Soon another month passed.

The time soon came to the middle of September of the 22nd year of Chongzhen (1649).

This month, Chongzhen hurriedly did a few more urgent tasks.

The first urgent task was the listing of the General Headquarters, which was located in the camp of the Temple of the Rising Sun, and the Temple of the Rising Day and the surrounding palaces and palaces became the public offices of the General Headquarters.

And this is also a change in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Chongzhen was very disgusted with the form of sacrificing the heavens and the earth, and sacrificing the sun, moon, mountains and rivers.

Now the only thing that remains is the ancestor worship ceremony on the first day of the first lunar month, and Chongzhen is often absent for various reasons, and then the crown prince Zhu Cihong will sacrifice on his behalf.

The second priority is the conferment of titles.

A total of 6 scholars were awarded the rank of lieutenant general.

Another 15 non-commissioned officers were awarded the rank of major general.

In addition, 616 were awarded officers, 1,829 were commissioned officers, and 5,719 were commissioned officers.

Generals, colonels, and lieutenants are basically Qinwang Shizi who have been transferred to the General Headquarters.

The 3,000 soldiers who remained in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not awarded military ranks, and they will not be able to do so in the future.

The third urgent task is to build 5 shelf divisions, but Chongzhen does not need to do this himself, and the five division commanders Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan, Lu Xiangtong, Wang Fuzhi and Huaxia are fully responsible.

After the implementation of standardization in the new army, the three-three system was adopted below the brigade level, with the exception of the infantry company.

In addition to the three infantry platoons, the infantry company also has an infantry artillery platoon and four infantry squads.

Therefore, each infantry regiment has 2 chief and deputy commanders, 6 chief and deputy battalion commanders, 18 chief and deputy company commanders, 72 chief and deputy platoon commanders, and 234 chief and deputy squad leaders, with a total of 332 officers in each regiment.

The configuration of the baggage regiment is basically the same as that of the infantry regiment, except that there is no infantry artillery platoon at the company level, with a total of 242 officers.

Each artillery regiment has 2 commanders and deputy regiments, 6 battalion commanders, 18 company commanders, and 54 platoon commanders, with a total of 80 officers in each regiment.

So the fully staffed artillery regiment had 106 officers.

So a mixed brigade has almost 1400 officers.

The total number of officers in one rack division is nearly 4,500.

The total number of officers in the five shelf divisions reached more than 20,000.

This number far exceeds the total number of more than 2,000 commanders and more than 5,000 students from various countries, so it is impossible to replenish the officer corps of the five divisions in a short period of time.

But fortunately, the second phase of the South Prison is about to graduate.

At that time, there will be more than 6,000 children from other countries who can be replenished.

Plus the promotion of some of the officers and men of the new army, it is almost the same.

The fourth urgent task is to move, and moving back to the Forbidden City is impossible.

As mentioned earlier, a building like the Forbidden City is simply not suitable for habitation.

So in the end, Chongzhen chose his residence in the Wanshou Palace in Xiyuan.

Yes, that's right, it was Emperor Jiajing who asked Yan Shifan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to spend more than one million taels of silver to build the Wanshou Palace, and now more than a hundred years have passed, and it is a little old, but it is still very good to turn over.

Needless to say, this renovation project must have been outsourced to Daming Construction Workshop.

For the imperial court for the Ministry of Industry, Chongzhen can't believe it, 500,000 yuan of the project money is over, and you can make 100,000 yuan to burn high incense, so you must find the Ming Construction Workshop.

In early September, before Li Xiangjun and Ran Sanniang arrived in Beijing, Wanshou Palace was finally renovated.

After the renovation, the main body of the Wanshou Palace is still a civil structure, but there are also many brick-concrete buildings, such as the annex building where Chongzhen himself lives, which is a three-story brick-concrete structure.

It is said that the Great Ming Fire is too prosperous, so the palace is prone to fire.

Chongzhen felt that the brick-concrete structure was less likely to catch fire.

By the way, after the successful development of the steam engine, Gewuke soon built a ball mill and a blower, and the technical problems of the cement plant were solved, so now the Daming cement plant has been officially completed and put into production, and the cement used by Chongzhen in the annex building of Wanshou Palace was transported from Nanjing thousands of miles away.

Unfortunately, a few days after moving into Wanshou Palace, Chongzhen had to go back to Nanjing.

Li Xiangjun was reluctant to give up, and took advantage of the time to dress Chongzhen and said, "Do you have to go?" ”

"How?" Chongzhen pinched Li Xiangjun's buttocks and said with a smile, "In the past half a month, I have not ploughed the two fields of you and Sanniang, almost every day, is it not enough?" ”

Li Xiangjun's face was slightly red and said, "The concubine also wants a little princess." ”

"It's greedy to co-author." Chongzhen smiled, "Isn't your ambition to make a meritorious career and become the most outstanding female general in the history of the Ming Dynasty and even in China?" Why did you suddenly change your mind? ”

"The two are not contradictory." Li Xiangjun pouted with a red and glamorous little mouth.

"The concubine wants to be a female general, and she also wants a chubby little princess."

Thinking of Zhu Jinxiu, who is like a dumpling, Li Xiangjun's beautiful eyes floated with the brilliance of motherhood.

"I really can't refuse a request like yours, but I can't control it if it's a little princess or a little prince, this thing can only depend on the will of heaven." Chongzhen said and hugged Li Xiangjun on the couch.

"Long live Lord, you have to go to the Criminal Department in the morning." Li Xiangjun said busily.

"No, it's just a formality anyway, it doesn't matter if I go or not."

Chongzhen said, the whole body is pressed up, it is more important to create a little princess or a little prince, the Ming Empire needs more successors, especially overseas needs more kings or queens.

……

Just when Chongzhen was busy creating people, the Criminal Department began a public trial.

Hearing that the Criminal Department was going to openly try the case today, the people in Beijing poured into the compound of the Criminal Department to watch the excitement.

But this is also a good thing for the criminal department.

Because the bloody human head helps to popularize the law.

The Criminal Department has been handling the case for nearly three months.

But because there are too many criminals involved, not to mention anything else, there are tens of thousands of generals in the Eight Banners Han Army alone, and there are thousands of ministers, how can it be sorted out in a short time?

So it took three months just to investigate and collect evidence.

After nearly three months of investigation and evidence collection, the Criminal Department finally obtained a large amount of incriminating evidence.

Today's trial will be held in public for the first batch of generals: Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Zu Dashou.

"Take the prisoner!" Liu Shizhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, slapped the startled wood, and the officials on both sides immediately poked the ground with water sticks, and began to roar in their mouths.

In the sound of "no evil" and "no evil", Kong Youde was taken to the lobby.

I saw that Kong Youde was wearing a big shackle around his neck, and he was still locked with iron shackles around his feet and neck, and there were thick iron chains wrapped around the iron shackles.

In fact, Kong Youde was also tortured to the point that he was almost inhuman.

For these three months, Kong Youde was not imprisoned, but on the construction site of the railway.

The new army overseers on the railway construction site were really cruel to these generals, not only beating and scolding them at every turn, but only giving them very little food every day, and the only bit of food they had was still moldy and rotten.

This kind of treatment, even the iron body can't bear it for too long.

Kong Youde's body bones have always been pretty good, and he only has one breath left at the moment.

However, after seeing Liu Shizhen, Kong Youde still refused to kneel.

But how could the officials let him get his wish? The two water and fire sticks immediately hit Kong Youde's leg heavily, Kong Youde immediately let out a muffled snort, and fell to his knees in the hall.

"Good! Kill this dog traitor! ”

"The dog traitor is really innocent!"

"Beat him to death, beat him to death with a stick!"

The onlookers shouted one after another.

"Silence!" Liu Shizhen was shocked and drank the hustle and bustle of the people.

He opened the case file and asked Kong Youde, who was kneeling, and said: "On the twenty-seventh day of the leap winter month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, you were instigated by Li Jiucheng to lead your troops to launch a mutiny in Wuqiao, and called yourself Marshal to return to Dengzhou, and under Geng Zhongming's internal response, you entered Dengzhou and slaughtered on a large scale, resulting in the death and injury of thousands of military and civilian officials and gentry in Dengzhou City, can there be such a thing?" ”

Kong Youde rolled his eyelids and said angrily: "What do you say?" ”

"Qin prisoner Kong Youde, the headquarters advises you to answer well, so as not to ask for hardship."

"There is such a thing." Kong Youde said helplessly, "But it was the cold winter at that time, and the supplies were delayed, so the soldiers couldn't starve to death, so they could only beg for food from the big families along the way, but instead of giving them, the big families along the way ......."

"That's enough, you don't have to talk to Motobudo about this." Liu Shizhen interrupted, "The Ministry of Medicine asks you, you just need to answer yes or no, don't talk about it, you have to remember." ”

"If that's the case, it doesn't have to be so troublesome."

Kong Youde said: "The big priest doesn't need to ask anymore, I admit it." ”

Kong Youde knew that he was going to die this time, whoever Chongzhen spared, he would never spare the three of them, he, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi were bound to die, since it was a death, it was better to be tough.

However, when Liu Shizhen finished reading out his indictment and was about to be sentenced in court, Kong Youde's heart couldn't help but tighten, and even his breath froze suddenly.

Liu Shizhen is still reading: "...... The facts are there, the evidence is conclusive, and the Qin prisoner also confessed, according to Article XX of the first volume of the military law of the Ming Dynasty, the sentencing is as follows: The Qin prisoner Kong Youde should be guilty of his crimes! ”

"Okay, good, the dog traitor should be executed by Ling Chi, and he should be cut with a thousand knives."

"Dog traitor, if you don't cut enough knives, you can't die, you must cut enough knives!"

"A thousand knives is enough, it takes 10,000 knives, and 10,000 knives can be cut to let him die!"

The onlookers in the hall applauded, and their eyes lit up with excitement one by one.

Kong Youde seemed to have been suddenly drained of all his strength, and he fell to the ground.

Kong Youde is also used to seeing life and death, and thought that he would be calm in the face of life and death.

But when death really came, I found that I still couldn't face it calmly.

Especially when he has to face Ling Chi's torture, this makes him even more uncalm, hateful, and regretful!

At this moment, Kong Youde really regretted even his intestines, he knew that this was the case, he should not have launched the Wuqiao Mutiny in the first place, and after the Wuqiao Mutiny, he should have accepted the appeasement of the imperial court, but the hateful thing is that there is no regret medicine to buy in this world, it was a big mistake, and now he can't even turn back, hate, hate, hate!

(End of chapter)