Zhu Youzhen didn't know how well Liu Kongzhao could train the navy, but he really couldn't ask about it one by one now.

In Zhu Youzhen's mind, even if it is just to temporarily set up a naval shelf, it is good to let the Yangtze River and Hangzhou Bay and other places have a few more warships of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen estimated that April and May after the beginning of spring next year will be the time when the Tartars will move southward in a big way, and once Shandong, Henan, Huaibei, and other places cannot hold on, then the navy will at least be able to rely on the Yangtze River trench to bombard the Qing army.

From Nanjing to Huai'an, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen moved back and forth on this waterway several times since he moved south.

Every time, in addition to asking Jinyiwei to command the envoy Li Ruolian, he sent someone to investigate and record the river network and ditches in this area in detail.

He himself never neglected every detail, and when he looked around from the river, he could see how well the cities were defended in the prefectures and counties on both sides of the river.

No one knew where the Qing army would land from and where it would attack after moving south, but it was better to be well prepared than to be hectic when the time came.

Originally, the reason why the historical Nanming Dynasty was defeated was not unrelated to the fact that it missed a year to prepare for the river defense.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen has to admit that.

At this time, it would be better if he could have a telescope.

It's a pity that Daming has not yet begun to develop in civilian industry.

Neither the manufacture of glass nor the resulting observation instruments has yet to be seen.

Daming is still a long way from truly becoming an industrial country.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen's body is not short-sighted, and he can see the surrounding scenery on the river.

In some counties and towns, it is obvious that there are already officials such as inspectors of the canons and histories, and they are organizing villagers to practice archery, spears, and horseback riding.

Some important strongholds along the river also had migrant workers repair new walls under the command of local county officials, bridges and roads began to be demolished and destroyed, and the entire territory of Nanzhili could only rely on boats to take the waterway according to the orders of the military department, in order to create the greatest obstacle to the future resistance of the Tartar cavalry.

The militia is an ordinary person who is not out of production, and it is a new word set up by Zhu You's military department, and the purpose is only to make the defenseless people not be at a loss in the face of war.

However, the guards are still out of work, and they are under the overall management of the military department, and are responsible for the maintenance of local public order, the suppression of bandits, transportation, and other affairs.

But it is better to train and defend these militiamen and guards than to run away from the Tartars.

Waited until Huai'an Mansion.

Zhu Youzhen abandoned the ship and landed on the shore and went to Huai'an to lecture on martial arts.

The Huai'an Lecture Hall is more extensive than when Zhu Youzhen first came.

Along the tens of thousands of acres of land along the shore of Hongze Lake, all the way to the east of the city gate of Huai'an Prefecture, it is the training place of the new recruits of the Jiangwutang.

Hongze Lake provides abundant water resources and various terrains such as mountains, plains, and hills, which is convenient for the training of various arms of the Ming Guards, as well as for logistics supply.

Along the Hongze Lake and the Huai'an Mansion City, around the Huai'an Lecture Hall, at this time, the Huai'an prefect was ordered to build a city wall, and inside the city wall was all kinds of horses galloping and people shouting and killing.

Today, the 100,000 recruits of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards Corps who are ready to be assigned to the A battalion have basically completed the training of individual soldiers.

And the one who is training is the army of the B battalion.

When Zhu Youzhen came here, Zhou Yuji, chief of the War Department of the Generalissimo's Office, had already begun to distribute troops to the 150,000 soldiers of the A battalion who had completed basic training at the time of Zhu Youzhen's order.

The distribution of arms is first according to their previous skills, that is, those who can ride, especially those who are good at riding, are preferentially selected as cavalry, and those who have done firearms are selected as infantry, and the same is true for artillery, and finally they are screened and distributed by the governors and commanders of the Guards and the heads of departments and departments of the Generalissimo's Office.

On the third day after Zhu Youzhen arrived here, the various arms of the A battalion had been distributed.

And the infantry battalion also happened to be issued the latest standard weapon on this day, that is, the Chongzhen 14-style flintlock pistol.

The cavalry battalion is still equipped with a scimitar and a three-eyed gun, and the artillery battalion is equipped with a tiger squat cannon, a Franc machine gun, and a Hongyi cannon, but all of them have added a light door.

In other words, the current A battalion is still only an infantry battalion with new equipment, and the cavalry battalion and artillery battalion have not changed much.

However, this also has little impact, after all, the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty is the main branch of the Qing army, and the requirements for firearms for cavalry are not high.

The 150,000 soldiers of the A battalion were the absolute main force in Zhu Youzhen's control of the government and the Central Plains.

Therefore, what Zhu Youzhen had to do was not only to arm them physically, but also to arm them ideologically, to ensure that the soldiers of the 150,000 battalions of the first class were absolutely loyal to him.

On the way to the south, Zhu Youzhen instilled in him the idea of the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of the country through a series of measures such as sacrificing the people and destroying the holes, and taking advantage of the thoughts of the family and country of the northern officials.

To be precise, Zhu Youzhen's purpose is to take the traditional culture of the Han clan as the foundation, and on this basis, establish a person's loyalty to the family and even the entire national collective, and the role he plays is not only the divine authority of the monarch, but the father of a big family, that is, the monarch of the nation.

He is the leader of this country, representing the ultimate interests of all Han people, and being loyal to himself as an emperor is not for the Zhu dynasty, but for the stability and prosperity of the entire Chinese family, and is the only way to avoid his family from being ruined and his relatives from becoming beggars.

This method can only unite under the call of his own king, jointly resist the disaster of Jiannu, prevent the Ming Dynasty from repeating the disaster of the Southern Song Dynasty, and prevent the Han people from being two-legged sheep and fourth-class people.

Li Banghua, Li Mingrui, Zhou Yuji, Liu Fangliang, He Xin, and the newly added Lu Zhenfei and Ma Shiying are all faithful believers and disseminators of Zhu Youzhen's idea of nationalism.

From the beginning of the Xiucai Battalion and the Heroes Battalion, these new recruits who are about to become grassroots officers have been purposefully instilled with these ideas, and the scholars who can give up their fame and devote themselves to writing are naturally enthusiastic radical young people, who are easy to be indoctrinated and brainwashed.

The strong man camp has been baptized unconsciously and consciously since it received cultural popularization education, and it is naturally easier to trust the concept of the supremacy of the monarch and father.

Coupled with the instinctive herd mentality and the psychology of the way of the teacher, that is, the way of heaven, Li Banghua and others spread it to the recruits of the Xiucai Battalion and the Zhuangshi Battalion, and the Xiucai Battalion and the Zhuangshi Battalion and others spread it to 100,000 recruits.

The 150,000 Type A Battalion plus Li Banghua and other loyal henchmen of Zhu Youzhen had a subtle impact on the 300,000 Type B Battalion.

The will of Zhu Youzhen's monarchical leader has long since become the will of the 450,000 guards.

When Zhu Youzhen arrived at the Huai'an Lecture Hall, the 450,000 troops had already begun to boil, and shouted at Zhu Youzhen:

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!"