Night.

Qin Huai.

After the palace examination, the banks of the Qinhuai River became more and more prosperous, because these days, except for those candidates who are about to leave Beijing, they have the mentality of experience at the last moment.

Zhu Yunxi also put the Jinshi banquet of this year's imperial examination on the bank of the Qinhuai River.

And the reason is because the Qinglou secretly opened by Zhu Yunxi has opened.

After Zhu Yunxi's last inspection, Zhang recruited dozens of hundreds of girls from the Japanese Kingdom, with them as the backbone, and some beauties from the Western Regions, after some training.

He was ready to open his doors for business.

After all, it is a business that is making money every day, and even Zhu Yunxi is red-eyed.

At the same time, it can achieve part of its own political goals, that is, the purpose of increasing the population of the Ming Dynasty!

With the Beijing division as the trend, it is presumable that the people of the Ming Dynasty will have much less resistance to foreign women in the future.

You can marry more daughters-in-law for the people of the Ming Dynasty, increase the population, and increase the labor force.

But tonight's theme is not on this group of newly acquired Jinshi, these newcomers who have just entered the Ming Dynasty, no matter who they are, will need a period of experience.

Real gold still needs to be tempered by fire.

Only the talents who have gone through various experiences are the talents that Daming needs.

This banquet is divided into two sides.

On one side are the newly taken Jinshi and a group of civil officials.

On the other side, there are military generals.

The focus of Zhu Yunxi's banquet tonight is not in the civil officials, but in this group of military generals!

Because after solving the problem of the emptiness of the court, Zhu Yunxi must solve the problem of the emptiness of manpower non-stop.

The Jinling Yangtze River Bridge must be built!

No matter what difficulties there are, Zhu Yunxi wants to let this bridge that runs through the north and south, thousands of meters long, be erected on the land of the Ming Dynasty.

In an economic sense, it is a passage through the economy of the North and the South.

In a strategic sense, this is the basis for opening up the southeast and northwest of the Ming Dynasty and allowing the Ming regime to expand to the countryside!

It is necessary to know that in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial power did not go to the countryside.

In a large area of imperial power in the countryside, disputes were often resolved not by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, but by local clan laws.

Or ethical regulations.

This is why science flourishes, and why science has a positive aspect.

Because of the existence of science, morality is regulated.

Let the clan unite into a rope, which is enough to deal with all risks, but in turn, it forms oppression internally.

That's the downside.

But now that Zhu Yunxi has eliminated the science of science, he must manage this blank land of imperial power together.

In ancient times, the influence of imperial power was almost equal to the speed of news transmission.

The more remote and insecure the place, the less anyone will care about the emperor's orders.

No one cares about any national policy.

The orders from above were not listened to at all.

It's like a small independent kingdom, and the clan is the biggest Dharma within it.

Therefore, the Jinling Long Bridge Bridge is not just a bridge! This is a real miracle that can make everyone agree with the miracle of the Ming Empire!

Able to generate a sense of national pride.

It is also able to allow the imperial power symbolized by Zhu Yunxi to expand as much as possible and spread to every corner of the Ming Dynasty.

But how can the problem of manpower be so easy to solve?

Now the population of the Ming Dynasty is certain, it is impossible to change in a short period of time, and it is not realistic to import labor from abroad.

How can you afford to transport labor?

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi's idea of fighting is basically only focused on some manpower that may have been idle.

And the army of the guard, as well as the original old army, became Zhu Yunxi's target.

In the old army, most of the people were young and strong, and they were the best laborers, and it would be a waste of time to leave them idle.

As long as the combat effectiveness of the Ming army remains unchanged, it will not be a problem to eliminate some old armies.

This is a plan that Zhu Yunxi has long decided, but the construction of the new army has not been completed, and it is only now that Zhu Yunxi is ready to start a gradual progress.

Zhu Yunxi's plan was to dismantle the old army of 200,000 in advance.

Pull all these young people to build the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge for him, raise them with high wages, and train them to be excellent workers.

In the future, he can also help Daming build various huge projects.

After all, compared to the army, what the Ming Dynasty needs now is not an invincible army that is too large to be used up - after all, it is already almost invincible.

It's a team of workers who can complete a variety of tasks!

Tonight, Zhu Yunxi is here to let out a rumor to these generals, as long as there are generals who understand what they mean, they will bring it up tomorrow morning.

Zhu Yunxi can take advantage of the situation to implement this decree.

But at the banquet, no matter how Zhu Yunxi hinted, there was no one to take him!

Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu, none of these generals had anyone to answer, and it was okay to talk to him, but once they reached the critical juncture, they all chose to be silent.

Zhu Yunxi tried it a few times.

Only then did I realize that these people were planning to toast and not eat and drink!

These generals know that their power comes from the army, and Zhu Yunxi's reduction of the number of troops is naturally undoubtedly a real reduction in their power.

It doesn't matter if the combat power has changed or not.

The number of troops is reduced, so there will naturally be fewer places to install generals.

Not only will their children and grandchildren be poorly placed, but their own position will also be lowered.

After all, if there are fewer people, then there will naturally not be so many generals needed.

Naturally, they wouldn't want to do such a thing as cutting off their arms.

But in the Ming Dynasty envisioned by Zhu Yunxi, there is no need for so many Ming troops, and the local Ming army does not need so many at all!

Overseas, more is used in the mixed formation of the Foreign Legion and the Ming Army.

The particular thing is to use a Ming soldier to pry ten times his own foreign legion, and use the foreign legion to help the Ming Dynasty conquer a piece of colony.

Daming is a long way from overseas.

If you really use soldiers, the risk is extremely great, and one careless person may be wiped out in a disease.

It is better to activate the Foreign Legion on the spot.

The new army of the Ming Dynasty is mainly responsible for guarding the territory of the Ming Dynasty and deterring the small countries around the Ming Dynasty.

But at that time, all the small countries around the Ming Dynasty had long been controlled by Zhu Yunxi by economic means.

How can there be a chance to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty?

Therefore, this army must be partially reduced! And whoever is against it doesn't work! The army of the Ming Dynasty must develop in the direction of simplicity and refinement!

And this is actually determined by the topography of the Ming Dynasty.

Surrounded by mountains and grasslands, it is invincible, and thousands of miles away is too far away.

The Ming Dynasty wants to build roads thousands of miles away.

I don't know if the Year of the Monkey has gone, so the Ming Army now has almost no place to expand except for the Northern Yuan, Tubo, and Annam.

And with the topography of the Ming Dynasty.

In the future, the position of the army will become more and more awkward.

The development of the navy will be a long-term and unchangeable national policy of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

(End of chapter)