The palace is 961 meters long from north to south, 753 meters wide from east to west, covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of 150,000 square meters, more than 90 large and small courtyards, 980 houses, 807 rooms, dotted all over the place, staggered and crisscrossed like a labyrinth, if there is no familiar old eunuch and old palace maid to lead the way, you must get lost in it.

The eunuch institutions located in the palace have 12 prisons, 4 divisions and 8 bureaus, and the Huanyi Bureau is the only institution located outside the palace, which is filled by the old or guilty and retired palace people.

Such a huge and bloated eunuch institution, plus the miscellaneous gods and horses in various palaces and palaces, add up to not 5,000 eunuchs and palace maids, at least more than 2,000 or 3,000 people, the salary is not high, but it is also a huge expense in a year.

Zhu Jian, who has completely fallen into the eyes of money, has always been stingy, and started to reduce the cost of layoffs, and some eunuchs who are more closely related to Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family clicked a batch, confiscated the family property, and saved a small amount of settling-in expenses.

The main targets of Zhu Jian's cuts are those young palace maids, they are all young and beautiful show girls selected from all over the country, with innocent family backgrounds, they are waiting for the opportunity for the sparrow to become a phoenix, but they have to wait for the Son of Heaven to be lucky, the probability of giving birth to a dragon son and dragon girl is even lower than being struck by lightning, most of them are in the palace to waste their years, waste their youth, it is better to let them out of the palace, give a settlement fee to go home to marry, and live the life that a normal person should live.

There are also some young and beautiful palace maids who are extremely ambitious, looking forward to flying on the jade branches, still have illusions, insist on staying, gambling on luck one day, and being favored by the Son of Heaven, Zhu Jian is not reluctant to this, after all, it is people's freedom.

The institutions of the 12 prisons, the four divisions and the eight bureaus are too bloated, some institutions can be merged, and some unnecessary deputy staff have been cut some, Zhu Jian did not plan to forcibly reduce the eunuchs, but only mobilized and lobbied, only more than 300 people took the settlement fee to leave the palace, and the palace will not recruit more eunuchs into the palace in ten or twenty years.

He told Queen Zhou about the layoff plan, Queen Zhou was very happy, the fewer young and beautiful palace maids, which means that there are fewer rivals in love, and there is less pressure on her, of course, the concubine is still necessary, she is just struggling with whether it is three or four or five or six questions.

Zhu Jian became the shopkeeper and threw the layoff to Queen Zhou to deal with, saving a lot of trouble, cutting the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace is a family affair of the heavenly family, no matter how good the Donglin Party is, it has no right to interfere, just curious about the Son of Heaven playing the game of magic horses?

In fact, the Needlework Bureau has been merged into the Clothes and Hats Bureau, and they are all making clothes and hats anyway, so there is no need to set up an additional organization, wasting personnel and wages.

Zhu Jian gathered the leaders of the cloaking bureau and those technicians who were good at needlework, stuffed them with some drawings, and after explaining them, let them design and produce them according to the drawings, such as modern battlefield clothes and pants, hats and shoes, gloves, tactical vests, leather armed belts, military backpacks, etc.

The War Bureau is the organization in charge of manufacturing weapons and equipment, and the function of making equipment is assigned to the Cloak Bureau, and the War Bureau is now only responsible for making paper bullet shells, yes, it is a custom-made bullet case made of oiled paper.

Zhu Jian only remembered that it was a paper bullet shell invented by Europeans, but he didn't remember the name, as a traverser, this golden finger must be opened, a little more advantage will give him a better chance of winning, he doesn't want to be forced to hang himself by Li Zicheng, and he can't do it if he doesn't play with his life.

Now the common use is the front loading musket, the loading of gunpowder is loaded from the muzzle, slow and troublesome not to say, when fighting, because the soldiers are nervous, the gunpowder loaded is more or less, the power of the gunpowder is not enough, it is easy to explode the chamber when it is loaded, and the fixed ammunition made of paper solves this problem, and it can also save the charging time and improve the rate of fire.

The accuracy of muskets in these years is scum, relying on a dense row of guns to form a lethal effect, so the rate of fire is very important, veterans who have undergone a certain amount of training can shoot two bullets a minute, and recruits can shoot one shot a minute.

Grenades that are conducive to melee combat and street fighting are also in mass production, and the existing extra-large grenades of the Ming Dynasty have been completely stopped, and only improved small grenades are produced, but they are not produced in the palace war bureau, and he does not want to be killed one day with a miniature version of the grenade that he "invented", and the weapons bureau outside the palace is responsible for the production.

He gathered a group of eunuchs in the palace to learn some basic carpentry work, let them saw, plan, and slippery, specializing in the production of grenade handles, gun butts, etc., and also made some small bamboo tubes, which were used to make simple monoculars.

In 1626, the German missionary to China John Tang wrote "The Theory of Telescopes", which was the first monograph in China to introduce the knowledge of Western telescopes, and the earliest time when the telescope was introduced to China may be 1622, and the carrier was John Tang, but it was not popularized in the Ming Dynasty.

The principle is to use the light refraction of the lens, or the light is reflected by the concave mirror, so that it enters the small hole and converges for imaging, and then is seen through a magnifying eyepiece.

All these things are used to equip the new army he is about to form, including the food and salary of the new army, all of which he pays out of his own pocket, and he wants to build the new army into the first army of the Ming Dynasty, and it must be absolutely loyal to the pro-army of the Son of Heaven who is in charge of him.

Although he has never been a soldier, he has watched a lot of military movies and TV series, and he can learn a little bit of it secretly, although it is not very formal, but it is always better than the current training method.

Get a special forces, this aspect has also been considered, but at present it is just a thought, depending on the situation, there are too many places that need to spend money, who makes him poor now, however, the sniper can get some, he has passed on the order, let the generals of the garrisons in various places, and the soldiers with good marksmanship in the Jinyi guards everywhere, once discovered, immediately escort them into Beijing, and those who are confirmed to be qualified, the recommender will be counted in the military merit, or a reward of ten taels of silver.

The front-loading rifled gun being developed is a special sniper musket for snipers, he knows that the front-loading musket has to stand up and load gunpowder, but there is no way, the time is pressing, it can only be done temporarily, anyway, the sniper has to change a place to shoot a shot, hide in a safe place to load and then touch back to snipe, can only work hard, you can also equip each sniper with one or two auxiliaries as deputies.

He was anxious to produce a front-loading rifled gun, because he liked the range and accuracy of the spiral rifled gun, with a special round-headed long bullet, the maximum range could reach 914 meters, and he did not require such a long range, 500 meters was OK, and then opened the gold finger to install the aiming crosshair, the accuracy was higher, and when he got it out, the enemy officers had fun.

The holy decree has been issued, and he doesn't know how many sharpshooters the troops stationed in various places can collect for him, so it is useless to be anxious, so he can only wait patiently.

After a while, Zhu Jian waved his pen and wrote on the paper the six big characters of "New Army Training Minutes".

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