Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 10 Difficulties

Xuqin Palace, this is Zhu Youjian's bedroom, where he lived for ten years.

This palace belongs to one of the East Palaces. It is actually not large in scale. It can accommodate at most one prince, two court ladies and one accompanying eunuch. The area is only two to three hundred square meters.

Although the scale is small, they are considered to be the best ones that the prince can live in in the palace.

Zhu Youjian took Wang Chengen and a dozen Jinyi guards back to the palace, and before he sat down, he told Wang Chengen:

"You have now been promoted to the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and I will ask the emperor to promote a man named Cao Huachun to the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor in the future."

"You will call Lu Wenzhao later, and tell him to send you a Jinyi Guard of the General Banner, and bring along your trusted eunuchs, and replace all the eunuchs in charge of the Yumajian with me."

"Tell them, win over the civilian husbands below and the eunuchs who post and sign the letter."

"Keep an eye on this group of guys. Whoever dares to embezzle among them will have [-]% of the family property after the ransacking!"

"Your servant takes orders!" Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Wang Chengen was terrified.

He didn't expect that His Royal Highness asked for such an errand for him.

You must know that among the twenty-four yamen of the eunuchs, the Yumajian is second only to the Silijian.

Yumajian's subordinates have hundreds of thousands of acres of pastures in Beizhili, a piece of Hebei land.

Some of these pastures are forage fields and some are pastures. They can receive more than [-] stones of horse feed and more than [-] million bundles of hay every year.

In addition, there are more than [-] elephants, military horses, draft horses, donkeys, cattle and sheep in the pasture.

For these alone, the Yumajian has an income of more than [-] taels.

In addition to these, the Yumajian also has hundreds of cultivated land, Huangzhuang, and Huangdian, plus pastures and pastures, which can generate a stable income of [-] taels a year.

You must know that this is still a record of public money, and I don't know how much money was corrupted by those eunuchs in private.

Zhu Youjian didn't know how much money he could get from here, but what he cared more about was the establishment of the Four Guards and One Battalion.

Yumajian, this is a government office that integrates finance, army, and logistics.

The so-called Four Guards and One Battalion is an army composed of the left and right guards of Tengxiang, the left and right guards of Wuxiang, and the Warrior Battalion.

Perhaps the most glorious moment of this army was the constant conquests from south to north under the leadership of Ming Chengzu, Ming Xuanzong, Ming Xianzong, and Ming Wuzong.

Chengzu conquered Mongolia five times, and Yumajian followed him at least three times.

Xuanzong conquered Gaoxu, king of the Han Dynasty, followed by the imperial horse supervisor, and was ordered to lead [-] troops with Xue Lu, Marquis of Yangwu, and Wu Cheng, uncle of Qingping, as the vanguard.

Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty traveled to Xuanda in the north and went to Huaiyang in the south, all accompanied by eunuchs and eunuchs.

Such an army with extremely strong combat effectiveness was finally destroyed in the hands of Emperor Jiajing who only knew how to practice Taoism.

Zhu Youjian didn't bother to comment on this ancestor who had abandoned his military equipment. What he wanted to know most now was whether one-fifth of the 25400 people recorded on the paper in the Yumajian were usable.

Wang Chengen's ability is limited, so it is definitely not possible to ask him to inspect the army and select soldiers and talents.

Even Zhu Youjian himself is not very good. After all, before he crossed over, he was a leader for two years, and then he retired from the army and went to university.

It's not that he can't do things, but he only knows the process of the modern army, not the process of the Ming Dynasty army.

Fighting wars is not a child's play. It is impossible for him to apply the modern system to this era.

This is like playing women's liberation in this era. It's really the old birthday star who hanged himself for a long time.

The reason why he said that he would lead the people from the four guards and one battalion of the Yumajian to build the imperial mausoleum was also to make time for him to find someone who could train soldiers.

This person, he already has someone in mind.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were only a few strong candidates for military training.

Qi Jiguang's nephew, Qi Jin, the actual commander of Qi's army in the Battle of Hunhe.

Qin Bangping and his younger brother Qin Minping were the commanders of the white-armed troops to aid the Liao Dynasty.

In fact, there are only these three people he can use. As for Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, they are just cadres on paper right now, and it is too unrealistic to use them.

It is now the first day of September in the first year of Taichang. Zhu Youjian remembered that these two southern troops started to go north at the beginning of the year.

According to historical records, they will stay in Tongzhou, and then they will fight because of the purchase of logistics by soldiers from both sides, so they will have a grudge.

This also led to the defeat of these two first-class troops at the end of the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Hunhe.

In Zhu Youjian's mind, there were only three first-class troops in the late Ming Dynasty, namely the Liaodong cavalry, the Qi family army, and the white pole soldiers.

The so-called Jurchens are invincible, but they were not seen in the Battle of Hunhe. Tens of thousands of people besieged the Qi family army and white soldiers with a total of only [-] people, but those who were beaten were turned on their backs.

There were two to three thousand people who were beheaded and fell off their horses, and there were nine generals of the Houjin Dynasty who were beheaded with names and surnames.

The Eight Banners of Houjin, at least during the Tianqi period, was only a second-rate army.

Or in other words, the Eight Banners of Houjin was the strength of the normal frontier army of the Ming Dynasty during the Northern Expedition of Ming Chengzu.

Hou Jin's Eight Banners really jumped to become the top-ranking army in East Asia, and they had to wait until Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne.

Right now, they are still fishing and hunting troops with a small number of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry supplemented by a large number of light infantry.

In Zhu Youjian's view, he doesn't need to train hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses capable of fighting well. Even if there are [-] soldiers and horses with the strength of Qi's army, he can trap Nurhachi to death in the northern Liaoning area.

Even if he doesn't send troops at that time, if the Little Ice River erupts completely in a few years, Nurhachi and his hundreds of thousands of slaves will starve to death in Liaobei.

Winning without fighting is Zhu Youjian's idea. As long as he can not fight, he will not choose to fight.

Therefore, for him, the best teacher now is Qi Jin who once followed Qi Jiguang in the southern and northern wars, not only against Japanese pirates, but also against pirates, and also against northern captives and guarding Jiliao!

It's just that the problem before him is that according to the next historical process, Nurhachi will launch a large-scale attack on Shenyang and Liaoyang in order to seek to seize the Liaodong Peninsula.

Nurhachi's strategic goal is very simple, that is, after capturing the Liaodong Peninsula, confront the Ming Dynasty across the Liaohe River, and cut off the front that connects North Korea and the Ming Dynasty.

After doing so, he would be an excellent choice no matter if he attacked Nekhka Mongol in the west, North Korea in the east, or went north to deal with the savage Jurchens.

Although Xiong Tingbi claimed to train [-] troops in Liaodong, it is a question of whether he can pull out [-] troops to fight.

The Qi family army under Qi Jin and Qin Bangping's white soldiers will definitely go to Liaodong for support, so the question is for Zhu Youjian.

Should he let Qi Jin go to Liaodong, or leave Qi's army behind to help him train.

Thinking of this question, Zhu Youjian felt a headache, so he could only say to Wang Chengen first:

"After you leave the city, remember to ask someone to ask the Ministry of War, just ask where the Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers are, and tell me the result immediately after asking."

"Slaves take orders."

Wang Chengen nodded dumbly, but when Zhu Youjian saw this, he could only wave his hand to let him go down.

As for himself, after sitting for a while, he still felt too sleepy after all, so he took off the table on the couch and took a nap...

(End of this chapter)