It was on the orders of Zhu Youzhen that the British public announced to the nobles about the reorganization of the Beijing camp, in order to make the nobles mentally prepared not to jump up and make trouble because their interests were damaged, otherwise Wu Weixian and more than a dozen other nobles who were arrested would be their fate.

After having a powerful Praetorian Guard, the current Xungui has become a chicken rib for Zhu Youzhen, no, it should be said that it has become a burden. Because Zhu Youzhen no longer needs to rely on their strength.

Just when Zhang Zhiji revealed the affairs of the Beijing camp to Zhu Chunchen and others, in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen summoned Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the military department, to discuss the complete cancellation of the Beijing camp.

"Banning the Beijing camp, is it a bit big?" Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly.

After Li Banghua's rectification, there were still 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers in the Beijing camp, of course, many of them were those who took false salaries, and the nobles of the Beijing Division, the important ministers of the court, and the major yamen all had great interests in the Beijing camp, and the direct cancellation involved a lot, even many court officials would not agree.

For example, whenever the major yamen need manpower for anything, such as repairing the houses of the yamen, they like to borrow soldiers from the Beijing camp to work, and they also like to borrow people from the Beijing camp for their own private affairs, as long as they give any benefits to the nobles of the governor's office of the five armies and the officers leading the troops, they can borrow manpower from the Beijing camp at will, and they only need to take care of food when they work, and they don't even have to pay for their wages, which is really cheap and easy to use.

Moreover, the yamen like to borrow horses from Beijing, and most of the horses used by the yamen in Beijing are borrowed from Beijing. Although Li Banghua has improved a lot after rectification, this phenomenon still cannot be stopped.

Not to mention, the phenomenon of officers at all levels taking empty salaries and taking advantage of salaries under false names has been repeatedly prohibited.

From the nobles who served in the governor's palace of the five armies, to the generals and leading officers of the Beijing camp, to the yamen, and then to the high-ranking officials, there are countless people who have interests in the Beijing camp.

Hong Chengchou, as the secretary of the military department, also wanted to restructure the Beijing camp and improve the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp as much as possible, but he never dared to think of completely banning the Beijing camp, and he was naturally a little worried about Zhu Youzhen's idea of banning the Beijing camp.

"The rot of the Beijing camp has been rotten to the bones, no matter how much it is rectified, it will not be possible, so it will be directly banned and the Beijing Guard Army will be rebuilt!" Zhu Youzhen said coldly.

Different locations lead to different ideas. In Hong Chengchou's view, there is great resistance to banning the Beijing camp, but Zhu Youzhen does not see it that way at all.

After experiencing the assassination case, Jingzhong Xungui has been governed by obedience, and no one dares to blow up the stab again. If the nobles don't oppose it, what's the use of the civil servants opposing it?

In the cabinet, Huang Liji and Wen Tiren will be obedient, and it is not a problem for the cabinet to pass the proposal to ban the Beijing camp, and with the cooperation of the Ministry of War, why is it difficult to pass this matter?

"Don't worry about the high-level officials, Weichen is worried about those middle-level officers who have lost their official positions, many officers are hereditary, once the Beijing camp is banned, it is equivalent to cutting off the hereditary positions of their children and grandchildren, they will definitely not agree, the land of the capital division, if there is a mess, the ministers are afraid that the impact will be too great." Hong Chengchou worried.

According to the hereditary system of military households in the Ming Dynasty, most of the officers in the Beijing camp are hereditary officers, and they have been officials for generations, even if the army in Beijing has undergone countless restructuring and the establishment has been changed, the middle and lower-level officers who lead the troops are still hereditary.

The son of a hundred households is still a hundred households, once he joins the army, he must at least be an official of a hundred households, and the son of a thousand households is still a thousand households, and he will at least be a general after joining the army. The descendants of officers are still officers, and the descendants of soldiers are still soldiers, and this has been the case for more than two hundred years, so that those ordinary military households are almost bound to the officers, and have served the officers for generations. Therefore, the influence of these middle- and lower-level officers must not be underestimated.

If their way of life is completely cut off, they raise their arms and shout, there are really many soldiers following, if there is a mutiny and rebellion of soldiers in Beijing, then the chaos is really big, which is why Hong Chengchou has to be cautious.

In Hong Chengchou's view, Zhu Youzhen was really a little drifting because of the victory in the face of Jiannu, and he blatantly didn't say anything about the nobles, and now he has the idea of banning the Beijing camp, and the nobles are easy to say, and there are only dozens of them, but Zhu Youzhen forgot that every nobleman has a foundation in the Beijing camp, and all of them are directly or collateral officers in the Beijing camp, and they are hereditary officers. Now to do something to the Beijing camp, even if these nobles don't dare to do anything on the face, how can those hereditary officers agree?

Tens of thousands of Beijing camps, if they are really chaotic, how can they be dealt with by thousands of Praetorian Guards in Xiyuan?

"Don't you agree with them?" Zhu Youzhen sneered, "Annoyed me, I transferred troops from Liaodong and 20,000 Praetorian Guards into Beijing, whoever dares to make a mess will kill them all!" ”

"Your Majesty, no!" Hong Chengchou was a little anxious. If that's the case, I'm afraid that Beijing will become a battlefield, and maybe it will be reduced to ruins. I don't know how things will develop in the end, and I'm afraid it will really get out of control.

"Of course, I'm only planning for the worst, and I don't necessarily have to fight." Zhu Youzhen said, "But it is imperative to ban the Beijing camp, Da Sima, what you have to do now is to help me eliminate the chaos as much as possible and stabilize the Jingshi." ”

"Your Ministers obey." Hong Chengchou sighed. Since the emperor insisted on banning Jingying, as a confidant and courtier, he could only try to deal with the aftermath.

"Your Majesty wants to ban the Beijing Camp, is it going to expand the scale of the Forbidden West Garden's Guards and replace the Beijing Camp with the Janissary Army?" Hong Chengchou asked.

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Exactly." ”

Hong Chengchou said: "In this case, the minister suggested that the new Praetorian Guard battalion could recruit officers from the Beijing camp and absorb the officers and soldiers with combat effectiveness in the Beijing camp. With the Praetorian Guard's standard of money and food, many officers and men in the Beijing camp must yearn for it. In this way, the officers and men of the Beijing battalion will have hope and will not cause chaos. ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head slightly: "With the weak combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, I am afraid it is not appropriate for them to enter the Praetorian Guard, don't spoil the Praetorian Guard." ”

The soldiers of the Beijing camp have lived in Beijing for a long time, and many of them are oily and slippery, not as good as those honest and honest peasants at all, and Zhu Youzhen is not willing to recruit the soldiers of the Beijing camp into the Praetorian Guard.

"Your Majesty, whether an army is strong or not has a lot to do with the quality of its soldiers, but it also has a lot to do with the military system and the ability of its generals. Although the soldiers of the Beijing camp are slippery, if they are placed in the Praetorian Guard, they may not be able to be trained as good soldiers. If it really doesn't work at that time, they can be dispersed and transferred to the Liaodong Praetorian Guard, and there is always a way to digest and absorb them.

What we need to do now is to give hope to the soldiers of the Beijing camp, so that those who are still willing to serve as soldiers and eat food have hope, so that they will not follow the chaos. Hong Chengchou said patiently.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while: "Yes, just do what you want." However, only ordinary soldiers of the Beijing battalion can be accepted, but those officers are not successful. ”

The officers of the Praetorian Guard had to be selected from the martial arts academy and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard who had made meritorious contributions, and naturally they could not use these secular officials in the Beijing camp, and this was Zhu Youzhen's bottom limit.

PS: There's another chapter, about half past twelve.