In late December of the seventh year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao summoned Lu Xiangsheng, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, Liu Ruyu, the imperial horse supervisor, and Tian Ergeng, the left governor of the Central Army, to conduct court discussions, and then began to reorganize the officers and soldiers of the original Jingying and Four Guards.

Originally, most of the laid-off officers and soldiers from the former Jingying and Fourth Guards were directly organized into engineering battalions, but Zhu Youxiao later thought that his Imperial Guards, as the first group branch of the Ming Dynasty, should also have engineering battalions.

Therefore, before the reorganization plan was officially announced, Zhu Youxiao ordered Lu Xiangsheng and others to select officers and soldiers with various skills and specialties from the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers who were laid off, including carpenters, ironwork, stone punching, blasting, etc., to reorganize them into the Imperial Guards to prepare for the future Imperial Guards engineering battalion.

In addition, the wounds will be bandaged, literate, and speak Wu, and the officers and soldiers who are also reorganized into the Imperial Guards, so they will directly invade the baggage battalion and set up logistics support teams such as medical teams and propaganda teams.

In this way, the number of the originally designated imperial guards was raised from 8,000 to more than 10,000, and the preliminary training units were expanded from five battalions to ten battalions.

But now it is the end of the New Year, and people always have to celebrate the New Year, so the training of recruits can only be postponed until after the New Year.

With the training of a total of 10,000 people, even with the assistance of military officials such as Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Ruyu, it is impossible to complete a short-term training of 10,000 people.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao had to train a group of qualified officers first, so that when training at that time, these group of officers would be used as the backbone to train the Imperial Guards.

So he prepared to call the thirty people with higher official positions in the Tenth Battalion to the palace for a short training session.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng was also cancelled the ten-day leave by him. In addition, Liu Ruyu, the two were invited by Zhu Youxiao to enter the palace and forced a draft of "Recruitment Date" overnight, preparing to choose a place in the palace to provide preliminary training for these officers. The reason they chose was that Zhu Youxiao did not run in the court and barracks for two days, so as not to spend more time on the road.

When he learned that it was His Majesty the Emperor who was going to summon him and the other twenty-nine imperial guard officers of different ranks into the palace, Chang Yanling was as nervous and excited as other officers at first.

They didn't know what His Majesty the Emperor asked them to enter the palace, and they also knew that in the Forbidden City there were women and incomplete men besides the emperor. Now that they were summoned to the palace, were they castrated as eunuchs?

After all, since ancient times, emperors have liked to use their own people to command soldiers, and the emperor's own people are usually eunuchs.

When he thought of this, Chang Yanling felt even more nervous. Although he had thought of serving the emperor and carrying a body in a horse's neck, he had never thought of becoming a eunuch.

But now the emperor has issued a clear order to let them enter the palace, and he has to obey the will.

After passing through the gates of the vermilion palace walls and coming to the less spacious courtyard square, the small yellow gate that led them into the palace stopped and said, "You are here for now."

The little yellow gate said and left, and at this time, the officers and students of the imperial guards who were summoned to the palace began to whisper.

Among them, Qin Botong, who was originally the commander-in-chief, saw Chang Yanling standing beside him, and hit Chang Yanling with his elbow: "Brother, tell me, your Majesty will not really let us be eunuchs when he lets us enter the palace, right?"

"This is not certain, but the king wants his minister to die and he has to die. If Your Majesty really let us be eunuchs, we can't do anything. Don't forget how the prince-consort died," Chang Yanling did not answer, and another big man with a bearded face continued.

At this time, Qin Botong sat on the ground and cried: "Your Majesty, please spare me, I don't want to be the Grand Shigong!"

"Come on, can you compare with Shigong Tai? But when I think about it, I have never tasted the taste of a woman in my life, and I have lost my son and grandson like this."

As one of them said that, he leaned against Chang Yanling's back and pretended to wipe his tears. Chang Yanling pushed the man directly to the ground. Seeing Oboi standing aside and pressing his legs, he came over and asked, "I'm welcome to this brother, you are not a Han person."

"That's right, I, Oboi, are Manchus, and I'm not a cowardly Han man!"

Oboi said this casually. Qin Botong, who had just squatted on the ground and cried, immediately stood up and pointed at Oboi angrily: "Who are you scolding me? You only know how to massacre and robbery barbarian Tartars. If you have the ability, don't come to our Han people's territory!"

"Why, I'm not convinced. Why don't you fall with me, Obai? Don't look at me with one hand now, and you will still be fucked like you!"

According to Zhu Youxiao's intention, Oboi also joined the Imperial Guard to lead his cavalry, so he was also assigned to these thirty people.

But Oboi never took these Ming soldiers who could only hide in the city walls on the battlefield and fled as soon as they went out to fight.

"If you fall, you will fall, whoever is afraid of whom!"

Qin Botong was originally a general of the Duke of Wei's Mansion. He had contacted the Hu people and was good at wrestling, so he was not afraid of Oboi.

Seeing these two men staring at each other like two crazy bulls, they were staring at each other in circles in the square, everyone couldn't help but focus on this, as if they were watching a big show.

However, at this time, Liu Ruyu, the head of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, had been brought over by the little yellow gate.

But he didn't expect that these officers would fall in the palace and shouted angrily: "What kind of discipline is it! Let us stop!"

As Liu Ruyu said that, he ran over and grabbed Obai and Qin Botong's hands, but they couldn't move.

"It's really a shame to dare to fight inside. No wonder Your Majesty said you are all useless people. Let's take it down first and beat the thirty boards!"

Following Zhu Youxiao's order, he temporarily returned to the 100 Jinyiwei commanded by Liu Ruyu. The two walked over and took Obai and Qin Botong to the open space on the side, pressing the two to the ground, while the other two Jinyiwei started to beat with three-inch thick boards.

However, the two of them were tough enough, so they didn't scream in order not to let the other party underestimate them.

After a round of boards, Liu Ruyu came over and asked, "Does it hurt?"

Oboi didn't say anything, and Qin Botong squeezed out a smile in a low voice: "When I go back to my father-in-law, I beat him too lightly, it's like it's itchy."

"The dead duck is stubborn!"

Liu Ruyu snorted and said to the thirty people: "You remember now for me that this is the palace, not your own home. If you stand here for a moment, it will be a death sentence. Now Your Majesty regards you as a talent and wants to train you in the palace ban. You should cherish this opportunity instead of coming here to make trouble!"

Liu Ruyu shouted loudly as he said:

"I remember that from today to the next month, your food, drink, defecation and urination will be in this yard!

No one is allowed to take a step here!

Don’t fight or make trouble, gamble and eat wine, and if you disobey, kill them without any quarrel!"

Liu Ruyu clapped his hands as he said that.

Suddenly, countless Jinyiwei appeared on the wall, holding crossbows. The thirty people couldn't help but look tight and didn't dare to say anything else.

"Do you understand?" Liu Ruyu asked.

"Understood."

"Hit! Haven't you eaten?"

"Understood!"

Seeing that these young officers, most of whom were between the twenty or thirty years old, were yelling with their necks, Liu Ruyu couldn't help but smile secretly, thinking that fortunately His Majesty had expected this, otherwise he would not be able to subdue these dandy players on the first day.
Chapter completed!