Emperor Chongzhen has always wanted to carry out military system reform, and the new army is actually a model. At present, it is even more because the new army has shown strong combat power on the battlefield in Liaodong. Therefore, in the Beijing Division, the second batch of new troops is already being trained on a large scale. However, the quality of the personnel is naturally inferior to the first batch, after all, it is the elite selected from the border armies in various places.

At present, the second batch of new troops has already focused on firearms. After the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau improved their management methods and strictly controlled the quality of their products, the performance of flintlock pistols and artillery was greatly improved. After all, firearms are the kings of the future battlefield, and the only problem is that the cost of the new army is also high because of the large scale of firearms training.

If this were to be changed to the past, it is estimated that it would be abandoned halfway. But one is the basis for the new army to win the battle, the second is that the finances of the imperial court are at least not as poor as before, the third is that with the victory of the war again and again, the operation of one money-making thing after another, the prestige of Emperor Chongzhen is increasing day by day, and the fourth is that the important ministers of the court were swept up by him last year, and most of the people left behind are like-minded comrades. All these factors add up, and although the cost of the Forces nouvelles is high, there is not much opposition.

As a result, there is another thing, the strong soldiers in the army are left, how to arrange the weak soldiers? Emperor Chongzhen had already thought about this, and now that Liu Mao has a manpower problem here, a solution will naturally come out.

I heard Emperor Chongzhen explain to Liu Mao: "Most of the troops in the Jiangnan Guard are no longer able to be used for combat, but it is not much of a problem to use them to build roads. And the organization in the form of the army is also easy to manage. Besides, Qing is the Ministry of War, there is my will, and Qing went to mobilize the troops of the surrounding guards, and after screening strong soldiers, he collected weak soldiers to build roads. In this way, the rich merchants have enough money, and the health office provides manpower, and the road construction can be carried out at any time. ”

Liu Mao was overjoyed to hear this, in fact, he also thought about this. After all, in the past, the matter of abolishing the post station had been proposed, so naturally it would not be impossible to ignore the fact that the rotten soldiers on the side of the Jiangnan Guard Station were actually the private labor of the officers of the guard. Now that he has the endorsement of the emperor, he is in the middle of the military department, and it is logical to mobilize troops to build roads.

"Qing Ke made it clear to the army that after the cement road is repaired, it needs to be maintained and patrolled to collect tolls, and the soldiers who are active in road construction can be screened and selected." Before Emperor Chongzhen could react, he added another sentence.

When Liu Mao heard this, he couldn't help but be even more overjoyed. It's a good errand, but it's a fat job! With such a decoy hanging, it is estimated that the speed of road construction will be much faster than that of using people.

Thinking so, he hurriedly bowed down, satisfied, and hurriedly took the order.

Emperor Chongzhen solved this matter, and no longer stayed, took a boat to the north, did not stop all the way, and returned to Beijing.

This trip to Beijing can be regarded as solving several very basic but crucial problems, and I also have an intuitive understanding of the economic prosperity of Jiangnan. By the way, I brushed a large wave of achievement points, and I came out for a trip, and it was worth it! After a while, I will have a private visit to the microserver.

Emperor Chongzhen was happy, but Emperor Taiji of Liaodong was very unhappy. Because the people he sent to North Korea just reported that there was no large-scale bandit turmoil on the North Korean side, and even the Ming army did not harass it, and it was really too poor on the North Korean side, and the toss of last year was full of bones.

However, the life of the Qing army in Korea was better than that of Liaodong, at least in terms of food and materials, it was more abundant than Liaodong, so the two banners in the hands of Dorgon and Duoduo did not lose any loss in combat power. According to rumors, there are food supplies from the Japanese country on the Korean side.

Although Dolgon wanted to conceal these news, Huang Taiji, as the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, would naturally have Huang Taiji's eyes and ears even if it was a white flag and a white flag. Although Dolgon's operation of the Wa Kingdom must be a non-confidant. But things will spread somewhat.

Huang Taiji is angry about this, the Qing soldiers on the side of Liaodong and the Ming army are fighting to the death, but you Dolgon is living well in Korea, what does it mean to preserve your strength?

If it were possible, Huang Taiji would like to say to Emperor Chongzhen, hasn't your Ming Kingdom always regarded itself as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and hasn't Korea always been a vassal state of your Ming Kingdom? Why don't you hurry up and send troops to North Korea and drive out our Qing army! Isn't that Lu Xiangsheng very powerful, don't stay in Jinzhou, go to Phi Island, go to North Korea!

But judging from the signs currently available, this idea will not be cooperated by Ming Guo at all. The Ming army held on to Liaodong's side, how could he not be annoyed!

Although the troops on the Fuzhou side have been successfully withdrawn and there has been no major battle, but now the Qing Dynasty's Tanma and the Ming Kingdom's night battle is very fierce. If it had been before, there would never have been anything like this. As long as the Qing Dynasty sends a little more force, it can quickly beat back the night of the Ming Kingdom. But now, the Ming Kingdom has become as brave as the Qing Dynasty's exploration horses, and it has reached the point where every inch of land must be contested. Although judging from the military situation reported every few days, the Ming army did not collect more casualties at night than the Qing Dynasty, but the Ming army did not collect at night It seems that the more the battle is more and more courageous.

This trend is bad! Huang Taiji was also very troubled by this. If the scout warfare in the field can't defeat the Ming army, and is finally suppressed by the Ming army, the only advantage of the Qing Dynasty will be gone, and it will become a real deaf and blind man, and many things will become very passive. All that was left of the Qing Dynasty was to hide in the city and be beaten passively.

Nothing like this can happen! Huang Taiji made up his mind fiercely. He roared at Dai Shan: "I don't believe it, the Qing Dynasty will not be able to consume the Ming army at night?" Spread my will, select the elite, increase the number of horses, and be sure to exhaust the elite Ming army at night and cripple, so that they dare not go out of the city unscrupulously! ”

There have been many scout confrontations, naturally there are losses and wins, and Jianyu also caught some Ming troops who did not collect at night, and interrogated to know that the Ming army did not collect at night was mainly composed of the most brave new army and the original Guanning army. Although there are many people in the Guanning army who do not collect at night, there are not many people in the new army who do not collect at night. Therefore, Huang Taiji has this saying, and he wants to consume these nights and regain control of the wilderness.

He also learned from the night silence that the head of the Great Qing Dynasty Tanma was very valuable, and it could be directly exchanged for the fertile land in Liaodong, and it was no longer the same as before, and the rewards for war merits would always be in arrears, or even not settled. This move made Huang Taiji vomit blood again, because he knew that this was one of the most important reasons why the Ming army did not collect at night and became so brave, but this was not to use the good fields of the Qing Dynasty to motivate them to cut the head of the Daqing Tanma, is there any reason to talk about it?