Chapter 581: Forming and Training a New Army

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In the small courtyard outside the study of the Governor's Mansion of Zhengnan, Hai Lanzhu was sitting in the small pavilion outside doing needlework, and Zhezhe on the side was practicing walking with her toddler daughter, when Da Yu'er, who was wearing a white fine gauze dress, walked over from the cloister with a tray.

Da Yu'er walked up to the two of them and asked Zhezhe, "Auntie, hasn't he come out yet?" ”

"Nope!" Zhezhe said with some worry: "Since he received the official letter from the imperial court this morning, he has locked himself in the study and never come out, and he hasn't even drunk a sip of water, isn't there something big happening to the imperial court?" ”

"What can be a big deal, it's nothing more than a few thieves in Shaanxi." Da Yu'er Qiong's nose wrinkled, pursed her lips and said disdainfully: "If you want me to say, it's just a few stupid people who dream that the prince will Xiangning have a kind of thing, as long as the imperial court mobilizes an army in the past, it won't take a few months to pacify them, but Xianggong is still asking for trouble, I really don't understand why." ”

"Not necessarily." Zhezhe hesitated for a moment before saying: "If it was so simple, Xianggong wouldn't be so troubled, we've been following Xianggong for almost two years, when have you ever seen Xianggong so troubled?" ”

"This ...... I've never seen it before. ”

Da Yu'er also hesitated a little, in her impression, since she met Yang Feng, no matter what kind of enemies and difficulties she encountered, Yang Feng had never been afraid, whether it was the arrogant Nurhachi, Huang Taiji father and son, or Zheng Zhilong, who was galloping across the sea, Yang Feng could beat them so that they couldn't find the north, but now it was just a few mud-legged rebellions in Shaanxi, why was Yang Feng so nervous?

"Maybe there is something special about those rebellious thieves in Shaanxi?" Hai Lanzhu, who was making a female celebrity, put down the needle and thread in her hand and said with some doubts, but then laughed, "Look at what I said, those thieves are far away in Shaanxi, and Xianggong is not a fairy, how can he know who they are." ”

Hai Lanzhu waved her hand a little embarrassed and laughed at herself: "Forget it, don't talk about it, Bumu Butai, you can quickly bring things in." ”

"Okay...... Then I'll go in first. Da Yu'er picked up the tray and entered the study.

Da Yu'er entered the study, and the first thing she saw was a tall figure standing by the wall, staring motionlessly at the large map hanging on the wall.

This is a map of the Ming Dynasty, different from today's outrageously simple maps, in which mountains, rivers and cities are marked one by one.

Although such a map cannot be compared with the high-definition maps scanned by outrageously detailed satellites in later generations, it is already very amazing in the eyes of people in this era, and Da Yuer still remembers the amazement she felt when she saw such a detailed map for the first time.

Glancing at the map, Da Yu'er just put down the tray when she heard Yang Feng shake his head suspiciously: "No, Shaanxi has already started planting high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn more than a year ago, how can there be so many man-made rebellions?" Is history really in...... Hey...... Bumu Butai, are you here? ”

Da Yu'er walked over and said angrily: "My sister and aunt said that you have been in the study for most of the day, and you refuse to come out, what is wrong with you, Xianggong, can a few thieves make you so out of shape?" ”

Yang Feng looked helpless, and waved his hand with some annoyance: "They are indeed thieves, but ...... But...... Forget it, let's not talk about it, I'm just asking for trouble. ”

Today's Yang Feng's heart is indeed full of anxiety, once in his opinion, after two years of efforts, Shaanxi, Shaanxi and other places in recent years have been plagued by the climate of the Xiaoice River, but with the promotion and popularization of high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn, the large-scale displaced activities that ravaged the entire late Ming period in another historical time and space should be nipped in the bud by themselves, but the facts have proved that they are still too optimistic, anti-thieves are still anti-thieves, even if there is no large-scale starvation in Shaanxi today, But Gao Yingxiang and others still began to kill officials and rebel like another time and space.

Although Da Yu'er didn't understand Yang Feng's troubles, she would often be a little petty to Yang Feng in the past, but this did not mean that she was a rude and willful woman, otherwise she would not be a woman who taught two generations of emperors in another time and space.

Although Yang Feng's attitude was not good, she was not annoyed, but comforted softly: "Okay, okay, we don't know, don't think too much about it." Besides, as you just said, the high-yielding potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops you got have begun to be popularized in the Ming Dynasty.

The life of the people is much better than in previous years, at least there will be no large-scale displacement, what are you worried about? It's just a few anti-thieves, can it be compared to the Dutch in Taiwan and the ...... in Liaodong Is it harder to deal with the Manchurians? ”

Da Yu'er's words were like a clear stream of flowing water through Yang Feng's somewhat anxious mood, which made his mood begin to ease. Yang Feng, who was in a much better mood, stretched out his hand and hugged her, "I didn't expect our family's Bumu Butai to know how to comfort people, it's really rare." ”

"People are already very understanding, okay?" Da Yu'er Qiong's nose curled, and she said very proudly: "You don't think that I, the editor-in-chief of Pravda, have been in vain for more than a year, right?" ”

"That's right."

Yang Feng couldn't help but nodded, in the more than a year that he was not in the capital, Pravda has always been presided over by Da Yu'er, although there is no amazing move, but it has been slowly radiating from the capital, Nanjing, etc. to the surroundings at a firm and slow speed, which is enough to show Da Yu'er's ability, he couldn't help but smile and praise.

"With the talent of our family Bumu Butai, if you are an official, you will at least be a prefect."

"Prefect? You're underestimating me. Da Yu'er writhed her delicate body dissatisfiedly: "With my ability, even if it is a provincial envoy or even a governor, what is a prefect?" ”

"Hahaha...... Okay, I said it wrong, our family's Bumu Butai is the most powerful. ”

After the two of them talked and laughed a few words, Yang Feng's original depressed mood dissipated most of them unconsciously.

When Yang Feng looked at the map on the wall again, he already had a plan in his heart, and soon walked quickly to the desk, picked up the gel pen and letterhead on the table, and began to write the letter......

"Your Majesty has sent an urgent report, and the minister already knows...... Shaanxi's affairs must not be underestimated. The people of Baishui County, Wang Er, and King Daliang of Hannan are not to be feared, but only Gao Yingxiang, who claims to be the king of Chuang, is even troublesome, and cannot be underestimated.

Other...... The minister thought that now that the imperial court's armed forces were slack, it was better to have no guards in various places, so the imperial court should send capable generals to re-exercise the new army, so that there could be something to do in various places to quickly go to the local counterinsurgency, with Tian Ergeng and the ministers in Shaoxing confiscated more than 20 million taels of silver, the silver taels needed to train the new army have no worries......"

In the Wenhua Palace, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse put aside the folds presented by Yang Feng and said to several cabinet elders sitting on the side: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have all read the excerpts on Yang Aiqing, I don't know what you think of Yang Aiqing's excerpts?" ”

Han Yi and Zhu Guozhen glanced at each other, and a trace of worry flashed in their eyes.

Zhu Guozhen hesitated for a moment before arching his hand: "Your Majesty, although there has been a civil uprising in Shaanxi, it is just a little mob rebellion, the imperial court only needs to order the governor Wang Zi and the officials in various parts of Shaanxi to strictly suppress the bandits, and then send an order to mobilize a group of soldiers and horses from Xuanda and Hubei to Shaanxi to quell the rebellion, then the major event can be decided, why bother to train a new army?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Han Yi also persuaded: "The cost of training the new army is too high, and Jiang Ninghou actually said that he would use all the more than 20 million taels of silver collected from Shaoxing to invest it, which is really undesirable."

You must know that these silver are the people's fat and people's ointment, and now there are so many places where the imperial court urgently needs silver, if these silver taels are used to settle the people's livelihood, isn't it much better than the poor soldiers? ”

"Desperate?" Zhu Youxiao's face immediately darkened when he heard this word, is Han Yi pointing at Sang and scolding Huai?

"Han Yi, are you accusing me?" Zhu Youxiao asked coldly.

"Definitely!" Han Yi put his heart sideways, "In recent years, the climate in the Ming Dynasty has become more and more abnormal, and many local people have even lost their grains, and they urgently need relief from the imperial court, if they can ...... these silver taels."

"Wait!" Zhu Youxiao interrupted Han Yi's words, "If I remember correctly, this silver was confiscated by Yang Aiqing from the homes of those bold and unscrupulous businessmen in Shaoxing. I asked Aiqing, if it weren't for the silver that Yang Aiqing got from Shaoxing, I don't know how the imperial court would help those victims? ”

"This ......" Han Yi was speechless for a while.

Yes, these silver were originally a windfall, just two days ago, Yang Feng had sent someone to escort the first batch of three million taels of silver into the treasury of the household department in Beijing, and now this silver is not hot, he set his eyes on the remaining silver again, Rao is thick-skinned people are embarrassed to fight the idea of this silver again.

Seeing that Han Yi didn't speak, Zhu Youxiao sneered: "I remember that Yang Aiqing once said that if a country wants to prosper, it should pay equal attention to civil and military affairs, and any move that emphasizes military force over literature or literature over military force is undesirable. ”

Zhu Youxiao's words are more heart-wrenching, almost accusing him of suppressing martial artists. Although suppressing the martial arts is something that the Daming civil official group has been doing for hundreds of years, there are some things in this world that can be done but cannot be said, and once they are said, it will be troublesome.

Gu Bingqian, who had not spoken, saw that Zhu Youxiao was pointing the finger at Han Yi, and was anxious and wanted to stand up and say a few words for Han Yi, but then a six-hundred-mile rush from a eunuch interrupted everyone's discussion.

In May of the eighth year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, Guyuan (later Guyuan, Ningxia) sent out a militia mutiny, when the border soldiers were short of pay, and the soldiers took advantage of the peasant rebellion to rebel together and loot the Guyuan Prefecture Treasury. Governor Hu Tingyan and Governor Yue of Yansui passed the buck to each other, and most of the mutinous soldiers joined the peasant mutiny team, and for a time Guyuan also began to be in chaos.

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