The Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 33: The young letter king

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Li Chunye really didn’t know that Zhu Youjian was in the Fenwu Camp. On that day, Zhu Youjian proposed to Zhu Youxiao to enter the military camp. Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian to do it, and Wei Zhongxian asked for Li Chunye instead of Li Chunye, but another one with him. Cui Chengxiu, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, has a close relationship.

During the development of the Ming Dynasty to the Tianqi years, the admiral Wei Zhongxian of the East Factory firmly suppressed the commander Tian Ergeng of Jin Yiwei and gained the trust of Zhu Youxiao. Therefore, he gradually controlled the government and the Donglin Party, which was once in power, was under his attack. , Is also the death of death, the death of officialdom, the officialdom of resignation, the retreat of seclusion. If a hundred officials want to be promoted, they must follow the path of Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian, who was born in a poor family, not only did not soften his hands when faced with white money, he also demanded bribes from people who took refuge in him. However, Wei Zhongxian is equally good, that is, if he takes other people’s money, he will definitely do things for them. His way of helping people is to promote them, but there are so many high-ranking officials in Da Ming, so he came up with a unique way. It is to put a few more people in the same post, and each post has changed from one person to multiple people, and there is no certain number of people. In this way, everyone in the post will be in a state of trepidation, for fear of losing their position, they will desperately honor Wei Zhongxian, and then desperately ask for it from below to make up for their losses.

Just like the reforms in some areas, today’s plan to merge several offices is considered simplified administration, so the office directors will have a large-scale opportunity to show their loyalty in order to keep their position as director; this abolition has just happened. Finished. Tomorrow, I said that there are too few offices, and I need to add a few more offices. Therefore, the office director who was laid off yesterday and some deputy office directors, in order to become the new office director, is another large scale , Concentrated allegiance.

As a result, there was no change in the number of offices, but a large flow of money was completed. The consequence of Wei Zhongxian's fishing for money in this way is that of the six books of Daming, there are few of them with three Shangshu, and the more with five Shangshu, and there is no deputy. The Ministry of Defense currently has four scholars.

"It really is His Royal Highness." Qin Yongnian is a loyal soldier. He is loyal to Daming and more loyal to his conscience. A young prince like the King of Letters, with such training level and ability, he dare not be greedy for merit. , And can't bear to be greedy.

"Where is the King of Letters?" Li Chunye was still very puzzled. Zhu Youjian didn't seem to have paid a weak crown. How could he stay in the barracks

"Zhu Youjian has seen Master Shangshu." Zhu Youjian took a step forward and handed over to Li Chunye. He is the prince. Although he is a false position, he cannot bow down to Li Chunye. That would hurt the royal face.

"Old officials see His Royal Highness Xin Wang." Li Chunye recovered and immediately saluted Zhu Youjian. He felt that he was always distracted today. He didn't know if he was old or he saw many unexpected things.

Zhu Youjian hurriedly stopped Li Chunye: "You are welcome, Master Shangshu. This is the military camp. You are Shangshu of the Ministry of War. I am just the staff officer of Fenwuying." Then he met with Lin Guotai.

Only then did Li Chunye look at Zhu Youzhen carefully. He was young, really young, or young, maybe he had been in the barracks for a long time, and his face had a fortitude that did not match his age.

"When did your Highness come to the barracks? Why don't the old ministers know?" Although Li Chunye had been infected by Zhu Youjian's ingenious military parade, like Qin Yongnian, he marveled at Zhu Youjian's training methods.

However, Zhu Youjian is a prince after all. According to the rules set by the Ming Dynasty, the royal family members must not engage in any work. They must go to their own fiefs as adults. Without the emperor's edict, they must not leave their fiefs, and they are not allowed to return to Beijing privately.

As long as the emperor doesn't object to Zhu Youjian, he stays in the capital, and no one else can control him. Once Zhu Youjian reaches adulthood, he must go to his fief and cannot engage in any work throughout his life, especially contact with the army.

Based on Zhu Youjian's initial military abilities in the Fenwu Camp, it would be a pity if he did not go to the army to lead troops in the future. Perhaps the person who revitalized Daming would be Zhu Youjian. However, if Zhu Youjian went to work in the army, it did not conform to Da Ming's customization, and if he was jealous of the emperor, it might not be a good thing for the country or Zhu Youjian.

"I like the army, just because I am weak, I want to come to the army to exercise my body. I have already known the emperor brother. Ao, it is the Fenwu camp sent to me by Master Lin." Zhu Youjian also knew Li Chunye's concerns, so he directly explained that it was through Zhu. If agreed by the school, Lin Guotai can prove it. Since the emperor has no objection, what kind of heart are others doing? Even if the royal family rebelled, they were against the emperor, and it had nothing to do with the ministers. As long as the country exists, experienced ministers are needed to assist the new emperor in managing the country.

Lin Guotai arched his hands: "I knew that His Royal Highness Xin Wang was carrying a wizard, so the minister directly left His Highness in the Dudu Mansion."

"I have no experience in military life. If I face 100,000 soldiers in the capital, I really don't know where to start!" Zhu Youjian is not humble. Running the army is the same as other things. You have to take it step by step and suddenly face it. For one hundred thousand soldiers, whether he can convince the public is a question. The ten thousand taels of silver given by Zhu Youxiao is really going to be placed in the Dudu's Mansion. I don't know if it will take a few days.

"His Royal Highness, the Fenwu battalion cavalry is mighty, the infantry is majestic, but what is the role of those passwords? The old man really didn't see it!" Li Chunye really did not make a fuss about Zhu Youjian's identity, he was more concerned about Zhu Youjian's Soldiers trained how and why are they trained like this? Can his training methods be popularized in all of Daming's army

Of course you don’t understand these training methods for later generations. Zhu Youjian was not allowed to slander in his heart, "It is mainly to train the soldiers' obedience, and the soldiers regard obedience as their bounden duty."

"Soldiers regard obedience as their mission?" Of course, Li Chunye understands the importance of soldiers' obedience to the victory of the war, but he does not understand how Zhu Youjian raised these principles to a theoretical level, and how they were integrated into the daily training of the army.

"On the battlefield, if an officer orders an attack, even in the face of nine deaths, he must rush forward; if an officer orders a retreat, the Jinshan Yinshan is in front of him, and he must withdraw. If the soldier is afraid of death, or because he is greedy for money, he does not respect the order. Here comes the victorious division? Where is the tiger and wolf division?" Zhu Youjian always followed the requirements of the soldiers to the soldiers. In other words, the soldiers he trained were not to respond to the military parade, but to be able to go on the battlefield at any time. On the battlefield, "the one who comes can fight, the one who fights can win." But if you want to really train soldiers, you can't do without money. If you can't improve the diet of Fenwuying, no matter how good the theory is, no matter how high the requirements are, it is no use.

"What a tiger and wolf teacher! Fenwuying is almost becoming a tiger wolf teacher, right?" Li Chunye stroked his beard, staring at Zhu Youjian deeply, not knowing what he was thinking, it seemed that his mind was hidden. In the deep folds of the brow. He has come out of the shock. Judging from the importance he attaches to Zhu Youjian, he should have praised a lot.

"A truly capable army, a true tiger and wolf division, must go through the battlefield bloodshed and the test of life and death. At present, although I have arranged actual combat exercises, it is much worse than the real battlefield." Zhu Youjian I hope that Fenwu Camp will have the opportunity to fight. It is best to fight with a small scale and low risk factor so that the soldiers can grow up quickly. However, Fenwu Camp is the capital army, and the chance of participating in actual combat is very slim. Soldiers did not have the opportunity to experience the baptism of war. To build a tiger and wolf division, it was just the moon in the mirror.

Li Chunye seemed to realize something. He nodded slightly. Although he had never been on the battlefield, he still had his own views on the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness from the left and right servants of the Ministry of War.

However, Daming’s current corruption is deeply rooted in his bones. From civil servants to military attaches, earning money for himself has become the mainstream and normal. Moreover, since the Wanli dynasty, party disputes have intensified. First, the Qi Party and the Chu Party, and now the Eunuch Party and the Eastern Party. The opposition between the Lin party and the high officials of the court came from these two parties.

What’s more terrible is that the two parties have no tolerance for measurement. Anyone who wants to have his own seat in the court must choose a side. There is no gray area in the middle. It is like a table tennis game. Like a football game, there is a tie.

When the leaders of the two parties promote officials, they do not value your ability and loyalty to the court, but rather their recognition of the party.

Li Chunye's ability and prestige are not enough, he is not the kind of person who can turn the tide. Although he was worried about the corruption of the Ming court and the army, and deeply saddened by the collapse of the military system, he knew that he did not have the talent and courage of Yu Qian and Zhang Juzheng and could not make fundamental reforms.

Now there is a letter king Zhu Youjian. The soldiers he trained are deeply shocking. Although Zhu Youjian’s age is too young to predict the future development, but with a good start, who can guarantee Zhu Youjian Can't you become a minister of Zhongxing of Ming Dynasty? Thinking of this, he asked Zhu Youjian: "What does the military song of your Highness mean?"

"Encourage morale. An army without morale and goals has no desire to fight and win, and an army without the desire to win cannot become a tiger-wolf division." In military thinking, soldiers must not only have good physical fitness, excellent weapons and equipment, but also the spirit of not afraid of hardship or death, and the courage to crush any powerful enemy into powder. The cultivation of these spiritual factors must allow soldiers to Knowing why you fight and for whom you sacrificed, while opening up the frontiers and defending the land and keeping your name in history can most arouse the bloodiness of soldiers.

"Daming needs a tiger and wolf teacher! At present, when the slaves are invaded to the south, the capital has been settled in Shengjing. I have lost thousands of miles outside the customs!" Li Chunye said here, very depressed, of course he did not expect Fenwuying to grow up quickly and help the court recover Liaodong. But only Fenwuying had a little bit of the shadow of the tiger and wolf division, and the other armies did not even have a shadow.