Zhao Dan was telling the truth.

If you want to get a shogunate, then it's better to call it the shogunate, and what kind of staff office is it, isn't this an extra move?

Besides, as the monarch of Zhao State, Zhao Dan didn't need to get any shogunate at all.

The meaning of this staff office for Zhao Dan is that of a staff officer, a pure staff officer.

Sun Tzu once had a world-famous saying in the Art of War: "Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles." ”

Taken on the face of it, this sentence highlights the high demands on reconnaissance and intelligence and clarifies the importance of both.

But in fact, this sentence, especially the word "knowing the other", can also be understood from another aspect.

What does it mean to know the other?

In Zhao Dan's view, knowing the enemy not only represents the understanding of the enemy's whereabouts and intelligence, but also represents the mastery of the enemy's psychology.

For example, under what circumstances will the enemy generals attack? And under what circumstances will it retreat? Under what circumstances do you hesitate? Under what circumstances will you fight to the death?

If you can master these, it is obviously a kind of knowing the other.

Psychology is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it often plays an important role in war.

In the history of warfare in the past Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the psychological aspect of the enemy was usually made by guessing the generals who led the troops.

For example, in the famous Battle of Guiling, Sun Bin, the ghost and talented military advisor of Qi, was able to set up an ambush halfway because he mastered the psychology of the Wei general Pang Juan's eagerness to return to the division to rescue Daliang City, and finally broke the Wei army with leisure.

If it were replaced by another general who was not as good as Sun Bin to lead the troops, then this battle might not be able to win so beautifully, or even win.

In Zhao Dan's view, this way of relying too much on the personal ability of the generals is obviously very bad, and it is also very unstable.

This is the original intention of Zhao Dan to set up a staff office.

Through this staff office, Zhao Dan can completely deduce the battlefield in advance, predict the enemy's advance route, defensive policy, surprise attack route and many other possibilities according to the information obtained, and then draw up a response plan for Zhao Guo according to these possibilities one by one.

In such a process of deduction, Zhao was very easy to perceive the tactics and policies that the enemy was most likely to adopt on the battlefield, so as to carry out targeted countermeasures.

Ideally, the General Staff should have thought of all the possibilities and made a plan accordingly before the start of the war.

In this way, no matter what action the enemies of Zhao State take, they will not surprise Zhao State.

And even if he encounters any strange moves, the leading generals of Zhao State can also rely on the response plan formulated by the General Staff Office at the beginning to meet the moves, so as not to be beaten in a hurry and finally collapse.

With the help of these staff officers, no matter which general of Zhao leads the troops, he can guarantee that he will not make that kind of very brainless decision, and he will not be used by the enemy to use strange tricks all at once, so the chances of winning the war will be greatly improved.

Opportunities are always for those who are prepared, aren't they?

Therefore, these staff officers will not have any actual official positions and positions like the staff members in the shogunate, as long as they are responsible for deducing the battle situation in this staff office every day.

This is where the Staff Office differed from the Shogunate.

The reason why the staff office was located in the palace instead of directly on the front line was mainly because Zhao Dan considered that this was a new institution after all, and the uncertainty of throwing it out in a big battle like the Battle of Hedong was a bit uncertain, and I don't know if there would be any negative impact.

After all, if you are serious about it, this is nothing on paper.

Therefore, Zhao Dan decided to test it in the palace first, wait until the staff office really made some results, and then rely on these results to convince the army generals, and then promote it in the army.

This is actually something that Zhao Dan made up according to the staff system of later generations.

If he can, Zhao Dan also hopes to set up a large staff in the future, and conduct a pre-deduction of all aspects of the Zhao State War before the war, so as to truly not only march and fight, but also to ensure that everything related to the war, such as logistics supply, soldier recruitment, equipment casting, etc., can be prepared in every detail.

Of course, the meal has to be eaten in one bite, and things have to be done one by one, and Zhao Dan is not the kind of person who wants to eat everything in one go to become fat, so starting with a small staff office is undoubtedly a safer choice.

And now the people who have been brought to this staff office by Zhao Dan are mainly some scholars who have defected to Zhao Guo for a while, and after a preliminary screening and investigation, it has been proved that they are indeed with a certain talent.

In fact, this can also be seen as another test, the staff office is originally a place where all kinds of ideas are free, and the collision of ideas will definitely make outstanding people stand out.

After Zhao Dan clarified the role of the General Staff Office, the people present nodded their heads one after another to express their understanding, with both disappointment and joy in their hearts.

The disappointment is of course because this staff officer has no power at all except for advice, and the joy is because Zhao Dan has already stated that as long as the performance of the staff office is good enough, then there is hope that the future war of Zhao State will be carried out under the advice of the staff office!

Although everyone here knows that this does not actually mean that the General Staff will be able to lead a war, but think about it, isn't it also exciting to influence the direction and outcome of a major war through one's own opinions?

After Zhao Dan explained everything clearly, he turned back to Han Fei behind him and said, "Han Fei, in the future, you will be in charge of this staff office." If you have any important thoughts, remember to present them to the widow at once! ”

Han Fei was surprised in his heart, and then he understood the reason why Zhao Dan specially informed him before coming here.

This time, Han Fei was also excited, and immediately bowed down: "Minister, minister, thank you, thank you." ”

Before this, although Han Fei led an official position in the middle of the court, he did not have any real position, that is, he had nothing to do except follow Zhao Dan to run around every day.

Although Han Fei actually did not reject being Zhao Dan's follower, because he could also learn a lot from being a follower, from the bottom of his heart, Han Fei obviously still hoped to have an opportunity to show his ability.

Now, Zhao Dan finally put this opportunity in front of Han Fei, so it is no wonder that Han Fei is so excited.

Zhao Dan looked at Han Fei with an excited face, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a little smile.

Zhao Dan has never doubted Han Fei's theoretical level, but Han Fei's specific ability needs to be investigated.

After all, in history, after Han Fei entered Qin, he was not ambitious, and he was killed by his senior brother Li Si without getting any opportunity to express his ability at all.

As a result, the Staff Office, the predecessor of the General Staff Department of Zhao Guoda, which was famous in later generations, was officially established today.

It was also in the afternoon of the same day that Mixian appeared in a hurry in front of Zhao Dan, who had returned to Longtai to deal with government affairs, and spoke with obvious anxiety in his tone.

"King, the Southern Urgency, the people of Chu - defeated!"