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Forty-seven postwar

Although Xiao Ruxun's words are exaggerated in some aspects, it is true that he is handsome and well-written. Xiao Ruxun's regular script is highly praised by Ye Mengxiong and Mei Guozhen. He believes that this regular script has "stern righteousness" and "excellent Yan Zhenqing" and so on. He admires Xiao Ruxun's calligraphy very much. Ye Mengxiong also recommended some books he likes to Xiao Ruxun, so that he could read these books when he had time to increase his knowledge, which would be of great help in the future.

Of course, Xiao Ruxun would not just chat with them. During this period, Xiao Ruxun as the general of Ningxia gathered all the 5,839 bird guns that could be found and put into use in Ningxia. Then, he selected 3,000 soldiers who had been trained and had good shooting skills and were the least effective.

With just these three thousand people, Xiao Ruxun formed a bird gun team of 3,000 people, and then formed a more than 1,000 artillery team of more than 300 various vehicles and cannons. He combined two into one to become a firearm battalion with more than 3,000 soldiers and became a direct unit of the Ningxia General. He handed it over to Wang Hui to command and promoted Wang Hui to a sergeant general.

This move was supported by the three-sided governor Ye Mengxiong. Ye Mengxiong supported Xiao Ruxun's firearm construction plan with his own authority. Mei Guozhen, the military supervisor, expressed his intention to watch Xiao Ruxun's firearm training method in person, and then record in detail, report this method to the Ministry of War, and then promote it to garrisons across the country.

After this battle, Ye Mengxiong and Mei Guozhen witnessed the huge lethality of firearms and the huge power of gunpowder, and began to attach great importance to the use and tactics of firearms. Xiao Ruxun is the well-deserved expert on the use of firearms, so Xiao Ruxun's opinions have a great impact in their hearts. Seeing Xiao Ruxun let three thousand gunmen set up a very standard three-row array to practice firearms on the school ground, that formation is indeed quite intimidating.

Moreover, the problems of post-war pensions, people's settlements, and city renovation issues that Xiao Ruxun could also put forward his own opinions, which was to let the elderly, weak, women and children in Ningxia City make ammunition packs for these gunmen.

While advising young and middle-aged people to farm, they will step up their pace of farming, and let the elderly, young, women and children have something to do, and they can also get some small money and manage a meal to subsidize the household expenses, so that the court will not spend money on disaster relief work in vain, so that everyone has something to do, and the people will have no time to think about other things.

The same is true. In order to prevent the soldiers from being at ease for a long time, Xiao Ruxun not only ordered large-scale training, but also asked soldiers who did not have training tasks to repair the city walls, repair weapons and supplies, and even distributed some of the soldiers to help cultivate fields.

This is a way to deepen the so-called "military and civilian relationship", tell the soldiers that they come from the people and should also love the people. If you love the family of other soldiers, other soldiers will also love your family. If you bully other people's families, others will also bully your family, etc.

This not only gave Ningxia residents no time to cause trouble, but also had things to do and could not cause trouble, and the whole order suddenly became stable. Ye Mengxiong was surprised to find that Xiao Ruxun actually had the ability to manage civil affairs, so he easily gave up some power and started the logistics work he was good at.

Mei Guozhen squatted in the training camp every day to watch how Xiao Ruxun practiced the firearm battalion, and then made the firearm battalion gradually gain combat effectiveness, gradually combined with swords and shields to form a firearm formation, and practiced how to use the firearm formation to fight against cavalry on the plains.

Mei Guozhen also discussed the combat characteristics of cavalry with Xiao Ruxun, and then how to use this characteristic to make the firearms play the greatest role in dealing with cavalry, etc. Of course, one topic that cannot be escaped is the problem of firearms not waterproof.

Xiao Ruxun said that he has no time to solve this problem yet. When he has time, he will study how to improve the ignition method. Instead of using this troublesome fuse, he adopts a more convenient waterproof ignition method to ignite. Even if it rains, he doesn't have to worry about the firearm not being used.

Xiao Ruxun also sent a sentry cavalry to investigate the movements of the Mongols on the grassland, fearing that the Mongols would take advantage of the Ming Dynasty to quell the rebellion, so they had to prepare in advance and not allow the fruit of victory to be snatched away by the Mongols. The infantry and cavalry of Ma Gui and Xiao Ruhui were ordered to remain ready at all times. Once news came, they could go to war immediately.

Xiao Ruxun did a very good job in the Ningxia General's work, which was recognized by everyone, so for a while, the defense work in Ningxia Town was fully arrested and its defense ability was greatly improved.

Half a month later, Ye Mengxiong's military newspaper and Mei Guozhen's memorial arrived in the capital and were ordered to be sent directly to the palace for preview for the emperor. Even the cabinet and the Tongzhengsi could not know the content of the war report in advance, but the news still came out. For a while, the chief assistant Zhao Zhigao, the second assistant Zhang Wei, and the Minister of War Shi Xing and others were anxious and entered the palace one after another to ask for the emperor and ask about the war situation.

What they didn't know was that after Emperor Wanli learned the content of the military newspaper first, he had been laughing happily for a long time, and felt so frustrated for so long. The first time he felt so happy. Really, Emperor Wanli felt unprecedented pleasure, because the biggest contributor this time was not the commander of a few literati, but the Ningxia general Xiao Ruxun who he insisted on promoting.

The shaking rebellion of the Shaanxi-shaking Shaanxi actually took only two months to completely quell. All the rebels and others were killed, none of them escaped. Tens of thousands of rebels were captured alive, and the rest were all killed. The Ming army annihilated more than 50,000 enemies, setting the greatest victory since Jiajing! This was a beautiful battle fought by Xiao Ruxun, the general officer he insisted on promoting!

When he was tired of laughing, Zhu Yijun began to pay attention to the entire battle process. He would judge this battle process based on Ye Mengxiong's military newspaper, Mei Guozhen's memorials and Jinyiwei's secrets. Among them, Jinyiwei's secrets are undoubtedly the most valuable and are most valued by him.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, Zhu Yijun personally took charge of the Jinyiwei, and sacked Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao's forces, put his confidants in the Jinyiwei, and paid attention to protecting the Jinyiwei's external intelligence network. He directly allocated silver from the inner treasury to the Jinyiwei commander Luo Sigong. In a few years, a Jinyiwei intelligence network that surpassed the Jiajing and Longqing eras was created.

Everyone thinks that the intelligence network of the Jinyiwei is internal and monitors the ministers and falsely accuses the ministers, so they are afraid of it. However, few people know that the Jinyiwei not only spreads its intelligence network throughout the Ming Dynasty, but also spreads the intelligence network to enemy countries and vassal states around the Ming Dynasty.

With two hundred years of hard work, countless vassal states and enemy countries around the Ming Dynasty were infiltrated. If there were any abnormal movements in these places, the first one was the spy of the Jinyiwei, the second one was the commander, and the third one was the emperor.

However, when the commander of the Jinyiwei cannot do it or is involved in political struggles or is simply a pawn of others, the Jinyiwei's external deterrence is much smaller and he concentrates his strength to deal with the internal situation. However, when the Jinyiwei is completely in the hands of the emperor and the commander of the Jinyiwei is quite capable, the Jinyiwei can play an unexpected role.

Luo Sigong, the current commander of the Jinyiwei, is a very capable and loyal person to the emperor. The reason why Zhu Yijun can see through the tricks of those court officials and still control the government in some way for decades when he did not attend court is unimaginable without Luo Sigong's efforts.

It was like during the rebellion of the dynasty, and the secret report of the Jinyiwei was delivered one day earlier than the 800-li expedited documents. When Zhu Yijun received the urgent report from the border, he had already made a draft and made arrangements to arrange the matter as quickly as possible.
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