Zhu Youxiao hurriedly supported Liu Ruyu: "No need to be like this. A gentleman is harmonious but different. I don't mean to blame you. Since Jiandou said that your advice was unrealistic, you might as well listen to his superior opinions. If there is any bad thing, you can also learn from his attitude towards Tian Ergeng and stand up and scold him directly."

Liu Ruyu even said he didn't dare, so he stepped back and listened to Lu Xiangsheng's advice.

Zhu Youxiao also sat back, picked up the tea and sipped it slightly. It felt a little cold, so he put it back. Liu Rushi knew it and hurriedly took the purple clay pot beside the stove and changed it to a new cup of hot tea.

Here, Lu Xiangsheng had bowed and said, "I recently learned from the Daming Daily that several rivers in the Yellow River have been congested with water, and the farmland along the river cannot be irrigated. The saline-alkali land has exceeded 100,000 mu, and dredging is urgently needed. In this case, why not just use these officers and soldiers to participate in water conservancy matters, which not only saves the recruitment of migrant workers and resettlement them, isn't it good to have both."

"It's great. If you let these official troops participate in local production and construction, Jiandou has such an idea, it is worthy of being my capable ministers and officials."

Zhu You corrected and affirmed Lu Xiangsheng a few words.

Liu Ruyu stood up and saw this: "Your Majesty, although what Lu Sima said is a feasible method, this official army is different from the migrant workers. Most of the people are honest and honest, and afraid of the government, so they are very good at commanding and construction of projects quickly. However, these official army are all casual people and do not abide by military discipline in the military camps. Once they go to the place, they are afraid that they will disturb the people."

At this time, Tian Ergeng also took over and said, "Your Majesty, Eunuch Liu said very much, these officers and soldiers are not ordinary people, they are all soldiers, and if they release them out of the military camp, they will only cause trouble."

After hearing what the two of them said, Zhu Youxiao was a little angry and asked coldly: "According to what the two beloved ministers said, I shouldn't have sacked these officers and soldiers from the capital?"

Tian Ergeng was surprised for a moment and didn't know what to say. Liu Ruyu gritted his teeth and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is the king of a country. It is not necessary to abolish the officers and soldiers of the capital. Now I am not asking Your Majesty to take back his orders, but I think that the country can have soldiers for fighting and can also have soldiers for building bridges and roads to transport grain."

"What a good soldier who builds bridges, paves roads and transports grain. Your Majesty, Eunuch Liu said so much. These officers and soldiers cannot fight. If they are left among the people, they are worried about causing trouble. It is better to stay in the army and do these bridges and roads. In this way, the army will not need to draw civilians when conquering."

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly agreed with Liu Ruyu's suggestion and shook his hand at him.

Liu Ruyu also replied to the gift, but he felt a little nervous because Lu Xiangsheng thought it was good, the key was His Majesty.

But Zhu Youxiao was silent at this time, which made Liu Ruyu not know what his Majesty, the Emperor, thought?

"Very good", Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment and patted Liu Ruyu on the shoulder. Liu Ruyu felt relieved and immediately showed a look of joy.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao had already stood up and said, "Since that's the case, I changed my mind and organized them into the military camp as engineering camps. The word engineering means building roads and paving bridges. In short, it is more than 70,000 soldiers serving the people as the main force of the field. In addition to those who are really too old and young, 50,000 people were selected to be temporarily organized into the tenth battalion. The commander was appointed as the commander, and the commander was assisted by the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and supervised by the Imperial Horse Supervision. The Ministry of War allocated military salaries, and the head of the Five Army Governor's Office of the Five Army Governor's Office of the Five Army Governor's Office of the Five Army Governor's Office, and the temporary stationed in the capital first."

"yes!"

Lu Xiangsheng and the other three responded, and Tian Ergeng was secretly happy. The head of the Five Army Governor's Office recruited and trained, which means that he still had the final say in how many soldiers there were in the engineering battalions in the future. He could still eat empty salary and drink soldiers' blood.

But he didn't know that three days later, Zhu Youxiao transferred him to the Governor's Office of the Five Army in Nanjing for retirement.

Since the layoffs were reorganized into engineering battalions, the following naturally has to discuss the matter of today's ban, namely the establishment of the Imperial Guard.

Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that future wars would be dominated by firearms, and his tactics would be different from before. He would not form a single cavalry troop, nor would he let the soldiers form a spear battalion.

Since becoming emperor, he has been thinking about the reorganization of the Ming army and has also looked up a lot of information. In his opinion, the Ming Dynasty can now form a more advanced composite army combination.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao expressed his ideas without waiting for Lu Xiangsheng and others to speak first.

"I decided to first conduct training for these 8,000 people for a period of time to rebuild their discipline, combat awareness and unity awareness. Then, according to various project tests, select one thousand soldiers to form artillery battalions, one thousand soldiers form cavalry, and then form three infantry battalions with newly made flintlock rifles. For a temporary 1,500 people are a battalion, and the remaining ones are organized into baggage battalions. In short, more than 8,000 officers and soldiers were disrupted and reorganized, and the Imperial Guards were established according to my above plan, and I was directly led by me."

Zhu Youxiao said that, then looked at Lu Xiangsheng and others: "What do you think, the three beloved ministers?"

Lu Xiangsheng and others were slightly stunned. In their consciousness, they were nothing more than forming elite cavalry and infantry, first charging by the cavalry, then sweeping by the infantry.

But why did Your Majesty set up an artillery battalion? In their consciousness, the artillery was just a powerful weapon for siege at this time and did not have a good effect on field battles. Its mobility could not keep up with the cavalry, and its power was not enough to block the cavalry.

So, Lu Xiangsheng stood up and expressed his doubts: "Your Majesty, just have infantry and cavalry, and cannons can be used in the infantry camp, so why add an artillery?"

"You don't know that although the artillery of the Ming Dynasty is not as mobile and powerful as the accuracy is not high, thus posing little threat to the cavalry, as long as the Ming Dynasty breaks through these three technical difficulties, the tactics formed by the artillery battalion, cavalry, firearm battalion, and three types of troops in the future will make the strongest cavalry of the Hulu fail to sink to the sand!"

After Zhu Youxiao said this, the three of them were not easy to object. Anyway, the Imperial Guard was also His Majesty's personal army, and His Majesty had his own reasons for doing this.

But they didn't know that Zhu Youxiao was not satisfied with reorganizing his Imperial Guard into a mixed army of infantry, cavalry and artillery. His goal was to change the chaotic way of using firearms in the entire Ming army, and truly demonstrate the power of firearms through the combination of troops, allowing the Ming Dynasty to enter the era of hot weapons. Only in this way can the cavalry be strong, even the most powerful cavalry can only become the lambs slaughtered by hot weapons.

The Ming Dynasty was not the Qing Dynasty in later generations. Various types of firearms were developed and improved. Although some key technologies were already quite different from those in the West, there were already conditions for combining hot weapons and mixed weapons.

Zhu Youxiao happened to be the emperor of this ancient empire, and he had the conditions to make changes from top to bottom.

Otherwise, he would not have been very busy establishing the Royal Ordnance Department and establishing a series of national science and technology systems from the output of scientific and technological theory to the innovation of applied technology.

However, the tactics of establishing mixed arms and implementing the coordinated combat of artillery, cavalry and musketeers were just Zhu Youxiao's idea.

Now his 8,000 Imperial Guards' most basic queue training and physical training have been aborted.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao could only temporarily divide the eight thousand imperial guards into five battalions, and first restore their discipline and collective sense of honor. The most important thing is to let them have the military spirit that dares to fight and fight.

A team without military spirit is like a person without faith, like a walking corpse.
Chapter completed!