Chapter 957: Where is the hope

In this life, for Emperor Chongzhen, he can't manage so much other places for the time being, but in Beijing, he must avoid a situation similar to that in history.

Originally, things like the security and governance of the city in later generations were managed by the Five Cities Terracotta Division.

It's a pity that there is no distinction between the military and police of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and the responsibilities between the military and police under the command of Shuntian Mansion Yin are not so clear.

If there is no distinction between the military and the police, and the responsibilities are not clear, everyone is in charge of many things, and everyone does not care.

Specifically, everyone takes care of the things that are profitable, and everyone doesn't care about the things that are not profitable.

Now Emperor Chongzhen asked Yan Yingyuan to do this in Beijing, just to put the matter of urban security and management in his hands, so that he could find a suitable way of city management under the current conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the current situation, Yan Yingyuan has done things to this extent, although he is not very satisfied with Emperor Chongzhen, and he has not achieved Emperor Chongzhen's ideal goal, but it is already very commendable.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen certainly has a soul from later generations, and he also knows some of the practices of later generations, such as distinguishing the types of police in detail, and then completely copying the practices of the police, criminal police, traffic police, fire police, and urban management.

At the end of the day, it's not that he can't do it, it's just that he doesn't want to.

The best way to make a new thing really take root in another place in another era and play its exemplary role is not to transplant a towering tree directly, but to sow a seed and let it take root and blossom on the land of this era.

Otherwise, the foundation may not be solid.

Of course, these ideological struggles between Emperor Chongzhen himself and himself are not known to outsiders, including Yan Yingyuan, who is implementing Emperor Chongzhen's line of thought, and other capable generals in various fields, who are not aware of these entanglements in the emperor's heart.

The first month of Chongzhen's fourth year has become a thing of the past in a blink of an eye.

Envoys from the Governor's Palace of Salem of Portugal, the Governor's Palace of San Lorenzo of the Dutch East India Company, the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma, and the Tsushima Clan, soon after observing the opening ceremony of the Guards in the camp of Tongzhou, the first town of the Guards, hurried on their way home with extremely mixed feelings.

The envoys of the Governor's Mansion of Salem of Portugal and the envoys of the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma, with the tripartite treaty finally reached with the Ming Dynasty, together with Ma Gan and his entourage, who had been sent by the Ming Dynasty to take over the city of Ava and establish the Burmese Central Town Guard Mansion and serve as the envoy of the Burmese Central Town, left Beijing and went south on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The trip to the Tongzhou camp, the first town of the Guards, made Cohen, the envoy of the Portuguese Governor's Palace of Salem, further verify some of his conjectures, and he felt even more fortunate.

Fortunately, at this time last year, Peres, who is now promoted to the governor of the Sarem Governor's Palace, accepted the conditions of the Ming Emperor, otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would really choose to start a war, and the Portuguese position in Myanmar was destined to not last long.

The first town of the Guards, Tongzhou Daya, and his entourage, also made Dechen Paye, the envoy of the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma, feel terrified.

Dechen Paye knew very well in his heart that the reason why his ancestor Yinglong was able to destroy the Bogu Meng regime and the Ava Shan regime, and dared to march into Yunnan to wrestle with the Ming Dynasty was because they were equipped with firearms obtained from the Portuguese.

But now it seems that the firearms they received from the Portuguese were not comparable to those of the imperial guards of the Ming Dynasty.

Neither in terms of quantity, nor in terms of quality, nor in terms of the level of training, can be compared.

The range and rate of fire of the artillery displayed by the Ming Royal Guard, as well as the variety of firearms thrown by the battalion heads known as grenadiers, which either exploded on the spot or shattered on the ground, also shattered the little remaining flame of hope in Dechenpaye's heart.

The army on which the Toungoo people relied to build their country back then was a musketeer and a white elephant soldier.

Musketeers were musketeers armed with Portuguese arquebuses.

The White Elephants were traditional Taungoo troops who rode elephants with bows and arrows in the jungle.

The combination of these two things made the army of the Taungoo Kingdom invincible on Burmese soil at that time.

In addition to the fact that almost all the army was finally wiped out in the hands of the Ming army, there were few opponents among the local Tusi.

However, the two sharp weapons on which the Donghu people relied to establish the country are now subject to the Portuguese Governor's Palace, and the other is completely impossible to be the opponent of the Ming army.

The elephant's body is huge, no matter how strong the elephant's skin is, and it is not afraid of bows and arrows, it can't resist the artillery fired quickly by the Ming Royal Guard, and it can't resist the fierce fire and oil bombs that can't be extinguished by water.

If it is the musket equipped by the Ming army, in the humid and rainy jungle, the army of the Donghu Dynasty will still have a chance to take advantage of it in the future, then the raging fire of the fierce fire and oil bullets will become a nightmare for the Donghu elephant soldiers.

Fortunately, he was forced to obey the Portuguese and persuaded his nephew and son-in-law Talon to accept the agreement brought by the Portuguese.

In this way, when Dechen Paye left the city of Beijing, he had both a heavy side and a light side in his heart.

I feel heavy that this time, the Ming and Burmese town guards who went to Ava with him and will take over Ava City according to the treaty do not seem to be a good man.

In particular, the young generals from the martial arts hall who accompanied the envoy of the Burmese town guard were full of enthusiasm one by one, and before they arrived at the place, they began to plan how to establish rules and regulations in Burma and make meritorious contributions, which is not like a good way to get along!

The side that made him feel relaxed was that listening to these people, they were extremely in awe or worship the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and they did not look like they dared to disobey the will of the Ming Emperor.

And this has now become the greatest hope in the heart of Dechen Paye, a powerful minister of the Taungoo Dynasty.

This time, the young officers who followed Ma Qian to serve in Burma were all from the fourth phase of the Huangming Zhongyi Lecture Hall in Tongzhou.

These people were admitted through various channels in the autumn of Chongzhen's second year, and the school system was extended to two years, and they will graduate in the summer of Chongzhen's fourth year.

Just a few years ago, when the lecture hall was about to have a holiday for the New Year, Ma Gan rushed to Tongzhou with the will of Emperor Chongzhen, and openly recruited young generals to serve in central Myanmar for the fourth batch of students who were about to graduate in June of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

There were not many people willing to go to Burma, because many of the people in the fourth phase of Jiangwutang, as in the past, were mainly from the towns of the Nine Sides and the Guards, as well as the original Jingying, which is now the third and fourth towns of the Guards.

And after these people graduated, the main direction of arrangement was still the towns and guards on the nine sides.

Only those hereditary guards who came from the inland guard posts and were interested in serving the country in the army, but who now had no affiliation in the army, responded more positively to Ma Gan's recruitment.

After talking one by one, Ma Gan finally selected five people from the Jiangnan region from Yingzhong, namely Chen Yuwang, Cao Fengzhen, Chen Ying, Bao Wenda, and Wu Qiao.

When Ma Gan reported the list he had finalized to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen immediately agreed.

Ma Gan may have chosen these people based on his own intuition or judgment, but Emperor Chongzhen knew that several of them were people who left their names in the troubled times in the last years of Chongzhen.

Chen Yuwang, who was originally a hereditary Suzhou Wei Qianhu, would have been in the military examination in a certain year in the future in the original history, and held a certain military attache position, and was finally defeated and besieged in the war of the northwest thieves going south to Jianghuai.

When everyone else surrendered, he chose to commit suicide.

As for Cao Fengzhen, he is the eldest son of Cao Wenheng, the current governor of Huguang in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he chose to follow Ma Gan to serve in central Burma, which made Emperor Chongzhen feel a little out.

originally thought that he was just a gentleman from an official eunuch's family who failed to learn literature and turned to martial arts, but he didn't expect that he still had such a mind.

As for Chen Ying, Bao Wenda, and Wu Qiao, the heroes of the troubled times in the last years of Chongzhen, in this life, they were all admitted to the lecture hall in the autumn of the second year of Chongzhen, through the recommendation of Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun.

Now they were selected by Ma Gan in the lecture hall to follow them to serve in central Burma, and each of them was a hot-blooded young man who enthusiastically signed up and volunteered to open up the territory and make contributions.

This list was finally reported to Emperor Chongzhen, and he naturally did not stop them from going, but immediately approved it, and according to the rank evaluation and promotion of normal martial arts graduates, they were generally promoted by one level.

Among them, Chen Yuwang, who has the highest hereditary position and is also the oldest, was appointed as the general of the town guard in central Burma.

Even Wu Qiao, who was only twenty years old at the youngest time and did not have any secular position before entering the lecture hall, was also instructed by Emperor Chongzhen's imperial pen to "have commendable ambitions and be worthy of a thousand generals", so he was promoted to the post of a thousand generals of the town guard office in central Myanmar by the Governor's Office of the Border Guards.

And these martial arts students selected by Ma Gan will be allowed to graduate several months in advance without the assessment, and then, when they pass through their respective hometowns in Jiangnan, they will recruit young people from their hometowns to accompany them.

As for Ma Gan himself, after arriving in his hometown of Kunming, he will gather the regiment that he recruited himself to help the army in his hometown two years ago to train his hometown and go to Burma and China together.