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Liu Rushi and Lin Xue were a little disappointed that more than a hundred scholars from various provinces, all of whom were well-known talents, did not discuss literature and art when they got together.

Lin Xue brought all the painting boxes and planned to create on the spot.

Liu Rushi also secretly brought a qin, if any scholar makes a masterpiece on the spot, he can play the qin and sing immediately.

It's a pity that political issues have been discussed all morning.

"I was wrong, so I don't need to call you here?" Chen Qianji smiled wryly.

As the director of Luling County, he wanted to organize some atmosphere groups, but the atmosphere at the scene was a bit too intense.

At noon, the preserved fruit was put away and meals were served.

Ordinary family stir-fry, but with wine and meat, the guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

In the afternoon, take a boat ashore and go to the outskirts of the city to visit the army training.

When crossing the river, Chen Zilong suddenly asked in a low voice: "Brother Yizhong, do you really think cronies are causing trouble in the world?"

Xia Yunyi sighed: "Once the party struggle started, it was endless. To this day, it is nothing more than a struggle for power. Even Fushe has hidden many villains who speculate and seek profit. Where is there any party of gentlemen?"

"Hey, let's not talk about this. The founding king, how can there be any party disputes," Chen Zilong said with emotion, "From my point of view, the Ji'an General Army Mansion is quite like the mansion of Emperor Hongwu, and the Military Academy is the Five Armies A replica of the Governor's Mansion. If the general town moves its capital to Nanjing, how to customize it is fundamental, should there be a cabinet system?"

Xia Yunyi shook his head: "Could it be possible to restore the previous prime minister system?"

Chen Zilong frowned and said, "It's really difficult. The prime minister has the disadvantages of the prime minister, and the cabinet also has the disadvantages of the cabinet. How can there be a perfect system?"

People like Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, and Hou Fangyu all saw it clearly and wanted to save Daming from the system.

It's a pity that they became officials too late, and their words are light.

Historically, the contents of their submissions were different, but they all hoped that Chongzhen would first straighten out the powers and responsibilities of the cabinet, the department, and the six ministries.

The powers and responsibilities of various central agencies are not clear, so how can we govern the country?

In Chen Zilong's memorial, anxiety can be seen between the lines, except that Chongzhen has no responsibility. The translation is like this: "Whatever your majesty wants to do, don't think about enlightening the ministers, just do it persistently, and don't give up if you encounter obstacles... Your majesty wants to push the executive order, don't discuss it with the minister repeatedly, let the minister Just follow orders, it’s no use listening to too many ministers’ opinions!”

But Chongzhen just didn't take responsibility.

I want to do something, but I don't say it clearly, but I suggest a minister to say it. If the voice of opposition to this matter was too great, Chongzhen would not do it immediately, and the minister who raised the matter would be blamed.

If Chongzhen wanted to implement any decree, he was afraid of making mistakes again, so he had to discuss it with the ministers repeatedly, and the ministers were responsible for the troubles.

The news of Chongzhen was not blocked. He not only opened up his voice, asked the officials to give more advice, and even asked the common people to go to the public directly.

Too much news equals no news.

Say what you say, what I say, what the public says is right, and what the woman says is right. Chongzhen was faced with countless information all day long, and couldn't make correct decisions at all.

Due to this disadvantage, Fang Yizhi proposed to abolish the Sanweimen (Kadao Cilin) ​​in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, so as not to let the idiot officials talk nonsense, and the corresponding actual position was changed to Liu Cao.

At this moment, Chen Zilong was not thinking of being an official to fight for power, nor was he debating whether the division of land was correct, but how to assist Zhao Han in establishing a system.

Chen Zilong said: "After the establishment of the new dynasty, the Sixth Division must no longer have the power of supervision, otherwise there will be troubles sooner or later. If there are no bad things in the Sixth Division in Ming Dynasty, party disputes can be reduced by at least half!"

The cabinet is the decision-making body, the six ministries are the executive bodies, and the six departments are sandwiched between them as lubricants and supervisors.

This kind of design itself has problems, and it allows supervision and lubrication. Once things are done sincerely, if supervision is not supervised, if lubrication is not lubricated, the machine of Daming will directly fail.

Zhang Dai came over and said: "It is true that we should go to the public to discuss matters. The six departments can be retained, but the supervisory power must be abolished!"

It may not be enough to restore those scholars in the society and let them innovate the system. However, they are very good at picking out the problems of Ming Dynasty's system. Their various suggestions can prevent Zhao Han from repeating the mistakes of Ming Dynasty.

Several people discussed along the way, and they had already arrived at the school grounds in the suburbs of Beijing.

I saw thousands of people lined up, standing still, like thousands of sculptures.

Lu Xiangguan was startled and said, "What kind of practice is this?"

Zhao Han said with a smile, "It's just a martial arts practice."

When Qi Jiguang trained soldiers, he also practiced the formation first, and then he became familiar with the orders. Standing in the military posture was requested by Zhao Han.

The rest are pretty much the same, just in different forms.

Qi Jiguang also asked the soldiers to recite military regulations, flag orders and drill methods, and beat them if they recited a wrong one.

It is also necessary to train endurance and will, which Qi Jiguang calls "training the mind", so that the soldiers will be indomitable and not easy to collapse.

Physical training: Wear heavy armor when practicing, and carry heavy objects without heavy armor.

Exercise foot strength: Let the soldiers run with sandbags tied, and they can only pass a mile without panting.

Arm strength training: practice with special equipment, which is heavier than actual combat weapons.

Some of Qi Jiguang's military training items were retained by Zhao Han, and some were added and changed by Zhao Han.

Pull-ups, push-ups, these are basically added, and they are mainly used for punishment. Instead of hitting the board at every turn, I changed it to doing push-ups, running and so on.

"Total town!"

Li Zheng brought the officers to visit him.

This winter, Zhao Han expanded his army again.

An additional 5,000 people were added to the West Academy Army, led by Li Zhenglai.

Add 2,000 cavalry, trained by Hu Dinggui, and Lu Xiangguan and Chen Tangong will also be thrown to Jeju Island.

The war horses in Jeju Island are too rubbish, with an average shoulder height of less than 1.22 meters. For the time being, they can only train horse-riding firearms.

The Shanghai Navy was added, and six warships were bought at a low price from Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong's general, Hong Xu, came here with a small number of sailors to take charge of commanding the troops and training the navy. Give him some missionary officers, and the soldiers are also local fishermen in Shanghai, so they are not afraid that the Shanghai navy will become Hong Xu's personal armed force.

In this way, Zhao Han's regular army has a total of more than 35,000 soldiers, of which the army has 29,000 soldiers.

Mao Yuanyi stepped forward and cupped his hands: "Meet the general town."

Zhao Han returned the courtesy, "Are you still used to it?"

"Everything is going well." Mao Yuanyi said with a smile.

After all, Mao Yuanyi has surrendered, and it is estimated that he will not drink too much and die prematurely.

Just a military researcher, not even a military theorist. It is impossible for him to come to command the army, but to work in the Military Affairs Department, responsible for summarizing and improving the various military systems of the Datong Army.

At the same time, according to the training and battle methods of Datong soldiers, combined with the experience of officers of various departments, the latest version of "Infantry Exercise Code" is being compiled.

There was also the "Infantry Exercise Code" before, and it was compiled by Zhao Han himself. Some content is very advanced, and some content is impractical, and will be deleted and revised every year as appropriate.

After an incense stick of time passed, thousands of newly formed regular troops were still standing there in military posture.

Zhao Han asked Lu Xiangguan who planned to join the army: "How are my soldiers?"

"It's as immovable as a mountain, and it's a really strong army!" Lu Xiangguan sighed.

It snowed heavily a few days ago, and there was still snow on the side of the school grounds. Standing casually made my feet feel stiff, let alone standing with my head held high.

Zhao Han said to the scholars: "These are recruits, and they only organized training last month."

The recruits are all peasants and soldiers who have been trained for more than three years, but they have just been transferred to the regular army!

This year also abolished a group of regular troops, who were over 35 years old, but their positions were below the chief (including the chief), and they all retired and went home to work normally. Give them some retirement pay, and the police stations in each city give priority to hiring them, which means it is easy to apply for police officers.

Not to mention anything else, as long as age is concerned, soldiers over the age of 35 are not required. The quality of this soldier is enough to be proud of the world.

Let's put it this way, if one day there is a fight with the Manchus and a certain city is attacked by the Tazi army, the police in the whole city can organize the people to defend it.

After the military posture training was over, they walked for a while, and the soldiers began to walk and rest.

After exercising their bodies, they trotted with sandbags to warm up, followed by equipment training, and the firecrackers practiced shooting.

Although these scholars who came to visit are basically laymen, they can tell the difference in spirit. Only the roaring morale during the drill can crush the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, no wonder Zhao Tianwang keeps winning battles.

Zhao Han's generals, Huang Yao, Li Zheng, Jiang Dashan, Jiang Liang, Liu Zhu, and Huang Shun, all came from the same small town (and the next-door village).

Can an ordinary town really produce so many generals?

Relying on soldiers, we have been winning battles. The more victorious battles are fought, the more experience you will have and the ability to command your troops will be developed.

The founding monarchs of the past dynasties seem to have a bunch of talented people in their hometowns, but that's actually how they came here. This is true of generals, and so is civil servants, they can continue to grow and evolve.

Take a look at those general counties in New China. The top five counties counted only at the beginning of the founding of the country, and there were a total of 272 generals.

Zhang Dai quietly said to his fellow countrymen: "Don't think about your own land. With such soldiers, who in the world can defeat them? Even if you meet the Manchus outside the pass, I'm afraid you can win them. Within ten years, Liaodong will be retaken." !"

Zhao Han brought these scholars here to let them see the might of the army, so as to prevent some people from having unnecessary illusions.

"well!"

Chen Zilong sighed secretly, it would be great if these powerful soldiers could be used by Daming, how could they have lost cities and lands all these years?

But after thinking about it, the white-armed soldiers and Qi's army are not weak, they were beaten to death by civilian and military generals. If these strong soldiers were sent to Daming, it would probably be abolished in a year, because the military pay would definitely be deducted, and the strong soldiers were all fed with silver.

Chen Zilong asked Zhao Han: "The general town has such a strong army, how much is the military expenditure?"

Zhao Han said with a smile: "The military salary of each soldier is only 70% of that of the Guanning Army. However, all the real salary is paid, and the daily food is better. The soldiers must see meat every day. This is also a big expense."

"I must see meat every day..."

This remark stunned the scholars. Many scholars who came from small landlords dare not eat meat every day!

No wonder Zhao Han occupied territory in several provinces, he only had more than 30,000 regular soldiers under his command, and he had to spend a lot of money just for daily food.

While the scholars were observing the military training, Zhao Han suddenly asked Liu Rushi, "Are you a civil servant in the county government?"