"Mr. Sun is from Daizhou, Shanxi?"

Half a minute later, Sun Chuanting heard the emperor's question. He did not ask about his official resume, but talked about his hometown.

"Go back to Your Majesty, I am a native of Zhenwuwei, Daizhou."

"Oh, I wonder if Lord Sun has any experience in marching and fighting?"

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he was a little confused. He had not been appointed as a county magistrate and also took office in the Ministry of Personnel. He had no experience in leading the army. I don’t know why the emperor asked this. Is it because he came from the self-defense center.

Sun Chuanting didn't understand very well, so he could only follow the emperor and talk.

"When you go back to your Majesty, I have never led the army. Although I came from the border guards, the young man learned literature and did not participate in military affairs."

"Hahaha, that's fine."

Seeing that Sun Chuanting was unclear, Zhu Youjian burst into laughter and then explained.

"I want to change you to the position of the Grand Marshal's Office, but I wonder what you mean?"

Sun Chuanting was stunned when he heard this. He knew the experiences of the various yamen in the capital. It was usually a fifth-rank official position, but the Grand Marshal's Mansion was a yamen. Why hadn't you heard of it before?

Because Zhu Youjian was deliberately low-key, except for the high-level Beijing officials, few people knew about the Grand Marshal's Mansion, let alone Sun Chuanting, who resigned and retired.

"Your Majesty, I am ignorant. I dare to ask where the yamen of this Grand Marshal's Mansion is, and what is the position of the head of the Ministry of Education?"

"The Grand Marshal's Mansion is a new institution I established in the seventh year of the Tianqi period. It is mainly responsible for the establishment of the new army. The main new army in Guizhou to suppress the rebellion is from the Grand Marshal's Mansion."

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting understood something. He had learned about the rebellion in Guizhou in the newspaper, and he had also heard a little about the combat effectiveness of the new army.

Zhu Youjian continued: "In addition, this experience department is mainly to cooperate with Shangguan to do a good job in the new army training. Currently, the Grand Marshal's Office is responsible for the new army affairs, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the General Secretary, is your Shangguan."

Sun Chuanting nodded when he heard this. The emperor asked him to train the new army. Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting remembered the soldiers he had seen at the palace gate before, and that should be the new army.

When the new army was transferred to guard the palace, it seemed that the emperor valued this new army very much.

"Sun Aiqing comes from the border area. I believe you know the situation of the government army over the years. Generals are entitled to empty wages and raise private soldiers. The soldiers are not full of food and lack basic training and necessary equipment. The government army is already unbearable."

Sun Chuanting came from the border guards. He knew more clearly what the guards were like than the emperor. He heard the emperor say this and nodded in cooperation.

Zhu Youjian stood up, walked out of the imperial case, and continued.

"In recent years, the dynasty has happened to be a turbulent autumn. There are Jurchens outside, strong Mongolian enemies around, and famines inside. This is a time of military use. However, the Governor's Office of the Five Army was abolished and most of the border troops were unbearable. I have no choice but to start a new army and train a new army to defend the living beings of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Youjian walked down the imperial stairs, came to Sun Chuanting and said again.

"Due to the various drawbacks of the official army, I dare not use it to train the new army. Although the Ming Dynasty is great, it is difficult to find good generals. I want to follow the Han and Tang Dynasties and promote outstanding talents and good families to join the army to restore the prestige of our Ming army."

"So, I have established martial arts, recruited scholars with ambition to join the army, and recruited wise ministers from all over the world to serve as generals. I can see the talents of the world. I am upright in nature and have the style of ancient ministers. I want to do the important tasks of you. I wonder if you can help me revitalize the prestige of our Ming Dynasty?"

As he said that, Zhu Youjian patted Sun Chuanting twice on the shoulder.

Sun Chuanting was extremely moved by such courtesy, so he hurriedly knelt down and asked for his orders.

"The little minister in the border area is ignorant and ignorant. Fortunately, he met a wise monarch with a green eye. I dare not obey orders. Now Your Majesty wants to revive the prestige of the Ming Dynasty. If I don't have talent, I will serve you as your Majesty to revive the Ming Dynasty."

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian hurriedly helped Sun Chuanting up and then ordered Liu Ruozai to draft an edict.

Until Sun Chuanting received the imperial edict, he did not understand where the emperor knew that he had a leading talent.

After seeing off Sun Chuanting, Zhu Youjian did not realize that the ancient emperor was so simple to win people's hearts. A few words of encouragement could move the scholars and officials. This Confucian idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor was really not a fan of.

In fact, Zhu Youjian did not expect that Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, who were simply short-lived, were famous loyal ministers in their original history. Even if the emperor failed them again and again, they would be the last to die to repay the king.

This is the case with the two of them, so when they saw Zhu Youjian treat him sincerely and agreed to him by the national scholar, how could they not cry even more grateful?

It's ridiculous that someone even claims to be full of personal charm.

After Sun Chuanting arrived in the West Mountain, Lu Xiangsheng's pressure was slightly less and began to devote most of his energy to the training of the new army.

In order to deal with the possible war, Zhu Youjian made artillery while forging a large number of artillery and strengthened the firepower configuration for the new army, he improved the Tiger Cannon.

It is no longer verified who invented the tiger squat cannon first, but it was indeed carried forward in the Qi family's army. Qi Jiguang also recorded the improvement process of the tiger squat cannon.

"The bowl mouth cannon is small and big, the neck is short and the medicine is small, the child is heavy, and the release is weak and it is not enough to use. If it is used, the abdomen must be more than three feet long, and the lead cannon is sent to the bottom of the abdomen, which is urgent and middle-aged. Among the fifty people, one can be prepared to prevent the enemy from conflicting with the main situation. Now it is named the tiger squat cannon."

The Ming army's tiger squat cannon was about 2 feet long and had seven iron hoops all over its body. The head of the cannon was built by two iron claws and had iron trips. The total weight was more than 30 kilograms.

Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed to the ground with a large iron nail through an iron trip. It looks like a crawling tiger, so it is named Tiger Squat Cannon.

Each time you launch, you can load small lead or hundreds of small stones with a weight of 5 cents, and use a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing the top. When you launch, you can fly out.

The lethality and radiation range are both large, especially suitable for dense combat formations that bombard the enemy in field battles, which can effectively suppress its crazy offensive.

Depending on the charge amount and the use of projectiles, the range of the tiger squat cannon is between fifty meters and five hundred meters.

If you simply fire an iron bomb worth more than one pound, the shooting range can reach 500 meters while maintaining the upward shooting.

In fact, when Zhu Youjian first saw the tiger squatting cannon, he remembered the mortar he saw in his previous life.

It is also a sixty or seventy centimeter gun barrel, and then it is mounted to launch a bracket. The range is actually similar, but the difference is that the mortar fires bombs, but the tiger squat cannon can only fire iron bombs, and its lethality suddenly decreases.

Zhu Youjian, who has memories of the power of mortars in his previous life, felt that it was meaningless to use such guns to shoot long-distance.

In the form of a projectile, a one-pound iron ball weighing 500 meters away, even if you can concentrate your target, your destructive power will be limited.
Chapter completed!