Now the Chongzhen Emperor fully believes that as long as the new firearms can perform well in the war and play their original role, then these generals and military attachés of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not stick to the rules and stick to the tactical tactics such as spears, giant shields, bows and arrows in the past. Fastest updates

Because the establishment of the Ming Dynasty itself was based on the superiority of the firearms of the Han army over the cavalry of the Mongols.

Firearms were originally one of the traditional weapons and equipment in the Ming army.

It was only because of the lax supervision of firearms manufacturing in the late Ming Dynasty, which was not only expensive but also of inferior quality, and could not play a decisive role in the face of the Jianyu cavalry, all of which together made many border generals dare not rely on firearms in field battles.

However, since the first year of Chongzhen, the firearms products of the Armed Forces Institute, especially the introduction of new firearms marked by Chongzhen's first-type front-loading flintlock smoothbore gun and Chongzhen's first-type rear-loading smoothbore mother cannon, have changed the views of the guards and the generals of the nine-sided towns on firearms.

In the past, the musket that used to be like a chicken rib in the eyes of the generals of the Nine Sides has now become a weapon of victory for the generals of the towns of the Nine Sides to compete for equipment.

Including the thunderbolt bombs and fierce fire oil bombs produced by the Armament Institute, which were named grenades and incendiary bombs by Emperor Chongzhen, these two firearms have also become the most sought-after items for the generals of the nine towns to ask the border guard governor's office to provide equipment.

It's just that now the focus of Emperor Chongzhen's army building has always been on the Guards Governor's Mansion and the Navy Governor's Mansion.

Moreover, the production capacity and output of these new firearms have not been improved.

Therefore, by the end of the third year of Chongzhen, in the armies of the towns on the nine sides, except for a small number of battalion heads that had received special attention from Emperor Chongzhen, they had obtained firearms and equipment produced by the Armament Institute, and a large number of border troops were still ordnance and equipment that were matched with cold weapons and old firearms in the past.

So where did the annual output of nearly 20,000 new muskets of the Armament Institute go?

Among them, the highest priority, of course, is the royal imperial camp Shenji battalion and the pro-army three guards.

In addition, the second priority is now the Four Towns Guard.

Before the generals of the towns on the nine sides were fully trusted by Emperor Chongzhen, especially before Emperor Chongzhen ordered the imitation of the second-generation new muskets, that is, the linear rifled guns, and before the Shenji Battalion, the three guards of the pro-army and the guards were equipped in large quantities, it was impossible for the armies of the towns on the nine sides to be equipped with new firearms in large quantities.

For this, Emperor Chongzhen has never said it clearly.

However, since the establishment of the Armament Academy, the allocation and distribution of all ordnance, ammunition and weapons and equipment produced by the Armament Institute has always been controlled by the Military Aircraft Department, and the decision was made by Emperor Chongzhen himself.

Therefore, for Emperor Chongzhen's intentions, whether it is Sun Yuanhua, who is directly in charge of the Military Arsenal, or the current Shangshu Nan Juyi of the Ministry of War, and the governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, they all know it.

However, Emperor Chongzhen has never been short of military salaries and rewards for the towns on the nine sides before and after the New Year's Festival.

This time it was the same, the salaries of a total of 400,000 soldiers in the towns of the nine borders accounted for the vast majority of Chongzhen's reward for the fourth year of Zhengdan.

Although Emperor Chongzhen had the intention of increasing the weight of the reward, in view of the fact that there were so many real or false soldiers in the towns of the nine sides, he hesitated to come and go, but still accepted the suggestion of the military department Shangshu Nan Juyi, and continued to reward each soldier according to the standard of ten silver yuan in the past.

The towns on the nine sides are on the same standard as the Shenji Battalion, the Three Guards of the Pro-Army and the Guards, so naturally they are not worried that they feel unfair.

Even so, just like that, all of a sudden, the emperor's internal affairs office and the household department of the imperial court still need to take out 4.8 million Chongzhen silver yuan.

If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court had been strictly opening up the sea for trade in recent years, the tariff revenue of the Ministry of Household Affairs from the north and south of the government had increased year by year, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had also made a wide range of financial resources through some monopoly trade, it would have been a nerve-wracking thing to reward so many silver dollars at one time.

Fortunately, the situation is different today.

Not only is the World Bank gradually absorbing private deposits, but also in the past three years of Chongzhen, the proportion of silver in each Chongzhen silver dollar has also been gradually adjusted from eighty percent at the beginning, and has dropped to seven percent and five percent now.

Of course, the subtle changes in this are top secrets that only a few people such as Emperor Chongzhen and Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, have mastered.

Not all of today's cabinet ministers know the truth.

This also means that the 10 million Chongzhen silver dollars that circulate after rolling are one tael, and the sterling silver required is only ten thousand taels of Qibaiwu.

Compared with the original expenditure of 10 million taels, the household department of the imperial court and the emperor's internal affairs office can save 2.5 million taels of pure silver.

This is the purpose of Emperor Chongzhen's insistence on casting silver yuan to replace the circulation of Jinhua silver and Kuping silver in the household department.

Including the establishment of the Huangming Jingshi Bank, it also saved the storage, transshipment and expenditure of silver in various parts of the Ming Dynasty for the imperial court, saving I don't know how much fire consumption that originally seemed to be a bottomless pit.

If Emperor Chongzhen hadn't done this, then the financial situation of the imperial court would have collapsed long ago, as it did in history.

Because Emperor Chongzhen relied on the silver copied from his family, no matter how much he could, he couldn't bear the huge expenditure of the military salaries of the nine sides and the clan's fortune over the years!

Speaking of which, the Forbidden City Emperor's Palace Grand Court Meeting in Chongzhen's fourth year did not have any sensational major policies announced.

Except for the expansion and adjustment of the administrative area covered by the imperial examination, everything else was unremarkable.

Therefore, as soon as the court meeting ended, Emperor Chongzhen relaxed and accompanied the concubines of the harem to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.

And the ministers of the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites, except for those who took turns to be on duty in the palace, also closed their seals and rested.

Of course, the ministers and officials of the Imperial Court were not allowed to rest because they had to receive and arrange the life of envoys from the vassal and foreign Mongolian tribes and the Fan State in Beijing.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the ministers and officials of the Imperial Court, the envoy of the Imperial Court of Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying, the deputy envoys of the left and right Jiang Yueguang, Dolzidarhan and others, were ordered to accompany the envoy of the Governor's Office of San Lorenzo of the Dutch East India Company, the envoy of the Governor's Office of San Lorenzo of the Dutch East India Company, the envoy of the Portuguese Governor's Mansion of Salem, and the envoy Dechen Paye from the Tunghu Dynasty of Burma, and the envoys of the old monk Gui Bo Xuanfang, who came from the Tsushima Domain to congratulate him again, to the camp of the Guards in Luhewan, Tongzhou. Watch the opening ceremony of the first town of the Guards Army presided over by Ma Shilong, the Governor of the Left Governor's Mansion.

For the Korean, Ryukyu, Annan and Northern Dynasties Mo, as well as the so-called envoys from the outer tribes of Saiwai Mongolia, they already have an understanding of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, especially the situation of the Imperial Ming Guard.

For example, after the third year of Chongzhen's Zhengdan Dynasty, the younger king of Joseon, Ayawara Maharaja Li, the current second prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and Mo Jingwan, the son of the Mo family of the Anbei Dynasty, stayed in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the more he felt that the small country behind him was not worth mentioning in front of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the young heirs of the Karaqin Tribe, the Kulun Tribe, and the Duolun Tribe, they have long understood how wise their fathers' choices were.

Chen Gebatu and others, after living in the Daming Jingshi for a long time, not only did they speak in the Beijing accent more and more slippery than the other, but they also got used to all kinds of luxuries and conveniences in the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the Daming Jingshi.

If they are allowed to return to the Saibei grassland at this time, I am afraid that these people will not be used to and adapt.

And Chen Gelbatu and other princes from the Mongolian tribes outside the border have long stopped treating themselves as outsiders.

Except for the traditional robes worn during the court to show the submission of foreign vassals, at other times, those who were in the lecture hall were all dressed in the military uniforms of the Ming Guards, and those in the pedestrian division of the Li Fan Yuan were all dressed in the official uniforms of the low-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty.

During the usual rest period, one by one dressed in the common crown clothes of the people of the Ming Jingshi, lingering in the major restaurants, tea shops and fireworks willow alleys in Tongzhou or Beijing, and they looked like the children of the rich families of the Daming Jingshi, and they could not see that they were from the fierce Outer Mongolian tribes.