"Turn left~~~!"

The heavy snow stopped, and half a month passed......

Half a month has passed since Zhu Youxiao explained the matter of inspecting the parade of soldiers and horses, and in half a month, Man Gui honestly trained the army in accordance with Zhu Youzhen's training method.

In that book, Zhu Youzhen expected everything that could be expected.

Whether it is to tie the ribbon on the left and right, or to tie the leggings with the same hands and feet, etc., he has thought of it.

Therefore, the training of Man Gui and Sun Yingyuan went unexpectedly smoothly.

Perhaps it was because of the existence of walking in front of each other that it was too simple for a soldier who needed to be proficient in battle formations, so when half a month passed and Zhu Youzhen came to inspect, the Qiwei and 1st Battalion were almost completely new.

It's not that the soldiers have become stronger, it's just that their spirit has changed a little, they are a little more energetic, and their attention is very concentrated.

Although such a change is not very effective after going to the battlefield, it can alleviate the troubles of the leader in the discipline and on the march on weekdays.

However, looking at it, Zhu Youzhen noticed that something was wrong, and asked Man Gui and Sun Yingyuan:

"How many soldiers are there now?"

"Back to Your Highness, there are currently a total of 67,432 people in the Yanshan camp, and 25,232 more people have been recruited, and 167 more people have been recruited, which will meet the number of the new four guards and one battalion."

As soon as Man Gui opened his mouth, it also made Zhu Youzhen's heart sink.

Although he recruited more soldiers and horses according to the will of the good royal brother, with so many soldiers and horses, he will definitely be exposed when the time comes, and the daily military camp will also increase.

"Cheng'en, how much is the current military camp?" Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen replied with a number of delicacies:

"At present, the monthly consumption of the military camp is about 48,000 taels, and the imperial horse supervisor still has 754,200 taels of silver."

"In the whole month of the lunar month, 364,350 taels were spent on repairing the Qingling Tomb, 38,201 taels were spent on the barracks, 15,452 taels were spent on Yanshan, 13,000 taels were used in the honeycomb coal kiln, 2,000 taels were spent on the ordnance office, 800 taels were spent on the artillery station, and the balance was 320,397 taels."

"However, the south field sold all the horses and sheep in the south, and the north transported 264,300 taels of silver, and there are still 584,697 taels of silver in the treasury of the Imperial Horse Supervisor."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen explained:

"Huangdian has been opened in several places in the mutual market, specializing in selling honeycomb coal to Beiyu."

"In the past month, more than 8 million catties have been sold, and the livestock exchanged for 222 medium horses, 1,012 inferior horses, 915 cattle, and 16,500 sheep ......."

"The slaves and maids selected those of the inferior horses who were qualified to become military horses, and there were 822 inferior horses left, and as for the ploughing oxen, they were leased to tenants who cleared the wasteland, according to His Highness."

"If these sheep and horses are transported south, it is estimated that they can be sold for sixty or seventy thousand taels of silver."

Wang Chengen's words made Zhu Youzhen nod and said:

"It seems that this honeycomb coal is saturated for the northern captives of Karaqin and Tumut, and it is estimated that in the future, before other tribes know about honeycomb coal, the monthly income will be about several million catties."

Millions of catties per month, can be exchanged for more than ten times the value of cattle and horses, and can also sell 60,000 or 70,000 taels of horses and sheep, which can be regarded as a lot of input.

Not to mention anything else, the trade of honeycomb coal alone can allow Zhu Youzhen to feed more than half of the army of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

As for the remaining half, we will have to see when progress will be made on the south side.

"Isn't the field measurement in the south field still over?" Zhu Youzhen asked.

"Not yet, it is said that the fields of the gentry, grain merchants, and corrupt officials have just been measured, and the military tun fields of the four guards and three institutes have not yet been measured." Wang Chengen reported the good news:

"But the good news is that at present, Lu Tongzhi and Admiral Cao have earned 930,000 tenants."

"Most of these people are hermits, and they are all out now, plus the people on the Huai'an Mansion and the Xuzhou Yellow Book, Huai'an Mansion now has 500,880 households, and the mouth is 2,504,040"

"This population is nearly twice as large as in the Yellow Book, and nearly one-third of them are men."

All of them are men......

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen's heart sank, because this means that most of the people who starve to death are women and children, and even the old and weak.

Recalling the follow-up of the Huaibei Great Hunger, Zhu Youzhen asked in a low voice:

"Huaibei's follow-up, what's going on?"

Wang Chengen knew that His Royal Highness was talking about the follow-up of the eucalyptus, so he replied:

"In addition to the beheading or exile of officials, gentry, and grain merchants in Huai'an and Xuzhou, Shandong and Huguang also involved 62 officials, big and small."

"Nanzhili involves thirty-four people, Zhejiang involves seventeen people, but none of them exceed the four grades ......"

No more than the four products, that is to say, stop at the prefect.

Hearing this treatment, Zhu Youzhen sneered lightly and was very disdainful.

Although he knew that Huaibei was profitable from Huaida's compromise, it did not make him less contemptuous of this group of corrupt officials.

When the students and soldiers of the Yanshan Institute are formed, he will one day kill all these corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

"When will Yang Duqi come?" Zhu Youzhen spoke softly, after all, although Donglin is in charge of Jingcha, Yang Lian is estimated to have enough trouble in Shandong at the moment.

The corruption in Shandong was not serious, mainly in Juntuntian and Taifu Temple, and the biggest problem was the land annexation of the vassal kings and the Confucian government.

These problems are not something that Yang Lian can solve, and all of them are counted, Yang Lian is estimated to be back in a few days.

"It is said that he returned on the eve of the New Year's Day, that is, three days later, and then participated in the Great Pilgrimage."

"By the way......" Speaking of this, Wang Chengen also said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Highness, the ...... you also need to attend in the big court meeting in three days"

"Great court, ......" Hearing these three words, Zhu Youzhen had a headache.

There were two kinds of ancient dynasties, one was the Great Dynasty and the other was the Chang Dynasty.

The Chang Dynasty is the emperor who summons civil and military officials to deal with government affairs, which is of a daily official nature.

However, the Great Dynasty Meeting, generally speaking, only three times a year, most of them are on the New Year's Day, the winter solstice, and the emperor's birthday, which is a ritual celebration.

On the day of the court meeting, hundreds of officials need to wear court clothes, and Zhu Youzhen doesn't like this alone.

The court clothes are too restrictive, and Zhu Youzhen still likes to wear regular clothes.

Not only that, the etiquette of the Great Dynasty is too cumbersome, a hundred times more cumbersome than the regular Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen estimated that even if he returned to the capital, he would not go to the court meeting, and he would rather sleep in his own palace than go.

"Let's talk about the affairs of the big court, and we will set off tomorrow, and we should pay more attention to the affairs of the south field now."

Zhu Youzhen said, and then walked back and forth on the stage of the martial arts school, looking at the soldiers practicing in the audience.

I have to say that maybe he got exercised and his nutrition could keep up, so Zhu Youjian's size grew quickly.

Just a few days after his eleventh birthday, he is already in his early sixties at the moment.

This height, in addition to being a little short in the army, is not short in daily life.

Zhu Youzhen estimated that by the time he was sixteen or seventeen years old, he should be able to grow to a height of about 1.8 meters, which may be a little taller than Chongzhen in history.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen continued to explain to Wang Chengen next to him:

"By the way, ask the Ordnance Institute to make a set of my armor stomach, it is estimated that it will be used in two months, and the weight does not need to be restrained."

"The slave maid receives the order...... Regarding Zhu Youzhen's words, Wang Chengen didn't feel wrong.

Zhu Youzhen's strength rose very quickly, two months ago, he could only lift a dozen catties of practice stones, but now he can lift more than 20 catties.

Lifting here refers to lifting the exercise stone above the head for more than five seconds.

Not only that, as far as the simple holding of the exercise stone is concerned, Zhu Youzhen's hands and the strength of his waist and abdomen can also hold more than 60 catties of the practice stone.

This kind of power is already greater than some fourteen or fifteen-year-olds.

If it goes on like this, although it is impossible for him to have the same level of courage as Xiang Yu and Guan Yu in the history books, at least a few idle people will not be able to get close to him.

However, all of this had to be done by him to keep exercising.

Right now, he spends his days in the backyard practicing horns, weapons, and archery.

As for the firecracker, he wouldn't try it easily before the Yanshan Battalion's ordnance could build its own firecracker.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen again: "By the way, hasn't the self-generated fire gun of the ordnance institute been researched yet?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, according to Your Highness's words, three hundred rifled pipes have been drilled, but the part of the flint firing gunpowder has not yet been solved." Wang Chengen explained:

"The craftsmen of the Ordnance Institute have tried, and the current firing is less than thirty percent, and some even need four or five firing to successfully ignite."

"Therefore, the craftsmen are ready to increase the firing level to sixty percent, and then come to His Highness to report the good news."

"As for the artillery, because the clay mold needs to be dried in the shade for a year before it can be used, it will not be until at least October of the following year to start casting the cannon."

"When there was no time to cast cannons, the craftsmen wondered if they could carry the flintlock structure to the cannons."

"How else can they come up with this?" Zhu Youzhen was a little surprised, he also thought that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were very rigid.

But now it seems that it is silver, not thought, that limits them.

However, it is a pity that Zhu Youzhen can't figure out how the flintlock artillery is, and he doesn't even know when the flintlock artillery appeared in history.

If the craftsmen can really figure out the structure of the flintlock, then it is completely possible to increase the speed of the cannon from the current one fire in a few minutes to one fire in two minutes, or one fire a minute.

This is a great change for the battle situation, although it cannot achieve world domination, but it is enough for the Ming army to have an advantage in defending the city.

It's just a pity that this road is destined to be difficult, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to study in a few years.

But it's okay, before the national strength of the Ming Dynasty could not be integrated, this thing was made to make a wedding dress for the Houjin and Europeans.

"The guards of Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, how is the Jinyi Guard checking?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen also nodded:

"At present, except for Jizhen, which also has four battalions of soldiers in Shanhaiguan, Yongping, Shiqiao Camp and other places, the guards in other places are basically empty, and they have all become tenants."

Four battalions, or twelve thousand men.

There are only 12,000 people in the nearly 900-mile defense line, and if Nekhalkha is instigated by Nurhachi to attack the Great Wall, it is estimated that his own change will be staged in advance.

However, this is not to say that Jizhen has eaten too much empty salary, but that Jizhen has supported Liaodong too much.

From the battle of Salhu to the present, Liaodong has buried more than 30,000 people in Jizhen, which means that Jizhen originally had more than 40,000 soldiers and horses.

From more than 40,000 to more than 10,000, such a change is easier for Zhu Youzhen to do.

He turned his head to look at Man Gui and asked him:

"In your opinion, if you are asked to sit in Jizhen, how many soldiers and horses will you need to defend the area around Jizhen?"

"Back to Your Highness!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen ask himself, Man Gui said without thinking:

"If it is the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor at the moment, then it only takes 50,000 people to defend the thistle as impregnable."

"Fifty thousand people......" Hearing the number of soldiers and horses, Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly.

He didn't complain about Man Gui, nor did he question his ability, but he was speechless in his heart.

If he has 50,000 people, then he can directly learn from his ancestor Zhu Di and have a "sweep of the north".

As far as the strength of the Imperial Horse Supervisor is concerned, if the war horse is supplemented later, then it can be completely one as three.

Chahar, Korqin, Karaqin, Inner Khalkha, Tumut, Ordos......

These six Mongols in southern China, whether they can pull out 200,000 men is a problem, it is estimated that the armor rate is less than 30%, how to fight with the 100% armor of the seven guards and one battalion?

He would rather pull 50,000 troops to sweep the north, and then garrison 20,000 troops in Monan and 10,000 troops in Jizhen than pull 50,000 troops to defend on the edge of the Great Wall.

As long as the sea can be carried out, and when the time comes, the time will come when the time comes, when the time comes, the grain from the Indochina Peninsula will be bought and sold north to Liangguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, and then the grain from these four provinces will be transported northward, then it will not be a problem at all to support more than 100,000 people to open up land outside the Great Wall.

The current pattern is different from that of the Zhu Di period, when there were no 20 million people in the entire north, and the land inside the customs could not be planted, and no one went outside the customs at all.

But at present, Zhu Youzhen estimates that the population of the entire north has increased by at least three times, and most of the people who do not have arable land will belong to them as long as the government gives them grain and agricultural tools.

It is estimated that without Zhu Youzhen's encouragement, millions of people consciously followed the official army to the north.

"Man Gui, you help me think about how to run the ...... after I defeat Inner Khalkha"

Zhu Youzhen touched his chin and asked Man Gui, and although Man Gui was a Mongolian who had been sinicized for more than 200 years, he was surrounded by many Mongolians, so he was very familiar with the various habits of the Mongolians on the grassland.

As soon as this question was asked, he simply replied:

"Your Highness, this question is actually very simple, as long as Your Highness lays down Inner Khalkha, and then builds a city in the local area, and runs an official market, and does not favor my Ming people, the ordinary northern captives of Inner Khalkha will not be willing to leave His Highness."

"Even some small tribes will come to take refuge in an endless stream, as long as His Highness gives them official positions, it is enough."

"It's as simple as that?" Zhu Youzhen frowned and asked, while Man Gui nodded and said:

"Your Highness, think about it, if the official market is opened and the price of iron pots, blades, salt, tea and other things needed by the northern captives is reduced to the same level as that of the Guannai, then they will definitely be grateful to you."

"That's ...... what you say" Zhu Youzhen nodded, but he thought that what Man Gui said was very reasonable.

But the question is, after exterminating Engel, who has only one-fifth of the strength of the Inner Khalkha, can he make the fried flowers and others honestly surrender?

Zhu Youzhen is not worried about the problem of salt, tea and iron, he is still more worried about the problems within the Mongols.

Judging from the map, as long as the Inner Khalkha is subdued, then according to the current situation that Korqin has not formed an alliance with the Houjin, Nurhachi's westward path will be cut off again.

Politically, the vast grasslands west of the Liaohe River could become the front line of the Ming army's eastward advance, and troops could directly attack Kaiyuan or Tieling.

At that time, Nurhachi will have to deploy heavy troops in Kaiyuan and Tieling.

At present, although Nurhachi occupies most of the Nurgan region, it is basically marsh, siltland, mountain forests and mountains.

Without Kaiyuan and Tieling, Houjin's grain will last for a year or two at most, and a grain shortage will break out.

At that time, either they would go out of the alpine woodlands of the Changbai Mountain branch in the east and fight with the Ming army in the field, or they would have to send troops to attack Korea, or continue to conquer the savage Jurchens in the northern mountains to the north.

These two items, Zhu Youzhen is not a loss.

First of all, the current king of Joseon, Li Hui, is a two-and-five-boy, and the savage Jurchen of Beishan did not respond to the Ming Dynasty's crusade against Nurhachi.

At that time, if Nurhachi advances eastward, Zhu Youzhen can let Qi Jin lead his troops into North Korea and station troops along the Yalu River in the name of helping to expel Nurhachi.

If Nurhachi marched north, then he could set up a guard in Beishan in the name of helping the Beishan Jurchens and reorganize Beishan.

Therefore, laying down and deterring Inner Khalkha is the top priority of Zhu Youzhen in the next three years.

"Sun Yingyuan!" Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, and Sun Yingyuan also stepped forward to make a return gift.

"Among the newly recruited, 6,000 people will be allocated to Man Gui, and the left and right guards of Tengxiang and Wu Xiang will also have 1,500 cavalry each, and the same is true of the three guards of Yulin!"

"Don't worry about the war horses for now, let them ride the horses to practice first, and then distribute them one by one when the number of military horses is enough."

"Your Highness......" Hearing this, Sun Yingyuan said worriedly:

"If that's the case, then the Imperial Horse Warden has nearly 20,000 cavalry, and at least 80,000 medium horses are needed, which ......"

His meaning is very simple, with so many medium-sized horses, can the Imperial Horse Supervisor feed them? Where else to get it?

"You don't have to worry about the specifics, it's enough to just divide them." Zhu Youzhen explained:

"You can also learn more from Man Gui the tactics of my Ming cavalry."

"The last general commands!" Sun Yingyuan saluted in response, and Zhu Youzhen turned his head to Wang Chengen and said:

"Now that we have silver, we can breed horses, and they are well fed with beans."

"If you can't do it, you can replace the eggs every morning with soy milk like Yanshan, and feed the okara to the horses."

"In short, you can produce as many horses as you can."

"The slave takes the command." Wang Chengen didn't have the trouble of money, and his promise was much more refreshing.

As for Zhu Youzhen, after finishing speaking, he glanced at the army, and then left the barracks.

It's just that when he returned to the courtyard, he just sat down and asked Wang Chengen:

"Sun Chuanting, Wu Aheng, Yang Wenyue, Hong Chengchou, and Lu Jianxing, how are they?"

The layout of the southwest, which Zhu Youzhen attaches great importance to.

Now in three days, he will officially enter the first year of the Apocalypse from the first year of Taichang, and he needs to guard against Liaodong's Nurhachi invasion of Liaoshen, and at the same time, he also needs to prevent the rebellion of Extravagant Chongming from affecting the grain of Sichuan and Yungui.

These two places, if they can be suppressed, it will be able to ensure that the Ming Dynasty will be peaceful in the next two years.

Two years is enough time for him to do a lot of things, and to his inquiry, Wang Chengen also replied:

"Hong Chengchou has rectified the Chongqing Military Preparation Road, and under the favoritism of Xu Keqiu, the governor of Sichuan, he has recruited 6,000 new soldiers, and is still building ordnance."

"In his reply to the Qingong Palace, he said that he could train an elite in just one year, and when the time came, he could go north or continue to guard the southwest."

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, he did not doubt Hong Chengchou's ability.

In addition to his bad character, this kid's ability can be said to be impeccable in the late Ming Dynasty, and only Xiong Tingbi can cover him steadily, even Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are half a chip behind him.

Hong Chengchou is in a hurry to ask for credit, which is also in line with his character, which is not worthy of Zhu Youzhen's disgust.

As for Wang Chengen, seeing that Zhu Youzhen had nothing to explain, he continued:

"Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng also received Xu Keqiu's military salary, and each trained 3,000 soldiers and horses, and it is estimated that it will stop at this number, and Xuzhou and Luzhou cannot be compared with Chongqing."

"What about Sun Chuanting?" Zhu Youzhen asked about the artists he cared about the most, and Wang Chengen smiled:

"After Sun Chuanting got the handwritten letter from His Royal Highness, he continued to recruit soldiers and horses, and soon recruited 6,000 soldiers, and successively abolished the Naturalization Station and Lao Yaguan in the Bijiewei, and now he has controlled the entire Bijiewei."

"However, when the Lao Crow Pass and the Naturalization Post are abolished......" Speaking of this, Wang Chengen paused, and then said cautiously:

"For the purpose of encroaching on Tuntian, he beheaded thousands of naturalized post households, Lao Yaguan thousand households, and hundreds of households, and the family property was confiscated into official funds."

"However, after the raid of the house, according to what he said, the number of military tun fields reached 464,000 mu, and the private land reached more than 3.9 million mu, and about 590,000 stone of land and additional distribution could be collected every year."

"In addition, there are three military horse farms, more than 900 military horses, 7,200 taels of official money, and 54,000 stone of military rations."

"Twenty-four thousand six hundred and seventy-three households were counted, and the population was twelve hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-one."

"Good job...... Zhu Youzhen praised without hesitation, as if he had long expected that Sun Chuanting would raid the officers of the guard after the soldiers were strong.

Nothing else, he wants to train soldiers and horses in a short period of time, and if he doesn't ask for help from himself, there is only this way.

Zhu Youzhen also took a fancy to his ruthlessness, so he sent him to dismantle the guard.

Now that Bijie has been cleaned up, Tian Fu and Jiapai should be enough for Sun Chuanting to train his troops.

However, he still lacked some silver, and with this bit of silver, Zhu Youzhen also arranged people, he asked:

"What about Lu Jianxing?"

"Lu Jianxing is collecting grain in Sichuan, so as soon as His Highness's handwritten letter arrived, he asked someone to bring 100,000 taels of silver to Bijie to buy grain in advance." Wang Chengen explained:

"In his reply, he was going to give the silver to Sun Chuanting first, and then take the grain when the harvest was time."

"Well, good job." Zhu Youzhen was very satisfied with Lu Jianxing.

At present, his arrangement is proceeding in an orderly manner, even if the civil officials hinder Sun Chuanting from going north later, there is nothing to do.

Lu Jianxing and Sun Chuanting, one out of silver and the other out of grain, can completely turn Guizhou and Sichuan into a tax-paying place at that time.

The grain in these two places is enough to solve the problem of Liaodong......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen suddenly remembered Qi Jin and Qin Bangping, who had been off for nearly a month, so he asked Wang Chengen:

"Mr. Qi and Mr. Qin, where are they now?"

Hearing this inquiry, Wang Chengen was stunned for a second, and then said:

"According to the time, I have probably entered Guangning and talked about Liao affairs with Xiong Jingluo......

"Quang Ninh......"

Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes slightly, and the howling north wind also blew into the city of Guangning, which was 1,200 miles away, with his thoughts......