The cold war between the emperor and the empress finally ended, and on the afternoon before the first issue of the newspaper was issued, when Zhu Youxiao was thinking nonsense in his study, the Hakka family reported outside that Concubine Duan had arrived.

Zhu Youxiao walked out of the study, Concubine Duan greeted him with a deep blessing, and then took a food box from the palace maid's hand, put it on the table and said: "The emperor works hard day and night, and the concubine is afraid that she will hurt the dragon's body, so she specially made some small snacks from her hometown, I hope the emperor can like it." ”

Zhu Youxiao saw her when she chose a concubine last time, of course she is extremely beautiful, if it is fair to say that Concubine Duan and the princess are compared with Zhang Yan, they can only say that they are good at winning, Zhang Yan is better at charming, Concubine Duan is quite heroic, the princess is gentle and lovely, three delicate flowers, each with its own charm. Zhu Youxiao looked over today, Concubine Duan was still beautiful, but between her eyebrows, she was quite lonely.

Zhu Youxiao was a little unhappy in his heart, in fact, the Hakka family talked to him later, and he understood that Zhang Yan was actually right to do this, but he couldn't accept it emotionally for a while. But now that I see Duan, I have another idea in my heart. He kept reminding himself that he didn't come here to be a stallion, but he also knew that Concubine Duan and the princess were still his women after all, and he was their heaven, and he brought them into the palace, but he didn't care about them, how sad and frightened they should be, but the fourteen or fifteen-year-old little girl, this is actually the biggest injustice to them.

After thinking about it in his heart, he opened the food box, sandwiched a small snack, chewed it carefully and said: "I have been a little busy these days, and I have been slow to treat the two virtuous concubines, tonight I will go to the palace of the concubine and talk about life and ideals with the concubine." ”

Although Concubine Duan didn't understand what life and ideals were, when she heard that the emperor went to her palace at night, she was so happy that she didn't know what to say.

So Zhu Youxiao came to Concubine Duan's palace in the evening, and became a groom for the second time, which was much more skilled than the first time, but he asked her about the date of Tianqi as usual, and confirmed that he went to Wushan with him during the safe period.

The next afternoon, the princess sent her hometown snacks again, so Zhu Youxiao made the third groom in the evening.

On the third night, he came directly to Kunning Palace, looked at the face that had been separated by more than ten days but seemed to have been away for more than ten years, and could no longer hold back the thoughts in his heart, hugged her tightly in his arms, and never wanted to let go again.

From then on, he stayed in Zhang Yan's palace most of the nights, even if she was not in the safe period, he would sleep with her in his arms, and then go to the wombs of the other two concubines twice a month. The three women in the harem are favored and moistened by the emperor, they are in a good mood, and they are becoming more and more beautiful, and the three of them are harmonious, like sisters, and there is no palace fight drama of competing for favor or anything.

On May 28, the first year of the Apocalypse, the Liaodong Martyrs' Shrine was preliminarily completed. The shrine enshrines the soldiers who sacrificed for the country since the war in Liaodong, from the earliest Ningyuan general soldier Zhang Chengyin who died in the battle of Fushun, the thousand general Wang Mingyin, the general Wang Xuedao, Tang Keyshun and others, to the latest Liaoshen battle in Chen Ce, Qin Bangping and others, whether it is the general soldier or the small soldier, as long as they can know the name, they have set up the god card, on which the place of origin, official rank and name are written, according to the different battles of death and the temple is enshrined.

There is a long road outside the Martyrs' Shrine, there are some stone statues kneeling on both sides of the long road, a stone pillar is erected behind the stone statue, on which are written the official title, name, place of origin and the name of his father, from the guerrilla Li Yongfang in the battle of Fushun, Zhao Yihe of the Chinese army to Ma Chenglin in the battle of Liaoyang are among them. There are also large open spaces for those who surrender to the enemy or fear the enemy without fighting.

The Martyrs' Shrine is guarded by the brocade guards, and there are special sacrifices every day, and the people are allowed to go to worship on their own. Since the day it was built, a large number of people of all colors have gone to mourn the sages and scold the traitors every day. The Beijing camp also specially organized all battalions to go to the sacrifice collectively, and swore an oath in front of the main card of the martyr god, and finally concluded that "everything is for the Ming Dynasty, all for the emperor." And they saluted together.

It has been more than half a year since the Beijing battalion was restructured, and a total of six battalions of regular infantry, four battalions of cavalry, and two battalions of artillery have been obtained. Those who did not pick the regular soldiers were included in the baggage camp, so now there are 15,085 regular soldiers, 9,700 war horses, and more than 10,000 horses.

After such a long period of training, all the regular soldiers have already practiced the use of short guns and flintlock firearms. Since the Bureau of War had completed the manufacture of fifteen thousand flintlock flint guns with bayonets by the end of May, every regular soldier now had a new type of musket, and the cavalry was equipped with a saber in addition to the musket.

Military law is something that every soldier has to memorize, especially about the military law during the war, some changes have been made: the drum does not advance, the Ming Jin does not retreat, of course, it is chopping, and the main soldier must cut off the head during the war, retreat in wartime, a team retreats to cut the captain, the captain does not retreat and behead the whole team, the chaotic array is chopped, the sound of retreat in wartime must also be chopped, and the wartime pick-up must also be chopped, anyway, in a word, let you rush at you, let you retreat before you can retreat, otherwise chop! Chop! Chop!

All sorts of codes have been drawn up. The rules of the drill code are extremely detailed, such as how to apply medicine when encountering the enemy, how to fire at the command of the enemy, and even how to repair the fortifications and how to repair the toilet when camping. The soldier is most afraid of the military judge, and after making a mistake and being caught, although the general punishment is not severe, it is a very shameless thing to be punished for flushing the toilet.

Yang Guangkui is now in charge of the overall responsibility, mainly responsible for military training. During peacetime training, Lu Qin led four cavalry battalions, Yang Guanggao led three infantry battalions and one artillery battalion, and Zhou Yuji led another three infantry battalions and one artillery battalion. Now that the basic marksmanship training has been completed, each regular soldier still has a marksmanship training task every day. According to the results of combat training, half of the soldiers were awarded the Order of Assassination of the Second Degree, and all the officers were awarded the Order of the Second Degree.

In addition to this, the soldiers undergo rigorous queue training. When training, a little bit in front or behind others, the military judge's stick will hit him. Zhu Youxiao stipulated that only spanking could be done during corporal punishment in the army, so when training began, many people could only sleep on their stomachs. But the effect is also excellent.

When Zhu Youxiao went to inspect the queue, on the flat ground, the largest gap between a row of soldiers was less than half a foot, and when the complex terrain passed, it was only less than a foot. He is already very satisfied, as long as the formation is not affected during the battle, he thinks it is okay, it is really like the later generations to pull the ruler and pull the line to measure, but there is no need, he wants soldiers who can fight, not soldiers who want to act.

He once asked Zhou Yuji to let the soldiers rush into the river and fall down the steep slope when he shouted the import order, and then beat the hesitant soldiers violently, but during the review, a group of soldiers fell directly down the five-foot-high dirt slope when the front import order did not stop, without a slight pause in their footsteps, and immediately got up after falling and continued to move forward.