"In the Liaodong competition, the best person will be admitted to the West Factory for two years? This is quite fair. Nowadays, who doesn't want to work in the West Factory for two years? There is really a lot of oil and water, and the key is not to lick blood on the tip of the knife. Originally, I thought I'm sending someone to the capital to explore. Can I, the servant of the He family, also go to the West Factory to work for two years? I didn't expect that the court would do something like this now. Then tell the sons and daughters, I will hurry up and practice now. Sleep less for half an hour in the morning, practice your riding skills more, feed the horses, and prepare for the next competition. No one is allowed to be lazy, otherwise, I will beat his butt!"
After learning about the latest imperial decree, He Shixian, the commander-in-chief of Shenyang, began to require his servants to strengthen training.
No coincidence.
Zhao Shujiao, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu who had already stayed in Xichang once, also summoned all his servants and conveyed the decree in person. Then he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Have you heard me clearly? What else do you want?" Let’s go back to the West Factory and live out the old days again, and from now on, I’ll have to practice hard!”
Man Gui, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan Pass, also instructed his servants: "You all made a fortune when you were on duty at the West Factory. In addition, now that the court has provided enough food and grass, you are all slacking off and starting to gain weight. , when the Tatars are attacking, they are unwilling to go out of the city to chase them. Don’t think that this commander doesn’t know. Next, no one is allowed to slack off, or I will kill him first! Don’t wait until then. When the towns compete, we will be the last ones. Damn it, when the time comes, you will have no shame, and I will have no shame either!"
In short, when Zhu Youxiao asked each town to send elites to compete in Liaodong, the generals in each town in Ming Dynasty were like chicken blood and began to torture their own servants desperately.
Some people really want to go to Xichang and stay there for two years.
Some want to express themselves. After all, everyone knows that if someone performs this kind of thing well, he will be in the emperor's heart.
The method proposed by Yuan Keli was indeed very constructive, and it was much more meaningful than Han Xu's mere agreement with the emperor.
In the past, it was as difficult to get the Ming Dynasty's army to strengthen training as it was to get the scholars to study more and not go to brothels.
After all, laziness and the pursuit of pleasure are human nature.
But now these officers and soldiers in various Ming towns are motivated.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao intends to personally attend this kind of competition, which is also a military competition.
As for why?
First, it is already March of the sixth year of the Apocalypse. Although Zhu Youxiao has not fallen into the water like in history, he remembers that in May of this year, another incident involving the safety of the emperor and his heirs will occur in history. A big case is about to happen.
Therefore, he decided to leave the capital for a while. Regardless of whether the unsolved mysteries of the three major worlds that occurred during this period in history were really caused by earthquakes, alien invasions, or were caused by man-made exaggerations by civil servants, he and his royal family My relatives cannot stay here for the time being.
The second reason is because Zhu Youxiao decided to establish direct contact with generals from all over the Ming Dynasty in the name of martial arts competition, just like some martial emperors in the past dynasties would meet with generals and even foreigners in the name of hunting. And Zhu Youxiao also wanted to make the Ming Dynasty's martial arts outstanding, so he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to meet all the frontier generals to win their hearts. In addition, he wanted to take several princes away from the capital this time. He also hopes to let these princes experience the charm of military warfare such as ordering troops on the battlefield and hunting flags in advance.
Zhu Youxiao also had his own considerations in choosing Liaodong as the venue for the competition.
Zhu Youxiao knew that the Ming Dynasty wanted to completely solve the problem of the Donglu, not because of the Donglu, but because many military officers, officials and gentry in Liaodong had too deep connections with the Donglu.
Although it is said that there are ethnic differences between Liao people and Donglu, the ethnic differences are actually not very big, not to mention that in this era, there was not much strong national consciousness.
Even when Nurhachi himself occupied Liaoyang and Shenyang in history and then attacked the Ming Dynasty, he used the slogan of "having a house to live together, having grain to eat together, and having fields to farm together" without any national color.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao knew that there was no ethnic conflict between the Liao people and the Donglu people like during the Anti-Japanese War in later generations, and even the upper-class figures might even be related to each other.
Because in border towns, it is common for Han and Hu people to live together and even marry each other. The slave chief Nurhaci has a close relationship with Ning Yuanbo (Li Chengliang).
Some large families in Liaodong have brothers who are officials in the court and their younger brothers are in Donglu, or their sons are in Donglu and their fathers are in the court. There are even some Liaodong generals who have a closer relationship with Jianzhou Jurchens than some born Jurchens and Jianzhou Jurchens. , many of the Tong Jia, Wei Jia, etc. who belonged to the Eight Banners aristocrats in history are examples of the Han people in Liao Dynasty who were promoted to the Manchu Eight Banners because of their close relationship with the Manchu aristocrats.
If Zhu Youxiao had not always used guest troops or guards to suppress Liao and control some dishonest local generals in Liao, the Liao affairs would not have been so smooth.
Because according to the original historical development, there will be more and more big families in Liaodong betting on both the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty. Some of them fought fiercely with the Donglu before, and in the next moment they became their generals.
Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao knew that the essence of all ethnic struggles was class struggle, so he did not adopt the strategy of "Liao people defending Liao soil", which made it difficult for the Liao people to escape from the control of the imperial court by taking advantage of the power of the Eastern captives. Also because the Guards and guest armies repeatedly won battles, these Liaodong wealthy families had to restrain themselves and did not dare to easily invest in Houjin.
You must know that in history, even generals like He Shixian who died fighting for the Ming Dynasty wrote a letter of surrender to Li Yongfang of the later Jin Dynasty when Yuan Yingtai was in charge of Liaodong.
Zhu Youxiao knew that because the local big families in Liaodong had too deep connections with the Donglu, it was in line with the original intention of these big families in Liaodong to respect themselves by raising the bandits. However, to completely solve the problem of the Donglu was to go against their intentions and even force them to fight with some of his own people. Jin's relatives and friends broke up after he took refuge.
Although Zhu Youxiao understands that some wealthy families like to place bets between the two forces, he must deal with Donglu.
After all, he did not want the land of China to be stolen by these barbarians in the future, and once it was stolen, it would be stolen for three hundred years, making China completely and comprehensively lag behind the West, and be suppressed for hundreds of years.
Nowadays, because the Ming Dynasty's situation in Liaodong has not deteriorated as it did in history, and the suppressed Hou Jin Dynasty has almost reached the point of survival, many local generals in Liaodong are still very loyal to the court, and they have not made any hedging bets, or even if they are hedging their bets, Note that his thoughts are mainly on the court.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao took advantage of this opportunity to go to Liaodong to further win over the hearts of these Liaodong generals who had not yet moved their minds.
"Hunting the captives in Liaodong?! Fortunately, the imperial court figured it out. He won't stop until he wipes out all the captives in the east!"
After Zhang Cunren, the deck officer, received Zhu Youxiao's imperial edict to compete in Liaodong, he couldn't help but slapped his palm on the table and said to Qianhu Luo Jinxiu.
"The imperial court thought that the number of guest troops sent to Liaodong was not enough, so it transferred guest troops to Liaodong in a different way. This was to prevent the world from thinking that our Liao generals were not doing enough to defend Liao. Now, because the imperial court continues to win, especially The Guards dared to attack the Donglu Dazhai directly, and my brother Cong, the envoy, has been killed by his Guards because he served in Jianzhou!"
Luo Jinxiu also echoed and replied.
"If this continues, our tribesmen there will be even more disadvantaged. When the border troops and guards from other parts of the Nine Borders come to Liaodong, those people will not care about anything except to please the emperor and enter the West Factory. They will risk their lives to harvest the heads of the Eastern captives! Alas, it is a pity that the gentlemen of Donglin are not in charge in the court now. These people from Jiangnan gentry will allow us Liao people to defend the Liao land in order to save money, unlike Xiong Manzi and Yuan People like lunatics regard Donglu as a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh, as if if they don’t eliminate Donglu, the world will perish!”
Zhang Cunren said and punched the table again.
"That's not it. In order to make themselves famous in the annals of history, people like Xiong Manzi and Madman Yuan like to fool the emperor and let the court launch military campaigns! They are the same as those treacherous ministers like Xu Guangqi in the court!"
At this time, Jin Guan, who already had a money rat tail, walked in, bringing his younger brother Jin Yuhe with him and said.
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