Because the armor purchased by each regiment and battalion on its own, the armor of the new army that is now displayed in front of Emperor Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong is not very neat.

This matter is also an oversight on the part of the Generalissimo's Office, which allows the following to purchase on its own, but forgets to stipulate that each regiment or battalion should be unified!

Therefore, the Marshal's Office only checked whether the armor was strong, and did not ask whether the shape was uniform. As a result, many phalanxes have "pinched flowers" of armor - in one phalanx, there are people wearing shiny patchwork half-body plate armor, and some people are wearing cloth iron armor of red fabric.

Although the team is very neat, the armor cannot be uniform, and it always gives people a feeling that it is not very elite.

At least Emperor Chongzhen felt that way......

In addition to the armor being a bit "flowery", the weapons used by the soldiers of the new army also made Emperor Chongzhen worried.

Some teams were armed with half muskets and half spears. Some teams did not have a single firearm...... Can't they average it out?

"Father, in the future, all infantry regiments will be reorganized and redressed according to the methods of each model regiment, and all of them will be half-guns and half-spears when the time comes...... Now it is not necessary, and the firecracker still needs to be used intensively. ”

Zhu Cihong accompanied Emperor Chongzhen on horseback on a military parade, and explained to him with a smile the problem of equipment, "The armor will also have to be unified into a half-body plate armor in the future, and it can't be spliced, it has to be a whole piece." ”

The protective effect of the spliced plate armor is not as good as that of the whole plate armor, and the gaps in the splicing are easy to be pierced by arrows, and it is also easy to be smashed by blunt objects during hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, after the development of the southeast military industry and iron industry, it should all be replaced with the whole plate armor.

"Brother Chun, that has to cost a lot of money, right?" Emperor Chongzhen said coldly, "I heard that because of the collection of business taxes, there are troubles in many places!" In addition, the small farmers in the southeast are not stable, so don't make a big fuss......"

Tax resistance is expected, and there are always people in this world who are not eye-opening! But there is no need for Zhu Cihong to make a move in this matter at the moment, there are so many dog-legged officials below!

Zhu Cihong has now abolished the rule that locals cannot be local officials (of course, this does not mean that officials have to serve locally), and has also implemented the "shogunate official system" and the "council official system", expanding the ranks of the bureaucracy and absorbing some local forces willing to serve the imperial court. In addition, a large amount of population and land were directly controlled through the local military cantonments.

As a result, the local control ability was greatly strengthened, and the ordinary gentry and merchants could not make any troubles at all.

However, the uneasiness of the "small farmers" in the southeast is a trouble. In fact, it is not the "small peasants" who are disturbed, but the slaves!

Because of Zhu Cihong's policy of suppressing the gentry in the southeast, the gentry's power declined, and they began to be unable to control the slaves below.

The Ming Dynasty was honored by the Yuan Dynasty and recognized the slavery system from the founding of the country. At the end of the Ming Dynasty (it is not certain whether it is the end now), for various reasons, the number of bankrupt peasants and handicraftsmen in the Jiangnan area increased day by day, and in order to survive, these people had to sell themselves into slavery. At the same time, because of the increase in the three salaries and various apportionments during the reign of Chongzhen, many poor households were sacrificed as slaves in order to avoid taxes.

Therefore, during the Chongzhen period, the number of slaves owned by wealthy merchants and gentry in Jiangnan also increased.

And now, with the reduction in the power and wealth of the gentry who oppressed their slaves, mass slavery was inevitable...... It's not going to be easy to deal with.

Because Zhu Cihong knew that the slaves needed not only freedom in life, but also the means of production to sustain their survival.

Zhu Cihong can be a "shackle smasher", but he can't distribute the property of the slave owner to the slaves, so he does not rashly announce the abolition of slavery now.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Father, don't worry, you won't make much trouble...... And once the iron industry in Shanghai and Nanjing develops, a piece of plate armor can't cost a few dollars, at most four or five taels of silver, and one million taels can create 200,000 ironclad soldiers!

At that time, we will be able to go north to the Central Plains and recover the ancestral tombs! Father, you can go to Tianshou Mountain to ask your ancestors for their sins one by one! ”

And plead guilty...... Chongzhen glared at his son, and said in his heart: How can there be so many sins to be invited? If you ask for too much guilt, it will make the subjects misunderstand that I am a faint king!

"So, what about now?" Chongzhen asked, "The Tartars are coming...... Your soldiers haven't been trained yet, so what can you do? ”

"The elite soldiers have become!" Zhu Cihong smiled, "Father, what you see is an elite soldier...... Don't say that those teams equipped with firearms, even if they are regiments with swords, spears, bows and arrows, are enough to fight the Tartars! ”

"Really?" Emperor Chongzhen was riding his horse past an infantry regiment that was not equipped with a firearm.

"Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated...... Invincible! The officers and soldiers knelt down on one knee and shouted loudly.

This slogan...... Emperor Chongzhen sighed. Zhu Cihong made a bad start and couldn't take it back! The current Ming officers and soldiers are becoming more and more wicked!

The new army shouted "Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated, invincible".

And Shi Kefa's Qufu group practice shouted "Saint Confucius, blessed, invulnerable"...... What's going on?

"Father, if anyone thinks that these officers and soldiers are weak without firearms, then they are very wrong!" Zhu Cihong saw Chongzhen frowning, and thought that he was worried that the team without firecrackers would not be able to fight, and explained with a smile, "They may not be able to defeat the model regiment with half-firearms, but they will not suffer when they meet the Tartars who also do not have firearms." ”

Won't suffer? Chongzhen thought to himself, when you suffer a loss, you can cry!

......

In the midst of cheers, Zhu Cihong accompanied the suspicious Emperor Chongzhen to hastily inspect the soldiers and horses of the Jiangbei camp, and then entered the camp fortress.

After settling down in the palace fortress, Chongzhen finally couldn't help but wait for lunch in the palace hall, and asked Zhu Cihong: "Brother Chun, it's still early today, why don't you leave?" ”

"Let's go?" Zhu Cihong asked with a smile, "Where does my father want to go?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen's face was solemn: "Aren't we going to defend the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "The Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum already has Zhu Zongrong to protect it, so if it is foolproof, my father doesn't have to worry." ”

In fact, without Zhu Chunchen sending troops, there will be no mistakes in the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum - Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong have already been planed there, if Daming really has a dragon vein, it will also be dug up, what will Haoge dig there again?

Even if there is anything else to dig, Zhu Cihong does not intend to stop it! Dragon veins or something, they are all superstitions, but Zhu Cihong will not believe it.

Chongzhen frowned and asked, "Then where should we march next?" ”

"Don't go anywhere," Zhu Cihong smiled, "just wait here!" ”

"Wait?" Chongzhen was stunned and stunned, "Then why don't we wait in Nanjing City?" This place hasn't been out of the Heavenly Mansion Realm yet, has it? ”

"I didn't leave the Heavenly Mansion," Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "This place belongs to Jiangpu County, less than ten miles from Nanjing's Longjiang Pass, and only five miles from the Yangtze River."

But when you go out of the city, you're going to be in charge! And also crossed the Yangtze River...... This shows that the father and his sons are unwilling to favor the left side of the river, and want to go north to the Central Plains to restore the mountains and rivers. At least a little stronger than Zhao Gou and Sima Rui!

After all, we have already made a Northern Expedition, although we have only crossed the river for five miles, but this is also the Northern Expedition! ”

What the? Five miles of the Northern Expedition? Emperor Chongzhen thought to himself: You rebel still have no shame? Crossing the Yangtze River is considered a Northern Expedition? And how can you compare me with faint kings like Zhao Gou and Sima Rui? I'm so much better than them!

Zhu Cihong looked at Chongzhen, he didn't think that this master could compare with Zhao Gou and Sima Rui, and it was mainly the prince who was stronger than the two of them.

But you can't say this to Chongzhen, it's too hurtful. Zhu Cihong hurriedly diverted the topic and said: "In addition, it is only 300 miles away from Fengyang Mansion City, and how the war in Huaibei has changed, the Jiangbei camp will be known in five hours at the earliest." If it is in the city of Nanjing, the southbound Tangma has to cross the river, and it will take two more hours. ”