No. 053 The Storm Returns

Chen Bangyan saw that the new emperor valued himself so much, and said in his heart that he was expected to serve the country in this life!

His heart was moved, and he suddenly felt that the scholar died as a confidant, and he kowtowed gratefully and said: "Your Majesty treats the ministers with a countryman, and the ministers are willing to repay them with death." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Sir, please." Zhu Youhua left his seat to help Chen Bangyan with his own hands, and said: "Mr. is loyal and courageous, and he is very fond of him. Xiyue Shaobao once said, 'Wenchen is not greedy for money, and Wuchen is not afraid of death, then the world is decided!' As long as the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty treat each other with all sincerity, share the same hatred for the enemy, and take it as their responsibility to relieve the people from hanging upside down, then the Ming Dynasty is hopeful. ”

In the end, Zhu Youhua placed Chen Bangyan in the Imperial Camp Division as a senator in the name of preferential reward, and assisted in the military affairs of Counselor Wang Shixun, with the same position as Zhengqipin.

There is no way, Wang Shixun and Chen Bangyan are only students, according to the Ming system, students can only be officials at most, or governors, governors, prefects, prefects and other staff members in the shogunate, not officials. The lowest merit of being an official is to raise people. If Zhu Youhua wants to be forcibly promoted, you can imagine how big the resistance will be, and the Minister of Donglin at this moment is eager to find him something to do!

Civil officials are like this, but military attaches do not have so many restrictions, so Zhu Youhua gave Wang Shixun and Chen Bangyan the corresponding military ranks, but what they did was the work of civilian officials. On this point, Wang Shixun and Chen Bangyan have no dissatisfaction or objection.

Since ascending the throne for a month, Zhu Youhua's real cronies have basically concentrated in the Imperial Camp Division.

The military ministers in the division include the chief soldier Zhang Tanggong, the chief instructor Liu Zhaoji, the deputy general Ma Xiong, the deputy general Han Cheng, the guerrilla Li Sanshi, the guerrilla Yan Yingyuan, etc.

Wenchen has calmed down Wang Shixun, senator Chen Bangyan and so on.

The Imperial Camp Division has become his de facto talent reserve institution, quite like the Tiance Mansion before Li Shimin ascended the throne. A large number of elite talents were concentrated, laying the foundation for the creation of the rule of Zhenguan.

Zhu Youhua planned to put them in the Imperial Camp Division for training first, familiarize themselves with military affairs, and prepare for being in charge of the party in the future.

Chen Bangyan came to Nanjing this time, in addition to the 10,000 words of advice he carried with him, there was also a whole boat, a total of 300 turtledoves. They were all accepted by Lu Zhenfei and sent to the Imperial Camp Division by the Holy Decree as the armament of the Imperial Battalion pro-army. The firepower of the pro-army was greatly enhanced.

The turtledove foot gun is the largest fire gun with the inner diameter in the Ming Dynasty, also called the hook gun, the gun is 5.5 feet long (about 31-32 cm per ruler), the inner diameter is 0.6 inches (converted to about 19mm), the medicine is 1.3 taels, the lead weighs 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams), the big turtledove gun bullet weighs 1.8 taels (68 grams, terrifying), the gun body is very heavy, needs to be supported by a tripod, and resembles a bird's foot, hence the name, the power is far better than that of ordinary birds.

The style of the turtledove is completely different from that of the bird and the low-sized pipe. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, only Macao and Guangdong can manufacture, pirates have used this kind of firearms, the official army also has a small amount of equipment, Chongzhen eight years Xiong Wencan transported to Beijing a batch of firearms, including this kind of firearms, after the Songjin War, the Ministry of War to transfer Zheng Zhilong's sailors to guard Juehua Island, Zheng Zhilong is afraid of death, one of the reasons for refusal is that only Guangdong can make turtledove foot guns.

The turtledove foot gun is a rare boutique in the arquebus series, but unfortunately subject to technology and materials, it is difficult to mass produce large-scale, and the standard firearms in the Ming army are still bird guns and three-eyed guns.

The bird gun is also a sharp weapon in battle, and it can be used to shoot and hit, and the bow and arrow can be reached. Historically, the Qi family army trained the bird hand, and stood a five-foot-high wooden card in eighty steps, and the bird hand was in the three-in-one, and the seventeenth party was the art master.

The effective lethality of the three-eyed gun is only more than 20 steps, while the bird gun is much farther, and the effective lethality of a good bird gun can be 80 steps.

The infantry bow full of eight banners has an effective range of 70 steps, and only when it enters 50 steps can it have obvious lethality to the target. To break the opponent's armor, leather armor, cotton armor, iron armor, etc., it is necessary to take about 30 or 40 steps closer. However, the arrows of their arrows are extremely long, their shape is like a chisel, and the arrows have been soaked in horse manure, etc., which is difficult to take out after shooting, not to mention, the toxin spreads, and it is easy to lose life. Therefore, it cannot be underestimated, especially the Sanshun Wangbu and the Han Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and many battalion heads are also equipped with sophisticated bird guns and firearms, which cannot be underestimated.

At present, the imperial camp is very short of firearms, whether it is artillery or muskets, in view of the corruption of the Ming craftsman system, most of the birds produced are unqualified garbage, a little force, the gun and the gun can be separated, can not be used for combat at all, Zhu Youhua currently does not have enough cronies and energy to reform the craftsman system, hundreds of years of bad rules, not a few months can be changed.

If you want to get enough qualified firearms in a short period of time, you can only buy them. Macao, Guangdong, is an important military industrial base of the Portuguese in East Asia, and the Bugarao Cannon Foundry is very famous, but the price is indeed extremely expensive, and at present, the money bags of the imperial court are still in the hands of the Donglin Party, and Zhu Youhua wants to go to Macao to buy guns and guns on a large scale, so he must first fight and overthrow the Donglin Party and take back the money bags from them.

Ruan Dacheng, it seems that it is time to reuse!

Taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when the first die-hard cabinet sent the head of the household department, Gao Hongtu, to Jiangbei to supervise the grain but not get it, the "Tingfu faction" acted quickly.

"The minister and the commander of the Beijing camp, the Marquis of Xincheng, Zhao Zhilong, took the crime of raising the knowledge of the soldiers, Ruan Dacheng, who should be pardoned for his past crimes, and the right attendant of the military department should be assisted in the Beijing camp Rongzheng."

Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet, quickly voted to approve it.

Soon, the red of the inner court also came down: quasi-playing, giving a crown and bringing His Majesty to see.

The holy decree was issued, the military department was given to the matter, and the right capital was in the imperial history, and Ma Shiying's township party Yang Wencong quickly passed. The Ministry of Communications is bright and the world is clear.

The speed of a series of actions was extremely fast, so fast that before the ministers could react, Ruan Dacheng had already succeeded in replenishing the official!

This time it is no longer a decree, but a decree that has gone through legal procedures and has completely "legal" effect!

Since he has made up his mind to use Ruan Dacheng, he will inevitably be opposed by the officials led by the Donglin Party, and Zhu Youhua knows this very well.

In order to avoid the opposition of the courtiers, Zhu Youhua united with the "Tingfu faction" in the court to complete the procedure of the holy decree as quickly as possible, resulting in an established fact!

After Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of Jiangbei Governor's Grain, heard the news, his intestines were repentant, but he didn't expect the "Tingfu faction" to take advantage of his absence, so he immediately rushed back, and he didn't even care about drinking water along the way, and went straight to the cabinet, but he was still a step too late.

The cabinet has been voted on, the emperor has also been clothed in red, and the matter has been passed, and it is impossible to stop it.

Gao Hongtu sighed, looked at Ma Shiying's innocent eyes, and almost couldn't help but scold him for being shameless.

He waved his sleeves angrily, and immediately after returning home, he wrote a request for begging for bones. Then Jiang Yueguang and Lu Daqi of the cabinet also waved a big "resignation" and asked to go home for the elderly, and mocked Ma Shiying's shameless behavior. Then Ma Shiying, Zhao Zhilong and others defended Ruan Dacheng and incidentally exposed Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Lu Daqi and others for personal gain.

The bigwigs of the two factions have gone into battle bare-chested, and the younger brothers below can't talk about it if they are idle.

So Luo Wanxiang, Yushi Zhan Zhaoheng, Guo Weijing, and Yin Minxing of the Ministry of War successively opposed the use of Ruan Dacheng, and denounced Ma Shiying, Zhao Zhilong and others for being shameless.

Among them, the most excited is Yu Shu Zuo Guangdou's younger brother Yushi Zuo Guangxian is the most excited, and regards Ruan Dacheng as an enemy.

"Ruan Dacheng attached himself to Fu Yingxing, the son of the rebel thief, and killed his brother Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, and Yang Lian; Zhao Zhilong and Ma Shiying knew that they were guilty, and they took a special offense, and their hearts can be punished! The emperor does not change the policy of the first emperor, and the ministers can't bear to forget the hatred of the uncommon? ”

A few words were both emotional and level, and suddenly raised Ruan Dacheng's problem to Chongzhen's anti-case.

The meaning of the song is very clear: the emperor enabled Ruan Dacheng, which means that he overturned Chongzhen's rebellion, which is disrespectful to the first emperor! If you don't want to be disrespectful to the first emperor, you will dismiss Ruan Dacheng!

This trick is very vicious.

Chongzhen's reversal case involved the interests of most of the incumbent, retired Donglin and pro-Donglin officials, and if the new emperor wanted to overturn the reversal case, he would be almost the enemy of the entire existing civil official group!