In just five days, 2,000 of the 2,700 young recruits selected from the capital were finally left in the barracks to roughly complete the integration with the backbone of more than 500 veterans. Even those who can do better than those of the first batch of new battalion officers and soldiers at their peak, and even "eat and sleep", there is basically no big class or class difference among these recruits, except for some extremely few people who do have some martial arts foundation, most of them are from the lower classes of ordinary people with decent personalities.

However, compared with when Xiao Xuan was personally responsible for training the first batch of officers and soldiers of the new battalion as the head of the sect, because the first batch of more than 500 officers and soldiers of the new battalion were responsible for the management of each team, the burden on his body was not so heavy. For more than five days, the focus was on the more than 3,000 elite craftsmen who were selected from the Anmin Factory and even the Ministry of Industry. After about a day or so of screening and busyness, these people settled down in different categories.

These well-informed craftsmen, who are often above middle age, are indeed fundamentally different from those selected teenagers, although Xiao Xuan did not hide his identity as an emperor in front of these people. But these people feel deterred in front of themselves, and they have drawn out more than 100 people to personally conduct queue training to test down, as long as they don't put up the emperor's shelf for personal training, most of these people who have already started a family will never have the discipline of those young people, and some are even very smart and self-controlled, and they can be more fearful than those teenagers when they are there, but as long as they leave, let these people do at least eat and sleep and do not speak, it seems to be pure wishful thinking.

After weighing it repeatedly, Xiao Xuan finally felt that it would be better to give up the plan to let these people who were used to being "elders" and "masters" in the craftsmen on weekdays become the order to ban the army. At least for a short time, it is not appropriate to demand these people according to the standards of soldiers. However, because these well-informed adults, middle-aged people, and elderly people are more sensitive to the interests and even the interests of future generations than young people, Xiao Xuan still feels that he should talk to at least hundreds of backbones about them, and his attitude is not suitable for those teenagers.

After all, in this era, the concept of generation always exists in the bottom of my heart. Just like in the factory units in the system in the seventies and eighties after the founding of New China, if a leader reprimanded himself, no matter how high his status and position were, as long as he was obviously younger than himself, and if his attitude was too strict, the impression in people's hearts would be very bad. Why do you speak in the voice of an elder? Isn't it just a little bit of power in your hands? However, if the leader who is older than himself says something tough, people will have more acquiescence in their hearts.

Worried that his attitude was not idle enough to pay attention to and be honest, Xiao Xuan did not choose the mode of gathering people among these craftsmen and then giving lectures in the square, but spent a little more effort, dozens of influential craftsmen as a class, and instilled their own ideas in batches in the form of "small talk" during meals. I am afraid that only in this way can I make myself, the "new emperor of the younger generation", have the image of "corporal Lixian" in front of these craftsmen who have a certain status on weekdays.

"For most of the time since the founding of the country, I have really owed a lot to the real pillars of the country, that is, the craftsmen and military households in the world. Many of you are permanent craftsmen, and you don't have the extra money of those craftsmen in shifts, and you only support your family with one or two taels of silver every month. This money was barely able to survive during the Jiajing period a few generations ago, and over the years, it has really hurt you people. Since the establishment of the army, our Ming army has been defeated in successive battles outside the Guan, which is due to all kinds of shortcomings in the army, but the problem of the quality of weapons and armaments is also an important reason. But I know in my heart that these problems are not with you, the first is in my Ming system, and the second is in those moths who regard the country's various undertakings as cash cows. On the other hand, looking at the Jiannu outside the pass, I heard that their craftsmen there are like soldiers in all aspects, and they have a 24-step future. Making more qualified weapons is equivalent to combat feats. Now I assure you: as long as you can make more qualified weapons, and improve your skills. Each of you can refer to the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty and create a military merit that can fully arm a soldier to meet the needs of the highest level, the top grade is equivalent to the first level of beheading, and the regular product is equivalent to the first level of beheading. The reward is not only a few dozen taels of silver, but thirty acres of fertile land that can be passed down to the family, and it is also a good land given by the emperor. If you really don't have the ability to make high-quality products according to the requirements, you can only make ordinary products like my ordinary battle armor and gunpowder firearms, as long as you are not too slack, you can also stay in the barracks, and have the same military salary as the officers and soldiers. Most of the ordnance and equipment you have made are used to arm my own battalions with you. The current Ming Dynasty is worried about internal and external troubles. I don't plan to be a happy son in the deep palace, but Genghis Khan, or the general military camp son of the leader of Jiannu, until the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty are swept away. If you are not willing to share weal and woe with me, the new emperor, and the young officers and soldiers under me, I will never come to me. After all, many of you are now at the age of knowing your destiny, and everything can be similar to what you used to ... ”

Xiao Xuan didn't feel that there was anything excessive when he said this, and he was even worried that these "empty words" could not immediately change people's mentality in front of the "old fritters" in these systems.

However, when such words were first said when many craftsmen were excited to "dine with the Son of Heaven", Xiao Xuan saw that these middle-aged and even elderly craftsmen who were so tearful that they couldn't speak were not at all hypocritical.

"Long live the saint!"

"Holy Lord, this remnant of the little people must be...

。。。。。。

"Alas, don't call it a small people. From the first day you stepped into my guard camp, your identity is that of a soldier, and you are a noble soldier, unlike the soldiers of other armies of the Ming Dynasty, in the future, the children in the camp and you will use the gunpowder and firearms you have made with your own hands, and share the risks on the battle formation with me... Xiao Xuan also said solemnly to everyone at this time.

This kind of encouragement was carried out no less than ten times in a few days in order to more clearly confirm and dare to empathize with thousands of craftsmen.