Chapter 363 Counting the Family Assets
Because of the reduction of 100,000 Beijing troops, the defense of the capital was temporarily taken over by Xu Yu's Royal First Division, and Chang Buzhou's Royal Guards were responsible for guarding the palace.
Zhu Youjian also reduced the number of guards in the palace to very few. The more than 100 people who could stay were loyal guards who had gone through multiple rounds of tests and had absolutely no problems with their loyalty. However, they were all concentrated in the secret training base of the special forces to receive various conventional military training, at least they had to be good at using firearms.
Martial arts are important, but the era of hot martial arts has arrived. No matter how powerful a martial arts master is, he can be defeated by a bullet. Learning to use a gun is a compulsory course.
According to Zhu Youjian's idea, Chang Buzhou's Royal Guards were his imperial guards, and the scale was so large, but the weapons must be the best, and the soldiers must be elite veterans selected from ten thousand, and loyal guards who have gone through layers of tests and have absolutely no problems with their loyalty.
But now all the new army units have only been formed for a short time. The most elite ones are Xu Yu's Royal First Division, Lan Fang's Royal Second Division, Guangxi Wolf Army Division and Sichuan Army Division. After the expansion, these four most elite troops have joined a large number of new recruits, and their combat effectiveness is inevitably reduced. If elite veterans are drawn from them, the combat effectiveness will decline even more.
The war that determines the life and death of the empire is approaching, and Zhu Youjian dare not act recklessly. On the contrary, he must strengthen the combat effectiveness of these troops as much as possible, and give priority to replacing them with the most advanced DM2 rifles and large and small caliber artillery.
In fact, the Independent First Division of the National Defense Army led by Hong Niangzi can also be regarded as an elite unit, but it has just been reorganized and refitted not long ago. The proficiency in the use of muskets and the familiarity and application of new tactics need to be improved, and it has not been classified as an elite unit for the time being.
The White-Pole Army led by Qin Liangyu is definitely the elite of the old army. Moreover, the White-Pole Army has also added 2,000 musketeers and a cannon battalion, and its combat power has doubled. As long as it is given enough logistical support, even if it suddenly encounters an enemy in the wild, it will definitely be able to fight against the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Qing Army.
He roughly calculated that he still had a few elite troops in his hands, which were capable of fighting, but this was far from enough. He had to recruit troops, crazy troops. After recruiting troops near the capital, he would go to other provinces to recruit. Now the treatment of soldiers is much better than before. I don’t believe that he can’t recruit troops.
As for the 300,000 Shaanxi, Huguang, and Baoding armies led by Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three borders, although they are called elite, in Zhu Youjian’s eyes, their combat power can only be regarded as slightly stronger than the general old army with five scums. They are good at suppressing the rebels with backward weapons and equipment, but they can only be beaten in the field with the Qing army.
But for his plan to reorganize the army, even if it means giving the Qing army heads, they have to let them go up as cannon fodder.
To put it in more detail, if the 300,000 old troops were forcibly reduced, it would definitely cause dissatisfaction and confusion among the soldiers, and even trigger a mutiny. It would be better to be more ruthless and use the Qing army to help him reduce the number of soldiers.
These soldiers have long been infected with all the bad habits of the old army. He doesn't want any of them. Even if he lets them go home, most of them will probably go up the mountain to become bandits and cause trouble in the local area. Moreover, only by making them suffer a beating can he have an excuse and reason to reorganize and reduce the number of soldiers.
In fact, there is another elite force in the old Ming army, that is, Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry. However, he did not include the Guanning Iron Cavalry because Wu Sangui's attitude was unclear and he was worried.
Considering that Xu Yu would lead the Royal First Division to go to war sooner or later, Zhu Youjian planned to temporarily set up a four-brigade organization with a 20,000-man recruit division to guard the capital. There was no candidate for the division commander for the time being, so Chang Buzhou could only serve as a temporary commander.
There was no way. He lacked everything, and the most lacked was loyal talents, not to mention the military commander of a division.
Because the war was coming, Zhu Youjian did not make drastic reforms to the military and political system, but this year's military expenditures have tripled, and he has doubled it out of his own pocket, which is a full translation of four times. Such crazy military expansion can be said to be warlike.
But now the national treasury is abundant, and his small treasury is also full, enough for him to squander for a while, this is the benefit of the confiscation of property.
The empire is currently preparing for war with all its strength, and the situation is still mainly stable. Zhu Youjian did not even touch the eight imperial merchants who sold the country to the enemy, but if the Donglin Party members want to die, then they will be sent to the Western Paradise.
The Donglin Party, especially the big guys, have assets that are many times more than the annual fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty. It must be great to confiscate their property.
"Your Majesty, the Minister of Revenue Qian Qianyi was assassinated."