phoenix knot

Liang Guanjing and Su Mingyue were very concerned about the establishment of the Shenji Battalion. In order to raise funds and recruit female soldiers, it took a little effort.

Liang Guanjing said: "I also built a team of female soldiers back then. Most of them were orphans I met during the march. Women are weak, and after all they suffer losses when fighting the enemy. But women are careful, have a weak appearance and are good at disguising. They are light, and they can gallop day and night on horseback. Therefore, this team mostly serves as secret sentries, spies, messengers, or civil servants such as keeping account books in the army. Nowadays, most of this team is married to military households and has children. The ones around me are probably the ones who love the fragrance and cherish the jade.”

Xiyu said: "Your Majesty, I don't know. Although Qin Feiyang, the commander of the Red Flag Battalion, was married, her husband is the admiral of the Poyang Lake Navy. I heard that Qin Feiyang has been in the army to train sailors. Now he is a sailor. Instructor."

Liang Guanjing nodded: "However, she is in Jiangxi, so it is always wrong to ask her to abandon her husband and son and come to the capital to help me form the Shenji Camp."

Su Mingyue said: "Isn't Lianxiang Xiyu a ready-made instructor? How about I come to be the commander of the Shenji Battalion?"

Lianxiang laughed in surprise: "You?"

Su Mingyue said: "It's okay to look down on me. Now many of the troops dispatched are civil servants, and they don't need to personally go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. If the Shenji Battalion is better than a test, it's better to fill the gunpowder quickly. In practice, if we compete, I may not be inferior to you."

Liang Guanjing pointed at Lianxiang and said: "She is not mean, why don't you two compete now?"

Xiyu said: "People come and go in Yongming Palace, swords and swords have no eyes, let alone firecrackers?"

Liang Guanjing nodded yes, and suggested that everyone take the firecrackers to the racecourse in the northern suburbs to compete, and she also stopped by to see what was going on there.The last time Bai Chunfei participated in the Queen's book, after a thorough investigation by the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, he caught the leader of the supervisor who was pocketed. He was imprisoned, but the money could not be recovered. Now, the racecourse is only surrounded by land, and an empty house with no decoration is built. If you want to rest and take a bath after riding a horse, it is absolutely impossible. There is no stable, so you can only find a tree stump to tie the horse anywhere.

"Build a mud-rock barrier here, and it can be used as a shooting range, in case the fire blunderbuss is too powerful and stray bullets can hurt people." Liang Guanjing pointed with a horsewhip, "It doesn't cost much."

Su Mingyue said: "It's not impossible for the Shenji Battalion to train troops here, just tidy up the empty room a little bit, they are all women, with ingenuity, and the household items can be brought into a new look soon."

Liang Guanjing said to Lianxiang: "I have figured out the solution, you and Xiyu stay here together, finish this matter, and report the progress to me at any time."

"Yes!"

"Where are the soldiers going to recruit now?" Su Mingyue asked.

Liang Guanjing said: "It's simple. Recruitment is posted inside and outside the capital. All orphans, widows and mothers who have no one to rely on can report their names to Caishikou outside the Meridian Gate and record them in the register. Among them, those who are capable enter the regular camp of Shenji Camp and train day and night, and they must not slack off, and they will see results within half a year."

Su Mingyue said: "Are there so many orphans and widows in the capital?"

Liang Guanjing said: "As long as the annual salary is high, even orphans and widows will rush to come."

Lianxiang said: "Under heavy rewards, there must be brave women."

Su Mingyue said again: "What if the husband and mother-in-law don't allow it?"

Lianxiang said: "If you can afford it, you will take care of your wife. If you can't afford it, don't you let it go? Madam is worrying too much, I'm afraid there are still men who want to push their wives out to beg for living and supplement their families."

Su Mingyue said: "Since ancient times, women who show their heads in the public eye have always been vitriolic and mean, and the female soldiers of the Shenji Battalion may not be immune to this."

Lianxiang said: "Bringing firecrackers and ostentatiously passing through the market, how many people do you think will be vitriolic? So what if they are vitriolic, don't pay attention at all."

Su Mingyue thinks about it, "The control of firecrackers is also necessary. If any fiery lady brings firecrackers home to kill her husband, the impact will be too bad, and Shenjiying will be gossiped."

Liang Guanjing sighed, "Back then, there was a man under my second brother who loved beating his wives, killing and wounding wives and concubines in groups. He made great military exploits, but no one said anything. It's easy for a man to kill his wife, but it's easy for a woman to kill her husband..."

Su Mingyue sighed, everyone was silent for a while, and walked around the racecourse.

Su Mingyue said: "This matter needs to be written into a memorial and reported to the imperial court, and the expenses have to be appropriated from the national treasury. The Shenji camp is just being built, and the number of candidates should be small but good. I'm afraid that some people in the cabinet will be long-winded, so it may not be able to be done. .”

Liang Guanjing said: "A team of three to 500 people can always be pulled together."

Su Mingyue nodded: "Then we will follow the Queen's orders."

The group went to the Wengshanbo Palace to check again. Before the emperor entered Xinjing, Liang Guanjing, Su Mingyue and others had lived here. It was originally on the east side of the former palace, but Liang Guanjing planned to build another building for the two of them. This is a leisure place, now only the foundation has been laid, and if the money cannot be raised, it can only be forgotten.

"Go back and ask the emperor to issue an edict to change Wengshan Lake to Mingyue Lake, and that's it. This convenience is still feasible." Liang Guanjing took Su Mingyue's hand, and looked at the tall building of the palace with a little regret.

Lianxiang said: "Is there really no money in the treasury?"

Liang Guanjing said: "Building Xinjing and moving the capital of the country are all a lot of money, and there is really not much money in the treasury. The Ministry of Households cried poorly to the emperor every day, from Nanjing to Beijing. Once the emperor joked with me, saying that the harem Of the three thousand beauties, the empress and the wife of South Korea are the ones who spend the most money, and they used up all the money in the treasury."

Su Mingyue said angrily: "Is the relocation for the sake of the country, or for the two of us? He will take the credit, and the scapegoat queen and I will bear it?"

"Okay, okay, Mrs. Han, don't get angry. It's getting late, we have to go back to the imperial study to read the papers, let's go." Liang Guanjing hugged her for a good meal of comfort, and the group went back home.

The memorial to Jian Shenjiying cannot be proposed by the harem, because what the harem wants can be discussed directly with the emperor. Liang Guanjing doesn't want to blow the pillow, and this matter has to be done according to procedures.She instructed a newly promoted official to write an inconspicuous memorial from Qipin and submitted it, and Su Mingyue approved it, and the matter went on like this.

"The cabinet didn't say anything?" Liang Guanjing asked.

"The cabinet doesn't seem to have noticed that a seven-rank memorial to the middle of the matter is light-hearted, and they usually don't read it, right?"

Liang Guanjing said: "At first, I was most worried that the cabinet would withhold the papers and not send them to the imperial study. I was also planning to ask people to read the papers a few more times if I couldn't see them. Now it seems that I don't have to worry about it. But you sent it down Will the cabinet be willing to do it after criticizing it?"

"It's not up to them to handle things. We only let the Ministry of Rites put up notices outside, and we do the rest ourselves." Su Mingyue said.

"I mean money? Will the Ministry of Households be willing to transfer the money?"

Su Mingyue smiled: "You are really careful in doing things. I reviewed the memorials reviewed by the eunuchs in the past. The methods were really not done by humans. They did everything in order to extort property. For the sake of a redemption, the dignified officials of the court even To pay tribute to those eunuchs often is simply degrading. There are countless snowflakes and silver coming in and out, how much can we build a team of three to five hundred female soldiers?"

Liang Guanjing said: "These female soldiers have to find something to do in addition to their training to supplement their expenses. You can think of a way. We spend our own money, we can't always ask Han Chengjue for it, we can earn it ourselves."

Su Mingyue patted her chest, "Wrap it on me."

A few days ago, a list was posted to recruit female soldiers inside and outside the capital. As expected, a lot of people came to sign up, even a lot of mothers, daughters, and three sisters came together.Lianxiang Xiyu was in charge of selecting the source of soldiers. During the training on weekdays, Su Mingyue was ingenious, letting them practice firecrackers in the morning and embroider in the afternoon. They were called to practice accuracy, patience, and skillful fingers. The patterns of these embroidery were all designed by her. Signed the name of Shenjiying.The fingers of the female soldier holding the gun are all calloused, how can she embroider with a needle?The embroidered things can't be handed out at all, and a skilled embroiderer can't be trained in a day or two, let alone training soldiers on weekdays.

Lianxiang complained to Su Mingyue, Su Mingyue twisted the orchid with her fingers, and thought about it, she brought the embroidery patterns to the Jiangning Mansion Embroidery Room, and then mobilized the embroidery room in the palace to embroider with the capable maids, and took out these fine works in grades It was sold at the market, and it soon became a fashionable accessory that girls in the capital loved to wear. It was not only beautiful, but also majestic.There are imitations and drawings, and the texture of the fabric is incomparable. For a while, these embroidery products are worth more than gold, and princes and nobles rush to buy them.The silver bills of the Shenji Battalion were quickly settled, and with the extra money, the female soldiers' barracks in the northern suburbs were remodeled.

The imperial guards with swords and the Shenji Battalion met in the palace, and when they passed each other, the men looked back at the female soldiers one by one.

"The third one from the left, she looks really handsome, isn't she a lady from some palace?"

"I heard Mrs. Han is the commander of the Shenji Battalion. Which one is she?"

Master Fu Minghui, the Commander of the Habayashi Guards, scolded with a stern face: "What are you looking at, and still looking at? The eyeballs are falling out!"

It was Liang Guanjing's 30th birthday, and the Ministry of Rituals asked if the palace would hold a birthday ceremony. Han Chengjue seemed to have finally remembered that he came to Yongming Palace after the morning court, and asked about the Shenji Camp: "Why don't you go to the Beijiao Racecourse someday? , I also want to see how your Shenji Battalion is doing?"

Liang Guanjing said: "Shenjiying is pretty good now, it's time to make a fool of the emperor. I just don't know if the emperor dislikes it, after all, it's just a few sisters in our harem to pass the time when they are free. The guards are naturally incomparable, but if it is more convenient to patrol the harem, the emperor will feel more comfortable when he sees the flowers all over the front, back, left, and right."

Han Chengjue said: "The empress is self-effacing. I know your abilities the most. If you want to train soldiers, you must be a mighty teacher. It is easy to attack the city and defeat the enemy. Just choose your birthday, and it is not a practice." For my use, this is the bodyguard group that I bestowed on you, and the weaving bureau has no choice but to earn it by itself. If you say it, it will make people laugh at me. The king of a country can’t afford a wife, and the treasury can always get this money out From now on, the Shenji camp will be commanded by the queen alone, and there is no need to report, and you can freely enter and leave the inner palace."

Liang Guanjing lifted her skirt, left her seat and saluted solemnly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

Han Chengjue said: "You don't need to thank me, I know that I have wronged you by letting you live in a small space in the harem. I always want to reward you with something for entertainment, and I think it's a pleasure." After finishing speaking, he looked around, "Why don't you see Yun Nong? , carry it here for me to see?"

Liang Guanjing then ordered his mother-in-law to bring Princess Yuping over. Han Chengjue teased the child for a while, and then talked about Yunyun's recent situation. He said that since he was beaten last time, he has become more honest recently. Diligent, very good-looking.As for the dog, he had already let the eunuch go over and beat him to death with a stick. It was a compensation for the young eunuch who died unjustly, and it also made the prince stop thinking about it and concentrate on his homework.

After talking for a while, Han Chengjue stood up and said goodbye, and asked Liang Guanjing to set the day of inspecting the Shenji Camp as the day of his birthday, and all the concubines also went to watch the fun, and the rest of the people below made arrangements.

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Prince: That's how I became an anti-social youth. My little uncle was forced to leave by my mother. It's fine if my mother didn't come. Once he came, he was violent at home, and my father even beat my puppy to death.

Puppy: Please add chicken legs to the lunch box, thank you.