Chapter 222: Those who come can still be pursued

If the British prince's son can grow up together with the emperor's eldest son, when the emperor's eldest son ascends the throne in the future, he will be a confirmed minister of the palace. With this status, the wealth and power of the British prince's lineage can also be preserved.

Zhu Qizhen hit the target of the British Duke. The British Duke had never experienced anything in most of his life, except for the difficulties in his life. He only had a son and was not very worried about his son's future.

The British duke is already old and it is impossible for him to raise his son.

With this arrangement, the British public can feel relieved.

The British Duke said: "Your Majesty, I thank you for your kindness. I am an old man and I have to deal with this matter. Even if I risk my life, I must handle this matter properly.

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Zhu Qizhen said: "Of course I can trust the Duke."

In fact, this is a win-win cooperation.

Zhu Qizhen actually treated his eldest son according to the standards of a prince. Naturally, he had to arrange a team for him. Although his son was still young, many things that should be arranged had to be arranged.

But Zhu Qizhen also has doubts. He and his son are only a dozen years apart.

If he is still in power in the future, his son will be full-fledged, which is not a good thing for both father and son. But if nothing is arranged, if something happens to him, his son will not have enough team to take over the government in advance, and the power will no longer be there.

It's in the hands of the royal family.

The son of the British Duke Zhang Fu, Zhang Mao, is a very good arrangement.

First of all, he was young, and the British Duke was already old. Naturally, he would not live long enough to become a prince on the political stage. But Zhang Mao was the next British Duke after all, and he would naturally inherit the British Duke's power.

Although I dare not say how much strength the British Duke's line will still have after the death of the British Duke, at least the prince has supporters in the army. With this line, at a critical moment, he can pull out a group of people who want to follow the dragon.

A great general.

It would not be like when Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he was simply hesitant and careless.

Moreover, Zhang Mao is still young and lacks authority. He is the same age as the prince. He is just a matchmaker at most and cannot be the leader. Zhu Qizhen was in power for one day. Even with Zhang Mao as the prince's die-hard loyalist, he could not accomplish much.

When things happened, Zhu Qizhen didn't have to worry about them threatening him.

As for what will happen to the prince and his monarchs and ministers in the future, it is not something Zhu Qizhen can see.

After the British Duke agreed, he immediately went to work and went to the cabinet to discuss various matters with Wang Ji. When the two of them got into a fight, neither one was afraid of the other.

Finally, it took two days to finally come up with a plan.

Although it is very crude and crude, the most basic prototype has come out.

The combination of Wang Ji and Zhang Fu's opinions was to combine conscription and recruitment. First of all, all selected soldiers will be exempted from service at home. This is a great benefit to the people. Compared with taxes, corvee is what ordinary people fear most.

things.

The matter of recruiting soldiers was broken down by Wang Ji. Among the eight prefectures in Hebei, the daimyo and Hejian were hit by floods last year. This time the conscription was exempted. The remaining three prefectures were Tianjin Prefecture, Yongping Prefecture, Baoding Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, and Shunde Prefecture.

, Guangping Prefecture, plus Shuntian Prefecture, each prefecture and county will be allocated several thousand troops based on the population ratio.

When they arrived at the government, they were divided among the counties. The number of conscripts in each county was generally less than a thousand. They were sent to the capital from local yamen.

From here it is all a civil service system, specifically the Ministry of War is in charge.

Zhang Fu vacated a large camp in Tongzhou to allow new recruits from all over the country to join the army, and sent veteran Dingxi Bo Jiang Gui to lead the training, plus some capable generals in Beijing and martial arts students to train together.

Once here, it falls under the responsibility of the Fifth Army Commander's Office.

However, the Ministry of War will assign a minister to be stationed in the army permanently and be responsible for supplying food and wages.

The power of both parties checks and balances each other, and the entire framework is quite sophisticated. Zhu Qizhen was still a little worried after seeing it, so he sent Liu Yongcheng as a supervisor.

Although Zhu Qizhen is still not satisfied with many aspects, such as how to retire.

Historically, conscription lasted a lifetime. He didn't want that. He wanted most of the soldiers in the army to stay young.

Therefore, the retirement system must also be used.

"The functions of the Fifth Army Commander's Office are no longer suitable." Zhu Qizhen thought to himself: "One move affects the whole body. If one change is made, many systems will have to be modified."

Although Zhu Qizhen had a model for the army of later generations in his heart, he also knew that he might not be able to build the Ming army like that in his lifetime.

You can only do it step by step.

At this moment, Baoding Marquis Mengying had led his army out of Juyong Pass and joined the troops who stayed in Xuanda. Waci had also sorted out the internal order and started a new round of southern invasion.

But the place where the war really broke out was not Xuanda, but Liaodong.

To be precise, it is Liaohetao Xiongshan Station.

As mentioned before, the large area of ​​land west of the Liaohe River is outside the border wall of Liaodong. This is because there is a huge gap to the north of the Liaohe River Tao, which is connected to the northeastern plain and is undefeable.

The Tatar cavalry can march straight in.

It was difficult for the Ming army to resist. Even if they drove out Wu Liangha or Wa Ci.

However, with the support of Zhu Qizhen, before the Battle of Mulan River Guard, Cao Yi extended his hand to the west of the Liao River and built a castle west of the Liao River.

Compared with artificially building a line of defense and integrating the Liaohe River Hetao into the Ming Dynasty, at this moment it was both arable and grazing, and even if there were not enough manpower to cultivate the land for a while, it could still be used as a horse farm.

But today, Tuotuo Buhua led his troops to attack Liaodong, but he chose this place as the battlefield.

Generally speaking, Tuotuo Buhua launched his attack more than half a month later than Ye Xian.

It's not that Tuo Tuo Bu Hua did this intentionally, but Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's subordinates are all members of the Uliangha Jurchen tribe, and Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's headquarters is pitifully small.

The grassland is the most realistic.

Tuo Tuo Bu Hua has no strength, even if he is sweating profusely, he will not be respected by others. Therefore, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua needs to sort out the situation, appease all parties, and organize the attack. It is normal for Tuo Tuo Buhua to be slower than Ye Xian.

Even before, Tuotuo Buhua deliberately did not fight with the Liaodong army and adopted a diversionary approach. The army was divided into several branches and appeared elusive in Liaodong and Haixi areas, which made the Ming army unbearable and unable to capture Wa Ci.

Main force.

This situation made Cao Yi a little crazy, but there was nothing he could do. After all, horses were inferior to people. What he could do was to defend passively.

However, when Yexian Maoerzhuang's victory shocked the world, Tuotuo Buhua suddenly changed his mind and no longer used this erratic strategy, but decided to capture a city of the Ming army.

This city is Xiongshan Station, or Xiongshan Fort.

This Xiongshan Fort was still a post station a few years ago. The Ming Dynasty had many post stations outside the border wall. Even if the Wacai people helped maintain it, the reason was simple. When Wacci paid tribute, the post roads were still used.

And because Xiongshan stands in the middle of Liaohetao, it is far away from Liaohe River in the east and Guangning in the west. It is in a geographical location with no four sides.

Although it has been reinforced, there are only a few thousand defenders.

When attacking here, there will be some Ming army reinforcements from various places.

Of course, it was not only the geographical environment of Xiongshan Fort that made Tuotuo Buhua suddenly change his mind, but also the change in the morale of the soldiers under his command.

Faced with Wa Ci's great victory in Mao'erzhuang, especially the news that he had distributed rewards to each tribe first, it made many people jealous.

The Ming Dynasty was defeated and left behind not many weapons and armors. These are first-class hard currency on the grassland. The really good armors have been taken over first. But the remaining bits and pieces are enough.

Many tribes were very excited.

This is also the reason why the Ming cavalry can fight one against three when fighting many tribes.

This also further consolidated Yexian's authority. It also made the various ministries who had been hiding and hiding with the Ming army full of complaints.

They felt that they had been fighting for such a long time and had worked hard, but with no results. After all, the entire Wasi Alliance was almost just an alliance of bandits.

For them, grabbing something is the most important thing.
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