Yang Chao has thought about this question countless times, but in the end he felt hopeless.

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing: "I can't do anything." Nor should we do anything, maintaining stability is the most important thing. ”

Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, it was originally a mess, Chongzhen was too anxious, he was the emperor for more than ten years, and changed more than 50 cabinet assistants, of which there were more than a dozen first assistants, on average, one first assistant was less than a year, only Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren were two long, but these two were rated as traitors in later generations, because they could be the first assistant, not because they could do things, but because they were good at deceiving the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen also likes to kill people, not to mention sending civil officials to lead troops, it is good to win, but to kill people if he fails, and there are not a hundred or eighty civil ministers who lead soldiers to kill.

These people have no experience in leading troops, and failure is also their capital, so they can accumulate experience, and after they are killed, they have to send a new one to continue to accumulate experience, which is completely a waste of taking the country's capital.

In total, he killed two chiefs, eleven governors, and replaced fifty cabinet scholars, not counting those who were afraid of committing suicide in fear of crime, such a court did not look like stability.

The court is unstable, and it is strange that the world can be stable.

If Yang Chao is replaced, he will definitely not kill Wenchen.

In Yang Chao's view, Emperor Chongzhen's killing of Wenchen is more likely to vent his personal anger than Yan Guofa.

If you want to say that you have lost a battle, the most responsible are those generals who lead the troops, but the generals have heavy troops, especially the army in the late Ming Dynasty is seriously privatized, and the most effective ones are often the generals' private soldiers, and ordinary soldiers are generally just cannon fodder.

Therefore, the emperor did not dare to kill the generals.

But if he dared to kill Wenchen, he killed him, this is not what it is to vent his personal anger.

The Ming Dynasty has accumulated a lot of difficulties, but at any time, there is the most correct choice, obviously Emperor Chongzhen did not make the right choice.

At the wrong time. Doing the wrong thing.

If someone else becomes the emperor, he can be gentle and maintain a stable command structure. First put down the civil unrest, and then talk about reform.

Although the stall that Emperor Chongzhen took over was very bad. However, the Ming Dynasty is so big, the imperial examination selection system has always been perfect, and talents are still emerging.

For example, Xiong Tingbi, this person has the ability, but his personality is too unlikable, and the history books evaluate that if this person is there, Liaodong will not lose it. But this man was killed by the emperor.

There are also Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others who are proficient in military strategy, both civil and military.

It's a pity that Hong Chengchou was defeated and surrendered, Lu Xiangsheng died in the infighting, Sun Chuanting was almost killed by the emperor, and he was brought out of prison because he had no choice, and Sun Chuanting, who was temporarily ordained, later died on the battlefield.

In addition to these people, hundreds of civilian officials died on the battlefield, and many of them were still very dignified.

The situation is not good, but there are people in his hands but they are not useful, which is the reason why Emperor Chongzhen can only hang himself in the end.

Yang Chao's emotion made Li Xiangjun and Gu Mei stop talking. They know a little bit about the overall situation of the world, but it's okay to let them play the piano and sing songs. Let them evaluate national affairs, they don't have that vision, and they also feel helpless for a while, and can only passively expect a hero from the world to sweep away the decline and prosper the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the two only lamented how difficult the state affairs were, but they didn't believe that the Ming Dynasty would fall at all.

This kind of psychology is difficult to understand, and it is also easy to understand, the kind of calmness given by people from the common people to the emperor before the fall of the Ming Dynasty. It's confusing.

It probably has something to do with the fact that the Ming Dynasty encountered this situation more than once, when the Wara army surrounded the Beijing division for several months. An emperor was captured, and the Ming Dynasty did not fall.

Therefore, no one doubts that the Ming Dynasty will survive this crisis. Re-emerge as the heyday of the Celestial Empire.

Yang Chao naturally knew that the catastrophe of the Ming Dynasty was coming, maybe the only person who believed in it was himself, and only he had a sense of urgency and a sense of urgency to destroy the country.

In the afternoon, Yang Chao returned to the barracks.

"Your Excellency is back!"

Hu Quan shouted, and suddenly there was a hula, and a large group of young men wearing various colors and looking a little thin knelt down.

Yang Chao immediately asked everyone to get up.

These people were all recruits recruited by Hu Quan, and they had been sitting on the ground in twos and threes, listening to Hu Quan tell them about the rules of the barracks.

A few days ago, when the recruitment documents came down, Yang Chao planned to fill the number of soldiers, and after preparing for the past two days, he asked Hu Quan and others to recruit troops.

"Enough?"

Yang Chao looked at it, there were about a hundred people.

Hu Quan nodded and said, "That's enough." ”

Hu Quan only went out this morning, and when he came back in the afternoon, he brought back 150 soldiers, which was not inefficient.

Yang Chao said: "I didn't encounter difficulties. ”

Hu Quan smiled: "No." Everywhere he goes, he is like an uncle, for fear that he will not recruit their soldiers. ”

After learning about the situation with Hu Quan again, Yang Chao realized that Yang Chao asked Hu Quan to recruit troops in the Yangtze River this time, but he didn't let him go to the three hundred households he recruited last time, but recruited troops in other hundreds of households and thousands of households, Yang Chao didn't want a large number of small groups in his army.

As a result, although he has not recruited soldiers in those military stations, Yang Chao's fame has been passed on, not because Yang Chao is a celebrity in Nanjing, not because Yang Chao is very famous in Qinhuai in Shili, where will those poor military households care about the Qinhuai River, where will they care about you whether you are romantic or not, the reason why they have heard Yang Chao's name is because Yang Chao's soldiers can always lead the military salary.

The 100 soldiers recruited by Yang Chao a few months ago are all military households of the right guard of the navy, since they entered the barracks, they have never been deducted from their salaries, and they have been paid two coins of silver on time every month, and these soldiers have food, clothing and housing in the barracks, so they have nowhere to spend their money, so they are all transferred home.

The Water Army Guard has lived on both sides of the Yangtze River for more than 200 years, and now it has become a village and town, but they are closely connected with each other, and with the relationship between relatives and friends, they have compiled a network, and through the soldiers in the barracks and their families, the news that Yang Chao can get enough military pay as a soldier has long been spread.

Such a good treatment is naturally eye-catching.

Previously, there was also a military household in the water military guard, and the soldiers who asked Yang Chao to intercede with Yang Chao, hoping that Yang Chao could recruit any relatives to enter the barracks, but after being rejected by Yang Chao several times, no one pleaded anymore, for fear of offending Yang Chao, and drove them all away. They had heard that Yang Chao had driven away dozens of soldiers of the Xiaoling Guard.

Many guards were eager to join Yang Chao's Zuo Division, so Hu Quan recruited so many soldiers this time.

just looked at the soldiers recruited by Hu Quan, all with yellow faces and thin muscles. It seems that it will take a long time to recuperate before the body can recover.

Hu Quan came back early. But the other team has not come back yet, this time Yang Chao has 350 soldiers, let Hu Quan recruit 150, and Lu Mo and Zhao Kang have a group to recruit 200 soldiers.

Hu Quan is back, but Lu Mo and Zhao Kang have not returned.

waited until the sun sank in the west, only to see the two of them walking back to the barracks with a large group of young men.

Obviously, Lu Mo and Zhao Kang's efficiency is much worse than Hu Quan's.

But after seeing the soldiers recruited by the two. Yang Chao changed his mind, because the soldiers recruited by these two people were all more energetic and stronger.

"My lord, I am fortunate to be dishonored!"

Zhao Kang reported very positively.

Originally, Yang Chao didn't plan to let Zhao Kang go, but he had been cold to this cousin during this time, which made Zhao Kang have a sense of crisis, seeing that the end of the year was coming, he was becoming less and less competitive, and his soldiers had always been in the middle of the stream in terms of training. In terms of merit, Wang Pu has already killed nine Jiang bandits, and he is unlucky. He has never even seen the shadow of Jiang Bandit, and when it comes to reading and writing, he can't read a few big characters.

Yang Chao has long said that there will be a few flags at the end of the year, and now it seems that Wang Pu will definitely be able to occupy one, many men may also be able to occupy one, and Lu Mo may also occupy one, which is already three flags. There are also two flag commanders in the battalion, Chen Kuan and Li Fu, if there is no special performance. Zhao Kang felt that his chances were slim.

I've been training with my head bored before, but I can't train at all. Because others were also holding back their strength to train soldiers, everyone was half a pound and eight taels, and there was no difference at all, so when Yang Chao sent people to recruit troops, and only let Hu Quan and Lu Mo go, Zhao Kang couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to find Yang Chao again, asking him to recruit troops too.

Yang Chao met Zhao Kang this time, listened to Zhao Kang's words, and was very satisfied that he could take the initiative to ask for things, because his cousin finally had a sense of urgency, and he was no longer as fearless as before, thinking that he was Yang Chao's cousin, and he should have more advantages than others when he was promoted.

Yang Chao actually wants to promote his cousin, no matter how he says his relatives, it is easier to believe, but he has never had a chance.

After his cousin asked, Yang Chao agreed after a little thought, but asked him to recruit troops with Lu Mo's team, and told him that he wanted him to be strict and not to embarrass himself this time.

After Zhao Kang got this opportunity, he did burst out with enthusiasm that he had not had before, when recruiting troops, he selected them one by one and strictly eliminated them, Hu Quan walked three hundred households alone to recruit one hundred and fifty soldiers, and he simply dragged Lu Mo to go five hundred households and one thousand households before recruiting the number of soldiers, and the result was that his soldiers were all really young and strong.

After returning to the camp, Zhao Kang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the soldiers recruited by Hu Quan, he finally compared others to the past, so he dared to actively express his merits to Yang Chao.

Yang Chao looked at it and nodded with satisfaction: "You guys did a good job!" ”

Zhao Kang naturally looked happy, and Lu Mo was also very satisfied, he wasted a lot more energy than others, and it was not in vain.

Yang Chao asked again: "Have you checked the clerk's book?" ”

The reason why I only planned to let Hu Quan and Lu Mo go was because only these two people were literate, and they needed to sign and draw documents in the recruitment, and they couldn't be illiterate.

Lu Mo said: "The check is correct, several hundreds of households and thousands of households have been drawn." ”

After recruiting, the name is registered and registered, and then the hundreds and thousands of households in the local military station are signed and confirmed, but the military households are generally illiterate, and even the hundreds of households and thousands of households are not very literate, so many times it is enough to draw a charge.

These troop rolls will be handed over to the military department to be registered, and they will become registered battalion soldiers.

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay, first take these soldiers to familiarize themselves with the barracks, tell them the rules, and then disband." ”

There are four hundred and fifty available soldiers under his command, and the total number of troops is also full, if you want to expand again, then you have to be promoted, promoted to a thousand generals, you can have two general divisions, and there are * hundred to one thousand soldiers. (To be continued).