Chapter 35: Shocking
"It's just a small thing."
Li Banghua once again emphasized that it was a trivial matter, and then said: "When the official came to check yesterday, he found that many soldiers were borrowed by officials and magnates to build mansions. ”
"The army assisted in the construction of the project, which was permissible, but only for the country."
"Private occupation is not in accordance with the rules and is not legal, so from today on, unless there is an order from the imperial court, the soldiers are not allowed to assist those officials and magnates to build mansions."
"If someone comes to secondment again, let them come directly to the official."
After speaking, Li Banghua glanced at Zhang Changying and asked: "Commander Zhang, after this official said this, if it happens again, then don't blame this official for directly asking you for accountability." ”
"Humble duty understands."
Zhang Changying bowed, but his face was not very good-looking.
It's not that he's worried that someone will seconded the soldiers in the future, since Li Banghua has already said this, if someone comes to secondment in the future, he will directly push it on Li Banghua.
What really worried him was the non-commissioned officers who had been seconded out before.
Especially yesterday, a bunch of officials said that they would repair the mansion, and came to seconded the soldiers, taking away tens of thousands of people.
If you want to say that this matter has nothing to do with Li Guozhen, you shouldn't believe it when you kill Zhang Chang.
But the problem is that he can't do anything about knowing that it was Li Guozhen's instructions, Li Guozhen didn't agree to this matter at all, and directly agreed to the secondment of these officials with a wave of his hand.
Now, Li Banghua is about to start rectifying from the occupation of the army, and Zhang Changying is really afraid that Li Guozhen will let him transfer back the soldiers he borrowed before.
So he asked with some apprehension in his heart: "Lord Yushi, it's okay not to be seconded in the future, but how should the 30,000 people who were seconded away before be solved?" ”
"Thirty thousand?"
Hearing the 30,000 people that Zhang Changying said in a deliberately accentuated tone, Li Banghua couldn't help frowning slightly.
If he remembered correctly, when he came the day before yesterday, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers who were occupied.
Now in just one day, it has nearly doubled, directly reaching 30,000 people, Li Banghua knew it with his toes, and knew that it must be Li Guozhen who made a secret move.
These officials who were temporarily seconded to the soldiers must have been found by Li Guozhen.
If Li Banghua had let those soldiers come back, the officials who had been greeted by Li Guozhen would definitely not let them go.
Even if they make trouble with the emperor, these people will cry miserably, and put pressure on the emperor, they will definitely not easily let these people back.
Originally, according to Li Banghua's plan, he would definitely visit these seconded officials one by one, and then coerce and lure, and divide them one by one, which would definitely make them honestly hand over all the soldiers.
But helplessly, yesterday Lao Zhu specially explained to him, saying that he would only let him train and leave nothing else, so even if Li Banghua had more ideas in his heart, he could only give up.
"I don't know what His Majesty wants to do."
Li Banghua saw that Lao Zhu was very angry yesterday, but he thought it was Chongzhen, and Chongzhen was not angry once or twice, so Li Banghua didn't know what "Chongzhen" wanted to do.
He can only hope that "Chongzhen" can be a little stricter this time, otherwise if he still lets these powerful people punish him with three glasses of wine, even if he is given more silver taels, he will not be able to rectify this Beijing camp.
Li Banghua, who sighed faintly in his heart, shook his head and said: "If you were seconded away before, don't worry about it, but no matter who comes in the future, the soldiers of the Beijing camp will not be allowed to be seconded." ”
"Yes, sir."
While Zhang Changying breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was also a little surprised.
Looking at what Li Banghua means, it seems that he is going to compromise with the Admiral?
If this is the case, compromise at the beginning, and then it will be even more difficult to turn back and reorganize the Beijing camp.
Zhang Changying thought of this and directly threw this thought out of his mind, whether it was difficult for him or not, whether this Beijing camp loved to rectify or not, it didn't matter if he was at all, as long as he was still the commander of the five military camps, he could send his money on time, and everything else would go with him.
After arranging this matter, Li Banghua spoke: "Remove the soldiers who were called, and let all the soldiers on the military register gather in the school field." ”
"Not only the five military battalions, but also the three thousand battalions and the Shenji battalion, everyone must not be absent."
"This ......"
Zhang Changying sat on wax again, and gathered according to the number of people on the military register, how can this be gathered.
There are 200,000 people recorded in the war books, and even if those who were called are removed, there should be 170,000 left.
But the problem is that the three major battalions of the Beijing camp are all combined, and it would be good to count 70,000 people when they are full, 30,000 have been transferred, and there are still 40,000 left, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.
If Li Banghua saw this, he wouldn't have to turn his face directly.
Zhang Changying was a little embarrassed in his heart, and he hesitated for a long time, and he didn't know how to answer.
"When this official rectified the Beijing camp in the second year of Chongzhen, the situation was much better than now."
Li Banghua knew what Zhang Changying was embarrassed about, sighed deeply, and then said: "As many people as there are, just gather as many people as you want, don't have any scruples." ”
Hearing Li Banghua say this, Zhang Changying instantly understood that Li Banghua knew everything in his heart, he just didn't say it.
Since this is the case, Zhang Changying has no scruples, and directly orders the three armies to gather all the soldiers.
Standing on the school grounds, Li Banghua looked down and almost cried directly.
The soldier standing closest to him was the soldier carefully arranged by Zhang Changying, who looked okay, and he had big shoulders and a round waist.
But there are only a few hundred soldiers like this, and after passing these hundreds of people, they are all hungry and yellow-skinned, and they look a little better than refugees.
A little farther away, although he is well-dressed and full of energy, he looks like he is underpaid, but the problem is that he is too old.
Li Banghua looked at his white hair and felt that in terms of age, this old man might be more than ten years older than him.
Just stay in Beijing as a soldier? As soon as the cannon sounded, Li Banghua was worried that he would be scared to death.
In addition to the personnel, the equipment is even more lacking, many people are wearing half armor, and some people don't even have half armor, so they simply stand there shirtless.
And the war horses are even weaker, let alone riding them, even if they let them run on their own, it is probably enough to choke.
As for the Divine Machine Battalion...... After Li Banghua got closer, he could vaguely see that there were even rust marks on many of the Franco's cannons and bird guns.
That's it, let alone fighting, you can't even defend the city.
"How can it be...... How can it be corrupted? ”
Li Banghua's face was full of grief, and he couldn't believe his eyes.
Judging from the inspection the day before yesterday, he knew that the Beijing camp must have been disgraced by these corrupt officials, and he also guessed what the current Beijing camp would look like.
But he never expected that this situation was worse than the worst situation he expected, what he saw during his inspection of Beijing the day before yesterday, he thought it was the norm, but he didn't expect that it was already the best side of Beijing that Li Guozhen could show him.
Thirteen years ago, he did everything himself, and almost painstakingly reorganized the Beijing camp into a capable army.
As a result, it has only been thirteen years, and Jingying has become like this, even worse than before he rectified it back then.
"Thirteen years, it's only been thirteen years, how can it be corrupted so quickly......"
Li Banghua's heart is full of endless sadness, with this group of silverfish, why should the Ming Dynasty not die in the country.