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That being the case, the labor involved in road construction this time will naturally become people with road construction experience. It is certain that Daming will build a large number of roads in the future, so the first batch of experienced road construction labor can rely on their own experience. Promote the construction of roads everywhere.

This time, the imperial court spent half a month and recruited [-] young men. During this half-month period, the imperial court also made complete preparations for the repair of Jingjin Road.

Whether it is the planning of the road, the various equipment needed to build the road, and even the required cement, they have all been allocated in advance, and it can be said that these recruited young men will be in place.

According to Chinese customs, for such a major event as road construction, it is natural to choose an auspicious day before breaking ground.

The repair of Jingjin Road here is vigorous, and Li Huan's previous work to ask the emperor to recruit 20 troops has also begun.

According to what the emperor said, [-] soldiers and horses need to be recruited in the first year, so the Five Army Commander's Mansion sent a large number of officials to post recruitment notices in front of them.

It is said that a good man should not be a soldier, especially the existence of the military household system. It is almost impossible for people to avoid recruiting soldiers. There may not even be able to issue pensions, which makes recruiting very difficult.

But that was in the past, but now it is different. The imperial court's current finances can be described as extremely abundant. After confirming the amount of recruitment, the cabinet allocated the general's salary almost immediately.

The white money was just there, and there were still a dozen taels of An Jia silver, so the recruitment of the Five Armies Governor's Mansion went very smoothly.

Even Li Huan sent people from Jinyiwei to watch the officials who went to recruit everywhere openly and secretly to ensure that these officials would not lie to others and corrupt the An family silver of those soldiers.

After killing a few officials who really dared to reach out, seeing the heads of these officials, the rest of the officials are much more peaceful, and no one dares to think about those money.

A huge school ground outside the capital is under repair. This school ground covers an area so large that it can accommodate [-] troops.

There are schools like this in the eastern suburbs and one in the western suburbs of the capital, and Li Huan is currently inspecting the final finishing touches of the eastern suburbs.

A large amount of cement was used in the repair of this school ground, which can be said to give people a refreshing feeling.

The nobles and generals of the five armies, such as Zhang Lun and Zhu Fu, also followed Li Huan to inspect the school ground in front of them. Many of them came here for the first time, so when they saw this huge school ground, their eyes were full of excitement. Full of surprise.

Zhu Fu stroked his beard and sighed, "This school is really the only place I've ever seen in my life. Duke Qin is really good at it."

Not only Zhu Fu, but everyone else also showed admiration.

Li Huan laughed lightly and said, "Duke Cheng gave a false praise, it's nothing more than using some cement."

Speaking of cement, Zhu Fu's eyes sparkled and he said: "That cement is really a good thing, it can be used to build a city wall, the simple fortress before was integrated, and a garrison of soldiers and horses stationed in it was enough to resist Ten times the enemy, if all the gates at the border of our Ming Dynasty are repaired with cement, how can the Tatars on the grassland cross the Great Wall and enter the Central Plains."

Li Huan smiled slightly and shook his head slightly: "Why didn't the old man say that if we use this cement to build a few big cities on the grassland, and then suppress them with a large army, for thousands of years, the northern grasslands will be The hidden dangers will no longer exist!"

All the people paused when they heard the words, and many generals had strange gleams in their eyes. For example, Xu Ying clapped her hands and praised: "Okay, okay, what Qin Guogong said is very true. Building a city is not only due to the lack of various resources needed for building a city, but also takes a long time to build a city. But now that there are artifacts such as cement in hand, as long as there are enough manpower, a magnificent city can be built in a short period of time. , In that case, the grassland will be firmly in my Ming's hands, as Qin Guogong said, from now on, my Ming will never suffer from the northern Tatars."

While speaking, You Xungui couldn't help but said to Li Huan: "Duke Qin, why don't you write a letter to His Majesty, asking His Majesty to allow you to build a city on the grassland."

Li Huan said calmly: "It's not difficult to build a city on the grassland. The key is to defeat the Tatars first. Otherwise, the Tatars are still strong. Even if we want to build a city on the grassland, The Tatars are not fools either, how could they sit back and watch us build a city in their heartland."

Hearing what Li Huan said, everyone nodded in agreement.

Xu Ying said eagerly, "I really want to lead the army to attack the grassland immediately."

Seeing Xu Ying's appearance, everyone couldn't help laughing, and Li Huan laughed beside him and said, "No hurry, no hurry, as long as I train up elite soldiers, sooner or later I can push across the northern grasslands."

As he said that, Li Huan looked at the crowd and said: "Tomorrow, the school in the eastern suburbs will be delivered, and the first batch of recruited soldiers will also be stationed in the school. , but I hope that you can train a truly elite army for the imperial court."

More than a dozen young generals who stood out in several battles, such as Xu Ying and Chen Ang, patted their chests and assured Li Huan that they would never let down the court's expectations and trained an elite army for the court.

On November [-]th, the tenth year of Zhengde, accompanied by all the officials, the emperor drove out of the imperial city, walked on the spacious and extremely smooth avenue and went straight out of the city gate.

At this time, apart from the Jingying soldiers maintaining order on both sides of the spacious road, there were dense crowds of people all around.

Previously, the imperial court recruited a large number of young and strong people to build the Beijing-Tianjin Road. As soon as the extremely novel cement came out, it immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

On weekdays, a large number of people came to wait and see, watching the incomparably hard road stretch as if growing at an extremely fast speed every day, many people were dumbfounded.

If there were no guards patrolling twelve hours a day, those curious people would have long since run up to the road to take a closer look.

Now the Beijing-Tianjin Road, which stretches for more than 100 miles, is officially completed, using a full manpower of more than [-], and it took a month and [-] days. This speed is definitely quite fast.

As the Son of Heaven, Zhu Houzhao walked down the imperial court slowly, stepping on the flat road with his feet firmly on the ground. At a glance, the flat road with a width of four feet stretched all the way to the distance, with no end in sight.

Looking at the flat avenue, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help admiring: "Well, what a wide avenue, with this road, from now on, from Tianjin Wei to the capital, I'm afraid it will take less than an hour to go directly."

Not long ago, the newly promoted old Yang Yiqing, who was promoted to the cabinet, stroked his beard and said, "Return to Your Majesty, if you hurry up, it will not even take an hour. Even those heavy carriages that transport goods travel between Beijing and Tianjin. It can be improved by one or two times."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard the words, and glanced at many officials who saw the concrete road for the first time. The first time I was led by Li Huan to see the cement road was the same.

After laughing, Zhu Houzhao straightened his expression, looked at the cabinet and Li Huan and others and said: "My dear friends, now that the Beijing-Tianjin Road is connected, it is enough to see that this concrete road is the magic weapon of my Ming Dynasty to connect the four directions of the country. The first step is to find a way to connect the capital and the Nine Borders, and I want to ensure that even if the imperial court sends troops to Gansu Town and Liaodong Town, which are far away, the reinforcements will arrive within half a month."

Wang Yangming and others looked at each other, bowed to the emperor together and said: "Your servant is waiting for the order!"

On the school grounds in the eastern suburbs, Zhu Houzhao in military uniform was patrolling the school grounds accompanied by nobles and generals such as Li Huan and Zhang Lun.

In the distance, one by one soldiers can be seen practicing in an orderly manner under the leadership of their respective battalion officers. The sound of shouting and killing resounds through the sky, which makes people's blood boil.

Suddenly there was a roaring sound from a distance, like thunder, which meant that the horses under Li Huan and others had already become accustomed to this roaring sound, otherwise, if there was a sudden explosion, all the horses would have been shocked long ago up.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help his eyes lit up when he heard the roaring sound, and he saw a puff of gunpowder smoke among the army formations in the distance, and several battalions of firecrackers were training there.

Zhu Houzhao rushed forward at the head of the horse, followed by Li Huan and others. When they got close, they saw groups of soldiers aiming at the front with long guns in their hands, lined up in several rows. The soldiers in the front row fired decisively, and then pushed back from both sides, and the second row took a step forward to replace the previous first row.

Several rows of soldiers reciprocated one after another, and the roaring sound continued, directly creating a dense area of ​​​​guns and bullets. Even if you don't know the soldiers, you can imagine such a situation. I'm afraid I'm going to hit my head and bleed.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help clapping his hands and exclaimed: "Okay, okay, this firecracker army is elite!"

On the other hand, Zhu Fu's eyes fell on the firecrackers in the hands of those soldiers. Zhu Fu, as a veteran minister who served several generations of emperors, and has been in charge of the five armies' governor's mansion all year round, can also be said to be very good about the situation of Beijing camp firearms. Quite understanding.

Zhu Fu still knew the power of the firearms in the army. Seeing the rows of gunfire soldiers in front of him, the lead bullets erupting from the gunfire were far more powerful than the gunfire he had imagined, and he couldn't help being surprised. color.

Zhu Fu subconsciously cast his eyes on Li Huan who was following the emperor, as if he noticed Zhu Fu's gaze, Li Huan smiled lightly and said, "Could it be that Duke Cheng has something to say?"

Several people also looked at Zhu Fu, and Zhu Fu pointed to the guns in the hands of the soldiers and said: "If I remember correctly, the power of my big fire guns is far inferior to the firearms in the hands of these soldiers. ah."

Zhu Fu said with a smile: "Could it be that the Military Bureau under the Ministry of Industry has developed some powerful firecrackers?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan. You must know that Li Huan actually arranged all the affairs of the new army, so the obviously more powerful firearms in the hands of these soldiers are naturally inseparable from Li Huan.

Li Huan explained with a smile: "What Cheng Guogong said is true. The Bingzhan Bureau has indeed developed a new firearm, but it is because the general supervisor has improved the steelmaking technology, so that the steel produced by my Ming Dynasty has the highest performance. Far beyond the past, under such circumstances, forging the firecracker will naturally greatly increase the power of the firecracker."

While speaking, Li Huan stretched out his hand and saw a battalion officer quickly handed a firecracker to Li Huan, and Li Huan presented it to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, please look, this is my Great Ming general. Compared with the previous firecrackers, the new firecracker newly developed by Zuojian has at least doubled the range, wear resistance, and power."

Zhu Houzhao's eyes couldn't help but brighten up.

Daming relied on a large number of firearms to drive the decadent Mongolian Yuan out of the Central Plains. It can be said that in the Ming army, firearms have always accounted for a large proportion. If the power of firearms skyrocketed, it would mean that Daming The strength of the army skyrocketed accordingly.

This can be seen just by looking at the shooting scenes of these gunners who are training.

Zhang Lun and other honorable military generals looked excited. They don't know that the increase in the power of firearms means that the strength of the army has skyrocketed.

And the soaring strength of the army is the guarantee of their honor, glory, wealth and future military exploits.

After all, as long as the strength of the army increases greatly, it will be difficult for them to win battles on the battlefield in the future, and military merit is the foundation of their noble generals.

As long as they have military merits, they still have enough qualifications and confidence to compete with those civil servants above the court.

I heard Zhang Lun say with some excitement: "Your Majesty thinks that as long as there are enough firecrackers to install these firecrackers in large quantities, even if the Tatars on the grassland invade again, I, Da Ming, can do it." Grind it to death."

Zhu Houzhao's eyes turned to Li Huan, the meaning of which was naturally clear to Li Huan. He immediately said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. In half a year at most, the number of Huobao Battalions alone can be expanded to as many as ten."

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard the words. According to the standards of the Daming Firearms Battalion, there were more than [-] soldiers including gunmen, artillerymen, and cavalry.

And Li Huan said that ten battalions can be assembled in half a year, which is an army of [-] that is almost purely weaponized. Thinking about it this way, all the nobles and generals who know about the Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses are shocked and embarrassed Confident look.

The Shenji Battalion, one of the three major battalions of the Ming Dynasty, is purely weaponized, and the entire Shenji Battalion only has more than [-] people.

There are a lot of firearms in the Ming army, but the pure firearms are only a battalion of soldiers and horses like the Shenji Battalion. Now, according to Li Huan, as long as he wants, Daming can produce ten magic weapons in half a year, which are far more than before. The pure firearms battalion with battalion strength came out.

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