Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

Everything is an astronomical consumption.

The army is easy to move, but money and food are... difficult.

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7 Chapter Fifty

The explanations of the military aircraft staff continued, and the war plan was also clearly stated bit by bit.

The military situation sand table and the military situation map in front of the emperor are also changing with the news gathered from all sides.

In the mind of the emperor, the upcoming war has already been completely outlined.

In the end, after the explanation was over, the emperor did not make instructions and revisions as usual, but signaled to all the generals to perform their duties, and then left the Yinchuan government office alone.

From an important border town to a city in the hinterland, this prefectural city of Yinchuan has obviously undergone earth-shaking changes in just a few years.

In the past, the Son of Heaven would have had to subdue himself and see the various states of the world with his own eyes, but during this period of time, the Son of Heaven had obviously lost his mood.

If it is said that before the war decision is made, there are many scruples and worries, but now, the war decision has been made, it is a heavy pressure like Mount Tai.

There is no doubt that this battle is a complete war of the power of the whole country.

A war of national power...

For this alone, even the Son of Heaven, who thinks he is used to seeing big scenes, would never dare to say that he can face it calmly when he thinks about it.

From the current refugees who are not as good as livestock in the wilderness to today's Daheng Emperor, the number of hardships and obstacles is already innumerable.

In this world, it is not easy to reach the current state of peace and prosperity of the country and the people. This is not only for the emperor, but for all those who have followed the emperor from the period of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is literary or military, even if it is just an ordinary person , must also be able to deeply understand.

And all of this is not easy. Once the war starts, it means that everything will be on top of this war.

If this battle is won, no matter what the loss is, it is still safe to say that at least one battle is enough to keep the peace of northern Xinjiang for decades.

Not to mention the strategic significance of Northwest Tibet in the eyes of the emperor, as well as the commercial and economic significance of the current facts.

The advantages outweigh the disadvantages!

But if you lose...

Walking to the head of Yinchuan City, the emperor stopped, and in front of him was the endless Gobi desert.

The yellow sand is sweeping, the battle flags are rolling, and the soldiers who lead the emperor's order gather together. Everything in the eyes should be a scene of surging hearts, and the emperor's mood is also hard to hide.

In the past, a lot of things were waiting to be done, and many things were so bad that they couldn't be worse.

It's like the brazen military reform at that time, which caused the sky to fall, but no matter what, the flames of war were everywhere, even if the emperor was defeated, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and even the Daheng was destroyed later, what would be the result? The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, bloody for decades, closed the country, and then fell to the top. Is this result even worse?

Without any scruples, what it brings is the momentum of breaking the boat.

But at the moment, no matter how free and easy the emperor is, it will be difficult for him to be unscrupulous in this prosperous world in the face of the Daheng foundation accumulated through countless hardships and dangers in these years.

If there is a slight discrepancy in the battle of the power of the whole country, the impact will definitely be turned upside down.

In the final analysis, even though the rudiments of the prosperous age have emerged in the current Daheng, even though there is a complete ruling order, Daheng has not yet established a solid foundation for rule!

The Jingkang of the Song Dynasty and the Tumu Fortress of the Ming Dynasty were defeated so disastrously, but the national unity was still preserved. The reason is that the founding monarchs of the Song and Ming dynasties, or the second generation of monarchs after the founding of the country, had already perfected the foundation of the rule.

As in the previous Ming Dynasty, in the Hongwu Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu was harsh to the gentry, and it was doomed that the foundation of the Hongwu Dynasty's rule was entirely based on Hongwu's military prestige to sweep the world, not a bottom-up, people's heart. The basis of domination.

As far as Emperor Yongle, in order to avoid the crime of usurping the throne, the status of civil servants and gentry rose, and then to Emperor Renxuan, it also completely opened the prelude to civil servant rule of the country. Solid, legal, and fully formed.

No matter how many disadvantages the ruling foundation of civil servants and gentry has, it is undeniable that the group of civil servants and gentry is an indispensable foundation for a country to rule the world.

Without the aspirations of this elite group, that country cannot last long, and a regime cannot be stable.

Even though Daheng seems to have a stable and prosperous national fortune at the moment, all of this is still based on the mighty military power that sweeps Liuhe, and it is based on looking at the world, no one can stop Daheng's military might!

As long as there is one in Nanming, Houjin, or Liaozhen, even Mongolia, who can compete with Daheng, then what has happened in the history of later generations will inevitably happen in Daheng.

In the history, Li Zicheng, the Chuang Wang, went from having countless vassals, destroying Ming Dynasty, supporting millions of soldiers, establishing a country and proclaiming himself emperor, to being defeated in just a few months.

A losing battle will destroy a dynasty that is about to rule the world. The fundamental reason is that Li Zicheng lost the hearts of the elite because of the massacre in the capital.

It is also like this that the Manchu Qing Dynasty became unstoppable after entering the customs, and countless vassals kowtowed.

The world is full of goodwill, and the world is all good.

Li Zicheng couldn't give the interests of the elite, and even violated the interests of the elite. The elite, who originally welcomed the master, would inevitably turn to others for the sake of profit.

In history, after entering the customs, the first thing that Dorgon of the late Jin Dynasty did was to treat the old ministers kindly.

It hit it off, and it was the foundation for the Manchu Qing to rule the Central Plains with foreign races.

The same is true in today's Daheng. The elite class whose interests have been violated by Daheng can't jump up, just because Nanming, Houjin, and Liaozhen, which can make them jump up, have been wiped out by Daheng. Mongolia, The Northwest was also torn apart under Daheng's suppression.

At the same time, Daheng also has a group of extremely tyrannical founding martial arts, who control the interests of all aspects, check and balance, and even oppress these elites, so that they dare not act arbitrarily.

Even so, they still haven't stopped jumping around. The chaos that has hardly stopped in the Daheng world these years is all due to the help of these people and even the manipulation behind the scenes.

It is very obvious that if the war starts, the center of gravity will shift, and people with ulterior motives will inevitably emerge. If the war is actually successful, it will inevitably lead to swaying of people's hearts and great turmoil in the world.

If defeated...

That means that Daheng's military prestige to frighten the world has been broken, and the foundation of Daheng's control and balance of the world, the power of martial arts, will also be greatly damaged...

In the end... there will only be one result. This world of Daheng, the world of Zhaowu, will inevitably be in chaos. Even if it does not fall apart, it will at least go back ten years. ...

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Chapter 751

"call……"

The emperor took a deep breath, the worry in his eyes was also deeply rooted.

No matter how firm and confident you are, in the face of such consequences, it is difficult to be reckless.

Even, this is no longer a question of self-confidence.

Rather, Daheng, the Son of Heaven, cannot afford such a price.

This battle can only be won brilliantly, failure is not allowed to exist.

Compared with the worries of the emperor, these generals of Daheng obviously don't have such worries. In the era when the emperor deliberately set up military exploits as kings, a war is a great test for the court and unspeakable for the people. Torture, but for the military generals, even the low-level soldiers, it is also a gluttonous feast.

Martial generals are eager for military exploits in order to gain a higher position of power, while low-level soldiers are eager for military exploits in order to risk their lives to change their lives.

Under the many policies of the current Zhaowu Dynasty, for the people of Daheng, just the treatment brought by enlisting in the army is enough to make a poor and run-down family jump to the point where it is enough to eat and wear.

Human desires are naturally infinite.

Without worrying about food and clothing, one naturally wants more.

But in the army, in the current Daheng, what is more valuable than military exploits.

A low-level soldier, even if he doesn't have any job rank, as long as he makes military exploits and the review is correct, it is enough for him, and even his family, to jump directly into the class.

Even if he dies in battle, the pension he brings is enough to protect his relatives' bloodlines for the rest of their lives.

War, for the current Daheng soldiers, has no worries.

If the Son of Heaven hadn't been tightly restricting Daheng's army, it would have been difficult for Daheng to develop like this in these years.

In the absence of any formal orders, these changes in northern Xinjiang have clearly proved this point.

The once important town on the nine borders, not to mention the current Hetao, such as Jizhen and Datong, the frontier guarded by it, has long been a veritable hinterland. The traces of the activities of the Han people and Daheng cavalry have already crossed the border in the traditional sense. The grassland is hundreds of miles away, looking for important places to guard.

All this, in the records of the imperial court, is nothing more than a statement that the Tartars plundered the frontier and the frontier army guarded it.

Guarding and guarding means guarding to the depths of the grassland.

General Daheng Wuxun is looking for various ways to find wars, especially in recent years, Wuxun's children have gradually grown up, and under the inertia of being kings of military achievements, they all choose to serve as frontier troops in various places.

Even if the purpose is gold-plating, the content of the gold-plating is obviously still a matter of military merit. A few years of patrolling is definitely not as good as a battle.

The war in northern Xinjiang has shown a small and continuous situation.

In the calm situation, small fights kept going.

At the moment, although the news of the war is still a military secret, a war involving the power of the whole country has involved almost every aspect of the Daheng world. Under such a big movement, ordinary people with a little knowledge may not be able to hide it , let alone Daheng's martial arts general.

After the emperor's decision to go to war reached the center, the transfer of Daheng Wuxun generals also immediately showed a leap forward.

In a few months, there were as many as hundreds of letters of transfer from various places in Daheng to northern Xinjiang, just on the table of the emperor.

If we talk about the transfer of soldiers in the middle and lower levels, there are countless.

There are hundreds of Wu Xun families, including thousands of children who have already joined the army, not to mention the countless people involved in the relationship with General Wu Xun.

Naturally, the Son of Heaven couldn't hide this change. From the very beginning, the Son of Heaven attached great importance to it and personally controlled the deployment of soldiers.

Compared with the emphasis on the army, the emperor's emphasis on Wu Xun's children is not weak at all.

Under the special ruling environment of these years, even if the military and government have changed a lot in these years, even if this change is still going on, and it is destined to last for a long time.

But one thing is very clear, that is, the inheritance of the power of General Wu Xun will inevitably be deeply ingrained. Although this point has a considerable connection with the hereditary title of Wu Xun, even if this connection is removed, this deep-rooted will not. weakened too much.

The rights possessed by martial arts generals will inevitably be passed on to their next generation. The only difference is whether this right is weakened or increased. The general trend, as long as Daheng still exists, it will not be too big. Variety.

Under such circumstances, it is very clear that the current martial arts disciples will inevitably occupy a very large position in the power system of the Daheng Army in the future.

Cultivating the current Wu Xun disciples is to cultivate the existence of the Daheng army in power in the future, that is, to add more powerful fresh blood to the Daheng army.

It is related to the future, and it is related to the rule of the three generations of the emperor, how can the emperor be sloppy.

But it is also clear that the battle of the whole country, which is related to the fate of Daheng, cannot be sloppy.

Although the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to the training of Wu Xun's children, and even controls and trains them from an early age, there are by no means a few second generations who are ineffective.

In peacetime, the Son of Heaven may not mind it and be a little tolerant, allowing him to spend his days in the army with the shadow of his father, covered with gold, but in this battle, the Son of Heaven will obviously not let him get involved, It ruined the country's plans.

Wu Xun and even the children of the rich and powerful, who is worthy of use, who is worthy of great use, who can be cultivated, who can be cultivated carefully, and who is a waste, is a scum, and the emperor naturally weighs it in his mind.

The transfer of Wu Xun's disciples was nothing to the Son of Heaven, a decree was enough to accomplish it, but the arrangement of Wu Xun's generals was obviously not an easy task.

Under the concept that military exploits are king, the emperor's table has already been filled with the battles of the generals from all sides.

The commander-in-chief of the four-way army, there is no doubt that Ding, the two princes of the Liao Dynasty, will definitely occupy the two positions.

Although the emperor did not express his intention to conquest in person, it is already a political issue which general dares to fight for the position of commander-in-chief of the Chinese army before the emperor expresses his attitude.

The position of coach has scruples and dare not fight for it, but the hundreds of thousands of troops are not only the position of coach.

If a position such as a vanguard is outstanding, in a sense, its contribution is no less than that of the coach.

fight!

Daheng's martial arts generals have no hesitation in such a matter without scruples.

As far as the emperor is concerned, the appointment of personnel, whether it is military or political, has long passed the era of meritocracy.

In other words, meritocracy is only a part of the personnel system, and it is more of a political trade-off.

It is impossible for the Son of Heaven to sit back and watch the power of a certain faction expand indefinitely. If it is not necessary, it is impossible to sit back and watch a certain faction decline or even perish...

This time the war, naturally so.

The appointment of generals and personnel is also to maintain the balance of martial arts as much as possible under the premise of ensuring combat effectiveness...

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Chapter 752 Balance

"Master? Master?"

In the courtyard, the steward called out a few words before waking up Li Dingguo, who was in a daze holding the saber, and touched the saber subconsciously. Then Li Dingguo looked at the steward, looking forward to it: "But Your Majesty's order has arrived?"

The butler was startled, and shook his head again and again: "Sir, have you forgotten? Today is the day that the eldest son enters martial arts!"

"Martial arts..."

Li Dingguo was slightly stunned, as if recalling something, he shook his head: "The Martial Academy is a place to cultivate the talents of the country, not a place to enjoy blessings. The people in the house are all dispersed, let the brat sign up by himself, you go and tell him , when you arrive at the Martial Arts Academy, you are absolutely not allowed to use my name!"

The butler hesitated for a while, but in the end he didn't say much. As the butler of the Jue Mansion, he naturally knew why the uproar was happening right now. His master also had thoughts.

The butler left in response, and Li Dingguo was still sitting alone in the courtyard, slowly wiping the saber as if unconsciously.

After a long time, Li Dingguo looked at the saber in his hand, his eyes seemed a little lost.

He will never forget that when Nian fled from Shaanxi with his mother, the soldiers were in turmoil, without enough food and clothing.

If he hadn't been lucky enough to be a soldier in the Yongwei Battalion back then, he was lucky enough to be appreciated by the emperor.

The emperor taught by precepts and deeds, and cultivated him again and again against all opinions, so that he is what he is today.

If not, he might already be a dead bone in the wilderness, no one cares about it, and it is incomplete.