While Sun Sike's messenger was still on the way, Lin Feng was dealing with a very troublesome matter.

If you talk about the root cause of this matter, there may be many aspects, but the most direct cause at the moment is that a large number of officers have left the team for training, because of the blockade of the news, these officers were suddenly ordered to return to Beijing The action seems very strange, so at the beginning, there were many versions of rumors circulating in the army, except for a few conspiracy theories worried about the purge of the marshal, the mainstream is the rumor that "these people go to Beijing to spend a bad time", so the soldiers are a little more jealous in addition to being lost, Originally, this matter was generally not a bad thing, because from this point of view, although Lin Dashuai was a little uneven, he was also very considerate of his subordinates, and he didn't forget to pull a group of subordinates to enjoy it after the New Year, but with the arrival of spring ploughing, another call suddenly appeared in the army - many soldiers asked for vacations, and they asked to go home to do farm work.

As far as Lin Feng knows, in China's traditional military system, soldiers are cheap consumables, and there is absolutely no welfare to enjoy, and this request is also very ridiculous in his opinion - it's really a joke, the Han army's monthly military salary is the most generous compared to other forces, that is to say, Lin Feng's wish is to hope that this group of soldiers can become real professional soldiers, but this will suddenly make such a fuss, it really surprised him.

At the beginning, this call was not too big, so the same inexperienced Zhou Peigong did not report to Lin Feng, and issued an order prohibiting going home from the camp very casually, but then the momentum of the development of the situation became more and more violent, Beijing greatly underestimated the ability of these soldiers to connect in tandem, as the farmland near the military camp was plowed, Datong, Shanhaiguan and even the garrisons on the Texas front line had some collective strikes, and when the military police came forward to suppress it, there were even some conflicts, The fiery spectacle overwhelmed the commanders of the various armies, and no one could have imagined that these bastards would risk their heads and appeal for their rights by refusing to train.

When the matter came to such a point, naturally no one dared to cover it, and this matter was finally spread on Lin Feng's desk, and after an emergency meeting of several giants, this incident was finally characterized as "unstable military morale" - this level is second only to the collapse of the army, so Chen Menglei's secret service and gendarmerie immediately entered a state of emergency and was ordered to find out the truth in the shortest possible time.

The investigation process is not too difficult, in fact, those who took the lead in making trouble have long wanted to pass on their wishes, and the reason why this incident happened is summarized for several reasons: first, the soldiers of the Han army are too concentrated, most of them come from the Gyeonggi region, the native country, so the officers and soldiers are very familiar with each other, and it is easy to form a group, and second, the Han military government is too generous to the army, because of the military victory in the previous period and the subsequent great expansion, most of the current soldiers have made large and small military achievements, Therefore, they were rewarded with land, so when spring ploughing began, looking at the ploughing of others, these people could not bear the strength of scratching rats in their hearts; The third and most important reason, Chen Menglei specifically pointed out in the report that the system that Lin Feng is now pursuing is too pampered by the army, so of course this group of martial artists who do not know how to advance and retreat will naturally have Long Wangshu, and this kind of military dictatorship system will definitely do more harm than good, if it is not controlled, I am afraid that this matter is just the beginning.

When the report was submitted, there was a huge disagreement between the giants of the Han army, and Lin Feng, Zhou Peigong, and even Li Guangdi, Tang Bin, etc., broke out fierce quarrels on how to deal with opinions, and Li Guangdi, who was deeply educated in Confucian orthodoxy, advocated severely suppressing the army in a drastic way. Lin Feng's meaning was diametrically opposite, he thought that it might as well open the net, deal with a few leaders, and then put some soldiers with insufficient family labor on vacation.

Originally, Lin Feng's idea was not so intense, but later Zhou Peigong reminded him intentionally or unintentionally, he suddenly realized that this may be the prelude to the attack of the civilian clique on the army - after this period of development, the bureaucracy of the Han military government has made great progress, and now it has basically become regular, while the policy pursued by the Han army before is that "the interests of the army represent everything", and the existence of any administrative agency is to serve the army and serve the war, and the preferential care of hundreds of thousands of military dependents is a typical featureAt present, the opinions of Lee Kwang-di and others are, of course, a direct manifestation of the attempt of the civilian-bureaucratic clique to extricate themselves from this shackle and even to influence the armed forces, and they are eager to return to the old path of the "orthodox dynasty" and use traditional concepts to manage the armed forces, so that the armed forces will be tame and considerate and bow down under the guidance of the civilian-bureaucratic clique.

This point of view is of course ridiculous in Lin Feng's opinion, not to mention far, the lessons of the Ming Dynasty only a few decades ago are enough to make people unforgettable, to put it mildly, this kind of army management model is no different from a man who has cut his testicles, to be honest, Lin Feng really feels very strange, this set of things has caused the Han people to be wiped out, why are these Confucian students still holding on? ! - So Lin Feng's position on this matter is surprisingly stubborn, in the impression of many people, Lin Dashuai is a very amiable person on weekdays, and there are few examples of anger, so far, Lin Feng has only been so angry twice, once to insist on establishing a firearms unit and reforming military uniforms, and this is the second time.

When the supreme leader expressed his opinion in the most fierce way, Li Guangdi and others had to carefully choose to back down, and this earliest institutional dispute in the history of the Han army ended hastily without the knowledge of most military generals. However, both sides of the dispute, including Lin Feng, are clear in their hearts, this matter is only the beginning, these government officials are far from being subdued, and the current concession is just to accumulate strength and strive to prepare for the next breakthrough.

Therefore, for the sake of prudence, Lin Feng immediately appointed Zhou Peigong's General Staff Headquarters, authorizing a group of Jinshi Staff officers from the General Staff Headquarters to directly infiltrate Li Guangdi's government agencies - Generally speaking, if the civilian clique wants to make the army submit, in addition to instilling some "imperial skills" in front of the commander, the other means are to monopolize the supply of military materials, and now Lin Feng wants to eliminate this situation first, expand the influence of the military in logistics, and try to reduce the control of the civilian clique over the lifeblood of the army.

Frankly speaking, Lin Feng did not intend to engage in this kind of military dictatorship and fascism at the beginning, but unfortunately, in addition to this set, he really can't think of any way to resist the attack of traditional concepts, after thousands of years of preaching, in the current Chinese society, the status of soldiers is the same as that of criminals, and the suppression of the military by the civilian group is also a natural "royal art", Lin Feng is not unaware of the benefits of traditional methods, if he is not from the future generations, of course he will not hesitate to make a choice, But it's a pity that he knows the fatal consequences of doing this, and the history of the Ming Dynasty before him is constantly reminding him - a nation that is accustomed to self-castration, if it is exterminated by the country, it will definitely not blame others, and it deserves it.

Now he is also extremely confused,—— this kind of military dictatorship fascism is actually no different from Pandora's box, and Lin Feng is unleashing it little by little, and what makes him even more contradictory is that at the moment this poor little thing is extremely weak under the siege of traditional forces, Lin Feng still has to carefully care for it and cultivate it, but who can know, when this little thing grows into a large number of ambitious professional officers, with the resources of a superpower, with a well-organized, What will it become when the behemoth of the body of the body is sound?

In order to save the Chinese civilization that was about to fall, Lin Feng needed a strong army; In order to protect his own private interests, he created a military dictatorship system on this basis, what will become of this terrible military machine when it matures, Lin Feng is very worried - people in this era have no idea that in the history that Lin Feng has studied, this thing has started two world wars and almost destroyed the entire human civilization. And today Lin Feng sent it to the stage of history in advance, how will future generations view themselves? ——History will remember one by one: it is Lin Feng who violates tradition and desperately improves the social status of soldiers; It was Lin Feng who disobeyed the teachings of the sages and changed the political system; It was Lin Feng who forced the elite of society to join the army, thus setting a precedent for the officer system; It is Lin Feng that builds a source of disaster bit by bit. Every time he thought of this, Lin Feng couldn't sleep at night, it might be too late to stop this terrible development now, but now he seemed to have an extra devil in his heart, desperately encouraging him to do it, inciting him to continue this dangerous cause.

During this time, the personal servants of the Generalissimo's Mansion in Zhongnanhai in Beijing often saw the marshal talking to himself in a daze: Who is responsible for the security of Asia? Who is responsible for the war and the killings? …… It's a dangerous game.

Just when Lin Feng was in great distress, the news of the arrival of the messenger of the Great Zhou made him temporarily put aside these marginal troubles, and returned to real life Lin Dashuai's mood quickly improved, in the end, the contradiction about the political system is still quite far away, and it is as ridiculous as worrying about it now, in fact, the current power of the Han army is really weak and pitiful, and even self-protection is very problematic, looking at the current posture of Wu Sangui, everyone understands that the Han army is now just a prey of the Southern Dynasty.

Of course, in order to protect the safety of the envoy group, and more importantly, for the purpose of monitoring its movements, Liu Laosi, the Shunde garrison, was ordered to draw a battalion of 500 elite troops to accompany the regiment and cooperate with the diplomats of the Han military government to do a good job of reception.

In fact, the Han military was inexperienced in counter-espionage, and the accompanying battalion commander basically only knew how to march and fight, and Chen Menglei's secret service did not intervene in this matter this time, so Wang Shirong had obtained most of the information he needed before entering Beijing just by relying on the Han army's officers' remarks and various dialogues and discussions.

Because of the simple relationship between the administrative organs of the Han army, Wang Shirong's meeting with His Excellency Marshal Lin Feng did not cause any trouble, which greatly surprised Wang Shirong's expectations, in his impression, generally this kind of meeting, under normal circumstances, the other party will send officials of the Ministry of Etiquette, under the banner of "teaching etiquette" to spy on it, so as to engage in some intentional feedback and exchange, but Lin Feng seems to prefer bayonets to see red, and there is no interest in maneuvering at all, and he will send someone to meet the envoy the day after the arrival of the envoy group.

Wang Shirong is a very conceited person, in fact, in terms of his talent, he does have a reason for conceit, during this time he collected all kinds of information about Lin Feng, but after comprehensive research, it was difficult to judge what kind of person the other party was, from the point of view of punishing the emperor, engaging in massacres and demolishing the mess of the Forbidden City, this person seems to be a crazy executioner, and from the perspective of the migration of millions of displaced people, this person seems to be like a compassionate layman, and at the same time this person actually has extraordinary political skills, In a short period of time, as the leader of a Fujian guest army, he integrated all the political forces of Gyeonggi Zhili and stabilized his position, according to these points, this person is very similar to the kind of very deep and majestic hero, but Wang Shirong got reliable information to prove that this person behaves very unruly, there is no arrogance on weekdays, and he likes to make some messy jokes, and what is more interesting is that he also behaves very "naïve" and "childlike" from time to time, which is really a strange person.

Lin Feng didn't put on any swords and guns when he met Wang Shirong and his deputy envoy that day, and none of the other Wenchen generals next to him made such a suggestion to him, which surprised him in his heart-Aren't there any routines in classical novels to scare the envoys by setting up the army or oil pot or something? How come it is that it is not like that at all when you get here? With this question, he asked Tang Bin casually, and Tang Bin bluntly admonished him to be self-respecting-in his own territory, he actually relied on the army to intimidate diplomats, so in addition to the extreme lack of self-confidence, such a monarch really has no character at all.

However, such a simple model made Wang Shirong's deputy envoy a little dissatisfied, the deputy envoy of the envoy group is a relative of Xia Guoxiang, the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he can be regarded as an important figure in this diplomatic activity, but his work object is not aimed at the Han army, he is a chess piece specially arranged by Prime Minister Xia Guoxiang next to Wang Shirong - this personnel arrangement has nothing to do with any conspiracy, in fact, people like Xia Guoxiang who were born as military generals do not disdain to play this set, The only purpose of doing this is to warn Wang Shirong: I don't trust you, I don't like you, you give me care, of course Wang Shirong knows this, but he can't do anything about it, the reason why Xia Guo is dissatisfied with him is a universal public theorem - the boss is uneasy because of the excellent personal ability of his subordinates, so he is insecure about his position.

This is an irreconcilable contradiction.

After a simple pass to Jin to see His Excellency Lin Feng, the deputy envoy quickly began to carry out his mission, it is undeniable that he did a very good job in this job, after hastily bowing to Lin Feng who was sitting above, he immediately jumped to the side, pulled out a yellow satin from his arms, and shouted loudly, "The Great Zhou Emperor has an edict - Lin Feng receives the decree-"

Everyone was stunned.