"Your Majesty, did this general, did this general hear wrongly?”
Huang Degong could not believe it for a long time. The surrounding imperial guards were also in an uproar. Even Wang Chengen and the others were dumbfounded.
"Emperor!" Wang Chengen whispered, Are you crazy? The Cabinet and the Bureau of Military Personnel won't agree!"
Yes, the Cabinet and the Ministry of War had the right to disagree!
They also had the right to overrule the emperor's orders.
This was Da Ming's strange system.
In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together, and the cabinet had great power.
In the Ming Dynasty, other than Zhu Yuanzhang, every emperor spent their entire lives fighting against the cabinet.
Chongzhen wanted to hand over so many troops to Huang Degong alone. This was obviously unreasonable, and the cabinet would not agree to it.
"Are my words useless?”
"This one is talking about the imperial edict. Not only will this one make Huang Degong the commander-in-chief of the capital camp, but this one will also make Fang Zheng the commander of the Imperial Army.”
Chong Zhen roared angrily, but everyone around him remained silent!
No one paid any attention to it, and no one made a sound. Clearly, they all felt that this was the Emperor's nonsense.
Everyone could still accept the fact that Huang was promoted to the position of Chief Admiral, but wasn't it too ridiculous to let a eunuch become the Grand Commander of the Imperial Army?
"Fang Zhengzhi, accept the decree!" Chong Zhen roared angrily.
"Yes, sir!"
Fang Zhengzhi could not care less!
He immediately accepted the order and glared angrily at the Imperial Army."Soldiers of the Imperial Army, listen up! Get into formation!"
"This?"
Everyone was dumbfounded again. Should they listen to this order or not?
"Get into formation!"
Fang Zhengzhi unsheathed his saber and roared with all his might!
His body was overflowing with killing intent, ready to slash at anyone at any moment, scaring everyone.
Most of the Imperial Army soldiers subconsciously took a step forward, but a few of them ignored him. A few of the upper echelons of the Imperial Army even sneered at him.
"Damned thing!"
Fang Zhengzhi knew the unspoken rules of the military. If he could not convince these people today, no one would listen to him in the future.
This was challenging the dignity of the new commander.
But before he could kill anyone, Chong Zhen raised a black object and aimed it at one of the Imperial Army higher-ups.
"Bang!"
There was a loud explosion, and everyone was shocked!
The Imperial Army higher-up was sent flying on the spot. When he landed, everyone saw a bloody hole in his heart. Half of his body had almost collapsed, and he was convulsing as he breathed his last. He died with grievances!
"Heavens, what, what is this?"
"This is a firearm? Why were the Emperor's firearms so fierce?”
Everyone was so scared that their faces turned pale!
Everyone was terrified, not knowing what this was.
Sun Heding's eyes lit up as he stared at the spear in Chong Zhen's hand, as if he had seen a peerless treasure.
"Bang bang bang!"
Chongzhen did not stop. He pulled the trigger seven times in a row!
Each bullet accurately hit a high-ranking member of the Imperial Army who was disobeying orders. Everyone paled in fright, and the others who had disobeyed the order hurriedly stepped forward.
Only then did Chongzhen put down his gun with a cold face!
"Fang Zhenghua, tell me what the consequences of disobeying the imperial edict are!”Chong Zhen roared angrily.
At this moment, Chong Zhen had no scruples!
In the future, he would hang himself to death. The immortal master had helped him so much. If he still did not live up to his expectations and was soft-hearted, even he would look down on him.
Therefore, Chongzhen seemed to be a little hysterical, which was very different from his usual gentle image. Everyone's scalps immediately went numb!
"Your Majesty!" Fang Zhenghua's entire body trembled as he shouted excitedly,""Those who disobey the imperial edict will be executed!”
"Now, who else wants to disobey orders?”Chong Zhen questioned again.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. I will obey your orders!" A Vice Marshal of the Imperial Army knelt on one knee in fear and growled,"Greetings, Grand Commander!"
"Greetings, Grand Commander!"
The Imperial Army soldiers roared in unison, their voices shaking the heavens!
Fang Zhenghua looked at Chong Zhen gratefully, his face filled with guilt.
He knew that it was because he did not have enough prestige that Chongzhen had personally come to intimidate the Imperial Army!
This was a help to Fang Zhengzhi, but also a humiliation!
He swore to himself that he would firmly control the Imperial Army and reorganize them so that Chongzhen would not be disappointed.
"Very good!" Chong Zhen was finally satisfied. He nodded and said,"You and Huang Degong need to train the troops as soon as possible and eliminate those who are disobedient and unqualified!”
"Choose elite soldiers. Leave 8,000 soldiers in the Imperial Army and 20,000 soldiers in the capital camp.”
"In addition, gather all the firearms in the army and eliminate those that are unqualified. Then, start training vigorously. In the future, these two armies will focus on firearms training!”
"Yes, sir!"
Fang Zhengzhi and Huang Degong cupped their fists and accepted the order!
However, after hesitating for a moment, Huang Degong could not help but ask,""Your Majesty, I can understand why the Imperial Army only left 8,000 soldiers, but why did the capital camp only leave 20,000 out of 160,000?”
"It's not just twenty thousand. We'll use the Divine Arms Battalion as the base and select twenty thousand people to join them. The other camps will remain untouched.”
"The situation of the capital camp eating empty pay is especially serious. Do you really think there are still 160,000 people?”
Chong Zhen's question immediately made Huang Degong feel awkward!
This was indeed the case. The situation of eating empty salaries in various places was indeed very serious. It was already not bad if five out of ten people were to eat.
Moreover, they had to eliminate a large number of unqualified soldiers. It was indeed reasonable to pick 20,000.
"I guarantee that I won't let you down!" "If there's even the slightest mistake, I'm willing to bring my head to see you!" Huang Degong quickly promised.”
"Yes!"
Chong Zhen nodded in satisfaction and said to Sun Heding,"Follow me!"
"Yes, sir!"
Sun Heding agreed excitedly and quickly followed him straight to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
Although he didn't know what Chong Zhen wanted to talk to him about, he didn't want to guess either. At this moment, his mind was filled with the firearm Chong Zhen used just now.
He wanted to study this thing!
With his eyesight as a firearms master, he could naturally tell that this was definitely an epoch-making product. It was even more advanced than the world's most advanced firearms by more than a hundred years!
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