Time Travel: After Seizing the Throne, I Lead the Ming Dynasty to Take Off

Since he wants personal soldiers.

Then these people cannot have any major connection with the Huaixi nobles, otherwise they will still be under the threat of being restrained by the Huaixi nobles.

Even some things you do that are unknown to others.

It may also be leaked to the nobles in Huaixi.

The Huaixi nobles are a sharp blade.

But the blade was too sharp, and while it could hurt others, it could also hurt oneself. Moreover, these Huaixi generals were wild, greedy, and reckless, so Zhu Yunhuan had to be on guard against them.

For Zhu Yunhuan, this era was no longer a vague concept or code name, but an era in which everyone, from military generals and high-ranking officials to soldiers and common people, had their own personality. No one would be loyal to you without any basis and would work hard at your command. They were just tools in the storybooks.

So the best way.

That is, he would select people with clean family backgrounds and no one to rely on from the army, promote them personally, and then promise them benefits and rewards.

Only in this way can you truly have your own personal guards.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will go right away." Although Ma Sanbao looked a little tired, he was still energetic and responded.

Watching Ma Sanbao leave again.

Zhu Yunhuan couldn't help but feel stretched to the limit - there were too few people available.

He glanced towards the side hall, raised his eyebrows and smiled faintly: "Aren't there ready-made manpower here?"

Jinyiwei.

Over the years, they have been keeping a close eye on the situation and have caught many civil and military officials and Huaixi nobles in their tracks. The only person they are loyal to is Zhu Yuanzhang.

Apart from Zhu Yuanzhang, who doesn't hate the Jinyiwei?

But now that Lao Zhu is dead, it is no exaggeration to say that this group of people is surrounded by enemies on all sides.

Now the overall situation in the court has been determined.

If, at this moment, I could give them a chance to be loyal and meritorious, how could they not seize it? — This is also called human nature.

Therefore, Zhu Yunhuan did not kill the Jinyiwei at the beginning.

The first is that it doesn’t look good.

But the second point is more important: the Jinyiwei can become his people!

Even Jiang Li is not impossible!

Even though Jiang Li knew Zhu's preference for the crown prince, the one who was about to sit on the throne was Zhu Yunhuan!

Jiang Li had only two choices: surrender or die.

Zhu Yunhuan slowly returned to his dragon desk, sat down, picked up his pen and dipped it in ink.

The three words "Jinyiwei" were written on the left side of a piece of rice paper on the table, and then the following content was added below: "Nineteen thousand households, with a total population of 20,000."

Then he wrote the four words "new number of people" on the right side of the paper.

But when the tip of the pen moved below these four words, he hesitated.

After a pause, he casually wrote down two words: [Five Thousand].

But he immediately shook his head.

Draw a big cross on these two words.

Then his eyes turned stern and he wrote down the two words "Ten Thousand".

"After all, the Jinyiwei are Zhu's most trusted personal guards. Even though I can use them, I can't trust them completely at the moment."

"According to the Ming Dynasty's military system, each thousand-household unit has 1,120 soldiers. At a ratio of two to one, I will insert 500 people with clean backgrounds and no one to rely on into each thousand-household unit, who I personally promoted..."

"Increase the number of people in a garrison to more than 1,600."

"The newcomers want to make achievements, while the existing Jinyiwei will want to protect themselves and seek the trust of me, the new emperor, to establish a mutual monitoring mechanism."

Zhu Yunhuan looked at the rice paper on the dragon desk with a thoughtful expression, muttering to himself.

Finally, a settled smile appeared on his face.

He picked up the pen and circled the two words "ten thousand".

In this way, those with ulterior motives will eventually be exposed and eliminated, and only time will be needed to refine and polish them...