After the Guangshiheng case, less than a month later, the new city has basically been built, and all plans are being implemented step by step.

In the past month or so, a lot has happened in Daming.

On 13 May, Yu Chongxiao, the commander-in-chief of Yansui, attacked Li Zicheng in Anding and was defeated and died.

On May 30, the Imperial Court exempted Gyeonggi from paying taxes that had been paid for five years.

On June 26, the chief military officer Xie Jinzhong pacified the thieves in Xichuan, and was killed by the thieves.

Zhu Cihong has no time to care so much, and his current affairs must be completely closed to the affairs of the displaced people.

Zhu Cihong first appointed Ren Guangyu as the magistrate of Xincheng, which was a difficult person, and he was very poorly mixed, otherwise he would not have become a homeless person.

The qualifications of a person to serve as a low-level official are merely qualifications, and in fact the possibility of holding them is very small. In the eyes of some high-ranking people, it is almost worthless, but for some small people in the market, it is high.

Because of his status as a lifter, and Ren Guangyu usually treats people calmly, does not put on a show, and often helps other homeless people, and soon mixes up a little reputation among homeless people. Zhu Cihong sent someone to investigate and compare, and felt that Ren Guangyu had a good character and was quite an official, so he appointed him as the magistrate of Xincheng.

When everything was stable in the new city, Zhu Cihong sent people to post a notice in the new city, announcing that some soldiers would be recruited from the young and strong to guard the new city, and those who performed well could also join the Yongwei battalion.

The camp outside the city is not far from the new city, and many people have seen the training of the Yongwei camp when they built the city, and this army has opened their eyes, and the treatment is the best in the Beijing camp, and many young people want to join.

Especially after knowing that the Yongwei Battalion was the pro-army of the crown prince who gave them a way to live, more people responded to the call and were willing to join the army.

Some people join the army, and Zhu Cihong of course welcomes them, but he does not refuse those who join the army. It stipulates that only men over the age of 15 and under the age of 35 are accepted, and there are also certain restrictions on the height, strength, and physical fitness of those who join the army.

In this way, many more people were eliminated, and the new battalion eventually included more than 15,000 people. There are more than 6,000 people who are under the appropriate age, but Zhu Cihong did not give up on other people who could not meet the requirements, and temporarily organized all of them into the civil army to be responsible for maintaining law and order in the new city.

Regarding the recruitment of troops, Zhu Cihong naturally got angry with Emperor Chongzhen first, and it was a big crime for the prince to recruit troops without permission, and he touched the emperor's red line.

Because Zhu Cihong was still young, Emperor Chongzhen was not so wary, and on the face of Tian Fu's matter, Chongzhen approved it at that time. But at the same time, he said that it was very difficult, after all, if there are soldiers, they need military salaries, and Chongzhen is now a poor bastard.

Zhu Cihong immediately said that you don't need to pay a copper plate for the money, and you can handle it with the people, and the ministers will handle it single-handedly, and it will not cost the state a penny.

Although I don't know what means the crown prince, the fortune boy, used to get the silver, as long as it doesn't cost money, Emperor Chongzhen naturally has no opinion, and he wishes that all the soldiers in the world don't want military salaries.

It's just that Emperor Chongzhen didn't know, he thought that Zhu Cihong was just recruiting thousands of soldiers to defend the city, but he didn't expect this kid to recruit tens of thousands of people.

Zhu Cihong readjusted the establishment of the Yongwei Battalion and the new battalion, and appointed Huang Degong to continue to be in charge of the Yongwei Battalion, with Lu Jiude as the supervisor. Sun Yingyuan was in charge of the new battalion, and Liu Yuanbin was appointed as the supervisor of the army.

Everyone knows the purpose of the imperial court to arrange the supervision of the army, although Zhu Cihong feels that it is unnecessary, he will not go to ask for the abolition of the supervision army, which is purely to make trouble for himself.

Zhu Cihong will not let these two prison soldiers have nothing to do, he redefined the responsibilities of the prison army, and will be responsible for the ideological guidance of the soldiers in the future, as well as the procurement of military materials and the distribution of military salaries.

In order to prevent officers from deducting military salaries, Zhu Cihong unified the distribution of military salaries to the supervising army, and the personnel in the army were fixed and the military salaries were fixed, and the phenomenon of deducting military salaries was basically eliminated.

Zhu Cihong divided the 15,000 recruits of the new battalion into four parts, musketeers, pikemen, cavalry, and artillery. And sent 1,500 veterans of the Brave Guard Battalion, each with ten recruits.

Originally, Zhu Cihong asked people to go to the Ministry of War to ask for some armor and weapons or something, but the Ministry of War said that the materials were difficult, so they could only separate 3,000 pairs of armor and weapons from the armor factory.

Zhu Cihong can also understand this, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is declining, and the military households and officers and soldiers in the local guard stations do not even have a decent armor, and the military department can squeeze out 3,000 pairs It is already in the face of his crown prince.

After the reorganization of the recruit corps was completed, Zhu Cihong immediately ordered the whole army to begin training.

According to Zhu Cihong's requirements, like the training of the Yongwei Battalion, he started with queue training, usually with push-ups, weight-bearing five kilometers of cross-country, etc., and only when the physical training was almost complete, did he practice military fighting skills and conduct tactical training.

Zhu Cihong believes that the combat ability of a group is more important than the individual combat ability of soldiers, and the mandarin duck formation of the Qi family army is a team of several people, both offensive and defensive, and they fight in coordination. In large-scale battles, the team can be used as a unit, whether it is offensive or defensive, like an iron bucket.

These recruits have changed from homeless people to soldiers, and they have trained such strange things, the most important thing is that they are very tired every day, and many people feel that they can't bear it, so they start to play tricks, be lazy, and waste time.

For this situation, the veterans of the Yongwei Battalion are naturally familiar with the way, they are all people who have come over, and they can see it clearly at a glance, without saying a word, they will go up and be a stick.

"I still play with Lao Tzu, that's how Lao Tzu played, get up and continue to practice!"

"Just one by one, if you go to the battlefield, you will die!"

The veteran of the Yongwei Battalion scolded and beat him with a stick. Under the coercion of this violence, the situation has also improved a lot.

Seeing the reluctance one by one, Sun Yingyuan directly announced that anyone who could not complete the training every day would be deducted from one penny of military salary and beaten with ten military sticks, and it would be executed on the same day.

After this order was announced, the recruits were immediately submissive, and their monthly military salary was no more than two taels of silver, and if one penny was deducted every day, they would still be paid a month later.

Zhu Cihong suddenly thought that most of these recruits were originally simple peasants, and maybe they could do ideological work for them. Therefore, he arranged for some veterans who were a little older and had a high ideological consciousness to go and talk with the recruits and try to do some ideological work when they were resting after training.

At the beginning, it was all about some big truths, although many people could listen to it, but after a long time, they got tired of it, and there were some slippery recruits who were in a state of watching the play.

The so-called magic is one foot high, the road is one foot high, some veterans have been in the army for several years, they are all from the past, when the recruits are tired and bitter, they will tell the recruits: "A Tartar head is worth fifty taels of silver, do you want to earn?" ”

"Fifty taels?! Of course I want to earn it! "A lot of recruits are surging in their hearts, the head of the Tartar is really damn valuable, if you cut off your head, you will be sent it!

"If you want to make money, don't fuck it, practice your skills, and go to the battlefield to earn money!" These veterans took the opportunity to instigate: "We usually strictly urge you to train for your own good, if you want to survive on the battlefield, you have to rely on hard training in peacetime, if you want to become an official and make a fortune, you have to practice your skills and kill more Tartars!" ”

After the veterans did this "special" ideological work, the mood of the recruits gradually stabilized, and the initiative of training also greatly increased.

Although the training is a little hard, the soldiers' meals are not ambiguous at all, not to mention the veterans, and the recruits also have two large bowls of white rice, a vegetarian dish, and three taels of meat at noon.

These recruits were all homeless before, and on the way to the capital, they basically gnawed on the bark of trees, and they usually couldn't even eat a bowl of clean porridge. Now there is meat to eat every day, this is simply the life of an official, and many people have begun to get serious when they think of this.

The training enthusiasm of the recruits has gone up, but Zhu Cihong frowned, worrying about another matter.

Without equipment, it had a great impact on the tactical training later, musketeers needed guns, cavalry needed horses, and artillery needed artillery.

After thinking about it for a few days, Zhu Cihong transported all the firearms that were not of good quality before the Yongwei Battalion and used them to familiarize the recruits with and skillfully fill them.

Fortunately, the training time of firearm shooting does not take too long, and you can get started within a month, so Zhu Cihong is not in a hurry, and waits for the military battle bureau to produce slowly.

At present, the firearms produced by the Military War Bureau are given priority to equip the Yongwei Battalion, and the remaining firearms produced by the Yongwei Battalion are eliminated and the firearms produced by the Military War Bureau in the later period are equipped with the new battalion.

After the training of the infantry was solved, the cavalry and artillery were in difficulty, how could they train without war horses?

In this regard, Zhu Cihong can only find a way to find Cao Huachun to get some war horses from the Imperial Horse Supervisor, no matter how strong or weak he is, as long as he can ride.

Zhu Cihong didn't expect these recruits to be able to ride high-headed horses to gallop across the field in a short time, many of them had never even ridden a horse, as long as they could run on the horse and not fall off in the early stage.

As for artillery training, Zhu Cihong could only let them learn artillery theory first, then go to the artillery camp of the Yongwei battalion to observe, and finally pull a few small and medium-sized Franco machine guns for them to practice.

In addition to training recruits, Zhu Cihong also did not relax at all about the veterans of the Yongwei Battalion. Of course, the focus of veterans' training is no longer on the queue, and the main focus is on actual combat training in peacetime.

Every day, we will conduct training and carry out actual combat drills such as arranging formations, charging, rejecting horses, night battles, and ambushes.