Zhu Youjian was becoming more and more confident. He was no longer worried or in a bad mood.
When Da Ming took the order, the empire was already in a mess in all aspects. As long as he pushed hard, the big empire would collapse.
If he wasn't the emperor, Zhu Youjian would also want to rebel and overthrow the old Zhu family.
He also understood that Emperor Tianqi was not ruthless enough, which was why Dong Lin was so arrogant and despotic. He was not vigilant enough against these officials, which was why Emperor Tianqi's tragedy happened.
As a person of the later generations, he didn't think that Donglin was that bad. However, after he came here, he realized that Donglin was truly a malignant tumor.
Dong Lin and the other factions controlled 60% of the empire's economic lifeline. They didn't want to pay any taxes.
The officials and gentry didn't pay any food and directly let them do whatever they wanted.
At the same time, this force had a strong economic background and strength. With a large sum of money, the entire fishing vessel of the empire became their trump card.
The local guards and garrisons were the knives in their hands.
The imperial court's orders could not be carried out anywhere. The local government and the imperial court were filled with the rotten aura of Donglin and other evil organizations.
His greed and hypocrite character were even more vividly displayed!
The status of military officers had now reached the standard of the Song Dynasty: Words are precious and martial arts are cheap!
These civil officials had truly achieved this grand goal, allowing the scholar-bureaucrats to run amok within the empire.
Unfortunately, their goal ended here!
Ever since the fall of Donglin, the culture of the military was about to reverse. The empire began to value the status of military officers. All the ministers understood this.
In particular, Zhu Youjian abolished all the military yamen that had been passed down from the empire and set up a new military department.
The establishment of the three guards replaced the original five military governors. Although Zhu Youjian had not reformed the military, the emperor had already expressed his intention to reorganize the army.
The capital's three battalions had been replaced by the Imperial Guards, Golden Guards, and Tiger Guards, and the troops were undergoing intense training.
Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chengzong, and Yuan Keli put all their energy into the training of the army!
With the sufficient military expenditure given by Zhu Youjian, the soldiers recruited were all strong and the recruitment quota of 300,000 was filled.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian had given them a year to train, and they had to strictly follow the training outline given by Zhu Youjian.
The results were outstanding, and all the new army and three guards had already taken the shape of a strong army.
In particular, the equipment provided by Zhu Youjian was of excellent quality, and the food was even better!
Three meals a day, one meal of meat every three days, and every meal was full!
However, the amount of training was also very large. They had to train nervously for six hours every day. This was the most basic routine training that was strictly stipulated.
Each soldier's monthly salary was three taels of silver, enough for a family of five to live comfortably!
Once a new recruit joined the army, his family would be exempted from taxes!
After these generous conditions were announced, millions of young people immediately signed up to join the army!
It was a pity that the three imperial guards only chose three hundred thousand, which made many of the muscular young men extremely depressed.
After the three guards were fully deployed, the empire would spend about twelve million taels of silver on military expenses every year. This was after deducting the expenditure on all kinds of high-quality weapons and equipment.
Zhu Youjian paid for the food and equipment alone. He only needed money for meat, uniforms, and pay.
At present, the equipment that Zhu Youjian forged was at the peak of cold weapons. The current firearms could not penetrate the light armor of the soldiers at all.
This was a big-headed soldier suit made of the best light alloy in the universe. It was estimated that even bullets from the future might not be able to penetrate such armor.
Unless it was a heavy weapon, it would be a threat to the armor he was wearing!
The flintlock was currently being developed, but Zhu Youjian did not plan to equip it.
He felt that it was not impressive enough. It would be better to directly develop modern weapons and equipment ten years later and then equip the troops. This would save him a lot of military expenses.
Currently, the Empire could not afford to play with such equipment from the age of firearms. After all, there was a classic saying in the future: When the cannon sounds, ten thousand taels of gold
It could be seen that the consumption of hot weapons and war was like a gold-devouring beast. Without the support of a strong comprehensive national strength, it would not be able to play.
The enemies of the Empire were in the era of alternating between cold and hot weapons. The cold weapons he was currently equipped with could not pose a threat.
There was no need to play like this!
He was a person with a system, so he could set his standards higher.
If he wanted to play, he would play with the standard equipment from the First World War. Only then could the power of the hot weapons be displayed.
The greatest advantage of firearms was their lethality. The firearms of the primitive era did not have much lethality and were not worth his effort to build.
Moreover, the crossbow he had prepared was a top-tier cold weapon. It could reach an effective range of 1,000 to 2,000 meters.
It was definitely not inferior to the attack power of those hot weapons era!
Moreover, the short-range shooting range of the crossbow was within five hundred meters. It was equipped with a crossbow box, and each box contained ten short arrows.
The offensive and concentrated crossbows and crossbows provided by the system were very powerful and did not lose out to the weapons of the early firearms era.
Of course, these equipment and weapons were things that had never existed in history. They were things that Zhu Youjian had exchanged through the system.
Before the artillery was perfected, the current equipment could crush the army of any country.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian had provided more than ten million arrows, and these arrows could be used hundreds of times.
After every battle, it could be used repeatedly, saving the consumption of weapons.
Zhu Youjian rarely went out other than attending court. Like an otaku, he liked to fiddle with new things in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, and most of them were related to the current military.
The ministers were speechless, but they did not dare to refute.
Especially the officials in the north, they were already frightened by the bloody slaughter in the world.
The hot-blooded scholars who were still in the middle of nowhere lost their voices when they learned of Donglin's fate and its ugliness.
Because of Tian Zi's promotion and pay raise, the Hanlin Academy was now all kneeling and sucking up to Tian Zi. They would do whatever Tian Zi said!
They would never allow Dong Lin to be a bunch of hypocrites and corrupt people in their team.
The Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Rites had joined forces to rectify the atmosphere of the scholarly community. It was a huge move, and even the literary censors from all over the world had joined in.
They had no choice. If they didn't want Tian Zi to cut off their heads, they had to show their determination and perseverance to stand firmly on Tian Zi's side.
Although Donglin had fallen, the fight against corruption and honesty continued. The Embroidered Uniform Guards and the Second East and West Factories were still in action.
Once Tian Zi got serious, those so-called scholars would immediately soften!
Any official or gentry who jumped out to provoke them would end up in a very miserable state. At the very least, they would be confiscated and then become serfs in the imperial manor.
Of course, Tian Zi wouldn't say that. Tian Zi gave it a nice name, called labor reform.
It was their mission to repair bridges and roads and do farm work in the imperial manor.
The lowest offender would have to serve for three years before he could regain his status as a civilian.
He had killed a bunch of Donglin officials, as well as those who were extremely corrupt and had committed grave crimes. Almost all of the officials below rank four were undergoing reform through labor.
The ministers in the court had to sing praises and praise the emperor for his kindness!
It was impossible not to praise the Son of Heaven. At least he was not like their Shangguan, who had his entire family plundered and his head rolled. At least he was still alive. There was still hope.
Zhu Youjian personally commanded the battle, causing the northern gentry to lose their wits and be as frightened as cicadas in winter.
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