"It's as simple as that?"

Liu Yu felt a little incredible. He thought that this matter must be extremely difficult, but in his father's opinion, it seemed that this matter was only a matter of the emperor's words.

When I think about my father's words, it seems to make sense.

No matter how strong the navy is, it only needs an army stationed in Weihai, and the navy will be looked at to death, and it will not dare to move and cannot move.

Moreover, if the military expenditure is too high, it means that the navy has left a powerful empire and it is impossible to build it.

From Weihai to Beijing, there is no Taiwan Strait, no English Channel, and no Atlantic Ocean.

Therefore, such a military force, as long as it can bring enough benefits to the emperor, the emperor will definitely support it.

Liu Yu had already told the emperor how much wealth the navy could bring. So when Liu Sheng said this, Liu Yu immediately put his mind at ease.

"As my father said, Your Majesty should agree."

Liu Sheng didn't know the follow-up plan, didn't ask, and didn't even want to know at all.

"You, you're going to be chained to the Navy for the rest of your life. In the first battle of the Western Regions, you fought too scary. It not only deterred the Western Regions, Mongolia and even the snow-capped mountains, as well as the Rakshasas, but also made His Majesty feel uneasy. ”

"Although you say all day long that training is the best, and the battle is the first. That's all it takes, but who dares to believe it? Remember one sentence in the future, don't touch the army. ”

said it was a warning, but in fact, he was relieved in his heart and praised it fiercely.

After praising it, he said: "Even if there is any war in the future, remember one sentence." The navy is only in charge of the sea, and even if His Majesty asks you to take charge of the overall situation, you have to refuse. It is necessary to let a special general lead the army. ”

"Just remember that, how much you can do, how much you can do. Our noble family, Your Majesty wants to use it, but he doesn't dare to use it, but he has to use it. But don't worry, the nobles will definitely support you. ”

"It's not that I support you as a person, but that I support your military reform law. To build a navy, His Majesty will not allow Wenchen to intervene; And the military reform of the army has made the nobles reborn, you think about this matter thoughtfully, I don't need to say more. ”

Liu Sheng has read Liu Yu's proposal on military reform, and from the perspective of honors, he supports it.

The entire military reform revolves around three things.

Set up a training office.

In Beijing, Jinling, Shandong, Xijing, Jingxiang, and other five places, special training places were set up to recruit soldiers and train them in a centralized manner.

The training department is directly under the jurisdiction of the central government, and the envoys and general powers of all localities are not allowed to interfere.

The officers of the training department have lowly positions, that is, petty military attachés of the sixth or seventh grade, and they are not qualified to lead the army to fight in battle, nor are they qualified to transfer troops.

It was just that all flintlock muskets and bayonets were reloaded, and the training queues, bayonets and guns were intensively trained.

Establishment of a General Staff.

The General Staff is directly under the Emperor and is filled by young staff officers and military bigwigs.

For the military bigwigs, the staff is a nursing home.

For the young staff officers, the official position is not high, but the power and responsibility are extremely heavy, and the authority comes from His Majesty, so that the emperor can obtain the right to command the army in various places by controlling the staff department.

On the one hand, it can grasp the military power more firmly, and on the other hand, it can also maintain a sense of presence in the army.

Under the general staff, there are also staff officers of various troops, similar to the Qingzhou Army, and the staff officers are in charge of camping, marching, and pre-war preparations.

On the one hand, it allows the leading generals to focus on commanding the battle, and on the other hand, they ...... It is still the same sentence: a controlled army, an incompetent general, and not a light defeat.

There are commanders who do not need any advice from their subordinates, they are alone in planning and making decisions, and their staff members are only responsible for putting their plans into practice. However, such a great commander is rare in the world. In the vast majority of cases, the commander of an army cannot make decisions without heeding advice. This advice is often the result of the collective thinking of the staff team, whose knowledge and experience enable them to make sound judgments.

Especially in the case of honorable soldiers in charge, the posture of the Chinese people is the majority, and in this case, the role of the staff is more and more important.

As Prussia believed: in general, it was impossible to simply remove incompetent generals, and most of them were incompetent. But we can at least give them some capable assistants. Chiefs of staff are those who help incompetent generals perform their duties, providing the leadership and command skills that the military needs.

The establishment of the General Staff Department is very suitable for the characteristics of the court of Dashun.

On the one hand, the civil officials were not in charge of the army, and the emperor also clung to it, relying on the nobles and good families to control the military power.

The nobles are a force that the emperor can trust, but the nobles want to ensure the primogeniture inheritance system, which makes one generation inferior to the next, and occasionally there will be two who can fight, and it has become a pillar force.

It is necessary to ensure that the battle can be won, and to ensure that the leader can control the scene in the army, then Xungui is the most suitable.

The General Staff assists the nobles in battle, and it is impossible for them to have control over the army, because they cannot compete with the nobles, and can only take command in place of the nobles in the battle by the right of suggestion or if appropriate.

The General Staff Headquarters should take up the powers and responsibilities of the military government departments, draw up maps of various localities, survey and map the surrounding Korea, Burma, Vietnam, and other places, and draw up a series of operational plans at any time.

At that time, the emperor will come forward to issue these plans for strategic guidance, which can also ensure the emperor's prestige in the army.

In this way, the nobles did not have to worry about the suspicion of the emperor due to the military power, and could ensure that they could lead the army for generations, which was a long-term benefit for the nobles.

Otherwise, it is likely that like the previous dynasty, Xungui will eventually become a waste.

The leader of the army is incompetent, and if the civil official leads the army, the honorable nobles will only have to encroach on the land, give birth to children, and preside over the grace banquet on behalf of the emperor.

In the end, he can only end up as a marginal person in the court.

This is a situation that the third and fourth generations of Dashun nobles do not want to see.

The third thing is the military academy system.

Dashun abolished the martial arts as early as after Jingxiang and changed to the camp school system of the three-way method, although this is not a military school, but at least it is beyond the scope of martial arts.

The martial arts are all brave generals who can fight ten against one, but the times have changed, and the brave and unparalleled are useless.

The three-way method of camp learning and Wude Palace can be seamlessly switched to a military school, as long as the textbooks and the proportion of exams are changed.

The proportion of horseback riding, guns, etc. is reduced; Replace commander's books such as the Seven Books of the Martial Arts with drill codes and battalion and company tactics; Strengthen the specific gravity of arithmetic geometry.

Under the military academy system, the sons of good families have more room for promotion, and they can rely on the advantages of camp education to squeeze out a large number of officer places.

Because of the things to be tested in the military academy, it was decided that even if the restrictions were relaxed for the time being, in fact, there were not many people from outside the good family who could be admitted.

The military academy system guarantees a lower limit, ensures the combat effectiveness of grassroots officers, and also ensures that this is a place where civilian officials in the imperial examination department cannot interfere.

The volume of Dashun only needs a high enough lower limit, and there is no need for famous generals.

In the case of the absolute dominance of the imperial court, the imperial power could be controlled in the middle, making the officers the emperor's most loyal subordinates.

At the same time, it allows civilian officials to maintain the power of supervision, and can prevent military generals from being too domineering.

The military rank system after graduating from a military academy can also guarantee the income and honor of officers, and military ranks are military ranks, and military ranks are military positions, which cannot be equated.

The military reform around these three things is actually a tripartite effort between the good family, the nobles, and the emperor to carve up the military government and completely regain military power.

In this way, there will be a clear distinction between those who support military reform and those who oppose it.

The training department ensures the quality of recruits, standardized management, and makes the tactics the same.

The training department is a group of petty officers, and it is okay to train the troops, but it is absolutely impossible to lead the troops into battle, and there is no need to worry about the rebellion of the training department.

The General Staff Department controls the command of the campaign and the strategic decision-making power, and the professional staff officers can let the incompetent nobles take charge of the army, and the nobles can suppress the whole army by virtue of their status as nobles.

The military academy holds a promotion route outside the imperial examination, and can ensure that there are qualified officers in the battles of the new era.

The power of the military government will definitely be invaded.

Once the military reform is completed, the position of the military government will be very awkward, and what functions will be left?

The emperor obtained complete military power and guaranteed absolute control over the army, even if the military government was not abolished, the military government was actually a rubber stamp.

At the same time, taking away military power from the military government controlled by the civil officials of the imperial examination was also conducive to the expansion of Dashun.

This is a very suitable era for expansion, and the first step can form a crushing advantage over the surrounding area by virtue of the volume.

Civilian officials who came from the imperial examination were limited by their three views and did not support "reckless use of force", but what the general staff had to consider was military merit, military merit and military merit.

Moreover, the Ministry of Military Affairs has done simply too much.

The map is not clear, the military strength of the surrounding countries is not understood, and the intelligence of Burma, Vietnam, and Japan is not known.

It is not impossible to govern the country by counting on this group of people who know the words of the sages, but it is really not possible to fight wars, especially foreign wars.

In these years, we have been fighting for military force, and we are waiting for the national awakening after a hundred years, and we can't control it even if we want to use military force.

Liu Sheng both recognized and supported this set of ideas for military reform, and was sure that the nobles would also support it.

At the same time, take the opportunity to set up the idea of the Admiralty, then there is a lot of room for maneuver.

If the emperor wants to ensure that he can completely control the army, he will rest assured that the navy, as Liu Sheng said, if the army of 10,000 people is stationed in Weihai, then the navy will always be the emperor's.

A navy without ports, without shipyards and repair yards, without gunpowder replenishment, without logistics, without being able to dock, is waste.

The final decision is naturally in the hands of the emperor, because the Liangjiazi and the nobles support this military reform, and the emperor can balance the balance in the middle and use the power of the Liangjiazi and the nobles to take power.

After Liu Sheng analyzed this matter for Liu Yu, he said: "The matter of leveling will definitely make Your Majesty firm in the heart of military reform." Because of the Qingzhou army you trained, Your Majesty has a reason to convince the courtiers. ”

"The military formation tactics of the Westerners are so powerful, if there is no military reform, in the future, if the Westerners will attack, or the surrounding small countries will attack...... You must know that the biggest lesson of the founding of this dynasty is the lesson that the 200,000 people of the previous dynasty almost made Shenzhou Lu Shen. ”

"Just because you don't use it doesn't mean that others won't use it. The countries of the South Seas, the Western forces have long been established. You are fighting too well in the Western Regions, Your Majesty will not be afraid. Therefore, the matter of military reform has become inevitable, and you can fish in troubled waters at this time in the establishment of the Admiralty in the above book. ”

"If it does, then the Admiralty will be established."

"If it doesn't work, take a step back and get the silver taels. We'll talk about it later. ”

"You can retouch this letter, and when I go back, I will present it to Your Majesty. Your Majesty will also issue it to the ministers so that it can be discussed by the court. ”