Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 79
If the juren they know committed something, the officials generally, out of the psychology of protecting each other, would either remind those juren what to do, or simply refuse to accept the complaint against the juren and let them get away with it.

Because Juren, Jinshi, and officials at all levels are an extremely huge network of relationships. They are connected through various emotions such as classmates, disciples, teachers and students, and even the emperor cannot touch them easily.

Sitting in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Zhu Cihong played with the emperor's treasure in his hand. This seal was not brought from the capital, but Zhu Cihong ordered the ambassador of the Casting and Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Rites to give himself a piece of high-quality Hetian mutton fat jade seed material. Carved out.

"Liu Bao, what's going on in the city recently?"

Although Zhu Cihong is an emperor, people in this era have no concept of news, so if Zhu Cihong wants to know what news is happening among the people recently, he has to ask the servants around him.

"Long live my lord, lately everyone in the city is saying that Wang Ruoyuan is not going to be a scholar, but will be a soldier. Even the little eunuchs below me often ask me why."

"Haha, it's right to be strange, I didn't expect this to happen at first."

"Wang Ruoyuan stood up and played an exemplary role. The soldiers and civilians in the city talked about it a lot. Zhang Chao gave me a statistical survey before. Now half of the people support the soldiers to join the army, and half of the people do not support the soldiers to join the army. Half, exactly balanced."

"Do you think it is better for scholars to join the army or not to join the army?"

Zhu Cihong used his seal to quote a booklet, and then casually asked Liu Bao.

"If Master Long live thinks it's good, my slave thinks it's good. If Master Long live thinks it's not good, then my slave doesn't think it's good either."

Liu Bao's words are watertight. It seems that what he said or what he didn't say are all nonsense. In fact, the amount of information is huge.

"Haha, after you became the eunuch of Bingbi, you became more tactful. It would be fine if you became the eunuch of palm print." Zhu Cihong said with a laugh.

Because Liu Bao's qualifications are too low, and among Zhu Cihong's cronies is Wang Fuen, who has higher qualifications than Liu Bao and has made more contributions.

Therefore, Zhu Cixiang could not let him be a palm-print eunuch for the time being, but let him be a pen-writing eunuch for a period of time to exercise and accumulate some qualifications and merits, so that he could convince the public in the future.

"Don't dare, dare not." Liu Bao knew that Zhu Cihong was teasing him, so he also said it with a smile.

Suddenly, Zhu Cihong said solemnly, "Have the clothes, armors, and swords of the Banner Guard and Jin Yiwei been distributed?"

The Banner Guards and Jin Yiwei are Zhu Cihong's first step in rebuilding the Shangzhiwei's pro-army. Once these 1 people are armed, they can become a more reliable force in Zhu Cihong's hands.

The only reason why we don't say it's the strength of the elite is because they haven't seen blood or fought a war, no matter how much they train, they can't do it, let alone how they haven't been trained yet.

"Everything we said to Long Live Lord has been sent out. Wang Funen assisted us in sending everything out from the inner treasury."

After Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, in order to reward him for his contribution, Zhu Cihong made Wang Fu'en the eunuch in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

One is that he is old and is not suitable for handling government affairs that offend others, and he no longer has the mental energy. The other is that letting him go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs can give Liu Bao and other young eunuchs who follow Zhu Cihong a way to rise.

Otherwise, an old eunuch with the same qualifications as Emperor Chongzhen's eldest companion Wang Chengen, even if he does not rely on his old age, can kill Liu Bao and others with his own methods and experience.

"That's good, pass it on. Tomorrow I will hold a court meeting and announce the Northern Expedition."

Now that an armed force of more than 1 people has initially taken shape, Zhu Cihong feels that he can start preparing for the Northern Expedition.

Just when Zhu Cihong was about to continue instructing Liu Bao, the voice of the system suddenly appeared.

"The regime in the south of the Yangtze River cannot escape a miserable fate in the end. It either subjugates the country and exterminates the species, or becomes a canary in other people's cages. Zhu Cihong stands at this turning point in history. What should you do?"

Hearing what the system said, Zhu Cihong complained in his heart, it's not that I don't know what to do, so I need you to teach me?

Now that the Qing army has just entered Guanzhong, there are at most a little over 15 soldiers, and with the [-] to [-] Guanning soldiers of Wu Sangui, the Boss of Ping Xibo, and Gaodi, the commander of Guanmen, there are at most [-] soldiers who can fight.

Li Zicheng's Chuang army had just been defeated by the Qing army, and the number must have dropped sharply, but no matter what, there must be hundreds of thousands, but the exact tens are not clear.

"Mission announcement: The host leads the Northern Expedition and rewards a battalion of troops."

The first battalion mentioned by the system refers to the Ming army under the battalion sentry system. The standard battalion of the supervisor is this kind. A battalion has 3000 people, and there are general, sentry, team, Shi, and Wu below. The soldiers of the guard are more refined, and correspondingly, they are more flexible in combat.

"Hey, there are so many." In the past, the system gave points or lucky draw opportunities, but this time it was so generous. A battalion of 3000 people is enough to fight a big battle.

Liu Bao on the side saw that Zhu Cihong didn't reply after he had spoken for so long, so he stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes while saying, "Long live, long live."

"What's the matter, what's it called?" Zhu Cihong finally came to his senses, forgetting that there was Liu Bao beside him.

"In our Northern Expedition, do we want to fight Li Chuang or the Tartars?" Having become a senior official like Bingbi eunuch, Liu Bao is naturally well-informed, knowing that the Tartars have driven Li Zicheng away and occupied the capital, but other things, he It is not clear.

Although he doesn't understand politics and military affairs, he still knows how to read novels and listen to storytelling for entertainment when he is free. He knows that fighting is not just for fun, and facing two enemies at the same time is very stressful.

"It's still a question. Of course, both of them were beaten."

"Li Chuang attacked our capital and killed my father and mother. The Tatars repeatedly invaded the border and invaded my vassal country. They regarded our Ming Dynasty as useless. How could we not kill these thieves and bandits?"

He Zhu Cihong, if he wants to fight, he will fight the big one. He can't be like Sun Zhongmou who is partial to Jiangdong.

Anyway, when there was a fight, he was the least stressed, because he was the legal ruler of China and the monarch of the people of the Central Plains. No matter where he went, people would eat pots of milk to welcome the king.

And he is the only one who has a stable base area, that is, south of the Yangtze River, as well as Huainan and Huaibei. Although Li Chuang's territory is as big as two or three provinces, they are all newly occupied and his control over these places is very poor.

As for the Tatars, they were originally a fishing and hunting people outside the pass, they had no land and they didn't know how to build it. Although they were related to foreign bases, in Zhu Cihong's eyes, it was almost as if they had nothing.

(End of this chapter)