Chapter 41: Governor Lu's Mansion

sent away a governor and a governor, and two days later, Zhu Youzhen ushered in a prefect in the Qianqing Palace.

"Weichen knocks to see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

After the sound of the mountain shouting long live, Zhu Youzhen walked out from behind the case and carefully looked at this famous anti-Qing general in history.

Lu Xiangsheng, the word Jiandou, a native of Yixing, the second year of the Apocalypse, is currently the prefect of the Daimyo.

Lu Zhifu is only 27 years old this year, with fair skin and a thin face, which is the age of being in his prime and dignified.

Looking at the weak scholar Lu Zhifu, Zhu Youzhen couldn't believe that this person would command thousands of troops and horses, and personally charge the battle to kill the enemy.

Lu Xiangsheng, who was prostrate on the ground, didn't dare to raise his head, only to see a pair of royal boots dangling in front of his eyes, but he didn't hear it for a long time to let himself flat, Lu Xiangsheng felt a little bottomless in his heart.

Ten days ago, Lu Xiangsheng was in the detention room of the Daimyo Mansion, discussing with the general judge about the release of autumn grain, when he suddenly heard a commotion in the front office.

After a while, Lu Xiangsheng received the order to enter the capital immediately.

Lu Xiangsheng looked confused, and immediately some of the second monks were confused, so he asked the eunuch who announced the decree.

However, the eunuch also did not know anything about it, and only said that His Majesty had instructed him to see Governor Lu as soon as possible.

In the face of the compliments and congratulations of his colleagues and subordinates, although Lu Xiangsheng was also excited, he did not get carried away.

Like traditional feudal intellectuals, although Lu Xiangsheng often boasts of being a talent in the world, he will look forward to one day being able to visit the cabinet and worship the prime minister if he drinks too much, but that is just drinking and having fun with friends and laughing in vain.

Lu Xiangsheng carefully reviewed his experience in the sea in just a few years, and secretly said that he did not have any outstanding political achievements that could reach the heavens, and he could get the blue eyes of the new emperor, Lu Xiangsheng was not only excited, but also a little apprehensive in his heart.

Lu Xiangsheng was the fifty-fifth in the second year of the Apocalypse, and he was born as a Jinshi.

However, due to the low results of the palace examination, he was not qualified to enter the Hanlin Academy as a scholar, and after the palace examination, he was assigned to the household department to observe the government.

During the period of observing the government, he performed well, and a year later, Lu Xiangsheng was successfully turned into a regular and was left in the household department as the director.

At the end of the three-year assessment period, he will be promoted to a member of the household department.

At this age, there was a vacancy in the Daimyo Mansion of Beizhili, and Lu Xiangsheng was hooked to the Daimyo Ren Governor's Mansion by the Ministry of Literature and Selection.

At this point, Lu Xiang has not been promoted to the daimyo prefect for less than a year, and it has not been long since he straightened out the affairs of the whole government, and he has not been able to put forward his political achievements.

Lu Xiangsheng really couldn't understand how his small five-grade prefect could attract the emperor's attention.

"Lu Aiqing is flat."

Just as he was apprehensive, Lu Xiangsheng saw a pair of big white hands rushing at him.

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly retracted his thoughts, and didn't dare to say anything.

"Aiqing knows about the army?"

After Zhu Youzhen returned to the case, he sat down and started the topic.

"When Weichen should be raised, in his spare time, he read a few military books to relieve his boredom, and he read it slightly roughly, and he didn't dare to say it."

"Have you read the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training"?"

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he nodded hurriedly and replied yes.

"The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training" were both written by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty, which recorded in detail the recruitment, training, marching and response techniques of the Qi army, and it is not an exaggeration to seal the first military book of the millennium.

In order to train the new army, Zhu Youzhen also read these two books carefully these days, and after reading them, he felt the greatness of Qi Jiguang.

Compared with the "Art of War", "Sun Bin Art of War", "Liutao", "Three Strategies" and other strategic military books, "The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Practice of Military Training" are more like modern military regulations.

It focuses on the actual situation of the army, starting with the recruitment of soldiers and ending with the resettlement of veterans, all of which are carefully summarized into rules and regulations.

Even people who have never seen the army can say a thing or two about training and fighting after reading this book.

"Well, that's good."

Zhu Youzhen praised Lu Xiangsheng, and then took out two more booklets.

"You can also read these two books."

Lu Xiangsheng respectfully took the two books from Wang Chengen's hands, and saw one book: "On War" and the other "Army Training Drill Code".

The book "On War" was left behind by a passenger on a cruise ship when he escaped, and Zhu Youzhen took the sheep and took it for his own use.

But this book for Lu Xiangsheng was naturally adapted by Zhu Youzhen.

The "Army Training Drill Code" is Zhu Youzhen's original restorative work based on the infantry drill code of the 19th century lobster soldiers, plus modern ideas on army management.

As for whether this "Army Training Drill Manual", which mixes Chinese and Western and integrates ancient and modern, can take root in the land of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen has no bottom in his heart.

In his previous life, Zhu Youzhen was a military fan, and he often poured water on each other with his colleagues in various forums, and was very familiar with the military training and tactics of modern and modern countries.

But it is only limited to the familiarization stage, except for spending a month in the barracks during military training, plus shooting targets a few times, all of Zhu Youzhen's military literacy comes from the Internet.

If Zhao Kuo is talking on paper, then Zhu Youzhen is talking on the Internet at best.

Since he had not participated in actual combat, Zhu Youzhen did not know whether he was a military genius or not, but this did not prevent Zhu Youzhen from teaching advanced military theories to the military geniuses of the Ming Dynasty.

And Lu Xiangsheng is the key training object selected by Zhu Youzhen, and he is trained in terms of handsome talents.

Lu Xiangsheng in history was upright, loyal and brave, and he was especially good at fighting with the large army.

This person is also a Jinshi, and his cultural literacy should be good, which is very in line with the image of the commander of the three armies in Zhu Youzhen's mind.

And this person is extremely upright and extremely loyal to the king, belonging to the kind of foolish and loyal type where the king lets his ministers die and the ministers have to die, and Lu Xiangsheng in history was also killed by Gao Qiqian because of this.

But Zhu Youzhen appreciated him and cultivated him as a disciple.

And this time, Zhu Youzhen will never let the tragedy of the Battle of Julu happen again.

But at this time, Lu Xiangsheng didn't know that Zhu Youzhen had such high hopes for him, and he was still concentrating on looking at the two military books.

But as soon as he turned two pages, Lu Xiangsheng was shocked, and after respectfully putting down the military book, he revisited Zhu Youzhen with a big salute.

"A month ago, the auspicious matter of the Qianqing Palace was introduced to the Daimyo Mansion, and everyone said that His Majesty was the Son of Heaven and descended to earth, and the real dragon was alive.

After speaking, Lu Xiangsheng knocked his head three times in a row.

"Haha, Lu Aiqing's words are serious, I just stand on the shoulders of giants and look farther away than others."

Zhu Youzhen pretended to say Newton's famous sentence, and then felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly changed the topic.

"I don't know why Aiqing is so emotional?"

"Your Majesty, the first article of "On War" is so well written, the minister has read thousands of military books, but this book is the only one that understands the essence of soldiers."

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he knew it in his heart.

The article "The Nature of Conquest" was adapted by Zhu Youzhen from the classic quotes in the book of the original author, Carl von Clausewitz, and its original text is like this.

'War is an act of violence that forces the enemy to submit to our will. ’

'War is the continuation of politics by another means, politics is bloodless war, war is bloody politics, war is part of political intercourse, politics is the end, war is the means. ’

'Politics not only causes wars, but also governs them, and thus the nature of politics determines the nature of wars. ’

Zhu Youzhen secretly promised Lu Xiangsheng in his heart: This kid is really knowledgeable, I didn't see the wrong person.

Clausewitz's discourse on the relationship between war and politics reverberated not only in his time.

Even in the twenty-first century, it is still used by military academies in many countries as the first course for new students.

Lu Xiangsheng could see the meaning of this passage after a cursory reading, and Zhu Youzhen was deeply pleased with this, and then said.

"Lu Qing, this military book is my painstaking work, and now I will pass it on to you, you should study it well, keep it properly, and it will not be in vain to waste a piece of my hard work."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he suddenly felt the grace of heaven, and hurriedly kowtowed to thank him with tears.

"Your Majesty, the ministers will study day and night, and refuse to accept Your Majesty's entrustment, in order to repay the emperor's kindness."

Speaking of this, Lu Xiangsheng paused, his heart sank, and then he asked again.

"But the minister has something unclear, the minister is a civil official, I really don't know what His Majesty means by summoning the minister in the starry night, and giving the minister a military letter?"

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he immediately laughed, and then popped out two words.

"Training!"