Section 13: Rectification
Zhu Yunwen sighed slightly, with the three major battalions of the Beijing Division in such a way as they are now, it is impossible to defend this huge capital, let alone fight with Jiannu. It is imperative to reform the old and make the new!
Seeing Zhu Yunwen and the three of them coming to the camp gate, several old guards at the camp gate glanced at each other, and one of the old guards stopped the fire stick in his hand in front of the three and shouted: "The military camp is heavy, idlers are not allowed to enter!" If the three nobles have something, please hand over the name sticker, and the small one can go to the communication on behalf of the nobles. ”
Zhu Yunwen smiled slightly and said: "Who is the general who is on duty in the camp at this moment, you go and tell me, just say that His Royal Highness the Prince of Daming and His Royal Highness the eldest princess are coming, and he does not need to come to greet him, just call the soldiers in the camp, and His Royal Highness the Prince has his own edict and notice." ”
The faces of several old pawns changed, and they hurriedly separated one of the old pawns and ran quickly towards the barracks. Zhu Yunwen smiled indifferently, and then took the prince and the princess into the barracks slowly, and walked towards the school grounds.
After a while, before Zhu Yunwen and the three of them walked into the school ground, a military camp general ran out of the camp in a panic. From afar, he knelt down on one knee: "Ma Lin, a thousand households in the five military camps, knock to see His Royal Highness the Prince, and knock to see His Royal Highness the Princess!" ”
The crown prince Zhu Cihong looked at the ancestor Zhu Yunwen who smiled at him, and said with a serious face: "No courtesy, Ma Qianhu, how many soldiers are there in the barracks at this time?" You go to beat the drum of the gathering generals, and the palace wants to review my Ming guarding the Jingshi
Zhu Yunwen sighed slightly, with the three major battalions of the Beijing Division in such a way as they are now, it is impossible to defend this huge capital, let alone fight with Jiannu. It is imperative to reform the old and make the new!
Seeing Zhu Yunwen and the three of them coming to the camp gate, several old guards at the camp gate glanced at each other, and one of the old guards stopped the fire stick in his hand in front of the three and shouted: "The military camp is heavy, idlers are not allowed to enter!" If the three nobles have something, please hand over the name sticker, and the small one can go to the communication on behalf of the nobles. ”
Zhu Yunwen smiled slightly and said: "Who is the general who is on duty in the camp at this moment, you go and tell me, just say that His Royal Highness the Prince of Daming and His Royal Highness the eldest princess are coming, and he does not need to come to greet him, just call the soldiers in the camp, and His Royal Highness the Prince has his own edict and notice." ”
The faces of several old pawns changed, and they hurriedly separated one of the old pawns and ran quickly towards the barracks. Zhu Yunwen smiled indifferently, and then took the prince and the princess into the barracks slowly, and walked towards the school grounds.
After a while, before Zhu Yunwen and the three of them walked into the school ground, a military camp general ran out of the camp in a panic. From afar, he knelt down on one knee: "The guerrilla Ma Lin of the five military camps knocks to see His Royal Highness the Prince, and knocks to meet His Royal Highness the Princess!" ”
The crown prince Zhu Cihong looked at the ancestor Zhu Yunwen who smiled at him, and said with a serious face: "No courtesy, horse guerrilla, how many soldiers are there in the barracks at this time?" You go and beat the drum of the gathering generals, and the palace wants to review the tiger ben of my Ming guarding the Jingshi, go. ”
Guerrilla Ma Lin lowered his head and didn't dare to stand up, Chi Ai said: "Back to Your Highness, most of the generals in the army are in the capital at this moment, and those who stayed in the barracks originally had the guerrilla general General Li Xingguo, but just this morning, someone from General Li's house reported that he had returned to his home in the capital in an emergency. Those who are still on duty in the barracks now, the highest military rank is the lowly position, and the others are still in the hundreds of households and small flags. ”
The crown prince Zhu Cihong was a little at a loss, Zhu Yunwen stretched out his sleeves, rolled up the guerrilla Ma Lin kneeling in front of him, and said lightly: "You just need to gather all the soldiers in the military camp and let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince review it." As for the rest, you don't have to bother. ”
Ma Lin opened his mouth to speak, looked at the indifferent Zhu Yunwen, endured it again, and after saluting the prince and princess again, he turned around and ran to the drumstick, picked up the drumstick and beat it hard.
The dull sound of drums echoed over the barracks one by one, and the silent barracks suddenly exploded, and the people everywhere were buzzing, and the chaos was even noisier than the vegetable market.
Zhu Yunwen had a cold face, and the prince Zhu Cihong and the princess Zhu Weijiao who were standing next to him also had a cold face, standing quietly on the point platform, quietly watching the soldiers in the barracks running to the school yard noisily.
Just looking at these soldiers, old or young, sick or disabled, and unable to even hold all the weapons in their hands, Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The Ming Dynasty has lasted for three hundred years, and the three major battalions that were famous all over the world are now decaying and can no longer withstand the battle.
A full hour had passed, and no new soldiers had arrived outside the schoolyard. Guerrilla Marin walked to the prince's side nervously: "Back to Your Highness, all the soldiers have arrived at the ......."
Looking at the lineup of less than 2,000 people standing on the school ground, the prince looked back at Zhu Yunwen dumbly, Zhu Yunwen shook his head, just these two thousand people, remove the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are still seven or eight hundred young people left, which is already quite good.
"Ma guerrilla, you go and give an order, so that all the soldiers who are over thirty-five years old and younger than eighteen years old, who are sick and the only son of the family, will be listed."
Ma Lin was about to turn around and give an order, when the prince's immature voice sounded again: "Wait, Ma Guerrilla, you will call the hundred small banners and others in the camp later, if it is appropriate, these people will be brought into the new army to practice again."
As for those generals who are not in the barracks, no matter whether he was a prince or a prince before, after today, there will be no place for them in the military force system of the Ming Garrison Guarding the Beijing Division. ”
Ma Lin's heart was shocked, he had only heard that the palace would rectify the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, but he didn't expect that the intensity of this rectification was so great that no one could easily bear it!
It's just that now he is the only one with the highest official position in the military camp, and those high-ranking generals usually live in the capital, and they rarely even return to the military camp. At this time, he wanted to inform him, but Marin just wanted to say: This thing is really too difficult!
Now is not the time to talk about righteousness, now is the time for the imperial court to rectify the Beijing camp, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is at the moment. The best choice is to hug His Royal Highness the Prince's thighs tightly, how can he have time to care about the lives and deaths of others.
Ma Lin, whose mind turned a thousand times in an instant, quickly made a decision in his heart, solemnly returned the salute to the prince Zhu Cihong, turned around and ran quickly towards the barracks, and after a while, he gathered the other small flags of the other thousands of households left in the barracks and brought them to the prince.
The crown prince Zhu Cihong glanced at Zhu Yunwen, tried hard to be serious, and ordered the low-paper officers in front of him one by one: "The emperor has an order to order this prince to reorganize the three battalions of the Beijing Division." From now on, you and others will be the first batch of officers in the new Beijing battalion, and from now on, you and others will be temporarily headed by Qianhu Marin, eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled in the three battalions of the Beijing Division, leaving only the young and strong between the ages of 18 and 28.
The old, weak, sick and disabled who have been eliminated are counted, and the settling-in expenses are reported to the prince, who will pay them uniformly. Don't do anything else, wait until you go to the camp camp on the outskirts of the Beijing Division, and recruit young and strong people to fill the army. The settling-in expenses are still reported to the prince and paid by the prince. The new monthly rule for sergeants, two taels of silver per month, will be uniformly distributed by the Prince's Mansion.
Now, you have been placed under the command of Prince Ben, and your military positions will be rearranged, and Prince Ben does not care what military positions you held before. Now, the first military order of the prince was issued, and after you cleared out the barracks, you went to the camp to recruit soldiers, and if you can recruit 100 young and strong, the prince will appoint him as 100 households, and if you recruit 1,000 people, you will be 1,000 households. If you can recruit 5,000 men, then congratulations, you will become the new general of the Beijing camp. But there is only one article, and it is not allowed to use force. Let's do it! ”
When the thousands of small banners heard the prince's order, they were all ecstatic, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. How can you stay still? After saluting the prince, their footsteps hurriedly scattered.
Zhu Yunwen took the prince and the princess into the military tent and sat down, swept his senses, stretched out his hand, and came out of the air with a few books, which were the account books and sergeant rosters of the third battalion of the Beijing Division. There is no need to look closely, Zhu Yunwen knows the contents of these account books. Open the account book and point out the loopholes in the account book to the prince and princess one by one, and let them think carefully about the mistakes and omissions.
At this time, in the court, under the leadership of the first assistant Zhou Yanru, the civil official system was still arguing with Chongzhen tenaciously, counting the dangers of the prince's army, the dangers of reusing eunuchs, and crying that the emperor could not violate the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty.
The Wuxun system was headed by Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Zhou Kui, the Bo of Jiading, who strongly opposed the prince leaving the palace to take charge of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division. After all, the three battalions of the Beijing Division have always been the private place of the martial arts, and they don't have to go to the front line to eat empty, such a good thing, if it is disturbed by the prince's exit from the palace, their losses will not be too great.
For a while, no one mentioned the demon road and the chaos of the palace.
Chongzhen, who has the support of the ancestor, is obviously straighter, and his tone is a lot heavier. Completely ignoring the noise of the civil and military ministers, he made up his mind and summoned Qin Liangyu, Ma Xianglin, He Kegang, Cao Bianjiao, Zhou Yuji and other generals to enter Beijing one after another. Where did that Zheng Sen come from?
The martial artists are even more frightened, these recruits are all military generals, does it mean that these generals have entered the command of the prince and are in charge of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division? So what can these martial artists do in the future? Without the three battalions of the Beijing Division, how will we live in the future?
The martial artists in the court did not know that while they were arguing with the emperor, the crown prince had already left the palace and entered the garrison of the three major battalions, and had already begun the work of rectifying the three battalions. In addition, the problem of corruption/corruption caused by the rectification will lead to a large number of martial artists being convicted and imprisoned.
According to Chongzhen's temper, he is going to kill. However, the ancestor who was already an immortal did not agree, thinking that this would hurt the peace of heaven. What's more, the ancestor also said that in the future, the Ming Dynasty will need a lot of manpower. Instead of exterminating these corrupt/corrupt officials, it is better to let them spend all their days in the future to pay a lifetime of labor for the rise of the Ming Dynasty.
The court was still noisy, and Fang Zhenghua, the celebrant and eunuch, with two hundred internal eunuchs and three hundred brocade guards, had already rushed to the station of the three battalions of the Beijing Division, waiting for the dispatch of His Royal Highness the Prince.
For Fang Zhenghua, Zhu Yunwen still appreciates it. When everyone surrendered the thief Li Zicheng, it was this celebrant eunuch who led his entourage and the other four great eunuchs Gao Shiming, Li Fengxiang, Zhu Xianzhang and Zhang Guoyuan to fight to the end with rudimentary weapons, and finally died in the end.
Under the orders of the prince, Fang Zhenghua took hundreds of internal supervisors and brocade guards, followed the loopholes in the roster of the Beijing camp, and scattered to begin to arrest the generals and schools at all levels of the Beijing camp that were shown by the loopholes in the roster, as well as the military generals and nobles, scholars and celebrities and wealthy businessmen who no one could move before.
All of a sudden, chickens and dogs jumped in the capital, and a large number of noble people in the eyes of the people before were escorted into the Beijing camp by Jinyi Guard. The angry shouts and scolding of the nobles attracted the applause of the people.