In the autumn of the sixth year of Wanli, the fifth phase of Beiyang infantry was recruited for the training of recruits in Tianjin, and the emperor also planned to send 24 brocade guards, 48 officers with swords, and 148 military eunuchs to train their own royal elite in the 300,000 Beijing army.

The little emperor was no longer satisfied with merely training military eunuchs.

The young ruler had a very clear goal - the Four Guards Battalion.

The four guard battalions originally belonged to the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, but the elite of the civil fort was lost, and the remaining pro-army was no different from the ordinary guards, which belonged to the management of the military department and was under the supervision of the imperial horse, and the Son of Heaven had no right to intervene.

But now is a great opportunity.

The opportunity was created by Wanli himself, for which he repeatedly used the matter of the upcoming wedding and King Lu to make trouble unreasonably to the ministries during the court discussion, if he had nothing, maybe the result would just be unreasonable, but he had money.

Very rich.

For example, to deal with the household department, he spent 400,000 taels to wipe out all the treasures in the lantern market outside Donghua Gate during this year's lantern festival, and then said to the household department: I want to get married, and the household department wants to buy me a treasure.

Not to mention that the household department will not buy it for him, even if the household department really wants to buy it, he can't buy it.

The emperor pretended to be angry, so that he could say that the household department had made up a little utensils and jewelry, and the emperor pretended to be very dissatisfied.

Then he raised the black cauldron and smashed it at the Ministry of Rites: King Lu is going to get married, and he wants to be a vassal domain, you can watch it.

The Beijing City Market couldn't even buy a decent piece of silk for two months, what do you expect the Ministry of Rites to do?

He tossed the six parts in this way for half a year, and finally showed his little fangs to the military department, and the matter was the easiest to solve: "After so many years, the training of the Beijing camp is really not very good, and in the future, in addition to Jizhen, 300,000 Beijing troops will be trained by me." ”

A fool would agree to give 300,000 troops to the emperor who is not yet an adult, isn't that crazy?

Then he said his true intentions: "Then let's Teng Xiang Wei left and right, the people of the two guards are empty, and they haven't been made up yet, this is always okay, right?" ”

What can the military department say? As soon as the root cabinet and the celebrant are combined, maybe the emperor will stop with the soldiers in his hands, not to mention the transfer of ordnance also has a household matter, so the system will not be able to do whatever he wants because the emperor has the right to do whatever he wants, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty think that the young man of heaven will be annoyed in a few months.

This is good, the personnel, financial power, and food and salary of Tengxiang are all under the command of the little emperor.

It turns out that the power of the Son of Heaven will still be contained, but it will be different if there is still money.

Then, the Ministry of War received a sum of money from the Inner Treasury, which amounted to 134,000 taels of silver without going through the Ministry of Households, and the silver weighing more than 10,000 catties was transported to the gate of the Ministry of War by 26 horses drawn by the Jinshui Bridge.

The cart was pulled by the high-headed war horse raised by the imperial horse, and the driver was the palace internal guard Jinjia Han general, and the boxes placed on the car were full of neatly stacked silver ingots, one hundred taels and one piece, and the bottom of the ingot also had the new mark in the palace, even the military officials had never seen this battle.

The leader is the young brocade servant Luo Sigong, smiling and welcoming people, but doing things mercilessly, just one thing: "I came under the emperor's order, the two guards are full of ordnance, Your Majesty has made a good list, and the money is outside, and I hope that the military department will transport the weapons and armor to the East Camp as soon as possible." ”

The brocade clothes who obeyed the emperor's orders did not forget to make up for the emperor's intentions in front of the many officials who were surprised that the emperor had not come from so much money according to the emperor's intentions: "There is also grain and grass to be prepared, the silver palace is casting, and Luo will come again tomorrow to present the grain list." ”

When the news reached the household department, everyone seemed to wake up from a dream - the emperor was not only rich, but also richer than they imagined.

In the eyes of the Wanli Emperor, who lived deep in the Forbidden City, the important politics of the military state were like a game.

In fact, the little emperor also admitted defeat, he basically didn't get down to business except for being naughty, this was his concession to the court after weighing his own talent and cognition.

The bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty was so mature that the bureaucracy of various departments focused on checks and balances with each other, so that the emperor could not directly implement whatever he wanted to do - it was not only the emperor who was blocked, nor was it the so-called confrontation of the clerical group against the imperial power, in fact, under this set of rules, everyone would be constrained.

This is true of military ministers, civil ministers, and emperors, and naturally the same.

No matter how strong the little emperor's ambitions are, he can only test them from some subtle details.

But Wanli, who grew up looking at data, has no other strength, he is particularly sensitive to data, and he will not fail to move forward because it is too difficult, he will move forward slowly.

Luo Sigong returned from the military department, and just walked to the Taihe Gate, he saw a purple cloud from a distance, needless to say, no one in the palace could get out of such a swaggering feeling except for the emperor himself.

It's closer, Xiao Wanli is wearing a regular dress today, the robe is purple, and there are coiled dragons on the shoulders on the sun and moon, on the chest, back and upper arms, this dress is also called the four dragon robes.

"What does the military department say?"

Luo Sigong's figure is not burly, but he is taller than Wanli, the little emperor couldn't help but blurt out eagerly, and hurriedly looked left and right and beckoned to him: "Let's go, go to my military room." ”

With that, he swaggered north.

Luo Sigong followed, watching the emperor's walking demeanor, pursing his lips and saying nothing.

The Forbidden City is so good, it is different from the outside of the palace, even if you raise your face and look at the clouds and walk here, you won't bump into anything, spacious!

Look at this child who grew up in the Forbidden City, he is different from Long Qingye!

What the? Jiajingye? Emperor Daojun still has to walk when he goes out? That can't fly?

Finally watched the emperor walk into the military room, Luo Sigong didn't have time to admire the strange aesthetic Qianqing Palace ear room, then saw the little emperor turn his head and said nervously: "Close the door, you two go out and guard, the wall has ears!" ”

Seriously, Luo Sigong saw the emperor's strong sense of secrecy, and almost couldn't help but remind: Next door is a dormitory, if there are ears on the wall, aren't you afraid at night, emperor?

An official document slapped on the strange-shaped boat table, and the little emperor pointed to the official document and said to Luo Sigong: "Come, you can calculate for me, are these ordnance enough for a thousand households, and is it appropriate to use them all in a year?" ”

Luo Sigong just glanced at the official document, and felt that his head was as big as a fight, which ...... Where is this?

1,440 flintlock guns, 110 killers, and 338,800 leads.

Eighteen two-pound cannons, 1,800 shells, and 10,600 pounds of gunpowder.

Two hundred and eighty-eight pairs of eight-pack Shenwei machine arrows, eight hundred and forty palm thunder.

There are also more armor, horses, and carriages than the normal guard battalion soldiers.

"Your Majesty, this is counting the spare, it is already enough for two thousand households to equip them, and there are a lot of firearms, which can be used for at least three years, and at most it is enough to replenish ammunition." Luo Sigong arched his hand and said solemnly: "No matter how much, there must be someone who is greedy for ink!" ”

This answer made the little emperor not very happy, he paused with his mouth curled, and finally waved his hand unwillingly: "Forget it, you can see it, and the people in the military department will definitely be able to see it too." ”

"Tell you, don't tell others, even your Shangguan Liu Shouyou can't say it, you know." Xiao Wanli said with a tiger face: "What I want is the ordnance of the four guards!" ”