Chapter 56: Starting from Scratch
Moreover, looking at the empty surroundings, there is a sense of unreality, as if standing in the wilderness.
"This is Lord Guo, your new commander, don't hurry up and see you." The pedestrians pointed to the road.
"It turned out to be the commander of the envoy, and his subordinates paid a visit to the lord." Several clerks hurriedly bowed to the shrine.
"Excuse me, just you people here?" Besides, he asked.
"Now it's just us, and we don't have anything to do, and many things haven't been shipped yet, saying that they are ordered in Guanglu Temple. It seems that the people will come again one after another. "The leader is a thousand households, who look hesitant to speak, and obviously don't know much of the truth.
Moreover, he turned to look at the passerby, with questions in his eyes.
"Don't look at me, I don't know what's going on, I just know that your yamen is here." Pedestrians spread their hands.
The Qianhu who brought them over smiled and said: "My lord, I seem to have heard my family say, you are a self-made man, everything is done from scratch, these people are miscellaneous, and the main personnel have to be recruited by yourself or selected from other guards, of course, from the people." ”
"Are you saying that the emperor wants him to build a new brocade guard?" The passers-by were a little nervous.
The Qianhu hurriedly said: "No, it's just a guard formation, it seems that the full name is the sixth guard of Jinyi." ”
Lu Xingren's face was cloudy, but he didn't say anything, this was naturally from the meaning of the emperor or the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, of course he didn't dare to comment on anything. But he was also confused all of a sudden, what did the newly established Wei mainly do?
"The emperor's will seems to be in my family, I don't know too much, besides, it's convenient for my lord to come over one day, just ask my family, or go to the palace to ask." That Thousand Households.
Besides, with a wry smile, he would not go into the palace to inquire about this matter if he was idle, but he somewhat understood what the emperor meant, that is, to let him build his own team and create a new Jinyi Guard, although it was only a guard formation.
Jinyiwei turned out to be the personal guard of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and its official name was Yiluan Wei, and you knew it was an honor guard when you heard the name. Jinyiwei is one of the royal forest army, and it is the most important one, it is the honor guard and personal guard of the emperor's travel, until now Jinyiwei is still responsible for guarding the noon gate, which is the most important gateway to the palace.
Jinyiwei's guard is not the meaning of the guard, there are five guards below, the staff is about 30,000 people, and the highest time it reaches 60,000 people, this is still the official staff, as for how many people outside the establishment, it is difficult to count. Zhu Yuanzhang slaughtered heroes, mainly relying on the strength of Jinyiwei.
Subsequently, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty all regarded Jinyiwei as an institution under the personal command of the emperor that set detective, arrest, interrogation, sentencing, imprisonment, and execution.
"Brother, it seems that this is the end of today, or let's go back first, you can come over again one day, and you won't be able to officially work for a while." The pedestrians were a little interested.
"Okay, I'll come back someday." Besides, he nodded.
It's true that there are no office buildings and football spaces to play, but there is no one to use them, and nothing can be done.
The subordinates sent the two adults out, they didn't expect the new commander to be so anxious, thinking that this lord would have to entertain guests at home for ten days and eight days before he would come to work, which was also the default rule of officialdom.
Besides, after getting into the car with pedestrians, they turned a street and parted ways.
There was nothing to say all the way, even Zhou Dingcheng didn't say a word, obviously he was confused, although he didn't go in to watch, he heard the conversation inside, not to mention Murong Yanran's master and apprentice.
When I got home, I went directly to my study, which was soundproofed and was the most confidential place.
Zhou Dingcheng and Murong Yanran followed him in, and the little girl went directly into the inner house to play with Xiao Nier.
"It seems to be a false alarm, and the emperor has no malicious intent." Murong Yanran said.
"Well, it's very unexpected, I thought that the book was open to the sea ban, even if I wasn't killed, a punishment would be inevitable, but now it seems that the emperor has other plans to support me." Besides.
"A guard in the brocade guard commanded by the emperor himself, how can you think about this thing and make people feel confused." Zhou Dingcheng scratched his scalp and said.
"It's not confusing, maybe Zhao Yang is right, the emperor really wants to open the sea ban, and this sixth guard in brocade clothes may be preparing for the establishment of the sea ban in the future." Besides.
"Well, it makes sense." Murong Yanran thought about it and agreed.
Besides, he said: "However, in this way, I will be roasted on the fire, and no matter the people inside the Jinyi Guard or those in the court who oppose the opening of the sea ban, they still don't regard me as a thorn in the flesh in the eye, and they will want to get rid of me as soon as possible." ”
"Don't worry about this, if anyone has bad intentions, let's strike first, and we won't give him a chance." Murong Yanran said.
"The affairs of the court cannot rely on fighting and killing, that will not work. In addition, passers-by have repeatedly said today that they want to investigate the assassination incidents on my way to Beijing, but I don't know what their intentions are. "Besides, I've been thinking about it, but I can't figure it out.
Murong Yanran didn't speak, she obviously couldn't figure out the name here, but the analysis she had said was obviously wrong with the upper echelons of the King Qin faction, but it was impossible to determine whether it was such a thing now.
Besides, she didn't know very well what happened on the way to Beijing, and she was afraid that those Ouchi guards would find out, they were all far away, and by the time they found out about the danger, the matter was over. So what happened at that time, what were the origins of those people, not only did she not know, but the Qinwang faction did not find out the fame.
"The hand you played in the restaurant today is very beautiful, come a few more times, you really have to buy the top and bottom of the brocade guard, but is your waist bag deflated, do you want me to get you tens of thousands of taels of silver." Murong Yanran said with a smile.
"Can you get some money?" Besides, he asked.
"Of course, let's turn into fate, there are too many big temples in our organization, and their silver is piled up at a mountain of price and useless, so we might as well use some fate." Murong Yanran said.
Besides, after thinking about it, he shook his head: "Forget it, I still have it for the time being, I really don't have any money, so let's trouble my seniors." ”
"The emperor asked you to choose the recruiters by yourself, this is not easy to do, the establishment of a guard is more than 5,000 people, where to choose so many people, besides, the people of the Royal Forest Army and the Jinyi Guard will not be let you choose at will, it is not easy to recruit from the people, and it will take several years to train into usable personnel." Zhou Dingcheng is worried about this matter.
"It's not easy, we have a lot of people, not to mention 5,000 people, it's not difficult to even 50,000 people." Murong Yanran said.
"No, we must not use our people, we have to guard against the emperor, in case the emperor knows my details, and I also expect that we will all use our own people, won't we be wiped out by the time come?" Besides, shake your head.
He didn't think about this reason, the point he hated the most was that he was hollowed out by the people in the Qinwang faction, if his subordinates were all people from the Qinwang faction, wouldn't he be hollowed out? So he decided to build his own team this time, starting from the bottom to the top, must be personally selected, carefully screened, the principle of selection is: both moral and ability, loyalty first.
"I don't have a good way to recruit these people, I'll go to Lord Zhang to ask for advice, Lord Zhang should have a good way." Besides, I thought about it.
"The emperor asked you to recruit people yourself and start from scratch?" Zhang Juzheng was also stunned when he heard it.
The so-called iron-clad yamen flowing officials, no matter which yamen must be fully staffed, in exchange for officials, the people below have basically not moved for many years, but the emperor has now given an empty yamen, and everything starts from scratch.
This thing is a bit new and a little out of line, is it because the emperor is in a hurry and a little hasty?
"It's not difficult to say that recruiting people is not difficult at all, Qi Jiguang and Qi Shuai do you know?" Zhang Juzheng asked.
"Yes." Besides, I thought to myself, this is a super national hero, who doesn't know.
"He happened to be training in Jizhen, serving as the chief military officer of Jizhen, he is the person I believe in the most and appreciate the most, one day you get to know each other, or select one or two thousand people from the army he has trained, or let him help you train a new army, Jinyiwei should only be a detective and arrest, one or two thousand men and horses are enough." Zhang Juzheng said.
"Thank you, sir." And rejoice.
Sure enough, Zhang Juzheng still had a way, and Zhang Juzheng solved his most difficult place casually. What he didn't expect was that Qi Jiguang was in Jizhen Town, not far from here.
Thinking of being able to get acquainted with Qi Jiguang and even train together in the future, he was a little excited.
"If we want to increase the establishment of more than 5,000 people, where will the funds be allocated? At present, it is difficult to pay the full amount of military salaries in various places, and if so many personnel are added, there will be another famine in the household department. "Zhang Juzheng is now in charge of the overall situation, not just the Ministry of Rites, so he is familiar with both politics and economics.
"I don't know, this is just from a thousand households in the Zhenfu Division, he listened to the Zhenfu Division's Zhenfu envoy."
"Liu Shouyou, the envoy of Beizhen Fusi, this person is not bad, the son of a famous minister, he is fair, and he doesn't like to make trouble, he is better than a pedestrian." Zhang Juzheng said.
"Do you know him well?" Besides, he asked.
"I'm not familiar with him, he is a person close to the emperor, and we don't have much contact with him. This will cause criticism. Zhang Juzheng said.
"Aren't you and Gao Xiang also the emperor's side?" Besides, I don't understand.
"It's different, and you slowly understand the mystery of it. By the way, you may also be a person close to the emperor in the future, and we will be so close in the future, there will also be gossip. Zhang Juzheng said with a smile.
"It doesn't matter, from the moment I stepped into the Beijing Gate and entered the adult shogunate, the word Zhang Dang was engraved on my forehead, if there is really Zhang Dang, don't want to erase this mark in this life." Besides, he laughed.
"I've hurt you by saying that." Zhang Juzheng also smiled.
After running for a day today, I got some definite news, and I am more down-to-earth, although the future is still confused, at least I saw a ray of light.