Huai'an at the end of May is also the same as the south of the Yangtze River, the heat is not enough, and there are golden wheat waves everywhere, under the morning breeze, churning and shaking, like a boundless ocean.

At that time, the wheat was mostly high poles, easy to lodging, coupled with water conservancy and manure, insect control are not in place, and there is no standard and consciousness for seed selection, so the yield is also very low, the average yield per mu of one mu, but two to three stones, rare four stones, the Jiangbei area, before the Yellow River seized the Huai into the sea, is also the land of standard fish and rice, but the people's hearts are more conservative, not like Jiangnan, after the opening of the sea in Longwan, it is mainly based on cash crops and manual production, so in the degree of wealth, it is gradually pulled down by Jiangnan.

Now the wheat stalk has been ripe, only the spire is still a little green, Huaishang everywhere, most of them have begun to swing the knife and sickle, but this year is different from previous years, at this time of year, a large number of grain merchants gather in Huaishang, and so that the people will collect the grain, they will be paid at a low price, so as to teach those poor mud legs to take money to pay taxes in emergencies.

This year is very different from previous years, taxes can be paid directly to grain, and the Generalissimo's Office of the Military and Political Department also issued a document that the government will set up a money bank to lend interest-free to help the people pay off their old debts, so that whether they pay taxes or owe previous debts, all the people can ignore them first and collect the grain with peace of mind.

With such virtue and politics, the entire Huaiyang region was full of eulogies, and the people's joy was also infected with the new army.

When the new army of the brigade came out to practice the morning run, the golden wheat waves on both sides of the road naturally gave these newly baked soldiers enough joy.

The wheat harvest is imminent, and it is rumored in the army that this year, in the Jiangbei area, silver will no longer be discounted, and the people will be able to pay the grain in kind according to the amount stipulated by the imperial court.

Moreover, there is no need to hand it over to the county, no longer have to look at the eyes of those big and small masters, and there is no need to hand over the hard-earned grain to those bastard grain merchants, and directly hand it over to the collection points set up by the Quartermaster Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion in various places, and the officials of the Quartermaster Department of the Xiang Army and the Quartermaster Department will check it clearly in person, and issue a license.

Moreover, the crown prince also said in his lecture that it is still a difficult time, and in the future, perhaps two or three years later, families with military children who serve the country, according to the performance of the sergeant, the higher the position in the army, the more taxes will be paid.

With this one alone, I don't know how many people are looking forward and longing for it!

The golden wheat waves in front of you contain how much information that is encouraging, joyful, and longing.................. After about twenty days of training, these soldiers finally understood what it was like to be a soldier under the stick.

When passing by large and small fields, running on the leveled land, although I only saw the stars and occasional farmers, but all of them straightened their waists, although they were sweating profusely, they still showed their majesty and heroic.

In Wang Yuan's words, the soldiers trained in the past 20 days, looking at the Ming Dynasty, have no opponents in terms of morale and military discipline.

What is missing is only the experience of fighting, the wisdom of the generals when facing the enemy, and the level of command.

In the past 20 days, with the help of military sticks, Zhu Cihong also used the method of cramming the army to build this army into what he wanted bit by bit.

The military posture of the queue is not good, and the military stick hits it.

Casual noise and laughter, military sticks.

The military appearance is not in order, and the military stick is taught a lesson after three reprimands.

Those who fail to meet the military tolerance at night are military sticks.

By the third day, no one in the new army had taken off their clothes and slept.

Even if you don't look good when you eat, you may be served with a military stick...... The devil knows, what kind of appearance is qualified when eating? All standards are nothing more than in the hands of large and small team officers, then battalion officers, and then a few generals like Hades.

Every day, there is a fixed time for commenting, and they sit around in teams, and then the head of the shed and the deputy head report to the sentinel in turn, and then make a decision on punishment on the spot...... It's just that it varies from the highest ten-army stick to the three-army stick...... There is no time when there is no time when you are not beaten, and there are always people who are beaten every day.

The crackling sound of sticks keeps hitting people, and it also hits people's hearts!

After twenty days of hard work, these simple young people gradually took off the appearance of ordinary people, whether they were walking right, or walking, standing in line, or running, they could have the most basic military temperament.

Every morning, it is also the beginning of a day's physical training, with a whistle as a unit, exactly more than 100 people lined up in a small square, staggered time every day, more than 30,000 people, none of them can pull down.

Among them, there is also Zhu Cihong.

He, the crown prince, was originally doing it himself when he was training in Yanjing, and now at this time, he personally leads a group of civilian officials around him to run out every day, but everyone has changed into the same military uniform as the new army, and in the middle of the team, unless he runs closer, otherwise, no one can recognize him as the crown prince.

It is precisely because of this that whenever he leads the team to run over, all the new army teams will always turn up small waves no matter how the sentinels reprimand, although they dare not discuss, but the eyes of all the new army officers and soldiers also turn with Zhu Cihong's running figure, and excited, happy, happy.

These days, even the peasant children who can endure hardships have a feeling of being unbearable, and there are really many people who complain secretly, but they eat so well every day, fish, rice and white noodles, there is no shortage of meals, and they often add meals to everyone, and there are many military doctors in the camp, there are headaches and brain fevers, colds and flu, or injuries from practice, there must be good bone-setting doctors to treat them quickly, and there will be no delay.

And the prince comes every day, and there will always be a sentry who holds his head high the next day, just because the prince is here the first day, either to tell jokes with everyone, to do family cooking, or to care about the training situation, or to eat with the sentry brothers, and not to use their own guys, or to use the same utensils as everyone else.

The first time there was such a thing, the whole army was like a holiday. Who is the crown prince? That's the future true dragon emperor, the co-lord of the world, now like everyone, every day is also running back and forth, coming back and not stopping, every day between the sentinels, laughing, asking about things, eating together, not reprimanding those who are not emotional, always warm words and encouragement, so like this, the whole army, what else can be said?

Eating is better than at home, dressing is better than at home, although it is hard to eat, but there are dragons like the crown prince who accompany him every day, put it aside, it is said that it is the crown prince, it is a county, you dare to look up when he passes by, you are likely to be caught by the yacha and beaten to death!

The hearts of the people were gathered little by little by Zhu Cihong.

This kind of thing is useless, and it can only be done bit by bit, and it is the same as military training, and if you want to do it quickly, you can't reach it. This new army is really very early from the time when it will become a strong whole and can go into battle to meet the enemy.

Because the military training plan jointly formulated by the Military Administration Department and the Military Orders Department is actually under the auspices of Zhu Cihong, Wei Yue and others, they keep observing and judging every day, as long as these new army children still have a little physical fitness and feel a little comfortable, they will definitely increase the weight the next day, either in the middle of the night for additional training, or when they run laps, they will add a bag weighing a few pounds to each person's leg, and the quasi-security will make you tired and dead, and when you return to the barracks, you don't even have the strength to lift a finger.

As for sudden training in the middle of the night, it is even more common, in addition, there are a lot of physical training courses every day, what single parallel bars, pull-ups, push-ups and other physical training methods, these peasant children don't even have the strength to scream!

According to Zhu Cihong's training plan, in the previous month, he didn't practice anything, and every day he had a big piece of meat and a big bowl of fish to replenish the body of these new soldiers, and at the same time he practiced queue and physical fitness!

These young farmers who were used to doing farm work were all physically fit, but they were really far from the standard that Zhu Cihong wanted. As for the queue, it is a bit of a look, but it is far from the standard.

"Your Highness, the minister is done." It is also a military uniform, Zheng Yuanxun, the deputy director of the Military and Political Department, ran out of breath, but he finally persevered to the end, the entire Qingjiang area, the southeast of the military camp is the canal and the Qingjiang dwellings along the river, and the northwest area, a radius of nearly 20 miles, was originally a vast and sparsely populated area, and now it is almost a relocation of residents, vigorously renovated, and the military camp and the Generalissimo's Mansion are connected...... There are tens of thousands of people just running around every day, and it is really not enough to have such a large territory.

"It's good, it's not bad."

is also ten miles down, although Zhu Cihong is also sweating profusely, but his complexion has hardly changed, and the tone of his voice is the same as when he walks, looking at Zheng Yuanxun with a pale face, Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "However, Chaozong, you still have to practice more to become successful." ”

"Yes, the minister will definitely continue to practice."

If you want to say that the civil officials also practice with them, I am afraid that no one will resist them at the beginning. That Hou Fangyu fished for three days and dried nets for two days, and today he took sick leave, saying that he had diarrhea. The rest of the people are also complaining, but as long as they persist, now after all, if they don't run or practice for a day, they will be exhausted.

Zheng Yuanxun agreed first, and then said with a smile: "After running for ten days, I realized how weak my body was before. He also boasted of being both civil and military, and he was good at riding horses and bows and arrows...... It's a joke to think about. ”

"Shame and courage," Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "If I continue to practice like this, can I have more generals around me?" ”

For a while, everyone laughed, this time, these talented people in Jiangbei and Jiangnan, who couldn't let go, also had a big change in their surnames, headed by Zheng Yuanxun, and Dai Jian at the bottom, half of them were Donglin Fushe, half of them were students in Jiangbei, and the weakest foundation had to be a showman, and the generalissimo's military and political departments used these young scholars between twenty and forty.

Compared with those old scholars, they are more energetic, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing people's kind of ancient school that can only seek knowledge in the pile of old papers is not the mainstream, although the morale is declining, the scholar is not news, the scholar wears women's clothes, swaggering through the market, it has long been not news, but after all, at that time, there are still many young scholars who are worried about national affairs and are willing to serve the country, and Zhu Cihong's side, that is, the best of the best, is also the Nanjing Jianghuai area, all the famous scholars who can be used, all of them have been recruited.

As for more suitable talents, they must also be continuously selected among the homeless and ordinary people!

(To be continued)