Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 138
Yuan Chonghuan mentioned his concerns to Sun Chengzong again, but Sun Chengzong already knew the court's attitude towards the matter after reporting the matter to the court last time and the reply given by the court, so he only advised Yuan Chonghuan to keep an eye on the slave-building army. , reporting the situation to himself at any time, while Sun Chengzong moved his army back towards Shanhaiguan in order to return to the capital at any time.

Generally speaking, the military affairs in Liaodong are going well, and a lot of achievements have been achieved in the past six months. However, so far, there has been no battle with Jiannu. Therefore, it is inevitable to write a letter to impeach Sun Chengzong towards some civil servants who "stand and talk without pain" He was passive and lazy in fighting Yuan Chonghuan.

Similar to this kind of impeachment, the matter can be big or small. If occasionally a few irrelevant people write a letter of impeachment, then Zhu Tianqi can completely ignore it, and even punish them for the crime of "false speech".

But if a few big shots in the DPRK and China also start impeachment, and the matter gets bigger, it will become a problem. If it is not handled properly, it may hinder Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan. At that time, Sun Chengzong also expressed his concerns about this matter. .

However, Zhu Tianqi also promised Sun Chengzong at that time that he had a way to deal with the "unreasonable troubles" of these civil servants. Of course, this was not just empty words to comfort people. , then he will not be merciful at all.

Zhu Tianqi knew that although he had opened up a certain situation, he was still "in trouble". As an emperor, he was aggrieved, so he had to be cautious at all times and cautious in everything. He liked to prepare for a rainy day and nip the crisis in the cradle. .

Therefore, he would not wait, nor would he allow the gaffe to spread. As soon as someone submitted a similar impeachment memorandum, he would directly take tough measures - promotion and transfer.

Is the so-called "promotion" meant to "bribe" the officials who submitted letters of impeachment to Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan, in order to silence them?Of course not, don’t forget, there is a “transfer” after promotion!

Zhu Tianqi directly transferred all the officials who submitted impeachment letters to Liaodong, and let them serve under Sun Chengzong. Of course, their grades were slightly higher than their current ones. The reason why they were promoted was to block the Civil servants say that you have promoted them. Don't say that you are punishing them. You are obviously reusing them.

Since they talked eloquently about the situation in Liaodong in their memorials and said that Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan were useless, then let them go to Liaodong to show off their talents!

But even "promotion" and "employment" have to be done step by step. You can't directly elevate their official positions to higher than Sun Chengzong, so you can only wrong them and now work under Sun Chengzong, etc. After you have made great achievements in the future, let’s talk about the next things!

As for how Sun Chengzong would train them when they came under his command, Zhu Tianqi had no control over it. Maybe Sun Chengzong would be more "merciful" and let them go to the front line to have close contact with the slaves!

After such things happened several times, the civil servants became more honest. No one dared to talk about Liaodong military affairs anymore. Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan became more confident and confident. After these incidents, they also knew that the emperor They are really fully supporting their work, and they no longer have to worry about their own people being constrained from behind.

In addition to disaster relief and Liaodong affairs, what Zhu Tianqi cares most about is the Northwest Military Industrial Base presided over by Sun Yuanhua. In the past few months, Sun Yuanhua has indeed achieved a lot. He developed a more powerful steel cannon and built a A production line that can mass-manufacture flintlock muskets, custom-packed gunpowder, shells, and bullets all have the ability to mass-produce.Today's northwest military industrial base can finally be called a "military industrial base". Zhu Tianqi is very pleased with this. He has invested millions in the construction and raw material supply of the northwest military industrial base. Two silver dollars, and my investment finally paid off.

Zhu Tianqi immediately wrote back to Sun Yuanhua, ordering him to start mass production of various large and small artillery and flintlock guns, and at the same time start to form a "new army". With good weapons and equipment, there must also be a high-quality army to allow these Weapons can exert their due power, at least the current firearms battalion in the Ming army is difficult to satisfy Zhu Tianqi.

After all, Sun Yuanhua held an imperial order and still had a certain say in northern Shaanxi, so he immediately ordered Zhang Boyu to go back to Yulin Guard and asked the general of Yulin Guard for [-] elite soldiers from the Firearms Battalion to replenish his supplies. military.

However, the result is also conceivable. Although the Yulin Guards did not dare not to give Sun Yuanhua face, he did not give it all. People have selfish motives. His elite men who are proficient in the operation of artillery, blunderbuss and other firearms are naturally He refused to allocate it to Sun Yuanhua. After all, as the chief soldier of the Yulin Guards, he had to guard one side. He gave all his elite soldiers to others. His side suffered a defeat and he was the one who was punished.

So when Zhang Boyu brought the people back to the base, Zhang Boyu was a little embarrassed to take these people to return to Sun Yuanhua. After all, at least half of the [-] so-called firearms battalion elites he brought back were old, weak, sick and disabled. , except that it can speed up the food consumption in the base and increase the frequency of cleaning the latrines, it has no effect.

The remaining half of the people are mostly new recruits. Although they have the title of firearms battalion, they have never fired artillery or fired muskets. At most, they have helped the artillerymen carry ammunition. They have strong arms. force.

It was not Sun Yuanhua's first day as an official, nor his first day in the army. He was not surprised by this result. The Yulin Guards General did not so much allocate an army to himself as it was better to say that he had conveniently cut off his burdens. , let them "bring disaster" to themselves.

But if it was in the past, Sun Yuanhua would have endured it. Now that he has a heavy responsibility, he will not just take over these old, weak, sick and disabled, and make them a burden to the base. Therefore, Sun Yuanhua immediately sent someone to deal with the newly arrived three thousand soldiers. Screening and testing are conducted, and those who pass are kept and those who fail are repatriated.

In addition to the Ming army general Zhang Boyu, the person responsible for the selection work was also the Western artilleryman Zhu Yaqian. Therefore, the selection was very strict. In the end, only 500 people were left, and the two thousand and five who failed were unqualified. There were hundreds of soldiers, and Sun Yuanhua directly sent people to distribute dry food to them and told them to go back to Yulin Guard.

After this incident, Sun Yuanhua and the Yulin Guards Commander-in-Chief had a close relationship. However, although the two were quite close at this time, because the base was relatively closed, the two had little intersection, so there would not be any conflict. It's just that the Yulin Guards are obviously not as cooperative as before with the work at the base.

(End of this chapter)