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Chapter 582 Lu Xiang was promoted

Seeing the newly sent 600 miles of speed, Han Yu and Zhu Guozhen were speechless. Judging from the current situation, Da Ming was simply full of fire. Using the relaxed military preparations to describe it as mercy, the shortcomings of Da Ming's long-term implementation of the military use of literature have been fully exposed.

"Look, this is our Ming Dynasty official. If you have good things, you will rush forward. If you encounter something, you will shirk each other's blame. You don't even have the minimum responsibility. What's the use of me to be such a coward?"

Zhu Youxiao threw the clue heavily on the Long Case, pointed at Gu Bingqian and shouted: "Go... Immediately draft an order, and cut Hu Tingyan and Yue Hesheng as the people and will never be hired. Then, I ordered Guyuan guerrilla general Li Ying to send troops to quell the rebellion immediately, and issued an order to allocate 100,000 taels of silver to Guyuan!"

"I obey the order!" Gu Bingqian didn't say much, and immediately walked to a small table beside him and spread a piece of paper, picked up the pen and started drafting the order.

A few minutes later, Gu Bingqian presented the drafted decree to Zhu Youxiao for a look. Zhu Youxiao looked at it briefly and nodded in agreement. Then he picked up the seal on the table and put it on. Then Gu Bingqian also stamped his own seal, and the decree was officially passed.

After asking the eunuch to send the order away, Zhu Youxiao turned his back and said to Han Du: "My dear, do you think there is no need for the court to train a new army?"

Han Hou shook his head with a wry smile and bowed deeply to Zhu Youxiao: "The old minister is wrong, Your Majesty's move to train the new army is right."

Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything, but turned his eyes to Zhu Guozhen: "Zhu Aiqing, where are you?"

Zhu Guozhen bowed helplessly: "Your Majesty is right, it is indeed appropriate to train the new army."

Seeing these two old men who always sing opposites to him from time to time, they finally became soft-willed. Zhu Youxiao, who was still irritated, immediately felt relieved. The corners of his mouth were raised up, "It's rare that the two beloved ministers finally figured it out. I originally thought I was going to issue a central order forcibly."

Here we need to explain that there are roughly two types of imperial edicts. One is the emperor's decree, and then the cabinet uses seals. This imperial edict is the most recognized and authoritative will. The other is the emperor's decree directly issued by himself without passing through the cabinet. This imperial edict is the central edict.

This kind of imperial edict is often vilified by officials, so the emperor generally does not bypass the cabinet and directly issues the imperial edict. However, if he encounters an emperor with a stubborn temper, there are also things that directly issues the imperial edict.

Now that Zhu Youxiao is so self-deprecating, Han Yu and Zhu Guozhen's old faces can't help but turn red at the same time. Of course, they knew that the emperor was beating them and winning them. Now the state is in difficult situations, so don't play any tricks and means of using literature to control martial arts.

However, Zhu Youxiao also knew that it was enough to stop. He pondered for a while before saying, "Although it is imperative to train a new army, in my opinion, more than 20 million taels of silver are indeed a little longer. So I decided to wait until Tian Ergeng escorts the volume to Beijing and allocate 5 million taels of new army first. The remaining silver will be temporarily filled in the treasury and will continue to be invested in the future."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao said to everyone: "Do you guys have any objections?"

Gu Bingqian, Zhu Guozhen and Han Du looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The emperor's methods were getting more and more powerful. He first released all the tens of millions of taels of silver obtained by the speculator this time to train the new army, which attracted them to oppose in unison. Then he took the opportunity to scold them fiercely. Finally, he took the opportunity to agree to use only five million taels of silver for the time being, and the rest were filled in the treasury. This combination of punches was simply too bad.

Zhu Guozhen asked again: "Your Majesty, who will your Majesty ask to train the new army this time?"

Zhu Youxiao asked without answering, "What if you think of me?"

"This..." Zhu Guozhen couldn't help but feel embarrassed. Zhu Youxiao just warned them not to hold on to the means of using civil servants to control military affairs. If he proposed a civil servant candidate, it would easily arouse Zhu Youxiao's disgust. But now there are only a few famous generals in the Ming Dynasty, and each has a lot of things to do. It is not appropriate to ask them to train the new army.

After carefully considering the words, Zhu Guozhen said: "Your Majesty, according to the old ministers, the most capable person in the Ming Dynasty is naturally the Marquis of Jiangning. But now the Marquis of Jiangning is suppressing bandits in Fujian and they are unable to do anything. The rest are also very good, such as Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and others in the Beijing camp. As for whom to preside over the presidency, it depends on Your Majesty to make a decision."

I have to say that Zhu Guozhen is worthy of being a person who has been in the officialdom for most of his life. After saying that, he is stable and has no problem.

"Well!" Zhu Youxiao thought about it and quickly made a decision.

"The emperor of Fengtian inherited the reign of the emperor, and now he was relieved of the position of admiral Lu Xiang, the admiral of the Shenji Camp, appointed him as the former governor of the Five Army Governor's Office, and was responsible for recruiting and organizing 50,000 new troops. I hope he will live up to my high hopes and train the new troops for the court. I respect this!"

"Mr. Lu, please accept the order!"

"My dear Lu Xiangsheng thanks Lord Long's kindness!"

Lu Xiangsheng was still a little stunned when he received the imperial edict. All this came too suddenly. He still didn't understand why the court suddenly wanted to train a new army, and there was no news in advance.

After sending away the eunuch who announced the order, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei came to congratulate him one after another. He was promoted from the admiral of the Shenji Camp in Beijing to the former governor, but from the third rank to the second rank, which was equivalent to being promoted two levels in a row, which was naturally gratifying. But when he thought of his origin, Lu Xiangsheng felt a little amused. It seemed that he would go further and further on the road of military generals in his life.

Although Lu Xiangsheng was no longer the admiral of the Jing camp from the moment he received the imperial edict, before leaving, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and other officers still served Lu Xiangsheng with wine.

During the banquet, many officers were expressing their intention to follow Lu Xiangsheng and were talking and talking, while Lu Xiangsheng neither agreed nor refused, but said they would consider it carefully.

After the banquet, Lu Xiangsheng, Hu Dawei, Yang Guozhu and others came to a side hall to pour a few cups of tea and chat together.

After taking a sip of tea, Lu Xiangsheng said to Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei: "Old Yang, Lao Hu, I will go to Nanzhili to train the new army this time. I guess I will not be able to return to the capital within a year and a half. You must use snacks in the capital. Don't relax your daily training in the Beijing Camp. I guess it won't take long, and the Beijing Camp should have something to do again."

Hu Dawei was stunned for a moment and asked, "Mr. Lu, are you saying that Your Majesty wants to transfer the Beijing camp to the war?"

"Um!"

Lu Xiangsheng nodded. He was still a little confused when he first received the imperial edict, but after a while he immediately came back to his senses.

"You must have read the imperial court's posters and truth these days, right? Now, there have been continuous incidents of officers and soldiers raising wages and mobs killing officials and rebelling in Shaanxi and Guyuan. The local government is powerless to do anything about this. The reason why Your Majesty asked me to train the new army again is probably because I am worried that the local garrison troops are unbearable, so I plan to make this decision in advance."

"I understand, Lord Lu is right." Yang Guozhu also figured it out, "Didn't the Pratyekabud say recently? Marquis of Jiangning searched several wealthy businessmen and more than ten salt merchants in Shaoxing, and found nearly 30 million taels of silver. Most of these silvers were escorted to Beijing. With these silvers, let alone just 50,000 new troops, even if they trained 200,000 to 300,000 new troops."

"Just understand." Lu Xiangsheng nodded to Yang Guozhu with approval. This general who was formerly a general of Xuanfu was good at dealing with people and fighting. What's even more rare is that he is steady and a rare general.

"Yes!" Hu Dawei also slapped his thigh: "For the past six months, the Pratyekabuddha always said that the Ming Dynasty has now reached a glacial climate. In the following days, the climate in our Ming Dynasty will become colder and colder. Is it calling on the people to have a variety of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn?

As soon as the climate changed, all kinds of birds emerged. Didn’t you see that the guy who claimed to be the King of Breakthrough in Shaanxi actually captured several county towns in a row? In my opinion, all of these people should be arrested and beheaded!"

"It's rare that the tiger understands this truth!" Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Guozhu both laughed.
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