"Your Majesty, Yuan Chonghuan is not available!"
"Your Majesty, Yuan Chonghuan is a rare talent..."
Wang Zaijin and Sun Chengzong are still shouting!
Zhu Youjian waved his hand to stop the two of them and said: "You two are in peace, and we will wait until Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong arrive in Beijing." He paused and then turned his attention to Xu Guangqi, a bachelor of Dongge University and Minister of Industry. Xu Guangqi is over sixty years old, looks a bit thin, and is just an ordinary little old man.
"Xu Dongge, did your student Sun Yuanhua come to Beijing with you?"
Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi were from the same hometown, both from Shanghai, which was called Songjiang Prefecture at that time. Xu Guangqi is almost 20 years older than Sun Yuanhua. In the 32nd year of Wanli, when he was in his forties, he became a Jinshi in high school. Sun Yuanhua, on the other hand, was a civil servant in the 40th year of Wanli. After passing the exam, he did not continue to take the exam. Instead, he passed the exam based on the knowledge of mathematics, firearms, and city building he learned from his teacher Xu Guangqi and several Western missionaries. In this way, he became Sun Chengzong's staff and helped Sun Chengzong build platforms and make artillery. Many of the fortresses built by Sun Chengzong in western Liaoning were designed by Sun Yuanhua. Later, Sun Chengzong stepped down, and Sun Yuanhua followed Yuan Chonghuan to defend Ningyuan. The reason why Ningyuan's castle fort is so strong is also due to Sun Yuanhua's contribution.
After Yuan Chonghuan stepped down, Sun Yuanhua had no place to go. He also resigned and returned to his hometown, where he continued to study God and the principles of heaven with his teacher Xu Guangqi.
This time Xu Guangqi was of great use, and he entered the cabinet in one step. Of course, he had to bring his good students to Beijing with him.
"Your Majesty, Sun Yuanhua and his ministers came to Beijing together." Xu Guangqi answered truthfully.
Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "That's good... I heard that he is proficient in Western arithmetic and firearms skills, and I want him to be an official. What do you think?"
Be an official? Joining the army, right?
Of course Xu Guangqi knew about the four officials, Hong Chengchou, Chen Qiyu, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng, who were deceived into joining the army!
Of course, Zhu Youjian would not change these four lecturers to military positions. Now that Wengui and Wu Qing have gained popularity, they are not willing to change them to military positions. So Zhu Youjian arranged official positions in Zhan Shifu for the four of them. Hong Chengchou became the prince Xima, Chen Qiyu became the right concubine, Sun Chuanting became the right Zhongyun, and Lu Xiangsheng became the right zanshan.
Although the officials are all civilian officials, their actual errands are to help build the pro-army in front of the account!
For this pro-military army in front of the tent...the civil and military officials in the DPRK, of course, there was little support and much opposition. The emperor already has a "royal horse supervisor and servant", why is he still not satisfied? What else do you want to do to support the pro-army army, and they are planning to do it with 30,000 or 40,000 people!
This is really a bit much! Not to mention how much money such a big thing costs, just talk about these thirty or forty thousand personal soldiers...Does the young emperor not trust the big guy?
However, everyone was dissatisfied, but except for Sun Chengzong's opposition, no one else said anything.
Because there are still many eunuchs in the DPRK! It's too late to atone, how dare you offend the young emperor? If they are offended, someone will come to expose their crimes! Besides, the soldiers in front of the tent are the emperor's private soldiers after all. They spend money from the inner and outer treasury and don't need to take money from the treasury. It's really hard for everyone to say anything.
Moreover, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did have a tradition of organizing personal armies. One was the Jin Yiwei, the other was the Third Battalion of the Yumajian, and the other was the Nanhai Zi Jingjun.
Now that Zhu Youjian has disbanded the Nanhai Zijing Army, he has also reduced the strength of the Third Battalion of Yumajian, and has turned to the pro-army forces before the accounts are settled, which is not a bad rule.
If we really look into it carefully, we can see that the pro-military forces in front of the tent are not the eunuchs' armed forces. Withdrawing the clean troops to establish pro-military forces still weakens the power of the eunuchs... which is in line with the political correctness of civil servants.
Therefore, the civil servants of the imperial court turned a blind eye and allowed the pro-army troops in front of the tent to grow barbarically.
Of course, Xu Guangqi didn't want to offend Zhu Youjian on the issue of the front army, let alone block the future of student Sun Yuanhua, so he could only express his approval.
Zhu Youjian smiled and nodded: "That's good, you and Sun Yuanhua can come to Wenhua Hall tomorrow morning!"
"I accept the decree."
In the blink of an eye, it was early the next morning. Zhu Youjian, accompanied by Cao Huachun and the newly arrived young eunuch Wang Chengen, arrived at the Wenhua Hall. Someone came outside to report that Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua had arrived.
"Announce them to the palace!"
While Zhu Youjian was talking, he took a thin pen used for writing in small regular script and started writing on a piece of letter paper.
"Your Majesty, Xu Guangqi, respectfully sends your greetings."
"Your Majesty, Sun Yuanhua, respectfully sends your greetings."
Two Wu sounds sounded one after the other.
"Flat body."
Zhu Youjian did not raise his head, but continued to write quickly. After he finished writing, he looked up at the two people standing in the hall.
One of them is the little old man Xu Guangqi, and the other one is in his forties, a little fat, and has five long beards. It is the Sun Yuanhua who made Zhu Youjian a little speechless... I didn't know who this guy was in his previous life. How to run an army? Setting up a new Western-style army led to military chaos!
One of his commander-in-chief actually let the new army he had trained be tricked to death... and the Ming Dynasty was also tricked! I wonder if I have learned any lessons in this life?
"Are you Sun Yuanhua?" Zhu Youjian looked at the fat man and asked knowingly.
"My name is Sun Yuanhua." Sun Yuanhua didn't know that even Chongzhen knew him! And he answered with a smile!
This guy looks amiable, but in fact he has a kind-hearted character but prefers to join the army... He has not made any progress in this life. I heard that he was going to serve in the front army, and he was very happy. Can not be done!
Zhu Youjian looked at him and asked, "I heard that you know Latin?"
"Know a thing or two."
Zhu Youjian handed the letter to Wang Chengen, who was still a young eunuch, "Chengen, show it to Sun Yuanhua."
Wang Chengen is only fourteen or fifteen years old now, and he is very handsome. He used to study in the inner school, and was taken aback by Cao Huachun, who was a penman in the Bureau of Ceremonies, and brought him to Zhu Youjian to be a book boy.
Little eunuch Wang took the letter very respectfully and took a look... He didn't recognize a single word!
Because this letter is written in Latin!
Sun Yuanhua took the letter and looked at it, and was also stunned. Because this letter was full of Latin that he struggled to read! It's really surprising that the young emperor is proficient in Latin...
The content of the letter surprised Sun Yuanhua even more.
It turned out to be a letter written by Zhu Youjian to the Portuguese military commander in Macau, the governor-the Ming Emperor hoped that the Portuguese military commander in Macao could send forty to fifty people who were proficient in artillery and Franco machine phalanx (Spanish phalanx). The tactical Portuguese soldiers led four to five hundred black slave soldiers (at that time, the Portuguese soldiers in Macau all brought black slave soldiers, usually eleven or two at a time), and came north to Beijing to help in the battle.
In addition, Zhu Youjian also hoped that Macau could send some experienced gunsmiths and gunsmiths, and carry 20 3-pound regimental cannons that could be used in field battles, and 2,000 turtle-dove-footed muskets to go northward.
Of course, Zhu Youjian will not let the Portuguese send troops, cannons and cannons in vain, and will reward them with fifty thousand taels of silver.
This is to hire foreign soldiers and generals!
And the money is so generous that he can hire hundreds of people at a time!
"Sun Yuanhua," Zhu Youjian had already spoken, "I want you to go to Macau as my imperial envoy to invite some foreign soldiers and foreign futures to train for me."
"Your Majesty," Sun Yuanhua stuttered a little, "This, this...is the imperial decree?"
A central edict is an imperial edict without a cabinet order...it's not very legal!
And asking foreign devils for help is a big deal! Sun Yuanhua would not dare to go without the cabinet's order.
"There will be a decree!" Zhu Youjian said, "I just want you to go for a while, are you willing to go?"
Sun Yuanhua breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not dare to agree immediately. Instead, he glanced at his mentor Xu Guangqi, who nodded repeatedly.
Xu Guangqi on the side certainly agreed with this matter - in the original history, Xu Guangqi had promoted the invitation of foreign soldiers from Macau to help in the war. And it was almost completed. All the necessary procedures were completed, and everyone arrived in Nanjing. However, a report from the military department disturbed the matter. Only a small number of Portuguese officers and soldiers were left for Sun Yuanhua to collect, and the army was completed. The new army that deceives people...
