I am the king of the dead

"How did the 20 elites and 30 civilians of the Ming Dynasty's Beijing camp die in the frontier?"

"What about Daming, who almost fell into the disaster of exile, and he has a long memory."

Seeing the appearance of the courtiers, Zhu Qiyu sighed and said: "Xing'an, from now on, this flag will be placed here, don't take it away, and look at it every day after the court meeting is over and when you leave."

"The minister leads the order." Xing'an bowed his head respectfully and said.

Zhu Qiyu sat back in his seat and said, "Go on."

The court discussion began to continue, and Zhu Qiyu looked at the courtiers, and finally began to take Wala's southward journey seriously this time, Zhu Qiyu was relieved.

In fact, the slackness of the courtiers is a problem in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a problem in almost all empires.

That is: "Everyone in the empire has become arrogant. Everyone thinks that the empire is strong enough, and it is nothing to worry about."

Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is.

How to recruit civilians to widen the road to Xuanfu and level the road without affecting the spring plowing? arguing.

"Your Majesty, the ministers and others are almost done with the discussion. After the ministries have discussed it, they will come up with a plan and send it to Wenyuan Pavilion for His Majesty's review." Yu Qian motioned everyone to be quiet, and reported the results of today's court discussion to the emperor.

This will be documented in writing.

"How long?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

Yu Qian hurriedly said, "It's sunset."

Zhu Qiyu stood up and said, "I know, let's go."

He suddenly thought of it and said: "Oh, by the way, the capital lecture hall will open the day after tomorrow, don't forget."

"Your Majesty will be sent off respectfully." A group of courtiers made a salute respectfully.

In fact, Zhu Qiyu also left the palace, he didn't live in the palace, and he didn't even know how to take the water and food in the palace.

After he returned to Tai'an Palace, which was renamed the Prince Yi's Mansion, he still held Yang Hong's memorial in his hand, and his heart was still extremely heavy.

In Yang Hong's memorandum, he mentioned a suggestion, that is, to select capable men and form a pier and Yuanhou.

The piers are an important part of the Daming military fort system.

High walls, deep ravines, five miles for the fort, ten miles for the village, the beacon towers, and the beads are connected to the wall.

The pier sentry is responsible for guarding and guarding the pier and its surrounding areas.

The Yuanhou of the pier proposed by Yang Hong refers to these scouts who are active outside day and night, then collect information and send it back to the pier.

[Today's defenses along the border include the construction of camps, fortresses and piers, and the defense of patrols and ambushes.Those who are dispatched have soldiers, those who divide the defense have defenses, and the way of strict defense can be described as thorough and well-prepared. 】

[Jie can fly over the roof and walk on the wall, but the skill of murder and arson is ingenious and shocking, so he should be selected into the Chinese army for the purpose of his heart and body.It can go deep into the barracks to find out the truth, and it will not be closed at night when the sentry is out. 】

The pier sentry will not accept it at night.

These murderers, arsonists, and omnipotent sergeants went out day and night when they were performing sentry on the pier. In addition to going deep into the camp and sentrying out the enemy's actual situation, they would set fire to a trail in autumn. The 50-mile-deep fire zone was used to isolate the grassland tribes from going south.

At least stop them from resupplying nearby.

The strong wall clears the field, and the clearing reaches other people's homes. This is the purpose proposed by Yang Hong to form the pier and Yuanhou.

Of course, Yang Hong also proposed the specific functions of Duntai Yuanhou.

Specifically, it is divided into: catching students, sentry reporting, guarding sentry, supervising sentry, claw detection, walking report, messenger, piers, sitting in ponds, calling the police, and leaving mountains.

Zhu Qiyu intends to approve the memorial of the Marquis of Yuantai, and establish a whole set of foreign intelligence network of Ming Dynasty with the frontier army of Nine Towns as the main force.

If he wants to sweep the Tingli caves of the Oara people, he must find out the tribes of the Oara people one by one along the hydrology.

To form this intelligence network, of course, the first thing to do is to start with the imminent Xuanfu.

As for the name of this intelligence network, Zhu Qiyu Zhu approved the name because of the fact that the sentry would not accept it at night.

In addition to Yang Hong's request, he gave an additional 280 sets of flying fish suits.

These flying fish suits are for Ye Bucha's dress and funeral clothes, they don't usually wear them.

They do not accept them at night, because they have to pass on information, inquire about news for the army, and even undertake certain military combat tasks, such as blocking small groups of looting horse bandits who enter the country privately, such as killing enemy scouts, and so on.

Every time the Yuanhou of the pier stands guard, the casualties are bound to be heavy, but for the sake of intelligence, there is indeed a necessity for existence.

If these piers are far away and disappear forever on the border and grassland, after it is verified that they were killed in battle, they will be compensated accordingly.

If it cannot be verified, it will be counted as fugitive, and there is no compensation for fugitive.

These nights are not collected, usually alone or with two or three people, once encountering the enemy, it is easy to wipe out the whole army, and it is impossible to verify.

The reason why Zhu Qiyu gave the flying fish suit was because everyone knew that these people were willing to be marquises, not because they made any mistakes, let alone criminals.

They are the best among the best, all the piers are far away, and they are the most loyal fighters of Ming Dynasty!

They will not flee, but because it is impossible to verify whether they are dead or alive, they can only be recorded as fugitives.

There is no pension, only clothing as a tomb.

It proves that they once contributed their lives to Daming.

Zhu Qiyu bestowed 280 sets of flying fish suits, just to see off these 280 members with a bright sword.

They are Daming's night watchmen - they don't accept them at night.

"Xing'an, do you think that just this set of clothes can make people work hard?" Zhu Qiyu asked with emotion after approving Yang Hong's memorial.

After Ye Bushou delivered the information on the pier, important military reports would be sent to Jin Yiwei.It can be regarded as a subordinate unit of Jinyiwei Yamen.

But these Ming's sharpest swords actually got this kind of clothes, and they might not be able to wear them once in a lifetime.

Your Majesty loves people, and doesn't think clothes are more important than people.

Of course, it has to be counted as a person.

Xing'an bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, there are four-clawed flying fish patterns on the flying fish uniform, and the flying fish python also has two horns. It is a second-grade garment second only to the python uniform. Grace to them."

"Your Majesty knows what they did, and so does Daming."

"They are working for their wives, children, old and young, for Daming, and even more so for His Majesty."

Chapter 144 Taking Mountains and Stones as Enemies

After Zhu Qiyu's edict was issued, the household department was the one who scratched his head the most.

The Ministry of Households needs to recruit civilians, and this kind of recruitment needs to be recruited from Gyeonggi, and it needs to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to widen and level roads.

There are also grain chariots. After all, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, spent years building chariots in order to cooperate with the warlike Zhu Di. In the first Northern Expedition alone, 30 chariots were built.

The Ministry of Industry has accumulated a lot of craftsmen, and even if there is a shortage of carts, there will not be too many shortages, which can be made.

"Could it be possible to organize the Tenth Regimental Battalion to level the road and pave the road in the early stage?" Jin Lian sat on the chair of the head of the household department and said to the servants and ambassadors below.

Everyone fell into silence, the army had no fighting power, but if more than 20 people could move, it would indeed solve the urgent need of the household department.

Everything else is easy to say, but the matter of opening mountains and building roads is really difficult.

In particular, the army can use gunpowder, which brings many conveniences to level the road.

Daming liked to use the Beijing camp for construction. For example, when the Yellow River broke its embankment, the Beijing camp would be sent there.

For example, in Xu Youzhen's water control book, it was also mentioned that if necessary, the capital camp should go to Zhang Qiu.

"I'll talk to Yu Shaobao, you stay here for a while." Jin Lian stood up, walked out of the household department, and headed for the military department.

The six divisions are all on the left side of the Royal Road from Chengtianmen to Damingmen, and the distance is only a few steps away.

It's spring plowing right now.

The Wala people chose the time very cleverly. They knew that you, Daming, would be busy with spring plowing, so they would come here.

Jin Lian did not find Yu Qian, but only saw Li Binyan, the Minister of the Ministry of War. After a little questioning, he found out that Yu Qian had gone to Daxing County again.

Jin Lian scratched his head, so he dispatched a fast horse himself, and within two hours, the fast horse returned.

"Yu Shaobao said that the Beijing camp is His Majesty's Beijing camp, and once dispatched, it is up to His Majesty to decide. In the future, we should ask His Majesty what is appropriate for the Beijing camp." The postman left the household department after finishing his speech. yamen.

Jin Lian could only sigh, and wrote a memorial to him, and handed it to Wenyuan Pavilion.

As for whether His Majesty is willing to help this favor, he is a little uncertain.

Can Your Majesty agree to the sergeants of the Beijing camp doing such hard work?

When Zhu Qiyu received the memorial that was not planned by Jin Lian, he thought for a long time, and finally decided that he could supervise the matter.

The training in the Beijing Camp takes at least three years. Isn’t it training to open mountains and build roads?

Doesn't it require a degree of organization to open mountains and build roads?Don't you need a command to open a mountain and build a road?

Opening mountains and building roads is a drill and a good opportunity to improve the coordination of the army on a large scale.

Especially in the use of gunpowder, blasting is also a great science.

In the Battle of Qingfengdian, Shi Hengxian blew up a lot of rocks to block the road, causing the Tatars led by Agadorzi to suffer heavy losses, and fled in a hurry. The target of the enemy's vital forces.

Engineering, civil work is not a combat force?

In the early Ming Dynasty, the strength of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was still strong, and Liaodong had not yet recovered. In the early Ming Dynasty, Ma Yun and Ye Wang, two powerful generals, stood firm in Liaodong.

Beiyuan Naha went south to Gaizhou, intending to drive the Ming forces out of Liaodong.

Ma Yun and Ye Wang commanded the soldiers, from Lianyun Island to Kutuo Village for more than ten miles, spread earth, stone and sand along the river, built ice blocks as a wall, poured water on it, and it froze at night, making it as strong as a city wall.

Near Lianyun Island, lay nail boards in the sand, set traps next to them, and ambush the army to wait for the enemy.

Beiyuan relied on Naha to go out, and returned in a big defeat, escaped to heaven with only a few rides.

Civil engineering work is of course an important part of combat effectiveness!

Luo Tong, the right servant of the Ministry of War, and Zhao Min, the guard general of Juyong Pass, commanded the same acquaintance Zhao Min, pumped water to irrigate the city, and the city wall was frozen. Isn't this the credit of the earthwork?

Yu Qian built a T-shaped street to block the enemy, dug trenches, and repaired the city wall in the Guomin house in the capital city. This is also civil engineering work.

Civil engineering work is the ability to guarantee logistics, Jin Lian's proposal is very good.

The 20 people in the Beijing camp practiced all day long, but there was no actual combat. Since they couldn't fight the enemy, they couldn't fight field battles, and they couldn't resist the enemy for the time being, then they used mountains and rocks as their enemies and opened up mountains to pave the way!

After Zhu Qiyu Zhu approved Jin Lian's memorandum, he assigned Shi Heng, Fan Guang, Yang Jun and Sun Tong to supervise the matter. He also issued an order to ask the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry to draw up road sections, and the army would pave the way at any time. .

Xing'an bowed his head with a memorial and said: "Your Majesty does not eat and drink in the palace. Guanglu Temple can eliminate 240 people's cooks, and save about 8000 pigs, [-] sheep, and more than [-] geese every year." , more than [-] chickens, [-] calves, and [-] taels of monthly salt and silver."

Zhu Qiyu took Xing'an's memorial with a frown, and asked puzzledly: "Six thousand cooks? I remember that Taizu Gao ordered the Taichang Temple to have only 400 cooks?"

"That's too much."

The law of the Ming Dynasty to kill cattle violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Qiyu would slaughter ten cows for rewards except when the army was mobilizing. The rest would be replaced by pork, mutton, chicken, duck and goose.

Cattle are an important production tool, and in many cases, they are more expensive than people.

Xing'an bowed his head again and said: "At the beginning of the tenth year of Xuande, there were only more than 5000 people. At the end of the tenth year of Xuande, there were 880 people. In the seventh year of Zhengtong, there were [-] people. Your Majesty asked the minister to clear the palace, and the minister did it."

"Only more than 880 of the 600 four chefs are living people, and the rest are all found."

Zhu Qiyu didn't suspect that Xing'an was eliminating dissidents, nor did he suspect that these [-] people were silently killed by Xing'an.

Zhu Qiyu went to the battlefield, and more than 100 catties of meat were placed there, which was a big piece. After cleaning up, at least four people handled a corpse.

There are more than 6000 to 600 chefs in Taichang Temple. This is not eliminating dissidents, but a massacre.

It is almost impossible to kill so many people without any movement.

Xing'an has the ability to kill so many people so easily and silently, so he was simply released to Oirat, and the Oirat people were exterminated in a few years.

Xing'an continued: "The chef of Guanglu Temple was originally responsible for the food in the palace. Later, all the palaces in the palace came to Guanglu Temple to eat, and Guanglu Temple began to be greedy. A pot of meat can be cooked for a year without changing it. .But more and more pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks are needed.”

"I searched and checked, and finally settled the bad debt of Guanglu Temple. If your Majesty is thirsty and eats in the palace, you can rest assured. After all, I am your Majesty's extravagant staff and responsible for testing dishes."

Xing'an did it for his own sake, not to clean Guanglu Temple inside and out, if anyone poisoned His Majesty, he would be the one who poisoned him to death...

"Bring a food box, if you don't keep secret, you will lose your minister." Zhu Qiyu still shook his head.

Not only did he not trust water and food in the palace, but even the palace masters who lived in that big cage didn't trust them. They all let their eunuchs cook instead of passing dishes to Guanglu Temple.

The cooking at Guanglu Temple is unpalatable, and it’s not like dragon liver and phoenix marrow. It’s a rare and unique taste. It’s all fish and meat, and it’s even dangerous.

"Let's clear it up then." Zhu Qiyu approved Xing'an's memorabilia on eliminating the chef.

Zhu Qiyu held a big banquet, of course Guanglu Temple would not dare to serve meat that had been cooked for a year at that time.

Xing'an took out the blueprint of Taiji Factory and said: "Your Majesty, I have also figured out that there are seven illegal houses that need to be demolished. More than a thousand craftsmen are enough."

"I selected dozens of hounds. Your Majesty said last time that you want big dogs. I sent someone to look for them. After the curfew, they will be placed in Xiaoyong Square, where thieves cannot enter."