Chapter 24              Northwest General

Wenyuan Pavilion is extremely busy.

After Zhou Mengchen's cabinet reform, Wenyuan Pavilion was the administrative center of the Ming Dynasty.

I don’t know how many government affairs are to be handled here every day.

Although many people in the Zhongshu Shekan have been added, they are still very busy. Moreover, the area of ​​Wenyuan Pavilion is not enough.

So much so that there are rows of seats on the corridor outside Wenyuan Pavilion, which are places to rest for those waiting for the cabinet to meet.

Dong Yikui and Liu Han were sitting upright and sweating slightly on their foreheads.

To be honest, both of them were generals who had fought and killed people, and they had never worried them, but they had never come to the cabinet and had never entered the palace. Today, they suddenly heard that the cabinet chief minister wanted to see them, so they naturally felt trembling in their hearts.

First of all, the cabinet is the weight of the cabinet, and the current prime minister is the prime minister. How can they not be nervous?

Secondly, this cabinet chief minister is not an ordinary cabinet chief minister, but the world's number one general.

Even though Qi Jiguang won the great victory in Yinmahe, he was famous all over the world. However, no one still felt that Qi Jiguang could use troops to be better than Zhou Mengchen. Although this is a fact. Zhou Mengchen had not been on the front line for many years. Even when it came to the war, Zhou Mengchen did not take command as the leader.

But the public opinion in the world doesn't think so.

First of all, the status of civil servants in the folk far exceeds that of military generals. In particular, scholars and officials were more willing to recognize a scholar as the god of war in the world than to crown a warrior.

Secondly, it is also the master-apprentice relationship between Zhou Mengchen and Qi Jiguang.

Most people believe that teachers must be better than disciples. Moreover, Qi Jiguang will not refute this view. Even Qi Jiguang's outstanding performance is praised by many people as a famous teacher and a high disciple.

In this way, Zhou Mengchen's reputation as the number one general in the world became even more brilliant.

Dong Yikui and Liu Han were in the army, and I don’t know how many legends related to Zhou Mengchen were heard. How could you not be nervous at this moment?

Soon, a Zhongshu Sheshou She came out and led the two into Zhou Mengchen's duty room.

Zhou Mengchen asked the two of them to sit down, then picked up the teapot, and kept busy all morning. The tea was empty. The central servant on one side had a wink and immediately took the teapot down.

Zhou Mengchen pursed his lips and said, "You know what I asked you to do?"

Dong Yikui and Liu Han looked at each other and said, "I don't know."

They really don't know.

It was already good for the two of them to meet the Minister of War, let alone meet the Chief Minister.

Zhou Mengchen said, "I asked you to come over, because I was talking about the conquest of Hami. Do you all know this?" Dong Yikui said, "The last general has heard of it. I don't know which troops the imperial court is going to recruit for the conquest?"

Liu Han, who was on the other side, did not stare at Zhou Mengchen. He was very concerned about this matter. In the case of winning every battle in the Ming Dynasty, even many civil servants had the idea of ​​military merit, let alone generals at all levels. I don’t know how many generals felt very sad about Qi Jiguang’s achievements. Many people think that Qi Jiguang was just lucky and had a good master who got the opportunity to be the leader.

Now the Hami expedition has long been heard. The Gansu Army, Ningxia Army, Xining Army, and other units in the northwest are all ready to fight. They have heard that most of the main forces are the Beijing Army. However, many troops must be drawn from the northwest to participate in the expedition, not to mention anything else. Just to adapt to the climate, the army in the northwest is much better than the Beijing Army.

Just choose who doesn’t choose who?

This is always indecisive.

It makes people itchy.

At this time, the tea came. Zhou Mengchen took a sip and it was just right whether it was lukewarm or hot. So he drank half a pot, and then he felt that a lot of flames in his mouth were poured down.

Zhou Mengchen said: "It can be said that today is about this matter. I will just talk about some things. Since the court began the military system reform a few years ago, all places have been perfunctory. Now, after I have rectified them one by one, they have all been put on the right track. What is Liaodong and what is the southwest? I think you have heard of it."

As soon as Zhou Mengchen said this, Dong Yikui saw sweat on his forehead.

This is what Dong Yikui is most worried about. After all, everyone is in the same circle. Even though they are thousands of miles apart, Dong Yikui knows many things. Not to mention that there are many marriages in the generals.

The experience of the Liaodong generals was a nightmare that Dong Yikui could not bear to look at.

Now Zhou Mengchen mentioned this. He knew more clearly that the Northwest Generals were just perfunctory in the military system reform system above, and even in some places they didn’t even do anything perfunctory. What they were like before and what they are now.

How could Dong Yikui not worry?

Zhou Mengchen is a tough guy.

Seeing Dong Yikui like this, Zhou Mengchen smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, as long as you don't intend to fight against the court, the court is still willing to give a way out."

Dong Yikui suddenly stood up and said, "Sir, Master, I dare not deceive you. But the elders of my hometown are adapting to the old system and are just unable to think about many things for a while. And this time I go back, I will ask them to change immediately and immediately."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Okay. But it's faster. The court has decided to order Wang Zongyuan to be the censor of the Qing army in the northwest to go to the northwest. Some things are said to be okay now, but if they are found out, many things will be difficult to say."

Wang Zongyuan was naturally Zhou Mengchen's member, and now he has been transferred to the capital and served as the Minister of War. Before this, the Qing army censor was the censor who checked the number of troops and connected with deserters.

The Qing army censors are naturally not doing this. They just borrow their old name.

Dong Yikui said: "The last one will understand. The last one will understand."

Seeing Dong Yikui like this, Zhou Mengchen knew that many things were useless for his statement here. Many people were used to the previous power and could not be easily let go. Zhou Mengchen paused and said, "The court also knew that the Northwest Generals had made contributions to the court. Thinking of the previous achievements, I would give you a special way today. This time, this time, we should not establish the Hami King, but rebuild the Hami Guard. We must send troops to garrison. Even not only the Hami Guard, but also the large territory west of Hami, there must be people stationed in the area. If someone is willing to garrison the Western Regions, the court is willing to relax restrictions. They only need to lead the old subordinates to migrate. The court does not care about the specific situation, and will supplement military pay and weapons according to the number of people in the future. However, if the city is lost, it will naturally be dealt with by military law."

"This is the last chance. If you don't want to do so, don't blame the court's thundering methods."

"Sir." Liu Han immediately said, "I am willing to stay in Hami. Please allow me?"

Zhou Mengchen scratched his head a little. He originally intended to incorporate Liu Han, a relatively innocent and lower-level officer in the new army. Most of these officers were talented. But he never expected that Liu Han wanted to station in Hami.

In fact, Hami had soldiers guarding her before, but she finally gave up.

Because the soldiers felt remote, missed homesick and fled seriously.

Finally, it was withdrawn and handed over to the toast.

This is another reason why Zhou Mengchen was so generous to the army guarding the Western Regions.

Dong Yikui said in his heart: "You can't let Liu Han go. Is this a military achievement? The great achievements of heaven and earth."

Although the military reform in the northwest has not been achieved, it does not mean that the combat effectiveness of the Northwest army has not been improved. On the contrary, the combat effectiveness of the Northwest army has been greatly improved, and the reason is very simple. The northwest has money and food.

This is how the old army of the Ming Dynasty was. If you have money, you can fight, and if you don’t have money, you can’t fight.

If you have money, you are a tiger, and if you don’t have money, you are a mouse.

The Ming Dynasty's finances improved, and a lot of money was added to the Northwest Army. Although it was embezzled a lot of money, the lower-class soldiers still benefited, so they had good combat effectiveness. Zhou Mengchen despised Hami.

The Northwest Army had an explanation with Hami. In the early years of Jiajing, King Hami also led the entire country's troops and 20,000 cavalry to attack Gansu. But it was left alone.

So in Dong Yikui's opinion, this time attacking Hami is simply a battle of military achievements. It is naturally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So if Dong Yikui uses military achievements to exchange for some benefits that cannot be promoted, will Dong Yikui do it?

Of course it did it.
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