Chapter Twelve: Happy Events (2)
The New Year is the end of the year, and the New Year is actually a checkpoint. The six ministries have to count the expenditure and investment for the year and also have to make the budget for the next year. Although the situation has stabilized, the officials of the six ministries are busy sorting out files and statistics. Due to the turmoil of Wei Zhongxian forcing the palace to establish a crown prince, many things that were later not clear about, which has increased the difficulty of statistics. They are busy in the dark, but now the emperor Zhu Yinglong is a little free.
After the establishment of the Military Machine Pavilion, it was officially listed in the Wuying Pavilion. Sun Chengzong, Zhang Guowei and others officially worked in the first half of the Wuying Pavilion. After Sun Chengzong took over the Military Machine Pavilion, the first thing he did was to abolish the Beijing camp and train the new army.
The Jingying Camp was originally composed of 72 guards, and now all of them were removed and the guards were changed to brigades. Taking advantage of Qi Jiguang's training in the four towns of Jizhou, Changping, Baoding and Liaodong, combined with his own experience of being the commander of Liaodong, and there were also new training methods from Zhu Yinglong to kick the remaining Jingying officers and soldiers out of the old and weak. Under the principle of preferring to be insignificant than to be insignificant, a total of 63,428 strong soldiers were obtained, and they were organized into 12 infantry brigades, artillery and chariot battalions. Taking the infantry brigade as an example, the new organization of brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads. These terms naturally come from Zhu Yinglong's head, corresponding to the original battalion, department, bureau, flag, team, 12 people are one squad, with chief and deputy squad leader, three squads are 37 people in one squad, one platoon leader and three squad leader.
The first company has a chief and one deputy company commander, plus a squad with 125 officers and soldiers, and the third company is the first battalion, with one chief battalion commander and one clerk. The battalion directly under the kitchen logistics, two guards, a total of 402 officers and soldiers in the battalion, and the third battalion is a regiment, with one chief regiment commander, two deputy regiment commander, one clerk, one clerk, one regiment directed by a kitchen logistics squad, one guard platoon, a total of 1,360 people, and the third company is a brigade, with one chief brigade leader, two deputy brigade commander, one general secretary, one brigade directly under the kitchen logistics squad, one guard company, a total of 4,217 people. The sixteen brigade officers and soldiers totaled more than 67,000, some of which were a small number of infantry and cavalry mixed, with a shortage of more than 4,000 people. The recruiting offices were set up to recruit strong men from refugees.
After the compilation was completed, the old, weak and disabled soldiers were properly arranged. The court, who was willing to cultivate land and pay grain, arranged to distribute the military farms of the garrison to them. The court was responsible for providing grain planting and farm tools, and was willing to do something else. The court gave them the same value of silver for them to make a living.
Similarly, those who were selected into the new army not only paid monthly military pay, but also had people at home, the court treated them the same as those eliminated old and weak. The original gap was filled in less than three days. After that, the recruitment office of the Ministry of War was still surrounded by people for several consecutive days.
Since it is a new army, it must be new inside and outside. All military uniforms, armor and weapons will be replaced. Zhu Yinglong is determined to build an army with full firearms, so it is impossible to remain unchanged from top to bottom.
It takes at least half a year to produce all these things. If equipment is equipped to form combat effectiveness, it will take half a year. There is also how to train lower-level officers and senior officers to command operations, combat methods and methods under the condition of full firearms. Even if the two are carried out side by side, it will take at least one and a half years to make this army look good. It is necessary to test whether this new army can withstand the test and become a steel brigade and pull out to know that the pseudo-Ming court in Nanjing is the whetstone of this new army.
The reorganization work is carried out in an orderly manner and needs to be completed thoroughly. After the Chinese New Year, the reorganization will last for three months. First, the soldiers are in place, and then the selection of low-level officers, squads, platoons and soldiers are selected by themselves. The officers at the company and battalions can be directly appointed. The military equipment pavilion on the first brigade and regiment are determined by Zhu Yinglong. Moreover, these sixteen brigades are divided into three branches of the military, and a unified commander is needed, a mature and steady, proficient in military affairs and able to grasp the new army accurately. Lu Haotian is too young, and Sun Chengzong is old and he has a lot of burden on him, so Zhu Yinglong initially confided Xiong Tingbi, but he must wait until he comes back from Ningyuan before he can take over.
On New Year's Eve, Zhu Yinglong asked Yanhong to prepare a sumptuous dinner, gathering the concubines of the harem, whether they were his concubines, the widow of Emperor Tianqi, the old concubine Liu, and the concubines of Guangzong. Everyone spent the New Year together, and also let Zhu Yinglong get to know these poor women who were preparing to die in the palace.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhu Yinglong gave a banquet for officials of the fourth rank and above in Beijing at the Palace of Supreme Harmony. The monarch and ministers also had a happy time. From the second day of the lunar month, in previous years, six ministries filled out cabinet forms to count the cost of the court last year, and then handed it to the Sili Supervisor for approval, and then discussed various cost plans for the court in the coming year. Now the power to approve the prize is gone. This year is naturally different. Zhu Yinglong not only asked the six ministries of the cabinet to calculate the cost of the next year, but also asked them to draft annual plans and asked them to list the rules and regulations, and list the things that the court should do and the plans to complete in the coming year, and every month, the court must write each yamen. The six ministries and yamen will submit them to the cabinet for discussion and deliberation at each level, and submit them for review at each level, so that the approval will be implemented according to the plan, and a system must be formed.
Because of the creation of this new system, things that could be completed in six or seven days were delayed by the end of the month before he could barely come up with a so-called annual plan. Zhu Yinglong knew very well that a new system would not mature in a short time. Take it slowly, you can't hurry.
After the Lantern Festival, Zhu Yinglong received a memorial from Liu Zongzhou from the Chahar tribe in Mongolia. The results were naturally gratifying. He reached such a series of agreements with Lin Danhan of Chahar, Mongolia. It seems that when Liu Zongzhou left Chahar, it was the time when the court reached a peace agreement with the Later Jin Dynasty. However, Lin Danhan's request for marriage made Zhu Yinglong a headache. In the Ming Dynasty, it seemed that it was not a taboo to intermarry with foreign tribes. Emperor Taizu and several concubines were Mongolians. Emperor Chengzu's biological mother was a Mongolian woman, who was once a concubine of Emperor Yuan, so intermarriage between Han and Mongolia should not be a problem. However, he got married before he met. He didn't know what the other party looked like. He didn't know the height, shortness, fatness and thinness, so he married the person back. He was a little reluctant.
Besides, Zhu Changluo, the Emperor Guangzong, should be the father of Zhu Yinglong, who gave birth to nine daughters, Princess Huaisu, died at the age of seven, and was pursued. The five daughters of the rest of the family were all born in the early days and were not named. Princess Ningde was married to Liu Youfu. Princess Suiping and married Qi Zanyuan in the seventh year of Tianqi. In charge of the clan, only one Princess Le'an was left. She was only fourteen years old this year (the author made up, there were people, but the specific age was not found). Emperor Tianqi had two daughters. Even if he was still alive, he was only four or five years old. The only person who could get married was Princess Le'an, his own sister.
Chapter completed!