If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 64 Lieutenant General
Zhu Zhanyu didn't need to worry too much about his fat father and elder brother's affairs. He also needed to invest more energy in his own military training as the military camp was gradually approaching completion.

"Mr. Yang, I will leave it to you to go to Yiwu to recruit troops. The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs have prepared the documents for you. The rest is up to Mr. Yang." Zhu Zhanchen explained to Yang Pu the matters regarding recruiting troops. : "Don't disturb the people when you go to recruit troops. Whether to join the army or not is entirely up to the people's voluntariness. Don't let the local people directly recruit civilian households. That would go against the emperor's original intention of training a new army, and it is not what I want.

Of course, if there are not many people joining the army in Yiwu, you can communicate with the local wealthy gentry. As long as there are local clans as guarantees, the problem should not be big. "

Perhaps from the perspective of future generations, things like clan gentry are a cancer, but in the Ming Dynasty, which is still a feudal dynasty, the court's decrees can reach the county level at most, and the villages further down must rely on these clan gentry. Help carry out the imperial decree.

This is why some people say that the most basic unit that constitutes China's feudal society is not the individual, but the clan, and the individual is just a member of the clan.

In particular, the Ming Dynasty also implemented the grain chief system during the Hongwu period. In the fourth year of Hongwu, it was stipulated that in Zhejiang, Zhili, Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian and other places, places with a grain payment of about 1 shi were designated as one district. Large households were assigned to be chief grain chiefs to collect and reconcile grain. Transport grain from the fields.

Later, it was also stipulated that the grain chief must formulate rules, prepare atlases, declare disasters and losses, report tax evasion, and urge grain differences.

In the beginning, the grain chief was responsible for the profits and losses of large households. He could use his power to bully the villagers and collect taxes. Later, the taxes and servitude became heavier and tax households fled more and more. The grain chief was overwhelmed and became a hard labor.

From this we can know the role that the gentry clan played in the rule of the feudal dynasty.

Therefore, even when Qi Jiguang recruited troops in Yiwu when he was fighting against the Japanese, he still needed to communicate with the local gentry and clans in order to successfully recruit troops in Yiwu and train the world-famous Qi family army.

Since Zhu Zhanjuan also plans to recruit troops in Yiwu, the issues of these local clans are issues that he has to consider.

However, he only briefly raised this issue with Yang Pu, because he believed that Yang Pu, the later chief assistant of Xuande, was capable enough to solve these problems.

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, Yang Pu will definitely recruit a strong army for Your Highness and the imperial court!" Facing Zhu Zhanjun's earnest instructions, Yang Pu not only felt the joy of finally being able to show off his talents, but also felt that The pressure of being entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

But for Yang Pu, being able to show off his talents and repay the kindness of the prince and the second emperor's grandson is what he cares about most at the moment.

So after bidding farewell to Zhu Zhanchun, Yang Pu set off for Yiwu to recruit the talents Zhu Zhanchun needed.

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After seeing off Yang Pu, Zhu Zhanjun returned to the military camp. It happened that the deputy general Zhu Di had agreed to had also come to report to Zhu Zhanjun, so he took this deputy general to the alchemy room with him. Be familiar with the refining process of jade medicine.

"The essence of the so-called jade medicine is to extract the spiritual energy of the earth contained in jade and swallow it in the form of medicinal liquid, so as to strengthen the body of the person who takes it with the spiritual energy of the earth." Zhu Zhanquan is injecting the spiritual energy of the earth into his body. The deputy general next to him explained the principles of jade medicine, and he also recorded these words very seriously.

As the deputy general assigned by Zhu Di to Zhu Zhankun, he will be responsible for the military affairs of the new recruits and the daily training of the soldiers.

If Zhu Zhanjun wanted to mess up, he could just focus on refining the jade elixir, leave the army training to this deputy general, and then he could do the same.But Zhu Zhanjuan obviously didn't want to be ruined, but wanted to extend his and the power of the East Palace to the army by training the army.

So for this lieutenant, Zhu Zhanqi obviously cannot adopt a slutty attitude, but should win over and win over him, making him one of his own.

That's why Zhu Zhanjun took this deputy to the alchemy room and explained to him how to refine the jade medicine, as well as the functions of the jade medicine and other details and precautions.

"The general has memorized all of His Highness's explanation, but I don't know how much impact this jade medicine will have on the soldiers. Does the daily training need to be adjusted?" the deputy general asked Zhu Zhanquan, and he also asked about a very critical point.

Soldiers in the feudal era were not like the modern armies of later generations who could train every day.

In this era, an army that trains every three days can be regarded as an elite and strong force. More often, it trains every five days, every seven days, or even a little bit worse, every ten days.

The so-called depletion of armaments refers to this situation to a large extent.

But ancient generals were not fools. How could they not know that soldiers should practice every day and not relax?
But the training of soldiers requires the consumption of food, especially the training of fully armed soldiers. If the soldiers are not supplemented with nutrients and fed well, it can really train people to death.

Not to mention anything else, an armored soldier's armor, even if it is leather armor, weighs more than ten kilograms, let alone the iron armor that weighs twenty or thirty kilograms.

It is difficult for a modern person to wear such a suit of armor without training to ensure that he can wear it for a long time, let alone like the soldiers who fought in ancient times, wearing armor to complete a full day of training.

Just wearing this armor for a whole day is an extremely physically demanding task, let alone training or fighting.

In addition, the maintenance of iron armor itself is also very troublesome. An important reason why cloth armor appeared during the Ming and Qing Dynasties was to prevent rust.

Therefore, the superposition of various factors made it difficult for the ancient army to train every day. Even the elite troops could only train once every three days at most.

However, the addition of additional factors in jade medicine will undoubtedly have a great impact on the physical fitness of the soldiers, so the deputy general's inquiry is naturally appropriate.

And from this point of view, at least this deputy general is a person who knows the military well and is very serious about his work, not the kind of person who flatters his superior.

Faced with this question from the deputy general, Zhu Zhanju nodded affirmatively, and then said: "Continuous use of the jade medicine will make the soldiers' bodies as sapphire-like and fearless of swords as the sapphire within three months. At the same time, their strength will be greatly increased, and they will be able to wear armor every day." Hold the weapon as if it were nothing. If you are training, you can practice it every day.

However, this will only have such an effect after they have taken the medicine for three months. At the beginning, they should follow my Ming Dynasty’s normal soldier training method. Every month, you will make adjustments based on the actual physical condition of the soldiers. Three months Then practice every day. "

(End of this chapter)