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Chapter 401

On the ninth day of the first lunar month in the 13th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen summoned Chen Xinjia, governor of Xuanda, to replace Fu Zonglong as Minister of the Ministry of War.

Since Jia Jun in the Hongzhi Dynasty, there has been no one who has been born as a minister. But at this time, the military affairs of the country are in crisis, and none of the ministers is willing to be the minister of the Ministry of War. Chen Xinjia was in it.

Chen Xinjia is indeed one of the rare people who knows how to fight. When he met Emperor Chongzhen, Chen Xinjia handed over ten strategies for defending the state, although most of them were what the court officials said before.

However, Chen Xinjia mentioned that it is better to set up a general guard behind Tianshou Mountain, and Xuzhou should also set up a heavy guard to open the throat of the two capitals, protect Fengling in the south, and prevent water transportation in the middle. Emperor Chongzhen adopted it together, and Chen Xinjia replied to Chen Bing The four important points of the ministerial administration and the four failures of the military affairs, the Emperor Chongzhen ordered him to rectify them.

In the first lunar month, Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, also wrote a statement: Ningyuan City has officials such as guards, army supervisors, governors, and military equipment.

In particular, he asked Emperor Chongzhen for instructions on all military affairs, and he was under the control of the commander-in-chief. All military supervisors, governors, guards, and other officials who are in the same city should also be handled according to this example, or Emperor Chongzhen may allow it.

On the seventh day of February, the governor Yang Sichang commanded the general officer Zuo Liangyu and others to defeat Zhang Xianzhong at Manao Mountain in Taiping County. Zhang Xianzhong's wife and concubine were captured and fled to Xing'an and Fang counties. In the middle, the mountain people were bribed to buy salt and rice, and the mountain people became the eyes and ears of the rebel army. Zhang Xianzhong collected the scattered soldiers, and his momentum recovered.

On the seventh day of March, Emperor Chongzhen also issued an edict to dismiss the eunuchs who had been sent to various towns and armies to serve as supervisors and monitors.

The edict said: "The members of the towns have been observing the order for a long time. The soldiers, horses, money, food, equipment and other items have changed slightly, but the powers of battle, defense and aid have not been fully unified. So the director, sub-guard and other internal officials are all Withdrew to Beijing for another use, and all frontier affairs such as money and food, soldiers and horses, frontier defense, suppression and defense, etc., should be shouldered by the governor, the government, the town, and the road."

Li Guofu, the surveillance eunuch who was sent to North Road before, was summoned back to the capital. Zhang Cheng was very grateful to him. Zhang Cheng’s support during the period when Li Guofu’s father-in-law served as the surveillance eunuch was quite great. I am afraid that the production of Yunzhou guns will not be able to increase all the time.

Therefore, when Eunuch Li Guofu returned to the capital, Zhang Cheng not only sent carriages and guards, but also brought a lot of gold and silver, silk and satin in large and small packages.

Although Li Guofu refused in every possible way, under Zhang Cheng's insistence, he finally returned to the capital with 2000 taels of silver and [-] bolts of silk and satin, and was escorted by [-] soldiers in two sedan cars.

On April [-]th, Emperor Chongzhen told the ministers of the Ministry of Officials: Over the years, the qualifications have been limited, talents have been suppressed, and the examination and selection have repeatedly been ordered to raise tribute and accept them. After all, they did not follow the rules.

Therefore, a total of 260 three-year-old tribute students were consulted and tried. They all wrote in the six departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Tongzheng Department, the various departments of the Taichang Temple, and the deduced officials.And it is clearly stated that this is for special use, and the latter will not be an example.

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On April 13th, [-]th year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the place on Xuanzhen North Road was still quite cool. After all, it was close to the outside of the Great Wall, and the monthly order seemed to be a month or two later than that on East Road.

Since the beginning of February, the banner of recruiting soldiers and bravery has been set up again, and there are countless children from military households who apply every day. Fortresses in Chicheng, Yunzhou, Dushikou, Maying, Zhen'an, Longmensuo, etc. People gather.

I have to say that the leading role of the role model is too strong. Since the end of August last year, the soldiers of the three military camps in Dushikou, Yunzhou, and Chicheng have been on vacation, and they have become the most beautiful cubs on the North Road!
They are dressed in brand new military uniforms, walking in the streets and alleys of various castles, they are particularly eye-catching, and all of them are polite to others, although there are some people who are not good at communicating, not only have fierce faces, but also have loud voices, but But there is no such thing as eating and drinking for nothing, or even not paying on credit.

Just because they are all paid, and coupled with the hardships of daily operations, the brotherhood among them is also increasing day by day. Every holiday, they will gang up to find shops in the streets and alleys to have a big meal.

Fortunately, they all take turns to treat guests, and once they invite each other, they can eat five or six times, and it also enhances the relationship between brothers. Zhang Cheng also strongly supports this.

Although they don't spend a lot each time, they can't hold back the large base of sergeants. Therefore, every time they go to military camps in various places for holidays, the castles are like a festival.

All the restaurants and wine shops kept the halls clean, and the waiters in the shops even yelled hard along the street, for fear of missing a group of customers.

This time, Wu Zhizhong dispatched team officers in charge of recruiting troops to various castles on Xiangbei Road. They strictly followed the standards set by Zhang Cheng, not only eliminating the weak and selecting the strong, but also requiring good families, and even three households.

Even so, there is still an endless stream of applicants. Just imagine, not only can you eat enough every day, but you can eat three meals of meat a month, and you can get a monthly salary. Not to mention the North Road, even the entire Is there any in Xuanzhen?
As of today, more than [-] young and strong men have been recruited. They have been trained in Chicheng, Dushikou and Yunzhou. more rigorous training.

At the time when more than [-] new brave men were camping, Tang Ruowang came to Chi Castle, and what he saw along the way was becoming more and more desolate.

But once he passed Diaohaobao, he was surprised. Xuanzhen North Road was supposed to be the northernmost edge of Xuanfu Town. It was supposed to be barren and withered. bustling scene.

Especially in Chi Castle, at first glance, it is not inferior to the prosperity of the capital. Of course, this is just a metaphor, after all, the population base of the capital is there.

However, it was the first time Tang Ruowang felt the vigor and vigor displayed by the soldiers and civilians of the North Road since he arrived in Daming, especially after he visited the Yunzhou Craftsman Camp.

In the main hall of the Yunzhou post house, Zhang Cheng, Wei Zhice, Chi Yuan, Shi Tiegen and others were accompanying Tang Ruowang to taste the tea in the hall.

Zhang Cheng then said: "Mr. Tang is an expert in the Western Country, how about seeing my North Road Carpenter's Camp and Workshop today?"

Although Tang Ruowang had heard Zhang Cheng mention that there were craftsmen camps and workshops in Yunzhou, which were quite large in scale, but after all, he had only heard about it, and when he saw it today, he was also shocked.

The scale of Yunzhou's craftsman camps and workshops is likely to exceed the scale of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and even the palace's craftsmen's workshops. What's even more rare is that the management of Yunzhou is also special.

Although Tang Ruowang's main business in North Road was to preach, he was still very interested in seeing the assembly line operation in the workshop, and he was surprised that all the parts were generally excellent.

(End of this chapter)