But he said that Li Zicheng came out of the reclamation bureau, although he was a little depressed, but when he thought about what Gu Junen said to him in those years, everything is safe when he encounters, the so-called blessings and misfortunes depend on, and disasters and blessings rely on, who can say good things and bad things in this world.

Knowing this, Li Zicheng is also much more comfortable, but as a steward, how to appease the emotions of the thousands of people under his command is a headache for Li Zicheng, but fortunately, the Ministry of Reclamation recently issued a document to give an additional subsidy of 10,000 silver dollars to all farms in remote areas. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

For Li Zicheng, this 10,000 silver dollars may be the biggest reliance to convince his workers.

Of course, after coming out of the Reclamation Bureau, Li Zicheng had one more important thing to do, that is, to go to the border guards located on the twin islands to apply for ordnance.

The establishment of the Dongjiang Frontier Force is the same as that of the Guannai Patrol Army, except that the Dongjiang Frontier Army is more dispersed than the more concentrated patrol force in the Guannai.

This is also to implement the Ming Emperor Zhu Jian's decision, the soldiers go with the people!

Despite its name, the Border Guards on the twin islands have only one Border Guard and an armoury station.

However, Li Zicheng went to the border guards to collect weapons, but unlike the soldiers who followed the people in the past, the state farm, as an imperial institution, was different from the ordinary people who opened up the wasteland, and it originally had an institution to maintain internal security.

Generally, there are nearly 50 patrol officers on the 3,000-person state farm, which is of course the standard in the Kannai, and the patrol team has no firearms, only cold weapons and patrol batons.

In the face of the threat of reclamation, it is necessary to have an armed existence, after all, it is impossible for the army outside the gate to take care of so much.

Therefore, the Imperial Reclamation Department contacted the War Department and, with the emperor's consent, allowed the establishment of farm patrols on border farms outside the Guanxi to replace the border guards.

The patrol team of the farm along the border is based on the standard of 3,000 people and 200 people, and is trained according to the imperial army, and the generals sent by the border guards are trained in conduct, and in wartime, the generals are under the command of the sent generals.

The Twin Islands Armory Station supplies the entire Twin Islands Armament Area.

However, the Shuangdao Ordnance Institute does not produce its own ordnance, but regularly transports it from the Dengzhou Ordnance Factory through the Dengzhou Naval Division, and its purpose is naturally to prevent the secrets of firearms manufacturing from being leaked.

After all, in Liaodong, there are many spies in Houjin.

However, it was said that Li Zicheng led the workers to come to collect the ordnance with the certificate issued by the Border Defense Bureau, but he didn't even enter the door of the ordnance station, and was directly stopped outside the ordnance station by the guards outside the ordnance station.

"This brother, Li Zicheng, the manager of the Hanzhong Farm in Lower Shaanxi, came to receive the ordnance with a certificate from the Border Defense Bureau!"

As he spoke, Li Zicheng took out a silver dollar and handed it over.

The so-called stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling person, not to mention that the person who came also handed over some thoughts, but the guard did not take the silver dollar, but the words were much calmer.

"You can take the silver dollar, our rules, if the people from the inspectorate find out, forget it, see that you are also in the customs to reclaim the wasteland, it is not easy, I might as well tell you, today, you really can't get this ordnance."

Regarding what the guard said, Li Zicheng could hear what the guard said was the truth, but what he didn't understand was that a huge ordnance station couldn't even send out the ordnance of 200 people.

"This brother, when he first arrived, asked annoyingly, why can't he get this weapon today?"

When Li Zicheng asked, the guards were snorting, and with the gesture of the guards, Li Zicheng noticed that there were some soldiers wearing khaki military uniforms and big-brimmed hats in the iron fence, and there were 100 people carrying ordnance into the carriage.

But there were ten carts.

"What are these?"

"These, that's not something you immigration officers can afford to mess with, this is someone from the Dongjiang Jing Navy!"

However, it is said that the Dongjiang Jing Navy mentioned by the guards is a new army formed by Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, in Jinshanwei, and although it was formed by Yuan Keli, the source of military expenses for the Jing Navy is three-tenths of the funds of the Jinshan Salt Tax Bureau and one-tenth of the income of the Tianjin Steamship Bureau.

The Jinshan Salt Tax Bureau is directly under the Imperial Taxation Bureau, and the Tianjin Steamship Bureau is subordinate to the Imperial Bureau of Agriculture and Industry and Commerce, which means that the funding source of the Jing Navy is directly controlled by the Empire, so anyone with a discerning eye can see who this army of only 10,000 people belongs to?

Because it has the support of two powerful imperial institutions, it can be said that the Jing Navy is a very 'golden' army, and this army recruits mostly displaced people who have lost their homes in Liaodong and hungry people in Guannai who came to reclaim the famine, so it can be said that the combat effectiveness of this army is quite strong.

Chongzhen three years, October.

Just three months after the formation of this army, in the battle between the empire and the Houjin for Gaizhou, it was the Jing Navy that took the Gaizhou city garrisoned by the Houjin with 3,000 troops, and the Houjin troops stationed in the city at that time were as many as 6,000 people. Of course, this cannot rule out the factor of the advanced firearms of the Jing Navy, because after all, there is a separate artillery battalion in the Jing Navy, that is, it has an artillery strength of 500 people, equipped with 10 red-coated guns, 20 mortar guns, and more than 100 large and small guns.

Therefore, the Jing Navy has also become the leader of the Dongjiang armies.

Of course, Li Zicheng naturally didn't know anything about the Jing Navy, but from the words of the guard, Li Zicheng could hear what kind of status the Jing Navy had in the Dongjiang River.

In fact, the Dongjiang Jing Navy is not as invincible as the legend, and the Jing Navy has an excellent reputation among the common people, and it can be said that it is the faithful executor of the empire's 'Three Disciplines and Seven Propositions'.

The reason why it behaves like this today is because of a new batch of ordnance from Dengzhou, which was specially approved by the emperor to the Dongjiang Jing Navy, and this batch of ordnance was directly produced by the Jingshi Arsenal, and the Dengzhou Arsenal did not have such technology at all.

Five-hundred-shot firing pistol, Empire number [Ming] type 001 firearm.

However, since the invention of thunder mercury in February of the third year of Chongzhen, through the efforts of Bi Maokang and others in the arsenal, the empire has developed the earliest bullet with a paper tube as a bullet case, which integrates the projectile, propellant and primer, and by the end of the third year of Chongzhen, it has developed a bullet wrapped in copper skin.

It can be said that a new page has been opened in the history of imperial ordnance!

However, due to the production process and other reasons, this rifle can only be produced in the Imperial Arsenal, which has relatively complete machine tools, and the output is not too high.

The first batch of more than 3,000 [Ming] rifles was produced, but 500 of them were transported to Liaodong to equip the Dongjiang Jing Navy, but it can be seen that Zhu Jian attached great importance to this army.