I, the grandson of the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, earned 100 million taels at the beginning

Rather than wasting time, money, and energy, it is better to defeat the prairie barbarians in the north first, and then slowly rectify the Silk Road.

This is what Lao Zhu thinks, and so does the old man, and maybe Zhu Zhanji also thinks like this.

It's a pity that future generations are incompetent. From the beginning to the end, the Ming Dynasty did not completely conquer the northern grasslands, which also caused the Silk Road to never be opened.

Even during the War God period of the Ming Dynasty, most of the northwest area was almost lost, and no troops from the Ming Dynasty came here again.

In this battle against the Western Regions, Zhu Zhangui only used the Shenji Battalion.

With a year of upgrading, more than half of the troops in the Shenji Battalion have been replaced with second-generation rifles. In terms of combat, they no longer need to use the monotonous infantry line to fight as before.

With the new weaponry, the tactics of the Shenji Battalion also changed accordingly.

The previous group legion combat has gradually developed into skirmish combat.

During the eradication of the remnants of the grassland forces, the Shenji Battalion carried out reform experiments in this aspect of the battle.

After nearly a year of experimentation, the soldiers have gradually mastered this fighting method and can perfectly display the power of the new weapon.

However, before attacking the Western Regions, Zhu Zhangui has one more thing to deal with first. If this matter cannot be handled, the Battle of the Western Regions may end before it even begins.

"Your Highness, Your Highness..."

In the Mihawei temporary camp, the officers of the Shenji Battalion, led by Jiang Huai, greeted Zhu Zhangui who had rushed over from Jinling.

Zhu Zhangui, who had finished dealing with the Jinling incident, did not go to Peiping due to time constraints, so he drove straight to the northwest to the front line of attack.

"Hey, you're having a good time!"

As soon as he entered the command room, Zhu Zhangui saw that there were fruits and various dried fruits on the table.

Jiang Huai laughed when he heard this.

"Your Highness, you don't know. There is nothing else here, but this stuff. If we just exchange some canned food, we can get a lot of these foods in exchange."

Zhu Zhangui gave him a meaningful look, "It's not just these things, I heard that when you went to inspect some time ago, you not only changed the raisins, but also abducted the girl, and now people are almost sending them away Let's go to your house."

Jiang Huai laughed awkwardly in an instant, and the generals below also burst into laughter.

"Jianghuai, I want to ask you, are we coming to the Western Regions to let this place return to my Huaxia management, or for the raisins and the beauties of the Western Regions."

Without waiting for the other party to answer, Zhu Zhangui's expression gradually turned cold.

"When I was away, as the commander-in-chief of an army, what would your brothers think if you did such a thing?"

"Will they think that if the leaders have done this, can we do the same?"

The more Zhu Zhangui spoke, the louder his voice became, and his tone became more and more strict.

The generals who were laughing and laughing around fell silent for a moment, standing still and not daring to move.

Jiang Huai lowered his head in shame, allowing Zhu Zhangui's saliva to spray on his face.

He didn't want to, but he couldn't move his eyes when he saw that girl, and that girl didn't know what was going on in her heart, so she wanted to follow Jiang Huai wholeheartedly.

Fortunately, this guy Jianghuai knew that women cannot be kept in the army, and he didn't even bring them back to the barracks, so he sent his men back to Jinling's home.

Otherwise, Zhu Zhangui's arrival today would not only be a pair of reprimands, but he might be directly charged with disturbing the morale of the army and sent back to the court for trial.

"The general will be found guilty, please punish him, Your Highness!"

Knowing that he made a mistake, Jiang Huai didn't justify himself, and just knelt on the ground, waiting for Zhu Zhangui's punishment.

Zhu Zhangui snorted coldly and said to Hu Yu who had returned from injury.

"Pull it out and hit 20 sticks. In addition, all the credits for this Northern Expedition will be cancelled. The whole army will be notified if there are any offenders, and they will be severely punished!"

"As ordered!"

All the generals galloping across the battlefield, no longer have the arrogance and domineering when facing the enemy at this moment, and each of them whispered like a quail.

Zhu Zhangui's anger this time was not because of insanity and no place to let it go, but because of it on purpose.

As the Shenji Camp followed the old man to fight around, Zhu Zhangui gradually discovered that the Shenji Camp's troops were a bit out of his control.

When he first took over the Shenji Battalion, all the generals belonged to him, and the deputy commander, Jiang Huai, was his steadfast follower.

But when he no longer directly manages the Shenji Battalion, the relationship between him and this army, which is often in contact with court officials, becomes intriguing. The officers in the army are becoming more and more bureaucratic.

In the past, Shenjiying obeyed his orders unconditionally, but since last year, when he gave some orders, Jiang Huai and others began to hesitate about the orders.

Even Zhu Zhangui learned more than once that Jiang Huai and other officers not only did not immediately carry out the orders he gave to Shenji Battalion, but would ask the old man first.

According to the rules of the imperial court, what Jiang Huai and others did is very correct, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But for Zhu Zhangui, that made him a little uncomfortable.

All of you generals were promoted from the bottom by me. Food, clothing, equipment, and money to support your family in Hukou, which one was not paid by me?

But now, after being an official for several years and accepting the official title of the imperial court, you want to alienate me. What exactly do you want to do?

For Jianghuai to get a concubine back, this is just a trivial matter for the court officials.

But Zhu Zhangui used this incident as an excuse to attack the officers of Shenji Battalion directly.

He wants these guys to understand that what I can give you can also be taken back, and you have to figure out whose food you are eating and whose money you are spending.

Even Zhu Zhangui has already done it. If Jiang Huai doesn't come to his senses before dawn tomorrow, he will directly remove him from his position and rush back to Jinling to be his uncle Xiaoyao.

The sound of wooden sticks hitting the flesh continued to sound, and Zhu Zhangui sat on the main seat with a calm expression, eating the dried fruits and raisins on the table.

The generals below all dared not move, watching their noses, noses, noses, and hearts.

Soon, Hu Yu strode in.

"Your Highness, the military law has been executed!"

Zhu Zhangui nodded, glanced at the generals in the command room, got up without saying a word and went to the resting place.

All the generals in the command room looked at each other in blank dismay, not understanding how a little concubine could make His Highness so furious.

Not only did he reprimand the commander in public, he even beat him with 20 army sticks, depriving Beizheng of all his achievements.

"Hello, officers!"

While everyone was thinking, a soldier from the guard battalion came in and saluted all the officers.

"Generals, please hand over your guns and weapons."

Everyone panicked at this moment, a general who knew the guard battalion soldier hurried forward and asked.

"Brother Liu, what is going on?"

The guard surnamed Liu didn't speak, but just silently looked at the gun and knife on the opponent's waist.

The general gritted his teeth and wanted to ask again, but looking at the other party's eyes, he understood that it was the best choice to hand over the gun and knife now, otherwise it would be more troublesome later.

He untied the gun and knife and handed them to the guard. The general opened his mouth, looked at the cold face of the other party, sighed helplessly, and stood aside.

The others looked at each other for a while, but none of them took the lead in making a move. It wasn't until several legion leaders handed over their weapons first that the others followed one by one.

Seeing this scene, the guard's eyes became colder.

As Zhu Zhangui's most loyal soldier, in their concept, Zhu Zhangui's orders are everything.

No matter how absurd the order was, they would execute it without hesitation.

But these generals who used to be like them actually had doubts about His Highness's order, and even had to look at the faces of senior generals before making a decision.

After putting away the general's weapons and knives, the soldiers of the guard battalion turned and left holding their weapons.

Not only the officers, but all the more than 3 soldiers in the entire barracks were notified to turn in their weapons, and only the bayonets were kept as self-defense weapons.

This order made more people panic. They didn't understand what happened. Why did His Highness issue such an order?

He wanted to ask, but was stopped by the guard battalion outside Zhu Zhangui's residence.

Even every checkpoint in the entire military camp was taken over by the guards.

This time Zhu Zhangui was well prepared. He came this time and brought all the 1300 people in the guard battalion.

The Shenji Battalion was built by him, and it is also the most powerful force in his hands besides the navy.If this force is out of control, he would rather give up attacking the Western Regions and disperse the entire Shenji Battalion to recruit again, rather than keep them.

The Western Regions can fight at any time, as long as Zhu Zhangui is still alive, the jumping beam clowns around him will not be able to jump up.

But the heart of the army must be in his hands. He didn't want him to fight life and death in front of him and open up thousands of miles of land for Daming.

As a result, his own army became pawns in the hands of others, aiming the gun at him, the creator.

The room where Jianghuai rests at night.

Jiang Huai, lying on the bed, fell into deep thought while looking at the night outside the window.

Like Li Hu, he has been with Zhu Zhangui the longest, from the original personal guard to the middle-level officer of the overseas expeditionary force.

After returning to Daming, he was promoted to the Shenji Battalion and became a high-level commander, and later became the commander of the Shenji Battalion, one of the three major battalions of the imperial court.

In the first battle against Mahamu, he was awarded the earl by virtue of his merits, and became a new generation of generals in the imperial court.

Born as an ordinary fisherman, he has grown from an ordinary small flag to a nobleman of the imperial court. He enjoys a life that he never dreamed of before. It is better than the landlords in their village.

For Zhu Zhangui who gave him all this, Jiang Huaigang was very grateful, and vowed to be loyal to Zhu Zhangui for the rest of his life, and repay him for his kindness and promotion.

But I don't know when it started, maybe it was the day when he was knighted.

His gratitude slowly turned into a sense of peace of mind, and he even told himself in his heart that all of this was achieved by himself, and His Royal Highness is just rewarding his meritorious deeds, even if there is no grandson, I can still jump over the dragon's gate by myself.

When fighting against Wala Canbu, Zhu Zhangui was transferred away by the emperor, and also took away 5000 soldiers from the Shenji Battalion.

At that time, he was still a little unhappy, thinking that he was the commander of the Shenji Battalion, and when the grandson was lost, he had to say hello to himself, so that he could be mentally prepared.

In the end, he didn't even say hello, which almost made him have a problem with his defense.

Yao thought that when he first took over the Shenji Battalion, he would send several memorials to Zhu Zhangui almost every month, reporting the training of the Shenji Battalion and the psychological conditions of the soldiers equipped.

Later, as time went by, the memorials changed from a few letters a month to one letter a month.

And until he came back from A Sanguo to now, he seems to have never written any memorials in this regard.

Every time I look for Zhu Zhangui, it's not for equipment, or for soldiers, or for soldiers' salaries, supplies, and other things.

As for other things to report, it seems that it has never happened again.

Thinking about it, his memory slowly returned to the memory of protecting Zhu Zhangui with Li Hu and fighting bravely on the battlefield.

At that time, the three of them fought side by side, killing the enemy with fear, laughing loudly among the dead when they won, and plotting together how to get it back when they failed.

The three sat together drinking wine and thinking about the future, listening to Zhu Zhangui's plans for the future and policies for governing the country.

Zhu Zhangui even joked to the two of them that Li Hu was good at naval warfare, and when he was about to take power in the future, let Li Hu control all of Ming's navy and expand the territory on the sea for him.

He Jianghuai has a calm personality, and he is the best candidate for the commander of the army. He will let him control the army and lay a great land for him.

After many years, Zhu Zhangui's promise to the two has been fulfilled.

Li Hu became the commander-in-chief of the navy and controlled the most powerful sea power in Ming Dynasty.

Strong boats and sharp guns made the enemies who fought fearful and famous all over the world.

And he also became the commander of the Shenji Battalion, one of the three major battalions of the Ming Dynasty. He commanded the strongest land force of the Ming Dynasty, fought south and north, fought east and west, and earned a great reputation.

He, Jiang Huai, has grown from an unknown little officer to the most prestigious general of the younger generation of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhangui also takes good care of them in life and family.

Knowing that the imperial salary was low, Zhu Zhangui personally subsidized their family with his own money. During the holidays, the Chamber of Commerce would send various condolences to their family.

When buying things in the Chamber of Commerce, they, the family members of Zhu Zhangui's military officers, have very big discounts.

Even Zhu Zhangui acquiesced to their family members buying discounted goods from the Chamber of Commerce and selling them to others at the original price.

It can be said that Zhu Zhangui has fulfilled everything he promised, even better than what he promised.

And they do.

They still remember the promise of lifelong loyalty that they made back then.

He didn't know about Li Hu, and he hadn't heard the news of the navy's rectification.

It means that this short-legged tiger still remembers the original oath of loyalty in his heart, and is 100% loyal to the person he swore allegiance to.

As for him, I don't know when, he has gradually been assimilated by the officialdom, and he has forgotten the oaths and promises he made back then.

You treat me with sincerity, and I will repay you with my life. Even if there are thousands of swords on my body, I will never leave.

Thinking of that sonorous oath, Jiang Huai silently closed his eyes, muttering self-blame.

"Money captivates the eye, power touches the heart! Jianghuai, Jianghuai, you who once hated incompetent and corrupt officials and despised villains have become one of them."