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It turned out that Huang Degong entered Beijing this time and received a secret decree from Emperor Chongzhen............

Could it be that Li Hongfei, the current prime minister of Zuo, really obtained it by holding the saint hostage?

Folk accounts vary, but Huang Degong has always remained silent, only saying that on the first day of the fifth month, he will announce an important decision in Nanchang Mansion in front of 100,000 troops.

Huang Degong's unilateral action alone is nothing, the key is that the defenders of Suzhou and Fujian, after Huang Degong spread the news, he actually urgently transferred 30,000 troops to Nanjing, plus the original 20,000 garrisons around Nanjing, since Zhu Youzhen moved the capital to Beijing, Nanjing has once again become a military stronghold.

The people in Jiangnan all know that the Suzhou New Army is Li Hongfei's "personal army", and Zheng Chenggong and Li Hongfei in Fujian are also so good that they almost wear the same pants.

Even Suzhou and Fujian have sent troops, which shows the seriousness of the situation.

Immediately after that, news came out from the north, just half a month ago, the First Group Army of National Defense stationed in the Beijing area also began to move south, calculating the time, and now it should arrive at the front line of Zhengzhou and Luoyang.

Even the ace troops have been dispatched, and it seems that the Ming Dynasty, who has just been stable for more than half a year, is about to face the disaster of swords and soldiers again.

The common people are worried about the war, and the officials have to start thinking about the issue of taking sides, especially the generals in the army............

On the surface, Li Hongfei's troops have the upper hand, but don't forget that Huang Degong is going south with a "secret order", and there are 80,000 Mongolian cavalry in the northwest, and the northeast is also not calm.

Don't talk about any country, orthodoxy and the like, these big men who hold military power always focus on their own interests, if they really want Li Hongfei to consolidate power, then they are the ones who are unlucky to cut power.

So at the end of April, many generals whose armies had been broken up began to gather in Nanchang Mansion to discuss formal joint matters.

In mid-April, after the land reform and the suppression of bandits had been almost completed, the Ministry of National Defense began to convene generals at and above the military level in various localities to go to the capital for a meeting to clarify the matters concerning the reform of the military system throughout the country.

And according to the distance of different places, the final time of the meeting is also set on the first day of the fifth month.

The two sides are equivalent to going directly to the top, either to the capital or to Jiangxi, one south and one north, you must make a choice.

"It's fair to choose one of the two, isn't it? Even if some people haven't turned their heads for a while before, as long as they can get in the right position now, I can't give them a chance! Li Hongfei sneered.

"It's really fair, we've put our strength and determination on the table, and it's up to these people to see if they're interested." Li Dingguo replied.

"By the way, has there been news from the northwest recently?" Li Hongfei suddenly changed the topic.

As long as Huang Degong cooperates well, the domestic situation will be completely stabilized in a short period of time, and a large-scale war will not be fought.......... Over the past year or so, bandits have killed a lot of people in various places, and Li Hongfei doesn't mind exterminating these rebels as bandits.

However, the northwest region is more delicate, and Li Hongfei has the intention to enter the desert to prevent future troubles, but he suffers from the lack of cavalry and lacks sufficient offensive ability.

But if you don't fight, people will always show troops on the border, and you have to ensure sufficient military superiority in this area, and in the long run, this military expenditure will be enough to bear.

After all, in order to improve the morale of the army and ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, the military expenditure in wartime is three times that of peacetime.

Moreover, the northwest region is already barren, the grain and materials used to be transported from the Central Plains, and now the hinterland of the Central Plains is full of holes, and the military supplies transported to the northwest region are basically transported by water, starting from the south, and moving westward through the Yellow River, almost passing through most of the Ming Dynasty, and the loss on the way to transshipment alone is more than fifty percent.

In order to ensure the normal supply of more than 100,000 troops, the Ministry of Defense approved food supplies for nearly 200,000 troops.

In the past, for the Northern Expedition, a lot of materials were stored, but these three or five months were not too important, and in the long run, the Ming army could not afford to spend it at all.

"I want to fight, but I can't fight, after Qi Zhifeng entered the northwest, he sent a division to test the strength of the other party, but people slipped this division outside the pass, and in three days, they ran two hundred miles. On several occasions, people also concentrated their forces and implemented the tactics of rapid division and strangulation, if it were not for the fact that the Qi family's army was basically an elite who had experienced a hundred battles and had a relatively strong defensive ability in battle formations, this division would have to be exhausted by others. Li Dingguo replied.

The northwest region, except for the desert is the Gobi, which is extremely suitable for cavalry combat, and if you can fight it, you will be merciless, and if you can't beat it, you will run away, and the infantry will march with artillery, and the speed is too slow to catch up with the cavalry of others.

"Hey! Cavalry, we are Ming, when will there be formed cavalry? Don't have more, give me 100,000 iron horses, and I will definitely be able to set foot in the north of the desert and turn the Mongolian region into my Ming pasture! Li Hongfei sighed.

Since ancient times, cavalry has been the most scarce type of military force of the Han people.

Although the previous several major battles, repelled and captured a large number of Manchu soldiers, but the number of captured horses is still very scarce, the Eight Banners are "banners", not "horses", since the defeat in Nanjing, the Manchus rarely use cavalry when using troops in the south.

In addition, the firearms of the Ming army were too fierce, and in order to resist the cavalry charging formation, most of them followed the principle of shooting people and horses first, so that many captured war horses eventually died due to wound infection.

Now there are less than 50,000 war horses available in the entire Ming army, and they are basically equipped in the logistics troops for material transportation.

"The formation of cavalry is not just a matter of having war horses, and now the soldiers in the army are good at using firearms, and the standard equipment of cavalry is sabers and bows and arrows, and it is difficult for our soldiers to be familiar with the operation in a short time." Li Dingguo said.

Indeed, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty in the past was also equipped with a large number of firearms, but the role of these cavalry was mostly not to fight on horseback, but only as a means of transportation and transportation.

Can such an army really be considered cavalry?

At best, it is a more mobile infantry.

"Infantry cavalry, infantry cavalry, at least to ensure mobility, is also a major advantage to balance Mobei, in addition, I will order weapons research institutes around the country to develop a firearm that can be used by cavalry as soon as possible, in the future, my Ming army, absolutely not like now, in the Mobei region to be controlled by others!" Li Hongfei said.

With the current level of scientific research in the Ming Dynasty, it is not very difficult to develop a single-shot riding gun.

Riding and archery is not as good as people, so simply give up, and then make up for it with firearms, no matter how powerful the bow and arrow are, can there still be fierce bullets of firearms?

A real cavalry confrontation, whether it is a bow and arrow or a firearm, can shoot a volley at most, and then it is close hand-to-hand combat, like the cavalry under Genghis Khan.

Li Hongfei suddenly wanted to form cavalry, not only because of Batur Huntaiji's actions in the northwest this time, but also because of the emergence of Tsarist Russia, which gave Li Hongfei a plan to compete for Siberian resources.

Today's Siberia is too vast, the number of cities and towns is very scarce, no matter how powerful the infantry of the Ming army is, there are few cities for them to attack, if you want to eat a large area of Siberia, the key is to rely on cavalry.........

In the northwest region, both sides have their own things to fear, and after several skirmishes, they have won and lost each other, and now they are still in a confrontation situation.

However, the intelligence officers in the Duoyan Sanwei area in the northeast came with news that the special forces had successfully completed their mission and would be able to bring Zhu Yousong's head back to Beijing in a few days.

In addition, due to the death of a prince and three auxiliary ministers in one day, the various departments in the northeast region quickly fell apart, and even many tribal leaders and generals sent messengers to the Ming border pass, hoping to return to the Ming Dynasty again.

In this regard, Li Hongfei ordered the intelligence department of the Second Division to find a way to drag these people down and give the other party some sweetness, but he could not agree to their request for submission right now.

The domestic situation has not yet been resolved, and Li Hongfei has no energy to take care of the affairs of the northeast.

In addition, he also had to give Azig a "reassurance", and when the Ming army in the province was stationed in the northeast, he directly scared Azig and didn't dare to fight with Lao Maozi.

On the first day of the fifth month of the twenty-third year of Chongzhen (1650 AD), after Zhu Youzhen returned to Beijing, he moved from the Forbidden City to Zhongnanhai for the first time to hold a court meeting.

A group of thoughtful officials understood that in the future, the center of power would be officially moved from the Forbidden City to Zhongnanhai, and the palatial palace would be reduced to a symbol of the royal family and a place where the royal family lived.

On this day, on Yingtai, Xiandao, Zhongnanhai, a parliament building that took more than half a year to build, was crowded.

Zhu Youzhen was in the first seat, and the left and right were Li Hongfei's cabinet members and Shi Kefa's congressman.

There are also generals who have just arrived from other places, plus those princes and nobles who have no real power, it can be said that this meeting includes representatives of all levels of power in the Ming Dynasty.

After all the personnel arrived, Zhu Youzhen finally spoke: "Since I ascended the throne, first the north has been dry, the Central Plains, the red fields for thousands of miles, starvation all over the wilderness, and then the thieves are rampant, messing with my rivers and mountains, and the Fanbang barbarians have also taken advantage of the fire to rob, almost wanting to destroy the two hundred and eighty years of my Ming Dynasty. Now, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, I have decided to formally implement a comprehensive reform of the law in the military, government and people throughout the country, during which any national policy and decree will be nominated by me and the cabinet, and voted by the National Assembly. ”

Zhu Youzhen said a lot of things, which roughly means that since he ascended the throne, a series of moths have been produced, and the country has almost perished.

At the same time, he also praised Li Hongfei and Shi Kefa and affirmed their achievements.

In the end, in order to avoid a recurrence of the previous incident, he decided to implement a comprehensive reform.

The first few are of little practical significance, and the key is the last paragraph, which finally formalizes the political system of the separation of powers.

"My Emperor Shengming!" The ministers shouted in unison.

Only Zhu Youzhen himself was expressionless, and it was estimated that his heart was already dripping blood at the moment.

"Since we want to implement the reform of the law throughout the country, the promulgation of a new code of laws is the first priority. In the past, the Jiangnan region changed the law and reformed, but because the "Da Ming Law" was not perfected in time, many laws and regulations conflicted with the reform, making it impossible for many reform policies to be implemented smoothly. Therefore, the minister implored the Holy Lords and Li Xiang to nominate the newly compiled "Da Ming Law" by the National Assembly, so that it could be promulgated and implemented as soon as possible. As soon as Zhu Youzhen's reform policy was promulgated, Shi Kefa began the first vote.

The people present are not stupid, the new "Da Ming Law" has already been compiled, even Zhu Youzhen has seen it, and now he is taking it out to vote, just to give "New Da Ming Law" a chance to officially show his face.

"It's been a month since the compilation of the "New Da Ming Law" was completed, and everyone must have read it, so if there is no objection from those present, let's start voting." Zhu Youzhen said.

Now that we've come to this point, let's just be generous.

After Zhu Youzhen finished questioning, he waited for about a minute, and saw that no one raised any objections, and a little eunuch who presided over the meeting said loudly at the top of his voice: "All members of the National Assembly, please note that there will be a secret ballot below, and each of you will have paper on the table×√. ”

The secret ballot is held to better ensure that the voting results are fair and just, otherwise those civilian representatives in the National Assembly who do not have real power are easily threatened to make a choice against their will.

Only by secret ballot, no matter what you vote for, no one will trouble you afterwards.

This not only protects the voters in Congress, but also gives them great enthusiasm for work and supervision, and even the now powerful Li Hongfei dares to vote against decisions as long as they are not in the national interest.

A strong country needs to have different voices of skepticism, so that the country's decision-makers will always be vigilant and dare not act recklessly.

There are not many members of the National Assembly who can enter the center of power in the Ming Dynasty, and the total number of representatives from all walks of life, plus the representatives of parliamentarians from various state capitals, is 361, so it only took about half an hour from the beginning of voting to the collection of results, and finally until the announcement.

As expected, 361 people, all in favor, not a single person against, and not a single abstention.

"The New Da Ming Law" is the first step in changing the law and renewing it, and it is also the most important step, no one is stupid enough to give this little face, and the most important point is that this new set of laws was originally compiled by the members of their parliament together, at this time, it is just a formality, who would be stupid enough to oppose themselves as a rule?

"Since the National Assembly has unanimously passed, then I, as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, declare that the "New Ming Law" will be implemented from now on!" Zhu Youzhen finally announced loudly.