On the Nanjing campus, the officers of each battalion of the New Army lined up in several rows.
Behind them, the New Army units formed into bureau units were as motionless as sculptures.
This level of uniformity is not something that no one in the current Ming army can achieve.
But those who can achieve this level of neatness are only the personal servants around the generals, and the number is limited.
Veterans like that tend to show off their killing abilities and cannot maintain this type of formation for a long time.
This kind of tens of thousands of troops arrayed for half a day without moving at all was a bit unbelievable to this group of people.
Although those Nanjing nobles did not have the skills of their ancestors, they still had vision.
When I first saw it, I was quite surprised.
Even the four foreign armies that went south in the past two years were not as capable as the military schools in front of me.
A group of farmers and miners who put down their hoes had such skills after a few months of training.
They originally knew that Yang Chengzu was good at making money and punishing people, and he was also a writer who was good at writing scripts, which was rare among nobles.
But after seeing this army, many people secretly thought that maybe he was really pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
He was also very good at training, but he just didn't show it at ordinary times and only used it at critical times.
Yang Chengzu wore wingless black gauze on his head and a bullfighting suit.
He stood on the general platform with dozens of wooden boxes beside him.
The mouth of the box was lifted up, revealing a long and narrow sheathed waist knife neatly stacked inside.
These waist knives, called Yan Ling Dao, are different from the waist knives often equipped by the Ming Dynasty's military generals.
The blades are long and narrow, and the shape is closer to Japanese knives.
Each knife is made with steel-clad technology and has a sharp edge.
It is a so-called magic weapon in the world and is expensive.
What's more important is that these knives were made under the personal supervision of the emperor Jiajing, and each sword was personally inspected and accepted by the emperor himself, which is of great significance.
Yang Chengzu held up a kind of sword, clicked the spring, took out the sword from its sheath, and flicked the spine of the sword lightly with his fingers.
The bright long sword let out bursts of dragon roars.
"Sirs and gentlemen, these Yanling knives in front of you were made under the supervision of Long live personally.
Every sword has been inspected by Long live personally.
Grandpa Long live has many things to do, but he has to take the time to give us one knife and one knife.
Come check it out.
What does this mean?
It shows that the emperor's grace is great.
It means that in His Majesty's heart, each of you has a place in our Zhejiang New Army.
Each of you has received adequate food and salary.
If you die in battle, you will be compensated and buried.
If you are injured, you will be given decoction and medicine.
At home, you will have Yang Ji to take care of you.
You will serve the country.
Repay loyalty and kill thieves The country is my duty.
But I still care about you.
I not only personally test the edge of each sword, but also carve my name on it.
The swords in front of me are divided into three types: reward sword, Ji Yong sword, and loyalty sword.
Each species will be awarded to the Japanese and Japanese.
Meritorious soldiers, wounded warriors, and fallen soldiers.
Each sword is engraved with a person's name.
That is to say, long live your name.
After remembering each of your names, I will read out the name and award the sword.
"Qi Jingtong" This time, when Yang Chengzu's petition for reward was handed over, Jiajing's reply was not too fast.
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He thought there was some problem in the court, but what he got was good news that he did not expect.
Jiajing actually came up with such a way to reward his merits.
Although it should be related to the story of Zeng Guofan that he told him, it was not easy to learn and apply the story.
In the past, rewards for meritorious soldiers were basically inseparable from money and fame.
After a big battle, it was common for dozens of commanders to be recommended.
As for who would get the actual award, it still depended on one's own means.
Coupled with the deductions from the handlers and the local detention, often this kind of reward cannot be realized by the grassroots soldiers.
Furthermore, since the money is distributed from the hands of the person in charge to the soldiers, the object of the soldiers' gratitude may also be transferred to the payer instead of the emperor.
The value of these waist knives is not very high.
Even if good materials are used, due to the limited number, not many knives are made.
But with just a few hundred waist knives, these soldiers really felt the emperor's care for them, as if the emperor was well aware of his performance in killing the enemy on the front line and witnessed it with his own eyes from behind.
For these people who get the sword, it goes without saying that it is an honor.
In this era, it is a great honor for anyone whose family has a gift from the emperor.
A single sword made under the supervision of the emperor and engraved with his name can be regarded as a treasure passed down from generation to generation.
Furthermore, the Ministry of War said that when there is a shortage, if you take out the sword and show it to the officials in charge, you can add a lot of weight to the other party's heart.
Taking into account the qualifications assessment in the officialdom, those with swords and those without swords are likely to take two completely different paths in their future official careers.
After all, those who threw bricks at the rebels in Prince Xing's Mansion are now receiving a sixth-grade salary, not to mention this precious sword.
In the current new military camp, although most of the officers are from Anlu, there is even a saying that "if you can speak Anlu dialect, you can carry a sword on your shoulder."
But from now on, it no longer matters whether he is from Anlu or not.
The entire cadre group will be divided into those with waist swords and those without waist swords.
Those with waist swords are our own people, and those who know their own names are long live.
Even for the wounded or dead, it is not too difficult to rely on this knife to seek treatment for themselves or to seek benefits for their families.
When you get to the county government office and take out this knife, the county magistrate will also take a high look.
These benefits and honors cannot be measured by silver.
Even those who failed to get the sword thought that the battle was not over yet.
As long as they were braver or luckier in the next battle, they were afraid that they would not be able to get a sword and relied on these hundreds of swords.
The fifth battalion of the new army The military morale was almost captured by the emperor.
The generals who received the sword, from Qi Jingtong to Yu Dayou, all had tears in their eyes.
When they raised the sword above their heads, they all shouted "The sword is with the man, but the man with the sword will die" and kowtowed one after another towards the altar table where the imperial edict was placed.
Xu Pengju watched the waist knife being sent down.
Although he knew that this thing was not worth much money, he always felt jealous and hot-tempered.
He secretly thought in his heart, "I will have to let those bastards from the Forty-nine Guards train me later."
Get up, you can't be too comfortable all day long.
After all, you are a military guard, there are tens of thousands of people, you can kill a few Japanese pirates and earn a few swords for me, otherwise it will be too embarrassing. " The guards and guards around them looked at these waist knives with envy in their eyes.
And thinking that what they have learned cannot be lost to these mud-legged people who have only received training for a few months, some people are eager to find an opportunity to gain fame with a knife and a gun.
Yang Chengzu added: "The rewards have been distributed to you all.
Anyone who bravely kills the enemy will be generously rewarded by the court.
However, the former were only defeated by small thieves, and those who will fight in recent days have become big enemies.
I ask you, Do you dare to fight?”
"Dare to fight and kill the enemy" The three armies agreed in unison, and the sound was like a torrent, washing away the entire school grounds, as if a huge thunder had been fired in the late autumn world, shaking the world.
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