Zhu Youxiao hurriedly helped Liu Ruyu: "There is no need to be like this, the gentleman is harmonious but different, I don't blame you, since Jiandou said that your advice is unrealistic, you might as well listen to his high opinion, if it is not good, you can also learn from his attitude towards Tian Ergeng, and stand up and scold directly." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Liu Ruyu didn't even dare to say it, so he retreated to the side and listened to Lu Xiangsheng's words.

Zhu Youxiao also sat back, took a sip of the tea, felt a little cold, and put it back.

Here, Lu Xiangsheng has already bowed his hand and said: "Wechen recently learned from the "Daming Daily" that the Yellow River has several rivers that are congested with water shortages, so the farmland along the river cannot be irrigated, and the saline-alkali land has exceeded 100,000 mu, which urgently needs to be dredged. “

"Very good, let these officers and soldiers participate in local production and construction, Jiandou can have this idea, and he is worthy of being my capable ministers."

Zhu You corrected and affirmed Lu Xiangsheng a few words.

Seeing this, Liu Ruyu stood up: "Your Majesty, although what Lu Sima said is a feasible law, but this official army is different from the common people's migrant workers, most of the people are honest and honest, and they are afraid of the government, so they are very good at commanding, and the construction of the project is also fast, but these officers and soldiers are all loose people, and they still do not abide by military discipline in the barracks, and once they go to the place, they are afraid that they will disturb the people and harm the people." ”

At this time, Tian Ergeng also took over and said: "Your Majesty, what Gonggong Liu said is that these officers and soldiers are not ordinary people, they are all soldiers, and letting them out of the barracks can only cause trouble." “

Hearing these two people say this, Zhu Youxiao was a little angry, and asked coldly: "According to what the two Aiqing said, I shouldn't have dismissed these Gyeonggi officers and soldiers?" ”

Tian Ergeng was stunned for a while, and didn't know what to say, but Liu Ruyu gritted his teeth at this time and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is the king of a country, and there is no right or wrong to dismiss the officers and soldiers of Gyeonggi. ”

"What a soldier who repairs bridges and paves roads to transport grain, Your Majesty, what Gonggong Liu said is very true, these officers and soldiers can't go into battle to fight, and they are worried about causing trouble when they are put in the people, so it is better to stay in the army and do these things to repair bridges and pave roads, so that there is no need to draw people when the army is conquering."

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly agreed with Liu Ruyu's suggestion and shook his hand at him.

Liu Ruyu also returned the salute, but he was a little apprehensive in his heart, because he Lu Xiangsheng thought that the key was His Majesty.

But Zhu Youxiao was silent at this time, so that Liu Ruyu didn't know what his majesty the emperor thought?

"Very good", Zhu Youxiao patted Liu Ruyu on the shoulder after thinking for a while, Liu Ruyu's heart was relieved, and he immediately showed a happy look.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao had already stood up and said: "In this case, I changed my mind and still incorporated them into the military camp as an engineering battalion, the word engineering means to build roads and pave bridges, in short, there are more than 70,000 soldiers serving the people and the main force of the field war, except for those who are really too old and too young, 50,000 people are selected to be temporarily organized into ten battalions, and the chief officer will set up a commander to command the affairs of the army, and the assistant of the military department and the governor's office of the five armies, the supervision of the imperial horse supervisor, the main allocation of military salaries, and the training and recruitment of the chief of the governor's office of the five armies, and the first temporary stay in the capital. “

"Yes!"

Lu Xiangsheng and the other three responded, Tian Ergeng was also secretly happy in his heart, the five armies were recruited and trained by the Governor's Mansion, which means that in the future, he still has the final say on how many soldiers in these engineering battalions are, and he can still eat empty salaries and drink soldier blood.

But how did he know that three days later, Zhu Youxiao transferred him to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing for retirement.

Since the officers and men who have been dismissed have been reorganized into engineering battalions, it is natural to discuss the main matter of today's ban, that is, the establishment of the Praetorian Guard.

Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that the future war would be dominated by firearms, and the tactics would be different from before, he would not form a single cavalry unit, nor would he let soldiers form a spear battalion.

Since becoming the emperor, he has been pondering the reorganization of the Ming army, and has also checked a lot of information, in his opinion, the Ming can now form a more advanced composite army combination.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao didn't wait for Lu Xiangsheng and others to say it first, and then he said his idea.

"I decided to first conduct intensive training for these 8,000 people for a period of time to rebuild their discipline, sense of battle and sense of unity, and then according to various project tests, select 1,000 soldiers to form an artillery battalion, 1,000 soldiers to form cavalry, and then form three infantry battalions based on newly made flintlock muskets, temporarily about 1,500 people as a battalion, and the rest as a baggage battalion, in short, the original structure of more than 8,000 officers and soldiers was disrupted, reorganized, and the Praetorian Guard was established according to my above-mentioned plan, under my direct command."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Lu Xiangsheng and the others as he spoke: "What do the three Aiqing think?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng and the others were slightly stunned, in their consciousness, it was nothing more than to form elite cavalry and infantry, first by the cavalry charge, and then by the infantry to sweep the tail.

But why did His Majesty set up an artillery battalion, in their consciousness, the cannon was only a siege weapon at this time, and it did not have a good effect on field warfare, its mobility could not catch up with the cavalry, and its power was not enough to block the cavalry.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng stood up and expressed his doubts: "Your Majesty, if you have an infantry cavalry, you can use a cannon for an infantry battalion, so why add an artillery." ”

"Don't you know, although the artillery of the Ming Dynasty is not good in mobility and power, and the accuracy is not high, so it poses little threat to the cavalry, but as long as my Ming breaks through these three technical problems, in the future, the tactics formed by the artillery battalion, the cavalry, the firearms battalion, and the three arms will make the strongest cavalry of Hulu sink into the sand!"

When Zhu Youxiao said this, the three of them couldn't object, anyway, this Praetorian Guard is also His Majesty's pro-army, and His Majesty has his own reasons for doing this.

But how did they know that Zhu Youxiao was not satisfied with reorganizing his Praetorian Guard into a mixed infantry and cavalry artillery unit, his goal was to make the entire Ming army change the chaotic use of firearms, and truly show the power of firearms through the combination of arms, so that the Ming Dynasty entered the era of hot weapons, and only in this way could no matter how strong the cavalry was, it could only become a lamb slaughtered by the hot weapons and arms.

The Ming Dynasty was not the Manchu Qing Dynasty of later generations, and all kinds of firearms were well developed, although some key technologies had a big gap with the West, but there were already conditions for combining hot weapons and mixed arms.

And Zhu Youxiao happens to be the emperor of this ancient empire, and he is fully qualified to make changes from top to bottom.

Otherwise, he would not have gone to great lengths to establish the Royal Ordnance Department and establish a series of national science and technology systems from the export of scientific and technological theories to the application of technological innovation.

However, the establishment of mixed arms and the implementation of the tactics of coordinated operations of artillery, cavalry, and musketeers were only Zhu Youxiao's idea.

Now his 8,000 Praetorian Guards have even the most basic queue training and physical training have been abolished.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao could only temporarily divide the 8,000 Praetorian Guards into five battalions, first restore their discipline and sense of collective honor, and most importantly, let them have the military soul to dare to fight.

A team without a military spirit is like a person without faith, like a walking corpse.