Seeing Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, the two rebel leaders who directly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, wearing the Ming Dynasty uniforms and commanding the refugees who should have followed them to kill officials and rebels for training, hoping to play a role in defending the Ming Dynasty one day, Li You felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart, but turned into a smile. Such a change was exactly what he wanted.

Refugees recruited from Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, and the remaining soldiers eliminated by the Beijing camp, now more than 100,000 soldiers are being trained here. If they were placed in the past, the imperial court would definitely not be able to provide this money and grain. However, after Li You confiscated the property of the eight major merchants of Shanxi, all this was not a problem. Moreover, soon after the maritime trade organized by the internal officials and Zheng Zhilong and other maritime merchants would also give him a steady stream of income, enough to support more troops.

According to the consistent nature of the Ming officials, they must intervene in such a situation. The equipment, military pay, food and official positions of 100,000 people may bring countless benefits to them. Therefore, after seeing the reality that the Jing camp was replaced by the new army, they tried to get involved in the new army, but Li You refused to let them do what they wanted. These people were like rat shit. As long as one was thrown into it, the good soup would be completely finished.

Therefore, the training of the new army was under the control of the Song army led by Yue Yun, and the money and grain were temporarily distributed by the treasury. After solving the problems of Guanning Army and other issues, it will be transferred to allocating special money and grain from the imperial court for support. The selection, promotion and dismissal of this army does not have to be arranged by the Ministry of War Military Selection Department and other departments, but is under the supervision of the rebuilt Grand Governor's Office. Of course, the current Grand Governor's Office is different from the Grand Governor's Office under the jurisdiction of Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and others in the early Ming Dynasty. Li You modified some of the authority, and the newly established Grand Governor's Office will retain a certain degree of autonomy outside the civil service system, but will not have too much power, so as to avoid the inability of military power in the future.

This change will certainly arouse firm opposition from the civil servant system, but now Li You is taking advantage of the opportunity to capture the backstage of the Shanxi merchants who sell off the country and start a massacre of civil servants. They are not able to protect themselves yet, so how can they stop Li You from making a decision? In the end, the new Grand Governor's Office was slowly established.

After the training of these 100,000 new troops is completed, Li You will use them to replace the old Ming army in Liaodong, Xuanda and other frontiers, and then bring these old troops around the capital for retraining, and eventually replace the Ming armed forces with new troops; to some extent, this is even more difficult than reorganizing an army, because in addition to solving the problems encountered in training, they also have to deal with the strong resistance of the old officer system. They must understand that if the new army policies are adopted, their power will be greatly reduced, which is something that no one wants to bear.

Alas, it is even more difficult to save a terminally ill dynasty than to build a new dynasty; Li You was so upset that he was troubled by many problems. He now complained about the roles arranged by Hu Fu for him. To be honest, the beginning of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty was simply hell, and it would be much easier to start with Li Zicheng than now.

Taking stock of the precedents of the revival of the declined dynasty over the past thousand years, Liu Xiu restored the Han Dynasty after Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty. Although he was a royal family in the Han Dynasty, he did not change the status quo from the court. Instead, he established his own armed forces and relying on outstanding military, political ability and meteorite summoning techniques to ascend the throne. This process is no different from re-establishing a dynasty; the same is true for Liu Bei later, Shu Han and Da Han have become two dynasties.

The Jin and Song dynasties continued their lives in the south. After losing half of the northern country, they also lost a lot of old burdens to some extent. In addition, the enemies in the north were unable to succeed, which allowed them to survive.

The fate of the Tang Dynasty was full of twists and turns. When Wu Zhou replaced the Li Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was not yet at its end, and it still had the strength to turn the world around. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was already powerless to turn the world. Therefore, even if there were a few emperors who wanted to make a difference, they could only irreversible the trend of the dynasty as Chongzhen could not restore the decline of the dynasty.

Now the Ming Dynasty is facing not only the barbarians in the north and the low temperature drought of the Little Ice Age, but the more important enemy is inside, the foolish and incompetent officials, the gentry who ignores the laws of the country, the rich merchants who are exploring the people for more than two hundred years, and the dynasty that has been withered by the landlords and officials who have exploited the people has gradually lost their enterprising spirit, and only knows how to desperately absorb the nutrients from this big tree, but never fall to this tree and wait for them.

Therefore, Li You did not expect these people to cheer up and change the fate of the Ming Dynasty. They had long been accustomed to this kind of behavior that harmed the public and benefited the private sector. It was almost impossible to awaken them. In order to protect the Ming Dynasty's country and not fall into the hands of the alien race, Li You had to wash away the gentry class of the Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, he used Yue Yun's Song army as the seed to cultivate a large number of strong tactical literacy and absolutely loyal to his army. On the other hand, Li You planned to set up a new newspaper to change the current ideological atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty. Then, through the establishment of new education and changing the imperial examination methods, he cultivated scholars who were different from those who could meet his own needs to replace these old-style literati and replace their positions as court officials.

Like the new army, this newspaper will be personally managed by Li You. Those who are responsible for assisting him include Xu Guangqi, who is proficient in Confucianism and Western learning, the famous novelist Feng Menglong, the missionary of Thai West, the Confucianism master Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and others.

Among them, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou may have no flaws in their personal ethics, but they are pedantic. When encountering any problems, they only know how to persuade the emperor to be close to the gentleman and stay away from the villain, and say a lot of big and useless nonsense, and they cannot come up with a practical way to solve the problem. The reason why Li You included them in the newspaper was that he was attracted by their reputation in the scholars, and the other was that he wanted Xu Guangqi and others to debate with them in the newspaper, completely expose the problems in their thoughts, so that those with knowledgeable people in the world could see it clearly and trigger their reflection.
Chapter completed!