The ministers of the court debated the establishment of the Advisory Office and the related statutes.

How much power should the Advisory Office have, and who should and can't enter the Advisory Office......

Although the final decision is in the hands of the emperor, it is still possible for the ministers to discuss it.

It was precisely in this way that they formed public opinion pressure to force the emperor to agree with their opinions.

Zhu Yunxi has been watching coldly.

Historically, the civilian clique of the Ming Dynasty was very strong.

So much so that the emperors of later generations had to carry out the factory guards and suppress the civil officials.

The relationship between the Donglin party struggle and the fall of the Ming Dynasty is not deep.

However, even he didn't expect that this was the founding of the country, and it was still the era when Lao Zhu was in power himself, and they were so arrogant.

But soon, Zhu Yunxi also understood.

This has a lot to do with Lao Zhu's reuse of civil officials.

Because in Lao Zhu's heart, what he really wants to guard against is always the military generals and noble groups who have followed him to fight the country and made great achievements.

Instead of the words of the saints in the court all day long, half of the civil officials who govern the country in the court.

Lao Zhu's idea can't be said to be wrong, at least at this time, the real threat to the imperial power is undoubtedly the military generals.

They have a heavy army, they have a high prestige in the army, and they are the ones who are really likely to pull the banner and rebel.

And civil officials, no matter how much they fight in the court, they can't jump out of the emperor's palm after all.

It is obviously clear who should be guarded against and who should not be guarded against.

It's just that Lao Zhu couldn't imagine that after his death, the civil officials would have so much power that the tail would not fall, the party struggles continued, and the state affairs were barren, which finally led the Ming Dynasty to decline.

What Zhu Yunxi has to do now is to crack all this from the root.

It is by no means simply for the sake of centralization.

While the eyes of the court officials were focused on the advisory office, the Jinling Military Academy had officially opened.

Train the new army and train military talents.

If it was in the past, it would definitely attract the attention of the Manchu Dynasty.

But now, everyone's eyes are on the affairs of the Advisory Office and the Military Academy, but no one cares.

As a result, a lot of unnecessary troubles are reduced.

Among the civilian and low-level sergeants, the establishment of the military academy has caused a great storm.

It is different from the later generations that everyone thought that it was glorious to be a soldier.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty, unless it is to enter a high-ranking and powerful guard such as Jinyi Wei, otherwise, the people uphold the idea of "a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail".

Conscription of the army, in this era, is still a very severe punishment.

During the Hongwu period, there was also a county that did not obey discipline and collectively violated the law, and finally all the people in the county were punished as military households, the county was confiscated into the army, and the guard was replaced.

Lao Zhu has never been a law or a person who does not blame the public.

But it can also be seen from this that the status of being a soldier is very low at this time, and there will be such a punishment.

However, as soon as the enrollment regulations of the Jinling Military Academy were posted, not only military households, but even many peasant households who had never thought of becoming soldiers were ready to move.

None of them.

The treatment given by the military academy is too high.

Those who are admitted to the military academy will be given a one-time payment of fifty taels of silver.

Weapons are issued by the academy instead of having to carry them yourself.

After entering the academy, the moon is tattooed with two taels of silver, if there is merit, there will be a reward, and he also promised that the academy is cultivated according to the model of officers, and he will have the opportunity to be promoted in the future.

It is not impossible to become a general, lead the army, and be knighted for meritorious service.

Since Zhu Yunxi proposed to increase the commercial tax and implemented it, the tax collected has been much more than expected.

With the money, the household department's withdrawal of funds for the Jinling Military Academy and the new army is also very refreshing.

If you don't have bad money, you can naturally get a good salary.

This kind of treatment is too attractive to the people at the bottom.

Therefore, as soon as the enrollment notice was posted, the number of applicants was crowded.

In this regard, the chief official of the Ministry of War had quite a complaint, believing that if the imperial court set up a military academy and intended to train officers, it should be recommended by generals and officials at all levels to ensure that the recruited personnel were of excellent character and learning.

But Zhu Yunxi directly rejected the proposal.

Recommended by the generals in the army, the outstanding ones selected must be soldiers who are skilled in archery and horses.

But what he wants to train is a new army, new ideas, new equipment, and even combat tactics, and it will also be a new army.

And Zhu Yunxi knows very well that it is very difficult for a person to break the previous formation rules.

Asking a sharpshooter who has practiced bows and arrows for more than ten years to throw away his bow and arrows and learn to shoot with a gun again will be worse than killing him.

Because he is watching his efforts in the past ten years, all the investment, all the sweat, all the vanish.

From the perspective of human weakness, it is very difficult to accept any other person.

Historically, the most active people who hindered the army's transition from cold weapons to hot weapons were precisely the best generals and soldiers in the era of cold weapons.

For example, from the perspective of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, Seng Lingqin cannot but be said to be a very outstanding general.

Then, when he "bravely" led the army and tried to charge with cavalry against the guns and artillery, it can only be described as a tragedy.

As for the officials recommending talents, Zhu Yunxi can already imagine how they find a way, how they drill the camp, and stuff their relatives and children, or people who have given heavy gifts.

Show talent, don't know books. Filial piety and honesty, the father does not live.

This has been the case since ancient times.

Expecting those officials to recommend outstanding talents, it is better to stand on the wall of Jinling City, throw something casually, and hit whoever is whomever it is, and it is better than the people they recommend.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi used the simplest method to directly recruit and select people with excellent physical fitness.

If you can recognize a few words, of course, it will be a priority for admission.

In this regard, although the people in the military department were dissatisfied, they could only tolerate it in the face of the emperor's grandson.

What's more, the matter of running a military academy was originally approved by Manchu officials.

As a deal to open the Advisory Office, he also acquiesced in the fact that the army was in his sole control.

Originally, Zhu Yunxi's idea was that all the people to be recruited should have a certain culture.

But he soon discovered that the idea was largely a pipe dream.

Because in this era, it's good to recognize a few words.

Although there are not a few real scholars, they don't come to the military academy.

What's more, most of the scholars are powerless, and they don't usually work, and their physical strength is not good.

At least in the short term, he has no way to recruit the talent of his dreams, so he can only settle for the next best.

Fortunately, I don't read much, but there are still quite a few semi-literate people who can recognize a few words and write their own names.

The ordinary people of this era, although they do not have the ability to provide for future generations to study full-time, are selected in the examination.

But many people will also try their best to let their children go to private schools for a year and a half to take classes, recognize words, and open their eyes.

Although he is still semi-literate, he can still read a few words.

After compiling the training standard manuals of the later army, he handed over the recruitment work to Zheng He.

He did it, he worked very hard, and it went very well.

Soon, the first batch of trainees recruited 1,500 people.

This number can't be said to be a lot, but in Zhu Yunxi's opinion, it is enough.

After all, the admissions standards for military academies are very high.

Often twenty or thirty registrations can be used to pick out a qualified one.

Next, it is a rigorous cultivation and training.

In addition to physical training, there is also cultural learning and literacy every day!

Reading and literacy, learning military theory......

The first flintlock pistols have already been issued, although there are only a hundred, but for rotational training, and they are enough.

The follow-up is still in a steady stream of manufacturing.

By the time this group of cadets officially graduates, everyone should be equipped with guns.

The military academy is also gradually on the right track.

A new training mode, a new tactical method, and a new equipment and weapon......

At a time when almost all officials were paying attention to the court battle, the upcoming advisory office, and pondering who would become the advisory minister, a brand-new, cross-era army was gradually taking shape, slowly showing its fangs.

(End of chapter)