The situation in Dengzhou quickly calmed down. The change of the four guards was a risky move, and the soldiers and soldiers of each guard had no opinions, mainly because when the imperial court was in arrears for a long time, the army's morale was already sluggish, and they were encouraged by the officers of the four guards, so they were ready to take risks.

But before it could be launched, the officers of the four guards had already been killed, and the commander, the commander, the commander, and the commander did not survive, and between the hesitations, the soldiers and horses of the Dengzhou Division had already come to the city, although the number was not large, but the armor and soldiers were not seen by anyone, and a large number of grain and grass were transported.

The four guards of Dengzhou should have more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, but the military register reported to the Yamen and the military department of the capital department was already too far from the actual number. After several days of counting, the actual strength of the four guards added up to less than 9,000 people, and after removing the old, weak, sick and disabled, only 5,000 people remained. However, there are 10,000 family members behind it, and the situation is not optimistic.

Zhu Ping'an has already taken out a part of the assets brought from the capital to appease the soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, and next, he will return a large amount of land that was originally occupied by a group of officers to the military households, Shandong has also been in a series of droughts in the past two years, and this summer has not rained a drop of rain, seeing that the harvest is still not guaranteed, Zhu Ping'an has to spend silver to buy grain for use. But this is indeed not a long-term solution, even if there is a mountain of gold, it will be hollowed out sooner or later.

The war in Huguang was still tepid, Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the geographical advantage to deal with the official army, and Yang Sichang led an army of 100,000 to encircle on all sides, although he won several battles, but he never hurt Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's main force.

Northern Zhili, Henan, and Shanxi were also in great drought, and Yang Sichang's 100,000 officers and soldiers mainly relied on grain and supplies from these regions to feed their horses, but the transportation of materials was becoming more and more difficult. In a hurry, Yang Sichang made a faint move, went to the imperial court, and asked for another increase in donations. The recital was passed to the cabinet, and Zhou Yanru quietly kicked the ball to Emperor Chongzhen and the celebrant of ceremonies. Seeing that the Manchu Qing were ready to move outside the Guan, they intended to attack the front line of Ningyuan and Jinzhou. Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree to Yang Sichang's request, and for a while, the people's grievances boiled, and Gyeonggi, Henan, and Shanxi were in turmoil.

Sun Chuanting accepted Zhu Ping'an's opinion, did not insist on entering Beijing to face the saint, but sent his family members into the capital, and he took more than 100 relatives to Shaanxi, actively contacted the local heroes, and began to organize the militia to practice, the momentum was not big, but it did a good job, with the court barely squeezed out 200,000 taels of silver, stunned to form a team of 10,000 soldiers and horses, to train in battle, and began to go around to recruit and suppress small groups of rogues. Listening to Zhu Ping'an's construction, Li Zicheng is very likely to have secretly sneaked back to Shanxi, and Sun Chuanting also began to send troops to look for it privately, but because the troops were too small, he did not get any valuable news for a while.

In contrast, the situation in Shandong is quite stable. In order to ask for merit and impeach the officers of the four guards of Dengzhou for corruption and the mutiny of the soldiers, he followed the Jinyi guard to escort Lin Deyuan's men and horses to the Beijing Division. But Zhu Ping'an would not wait for news from Jingshi, and directly ordered Yue Jinfeng, Qiu Ze, and Li Dingguo to lead a carefully selected group of subordinates to take up their posts, strike while the iron was hot, and stabilize the situation of the four guards. The next step was to organize the company of non-commissioned soldiers and reorganize the new army, and the old, weak, sick and disabled were all included in the ranks of auxiliary soldiers.

Including the Dusi Yamen also began to make drastic rectifications, and the defense of Penglai City needed to be strengthened, especially the addition of artillery and the creation of firearms, which should be put on the agenda. The second is the creation of three new departments. Now that the Ming Dynasty is still orthodox in the world, Zhu Ping'an is not stupid enough to change the military system and the internal structure of the yamen, which is purely looking for trouble, which is tantamount to sending the truth to the hands of the imperial historian. The three new institutions can only be established as temporary departments, but their powers are not insignificant.

The first is the inspection room. Zhu Ping'an thought it out very thoroughly, he is still a Ming Dynasty, and it is definitely not suitable to use the set of later generations to realize the supervision of the entire yamen. Therefore, we can only gradually adapt to the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty through the experience of future generations, and grope forward step by step. The Inspectorate is one of the most important departments.

Zhu Ping'an's subordinates, although they are still in a relatively clean and pure state, but after all, they are in the entire Ming society, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be contaminated by any bad habits, which requires an institution to supervise and control them, so the inspection office came into being.

The inspection office is not subordinate to any department, and it is only responsible for Zhu Ping'an. Personnel are selected by the director of the supervision office, and then reported to Zhu Ping'an for approval, and then they can be recruited into the department. Zhu Ping'an's vision is that in the future, the supervision office will be used as an internal intelligence department, and the responsibility for supervision and inspection will be transferred to the real discipline supervision department, so as to achieve mutual checks and balances of power. But now is not the time, it can only be developed gradually as a prototype.

The first chief officer of the inspection office, Zhu Ping'an appointed Guo Chailai to serve as the post. Strictly speaking, Guo Chai does not belong to the Zhongdu system under Zhu Ping'an, but belongs to the new faction like Li Dingguo, although he has a close connection with Wang Chengen, but the facts have shown that Wang Chengen and Zhu Ping'an themselves are also one and two, two and one, so, as an outsider who has just joined, Guo Chai is very suitable for this work.

The second department is the research institute. The chief officer is Sun Heding. He Changshui, as well as several craftsmen specially recruited by Wang Chengen who had studied flintlock pistols with Bi Maokang, as well as craftsmen who followed Zhu Ping'an when he was in the central capital, would become the core members of this department. After the institute was not on the right track, Zhu Ping'an also planned to transfer He Changshui from the institute and set up an ordnance bureau to divide scientific research and manufacturing into two independent departments. The reason why Mafu Wang did not enter the research institute was because Zhu Ping'an believed that his medical attainments were far higher than his level in studying some crooked and evil ways. Zhu Ping'an plans to set up a field medical department of the army at a practical and appropriate time, and King Mafu will be the most suitable candidate.

After that, the institute will also be supplemented with a group of elite soldiers. Including, Sun Heding's two younger brothers, Sun Hedou and Sun Hejing. There are also two people that Zhu Ping'an is very interested in, one is Wang Zheng, and the other is Zhang Tao, both of whom are the backbone figures of Sun Yuanhua's development and casting of new firearms during the Denglai period.

Among them, Wang Zheng was over sixty years old and in poor health, although he politely declined the invitation of Sun Heding and Zhu Ping'an, he recommended his two students to come to Dengzhou. Zhang Tao, the author of "The Illustration of Western Fire Attack", traveled around Guangdong, and Sun Heding specially asked his younger brother Sun Hejing to rush to Guangdong to find it, and I believe that news will come soon.

And the third is a genuine intelligence service. To a large extent, the decision to kill is influenced by intelligence work. Judging from the experience of later generations, Zhu Ping'an's success and defeat are not only due to the factors of time, place and people, but also the most critical reason is the control of the news. There is no doubt that before the war began, intelligence came first.

The Military Intelligence Service came into being. The first chief official is naturally Yin Shigang. The intelligence network is ready-made, and as long as the prototype of the intelligence network originally established by Zhu Ping'an is combined with the organization controlled by Shen Mingxian, a complete intelligence network covering the entire Shandong can be formed. The next thing to do is to improve and improve intelligence work in accordance with a series of teaching materials compiled by Zhu Ping'an on intelligence work, such as the guiding opinions and work discipline. These include liaison, code words, assassinations, recruitment of personnel, and transmission of intelligence, and strive to make the entire intelligence system professional, scientific, and meticulous within one year.

Yin Shigang, Sun Heding, and Guo Chai, the three newly baked upstarts of the Dengzhou Prefecture Yamen, became the focus of attention for a while, although the department is still a temporary institution, but this indicates that the three will become the core decision-making members of Zhu Ping'an's side.

Zhu Ping'an took great pains to deal with the official positions of the three people, and all three of them had official bodies promulgated by the imperial court, but how to call them internally was a headache. In the end, Zhu Ping'an decided to unify and unanimously called him "director".

Guo Chai, director of the inspection office, Sun Heding, director of the research institute, and Yin Shigang, director of the Military Intelligence Department.

"Director?" Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what this title was, Yin Shigang asked with doubts: "Dare to ask my lord, what does this 'director' mean?" ”

Zhu Ping'an was stumped by one sentence, and after thinking about it for a long time, he had to prevaricate and replied: "The director is the main person in charge, and this is called 'director'!" ”

Everyone suddenly realized, they all felt that this title was very fresh, but it was concise and concise, "the main officer" What a big affirmation this is, for a time in the Dengzhou government system, they were proud to be called the director. Yin Shigang, Guo Chai, and Sun Heding are known as the "three directors of Dengzhou".

Zhu Ping'an obviously did not expect these effects. He envisioned a lot more, a staff system in addition to the planned field medical system. In the era of cold weapons, the victory of the war depends on the wisdom and adaptability of the commander alone, which is undoubtedly a huge risk, once the commander makes a mistake or an accident, the whole army falls into a passive state. The staff system is to concentrate the wisdom of all people, although the decision-making power is still in the hands of the coach, but it can start from the staff system, so that the coach has to listen to more opinions and make more correct decisions.

Of course, the training of staff officers still needs a platform. Zhu Ping'an had already discussed with Yang Tinglin in private, and won his support, planning to add a martial arts class to the health school of the guard station, recruit the poor military households, teach martial arts and military knowledge in a unified manner, train qualified grassroots officers, and enter the command system of each guard post through guò training and selection. R1152