Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Guards and the Army

In the school field outside Changsha City. Longwu was dressed in military uniform. With a few entourage, the light car Jane came here.

Before he came to the camp, Emperor Longwu heard the sound of a horn, and he only felt a shock for a while.

When they arrived at the camp gate, Zhou Zhifan and Xiong Weidu saluted with dozens of generals and said, "Meet Your Majesty." ”

"No courtesy, the generals are in armor, so you don't have to do this." Long Wu turned over and dismounted, and said, "Let me see, my pro-army." ”

Under the leadership of Zhou Zhifan, Emperor Longwu was introduced into the camp.

This barracks is not very large, and the whole army is only 3,000 people. But these 3,000 soldiers were only able to get their hands on Longwu during this period of time.

From Chongzhen, to Hongji, and then to Longwu.

It can be said to be a process of natural disintegration of the Ming Dynasty. In this process, neither the Manchu Qing nor the peasant army were just external forces.

The most fundamental reason is that the system in the Hongwu period is no longer suitable for this era.

It can still be maintained during the peaceful years. But now it's no longer sustainable.

The imperial court was unable to mobilize local manpower and material resources. Even if you can mobilize it, the cost is very serious.

And from Chongzhen to Hongzhi, even the hearts of the people cannot be gathered.

The team that Longwu received was actually a system of alliance between all parties, and Longwu's name was emperor, but it was actually just a tablet.

In fact, Longwu is also grateful to the Qing court.

If it weren't for the Qing court's southward movement, which attracted Cao Ying's troops to the north and Cao Ying's troops to Xiangyang, it would have been a question whether Longwu himself would have been able to sit in Changsha.

But Longwu himself is definitely not willing to be a tablet.

When the situation calmed down a little, Longwu promoted ministers on a large scale and exerted his influence in the court, and on the other hand, he tried to control an army himself.

After all, in troubled times, there is nothing more secure than an army.

Whether they want to or not, Ma Shiying and He Tengjiao are in power, and they are already unshakable.

Longwu also had to snort at the two of them.

However, the grace of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years is still there, although the two of them are domineering, they are both from Shilin, and they still give some face to Longwu. Naturally, it will not be too much than Zheng Zhilong.

So Emperor Longwu had these three thousand guards and pro-army.

These 3,000 guards were divided into left and right guards by Longwu, and Zhou Zhifan and Xiong Weidu were in charge respectively. Both of them were born as guards of Emperor Longwu. You must know that when Emperor Longwu was in Nanyang, he also organized group exercises.

And these two people are both old people back then, although the group practice is just a spin and a spin, but there are still a few old people who follow Longwu as guards.

Longwu sat on the high platform and watched the guards

The position of the army.

Longwu does not know the art of war, but what he can see, the flags are waving, the horns are sounding, and it looks very spectacular. The so-called is like a mountain and a forest, and it is in full swing.

"Okay." Longwu said: "Look at the reward." ”

Then the eunuchs brought money and distributed it.

There was not much silver, and it was only two taels for each soldier.

Don't look at it too much, but this is already the body money that Empress Zeng of Emperor Longwu collected.

The imperial court retreated all the way from Wuchang to Changsha, and almost all of its savings were thrown to Wuchang, and it was already along the way.

All this money was spent in the battle of Xiangyang.

After arriving in Changsha, it was to reorganize military affairs, and to support the confrontation between Zhang Kuang and Zhang Yingyuan. It is also to rebuild the yamen of hundreds of officials.

And so on, there are thousands of things, and they are all the word "money". The imperial court is insufficient, and hastily calculated, the gap is at least above one million taels, or even more.

Longwu took the lead in being thrifty, the food was not heavy, and the clothes were not brocade. Empress Zeng even dismissed her subordinates and weaved cloth herself.

In the courtyard of Longwu, there are only a dozen old servants and eunuchs for sprinkling and sweeping, and there are no more. The most valuable thing around Longwu is books. Longwu loves to read. Therefore, there are more books around me, and as for the things of gold and jade, I don't take any of them.

Therefore, in the reward army, these thousands of taels of silver are already the last bit of money for Longwu and Empress Zeng.

"Long live my emperor." The soldiers below bowed down one after another.

In fact, the equipment of this guard is not good, there are not many firearms, and the most equipped are just swords and guns. As for training or something, Zhou Xiong and the others are just palace guards, and they can't talk about suddenly ascending to a high position, but they really can't say that they are famous generals in the world.

After all, fighting a war is about experience.

Except for a few open hanging with, Han Xin, Huo Qu's general natural will be planted. It's better for ordinary people to go through it step by step.

And Zhou Xiong and the others are obviously more loyal than they are, and their ability is a little lacking.

However, even so, the morale of the guards was high.

Longwu stares at it from time to time, and there is no malpractice in the army, and even if Longwu tightens his clothes and food, he does not lack the salary of the guards and pro-army. And the emperor is supreme among the lower-class people, most of the time, seeing Longwu, he comes to inspect from time to time, and he is cold and warm to ordinary soldiers.

Even if it was a routine, but the emperor's aura was added, and all the soldiers were grateful, eager to repay with death.

Long Wu was very satisfied with it, and said to Zhou Xiong and the others: "I have discussed with the two pavilion elders, and from tomorrow, you will take over the defense of the Great Interior." You're so good at work. ”

"The minister must be honest and honest, and he dare not live up to His Majesty's trust." Zhou Zhifan said,

Xiong Weidu immediately said: "The same is true for the minister. ”

It is not too easy for Longwu to obtain this condition.

After all, when he arrived in Yueyang, there weren't many people around him at all. There are only hundreds of generals, and this guard army is developed from these hundreds of generals. In any case, from then on, the yamen of the governor of Changsha was changed to the imperial palace, as well as the nearby official mansions, all of which were guarded by the guards and pro-army. At least it was determined that Emperor Longwu's position was consolidated, at least, Longwu used his actual behavior to surface, he was definitely not a tablet.

He wants to be Emperor Guangwu.

According to the law of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, an emperor has absolute power over the government. On top of the power structure, it is determined that there is no breeding ground for powerful ministers. I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang is a generation of heroes, at least the system he designed, in the past six hundred years, there is almost no soil for powerful ministers.

No matter what the minister, when the emperor wants to kill, all he needs is an order.

Such a system has been passed down to the present day, and although it is full of holes, it still has the ability to restrain the people in the system. However, Ma Shiying and He Tengjiao are both people in the system, they may have the mind to be domineering, but they can't resist the power of this habit.

Even if you look at the entire Southern Ming Dynasty, the people who really trampled the emperor under their feet were actually people outside the Ming court system, such as Zheng Zhilong, Sun Kewang, and even Burmese.

"Report to Your Majesty, Elder Ma Ge, Elder He Ge, please return to the palace immediately." One of the guards knelt on the ground and said.

Emperor Longwu asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"News from the north that the Qing regent Dolgon has ordered his hair to be shaved." The guard said.

"Shaving order?" Emperor Longwu didn't understand it for the first time, what was going on? Asked, "What shaving order?" ”

The guard immediately handed over a piece of information.

Long Wu opened it and took a closer look, but for a moment, his face turned red, and his hand was eager to pinch the paper, and a few words broke out from between his teeth: "Crazy." ”

The order to shave the hair would not have been so fast in Changsha, but as soon as the shaving order came out, many gentry stranded in the territory of the Qing army fled south, some returned to Daxia, and naturally some returned to Daming. Naturally, the news reached the imperial court.

How can parents who suffer from the hair and skin of the body be lightly damaged?

In later generations, it was just a hairstyle relationship. But in this era, it is strictly spiritual pollution, and it can even be said to be spiritual castration. Anyone who has read the Book of Filial Piety cannot tolerate it.

For Emperor Longwu, it was even more unacceptable.

Very simply, for now, Nanming and the Qing court are still allies, at least during the Battle of Xiangyang, Nanming's army effectively contained part of the Xia army. The thought of uniting with such a barbarian made Emperor Longwu feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

"I am guilty of the world. At least the people are naked, and they are poisoned by this. After I die, what face should I see my ancestors and fathers in the ground? Emperor Longwu's face was gloomy, he took a deep breath, and then thought: "The more this is the case, the more the husband is promising, and I can't give up my plan." ”

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