The letter reached Liu Yu's hand, and after reading it, he burned it, and even the ashes of the paper were carefully crushed by hand.

was excited about Tian Zhenyi's boldness, and also agreed with her worries.

Now the imperial court still has a strong control over the grassroots, and it is the rising period of a dynasty.

He also thought about his worries about the future.

As far as the army is concerned, it is not difficult to say that it is difficult to say that there is a controlled army, but it is not easy to say that it is not easy.

The issue of ordnance is not a problem.

The real big issue is the reform of the military system as a whole.

Now in the hands of the emperor, or the central government's suppression of the localities, the foundation for reassuring military generals is the tenacity and combat effectiveness of those tens of thousands of good families, which far exceeds the training level and quality of recruits in various places.

Trained since childhood, he can withstand the huge casualties under the Muliji Acropolis without collapsing, and these tens of thousands of elites are enough to suppress the border troops and local governors in various places.

If a new army is recruited, it can suppress the elite army in the emperor's hands that can suppress the locality, how should the emperor balance?

If a new army is recruited, the advantages of the good family can be eliminated from the army, is it necessary to retain such a privileged class that does not have to pay taxes?

What's the point of keeping it? If he does not keep it, who will the emperor rely on to be the tentacles of imperial power to extend out of the palace?

A single formation, with only 350,000 troops, could not suppress the new-style army of comprehensive transformation. Once there is any war and uprising, a little decentralization of power will allow the local jiedu envoys to pull out an army that is enough to compete with the central government. The non-overlapping of economic and political centers, and the vastness of the territory with almost the limits of its communications capabilities at this time, make this not alarmist.

Instead of forming a separate formation, but as an officer in various armies, it can maintain control over the army, but it will inevitably face the rapid expansion of the power of the Liangjiazi class to completely break the balance of the government and government: the officers of the army and navy are all from a privileged class, and it is needless to say what kind of force this is.

What Tian Zhenyi is worried about is that what Liu Yu has made cannot be copied, and if someone else can't do it, then the emperor really won't dare to use it, and at most he will put Liu Yu in the capital to raise it.

What Liu Yu was worried about was the opposite of Tian Zhenyi. has the educational foundation left by Li Guo, and it is too easy to copy.

What he was worried about was that the emperor would be choking on food, and even if he saw the strength of the new army with his own eyes, considering the balance problem and the problem of the central government's suppression of the localities, even if he did it, it would only be done on a small scale.

In the end, in order to suppress and balance, whether the Beijing battalion formed by Chengliangjiazi is a new army system, a local system, or an old-style system, it is still a complete calf.

Therefore, in the past five years, military training is not a difficult point, but the difficulty lies in finding a complete set of structural concepts from practice.

Who to teach is the question.

I Dashun has its own national conditions here, and after thinking about it, I don't know who to copy.

With such thoughts, he went on the road, pondered immediately all the way, and after passing Jinan Mansion, Liu Yu had some ideas.

These alternate officers who were sent have a lot of respect for him, they can't compare with their family background, they are far behind in terms of official positions, they are also from Wude Palace, Liu Yu is the leader, and they are about the same age, but Liu Yu has already made a name for himself in the north.

When camping at night, Liu Yu tentatively asked a few young people.

"If one day, Your Majesty cancels the tax exemption and preferential treatment of the good family and takes off the military and the people, what do you think?"

The young men immediately had a shocked look on their faces, and they couldn't believe that they would hear such a question.

It took a long time before he said: "Then there must be a traitor around Your Majesty!" When Your Majesty has a will, we will respect the emperor and ask for adultery, and we will clear the king's side. It's also strange for adults to say, how can they suddenly ask such a strange question? ”

After a haha, Liu Yu laughed a few times and said, "Just ask casually and listen to your thoughts." ”

Avoiding the topic, he said some more gossip, not wanting the officers to think too much.

When he came out of the tent, he saw him at night and saluted immediately.

This is different from the last time I went to the Northeast, that time I relied on money to share weal and sorrow with the soldiers, and this time I purely relied on the shadow of the famous tree.

The camp was quiet, and the few officers with practical experience who were transferred, and the obedience cultivated since childhood, made it easy for this group of people to maintain discipline.

Along the way, Liu Yu also tried to talk about some military drills, and the effect was unexpectedly good.

These good family children who have received camp education since childhood can easily understand professional terms such as left turn, right turn 90 degrees, and echelon retreat, and there is no lag in understanding.

Obedience, obedience, discipline, practical knowledge of non-sub-sons, and a foundation in geometry and formal logic, these people are too easy to train as grassroots officers.

It's so easy, it's so easy, it's scary.

People will habitually choose the most convenient one, and will not waste energy when there is a convenient choice.

Liu Yu thought that before the formation and training of this new army, he must sort out a set of effective methods to completely replace this group of people and abolish this class.

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At this time, the estuary of the Yellow River was still in the Huai River Basin, so there was no need to cross the river, and after arriving in the Denglai area, Liu Yu first went to Penglai to meet the local officials with real power.

For various reasons, Dashun divided the administrative region of Shandong into two.

Dashun renamed the governor of the previous dynasty as the Jiedu envoy, but in fact did not control the soldiers and horses.

Shandong is divided into two, and Weihai, where Liu Yu is going, used to be Weihaiwei. Dashun canceled the Wei system, and Weihai was subordinate to Wendeng Prefecture.

Wendeng Prefecture is also under the jurisdiction of the Jiaoliao Jiedu Envoy.

Cut Shandong, and the eastern part of the Liaodong Jinzhou, Lushun and other places assigned to the original Leiden Mansion, in fact, the full name of the Jiaoliao Jiedu envoy is the Jiaodong Liaonan Jiedu envoy.

Jiaodong area has the country's largest gold mine, Dashun does not prohibit mining, private mining May Day commission, so that the economic status here is very high. There are no gold mines in Caozhou, but there are in Jiaodong. In recent years, the mining of gold has also contributed to the development of local fisheries, agriculture and handicrafts.

On the other hand, in order to prevent another accident in Liaodong, Dashun was frightened by the end of the Ming Dynasty and immigrated to Liaodong like crazy, and the best route for immigrants was to cross the sea from Penglai to Lushun in Jinzhou. In order to facilitate immigration, and also to prevent the emergence of self-reliance and other things in eastern Liaoning, a part of southern Liaoning was set aside.

Compared with the governor of the previous dynasty, the Jiaoliao Jiedu envoy did not care about military affairs, but he had two more tasks.

One is in charge of gold mines, the other is in charge of immigrants, and the Jiaoliao Festival envoy has to enter Beijing every year to perform affairs.

Since Jiaoliao Jiedu makes it irrelevant to the military, there are naturally people in charge of the military, and the military governor here is the general power of Jiaoliao, and the general power sounds strange, a bit like the chief military officer of the previous dynasty, but not exactly.

Jiaoliao is in charge of patrolling, shipbuilding, communicating with Jiedu envoys, immigration, preventing miners from making trouble, etc., and the soldiers stationed here are also garrisons, and their combat effectiveness is also okay.

But in the mining area, the public security is always bad, Dashun is not forbidden to firearms, there are often in order to fight for the mine and use the bird gun to open each other, often the local can not be suppressed, it is necessary to ask the town guard to come forward.

Now the pirates are gone, and there are no pirates on the seas.

Korea was poor, and Japan did not allow any ships to enter Nagasaki from the north of the five islands, so there were not even a single smuggler here.

Jiaoliao Zheng has a lot of ships under his hands, but most of them are used to transport grain and people.

Theoretically, he also had an important strategic task, that is, to deter Korea, or to defend against Japan's resurgence of the Imjin Rebellion.

However, now that Liaodong is in hand and Japan is also closed to the rest of the country, the defense here is becoming more and more lax, and this theoretical strategic task only exists theoretically.

The festival degree envoy is from the second grade, and the total power is also from the second grade, and the two are of the same level, both of them are only one order higher than Liu Yu.

But both of them are real power factions who are sent to the local government, which is very different from Liu Yu, who has a bunch of ministries but is actually the Dragon Guard.

The grade of the Dragon Praetorian Guard is not low, but it is normal to be demoted and used, and the third-grade officials who have really been tempered and really boiled to real power may take a few years or even more than ten years.

Liu Yu is not only from the military general system, but he also went to meet the general power of Jiaoliao Town, and this Jiaoliao Town is also from Wude Palace, and he is also from the Dragon Ban.

handed over the post, and soon a bearded man in his forties greeted him.

Looking at the official uniform, Liu Yu already knew that the town guard here was surnamed Ma, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he saluted in a proper manner and called out to Master Ma.

"Brother Liu doesn't have to be polite. You and I are both from the Wude Palace, and we are both selected from the Dragon Ban, which is not as good as those from the imperial examinations. At a young age, he made great contributions to the slaves, and I have heard of this reputation for a long time. Come, please. ”

This Brother Liu is for the sake of Liu Yu's father's face, and it is also for the sake of Liu Yu's saint who is now in the limelight.

The two are not subordinate to each other, and they may not have much interaction in the future, so they still need to be polite.

When he went inside, he sat down with the guests and the hosts, and talked about the barracks.

"Your Majesty has already made a decree, and the barracks of the Weihai Acropolis and the defense of Weihaiwei will be handed over to Brother Liu. There are barracks there where you can stay for a while. If there is any inconvenience, please come to me. ”

Liu Yu arched his hand and smiled: "Where do you dare to trouble Master Ma?" Your Majesty has given me the ministry of training a soldier to train a battalion of soldiers here. This is the first thing to trouble Master Ma to move the camp. ”

"Hahaha, Brother Liu is polite, they are all doing things for His Majesty, what's the trouble? A few days ago, I saw a Western ship coming from the east, presumably the one captured by Brother Liu in Heilongjiang. It's just one boat, I'm afraid it's not enough, so I temporarily allocated a few small boats to Brother Liu, a big ship to patrol the shore. ”

After the polite words, he got down to business. The defense of Weihai Acropolis was handed over to Liu Yu, so it is necessary to clarify the responsibilities in the future.

Although there are no pirates or pirates now, it is better to make it clear in advance, just in case.

asked someone to take out the map and pointed out the front line that Liu Yu wanted to take over.

Liu Yu doesn't have to worry about things on the shore. There is nothing to do on weekdays, if something big happens to mobilize the army, this town guard is not qualified to control Liu Yu.

Knowing that Liu Yu was going to visit the Jiedu envoy, he didn't stay long, Liu Yu left a gift and went to the Jiedu envoy's yamen.

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When Liu Yu was visiting the officials in Penglai, the governor of Wendeng Prefecture was also waiting for him anxiously, and his heart was like hanging a bucket.

It is said that the relationship between this state pastor of Wendeng Prefecture and Liu Yu, the military training of the eight poles, is incompatible, but this state pastor has a heart.

He knew that Liu Yu was a student of Western studies, and the teacher of Western studies was the missionary Dai Jinxian. And the reason why he was able to ascend to the state pastor was because he made a lesson plan in Fujian and bet on the right meaning.

Now Liu Yu is stationed in Weihai and Liugong Island, and he will inevitably have to deal with him in the future.

knows that this is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, and if he finds a little trouble, he can't eat and walk around.

Originally, he was promoted to state pastor, Bai Yunhang was very happy, and he was even happier to be promoted to Wendeng.

Wendeng has brought a wave of fishing and agriculture due to the development of nearby gold mining, and his business has become more and more prosperous, and he has risen from the county to Sanzhou, and there are several gold mines under his rule.

Who would have thought that this Lord Liu, who has a great relationship with Western religion, would come here, but he chose Weihai, and he couldn't help but sigh when he thought about it.

The soldiers brought by Lord Liu had already moved into the barracks vacated by Weihai first, and seeing those soldiers made Bai Yunhang feel even more uneasy.

There are a lot of Westerners in it.

When he was in Fujian, he often saw Westerners, and he probably divided the difference between the new and old religions, but think about the fact that Westerners can fight because of the Protestant and old religions, this Lord Liu, who followed Dai Jinxian and Dai Shilang to learn Western studies, I am afraid that he must be a Catholic.

This little state pastor sounds magnificent, but he is not the state pastor of the Han Dynasty at all, but the governor of the previous dynasty.

Petty officials and five products, where can they resist the three words of people in the court?

He couldn't enter the barracks, so he could only wait patiently on the road, although the two were not under the same umbrella, but he always felt that there was a disaster, and he thought that there was always a benefit to being a little more polite.

However, after waiting for several days, there was no trace, and when he was worried, a subordinate hurried over.

"My lord, then Lord Liu went directly to Wendeng City, took a few guards, and wandered around. Ask everything, the price of rice, fish, gold and silver money...... It took two days to turn around before leaving. ”

"Oops!"

As soon as he heard this, Bai Yunhang panicked even more. The dragon ban in front of His Majesty, although the decentralization of the place does not have the power to manage affairs, but it has the power to check the place, and people can directly play it.

After this Lord Liu came, he went to Wendeng for a walk first, isn't this a fault?

Naturally, there are no bones in the eggs, but the problem is that he is not a white and flawless egg, as long as someone takes the opportunity to say a few words of dissatisfaction, isn't it a bad thing?

was anxious and restless, and when he really saw Liu Yu, he still suppressed the panic in his heart and saluted first.

"Xiaguan Wendeng Prefecture Governor Bai Yunhang, I have seen Lord Liu."

Liu Yu was stunned, patted his head and said, "Bai Yunhang? This person is familiar, aren't you the one who is doing teaching plans in Fujian? ”

Bai Yunhang's legs were weak, and he almost sat on the ground, his heart was finished, this was straight to the point.

"Back to your lordship...... It's a lower official. Adults don't know ......"

"Ahhh What do you not know? I know too well. The Spaniards and the Portuguese have always been missionaries first, and then invaded. Speaking of which, Lord Bai, I still have to thank you. ”

Liu Yu's words are true, if it weren't for Bai Yunhang's troubles in Fujian, the imperial court would not trust the missionaries at all, and he would not have had a follow-up opportunity, at least on the northern border issue, he might be given away hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land by the missionaries.

Bai Yunhang was stunned by these words, wondering if this was the opposite?