Chapter 034: Buying People's Hearts
Zhu Youxiao, who was unwilling to be just a puppet emperor, had an urgent need to rectify the Beijing camp. After the rectification, it means that he could control it.&1t;/p>
Only with military power can one be hard.&1t;/p>
After some selection of soldiers in Beijing, all those with poor physical fitness were fought to build military camps. The 50,000 soldiers in Beijing were quickly moved into the barracks.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao first announced that he would increase the salary of Beijing camps, giving 1 tael of silver a month, including food and accommodation.&1t;/p>
Compared to the cavalry division's treatment of 1 tael of silver plus 1 stone of rice, they are naturally worse. They are treated as a corps. However, Zhu Youzhai has formulated an assessment system. As long as the soldiers meet the training standards and can pass the assessment, they can be promoted to a secondary corps. The treatment of the upper corps will be increased accordingly. The secondary corps will be treated as a corps of rice per month, while when the upper corps, they will be treated as a corps of silver per month and 1 stone per month.&1t;/p>
At the same time, the military pay of each soldier will be directly transferred from the court to the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty, and the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty will be transferred from the soldiers' bank accounts.&1t;/p>
So, Zhu Youxiao absorbed 50,000 depositors for the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>
1 tael of silver per month, and the military camp is responsible for food and clothing. Such treatment has made the soldiers of the Beijing camp very excited. What is even more exciting is that as long as you train hard, you can be promoted and get higher military pay.&1t;/p>
But what they didn't expect was that the next training would not be so easy.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao's instructor team selected from the cavalry division soon carried out rough and cruel training for the 50,000 Beijing soldiers.&1t;/p>
Cohort training often takes several hours to stand under the sun. Move casually, maybe you will be whipped. At the same time, there is physical training every day, which is more intense day by day.&1t;/p>
Every day, sleep, get up, and dot Mao, there are corresponding regulations. As long as you are late for a moment, you will be physically punished. A group of soldiers complained at such training intensity, but they still endured it for military pay.&1t;/p>
Life is not easy these days. How many people come to Beijing? Isn’t it just for the whole family to have some food?&1t;/p>
“One two one, one two one, plus advance…”&1t;/p>
"Stand firmly, turn right..."&1t;/p>
There are many call calls everywhere above the teaching ground. Although the cavalry battalion is more of a trained horse, there are usually infantry ranks, but the training is not so ruthless.&1t;/p>
In the early training, only the queue and physical fitness are trained, and there is basically no combat technology and drills. It is equivalent to these Beijing soldiers and are still in the 'new recruit training stage'.&1t;/p>
This is how to train for three months, then learn professional combat techniques, and finally carry out tactical exercises. It will take at least several years to train an elite soldier. The main reason is that Zhu Youxiao trains the phalanx tactics at this time, which requires the whole army to explore and improve together, and there is no large number of experienced officers.&1t;/p>
However, as long as Zhu Youxiao trained this army, it would be easier to explode the troops in the future. If the front was tight, the recruits would be able to train for two or three months, so that experienced grassroots officers could join the battlefield.&1t;/p>
In order to train the Beijing camp, Zhu Youxiao moved directly into the military camp.&1t;/p>
First, observe and correct it at any time, and second, be familiar with the soldiers of the Beijing camp.&1t;/p>
The specific training does not require Zhu Youxiao to intervene directly, and the instructors drawn from the cavalry battalion are already competent. However, the instructors of these cavalry battalions hold the identity of the emperor as the emperor's personal army, and they are also cavalry. They don't look at people in front of the Beijing soldiers, with awesome looks, and they are rough and cruel during training, which makes all the soldiers in the Beijing camp angry.&1t;/p>
This is the time for Zhu Youxiao to come out to perform. When the soldiers of the Beijing camp were trained to a similar level, Zhu Youxiao would ask them to stop for a day and a half. Sometimes they called eunuchs from the Bell and Drums to perform, and sometimes they would ask their gentleman to teach the soldiers cultural lessons.&1t;/p>
On this day, Zhu Youxiao even asked the Shangshen Supervisor in the palace to make more than 50,000 pieces of crisp cakes, and gave the soldiers of the Beijing camp to one piece. Many of the officers and soldiers were so excited that they shed tears when they ate these palace cakes. After some soldiers took a bite, they carefully wrapped the crisp cakes and prepared to take them back to share with their families.&1t;/p>
Smart people can see that just a little favor made Zhu Youxiaoxun the holy emperor warmly supported by the soldiers of the Beijing camp.&1t;/p>
In terms of winning people's hearts, Zhu Youxiao went very smoothly. However, the cost of reorganizing the Beijing Camp began to cause trouble again. Weapons and equipment were a problem!&1t;/p>
The Beijing Camp is obviously an army with no war experience. If you want to avoid collapse on the battlefield, in addition to having good training, you also need excellent equipment.&1t;/p>
Each spearman has a pair of armor. In addition to having a musket, musketman must at least be equipped with a cold weapon for melee combat, as well as leather armor and so on.&1t;/p>
It takes about ten taels of silver to be equipped with a soldier like this. Compared to the cavalry, it is much cheaper.&1t;/p>
Compared with bows and arrows, the cost of a cow rope gun also has certain advantages. Bows and arrows require materials such as wood, cow horns, beef tendons, animal glue. The value of a piece of cow rope is equal to that of a cow. Using two cow horns on the inside of a bow and arrow is equivalent to the cost of two cows. Although not all bows and arrows are so good, the cost of bows and arrows is indeed higher than that of a cow rope gun.&1t;/p>
Bows and arrows were considered military equipment with relatively strong long-range strikes in ancient times. If they had good archery and huge strength, their power would naturally be much stronger than those of the firearms in the past. In some dynasties before the Ming Dynasty, crossbows with a range of kilometers were even developed, which was also considered high-tech weapons in the cold weapon era.&1t;/p>
The bow and arrow will be eliminated by the firearm at this time. It is not that the power is not as powerful as the firearm, but that the cost is higher and the training time is required.&1t;/p>
The cost of training the Beijing Camp this time is obviously still the emperor pays for the bill, and the Ministry of Revenue Treasury probably won't buy it.&1t;/p>
Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao still has 1.2 million taels of silver in his hand, but he still needs to think carefully about the equipment. The equipment of the spearmen does not need to be too much thought. He just puts a piece of armor on his body and then has a four-meter-long spear. Standing there is like a hedgehog. No matter how well-trained the horse is, he will be frightened and stopped when he rushed to the spear forest.&1t;/p>
If the cavalry troops of the wild boar skin are not cooperated by other troops, the spearmen will be a nightmare that they will never be able to defeat.&1t;/p>
The reason why the armor used on-site armor is mainly because this thing will be eliminated in the future. Zhu Youxiao naturally would not go stupid to study European plate armor.&1t;/p>
European plate armor is made by using it to fight firearms. In fact, it still cannot fight firearms. In contrast, China uses cotton armor to fight firearms, and the effect is still good.&1t;/p>
The cost of plate armor is very expensive, and only in Europe is the aristocratic class, so Zhu Youxiao naturally won’t be frustrated with any plate armor. Even if it is made, it will be eliminated in a few years, which is definitely thankless. Therefore, it is more appropriate to use the current Ming army’s armor. The technology is very mature and it is easier to popularize.&1t;/p>
What needs to be considered is the problem of a clamp gun. The clamp gun at this time is indeed a bit low-level. At least in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, the clamp guns these days are really low-level, and they still need to use a clamp. This is the least understanding. Can't flint be used? It is a very simple thing to design a mechanical structure.&1t;/>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!