On May 25th, in the afternoon, in the main hall of the nave of the General's Office.
Jin Xinpeng, Yan Qingrong, Wei Zhice, He Biao, Liu Zhi, Cao Jinwang, Chen Zheng, Zhang Guangda, Wu Zhizhong, Chen Zhong, Chen Dakuan, Cui Shijie, Jin Yong and other officials will sit on the chairs on both sides.
Basically, Jin Xinpeng, Wei Zhice and others sat on the left, and the generals Chen Zheng and Zhang Guangda sat on the right. Chen Zhong originally stood behind Zhang Cheng and refused to sit down, or Zhang Cheng asked him: "What, do you still want to sit on the right?" Can’t I be by my side?”
He walked dejectedly to the left and sat down. Jin Yong, the general manager of Dushikou Qian, was Jin Xinpeng's nephew. On the second day after Jin Xinpeng decided to seek refuge with Zhang Cheng, he personally led Jin Yong to visit Zhang Cheng.
At that time, Zhang Cheng just ordered Jin Yong to still take charge of the three hundred servants and make no changes for the time being. However, after the military inspection at the school today, Zhang Cheng passed on the order.
From now on, under your own rule, if you serve as a soldier and receive rewards for meritorious service, the generals of each battalion and unit will never deduct military pay and food to support your family privately. If you are found, you will be severely punished according to military law and will not tolerate it.
When this order came out, it really caused a sensation. Nowadays, in the Ming Dynasty, how can any of the guards be paid?
Ordinary garrison troops have to farm in their spare time and go out with the army in wartime. Not only do they have no pay, some even have to provide their own uniforms and ordnance.
However, those limited wages were used by military leaders from various places to support their families privately. This was the biggest problem in the late Ming Dynasty. The most elite soldiers were not owned by the state, but were privately owned by the generals.
If the war goes well, these servants will fight to the death and claim credit for their general to take the enemy's head. If there is a slight disadvantage, they will take the general and run away quickly, which will often trigger a chain reaction and lead to the collapse of the army.
Zhang Cheng hated this deeply, and he was extremely opposed to his generals raising servants, but this did not mean that he would not raise private soldiers.
Zhang Cheng's goal is that all his generals and soldiers belong to him alone!
Everyone has their own ideas about Zhang Cheng's military order. The military households all welcome it. They are naturally happy to have food and pay available.
But the servants don't think so. They usually get twice the salary, but now they only get one share, which may not be enough. How can they be happy?
In this regard, Zhang Cheng also said privately that those generals' servants who wanted to stay must obey his military orders. If they did not want to stay, he would not force them and would still let them leave on their own and find others who were willing. The generals who feed them will go.
Then there are the officers and generals such as Jin Xinpeng and Yan Qingrong who usually rely on hiding from military households and embezzling food and wages to support their families. If they can no longer do this, they will not be able to support their many servants.
How to gain a foothold in the Wei Department in the future is indeed a new topic for them. It is estimated that they can only serve seriously under Zhang Cheng in the future.
However, everyone is waiting and watching. After all, a certain branch guard general in the past also said the same thing, but the effect...
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After the military inspection at the school today, Zhang Cheng told Jin Xinpeng that there would be a meeting at the General's Office in the afternoon and asked him to call Jin Yong to come and participate. This was what he meant by accepting Jin Yong to join the core.
Of course, another meaning is that Jin Yong can directly participate in military meetings in the future without Jin Xinpeng being the setter. It also means that Jin Yong will directly take orders from Zhang Cheng in the future and will no longer be his Jin Xinpeng's servant.
Jin Xinpeng knew this very well. He was very clever and had been quietly observing and testing Zhang Guangda's cavalry and cavalry when he arrived at Dushiqi in advance.
In his opinion, Zhang Cheng was still very good to his subordinates, which was different from other generals, and when he knew that Zhang Cheng not only brought more than a thousand elite soldiers to the North Road, but also hundreds of craftsmen and land reclamation teams. When coming with the army.
He had a premonition that Zhang Cheng had great ambitions. This place on the North Road was probably just a springboard for Zhang Cheng. From then on, he arranged for Jin Yong to have more contact with Zhang Guangda. No matter what the future holds, he first established a good relationship. You can never go wrong.
The old rivers and lakes are the old rivers and lakes. For an old fox like Jin Xinpeng, if you can cooperate, don't break up. Zhang Cheng also has a good temper with him.
When he caught Jin Xiaoguo as an accomplice, Zhang Cheng chose to send it to him quietly. This not only showed his generosity, but also showed his desire to cooperate, and at the same time showed the strength behind him. Did he, Jin Xinpeng, still have a choice? ?
The most important thing is self-knowledge!
Jin Xinpeng is a self-aware person, so he chooses to obey Zhang Cheng. However, Yan Qingrong is not on the same side as Jin Xinpeng, Xue Liangqing and others. He has always been his own faction on Beilu, but he does things flawlessly, so he does it all the way. Direct things.
Zhang Cheng will leave the North Road and go to Beijing tomorrow to express his gratitude. Before leaving, he must explain something. Everyone first discussed some personnel issues within the shogunate.
Zhang Cheng does not want to interfere too much, but his people still have to be placed in various places in the shogunate. As for the rest, the chiefs of various places must use some people they are familiar with.
For example, Feng Yuanshan will definitely join the Farming Department of the Tunnel Administration Department, Ma Huijun will definitely join the Animal Husbandry Department, and Zhang Cheng of the Mining Department also plans to choose people from among the craftsmen he brought.
Zhang Cheng wants to infiltrate his original team into Kaipingwei, and also recruit a group of old people from Shangbei Road to use them for his own use. This is a shortcut to a win-win situation.
As for those who are short-sighted, there will be such people in all eras. For Zhang Cheng, they have only one fate left, and that is to be chickens and be used by him to scare monkeys!
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Everyone discussed the personnel and urgent matters in various parts of the shogunate for a while, but Zhang Cheng did not interrupt. He was very satisfied with the current situation. Everyone got into their roles and began to worry about the affairs and talents of each department they presided over. This is good!
Seeing that everyone was already talking about it, Zhang Cheng intervened at the right time: "We will discuss all matters here today. From now on, as the affairs develop, we will make adjustments slowly. It cannot be done overnight.
However, I still have to explain some things about the new military camp and some chores, so that you can prepare in advance so that you won't be in a hurry when things happen. "
After Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he glanced at everyone in the hall and then said: "Zhang Guangda, I have more than 700 elite cavalry under my command. Now I will give them to you to command. In addition, you are allowed to come from Yunzhou and Dushi." Among the new army, priority is given to selecting suitable soldiers and filling them into the cavalry battalion.
At the same time, except for the horses in the escort team, you are allowed to choose the remaining horses under my command at will. You can first equip the cavalry battalion with the corresponding war horses and pack horses, and then consider the use of other battalions.
In addition, your cavalry battalion should be divided into three parts for training, one is heavy cavalry, the second is ranger cavalry, and the third is light cavalry. They will assume different war missions in future battles. "
