On the Buddha Bathing Festival, those ladies in the capital were arranged to engage in blind date activities with unmarried officers, although Chongzhen instructed Queen Zhou to do it. But Concubine Tian, who has always been the queen of the same week, did not engage in any sabotage activities and did some assistance work.

As a result, Queen Zhou originally felt that the time was still a little tense for the Buddha Bathing Festival incense activity, but with the assistance of Tian and Yuan, the preparations were completed one day in advance.

The originally booked number of ladies soon exceeded 30 people, and finally set at 38 people. And the task of selecting unmarried officers fell on Mao Yuanyi.

This Confucian general, who can fencing on the horse and write poems on the horse, encountered a problem for the first time in his life, a big problem for him. In the end, he selected 22 unmarried officers at the Army Military Academy, 10 at the Naval Academy, and then 6 from the 1st Cavalry Division, including Wu Huai, the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division specially designated by Chongzhen.

In order not to let these officers lose their normal minds, Mao Yuanyi followed the emperor's advice and did not tell these officers the true purpose of this incense activity. It was just a simple notice to them to put on their military uniforms and participate in a guard event.

Although the navy was not established, the white dress and the blue dress were already formulated. The Army's dress remained red and the regular dress was changed to grass green.

Before Chongzhen ordered the design of military uniforms and military uniforms, the military attaché's dress was the court uniform, and the regular dress was a variety of face armor, in addition to the emperor's special gifts: unicorns, flying fish, bullfighting, etc.

The style of the military attaché's court uniform is similar, and he mainly relies on the beast complement on his chest to distinguish the grades. The high-grade general's uniform is shaped like the narrow-sleeved wide robe of the Tang Dynasty, with no collar, no button, and right side, and the placket and the placket are greatly crossed when the front body overlaps, and the silk and belt are tied at the chest and waist, and a scarf or hood is worn. It still looks more aesthetically pleasing.

The military uniforms of junior officers are different, with short backs and crotched robes. It looks like an ordinary brocade guard, standing with a low-ranking civil official, like a sideline.

This time, under Chongzhen's order, the military uniforms were divided into three categories, one is the military dress worn during important festivals; the second is the combat training uniform worn when fighting and training; Finally, there is the military uniform that you wear when you go out on weekdays.

After the style of these military uniforms was unified, the military attache who went out in military uniforms finally looked a little pleasing to Chongzhen's eyes. Although there are no patches sewn on the regular uniform, different patterns and armbands decorated with different shapes are used to distinguish the rank of military attachés.

In fact, in Chongzhen's view, the military attaches wearing robes with their heads are really like a group of singers, and they do not have the heroic bonus of military uniforms and big-brimmed hats in later generations.

However, if he wants the people of the Ming Dynasty to shave their hair and change into modern Western-style military uniforms, he really doesn't have the ability to do it now. Therefore, only a few buttons were added to the robe, and the cloth belt was replaced with a belt.

Some people are quite happy to escort a group of ladies out of the city to incense, but some people are very dissatisfied. For example, Wu Huai felt that he was now also a Mingwei general with a positive fourth grade, so why did he fall to a group of official ladies as a guard.

Therefore, after receiving Mao Yuanyi's notice, he came to the emperor angrily to uphold justice. In the emperor's office in Wuyingdian, Chongzhen met with the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division who hurried back from the Fengtai camp.

After patiently listening to Wu Huai's complaints, Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and said to him straightforwardly: "This time, I asked you to guard a group of ladies in the capital, the guards are only incidental, and the main purpose is to solve your lifelong affairs."

The military attaches selected this time are all single and unmarried, aged between 25 and 35, and those ladies in the capital are women with gentle and virtuous temperaments who I asked the queen to choose.

I said that the duty of a soldier is to defend the country, so naturally you have to become a family to defend it. While the country is still at peace, I feel that this is the best time for you to solve your personal problems. Do you have any comments? ”

Wu Huai suddenly lowered his head a little, and was silent for a long time before he said to Chongzhen: "The minister's national hatred and family hatred have not been avenged, and Jiannu has not been eliminated, so he really has no intention of starting a family." What's more, if the minister has concern, how can he fight desperately with Jiannu on the battlefield? I also ask Your Majesty to allow the minister to resign..."

Zhu Youzhen suddenly lowered his face and interrupted his words and said: "Ridiculous, what I need is a general who commands my Ming army to destroy the enemy, not some desperate Saburo."

I have told you from the beginning that I need an army that can defend this country, this people, not a killing tool. Although the army is studying how to kill the enemy more efficiently, I don't want this army to be commanded by a group of bloodless butchers.

We want to eliminate Jiannu, not only those robbers who lead beasts and cannibals. More importantly, it is necessary to eradicate the barbaric customs that they represent, which have no regard for life. The war between us and Jiannu is a war of civilization and barbarism, and it is not only a contest of iron and blood on the battlefield, but also a cultural and spiritual competition between the two peoples.

We can learn from each other's strengths, but we can also discard the decaying parts of our culture and customs. However, this does not mean that we are to degenerate into a bunch of savages.

Our ancestors couldn't beat tigers and lions, so they invented all kinds of weapons and armor. If we can't defeat Jiannu today, then we should reform the military system and carry out weapons research and development, instead of turning ourselves into beasts.

The day after tomorrow, you must participate in the activities, and you must behave well, so as not to fall into the prestige of the first riding division. You didn't flinch in the face of the enemy's sword, are you still afraid of a group of women? ”

After Chongzhen's number fell, Wu Huai finally raised his hand and surrendered. In order to ensure that he fled back to the Fengtai camp after leaving his sight, Chongzhen also took special care of Lian Shanxiang and personally stared at him.

So Wu Huai, who came to complain to the emperor, became a bird that threw himself into the net. He was very annoyed, he had known that this was the case, he might as well directly pull a team of cavalry out of the camp for marching training, and avoid the time of this incense.

In early April, the eighth bathing Buddha Festival finally arrived, under the leadership of the three concubines, a convoy of thousands of people went out of the Xizhi Gate of the capital, and went to the Wanshou Temple located on the north bank of the Gaoliang River.

In this huge convoy, there were 38 carriages that were not of the palace style, but had a bit of fat and powder, and these carriages were accompanied by a military attache in military uniform.

Most of these military attaches used to be low-ranking officers fighting on the front line, and their appearance may not be as handsome and fair as some Jiangnan scholars, but their figures are stylish because of regular exercise. Under the backdrop of the new military uniform, it is also very heroic.

Except for Wu Huai, who knew the inside story, he drooped his body, and the whole person looked a little decadent. Most of the other military attachés were in high spirits and wanted to try to show their best performance.

Although they knew that the women sitting in the carriage beside them were all of noble birth, and they could not climb up to them like poor soldiers, but the male instinct in their bodies made them behave like a male peacock today.

The women in the carriage had actually received a hint from the queen, and each of them was given a purse containing a red bean and a black bean before departure. If they felt that the military attache accompanying them could see it, they took out black beans and gave only red beans. If they are not satisfied, they take out the red beans.

When Wu Huai drooped his body and rode on the horse, he didn't know that the curtain in the window of the carriage beside him had been lifted into a narrow slit. Wang Yunqing, who was sitting in the carriage, was secretly looking at his side from the gap with a blushing face, and 17-year-old Wang Yunqing was the second daughter of a director of the Ministry of Rites.

Although her father's official position is not high, her family is related to Shoufu Huang Liji. Although this relationship is relatively estranged, few people in the DPRK and China know about it.

But among the several women elected by Huang Liji and the British princess to the queen, she is the most outstanding one, whether it is appearance or talent, she is on par with Concubine Tian.

Whether it is Queen Zhou or Tian and Yuan, they all have a tacit understanding of taking her as the number one target. Wu Huai is Chongzhen's most valued general, and he is also the object of personal problems that must be solved in this blind date activity, so the three of them pushed her out.

Unlike other women who can have a choice, Queen Zhou personally talked to her before setting off and clearly told her that she must choose Wu Huai.

Wang Yunqing is not the kind of woman with a strong personality, her temperament is quite soft. After the queen gave her an account of the order, she also accepted her fate.

Secretly lifting the curtain of the car and taking a look at the person she was married to by the queen was already a very bold move for her. The scar on Wu Huai's left face scared her at first, but soon Wu Huai, who looked lazy and lonely, made the scar look like it didn't have any vicious taste.

Although the spring is bright and cloudless today, the road to Wanshou Temple is full of people, and it is a lively and extraordinary appearance. But along the way, Wang Yunqing only had a lonely Wu Huai in his eyes.

When the people of the capital happily greeted the Buddha Bathing Festival, it was a busy scene in the southern county of Shanghai.

With the opening of Shanghai, backed by Suzhou and Hangzhou, and in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, it is rapidly becoming the most important transshipment port in the central part of the Ming Dynasty.

In particular, after a year of construction, in addition to the old 16-Pu wharf in Shanghai County, a new wharf and warehouse area is being formed in the area west of the Huangpu River and north of Suzhou Creek.

The new terminal was well planned in advance, both the warehouse and the port building. It looks much more comfortable than the cramped and chaotic old wharf in Shanghai, and the new wharf with a lot of lifting machinery is installed, and the efficiency of loading and unloading goods is 5 or 6 times that of the old wharf.

Therefore, after the New Year, the big ships that entered Shanghai from abroad docked at the new wharf to load and unload their goods, and they were no longer willing to wait at the old wharf. Only small boats that specialize in inland river transportation are willing to stop at the old docks and use cheap manpower to load and unload goods slowly.