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Chapter 084: I only want three thousand

The next morning, the six hundred miles of urgent documents from Huai'an were handed over from the Ministry of War in the city to the Ministry of War in the Pukou Camp, and then the officer on duty submitted them to the Emperor Chongzhen.

On top of the official document packet was stamped with the large seal of the Censorate. When I opened it, I found that it was indeed an urgent report from the Censorate to the Ministry of War.

In the report, it is not known that Chongzhen's car had arrived in Nanjing, and he was talking about three other things.

First, Zhenfei on Huaifu Road was killed in the Xingyuan of Sanshutun. Some of his Fubiao Guards were killed together in Sanshutun, and some died in battle on the official road outside Huai'an City.

Second, the general Ma Huabao was killed by the eunuch Lu Jiude, the governor of Fengyang, and his subordinates were disbanded.

Third, the eunuch Lu Jiude, the governor of Fengyang, committed suicide in the military tent.

"It's okay, I'm not slow to investigate," Li Banghua said to Zhou Shixian, "Long live, I'm looking at it. Are there any new wills?"

"No, I will still follow the original proposal." Zhou Shixian said, "In short, please ask Meng Weng for the matter in Huai'an."

"Well, don't worry." Li Banghua nodded calmly.

"There is no reason to be worried about having Meng Weng in charge. There is just one thing, be careful in everything. Although Liu Zeqing himself may not be involved in this matter, he is not a good person."

"I know, so you gave me Zhang Huangyan, just to prevent Liu Zeqing from doing it."

When it comes to Zhang Huangyan, both of them laughed.

In Zhou Shixian's opinion, Zhang Huangyan's Ningbo army was very well trained. What's more important is that this army has a clean life experience and has nothing to do with any aspect, so it can be used. So yesterday, Zhang Huangyan was specially simplified as a seventh-rank military department in the capacity of the juren, and Chen Mingxi was given the identity of a thousand general, and 15,000 taels of treasury were allocated to them as the salary for the opening. Ni Yuanlu also allocated three thousand taels as a pension for the casualties when welcoming the car.

However, Zhang Huangyan was very clever and knew that he could ask the prince consort for something.

"My soldiers are all infantry. If there is an emergency military situation, I am afraid that I will be unable to get back on the rush, so I can at least send some horses to me. Will it be successful?"

"Okay, I'll give you thirty best war horses!"

"Thirty horses are not enough," Zhang Huangyan looked embarrassed, "at least one hundred."

"forty."

"Ninety-five."

"Fifty."

"Okay, it's fifty!" Zhang Huangyan quickly knocked on the corner brick, "You can't regret it when your son-in-law speaks!"

"Don't go back on your word," Zhou Shixian smiled, "but I saw your two hundred archers last time when the battle was in progress. The temperature was still a little short of time. I didn't have to bring them together this time, so I stayed in Pukou camp and handed them over to Guan Qisheng, so that he could take them to practice."

Everyone saw Guan Qisheng's bow and arrow last time when he killed Yin Song, so he didn't say anything, so he just did what the prince consort said.

Now that Zhang Huangyan's army has been completed, Zhou Shixian is the representative emperor and sent Li Banghua ten miles away from Pukou camp. He watched him gradually move away under the surroundings of Zhang Huangyan and nearly 500 Polish soldiers, and then he turned back to the camp.

Today the emperor did not summon ministers, but there was another special arrangement, which happened to be implemented because he was in Pukou Daying - inspecting the Jingying stationed in Pukou.

The emperor's military parade was originally a very grand event, and it would be notified in advance to ensure that all aspects were well prepared. The general who led the troops could also take advantage of this time to train the soldiers well in accordance with the requirements of the military parade exercises, so that at least the surface should be bright and not too ugly during the military parade.

But this incident suddenly happened, and no extra time was left for Longping Marquis Zhang Gongri. According to Emperor Chongzhen's wishes, one was to give a favor to the officers and soldiers of the Pukou camp after the military parade, which was somewhat a reward for their contribution to their protection, and the other was to inspire morale. After all, it was considered the emperor's personal army. Now that the emperor is here, it should be cheerful.

But Zhang Gongri didn't feel happy at all, thinking that there was no way to read it like this. Long Sui Ye didn't know the rules here. The prince-consort was the one who led the army. He should know, so why didn't he persuade me?

But I didn't know that the one who really wanted to inspect the Jingying in Pukou was the prince consort himself.

It is said that the Beijing camp is not suitable for use. According to the examples of the three camps outside the city of Beijing, this is indeed the case. But when Shi Kefa led his troops to welcome the army two days ago, it was okay. So, what was going on is true, and he urged Chongzhen to do a review and understood everything.

On the school ground in Daying, there were ready-made platforms built for inspection. About 12,000 people were inspected. There were dozens of teams lined up on the school ground. When the emperor stepped onto the stage, he shouted long live the mountains. Although it was not completely neat, his momentum was still acceptable.

In addition to the one and two uncles who were in charge of Pukou Daying, there were also six ministers and officials sent by the six ministries to serve on duty in the class room, especially those officials, who were able to accompany Chongzhen to review the army by chance, which was a great success. It was really something that he could not even dare to imagine.

When you walk and walk, you will see the pros and cons. Most teams cannot walk neatly. If you walk closer, you will look closely at the clothes and weapons in your hands and you will see the dimness and incompleteness.

As for the soldiers' spirit, it's not bad, because Long Live is reviewing, so apart from being nervous, there is no such thing as being sloppy or dragging.

Some of them also went pretty well, especially the cavalry of the 3,000 battalions, which were better than infantry in terms of equipment, formation and spirit. Zhou Shixian thought that this was mostly due to selection, and putting the best soldiers on the horse and making them the so-called elite.

The last one came was a cannon cart, with a total of sixteen cannons, each driven by twelve soldiers. Seeing that the cannon body was smooth and brand new, at least it was well maintained.

He didn't recognize what kind of cannon this, so he turned his head to see Wei Donglai and Qi Sizhu who were watching from the bottom of the stage. Seeing that they were watching attentively, he nodded slightly.

After this session, there was no trouble. Longping Hou Zhang Gongri breathed a sigh of relief and walked to Chongzhen and gave a half-salute.

"Finally, we need to take the shooting test. Please live the show, should we look at the bow and arrow or musket?"

When Chongzhen saw now, he finally understood the huge gap between the ordinary Jing camp and the powerful brigade brought by the prince consort. He looked at Zhang Gongri, who was fat and big-eared, and suddenly remembered the joke that Zhou Shixian said at the dinner table yesterday, and almost laughed.

As for looking at bows and arrows or muskets... He signaled Zhou Shixian with his eyes.

"Zhang Hou," Zhou Shixian translated, "Long live, look at the musket."

Looking at the musket, ten soldiers from the Shenji Battalion fired at the ten targets set up on the other side of the school ground. The muskets were also used, with a distance of about seven or eight feet.

When the flag was waved, there were loud bangs and smoke from the gunpowder. Zhou Shixian, who was about to watch a joke, was surprised to find that he had hit eight targets.

This is very good. The whole game was not as unbearable as I imagined. Chongzhen ordered a reward, and gave a quota of 36,000 taels per person.

The chief officials did not dare to impose too much corruption in this kind of kindness that the emperor gave in person, so Zhou Shixian figured out two principles amid the cheers of the whole audience.

First, as long as you don’t have any noise and pay people well, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not say that they could not fight.

Second, there are people in the middle and right places. You can pick out a group of brave men from the Beijing Jingying. Now when you are in the Nanjing Jingying, the same is true.

I don’t want to have more, I only pick three thousand in Beijing with 60,000.
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