Great Ming National Teacher

On the second day of February in the sixth year of Chongzhen, Li Yunya and Zhu Youjian held a grand meeting in the newly built Taihe Palace.

Because Li Yunya asked Zhu Youjian to delegate power, the emperor only took care of the army, diplomacy and supervision, and usually worked in Beihai. Zhong Hai, hold a court meeting in this nine-story Taihe Palace.

The Taihe Palace is a place specially used for meetings. The conference room on the top floor can accommodate 300 people at the same time. Li Yunya first went to the rostrum and made an important speech. It took 10 minutes to finish the speech, and then invited Zhu Youjian to speak on stage.

The two of them have been studying in the Zhaohe Palace these days. With the help of Li Yunya, Zhu Youjian wrote a full 27 pages of paper, all of which are densely packed with pen characters instead of brush characters. After he sat on the rostrum, he said The first thing is to set up the Nanjing Military Region and the Guangzhou Military Region. At present, the Ming Dynasty has two theaters and one military region, namely the Northeast Theater, Northwest Theater and Beijing Military Region.

Last year when I was young, a summary meeting was held, and Zhu Youjian personally awarded a medal to Lu Xiangsheng.

Sun Chengzong's strategy for Liaodong is to focus on fighting against enemies at every step. If he can't defeat the Manchus in field battles, he will keep building the city and build the defensive tower to the door of the enemy's house. The difference in history is that the Ming army was powerful at this time, but the Qing army was seriously injured by the second year of the Chongzhen War. Lu Xiangsheng fought with discipline, stability and vigor. After Zhu Youjian reformed the tax system, he got the Sufficient money made it harder to build the city.

In July last year, he sent Zu Dashou to build a city by the Daling River, which is only 300 miles away from Shenyang, the capital of the Qing Dynasty. Arrived in Shenyang!Moreover, this city is to the east of Jinzhou. If you want to attack Jinzhou, you must first attack this city. If you want to attack this city, you must first attack Jinzhou. Zu Dashou was trapped.

Lu Xiangsheng had expected that once the city was repaired, Huang Taiji would send troops to fight, so he dispatched [-] field guns, [-] mortars, and sufficient ammunition to Zu Dashou in advance, so that he could stick to it. The trap camp formed came out of Jinzhou City to cooperate with Zu Dashou, and fought fiercely with Huang Taiji. In the past two years, Huang Taiji also made muskets and cannons, but they were still at the stage of matchlocks. Cannons also used gunpowder to fire solid iron balls. That kind, due to poor metallurgical technology, is extremely cumbersome, but it can finally hold its ground.

The two sides fought ping-pong-pong for a long time, and suddenly Huang Taiji got an urgent report that Cao Bianjiao led [-] greedy wolf riders and had already made a detour to Shenyang. After the infantry was cut off, the cavalry returned to the defense first, and retreated while fighting. Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to cover up and kill them, winning a complete victory.

With this military exploit, Zhu Youjian awarded Lu Xiang the rank of colonel and Cao Bianjiao the rank of major. The military rank system designed by Li Yunya is only awarded to those who are from the military academy. After Lu Xiangsheng reorganized the Liaodong Army, many generals went to the Beijing Military Academy for at least one year to train in batches and periods. People like Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang had never been trained. They commanded relatively old troops, Guan Ning cavalry After being dismantled by Lu Xiangsheng, the rest of them were eliminated. Zhu Youjian rewarded these people according to the original set of defense, guerrilla, and general soldiers.

The two military systems are parallel, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the new military system is more mainstream, so more and more generals are voluntarily applying to Beijing for training.

In order to completely solve the problem of local warlords' ineffective command, Zhu Youjian appointed Wu Xiang as a Polu general at last year's court meeting, and transferred him back to Beijing to return home for the elderly. His son Wu Sangui is already a commander, and he cannot be allowed to work in another The generals in the Ming Dynasty are very valuable. Give him a general rank, let him retire honorably, and give him a pension according to the treatment of a major general. It is also worthy of him. All the land that was embezzled and looted in the past was nationalized, and two-thirds of the money and real estate was donated, and the rest was enough for him to live his life in style.

Zhu Youjian is a very smart person, and he is also very good at playing the art of the emperor. These things are all his own plans. After forcing Wu Xiang to return home, he will transfer Zu Dashou to Shanxi to listen to orders under Sun Chuanting's tent. The entire Liaodong Army was completely in the hands of the government. Lu Xiangsheng reorganized a total of ten divisions, about 12 people, including [-] greedy wolf cavalry, [-] camps, and [-] regular soldiers. Field battles with the Manchus are no longer We are at a disadvantage, but now neither side can destroy the other, so they just confront each other. Lu Xiangsheng builds a city every once in a while. After the big defeat last year, Huang Taiji is already studying to move the capital, thinking whether to move the capital Moved to Changchun.

Sun Chuanting in the Northwest War Zone also made a splash. After Gao Yingxiang was defeated and returned to Shanxi, hundreds of thousands of refugees were left behind. Li Yunya brought back more than 20 refugees to Beijing, and digested more than 20 on the spot. Sun Chuanting selected young adults from them and compiled them. Six divisions, about 9 people, including [-] broken army battalions and [-] tiger battalions, all directly led by Sun Chuanting, and another [-] regular troops. In addition to stationed on the Tongguan line of the Yellow River, there is also the Datong generation of Xuanfu in the north. Beware of Mongolia.

The Seven Killers of the Beijing Military Region has also been expanded to [-], led by Wu Sangui. The northern region is safe. Li Yunya plans to take precautions against the southeast, so a new Nanjing Military Region was established, with Man Gui as the commander-in-chief, commanding [-] troops. Wan Shuibing, with forces along the Yangtze River, sits in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang.In addition, the Guangzhou Military Region was established, with Cao Bianjiao as the commander-in-chief, commanding [-] troops, [-] of which were navy, in preparation for the future invasion of Southeast Asia.

Zhu Youjian set a new task for the Ministry of National Defense: "After the establishment of each military region, it will start to suppress bandits. All rogue bandits, mountain bandits, water thieves, etc. will be wiped out. After five years, there will be no more 20 bandits in each military region. Banditry with more than one person!" As for those with less than two people, Li Yunya urged the Ministry of Public Security to pursue and suppress them. Only when public security is improved can industry and commerce develop, and when industry and commerce circulate, the country can become prosperous and strong.

The Ministry of National Defense is followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Zhu Youjian told the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Send letters to 26 countries including North Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Luzon, Java, Chenla, and Myanmar, asking them to send envoys to China before the Dragon Boat Festival in the eighth year of Chongzhen. Pay tribute to Beijing, otherwise the Sixth Division will be moved in the future!"

Then there is the Ministry of Supervision. Zhu Youjian accepted Li Yunya's opinion and appointed twelve inspectors and imperial envoys, each from different factions and different classes. Officials such as magistrates, chief envoys, etc., the central government has almost finished sorting out, and the next step is to start rectifying the local area. Zhu Youjian will lay down a heavy hand, and thoroughly give color to those officials who are incapable of governing the country, have the skills to disturb the people, and obey the law. have a look!

Zhu Youjian made sufficient preparations in advance, and clearly outlined the structure system, behavior rules, and personnel appointments of the three departments. After speaking, he briefly asked the opinions of the three ministers, and then held a group discussion. If there is a need for other ministries to cooperate, for example, the inspection team requires the cooperation of the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of National Defense requires the cooperation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

These things alone make a busy day. At night, the heads of various ministries live in the guest rooms of the Taihe Palace. The Taihe Palace has nine floors. The meeting place is on the top floor. Standard conference room, the second floor is a restaurant.

Li Yunya and Zhu Youjian went in and out together. Li Yunya advised Zhu Youjian not to specialize as much as possible. Zhu Youjian is as good as others. He also thinks that scholars with fame and reputation are unwilling to be an official. He should be a benevolent king. He looked like a virtuous person, so no one who served him took him with him. After several years of subtle influence by Li Yunya, he was completely able to handle his daily life by himself.

The two followed officials from various ministries to the second floor for dinner. They met Xu Guangqi on the way, accompanied by Song Yingxing, Sun Yuanhua, Xu Xiake and other academicians. The dinner will be delivered, otherwise it would be too tiring to climb the stairs like this."

Xu Guangqi quickly bowed to thank him, Li Yunya grabbed him: "Dean Xu is not very old, he is 71 years old this year, right? 72? Only 72 years old! Look at Minister Sun, he is only one year younger than you. It's easy to go up to the ninth floor in one breath."

Xu Guangqi smiled wryly: "Master Sun leads the army all the year round, and his iron bones are strong, no frail scholar like me can compare."

"People, you need to exercise more. This Taihe Palace, climbing three times a day can guarantee you 99% of your life, and climbing the stairs after eating can also help you digest food." Li Yunya turned to Song Yingxing again, "Academician Song, last time When will the large steam engine mentioned be made?"

"It's not easy." Song Yingxing was ashamed, "The train is okay. You want to put it on a boat, which can drive a propeller to push a big boat with four to five hundred materials, or a warship with iron armor running in the sea. Which one is needed?" The strength is too great, we made it last year and tried it out, twelve steam boilers were working at the same time, and the boat ran slower than people walking.”

"It doesn't matter, as long as there is progress, the locomotive will continue to be transformed. We will build many railways in the future. In addition to the two that are under construction in Shanxi and Liaodong, we will also build the Beijing-Zhengzhou Railway in Zhengzhou this year. If it is suitable, the two-Beijing railway will continue to be built in the south, all the way to Guangzhou, and work hard according to this goal. Even if it is built for 100 years, it will be built. The power and speed of the train must be improved, as well as the safety. , now it is only used to pull goods, but in the future it will be a passenger car, and you have a long way to go."

Zhu Youjian is very interested in trains and ships: "Will it be possible to take the train from Beijing to Lingnan directly after the repair is completed?"

Li Yunya nodded: "Yes, but the speed will be very slow. I will have to run for two days and two nights. I will eat, sleep and sleep on the train. Well, when the time comes, we will get a special train, get a luxury car, and go to Guangzhou to eat lychees together." .”

Zhu Youjian said: "Litches are fine, I just want to see what Frankie and the Dutch red-haired ghost look like, and also see the real customs and customs of Western countries."