Lu Xiangsheng was a native of Yixing County, the capital of Changzhou, in Nanzhili, and of course he was also a god-like figure in the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is now only twenty-seven years old, and he is already the prefect of the daimyo mansion. And he became the prefect of the Daimyo's Mansion, not because of his family background or anyone's relationship, but because of his own talent and hard work.

This person is definitely both civil and military, and he is a rare figure in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, even more fierce than Xiong Tingbi, who was able to write and martial arts in the past ten thousand years. Lu Xiangsheng, who was only born in 1600 AD, was admitted to Jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and he had just turned 22 years old at that time.

In five years, he made remarkable political achievements, from a seven-pin county order to quickly rise to the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion of Beizhili. This is similar to a later generation of people who became county magistrates at the age of 22 and were promoted to the mayor of a prefecture-level city in five years by virtue of their natural talents.

Many people say that the Ming Dynasty was politically corrupt, but the existence of people like Lu Xiangsheng shows all the time that the degree of political corruption in the Ming Dynasty is not as serious as later generations imagined.

Lu Xiangsheng not only passed the examination and the palace examination and was admitted to the Jinshi, but also has strong martial arts, is good at using a broadsword, and is proficient in riding and archery, and is definitely a handsome person who can write and martial arts.

Historically, in the winter and October of the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, the lord of the Later Jin, led more than 100,000 troops of the Eight Banners Army and the Mongolian army to detour through the garrisons of Eastern Mongolia and march to the city of Beijing. As the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion, Lu Xiangsheng immediately recruited 10,000 troops to go north to King Qin, fought bravely and successfully along the way, and finally drove the Eight Banners Army out of the pass together with other troops under the command of Sun Chengzong.

The army that Lu Xiangsheng raised in the Daimyo Mansion, known as the "Tianxiong Army" in history, followed him in the front line of the fight against the Manchu invasion. Soon after the end of Chongzhen's second year of recruitment, Lu Xiangsheng was newly appointed and valued by Emperor Chongzhen, and was soon promoted to the governor of Xuanda.

It shows that the political corruption at the end of the Ming Dynasty, or that Emperor Chongzhen had no eyes, actually did not really understand the history of the late Ming Dynasty. The fall of the Ming Dynasty was really due to financial bankruptcy, and if there was another reason, it was the continuous party struggle above the imperial court. Therefore, the fall of the Ming Dynasty was not because of the mediocrity and incompetence of Emperor Chongzhen.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen brothers are very hard, they are not suitable to be emperors, but they were pushed to the throne of emperors by fate, especially in this special period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which doomed them to the tragedy of their lives.

In this life, because Emperor Chongzhen has a soul from later generations, he naturally ordered the Military Aircraft Department to organize the recruitment of people and the formation and training of new troops, and then set up the Zhili Governor's Office to coordinate the cooperation of the various state capitals in the north and Zhili, and Lu Xiangsheng, who had already had this intention, immediately executed.

The state and county officials in Shanxi, Henan and other places, because there were too many displaced people under their rule, they were eager to rush to other places to settle fields, especially in Henan, Huaiqing, Kaifeng, and Guide, where the land was seriously annexed, and a large number of peasants were displaced.

On the way north, as long as these people do not follow the canal that freezes in winter, most of them have to pass through the Daimyo's Mansion, and when they pass through the Daimyo's Mansion, they are intercepted by Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates who recruit people to reclaim the land, and then settle on the spot to open up the wasteland and reclaim the land, and the climate here is also warmer than that around Gyeonggi. In this way, Lu Xiangsheng's approach has reduced the pressure on Gyeonggi, Baoding and other places, and secondly, he has also accumulated a large number of troops for himself in the future.

In this way, a daimyo mansion, in a few months, received and resettled the displaced people, and it was almost as large as the number of people resettled around Gyeonggi by the Juntun Division.

After Yang Yingqian learned of this situation, he quickly reported it to Sun Chengzong, the governor of Zhili and the minister of military aircraft, and Sun Chengzong was also very happy when he heard about it, and soon wrote to the governors of the prefectures in Zhili, following Lu Xiangsheng's example.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally quickly learned about this situation, and immediately made a decision, and through the Military Aircraft Department, he granted Lu Xiangsheng the power to recruit people on a large scale in the Daimyo Mansion and organize and train a new army.

After recruiting people and reclamation was on the right track, Emperor Chongzhen soon asked the Military Aircraft Department to take the lead in organizing and training 20,000 new troops in Beizhili, but it was clearly stipulated that 5,000 of them should be handed over to Lu Xiangsheng, the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion, to complete, and the new military salary of 100,000 yuan a year should also be allocated by the Military Aircraft Department as scheduled.

For many governors of the state capital of Beizhili, recruiting people and training soldiers is definitely a chore, and some of the chief officials of the state capital, while glad that the indicators for the formation and training of the new army did not fall on their heads, they are even more gloating and waiting to see the jokes of the famous prefect Lu Xiangsheng, since you Lu Xiangsheng love to steal the limelight, then you deserve to suffer the hardships of organizing and training the new army.

But what these people didn't expect was that Lu Xiangsheng not only did not complain to the imperial court, nor did he take the opportunity to put forward any conditions to the imperial court, but happily accepted it, and immediately devoted himself to the task of selecting new sergeants.

Since he knew about Lu Xiangsheng's situation from the formal channels of the imperial court, of course Emperor Chongzhen in this life would not fail to give him a heavy responsibility.

After receiving the order of the Zhili Governor's Office to continue to expand the scale of recruiting people and cultivating the new army of 5,000 on the spot, Lu Xiangsheng was soon found by the Jinyi Guard sent by Gong Yonggu, and received an emperor's handwritten edict, which granted him the position of the Daimyo Mansion, Guangping Mansion, and Shunde Mansion to prepare for the three prefectures, and gave him the number of "Tianxiong Battalion", and granted him the right to perform secret folds, so that he could directly report or ask for instructions without going through the Zhili Governor's Office, the General Administration Department, the Cabinet or the Military Aircraft Department. Sent to the desk of the emperor's study.

Regarding the name of "Tianxiong Camp", although Lu Xiangsheng didn't know what the emperor was thinking about, he pondered for a while, and soon inexplicably fell in love with this name that sounded very loud.

Especially when he got the two secret folding boxes, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly had a feeling of dying as a confidant, and Emperor Chongzhen's trust made him excited.

For the literati and doctors of that era, serving the emperor was a matter of course, and if the emperor still had the grace of knowing him, it would be not to mention, only to die.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen, of course, is different from history, and he has naturally thought about the training of the new army for a long time. At first, he wanted to use a new three-level structure of divisions, regiments, and battalions, but he felt that doing so was a bit out of place with this era, and after thinking about it, he decided to use the titles that civil and military officials and even the people of the world had long been accustomed to in this era, first adopting the battalion system, and then gradually expanding the establishment, gradually upgrading the battalion to the top of the battalion, and also reserving a broad space for the promotion of new officers in the future.

Today, the towns of the Nine Sides are called towns in military establishment, and their highest military position is called the chief military officer. In fact, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the chief military officer was a very honorable title, and it was not a permanent position. In peacetime, the army is under the management of the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, and in wartime, the military department sends generals to serve as commander-in-chief officers to command operations.

This system is quite reasonable, but after a long time, it was chaotic, and in the late Ming Dynasty, the guard system was abolished, so the battalion system began to prevail, and the chief military officer became a permanent position in charge of the army and battalion soldiers. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the general army was everywhere, and there were as many generals as dogs.

In Emperor Chongzhen's vision, the formation and training of the new army should be carried out in stages and gradually. In the first stage, Yang Yingqian and others recruited 20,000 young men from among the people of Zhuozhou, Fangshan, Liangxiang and other places in western Beijing, and stationed them in the reserve camp of the new army in Zhuozhou, where they first trained their physical fitness and taught them military law and discipline.

The chief officer is in charge of training and commanding operations, supervising the army's imperial history, managing military discipline, and serving the merits, the deputy chief of military is in charge of armaments and logistics, and the chief of staff is in charge of military intelligence and military orders.

A town has five standards, each with 3,000 people, led by a deputy general, staff, instructors, and staff generals, the deputy general is in charge of the combat command of the whole standard, the staff officer is in charge of military orders, military intelligence and espionage, the training and guidance is in charge of military discipline, and the staff is in charge of military affairs and logistics.

There are three battalions under the standard, each battalion has 1,000 people, the battalion officer is a guerrilla, the deputy battalion officer is the garrison, and at the same time there is a staff officer to train and manage military affairs and military discipline, and the battalion has 1,000 people, divided into five sentry posts in the front and back, left and right, and 200 people under each post, and the sentry officer is a thousand generals and deputy thousand generals.

There are three teams under the post, each team has 60 people, and there is a general and deputy commander, divided into three platoons; There are 20 people in each platoon, and the platoon commander and deputy platoon commander are set to lead them; The remaining twenty people were organized into a platoon directly under the sentinel officer, responsible for communications, orders, and war supervision; The platoon is set up again, and the captain leads it.

At the same time, the reserve battalion of the Zhuozhou New Army recruited young and strong men again, mixed them with the remaining personnel, continued training, and after three months, another 15,000 people were selected to train the second town of the New Army, so that by the autumn of the second year of Chongzhen, four or five towns of the New Army could be organized and trained one after another, with 70,000 or 80,000 people.

In addition, Li Banghua was authorized to train 5,000 people in the mining camp in Zunhua Baismelting, Lu Xiangsheng trained 5,000 people in the Tianxiong camp in Daming, Guangping, and Shunde, and Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, and 8,000 people in the Caoyun Governor Yuan Keli in Huai'an and other places.

By the time Huang Taiji led his troops to invade Gyeonggi in the second year of Chongzhen, in addition to the original border garrison, in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, there were at least 100,000 new troops, and the situation would definitely be much better than in history.

Moreover, the military expenditure added to the original nine-sided and 12-town units each year will not increase too much, so that it will not seriously exceed the revenues of the state treasury and the inner treasury and affect the progress of other areas.