The matter of Shaanxi soon spread to Beijing, and naturally, Zhu Youzhen, who had killed Liu Guangsheng and others and led the governor of Shaanxi, also knew about it.

Zhou Yanru thought that Zhu Youzhen would be furious, but he didn't expect the latter to laugh heartily.

What he wants is a desperate vicious dog minions like Hong Chengchou.

The more people this kind of, the more the Ming Dynasty can save it.

Forging the holy decree is a big crime full of disasters, and now Hong Chengchou is the same as Wen Tiren in Nanjing, once Zhu Youzhen gives up on them, it will be a dead end.

If you want to live, you have to rely on the imperial power to the death, and you have to fight with your life to keep the imperial power forever.

Isn't this kind of courtier an emperor's favorite lackey?

"Since Hong Chengchou wants to do a big thing, then I will fulfill him, pass on the decree, replace Yang He with Hong Chengchou, and serve as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu and the governor of Shaanxi, and exterminate the evil as soon as possible."

should be promoted, should be reused and reused, Zhu Youzhen also temporarily put aside his historical prejudices against Hong Chengchou and gave temporary trust.

And his attention was then taken away by a new name.

"Zhang Xianzhong."

This name entered Zhu Youzhen's eyes, and he was stunned for a while when he first saw it, but it was followed by a comfortable smile.

The butterfly effect is starting to ferment.

"This is a ruthless man, he was wasted in Shaanxi to suppress the Liukou, and he was transferred to Beijing with a hundred households in brocade clothes."

Although Zhang Xianzhong was left in Shaanxi, it was possible to see Zhang Xianzhong fighting 'Li Zicheng' on behalf of the official army, but Zhu Youzhen obviously did not have such a bad taste.

Gao Yingxiang will be the only king, and there will be no second king.

Now Zhu Youzhen, all his energy is focused on the large-scale interview officials he has single-handedly drummed up.

This kind of election method that can soar to the sky made the north and south of Kyoto noisy, and countless self-recommended recitals were piled up on Zhu Youzhen's desk.

This also allowed Zhu Youzhen to discover several talents who had left their names in the history of the late Ming Dynasty.

"Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the Ministry of War?"

"Yes, the minister."

Wenyuan Pavilion became the location of this interview, Zhu Youzhen was high, below were officials at all levels, and in the large square outside Wenyuan Pavilion, there were hundreds of people standing in line and waiting.

Zhu Youzhen looked down with a relaxed smile on his face.

This is indeed a celebrity.

An artillery expert in the late Ming Dynasty, he studied under Xu Guangqi.

The Ming Dynasty bought some Western artillery from the Dutch, and then Sun Yuanhua took the craftsmen of the Firearms Bureau of the Ministry of War to start copying, and finally built a city in Ningyuan City to make cannons, and attacked Nurhachi, making contributions to Ningyuan's great victory.

"You are very modest, you only ran for the official vacancy of the Commander of the Ordnance Bureau."

Sun Yuanhua said: "Back to Your Majesty, the ministers are not familiar with military affairs, and only focus on the work of casting cannons and other preparations, so they dare not be ambitious and mislead the country and the people. ”

"What do you think of the Westerners' artillery?"

"Since ancient times, whoever has weapons, there is nothing comparable to the benefits of artillery, let him be a god weapon, ten thousand people are not appropriate, under the artillery are all powder, the minister thinks that in the future battlefield battle, artillery will be absolutely effective."

Zhu Youzhen nodded with satisfaction: "This is the truth, if Ning Jin Yuan Chonghuan can have a hundred Western artillery pieces in his hands, and borrow ten dares from Huang Taiji, he will not dare to face the power of my Ming Dynasty." ”

Think of a hundred smoothbore cannons in unison, which is almost equivalent to a dimensionality reduction strike in this era of cold weapons.

"Back then, your teacher Xu Guangqi was ranked as the second assistant, and sent the military department to Lu Zhaolong to Macao to recruit 300 Western soldiers and form a Western artillery army.

Sun Yuanhua sighed and nodded: "What Your Majesty said is very true, after his own division left the court, the first emperor and all the princes of the court did not like Xiyi, so they cut it down and drove him back to Macao. ”

"Our Ming Dynasty prides itself on being the superior country of the Heavenly Empire, and we must have the mind to embrace all rivers." Zhu Youzhen closed Sun Yuanhua's resume and concentrated on the conversation: "Where did this group of Western soldiers come from?" ”

"They have strange names, including Portugal, Spain, Holland and England, all of whom are sailors who have crossed the ocean to dig for gold, and some of them have become pirates with the Japanese, and Macao is their stronghold, and many groups of pirates are entrenched here.

At that time, the teacher assigned Lu Zhaolong to Macao to recruit Western soldiers, thinking that it would be difficult to achieve the language barrier, but the result was unusually smooth, and the reason for this is that these Xiyi have been looking up to the name of our Celestial Dynasty for many years, so they are unwilling to do their best to serve the country. ”

The brain circuits of Europeans are really hard to understand.

So happy to be a mercenary?

It is estimated that they are not even mercenaries, at that time, the Ming Dynasty was poor, and even the Beijing camp was in arrears, and they could give them a few silver.

Even so, it can be dried with relish.

Zhu Youzhen didn't understand and didn't bother to think about it, and asked Sun Yuanhua: "After I ascended the throne, I sent someone to the Catholic Church outside the Xuanwu Gate, and wanted to ask your teacher Xu Guangqi to come back, but he refused. ”

"Your Majesty, don't blame you."

"In the area of Western learning, your teacher can be described as the pioneer of my Ming Dynasty, and you have to bother more for me to invite him out of the mountain."

"Yes, the minister will definitely go to the teacher to pay more visits these days."

Zhu Youzhen didn't say much about Xu Guangqi, and then said: "Of course, we don't have the energy to do the education for the time being, and now that the national war is urgent, let's come to the thieves first, you know artillery, and you can recruit Westerner gunners for the country."

In this way, I will dismantle the Firearms Bureau, build a Firearms Ordnance Bureau for you, and then build a command school for artillery operations, and invite those Western soldiers who understand artillery and have many years of experience in artillery warfare to be teachers, so as to build artillery and train troops for our Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, and pull up an artillery army that can fight.

In this way, the secretary should wear two hats, so let's do it as soon as possible. ”

Sun Yuanhua's eyes showed joy: "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

"Whether it is the Ordnance Bureau or the Artillery Academy, it no longer belongs to the Ministry of War, it is directly under the jurisdiction of me, and if you lack money or people, you can tell me, and I will settle those trivial things for you."

Sun Yuanhua was overjoyed, bowed his head and thanked him and left.

Since Sun Yuanhua, the officials in line have entered Wenyuan Pavilion one after another to start interviews.

Zhu You's prosecutor asked about everything one by one.

There is no need for a written test, because Zhu Youzhen's interview is far more difficult than the written test, and it is also more flexible than the programmed written test.

If you don't have three-point ability, you really don't want to pass.

In the end, after a seven-day interview, Zhu Youzhen was finally carefully selected and temporarily promoted dozens of central officials.

From now on, he is no longer a bare-bones commander and a lonely person.

The new list of officials of the Ming Dynasty was released in September of the first year of Chongzhen.

The secretary of the ministry and the governor of Shuntian, Zhou Yanru.

The military department is still the secretary of the army, and the officials are selected by the ministry Lang Zhongsun Chuanting.

The head of the household is still the same as the old ministers.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu was elected to Beijing Engineering School Song Yingxing.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu selected Huang Jingfang, the Jishi of the Hanlin Academy.

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department selected Yang Tinglin, a tribute student.

The Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate elected the daimyo prefect Lu Xiangsheng.

Dali Temple Qing was selected to supervise the imperial history Mao Yujian.

The general political envoy elected Shu Ji Shitian Weijia.

In this way, the nine kings are complete, as for other irrelevant central yamen such as Taichang Temple and Taifu Temple, all of them were eliminated with a wave of Zhu Youzhen's big hand!

Nowadays, there are no other yamen directly under the central government except for the yamen led by Jiuqing.

However, Zhu Youzhen set up two new institutions, which were personally led by himself, the emperor.

One is the Ordnance Bureau led by Sun Yuanhua and its subordinate artillery academies.

The other is an empty yamen that only has no one on the list: Western Academy.

Zhu Youzhen planned to invite Xu Guangqi out of the mountain and hand this over to him, after all, including Li Zhizao and Tang Ruowang, these people were still there, and the elites of the East and the West gathered in China, and at this important time node in the seventeenth century, there was no Yamen that integrated the East and the West, and it was a country that was complacent.

In addition, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, Qin Liangyu, the governor of Southwest, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Yuan Keli, the governor of Shandong (tentative), Wen Tiren, the governor of Nanzhili, Cao Wenzhao, the commander of the Jingying Battalion, Wang Chengen, the commander of the ceremonial supervisor and the commander of the Jinyi guard, and Cao Huachun, the commander of the Mingjing Division.

The country's political, military, and intelligence systems have been rebuilt.

Zhu Youzhen was full of fighting spirit.

Huang Taiji, Lao Tzu is here!