Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 468 The Emperor's Move to the Capital Garrison Shocks the Officials
When the emperor moved his residence, all the officials followed.

The Eastern Depot and the Embroidered Uniform Guard cleared the way, while soldiers from the Cangyun and Tiance armies guarded the emperor's side.

This was absolutely unprecedented since Zhu Jinzhen ascended the throne, arousing great curiosity among the people of the capital. Even Li Chungang, who was dozing off leaning against the signboard outside Zuichunlou, and Xu Fengnian, who was dressed handsomely and unrestrainedly, looked over with the same curiosity as the people.

"What happened? His Majesty the Emperor actually left the palace, and he took all the court officials with him?"

Upon hearing Xu Fengnian's voice, Li Chungang shrugged, giving him a look that said, "Who should I ask?"

He is no longer the number one swordsman in the Northern Jianghu.

Instead, he was a one-armed old man who had wandered into the Ming Dynasty, burdened with debt, and worked at the Drunken Spring Pavilion to pay off his debts.

How can we know what the Ming emperors want to do?
"Really boring."

Xu Fengnian rolled his eyes, looking bored: "Don't worry, I just received a letter from my second sister and Xu Xiao yesterday. The money and people are already on their way and will arrive soon."

"Oh? That's good news!" Li Chungang's face lit up with joy. Although he was easygoing, he didn't want to be bossed around every day and be looked at with strange, pitiful eyes.

If he weren't afraid of being chased by the Xuanjia Secret Guard for debt, he would have run away long ago.

At this moment, as Zhu Jinzhen and his entourage departed, the people of the capital who had been holding their breath and not daring to utter a sound began to discuss among themselves.

"Judging from the direction the imperial carriage and officials went, it seems to be the direction of the Beijing garrison?"

"Could something major have happened at the capital garrison that has alarmed His Majesty?"

"I don't know, why don't we go take a look?"

"Are you crazy? You'll join in any kind of fun, are you out of your mind?"

"That's strange. I heard that His Majesty has been in seclusion for a long time and only came out yesterday. Today he led all the officials to the capital garrison. Could it be that he is inspecting the changes in the capital garrison during this period?"

"Then you're overthinking it. When our Emperor was still Prince Su, he never made a special trip to inspect the Cangyun and Tiance armies when he toured the three armies. What's so special about the mere Jingying that warrants such an inspection?"

But no matter how the people discussed it, there was ultimately no result.

Even the alliance of various states was suppressed by the secret guards, the Eastern and Western Depots, and the Six Ministries and Cabinet, preventing it from spreading among the people. No one knew what had happened.

……

Jingying.

Since Zhu Wushi's rebellion failed and Yang Ning took control of the nine gates of the capital region, as well as the entire Beijing Garrison, the Thirteen Battalions of the Capital Garrison have been purged and screened several times.

Those who were merely pretending to be competent have all been eliminated.

Those who remain in the Beijing Garrison today are naturally the elite selected through careful planning.

In addition, Changsun Wangqing, following Zhu Jinzhen's instructions, promoted the martial arts competition in the Beijing garrison some time ago, and in the past month, the appearance of the Beijing garrison soldiers has been completely renewed.

When Zhu Jinzhen led his men to the Beijing garrison, they saw a bustling training ground with various high-intensity drills everywhere. Everywhere they looked, the soldiers of the Beijing garrison were sweating profusely in the dead of winter.

"This humble general, Anling, pays his respects to Your Majesty!"

"Long live my emperor."

"Rise, and lead me and my ministers inside."

Zhu Jinzhen didn't care about these formalities. He had brought all the officials here today to reassure them, not to conduct a special inspection, so he naturally didn't want to see these tedious formalities.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, my lords, please follow me."

Anling had already received the notification from the secret guards and led Zhu Jinzhen and the officials of the Ming Dynasty to the training ground of the Beijing Garrison.

Just as Zhu Jinzhen took his seat, the assembled officials looked around with great curiosity.

Yang Ning bowed slightly before Zhu Jinzhen: "Your Majesty, the soldiers of the Tian Ce Mansion you requested have arrived." "Then, let's begin."

A mysterious smile appeared on Zhu Jinzhen's lips.

This reassurance is not meant to demonstrate the strength of the Tian Ce Mansion.

Hopefully, these officials of the Ming Dynasty won't be too shocked.

The next moment, with Yang Ning's order, Ming soldiers dressed in crisp military uniforms marched in neat formations, their steps as precise as if cut by a knife or axe.

Although the army consisted of only a thousand men, the earth trembled as their footsteps landed with a single sound.

Every movement of these Tian Ce soldiers was precise and coordinated, and every arm swing was at the same angle. From a distance, the entire formation looked like a single entity moving together, demonstrating amazing coordination and discipline.

They exuded an aura of iron-blooded ferocity more ferocious than tigers and wolves. As they approached with orderly steps, all the court officials at the capital's military training ground were greatly alarmed.

"hiss!!'
Zhang Mao gasped sharply, not only because of the astonishing discipline and coordination of this Tian Ce army, but also because of the undisguised aura emanating from them.

"Am I seeing things correctly?"

"Everyone points to the Profound Realm? How is that possible??"

Zhang Mao shouldn't have been shocked, because the Tian Ce and Cang Yun armies stationed in the capital were basically all at this level, which was considered the standard for Cang Yun and Tian Ce in the eyes of the world.

But that wasn't what shocked Zhang Mao.

Instead, he discovered...

The thousand-strong force that suddenly appeared before us was all...

New army!!
Zhu Jinzhen smiled and asked, "Oh? The Duke of England noticed?"

Zhang Mao's body trembled, and he replied shakily, "Your Majesty, they...they are the new soldiers recruited by the Tian Ce Prefecture some time ago? The batch selected from the Beijing Garrison?"

"What??"

Many officials present were shocked and lost their composure.

Almost everyone's expression changed drastically.

"good."

Zhu Jinzhen nodded with a smile, looking at the thousand-strong force in front of him that seemed fierce and iron-blooded, but was actually like a young tiger baring its claws, somewhat bluffing. He smiled slightly and said, "They are indeed a new army. Tian Ce recruited them for training, and it has been less than seven days!"

"Not bad."

The last sentence is an expression of praise for the new Tian Ce army in front of them.

However, Zhang Mao and other Ming Dynasty officials, including Xu Yu, Cao Zhengchun, He Jian, and Wang Jing, all had strange expressions and twitching lips, secretly wishing they could ask Zhu Jinzhen a question.

You managed to train a thousand-strong army in seven days, and you call that commendable?
If this can only be considered as putting in effort, then...

What would be considered satisfactory in the eyes of His Majesty?

In seven days, they went from nothing to something, overcame the trials of the ninth rank of martial arts, and stepped over the Vajra and Finger Profound realms to reach the Celestial Phenomenon realm? This thousand-strong army would have to all reach the Celestial Phenomenon Grandmaster level to meet their Emperor's expectations.
It was only at this point that many officials, including Zhang Mao, belatedly realized what was happening.

What Zhu Jinzhen meant when he said in the Fengtian Hall was to reassure them.

One thousand Finger Profound Realm Grandmasters were trained in seven days.

And that's not necessarily all of them.

Let alone the fact that the surrounding countries formed an alliance to resist the Ming Dynasty, even if all the emperors and generals of all dynasties brought all the power of their respective dynasties to invade together, the Ming Dynasty could still wipe out the enemy.
But even they couldn't have imagined it.

Zhu Jinzhen wanted to reassure them with much more than just this.

(End of this chapter)