When the military parades of later generations appeared in the Ming Dynasty, the shock it brought was something that everyone who saw it would never forget.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty now, even Zhu Ying himself had been there in his previous life and the memory of it is still fresh in his mind.

Of course, only twelve days of training was not a little different from the military parades in previous lives. However, Zhu Yuanzhang had never seen such a marching method, so the impact it caused can be imagined.

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored the questions from his great grandson Versailles and stared at the motionless soldiers.

"Grandpa, please don't stand here. If word gets out that you've come to my place, and your grandson makes you stand at the door, what kind of a mess will that be?"

Zhu Ying said helplessly, and then pointed to the reviewing stand in the center of the parade ground and said, "Grandpa, that was specially renovated by your grandson. It will be more comfortable for the two of us to watch from there."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and saw that the previous reviewing platform had been made into a platform more than three meters high, with a stone fence on top.

"Okay, let's go up together." Zhu Yuanzhang said with his eyes lighting up. Obviously, the view from the high platform is much better than now, and he can see more clearly.

Zhu Ying waved to the captain behind him, and the captain immediately arranged for the flag soldiers to send out flag signals. After the flag soldiers waved the flags three times, more than ten long shouts rang out in the square formation at the same time: "All soldiers, listen to my orders, march in unison!"

The entire fourteen-square team began to move.

Even though he had been shocked just now, Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it at this moment.

Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply attracted by this pace which was both elegant and majestic at first sight.

On the high platform, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying looked at the soldiers in formation passing by in turn.

When passing by the platform, each team of soldiers would turn their heads to look at the platform and shout loudly:

"Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

Accompanied by long shouts that rose and fell like waves, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt that something that had been sealed for a long time suddenly broke open and quickly took root and sprouted.

When such an army appears on the battlefield, the enemy will be frightened without hesitation and lose all morale.

Zhu Yuanzhang had fought wars for almost his entire life and could not imagine any army that could rival this intense feeling of oppression.

Even after the military parade, Zhu Yuanzhang was still reminiscing about it while sitting on the tiger chair at the military camp meeting.

"It was my eldest grandson who gave them titles." Zhu Yuanzhang came back to his senses and asked his eldest grandson who was sitting next to him.

"It hasn't been officially issued yet, but my grandson already has an idea in his mind. Xuanjiawei, what do you think, grandpa?" Zhu Ying replied.

"What a good name." Thinking of the black tide just now, Zhu Yuanzhang exclaimed, and then asked:

"Tell us in detail how your grandson trained these soldiers. I think that even during the most glorious period of the Yuan Dynasty, they probably couldn't train such soldiers." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed.

Zhu Ying replied somewhat awkwardly: "Grandpa, don't overestimate it. Although it looks extremely scary, it's only been training for ten days. If we really fight, our combat effectiveness may not be greatly improved."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "My grandson, you don't understand. When two armies fight, morale comes first. Soldiers with such an appearance will be three points timid no matter what enemy sees them. Even if they have ten points of strength, they can only exert five points at most."

"And my grandson forgot the most fundamental thing. To be able to achieve such a unified action, the military discipline is extremely strict. The soldiers obeyed the orders without hesitation, and their combat effectiveness is definitely not low."

Hearing this, Zhu Ying smiled. These soldiers were trained by him personally, so how could he not know? He was just using the old man's words to say it.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw his eldest grandson like this, he immediately understood and burst into laughter.

"Good grandson, you still want to flatter me, but where did you learn this way of training? I have read a lot of military books, but I have never heard of anyone who can train such soldiers."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked with some doubt.

As an emperor, there was no book that he could not get his hands on, not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang who was very interested in fighting wars. It is no exaggeration to say that Zhu Yuanzhang had read almost all the military books.

"To be honest, Grandpa, I didn't learn this kind of training method from military books, but figured it out myself. This time I just tried to practice it, but I didn't expect the effect to be so good."

Zhu Ying said without blushing or beating his heart.

Anyway, in the current Ming Dynasty, and even in the whole world, there is no such way of marching. Even the most beautiful marching in later generations has been continuously improved.

Zhu Ying is literally taking the wisdom gained from countless people's research and using it directly.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his eyes were filled with admiration. Although he had some guesses about this in his mind, he was still surprised that his eldest grandson admitted it himself.

The eldest grandson gave him so many surprises that even Zhu Yuanzhang himself felt that the disciple was better than his master.

"Where did your eldest grandson get the idea for this training method?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

Zhu Ying had already made up his mind about this, and he said directly without hesitation:

"My grandson watched the ancient Qin Dynasty, which destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, and then we have today's China. The Qin army wore black clothes and black armor, and was invincible. My grandson is very yearning for it."

"The Qin army enforces the law strictly and has extremely strict military discipline. All soldiers are prepared to die. No one disobeys the Qin cavalry."

"My grandson has often pondered why the Qin soldiers are so powerful. What methods are used to train such powerful soldiers?"

"So my grandson began to analyze the reasons from all aspects. At the beginning, the Qin Dynasty had only 5 million people, but an army of 500,000. After unifying the six kingdoms, the population was more than 20 million, and there were 1 million soldiers."

"The millions of lions of the Qin Dynasty are completely different from the millions of lions of the Ming Dynasty. I am not belittling the Ming Dynasty. Even if the current Ming Dynasty were to face the former Qin Dynasty, even with the advantage of firearms, it would not be able to win."

"We, the Ming Dynasty, have millions of soldiers, following the Han Dynasty's system of military farming, raising soldiers on the land, farming in peacetime, and going to war in times of war."

"The Qin is different. All Qin soldiers are soldiers for life. They train every day and can go to war at any time."

"The training of square formation and marching is something that my grandson has thought about and researched in order to train soldiers to obey military orders. The most indispensable part of it is the daily training without interruption."

Having said that, Zhu Ying took out a piece of white paper filled with regulations from the desk in front of the old man and showed it to him.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked over and watched carefully.

What is written here is the control of the content and time of the soldiers' daily training.

There are extremely strict arrangements from the time to wake up in the morning, to the time to have breakfast, lunch, dinner, rest, and to the time to receive instruction from the teacher in the evening.

This means that for the past twelve days, all the soldiers that Zhu Yuanzhang just saw have been repeating this exercise every day.

"My grandson has asked the doctor, and he found out that two meals a day are not enough to sustain the soldiers. With such heavy training, three meals a day are necessary," Zhu Ying explained.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and did not ask his eldest grandson how much money and food would be needed for such training. With such soldiers, it didn't matter even if it cost more money and food.

Zhu Yuanzhang believed that the current 5,000 soldiers had a great chance of winning even if they faced 50,000 soldiers.

"Unfortunately, our Ming Dynasty is currently suffering from constant natural disasters and food shortages. If there were enough food, we would have no problem regaining our former territories." Zhu Yuanzhang said with some disappointment.

The chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was caused by constant famines. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it had been confronting these famines.

This was also one of the factors that led Zhu Yuanzhang to recognize the legitimacy of the Yuan Dynasty. Unfortunately, due to constant famine, Zhu Yuanzhang was always restricted.

Otherwise, the territory of the Ming Empire would have been much larger by now. In Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, all the territories once ruled by the Mongols belonged to the Ming territory.

If we trace back to the roots, the Ming Dynasty once had ruling power over all the lands conquered by the entire Mongol Empire.

These words made Zhu Ying look at the old man. In fact, in Zhu Ying's heart, the old man now was more like an old man who guarded the family. Everything he did and thought was for the stable development of this family.

But this sentence made Zhu Ying see another side of the old man, the heroic character who was once ambitious and ready to conquer the world.

"Don't worry, Grandpa. I got the news yesterday. The sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other crops that I told you about have already arrived at the edge of the capital. They will arrive in the capital tomorrow."

"There is also a crop called rye, which my grandson also grows in the Western Regions. Even in freezing weather, rye can still grow tenaciously, and its yield is not much less than that of rice and wheat."

Zhu Ying said with a smile, showing her snow-white teeth.

"Okay, tomorrow we will go with you to see how these crops are. If they are really as you said, the people of the entire Ming Dynasty will be grateful to you."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up and he spoke immediately.

At this moment, what Zhu Yuanzhang was actually thinking about was to take this opportunity to spread the reputation of his eldest grandson and let all those who could survive because of these crops be grateful to him.

By that time, the eldest grandson will inherit the throne. That is the will of heaven and the will of the people. No one can stop it, or even slander or spread rumors about the eldest grandson's identity.

The promotion of these crops is the most urgent issue at present. Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to see that in the Ming Dynasty two or three years later, most people would survive because of them.

With enough food, the Ming army can also let go and sort out the internal problems of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang believed that with his eldest grandson continuing to train soldiers like today, suppressing the rebellion would be absolutely easy.

By that time, the Ming Dynasty would have inherited the gifts left by the entire Mongol Empire.