Zi Hou, last time I asked you once, more than a month has passed, now I ask you again, how is your Zhejiang army training?”
Zhang Jing asked, he knew that Zhu Pingan led the Zhejiang army to exterminate the Shangyu Japanese invaders by trickery, Zhu Pingan had gauged the arrogant, arrogant and unselfish habits of the Shangyu Japanese invaders, and laid out a plan in advance so that the Japanese invaders were hit by the psychedelic drug called Peacock’s Tail, and only then was it successfully eliminated.
That is to say, this time the battle of eliminating the Japanese did not try out the real level of the Zhejian army, so there is this question.
“Back to my lord, the Zhejian army after this period of time of drilling, in the extermination of the Shangyu Japanese invaders also saw blood, although it has not yet become the Hundred Refined Soldiers, but it can already stand a battle.”Zhu Pingan returned with a serious and responsible face.
“Battle-ready, not bad not bad, I didn’t realise that Zi Hou still has a knack for training soldiers.”Zhang Jing couldn’t help but nod his head, although the last battle to eliminate the Shangyu Japanese invaders didn’t test out the true strength of the Zheijiang army, but “can withstand a battle” was not bad, it was a very pertinent evaluation.
In fact, just this four words “can be a battle”, has been much stronger than most of the guards and horses.
In recent years, how many guards have fought with Japanese invaders and been crushed in a single battle, or even crushed at the touch of a button.
“Your Excellency is flattering.”Zhu Pingan modestly replied back, “Pingan is also a first time for military training, standing on the shoulders of the sages and crossing the river by touching the stones with a passion. In fact, for such a long time, Ping An still has a lot of doubts and confusion about military practice, but he still has to ask for advice from Your Excellency as well as the generals.”
“Everything is difficult at the beginning, Zi Hou you have done well. As for asking for advice, I’m still good at using troops or not, but I’m not good at practising troops, and I don’t have any good experience that I can share with Zi Hou.”Zhang Jing smiled faintly, then changed his tone and said, “However, after some time, Zi Hou, you will not worry about finding someone to ask for advice on military practice.”
Zhu Pingan understood the meaning of Zhang Jing’s words, Zhang Jing had already put the deployment of troops and generals on his agenda, and in a few days there would be many veteran generals arriving with deployment orders, so he wouldn’t worry about finding someone to ask for advice.
“Zi Hou, what are your next plans?”Zhang Jing asked again.
Zhu Pingan replied with a straight face, “Practise and prepare for war, make great efforts to feed the troops and horses, and always be ready to fight and kill the Japanese!”
“Good!”Zhang Jing nodded with satisfaction, “If everyone is like Zi Hou, why worry about the Japanese not being pacified.”
“Preparing for war and fighting is supposed to be the fundamental function of a general, being a soldier and fighting is a matter of course, leading a soldier and fighting is a matter of course.”Zhu Pingan said modestly.
“Being a soldier and fighting a war is a matter of course, leading a soldier and fighting a war is a matter of course ……What Zi Hou said is good.”Hearing Zhu Pingan’s reply, Zhang Jing couldn’t help but reminisce for a moment before sighing again, “But this heavenly and earthly justice thing is not that good. Chengping day for a long time, the guardhouse soldiers waste retreated a lot, the military households to flee a lot of people, the soldiers and horses are rarely trained, weak, afraid of war and cowardly, on the battlefield will be a touch, a defeat, a battle is a defeat ……”
Zhu Pingan also could not help but follow a sigh, alas, this is the current situation of the current guard system!
Back then, Tai Zu was full of pride when he said “I raise millions of soldiers, without costing the people a grain of rice”, if Tai Zu knew about the current status of the guardsmen system, it is estimated that the coffin boards can not be pressed.
“Your Excellency is right, I have to admit, nowadays the guardhouse soldier system is really worrying, all over the guardhouse soldiers and horses are not very …… good.My humble servant suggests that your lordship should raise troops to form a new army while deploying troops.”
Zhu Pingan suggested.
Zhu Pingan was familiar with history, deploying troops was a last resort at the moment, in fact, the rapid improvement of the Japanese situation became better from Qi Jiguang and others who raised troops to form a new army to form a fighting force.
So Zhu Pingan put forward the suggestion of raising troops, precisely want to make this process faster, raise troops earlier, destroy the Japanese also faster.
“Recruiting troops to form a new army is not that easy. Now my Ming military system, upholding the ‘separation of soldiers and commanders’ of the subtle rules, if the recruitment of new army, the cabinet must devolve the military power to the generals, the recruitment of new army inevitably played on the brand of the generals, over time there will be the court can not fully control the military power of the hidden trouble, or become individual generals influence the power of the left and right, the risk of this hidden trouble can not bebe taken lightly.”
Zhang Jing slightly shook his head, how he did not know the current situation of the guardsmen, he also wanted to raise troops to form a new army, but now the Ming Dynasty is implementing the system of guardsmen, it is not so easy to raise troops to build an army.
“Er ……”Zhu Pingan could not help but be stunned for a moment.
“This is not alarmist, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is an example, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Eastern Han Dynasty official army sources, military expenses are scarce, and poor combat effectiveness, the court is unable to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and then delegated the authority to allow the powerful to raise troops to form an armed force to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion, these armed forces have become the powerful’s private army, undeniably they have played a key role in the suppression of Yellow Turbans.But after the Yellow Turban Rebellion ended, these powerful private soldiers became the heart of the court’s big trouble, the result, you know, warlordism, chaos, and ultimately Wei Shu Wu three worlds, the Eastern Han Dynasty finally died in the hands of Cao Pi. ……Therefore, it is not an easy task for the court to be prudent and cautious in raising troops to build an army.”Zhang Jing let out a long sigh, citing the example of the warlord chaos in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to further show the hidden dangers of recruiting soldiers to build an army, indicating that the imperial court was cautious about recruiting soldiers to build an army, and that wanting to recruit soldiers to form a new army was not an easy thing to do.
Zhu Pingan sniffed and nodded, he had not thought this far ahead, indeed, there were such hidden dangers with the military recruitment system. Recruitment was a double edged sword, it was easy to roll over and become a cutthroat warlord, threatening the rule.
Indeed, Daming was cautious about recruiting soldiers. Historically, when the Jiajing Dynasty pacified the Japanese invasion, only a handful of people were allowed to recruit soldiers to build an army, among them the famous Qi Jiguang who recruited soldiers to form the Qi Family Army, and Yu Dayou who recruited soldiers to form the Yu Family Army, and both of them had a limited number of soldiers, both of them around thousands of troops.
“However, ZiHou is can collect some more soldiers, the saint granted you the right to specialise in regiment training, you raise troops to form regiment training is the name of the right, well, so, ZiHou also have a hand on the practice of military, this official again with your one thousand two hundred quota, allow you to independently raise troops to make up for your zhejiang army of 2,000 men and women establishment, this official since the month of this month from the monthly on time to pay you 2,000 men and women of the food and pay, as long as this official in theAs long as this official is in office for one day, he will never be in arrears for half a day, do you have the confidence to train the 2,000 Zhejiang troops well?”Zhang Jing turned his words around and looked at Zhu Pingan with a burning gaze.
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but breathe excitedly, leaving the table and rising, bowing long and hard, “Pingan will live up to your expectations.”
“Good, tomorrow this official will issue a document, you can choose a day to hold a document to recruit soldiers.”Zhang Jing patted Zhu Pingan’s shoulder with satisfaction, “As the saying goes, those who can do more will do more, you will recruit and train well, this official will still have important tasks to hand over to you in the future.”
“Please rest assured, Your Excellency, Ping An and the Zhejiang Army will live up to Your Excellency’s expectations!”Zhu Pingan said with a firm face.
Previous efforts had not been in vain, this drink had not been in vain, the gains were enormous.
