The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 16 The Strength of the Capital

The next day, Zhu Cihong first took Zhou Yuji to inspect his Imperial Forest Army in the outer palace.

I saw more than ten thousand big Han generals on the school field, all of them were burly, armored and sharp, standing upright.

Of these 1 people, excluding the original 7000 great Han generals, the remaining [-] people were all carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of refugees in the past half month.

After seven or eight days of general training and simple training, coupled with a brand new padded waist knife, it looks decent at the moment.

It's not that Zhu Cilang doesn't want to make more moves, but that he doesn't have so many weapons and armor.

Just to make up these [-] sets, he almost scraped off all the blacksmiths in the city, gathered them in the military battle bureau, and then worked overtime to build them.

What's more, he still knows the reason why soldiers are more skilled than many.

As his Imperial Forest Army, he must not blindly expand his recruitment.

These 7000 people are not only tall and burly, but also honest and honest.

The family members were also taken to resettle in the imperial city, and promised that after the bandit army was defeated, each household would be granted ten acres of land.

So although these people have joined for a short time, they are the most loyal group of people to Zhu Cihong.

"Zhou Aiqing, how about my Imperial Forest Army?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, these imperial guards are dignified and full of vigor. Given time, after going through the battle, they will surely become a strong army."

Zhou Yuji cupped his hands and replied.

"Hehe, that's right. These imperial guards of mine still lack training and have no actual combat experience. Now they really can only be regarded as ostentation."

Seeing that he didn't flatter him blindly, Zhu Cihong not only didn't care, but admired him even more.

He knows better than anyone else the shortcomings of his Imperial Forest Army.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Just now Zhou Yuji hesitated for a while before choosing to tell the truth, but he regretted it after he finished speaking.

After all, although His Majesty is wise and has the appearance of a wise king, he is young after all. Now seeing him, not only is he not angry, but he admits it openly, and he finally let go of his worries.

At the same time, I was very excited and excited, Daming finally figured out a real Mingjun, ZTE is hopeful.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cihong took him to the Jingying Campus in the southeast corner of the imperial city, where Tang Tong's 8000 people and the original [-] Jingying Camp were stationed.

Finally, I went to review the [-] troops gathered by the nobles, and these people will also be the main force to defend the city.

These 8 people were stationed in various places in the city, and half of them were servants and branch children of the nobles.

The rest are also young and strong recruited refugees.

This makes the 8 people very distinct, and the difference can be seen at a glance.

Those servants and servants were all wearing tight bunts, holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and they were quite energetic.

Those disciples wore long knives hanging from their waists, and wore armor, and a few even wore high-grade trinity armor, fish-scale armor, and swords across their waists. They were dressed in various styles.

And those who are strong are a bit shabby, not to mention the armor, even the clothes on their bodies are still the clothes of the former refugees and beggars, and each of them only has a spear.

But judging from the look on his face, he should have had enough to eat these days, so it can be seen that the nobles are still very caring.

The fact is indeed the case, these days, the nobles also come to the barracks to personally supervise the drills.

"Ding Guogong, it's fine for these soldiers to have no armor, but at least they have to wear uniforms, right?"

"It was the old minister who was negligent for a while and failed to consider it thoroughly. I hope His Majesty will forgive me, so I ordered someone to deal with it."

Duke Ding quickly replied.

In fact, in his opinion, being able to feed these mud legs is already a great kindness.

There is no need to waste buying military uniforms for them. Anyway, they only need to go to the city with guns and kill the enemy. However, this little emperor has many things to do, so he has to obey.

"How about this, I will transfer some money from the internal treasury. The big battle is coming soon, and each person will be given another two taels of silver as military pay, and the surplus will be used to buy military uniforms."

Zhu Cihong naturally understood that this old guy was not negligent, but stingy, so after thinking about it, he decided to allocate a sum of money.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

All the nobles were overjoyed, secretly thought that the little emperor was really generous, and knew that the little emperor had a lot of money now.

Zhu Cihong didn't say much.

Although he won't intervene in the [-] Beijing camp for the time being, he won't let them have the opportunity to covet his own money, and he will definitely send eunuchs to distribute it in person.

It's not that he really doesn't want to intervene, but that he can't, and he can't intervene for the time being. After all, half of the 8 people are either servants or children of their family.

All the officers, big and small, are all served by the sons of nobles. At this time, let alone that he doesn't have so many trusted officers, even if he has, he can't just install them casually.

Otherwise, it must be another pot of porridge, with no combat effectiveness at all. Instead of this, it is better to completely delegate power, first defend the capital, and then have more time and means to rectify it.

After the inspection of the entire Beijing camp, it was dusk.

"How about Zhou Aiqing? Are you sure you can keep the capital?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, although most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp are recruits, they have enough troops. Defending the city is no better than fighting in the field. As long as the rewards and punishments are clearly defined and the dispatches are well planned, I will be fully confident.

In the first few days, there might be some panic, but after a few days, they will be able to deal with it calmly, while the morale of the bandit army is declining day by day. "

Zhou Yuji said firmly.

He knows now is not the time to be humble.

What's more, the current situation of the Beijing camp was indeed beyond his expectations, much better than he expected.

"it is good!"

Sure enough, after hearing Zhou Yuji's words, Zhu Cihong made up his mind and completely gave up the idea of ​​running away.

"It's just that your majesty, I still have a little worry. When I entered the city, I found that there were many refugees in the outer city and the streets were congested. Once the bandits approached the city, I was panicked. I worried that these refugees might lose control."

Zhou Yuji thought about it and added.

This is what worries him the most.

"Well, what Zhou Aiqing said is reasonable. This is something we must guard against. This is good. At that time, I will move all the old and weak to the inner city, leaving the young and strong to carry the supplies for the defense of the city and improve their food."

Zhu Cihong thought for a while and said, in fact, he also has a headache for these refugees, but he must not let them go.

Otherwise, when the intruders arrive, they will definitely join them, and then help the intruders attack the city together.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"In this way, there will be no hidden dangers!"

Zhou Yuji bowed sincerely.

What he sighed was not that His Majesty resettled these refugees, but that His Majesty could think of sending the Jinyi Weidong Factory to collect grain, hoarding a million shi of grain.

The next day, early in the morning, Zhu Cihong finally summoned all civil and military officials to hold a court meeting in the Huangji Hall.

This is the first time Zhu Cihong has gone to court since he took the throne.

This made all the civil servants who have been marginalized in the past half month cheer up and roll up their sleeves.

Because of the unscrupulousness of Dongchang and Jinyiwei in the past half month, the civil servants have long been filled with resentment.

However, Zhu Cihong didn't go to the court, didn't read the title book, and didn't summon him. This made the civil servants feel like they had no energy but nowhere to go.

Not to mention how uncomfortable.

I have to say that these civil servants are really cheap.

In the past, when Chongzhen was in power, he consulted with them every day to discuss countermeasures, and all of them raised their tails to the sky, perfunctory, and looked like they would perish if they left the civil service.

Now Zhu Cihong leaves them aside and doesn't care about them, but one by one, they take the initiative to make suggestions, write letters every day, and strive to perform.

(End of this chapter)