Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 56
"How many people are in the Imperial Horse Supervisor's register now!"

At the gate of the military camp at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, when the carriage stopped, Zhu Youjian got out of the car and asked straight to the point. As soon as he said this, the commanders and generals of the Four Guards and the First Battalion looked at me and I looked at you. Can't hold back a word.

Yang Lian, the two chiefs of the military department, and seven or eight small officials also got out of the car one after another, their expressions were a little surprised. Obviously, they didn't expect Zhu Youjian to blame him directly without giving him face.

"What? Don't say it? Could it be that you haven't heard about Habayashi Sanwei and other generals?!"

Zhu Youjian frowned, and then scolded angrily.

"Your Highness, please calm down. Right now, there are still more than [-] people in the Imperial Horse Supervisor, including more than [-] eunuchs in charge, more than [-] eunuchs in the field, and [-] eunuchs in charge."

"In addition, there are more than [-] guards and more than [-] veterinarians..."

The leading general knelt on the ground with a tense expression, and kept talking about the number of eunuchs and civilian husbands, without mentioning the specific number of soldiers and horses.

Zhu Youjian can see that this group of people dare not directly say how many people there are in the Yumajian, so they go to talk about people in other positions.

It's just what he said, Zhu Youjian did a little calculation, and he only calculated the number of people in the four guards and one battalion of the Yumajian.

Not more than [-], about [-] for empty pay.

In other words, the empty rate is close to half...

"..." Zhu Youjian suppressed his anger and did not burst out. He watched them calm down and said:

"How about the main palace of the Qingling Mausoleum? Can Huang Kao be buried?"

"Go back to Your Highness, we have already been buried." Wang Chengen saluted slightly, which made Zhu Youjian slightly relieved.

It is impossible for him to attack directly now, let alone kill all these people.

To put it bluntly, it is not their fault that the salary is empty. The military salary of the soldiers in Beijing is only five taels of silver for a year. Who can support them?

In addition, most of the money seized by the previous royal horse supervisor and the admiral eunuch's house was also obtained from embezzlement of the imperial store and military pay.

Now the mastermind is dead, and the rest are accomplices, but not killing does not mean that Zhu Youjian will not be held accountable.

"You consciously hand over all the silver taels obtained from corruption over the years to Cheng'en. Those who hand in all the money will forget the past and go home to retire."

"If anyone hides and refuses to surrender, the whole family will be sent to Guizhou, and the principal culprit will be beheaded!"

"Thank you, Your Highness, Long En, thank you, Your Highness, Long En..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the group of generals had no time to feel heartbroken, so they could only kowtow.

At the same time, in the distance, Lu Wenzhao also brought Habayashi Sanwei to the barracks not far away.

Seeing the army rushing in, Zhu Youjian's heart became more confident, and he went directly to Wang Chengen:

"Talk to Lu Wenzhao. Tomorrow, the three guards of Habayashi and the first battalion of four guards will be called to the school grounds. I have something to say."

"Servants take orders." Wang Chengen saluted slightly, then Zhu Youjian looked at the messy appearance of the barracks, walked into the barracks with a frown, and started patrolling with Yang Lian and others and Jin Yiwei.

While patrolling the camp, he could see thin soldiers looking at Jin Yiwei curiously, but if Jin Yiwei turned his head, they immediately lowered their heads.

mob……

Looking at this group of thin soldiers, although Zhu Youjian knew that the Yumajian was not going to be any better, he didn't expect it to be so bad.

Along the way, all the soldiers he saw were men with a stature of five feet one inch, or five feet two inches. After conversion, their height was only about [-] to [-] meters.

Such a height would be regarded as a good soldier if thrown into any side of this era, but not in Daming.

Among other things, such as Habayashi Sanwei, although there are only more than [-] people on the register, but all the people on the register are men who are five feet and five feet tall, that is, [-] meters and upwards.

The tailoring ruler of the Ming Dynasty is [-] centimeters per foot, which is very convenient for Zhu Youjian to calculate.

It is impossible for him to be like the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty, who only needs to be tall.

But the first point in the selection of soldiers is clear, physical strength is not a loss, this sentence is experience, and it can be used.

Obviously he can choose a group of soldiers who are [-] meters tall to join the army, but he doesn't have to choose [-] meters.

In the era of cold weapons, the taller and burlier the soldiers, the better the morale of the army.

Just like Li Rusong's Liaodong iron cavalry in the war against Japanese aggression and aid to the DPRK.

Three thousand Liaodong men who are all [-] meters tall can stab left and right in the tens of thousands of Japanese troops who are about [-] meters tall.

This is not discrimination, but the battlefield is so realistic.

Zhu Youjian still doesn't believe it, let alone, there are nearly ten million people in Beizhili, can't you find thirty thousand men who are five feet five in height?
"disarmament!"

Zhu Youjian thought to himself, and then while patrolling the camp, he expressed his thoughts to the hundreds of Jinyiwei households next to him.

"You write down what I said, and after copying it, send it to Xiaoqi and the corps leader in the army."

"Yes!" Hearing what Zhu Youjian said, Jin Yiwei Baihu immediately ordered someone to transcribe, and Zhu Youjian also said based on his previous experience of marching and reading military books:

"Those who march and camp, do not live at the mouth of Dagu, and are confronted by enemies and horses on all sides, so it is called Tianzao."

"Secondly, don't live at the top of the mountain. Someone will come along the mountain to break my camp in the back, and the thief will stick to my way in front of the danger. It is called the place of the dragon's head."

"Three do not live in a dead place, that is to say, if you camp in a place that is not wet and cold, people and horses will be frightened at night, and soldiers who live for a long time will suffer from wind and cold."

"The four uninhabited places are in vain to say that the bottom is low, the middle is high, and the top of the land is Guangping, the middle is high, and there are hills, like a gold-covered shape. If you camp on it, you will be surrounded by enemies."

"Five do not live in hell, that is, below high school..."

Zhu Youjian scribbled more than [-] words, [-] precautions for setting up camp, and terrain selection, which slightly surprised Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of recording, and Yang Lian, who was listening.

They listened carefully to Zhu Youjian's words, and after thinking about it, they felt cold sweat breaking out.

The guards in Jinyi thought about it. In the past, when they went to the frontier fortress, they camped at most to do the first two, but Zhu Youjian said thirteen points about the dangers of camping terrain, and all of them had hidden truths.

Even Yang Lian listened with a straight face. Although many of Zhu Youjian's words can be found in military books, military books are dead and people are alive. Some of Zhu Youjian's insights are very novel.

The Jin Yiwei who was in charge of recording also remembered very quickly, and Yang Lian also listened carefully, only Zhu Youjian continued:
"Outside the camp, there are hundreds of miles in all directions, and the birds and feathers fall all at night, and the master is awakened at night. His order is clear and dignified, majestic and secretive, and birds and beasts dare not violate the boundary."

"The next camp is like a person with no water on the side. If you live in a place with reeds and water plants or a place with ants, there must be a spring under which you can open a well, or there will be water not far from the way to find the traces of wild animals."

"If the army goes to war and needs to prepare water to accompany it, it can be stored in sheepskin cysts or in large gourd and bamboo tubes."

Having said that, Zhu Youjian stopped what he should say, and then looked at Jin Yiwei who was in charge of recording and said:

"Remember it?"

"Return to Your Highness, take note." Jin Yiwei nodded, and Zhu Youjian said again:

"Translate into vernacular. I'm too straightforward for you to remember. Military orders to the army must be in vernacular. Don't be as polite as you are to civil servants."

"Yes, I have been educated in a humble position." Hearing this, the guards in Jinyi all bowed their heads, and Zhu Youjian glanced at the camp and pointed to it and said:
"According to what I just said, according to the camping process, set up this barracks again for me, and call Habayashi Sanwei and Four Guards and One Battalion together."

"Humble job, go and tell Lu Tongzhi!" Jin Yiwei's hundreds of households hurriedly edited and sent someone to send the recorded things to Lu Wenzhao.

After Zhu Youjian frowned and walked around the barracks, he also frowned and walked towards the south gate of the barracks...

(End of this chapter)