Chapter 82: The Prisoner
Seeing Guan Yi coming in, Zu Wan'er said goodbye and left. Li Xiaosui and Guan Yi sat at the table with www.biquge.info and the host.
"Master Li, the students came here today, and they really have something to say in their hearts, like a fish in their throats, and they don't vomit unpleasantly." Guan Yi's male duck voice shouted again.
Li Xiao looked at this scholar who had proposed to him that day, to provoke the Tartars to fight with the rogues, so that the Ming Dynasty could benefit from it, and couldn't help but think in his heart, this guy, should he think of something strange and brain-opening again, from the treasure in front of him.
Li Xiao waved his hand, signaling that he didn't have to say it so loudly. Then he asked kindly: "Guan Yi, what do you say, it's okay to say it to this official." β
Guan Yi's round bull's eyes blinked, and he lowered his voice and said, "My lord, this rebellion will be rebellious, and my lord will deal with it, although it is lenient, but it is still appropriate." It's just that the students are thinking that if I continue like this in the army and there is no change, then generals such as Jiang Zun who oppose their benefactors will neither be the first nor the last. β
"Guan Yi, what do you mean?"
The smile on Li Xiao's face disappeared suddenly, and he looked at Guan Yi opposite with complicated eyes, not knowing how this bold guy could say such words.
"My lord, the student wants to ask, if there is a fine work like Cui Yu in the future, and he uses money or women to win over the generals of our army to rebel, how should he deal with it?" Guan Yi's words were sharp and direct, which made Li Xiao stunned.
It's really strange, what is the purpose of this man to talk to himself about such a topic so late?
"This, this official believes that the first is to strengthen the selection of generals, and only those with good moral character can be appointed, and the second is to strengthen the secret control of the security department, and if any changes are found, they can be dealt with in time." Li Xiao replied calmly.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Xiao finished speaking, Guan Yi shook his head again and again.
"What, what the official said, is there anything wrong?" Li Xiao asked.
"My lord, what you said does have a certain prevention and control effect. It's just that in the next opinion, if you just deal with it like this, I'm afraid it's still far from enough. β
"Oh, why?"
"Lord Li, this rebellion of Jiang Zun and others, to be honest, the scale and momentum are too small, so your Excellency can quickly suppress and pacify. Moreover, the adults can control the situation so quickly, firstly, because they plot chaos under the noses of adults, and secondly, because the activities of the rebels are all within the monitoring and control of the security department of adults. The student said that if our army develops greatly in the future, and this rebellious general leads the troops to the field, and it is difficult for the Security Department to supervise it for a while. β
Li Xiao's heart tightened, but he was speechless.
"My lord, don't betray me, but don't betray me!"
Seeing that Li Xiao was silent, Guan Yi replied with blazing eyes, which made Li Xiao's eyes light up.
"Go on."
"My lord, it is normal for generals to hide their selfish intentions. It is difficult to know whether people who are behaving well now will be bribed by others in the future. Adults' strategies can have a certain preventive effect, but if you want to control the fundamentals, students believe that it lies in the separation of powers. β
"Decentralization?"
"My lord, the students believe that if you want to restrain the generals, the most important point is to control their power in the army, so that they only have the right to lead the troops to fight, but they have no chance to be a good man!" Guan Yi said in a deep voice.
"Hmm."
"If a general wants to rebel, if he only has the strength of one of them, the courage of his husband, even if there is chaos, the harm is limited. If he coerces his subordinate soldiers to rebel together, or even divide the city, and rebel and collaborate with the enemy, it will be a disaster. Guan Yi said sincerely.
When Li Xiao heard this, he nodded secretly.
The generals Guan Yi mentioned, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming are typical examples.
Kong Youde coerced the elite troops built by the imperial court with a lot of money, and they were suppressed for two years before they were rebellious, leaving the entire Shandong in ruins. And then Kong Youde Geng Zhongming led this army, with a large number of gold and silver treasures and artillery technology, crossed the sea and defected to Houjin, so that Houjin was like a tiger with wings, and finally became a nightmare that the Ming Empire could no longer get rid of.
Li Xiao sighed in his heart, this Guan Yi, when Japan thought he was just an exaggerated person who talked on paper, they didn't expect that this person's thinking was still so profound.
I despise him a little.
"Then in your opinion, what should this official do?"
Guan Yi didn't answer Li Xiao directly, he looked out the window with his eyes, but said as if inadvertently: "My lord, the student wants to ask, why has the emperor been sending supervisors to various military towns since the year before last?" β
When Li Xiao heard this, he was stunned again.
Guan Yi is right, the current Chongzhen is indeed sending prison troops everywhere.
In Li Xiao's mind, he immediately jumped out of the record in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" that he had read in his previous life:
"In November of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the eunuch Li Qimao monitored Shaanxi, Liu Yunzhong monitored Shanxi, Wang Yingchao monitored Guanning, and Wu Zhi monitored the island γγγγγγ"
"In the summer of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the eunuchs Chen Dajin, Yan Siyin, Xie Wenju, and Sun Maolin were the inner Chinese army, and they would each take care of the road and be divided into the camps of Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyuγγγγγγ"
"In June of the sixth year of Chongzhen, he ordered the eunuch Gao Qiqian to monitor Ning and Jin, and Zhang Guoyuan to monitor Shanxi, Shitang and other roads, supervise his generals and schools, and comprehensively check the salaries γγγγγγof the soldiers."
"My lord, do you know why the emperor has sent out the prison army so continuously?"
Seeing that Li Xiao was silent, Guan Yi asked again.
Li Xiao looked at Guan Yi with complicated eyes, and then replied slowly: "It's just that the officers and troops are not effective in combat, and the saint is worried that the generals are unwilling to do their best, so he sent the supervision army to various military towns to supervise and urge the generals to do their best to serve the country." β
Guan Yi smiled and replied in a low voice: "My lord, the student thinks that you are only right on one side, the student is thinking, the saint is doing this, and the more important reason is that in order to prevent the generals from communicating with the Tartars or rogues in private, deceiving the imperial court, losing control, and even plotting against the enemy, they have to send a prison army, thinking that it is for the purpose of secretly containing the supervision and verification." β
"Oh."
Li Xiao was shocked in his heart, but he couldn't refute it for a while.
"My lord, "Han Feizi" once said that no matter how beautiful the shoes are, they can only be stepped on, and no matter how worn out the hat is, they must be worn on the head. The king, heaven and earth, the upper and lower are inferior and the rank is different, which is the order of the country, and it must not be reversed. If you can't control the generals and let them do their jobs, then naturally, you will also lose control of the army under the generals. β
Guan Yi said this with a serious face.
"Guan Yi, although the emperor stationed the prison army like this, although it was for the sake of facilitating the control of the imperial court, all the military towns below were secretly resisting, and the internal friction was great. As a result, people such as Yuan Jixian, the secretary of Shanxi, Zhuang Ao, the deputy envoy of Shaanxi, He Zijing, and others all wrote to oppose the dispatch of the supervising army, what is the reason? Li Xiao asked.
"Master Li, according to the students, the reason why the Holy Lord sent eunuchs as supervisors is because he is his cronies, and the emperor grew up in the deep palace and got along with the eunuchs day and night, so he thinks that the eunuchs have no selfish intentions and can do things honestly after being sent to various military towns. I only sigh that the emperor's original intention is good, but it is actually a big mistake! β
Guan Yi paused, and then said: "The emperor thought that sending eunuchs to the army to act as eyes and ears could prevent the deception and rebellion of civil and military officials, but he never thought that when these people arrived in the locality, this positive effect was far from offsetting the harm they brought. You must know that the eunuchs are all people who are left behind in their sentences, although there are a small number of people who are loyal to the country, but most of them are only good at clever words to deceive the emperor's trust, so as to recruit power and bribes, and secretly seek personal gain. Such people, the so-called "superintendent of discipline and meritorious deeds", are just to provide them with an opportunity to make a fortune abroad. These eunuchs, when they go to the localities, often only blindly exploit corruption, and the harm is very great, so that the army is resentful and the people are angry, and their positive effects on the generals such as containment and monitoring are mostly offset. This is also the reason why Yuan Jixian and others strongly oppose the dispatch of the prison army. β
After Li Xiao listened, he fell into a deep groan.
Guan Yi actually makes a lot of sense. According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen himself, because the necessity and scourge of sending eunuchs are so intertwined, he himself is often entangled in the pain of whether to send or not to send eunuchs, so that the matter of sending eunuchs abroad has been determined and withdrawn, withdrawn and determined, repeated many times, and he is also exhausted and unbearable.
"Ming Tongjian" records that in June of this year, Chongzhen had explained to the ministers of the imperial court the hardships of sending eunuchs to supervise the army, and he said in the edict: "At the beginning of the imperial period, I withdrew and returned to the inner town, and entrusted the ministers of the world with all the affairs. As a last resort, I used the example of Chengzu's surveillance to dispatch various towns to monitor, which was expedient, and I wanted the ministers to know the province and believe in my original intention. β
It is a pity that Chongzhen's self-complaining grievances not only failed to impress the Manchu civil and military, but also made himself a notoriety for reusing internal prisons by historians.
An emperor who vigorously attacked the eunuchs at the beginning of his reign and an emperor who later reused eunuchs as his cronies could be the same person, this historical paradox is enough to make future generations sigh and be speechless.
"Then Guan Yi, you mean, in my Li Xiaojun, I also sent a prison army?" At this time, Li Xiao seemed to hear a little truth.
"Adults, students think that the model of taking the essence and removing the dross is actually extremely useful. If it is improved in good condition, so that it can not only play the role of containing and monitoring the generals, but also prevent it from poisoning the localities and harming the military and the people, then it is the most suitable. Guan Yi replied with a smile.
In Li Xiao's mind, he suddenly had a feeling of Mao Han suddenly opening up.
This model that Guan Yi said is shared with future generations. How similar is the model of the generals and political commissars of the army leading the army.
Common. This set of military models, in which generals are in charge of military warfare and political commissars are in charge of auditing and supervision, perfectly realizes the combination of combat training and political control, so that its own army is completely superior to the country of the same era in terms of organization. Army troops. This is also the reason why a large number of **** generals often lead the army to defect to the Communist Party, but very few **** generals can lead the army to defect to the Communist Party.
This is a model that I can learn from.
Although this Guan Yi is suspected of talking about the war on paper in terms of making suggestions, he did not expect that he still has a unique point in the control and management of this kind of army.
This person can be reused.
"Guan Yi, what you said about improving the mode of supervising the army, in the eyes of this officer, is really very good. This official is thinking, why don't you change it to the following way in my Li Xiaojun? β
"Students want to listen to adults."
"In the future, in my Li Xiaojun, in order to distinguish it from the supervising army established by the imperial court, the post of supervising and supervising the army was specially established to be responsible for the distribution of salaries and salaries of soldiers, the review of combat merits, the teaching of sergeants, the monitoring and assistance of generals, and the reporting of troop dynamics. In this way, the generals and the supervisors have their own duties and have a clear division of labor, which does not affect the troops to fight and march, but also makes the generals lose the foundation of coercion because they cannot give blessings to their subordinates. In this case, even if the generals have different intentions, they are powerless. β
Guan Yi nodded again and again: "The adult fruit is a genius, and if you just put forward an opinion, the adult can implement it like this, and the students really admire it." β
Li Xiao said with a smile: "Guan Yi, then the position of the director of the Supervision Department is temporarily held by this official." If you take up the post of deputy director, your work will be reported directly to the officer, and you will also be fully responsible for the supervision and care personnel below. From now on, each team will have a supervisor and a sub-officer, 3 members of the 3rd shield team, 6 people of the 6th spear team, one person each of the Xuanhu Cavalry and the Flying Harrier, one person of the artillery unit, one person of the fire gun team, and one person of the sailor. In this case, in addition to you, 14 additional personnel will need to be recruited. During this period of time, the official went to various places to recruit scholars, and after recruiting suitable people, he immediately joined the army. β
Guan Yi was overjoyed, got up and bowed. "Students obey the orders of adults."
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