Chapter Ninety-Three: The Young Army (Completion of the Update)
Although the urban construction of Yingtianfu does not seem to have much effect, before the economic development of a country, such transformation seems to cost the people and money.
However, don't forget that this is the era of imperial power, and Zhu Zhanji's transformation of the entire Yingtianfu is equivalent to the epitome of the transformation of the Ming Dynasty.
Through this kind of transformation, he can not only strengthen the confidence of officials in him, but also tie the interests of officials to themselves.
A person can live with ideals and ambitions, but in real life, he can never do without eating, drinking, and sleeping.
The quality of life determines a person's environment, and the impact of this environment on a person is very important.
The transformation of Ying Tianfu is such a change, so that all the ministers will become dependent on Zhu Zhanji's rule in a new environment, and at such a time, no one will oppose him.
Moreover, even if there are frustrated people who are dissatisfied, they dare not let others know, and no one will blindly follow.
In addition to these, there is another important reason, that is, to show Zhu Di.
He wanted to form the transformation of Yingtianfu into a certain scale before Zhu Di returned to the Ming Dynasty, so that Zhu Di could take a good look at it, and there was nothing wrong with choosing him to supervise the country.
In the afterlife, there are many theories about the value of life. What Zhu Zhanji agrees with is the division from the five stages of survival, security, recognition, love and love, and ideals.
He is the grandson of Emperor Daming and has directly crossed the stage of survival.
As for the sense of security, his operations over the years, from exercising his body, to encircling military generals, controlling the economy, and researching science and technology, have now reached a complete stage.
As for loving and being loved, after three lives and three lives, he became extremely selfish and did not have much need in this regard.
Therefore, only the sense of recognition and ideals remains.
This kind of recognition, in addition to the recognition of people who care, such as Zhu Di and Zhang, is also a sense of social identity.
He rebuilt Ying Tianfu, also seeking a sense of social identity.
Regarding ideals, his ideals can be said to be very simple, but also very difficult.
That is to let the Chinese nation stand on top of the world, and for this ideal, he can give everything except his life.
And since the crossing, he has not hesitated at all, and has been moving forward unswervingly.
Even his current father, Zhu Gaochi, who is known as a generation of "sages", was also moved aside by him because he was in the way.
The time entered August, the weather gradually turned cooler, and during this period of time, the people of Yingtianfu finally shifted the topic from the new-style house to the scientific expedition.
No matter how beautifully the house is built, if you don't work in the factory of the internal supervision or the Ministry of Works, you won't be able to get it.
Moreover, this is not without a price, if you want to live in such a house, you must exchange the house in the inner city with the imperial court.
Therefore, people who do not have such conditions can only hope that when the inner city is a little less crowded and the old city is renovated, it will be possible to live in a new house with even thatched houses inside.
The renovation of old cities and urban construction can drive the development of countless industries.
For example, in the brick and tile industry, for example, in the coal industry, because people have to cook at home, of course, the wood stove can no longer be used, and the coal stove must be used instead.
When it comes to this, we have to mention the environment of Daming today.
In later generations, the whole of China was bare, except for the sides of the road, and the woods could only be found in remote areas.
But now, there are uncut forests everywhere, and much less land has been developed than in later generations.
Nowadays, there is no environmental protection, and the people all use firewood stoves, and there are not enough wheat straw and rice stalks, which has led to a large number of trees being cut down.
Especially in autumn and winter, many trees that do not become timber are cut down and left there to dry, and then in the winter they become burned material.
However, Zhu Zhanji is helpless about this, because it is impossible for him not to let the people cut wood for the sake of environmental protection, and no matter when, people's right to live is the most important.
So now he can only vigorously promote the use of coal, and a shipload of coal was transported back from the Hongji Coal Mine by the coal carrier of the internal supervision, as well as Huaibei, which is also one of the largest coal mines in the Ming Dynasty now.
Coal stoves were built, honeycomb coal was made, and now many street vendors in Daming, including restaurants, have begun to use coal stoves for cooking.
However, in rural areas, most people are still accustomed to going to the woods to pick dead branches and cook at home when they have nothing to do. It's free, and no matter how cheap coal is, it costs money!
There will be no big changes in urban construction for a while and a half, not to mention that it is still the busy agricultural season, and it will not be until after autumn and winter, when the people's farm work is finished and they need to serve labor, will the large-scale construction begin.
The Ministry of Industry is already actively preparing various building materials, waiting for the large-scale construction to be carried out after the farm is busy.
And Zhu Zhanji also issued an order to the Ministry of Industry and the internal superintendent, although in the past, the people still needed to bring their own food for labor, but from this year onwards, the imperial court must provide food for labor.
Each person is given 60 catties of rice, 1 catty of salt, 1 catty of sugar, and 10 catties of flour per month.
Daming is not short of food at all now, just one Luzon, now has an annual output of 20 million stones, and they can't even eat half of it.
Because it is difficult to transport all the remaining grain, now the wine merchants of the Ming Dynasty go directly to Nanyang to make wine, and then directly transport the wine back.
Of course, these are just the wines that ordinary people drink, and the really good wine is still the best made from whole grains.
Zhu Zhanji also strongly supported this initiative and asked the internal supervisor to provide convenience and services to these wine merchants.
At the end of June, Zhu Zhanji finally decided on the new candidate for the commander of the young army, and as soon as the news came out, countless nobles in the capital were disappointed.
Because he was not a new admiral selected from among the nobles of the capital, but Chen Mao, whom he had long favored.
Chen Mao is one of the few generals in the Ming Dynasty who abandoned literature and followed the military, and his achievements are brilliant.
At the time of the Jingjing, Chen Mao had already become a scholar in the middle school, and later his father Chen Heng decided to follow Zhu Di, and he took refuge with his father Zhu Di, who was still the king of Yan at that time.
Chen Heng died of wounds, Chen Mao led his father's old troops, and fought the enemy alone in Danqiao (now Danqiao Village, Cangzhou, Hebei), Gaocheng, Xishuizhai (now Baoding, Hebei), Dongping (now Tai'an, Shandong), Guzhen, Xiaohe (now Suihe in Anhui), repeatedly made military exploits, and was promoted to the right governor of the right army, Ningyangbo.
At that time, he was only twenty-one years old, and he was the youngest general to be awarded the title of Lord of the Ming Dynasty.
In the sixth year of Yongle, Chen Mao admired the seal of the general of the west and guarded Ningxia as a general soldier. After Chen Mao arrived in Ningxia, he made the local orders new, and he was good at compensating and surrendering troops.
And although he was young, he acted fairly, and those Mengyuan nobles also trusted him extraordinarily.
During his defense of Ningxia, there were countless Mengyuan generals who were surrendered by him.
The more famous ones are the Northern Yuan Dynasty Gong Atanbu Flowers, Prime Minister Zan Bu, Zhiyuan Bald Chi and his younger brother Situ, Zhiyuan Boyan Buhua Wang Yier Suddenly Bald, Dianzhu Brother, Pingzhang Dulian, Tuo'er Chi, Situ Bald Luta Lost, Guogong Bu Answer, Tongzhi Duoer only Suke, Tongyu Ashu and other handsome people, 30,000 people, cattle, sheep, camels and horses more than 100,000.
In the seventh year of Yongle, Meng Yuan surrendered to Dulian and others, and Chen Mao led the crowd to chase and capture Dulian in Montenegro, and collected all the population and livestock of his department.
In December of the same year, Zhu Di added Chen Mao as Fengtianjing's difficult to push Cheng Xuanli Wuchen, Ronglu Doctor, and Zhuguo, and entered the Marquis of Ningyang, accumulating to 3,000 stones.
Zhu Zhanji had seen this young Marquis of Ningyang during the Northern Expedition and had a good impression of him.
But the situation in Ningxia at that time was still very complicated, and he had been guarding Ningxia. It's not that Zhu Zhanji is unavailable, so he just keeps him in mind.
Now that the army in the north is ready for battle, Chen Mao entered Beijing in June, originally wanting to take the opportunity of escorting a batch of new guns to the capital to meet Zhu Zhanji.
But Zhu Zhanji kept him and let him hold this position that countless people envied.
Although a commander-in-chief officer guarding Ningxia and a commander of the Son of Heaven's pro-army are of the same rank, the importance of their position is far from the same.
Under Zhu Zhanji's instructions, while actively learning about the situation in various parts of the capital, he was familiar with his generals and arranged camps for the new young army that was about to return to his position.
The original Young Army consisted of only 12,000 men, stationed in the eastern part of the Xiamaqiao Farm and the Jiajiang Industrial Zone.
But now there are twice as many people, and the number of camps alone will increase by four.
When Xue Lu was there, he had already selected Shogunate Mountain, Xuanwu Lake, Qixia Mountain, and Fangshan to build new camps, and the six camps just surrounded Yingtianfu.
However, it was not until July that the camps were fully completed.
On the sixth day of the first month of August, Zhu Zhanji went to the foot of Niushou Mountain in the south of Yingtianfu to inspect the training of the young army, and witnessed with his own eyes that there were many more students in Yingtianfu.
Today's people have also paid attention to the grand event of Qiuqiu, the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty carp jumping over the dragon gate.
There are many more students in the city, which is expected by Zhu Zhanji. This is still an autumn test, and only students from Tianfu should be found.
If it comes to the spring of next year, all the people of the Ming Dynasty will come to Yingtianfu, and at that time, the number of students will be even more amazing.
Ying Tianfu has changed very much in recent years, so that students who have not entered Ying Tianfu for several years are dumbfounded, and there is propaganda from the people of Ying Tianfu, and almost everyone knows that this is Zhu Zhanji's credit.
Therefore, wherever Zhu Zhanji's carriage passed, no matter whether Zhu Zhanji was seen or not, many students could be seen bowing and saluting seriously.
Most of the time, Zhu Zhanji is accustomed to it, because the people of Yingtianfu worship him very much, no matter where he appears, he can meet the common people to salute, and even kneel down and kowtow.
Only a few times, when there is no concern, Zhu Zhanji will occasionally be self-conscious for a while. In any case, being able to get the sincere love of the people already represents his recognition by the society.
Niushou Mountain is located in the southwest of Yingtianfu and is the base of the Ming Dynasty. All Jingwei are generally trained here, and then they will be arranged to each guard.
When Zhu Zhanji's young army went to Europe, he left most of it, and only 6,000 people returned with him. These 6,000 men are the basis for the formation of new soldiers, and they cannot be moved.
Last month, Xue Lu took with him 6,000 newly trained people, of whom 1,000 were veterans.
Most veterans will serve as captains to drive new recruits to get into the state as soon as possible.
The total strength of his young army this time is 35,000 men, including 32,000 combat troops and 3,000 logistics equipment troops.
Since the Spring Festival, the new army has been trained one after another, and Daming also has special recruit training institutions, and at the same time it is subordinate to different departments.
On the one hand, it belongs to the Ministry of War, which is responsible for supply, training equipment, and supplying food.
On the one hand, it belongs to the Nanjing garrison, and the Nanjing garrison is currently held by Wang Jinghong. In the original history, Zheng He held this position for a period of time, but he is now the director of the navy, so Wang Jinghong has the upper position.
The garrison controlled the entire Jingwei system, had the right to manage, and gave orders on behalf of the emperor, but did not have the right to lead troops.
The Central Military Governor's Office, which is subordinate to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, is basically under the command of the dukes and earls of the noble class.
But these nobles do not have the right to transfer troops on weekdays, and all they can manage is their own personal soldiers.
The recruit training camp is a permanent institution, with Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, serving as the garrison, and Song Hu, Marquis of Xining, Bo Jilong of Xiangcheng, and Mu Xin, the commander of the horses, serving as the deputy garrison of Nanjing.
Although the current era cannot be compared with the scientific and technological development of later generations, it is not backward than later generations in terms of power constraints.
When Zhu Zhanji arrived, the school field was unfurled. Twenty-four thousand young soldiers who had completed their training, and five thousand veterans, formed ten huge phalanxes, standing motionless as mountains in the hot sun.
On this occasion, even those nobles who were close to Zhu Zhanji had a serious face and did not dare to be rash in the slightest.
Zhu Zhanji is also dressed in a tight-fitting dress today, with no usual decorations on his body, only a cowhide belt tied around his waist, and a hundred refining horizontal knives hanging on it.
The bright yellow dragon robe shows his identity, and it also sets off his strong body.
As he walked steadily and step by step to the school stage, nearly 30,000 soldiers knelt down on one knee and saluted in unison as the drums sounded.
The neat drumbeat directed their movements at the same time, and then shouted in unison: "Raise my Huaxia, expel the Tartars, the iron-blooded young army, and support the Ming Dynasty." β
This slogan was originally the slogan of Yulin Weixue, but since even the name of the Young Army was given to the New Young Army, this slogan was also transferred to the New Army.
Zhu Zhanji waved his hand and said loudly: "If you want to be prosperous and rich, you have to fight with your life!" Greedy for life and afraid of death, don't enter my door! β
Today, Zhu Zhanji was accompanied by nearly 200 chamberlains, and their task today was to serve as Zhu Zhanji's microphone and convey his words loudly to the ears of everyone on the scene.
This young army is Zhu Zhanji's private soldier, and it is also his most important military force besides Yu Linwei.
So, in the face of these soldiers, he used a more intimate tone.
As a grandson of the prison country, a future emperor, it is a supreme honor to be able to recognize them as entered.
To put it in an old-fashioned way, this is the real protΓ©gΓ© of the Son of Heaven.
Everyone followed the drum beat and shouted in unison: "Enter the door of His Highness and be a member of His Highness." Born as His Highness, Die as His Highness. β
Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "Flat!" β
In the following time, Zhu Zhanji began to appoint them one by one.
Starting from Admiral Chen Mao, there were four other commanders, except for one that had been transferred to Beimingshan. The remaining ten garrisons, thirty thousand military uniforms, and sabers were all awarded by him personally.
This is his pro-army, even if it is a thousand generals, it is more worthy of being surrounded than the garrisons of other armies.
Today, Li Liang announced the number one by one, and he originally felt that it was a very glorious thing, but when he experienced it himself, he realized that it was not comfortable at all.
The appointment was read for an hour in a row, and his voice was hoarse until the end.
And these 30,000 soldiers, after the formal appointment of the commanders at all levels, were immediately divided into different camps, led by their respective commanders, and returned to the camp.
Zhu Zhanji gave them five days, and after that, they would go to the camps to inspect and test the results of the training.
It wasn't until nearly 30,000 people left the barracks in turn that Zhu Zhanji came down from the school review platform.
"Your Highness, it is difficult for you to get out of the city. Although the terrain of this Niushou Mountain is remote, it has a unique natural charm. This is the founding place and birthplace of Buddhist Bull Head Zen Buddhism. There are natural landscapes around the mountain, such as Induction Spring, Hupao Spring, White Turtle Pond, Tushi Rock, Wenshu Cave, Bizhi Cave, Hanxu Pavilion, Diyong Spring, and Drinking Horse Pond......"
Zhu Zhan was basically very interested, but when he heard about Buddhism Bull Head Zen Buddhism, he was not interested.
If he goes today, I don't know what those monks will be like.
He interrupted Zhu Yong's words and said: "I won't go to the mountains and rivers, when I went out today, Liu Chenghui had a fetal gas, I'm afraid that I have given birth to a ...... now."
Zhu Yong said with a hippie smile at this time: "Congratulations to Your Highness, Your Highness, this is the eighteenth, right?" His Royal Highness is wise and martial, and he is also better than others in this aspect. β
Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "If you have so many women from me, I'm afraid you will give birth to more than me." β
Zhu Neng couldn't help but feel a little proud when he mentioned this, although he only had one wife and four concubines, he had sixteen children who had grown up.
Although it can't be compared with Zhu Zhanji, compared with ordinary people, this is already very powerful.
When Zhu Zhanji went to sea, there were more than 20 pregnant, but when he returned, only 14 were three years old.
After returning, Ma Xin gave birth to a son to him, and the other two Fengyi, who went to sea with him, also gave birth to a son and a daughter respectively.
Liu Chenghui is pregnant with medical skills and has been prepared for a long time, although he began to quit medicine when he was in Suez, but he did not get pregnant until he came back to India.
So her child was also the last to be born.
can't say the last one, because after Zhu Zhanji came back, the harem repeatedly spread good news, and now Hu Liangdi and Sun Xian are pregnant again.
When there are more wives, there will naturally be more children. For the children born now, Zhu Zhanji is not too happy, he is used to it.
Although he is already a responsible father, he is often confused among the fourteen children now.
Although the children knew that his father was the closest person, they were always a little distant from him.
Especially the boys, all of them are very afraid of him, but the girls are closer to him.
Seeing that Zhu Zhanji had no intention of playing, the others were not disappointed.
None of them are border troops, they are officials in other places, and it is difficult to see Zhu Zhanji, and it is not difficult to see anyone who has a happy event, Zhu Zhanji will appear when he is free.
After making some preparations, and putting on the guard of honor of the grandson, Zhu Zhanji got into the carriage and returned to the palace.
Zhu Neng, Song Hu, and Chen Mao were all called into the carriage by Zhu Zhanji.
Sitting in the car, Zhu Zhanji took off the holster tied to his thigh and put it at hand. It's still hot, and it's not comfortable to have a holster hanging from your lap.
This pistol has been adjusted very accurately by Zhu Zhanji, although the grip is all-metal, and the grip is a little awkward, but it is the same as getting used to it.
He doesn't have a plan to do a second one now, otherwise, the next grip must have room for wood chips on both sides. If you hold it in winter, it will be even more uncomfortable.
Chen Mao looked at the holster made of pure cowhide and asked, "Your Highness, is this the handcuff that has been circulated in the Heavenly Mansion?" Can you take a person's life for 100 meters? β
Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Exactly, 100 meters is a bit exaggerated, because the barrel is too short, and the effective range is only forty or fifty meters." β
Many people have seen the power of the spear, but Zhu Zhanji's short spear has only been heard of by everyone, and has not seen it with their own eyes.
Zhu Neng said with some curiosity: "Your Highness, can you let the ministers and others see it?" β
Zhu Zhanji had nothing to do, opened the holster, took out the pistol, took off the magazine, and handed them the pistol, which looked like a work of art in their eyes.
The three of them carefully observed, but they couldn't see the reason, I am afraid that they are all curious in their hearts about how such an iron lump can have so much power.
Chen Mao's eyes stared at the bullet in Zhu Zhanji's hand, looked at it carefully for a while and asked, "Your Highness, the principle of the firearm is a little clearer, and the current handgun doesn't even need to be ignited, what is the reason?" β
Zhu Zhanji shook his head and smiled: "I won't say the truth, but I can show you the power." β
After opening the window of the carriage, Zhu Zhanji looked outside, took back the pistol from Chen Mao's hand, loaded the magazine in, and opened the safe.
With the habitual thinking of people in this era, we attach importance to the results and despise the process. In their opinion, this gun may be very important, but for Zhu Zhanji, the process and principle of manufacturing this gun and bullet are even more important.
This gun is just to give them a force, at most after the bullet is fired, it will become a waste, and it can only smash people.
But if you know the process of making bullets, that's the real threat.
After waiting for a while, but not seeing any targets worth shooting, Zhu Zhanji took one of the apples in the groove on the wall of the carriage and handed it to Li Liang outside.
"As always, throw me hard up."
Li Liang took the apple, jumped off the carriage, ran a few steps forward, and shouted loudly: "Your Highness, the slave and maid are going to be thrown away." β
When the carriage was about to pass Li Liang, he squatted slightly, palmed up, and threw the apple in his hand vigorously.
The gun in Zhu Zhanji's hand also quickly stretched out, and when the apple was about to rise in mid-air and was about to fall, Zhu Zhanji fired.
The loud bang startled all three of them, but the others, including the horses pulling the cart, were not frightened in the slightest.
Li Liang picked up a few pieces of apple crumbs, returned to the carriage, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, this apple will be given to the slave maid." β
Zhu Zhanji smiled, where did he lack apples to eat, he was just selling to please him.
Chen Mao couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, since you have such a sharp weapon and are not affected by wind and rain, why don't you equip the army?" β
Zhu Zhanji smiled and asked: "Now my Ming musket, isn't it a sharp weapon?" β