Smuggling Daming

After the relocation of the Governor's Mansion to Songjiang and the discussion of the school, Zhou Zhong immediately gave Zhengde a memorial. In the memorial, he explained these two things in detail. Among them, Zhou Zhong was the most important about the military academy. Be sure, because he knows that this is definitely in line with Zhengde's appetite. As for the relocation of the office, he will definitely get the unanimous approval of the cabinet.

In fact, this is indeed the case. When Zhou Zhong’s memorial was sent to the capital and let the cabinet and Zhengde see it, the two sides immediately had different opinions. Among them, the cabinet was very interested in the move of the governor’s office to Songjiang. Li Dongyang and others discussed it casually for a few times, and agreed to this matter almost immediately, and Songjiang Mansion was also designated by them as the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas.

However, regarding the matter of the military academy, the cabinet headed by Li Dongyang firmly disagrees. After all, no one who can enter the cabinet is not a human being. Naturally, it can be seen that the military academy is a blow to the civil service system. In order to protect their own interests, they Naturally, they do not agree with the imperial court setting up any military academy, even if this military academy can enhance the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

In contrast, Zhengde's attitude is just the opposite. He is not interested in the affairs of the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas at all. After all, he has always trusted Zhou Zhong, his younger brother, and has never had other ideas, let alone He will think about so many things like Zhou Zhong, but since Zhou Zhong wants to move the government office from Shuangyu Port to his hometown Songjiang, this may be a little selfish in Zhengde's view, but he doesn't care, so he will soon agreed.

However, Zhengde was very interested in the concept of military academy proposed by Zhou Zhong.After all, the greatest wish in this life is to lead the army to fight against the enemies of Ming Dynasty on the battlefield. Unfortunately, due to his status, this wish is really difficult, but this still can't stop Zhengde from loving the military. For the new thing of the military academy, he naturally I also have a strong interest, and even have some ideas of my own.

In the Leopard Room in the Xiyuan of the Forbidden City, Zhengde looked at Zhou Zhong's memorial with excitement, laughing while watching.In the end, he patted his thigh and shouted: "Interesting! It's really interesting! The idea of ​​this military academy is really good. Why can't I come up with such a brilliant idea, but it's not too late now."

When Zhengde said this, he suddenly stretched out his hand to beckon to the side, and Gu Dayong, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately came up and bowed deeply to Zhengde: "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

"Great use, Zhou Zhong proposed to me to open a military academy. The so-called military academy is a place similar to an academy, except that it is not for people to study. It is for training generals for the court. According to his proposal A naval military academy will be built in Songjiang to train talents needed by the navy. I think it is a good thing, but I also want to open a military academy by myself. In this capital, I will train some cavalry and infantry soldiers General, the name is Army School. In this way, when we go to war with the Mongols in the future, my Ming’s frontier army will not be afraid of lacking generals. It’s just that this matter is very troublesome, please help me to look into it!” Zhengde said very excitedly.

Gu Dayong grew up watching Zhengde, so he knows his temper the most, and he also knows the relationship between Zhengde and Zhou Zhong. Now that Zhengde wants to build a military academy, others may think that Zhengde is joking. , but Gu Dayong knew very well that when Zhengde said this, the military academy in the capital was almost half built, and this matter was already a certainty, and no one could change it.

"Your Majesty, you are asking the wrong person. How can this old servant know about such important national affairs as the military academy, but Zhang Yong is a man who has led soldiers and is very familiar with the army, so your majesty might as well call him here, maybe I can give your Majesty some good suggestions!" Gu Dayong said with a flattering voice, since Liu Jin's death, Gu Dayong has completely separated himself from the affairs of the court, for fear of stepping into Liu Jin's life. However, the more he is like this, the more he is trusted by Zhengde, which is one of the places where he is smarter than Liu Jin.

Hearing Gu Dayong's suggestion, Zhengde put his hands on his forehead and laughed loudly: "I'm so happy that I'm so confused that I even asked for advice from you, a guy who knows nothing about military affairs. Get someone to call Zhang Yong. I'm so happy." We need to have a good discussion with him about the military academy in the capital, and we must not let the naval academy established by Zhou Zhong surpass us!"

Gu Dayong agreed after hearing this, and was about to turn around and leave to inform Zhang Yong to come, but at this moment, Zhengde seemed to think of something again, and immediately stopped him and said: "Dayong, although Zhang Yong has been a military supervisor, after all, he did not He has really led soldiers and fought in battles, so besides calling him, you also call Yang Yiqing and Qiu Yue. So many ideas!"

"Slave obeys the order!" Gu Dayong agreed again after hearing this, turned around and asked someone to inform Zhang Yong and the three of them. Speaking of Qiu Yue and Yang Yiqing mentioned by Zhengde, they and Zhang Yong were quite destined. Back then, King Anhua rebelled , Zhengde sent Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yong to lead troops to encircle and suppress the rebellion. As a result, the rebellion was falsely surrendered before the army arrived in Gansu.

Later, Liu Jin was overthrown by Zhang Yong and Yang Yiqing. As a result, all three of them were rewarded heavily. Among them, Zhang Yong is now in charge of the Inner Court's Supervisor of Rites and Supervisor of Horses. Jin is so domineering, and gets along very well with the ministers of the outer court, so it is safe now.As for Yang Yiqing, he was appointed as Minister of the Ministry of War. Qiu Yue was originally named the governor of Ningxia, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, and Xianning Bo, and was later named Xianninghou. cavalry.

Gu Dayong's work was very fast, Zhang Yong who was already in the palace arrived first, followed by Zhang Yiqing who was over 40 years old, and finally Qiu Yue who was training soldiers outside the city.Qiu Yue is over [-] years old this year, a tall and thin middle-aged man, with very regular facial features, with three long beards on his jaw, he looks very gentle.However, Qiu Yue was probably training when he received the notice, so he came to the palace without changing his clothes, and now he was still wearing armor, which made him look a little more like a general.

Speaking of this Qiu Yue, his experience is also quite legendary. Qiu Yue was not originally named Qiu. He was originally an ordinary mercenary in the Ningxia Governor's Mansion, and later he was appreciated by the commander of the General Military Mansion, Shi Qiuli. He took him with him to learn the art of war. Because Qiu Li had no son, he considered him his adopted son and changed his name to Qiu Yue. He made great contributions in the rebellion of King Anhua of Ping'an, and became the upstart among the generals of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, and is now deeply appreciated by Zhengde.

Seeing that the three of Zhang Yong were all present, Zhengde didn't ask them to salute, but immediately beckoned them to come forward and handed Zhou Zhong's memorial to them to watch.The three of Zhang Yong are smart people, so they naturally know that they don't need to intervene in the relocation of the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, so the reason why His Majesty summoned them today must be for the military academy.

"Okay, I guess you all understand the reason why I summoned you here today. Zhou Zhong plans to build a naval military academy in Songjiang to train future generals for the navy, and I will serve as the principal of the military academy. In the future The generals who come out of the military academy are all my disciples. This way, the loyalty of the generals can be maintained, and it is also easy for me to control the military academy. I think this suggestion is very good, and I want to establish an army in the capital too. Military academy, after all, by comparison, the biggest threat to my Ming Dynasty is the Mongols on the northern grasslands, so the army generals are the top priority, I wonder what your opinions are?" Zhengde said with a smile.

However, upon hearing Zhengde's question, Zhang Yong and Yang Yiqing looked at each other, then lowered their heads and did not dare to speak, because they had already learned about the military academy from the cabinet, and also understood the impact on civilian officials after the establishment of the military academy. , but now that Zhengde is in high spirits, he must have made up his mind to establish a military academy. This is not a good thing for civil servants, and it also puts Zhang Yong and Yang Yiqing in a dilemma. If the emperor agrees, he may become an enemy of the scholars in the world, neither of which they can offend.

In contrast, Qiu Yue's political knowledge is very shallow, and he usually only trains in the [-] Battalion, so he doesn't know anything about the affairs of the court. Now that he saw the military academy proposed by Zhou Zhong, although he didn't With such a long-term view, he couldn't see the impact of the military academy on the entire situation of Ming Dynasty, but his instinct as a general told him that this must be a good thing.

It is precisely because of this that Qiu Yue immediately clasped his fists and replied: "Your Majesty, the general thinks this military academy is a good thing. When the general was leading the army in Ningxia before, he felt that there was a shortage of generals in the frontier army. , most of the generals learned the art of war on the battlefield, but that is only a minority. Most of them died on the battlefield before they could learn the art of war. Now there are places like military schools that specialize in training generals. My Great Ming will no longer be in danger of lacking generals!"

After Qiu Yue finished speaking, he laughed a few times very complacently, but when he saw Yang Yiqing winking at him, he immediately realized that he might have said the wrong thing, but since he said it, he couldn't take it back at this time, So I had to bite the bullet and lower my head.

Yang Yiqing, on the other hand, sighed. Qiu Yue was his old subordinate, and Yang Yiqing also felt very relieved to see him now as a general. I may also need to draw a line with him. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)