Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 140 Gather 5000 People

Zhu Tianqi continued: "Furthermore, the reason why I brought you here today is not to discuss whether the imperial court should organize a new army, but what kind of help you should provide in order to train a new army. The new army that the imperial court wants to organize and train, all All the funds will be spent by me from internal funds, no appropriation from the court is required, and this new army will be led by me personally!"

After hearing this, Qian Longxi immediately stopped and said no more objections. The emperor's words were so clear. This new army is the emperor's personal soldiers. If he dares to object again, it will appear that I have ulterior motives.

So since the emperor spent money to train his own troops, whether it succeeds or fails in the end, it is all the emperor's own business, and it will not have a great impact on the court. The emperor has money, so he can let it go if he is willing to do it. He was just tossing around, maybe it was just for fun, and what he ended up with was a weak team that looked useless.

Seeing that Qian Longxi stopped talking, Zhu Tianqi continued: "Now I have encountered a little trouble in organizing and training the new army, that is, lack of manpower. I don't want to recruit troops from the private sector again, but want to Select some from the existing firearms battalions to form a new army for training, so I brought the two beloved ministers here today to discuss this matter!"

Qian Longxi glanced at the British Duke Zhang Weixian next to him, and immediately guessed Zhu Tianqi's intention. He gave a salute and said: "Now that the number of soldiers in the Beijing Camp has been greatly increased through the last rectification, it is necessary to It’s not difficult to select some and transfer them to train the new army.”

After Zhang Weixian heard this, he understood, and he immediately saluted and said: "If the emperor wants to select suitable soldiers from the Beijing camp, I am willing to personally select them for His Majesty!"

Zhu Tianqi then nodded and said: "Since both my dears have no objections, please help me select five thousand soldiers from the Shenji Camp in the capital first!"

"Five thousand people?!" When Qian Longxi heard this number, he couldn't help but exclaimed. He looked at Zhu Tianqi with surprise written on his face. After a long time, he asked with a look of astonishment: "Your Majesty, 5000 people." Isn’t it a little too much?”

Zhu Tianqi turned to look at Zhang Weixian who was standing aside. He saw that Zhang Weixian also had a look of astonishment on his face, so he had to ask: "Mr. British, I want 5000 people, is that much?"

Although Zhang Weixian wanted to "make up for his past mistakes" and tried his best to do the emperor's instructions, he still replied with a troubled face at this time: "Your Majesty, 5000 people are indeed too many, and the total number of Shenji Battalion under the Beijing Camp is not more than that." There are more than [-] people, and if half of them are allocated, the Beijing camp will be empty!"

Zhu Tianqi nodded slowly. After all, Qian Longxi might have lied to him, but Zhang Weixian might not. It seemed that he really wanted more people, so Zhu Tianqi had to reconsider and said: "Then from the Fifth Army Camp Let’s allocate some from Heshenshu Camp, and the total number can be reduced to 3000, so there should be no problem, right?”

Qian Longxi originally wanted to say something, but Zhang Weixian spoke first and said: "Go back to the emperor, there is no problem!"

Zhu Tianqi nodded with satisfaction and said, "Since there is no problem, let's just do this!"

Qian Longxi had no choice but to swallow what he was about to say, and left with Zhang Weixian. After leaving the Qianqing Gate, he asked Zhang Weixian: "Mr. British, why did you agree so quickly? The emperor wanted to transfer him all of a sudden. After leaving the three thousand soldiers in the capital camp, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers in the capital camp now, and these people have been made up with great difficulty!"

Zhang Weixian sighed, cupped his hands to Qian Longxi, and said: "Master Qian, please let me do a good job for the emperor again. Last time the emperor rectified the capital camp, although he did not punish the old minister for his dereliction of duty. , but the old minister has always felt guilty because of this. Now that he finally has the opportunity to make amends to the emperor, you can let the old minister fulfill his wish. The old minister will not have a few more years to live!" When Qian Longxi heard this, he finally had no choice but to He sighed bitterly and said nothing more.

After Zhang Weixian and Qian Longxi left, Zhu Tianqi personally drafted an imperial edict. The imperial edict not only greatly praised Zhang Weixian's loyalty to the court, but also named him Grand Master. At the same time, Zhang Weixian was relieved of his current position and would no longer be employed. Taking charge of the Central Military Governor's Mansion and Beijing Camp, I can spend my old age at home with peace of mind.

Zhu Tianqi handed this imperial edict to Wang Yuanbao and ordered him to wait for Zhang Weixian to complete the errand of mobilizing troops and horses in the Beijing camp, and then go to the British government with the reward to announce the edict.

Zhang Weixian indeed devoted a lot of energy to this task. He personally summoned the troops from the Beijing camp and selected [-] elite soldiers. According to the emperor's instructions, he sent these soldiers to the Shaanxi Chief Envoy Division. Yinchuanyi.

Half of these soldiers were selected from the Shenji Camp and were proficient in using various firearms. The other half were cavalry and infantry selected from the Fifth Army Camp and the Shenshu Camp and belonged to the field army.

These 3000 people are all young and strong veterans. There are no new recruits recruited later. They can save a lot of time and energy in training the new army.

After Sun Yuanhua received the news, he asked Zhang Boyu to personally take people to Yinchuanyi to respond. The base originally had Zhang Boyu's 500 cavalry, plus the 3000 people later sent from Yulin Guards. Counting these [-] people, Sun Yuanhua's men can be considered Barely enough, four thousand elite soldiers were collected.

Sun Yuanhua was quite satisfied with this number. After all, 4000 people was not many, but after all, the new soldiers he wanted to train were firearms troops. With such a number of soldiers, coupled with advanced firearms and equipment, the combat effectiveness was already very impressive.

But Zhu Tianqi was not satisfied. Zhu Tianqi's psychological expectation was to collect at least 1 people, but now it was less than half of his psychological expectation. He was naturally dissatisfied, even after communicating with Qian Longxi , and also realized that he did not have the ability to gather an army of 5000 people, but he still had to fight for [-] people. After all, this new army was related to his life and death.

Zhu Tianqi then summoned Qian Longxi again and asked him to allocate another thousand soldiers to join the new army no matter what. Qian Longxi said that no matter how hard it was, Zhu Tianqi always insisted that he want these 1000 soldiers. Qian Longxi Xi couldn't refuse, so he finally nodded.

Zhu Tianqi immediately issued the emperor's order, and Qian Longxi led the order to return to the Ministry of War. Finally, he chose to select [-] soldiers from the Firearms Battalion from the Datong Guard of the Shanxi Chief Envoy and transfer them to the Yinchuan Station of the Shaanxi Chief Envoy.

Although Qian Longxi was only transferring troops nearby, Zhu Tianqi was very satisfied with Qian Longxi's decision to transfer troops from Datong Guards. Now the famous general Man Gui serves as the commander-in-chief of Datong. Since then, he has been transferred to the commander-in-chief of Datong. Since then, the military affairs of Datong have been vigorously reorganized. It is the time when the soldiers are strong and the generals are brave. Datong's soldiers are still worthy of great tasks.

(End of this chapter)