Ordinary soldiers are easily infected, and the original Ningyuan garrison found that since they changed the eunuchs, chief officers and soldiers of the supervising army, they have received a full monthly salary, and the food standard has also been greatly improved, and fish, meat, and poultry eggs, which were basically invisible before, can often be eaten.

At the end of February, all the soldiers took turns to support the spring ploughing of the tunmin, and after the busy season, each soldier received a brand-new mandarin duck battle jacket, according to the veterans of the "Red Banner Army" said that this is a spring and autumn combat uniform, and there will be summer clothes and winter jackets issued in the future.

Now the original Ningyuan garrison is confused, they have never thought that being a soldier will be so long-spirited, because they eat well and dress warmly every day, and they can get food and salary every month, and there are even calming officers who take the initiative to summon illiterate soldiers to study, and they take the trouble to teach everyone to write.

Liaodong in the spring does not seem to have waves, and it is possible that Jiannu is also busy with spring ploughing, after all, there are not many soldiers in the Houjin army who can be completely out of production.

The "Red Banner Army" expanded rapidly and needed a period of running-in, so Huang Han did not take the initiative to provoke Jiannu and chose to develop in a boring position.

Today's history has begun to deviate, and when Huang Han, who has been dormant for a year and a half, appears again, his combat effectiveness should be the first in the Ming Dynasty.

This is because the "Red Banner Army" will have more than 17,000 regular soldiers, and about 9,000 people from 8,000 households and 8,000 garrisons as reserves, which does not include the more than 10,000 garrison troops that are professionally reclaimed.

There are three or four thousand student soldiers who have not yet reached the age of service, and this does not include two thousand artillery cadets and sailors who are studying.

In the "Red Banner Army," there were 7,500 men and horses subordinate to Huang Yizhou, the chief military officer of Ningyuan, and only two main barracks and a reinforcement battalion were set up, with Yang Hanwei as the general commanding 2,500 men and horses, and the remaining 5,000 belonged to the regular barracks.

The equipment and treatment of these two battalions are no different from those of the "Red Banner Army", and even the banners are the same, and outsiders cannot distinguish them at all.

At the end of March, Chongzhen learned that Ning Yuan's actual number of troops was now more than 7,000 and two battalions were not enough to garrison, so he asked the "Red Banner Army" to transfer 4,000 men and horses to the battalion, and the deputy general Yang Dayang would garrison Ningyuan later.

Ning Yuan's inspection of people and horses was fruitful, and the emperor was very happy.

After removing the 6,000 shadow soldiers who ate empty quotas, on the basis of the actual number of more than 12,000, more than 5,000 old and weak were also eliminated, and now the imperial court only needs to pay less than 8,000 men and horses for the two battalions, saving more than 200,000 taels of salary.

Huang Yizhou and Huang Han were rewarded again and were rewarded with royal armor and swords.

Chongzhen vigorously publicized the first successful inspection of soldiers and horses, with the aim of setting an example for the generals of the Nine Sides to follow, and also thinking about rectifying the inland officers and troops.

Who knows that things backfired, and this move not only did not have the effect of responding to all calls, but also caused big trouble.

It is an indisputable fact that Huang Han engulfed Ningyuan's people, as soon as he made a move, he restricted the personal freedom of the generals who were not his descendants, and the dozens of generals who were transferred spread to the public.

It is rumored in the Ming officialdom that Huang Han arranged a number of guns aimed at Ning Yuan's guards, and if anyone dared to disobey, he would be killed in front of the gate of the General Soldier's Mansion.

Huang Han's domineering behavior was criticized by most of the civil and military generals, and a round of verbal and written criticism rolled in, and the emperor would receive impeachment of Huang Han every day for his domineering, dictatorship, exclusion of dissidents, nepotism and other evil deeds.

The reason why the Manchu civil and military reacted violently this time was because Huang Han's practice of paying salaries according to the actual situation and distributing food and salaries to every soldier violated the interests of the entire bureaucracy and moved the cake of the majority of the people.

If all the soldiers and horses in the world are doing this, how can civilian officials and military generals live?

Although Ning Yuan's point inspection has become a fact, it is impossible to turn the tables again, even so, the civil and military generals will not be relentless, because it is difficult to dispel the anger in the hearts of the civil and military if they do not criticize Huang Han's style fiercely, and if they do not curb the spread of this unhealthy trend, they will inevitably "make a living for officials".

The emperor was also ready to make persistent efforts to promote the case of Ning Yuan's successful inspection of soldiers and horses in Jiubian, but who knew that many chief military officers and generals were on the fold of resignation under the hint of important ministers of the imperial court.

There is also a funny thing, hundreds of guerrilla generals at or above the level who have real jobs take the initiative to sign up to study in Jinzhou, and ask the imperial court to send military generals, preferably Dongping Marquis to take over the troops.

More than eighty percent of the civil and military generals are picking, and the scheming Chongzhen is dumbfounded, the military generals do not lead troops, and the civil officials are passive and slacking off, and there is a tendency for the mountains and rains to come and fill the building!

It's a pity that Chongzhen is not Zhu Yuanzhang, nor is he Zhu Di, he has no ruling wisdom and no courage, if he takes out Zhu Yuanzhang's means, the officials will have to do official business with the shackles, and those civil and military generals will immediately stop cooking.

In the society of the Han people, the most important thing is to be an official, and threatening the court with not being an official or doing anything is simply self-inflicted, and the means are ruthless, and all problems are solved.

However, Emperor Chongzhen has always bullied the weak and feared the hard, and when he was in a dilemma, he felt even more thorny.

Several chief military officers who were in Shanxi took the initiative to ask to enter the study class, and even Cao Wenzhao humbly said that he would learn the new thinking of the "Red Banner Army" in leading troops, sharpen their knives and not cut wood, and lead the troops to suppress the Kou first.

Zu Dabi and Zu Kuan, who had already entered Shandong to quell the rebellion, stopped marching to Denglai, and the generals of Guanning were stationed near Wuqiao and did not leave.

At this time, Laizhou was already surrounded by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's rebel regiments.

Ten days after the rebels took Dengzhou, they broke through Huangxian County in one go, robbed a large amount of money, grain, gold and silver treasures, and the rebels who tasted the sweetness had high morale, and they did not suffer a single defeat for several months, which made Li Jiucheng's prestige reach its peak.

At the end of the first month, the rebel army, which had grown to nearly 20,000 men, engaged in the new town 80 miles away from Ye County, and the Tongzhou soldiers led by Yang Yufan, the general soldier, and the Tianjin soldiers led by Wang Hong, won a complete victory.

Thousands of Ming troops were scattered, and there were not a few who joined the rebels, and the general soldier Yang Yufan fled into Laizhou City with only 300 families, and then Laizhou was besieged by the rebels.

Denglai is eroded, Shandong is unstable, and the excerpts requesting rescue are one after another, and the emperor is like sitting on pins and needles.

Knowing that the generals from all walks of life are naked coercion, Chongzhen can only show an attitude, this is also Chongzhen's character, he wants to save face and likes to find scapegoats.

The emperor issued an edict stating that the Jinzhou study class was run by Huang Han without authorization, and now it is banned.

Because Huang Han did force dozens of Ningyuan generals to be transferred, there was an act of excluding dissidents, and he was demoted and punished, deprived of his position as Marquis of Dongping, and the crown prince Taibao, Wu Jingluo, Zuo Dudu, etc., and retained the Pingliao general Wei with the post of chief soldier of Xuzhen to observe the after-effects.

The coercion and coercion were successful, the inspection of the soldiers and horses was once again over, the struggle of the civil officials and military generals to challenge the imperial power was completely victorious, and the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty lost a chance to make up for the leakage on a large scale.