After the young recruits selected from the 1,000 school-age recruits were assigned to the battalions from the auxiliary battalion training office to the combat barracks according to the principle of "avoiding fellow villagers and troops as much as possible," the strength of the Guards increased considerably. The squad was expanded from 10 to 13 men, the squadron from 100 to about 140, the battalion from 5 or 600 to 7,800, and the fifth battalion from less than 3,000 officers and men to 3,800 volunteers or a full-fledged regiment similar to the Korean War. In order to allow these one-in-a-hundred recruits to integrate into the army as soon as possible, plus the discipline of these people is indeed stronger than ordinary soldiers. Therefore, after only five days of relatively strict discipline training, these people were integrated into the standard grass-roots units after they learned about the different living habits of this strict unit, instead of being integrated into the grass-roots level for several months of recruit company career as in later generations.

Of course, the purpose is also to prevent estrangement between officers and men of different batches who are too far apart. From its establishment to this time, it was only a month and a half and nearly two months or so, and it was neither long nor short. If it is delayed until three months, the squadron, that is, the company, will know each other even in a rather tense environment that is very different from the campus, so that the later people will always be a little different.

Not to mention the teenagers who have undergone a month and a half of training, it can be said that they have their own strengths and advantages in all aspects with these one-in-a-million soldiers, and if they reach three months later, maybe these "recruits" will not be outstanding in terms of skills and become veritable "junior soldiers", which will of course be some kind of hidden danger for the entire team.

Of course, the expansion of the soldier class will also bring some management pressure to the old group of officers and non-commissioned officers of about 500 people. However, Xiao Xuan felt that this should still be within the scope of the modern army. After all, before the development of technical arms such as artillery or aviation, the proportion of officers in purely infantry units was often less than one-fifth of the entire number of posts, and one-seventh or eighth-in was within the normal range.

Of course, from the perspective of controlling the troops and even facilitating operations, among the thousands of outstanding recruits, the 200 teenagers who were more prominent in archery and arrows were concentrated in the other battalions, and about 200 teenagers who were more prominent in the other battalions, were concentrated in the pro-guard battalion, which was already relatively prominent in combat effectiveness, and this made the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army's pro-guard battalion instantly increase a lot. Because at least more than half of the children in the entire team can shoot more than five buckets of war bows, and they also have good actual combat marksmanship. Xiao Xuan believed that if he was replaced with a relatively good and decent arrow and arrow in wartime, it would be difficult to say to the Jiannu soldiers with one person and two armors above the battle array, and it would also have the ability to threaten the barely passing armor of many border soldiers.

The level of the officers and men of the fifth battalion is slightly different, and there is not much difference in treatment and training in principle, so this round of personnel adjustment has not caused some of the things that Xiao Xuan was worried about in the expansion of the entire guard battalion.

However, when Xiao Xuan tried to conduct basic equestrian training for the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion, and expanded the scope of actual combat archery training from about 200 to 1,000 according to the original method and standard, and then roughly calculated together with the cost of tens of thousands of people in the Yongwei New Battalion, the cost actually reached the level of about 4,000 taels of silver a day. If the training is carried out according to this standard, the new army of about 10,000 people will eat up the more than 300,000 taels of silver obtained from Wei Zhongxian and others in less than three months, and it will take about half a year or more to nine months. When Xiao Xuan inquired about the price of rice in the capital at this time, it actually rose a lot during the time he ascended the throne. Milled rice is so expensive that at this time, like many border areas such as Zunhua, every one hundred and fifty catties is about one stone and two taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty. Although this is not as outrageous as Liaodong to the point where more than 5 million Liaoxiang can force the 27th Battalion and 110,000 Frontier Army battalions to engage in "Jiading Doctrine", Xiao Xuan also feels that some people in the capital are going against him by raising the price of grain in this way.

At this time, Xiao Xuan was silent for a long time, the team that was armed and trained according to the model of the modern army should be considered quite effective after half a year, especially when the strength and figure of these children were still growing. It stands to reason that it has the ability to use the new army of about 10,000 people to bare their teeth at some people in the capital next year.

But Xiao Xuan thought of the fact that Chongzhen had built a slave in the second year of the pass and went south. If you bare your teeth at outsiders and act against interest groups in the capital and even some other places when you have not yet shown your combat strength to match Houjin, will there be any unforeseen consequences?

According to Xiao Xuan's original idea, he planned to show the combat effectiveness of the Guards Battalion and the Yongwei Battalion when Jiannu entered the customs in the second year of Chongzhen, that is, two years later. If some forces in the capital or some in the Gyeonggi area were tired of the water at that time, there would be unforeseen risks.

Xiao Xuan was very suspicious that after a series of defeats in the north from the end of Wanli to the Apocalypse, after many people realized the combat effectiveness of the Manchurians, the idea of many people in the northern gentry class to defect to the enemy had already germinated. Not to mention the people, I am afraid that from Yuan Chonghuan to Mao Wenlong, there are more or less such suspicions, not to mention the vote of Shanxi Jin merchants. If because he didn't show the ability to resist Hou Jin, he made the situation into Nanming in advance, and he became a remnant of the peasant army in history, such as Li Dingguo and Hao Shaoqi, it would be quite bad.

Therefore, after weighing it again, Xiao Xuan finally decided not to move the cake of this somewhat decadent court and even most people in society for the time being, not to move many old relationships, and to respond to the tiredness of some people in the capital by more indirect means. If the opponent goes too far or intends to use "martial arts", he will carry out the necessary counterattack.

Thinking of this, Xiao Xuan still decided to talk to Pang Tianshou first. Because Xiao Xuan thought of the more than 2 million acres of imperial villages in Shuntian Mansion, Hejian Mansion, and Baoding Mansion. According to the rules, this is the one-third of an acre of land that has little interest with the civil officials or the clan and belongs to oneself. Of course, this involves the interests of some eunuch classes, including the interests of the imperial horse eunuchs who are responsible for these things. And the Imperial Horse Supervisor actually played a very important role in his ascension to the throne, Xiao Xuan did not want to retreat Pang Tianshou and others to his opposite.

Therefore, Xiao Xuan adjusted his original plan, and did not send someone to investigate and secretly visit first, and directly asked Pang Tianshou about some of the situation in the imperial village. Explaining the stakes, Xiao Xuan believes that if he can directly collect grain from the Huangzhuang, which is not too far away, or take advantage of the winter leisure to share some work, and rectify the Huangzhuang that may face many problems, there should be no wealth.