After the end of the Jiangbei War, Jiangnan has been stable for nearly three years, and in these three years, Zhu Cihong's new army has grown from the initial 30,000 Japanese troops to 100,000, organized into Wuwei, Fengjie, and the forbidden army of the three towns of Japan.

Last year, Zhu Cihong personally met with Huang Degong, and after receiving Huang Degong's support, the Nanjing court began to control the Jiangbei soldiers and horses, reformed the military salary system, regained the right of the generals to collect taxes privately, and implemented the wheel system, intending to control the Jiangbei soldiers and horses.

In November of last year, Ma Degong and Tian Xiong, the Ming generals who guarded Lu'an and Jiangpu, were dissatisfied with the reform of the Nanjing Imperial Court, and the troops mutinied, and were defeated by Huang Degong and Wu Risheng, the commander of the Japanese army, and the two led the remnants of the army to the north to surrender to the Manchu Dynasty.

After the Ming Dynasty suppressed the rebellion of the Ming generals in Jiangbei, it gradually controlled the Jiangbei soldiers and horses, and organized the 150,000 soldiers and horses in Jiangbei into five towns to guard Yangzhou, Hefei and other places.

At this point, the Nanjing Imperial Court, which had been in the south for nearly five years, finally completed some changes, from a person who was hemiplegic after a stroke and could not command limbs at all, to a person who was a high paraplegic and could command two arms.

At this time, the number of soldiers and horses that Nanjing could control was close to 300,000, and the imperial court paid taxes from the initial annual income of 5 million taels, to 6.5 million taels after the Donglin Party was overthrown for commercial tax reform, and then to 8 million taels after the opening of Ningbo Port, and the annual increase in taxes was already 3 million taels.

Although eight million taels is less than the Zheng family's annual income, it is already a good result for the Nanjing Imperial Court.

It was precisely because of the improvement in finances that Nanjing was able to organize and train the forbidden army, and with the army directly under the central government, the local government could obey orders, and the Nanjing court gradually broke the original vicious circle and gradually regained the authority of the imperial court.

In the past five years, many changes have taken place in the Nanjing Imperial Court, and Zhu Cihong has also grown into a young man of nearly 20 years old, and his inner ambition has also grown rapidly with age, looking forward to one day sweeping the world and recovering his ancestors.

In the fifth year of the founding of the chapter, in September, on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, more than 3,000 forbidden troops and more than 1,000 sailors conducted drills.

At this time, Zhu Cihong and many officials of the Ming Dynasty stood on the school review platform, and saw the three thousand Ming troops on the shore of Xuanwu Lake in formation, with flags fluttering and spears standing in a forest, which was magnificent.

"Your Majesty! Here we go! Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the military department, said.

Zhu Cihong followed the prestige and saw that the ten lucky boats on the lake, under the training of the officers and men of the naval division, changed their formation, and aimed their side guns at a target ship during the movement.

The side side of the "Bang Bang Bang" naval division warship opened fire one after another, the muzzle of the gun spewed out a cloud of white smoke, the entire hull of the ship retreated with the gun, slightly vibrating, and the calm Xuanwu Lake also seemed to tremble, and the sound was roaring, which could be heard for ten miles.

These warships are the No. 2 fortune boats, nine zhang long, tall, two masts, three cabins, with a red-clothed cannon, six thousand pound Buddha machines, three bowls, twenty thunderbolts, and all kinds of firearms, bows and arrows and other weapons, is the main force of the Ming army sailors on the river.

Zhu Cihong looked intently, the lake was filled with smoke, covering the naval warship, and the cannonballs fired by the warship splashed a column of water several feet high around the target ship, and the iron bullet hit the target ship, and the boat instantly turned into a fast driftwood, floating on the surface of the lake.

Zhu Cihong bowed slightly, and his face showed excitement, "With this water master, no one can think of crossing the Yangtze River!" ”

Seeing that the target ship was smashed by the sailors, the officials present also showed excitement. Although this is not a war, it is also more uplifting to watch.

"Your Majesty, the Ma Army and the Infantry Army are going to conduct a drill!"

On the school field, 3,000 forbidden soldiers wore fiery red mandarin duck battle robes, holding self-generated fire guns in their hands, 1,000 fire guns lined up in a horizontal formation, full of energy, 1,000 spearmen lined up in a phalanx, the soldiers were tall and pine, and a thousand horse troops galloped on horseback, and the war horses were like dragons.

No matter what the combat strength of the three thousand forbidden troops is, just looking at the uniform armor and densely packed saucer helmets, they already look like an elite division.

On the school field, the formation drill was first carried out, with 3,000 soldiers cooperating, showing tactics such as cavalry outflanking, infantry raid, infantry and cavalry combined attack.

This was followed by individual drills for each class, with cavalry demonstrating steep slopes, crossing trenches, mounted archery, pikemen demonstrating formation thrusts, defending in place, and finally 1,000 self-generated firefighters.

In the past few years, the Ming army has not fought, but the Ming Dynasty has been paying attention to the battles between the Ming, Wei and Qing sides, and has analyzed each battle, and also knows that the Wei army has made some new weapons on the battlefield.

On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty sent fine works to the Western Wei Dynasty to spy on the other, and on the other hand, they contacted the Portuguese in Macao, and had already cast a number of self-generated fire guns and bronze cannons.

The Ming Dynasty had resources and craftsmen, and its contact with Xiyi was also more aspect, and the imitation of Western Wei weapons had run to the front of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At this time, a thousand of their own firecrackers practiced the volley of guns, imitating the Wei army to place the artillery on both wings, using the artillery to fire shells, the front line was filled with gunsmoke, shells, guns, plus a swarm of bees, hundreds of tigers rushing arrows, hands throwing thunder composed of firepower, enough to make any oncoming enemy frightened.

After watching the exercise, Zhu Cihong couldn't help but feel excited, and said to the ministers: "Since I crossed to the south, every time I think about the hard-won achievements of my ancestors, I feel that the people in the north are trapped in the dust, so I often sit up in the middle of the night and can't sleep at night. Watching the forbidden army drill today, I am very relieved, the recovery of rivers and mountains, the revitalization of the Ming Dynasty, is just around the corner! ”

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Nanjing, Miyagi, inside the Imperial Study.

After watching the exercise, Zhu Cihong returned to the palace, still excited in his heart, he was wearing a dragon robe, wearing a wing crown, pacing back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, not knowing how to vent the excitement in his heart.

At this time, he walked a few steps, and suddenly stopped, "Wang Qing, I am thinking of opening a port, setting up a city port to collect taxes, and the silver money obtained will be allocated to the Ministry of Industry to cast equipment, what do you think?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter still needs to be slowed down, and it can't be too irritating to the Zheng family, and it should wait for the imperial court sailor to have a certain strength before continuing to open!" Wang Yan saluted.

The ship of the Weaving Bureau was plundered when it went to sea, so that Wang Yan knew that there was a lot of resistance, and he was afraid of stimulating the Zheng family, and the Zheng family would not do a second rest, and directly let the pirates attack Ningbo, so he did not dare to make further temptations.

Zhu Cihong was a little unhappy when he heard this, but when his confidants and ministers said so, he didn't mention it anymore, but turned his head and asked, "Do you have anything to report today?" ”

Lu Zhenfei saluted: "Your Majesty, there is a matter of the minister, the Korean State secretly sent an envoy, arrived in Nanjing the day before yesterday, and was arranged by the Ministry of Rites in the post house, does Your Majesty want to meet you?" ”

"North Korean emissary?" Zhu Cihong raised his eyebrows, North Korea can be said to be the son of the Ming Dynasty, and his son came to see Lao Tzu, Zhu Cihong was surprised and surprised when he heard it, "What are they doing here?" ”

Lu Zhenfei said: "It is said that Jiannu forced North Korea to shave its hair and change clothes, and the North Korean people were excited and intended to oppose the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Zhu Cihong groaned slightly, and said: "This is a good thing, the Ministry of Rites will arrange it, and I will meet you tomorrow!" ”

"Command!" Lu Zhen flew and received the order.

At this time, Chen Zilong came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a report, there have been rumors in Nanjing recently, the Western Wei Dynasty will raise 300,000 troops to the east, I don't know if Jinyiwei told Your Majesty?" ”

Zhu Cihong frowned when he heard this, "The Qing family also knows about this ......"

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