Seeing Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, the two leaders of the rebel army who directly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, wearing the military uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, and directing the displaced people who should have followed them to kill officials and rebel for training, in order to play a role in guarding the Ming Dynasty one day, Li You had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, but turned into a smile, such a change was exactly what he wanted. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The displaced people recruited from Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, plus the remaining soldiers eliminated by the Beijing camp, now there are more than 100,000 soldiers being trained here, if it is put in the past, the imperial court will definitely not be able to take out this money and food, but after Li You confiscated the family property of the eight families of the Jin merchants, all this is not a problem, and soon the sea trade run by the internal officials and Zheng Zhilong and other maritime merchants will also send him a steady stream of income, enough to support more troops.

According to the consistent urine nature of Ming officials, they must intervene in this kind of thing, 100,000 people's equipment, military salaries, grain and grass and official positions, which can bring them countless benefits, so after seeing the irretrievable reality that the Beijing camp was replaced by the new army, they tried to get involved in the new army, but Li You resolutely could not let them get their wish, these people are like rat, as long as one is thrown in, this pot of good soup will be completely over.

Therefore, the training of the new army was in charge of the Song army led by Yue Yun, and the money and grain were temporarily distributed by the internal funds, and after the problems of the Guanning army and other problems were solved, it would be transferred to the transfer of special money and food from the imperial court's annual income to provide support; The selection, promotion, and elimination of officers in this army do not have to go through the arrangements of the military department, the military selection department and other departments, but are in charge of the newly built Dadu Governor's Office, of course, the current Dadu Governor's Office is still different from the Dadu Governor's Office in charge of Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and others in the early Ming Dynasty, Li You has modified some authority, and the newly established Dadu Governor's Office will retain a certain degree of autonomy outside the civilian system, but it will not be too powerful, so as to avoid the situation of military abuse of power in the future.

Of course, this kind of change will arouse the resolute opposition of the civil and official system, but now that Li You is taking the opportunity of arresting those traitorous Jin businessmen to kill the civilian system, they are still not enough to protect themselves, how can they stop Li You's decision? Eventually, the new Metropolitan Governorate was slowly established.

After the training of these 100,000 new troops is completed, Li You will use them to replace the old Ming troops in Liaodong, Xuanda and other border fortresses, and then bring these old troops to the capital for retraining, and finally replace all the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty with new troops; To some extent, this is even more difficult than re-training an army, because in addition to solving the old problems encountered in the training, they also have to deal with the vigorous resistance of the old officer system, and they must understand that if they adopt the policy of the new army, their power will be greatly reduced, which no one wants to bear.

Hey, it's even more difficult to save a terminally ill dynasty than to create a new one; Li You, who had a lot of problems, was big for a while, and now he was a little complaining about the role that the tiger talisman arranged for him, to be honest, Chongzhen's start at the end of the Ming Dynasty was simply hellish difficulty, and it was much easier to start with Li Zicheng than now.

After counting the precedents of the revival of the declining dynasty in the past thousand years, Liu Xiuguang's restoration of the Han dynasty was after Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty, although he was a great Han clan, but he did not change the status quo from the court, but established his own armed forces and relied on excellent military and political ability and great meteorite summoning to ascend to the throne, this process is no different from the establishment of a new dynasty; The same is true of Liu Bei later, and Shu Han and Dahan are already two dynasties.

And the Jin and Song families continued their lives, and after they lost half of the north of the country, they also left a lot of old burdens to some extent, coupled with the lack of follow-up of the enemies in the north, so that they could survive.

The fate of the Tang Dynasty was full of twists and turns, when Wu Zhou replaced Li Tang, the Tang Dynasty had not yet reached the end of the period, and there was still room to turn things around, but after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was already powerless, so even if there were so many emperors who wanted to make a difference, they could only be like Chongzhen and could not reverse the trend of the decline of the dynasty.

Now the Ming Dynasty is not only facing the barbarians in the north and the low temperature and drought in the Xiaoice River period, but the main enemies are inside, those ignorant and incompetent officials, those gentry who ignore the laws of the country, those wealthy merchants who communicate with foreign countries, and those landlords and officials who exploit the people...... With the continuation of more than 200 years of dynasties, the ruling class attached to this dynasty has gradually lost their enterprising spirit, and only knows what kind of fate awaits them if they desperately absorb the nutrients from this big tree, and do not fall to this tree at all.

So Li You didn't expect these people to be able to cheer up and change the fate of the Ming Dynasty, they have long been accustomed to this kind of behavior that harms the public and private interests, and it is almost impossible to wake them up, so in order to keep the Ming Dynasty from falling into the hands of foreign races, Li You can only wash the gentry class of the Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, with Yue Yun's Song army as the seed, he cultivated a large number of troops with excellent tactical literacy and absolute loyalty to himself, and on the other hand, Li You planned to establish a new newspaper to change the current ideological atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, and then through the establishment of new types of education, changing the methods of imperial examinations, and other measures, cultivate scholars who were different from those literati who could meet their own needs to replace these old-style literati and take over their positions as court officials.

Like the New Army, this newspaper will be personally run by Li You, who will be responsible for assisting him with Xu Guangqi, who is proficient in Confucianism and Western studies, Feng Menglong, a famous novelist, Tang Ruowang, a Taixi missionary, and Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou, a Confucian scholar.

Among them, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou's personal ethics may be flawless, but they are pedantic, and they only know how to persuade the emperor to be a gentleman and a villain when they encounter any problems, and they say a lot of big and useless nonsense, and they can't come up with a practical way to solve the problem; The reason why Li You included them in the newspaper was that he took a fancy to their prestige among Shilin, and secondly, he wanted Xu Guangqi and others to engage in a debate with them in the newspaper, so as to thoroughly expose the problems in their thoughts, so that people of insight in the world could see them clearly and trigger their reflection.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many people were aware of the crisis of Confucianism, so thinkers such as Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and Huang Zongxi were born in the future, but unfortunately their thoughts were interrupted by the tyrannical Jiannu, and Li You wanted to speed up this step, so that more and more open ideas sprouted, developed, and grew in the Ming Dynasty, until they replaced the old ideas.