The time of an hour is fast up, and finally it is time to count.

The principle of this blind date is to be based on voluntariness, supplemented by marriage, and today's 200 people must be matched successfully today. In such an environment, the result can be imagined, and less than one-third of the palace maids fell in the first scene.

Zhu Youxiao said, "I will give you another cup of tea, you can discuss it yourself, and if there is anything left, then draw lots." Soon a hundred pairs were paired.

"Three days later, it will be the auspicious day of the zodiac, and you will marry your wives according to the red list." Wang Liqian posted the red list on the wall.

"I finally wish you all a hundred years of good union and eternal union! Don't let me down. Zhu Youxiao congratulated.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao wanted to hold a group wedding for everyone, but this idea was a bit ahead of its time, attracting fierce opposition from everyone, and Zhu Youxiao also realized that maybe even the families of these Longteng soldiers might not be willing, and finally he had to give up this idea.

……

Although today's incident made Zhu Youxiao a little unsatisfied, Zhu Youxiao was still very happy.

The next day, Zhu Youxiao summoned Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chuanting.

"I decided to expand the Longteng Army and the Beggars Army to 100,000 people, 50,000 people each, with ten divisions under their jurisdiction, and the officers were promoted from the original Longteng Army." Zhu Youxiao said. He wanted this kind of army to be completely loyal to him, and even the officers were promoted from within the new army.

"If you recruit 100,000 new troops, you will need millions of taels of silver dollars every year for food and salary." Sun Chuanting said. Now Sun Chuanting is still very young, only twenty-eight years old, which is the age of enthusiasm.

"I will find a way to deal with the problem of food and salary, as long as this army can meet my requirements." Zhu Youxiao said.

"The ministers will never live up to His Majesty's drag." The two said in unison.

"After the New Year, officers of the Forces nouvelles will undergo three months of study and training at the Imperial Army Academy and the Imperial Artillery Academy, respectively. They must understand that their grades at the academy will affect their promotion in the future. Zhu Youxiao said.

The Imperial Army Academy was set up in Shuntianfu, and the Imperial Artillery Academy was set up in Baodingfu. When Zhu Youxiao came, there was no Hebei Province, most of Hebei was attributed to Beizhili, he deliberately re-established Hebei Province in order to rectify the nine sides in the future, and the current governor was Zuo Guangdou, and Baoding Mansion was re-zoned back to Hebei.

"No."

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The news that Zhu Youxiao was going to send all the officers to study immediately spread throughout the entire Longteng Army, hearing this news, the officers of the Longteng Army reacted differently, Chen Si was very happy when he heard the news, studying has always been what he wanted to do the most, if it wasn't for the poverty of his family, he would definitely go to participate in the imperial examination.

And Xiong Anwen is another negative example, he hates reading from the heart, and now he has relied on his military merits, and is about to be transferred to the begging army, and he is about to be promoted to a thousand generals, in his consciousness, as long as there are military merits.

And Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chuanting are preparing to recruit new troops. The Longteng Army is composed of eunuchs and ordinary soldiers, the casualties of the eunuchs this time are nearly 2,000 people, originally Xiong Tingbi originally suggested that this group of eunuchs be garrisoned in the inner palace, but was rejected by Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao was afraid that once the palace developed the habit of using eunuchs to garrison the inner palace, it would always be used to garrison the eunuchs in the inner palace in the future.

The reason why Xiong Tingbi was willing to accept eunuchs in the past was that he thought that Zhu Youxiao wanted to train eunuchs for the inner palace, but seeing that Zhu Youxiao was slow to recall eunuchs, he was not very willing to accept eunuchs in the army now, mainly because these people were from the palace, and he was afraid that if they were not handled well, it would cause dissatisfaction among some people in the palace.

The final result was that Zhu Youxiao simply sent all this group of eunuch soldiers to the Dongchang and the Anti-Smuggling Bureau. Now both the East Factory and the Anti-Smuggling Bureau need manpower, especially the East Factory lacks such strong manpower.

And Sun Chuanting's beggar army is mainly composed of city foxes, snakes and rats, and after this period of Sun Chuanting's hellish training, he now has a certain combat power.

At this time, Zhang Guoji had also returned to Beijing. In the past year, Zhang Guoji has made a lot of money in the sales volume of the southwest region. Since the outbreak of the Battle of Mubang, the superior performance of cement has been recognized by the government and the army, and it has been in short supply in the southwest region. However, due to the impact of news blockage, the sales potential of cement in other regions has not yet fully exploded.

"Your Majesty, now the sales volume in the southwest of the light has earned hundreds of thousands of taels, and it is still in short supply, and it is expected that more cement workshops will need to be built next year." Zhang Guoji said excitedly.

"Tai Kangbo, I asked for a propaganda campaign on cement in the "Daming Imperial Daily", so that the whole empire would know about cement." Zhu Youxiao thought differently from Zhang Guoji.

"The "Daming Imperial Daily" is now very influential in the whole country, and doing a publicity in the "Daming Imperial Daily" can indeed make cement a household name." Zhang Guoji agreed.

"Advertising in the Ming Imperial Daily requires money." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Need money?! Isn't the "Ming Imperial Daily" His Majesty's? Zhang Guoji said in surprise.

As soon as Zhang Guoji spoke, he felt as if he had said something wrong, and he immediately said apologetically: "Your Majesty, the minister didn't mean this, but how much does it cost?" ”

"The "Ming Imperial Daily" is indeed me, but business belongs to business, and favors belong to favors, and advertising in the newspaper will definitely cost money, and the cost is not low, it takes 100,000 two or three months." Zhu Youxiao said.

"One hundred thousand taels?! This ......" Zhang Guoji was really speechless, not to mention the high price, and the time was only three months.

"After advertising in the newspapers, I believe that the sales of cement throughout the empire will definitely increase several times compared to what it is now, and the profits will reach millions of taels of silver dollars a year." Zhu Youxiao explained.

"Your Majesty, now the sales volume in the southwest of the light is already in short supply, and now if the sales volume doubles several times, it will not be able to supply, so it is better to do this advertisement in another two years." Zhang Guoji proposed.

"I can't wait, I've already figured out how to solve the sales problem." Zhu Youxiao said.

"How to fix it?" Zhang Guoji asked curiously.

"When the ad is done, you'll understand." Zhu Youxiao said mysteriously.

……

Zhu Youxiao's purpose is to make the "Ming Imperial Daily" profitable, at least self-financing. "Daming Imperial Daily" is still losing money, and the more it sells, the more it loses. This is really against the laws of economics. As a person from the afterlife, Zhu Youxiao couldn't bear it.