Zhu Youxiao was standing on top of the tall building at this time, holding a newly imitated monocular of the Royal Academy of Engineering in his hand, adjusting the focus from time to time, looking at the vast river in front of him and the Ming ships floating and sinking with the waves on the river. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Accompanied by the sound of the passionate and powerful tides, on the school field not far from the river, the soldiers of the Jiangjiang Water Army were also assembled one after another, waiting for the review of His Majesty the Emperor today.

Nan 0 Beijing's Caojiang Navy and Denglai Navy Division can be regarded as the navy with more combat effectiveness in the Ming Dynasty at present, but strictly speaking, it is not a navy, perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a marine, because these naval soldiers that Zhu Youxiao has seen with his own eyes are no different from other armies of the Ming Dynasty, mandarin duck battle robes and firecrackers, as well as various standard cold weapons.

Even now, when it is practiced, it is just a simple action of soldiers with cold weapons such as chopping, stabbing, shooting, and splitting, and the same is true for firearm operation, stuffing gunpowder into the barrel, lighting the fire rope, shooting, and even the order is a little chaotic, and some soldiers can only watch other people's movements when operating.

All Army tactical drills and weapons dispensing.

Xu Hongji blushed a little, he could see from Zhu Youxiao's face that His Majesty was obviously not satisfied with the performance of these naval soldiers, and he didn't know what His Majesty would do with him. And Xu Hongji himself didn't expect that Zhu Youxiao would suddenly have to review the soldiers of the navy, so he was a little caught off guard.

"Command the servant Ye Zhen!" Zhu Youxiao gave an order, and Ye Zhen, the commander of the first battalion of the Praetorian Guard, hurriedly walked over: "The last general!" ”

"From now on, you will temporarily take the post of commander of the Jiang Shui Army, and together with Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, select 10,000 soldiers who are proficient in water and courageous, and then reorganize a Praetorian Guard navy, and the specific screening mechanism is the same as the recruitment of new recruits for the Praetorian Guard," Zhu Youxiao said, and ordered Wu Jin to send an edict to Lu Xiangsheng, and he immediately dispatched the Denglai Naval Division to the south.

According to Zhu Youxiao's idea, he wanted to reorganize the embryonic army of these two armies into the first navy of the Ming Praetorian Guard system, in short, he couldn't wait until he really fought with Zheng Zhilong and other pirates before he remembered to form a navy, and he was afraid that it would be too late.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also ordered Wang Chengen to join Wei Zhongxian to establish the Daming Naval Master School at the site of Nan0 Beijing, and ordered Tang Ruowang and other Western missionaries who were now recruited by the imperial court and good water fighters from all over the country, and even spread the word to the world to supervise and appease the pirates and water bandits who were of acceptable character, and select their excellent ones to be selected into the Daming Naval Academy to participate in the preparation of the Ming Navy.

Sun Yuanhua and other scientific research workers of the Royal Academy of Engineering also received a special team to set up a special team for the manufacture of naval artillery and firearms, and the same as the establishment of the Ming Ship Administration, from the reorganization and training of soldiers and the training of reserve officers, to the development of ship artillery, the emergence of the Ming Navy is just a matter of course.

And all this takes time.

However, the law and order in Nan0 Capital has not been curbed by the death of Ye Dingyi in Jiangning County, on the contrary, the crime rate is still rising.

The gangsters are rampant, the people don't dare to walk alone, and the women who dare to dress up in men's clothes or dare to go out in women's clothes can only stay in the embroidery building, and Wei Min'er of the Lishui Pavilion doesn't dare to go out easily, especially after her little niece was almost robbed that day, she didn't dare to take her little niece out for half a step.

However, the entire Jiangnan government officials worked hard, and wherever there was a brawl, whoever had their house smashed could immediately rush to it, but under the covert control of the civilian official clique, the government service soldiers who handled the case were surprisingly soft-hearted to these criminals, after all, these troublemakers did not cause any deaths, and the Jiangnan officials who did not dare to easily raise a big prison were helpless against these gangsters.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao can't be blamed, because even if Zhu Youxiao does it himself, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, he can only whip these gangsters or detain them for a few days, but after these gangsters come out, they are still doing evil and bullying the market.

At dusk on this day, you can still see the gangsters striding in the capital of South 0, these people may knock down the stalls of other small traders, and then pick up the oranges that have fallen on the ground and send them to the water, and the small traders do not dare to say a few words, and there are even people who directly blatantly pick up other people's chickens and ducks and run.

Of course, there are many people who eat overlord meals, some taverns are even closed because of this, and some taverns have to rent some thugs, but this still affects the lives of the people, and even some taverns have begun to compete viciously, and the phenomenon of hiring thugs to extort customers or customers of other taverns has also begun to appear.

What's even more terrifying is that there are still people in the South 0 capital who blatantly sell human meat buns, and at night you can still hear the crying of women, and some narrow rivers will even float out some naked female corpses, and it is not uncommon for someone's child to be lost.

It seems that intentionally or unintentionally, there is a force that has caused the entire South 0 capital to have a chaotic economic and life order, and even not only South 0 Beijing, Zhu Youxiao got the news from Dongchang that this situation also occurred in the entire Jiangnan and even in Gan and Anhui, and all caravans along the way were slaughtered.

"Your Majesty, I just got the news, Zhang Dai, the chief writer of Daming Daily, was beaten by more than a dozen thugs when he went home today, but fortunately he was found and rescued in time by the people guarding the eunuch's house, in addition, someone directly burned the carriage of Mao Yuanyi's brother Mao Yuansheng, according to Weichen, these gangsters seem to be consciously attacking the people of my royalist party or Your Majesty's new political system, or beating or burning or robbing but not hurting their lives, so that we can't deal with them strictly, but this makes our people panic, Your Majesty, You see if we need to take immediate action to stop this riot. ”

Wu Jin made a chopping gesture as he said beside Zhu Youxiao, now Dongchang can mobilize more than 500 forces in Jiangnan, and it is not impossible to take countermeasures against these small markets.

But Zhu Youxiao just smiled coldly and said: "Where is this riot, it's just a long-planned conspiracy, no matter what, the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, let them make trouble first, before Qin Botong's two battalions of Praetorian Guards come, don't act rashly;

However, my people still have to be protected, and I secretly sent capable people to strengthen the protection of Wei Zhongxian, the Mao brothers, Zhang Dai and other important members of the royalist party, and in addition, the important ministers and nobles in Nan 0 Jing also had to strengthen the protection, so as to prevent them from taking the opportunity to make the situation bigger and make it impossible for me to come to power. ”

"Yes!"

Wu Jin responded, and at this time, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "You told me the day before yesterday that recently, Emperor Dong Qichang of the First Emperor wanted to invite friends of all ages and children to reminisce in the Fence Water Pavilion, but is there such a thing?" ”

"Yes, there is such a thing, recently, the scholars from all over the country, especially the people of the Restoration Society, have been active and frequent, and this meeting of the Fence Water Pavilion, the leader of the Restoration Society, Zhang Pu, will also come", after Wu Jin said this, Zhu Youxiao said: "Go and take a look, I want to know what these Jiangnan literati are doing in a day, this rich and noble riot is so far, is it possible that they still have the heart to chant the wind and make the moon?" ”