Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the list of officials of the cabinet and the six ministries and nine secretaries, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Among these high-ranking officials were the Donglin Party, the Eunuch Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party, the Jin Party, the Chu Party, and the centrists.

But what Zhu Youzhen wants is such an effect, only to make the court full of various parties, big and small, all have a place, and no matter how big or small the voice is, all of them will have a chance to speak.

As a result, you have me, I have you, you can't do without me, and I can't do without you, and all parties and factions, without parties and factions, have been braised in one spoonful, gradually blurring and diluting the boundaries between parties, and weakening the cohesion of parties.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the officials formed a party for the purpose of holding a group to grab profits, and forming a party was actually for personal gain.

To this end, Zhu Youzhen also plans to introduce a new law on the appraisal of political performance and establish a system for the promotion of officials based on political performance, so as to weaken the party's decisive power in the promotion of officials.

In this way, the officials will be completely liberated from partisan disputes, and their energy will be shifted to fighting for political achievements, so as to carry the work for the old Zhu family in a down-to-earth manner.

But whether the donkey grinds well or not, the key lies in whether the carrot is used well or not.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen's performance appraisal method is the key to it.

And Zhu Youzhen, who was an old fritter in the agency in his previous life, is even more aware of the great impact of a policy on the grassroots, and there are countless phenomena of doing bad things with good intentions.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen is naturally cautious about the formulation and implementation of this performance appraisal law, and now that he has just ascended the throne, the situation in the DPRK has not yet stabilized, and the military reform has not yet been implemented, so it is definitely not a good time to implement it.

A large part of Zhu Youzhen's planned performance appraisal method was biased in favor of the peasants, and it was bound to meet with opposition from the gentry bureaucracy, and without the support of strong force, Zhu Youzhen did not think that he could carry it out by relying on the authority of the Son of Heaven alone.

Zhu Youzhen estimated that it was still good for the government to disobey the government and not leave the Forbidden City, but it was Zhu Youzhen who was most worried about the grassroots officials selectively implementing the decrees and intensifying the exploitation of the peasants.

The change of the law has become a man-made disaster, and the Yin Jian of the Song Dynasty's Wang Anshi's change of the law is not far away!

The ancient changes were all achieved by bloodshed and sacrifice.

Therefore, military reform is a prerequisite for the success of Zhu Youzhen's political reform.

But when it came to military reform, a sense of powerlessness surged into Zhu Youzhen's heart.

After getting rid of Wei Zhongxian, Zhu Youzhen put the general on his desk.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen secretly sent Dongchang to conduct a secret investigation of Jingying and the towns of Jiubian.

It lasted more than a month, but the result made Zhu Youzhen gasp, and then expressed his understanding of the historical incident of Zhu Youzhen hanging himself in the coal mountain.

In Beijing, there are 120,000 soldiers recorded in the military register, and 140,000 soldiers are recorded in the household salary silver register, but the actual survey of the East Factory shows that there are 40,000 soldiers, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, and the weapons and armor are even more difficult to gather.

If Huang Taiji knew that the Beijing camp of the Ming Dynasty was in such a situation, it is estimated that he would have hit Beijing City a long time ago.

Zhu Youzhen gasped, and then set the results of the investigation in Beijing to top secret.

In the second year of Chongzhen in the original history, Houjin raised an army of 100,000 and marched under the city of Beijing.

Although Zhu Youzhen was not sure that history would repeat itself, Zhu Youzhen was sure that if Huang Taiji knew that there were only 40,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people in the Beijing camp, he would definitely attack the city regardless of casualties.

If that is the case, Zhu Youzhen estimates that he will not be able to survive Chongzhen and will be transferred to Nandu in the second year.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Youzhen was afraid for a while, and the revitalization of the Beijing camp became the focus of Zhu Youzhen's next work.

And what makes Zhu Youzhen a little comforting is that the soldiers of the Nine Sides are slightly better, because they have to face the attacks of the Mongolian tribes all the year round, so the lack of empty salaries has not yet reached the outrageous point of the Beijing camp.

Among the nine sides, especially the Hebei Liao military town is good, because of the Ming Dynasty seventy percent of the military salary, and need to guard against the attack of Liaodong Houjin all the year round, so the shortage is basically within three percent, although the weapons and armor are not complete, but can still be carried out of a battle.

Among the Hebei Liao military towns, especially the Guanning Iron Cavalry is the best, and most of the military salaries in Liaozhen are used by the Western Liaoning Military Group to equip the Guanning Iron Cavalry, so the Guanning Iron Cavalry can be regarded as the most elite troops in the Ming Dynasty.

has such an elite cavalry unit, but Zhu Youzhen is not happy at all.

Because although this army ate half of the Ming Dynasty's military salary, it basically did not contribute in the battle against Houjin.

On the battlefield, all kinds of wait-and-see, preserve strength, and even ignore the life and death of friendly troops, relying on the superiority of cavalry often flee from the battle, the Ming Dynasty was defeated in Liaodong all the year round, and the Guanning army had to pay at least one-third of the responsibility.

But it was such an army that did not dare to fight to the death and escaped from the battle, but it shined after Wu Sangui led the Manchus into the customs and became the vanguard of the Manchu slaughter of the people of the Central Plains.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, countless people of the Ming Dynasty died on the hands of the Guanning iron horsemen, and I don't know how these generals of the Guanning Army would feel when they saw the Ming people who had tightened their belts and gritted their teeth to support them a hundred years later.

And the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang, was strangled to death with a bowstring by Wu Sangui, the general of the Guanning Army.

The second tartar is really more ruthless than the real tartar, and the ancients did not deceive me.

Every time he thinks about this, Zhu Youzhen is often angry, and he can't wait to arrest Wu Sangui immediately, kill him first, and then cast his bronze statue on the edge of the West Lake.

Ten big characters in the book: Look, this is the end of the traitor!

But Zhu Youzhen is just thinking about it, according to his current ability and control over the Ming Dynasty, it is okay to kill a few civilian officials, but if he kills military generals, especially the generals of the Liaoxi Military Group, it is absolutely impossible.

Through Dongchang's covert investigation, the Ming Dynasty army has a trend of feudal townization, especially the Liaoxi military group, which has basically completed the transition of feudal townization.

Even if Zhu Youzhen wants to kill a general of Guan Ningjun now, he has to ask the opinion of his ancestors, not to mention his nephew.

Moreover, as for the trend of the Ming army's feudal town, Zhu Youzhen can only stare dryly now, there is no strong army in his hands, and eliminating the feudal town can only be an empty word.

Therefore, what Zhu Youzhen can do now is to revitalize the Beijing camp or organize and train a new army that can fight better than the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

After careful consideration, Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to choose the latter.

There is no other reason, the Beijing camp is already rotten, and the Beijing camp is a spasm of the meritorious class of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, if Zhu Youzhen invests money and troops into it, he can only make a wedding dress for others in the end, and what he gains is still the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Therefore, what Zhu Youzhen has to do is to organize and train a new army, a new army with the idea of modernization, and a new army that belongs only to Zhu Youzhen, to the Ming Dynasty, and to the people.