Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

"In this way, after returning to the island, you and Georg will go to Daheng to visit the general, no, to meet the emperor!"

"Express the goodwill of the East India Company to His Majesty the Emperor. You and Georg go to discuss with His Majesty the Emperor. The East India Company can form an alliance with Daheng to wipe out the rebel army of Nan Juyi and Zheng Zhilong. As long as His Majesty agrees to Penghu, Taiwan ceded..."

Speaking of this, Lei Ersheng immediately shook his head, and his eyebrows seemed to be full of excitement: "No, it is given to the East India Company as a place to stay. If it is possible, His Majesty the Emperor can be allowed to open the sea to trade, then The best..."

"After returning to the island, you should hurry to Daheng and tell His Majesty the Emperor that we, the Dutch East India Company, have nearly a hundred warships. We can also ask for support from the mainland and send a huge navy from the mainland..."

When Leiersheng was thinking about it with excitement, the Daheng Navy they had just observed was also observing them at this moment.

"My lord, there should be the warships of the Dutch Naroszi East India Company, those Western barbarians who invaded Penghu a few years ago and were repelled to Taiwan by Nan Juyi!"

On the battleship, Denglaishui Commander Feng Ying ordered He Renlong to put down the binoculars slowly:

"The warships of Xiyi are also interesting. Unlike ours, there are too many small boats, which look scary, but the real sea battle depends on the dozens of large ships. Small boats are still too limited in sea battles."

After finishing speaking, He Renlong looked at the Fujian navy who had vowed to go to war: "I heard that this time the navy will be reorganized, and we will be reorganized as the Jiangnan Navy. We will come to the shipyard and send a batch of large ships. These small boats will gradually be assigned to the newly established Jianghe Navy."

"By that time, our battalion of sailors will be at the top of their game."

"However, I probably won't be able to see it!"

Hearing this, the general beside him hesitated for a while, but still couldn't help asking: "My lord, has the order come down?"

He Renlong nodded, and sighed softly: "The Fifth Army Commander's Mansion is going to be restructured. I don't know how, but hearing the news from the capital, it should be a good thing for our navy."

"The Fifth Army Commander's Mansion is restructured, and you will be transferred back, sir. This is a great joy for Gao Sheng!"

"Congratulations, my lord!"

"It's a good thing!"

He Renlong sighed again, looking at the vast and choppy sea, he couldn't hide his helplessness in his eyes.

Seeing He Renlong's expression, the lieutenant beside him finally couldn't help asking: "My lord, is it Lord Lu..."

"Probably not."

He Renlong shook his head: "Your Majesty is tolerant, even Mr. Lu himself was not held accountable for his crimes, how could it implicate us and other generals."

"Besides, the transfer of Li Dingguo to our place is a preordained thing. Li Dingguo's transfer to Denglai was to prepare for today's transfer order."

Speaking of this, He Renlong sighed quietly: "He, Li Dingguo, has a good life, unlike us, who have to fight for everything by themselves!"

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Chapter 378 Situation

"Ningbo Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, Taizhou Mansion, Chaozhou Mansion, Ji'an Mansion..."

In the commander's tent of the Nanjing Jingjun camp, with the arrival of one after another military news, red circles were drawn on the map of the commander's tent.

Looking around, the dense red circles have spread all over half of the south of the Yangtze River, especially in the coastal provinces.

"It's just the beginning."

Holding the teacup, Hong Chengchou took a sip, and said calmly, "It's fine if Your Majesty wants to see the Jiangnan gentry, but if you don't, the whole of Jiangnan will probably be a mess."

"How could it be possible to wait and see!"

Yan Shun shook his head: "Before I return to Jiangnan, do you know what your majesty ordered?"

"Oh?"

Hong Chengchou couldn't help being a little curious.

"His Majesty personally said that he would rather be in labor pain than suffer a hundred years of disaster!"

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou's expression also became solemn, he put down his teacup slowly, stood up and stared at the map, and nodded after a long while: "Da Heng succeeds Daming, and Shen Ke, who has all the shortcomings of Daming, also fully accepts it." , if you don’t make a bold move, the fate of Daheng will be difficult to stabilize!”

"Difficult!"

Yan Shun shook his head: "There are only about [-] troops in the south of the Yangtze River. Excluding the guards stationed in various important places, there are only nearly [-] Beijing troops that can be used."

"But what we have to face is the uproar in the entire Jiangnan!"

"Furthermore, the influence of those gentry and wealthy businessmen is much greater than ours, and what is being moved now is only some side effects. If it really becomes a major movement, it will be a situation that is completely out of control."

Hong Chengchou said: "Our side is fine. The peace in the south of the Yangtze River has been too long. Even if it is out of control, even if it cannot be pacified, it is still no problem to maintain an acre of land. The real difficulty is how to use this chaos to eliminate Shen Ke's ills. It’s not going to be resolved anytime soon.”

"The real catastrophe is still in northern Xinjiang, in the grasslands and in Liaodong."

"Yuan Chonghuan has caused such a big disturbance, Daishan and Lin Danhan obviously won't just sit by and watch."

"A move in northern Xinjiang, that is the real battle for nation-building!"

Speaking of this, Hong Chengchou pondered for a while, and then said: "Your Majesty should also be aware of it. Recently, a large amount of grain and grass have been mobilized and transported to the capital through water transportation."

"Besides, I didn't see any troops sent to Jiangnan to help defend this time. I think it was to guard against the Mongol Empress Jin..."

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As Hong Chengchou said, at this moment, in the capital, Li Xiu has been preparing for defense against the Mongol Houjin and even Liaozhen since he ascended the throne.

Li Xiu never underestimated heroes like Daishan and Lin Danhan.

Jin Yiwei worked meticulously, and the frontier troops never stopped at night, watching every move on the grassland all the time, any change in the military situation, they would be rushed to the palace immediately within eight hundred miles.

In the imperial palace, Wuyuan Pavilion, it has now been completely transformed into a military important place. In the empty hall, there are sand tables depicting important border areas in detail. At the end of the hall, there is even a huge picture of Daheng Qiankun hanging high.

In the side hall of the hall, there are rows of desks like academies, and a student of various sciences transferred from the martial arts academy is writing hard and fast.

There are also martial arts students standing in front of the sand tables of various border fortresses, arguing endlessly, or frowning in thought.

In Wenyuan Pavilion not far from Wuyuan Pavilion, the cabinet ministers, as usual, still deal with government affairs in a leisurely manner.

For the cabinet ministers, the days after the sky change are not as depressing as before, but the emperor and the courtiers, the cabinet ministers, except Lai Zongdao and Liu Qiyuan, who expressed their positions early on, are stable. Ruo Taishan, the rest of the cabinet ministers were undoubtedly still trembling in shock.

After all, they are all cabinet ministers selected by the former Empress Dowager of Ming Dynasty...

Under such trembling and panic, the cabinet chief assistant Lai Zongdao, who had always only responded, the entire cabinet was about to become a rubber stamp.

"Wenyuan Wuyuan, the cabinet is in Wenyuan Pavilion, but this Wuyuan Pavilion is full of some generals and students from the martial arts academy. Your Majesty's move is quite meaningful!"

Lai Zongdao stood behind the window, watching the busy scene of Wuyuan Pavilion personnel coming in and out, said something with some emotion, then looked at Liu Qiyuan, and said with a smile:

"When the cabinet was first established, I am afraid few people could have imagined that the cabinet would develop and evolve so quickly."

Liu Qiyuan frowned and said:

"At the beginning of the establishment of the cabinet, its purpose was to assist the emperor in handling government affairs."

"This Wuyuan Pavilion looks quite similar to the functions of the cabinet, except that this Wuyuan Pavilion is dedicated to dealing with military affairs, but no matter how I think about it, I can't figure out the meaning of the existence of Wuyuan Pavilion."

"What do you mean by that?"

Lai Zongdao was obviously curious. The Wuyuan Pavilion was established quietly. Regarding the military affairs, their civil servants did not have many sources of information, and the emperor did not explain anything. Naturally, their civil servants did not want to ask too much.

But it's not easy to ask, it's not easy to ask, but this is obviously similar to the Wuyuan Pavilion in the prototype of the cabinet, but they can't help but pay attention to it. After all, no one knows whether this will be a trick to draw salary from the bottom. If you get smoked, you will want to cry but have no tears.

"A few days ago, His Majesty asked the Ministry of Households to send the tax account books over the years to Wuyuan Pavilion. This is a very important matter. Naturally, the old man personally brought someone to send it there, and I also learned a lot from it."

Liu Qiyuan said slowly:

"The personnel of Wuyuan Pavilion are all drawn from various elite troops who have studied in the martial arts academy. Some of them are like military advisers, but they are much more comprehensive and professional than military advisers."

"Among them, there are those from the martial arts academy's infantry department, some from the cavalry department, some from the navy department, and some from the artillery department. They were all transferred to Wuyuan Pavilion."

"If we talk about military advisers and staff, most of them rely on personal knowledge and accomplishment, but this Wuyuan Pavilion is obviously brainstorming, deducing and planning a war from all aspects of an army..."

Speaking of this, Liu Qiyuan said: "Nowadays, almost all the intelligence reports related to military affairs will be backed up and sent to Wuyuan Pavilion. After the Wuyuan Pavilion soldiers will be compiled, they will be presented to His Majesty again."

Lai Zongdao frowned and said, "Isn't this a cabinet dedicated to the military?"

Liu Qiyuan shook his head: "If it's just that, it's nothing more than transferring the functions of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to Wuyuan Pavilion."

"But the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion has long been in His Majesty's pocket. Whatever His Majesty wants to do, you can do it directly in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion. Why do you have to start a new one?"

Hearing this, Lai Zongdao was also taken aback, but he ignored this point.

In terms of military affairs, if you want to toss, you should indeed toss in the Five Army Commander's Mansion. It is obviously abnormal to start a new stove like this.

"Could it be that His Majesty wants to borrow this Wuyuan Pavilion..."

Lai Zongdao was a little worried.

"It shouldn't be possible..."

Liu Qiyuan's tone was obviously a little uncertain.

Their Majesty has a criminal record. At the time, civil servants were unusable, and he was able to do such things as civil science, education, military and herdsmen in a military important place like the Military Academy.

Now, the Wuyuan Pavilion, which has taken a lot of trouble, might really be planning to draw the cabinet's salary from the bottom.

After all, in the current cabinet, except for the two of them, the other cabinet ministers are all promoted by the queen mother, and they are all stirring up troubles in the south of the Yangtze River.

His Majesty hated it, and directly took over the cabinet, it is not impossible...

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Chapter 379 Wuyuan Pavilion

Qianqing Palace.

Li Xiu stood in front of the table, his gaze had been fixed on a sketch on the table for a long time.

On the sketch, a few lines of small characters are also clearly visible.

The Ministry of War, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and Wuyuan Pavilion.

The Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are naturally fixed institutions.

The Ministry of War is in charge of military deployment, logistics, food, grass, and military equipment, and the selection and promotion of generals...

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is in charge of commanding the military, responsible for military drills, managing the military households of the guards, and commanding the troops to fight after receiving the order to transfer troops.

The functions of both are very clear, and they are a mutual restraint and complementary existence.

Although at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the powers of the two had been completely out of balance, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was almost completely reduced to a subordinate department of the Ministry of War, and became a "pigsty" for civil servants to raise generals in captivity!

But in the beginning, the two were completely in check and balance. If it weren't for the magical operation of the foreign student Zhu Mingmen, even though Ming Dynasty valued civility more than military, it would never have fallen to the point where civility is noble and military is cheap.

This situation did not gradually change until Li Xiu took charge of the Beijing Army. Until now, the power of the Ministry of War has been invaded.

The right to deploy troops is gone, the right to logistics is gone, and the right to personnel affairs is gone, all of which are firmly in Li Xiu's own hands.

But now, after going through so many wars led by Wu Xun, the military reforms that have been initially completed, and even the most important change of dynasty, at least in the north, the inertial thinking of the gentlemen and the military has been reversed a lot.

Although it is a good thing to monopolize one's own power, it is obviously not a long-term solution for a country.

He, Li Xiu, is not the Duke of Qin who only needs to take care of his own one-third of an acre of land, but the king who rules the world.

A perfect system is the foundation of long-term development.

Rising through military exploits and relying on the army, Li Xiu naturally has an incomparably thorough understanding of the violent machine of the army.

It is precisely because of this thoroughness that Li Xiu has a longer-term view, and also has the appearance of the third party, Wuyuan Pavilion, in addition to the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War, one is in charge of military power, and the other is in charge of military power. As long as the two are in parallel, it will undoubtedly ensure the check and balance of civil and military affairs and the stability of the army.

In this way, there are checks and balances, and there is also stability. What Li Xiu considers seems to be the professionalism of the army and the maintenance of combat effectiveness.

Although the Commander's Mansion of the Five Armies does not have the right to deploy troops, any army is undoubtedly under the command of individual will.

It is extremely common in this era to only know the general, but not the emperor.

Moreover, it is undoubtedly quite risky to determine the success or failure of an army by the wiseness of one person.

One general is incompetent, and the whole army is exhausted. This kind of thing has happened frequently throughout the ages.

No matter how strict the promotion and assessment system is, it cannot ensure that every general is a peerless star. Even if he has built the Beijing army, most of it can only be said to be barely usable.

After all, it is not uncommon for bad money to drive out good money in the military. There are always many who are promoted through hard work and seniority. As time goes by, these mediocre talents will always climb to high positions Well, he can't stop this kind of thing, he can only do his best to support mediocre talents in the five-army governor's mansion.

In this way, the scene of one general being incompetent and exhausting the entire army will undoubtedly appear due to a little carelessness.

Even if luck is good and there is no war, the combat effectiveness of the army under the leadership of such mediocre people is naturally conceivable.

Moreover, the most important thing is that today's army is just in a special stage of switching from cold weapons to hot weapons.

With the regularization and gradual advancement of weapons such as firecrackers and artillery, the quality of soldiers and generals is also much higher than before.

The form of war is much more complicated!

Under such circumstances, compared to the commander-in-chief decision represented by personal will, Li Xiu prefers to work together and brainstorm!

Three cobblers are as good as Zhuge Liang. Even if they are mediocre, a decision made by a few mediocre people is much better than a decision made by individual will.

To be precise, he wanted to integrate the military advisers and staff members who had lasted for thousands of years, join the army and participate in the council, and integrate them into a formal organization independent of the five-army governor's office and the Ministry of War.