"Your Highness, I believe the troops are not the problem!" Liu Kongzhao replied. "The Nanjing Capital Garrison has thirty thousand elite soldiers, the Yangtze River Patrol has twenty thousand, and the Grand Canal transport guards have another ten thousand. That is a total force of fifty thousand!"
Zhu Cilang rubbed his chin, looking somewhat worried. "Fifty thousand may sound like a lot, but in reality, it isn't much."
Ren Jun, Vice Minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War, was intimately familiar with the Imperial Court's military deployments. He added to the concern, "Fifty thousand really isn't much! You must realize that the Imperial Court has a hundred thousand troops in Liaodong alone! Jizhou and Miyun have twenty to thirty thousand elite soldiers, Xuanfu and Datong have fifteen thousand, and the Shaanxi border regions have around twenty thousand elites."
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