I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 322 Qinhuai Night Banquet, do you have to drink wine as a penalty if you don’t want to toast?

night.

Qinhuai.

After the palace examination, the banks of the Qinhuai River became more and more prosperous, because during these days, except for those candidates who were about to leave Beijing, they came to experience it at the last moment with an experience mentality.

Zhu Yunxu also held this year's imperial examination banquet on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

The reason is because the brothel secretly run by Zhu Yunxuan opened.

After Zhu Yunxun's last inspection, he recruited dozens or hundreds of girls from the Japanese country, using them as the backbone, as well as some beauties from the Western Regions, after some training.

Then he was ready to open the door for business.

After all, it was a business that made a lot of money every day, and even Zhu Yunzhen was jealous.

At the same time, it can achieve part of its political goals, which is to increase the population of Ming Dynasty!
With the trend in the capital, people in the Ming Dynasty will probably have much less resistance to foreign women in the future.

In other words, we can marry more wives for the people of the Ming Dynasty, increase the population, and increase the labor force.

But tonight's theme is not about this group of newly admitted Jinshi. No matter who they are, these newcomers who have just entered the Ming Dynasty need a period of experience.

Real gold still needs to be refined by fire.

Only those who have gone through various experiences are the talents that Ming Dynasty needs.

This banquet was divided into two sides.

On one side are the newly elected Jinshi and a group of civil servants.

On the other side, there are military commanders.

The focus of Zhu Yunxuan's banquet tonight is not the civil officials, but these military generals!

Because after solving the problem of emptiness in the court, Zhu Yunxuan had to solve the problem of emptiness in manpower non-stop.

The Jinling Yangtze River Bridge must be built!

No matter what difficulties there are, Zhu Yunxuan will let this thousands-meter-long bridge spanning north and south be erected on the land of Ming Dynasty.

In an economic sense, this is a channel that connects the north-south economy.

From a strategic sense, this is the basis for opening up the southeast, northwest and northwest of the Ming Dynasty, allowing the Ming Dynasty regime to expand and go to the countryside!

It should be noted that in the Ming Dynasty, imperial power did not go to the countryside.

In the countryside, where there was a large vacancy of imperial power, disputes were often resolved not by relying on Ming laws, but by relying on local clan laws.

Or ethics regulations.

This is why Neo-Confucianism is prosperous, and why Neo-Confucianism has a positive side.

Because the existence of Neo-Confucianism regulates morality.

Let the clan unite into a rope, which is enough to deal with all risks, but in turn, it creates oppression internally.

That's the bad side.

But now that Zhu Yunzhen has eliminated Neo-Confucianism, he must take control of this blank space of imperial power.

In ancient times, the influence of imperial power was almost equal to the speed of message transmission.

The more remote and out-of-the-way the place is, the less likely anyone will care about the emperor's orders.

No one will care about national policies.

They didn't listen to the orders from above at all.

Just like a small independent kingdom, the clan is the biggest law in it.

Therefore, the Jinling Changqiao Bridge is not just a bridge!This is a real miracle that can make everyone agree with the miracle of the Ming Empire!
Can generate a sense of national pride.

It also allows the imperial power symbolized by Zhu Yunxian to expand as much as possible and spread to every corner of the Ming Dynasty.

But how can the problem of manpower be so easy to solve?
The current population of the Ming Dynasty is fixed and cannot be changed in a short period of time, and it is unrealistic to import labor from abroad. The ships of the Ming Dynasty are not in a hurry just to transport goods and harvest the wealth of the Japanese country.

How can we transport labor?Therefore, the ideas that Zhu Yunzhen could come up with were basically focused on some manpower that might have been idle.

The guard army, as well as the original old army, became Zhu Yunzhen's target.

Most of the people in the old army are young and strong, which is the best labor force. If they are idle somewhere, it will obviously be extremely wasteful.

As long as the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty's army remains unchanged, it will not be a problem to reduce some of the old armies.

This was a plan that Zhu Yunxu had decided on long ago, but the construction of the new army had not been completed. It was only now that Zhu Yunxu was ready to start gradually.

Zhu Yunxuan's plan was to disband the 20 old army in advance.

All the young men from the guards were recruited to build the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge for him, and they were raised with high wages and trained into excellent workers.

In the future, he can also help Daming build various huge projects.

After all, compared to the army, Ming Dynasty does not need an invincible army that is so large that it cannot be used up - after all, it is already nearly invincible.

Rather, it is a team of workers capable of completing various tasks!

Tonight, Zhu Yunzhen came to let these generals know. As long as any general understood what he meant, he would put it forward in the morning meeting tomorrow.

Zhu Yunxian can take advantage of the situation to implement this decree.

But at the banquet, no matter how Zhu Yunxuan hinted, no one spoke to him!

Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu, these generals all had no one to answer the conversation. It was okay to talk to him, but once they reached a critical point, they all chose to remain silent.

After Zhu Yunzhen tested it several times.

Only then did I realize that these people were planning to drink wine as a penalty for not eating the toast!
These generals knew that their power came from the army, and Zhu Yunxian's reduction in the number of troops naturally undoubtedly reduced their power.

Regardless of whether the combat power has changed or not.

As the number of troops decreases, there will naturally be fewer places to place generals.

Not only is it difficult to arrange the positions of their descendants, but their own positions will also be reduced accordingly.

After all, the number of people is smaller, so naturally there are not that many generals needed.

Naturally, they would not be willing to do such a thing as cutting off their own arms.

But in the Ming Dynasty envisioned by Zhu Yunxuan, there was no need for so many Ming armies. The local Ming army did not need so many at all!

Overseas, a mixture of the Foreign Legion and the Ming Army is more commonly used.

The important thing is to use a Ming soldier to leverage the foreign legions ten times his own, and use the foreign legions to help the Ming conquer colonies one by one.

Ming Dynasty is far away from overseas.

If we really use troops, the risk is extremely high. If we are not careful, the entire army may be wiped out by a disease.

It would be better to activate the Foreign Legion on the spot.

The new army of the Ming Dynasty was mainly responsible for guarding the territory of the Ming Dynasty and intimidating the small countries around the Ming Dynasty.

But at that time, all the small countries surrounding the Ming Dynasty had long been controlled by Zhu Yunxuan through economic means.

How could there be a chance to become an enemy of Ming Dynasty?

Therefore, part of this army must be abolished!And no matter who objects, it doesn’t work!The Ming Dynasty's army must develop in a simple and refined direction!
And this is actually determined by the topography of the Ming Dynasty.

Surrounded by mountains and grasslands, it is invincible, but thousands of miles away is too far away.

Ming Dynasty wanted to build roads thousands of miles away.

I don’t know that the year of the monkey has passed, so the Ming Army now has almost no place to expand except Beiyuan, Tubo, and Annan.

And with the terrain of Ming Dynasty.

The Army's position will become increasingly awkward in the future.

Developing the navy will be the long-term and unchangeable national policy of Ming Dynasty in the future.

(End of this chapter)