Chapter Twenty-Four: Qi Jin

Extravagant Chongming, the ancestors of the Yi people were given gifts by the imperial court, and the hereditary Yongning Xuanfu Division, but Extravagant Chongming himself did not want to repay the favor, and always had an accident, and always wanted to rebel and become the king. In history, when the imperial court requisitioned him to Liaodong in August of the first year of the Apocalypse, he took the opportunity to send his son-in-law Fan Long and his general Zhang Tong to lead 20,000 infantry cavalry into Chongqing. On September 17, 1621, taking advantage of the opportunity of the school to perform martial arts, he killed more than 20 military and political officials such as Governor Xu Keqiu, launched a rebellion, occupied Chongqing, attacked Hejiang, broke Luzhou, and trapped Zunyi (now Guizhou Province).

Since this guy has been rebelling for a long time, Zhu Youxiao must be prepared, because in history, he made a rebellion in the southwest border, causing turmoil in the southwest border for more than ten years, and it was not until Chongzhen ten years that the rebellion was successfully quelled, wasting countless national funds of the Ming Dynasty. And in the later period, the imperial court was trapped in Liaodong, the people's army, and the extravagant Chongming fought on three sides, and it was tired to deal with it. Now that the situation in eastern Liaodong has stabilized, why not train a troop to suppress it in case of a rebellion by extravagant Chongming, and this time we must cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, not only to completely eliminate extravagant Chongming, but also to establish an effective county-level political power in the southwestern border to administer the localities, and completely abolish the Tusi system. In fact, the Tusi system is a country within a country, if there is a private soldier, it is an armed military separation, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty or the future of the Chinese nation, Zhu Youxiao even if he is called a demon, killing countless people, and bleeding like a river, he must completely eliminate this scourge. Zhu Youxiao didn't believe it, and distributed the land, mountains, and water to the people, and the people would cry and cry to maintain the toast and the head. No one wants to be born a slave, it's just that they are forced to compliment Tusi and Touren out of desperation in life. There is also religious belief, it doesn't matter what beliefs and taboos you have, you can't ask others to abide by them, you can cultivate your mind and self, that's your own business, but the laws of the country are supreme, no matter who can violate them, Zhu Youxiao believes that even if he is himself, he must be a model for the whole people after formulating perfect laws in the future.

In order to maintain internal peace, the state must establish an armed police force, and in order to safeguard national security, it must establish a national defense force, and both the armed police and the national defense force must be loyal to the country. To put it simply, all armed forces must be state, without any doubt. The Wehrmacht must be the most elite troops, equipped with any weapon that can afford to be equipped, like in the 21st century, there is a so-called don't waste taxpayers' money to build aircraft carriers, this is pure brain-dead, you go to the United States and shout, don't let the United States build aircraft carriers.

Zhu Youxiao decided to transfer Qi Jin's troops, Qi Jin was the nephew of the famous anti-Japanese general Qi Jiguang, who was killed in the Daling River in history. Now he is stationed in Jixian County, not far from Beijing, with the remnants of more than 10,000 Qi Jiguang. Since the death of Zhang Juzheng, who appreciated Qi Jiguang, the Qi family army has been declining, because the Qi family army adopts the recruitment system, which requires a huge amount of military salary, Zhang Juzheng is in need of the support of the army when he is alive, the two sides hit it off, sufficient military funds, and created a Qi family army with all firearms, and the combat power is strong.

Now Zhu Youxiao is ready to arm this all-firearms unit again, give full play to their role, and use their sufficient experience to provide experience for the Ming Dynasty to build an all-firearms unit.

When Qi Jin received the holy decree, he was almost stunned, in order to retain a little effort from his uncle, he almost exhausted his blood, and tried his best to go to the military department to ask for military salaries, but, in most cases, he was disappointed, and in September last year, when he heard that the war in Liaodong began, Qi Jin asked the military department to fight, but he was not approved, and the military salary was also allocated. Since the beginning of this year, military salaries have been allocated in a timely manner, but they have not heard about the allocation, and they are afraid that they will be in arrears in the future.

After receiving the holy decree, he arranged family affairs a little and immediately rushed to the capital, where Zhu Youxiao met Qi Jin in the study.

"See Your Majesty, Minister, Qi Jin, the chief soldier of Jixian County, may my emperor live long, long live!" Qi Jin knelt down to meet Zhu Youxiao.

"Excuse me. Wang An, tea. General Qi, please take a seat. Zhu Youxiao said.

"Don't dare, don't dare. In front of His Majesty, how dare Qi Jin sit down. Qi Jin hurriedly responded.

"You're welcome. General Qi, I let you sit down, not only for yourself, but also for the old General Qi Jiguang and the Qi family, they shed blood and sweat for the country and the people, and later received unfair treatment, so far there is no regret, I feel sorry for them, you can sit down for them! Zhu Youxiao said slowly.

"Your Majesty, the minister Qi Jin is grateful to Your Majesty for thinking about the Qi family army in his heart, and the spirit of the first uncle in the sky will also thank His Majesty for his grace." Qi Jin said with tears in his eyes and choked up.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Now the situation in eastern Liaodong is stable, but the southwest border is quite chaotic, the various Tusi, the head of the people are ready to move, a headache for the past dynasties, that is, the head of the minority for their own selfish interests, instigated the local natives to fight against the imperial court, whether it is the Jianlu of Liaodong, or the Miao people of Guizhou, they were originally the people of the Celestial Empire, once the power expanded, its leaders were ambitious, trying to establish themselves as kings, completely ignoring the life and death of the majority of the people.

"Secondly, there are many of our officials, such as General Li Chengliang of Liaodong, who can't see through this, and indulges Nurhachi to annex the neighboring weak tribes, and eventually raises tigers. The battle of Salhu the year before last caused heavy losses to the country, and this year it rebelled again, but fortunately there was Sun Chengzong guarding Liaodong, so this time it would not fall into passivity again.

"For this reason, it was decided to adopt a new national policy, to change the land to the stream, to abolish the hereditary system of all chiefs, tusi, and tribal chiefs, to abolish their privileges, and to act on the basis of the legal system of the imperial court, and that no one should raise private armies, lest they should be ready to act at the slightest disturbance, endanger the state, and harm the innocent people.

"No one is willing to give up their own inherent interests, and my policy is undoubtedly beneficial to the common people, but it is a fatal blow to those leaders and Tusi. For the sake of their own interests, they will definitely take risks and incite and deceive ordinary people to join them in fighting against the imperial court. They relied on the first to be mentally blinded and spread all kinds of rumors about the imperial court; The second is to rely on private armed forces to coerce and threaten the common people to stand with them.

"And we must have combat forces on one side, and propaganda forces on the other, and combat forces capable of defeating their private armies, tribal forces; The propaganda force explained the policies of the imperial court to the common people and clarified their rumors. We need not only to win on the battlefield, but also to publicize the victory, to completely win back the hearts and minds of the people, and to solve the problem of turmoil in the border areas once and for all.

"Therefore, I decided to let you train a troop with strong combat power, and the movement will be like thunder in the nine heavens, so as to show the power of the heavens, so that all the hearts of the people who are not subordinate will be broken, and they will not dare to think about it."

"The ministers and relatives will live up to His Majesty's trust, and they will do their best to die for the stability of the country and the 10,000-year foundation of the Ming Dynasty." Qi Jin said firmly.

Then Zhu Youxiao led Qi Jin to visit all the factories, learned about the current firearms and armaments, asked Qi Jin to select soldiers according to these weapons, and then asked Sun Yuanhua to be Qi Jin's assistant, and the two trained the troops together.