needing to be reminded.

Duke Ying and Duke Ding immediately stood up and pleaded guilty.The Jingying was originally under the leadership of the three major kingdoms. After Cheng Guogong was expelled, most of the 10 people under him belonged to the British Duke.The emperor's face was not good, and the British Duke also put away his face of being the head of the country, and knelt down with Duke Ding to plead guilty.

"Duke Ying and Duke Ding, you two get up first. After Li Qing checked the Beijing camp this time, if this kind of thing doesn't happen again, I will let the past go."

The two hurriedly kowtowed their heads to thank each other, promising that similar things would not happen again, and then Mammy stood back to her original position.The people in the Hall of Mental Cultivation thought that Duke Dingguo had hitched a ride with Duke Ying.

Cui Jingrong pointed to the Kanyu map and said: "Your Majesty, there used to be Dongshengwei here, one of the famous outer three guards. I suggest that the imperial guards be stationed here this time, and go west to Helan Mountain and Ningxiawei, with the Great Wall behind them. , It can be integrated with Datong Mansion and Wanjindu Sineng in the east, and it can be attacked and defended.

The original Dongshengwei's quota was [-] troops, with defense as the main force. "

Although Yang Lian used to be in charge of military affairs, he really didn't have as deep an understanding of military affairs as Cui Jingrong and Li Bangguo. He was more in charge of ordnance.

"Your Majesty, Cui Butang, if we send [-] troops to Tumo River in the near future, we won't be able to provide so many armaments, at most [-] soldiers."

This has to mention the ordnance management of the Ming army.Knives, guns and sticks, especially firearms, should be put back into the warehouse and locked up after training.Such safety measures make all the ordnance use more manpower and less manpower for maintenance, resulting in a high number of damage and scrapping.

Every time the army is going to go out, not only food and grass must be prepared, but also a batch of new knives and guns must be prepared.

"Send someone to check the inventory of the artisan workshop in the Ministry of Industry to see how much stock there is. The Ministry of War can deploy [-] soldiers, so we will send [-] to Tumo River first. As for the leaders—"

Cui Jingrong immediately interrupted the emperor's long voice, "Your Majesty, I am willing to go out on behalf of Your Majesty."