My Daming New Empire

Although there are many people with mud legs, they can't read big characters, and some of them can only listen to the villagers.

And to be a village elder, one must be a scholar, and almost all scholars nowadays are Confucianists.

This has led to Confucianism controlling the right to speak at the grassroots level. They are the foundation of civil servants and natural opponents of imperial minions like Jin Yiwei.

Therefore, Zhuang Jing didn't have the slightest liking for the prince who was biased towards Confucianism, and he was also the most active one among the anti-prince faction.

Not only him, but the entire Jinyiwei, most of them are sharp knives in the hands of the emperor, and few of them can be liked by Confucianism.They are also afraid that the crown prince will ascend the throne. The more black work he does now, the worse he will die.

They were all forced to lean towards the King of Han, just so that after the crown prince ascended the throne, people like themselves would not become victims.

Now Taisun does not favor Confucianism, but instead values ​​their role, which also allows them to see a bright road.

There is a great road to the sky, who would take the bumpy path of Hanwang!

Zhuang Jing bowed and said: "Master Ji has told me about His Highness's open-mindedness when I came here. I don't understand the righteousness of spring and autumn, and the theory of sages. Only the Xiuchun knife in my hand is still sharp. Do your best to die for His Highness."

"Don't just say you're going to die. I just want Jin Yiwei to clear the thorns in my path. Without you, I'm afraid I won't be able to move forward. As long as you do things with your heart, I can guarantee you a good future... Go! From now on, you can directly talk to Yang Contact Qianhu, whenever you have new news, you can come directly to the door.”

Yang Zhangde sent Zhuang Jing all the way to the gate, Zhuang Jing looked at the strong man exuding a sinister aura in front of him, and couldn't help being a little envious of his fortune.

Two months ago, he was still the general banner of the seventh rank, but now he has become a rank five thousand household.

Although his thousand households are not comparable to his own command, but being able to serve in front of His Highness the Grandson is something that even Mr. Ji envies.

"Master Yang, being able to serve in front of the grandson, you also represent Jinyiwei. I hope that Lord Yang will remember that he is also a member of Jinyiwei. You and Jinyiwei have a relationship of both glory and loss!"

Yang Zhangde clasped his fists and said: "Zhang De can't have today without the cultivation of Jin Yiwei, I dare not forget."

A little flag helped Zhuang Jing lead his horse, and Yang Zhangde personally helped Zhuang Jing hold the rein. "My lord, please get on the horse."

Zhuang Jing handed over a bottle of traumatic medicine and said with a smile: "Don't dare to trouble Mr. Yang, you and I are colleagues in the Jinyiwei, and I only hope that we can protect each other in the future. I know...you fight with His Highness every day, and it is inevitable that there will be a fight." Damaged, this medicine is sold by the old monks of Qingliang Temple, and it works well."

"Thank you sir for the reward!" Yang Zhangde was not polite, and put the medicine into his arms.

Zhu Zhanji felt that Yiqingzi and Xuanzhen were too close to each other, and they couldn't enjoy themselves in the contest, so since leaving Yingtian Mansion, he has been looking for him to practice.

He didn't dare to kill him. Facing Zhu Zhanji, who was not much weaker than him, he would inevitably suffer some minor injuries.

The medicine delivered just right.

Zhuang Jing rode on the horse with a smile, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Serve Your Highness wholeheartedly, and now my lord has decided to fully support His Highness. With the full support of my Jin Yiwei, Your Highness has a bright future. Your future is better than mine. Higher!"

Yang Zhangde clasped his fists and saluted: "Everything depends on the cultivation of adults, Zhang De must work hard."

Back in the courtyard, most of the lights in the lobby had been extinguished, leaving only two young eunuchs guarding the two ever-burning lights.

Seeing Yang Zhangde coming back, a young eunuch named Wood came up to him and said, "Your Majesty Yang, Your Highness said that you just arrived in Beiping today, and the boats and horses are exhausted, so you won't practice boxing today. You should also rest early..."

"His Highness is asleep?"

"How can I sleep so early... Your Highness is full of energy, and sleeps for only three hours a day. Now I'm going to take a medicinal bath, and let the young prisoner light the lamp in the study, and I need to read the official documents later!"

Yang Zhangde returned to his room, sat by the bed and began to meditate.

From Yingtianfu to Beiping with Taisun, he discovered that Taisun had to read a lot of official documents every day.

And I am only literate, not blind. In this respect, I am far inferior to Ji Gang, Zhuang Jing and others.

He also discovered that to become a master, it is not enough to rely on recklessness.Now I can only be regarded as a lucky minister at best, and I need to learn a lot if I want to truly become the object of my grandson's reliance.

Among my colleagues, Feng Xiaonian is the oldest among the four, and he is good at investigating and handling cases.Jiang Wanli is good at intelligence analysis and has a superb memory.Chu Song is most familiar with the basic situation inside and outside the court, so he needs to win over him more in the future.

Chapter 43 War is not just about killing enemies

On February [-]th, Zhu Di was in Yanwang Mansion in the Northern Plains, where he was currently holding a court meeting.

The original Yanwang Mansion became the new political center of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the civil and military officials of the court held the first court meeting.

Zhu Zhanji originally thought that he had nothing to do with this court meeting, but he did not expect that Zhu Di asked him to attend this court meeting.

Therefore, he had no chance to watch his young army compete with Habayashi Wei's scouts.

However, in order to avoid those young troops not working hard, he appointed Li Liang to attend this competition instead of him.

The main content of this court meeting was to deal with the affairs of the Northern Expedition, but it also dealt with some affairs of the court during this period.

Walking here became the headquarters of the entire Northern Expedition Army. Orders of all sizes were issued from here, and the whole of Beiping became active because of this.

In the afternoon of the same day, the governors Liu Jiang and Zhu Rong were appointed as forwards by Zhu Di. They will leave Beiping first tomorrow and embark on the journey to the desert by the middle road.

Zhu Zhanji also listened to the war plan jointly made by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War, and for the first time formally contacted the deployment of troops in this era.

In later generations, Zhou You had 2 security guards and a mercenary army of more than [-] people.

But in that era, he had his own military satellite, his own communication network, and a logistics department supported by his own strong financial resources.

Whether it is weather, transportation, ammunition supply, or food supply, there are supercomputers for unified planning.

But in this era, there is nothing, and everything needs to be piled up by manpower.

Even the most basic transportation network does not exist now, and most areas are uninhabited areas.

Therefore, modern warfare and ancient warfare are not the same thing at all.If we look at the current war from the perspective of future generations, overall planning is as ridiculous as playing a house.

The first step of the Northern Expedition is to gather in Zhangbei. Zhu Di will conduct a military parade before the army goes to the desert. This kind of military parade is not for showing off force, the only purpose is to boost morale.

Soldiers of later generations know what they are fighting for, but what about now?The purpose of most people being soldiers is just to make a living.

Therefore, the first step of Zhu Di's imperial conquest is to parade and distribute money to the soldiers. Only in this way can the soldiers have the motivation to fight.

According to the transportation conditions of later generations, the distance from Beiping to Zhangbei County is only more than 200 kilometers, or about 450 miles, which is only a matter of a few hours.

But now, it takes a full ten days to walk.

Soldiers carry their own weapons, and the normal march is only thirty kilometers a day.Even if the road is smooth now, it is only forty kilometers. If you try to go faster, you will only exhaust the soldiers.

The endurance of soldiers in this era is definitely higher than that of later generations, but their physical conditions are limited, and they can't even eat a few meals of meat throughout the year. How good can their health be?

It is still good to fight on the grassland, there are special heavy battalions.Like Mu Ying and the others who fought in the southwest, the mountains were high and the roads were narrow. The soldiers needed to carry their own weapons, dry food and bedding. Twenty kilometers a day, thirty kilometers, was already the limit.

In this Northern Expedition, hundreds of thousands of troops marched, and each guard's logistics supply, rest places, food distribution, medical treatment, and emergency response all needed to be arranged by people.

Just to maintain communication with each other, 5.00% of the soldiers are required to be responsible for it. This figure was something Zhu Zhanji could not even imagine at the beginning.

Later generations only need one satellite, and the general headquarters can issue orders to every squad and even every soldier thousands of miles away, but now tens of thousands of soldiers are needed to barely maintain the thousands of miles of front. the relationship between.

Zhu Zhanji also really realized why when reading history books, those marshals and military gods compete not who is better, but who makes fewer mistakes.