Zhu Youxiao, who was unwilling to be just a puppet emperor, had an urgent need to rectify the Beijing camp. After rectification, it means being able to control.

If you have military power in your hands, you can harden your waist.

After some selection, the soldiers of the Beijing camp were sent to the military camp, and the 50,000 soldiers of the Beijing camp who were in good health quickly lived in the barracks.

Zhu Youxiao first announced that he would improve the treatment of the Beijing camp, giving him 1 tael of silver per month, including room and board.

Compared with the treatment of 1 tael of silver and 1 stone of rice given by the cavalry division, it is naturally worse, and they are treated as inferior soldiers. However, Zhu Youxiao formulated an assessment system, so that as long as a soldier meets the training standards and can pass the examination, he can be promoted to a middle and senior soldier, and his salary will be improved accordingly. Middle-class soldiers are given 1 stone of rice every month, while when they reach the top class, they are given 2 taels of silver and 1 stone of rice per month.

At the same time, the salary of each soldier is directly paid by the imperial court to the Daming Royal Bank, and the Daming Royal Bank will pay the money into the soldiers' bank accounts.

So easily, Zhu Youxiao absorbed 50,000 depositors for the Daming Royal Bank.

1 tael of silver per month, food and clothing are the responsibility of the barracks, this kind of treatment makes the soldiers in the Beijing camp excited, even more exciting, as long as they train hard, they can be promoted and get higher military salaries.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that the next training would not be so good.

The team of instructors selected by Zhu Youxiao from the cavalry division soon carried out rough and brutal training for the 50,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion.

Queue training, often in the next stop in the sun for several hours. If you move casually, you might get a whip. At the same time, there is physical training every day, and the intensity is getting stronger day by day.

There are corresponding rules for going to bed, getting up, and ordering every day, and as long as you are late for a while, you will be punished with corporal punishment. A group of soldiers complained under such training intensity, but for the sake of military pay, they still endured.

Life is not easy these days, how many people enter Beijing, isn't it just to have something to eat for the whole family?

"One-two-one, one-two-one, accelerate forward ......"

"Stand, turn right......"

On the teaching ground, there were orders one after another, and although the cavalry battalion was more of a queue for training horses, it also had a queue for training infantry in peacetime, but it was not so ruthlessly trained.

The preliminary training basically only trains the queue and physical fitness, and there is basically no combat technology and drills, which is equivalent to these soldiers in the Beijing camp, and they are still in the 'recruit training stage'.

In this way, training for three months is carried out, and then professional combat techniques are learned, and finally tactical drills are conducted. It takes at least several years to train an elite soldier. The main reason is that Zhu Youxiao trained phalanx tactics at this time, which required the whole army to explore and improve together, and there were not a large number of experienced officers.

However, as long as Zhu Youxiao has trained this army, it will be easier to quickly explode troops in the future, and if the front is tight, the recruits will practice casually for two or three months, and let the experienced grassroots officers take them, and they will be able to enter the battlefield.

In order to train the Beijing camp, Zhu Youxiao also lived directly in the barracks.

The first is to observe and correct at any time, and the second is to be familiar with the soldiers of the Beijing camp.

The specific training did not require Zhu Youxiao's direct intervention, and the instructors transferred from the cavalry battalion were already competent. It's just that the instructors of these cavalry battalions hold their own identity as the Son of Heaven's pro-army, and they are cavalrymen, and they don't look at people in front of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, and they look like they are coaxing, and they are rough and cruel during training, which makes the soldiers in the Beijing camp angry one by one.

At this time, it was time for Zhu Youxiao to come out and sing red-faced, and when the soldiers of the Beijing camp were almost trained, Zhu Youxiao would ask them to stop for a day and a half, sometimes calling the eunuchs of the Bell and Drum Division to perform the show, and sometimes asking the gentleman to give cultural lessons to the soldiers.

On this day, Zhu Youxiao even asked the palace Shangshan supervisor to make more than 50,000 pieces of crisp cakes, and gave a piece to the soldiers of the Beijing camp. The officers and soldiers ate these palace cakes, and many of them were so excited that they shed tears. After some soldiers took a bite, they carefully wrapped the cake and prepared to take it home to share with their families.

Smart people can see that just a little favor made Zhu Youxiao quickly become the saint of heaven warmly supported by the soldiers of the Beijing camp.

In terms of buying people's hearts, Zhu Youxiao is very smooth. But in terms of the cost of reorganizing the Beijing camp, it began to give him a headache again. Weaponry is a problem!

Jingying is obviously an army with little experience in war, and in order not to collapse on the battlefield, in addition to good training, it also needs to have sophisticated equipment.

A pair of armor is necessary for each pikeman, and in addition to a musket, the musketeer must be equipped with at least a cold weapon for melee combat, as well as leather armor or something.

A soldier who is equipped like this will probably need about ten taels of silver. Compared to the cavalry, it is much cheaper.

Compared to bows and arrows, arquebuses also have certain advantages in cost. Bows and arrows need to be made of wood, horns, tendons, animal glue and other materials, and the value of a piece of fine horn alone is equal to that of a cow. Two horns on the inside of a bow and arrow are equivalent to the cost of two oxen. Although not all bows and arrows are made of this good, bows and arrows are indeed higher in cost than arquebuses.

Bows and arrows are considered to be relatively strong military equipment for long-range strikes in ancient times, and if they have good archery skills and great strength, their power is naturally much stronger than that of firearms in these years. Some dynasties before the Ming Dynasty even developed bows and crossbows with a range of thousands of meters, which can be regarded as high-tech weapons in the era of cold weapons.

Bows and arrows will be eliminated by firearms at this time, not because they are less powerful than firearms, but because they are more expensive and require longer training time.

Obviously, the emperor still has to pay for the cost of compiling the Beijing camp this time, and the Hubu treasury probably won't buy it.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao still has 1.2 million taels of silver in his hand now, but he still has to think about the equipment. The pikemen's equipment doesn't need to be thought out too much, just put on a piece of armor and get a four-meter-long spear. If you stop there, you will be like a hedgehog, and no matter how well-trained a horse is, you will be frightened to stop when you rush to the spear forest.

Without the cooperation of the other classes, the pikemen are a nightmare that they can never defeat.

The reason why the armor is used on the spot is mainly because this thing will be eliminated in the future, and Zhu Youxiao will naturally not stupidly run to study the plate armor of Europeans.

The plate armor of the Europeans was made to fight against firearms. In fact, it is still impossible to fight firearms, in contrast, the Chinese side uses cotton armor to fight firearms, and the effect is still good.

The cost of plate armor is very expensive, and only the aristocratic class can afford to wear it in Europe, Zhu Youxiao naturally won't do any plate armor, even if it is made, it will be eliminated in a few years, and it is definitely thankless. Therefore, it is more appropriate to use the current Ming army's armor, the technology is very mature, and it is relatively easy to popularize.

What needs to be considered is the problem of arquebus, the arquebus at this time is indeed a bit low-level, at least in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, the arquebus in this year is really low-level, and the ignition still needs to use the arquebus, which is the most incomprehensible place, can't you use flint? It is very simple to design only a mechanical structure.