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On the way back to the Forbidden City, Liu Sheng said to Liu Rui: "After the expeditionary force that follows me to Dachu is equipped with enough Yi Xing No. 1 rifles, the guards who stay here will also have to change their equipment one after another."

"Also, the Guards' rotation system must be implemented unremittingly to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Guards and prevent the Guards from degenerating into old soldiers with nothing but luxurious equipment."

"In addition, the source of troops for the Guards must also be based on outstanding officers and soldiers from the standing army and the garrison, supplemented by descendants of meritorious service and martyrs."

"The educational ideology of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism must always be tightened and cannot be relaxed. Only in this way can we always have a military force in our hands that can control this great river and mountains."

"Please keep this in mind." Liu Rui nodded, and then asked doubtfully: "Isn't the standing army trustworthy?"

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "The standing army is not untrustworthy, it is just not as reliable as the Guards."

Now the Da'ei imperial court has formed a complete set of control systems for the standing army.

For example, generals holding military positions at brigade level and above must settle in Nanjing - of course, Liu Sheng would not issue such a rigid order, but would arrange housing for the generals.

Thirdly, generally speaking, a standing division guarding a certain place will not be replaced easily. This is to prevent the new commander from having to learn about his enemies from scratch when he arrives.

Of course, when it comes time to replace it, it won't have much impact.

For example, Li Dingguo led the Fifth Division of the Standing Army to guard the border of Guangxi all year round, guarding Annan and several other countries on the Indochina Peninsula.

The Fifth Division has established relevant files on various preparations made by these countries. When the successors come, they can quickly understand the situation on the Guangxi border through these files and documents.

While the generals are not easily replaced, the deputy division commanders, division staff officers, division military administrators, and brigade-level generals will be transferred and reassigned appropriately.

This prevents a division from being stationed in one place for a long time and forming a self-interested military group similar to the Guanning Army of the former Ming Dynasty.

As for ordinary soldiers, it is another arrangement.

No matter where the soldiers of later generations were guarding the border, their families were in their hometowns, and they could only go back and visit during holidays - this was because of the convenient transportation.

But at this time, if this is done, the soldiers will not be able to see their families for several years because their hometowns are too far away and transportation is inconvenient.

As for letting soldiers return home in batches to visit relatives, it is not easy.

There are 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers in a division, and it is estimated that it will take one or two years, or even longer, to complete the entire cycle.

Therefore, the Da'ei Standing Army will try its best to recruit soldiers from the border areas. If the original soldiers' hometown is elsewhere, if their families are willing, they will be moved to the border provinces to make it easier for the soldiers to visit their relatives.

However, this policy has been changed as the mileage of Dawei Railway has been lengthened and transportation has become more and more convenient. In recent years, a considerable number of soldiers' families have been unwilling to move, and the soldiers themselves do not care that they cannot return home after guarding the border for several years. , but focused on making achievements.

Perhaps in a few decades, this policy of migrating soldiers' families to border provinces will stop.

Finally, the Guards selects soldiers from the standing army and the garrison, which can be regarded as an indirect influence and control over the standing army and the garrison.

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After Liu Sheng and Liu Rui returned to the Forbidden City, the Royal School happened to be out of school.

After Liu Sheng had dinner with the red lady, he sent someone to call over a dozen of his children who were in school to inquire about their studies.

"See my father and my mother!"

All the princes and princesses saluted like little adults.

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "Pingshen."

Then he added, "It's still the old rule. Boys will be inspected by me, and girls will be inspected by your mother."

Hearing this, the princes and princesses were not surprised and immediately separated the men and women.

The nine princes who were going to school lined up from left to right in order of height and stood neatly in front of Liu Sheng.

At the Royal School, students are required to do group broadcasting gymnastics after the second class in the morning, so lining up has become a kind of instinct.

Among the nine people, Liu Yu, the second son of the emperor, was the oldest, thirteen or fourteen years old, and the tallest, over one meter six.

He was born to Li Xiangyun, inherited the good looks of Liu Sheng and Li Xiangyun, and has grown into a handsome young man.

The shortest one is naturally Liu Hu, the tenth son of the emperor, who was born in the tenth year of Qianyuan and is only five years old this year. He was born to Zheng Haizhu, and his looks are naturally not bad, but he is still a little kid at the moment.

In addition to the nine in front of him and the prince Liu Rui, Liu Sheng also has five sons, none of whom are currently in school.

The youngest among them is Liu Xian, the fifteenth son of the emperor, who was born to Yang Zhi, a concubine of the Bai tribe. He is now less than one year old.

Liu Sheng saw that all his sons were tall and handsome, and he couldn't help but feel proud. He thought to himself: As expected of me, Liu Sheng, they will all be handsome boys in future generations.

Then he inspected their homework one by one, starting with the youngest Liu Hu.

Although Liu Sheng has not studied for many years, he still has the basics, and he has the children's textbooks and homework as reference, so there will be no problems during the inspection.

As a result, something happened to the first prince.

"Hu'er (Liu Hu's nickname), what is 8+5?"

"8+5?"

Liu Huhai, as his name suggests, has a tiger-like head and a tiger-like brain. After hearing this, he muttered something and started counting according to the method he learned in class these two days.

In the end, he used all ten fingers, but found that it was not enough.

He was stunned for a moment when he saw a pair of fleshy little hands.

Next to him, Liu Can, the ninth son of the emperor (born from the Red Lady), who was more than one year older than Liu Hu, rolled his eyes and made little moves in front of Liu Sheng, trying to give Liu Hu a hint.

It's a pity that Liu Hu is too young to understand the profound meaning of his little actions.

He came back to his senses, looked up, and saw Liu Sheng looking at him with a majestic face (actually he was suppressing a smile). He suddenly felt a little scared, his mouth dropped, and tears began to well up in his eyes. ,

But he remembered that Liu Sheng didn't like boys crying, so he held back his tears and said, "This question is too difficult. Hu'er can't do it. Please punish me."

Looking at Liu Hu's cute little appearance, Liu Sheng almost couldn't help laughing.

But for the sake of his father's majesty, he finally held back. He looked at Liu Can and said, "You keep making little moves, but do you know how to do this question? Listen, what I want to hear is how to do it, not a simple answer. ”

Liu Can is not only good-looking, but also seems to have inherited Liu Sheng's wisdom and matchmaker's cleverness.

He couldn't wait to say: "8+5=13, tenth brother, your fingers are not enough, you can also use your toes."

"Toes?" Liu Hu looked cute. He didn't expect it to be like this. Then he looked down at his feet and couldn't help but said, "But Hu'er is wearing shoes, so you can't see your toes."

"Take off your shoes." Liu Can encouraged.

Liu Hu was very strong in execution. He actually took off his shoes in front of Liu Sheng. The nanny and maid behind him were extremely anxious, fearing that Liu Sheng would blame Liu Hu for this.

Liu Hu added it again with both hands and feet sincerely, and said happily: "It's really good, 8+5=13, I know this question!"

Liu Sheng smiled when he saw this and said: "Hu'er is smart and learns really fast. However, you can only calculate addition and subtraction within 20 with your fingers and toes. What should you do if it exceeds 20?"

Liu Hu looked cute again.

He's only five years old, okay?
He couldn't understand what Liu Sheng said for a while.

Fortunately, Liu Sheng had no intention of using this to test Liu Hu.

He looked at Liu Can and said, "Can't you? Come and tell me."

Liu Can was in the first grade of elementary school and had learned much more knowledge than Liu Hu. He immediately said arrogantly: "Father, you look down on me. This is not a problem for me. I can do all the calculations verbally for additions and subtractions within a hundred." ”

"Really? Then I will give you a few questions to test you." Then, Liu Sheng asked several common addition and subtraction questions, and Liu Can could indeed calculate them all verbally.

然后刘升嘴角露出一抹暗笑，道：“那23+67-79+56-42等于多少？”

Liu Can stared after hearing this. When he came back to his senses, he tried to calculate orally, but found that it was difficult to get the answer as quickly as before. He became anxious and got the result of part of the oral calculation wrong, so he had to start over.

When Liu Sheng saw this, he ignored him and continued to inspect other princes.

The remaining princes saw how powerful it was, and they didn't dare to be careless and became nervous.

Naturally, not all princes are academic masters, there are also some who are average in their studies, or even a bit of a scumbag.

But overall, the studies are pretty good.

Therefore, after the inspection, Liu Sheng was quite satisfied.

"Liu Yu, Liu Heng, and Liu Jing stay, and everyone else should go back."

"This is my father, please leave me."

After the other princes retreated, the three remaining people became even more nervous.

These three were all over ten years old, and Liu Sheng planned to take them with him on the expedition to Dachu, so he planned to take advantage of the time after dinner to test them more and teach them some knowledge and skills...

In the blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed, and the time has come to August of the 16th year of Qianyuan.

Liu Rui has been co-managing state affairs for a year. Under Liu Sheng's guidance, he has a certain understanding of all aspects of state affairs.

Therefore, on the ninth day of August, Liu Sheng, in accordance with the plan discussed with the important ministers, officially issued an imperial edict to inform the world, passing it on to the crown prince Liu Rui, and he abdicated as the Supreme Emperor.

The Ministry of Rites prepared multiple era titles for Liu Rui to choose from.

In the end, Liu Sheng and Liu Rui chose "Yongxing" together.

However, according to the custom of previous dynasties, this year is still the 16th year of Qianyuan, and the year name will not be changed until next year, to the first year of Da'ei Yongxing.

After abdicating, Liu Sheng stayed in Nanjing for another month.

Seeing that Liu Rui is a decent emperor, but his confidence is still a bit lacking, he often asks him how to handle some things. Liu Sheng understood that it was time for him to leave - if he stayed in Nanjing, it would be difficult for Liu Rui to truly grow up, and he would not be able to let go of many things.

So, after a little preparation, Liu Sheng took some of his entourage to Tianmu Mountain and entered North America.

It was the fifth day of the tenth month in the sixteenth year of Qianyuan.

Longshou County, the camp of the Da'ei Expeditionary Army.

As early as three years ago, Liu Sheng transferred a brigade each from the Tiger Guard, Xiaoqi Guard, and Shengjie Guard of the Guards to cooperate with the third brigade of the Hailong Guard here to conduct high-level navigation adaptability training.

As for the Guards remaining in Nanjing, it does not mean that there are four less brigades - whether it is the Army's Three Guards or the Sea Dragon Guard, outstanding soldiers will be selected from other armies to make up for the three brigades.

In other words, the four combat guards of the Damei Guards now actually have four brigades!

Even Xunfengwei, because two regiments were transferred away by Liu Sheng, also replenished the personnel of the two regiments.

At the same time, two-thirds of the bodyguards were taken away by Liu Sheng, leaving only some of the young backbones for Liu Rui to form his own bodyguards.

It can be seen from this that there are more than 50,000 soldiers in the expeditionary army camp today.

It occupies a large piece of land near Hailongwei's original camp in Longshou County.

It is said that Longshou County has become more prosperous because of the expeditionary army in recent years - so many soldiers consume a lot of food, grass and other materials every day.

Longshou County can provide part of it, and other parts will be transferred here.

In this way, Longshou County's economy will naturally become more prosperous.

The largest barracks in the camp has now become Liu Sheng's temporary "palace" in Longshou County.

In the palace, Liu Sheng was listening to Ye Jianan's report on the various intelligence collected by the previous expedition fleet to Dachu for the second time.

Although most of the information, Ye Jianan wrote a memorial and gave it to Liu Sheng for reading.

But there were some things that Liu Sheng had to ask face to face to get more clarity - because Ye Jianan and other Xunfengwei personnel lurked into Dachu and saw a lot, and it was impossible to write everything down in the memorial.

Sometimes things and phenomena that they don't take seriously may be the information that Liu Sheng values.

This kind of thing can only be found out by asking Liu Sheng face to face.

Since Ye Jianan came back from Dachu for the first time, not only has his military rank been promoted by three levels, but his position has been promoted to the level of regimental commander. He is now one of the two regimental commanders of the Expeditionary Force Xunfengwei.

With a promotion and a salary increase, and being placed in a more important position, Ye Jianan was full of energy during his second trip to Dachu, and he saw and heard a lot.

"Your Majesty, Emperor Jiahua of Chu is very fond of Concubine Li and has always wanted the crown prince. For this reason, he has secretly and overtly competed with his courtiers, causing chaos in the government. In recent years, he has become even more obsessed with cultivating immortals."

"A few years ago, Emperor Jiahua spent a lot of money to invite Taoist priests and capable people from all over the world to debate the method of ascending to immortality in Xiangjing."

"They also sent people to build a huge ashram called the 'Shenglong Road' in Xian Mountain, and built a Babel Tower that can be called a wonder!"

When Ye Jianan said this, he was quite excited. Apparently he thought the things done by Emperor Dachu were "wonderful".

Liu Sheng was speechless.

According to the intelligence collected by Xunfengwei before, it was known that Emperor Jiahua was not the prince at first. He became the prince and inherited the throne only after the original prince made a big mistake.

At the beginning of his succession, he also worked hard for several years.

It was probably because he discovered that his actual power as an emperor was not as great as he had imagined. There were constraints everywhere when doing things, and it was difficult to accomplish anything, so he began to lie down.

After lying in peace for several years, Emperor Jiahua began to act like a monster under various factors.

On the one hand, he dotes on the imperial concubine and wants to depose the prince; on the other hand, he cultivates immortality and performs a major cultivation of wonders.

Isn’t this the fusion of Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty?
The problem is that this Emperor Jiahua did not have Jiajing's machinations and political skills at all. Compared with Wanli, its foundation is also lacking.

Therefore, in the past few years, the people of Da Chu have become more and more miserable.

In addition, the Yellow River burst its banks and caused a flood. As well as normal disasters such as drought in the north and floods in the south, the government did nothing and even took advantage of the disaster to make a fortune.

Finally, the people were forced to raise the flag to rebel.

Before the exploration fleet came back, probably at the beginning of this year, there were already more than a dozen peasant armies in Dachu.

However, after all, Da Chu's foundation is not weak, and it has not yet reached the natural end of his life.

Most of these dozens of peasant armies are useless. If nothing happens, they will be wiped out by the Chu court sooner or later.

"When we left Dachu, the most powerful peasant army at that time, whose leader was called King Pingtian, had been wiped out."

"I heard that after King Naping was captured, he was escorted to Xiangjing and cut into pieces with a thousand swords."

Hearing this, Liu Sheng was even more emotional, feeling that there was really nothing new in history.

Many similar things happen repeatedly.

Make people sigh. (End of chapter)