Therefore, this thing was mostly used by the Ming Dynasty to defend the city or to transport cannons to blast open the city gate after surrounding the enemy's city.
It was not possible to use it as an independent soldier and assign it to the battle formation.
Now, Zhu Yunwen had clearly requested that not only should the firearms team be formed, but also the artillery team. He even gave it a resounding name:
The Rui An Army.
As for the special forces, Zhu Yunwen's requirements were even stricter. She required 4,000 elites to be selected for special training among the 400,000 soldiers of the Beijing camp.
The Minister of War, Ru Liangyu, looked at the document with nearly ten thousand words, and his hands trembled slightly. He raised his head to look at Tie Xuan, only to see that the shock on Tie Xuan's face had not subsided, and his eyes were filled with admiration and praise.
"Is this really the work of His Majesty?"
Ru Liangyu didn't dare to imagine.
If the current Emperor had such insight, then the Ming Dynasty's Wenchang and Wusheng would appear!
The true golden age was about to arrive!
At that time, his name would definitely be recorded in the history books!
Tie Xuan gradually regained his composure and nodded heavily. He could not help but praise,"Your Majesty's move will definitely work. The path of strengthening the army will definitely be completed in our hands. I now understand that this is the true reason why His Majesty has the confidence to reduce his army by 100,000!”
Ru Liangyu lowered her head and glanced at the recruit strategy. She shook her head slightly and said,"I, Ru Liangyu, have been the Minister of War for nearly ten years, but I have never heard of such insight. Now, His Majesty first implemented the cabinet to clean up the court, and then implemented the policy of recruiting new soldiers to temper the new army. It seems that our Emperor is thinking too far ahead.”
Tie Xuan put away the document and said to Ru Liangyu seriously,""We still need to discuss this matter with the Duke of Wei.”
"Duke of Wei? Only the Duke of Wei?"
Ru Liangyu was shocked.
Tie Xuan looked at Ru Liangyu and suddenly understood.
Logically speaking, although the Emperor trusted Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, he should not despise Li Jiujiang, the Duke of Cao. However, the Emperor had never mentioned Li Jiujiang.
This meant that Li Jiujiang did not have the Sacred Heart.
Tie Xuan frowned and said,"We will follow His Majesty's orders. As for the rest, it is not up to the Ministry of War to ask."”
The infighting of the five military governors didn't affect the Bureau of Military Personnel.
Tie Xuan didn't want to get involved. He just wanted to refine the recruit strategy as soon as possible and train the Jing Camp army.
In the side hall of the Hall of Martial Valor.
Zhu Yunwen drew a simple map of the world according to her memory. She looked in the direction of South America and then turned her eyes to Europe.
The Hundred Years War between England and France should still be ongoing, right?
Europe's capitalist society was sprouting. In a few decades, the era of great navigation would begin.
There was not much time left for Da Ming. Zhu Yunwen knew that if they did not attach importance to the navy and navigation, China would become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in more than 400 years. At that time, foreigners would burn, kill, plunder, and do whatever they wanted on China!
Zhu Yunwen didn't want this kind of history to happen again.
However, it was not easy to travel far.
The biggest factor was the lack of money.
Zhu Yunwen had been to the palace treasury. Although it was full of things, it wasn't for herself.
In fact, many people believed that the palace treasury was the emperor's private property. Strictly speaking, this view was wrong.
During Zhu Yuanzhang's time, Old Zhu thought that the world belonged to him, so why would he need to set up a private stash?
It was superfluous!
"A ruler regards the four seas as his home, and the wealth of the world is used by the world. Can public and private be distinguished? Taizong, the wise ruler of the Song Dynasty, was also like this!”
These were Zhu Yuanzhang's original words.
Zhu Yuanzhang believed that the demise of the Song Dynasty was related to the imperial family setting up the palace treasury and using the country's wealth for "private wealth".
Therefore, the palace treasury in the early Ming Dynasty was actually the national treasury.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang had set up a palace treasury system, but there was a lack of effective supervision and management. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang had never studied economics, so he printed banknotes at every turn and was not linked to gold and silver.
By the time of Zhu Yunwen, the national economy was already in a bad state.
Zhu Yuanzhang also recognized this problem in his later years. For example, in the salary of officials, he adjusted from Lu banknote and Lu rice to Lu rice.
It couldn't be helped. Money didn't work.
In addition, in the early Ming Dynasty, taxes were collected in kind, not silver. To put it bluntly, taxes were collected on rice, cotton, cloth, and so on.
During Zhu Yunwen's time, it was already considered good for the court to have a few million taels of silver. Of course, if the grain was converted into silver, the income would still be 15 million silver.
However, more than half of this money and grain were used to feed the army and officials. King Sai's army and the capital's army all needed money and food.
Where could they farm in places like the military, Liaodong, and Gansu? There were also some cities outside the pass and seaside guard stations that did not have the conditions to open up wasteland.
The main force in Beijing couldn't possibly carry a hoe every day, right?
Although the various military stations had provided a large portion of the rations, they could not provide all of them.
There were also officials who needed a salary.
Especially those princes and relatives of the royal family. Each of them was very good at giving birth. They received their own rations, their wives and children, and the money they received was dozens of times more than that of the cabinet ministers.
If this continued, the national treasury would basically be emptied every year.
Zhu Yunwen sighed. As long as it developed peacefully for a few more years, the Ming Dynasty's economy could still improve. However, with the current situation, could peace really be achieved? Would Zhu Di choose to fight to the end or submit?
Zhu Yunwen was not sure.
"Industry and commerce."
Zhu Yunwen rubbed his eyebrows. If he couldn't unseal the industry and commerce, it would be almost impossible for Zhu Yunwen to rely on the output of the farmers to make Ming rich.
However, there were no merchants in Great Ming, at least there were no legal merchants.
Zhu Yuanzhang hated merchants and even issued an order that " anyone who doesn't produce can be killed." In the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the dynasty with the lowest status for merchants was the Ming Dynasty!
This might have something to do with Zhu Yuanzhang's background. Profiteers had killed his family. Zhu Yuanzhang had always believed that businessmen were as hateful as corrupt officials and needed to be suppressed.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were only military, agricultural, and craftsman records. There was no commercial record at all.
Zhu Yuanzhang's basic national policy was to prioritize agriculture and suppress commerce.
The greatest difficulty in changing this national policy was not Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already lying in Xiao Ling, but the Confucian thinking of " emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce."
Officials hoped for stability and vigorously developed the agricultural economy.
Merchant?
Today he's in the capital, tomorrow he'll be in Bei Zhili, and the day after tomorrow he might be on the sea.
All of you stay on the land and tie them down. This way, it will be easier to manage, right?
Moreover, the merchants had already earned their money and formed a large number of rich people. Wouldn't there be less money in the world? How could the common people still live?
This might be the thoughts of the officials of the current era.
However, history had proven that the old system could not restrain the lion of economic law.
The merchants of the Ming Dynasty had many methods. For example, they could buy a piece of land first and make it clear that they were farmers and they were farmers. But as for why they were in business, could it be that they were not allowed to open up a side business?
If he really couldn't do it, he could collude with some military families, get a military status, and find a nephew to join the army in his place. He was the military lord, so what could he do to do business?
This group of merchants became one of the important drivers of the Ming Dynasty's economy.
The shackles on their bodies were still very, very heavy.
Zhu Yunwen knew that businessmen must be legalized, which was the key to releasing market power.
As for how the business would go, it would depend on how he led it.
However, now was not the time because Zhu Di was about to enter the capital.
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