In Fengjiazhuang, which is less than ten miles away from Longhua Town, due south of Zhengtai County, a group of people looked at the soldiers of the Tang New Army outside Zhuangzi with sad faces.

"Steward Lin, I'm afraid it won't be good this time, what should we do?" A middle-aged man said to an old man with white hair beside him.

After the old man heard his words, he didn't speak, but continued to look at the soldiers of the Tang New Army outside the city, and after a while, he snorted coldly: "Damn!" ”

"The appetite of these pseudo-Tang thief armies is getting bigger and bigger, they have already come to collect grain before, but they didn't expect that in less than a month, they said that they would pay some autumn tax, and it was such a high heavy tax!" When the old man said this, he suddenly raised his voice: "What kind of family is our Feng family, looking at the entire Xingquan Mansion, it is also the top three, our Feng family's grange, how can we pay such taxes!" ”

"This Zhuangzi is located in Zhengtai County, and Zhengtai County has been controlled by the puppet Tang thief army, some time ago, in order to help the lord keep this Zhuangzi, the old man has swallowed his anger and took the initiative to donate a batch of food, but these puppet Tang thieves are still not satisfied, we have to pay this land tax, if we pay, what face do we have to explain to the lord!"

When this old man spoke, he looked a little sad and angry!

Since last year, they Fengjiazhuang seemed to have been targeted by these pseudo-Tang thief army, and they robbed it once last year, causing them to suffer heavy losses, and a large amount of grain that they had hoarded for a year was robbed.

After that, the principal of Fengjiazhuang changed one, began to build the wall, and also allocated a lot of weapons for the use of the strong men.

But in the first half of the summer harvest, these pseudo-Tang thieves came to Fengjiazhuang again, and after a battle, Zhuang Ding on Fengjiazhuang's side was undoubtedly defeated, and there were not many casualties, but a large amount of grain just harvested in the village was robbed again.

By more than a month ago, Zhengtai County had been completely controlled by the puppet Tang thief army, and their Fengjiazhuang was no exception.

And after seeing the strength of the puppet Tang thief army, these people in Fengjiazhuang had no intention of resisting at all, especially the tenants below, who simply ignored the requests of those stewards in Fengjiazhuang to bring weapons to protect the manor.

Why, among the many policies of the Tang New Army, many large landlords, gentry and the like are very disgusted, such as paying taxes? How could they, the big landowners and gentry, ever pay taxes? Now if the Tang Dynasty wants to collect taxes from them, it will naturally cause their dissatisfaction.

However, small and medium-sized landlords and ordinary peasants have maintained a welcoming attitude towards many policies of the Tang Dynasty, because many policies of the Tang Dynasty are beneficial to them, at least, all kinds of messy miscellaneous taxes have been abolished, and there are no officials who use various names to loot them, although the payment of land tax seems to be much more than before, but on the whole, their burden is reduced a lot.

In addition, it is very important that a large number of peasants' children began to join the Tang New Army, and inevitably, the families behind these soldiers will also have a sense of belonging to the Tang New Army, which does not come from how good the Tang Dynasty is, but simply because their sons are in the Tang New Army, and if their sons serve in the Ming Army, they will also have this sense of belonging to the Ming Army.

Not to mention other places, even if it is a tenant on the side of Fengjiazhuang, there are more than a dozen families with children who have joined the Tang New Army.

Now you want these families to resist the Datang New Army, isn't this fighting yourself, maybe there are your own sons in the Datang New Army outside.

In the end, the stewards in Fengjiazhuang only summoned fifty or sixty tenants to young and strong, plus Fengjiazhuang's own manpower, which was less than a hundred.

However, there were hundreds of soldiers of the Tang New Army outside Fengjiazhuang, they were wearing brightly colored and even ugly military uniforms, and an officer led by him was riding on a tall horse, and this officer was dressed even more strangely.

Yes, that's right, after the military uniform of the Datang New Army was formulated and subordinated, it made people in the outside world feel very ugly, this ugliness does not mean that the style is ugly, in fact, the military uniform style of the Datang New Army is not much different from the Ming Army opposite.

According to the military uniform regulations of the Datang New Army, the overall style of its military uniform still follows the pattern of tops and pants and the right side of the jacket that have been used for thousands of years.

However, the details vary according to the branch of the military and the rank.

The musketeers, with blue shirts, red trousers, soap-colored cloth shoes, and wide-brimmed bowler hats, were designed to meet the requirements of modern armies.

Based on the same considerations, spearmen, archers, and sword and shield bearers used the same style and color, although they were of different classes.

However, there will be differences in details between different classes, such as the red pants on the musketeers and artillery, which are pure red, but the spearmen, archers, sword and shield men, and other troops that are destined to be eliminated in Li Xuan's heart, add a black border on both sides of the red pants.

The cavalry is even more special, the cavalry will be issued with an additional pair of long leather boots, and the material of the military uniform will be better.

The officers' uniforms were different, with longer hems and metal buttons made of copper, and dark blue uniforms, long leather boots, but an additional black cape to protect against the wind.

The color is conspicuous, easy to recognize, and uniform dress, this is the most basic and core requirements of the modern army for military uniforms, as for whether it looks good or not, well, this is naturally very important, but it is not important to say that it is not important.

And whether it looks good or not is a personal subjective feeling, some people think it looks good, and some people think it's ugly

For example, Li Xuan himself often wears the modern general's dress, many people think it is ugly, but Li Xuan himself feels extremely handsome, so that whenever Li Xuan leads the army to battle, he wears the same as the warlord leaders of later generations, well, it is just a pair of leather shoes that can brighten the eyes of blind people.

But it was also strange, at the beginning, every time Fang Dongquan and the others saw the clothes on Li Xuan's body, they would inadvertently show some strange smiles.

But after watching Li Xuan wear it for a long time, they will slowly get used to it, and they will no longer secretly look at Li Xuan with strange eyes.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Li Xuan usually wears Confucian clothes, and Li Xuan still wears Confucian clothes in daily dress, and military uniforms are generally worn when leading the army to battle.

As for the military uniforms of the soldiers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, in Li Xuan's opinion, they are also ugly, if they are according to his own ideas, he can directly copy the military uniform styles of later generations, where can he use this kind of modern army uniforms rich in traditional Chinese characteristics, the style and color are ugly to death.

But it's still that sentence, whether it looks good or not is just a subjective feeling, and when the Datang New Army sweeps the world one day, this military uniform with blue clothes and red pants will definitely impress people and be praised by people.

If there were still people who thought it was not good-looking at that time, it must be envy, jealousy and hatred!

Well, that's right, it's definitely envy, jealousy, hatred!

The style of the military uniforms of the Datang New Army has been set for a long time, but it was not until the last half a month that it began to be equipped on a large scale, because in recent times, the Datang New Army has obtained a sufficient number of fabrics to make military uniforms.

The last time Old Man Sun came over, in addition to bringing a lot of military strategic materials, such as iron, copper, sulfur, saltpeter, etc., there were also a large number of daily necessities.

These daily necessities include cloth, salt, and other messy things.

Once these cloths were accepted, they began to make military uniforms together with the Datang New Army collecting fabrics from other sources.

Most of these military uniforms were sewn by the villagers in Xikou Village and the surrounding areas, and soon these military uniforms were made one after another, and the troops were dressed in order, and the first to change clothes was naturally the absolute main force in the Datang New Army: the First Infantry Battalion!

The second is the first mixed battalion, the second mixed battalion, and then several infantry battalions and other troops, will also be changed in the follow-up, the whole process will not last too long, in the next month, the 3,800 soldiers of the Datang New Army will be able to wear a unified new uniform.

However, due to the tight supply of military uniforms, soldiers are only issued one set of military uniforms for the time being, except for the officers, who will be allotted two sets.

Although it is inconvenient to change and wear only one set of military uniforms, there is no way to do it, although the Tang Dynasty cannot get so much cloth in a short time.

There are nearly 4,000 people, and two sets of military uniforms are needed for one person, and the Tang Dynasty cannot supply them in a short time.

At this moment, the people in Fengjiazhuang were looking at the pseudo-Tang thief soldiers who were dressed strangely outside, and at first the old man was in charge of things in a very tough tone, closing the door of the village and refusing to open it.

But as an officer of the Tang New Army riding a horse outside, he stepped forward and shouted: "If you don't open the door again, don't blame the official for being polite!" ”

As soon as these words came out, many people in Fengjiazhuang were weak in their legs and feet, most of them had fought with the puppet Tang thief army, and they knew deeply how powerful these puppet Tang thief army were.

When the old man heard this, he didn't know what to say for a while, and just wanted to speak in a tough tone, but the person next to him just pulled him: "Steward Lin!" ”

The faces of the others were full of fear, which meant that it was obvious, don't talk nonsense, if the pseudo-Tang thief army really came in, everyone would be finished.

Steward Lin looked at the other people next to him, all of them had fear on their faces, and many of them had already quietly retreated.

After a long time, I could only sigh: "Open the door!" ”

Saying this, his whole person seemed to have lost his life, and opening the door meant submission, how should he explain to the lord of the city in the future.

But it didn't take a few days for Steward Lin to feel lucky, and he was afraid for a while, because he heard that in the past few days, those pseudo-Tang thieves have gone everywhere, almost all over Zhengtai County, and they are extremely cruel, and a total of six large households who resolutely refuse to pay the tax on the acres of land have been copied.

One of the big families even organized manpower to try to rely on the manor to resist stubbornly, and after being breached, dozens of people in the whole family and more than 100 people who resisted were killed and injured on the spot.

This fully reveals the determination of the Tang Dynasty to implement a new tax system!

For those who dare to resist, the knives and guns of the Datang New Army will definitely not be polite!