Nowadays, the teenagers in the martial arts hall are wearing bamboo armor, which is made of bamboo strips in the shape of a half-length armor, and the bamboo armor is padded with cotton inside and out, wrapped in leather on the outside, and lined with coarse cloth on the inside.

The face mask is made of iron sheet, exposing only the eyes and nostrils to breathe, and the knees and other places are also tied with knee pads and other protective gear.

The teenagers have an excellent ash pole in their hands, the length and weight are the standards of the Ming military system, and this ash pole requires everyone to keep it by themselves, even the Wanli Emperor enters and exits the martial arts hall every day, carrying an ash pole much taller than him, which looks ridiculous.

At present, the daily training is that the teenagers do stabbing and lifting first. The standard action of a lined up with weapons, followed by the second half of the course, standing in two rows and parrying stabs with poles.

Instructors give verbal orders at intervals in the queue to correct non-standard malignant behavior.

The leather is black, and the front ends of the long poles are wrapped in cloth with white ash rolling on them, and when they stab each other, this is used to judge whether they hit or not.

According to the meaning of the practitioners, the opponent of the Wanli Emperor should be Li Hutou, the youngest and thinnest, but Wang Tong objected, but everyone did not listen to his opinion.

Everyone's thoughts, Li Hutou is young and has little strength, and he and Emperor Wanli are assigned to a group of stabbing attacks, so that they will not cause any harm to Emperor Wanli.

What I never expected was that for the first group practice, before Emperor Wanli moved, a stab from Li Hutou made Emperor Wanli fall to the ground on his back, and he was out of breath for a long time.

The sweaty instructors hurriedly adjusted the grouping for Emperor Wanli, and naturally chose the weakest of the teenagers, and Emperor Wanli could barely cope with it.

But what was really surprising was Li Hutou, he adjusted twelve opponents in a row, and these people were stabbed to the ground by Li Hutou before they could make a second move.

The action is fast, the position of the stab is tricky and accurate, and the strength is not great, but he is particularly good at exploding, and Li Hutou has killed people after all, which is different in momentum.

In desperation, he had to take Li Tao, the most outstanding among the teenagers, as Li Hutou's opponent, and the two sides fought equally, and Li Hutou suffered a little loss because of his lack of strength.

Wang Tong's opponent is Sun Xin, Wang Tong's strength is the largest among teenagers, and he can endure it, the first opponent is stabbed in the chest by Wang Tong at the same time as Wang Tong, Wang Tong shook it, and the other party was directly poked and fell to the ground, and finally Suo surnamed Sun Xin, who was the most burly and powerful among his teenagers.

After the boring physical exercises, the teenagers were very interested in this kind of gunnery training, which was similar to fighting, and for the first time, there was a situation where they needed to be driven away by the instructors when it came to recess.

Emperor Wanli's surname was not a little higher than yesterday afternoon, and he said to Li Hutou happily there:

"If we had gone with a pole yesterday, how could we have been defeated by those dogs, I'm afraid people would have been rescued long ago."

"Don't brag, when I held your hand yesterday, your palms were covered with sweat, and you were holding a pole, so you weren't afraid to slide out."

Li Hutou, who was sitting on the side and shaking his arm, unceremoniously exposed Emperor Wanli's big words, when Wanli first came to this martial arts hall, who wanted to talk to him like this, he would definitely have a dark face for a long time, and now he is also a lot more skinny, and his round face is not red, and he said directly:

"Tiger head, you must be wrong, I'm sweating, sweating tired!!"

The two little ones were giggling and laughing there, Wang Tong felt a lot more relaxed, looking at the appearance of Emperor Wanli, presumably the trouble of the Ministry of Shangshu has been solved, and when the time comes, find an opportunity to ask this Wang Tailai, if Wang Tailai really has anything to do with the Sanyang Sect, the son of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Officials must have a high status, closer to the core circle, and he can know more things.

While pondering, Li Tao and Sun Xin and a few older children came over, and Emperor Wanli watched the leader of these teenagers coming, and hurriedly took out a few bags of snacks from his baggage and handed them over.

Emperor Wanli knew very well in his heart that the core of the teenagers in this martial arts hall was by no means himself, but these precocious teenagers, Li Tao and Sun Xin smiled and sat down next to Wang Tong.

"The Western interesting things that Captain Wang talks about every day are really wonderful to listen to, and I don't know if I can see them with my own eyes in the future."

Sun Xin spoke first, Wang Tong gently stroked the wooden pole in his hand to see if there were any small thorns left on it, and replied casually:

"There's another piece of kung fu to practice, let's talk about it tomorrow between classes!!"

However, these teenagers obviously didn't say this when they came to Wang Tong, Sun Xin patted the protective gear on his body, and said with emotion:

"As long as this armor is not a frontal spear bayonet split, I'm afraid it can be protected, even if the strong bow is not on target, far away, I'm afraid it can be blocked."

"In our Xuanfu, even those who are desperate with the Tartars all day long, Mr. Qian may not be able to mix such a set of leather armor, not to mention this helmet, the Tartars' broken knife will probably break if it is chopped."

Li Tao was on the side, the two sang and harmonized, Wang Tong put down the pole in his hand, and finally understood that the other party was not here to listen to the story, and Emperor Wanli was also interested in this topic, and couldn't help but interject:

"Isn't this just a piece of armor, which can also be called armor?"

His question is purely a layman, whenever there is a big ceremonial occasion, the forbidden soldiers will wear armor to appear, especially the Jin Yiwei Han generals who are on errands in the palace, each with bright armor.

The armor they wear is almost ceremonial, there are a lot of metal components, looking at the glittering magnificence, in the heart of Emperor Wanli, it should be regarded as armor, this protective gear is bamboo, cotton and cotton, covered with a layer of skin, how can it be called armor.

Hearing his words, even though everyone got along well, a young man still sneered and said loudly:

"How do these rich soldiers in your Beijing Division know the difficulties below, this is not called A, I want to take it back to my father and my uncle to show them, they can give them saliva water, and the soldiers who go into battle desperately, those who have no money at home wear a jacket, and those who have two money wear a thick one, and put another layer of cotton clothes in the battle jacket......"

Emperor Wanli let out an "oh", lowered his head and was about to wipe the ash pole, but as if he remembered something, he looked up at Li Tao and said:

"The two border towns of Jizhen and Xuanfu, each of the imperial court allocates nearly two million taels of silver every year, and the Jingwei Beijing camp in the Beijing division spends less than one million taels a year, and the soldiers and horses in the Beijing division are more than the border towns, why can't the soldiers below even match the set of armor!!"

No one thought that Huang Yijun, who was very funny in the whole day, actually knew so clearly, and said it so clearly, these digital teenagers must not know, seeing Huang Yijun suddenly so serious, everyone felt a little ridiculous, and one sat in the distance and said with a smile:

"The marshal of each town is not a rich streamer, that is, Li Tao's father is stupid, and he was sent to the front as a result......"

"Shut your mouth!!"

Li Tao on the side suddenly shouted, the young man was immediately silent and did not dare to make a sound, Li Tao smiled awkwardly, changed the topic and said:

"Come to find Captain Wang and Captain Huang, in fact, I didn't mean this, when we left home, the uncles at home had a guess, saying that this martial arts hall is a martial arts, you see that those teachers are all military generals, and then look at the long pole we practiced, it is clearly the spear skills in the army, and this armor...... Everyone sees that you and Captain Huang and Captain Li don't live in the big courtyard, do you know anything? ”

There are some things that can't be hidden, and people who are smarter can guess some of them, Wang Tong and Emperor Wanli glanced at each other, and replied with a smile:

"We don't know."

After the evening practice, the teenagers were a little bruised and injured, and the doctors of the Tai Hospital had to give them medicine and treatment one by one, this kind of fighting was much more exhausting than physical training, and each bowed his head and bent down with the ash pole on his back and walked towards the delicious restaurant, although the ash pole was heavy, it could not be dragged yet.

Emperor Wanli was a little lazy, and handed over this pole to Wang Tong to carry, his physical fitness was the worst and his body was inconvenient, and the teenagers could understand it.

The two of them fell at the end as usual, after a few conversations with Wang Tong, Emperor Wanli spoke to Wang Tong quite casually, his mood today seemed to be not high, walked a few steps, turned to Wang Tong and said:

"Wang Tong, since the widow participated in the government politics, at the beginning and end of each year, the cabinet, the household department, and the military department have been arguing over the military salaries of the nine sides, and each border town has to increase the salary every year, but why don't the soldiers even have armor?"

Even Jinyiwei is deducting military salaries, not to mention those border towns where the emperor is far away, Wang Tong remembers that when he and his father went to Guangdong and Macao on an errand, everyone in Jinyiwei on the boat laughed and talked about it, talking about deducting military salaries everywhere, "It's okay here in Jingying and Jingwei, there are many people staring at it, and there are some scruples about starting it, but it has become a soldier in the world who gets a lot of money" Wang Tong was very impressed by this sentence, because it subverted his concept.

On various historical film and television dramas and gossip, it is said that the military generals of the border pass are dedicated to the country, and the military generals of the Beijing division are greedy for ink and deductible, how did they turn it upside down when they listen to these people's statements.

However, Wang Tong couldn't answer this question of the Emperor of Wanli, no matter how much he knew, there were too many things involved that could break people's bones, Wang Tong hesitated and said:

"Your Majesty, except for Jingshi and Guangdong and Macao, the villain has really never been to other places, and he has not heard of it, so I really don't know the reason."

Emperor Wanli didn't say anything anymore, and when he walked to the door, he saw Zou Yi waiting outside, saying that the queen mother asked the emperor to go back to the palace for dinner, not at the restaurant.

As soon as Emperor Wanli left, Ma Sanbiao trotted over, Wang Tong thought there was something urgent, but when he came to him, he saw that the expression on his face was quite strange, Ma Sanbiao took a breath, grinned, and said in a thick voice:

"Go back, sir, there's a woman kneeling at the door of your yard!"

(To be continued)