Although Qin Tai hadn't seen this legendary black army with his own eyes, he had read too many books about them.

Although this army no longer exists, and decades have passed, this army is still unforgettable.

Their outfits and outfits are so unforgettable. The Black Legion does not have its own number and station, and the Black Legion is called the Black Legion because their uniforms are all soapy black.

In fact, their actual status and military salaries are particularly low, and none of them are above the captains in their actual positions.

The reason for this is because of their superior and boss and the mighty general Zhu Shou, who only cares about his own promotion and forgets to mention his subordinates.

But every soldier in the Black Legion would be rare for this little money and position. The treatment of every soldier of the Black Legion is equivalent to that of a first- and second-class senior officer in the DPRK and China, and everything is provided by the government, and he gets more money every year than a cabinet minister.

This is all because they are the closest and most trusted people around the emperor, who dares to offend them? In the books that Qin Tai has read, when this black army is mentioned, two words will always appear.

The first word is:

"Luxury", which is already beyond the standards of any army. The soldiers of the Black Legion ate and drank with their mighty generals, so the standard meal for the soldiers was four dishes and one soup.

Two absolute meat dishes, plus two seasonal vegetables, a bowl of stock as the base of the assorted soup. The rice eaten is also the high-quality tribute rice that Jiangnan paid tribute to the imperial palace.

Each soldier of the Black Legion spent three to five taels of silver a day on the maintenance of his equipment, not including the extra money they demanded for food and clothing.

At that time, a seven-pin Zhengtang magistrate county, a month's salary was only five taels, and it was still the kind that could not be paid again and again.

These legionnaires were even more powerful than the court officials. The second word is:

"Ridiculous", yes, ridiculous. Their black legion has a ridiculous commander, the mighty general Zhu Shou, and there is an absurd soldier.

The most famous things have made all the people in the world know their absurdity. The first thing was to carry water, and legend has it that they went to Lushan once with the mighty general Zhu Shou.

They think that the mountain spring water in Lushan is very delicious, and they have heard that drinking this water often can nourish their skin. They fenced off one of the largest pools of spring water and did not allow anyone to use it.

Every day, a steady stream of spring water was transported to the Black Legion garrison day and night. Since they always have no permanent residence, there is a lot of wasted spring water.

Not only did they drink from it, but they also bathed with it. Every day, the soldiers of the Black Legion have to use tens of thousands of catties of spring water, and the travel fee alone costs several hundred taels of silver a day.

When the military department and the household department saw the whereabouts of this money, they both shook their heads and shook their heads, but they had to approve it. The second thing is

"Retrofit". The soldiers of the Black Regiment had a uniform uniform, black cotton underwear, outer clothing, pants and shoes.

A piece of black leather soft armor is added on the outside, and a lot of round nails are nailed on it for good looks and practicality.

This leather armor is not only lightweight but also has good defensive capabilities, and is a standard equipment that only mid-level officers can wear.

The soldiers wore a well-made tiger head helmet on their heads, which was not only imposing but also had good defensive capabilities.

The soldiers' weapons were long and short, as well as bows and arrows, and the sum of their equipment and weapons was no less than five hundred taels of silver.

But because of this, these young master soldiers still feel uncomfortable. There is something that future generations will know

Operation "Retrofit". In order to show their heroic appearance, they used a lot of money to buy silk cotton from Jiangnan and make thin and warm jackets.

The expenses alone amounted to more than 100,000 taels of silver, which were approved and reimbursed by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War. In order to make the outer armor look better, they set out to change the round spikes on the leather armor into heart goggles and other animal shapes.

Even the outer armor of the horse on which he rode changed, and it became strange. This fee is still paid by the imperial court, a total of 2.7 million taels of real money.

This money directly made the two Shangshu of the Household Department and the Military Department unable to step down, and in order to make up for these losses, the two Shangshu had to take the blame and resign.

The third thing is the forage for the war horses. The war horses of the soldiers of the Black Legion are not grass-eating horses, and I don't know which one of them is deceiving the public, saying that the war horse can be more handsome by eating soybeans.

Therefore, the war horses of the Black Legion all switched to soybeans as the main food. These war horses that do not fight eat high-quality soybeans every day, sleep in exquisite tents, and wear vests made of fine iron.

The soldiers of the Black Legion were not ordinary, and even the treatment of war horses was no worse than that of a mid-level officer.

Qin Tai remembered that the Black Army mentioned in the book was an army with excellent surface kung fu. At least the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty at that time were shocked, and their neatness and majesty made the Ming army, known as the beggar army, have a good scenery.

At that time, although there were no major battles at home and abroad, the national strength was getting weaker and weaker, and the army's expenses and officials' salaries were becoming more and more difficult to support.

Generally speaking, soldiers in the army have to change their outfits en masse every three years. The standard of living of a soldier is one tael of silver for three days, and the soldier's salary is one tael of silver for three months.

However, in the early Ming Dynasty, it was not implemented according to this standard. It's not that the military spending in the early days of the founding of the country was not enough, but that Zhu Yuanzhang was an emperor who cut the door.

He was afraid that if the army had too much military spending, the generals would be more unscrupulous. No matter how much the army pays the soldiers,

"Drink the blood of soldiers",

There will definitely be a "vacancy" thing. If the soldiers were able to get one tael of silver according to the regulations, they would have received only seven pieces of silver, and sometimes only six pieces of silver.

The Ming army was in arrears, and there were often things like half salaries. Even the soldiers' salaries could not be paid, let alone other equipment.

The border guards are better than the soldiers in the interior, and each recruit can also receive a set of half-worn military uniforms.

The local army sometimes fails to even meet this standard, and every soldier is like a beggar. The equipment of the officers is also ancestral, and most of these officers are from military families.

They inherited the positions of their fathers and, of course, their weapons and equipment. In the entire Ming Dynasty, it is rare to see such a powerful army like the Black Army.

When the Black Legion was first established, the soldiers who participated were newly recruited officials and the sons and daughters of their relatives.

Among them, there are also the youngest son of Li Dongyang, the first assistant of the cabinet, a nephew of Yang Tinghe, the second assistant, and many descendants of the founding heroes.

However, some of them could not stand the discipline of the army and left, some of them did not lose their troops in combat, and many of them died on the battlefield.

The Black Legion exchanged blood on a large scale four times, and for the first time, because the mighty general Zhu Shou felt that this group of soldiers was not like his own soldiers, but like spies sent by the imperial court to spy on him.

This time, many officials' children were replaced, among which Li Dongyang's youngest son and some others were replaced.

The second time, because of an encounter, the Black Legion lost nearly half of its soldiers. Zhu Shou, a mighty general who finally escaped back, was angry with his soldiers.

His own soldiers did not win glory for themselves, and the mighty general became a fleeing general. So this time, some of the remaining soldiers who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and some who were not in good health, were replaced.

The new soldiers were chosen from the elite of the soldiers from all over the country. Soon after the formation of a new black army, the mighty general Zhu Shou felt that these new soldiers were not polite enough, not only rushed to eat when eating, like a starving ghost reincarnated, but also they slept and snored, farted and grinded their teeth.

These soldiers from the grassroots level have a very good system, but their cultural quality is low, and they not only answer the questions of the mighty general Zhu Shou, but they are also full of foul language and swearing.

The mighty general Zhu Shou, who couldn't stand it, was replaced again. For the third blood exchange, the new soldiers were all selected by the people in the first guard and three factories.

Their loyalty and ability to cater to their superiors are not small, and their cultural quality is also good. The mighty general Zhu Shou and Emperor Zhengde soon discovered a big problem.

The descendants or cronies of these spies don't know whether they were born or cultivated, and they value money very much.

Wherever the Black Legion went, it was like locusts passing through the border, and not only the people were unlucky, but even some of the dead were unlucky.

These Black Legionnaires, who were desperate for money, used their rest time to rob tombs. You can rob the tomb and it's over, but you just rob the tomb and don't recover.

The soldiers of the Black Legion robbed the dead of their graves and extorted the living with their bones, demanding that their descendants get money back to their ancestors.

The soldiers of the Black Legion were rich, but what

"Tomb Robbers",

"Legion of the Dead",

"Legion of Bad Conscience" and other titles came to the face. The Black Army, which was not very popular in the first place, became notorious.

Wherever the Black Legion was about to arrive, the common people walked and scattered, not wanting to be temporary neighbors with this person named the mighty general, who was actually the Zhengde Emperor of the dynasty.

Zhu Shou, the mighty general who knew the real situation, was very angry. Didn't I give them enough?

Why did the soldiers do such a thing? This is not only a loss of the face of the Black Army, but also a loss of the face of his mighty general Zhu Shou.

Whether it is Emperor Zhengde or the mighty general Zhu Shou, they are all people who value face, so this group of soldiers who have lost face to him has changed again.

For the fourth blood exchange, the mighty general Zhu Shou personally ordered that the recruited soldiers should not only be educated, but also have quality.

At that time, Li Dongyang, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Liu Jin, the eunuch in charge of the seal, selected soldiers in the forbidden army and officials' homes in the capital.

The selected soldiers underwent a series of rigorous training before being sent to the Black Army. This group of soldiers, the mighty general Zhu Shou, was very satisfied, and he has not exchanged blood in the collective since then.

Except for a few sacrifices and mistakes, this group of soldiers has been with the mighty general Zhu Shou through the last years.

After returning to the capital, the mighty general Zhu Shou did not disband the Black Legion, which had become his most trusted subordinate of Emperor Zhengde.

The soldiers of the legion guarded the mighty general Zhu Shou day and night, replacing the Ouchi guards, and became the closest person to the mighty general Zhu Shou.