Wang Zhichen and Bi Zisu went out of the palace under the guidance of the cabinet ministers, and Sun Chengzong, who originally followed him out of the Qianqing Palace, sat quietly in his official room in the military aircraft department of the Wuying Palace for a while, and then returned to the Qianqing Gate to ask for an audience. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wang Chengen hurriedly reported to the emperor, and of course the emperor immediately ended his rest and summoned him to see him.

This time Sun Chengzong entered the palace, in addition to accompanying Wang Zhichen and Bi Zisu, of course, there was also a mess of things in charge of himself that needed to be reported. One is the recruitment of people within the jurisdiction of the Governor of Zhili, the other is the recruitment of new soldiers, and the other is the preparation of the martial arts.

Now that we are about to enter May, the spring ploughing that began in early March has of course been completed, and the area within the Beizhili area, including the Huangzhuang and confiscated eunuchs, as well as the land reclaimed since last winter, a total of 330,000 hectares of cultivated land, all of which have been cultivated, of which about half of the cultivated land has been planted with new crops, while the remaining cultivated land is still cultivated with wheat, sorghum, beans and other traditional northern grains.

Originally, some crops were to be sown in the autumn of the first year, at least before the winter, but unfortunately it was already November when the whole project was recruited, so although there were large tracts of arable land, they could only be barren in winter.

Now that it's spring, all that can be replanted has been replenished. In order to avoid some idle land, even if it was not yet time to cultivate potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, the Governor's Office of Zhili and Yang Yingqian's Juntun Division did not want to wait any longer, so they simply finished cultivating all of them.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't understand all of what Sun Chengzong said, he only knew that as long as the land was not left barren, no matter what crops were planted, it would be a good thing to plant them.

As for the recruitment of the new army, it has been half a month, and the thing that Sun Chengzong came to report today is the recruitment situation of the Zhuozhou New Army Reserve Battalion, and a total of 25,000 young men have been recruited, all of whom are really young and strong men over the age of 18 and under the age of 30.

After all, from November last year to April this spring, the imperial court spent millions of silver to feed these people, and each household was divided into ten acres of land, and regardless of the cost, they built shacks for each new tun household, gave seeds to farm tools, and several families could also share a ploughing cow, and now the land is planted with seeds, waiting for a few months to be harvested, and then sowing the second season.

In addition, the displaced people from all over the country who came to recruit for the cantonment were still coming in an endless stream from the east and west, and if they wanted to keep their newly divided land and jobs, of course, they had to actively respond to the orders of the Juntun Division and stand closely with the imperial court.

In particular, the emperor's new "Regulations on the Reward of Military Meritorious Achievements" formulated by the Ministry of War also made all the recruits excited.

First of all, being a soldier is no longer a hereditary replacement like the military households in the past, and those who have served in the army for five years can decide to stay or stay on their own, and those who are willing to continue to work will be given 10 acres of land for one more year, and those who are unwilling to work will be given severance pay and a one-time 10 acres of land to be properly resettled.

Moreover, during the three-month training period in the reserve camp of the New Army, not only was he responsible for food, clothing, and housing, but also had money and money, and in the end, if he could not choose, he could continue the training.

In this way, the displaced families who came from outside the mouth, outside the customs, and from the east and west to the south, all of them were enthusiastic to sign up.

Therefore, every new army recruiting station set up by Yang Yingqian in Zhuozhou, Fangshan, Liangxiang, Tongzhou, Gu'an, and other places quickly completed the task of recruitment, and the original plan was to recruit 20,000 people, but in the end he even had to recruit an additional 5,000 people.

At the same time, the same was true of Lu Xiangsheng's recruitment of troops in the three prefectures of Daimyo, Guangping, and Shunde, as well as the recruitment of troops by Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, on both sides of the canal.

Because for these poor and young people, as long as they are elected, the newly allocated arable land of the family will be completely their own, and they will be exempt from taxes from now on.

Such a prospect is naturally irresistible for homeless people or even displaced people who have no place to stand on the top and below.

Lu Xiangshengtianxiong's battalion recruited 6,000 soldiers, and was ready to eliminate 1,000 people in the first phase of training during the three-month period, while Yuan Keli also recruited 10,000 soldiers, and was ready to eliminate the weak and retain the strong after the first stage of training, and trained 3,000 governors and 5,000 Cao battalions.

After saying these things, Sun Chengzong focused on the preparations for the lecture hall.

Today, the Jiangwutang school building in Tongzhou has been completed under the priority supply of masonry and concrete, and two rows of blue brick and tile houses have been built on the three sides of the north building and the east and west houses.

The north house is far away from the south house, which has been completed and put into use, the difference is that the north house has two rows of houses, each row of ten, each building has ten rooms, some three rooms are open, and some are five rooms are open.

The rooms in the north house are specially used as a training place for the lecture hall, as well as a library, a room and other common places.

Behind the north house, between the first wall, a large area of open space was reserved for the future to be used as a shooting range for muskets, and the wider back valley was to be further built as a trial site for artillery training in the future.

In addition, the shape of the remaining East House is basically similar to that of the West House, each of which has two large rows of blue brick houses, 15 in each row, and 10 rooms in each row, which are basically two open rooms for four people to live in.

Of course, among the many rooms in the East and West Houses, there are also single dormitories reserved for military attachés above the guerrilla level.

The large space in the middle of the entire Jiangwutang site is reserved for various training places for horses, infantry, and engineering, and at present, of course, it is mainly a place for training physical fitness queues and cold weapon phalanx formations.

As for the instructors and lecturers who taught the horses, infantry, artillery, and engineering subjects of Wutang, they were all in place now, including Qin Yiming, Qin Liangyu's nephew who came to Beijing from the front line of counterinsurgency in the southwest.

The new army drill code that had been prepared before had also been revised and finalized. At the same time, for the martial arts hall, the most important first batch of students are also on the way to report to Tongzhou from all directions.

Today, Sun Chengzong, as the general minister of the lecture hall, reported these circumstances to the emperor in order to ask the emperor to set the date of the opening ceremony of the lecture hall. At the same time, it is also necessary to set the date of the martial arts examination that was not arranged before as soon as possible.

Because the affairs of the imperial court are busy, after the affairs of the martial arts were generally decided, they have been busy dealing with other things, and now, they are finally almost ready, and the list of martial artists recommended by the capital departments of the three provinces of the two capitals has also been reported to the Ministry of War and the Military Aircraft Department in recent days, and the time for the martial arts examination is certain, and these martial artists should enter Beijing to participate in the martial arts examination.

After listening to Sun Chengzong's report, Emperor Chongzhen was quite satisfied with the progress of various affairs, and immediately followed Sun Chengzong's suggestion to set the first day of the first phase of the martial arts hall on the first day of June, and the time of the martial arts examination was set on the first day of the seventh month.

After these things were decided, Sun Chengzong of course hurried out of the palace to make arrangements, analyzed them in detail, and decomposed and deployed specific officials to the military department and the martial arts hall.

The 25,000 young men and women who have been recruited by the Zhuozhou battalion can only carry out physical training in advance in accordance with the emperor's "New Army Drill Code and Infantry Chapter", and at the same time, through physical training, eliminate one-fifth, and reduce the number to about 20,000 as soon as possible, after all, if there are more than 5,000 people, there will be 5,000 more mouths to eat and military uniforms to wear.

For the future of the new army, of course, Emperor Chongzhen has repeatedly considered that it is necessary not only to be new in weapons and equipment, but also in the composition of the new army, and at the same time, it is also necessary to have military regulations and military discipline, and new new army logos such as clothes and hats, so that the new soldiers and soldiers should have a sense of belonging to the new army group, and also let the new soldiers have a sense of pride in being a member of the new army.

The reserve camp of the new army in Zhuozhou was completed as scheduled, and it was divided into five relatively independent, interconnected, and connected gossip formations in the front and back, and each camp was built into rows and rows, one by one, with nine rooms in each building, and the interior was opened, and the walls were all covered with a large kang.

Each building has nine large kang houses into a platoon, three rows for a team, three teams for a sentry, five outposts for a battalion, three battalions for a standard, and five standards for a town.

Now the 25,000 young men who have been newly recruited are naturally organized into a seriously overstaffed town.

The five battalions are divided into five reserve targets of the New Army, and the reserve troops of each target in the front, rear, left and right are currently 5,000 men.

In such a large reserve battalion of the new army, if the reserve soldiers participating in the training complete the training and are successfully selected for the new army, they will be paid two taels of silver per month.

Even so, plus the food, clothing, and housing of these people, it costs 50,000 taels of silver every month. Coupled with the civil engineering construction of the reserve battalion of the Zhuozhou New Army in the early stage, nearly 500,000 taels of silver were invested in it, and now not a decent soldier has been trained. Sun Chengzong, who was recently appointed by the emperor as the minister of the new army, was really a little anxious.