After more than 20 days, Bai Xiaode came back with people. This time, we bought a total of 1,000 people from the mine owners in Gyeonggi, all of whom were in the prime of life between the ages of 18 and 30. As soon as these people came, they were placed in the camp near the capital of the land and water camp, of course, this was only temporary.

Mineral mining in the Ming Dynasty was both government-run and private-run. It is said that it is private, but in fact, it is mined by big families with strong backgrounds, or even royal families. This time, Bai Xiaode was a miner who went to a private mine to buy. The miners don't come alone, they all come with the whole family.

Bai Xiaode paid 5 taels per person to the mine owner for these 1,000 people, and spent a total of 5,000 taels. The settling-in fee is 5 taels per person, which is another 5,000 taels. As soon as I entered the barracks, I had to enter the military household, so I walked through 3 large mines to get together these 1,000 people.

The construction of the camp has not stopped, because sooner or later it will be expanded, so many barracks have been built, so these 1,000 people and their families can also be squeezed in. But when the house in Huangzhuang is completed, the more than 4,000 families of these people will be separated from each village.

Bai Xiaode sent people to the camp, and then returned to Li Zhen to find Zhu Houzhao's brother to return to his life. The three of them talked in Guanzhuang Mansion for more than 1 hour, and finally Bai Xiaode will be hired as a teacher to give lectures for the officer class of the land and water battalion.

The next day, the Zhu Houzhao brothers came to the barracks to check how the group was doing. As soon as class ended, the second brother went to Kunning Palace to say hello and went straight to the barracks. When they arrived at the gate of the barracks, the two members of the officer squad standing guard saluted on the spot, and Zhu Houzhao stepped forward with a smile and patted one of them on the shoulder and said, "Yes, quite seriously, like a soldier." The two people standing guard both smiled, but they stood straight, and more than 2 months of training made them always remember discipline and duty.

When I entered the camp, I saw that the soldiers had already started training. More than 1,000 people, standing in 20 columns and 50 rows, just stood under the sun and practiced military posture. Zhu Houzhao shook his head slightly when he saw the people in the martial arts arena. These new miners did not stand in phase, and the team was uneven, and some people were constantly being beaten by these 48 instructors with rattans. But it's all ass, not bad guys.

The effect of placing the family in the camp was evident, and there were many onlookers standing around the arena, all of whom came to see their husbands and sons or fathers. The crowd saw people being beaten, and there was a burst of laughter from time to time. The officers of those officer classes had never encountered this situation before, and they didn't know what to do with these people, so they could only let their families continue to watch, but they used to draw people harder.

Zhu Houwei has long been mentally prepared, these newcomers have never been exposed to this kind of training, and mistakes are inevitable. However, he saw some interesting phenomena, these beaten, all of them did not say a word and did not resist. After the fight, they did what the officer said, and rarely made the same mistake. These men don't know if they have been mining for a long time, their skin is very dark, whether they have been beaten or not, under the influence of the onlookers, their faces are black and red, I don't know if it is because of the weather.

Zhu Houwei looked at these people very satisfied, young, there are many things that can be changed, honest, it is easy to train in this way. Why is the combat effectiveness of other military camps in the Ming Dynasty so low, one is the system, and the other is that there are too many soldiers. There were more than 2 million in the Ming Dynasty when there were many troops, and even now there are more than 1.5 million names in the book of the Ming Dynasty, but there are many old oilers in the barracks, first of all, it is difficult to discipline, and then it will bring many people badly, and it is always more difficult to learn bad than to learn.

Except for the Nine Sides, many armies have not fought for many years, the military discipline of the army is sloppy, the officers have become landlords, merchants, and craftsmen, but they are not officers anyway, and the soldiers have become tenants, craftsmen, and conscripts, but they are not soldiers anyway. Because of these, Zhu Houwei decided to train the new army, and after watching it for a while, Zhu Houwei was quite satisfied with the performance of these people. In the past, when the university military training, the situation of those students may not be as good as these miners, at least these miners have been standing for more than 1 hour, and no one is tired.

Now there are a total of 1050 people, the old nature is Zhu Houzhao, the general (equivalent to the commander, is the third product), and the next is the Chinese army, served by Dong Qinghai, Dong Qinghai is the first batch of Dong Dogs to come into the Zhu Mansion, a few years ago in the first football game, he and Zhu Houwei team, and then read for a few years, under Zhu Houwei's suggestion to change his name. Next up are the sentinels, with 200 men, 50 under the general flag, and 16 to 17 under the small flag. Compared with the old establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there have been some changes in the number of people, which is also to adapt to the Mandarin Duck Array. Zhu Houwei himself does not hold any official position, anyway, there is always the number one in the world, and it makes no difference whether he is an official or not.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the system of battalion, guard, and institute, and the battalion should be higher than the guard. The land and water battalion is directly under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, of course, no one will take care of this land and water battalion, the establishment is arbitrary, as long as you have money, expand as much as you want. At present, the various battalions of the Ming Dynasty have as few as 23,000 people, and as many as the five outposts of the Shenji Battalion, with a total of more than 70,000 people. Hongji issued a will, and this water and land battalion had the privilege to expand at will.

Although the manpower of the current military factory is increasing, and the speed of flintlock pistol manufacturing is getting faster and faster, up to now, there are only 200 water and land battalions, which cannot satisfy everyone, so they can only practice the mandarin duck formation based on cold weapons first.

As for military uniforms, the garment factory in Huangzhuang is already making them, and 1,000 sets of military uniforms will be delivered within 2 days. At present, garment factories mainly buy cloth to make clothes directly, and they are all hand-sewn. However, Zhu Houwei had a sewing machine at home when he was a child, and he was very familiar with the structure of this machine, so he had ordered a local research department of a military factory to start developing it.

The military factory is now slowly taking shape, and it is mainly divided into three departments, one is the Ministry of Military Industry, one is the Research Department, one is the Iron Smelting Department, and the other is the Civil Department. The manufacture of cement was arranged in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and once the sewing machine was developed, it would also be placed in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

At present, the Ministry of Civil Affairs is still improving the loom, and the target is the loom described in Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the late Ming Dynasty - the flower machine. Where the flower machine is six feet long, the uplifted flower building, the middle support Qupan, the drooping feet. (1,800 bamboo sticks are milled for it.) Dig a pit two feet under the flower building to hide the feet. (If the ground is damp, the scaffolding will be replaced by two feet.) The jacquard guy sits on the wooden frame of the standing flower. At the end of the machine, the rod is rolled with silk, and two branches of wood are stacked in the middle, which pierces the two woods directly, about four feet long, and its tips are inserted at both ends of the reed. This kind of flower machine is very efficient and easy to operate, even children can learn it by watching it twice.

Everyone was still training seriously, Dong Qinghai saw Zhu Houzhao and the two, and hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute. The style of Shi Li is different from that of other armies of the Ming Dynasty, the right hand is bent and clenched into a fist, and the left chest is pounded, which is "invented" by Zhu Houwei. As a person of later generations, he always had some special feelings for the loveliest people, so the kneeling in the barracks was abolished. Zhu Houwei has slowly become accustomed to kneeling and bowing in this year, but he will still give it up as much as he can. Zhu Houzhao immediately returned the gift, which was also proposed by Zhu Houwei. In these years, the status of military personnel was low, civilian officials looked down on military attachés, military attaches looked down on low-level military attachés, and low-level military attaches looked down on ordinary soldiers. Zhu Houwei wanted to change this situation by saluting his subordinates and returning the salute by his superiors. Of course, Zhu Houwei only needs to nod, anyway, he just came to visit.

Under the guidance of Dong Qinghai, Zhu Houzhao came to Dianjiangtai, and Zhu Houwei did not go up, but just watched from the sidelines. Hearing Dong Qinghai's "assemble", the 47 officers immediately trotted to the front of the point general platform and stood in line with the queue. The movement was swift and the queue was neat, which amazed and delighted the recruits and their families. Since you have chosen to join the army, of course, you want to be in a strong army, so that you can win more battles, get more rewards, and the probability of dying in battle will be smaller.

Dong Qinghai continued to shout, "Stand upright, salute" 47 people immediately stood still, saluted and shouted, "See the general master." The movements were uniform, the sound was like a rainbow, the entire martial arts arena was silent, and the 1,000 people standing behind the 47 people were taken aback, and then they also saluted. These were messed up, some people followed 47 new-style military salutes, most people knelt and bowed, and the 1,000 people who were originally neat immediately became chaotic.

Zhu Houzhao doesn't mind, after all, he is a newcomer. Today's Zhu Houzhao is wearing the gold armor made by the Ministry of Industry, and the armor of the Qing Dynasty in later generations is like this, but some changes have been made on it, but the general appearance has not changed.

Due to the popularity of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, armor began to be lightweight. The top of the helmet seems to have been hit by an arrow, that is, the helmet, and below the helmet is the statue of the Emperor Zhenwu, connected to the helmet, and the front of the helmet is tattooed with the god of Rokka. The main body is black, the pattern is all gold, and the statue of Emperor Zhenwu is pure gold. The upper body is gold chain mail. At the waist is a circlip belt, which is golden and stands out on the black armor. The legs are leg skirts, and there are golden guarded feet on the feet over the boots.

A set of armor is almost 10 pounds, when he was about to arrive at the camp in the carriage, Zhu Houwei helped him put it on, at that time Zhu Houwei had 2 ideas in his heart, one is to burn the bag, it is too burned, so the armor is clearly laid out on the battlefield is to tell others "I am the big boss, come and form a group to brush me", it is not applicable at all, the other idea is that this set of armor can be sold for a lot of money, if he is short of money, he will be sold, it is estimated that it can last for a while.

In short, Zhu Houzhao, who was standing on the Dianjiang platform, was extraordinary, and the sunlight was refracted in all directions on the golden armor, feeling like a heavenly general. Zhu Houzhao first returned the salute according to the military salute, and then held his hands in a false way to let the kneeling people get up. Dong Qinghai yelled, "The salute is over." Then the people regained their footing.

Zhu Houzhao began to speak loudly, Zhu Houwei is used to it, this big brother is in the period of voice change, it is better to speak in a low voice, his voice feels like a killed male duck, it is very difficult to hear, but Zhu Houwei is very kind and did not laugh at the eldest brother, as for whether it is because he will change his voice in the future, so he did not laugh I don't know.

The recruits at the bottom were startled, and they didn't pay attention to it just now, but now they take a closer look, and this general is about 15 years old, so it can be said that he is still a child, but the adults are about to speak, and there is no whispering below.

I only heard Zhu Houzhao shouting, "You were all miners before, and you are estimated to be miners in this life, but now, after entering the military camp and becoming a soldier, you may have a good future in the future, and it is not impossible to seal your wife and son." I can say to you that from now on, the monthly money will be handed over to you every month, and you can have enough food and meat in the barracks, in case something happens one day" As he spoke, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the family members outside the martial arts arena, and these family members were also a little surprised, and they also heard what they had just said, but they didn't know why it suddenly pointed at them. Zhu Houzhao continued to shout: "Your parents, I will support you for the elderly, and I will help you raise your children." I only have one request, as long as I say it, you have to do it, grit your teeth and do it, and you have to do it with all your might, can you do it? ”

1000 recruits and their families were stunned, people are not trustworthy, people are very trustworthy these years, in front of so many people, what they always say must be true. They were originally born poor, and their ideals were not high, as long as the family was well fed, clothed, and safe, they had reached their ideal happy life. First of all, among the family members, several elderly people knelt down and cried as they knelt, "Kindness, my lord." Then the family members and the recruits knelt down excitedly, just because of this promise. No one has any gossip about this child anymore, and the fact that an official can say so truthfully, so thoroughly, and so confidently proves that the general adult is extraordinary.

Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction and said, "Get up, you don't need to kneel down in the barracks in the future, you just need to listen to me, even if the prince comes, you have to listen to me, and everyone else doesn't have to pay attention." Everyone was blown up again, and thought in their hearts, "This prince is not afraid of any origin." ”

Zhu Houwei and the 48 officers almost didn't laugh, this Zhu Houzhao is so talented. Zhu Houzhao instructed: "Continue training." Then he walked off the platform, and when he came to Zhu Houwei's side, he said, "This armor is too uncomfortable to wear." Zhu Houwei rolled his eyes, "This is still uncomfortable, it is only more than 10 catties, and the armor of the Tang and Song dynasties is basically 30 catties." Zhu Houzhao smiled and didn't say anything.

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