The court in the first year of Chongzhen was much more harmonious than Zhu Youzhen's previous life.

Zhu Youzhen, who was in the previous generation, was very dissatisfied with the cabinet elders and the eunuch party, and took advantage of the Donglin Party's impeachment of the eunuch party to make a big change in the cabinet, and all four cabinet elders stepped down.

Then, in order to compete for the position left by the cabinet and the six eunuchs, the court fought all day long, setting off a fierce party struggle, that is, the Donglin Party was also fighting for each other, so that many state affairs were delayed.

And in this life, Zhu Youzhen, who has experienced the death of the country and life and death, has matured a lot. He no longer employs people only based on likes and dislikes in his heart, nor does he look at whether he is a clear stream with a good reputation or a eunuch with a bad reputation, but everything is based on the stability of the court.

So far, except for one round of changes in the six ministries, the four cabinet elders are safe and sound. With four cabinet elders here, state affairs are naturally running normally, and Zhu Youzhen has been saved a lot of trouble.

Nuo Daming, the land of thirteen provinces hundreds of millions of people, there are things happening every day, countless notes fly to the cabinet, and then send them to the inner palace, if every note is carefully read, it will be the same as the previous life, burying his head in the ocean of music all day long, and he has no time or energy to think about other things.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen changed his strategy, and after the Chinese New Year, he reorganized the celebrant eunuch, and in addition to Wang Chengen, who was with him, he set up six eunuchs who were the celebrant and the eunuch. Each eunuch is connected to one of the six parts and is responsible for going through the music first. If there is no big problem, the eunuch will directly wear red, and then hand it over to the palm seal eunuch Liu Ruoyu.

The eunuchs and eunuchs are all studying in the inner study hall since they were young, and many eunuchs are very knowledgeable, not even worse than those scholars, and the eunuchs are the place to assist the emperor in dealing with state affairs. Like Wei Zhongxian, who is illiterate but can be a eunuch and a governor of Dongchang, it is really an outlier.

Only very important state affairs will be sent to Zhu Youzhen for review.

With decentralization, Zhu Youzhen has a lot more time every day, and he has enough energy to care about the most important things, such as the Janissary New Army, such as the arsenal and the Academy of Sciences.

The craftsmen of the arsenal worked hard for more than two months, and by March, they had produced more than 2,000 Lumi guns, 100 tiger squat cannons, more than 80 Furang machine and mother cannons, and a number of various rocket firearms such as a swarm of bees and flying dragons. These weapons are enough to equip thousands of recruits.

The new Praetorian Guards in Xiyuan went through another two months of training in military postures, and the strict training made them extremely obedient and collective. Regardless of their individual martial arts, but from the overall appearance, they seem to be the best army in the spirit of this era! This is not a boast, but the impression of the people of Beijing on them.

Zhu Youzhen did not detain them in Xiyuan for training all day, but would rest for a day every ten days, and they could go out to the city to shop for some personal belongings. Then the people of Beijing were very surprised to see a completely different army.

The soldiers of the Praetorian New Army always dressed neatly when they went to the streets, and they maintained a neat formation even when they went shopping, and they never appeared to be lazy and hanging. The soldiers of the Janissaries always paid according to the price when they bought things, and they never forced them to buy and sell, let alone rob the people's property.

In just a few months, they won the praise of the people in Beijing, comparing them with the Yuejia army of the former Song Dynasty who "froze to death and did not demolish the house, starved to death and did not plunder"!

Of course, the Praetorian New Army has such military discipline, firstly, because of Zhu Youzhen's requirements for them, Zhu Youzhen completely built according to the army in his mind hundreds of years later; Then there is the strict military law set by Lu Xiangsheng for the army, there are as many as forty or fifty articles of these military law regulations, each of which needs to be memorized, and any violation of any article will be severely punished; Of course, the most important thing is that every Praetorian Guard soldier can be fed and clothed, and they have a lot of money in their pockets, and the emperor's status as a pro-army gives them a high sense of honor, plus most of them are simple peasants, so it is natural to have such a performance.

Zhu Youzhen once took advantage of the New Guard's vacation to go out of the palace several times to personally observe the discipline of the Praetorian Guard, and once even took Li Banghua, who was in charge of rectifying the Beijing camp, with him.

The results he saw made Zhu Youzhen smile, and also made Li Banghua very frustrated, compared with the Praetorian Guards, the Beijing battalion soldiers were really a mess.

Under Li Banghua's rectification, the Beijing camp has actually improved a lot, and a large number of vacancies have been eliminated according to the military register, and those who have taken false salaries have been eliminated, and a total of more than 72,000 soldiers have been reorganized. It turned out that the total number of soldiers on the roster was more than 120,000, and nearly half of them were paid empty salaries. Just eliminating those who eat empty salaries and impostors will save hundreds of thousands of stone of money and food for the imperial court every year.

However, most of these more than 70,000 people are old and weak, many of them are gray and gray and are forty or fifty years old, and many of them can be blown down by the wind of emaciation, and there are at most 30,000 young people who can really use them.

In the past, it was known as 200,000 Beijing Battalion, but now there are only 30,000 available soldiers, most of whom are soldiers, which is the current situation of Beijing Battalion.

Although he already knew in his heart, when he saw this situation again, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be angry. Jingying, which spends millions of dollars and grain every year, no longer has the strength to fight!

But who is to blame for this? Blame those nobles who embezzle military salaries and eat empty quotas? Or the high-ranking officials of the imperial court who enslaved the soldiers of the capital camp and appropriated the horses of the capital camp?

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and there are too many reasons for the accumulation of disadvantages in Beijing. Fortunately, the new Praetorian Guard army has been formed, which gives Zhu Youzhen confidence. He immediately ordered the dismissal of all the original generals of the Beijing camp, and the removal of all the officials above the guerrilla level! It doesn't matter if these people are princes, or they are from the descendants of the princes!

If it was in the past, the imperial court made a big move against the Beijing camp, and the action was so big, it had to cause chaos, and it was not impossible to mutiny. This is also the main reason why in the previous life, even if he knew that Jingying was rotten and home, Zhu Youzhen did not make a big move against Jingying, not unwillingly, the consequences were too serious. At that time, he could only set up a Yongwei battalion based on Tengxiang's four guards, and did not dare to let Xungui lead the Yongwei battalion, but was supervised by Yuma.

And now, there are 10,000 Praetorian Guards in Xiyuan, and half of them are already equipped with the most advanced firecrackers and artillery, and Zhu Youzhen has no fear.

And when the Beijing camp was in a big fight, no one had the courage to jump out and shout. Mutiny, even more unthinkable. Xu Xiancun's Jinyi Guard is insidious and cunning, the Praetorian Guard in Xiyuan is elite and sharp, and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, no one dares to risk killing his head and destroying the door.

The officers who had been paid and drank the blood of soldiers were dismissed, and those who committed crimes were sent to the Liaodong Army, and were replaced by a large number of Wujin soldiers who had just been admitted.

Where did the warriors come from? Just admitted!

In February of the first year of Chongzhen, the triennial examination had ended, and a total of 300 jinshi were admitted. At the time of the much-anticipated Jinshi examination, the martial arts examination was also conducted in a low-key manner, and the number of admitted martial artists was even higher, reaching more than 500.

Zhu Youzhen put all these martial artists in the Beijing camp, replaced the original officers, and came to a complete blood change, so that Li Banghua took these martial artists as the backbone and reorganized the Beijing camp.

Of course, the nobles also need to be appeased, Zhu Youzhen put more than 20 nobles such as Liu Shaozong and Li Guojiao in the Beijing camp, all of whom served as middle and senior officers, of course, it is impossible to directly serve as the deputy general of the general army, unless they make great contributions in the future. Li Guojiao and these people have undergone strict training, not to mention their ability to lead troops, at least they have the appearance of soldiers.

As for their fathers, the nobles who originally served in Beijing, such as Xiangcheng Bo Li Shouqi, etc., were all sent to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to serve as idle posts.

The resistance of the Beijing camp has been removed, and Zhu Youzhen only hopes that in more than a year, the Beijing camp will be able to recover a certain combat effectiveness, at least the ability to defend the city.