Is the emperor going to hide the armor privately?

Luo Sigong always felt that there was something wrong with the words that flashed in his head.

Looking at the confused brocade clothes, the little emperor showed a smile that he thought was unfathomable.

Luo Sigong thought about it again and again, and asked the emperor: "Your Majesty, the ministers have the courage to ask, what does Your Majesty want them to do when they practice Tengxiang's left and right guards?" ”

He intended to persuade the emperor that as a hereditary brocade guard who had been favored by the emperor for generations, he believed that he had an obligation to stop the emperor's absurd move, and that at a time when the reform of the guards in the provinces of the world that had lasted for several years was coming to an end, more and more generals from martial arts were transferred to various places, and the armies everywhere were replenishing a large number of new firearms.

Especially the two kinds of guns, some guards have insufficient assets and connections, and even the bird guns don't need armor to prepare the bird guns, this thing is a big gap, the emperor lion opens his mouth once he has to transfer more than 10,000 bird guns to the Ministry of Management, and this batch of weapons Tengxiang Erwei will definitely not be used up.

Rather than letting the weapons fall in the warehouse and eat ashes, it is better to let other guards that are short of weapons replenish their weapons as soon as possible.

The key is that in anyone's eyes, Teng Xiang's left and right guards are troops that will not leave Beijing to go out to fight, even if they are well-equipped, what is the use?

The little emperor raised his hand approvingly, signaling Luo Sigong to ask the point, and he said: "What to do, naturally it is to go on an expedition outside the Saiwai." ”

He had thought about Teng Xiang's left and right guards.

The Ministry of War and the Cabinet agreed to let him command the two guards, but the number of troops was too small, which was contrary to Xiao Wanli's grand blueprint.

In his eyes, the situation on the northern frontier should be as it is now, with a large standing army, a part of the elite, and a main army that plays a decisive role in the war.

In the past, these three things were recruited by the guard's army, battalion, and generals, but in the eyes of the emperor, it should be the garrison's battalion recruitment, the general's family, and his own army.

To achieve this, 10,000 is not enough, at least 20,000.

He only has two guards, how can he have 20,000 troops?

The reserve team, like the Beiyang training, has a guard trained and a guard in training at all times.

Copying this situation to Tengxiang's left and right guards, who had just entered the recruitment process, was to train at the same time, two main guards and two reserve guards.

Anyway, he can afford it, and no one has ever said that the guard can't have reserves.

It's just that no one can do that.

But Wanli can!

It just so happened that the flag army of Tengxiang and the left and right guards were all taken away by Chen Ju, and the remaining two jujube hooks didn't hook much for a year, and this time Wanli didn't hook the army - directly transferred from Beijing.

"By the way, there is a shortage of more than 40,000 in Jingying's verification this time, and if I take away another 20,000, there will be a shortage of nearly 70,000, not to mention that the ministers are not very relieved to check on this matter."

Wanli said to Luo Sigong: "You go back, quietly send Ti Cai to investigate, and report to me all the numbers of soldiers in each battalion and guard, and the old, weak, sick and disabled, don't leak the news, do you know?" ”

This is Jinyiwei's old business, Luo Sigong immediately hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will definitely handle this matter well!" ”

It's not that Xiao Wanli can't trust eunuchs, what he trusts most in this world are eunuchs and brocade clothes, but this kind of thing can't be decided by believing.

One person can not accept bribes, and two people can not be dissuaded, but there are many people sent out, and it is not the mission of inspecting the shortage of the Beijing camp, and they can hardly guarantee that they will lie about the return of soldiers.

Now that I have changed my horsemen to do this, it is very likely that I will get another amount in return in the future.

Xiao Wanli had some guesses in his heart, according to the shortage of other guards, he felt that the Beijing camp might only have 200,000 troops.

And among these more than 200,000 people, whether there are 100,000 young and strong people who are suitable to be soldiers, Wanli himself does not know.

None of this fits into his concept of the army.

From childhood to adulthood, he read the war strategy book compiled by Nanyang, in which there was a random army, except for Chen Mu's headquarters, the mixed clan army had a clear distinction between the regular army and the elite in terms of battlefield duties.

It is very obvious that a small number of elites are supplemented by a large-scale regular army to form the main army on the battlefield.

In those armies, there are strong and weak, and they are vulgar, but the regular army only looks weak, and the young and strong people who meet the requirements are selected for Nanyang's strong physique, and they have also received a long period of training and study for a minimum of half a year, and the difference between strength and weakness is only whether they are well-equipped and whether they use the world's first-class firearms.

It was also Wanli's ideal guard, a vibrant young banner army equipped with cuirasses, helmets and birds.

Due to financial constraints, their equipment, physique, and artillery can be inferior to the best armies, but morale and training are essential.

Because Wanli has seen too many examples of the Nanyang Army, it is often not one or several battles that are fatally hit, but deserters whose morale is low and they are about to collapse.

Once the first deserters appear on the battlefield, the cities may be handed away.

A country cannot be protected by such an army.

What Wanli has been thinking about for a long time is disarmament, starting from the Beijing camp, first reducing 50,000 people, and then reducing 50,000 if the rest is still not cured, until the atmosphere improves, until the army is slowly hooked, and until the first phase of the flag army of the Oriental Fleet retires and returns.

Of course, what he wants is not to completely dismantle all the guards, although those generations of banner troops are not good at fighting and can run, but once they are completely abolished, it will inevitably be difficult to make a living, and the condition that can allow them to continue to survive is that they must have land.

Therefore, Xinming Prefecture and Asia are good places to go, as long as the land is given, those banner soldiers who are half soldiers and half farmers can live well with their families, and the problem of redundant soldiers in the imperial court can also be solved.

To do this, Wanli would have to start by recruiting elite soldiers, training strong soldiers, or at least protecting the border against possible attacks, and then talk about slowly reducing the number of troops.

Otherwise, it's a fool's dream.

After Luo Sigong left, Xiao Wanli climbed onto the table with his arms propped up, and took advantage of the fact that no one was lying on the deck, looking up at the hanging palace lantern, squinting slightly and wandering in the ocean of fantasy.

He was fantasizing about when he would be able to go to Tianjin Beiyang again, and he would be able to sail at will on the sea on a huge warship, and at the same time, he couldn't help but think in his mind, where should the Wanli sail now according to its speed?

At the same time as the Wanli Emperor's fantasy, the cabinet received a letter from Nanyang, saying that the Shuanglin ship, which had followed the Wanli ship to sea as an envoy, had been ordered to return to the sea, carrying animals and plants from the Americas.

Xiao Wanli could feel that the development of the imperial court in Asia was gratifying, and domestic problems could be solved from abroad, and he felt this more clearly than anyone else!

However, when he vaguely saw the manifest sent by the fast horse clipper to the Forbidden City, everything made him overjoyed, not only the countless rare goods from Asia, especially at the bottom of the letter, it was Chen Mu's suggestion that it was difficult to transport towering materials, and the suggestion of the Asian Dynasty Heavenly Palace, how did the little emperor feel?

It tickles his heart!

"Does that mean...... Have I had a chance to go to Asia? ”