After explaining to Bi Maokang about the transformation of the flintlock pistol, Zhu Youzhen went to watch the drill of the New Army.

Compared to the problematic manufacture of firearms, the training of the new army can be called excellent.

Lu Xiangsheng first commanded the 1,000 soldiers of the New Army to conduct a round of parade drills, and they were able to advance, stop, and turn with ease, and 1,000 people were like one person.

Zhu Youzhen, who has personally participated in military training, knows that these actions seem simple, but it is also very difficult to train 1,000 people to be the same person.

Unlike the higher level of education in later generations, these soldiers of the New Army did not even distinguish between left and right hands at first.

And even in the military training of college students in later generations, there are many people who can't distinguish between left and right and those who are on crutches.

Zhu Youzhen was very satisfied with being able to train these illiterate miners like this.

After the queue drill, it was time for the live-fire drill.

Since at this time, the flintlock pistol was still in the prototype stage, and it was impossible to equip the troops, so these new army soldiers still used arquebuses made by the Ministry of Engineering.

However, although these arquebuses were made by the Ministry of Industry, the quality was much better than usual, at least they would not explode.

To the beat of the drum of the "March of the Grenadiers," the soldiers of the New Army practiced with live ammunition such subjects as forward, stop, and live firing in three stages, as well as a rapid change of hollow phalanx, followed by shooting from all sides.

Overall, the effect is still good, and most of the soldiers have basically achieved the standard of one shot a minute.

"Not bad, not bad."

On the martial arts stage, Zhu Youzhen did not hesitate to praise him, especially the martial arts students who were compiled among the more than 1,000 soldiers, and he was very satisfied.

"Your Majesty, these Xiucai Gong are really extraordinary, these absenteeism can be practiced like this in three or four months, and the Xiucai Gong who serve as grassroots instructors is indispensable."

Lu Xiangsheng was very satisfied when he saw Zhu Youzhen, and he was also happy in his heart, and by the way, he also praised the martial arts students.

"Haha, that's natural, in our Generalissimo's Mansion, I don't need to talk about the importance of knowledge."

Zhu Youzhen emphasized the significance of education to Lu Xiangsheng and Bi Maokang more than once, and the sentence that knowledge is power was also brushed on the walls of the martial arts arena.

Moreover, in order to popularize cultural knowledge among the craftsmen and ordinary soldiers in the Generalissimo's palace, Zhu Youzhen also asked a hundred martial arts students to serve as instructors, regularly teaching them literacy and simple arithmetic.

"Your Majesty's foresight is beyond the reach of the minister, and now even the most ordinary soldiers can understand the flag, and their understanding of various orders is deeper than usual."

Zhu Youzhen nodded when he heard this.

Teaching soldiers to be literate and rational so that they can better understand and carry out the orders of the generals is only one aspect, and what is more important is to let them have thoughts, culture, and insight, and be able to establish the correct three views.

In the modernization of the feudal army, it is far from enough to rely only on advanced weapons, and the key to the modernization of the army lies in the modernization of ideology.

If an army is only modernized with weapons and the thinking of soldiers cannot keep up, then the improvement of combat effectiveness is just empty talk.

You don't see, the modern Manchu army held all kinds of new weapons, but fought one ridiculous defeat after another.

Zhu Youzhen, who was well aware of the history of the blood and tears of the Chinese nation in the late Manchu Qing Dynasty, naturally did not want the new army he had built up to become an old-style army with the most advanced weapons, fighting the most sloppy battles, embezzling and corrupting the common people.

Zhu Youzhen has also seen such an army in history, and if his thinking is not reformed, he will be blind if he does not provide any assistance.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen will not tell Lu Xiangsheng and Bi Maokang these words, after all, they are also in the ranks of transformation.

"Old Lu, how about pulling him out and him?"

Zhu Youzhen withdrew his gaze from the martial arts arena, turned his head and said to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has this intention, the soldiers don't go to the battlefield and don't see blood, they practice all the tricks, only when they see blood, then they can be considered an army."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, and he began to ask for help without falling.

"Well, that's what I thought, and that's it."

Zhu Youzhen smiled at the corner of his mouth, and reached out to pat Lu Xiangsheng's shoulder.

"Prepare well these days, there will be an order to arrive at the barracks in the near future, don't embarrass me when the time comes."

"The minister will not fail in his mission!"

Lu Xiangsheng said, asking for help on one knee.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, which way is the rebel in this attack?"

"Haha, this matter is still confidential, and after the Jinyiwei Intelligence Department finds out the details, the combat briefing will be sent to you."

Zhu Youzhen's face was unfathomable.

Eastern captivity, Northern Tartar, or Shaanxi civil uprising? Lu Xiangsheng was full of suspicions, but seeing that Zhu Youzhen did not mean to inform him in advance, he didn't dare to ask again, so he could only ask the order.

In fact, these imaginary enemies guessed by Lu Xiangsheng are not right, and this matter has to start from half a month ago.

On the morning of the same day, Zhu Youzhen had just finished presiding over the palace examination of Chunqiu, and was about to go back to make up for sleep, when he was stopped by Gao Qiqian in a hurry.

"What? A peasant uprising broke out in northern Shaanxi? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the Tang newspaper and was extremely sad.

Unlike the scholars of this era, Zhu Youzhen is a good young man in the 21st century, and his previous education has given him an understanding of the peasant uprising beyond this era.

This year, there was another great drought in northern Shaanxi, and the people were displaced, and the Baishui Liumin Wang Er and Chongguangdao waved their arms and led their troops to attack the official offices, grain stores, and large households, scattering grain and people, and soon gathered thousands of displaced people. ’

Zhu Youzhen looked at this secret report from Dongchang over and over again, and his fingers gradually became a ball.

"Pre-Imperial Meeting! Let the cabinet and the six Shangshu all come, as well as Liu Zongzhou, the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Palace, Hui Shiyang, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Luo Sigong, the commander of Jinyiwei, attended the meeting. ”

Zhu Youzhen viciously dropped a sentence and returned to the Qianqing Palace.

Since ascending the throne, although Zhu Youzhen cannot be called conscientious, he is worthy of the words "loving the people like a son".

Whether it was the flood in Shandong a year ago or the displaced people in the capital in winter, Zhu Youzhen allocated silver and grain for disaster relief and relief, and because the household department had no money, most of the money for disaster relief came from the internal funds.

No one's food can be lost without the food of the victims, because Zhu Youzhen knows that behind every grain of grain used for disaster relief is human life.

Take the current civil uprising in northern Shaanxi as an example, since Zhu Youzhen returned to Beijing, he received a report of the drought in northern Shaanxi.

The household department had no money, so Zhu Youzhen asked the household department to issue another 300,000 taels of treasury bonds, and used his own silver to provide disaster relief, and also ordered the counties in northern Shaanxi to open warehouses and release grain to relieve the victims as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, it had not been a month since the peasants in northern Shaanxi were forced to rebel.

And the Ming Dynasty in history was destroyed by a peasant uprising from northern Shaanxi, which made Zhu Youzhen feel afraid.

It has not been a year since Zhu Youzhen came to the Ming Dynasty, and various reforms have just begun, but the wheel of history seems to have inertia, and he refuses to stop his original steps.

'Can you really change the fate of Shenzhou Lu Shen? ’

Seeing this secret report, Zhu Youzhen unconsciously fell into self-doubt.