"Eat the emperor's meal!"

"Eat the emperor's meal!"

"Wear the emperor's clothes!"

"Wear the emperor's clothes!"

"The Qing Dynasty is here, and the banner people are rich and prosperous!"

"The Qing Dynasty is here, and the banner people are rich and prosperous!"

"The Qing Dynasty is no more, and there is no place for the banner people to die!"

"The Qing Dynasty is no more, and there is no place for the banner people to die!"

After receiving the imperial reward for the start of training, the 17,000-odd new troops from Manchuria, Mongolia, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army shouted in unison on the colonel field outside the city of Beijing under the leadership of Liu Cheng, who had just taken the seriously ill and dying Lang Lang of the military department, who was the premier and the head of the New Army Training Yamen Association. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info For a while, it was also a sonic boom.

These new troops of more than 17,000 people all came from the Eight Banner Army that had previously encircled and suppressed the Shandong Righteous Army, and they were all the elite troops of the Eight Banner Army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Beijing. In terms of establishment, the new army consisted of 10,800 infantry men alone, and was divided into five towns, each of which was divided into four battalions. In addition, the cavalry of up to 5,000 has reached an astonishing ratio of two to one in terms of infantry and cavalry, and the artillery is also as many as 12 guns per town, and the average firepower configuration is not worse than that of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

"Aiqing, aren't there too few spearmen?"

Among the 10,800 infantry, the ratio of spearmen to gunners is two to one, that is to say, every two gunners are equipped with one spearman, and the proportion of gunners has been greatly increased, and there is an advantage in firepower compared with the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, not to mention the application of new tactics, and the firepower advantage is even greater. However, the proportion of spearmen is too low, which is indeed a very eye-catching place for many relatives and nobles, even an emperor like Shunzhi, who does not know soldiers, can feel that the battle formation seems to be a little thin.

"Back to the emperor, the servant mentioned it to Mr. Tang, and Mr. Gu invited by Mr. Tang said that this is the best battle formation in Taixi now, and even against the Spanish phalanx, it can be easily defeated."

Liu Cheng said this, Shunzhi didn't understand it very clearly, let alone understand. Doesn't it mean that the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies have always emphasized hand-to-hand combat, is it going astray, for an emperor like him who grew up in the arms of a woman in the deep palace with a golden soup spoon in his mouth, military things are really a little incomprehensible.

Fortunately, he is the emperor, Liu Cheng is a slave, and he has the obligation to share the worries and doubts of the master.

"Aiqing is attentive, let's practice first, can't it be improved?"

"Your Majesty."

"The words of the shouting just now were made up by Aiqing?"

"If you go back to the emperor, you are a minion. The slave thinks that our flag people are different from those rotten Confucians, they are all straight men, and they will definitely be able to understand the words if they are used plainly. The slave thought that our banner people were all eating the food rewarded by the emperor and wearing the clothes rewarded by the emperor, so they naturally had to serve the emperor as a dog and horse. The slave has seen it in Zhejiang, and the bandit leader Chen Shun is using what kind of defense and land to invite people to buy people's hearts, and deceive those ignorant foolish people to serve him. Since he can use it, why can't the minions think we can't use it? ”

"Good!"

Hearing this, Shunzhi clapped his hands and praised. In the final analysis, Liu Cheng's proposal to organize and train the new army was actually to win more hearts and minds of the Eight Banners for him.

Only in this way can his throne be more secure. At the beginning, it was just Liu Chengduo who said such a sentence, and Shunzhi generously raised the flag from the Zhenghongqi, which is under the five banners, to the Zhenghuang Banner of the upper three banners, and the holy decree of the new army also specifically stated that Liu Cheng would be promoted from Niulu Zhangjing to Meile Zhangjing, precisely because Liu Cheng's proposal was conducive to strengthening the imperial power.

At this moment, Liu Cheng came to such a hand when he was rewarding the emperor again, even if he didn't understand the word brainwashing, Shunzhi could understand this intention and the actual effect that this intention could promote.

Just like the Eight Banners Army, in fact, in Liaodong, the Eight Banners Army is mainly based on foot combat, and then the cavalry pursues, and sometimes the shield cart is not transported to the ground and may not be able to win. As for simple small-scale cavalry battles, sometimes they may not be able to beat those elite families raised by the Ming army. But as long as there is too much to say, people will really believe it, and even the people of the capital still have the Eight Banners Army can stand on a galloping horse and shoot arrows without missing arrows, such nonsense that even Shunzhi himself does not believe has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Aiqing is really my heart, if I can make meritorious deeds, I think that in the future, it is not impossible to carry the flag to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, or even the Three Banners."

The huge radish smashed on the top of his head, Liu Cheng was immediately stunned on the spot, and when he reacted, he hurriedly fell to the ground, and all he said was that he wanted to die for Shunzhi.

On the school field, the monarchs and ministers enjoyed themselves, the army was organized, and today they received the emperor's reward, and tomorrow they will officially start training. The soldiers returned to the barracks to repair, and the training that will start tomorrow will be imitating the strength of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies, and after Liu Cheng came up with the training plan, it really made the other Eight Banner generals look unhappy. However, the new army is the high hopes of the nobles of the Eight Banners, and training is naturally imperative.

Shunzhi and his entourage returned to the palace, Liu Cheng was still in the camp, except for Chang Adai, who was sick at home because of the ineffective opposition, at this moment there were only Manchurian relatives and important ministers left in the hall, not to mention the Han people, even the Mongols were one.

Today's camp and his party, Shunzhi and the pro-noble ministers are very satisfied, the new army is the elite, and now it seems that Liu Cheng at least a little means, the morale of the army has been significantly improved, which is a great good thing for the Eight Banners Army, especially now that the morale is so low, it is even more commendable.

"Your Majesty, the servants think that it is best to use the green battalion to train an army like the Zhejiang bandits as a sparring partner, as long as the new army can indeed suppress the Zhejiang bandits, and then expand the army. At that time, this army will be completed, and the Zhejiang bandits will not be a problem. ”

"The emperor's nephew is reasonable, in fact, Liu Cheng's minion also mentioned this matter, but now that the treasury is tight, the green battalion of the sparring can only make up one or two rounds. In the final analysis, it still depends on the methods of Prince Zheng, Ao Bai and Liu Cheng's minions. ”

Shunzhi knew that his nephew Fu Shou now had the intention to lead the army alone after the successful training of the new army. However, compared to this nephew who does not have much military experience, Shunzhi is more optimistic about Prince Zheng Jidu, Xinjun Wang Doni and Belle Tunqi, all three of whom have been in battle, and are much more reliable than Fu Shou.

However, he also needs the support of the white flag with rich ribbons, and there is also a hint of this eagerness, as for when he will really lead a new army, it is not a matter of time and a half.

"Your Majesty, the slave feels that it is still necessary to let Prince Zheng and Ao Bai pay close attention to that Han dog, the new army is our Eight Banners, but we can't let him have too much influence in it."

Guarding against the Han Chinese, this is a Manchu tradition. Although the Han Army Banner continued to expand, the old qualified generals of the Han Army Banner were all suppressed by Huang Taiji back and forth. After entering the customs, the Han army flag expanded greatly again, and the strength soon surpassed the Manchurian Eight Banners, but the generals were stationed in various places, and they were also suppressed from time to time, in order to prevent the Han army flag from getting rid of the Manchurian Eight Banners from the dangerous situation.

"Brother Huang, rest assured, I have already informed Prince Zheng and warned Aobai. For the Han people, we can use it, but we also have to guard against it. ”

"Your Majesty."

Wu Zi took a sip of tea, a little cold, Shunzhi just wanted to scold the eunuchs who were waiting around him, but remembered that this was a secret meeting of the relatives and nobles, even those eunuchs have been kicked out, and now it has been a short time since they came back, and the tea has long been cold if it is not cold.

Seeing this, Shunzhi simply stopped drinking, and continued to the relatives and nobles present: "All the relatives and nobles have seen it, and the new army has a shelf. This is the hope of our Eight Banners, and it depends on them whether they can defeat the Zhejiang bandits in the future. But now that the treasury is becoming empty, and my inner treasury will not last long, the matter of open source must be started as soon as possible. ”

"What the emperor said is very true, and the servants also feel that they must start acting as soon as possible. However, Liu Cheng's slave borrowed money, now I am afraid that it is not easy to do, the slave is not afraid that those gentry and rich households will not borrow, what they are afraid of is to provoke them, in case the Zhejiang bandits are recruited, our Qing Dynasty is not ready, if it fails to win, it will be a catastrophe of extermination. ”

"That's true."

Hearing this, Shunji couldn't help frowning. When he was just in power, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was on the rise, and he remembered very clearly that the Ming army was defeated in all battlefields at that time, even in Zhejiang, with the Battle of Zhoushan, Chen Wen's entry into Jinhua was also regarded by everyone as a trivial matter. As a result, who knows, this little flaw has now become a big problem for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is really speechless.

The current Manchu Qing Dynasty seems to have half of the country, but in fact it has begun to decline, while the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies are thriving, and they always have a taboo about things that may recruit Chen Wen. After all, the current situation is no longer the time when Zilharang is still there, and they are not as eager to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang as Jierharang, but want to delay until the new army is formed and then carry out a decisive battle.

"And what about the second strategy?"

Shunzhi said the so-called second strategy, but unexpectedly, the eyes of all the relatives and nobles lit up, as if those treasures were really in front of their eyes and within reach.

"Liu Cheng's second strategy of the minion, the minion thought that it was no problem, those soldiers in North Korea, even if they picked a green battalion at random, they could go flat, let alone use the Eight Banners Army. That is, whether North Korea has any silver to scrape, they were almost wiped out by the Japanese at the beginning, and I don't know how much savings are left. ”

"Savings are savings, and the slave remembers that the amount of tax revenue in North Korea every year is very pitiful, and I am afraid that it will be wasted when the time comes."

Attacking North Korea and grabbing a deal there was a plan that Liu Cheng and Hu Quancai had devoured. In fact, they also had another plan, that is, to rob the eight Jin merchants. The wealth of the Jin merchants was famous all over the world at that time and in later generations, and it was enough to plug the fiscal deficit by grabbing one time, and the surplus could also be used to expand the army, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, firstly, Hu Quancai himself was from Shanxi, and secondly, the Jin merchants in Shanxi only had silver and no grain. Now that the grain is cut off, people are iron and rice are steel, and the children of the Eight Banners can't dare to gnaw silver to live. In this way, instead of robbing the Shanxi people, it is better to rob the North Koreans who have both silver and food to save trouble.

"But I am not afraid, the slave remembers that my father said that there are two classes of monopoly officials in the east and west of North Korea, and all parts of North Korea are basically the private land of the two classes of officials, which is even more shameless than those rotten Confucians in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the king of North Korea does not want to, nor does he have no land to collect, but there are those people who cannot collect taxes on him."

The so-called two classes in the east and west are actually civilian officials and military attachés. Joseon was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, following the Ming Dynasty system and conducting Confucian imperial examinations. However, North Korea is such a large country, and the phenomenon of over-the-top officials is not light, and unlike China, it is possible for a rural master to teach a jinshi. In North Korea, knowledge itself is monopolized by the aristocracy, and the imperial examination in North Korea is just a tool for the competition between the eastern and western aristocratic classes, and few ordinary people can pass the examination for any merit.

The official position has been hereditary for a long time, and there are too many private fields in various places that do not pay taxes, and it is inevitable that the king of Joseon will have more than enough heart but not enough power. Just like the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, they had to give preferential treatment to the gentry, so they had to tax the maritime trade, industry and commerce to deal with the chaos of all parties.

The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was not a pool of stagnant water, ordinary people had the opportunity to quickly improve their status through the imperial examination, and the family could also decline because one or two generations could not make a name for themselves. But even so, the group of gentry continued to expand in the Ming Dynasty, and even reached the point where it was difficult for the state to support it by the end of the Ming Dynasty. In Korea, knowledge is monopolized, officials are basically close to hereditary, North Korea's financial difficulties are greater, but its own territory is small, and it does not need to bear too much moral responsibility, plus there is a central empire in the west, but it remains in a state of stagnant water until the end of the Qing Dynasty by Japan.

"According to Prince Yu's words, the North Korean side is profitable?"

"That's what my father told this king, the grain produced in the south of Korea is not low, but when we invaded Korea twice, our Qing Dynasty had to face tens of millions of Ding Ming at the same time, and we really couldn't occupy it all, so we could only grab a handful and then withdraw. Now that we still have half of the country in the Qing Dynasty, as long as we break the national gate of North Korea and let the Han people deal with the North Koreans, we only need to make a handful of taxes every year to relieve a lot of pressure. ”

Doni said that his father Duoduo had participated in the Bingzi Rebellion and sent troops to Korea with Huang Taiji, although he was not as good as the Yingordai who was called the keel big white flag by the Koreans back then, but in terms of familiarity with Korea, it was still much better than those relatives and nobles who only knew their names.

"Then it's decided, organize people as soon as possible, and bring some green battalions of Zhili." Speaking of this, Shunzhi hesitated for a moment, and then said: "We don't need to send too many troops to the Eight Banners, there is a green battalion, and then call the Mongols in Monan, and with Fenyun, they can follow us wholeheartedly." ”

"The Emperor Shengming!"

"Then the banners should prepare the men and horses as soon as possible, this time Prince Lao Yu and Prince Su will go on a journey, and Curb Bilong and Sonny will assist from the side. For me, for us to go to the east of the Qing Dynasty! ”