I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 200 Exercise Accident
"From the Jingwang Mansion to the Daming Royal Group, we are an organization that encourages change, because we have always believed that only by encouraging change can society progress."

"You should all be able to sense that our Daming Royal Group is leading the progress and development of the times. The progress and development of the times will produce huge dividends, and everyone can enjoy these dividends, but these dividends do not fall equally on everyone, nor should they fall equally on everyone. Those who have the courage to change will often have more development dividends."

Zhu Houxuan looked at the people in the conference room with burning eyes. Seeing the growing data of people who actively signed up to go overseas today touched his heart, so he made this speech today.
Zhu Houxuan took this opportunity to convey his ideas and unify the thoughts of the Ming Dynasty Royal Group.
Everyone present was smart, and Zhu Houxuan had spoken very clearly. Naturally, they could understand what Zhu Houxuan meant. They were connected to various departments of the Ming Royal Group, so they would naturally spread Zhu Houxuan's words.
In the western suburbs of the capital, flags were fluttering and drums were beating on the parade ground.

Zhu Houzhao stood on the parade ground stand wearing a helmet and armor, looking excitedly at the soldiers lining up below.

It was obvious that the soldiers below the stage were more murderous than those in the Beijing camp. They were the border troops summoned to the capital by Zhu Houzhao.

"Royal father, shall we start?" Jiang Bin, also in armor, asked respectfully.

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Houzhao said, looking at the sun.

"Have the people sent to invite King Jing returned?" Zhu Houzhao asked Zhang Yong, "Why hasn't King Jing arrived yet?"

Today is the day of a large-scale military exercise for the border troops, and Zhu Houzhao specially sent someone to invite Zhu Houxuan to watch the exercise.

In fact, he just wanted to show off to Zhu Houxuan the results of his training of border troops.

"The person we sent out hasn't come back yet. I'll send someone else to check," Zhang Yong replied immediately.

Zhu Houzhao nodded slowly

"Your Majesty, the soldiers have been standing in armor for more than half an hour. They have consumed a lot of their physical strength and are now gradually starting to get noisy. If it drags on any longer, I'm afraid their morale will be lost!" Jiang Bin looked at the team below the stage, hesitated for a moment, and still spoke out to persuade them.

He was the one who strongly advocated the summoning of the border troops to the capital, and he regarded them as the foundation of his career. He was also very serious about the training of the border troops, so he did not want other factors to affect the effect of the training in front of Zhu Houzhao this time.

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he was a little hesitant.

At this moment, more than 20 riders rushed into the parade ground, led by Zhu Houxun, followed by a long convoy.

"Brother, why did you come just now?" Zhu Houzhao came over and said with some complaint.

"In order to come empty-handed, I prepared some things, so it took some time," said Zhu Houxuan, pointing to the twenty or thirty large carts.

"What have you prepared?" Zhu Houzhao's curiosity was also aroused.

"More than 100,000 kilograms of dried salted fish!"

"So many dried salted fish?" Zhu Houzhao said in surprise.
Then he frowned, as if he had thought of something, "You won't ask me for money for so many salted fish, right?" Zhu Houxuan was speechless by this sentence: I just asked you for money for the medal of honor, why do you think I am a money-grubber in your eyes?
He sneered at Zhu Houzhao and said: "If you want to give me money, I will take it."

Zhu Houzhao looked embarrassed and didn't dare to continue talking.
"Give it all to the soldiers later. This is something that His Majesty brought specially to reward the soldiers. This needs to be made clear to the soldiers." Zhu Houxuan turned to Jiang Bin and said. In just a short while, his words changed.
"Thank you, uncle." Jiang Bin said quickly, looking at Zhu Houxuan thoughtfully.

The other people who were accompanying him also understood the meaning of Zhu Houxuan's words.

The King of Jing still knows what he is doing!

Zhu Houzhao looked at Zhu Houxun with a smile in his eyes. Everything was said without words. He pulled Zhu Houxun to the stands.

"Do as your uncle says and let's get started!" Zhu Houzhao ordered.

"Yes, sir!" Jiang Bin replied.

Before the exercise began, Jiang Bin suddenly shouted to the 5000 soldiers on the parade ground: "Your Majesty has ordered that everyone who completes today's exercise will be rewarded with kilograms of dried salted fish!"

The morale of the audience, which had been a little low, suddenly became high.

Next, these five thousand people began training.

Of these, four thousand were infantry and one thousand were cavalry.

The infantry formed a formation that Zhu Houxun could not understand, and advanced slowly, with some order in their advance and retreat.

The cavalry was divided into several teams and patrolled the parade ground.
Zhu Houzhao quietly explained the changes in the formation to Zhu Houxuan.
Zhu Houxuan tried to listen for a long time, but still didn't quite understand.
However, from the perspective of later generations, Zhu Houxuan's formation was still not so neat, and became more scattered as time went by.
What interested him most were the various firearms in the infantry. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the largest and most advanced firearms team in the world at that time. However, the firearms used by the Ming army were still the same as those in the early Ming Dynasty. There had not been much progress and they had begun to fall behind Europe.

But he couldn't really tell what it was from a distance.
The one-hour drill was about to end. The finale was the cavalrymen on horseback chopping down wooden scarecrows.
This project is quite entertaining. The knights quickly passed by the scarecrow, and then a cold light flashed, and a scarecrow's straw head flew up.
"Good!" Zhu Houzhao kept cheering.

The exercise was about to end, but as expected, something unexpected happened.
A cavalryman quickly drew his sword and chopped the scarecrow. The sword broke into several pieces.
The most important thing is that this is not an isolated case, many cavalrymen's swords broke in this way.
Zhu Houxuan secretly observed Zhu Houzhao and saw that his face was getting darker and darker.
"Zhu Bin, what's going on?" Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask.

Jiang Bin also broke out in a cold sweat and quickly explained: "The Ministry of War issued a batch of weapons to the cavalry a few days ago, among which was a batch of waist knives. I think the root of the problem lies here."

At this time, the broken waist knife was brought up. The broken edge was neat and the craftsmanship of the broken waist knife was also somewhat shoddy.
Zhu Houzhao's face darkened and he shouted, "Let the people from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works come here! I want to ask them what's going on today."

Such a problem occurred in such a big exercise, which made him feel ashamed.
Officials from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works came over quickly. They were speechless in the face of such a situation.
(End of this chapter)