Chapter 17: The New Army (Seeking Collection)

"Commander Luo, I heard that there is a famous doctor in Dongshan in Wu County, whose surname is Wu Ming, and his words are good, and his medical skills are very good, so you invited him for me." Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"No."

"Elder Ye Ge, in the future, the cabinet will be fully responsible for disaster relief and disaster relief, and there is no need to report it again, and the disaster relief will not be delayed for half a moment." Zhu Youxiao continued.

"However, disaster relief and relief matters involve a wide range of issues, and it may be difficult to implement them without His Majesty's ruling." Ye Xianggao replied.

"Since it is entrusted to the cabinet with full responsibility, all departments and local yamen must fully cooperate, and if there is any non-cooperation, the cabinet can deal with it at its discretion." Zhu Youxiao said solemnly.

"I understand." Ye Xianggao understood that this move had invisibly expanded the power of the cabinet, and Zhu Youxiao seemed to be taking power, and it seemed that he was delegating power, and he couldn't understand Zhu Youxiao.

"In addition, I have decided to re-mint new coins, which will be silver and bronze. I don't know if you have any objections? Zhu Youxiao decided to start implementing his second-step plan to collect money.

"The minister seconded the proposal." Gu Bingqian was the first to stand up and say.

"The minister seconded the proposal." Immediately afterwards, many ministers stood up to support Zhu Youxiao.

The ministers present did not know the purpose of the emperor's minting of new money, although it was the first time to mint silver coins, but it was reasonable for the emperor to mint new money.

"In addition, I have decided to merge the Silver Bureau of the Inner Court, the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Households, to form a new Imperial Money Bureau, and the Money Bureau will not be under the six departments, but will be managed by me personally for the time being." Zhu Youxiao continued.

"What should be done with the Baoquan Bureaus in various places?" Chen Changzuo, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, raised his hand and asked.

"Suspend the money system, wait for the new money to come out for trial, and then make a decision." Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said.

"No."

At this time, Zhu Youxiao remembered a scientific giant in the history of the Ming Dynasty - Song Yingxing, this person is really an all-rounder, and it is precisely because of him that China's science and technology will still be ahead of the world in many aspects. At this time, he failed the imperial examination again, and he had gone home to prepare to participate in the imperial examination again, but now he is not as enthusiastic about participating in the imperial examination as he was at the beginning.

It is best for the money bureau to be managed by this scientific giant for the time being, and only he can perfectly realize Zhu Youxiao's purpose of making new money. Although this is suspected of being overkill, there is no way to do it now.

"Luo Sigong, you still have to find someone to come over for me, this person's surname is Song Yingxing, the word Chang Geng, Jiangxi Fengxin. The two people I told you must know for me no matter what. After finding it, I immediately sent someone to escort them to Jingshi, where I waited for them. Zhu Youxiao said excitedly.

The officials present were very curious about how Zhu Youxiao could know about these people who were not necessarily famous, and Zhu Youxiao's actions made them full of questions.

……

After participating in the early dynasty, Xiong Tingbi was summoned by Zhu Youxiao alone.

"Xiong Aiqing, I have decided to make you the commander of the new army." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Commandment." Xiong Tingbi said respectfully. Xiong Tingbi was reluctant to this appointment, he was originally a civilian, but now he is in a military position, in the Ming Dynasty, the status of a military general is lower than that of a civilian official.

"This new army is named the First Army of the Imperial Forest Army, and it is mainly composed of 10,000 eunuchs and 15,000 recruits and 5,000 cavalry recruited by Mangui." Zhu Youxiao didn't care what Xiong Tingbi thought, he continued.

"Five thousand cavalry?" Xiong Tingbi asked in surprise. You must know that the famous Guanning Iron Cavalry in the later world is only a few thousand, and now to form a cavalry of 5,000 sounds like a book from heaven.

"Yes, I will hand over this matter to Man Gui to be responsible, but it may take a while for 5,000 cavalry to form an army. But the remaining 25,000 I need you to train them into an army. I have some training methods here that you can learn from. Zhu Youxiao copied the methods used in military training in later generations to Xiong Tingbi.

"The minister will live up to His Majesty's grace." Xiong Tingbi took the booklet and said.

"I know that there must be some dissatisfaction in your heart for you to change from a civilian to a military attaché, but I tell you that this army is well led, and your status will never be inferior to that of a cabinet member in the future. Because I understand that in order to strengthen the army, it is necessary to improve the status of soldiers. Zhu Youxiao said with an oath.

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister must swear allegiance to the emperor." Zhu Youxiao's words, he now has to believe that if he enters the cabinet one day, this is something he has dreamed of all his life.

"Li Yongzhen has gone to Shandong to recruit new soldiers, you can also go to help." Zhu Youxiao said.

"No, the minister immediately set off for Shandong to assist Gonggong Li in recruiting new troops." Xiong Tingbi said.

After Xiong Tingbi left, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang Liqian: "How are the 10,000 eunuchs in the palace preparing?" ”

"There are tens of thousands of people stationed in Nanhaizi, and the minister thinks that he can select 10,000 Wu Geldings as a new army." Wang Liqian replied.

"I'll leave this matter to you. If there is a shortage of manpower, people can be transferred directly from the south. Zhu Youxiao said.

"No."

……

Every time they had dinner, the concubines would soon disperse and wait for the emperor to come to the door. This time, Zhu Youxiao decided to let the concubines accompany him for a walk to enhance understanding.

Hearing that Zhu Youxiao asked them to accompany them for a walk, they were naturally very happy, most of them could only sit in the palace and wait for the emperor the rest of the time except for eating every day, but Zhu Youxiao seemed to have not moved in the past few days since he spoiled Zhang Yan and Fan. Everyone present hopes to be favored by the emperor, and if they can have a son and a half daughter, their status will naturally be greatly improved.

Zhu Youxiao is like a starry moon, surrounded by a group of beauties. Walking with so many beauties, Zhu Youxiao was inevitably a little proud in his heart, and he could see at a glance that the ring was fat and thin, and the warbler Yanyan made Zhu Youxiao feel that this TM was the big winner in life.

What made Zhu Youxiao feel a pity was that the Ming Dynasty costumes were too conservative, and the so-called long legs could not be seen at all. Of course, the costumes of the Ming Dynasty are very different from those of the previous dynasties, especially in the underwear.

It is said that in the Song and Ming dynasties, under the influence of Cheng Zhu Lixue, the social atmosphere tended to be more conservative, in this regard, Zhu Youxiao has different views, but from the Han and Tang dynasties, the women's underwear system is summarized in a simple sentence, that is, the cloth is used less and less. Among the people, there are more and more books about depicting men and women, and most of the so-called forbidden books are from the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that the social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was open, but in fact, it was only the upper class of society, and it was still very conservative among the people. This has a lot to do with the fact that the Tang Emperor has Hu blood. For another example, why does Datang regard fat as beauty? Zhu Youxiao personally thinks that this has a lot to do with the bloodline of the Tang Emperor Hu, fat people are definitely better than thin people, think about it on the grassland, eating is a problem, thin people must be easier to starve to death than fat people, at that time Hu people naturally like to be fat, which is very understandable.