Unlike other people's belief in what "the book is decided", Zhu Mingzhong never believed in the so-called "book of surrender", and in history, it was those prefectures and counties that "decided by the passenger", after Zheng Chenggong's defeat, they desperately attacked the reality of Zheng Jun, which made him always skeptical of his loyalty to those people.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong attaches more importance to actual control, and this kind of control is to send troops to garrison, only in this way can the local government stabilize the local area and avoid the backlash of local officials when the situation collapses. Although the strength of the loyal army was limited, it did not prevent him from sending thousands of men and horses to Jiading.

After settling down many matters in Jiading, when leaving Jiading, Zhu Mingzhong reorganized the thousands of people in the city, and selected 2,000 young people to bring back to Changzhou, so that the strength of the loyal army was not reduced because of the garrison, but even expanded to more than 15,000 people.

After traveling all the way back to Changzhou, Zhu Mingzhong first held a meeting with Li Ziyuan and others for more than an hour, and then had time to have a good talk with the people he invited from Xujiawan at the risk of risk.

When looking at Xu Youzheng, who was talking eloquently in front of him, Zhu Mingzhong only had four words left in his mind.

The sage is in the wild!

“…… The first raw material of the casting gun, since the apocalypse, the domestic casting cannon is often made of scrap iron as raw material, although the scrap iron is cheap, but among the scrap iron, there are many miscellaneous pieces, used for casting cannons, natural advantages and disadvantages, therefore, after the ancestral hometown of the family, the casting cannon has to carefully select the best iron sand, so that the iron can be smelted well, the material is good, and the iron will never be cast by a hundred refining parties! ”

Although he is only in his twenties, and does not have the slightest experience in making artillery, it does not prevent Xu Youzheng from talking eloquently in front of Zhu Mingzhong, after all, since he was a child, he often read the books left by his grandfather, "Wu Beizhi", "Fire Attack Strategy", "Soldier Record", "Western Law Divine Machine" and "Artifact Spectrum" and other dozens of books about the manufacture and use of Western firearms. A very important reason for this is the high-quality cast iron cannon made of low-phosphorus Swedish iron used by the British Navy. This kind of high-quality low-phosphorus iron is also available in China, but the iron ore is in Benxi, Benxi Special Steel, a special steel enterprise that provides steel for cannon barrels and tubes for the Chinese army, navy and air force hundreds of years later, is located in Benxi, because of the unique local low-phosphorus iron ore, in the world, only Sweden's low-phosphorus iron ore can be compared.

However, it is a pity that Benxi is in the northeast, and at least until the defeat of the Manchus, it is impossible for Zhu Mingzhong to get the high-quality iron ore casting artillery there. However, the current problem is that the problem of having and not having must be solved first, and of course, the more important thing is the training of gunners, after all, the first batch of gunners in Chinese history was trained by Xu Guangqi.

"Zishu, in fact, with the current situation, the matter of casting cannons is still in a hurry, just preparing materials, how many days can it be completed? I don't know if the sub-tree knows how to the cannon? There are still 12 Hongyi cannons in Zhu's army, but unfortunately the gunners are inferior and they don't know how to operate the artillery, so Zhu hopes that Zishu can personally train a group of artillery officers and schools, so that the role of Hongyi artillery can be brought into play......"

Of course, what Zhu Mingzhong hoped for was not simply training gunners, he hoped to set up a training class to train artillery officers, and even if he could, set up a battalion school to train officers of good quality.

The current loyal and righteous army seems to be strong and strong, grenades and bayonets, and it seems to be full of lethality, it can be seen that Zhu Mingzhong, who has seen the army of later generations, knows very well that this army is only slightly stricter than the discipline of the ancient army, and in addition, the queue is okay.

Speaking of queues, the queues of the Huai army were also trained by foreign adventurers, and even the passwords were in English, although they played a very important role in the suppression of the Taiping army and the twist army, but they could not resist the attack of the modern army.

Training does not train officers, and training is in vain.

Zhu Mingzhong will not fail to learn the lessons of the Huai Army. There was no energy, no time, and no one in the past. But now this Xu Youzheng in front of him made him see the possibility, at least he could train artillery officers first.

Then anything can come step by step!

After all, there is no military school for training professional officers in the world, and artillery officers can be trained first, and as for ordinary army officers, a training system can be slowly explored. However, the technical requirements of artillery officers are higher, after all, artillery shooting is a technical job.

"But this matter, don't worry about it now, I look at it like this, Zishu, you first familiarize yourself with the army, and then formulate some teaching materials, and then I will select some soldiers to teach by you!"

"Listen to your orders!"

Since he has decided to join the army, Xu Youzheng will certainly not refuse Zhu Mingzhong's request, and from the records of his great-grandfather, he also knows the training of the first heavy gunner of the Hongyi cannon.

Later, Zhu Mingzhong and Xu Youzheng talked a lot. The main thing to talk about is the writings left behind by his great-grandfather Xu Guangqi when he was compiling and training the New Army, such as "Selecting and Practicing 100 Character Formulas," "Selecting and Practicing Rules," "Practicing Art Rules," "Shuwu Rules," "Form and Name Rules," "Strategies for Fire Attack," "Gunpowder Making Law," and other military works, which may have been compiled several decades ago, but they were the first batch of works in China that disseminated and adopted Western methods of military training and combat, and these were all needed by Zhu Mingzhong.

It wasn't until the husband knocked on the watch that Zhu Mingzhong realized that it was too late, so he apologized, asked him to rest, and then left Xu Youzheng's room.

It will already be the third watch, and the night will be deeper, and if I am not mistaken, this time should be twelve o'clock. Although it was already late at night, Zhu Mingzhong did not feel the slightest sleepiness, his brows were still locked, and he was thinking about another question repeatedly in his heart - officers.

How are officers trained in modern times?

He didn't know anything about this issue, after all, he had at most been exposed to military training in college, and as for the education of officers, it was simply blind, but even if he was blind, he knew that officers were the soul of the army, and the combat effectiveness of the army depended on whether the quality of the officers was excellent.

In the 19th century, or even in the 18th century, in the future, it would be possible to establish military academies in imitation of Western instructors to train officers. But it's the 17th century, and were there military schools in Europe in the 17th century?

"It's hard to do......"

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