"Chengen, look at this Cao Yue, after arriving in Datong, he made such a big move, and recruited 35,000 soldiers at once," Emperor Chongzhen frowned, pointed to the copy of Cao Yue's recital on the case, and said to Wang Chengen beside him in a strange voice: "It seems that this son is not small, he dares to do things like this at a young age, he wants to be small, I have to be careful!"

Wang Chengen cautiously glanced at Emperor Chongzhen, seeing that the emperor did not show a particularly angry look, and knew that the emperor was not very dissatisfied with Cao Yue doing this, he replied in a low voice at the moment: "Long live Lord, originally there were more than 50,000 soldiers in Datong Mansion, and Cao Yue wanted to raise 30,000 people, which is not too out of line." Datong and Xuanfu are the two major gateways of Beijing, and they must have a large number of soldiers, otherwise there will be trouble when Jiannu attacks. In the battle of Songshan, the soldiers and horses of Datong and Xuanfu lost huge amounts, and there was no way to defend the city with only the existing troops. ”

"That's right, Datong is not only the main road for Jiannu to attack, but also the key to defend against thieves!" Emperor Chongzhen bowed slightly, but he was still not very relieved, "Cao Yue is from Datong, and Cao Wenzhao is also very well-established in Datong, I am afraid that he will become the emperor of Datong by then." ”

"Long live the lord, in fact, don't worry too much, the slave maid thinks that as long as one or two more deputy commanders and staff generals are appointed to restrain Cao Yue, Zhang An, the Datong supervisor, is also loyal to the long live lord, and with them to control Cao Yue, then there will be no accident!" Wang Chengen continued to give advice to Emperor Chongzhen, "Isn't there still a acting king in Datong?" When necessary, you can let the acting king press Cao Yue. ”

Hearing Wang Chengen say this, Emperor Chongzhen's brows relaxed, "It makes sense!"

Acting King Zhu Biography? (Left Fire Right Qi) fief is in Datong, as the king of the clan, Zhu Chuan? Although it is not possible to interfere in local military and political affairs, it is still easy to suppress a local official. Wang Chengen's reminder also made Chongzhen think of using this clan king to control Cao Yue, if it is used well, it can not only make Cao Yue miserable, but also make Zhu Chuan? Get in trouble.

"Also, if Cao Yue trains an elite army, Long Live Lord can send another person to take over and become an elite force personally controlled by His Majesty," Wang Chengen continued to give advice to Emperor Chongzhen, "Long Live Lord can find a reason to send Cao Yue to other places." ”

Wang Chengen's proposal made Emperor Chongzhen's eyes light up, and the corners of his mouth twitched unconsciously. Wang Chengen's plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle is really vicious. Chongzhen was already thinking about what Cao Yue's painful appearance would be like when he found an opportunity to pick a pick.

"Long live the lord, it can be like this," Wang Chengen said, attached to the ear of Emperor Chongzhen, and said in a low voice: "Long live the lord can let Cao Yue's family come to Beijing, or go to Nanjing, so that he will lose his support, even if he has an idea, he will not dare to make a decision easily." ”

"That's not bad," Emperor Chongzhen's brows were completely relaxed, and after thinking about it, he said to Wang Chengen: "Isn't Cao Wenzhao's second son a hereditary brocade guard?" Let him go to Nanjing to take up his post, and Cao Yue's other family members can also go to Nanjing!"

Emperor Chongzhen didn't want Cao Chao to come to Beijing to serve, after all, Jinyiwei was the secret service of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's eagle dog, Jinyiwei's level was not low, and he might make friends with a lot of powerful people in Beijing and China, and it was not good for the Cao family to increase his power, so let Cao Chao go to Nanjing to take up his post.

If Cao Yue really trained an elite army in Datong, he would find a reason to appoint Cao Yue to other positions and send another person to take over as the chief soldier of Datong according to what Wang Chengen said.

Well, it's not bad to let Cao Yue go to Nanjing, let him go to Nanjing to continue military training, and then give him a higher reward, or simply announce that he will marry Zhu Yujiao, then Cao Yue will definitely not dare to complain about anything, maybe he will completely obey the orders of the court without a choice.

In an instant, Emperor Chongzhen had already thought of several strategies to make Cao Yue obediently obey his orders.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed and couldn't help but smile.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Wang Chengen immediately slapped his ass.

With countermeasures, Emperor Chongzhen also immediately issued a decree, allowing Cao Yue's recruitment plan, and giving Cao Yue's Datong soldiers a limit of 50,000 soldiers. He also praised Cao Yue in the holy decree, asking Cao Yue to train his troops well and strive to train an elite army for the imperial court as soon as possible.

The military department quickly delivered the documents to Datong, and some symbolic money, food, clothing and other materials needed by the sergeants were also sent to Datong.

Emperor Chongzhen approved his recruitment plan without any reproach, Cao Yue was surprised, and he vaguely felt that there was something wrong with this. After all, after he reported the recruitment plan and the actual recruitment, it was very difficult for officials such as the governor of Shanxi and the political envoy to be recruited, because nearly 40,000 people were recruited at once, and the imperial court could not provide either money, food or clothing, and so many soldiers and horses were easy to make people think about it. Unexpectedly, the imperial court did not refute his words, and gave him a limit of 50,000 soldiers, which made Cao Yue a little confused.

But Cao Yue couldn't figure out what was wrong.

I can't think of it, Cao Yue didn't speculate on Chongzhen's thoughts, since the imperial court approved his recruitment plan and the current scale, he trained the troops well, trained a good soldier, and trained an elite soldier who could fight well, so that everything was happy.

The money and grain allocated by the imperial court were only symbolic, and the household department, the military department, the governor of Shanxi, the political envoys and the prefect of Datong would not, let alone solve the military salary, which Cao Yue knew very well. He didn't expect to get the money and food provided by the imperial court, and everything was solved by himself.

Since the imperial court gave a limit of 50,000 soldiers, Cao Yue did not waste it, and continued to recruit soldiers until the 50,000 quota was full.

After the recruitment was over, Wu Ming, a deputy general appointed by Cao Ting, two deputy generals, Gao Gao and Zhu Yang, also arrived in Datong successively, together with Zhang Tai, the deputy general who originally stayed in Datong, and the leading generals of the Datong Mansion Zhenbing were basically in place.

Zhang Tai is also a native of Datong, serving as the deputy commander of Datong for many years, after Wang Pu led the army to Liaodong, he stayed in Datong when he was sick, and escaped a difficulty by mistake. Zhang Tai was originally Cao Wenzhao's subordinate, and through Cao Wenzhao's support, he became the deputy chief soldier of Datong.

Because of Cao Wenzhao's relationship and Cao Yue's legendary experience during this time, Zhang Tai still listened to Cao Yue's words very much, and almost became Cao Yue's most powerful assistant in the military camp. After all, Zhang Tai was more familiar with the situation in Datong than Cao Yue, and Cao Yue was entrusted to him in charge of the affairs in the barracks.

50,000 soldiers, according to the Ming military system, Cao Yue organized it into ten battalions, each battalion was full of 5,000 people, and the generals of each battalion were appointed by Cao Yue. In addition to the deputy commanders and deputy generals appointed by the imperial court, the other deputy generals, thousand generals, and generals were all nominated and appointed by Cao Yue.

The first battalion is a firearms battalion, with Cao Yue's most trusted general, Cao Jie, as a staff general, and the training of this battalion will be personally in charge of it. Cao Yue planned that the second and third battalions would also be equipped with firearms, but now the number of firearms is insufficient, and the number of qualified sergeants is not many, so it will be planned later.

There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, although they are newly recruited recruits, Cao Yue is already full of pride. The opportunity to change the world has quietly descended on him, and he must take advantage of it, no matter what, he must take this army into his own hands.

Cao Jie, Zhao Liang, Cao San, Cao Neng, Wu Xin and other cronies who have just been promoted, as well as Zhao Tai, the deputy commander-in-chief, Cao Yue is confident that he can control them, and these outsiders, Cao Yue believes that they can also be dealt with over time.

But what Cao Yue didn't expect was that Wu Ming, another deputy commander-in-chief, and two deputy generals, Gao Gao and Zhu Yang, were responsible for supervising and restraining him, and they could not obediently listen to his orders, and the Datong Army was destined to be monolithic.

However, they just came, and Cao Yue was ordered by the emperor to recruit and train troops, and at first these people would not blatantly sing against Cao Yue.

After the recruitment ended, the training action formulated by Cao Yue himself also officially began.