One advantage of being the Ming Emperor is that he has a lot of resources at his disposal. For example, the fifty eunuchs in front of me are the best at mastering pinyin annotation, and they are also the fifty eloquent eunuchs selected from the eunuchs in the Neishu Hall.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at them and said kindly: "I can tell you today that when the new army is established, you will be sent to the new army. Each of you will be assigned 90 new soldiers to teach them literacy. Just follow this A method of pinyin annotation, in the form of a pair of nineties, as I show you, you can use the blackboard tool..."
Hearing this, these young eunuchs were surprised, wondering what this was. I had never heard of it before!
"In addition to teaching them literacy, we must also pay attention to their thoughts and promptly correct practices that are not in line with military disciplines. We must also pay attention to military disciplines, but also pay attention to words and deeds that affect marching and fighting and endanger the court..."
When these eunuchs took up positions in the New Army, they were actually equivalent to political commissars in later generations. As Emperor Chongzhen who traveled through time in later generations, it was only natural for him to consider the position of political commissar if he wanted to build a new army. But if you recruit scholars to do this kind of thing, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve results. After all, the scholars' reserve and the pride of warriors in their bones make it difficult for them to integrate with the soldiers.
But these young eunuchs were different. As the emperor's servants, they could only do whatever the emperor asked them to do. In short, the emperor is their god. Only by satisfying the emperor can their future be bright. Moreover, in terms of origin, eunuchs and Qiu Ba seem to be more equal. No one is superior to the other. There is absolutely no superiority that can be seen from the bones of a scholar when facing a warrior.
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at these young eunuchs, keeping their surprised expressions in his eyes, but remained calm and continued to explain: "In addition to not affecting the rest and training of the new army soldiers, you can also tell them more about loyalty to the emperor. Regarding the story of serving the country, I will send you some examples later."
After saying this, he paused for a while to give these young eunuchs time to digest, and then said: "This position is very important to the New Army. I call it political commissar, or political commissar for short." Those in charge of 90 people are called company-level political commissars, which is the sixth rank. When the new army training is completed, I will promote you to higher-level political commissars based on your performance, such as battalion-level political commissars, regiment-level political commissars, etc. , the grades are promoted in sequence, up to the division level political commissar, which is the fourth grade."
Upon hearing this, the eyes of these young eunuchs suddenly shone. Although they don't understand these new terms, they are most familiar with grades. If the emperor hadn't been here, he would have been roaring and cheering.
We must know that the government offices where the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were located had a total of twelve eunuchs. Each eunuch had one eunuch, the fourth rank, one eunuch on the left and right, one eunuch on the left and one on the right, four eunuchs on the left and one eunuch on the right. One member, the sixth rank, long follower, serving the emperor, no fixed number of members, from the sixth rank.
However, these young eunuchs are currently only studying in the inner study hall, and are at the bottom of the eunuchs. Even if they are lucky, they still have to go through qualifications and climb up step by step. Don't talk about anything else, just to have a good grade, you need to be lucky and spend time to stand out from the many eunuchs.
But now I heard from the emperor that after they joined the New Army, they would be at least the sixth grade, and when the training of the New Army was completed, there would be senior eunuchs like Shaojian among them. How could such a shortcut not make them ecstatic!
Emperor Chongzhen was very happy to see the joy on the faces of these young eunuchs. He gave them a little more time to be happy, and then continued: "This position of political commissar is equivalent to the supervisor of the army in other armies, but it is different from the military supervisor. The Supervisory Army is definitely different, so I changed the name. I have already mentioned the difference, and you can also understand it. There is still one month left until the day when the new army is formed, so you should prepare first and don't let me down. !”
"My slave obeys the order!" The young eunuch immediately responded loudly, his voice was a bit sharp, and he was obviously very interested.
Emperor Chongzhen did not need to pass on the decree, but visited the inner study hall in person and informed these eunuchs, which shows that he attached great importance to this matter.
Of course, in addition to this matter, he also attaches equal importance to other matters related to the New Army. This level of attention was definitely not what those ministers could have expected. No, after finishing the explanation in the inner study hall, he took charge of the battle and went to inspect the armor and weapons in person.
According to the Ming Dynasty's system, the armor and weapons were supervised by the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and the Military Warfare Bureau of the Internal Supervision. Moreover, the armor of the soldiers of the capital is collected when used and returned to the inner treasury after use. For example, if you want to hold a big ceremony, memorial ceremony, hunting, expedition, etc., you will receive armor from the inner treasury. After these things are completed, the armor and the like will be returned to the inner treasury.
In this way, logically speaking, there is enough armor stored in the inner treasury. Once the border towns are in urgent need, they can also be transferred from the capital. This is why the Ming Dynasty had a very strict system for the management of armor.
However, starting from the Wanli period, the armor in the capital's inner treasury became difficult to use. For this reason, in the ninth year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli issued a special edict for this purpose, reprimanding the Ordnance Bureau and the Military War Bureau, saying that the armor they made was rough, a waste of money and food, and useless. The two factories were specially ordered to build 5,000 pairs of armor for military use, with a deadline of one year and a deadline of five years to complete the work.
For the new army being formed, Emperor Chongzhen would serve as a benchmark for future military restructuring. For this reason, first of all, this new army must be a strong army, able to win battles, and have real achievements, so that it can be used. Therefore, he has to personally inspect all the supporting equipment of the new army.
Perhaps knowing that the new army was about to be formed, Wu Weiting, the eunuch superintendent of the armory, had already prepared. As soon as the emperor arrived, he immediately had fifty pairs of armors of various types taken out and placed them one by one in the courtyard for Emperor Chongzhen to see in person.
To be honest, when Emperor Chongzhen looked at these armors himself, he couldn't tell whether the armors were good or bad. However, he was also prepared and said to Baihu, a one-armed Jinyi guard who was following him: "Chen Baihu, go and see if these armors are practical against Jianlu?"
"According to the order!" Chen Er accepted the order and did not look at the others. He squatted down directly, lifted it up with one of his hands and weighed it, then tapped it with his knuckles to listen to the sound, or violently stepped on it with his foot. etc.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at Chen Er's movements, glanced at Wu Weiting from the corner of his eyes, and felt cold in his heart when he saw his expression.
This Wu Weiting was also one of the eunuchs of Emperor Chongzhen in his residence. After he became the emperor, the number of eunuchs in these residences also increased, and they controlled various positions in the palace according to their degree of closeness.
