In October of the first year of Chongzhen, the thing that deserves the joy of Emperor Chongzhen is not only the famous grassland beauty in history becoming his concubine, but also the military victory that has occurred in Dongjiang Town and the Saibei grassland since September. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There are many things that deserve the emperor's happiness now, one is that the first batch of students of the Emperor Ming Zhongyi Lecture Martial Arts Hall has reached the time of graduation.

After three months of intensive training, the 150 students of the first phase of the lecture martial arts hall have not made great progress by leaps and bounds in their personal martial arts, managing the army and leading troops, and commanding operations, or they have made any qualitative improvements, but at least they have a new understanding of Huayi's distinction and national identity.

In addition, the mastery of the New Army's drill code, whether it is the basic principles contained in it or the actual organization and training, has performed very well.

On the third day of the emperor's acceptance of Hai Lanzhu into the palace, that is, on October 15, Emperor Chongzhen once again rushed to Tongzhou with the ministers of military aircraft and personally attended the graduation parade of the first batch of students of the Emperor's Loyal and Righteous Lecture Hall.

Emperor Chongzhen was very satisfied with the collective performance of the 150 students of the four sections of cavalry, infantry, chariot artillery, and engineer in the Wutang.

In particular, the highlight of the parade parade, compared with the neatness and uniformity of the parade at the end of the university military training in later generations, can be said to be more than equal, completely exceeding Emperor Chongzhen's initial expectations.

At noon on the same day, after watching the graduation parade of the students of the lecture hall, Emperor Chongzhen also took three ministers of military aircraft to have a dinner with the graduated students.

In the afternoon of the same day, the lecture hall held a graduation ceremony for the first batch of students, and Emperor Chongzhen himself issued graduation certificates to the graduating students one by one.

The graduation certificate is made of specially customized thick rice paper, made in accordance with a unified format, signed by the military department waiter, Jiangwutang Siye Mao Yuanyi, and then handed over to the chief military minister for examination and signature, rolled into a roll, placed in a tin cylinder, which looks solemn and precious.

The first batch of trainees of the Lecture Hall who have completed their studies are now waiting to be assigned to the newly built Tongzhou New Army camp, and the first town of the New Army will be declared established when all the training and assessment of the new army in Zhuozhou are completed.

This was the first thing that made the current Emperor Chongzhen very happy, and in addition, there was a second one, that is, the successful trial production of the royal four-wheeled carriage.

A simple front-wheel steering device, as well as the body shock absorption device, naturally difficult for the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Engineering Department.

More than three months have passed since the beginning of June when he took the emperor's special carriage to Tongzhou to attend the opening ceremony of the lecture hall, and the development of the front wheel steering device of the four-wheeled carriage has also been handed over to the Ministry of Industry and the Taifu Temple for more than three months.

Because Emperor Chongzhen had clearly told the officials of Taifu Temple about the defects of the imperial chariot, and described to them in detail the approximate functions of the front wheel steering device and the body shock absorber device, the skilled craftsmen of the Taifu Temple and the Ministry of Industry soon joined hands with Western missionaries Yang Mano, Julius and others to find a solution to the problem of front wheel steering.

After the officials of Taifu Temple reported to Emperor Chongzhen, the emperor soon ordered a trial production, and made clear regulations on the shape of the royal four-wheeled carriage.

Today's royal four-wheeled carriage is no longer as large and bulky as the emperor's special chariot in the past.

At the graduation ceremony of the lecture hall this time, the reason why Emperor Chongzhen was able to leave the palace and go to Tongzhou in the morning and return to the palace in the afternoon was because of the new type of royal four-wheeled carriage.

With a few new-type four-wheeled carriages, hundreds of guards from the Gongwei Division and the Imperial Front Division, and 1,000 soldiers from the Shenji Battalion equipped with Chongzhen's front-loading flintlock smoothbore muskets, the current Chongzhen Emperor can take a trip around Gyeonggi at any time.

Of course, although today's four-wheeled carriages are small and lightweight, and the steering is much more flexible, but because the problem of shock absorption has not been solved, and there are no rubber tires for later generations, so the bumpy road back and forth, and the relatively long-distance performance, will still make people feel very tired.

But compared with the past, now the emperor travels back and forth between Tongzhou and Jingshi, at least he can go back and forth on the same day, and at the same time, it will not have much impact on the streets of Jingshi and Tongzhou, and this is also a reason why the cabinet and military ministers agree that the emperor will go back and forth to Tongzhou once again to lecture on martial arts.

Since the first year of Chongzhen entered October, there are many things that make Emperor Chongzhen happy inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, such as the bumper harvest in the first year of Tuntian, the land of Gyeonggi, such as the successful construction of Yizhou City in western Liaoxi with the addition of eight fortresses, and the great success of Ma Maocai in Ganquanyu Tuntian, Yan'an, and the discovery of an oil artesian well on both sides of the Yanchuan River, etc., all make the current Chongzhen Emperor feel sincerely happy.

As early as the time when Ban Gu wrote the Book of Han, oil had already been discovered in the river valley area of the Yanchang area of northern Shaanxi.

It is recorded in the Hanshu Geographical Chronicles of Bangu that the Gaonu of Shangjun has water and is combustible. And the so-called Shangjun Gaonu County in the Han Book is the later Yan'an.

Regardless of the Western Han Dynasty or the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were no artificial exploitation conditions at that time, so this so-called "Weishui" was completely a shallow oil field that flowed out of the crude oil under surface pressure.

This so-called "Weishui" has been spontaneously used by the people of the northwest region until the Northern Song Dynasty, when it was named "oil" by the scientist Shen Kuo.

Shen Kuo's naming of oil is also the origin of the word "oil" in Chinese.

Shen Kuo, a native of Hangzhou, was an official in Shaanxi, and once conducted a geographical investigation along the vicinity of the Yanchuan River, and found that on both sides of the Yanchuan River, there was a black viscous liquid seeping out of the sand and gravel by some rivers, which could be lit for lighting.

Since then, at least, oil has been consciously extracted and used.

Since the Northern Song Dynasty, the fierce fire oil tank that has repeatedly appeared in the war is a fire attack weapon made after simple processing by using the viscous and flammable characteristics of petroleum and not easy to extinguish.

Of course, in stark contrast to the relaxed and festive atmosphere in the Forbidden City, since late September, the Khan's palace in Shenyang, the capital of the Later Jin Kingdom, has been shrouded in a lingering layer of gloom and misery.

First of all, Amin and Azig sent troops together to conquer the defeat of the Ming army in Dongjiang Town, which made Huang Taiji, the Tiancong Khan of the Later Jin State, furious.

His anger was not because of the tragic death of the Twelve Bel Azig, nor because of the heavy losses suffered by the Red Banner, or even because of the betrayal of Liu Aita, the general soldier of Fuzhou and one of the Han people in Jianyu. For him, these three are not worth his anger.

Because the Twelve Bel Azig was originally not on good terms with Huang Taiji, and now he died in the Eastern Crusade, it eliminated a hidden worry in Huang Taiji's heart.

Therefore, when Huang Taiji received the news that the Eastern Crusade had failed, Azig had died tragically, and Amin had fled back with a detour with the army under the response of Buzhantai, he did not wait for Amin to return to Shenyang with the army, so he quickly appointed Gushan Ezhen Yuetuo, who was inlaid with the red flag, as the banner owner of the red flag.

Yue Tuo is not only the Gushan Ezhen with the red flag, but also the eldest son of the main banner of the Red Banner, that is, Huang Taiji's ally Dabeile Daishan.

Such an appointment was soon approved at a meeting held in the Dugong Hall in which the so-called four major bailes and five scholars participated.

Belle Yueto is not only the eldest son of Daishan, but more importantly, he is also a die-hard follower of Huang Taiji.

Therefore, as soon as Huang Taiji proposed this appointment, Dai Shan first agreed, and then the five ministers also agreed, only Mang Gurtai did not squeak.

Mang Gurtai did not squeak, not against it, but by acquiescence.

Although Mang Gurtai was dissatisfied with Huang Taiji's use of Yue Tuo to seize Azig's red flag, he did not want to stand up against it, because he also had a deep dislike with the Azig brothers, he also participated in the death of Abahai, the mother of the Azig brothers, and also took advantage of the young age of the Dolgon and Duoduo brothers to seize their cattle records.

And this incident made the three brothers Azig, Dolgon, and Dordor also full of resentment towards Mang Gurtai.

But Mang Gurtai didn't want to explicitly agree, after all, as Azig's two half-brothers, Dolgon and Duoduo, grew up, the brothers held the two of the Jurchen Eight Banners, Zhengbai and Inlaid White, and their strength should not be underestimated.

As for the losses suffered by the Red Banner, it can be supplemented by plundering the Koreans, Mongols, and Savage Jurchen tribes, and it is not the loss of the two Yellow Banners directly under Huang Taiji, so it is not worth his anger.

As for the defection of Liu Aita of the Han people and the general soldier of Fuzhou, although Huang Taiji felt a certain amount of doubt and disappointment in the strategy of surrendering and assimilating the Han people in Liaodong, Liu Aita's Fuzhou soldiers had low combat effectiveness, and there was nothing to feel sorry for if they lost.

What angered Huang Taiji, who prided himself on being eloquent, was that Amin and Azig had so many troops with blue flags and red flags that they had smashed up such an important event as the conquest of the Ming army under Mao Wenlong's command in Dongjiang Town.