"The above main generals are all given embroidered spring knives, luan belts, big red python clothes flying fish suits, chain mail gold belts, and a silver seal of 'Emperor Ben Zhongliang', and the quasi-secret is dedicated to performing my affairs."

Then, Li Jin read another sentence before announcing his will.

So, Hu Shouren and the others all received the reward and thanked them again.

Needless to say, the embroidered spring knife has always been a ritual weapon for the Ming Dynasty to reward high-ranking military officials, just like the command knife of senior generals in later generations.

And the python clothes flying fish suit is also a kind of ceremonial reward from the emperor to the senior military ministers.

Chain mail is a kind of high-density armor made of ring iron, which is the best armor of this era because of its light weight and strong flexibility, and it is also mostly the high-level armor used by the emperor to the high-ranking generals of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun is now giving them chain mail, which is naturally to show his honor, and to make it more able to show the image of the Son of Heaven and the army.

After Hu Shouren and others received the reward, Zhu Yijun said: "You should live up to the honor I have given you today, you should be loyal, and you should know the righteousness, and you must know that as a close minister of the Son of Heaven, you are different from other ministers!" ”

"Be at any time to ask for peace, to do things at any time, and not to be pretended to be a staff member, but to be known by others; No matter how big or small, family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs must be played in me, and I have given you the right to play secretly, which means that you are close to me, and you must remember! ”

"Remember!"

Hu Shouren and the others all replied, and they all looked solemn for a while, and their eyes were shining.

It wasn't until they left the palace gate for a long time that they all came back to their senses, and they each held iron helmets with locks and flower decorations, and walked beside the palace wall with big strides, and chatted.

"Why does the Son of Heaven let us do things at any time, I really don't want my bad words to be seen by His Majesty every day, not to mention, let me write, it's better to kill me!"

Liu Wei said it first at this time.

Ma Gui gave him a kick: "You still dislike it!" This is a privilege that many governors and ministers do not have, and they can go straight to heaven! ”

"In other words, if any civil minister or minister makes you feel wronged, you can also directly sue His Majesty."

"It's just that you can't play it secretly when you encounter important things, so it's easy for people to notice that you have actions, you have to play some irrelevant things first, so as to confuse the public, so that people don't know whether the things you play are important or just ask for peace, report peace to Your Majesty, and talk about the people's weather."

As he spoke, Ma Gui asked Li Rusong: "Brother Li, what do you plan to play for Your Majesty in the first book?" ”

Li Rusong squinted and glanced at the sun in front of him: "The content of this secret recital, no one should know except Your Majesty, right?" ”

Ma Gui nodded: "It should be." ”

Li Rusong and Ma Gui have also studied together for a long time, and the relationship has already reached the point where there is almost nothing to talk about, so he said at this time: "I want to tell Your Majesty that my father loves to raise Kou, and because of this, I am always not allowed to kill him!" ”

After the appointment of the chief general of the six guards of the pro-army, it is officially time to recruit and train.

Daming is now not short of young and strong.

In the area of the canal, there are more than 100,000 slender men who often need to act and listen to orders because of fiber pulling, and they are also a good source of soldiers, and there are hundreds of thousands when the farmers are slack.

Moreover, there were actually a lot of people in the Ming Ying Martial Arts Division, and now there are many martial arts who remain in the Beijing Division.

In addition, the treatment of the pro-military guards was higher than that of the southern soldiers.

Therefore, when the notice was posted, there were many brave people in the Gyeonggi area.

It's just that in order to prevent the right slaves from mixing with the captives, the household registration will be strictly checked.

Fortunately, Zhu Yijun ordered to conduct a census throughout the country at the beginning of the year, and Gyeonggi was the first to receive the holy decree, and bureaucrats such as Yin Shi Yingyue of Shuncheon Prefecture and Zhang Lu, Governor of Baoding, had already made a very clear survey of Gyeonggi's population.

Therefore, it is not difficult to verify the innocence of the young and strong recruits in the Gyeonggi area.

According to Zhu Yijun's will, the Household Department, the Shuntianfu faction, the Criminal Department faction, the Metropolitan Procuratorate faction, the Jinyi Wei and the pro-military guard each sent a number of officials to form the Qinban Recruitment Minister, who was responsible for recruiting troops.

The reason why so many ministries and government departments participated together was naturally to facilitate the investigation of the case record.

Among them, the household department checked the tax payment records, the Shuntian Prefecture checked his family situation, the criminal department investigated the crimes committed by himself and his immediate family members, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei mainly supervised.

And the main person responsible for the selection is the pro-military guard generals.

"Strong! It's a practitioner, right, and riding and archery must be too? ”

Ma Shilong walked up to a young man at this time, pinched his arm, and asked as he spoke.

The young man replied, "Yes! ”

Then, Ma Shilong was immediately overjoyed, and asked again: "What's your name, can you be famous?" ”

"Chen Ce."

"Wanli has been martial arts in four years."

After hearing this, Ma Shilong walked to Li Rusong, and when he passed by Luo Shangzhi, the general of the Southern Soldiers who was also here to select new recruits, he deliberately took advantage of the time to loosen his belt, and pulled the gold-inlaid python jade hanging from his waist, and then walked up to Li Rusong and said: "Master, I have chosen a good material for my humble position, and I have a calloon on my index finger, and I am from a martial arts background." ”

"Then hurry up! lest they be recruited by other guards. ”

Li Rusong crossed his waist as he spoke.

Ma Shilong saw several pieces of python jade on Li Rusong's waist, as well as the flying fish python under the chain mail leg skirt, and his pride suddenly disappeared, and he said yes.

Luo Shangzhi saw Ma Shilong's python jade, and while bringing a few selected young men over to show Chen Wenliang, he said to Chen Wenliang:

"Master, can you tell Qi Hou that in the future, I will be recruited and transferred over, I haven't taken the village and seized the city for a long time."

Chen Wenliang glanced at these young men: "Let them run a few laps more, and let them read the number after they finish running. ”

Then, Chen Wenliang said: "Don't be greedy, it's in exchange for your life, Qi Shuai said that there is only one purpose for a general, that is, to win the battle, as for whether you need to take the risk of rushing into battle, and capturing the city and killing the general, it all depends on the situation, don't forget the responsibility of being a general for personal military merits!" ”

"Yes!"

Luo Shangzhi answered, and continued to select new recruits.

About two months later, in August of the eighth year of Wanli, the six guards of the pro-army completed the recruitment.

Because not all of the 50,000 soldiers were recruited through recruitment, in fact, more than half of them were selected and drawn from the border army and local guard offices.

What's more, Li Rusong, Ma Gui and others were also ordered to recruit a group of military households from the garrison guard post who could have been riding and shooting.

So, the whole recruitment didn't take much time.

In fact, most of the time in the recruitment process is spent on political review.

After all, it is the Son of Heaven who is pro-military guard, and this aspect cannot be unserious.

After the recruitment, the training began, and the original southern soldiers were responsible for training the infantry artillery battalion, while the northern soldiers were responsible for mounted archery.

Zhu Yijun has issued an edict that the new pro-army guards will automatically change to the pro-army guards, and give the "Son of Heaven Guard" plaque to his family, and after he returns to the field, he can be given priority to be selected as a grassroots official such as the local inspection department, and his children can be given priority to be selected as a local official and a regular soldier, and the local officials must treat such a family with courtesy.

Therefore, for these officers and soldiers who joined the pro-army guard, it is also a very glorious thing to be pro-army for the Son of Heaven.

What's more, the identity of the Son of Heaven itself has a very strong positive significance in this era.

So, when training, the upper and lower training is very positive.

"Why did I hear the sound of recitation on the training ground?"

On this day, Zhu Yijun specially came to the school field of the pro-military guard in the imperial city and asked about the governor Hu Shouren.

Hu Shouren replied: "Back to Your Majesty, this is the training rules handed down by Qi Hou, we must first let the soldiers memorize the provisions of the order and the military regulations, the literate teach the illiterate to read aloud, the illiterate must learn to read, and whoever learns well will teach the illiterate again." Only by first familiarizing yourself with the orders can you use all kinds of soldiers properly in the future. ”

"So, most of the southern soldiers are literate?"

Zhu Yijun therefore asked about Hu Shouren.

Hu Shouren nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty, most of the southern soldiers are literate, because there is an official school dedicated to the test firing of firearms, and the soldiers need to master the test firing experience of all kinds of firearms, not only firearms, but also vans, partial vans and all kinds of artillery, all of which have to read the words handed down from above, so if you don't know it, the gunners must also know some calculations." ”

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything after hearing this, but secretly sighed in his heart that the Qi family army is no wonder its combat power is strong, this is not a classical army at all, let the soldiers memorize the articles first, and those who don't know think that he Qi Jiguang is a traverser.

(End of chapter)