When the cabinet ministers and nobles heard Zhu Youzhen's words, they were even more shocked in their hearts.

This emperor really came up with a play!

If you recruit soldiers, you have to be a teenager to train it.

According to the standard practice of the Ming Dynasty, when you want to form an elite, you often draw elites from the border army.

"Your Majesty, in this case, I'm afraid it will take a long time for the Guards to be trained?" British Minister Zhang Weixian asked with a worried face.

In fact, Zhang Weixian's heart is very happy.

If the various armies in Beijing under his control were crushed by the newly formed Guards, Zhang Weixian would not be willing to do so.

"Rest assured, the Guards I want to form is a completely new model, and 10,000 elite border troops are enough to be excessive." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

"Therefore, I am going to bring all the weapons workshops and weapons supervisors in the north and south capitals under the direct jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Guards, and I will manage them specially."

Zhu Youzhen continued.

Zhang Weixian, Zhu Chunchen and other nobles had a gloomy look on their faces.

The weapons production of the northern and southern capitals of each yamen, the nobles have always occupied the lion's share, the flowing civil officials are the heads, and the nobles act as the middle and lower level officials who hold the real power, firmly occupying this piece of big fat.

"Your Majesty, the ancestors set the rules, and the ordnance supervision ......," Zhu Chunchen couldn't help but speak.

But.

He had just said half of his words when he was interrupted by Zhu Youzhen's words.

"I have heard that the eunuchs are all over the government and the opposition, which has caused serious corruption in the ordnance production of my Ming Dynasty, and a large number of inferior weapons have killed the lives of the soldiers. Zhu Youzhen said coldly.

"Minister, agree with Your Majesty's thorough investigation!" When Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, heard this, he quickly changed his words and said.

Zhang Weixian and the others next to him were in a cold sweat, and they closed their mouths and became dumb.

The new emperor is a ruthless tyrant who dares to kill, and these nobles dare not be easily provoked.

"Alright, the matter of the expansion of my Guards has been decided, and the cabinet is ready to issue a holy decree immediately!"

"The New Guards Army, counting the original two battalions on the left and right, has been expanded to a total of ten battalions."

"Each soldier of the Guards, the monthly salary is two taels of silver, a three-month period for recruits, after passing the evaluation, they will be regularized, and everyone will be rewarded with 50 acres of Yongye field, and they can continue to be rewarded with gold and silver, official positions, titles and good fields for meritorious service in the future!"

Zhu Youzhen's generous treatment surprised Huang Liji, Zhang Weixian and others.

If this happens, the people who come to recruit the Guards will probably be hundreds of thousands!

Especially in the places where Beizhili, Shandong, and Shanxi are close to each other, there is no way out for the poor everywhere.

Zhu Youzhen wants such a result.

As for how to select qualified soldiers, Zhu Youzhen felt that the auditions of later generations were very worthy of reference.

"A few of you, I plan to appoint you as the Qincha to select soldiers from Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Nanzhili, and Shaanxi provinces on my behalf."

"The soldiers selected from all over the country will be sent to the provincial capital first, and after passing the evaluation, they will be sent to the Beijing division."

"Each province has a limited quota, and it is not allowed to exceed it."

"When these new guards are evaluated, I will compare the pass rate of each province, and if the soldiers in any province are particularly poor, I will have to ask the teacher for guilt."

"This is the crime of undermining the national defense of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Youzhen's idea immediately made Huang Liji, Zhang Weixian and others painful.

They never imagined that the emperor would ask them so shamelessly.

"The ministers will do their best!"

However, they didn't dare to disobey Zhu Youzhen's idea, so they could only pinch their noses and admit it.

Zhu Youzhen looked at their deflated appearance, and his heart was very happy.

This is the result of 'killing' a bloody path with real knives and guns!

If they had united with the civil officials and nobles to carry out some kind of palace coup d'état and kill Wei Zhongxian, they would not be as afraid of themselves as they are now.

Before you know it, more than an hour has passed.

After discussing everything, Zhu Youzhen asked Huang Liji, Zhang Weixian and others to withdraw.

Huang Liji, Zhang Weixian and others walked out of the Qianqing Palace, and saw several eunuchs who were in charge of ceremonies, walking with an old man.

"Huh? This person looks like Yang Ho? ”

"Yang Ho?"

"Impossible, isn't he still in prison?"

"Why haven't the sinners of the Battle of Sarhu died yet?"

Everyone took a closer look and found that the oncoming old man turned out to be really Yang Hao, the former governor of Liaodong.

In the first battle of Salhu, Yang Hao lost tens of thousands of elites, which made the Jianzhou Jurchens rise in the first war.

Emperor Wanli was furious and sent Yang Hao to prison to prepare for punishment.

However, Yang Hao is really a little wronged in this matter, and his ability is still okay, but the Daming team is really bad.

After several delays, Yang Hao squatted in prison for several years, surviving three generations of Ming Emperors, but he was still not sent down.

Zhu Youzhen's most urgent thing now is to prepare to deal with the Houjin in Liaodong.

According to the course of history, from the first year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, who had gradually begun to centralize power, launched a war against Mongolia to promote peace with war, and almost all the Mongolian tribes in the entire steppe sided with the Houjin.

After the second year of Chongzhen, Jin broke the Great Wall and entered the customs and plundered, which tore the last fig leaf of the Ming Dynasty's national defense.

Since then, the Jurchens have dragged the Mongols into the customs and plundered repeatedly, leaving the depression in the north in tatters.

Zhu Youzhen's Guards have not yet taken shape, and he urgently needs a capable person to stabilize the situation in Liaodong for him and gain time for military training.

This candidate for the governor of Liaodong, Zhu Youzhen will not choose Yuan Chonghuan of 'Five Years of Pingliao'.

Yuan Chonghuan's braggaking kung fu is too big, far beyond his actual ability, known as five years of Pingliao, but two years later, the Ming national defense was completely rotten.

Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to use him anymore, and when the time came, he would still let Yuan Chonghuan be a royal historian or something, which was more in line with his talent for mouth cannons.

"Your Majesty, Yang Ho is here."

Xu Yingyuan pushed open the door, walked in front of Zhu Youzhen and said respectfully.

"Well, let him in."

Zhu Youzhen nodded and looked at the door.

Soon, a tall old man in coarse cloth clothes walked in.

This person is Yang Hao.

Although Yang Hao was defeated in Salhu, he still has a lot of connections and experience that can help Zhu Youzhen.

"Sinner Yang Ho, see Your Majesty!"

Yang Hao knelt on the ground and said in a heavy tone.

In the past few years, after Yang Hao came to the Qianqing Palace, he had a feeling of being separated from the world.

From the two high school rankings of the year, to the later generals, and then to the final imprisonment, Yang Hao has experienced the real flavors of life.

"Let's get flat!"

"Yang Hao, I came to you, do you know why?" Zhu Youzhen asked straight to the point.

Yang Hao was neither humble nor arrogant, and replied to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty is looking for a criminal minister, it must be for the Liaodong Jurchen!" ”