In September, the Real Estate Department of the Inner Court issued an order to make clear provisions on the hoarding of houses and shops in real estate transactions to speculate on housing prices, which is limited to one month, and the hoarded houses must be sold immediately, and each household is limited to three properties; It also expressly stipulates that the real estate transaction tax is escalated. For the excess properties outside the three properties, the property tax paid will increase in order for each additional shou, and the first set will be taxed at a rate of 1 out of 30, and then increased to 1 out of 20, 1 out of 15, 1 out of 10, and 1 out of 2 for the maximum limit.

As soon as these two orders were issued, the army of house speculation suddenly cried and shouted to the mother, including the wealthy businessmen from all over the country, including the officials and wealthy businessmen, hoarded a large number of real estate in hand and was ready to throw it out when the price rose to a high price, at this time had to throw shou within a month, and bear a lot of taxes, many people actually lost money in the end, the imperial court in the month from September to October, the real estate transaction tax increased by an additional 1.6 million taels, these money were taken out of the pockets of these real estate speculation groups.

Many people in Beijing participated in it, but most of them only had the ability to buy two or three properties, Song Nan cleverly bypassed this hurdle, using three properties as the base, which was equivalent to putting many officials in one yard; And the wealthy are all the relatives, led by Xu Guangzuo, and several of the marquis of Jingying have hoarded more than a dozen shop houses, this time in a month to reduce the price and sell the shou completed, a sum of accounts down, invested more than 100,000 taels, and in the end lost tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Everyone knows that it is Song Nan's method, but the public opinion in the secret is to talk about the stupidity of the princes, Song Nan has actually named Xu Guangzuo and the people who hoarded real estate at the court meeting in August, they did not wake up at all, not only did they throw away the hoarded real estate in their hands, but took advantage of the opportunity of the housing prices are still soaring and ate a lot, it is the last few houses and shops to eat, the amount of tax paid is scary, and the profit is not much, which is a big loss of tens of thousands of taels.

A group of people secretly gathered together to scold Song Nan and hate Song Nan to the core, but they didn't know that this was only Song Nan's first step to deal with them; If it is said that punishing the hoarders and speculators is to beat the rabbit with grass and teach the Hou masters a lesson by the way, what was announced by Chao Zhengde at the end of September was that Song Nan officially launched an attack on the regimental commanders.

On the morning of September 29, Zhengde announced that he would review the soldiers of the Beijing camp in October, which was the practice of the imperial court, and every year the emperor would take time to review the Beijing camp to boost the morale of the soldiers of the Beijing camp, and before the end of the year, he would also pull a few guards and horses into the suburbs of Beijing to participate in the training of the class.

However, there are two differences in this year's review, Zhengde said in his will that after the review, the Beijing battalion will conduct combat training, and all the Beijing battalions under the Beijing Central Committee will participate in the combat training, so as to review the combat strength of the Beijing battalion, understand the training and combat capability of the soldiers in the Beijing battalion, discover the shortcomings, and solve the problems.

The second difference is that this review selected the Ulzhou Wei Yi Wei, Bazhou Wei Yi Wei, Xuanfu Yi Wei, and Datong Wei to participate in the combat training of the Beijing camp.

As soon as the decree was promulgated, it immediately became the top priority of the discussion in the imperial court, and all the departments in the capital camp and the marquis of the regiment and camp who were in the middle of the matter also turned their grief into strength and left behind the loss of a large amount of silver; The emperor came up with a new trick this time, and came to a big battle competition in Beijing, if the soldiers and horses he led were beaten to pieces, it would not be good; Face is secondary, maybe the position of the admiral is not guaranteed, with the position of the admiral, he is the marquis, otherwise he can only stand aside.

Xu Guangzuo also attaches great importance to it, this is the first time that his governor's regimental battalion has been inspected, how is the combat effectiveness of the regimental battalion? Whether the emperor can be satisfied or not directly determines whether he can stay in the position of governor of the regiment and battalion for a long time. Since Jiao Zhengtai and Gao Hu openly mixed up with Song Nan, Xu Guangzuo has gained some benefits, and the Hou Ye spontaneously rallied around him, and his previous rejection of himself was also much smaller.

If you want to master the transformation of Jingying, you must first overturn them and trample on their high dignity, otherwise these stubborn and incompetent guys will not be able to admit their incompetence.

In this regard, Song Nan has been preparing for two years, from the day the Shenshu Battalion was established, the goal of Song Nan and Jiang Bin Xu Tai's training was like this, eliminating most of the unqualified generals and soldiers of the original 3,000 battalions, and most of the soldiers of the Shenshu Battalion who were re-expanded to 10,000 were recruited civilian children.

Except for some of the low-level and middle-level officers of the Shenshu Battalion who were transferred from the Jinyi Guard to serve as the backbone, most of the rest were promoted from the soldiers.

Song Nan seems to ignore the Shenshu Battalion, in fact, Song Nan is to let Xu Tai and Jiang Bin play a role, these two people are both experienced in a hundred battles in Ulzhou and the other in Xuanfu, and they have been fighting with the Tartar real sword for more than ten years, and they have extremely rich combat experience, which Song Nan is ashamed of, and Song Nan is not even as good as them in the means of combat, so Song Nan will hardly interfere with them.

What Song Nan can give is external support, for example, the salary of the soldiers of the Shenshu Battalion is lower than that of the Shenji Battalion and the regimental battalion, and Song Nan went to the military headquarters several times to make a big fuss before winning the same benefits. For example, the supply of armor, weapons and other materials, the Shenshu Battalion has always been ranked last, and Song Nan is also trying his best to fight for it, so that when the Shenshu Battalion is established, he will wear old armor and hold rusty swords, the field tents will be tattered, and the animals pulling military supplies will be thin and inhuman.

In terms of training, Song Nan naturally put forward a lot of suggestions, after all, he also led the troops to fight a few battles, plus his hundreds of years of experience is not in vain, and he also learned a lot of training methods in those war films in later generations, Song Nan racked his brains to recall these training methods, Jiang Bin and Xu Tai chose to adopt projects such as long-distance running, wild survival, grappling and fighting, observation and lurking, etc., and carried out strict training in terms of physical fitness, ability, and willpower; The current soldiers of the Shenshu Battalion are all lean and dark, and they don't look strong, but they can feel the difference in their eyes and temperament.

Raising troops for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, all this qiē is about to see the real chapter in this Beijing camp competition, Song Nan can't help but be very worried, because he cares too much, Song Nan seems to feel more nervous than going out to fight several times.

A month of preparation time, the closer the time, the more tense and solemn the atmosphere in the Beijing camp became, and the marquis of the regimental camp also risked their lives during this time, dragging their fat bodies, staring at the scorching sun, wiping the sweat on their fat faces and taking their subordinates to train on the school field; Shouting through his throat, shouting and scolding, the whip snapped. Every day, hundreds of soldiers in the lobby of the medical hall in the Beijing camp were injured, sprained, and stabbed, and even fainted due to heat stroke or physical weakness in the hot weather.

Zhengde was extremely interested in this kind of dancing to the stick, and he even proposed to personally lead a battalion to participate in the big competition, but Song Nan said that he dispelled the idea; Zhengde led the troops to participate in the competition, so is this big competition still meaningful? In the end, it was naturally Zhengde's soldiers and horses who won the championship, who dared not let the emperor win?

After Zhengde's idea was frustrated, he turned to concentrate on the rules and confrontation for the Beijing Camp Competition, I have to say, Zhengde's brain is still enough, and he spent seven or eight days revising the rules and the plan of the matchup is really good.

On 26 September, the third day before the competition, Zhengde summoned all the generals of the Beijing camp, and the officials of the military department made the final revision and determination of the plan for the competition, and finally established the plan after synthesizing the opinions of all parties.

The rules are very simple, with the Beijing camp and the mobilization of the outer four guards as a unit, each guard selects 500 elite soldiers to participate in the competition, the competition is divided into three rounds, the first round of the competition to test the siege ability of each battalion, the second round to test the ability of each battalion to defend the city, one or two rounds are also combined into one, two by two draw lots to encounter one for the attacker, one for the defender, two rounds of rotation, the winner enters the next round, until the final victory. The third round is the main event, testing the ability to encounter field battles in pairs, and the opponents are also drawn by lot, and the team fights on the campus field of Jingbei University, and the winner enters the next round of draws. Each battalion has points, and the one with the highest cumulative score wins.

This plan was unanimously agreed, and the difference was in the combination of troops, the proportion of horse infantry and cavalry could be agreed, but whether the firearms needed to be used in the field caused controversy. In particular, the Shenji Battalion, a Beijing battalion that is known for its firearms, is indeed enough to compete in general combat capabilities.

Originally, one of the rules was a simulated interdiction operation, which was the strength of equipped with firearms, but if firearms were used, the Shenshu battalion would naturally be the first, they not only had firearms but also cannons, who could compare to them? Besides, once firearms are on the field, there will be casualties in the confrontation between the two pairs in the future, and if the use of firearms is canceled at this time, there is no need for the Shenji Battalion to participate. After all, in an ordinary Beijing camp competition, only a wooden knife and a wooden sword stained with red and black powder paint can be decided.

Under the strong request of Xu Guangzuo and the marquis of the regimental camp, Zhengde finally had to agree that the Shenji Battalion would not participate in the big competition, but only perform firearm shooting, artillery bombardment and other items during the review, and after the review, a 100-person judging group was selected to participate in judging the victory or defeat.

For Song Nan, it seems that the sharp weapons at hand are useless, and he has already suffered a loss before he can do it.