Chapter 48 I only want elite soldiers
This can be regarded as the third person Zhu Youxiao killed since he came to the Ming Dynasty.
The first one was Zheng Sanjun, the minister of Taichang Temple. At that time, the matter was urgent. Zhu Youxiao, who was eager to save himself, didn't think too much about it, but he felt a little sigh afterwards.
The second one is Ajige. Zhu Youxiao was still a little instinctively nervous after beating this Qing Dynasty Beile.
But at this moment, he was not panicked at all, who had killed Zhu Chunchen, a relative of the royal family.
I don’t know when he started, but he started to become cold and iron-blooded, who had been treating diseases and saving people for his life.
None of the 20,000 officers and soldiers on the school ground dared to breathe anymore, and officials such as Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Chengen just stood by silently.
No one dared to touch the King Zhu Youxiao's re-scaling at this time. Although he was not yet in his thirties, his cold eyes and tightly biting lips fully demonstrated his long face's anger.
"If someone violates military discipline in the future and leaves his post without permission, he will be like this!"
Zhu Youxiao shouted coldly, then inserted his bloody sword into the scabbard, and said: "Where is Lu Xiangsheng, the left minister of the Ministry of War and the admiral of the Beijing camp?"
"I'm here!"
Lu Xiangsheng knew that Zhu Youzhai wanted to establish his authority on the school, so he cooperated with him, and his voice answered loudly and concisely.
"Immediately call the list according to the list. Anyone who is not present, regardless of his official position, will be dismissed directly! As a soldier, if he dares to violate the imperial edict and leave his post without hesitation because of heavy snow, is he still a soldier?"
Zhu Youxiao asked loudly.
"Yes!" Lu Xiangsheng responded and hurriedly organized the name of the name himself. Although there were more than 20,000 people, Lu Xiangsheng was prepared and invited several staff members to be present to be responsible for the name of the guards in the Beijing camp.
In less than half an hour, Lu Xiangsheng's people finished the name. There were more than 23,000 people present in the three camps of Jingying, and the actual number of people recorded on the roster was as high as 110,000. If the vacancy was removed, there were at least 60,000, but less than half of them were present now.
However, Zhu Youxiao was not very angry because of this. Even if the officers and soldiers who were deserted due to heavy storms and snow were useless, they would be useless even if they called them back.
It is precisely because of this that he directly dismissed the officers and soldiers with disorganized disciplines.
Although the remaining 20,000 people may not be very disciplined, they can at least not disobey the will of the emperor and stand here by obeying Shangguan's orders.
Such officers and soldiers at least have a certain degree of plasticity.
In this way, it can be regarded as a preliminary selection.
Zhu Youxiao had no intention of leaving all the more than 100,000 officers and soldiers.
The Ming army, especially the Beijing camp, had always been slack in training, and most of the camp officials were playboys, and the soldiers were lazy and the generals were lazy. He knew that it was because of the laziness.
But this army is truly a personal army directly controlled by him, Zhu Youxiao.
In other words, when it really came to the most critical moment, this army was his life-saving magic weapon.
If his direct army is very bad, then his emperor will not be able to do anything big and sit in the Forbidden City for a long time.
Seeing the uneven and inclined appearance of the more than 20,000 officers and soldiers who advanced to the auditions, Zhu Youxiao could not compare them with the troops in the military parade of the Republic in his previous life. Even the students in his previous university military training stood neatly than these Gyeonggi garrison troops.
In order to make his direct line become the most powerful army, Zhu Youxiao must implement a policy of elite troops. The number of soldiers is not the number but the essence. He must do subtraction, instead of sending ministers everywhere like Emperor Chongzhen.
This not only consumed money and food, but also added countless warlords who had self-respecting troops. These warlords later became the vanguard army that helped the Qing Dynasty massacre their compatriots.
Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu and others are distinct examples.
"Those who are under the age of eighteen and over forty-five will be delisted!"
At the order of Zhu Youxiao, the officers and soldiers below looked at each other for a while, and then some people stood up consciously, and some were still asking His Majesty what he was saying just now.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly ordered his personal army to convey Zhu Youxiao's edict and pulled out some slow-responsive officers and soldiers according to the roster.
It took half an hour to clear out the soldiers who did not meet the age requirements.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile bitterly. According to this efficiency, it's no wonder that Li Zicheng could easily break through the capital many years later.
Zhu Youxiao did not intend to stay at these officers and soldiers who were too young or too old, so he directly ordered Wang Chengen to take silver from the treasury to pay severance silver ranging from 100 to 100 taels according to their grade and qualifications.
Most of these officers and soldiers are powerful relatives with some assets in their families. Zhu Youxiao doesn’t have to worry that they will starve to death and rebel after leaving the barracks. What’s more, if they have severance silver, unless they are too lazy, they can find a living position before the severance silver is used up.
The most damaged were naturally those honored military officers who could have made money by empty salaries, but they could not do anything to Zhu Youxiao except complaining.
If they want to rebel and deny that Zhu Youxiao is the king of a country, they will deny that they are the privileged class of the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of no way, thousands of officers and soldiers who were scrambling in the Beijing camp were kicked out by Zhu Youxiao.
Although many of the remaining nearly 15,000 Beijing soldiers were still careless and had no military style, fortunately they were still young, and Zhu Youxiao had some ways to torture them.
Of course, if Zhu Youxiao asked at this moment, whoever wants to leave the Beijing camp automatically does not have to be tortured by him, I am afraid that a large number of the children of the honorary relatives will leave voluntarily, and Zhu Youxiao does not need to persuade him.
The reason is very simple. After they go back, they are still young masters and there is no need to suffer and get tired here.
But Zhu Youxiao is the emperor, and even a playboy dare not disobey the king. As long as Zhu Youxiao doesn't speak, these people will not leave on their own initiative.
Zhu Youxiao did not intend to let them leave on their own initiative. Although these honorary relatives were suppressed by civil servants after Tumu Fort, there was no doubt that these people were the same interest group as their Zhu Dynasty, and only they would become their own direct descendants.
Nowadays, civil officials still have the advantage in politics, culture and even economy, so they can only develop the noble group represented by military personnel to regain their military advantages.
Only by checks and balances can one's own throne be stable and the country of the Ming Dynasty will last forever.
Of course, in order not to attract the attention of the civil servant group, Zhu Youxiao could only let Lu Xiangsheng, who had already performed outstandingly in military affairs, be the admiral of the Beijing Camp.
"Do you think I will keep you all in the Beijing camp? Then you are all wrong. Now the Ming Dynasty treasury is empty and the people are displaced. I don't have that much money to support you, such a group of waste! I only plan to leave no five thousand people. If you are really too bad, I may only have to keep three thousand people in the military camp!"
As Zhu Youxiao said that, he opened his three fingers and pointed to a mountain in front of him, and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Did you see the mountain in front? Take them to the top of the mountain, and all your servants will be in. From now on, I don't want any minister to support his relatives in private, do you understand?"
Chapter completed!