People from Dongchang, and many civil and military officials now would be utterly devastated when they see them.
Because it is not an exaggeration to say that the current Ming Dynasty is an era where factory guards are rampant.
Everyone knows that if someone is caught by the Dongchang people, their home will be confiscated and exile will be the initial treatment.
However, ordinary military households like Zhang Zhen don't have much fear from the people in Dongchang.
Because although Dongchang was a vicious court hawk in the eyes and writings of many civil servants, in front of ordinary soldiers and civilians, they were just a group of strange official servants, and they were not afraid of the informal white servants in the yamen.
Zhang Zhen had no idea about Dongchang at this time. After hearing Sun Yunhe, the leader of Dongchang, say that the emperor has greater grace, he asked with surprise and surprise: "May I ask this official, how good is the emperor? There is already so much grace, is there any more grace?”
Sun Yunhe nodded. He was used to seeing some officials trembling in front of him. Now when he saw an ordinary military household in Zhang Town asking him so indifferently in front of him, he felt very fresh, so he got off his horse and walked over. He said patiently: "Of course, the emperor is the most kind and kind master in my eyes! Seeing that you and I are both the emperor's personal guards, old man, I will say a few more words , Your Majesty, you have given us a decree to the East Factory. We can select some people from the sanitation workers recruited this time to serve as the eyes and ears of the East Factory. The ears and eyes of the East Factory are the eyes and ears of the Emperor, that is, the Emperor. Outsiders are called the Emperor. Of course, our own people are called the Emperor, and you, the old man, must also change your name. Those civil servants, I think, are deliberately trying to keep us personal guards away from the Emperor. They have to subtly let you call them the Emperor instead of the Emperor. You know we should be called Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
Sun Yunhe said and added: "I see that you are very thoughtful and know how to be grateful to the Emperor, so I will give you this grace from the Emperor. From now on, you will be a sanitation worker in the medical department and sweep the streets, but secretly you will work in my Dongchang factory." How about we keep an eye on suspicious people and give you two silver coins every month?"
"Two silver coins?"
Zhang Zhenhan smiled and said: "This is twice as much work as what I have to do in Mingli. I am willing. Please rest assured, I will keep a close eye on you."
"Of course it is better to be an errand for the emperor than to be an errand for the imperial court! You go and get the household registration, and I will personally enter you into the register of our Dongchang. From now on, you will be a member of my Dongchang. Don't tell others, this is the Dongchang." If our discipline is leaked, you will die! You are local military households, and you are older, so naturally you are more familiar with every plant and tree in the capital, but you have to keep an eye on the emperor to prevent the gangsters who have sneaked into the capital. If you do something bad, it can be as small as stealing, or as big as murder and arson. Once you find something bad, come to the first shop east of this street and report it at any time."
Sun Yunhe continued.
"Hey! Don't worry, I will keep an eye on the capital for the emperor."
Zhang Zhen replied and immediately went home to collect the household ticket.
Coincidentally, Dongchang developed many old military households like Zhang Zhen.
Therefore, for a time, with the help of the rectification of the Beijing camp, Dongchang's eyes were spread wider.
Throughout the capital city, a group of sanitation workers hired by the government began to appear. These sanitation workers wore armbands and cleaned the roads in the capital while keeping an eye on all kinds of people.
"A group of businessmen with Liaodong accents have been around the Ordnance Manufacturing Administration several times?"
"Someone is secretly tracing the blueprints of the capital?"
"A man claiming to be a father-in-law was fighting with a civil servant in a brothel?"
After Zhu Youxiao saw the news in the political hall, he couldn't help but smile, and then told Wei Zhongxian: "Those merchants from Liaodong and those who peeked at the capital's drawings were caught by Yanjian! As for those among the nobles and among the civil servants, We will investigate the fights carefully and teach them a lesson!"
"My slave obeys the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied.
Then, Zhu Youxiao said to Fang Congzhe who was beside him: "As I said, these old military households in the Beijing camp can still continue to do things. In the future, anyone who is eliminated by the court cannot just be eliminated, regardless of their life or death!"
Zhu Youxiao did not directly sweep these military households in the Beijing camp into the garbage dump because of the collapse of the Beijing camp, regardless of their life or death.
He is different from the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
He has not been aloof for too long and has forgotten these veteran military households who have shed their lives and blood for the empire and are the foundation of his imperial power.
Although Zhu Youxiao admitted that they were no longer as good as his ancestors, he did not give up on them completely. Instead, he used his own power to give them some of the increased wealth of the imperial court. Although it was not enough to make them rich, at least they could stabilize them.
This can be considered some compensation for them.
After all, the royal family they once supported has forgotten them for too long.
So much so that they themselves almost forgot that they were the Emperor's people.
Even because of this, historically, by the time Li Zicheng entered Beijing, they no longer had the fighting spirit to actively participate in a battle to defend Beijing like their ancestors.
Although the battle was organized by the civil servant Yu Qian, most of the participants were unknown members of the emperor's personal guards.
Moreover, in Zhu Youxiao's view, they were not as good as their ancestors, and the entire Beijing camp was not to be blamed for their decline. They could only be blamed on the upper-level military officers and the emperor, as well as the civil servants who helped the emperor head the family.
Therefore, while Zhu Youxiao eliminated them from the Beijing camp, he still took care of their life and death.
In addition to the eliminated old and elderly military households, Zhu Youxiao also gave subsidies to other eliminated sick and weak military households, and ordered the health offices of these sick and weak military households to set up medical clinics and hire doctors to treat them free of charge.
Therefore, although this rectification of the Beijing camp had an impact on the nobles, some civil servants, military generals and even the eunuchs, the lower-level military households benefited a lot from it.
This is why Zhu Youxiao can be kind to these low-level military households now that he has money.
In the past, when he could not even collect the most basic land tax, it was very difficult for him to even support the military expenditures of the nine sides, let alone accommodate the old, weak, sick and disabled who needed to be eliminated from the Beijing camp during the rectification of the capital camp.
"Your Majesty, the Beijing camp has been reorganized and 56,394 young and strong soldiers have been selected."
Yuan Keli reported to Zhu Youxiao after reorganizing the Beijing camp.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao took the memorial from Yuan Keli's hand. While reading it, he ordered: "Reorganize and train them all. Each battalion will use the same model as the Guards to screen out those who are unqualified in training and have a lax style." , those who pass the test will be treated as the Emperor’s Brave Guards, treated the same as the Yulin Guards, and formed into the Brave Guards, and together with the Imperial Guards and the Jinyi Guards, they will be the Emperor’s personal army.”
Thus.
Because Zhu Youxiao's Guards have been expanded to three towns, plus the Guards Battalion and other officers and soldiers directly under the military headquarters, the total number is more than 50,000.
In addition, the brave guards composed of more than 50,000 soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp have been reorganized.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's pro-army troops have exceeded one hundred thousand.
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