Officials in Shaanxi and other places are indeed bold, and whatever bandits have appeared in the localities in recent years, local officials have to bear responsibility, and they will not pass the test if they are evaluated or something.

Therefore, once there is any bandit in the locality, the local officials basically conceal it if they can, especially in places like Shaanxi.

The officials who will be transferred to Shaanxi to become officials will either have very poor relations with officialdom or have no money to buy officials. Especially those who were transferred to northern Shaanxi to become officials, there was an urge to cry and faint in the toilet. Therefore, the group of officials in northern Shaanxi are thinking about transferring out of that kind of place, and there are only two ways to be transferred, one is to hope that they can pass the evaluation, and the other is to hope to make some money and buy a more oily position.

Therefore, in the first year of Chongzhen, when the thieves had just developed, as long as someone in the local area went to the yamen of the governor and those officials to report, these governors all did not care about the situation, first put on the thirty boards, and then said: This is the hungry people, and they will disperse after the spring of plundering.

It was precisely the ostrich policy of inaction adopted by these bureaucrats in the early stage that made the thieves popular in northern Shaanxi. The lack of clearance and the lack of relief finally became out of control, causing unrest in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other provinces, and causing astonishing damage to production, so that more people had to join the ranks of thieves.

If it was just some petty bandits who concealed the report, then Zhu Youxiao could still understand it. However, Zhang Zhihou, the governor of Yansui, and Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier, dared to conceal the foreign invasion, which was simply bold. This is equivalent to the border provinces being beaten by other countries in later generations, but the leaders of the country are still kept in the dark, and the nature is extremely bad.

How could such an act not make Zhu Youxiao burst into a rage, so angry that he threw his song to the ground, and immediately asked Tian Ergen to summon Tian Ergeng to the palace for an audience.

Tian Ergeng hurriedly entered the palace, and Zhu Youxiao instructed him: "Immediately send someone to Yansui, cut down the governor Zhang Zhihou and the chief soldier Du Wenhuan, and then pass the head to the nine sides." ”

Seeing the emperor explode like thunder, Tian Ergeng was surprised in his heart, what happened? To make the emperor so angry? Although the emperor was young and vigorous, his personality has always been relatively generous. Even if those Donglin Party officials were arrested and questioned, almost none of them were ordered to have their heads cut off, and only one Wang Wenyan was beaten to death by Jinyiwei during interrogation.

Soon Tian Ergeng knew what was going on, and he was also surprised when he saw Gao Tui's impeachment recital. Mongolia entered Kouyan'an Mansion, and they dared to conceal such a big thing, I really don't know who lent them enough courage.

"Your Majesty is angry, don't be angry with the dragon body. Weichen immediately sent someone to arrest Zhang Zhihou and Du Wenhuan. Tian Ergeng immediately persuaded Zhu Youxiao after reading the recital.

"Go ahead! Go ahead! As far as possible. Zhu Youxiao nodded, the anger in his heart calmed down a little, and he was angry with himself. However, if we do not cut down these bureaucrats who only care about their personal future and do not care about the security of the country, it will still be difficult to dispel the anger in our hearts.

"Obey." Tian Ergeng immediately retreated and hurriedly ran to arrange the arrest. Zhu Youxiao thought about it for a while, and immediately instructed Yang Guang, the personal little eunuch: "Summons Sun Chuanting to meet him." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. The slave and the maid will go. Yang Guang ran non-stop to summon Sun Chuanting into the palace.

Sun Chuanting came to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts and was also surprised when he saw the impeachment recital of Yu Shi Gaotui, and said in surprise: "How can this Zhang Zhihou be so bold, and dare to conceal such a major event?" ”

"I have ordered the arrest of Zhang Zhihou, and the most important thing now is how to prevent the Mongols from plundering the Hetao again." Zhu Youxiao said with a headache.

Sun Chuanting has been the secretary of the military department for nearly a year, and he has read a lot of information, and at this time he has become more and more professional, and said: "Your Majesty, if you want to prevent the Mongols from plundering the Hetao, you can let the border army carry out a 'search'. However, the military discipline of the border army is corrupt, and it may be difficult to do it. At present, it is better to send the border army to reorganize, and then not only can the trap be searched, but even the Hetao can be recovered. ”

"Search?" Zhu Youxiao was a little puzzled, and Sun Chuanting hurriedly explained.

It turned out that although the Ming army did not occupy the Hetao, they drove the Mongols out of the Hetao area. But every year, some Mongolian tribes secretly cross the Yellow River and enter the loop to graze. Therefore, the Ming army adopted a policy of regular sweeps on the Hetao, and generally in the autumn when the cattle and sheep grew fat, the Ming army would carry out a sweep of the Mongols who secretly entered the Hetao for grazing.

After more than 200 years of hiding from the Ming army in the Hetao, the Mongols had openly occupied the Hetao at this time. During this period, some officials in the Ming court mentioned several times to recover the Hetao, but they were all cut down because the officials were involved in some political disputes. Now that the Ming army has not searched for a long time in order to avoid the charge of 'provoking border affairs', the Mongols naturally began to graze in the Hetao with abundant water and grass.

Originally, the well water of both sides did not interfere with the river water, and they lived in peace. I don't know if it was last winter that Hetao Mongolia was affected by a disaster, and the cattle and sheep were frozen to death, or what was the situation, but it actually plundered northern Shaanxi in the first month.

But regardless of whether the Mongols were affected by the disaster or not, killing tens of thousands of Ming people, how did Zhu Youxiao swallow this breath? After Sun Chuanting's explanation, Zhu Youxiao also came up with the idea of carrying out a sweep of the Mongolian tribes in Hetao. At the same time, the idea of recovering the Hetao also began to sprout and grow wildly in his mind.

If the Hetao can be recovered, the Ming Dynasty will have a horse breeding land. When the time comes, as long as those Mongol nobles are killed, those ordinary Mongols can be placed for grazing, so that there will be no shortage of war horses.

At this time, the Mongolian tribes, the aristocracy still had a lot of power, and the property of ordinary Mongolians was still not effectively guaranteed. As long as the Mongolian nobles are overturned, those ordinary Mongolians are absolutely willing to live under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. When the time comes, the armed forces of ordinary Mongolian herders will be restricted, and as long as there is no administrative and economic injustice, Mongolian herders will not be able to rebel. In these years, Mongolia was actually not as barbaric as it was during the time of Genghis Khan, and it was not too difficult to manage.

And the Hetao area is blocked by the Yellow River, once the Mongolian tribe is driven out, except in winter when the river freezes when they dare to cross the river into the Hetao, they dare not come in at all at other times, because they enter the Hetao at other times, a pontoon bridge or something is cut off, it is really nowhere to run, this is also the environmental factor that the Ming army can search for the set before, even if the Mongols built a pontoon bridge, it is difficult for cattle and sheep to cross the river or something, so the search set is definitely gained.

"For the sake of today's plan, we can only do our best to reorganize the border army." Zhu Youxiao nodded.

Under the discussion of the two monarchs and ministers, a specific reorganization plan came out. That is, the reorganization plan was immediately launched, and except for Liaodong, the rest of the border towns were proportionally transferred to the Beijing division to accept the reorganization. These 100,000 border troops will be reorganized into 10 infantry divisions.

In the process of the transfer of these 100,000 border troops, the central government was directly responsible for the supply along the way, and they went to Beijing lightly, so as to avoid the burden of transporting large baggage. At the same time, before the start of the promotion, each soldier was given a settling-in allowance of 20 silver dollars, and a 'Jingying Military Family Management Office' was set up in each border town to register the relatives of these soldiers, so as to prevent the relatives of these soldiers from being oppressed by the military attaché of the border army, and relieve these soldiers of their worries.

This policy was quickly implemented by the Ministry of War.

When the notice was posted in the border towns, it immediately caused a sensation in the border army. The news that the imperial court was going to send 100,000 border troops to Beijing to reorganize the new army quickly spread to every border soldier as if it had grown wings. Because the soldiers of the new army are treated really well.

The Forces nouvelles adopted a professional soldier system and were not engaged in production on weekdays. The military salary is 3 yuan per month, including room and board throughout the year, and at the same time, the selected ones will also be given 20 yuan for settling-in expenses.

Where can I find such treatment?

In fact, the border troops in the border towns can only be regarded as semi-professional soldiers, serving as soldiers in wartime and busy working on weekdays, which is actually a bit like a militia. And they are basically self-sufficient, and there are not many military salaries that can be distributed to them every year, so the border soldiers are basically living a miserable life, and they have to face the oppression and encroachment of the military attaché.

At this time, an opportunity to get ahead is directly in front of them, as long as they can be selected, they can immediately get the whole family out of poverty, not to mention being well-off! It's always okay to have a full stomach. And being a soldier is paid, and you don't have to think about it.

The quota for each border town is about one out of eight border troops, and one-eighth of the pass rate. In fact, as long as you are physically strong enough, you can choose from the age of 16 to 30.

After the recruitment teams sent by the imperial court to the border towns arrived, the recruitment site was simply crowded. The recruitment method of the recruitment group is to copy Qi Jiguang's selection method, focusing on four conveniences: Fengwei, powerful, martial arts, and cleverness. The four articles are neither abolished nor monopolistic, and at the same time avoid the appearance of murderous death.

Qi Jiguang's recruitment can be summed up as the first temperament, honest and sturdy countrymen are preferred, and soldiers don't want oil. Although martial arts are also in the selection category, martial arts can be practiced, and temperament is difficult to change.

Qi Jiguang's face-to-face selection of troops is actually quite reliable.

Fortune-telling is just a big trend. It's not like some people understand, you can calculate the lottery or something, that's a very ignorant understanding. Fortune telling does not mean that fate can be changed, but fate does not include space, so the results of people with different fates in different spatial environments are also different.

Just like in the era of big pot rice, those who are very lucky and can become big bosses may be farming in the countryside miserably! Then these people leave the space of this system and go abroad, maybe they will make a fortune with a casual effort.

The battlefield is also a very special space, when a person is unlucky, he may be choked to death by drinking water, let alone in a special space like the battlefield, which is full of violence everywhere. When you are unlucky, you go to the battlefield, you are like a magnet, all kinds of dangers will be attracted to you, and your personal fate is often directly crushed into slag.

After some selection, the quota of 100,000 new troops was quickly determined in each border town. Those who are chosen are happy, and those who are not selected are disappointed. But those border soldiers who were not selected still had a flame of hope in their hearts.

Since the imperial court has trained the first batch of new troops, maybe there will be a second batch?

On the other side, Zhang Zhihou, the governor of Yansui, and Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier, were simply overwhelmed with blood mold, and the wolf-like Jinyi guards hurried to Yulin Town, and directly arrested them with the holy oracle in hand. (To be continued.) )