Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 300 Establishment of Privy Envoy

Qin Liangyu lifted up her silver hair, hearing what Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian said, she couldn't plead guilty anymore, but she was also very puzzled at this time, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian announced what he was doing in Nanjing for an audience. It is already over seventy years old and has no ability to lead the army. Most of the children of his stone pillars have died in countless battles since Wanli. He was recruited into the Guards system, and now there are officials from the governor to the governor and deputy commander in chief.

However, this is also the last kindling of Shizhu Tusi. The current Shizhu Tusi are all children and women, and Qin Liangyu feels that he is a useless old woman and child. Originally, military officers were not as good as civilian officials in Daming, not to mention that he was still a woman. Beijing seems to be unable to do much.

"Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, half of the country in the north of the Ming Dynasty fell into the hands of barbarians, the land of Bashu was even occupied by the rogue Zhang Xianzhong, and there were even foreigners watching over the sea. It can be said that the situation in the world is still dangerous and unpredictable, but now you can sit in the center and coordinate the world's soldiers. Ma, there are very few old commanders who know how to fight, and right now we can only invite Aiqing to come out of the mountain and sit in the center for me, dispatch the world's troops and horses, and assist me in military affairs, so I intend to appoint Aiqing as the privy envoy of the Grand Marshal's Palace!"

Although Qin Liangyu is a woman, she is also a veteran who knows the art of war. Naturally, she knows what it means to be a privy envoy. Although there was no privy envoy before the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty has established the Grand Marshal's Mansion, which is equivalent to the five armies. Together with the Ministry of War's troop dispatching power, the privy envoy is equivalent to the person in charge of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, and his power is not insignificant.

"Your Majesty, absolutely not, I can't afford it, and I'm an old woman, I'm afraid I will provoke criticism from the courtiers!"

Qin Liangyu was naturally horrified, and was about to resign. She naturally knew that the power of this privy envoy was equivalent to that of the chief minister of the cabinet, even no less than that of the chief minister of the cabinet!Once I become the privy envoy, I will undoubtedly become the person with the greatest military power in the world. It can be said that one person is under ten thousand people, but that will become the target of public criticism, not to mention that she is still a woman and child, and no one can accept it. It's a woman and child.

But the reason why Zhu Youjian deliberately asked Qin Liangyu to be the privy envoy to handle the daily affairs of the Generalissimo's Mansion for him was naturally because only Qin Liangyu was the most suitable.

First of all, because Qin Liangyu is a woman and child, and an old woman and child who are over seventy years old, it is difficult to have any ambitions, and there will be no hidden dangers in this position;
The point is that Qin Liangyu is indeed an experienced veteran who is rare in the entire world today. In the 18th year of Chongzhen, he can still take charge of the Grand Marshal's Mansion and coordinate the world's soldiers and horses based on his golden finger that later generations know the historical development. It can be regarded as exhaustive; but after 18 years of Chongzhen, history has undergone major changes. Zhu Youjian felt that his own military ability may not necessarily allow Ming to be sure of victory in future military struggles, so the Generalissimo's Office is very difficult. It needs an old commander who can command the world's soldiers and horses in the center, so that it can be considered safe.

Ma Shiying, Minister of the Ministry of War, is good at coordinating logistics and transportation, and he is even more expert in plotting and calculating official circles, but he can only follow his own opinions in strategy, while Li Yan is still inexperienced, and he himself is the extermination army. Even if I believe emotionally that Li Yan has no rebellion, I am not willing to hand over such power to him intellectually, and the officials will definitely not agree;
In addition, Zhou Yuji and others had to command the troops on the ground. It was impossible for Zhu Youjian to send these generals who led the troops back to Beijing to sit in the town. The only suitable one now was Qin Liangyu, a veteran who had made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and Qin Liangyu was in the army. The prestige of the world is also high enough that even Zhang Xianzhong would not dare to touch a small stone pillar chieftain after occupying Sichuan now.

Zhu Youjian didn't want the civilian group to control the military power, so he could only control the power of troop deployment and command in his own hands, so he established the Grand Marshal's Mansion, and he also took charge of the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

But military affairs are the same as government affairs. If Zhu Youjian is allowed to handle affairs by himself every day, he must be too busy, so he really needs a privy envoy to handle daily affairs.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youjian wanted Qin Liangyu to be the privy envoy. He also wanted to live a few more years for himself, and he didn't want to die from overwork.

But now Qin Liangyu wants to resign, which makes Zhu Youjian very upset, but he also knows that as long as anyone does not have the ambition to be an emperor, he would not dare to be an official with such high power.

"It is precisely because Aiqing is a woman and child that I can rest assured that the soldiers and horses in this world will be handed over to you, and the courtiers will also be at ease. I know that Aiqing is loyal to the country, full of loyalty, and will not resist my will. This privy envoy You can rest assured that even if it's not for me, you have to think about the world's country and society. Could it be that Aiqing is really willing to watch me hand over the world's soldiers and horses of Daming to people who don't know how to fight, so that Daming's son Lang will be on the battlefield in vain Are you going to die, not only your Qin family and Ma family, but the whole of Daming is not that good anymore, we can't let them die in vain."

When Zhu Youjian said this, Qin Liangyu had no choice but to agree.

From a public point of view, she did not dare to resist the order.

Personally speaking, too many of her own brothers and nephews died, and many of them died in vain because the civil servants in charge of the soldiers did not know the military affairs in the past, and they commanded and sacrificed in vain, not to mention that her own remaining children and nephews are still in the Guards , She really didn't want to lose more relatives.

The news that Qin Liangyu became a privy envoy to take charge of the daily military affairs of the Grand Marshal's Mansion soon became known to the entire court officials, and although the entire court officials also knew that Qin Liangyu was a woman and child, there were indeed not many people who raised objections. The Yanguan went to the memorial and wanted to stop the matter, but he was directly demoted to Dangzhi County, Guizhou by Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian is now very satisfied with the composition of military officials in the Ming Dynasty. The Grand Marshal’s Mansion, that is, the center of the imperial court, has Qin Liangyu in charge, Li Yan in charge of the staff department, and there are brave generals like Zhou Yuji, Liu Fangliang, and Huang Degong in the local area. Among the younger generation, Zheng Chenggong, Yan Yingyuan, Gu Yanwu, Xia Wanchun, etc. have already begun to emerge. Even if the future commander-in-chief of the Qing army's southern expedition to Daming is really Hong Chengchou, the figure who was as famous as Lu Xiangsheng during the Chongzhen period, Zhu Youjian does not believe these people in his Grand Marshal's mansion. Characters can't handle him yet.

After Qin Liangyu took charge of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, Zhu Youjian also relaxed. Basically, he no longer handles the daily military affairs personally. During this period of time, he has to go to the Ordnance Institute, the Daming Academy of Engineering, and the Daming Academy of Sciences to see Daming What is the current state of science and technology?

(End of this chapter)