Chapter 607 Contradictions

Do you want to canonize this general? First of all, we must find out what this Japanese general thinks? Why do you have such an idea? Zhu Youzhen couldn't figure it out, so he had to ask a few cabinet bigwigs. These guys are all masters with good brains, and after a little silence, even if they can't understand the reason, they still think of a solution to the problem.

Lu Xiangsheng stood up and said, "Why do you need to think about what they think? Especially if you don't know much about the situation in Japan. We don't know, but there are people who do. When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he slapped his thigh: "It's okay, the cabinet hurriedly wrote a letter to Sihua, and asked people to send it to Tianjin on a fast horse and send it to Nanyang by Dengzhou's speedboat." ”

When it comes to this matter, Zhu Youzhen is still very proud. Although Tianjin has not officially opened to the sea, there is a speedboat in Dengzhou that is responsible for transmitting overseas news. This matter was reported by Zhang Xun last time he came. Even if it is Xinghai City, which is thousands of miles away, it takes two months for the clipper to go back and forth. Is it slow? Don't slow down, you don't have a clear look at the traffic situation these years.

"Your Majesty is wise, then let the Japanese mission stay in Beijing for two months, and appreciate the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty." Zhou Yanru hurriedly patted his ass, this time is just right. One is that the emperor is happy, and the other is that they have one less trouble.

The elders of the pavilion have called His Majesty wise, and Zhu Youzhen is quite proud. Another decree: "Since I have to wait for Sihua's news, it is not good for me to see them now, let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince meet them, and learn how to deal with the foreign vassal missions." ”

"Commandment!" When the cabinet ministers resigned, they were in a good mood, and the trouble was solved. Moreover, since entering Chongzhen for seventeen years, the Ming Dynasty has been developing in a good direction. With an abundant treasury, it is much easier for the cabinet to do things. 陛xià on a lot of rights. And it does follow the rules that have been made. The only thing that is tightly grasped in our hands is the matter of the new army. Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Hong Chengchou, who helped, were basically spectators.

Last month, the Ming Imperial Martial Arts Hall officially opened, and the students were all 500 young Junyan selected from the martial arts of the new department, and they were over 25 years old and did not accept you. There were also 200 students, from noble families in Beijing and Nanjing. Zhu Youzhen, who has realized that Wenchen's practice of controlling military generals has great drawbacks. On the issue of the new army, we will strive to correct the mistakes of the past.

Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the military department, has to do what he needs to do is to inspect the Beijing camp and check it according to the number of people, and the number of roads taken is the one done by Chen Xie in Nanjing. Battalions with a shortage of less than 50 per cent are found to be abandoned. This work is very offensive, and only Lu Xiangsheng can do it, and others have already picked on it. Now that the results of the inspection are almost coming out, according to Zhu Youzhen's requirements, the entire Beijing camp must be abolished. Because no army is up to par in terms of numbers and quality.

The emperor and the cabinet have known about this result for a long time, but they couldn't change it before, but now they have the opportunity and ability to change it. Zhu Youzhen specially stayed for Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou to interrogate, and when he mentioned the matter of Jingying, the expressions of these two cabinet ministers were very exciting. They have nothing to say, you must know that once they change this thing, they will face the entire Xungui group. They are not Chen Xie. There are not so many cards to play in his hand, and he is not afraid of making trouble.

Silently read the investigation report provided by the two cabinet ministers. Chief Zhu You sighed, and said for a long time: "I have long known that Jingying is rotten, who would have thought that it would be so erosive." The two cabinet ministers were even more silent, unable to speak at this time. Because there is a problem involved in this, and that is internal supervision. The number of people in the Jingying camp is according to the roster. The total number is more than 380,000. In fact, the current Beijing camp, let alone pulling it out to fight, the number of people who practice is pitiful, and it is very conscientious to be able to make up 30,000 or 50,000 people. Why is this happening? It is undoubtedly impossible to rely on generals alone, and everyone is really rich when they get rich together. The military generals colluded with the internal supervisors to make a fortune together, and only then would they lead to such a result.

Because it involves internal supervision, the two cabinet ministers have nothing to say, after all, the current Zhu Youzhen is different from before, and he regards military power as very important. If you can basically leave the military department behind a new army, what do you think the two of them can say about it?

"The prison troops from all walks of life can't stay any longer, so let's withdraw first. The generals and nobles of the Beijing camp, the military department will prepare a list of Chen, and just raise them. For such an army, it is inevitable to dismantle it, and for the matter of guarding the Beijing division, the military department will draw up an order to transfer 10,000 Liaodong troops into Beijing. Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth, now there are 15,000 people in the south of the city in the Beijing Division, and the horse team from the Dengzhou Battalion has been renamed the Beijing New Army Horse Team. The arch guard of the Beijing Division, mainly this horse team is in charge. In the original Beijing camp, there is only the job of guarding the door.

"Your Majesty, this matter should not be rushed, the minister thinks that the Beijing camp can be retained, and the downsizing can be done." Hong Chengchou mentioned a Jianyi, but he knew how many people's interests were included here, and if he didn't say a word at this time, how many people would hate him when he turned around. Lu Xiangsheng also knew this truth, but he didn't speak, offending people or anything, he even dared to offend Yang Sichang before, and even dared to pretend to be stupid when the emperor acquiesced in peace. What else would you not dare!

Zhu Youzhen was silent, knowing that what Hong Chengchou said made sense, but he was unwilling. The main thing is that the current new army has been created in a grass-roots way, and it has not yet officially become an army. The plan was to train a group of officers first, and then recruit new recruits to be trained in Tianjin or Baoding.

"Two Aiqing, go back and draw up a statement, I'll take a look at it." Zhu Youzhen was also helpless, so he had to take a step back. There are too many people involved, and the inner prison is a little better, and killing it is like pinching an ant. What about the generals and nobles outside? That's a hassle. For example, a certain governor of Zhou, that is his father-in-law. Hang up a position, take a salary, and then mix it up to eat empty salary, what do you say Zhu Youzhen should do with him? Recently, Zhou Kui, the old man, was restless again, and told Queen Zhou many times that he wanted to join the royal fleet. When he used to raise military salaries, why didn't he come up with 200,000 silver yuan at a time? It's good now, to take 200,000 silver dollars to buy 20% of the shares of the royal fleet, it's really beautiful. On this matter, Zhu Youzhen got angry with Queen Zhou and didn't go to Kunning Palace for several days. Thinking of this, the good mood is a little less.

The appearance of the Beijing camp must be changed, and the so-called three major camps cannot fall into the hands of eunuchs. But to whom does this right go? Zhu Youzhen still didn't think about it, the past history has proved that eunuchs may not be able to be relied on, their loyalty is no problem, but the desire for corruption is stronger than that of Wenchen and military generals. After the new army is built, it will certainly not be handed over to the internal superintendent, and after the new army replaces the Beijing battalion, the system of the three battalions of the past can be adopted, but it must be streamlined and the power must be decentralized.

Having said that, Zhu Youzhen did not have a trustworthy general to lead the troops, and the trusted general was incapable. It's really a headache, is it handed over to the Ministry of War? That's even more impossible. It's about the emperor's throne, how can you give it up?

Zhu Yuanzhang has been doing one thing, which is to strengthen the imperial power. The consequence of the high degree of centralization was that the emperor could not bear it. Zhu Youzhen originally planned to do this, but later found that it couldn't. After listening to Chen Xie's Jianyì, he changed his mind and grasped the military power and the financial power. The whole person immediately felt a lot easier, but a new trouble came, that is, the old problems had never been solved, and now they were piled up in front of him, how to solve these problems? Do you want to overthrow the old system entirely? Undoubtedly, it will hurt the centralization of the king's power.

It's really a very contradictory thing, Zhu Youzhen feels that he can't find the best of both worlds at all. This can only be done first, one step at a time, and there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain.

Chen Xie, who was far away in Nanyang, was holding a "united and peaceful" conference at this time, and there were many tribes on the island of Java, and there were no people who were really willing to live in harmony with the Chinese. The reason is actually very simple, the place is so big, there are so many resources, you take a little more, I will have less. To put it bluntly, it is a question of living space.

A total of thirteen tribal leaders and chiefs came to this meeting, and if they looked at their materials carefully, they were all relatively close to Xinghai City, and the farthest was only five days away. These tribes, they dare not come, Chen Xie's extermination of the Sugaro tribe has long spread throughout Java.

On the first day of the meeting, the chiefs awoke in the morning and saw a large army of heavily armed troops leaving the city. At that time, everyone was not good, and immediately summoned the heads of the three families to ask about the situation. The patriarch of the Li family said in front of a chief who had a good relationship: "It's not a big deal, even if Suharto refused the peace conference, he also insulted the messenger we sent, saying that the Chinese should get out of Java or something." When the Cabinet heard this, he was very angry and demanded that when the army returned from the expedition, he must bring back his head. If he can't bring back his population, he will have to bring back no less than 10,000 heads. ”

The chiefs shuddered and swore to the ancestors and gods that Suharto had promised not to say such a thing to him. In fact, Suharto didn't say such a thing, it's just that this guy likes to be a wall grass, and he has more than 10,000 warriors under his command who can fight, entrenched in Bandung. In the past, when the Dutch were in the house, he was the grass on the wall, but now Chen Xie is in charge, he still has to be the grass on the wall, and thinks that he has that capital.

As everyone knows, Chen Xie is an extremely unreasonable guy, he gave you the opportunity to stand in line, if you don't stand in line, that is to be my enemy, in this case, you don't need any reason to beat you. In fact, it is very simple to find a reason, the battle of Puwakarta, the indigenous alliance passed through his territory, otherwise how could it besiege the town unconsciously.

Even if there is no such thing, Chen Xie still has to take Bandung, open up this channel, and establish a model area of public security with the two cities as the core. Then purge the uncooperative indigenous people in the region and seize their lands and resources. (To be continued......)