For the army, soldiers still have to have a certain amount of cultural knowledge, especially officers, otherwise the map cannot be understood, the orders of the superiors cannot be understood, and then there will be big problems, but now there are few literate people in the army.

He sighed again and said to Wang Tiqian: "The literate eunuchs in the inner study hall will find me two hundred, and then send them to the Beijing camp to teach those soldiers to read and write. Don't learn those complicated articles or anything, just simply know some commonly used words, within three months, at least 100 words, is this difficult? ”

Wang Tiqian thought that recognizing 100 words in three months is about equivalent to recognizing one word a day, and stupid pigs can't learn it. So he said with confidence: "Holy Lord, there is absolutely no difficulty. ”

A few days later, Jinyiwei's materials changed again, Zhang Yan seemed to be in a calmer mood, and often whispered with Xiaoqian, and Zhu Youxiao instructed to strengthen surveillance.

There was nothing to do today, so he asked someone to go to the military bureau to get some new-style flintlock pistols, and asked Wei Zhongxian to call Wang Tiqian to come to the Beijing camp together. As soon as he arrived at the door, Yang Guangkui led people to kneel in front of the door to greet him. After they got up, Zhu Youxiao said: "I have long had an idea, it is not possible to kneel in the army, first try it in the Beijing camp, and then implement it to the whole country, what do you think?" ”

Everyone is a military general, even if they see low-level civil officials, they have to kneel and bow, the emperor said so, of course they are willing. Lu Qin and Zhou Yuji had heard him say before, but now that it can finally be realized, they are also extremely excited.

Everyone came to the lobby, Zhu Youxiao demonstrated a hand-turning ceremony, in his previous life, he liked to watch Hong Kong dramas, and he liked the hand-turning ceremony that appeared in it very much.

"That's what it looks like, the subordinates see the superiors like this, and the same is true for the equals, Zhou Yuji, you first make a military etiquette regulation, and then issue it to the whole army, and the next time I come, all the military salutes are not allowed."

Everyone knelt down together again: "Obey the emperor's decree." ”

"Look at you, what I just said, you are not allowed to kneel and worship, next time you violate it, the military law will serve, now let's see how my Beijing soldiers are trained."

So out of the lobby together, a team of soldiers led by Yang Guangkui demonstrated the short spear stabbing method, and if you look closely, the short gun is completely different from the usual short gun, but it is similar to the flintlock firearm, but a spear head more than a foot long is added to the front. In his heart, he secretly praised Sun Yuanhua and Li Chaoqin, and the two knew what these short guns were used for, so they tried to make short guns in the shape of flintlock firearms with bayonets, so that the soldiers would not feel too much difference after changing weapons.

The soldiers were neatly dressed, but the guns were uneven, and there were people whispering in the team, Yang Guangkui was full of shame, Zhu Youxiao said: "It's none of your business, it's normal to be like this for only three days, you don't expect to become a fat man in one bite, but the military discipline is too poor, pull out those few speakers, and smoke fifty times." ”

Yang Guangkui's face was unbearable, but he could only let his own soldiers pull out the four small-talking soldiers, each of whom was whipped fifty whips to cry and cry for his mother, and then the other soldiers began to practice again, and it was obvious that the guns were much more neat than just now, and the pace was much more powerful.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him: "Ci is not in charge of the army, your current mentality is actually harming them, if you don't practice your skills now, what you will lose on the battlefield is their lives." Yang Guangkui bowed his head and said yes.

Then there was a demonstration by a team led by Zhou Yuji, and I saw that the soldiers were in good spirits, their feet were powerful, their guns were neatly distributed, and when they were stabbed, they were accompanied by a shout of "kill". Zhu Youxiao couldn't help applauding, everyone looked at the emperor, I don't know why, he noticed it, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and said: "Clap your hands to express your appreciation, this team of soldiers is doing well, I want to praise them, so I clap my hands to praise." When everyone heard this, they clapped their hands together, but the soldiers were confused.

After reviewing the two more groups of soldiers, the group returned to the hall.

Yang Guangkui asked: "Your Majesty, why don't you follow Qi Shuai's law, practice all kinds of weapons, and only practice short guns?" Moreover, this kind of short gun has a strange shape, and the soldiers are not very accustomed to it. ”

"The War Bureau has installed a bayonet on the musket, so that the musketeers no longer need the protection of the pikemen, and I want to train the Beijing camp into a pure firearms army, so that the offensive ability will be much stronger, but the defensive ability will be reduced, if the bayonet is used, this shortcoming will be filled."

At this time, the eunuch brought several flintlock pistols with bayonets from the War Bureau, and Sun Yuanhua also followed. Zhu Youxiao took the gun and showed it to the generals: "Because of the quality of the steel now, the number of flintlock pistols with bayonets is insufficient, so we can only replace them with short guns. Sun Langzhong, you came at the right time, you participated in the whole production process, and you can help them formulate the Musketeer Drill Code. ”

Sun Yuanhua has been named Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry, but he has been in the War Bureau, and he should not know which way the door of the Ministry of Industry opens. He replied: "Your Majesty, the problem of steel quality is almost over now, and it was only solved by Your Majesty's reminder that the ministers should use coke for smelting, and now the main thing is that the new furnace has just begun production, and the output is insufficient, so it should be possible to make 5,000 bayonets before the year, and 2,000 knives per month after the year." Wechen wrote a production and maintenance method in the War Bureau, which should be useful for formulating the drill code. ”

"Very good, the artillery I asked Xu Qing to buy from Macao should be about to arrive, Sun Langzhong, you see, how to cast, how to improve, how to use, there must be regulations to follow, and the regulations on use and repair can be used as a reference for the artillery drill code when the time comes."

Zhu You proofread and said: "Master, you are the head of the coach, responsible for the training of short guns, what kind of training should you get to short guns?" If you use a wooden man or a straw man as a target, you must let the soldiers shout and stab at each other, and there can be no deviation, so that they can barely pass. ”

Yang Guanggao said curiously: "Shouldn't we be the main ones who practice firearms?" Does assassination have to be practiced like this? Which thorn can only be regarded as barely qualified? ”

Zhu Youxiao was very strange that Yang Guanggao, an ancient, was more superstitious about the power of firearms than himself, a modern person. He smiled and said, "The meaning of this question is that my cousin thinks that firearms should have an advantage over knives and guns." I don't think so, the accuracy of the firebolt is not high in the first place, and this problem will slowly improve. And before the flintlock pistol did not greatly increase the rate of fire, firearms have great limitations, on the battlefield, the decisive role is still hand-to-hand combat, so you must practice the short gun, I will come to see you practice when I have time, I want to build a steel army with my own hands, I hope you can help me to train. ”

The generals saluted together: "Dare not die for Your Majesty!" ”