If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.

For the army, weapons are people, followed by weapons. A weak army, no matter how good the weapons are, they will not be able to exert their due combat effectiveness.

Therefore, in the past few months since Li Banghua took office as the commander of the Beijing camp, his main energy has been on refining the soldiers.

In fact, the overall quality of Jingying is poor, so you can only choose the tallest one among the short ones.

Three major battalions: the Fifth Military Battalion, the Shenshu Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion.

He personally selected the soldiers of each battalion, and those who were not young and strong were not used, and all the old, weak, sick and disabled were eliminated.

He selected 10,000 men from the three major battalions as the vanguard, and selected another 8,000 strong men to be trained and then added to them, and the soldiers of the vanguard army were paid twice as much as the other soldiers, and the strong men were one and a half times that of the other soldiers.

At the same time, he ordered that each commander should be selected five from among the five hundred soldiers under his command every month, and that they must be under twenty-five years of age, that they must be more than two hundred and fifty pounds of strength, and that they should have the skills of bows and arrows and firearms, so as to fill the gap of vanguard or strong men.

This put a lot of pressure on the middle and lower-level officers, and they had to strengthen the training of the soldiers under their command in order to complete the task, because Li Banghua would use this as one of the important criteria for their evaluation.

The inspection is conducted once every three months, and those who fail to pass the inspection will be demoted at least and expelled from the military at the worst.

In order not to be eliminated and even get more military salaries, soldiers naturally want to be selected as pioneers or strong men, so they are also a lot more serious in training.

They no longer worry about the problem of arrears of salaries or being deducted, because since Li Banghua took office, he has strictly forbidden and put an end to such problems, and once it is found that any general has deducted military salaries and enslaved soldiers, he will be severely punished.

The distribution of military salaries in Beijing can be as timely as that of the Liao army, which shows the importance that Banzai attaches to Beijing.

The news that the imperial court raided the Fuwang Mansion and the treasury was instantly filled naturally knew about it, so they didn't have to worry about living like beggars and slaves like before.

Just like this, when Li Banghua recruited young people in accordance with the will of the apocalypse to make up for the vacancy eliminated, the young people of the entire North Zhili were moved.

A while ago, Tianqi took the time to go to Beijing for a private visit, and obviously felt a new look, at least in terms of image.

In the past, they were like the defeated soldiers who had just been defeated on the battlefield, ragged, unkempt, yellow and thin, and there was no anger in their eyes, like beggars who had eaten the last meal and did not know what would happen tomorrow.

On this day, Apocalypse, with the help of several Han generals, put on a set of tailor-made and sophisticated armor.

This set of armor is built according to the armor style of Ming Chengzu when he went on the expedition, implying that he will follow Ming Chengzu's example and reorganize the majesty of the Great Ming Army.

Watching the apocalypse get into the car and lead a team of Han generals straight to the south of the Forbidden City, Zhang Yan, who was standing at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, was quite emotional.

Your Majesty is like a truly awakened dragon, changing from the stubbornness of the past, becoming determined to forge ahead, and even thinking of becoming an ancestor to drive out the Tartars.

Although His Majesty may not have so much time to accompany him in the future, this is naturally a good thing for a dynasty, and Zhang Yan is very pleased.

The Apocalypse went all the way out of the Imperial City, and then went straight to the camp in Beijing.

Last time, he also paid a private visit, this time he is not ready to hide his identity anymore, he wants to continue to reverse people's impression of his carpenter emperor in the past.

He wants to tell the world, tell the people of the Ming Dynasty all over the world, your majesty, do not love wooden clothes and love military clothes.

Moreover, most of the monarchs of powerful military empires throughout the ages have been able to go on horseback to fight on the battlefield.

Not to mention far away, just take Jianyu as a point of view, whether it is Nurhachi or Huang Taiji, they are there in almost every war.

The first time Jianyu entered the Kou, it was also Huang Taiji himself who led a large army.

This is an attitude, but also an example, kings dare to use their lives like this, ordinary soldiers dare to die? Except, of course, for the kind of pit goods like the Castle Sect.

After Li Banghua inquired, he hurriedly led several deputy generals of the three major battalions and more than a dozen staff generals out of the camp to greet him.

Seeing the apocalypse car approaching, the party hurriedly knelt down: "Long live Weichen (the last general) knock, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Apocalypse refused the support of the accompanying Han general, jumped directly from the car, and landed steadily.

Although he was wearing dozens of pounds of armor, his movements were quite flexible, and he didn't look like a pampered emperor at all.

This would naturally not be possible if it were the previous Apocalypse, but for most of the past six months, Apocalypse has set aside at least one hour every day to exercise, and although the eight-pack abs have not been trained, a lot of muscles have been trained throughout the body.

Queen Zhang Yan felt the most profoundly, after all, no one doesn't like the mighty and majestic horseman.

"Zhongqing is flat." Apocalypse ordered with full of anger.

"Long live thanks."

After the generals got up, they couldn't help but look at it secretly.

Because they have not seen the emperor with their own eyes, and what they know most about the emperor is that they have heard that the emperor likes carpentry very much, and the carpentry work is so good that even most craftsmen can't compare to it.

The emperor will often go out of the palace and sell the things he has made, once he sells it at a good price, he will have a sense of accomplishment, and it is also a strange story through the ages.

But when I saw it today, the emperor in front of me, who was dressed in gorgeous armor, had a straight figure, and did not lose the demeanor of a general in his gestures, could not be equated with the rumored carpenter.

Even Li Banghua, who has seen the apocalypse many times, was secretly shocked, and said that Shibei was three days, and when he looked at each other, the changes in long live were really incomparable.

However, for a loyal minister like him, seeing the emperor can have such a good change, he is naturally overjoyed in his heart, and he is more confident in the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Tianqi looked up at the new and majestic camp gate, and said, "Li Qing, generals, take me in to have a look." ”

"Yes, hooray."

The generals hurriedly parted ways, and Li Banghua immediately led the Apocalypse past them, and then followed the Han general into the camp.

At this time, the Beijing camp was very lively, and a few days ago, the apocalypse allocated 500,000 taels of silver for the Beijing camp to renovate the dilapidated barracks and level the school grounds for drilling, so there are many soldiers and craftsmen busy at this moment.

Apocalypse didn't bother them, and went straight to the direction of the school.

"Kill, kill, kill......"

The apocalypse could hear the earth-shattering shouts of killing from the direction of the school field, and the soldiers shouted every time they waved their weapons.

Apocalypse silently observed for a while, nodding secretly, this is like an army.

However, he didn't know anything about the training of cold weapons, so he didn't pay too much attention to it, and said directly to Li Banghua: "Li Qing, go to the Shenji Battalion." ”

"Yes, hooray."

Daming's Shenji Battalion is an army in Beijing that mainly uses firearms, and it is also the army that Tianqi has the most high hopes for, so after the first batch of flintlock pistols was mass-produced, he handed them all over to the Shenji Battalion.

An important purpose of their visit today was to test their use of flintlock pistols.