Two days later.

The cleaned royal street was full of jubilation.

It's just that unlike the chaos of the Lantern Festival, at this time, all the people lined up on both sides, making way for the royal road that was cleared by a separation line in the middle.

And the cavalrymen in full plate armor on the royal road, riding all the horses of the same color, lined up neatly, controlled the rhythm of the march, and slowly moved forward with horses with pennants. The horses under their crotches were dressed in horse armor, all of which were polished plate armor, reflecting a cold light in the New Year's sun, looking like a group of fierce beasts of steel.

This is the guard of honor of the Brocade Guard Division.

But this is not a man.

Inside the plate armor, which is only one millimeter thick, is wrapped in a group of beauties with a height of one meter and seven.

As an empress, you still have to try to avoid suspicion in this regard, and you can't be the same as Mei Niang, so Her Majesty the Empress changed the honor guard from strong men to beautiful women, anyway, it's just an ornament, no one expects them to be really useful, and there is no difference between using female soldiers and male soldiers. As for the problem of these female soldiers having bad intentions and trying to seduce the protector, Her Majesty the Empress still put it aside first, as a traditional woman, she still prioritized her own reputation rather than men's hearts.

Besides, this kind of thing can't be prevented!

It's not just these honor guards in the palace that are women.

Thousands of palace maids are waiting, and Her Majesty the Empress doesn't have so much energy, so she can only say that there are more lice and no itching!

Behind the guard of honor were the palace ladies in costumes.

Surrounded by these palace maids, it was Her Majesty's open-top carriage, but at this time, Her Majesty was not wearing the purple dragon robe she was accustomed to, and her head was not a black gauze winged crown, but a silk robe and a red robe, and her head was also replaced with a leather band, and a twelve-seam leather robe......

Leather clothes.

The dress second only to the crown.

Her Majesty the Empress, dressed in a red leather bun, sat in the carriage, maintaining the majesty of the emperor, slowly moving forward without squinting, and people on both sides kept kneeling down to salute the Empress.

Although theoretically there is no need to bow down.

However, the Ming people's love for the empress still drove them to automatically kneel and kowtow to the young empress, but as she walked by, some people still saw something unusual, Her Majesty's belly seemed to be a little big! It's pregnant! But hasn't she only been married for less than two months? How did she become pregnant so quickly? Don't......

Shhhhh

Do you dare to talk about this kind of thing?

What is less than two months pregnant, can the child conceived by the empress be the same as ordinary people? Can't you grow faster than others? This is called innate disappearance, which is a normal manifestation of the emperor's appearance, and it is a sign that the empress's son has the emperor's order.

What an unmarried pregnancy is pure nonsense!

Of course, everyone knows the facts!

The protector and the empress have long lived in and lived, it is normal to get pregnant before marriage, and it is abnormal to get pregnant before marriage, and even those Yang Qing's cronies are all relieved......

After all, there is no queen of the protector so far.

This kind of thing will always make the younger brothers a little apprehensive.

It's good now!

The sky suddenly cleared!

Regardless of whether the empress is born male or female, it proves that the body of the protector is fine, and then as long as he works hard to create a man! The empress made it clear that she was ready to pass on her son, and her high posture at the Four Peoples Conference last time was just to clear the way for her son to succeed to the throne, so that the throne would definitely fall into the Yang family in the end.

Then these cronies went to rest with the country.

This is very important.

It can be said that Her Majesty's belly is the cornerstone of the stability of the Ming Dynasty, and it is precisely because of this that Yang Qing dared to leave Nanjing, and he was really not at ease before, because it was difficult for him to guarantee that his cronies would have different intentions. It is difficult to guarantee this without an heir, and there have been many examples of this, but Her Majesty's stomach has completely solved this problem, and he does not need to worry about the accident of a backyard fire after he leaves Nanjing, otherwise it cannot be truly guaranteed.

His cronies also have to think about the future.

Now he has given them a bright future.

Her Majesty the Empress held her belly that was just a little visible in one hand, and walked along the royal street with a reserved smile, showing the people on both sides the future of the Ming Empire.

Everywhere they passed, more and more people fell on their knees and bowed.

She arrived at the bronze statue of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty that was being cast, and then carefully stepped out of the carriage with the support of the palace maid, although the bronze statue has not yet been completed, but you still have to get off the car or dismount after passing here. Holding her belly, the empress showed her achievements in a clearer manner, walking past the bronze statue in the bow of workers on both sides, and then re-boarding the carriage through the Hongwu Gate. On the street leading from Hongwu Gate to Zhengyang Gate, there are also countless people who bow down, because this place does not belong to the imperial city, and even the envoys of Siyi have appeared, such as the Consul General of England, the Consul General of the Netherlands, and so on......

Of course, also vassals.

For example, Korea, Vietnam, and even Ryukyu and Siam are tribute envoys.

They are not the same as the European ones.

The latter were regarded as equal states, but these were regarded as vassals, but the Wa states were excluded from the ranks of vassal states, and regardless of the situation of these small states, they were indeed vassals to the Ming Dynasty, and even Sulu and the like were still marked as vassals on the map of the Ming Dynasty.

The Wa Kingdom is different.

Unless the Tokugawa family accepted the canonization of the Wa King and deposed the emperor, they were not eligible to be vassals.

Being a vassal of the Ming Dynasty is not a bad thing.

Because the customs tax of the merchant ships of the vassal states and foreign merchant ships is different, the tax of the Korean merchant ships with the best relationship is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, but the North Korea is directly exempt from taxes on the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, but the merchant ships of the Japanese State can only pay the same taxes as the European merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty. Because of this, many small countries in Nanyang that had paid tribute in the past have now resumed their tribute to the Ming Dynasty, after all, in their opinion, it is still very cost-effective to exchange some tribute for tax reductions, and they have signed clear vassal treaties with the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there are other things on the treaty.

Some things that they may not be able to understand at this time, such as extraterritoriality and so on.

In short, these small countries were automatically included in the subject status of the Ming Dynasty without suffering substantial losses, and became vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and received the official seal, crown and uniform rewarded by the Ming Emperor, which theoretically had the same treatment as North Korea.

As for the future......

They will know what the price is.

Becoming a vassal is a minister, and what Her Majesty needs them to do, just give an order, and if you dare to have an opinion, you will rebel.

If you rebel, you will be beaten!

Her Majesty continued on her way, and soon passed through the Zhengyang Gate in a prostration, and walked up to the Kuijiao Bridge in the middle, where there was a newly built truss pedestrian bridge on either side. Heavily armed Guards soldiers began to stretch ahead from the two pedestrian bridges, and under their protection, the Empress drove across the Outer Ring Road to her destination.

The Great Teaching Field.

Or rather, the garrison of the 1st Guards Army.

At this time, in this largest and most complete military camp in the Ming Dynasty, the First Guards Army has completed the formation and is waiting for Her Majesty the Empress.

This is the number one elite of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, the 1st Guards Army actually has a cavalry brigade, an assault infantry brigade, which is actually a vehicle-mounted infantry brigade, and there are also four line infantry brigades, an artillery brigade, plus the actual total strength of engineers and the like, which is 25,000 men. Three-pounder guns are no longer visible here, the smallest is also six-pounder, twelve-pounder guns are the main force, twelve-pounder mountain howitzers, twenty-pounder mortars are all there, and even began to be equipped with heavy siege rockets.

Not Congreve rockets.

The stability of that thing is too poor, and the possibility of blowing up oneself is greater than that of the enemy, but Yang Qing's technical level is not up to the Hale level.

So......

He is stable with a bullet wing.

If there is a Kasan rocket, why tie a wooden pole to the back? The stability of the four wings is definitely more than that of the wooden rod, and it is not enough to have four pieces in the front and rear like air-to-air missiles, the only problem is that the launcher needs to be improved, and the accuracy is still tragic......

Who expects its accuracy?

All Yang Qing wants is that it won't fly indiscriminately in the sky, or even fly to its own position.

This is a common problem of Congreve rockets, to put it bluntly, this is a big flower, a paper tube and a small stick when I was a child, who put up the flower when I was a child, who did not have the experience of flying out of the sky but flying diagonally or even drilling into the haystack next to it? The elastic wing is different, the elastic wing can at least ensure that it really flies forward, will not twist around in the sky, and finally twist on the gunpowder pile next to it, and this is already very successful, this thing is in Yang Qing's design is to bombard the city and cavalry clusters, and he didn't think about anything else at all.

If you really want to play with precision, you have to at least spin stability.

And that's significantly beyond his current technology.

The 25,000 men of the 1st Guards Army lined up in the Great Sect.

Four infantry brigades in the middle.

Each battalion was a small hollow phalanx, four battalions formed a large phalanx, all three columns of flintlock musketeers, but all facing forward, and the four large phalanxes formed a huge phalanx. On the left flank is the cavalry brigade of the army, but the number is less than that of the cavalry corps, in fact, there are more than 2,000 people in a brigade, but the brigade also has its own cavalry post, which is also mixed in the cavalry at the moment, so the total number of cavalry is still more than 3,000. On the right flank was the assault infantry brigade, with new chariots erecting walls and forming a long steel wall, with long thorns of anti-cavalry sticking outward, and flintlock musketeers waiting behind the walls.

This brigade was experimental in nature, and was not a real formation of the 1st Guards Army, but was only temporarily attached to the 1st Guards Army.

Assault infantry is to be formed in separate armies.

And in the short term, there is no need for such an infantry, they are to prepare for the future march to the grassland and the Western Regions, on the open grassland, without the protection of the car city, the infantry will be tired to death by the attack of the nomadic cavalry, but this does not affect Yang Qing to take them to the battlefield to test.

This is the army of the protectors.

At the front of the formation was a white Andalusian horse, and the royal husband and protector stood proudly, and even wore full-body plate armor and a red cloak to hunt in the wind......

(For the leader of the alliance, this book friend is really powerful.) ）()

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