Although Mao Yuanyi is the son of an official eunuch, he is not a simple person, he is not like the Yanei described in the play all day long to carry a cage and frame a bird and flirt with a good woman, but a hot-blooded young man with ideals and ambitions, it is said that while he is doing his job, he also spent more than ten years of spare time studying ancient war history and war examples, such as the Warring States Period, the Three Kingdoms Period, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and other periods of ordnance warfare, as well as the Battle of Changping, the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, the Battle of Weishui and other war examples, wrote a book called "Wu Bei Zhi", It has been praised by many people, including Sun Chengzong,

It is said that the book "Wubei Zhi" took Mao Yuanyi fifteen years to write, involving more than 2,000 books, which can be regarded as a testimony to history, which makes people convincing that they can enlighten themselves, although Mao Yuanyi's surname is Mao, but he is not like those charlatans, he said at every turn that he obtained the true biography of Maoshan Taoist, he wrote this book and was also very low-key and did not show himself much, the only convenience for him to write this book was to know more about the nine-sided fortress of the Ming Dynasty than ordinary people, Where to defend and where to hoard food and garrison soldiers can casually come to the treasures of a few families,

Seeing that Ni Yuanlu didn't agree with his idea very much, Mao Yuanyi said: "Lord Ni don't have to worry, the emperor may not agree to give new equipment to a certain military region out of confidentiality or balance considerations, but he will definitely agree to use idle people to develop civilian equipment, not to mention that the experience accumulated in the development of civilian equipment can be used in armaments in the future, and the emperor will agree with our idea. "

Sun Chengzong suggested that Ni Yuanlu propose to Tianqi that the Shanglinyuan test site start developing civilian equipment, Mao Yuanyi also put forward the same idea, if Sun Chengzong's suggestion is partly to let Ni Yuanlu avoid Wang Zaijin, then Mao Yuanyi's idea is mostly for the interests of the majority of the people in the Bo Academy, Ni Yuanlu is very worried that his rash proposal to Tianqi to propose the idea of military to civilian is not convincing, and at the same time worried that Tianqi agrees with his idea but something happens in the future, in case because of his suggestion, the armament of the Ming Dynasty is weakened and the city is lost. When the time comes, he will be a sinner of the Ming Dynasty,

Seeing Mao Yuanyi say this, Ni Yuanlu suddenly remembered that Mao Yuanyi knew more military knowledge than himself, so he asked: "Actually, I also know that the emperor will most likely agree, but I am worried that the Jurchens will suddenly attack, and when the time comes, it will be a big crime to make up for the loopholes that are in a hurry,"

Mao Yuanyi shook his head and said: "Lord Ni, you see, the situation in Liaodong is like this now, the Ming army in the city has occupied Jinzhou, Yizhou, Dalinghe Fort and Youtun, and the surrounding Yiwu Lu Mountain has also been occupied by our Ming army one by one The favorable terrain, in the north, we have held the two estuary, Daning, Huining and other dangerous places, between Nanguan and Jinzhou, both sides have dug up the road and dug it up, trapping people and trapping horses and pits, countless people and animals are sad, in this case, Lord Ni thinks that no matter where the Jurchens come from, it will take at least how much time it will take to break through one of them,"

Ni Yuanlu thought for a while and said: "According to the current defensive situation, even if the Jurchens attack with all their might, no matter which direction they come from, there should be no problem for the Ming army to hold on for a month, not to mention that the Great Wall behind us and Ningyuan Pass can become the second line of defense, I understand what you mean, as long as we have a one-month buffer time, it doesn't matter if we convert people and things to civilian use,"

Mao Yuanyi said: "Not only that, but it is said that the Jurchens also learned from us and built a connecting border wall between Quang Ninh and Xiping Fort, which shows that they also did not have the idea of attacking head-on?"

Ni Yuanlu thought for a while and said: "Back then, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, used the trick of burning the plank road to deceive the overlord of Chu, and finally the Ming Xiu plank road secretly crossed Chen Cang to attack, just because the Jurchens repaired the border wall, it was determined that they would not attack or it was not credible,"

Seeing that Ni Yuanlu still didn't make up his mind, Mao Yuanyi asked: "Back then, Wang Yangming once said that as long as you keep Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhou, and Liaodong, Daming can sit back and relax, what do you think of Mr. Yangming's words, Lord Ni?"

Ni Yuanlu said: "When Mr. Yang Ming founded the Mind Study, people thought that he was almost a saint, and his words were always good, and now that the Jurchens occupy Liaodong, they also responded to Mr. Yang Ming's words, and we will suffer a big loss if we accidentally deal with it,"

Mao Yuanyi said: "In my opinion, Mr. Yangming's words back then were right, but his words may not be correct now,"

Ni Yuanlu was taken aback and said: "It's really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, you don't even look at Mr. Yang Ming's words, are you a little crazy after drinking too much, you are not usually such a person,"

Mao Yuanyi said: "Everything in the world is changing, but everything is changing, I believe that Mr. Yangming will agree with my words when he is alive, that is, now we can no longer hold the old idea of passive defense, now the Jurchens have occupied Liaodong, we can no longer defend and have to attack, those soldiers who are waiting for the enemy to attack at any time in the city will be idle for a long time, it is better to fight often to increase combat effectiveness, I think in the future our decisive battle with the Jurchens will not be the attack and defense of the city defense, but a duel on the grassland, The duel on the grassland is not a coincidence, only by constantly strengthening oneself is the right way, and letting the people enrich the soldiers and train more is the direction to strengthen oneself,"

Mao Yuanyi's words are very reasonable, an army always thinks about defense is not enterprising, the defensive circle has been gnawed and still wants to deal with it, that is, it is incorrigible and distressing, now the Jurchens occupy Liaodong, the Ming army should think most about how to drive the Jurchens away and tear the defensive circle round, rather than dealing with it and even not seeing the danger and whitewashing the peace, the Ming army is now best at defending the city, but when attacking, the city can not be constantly pushed forward, and if you really want to defeat the Jurchens, you have to say that the field battle is high and low,

If you want to have the certainty of victory in the field Jurchens, then you must work the training of people and the selection of horses, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in a big way, his father and son two generations are pretending to be grandchildren for decades, there is no way to accumulate money and grain and the selection of horses and the training of personnel are expensive and time-consuming, and now the Ming army is only concentrating on development for a few years in the east and west, if you want to have the absolute grasp of the field war, I am afraid you have to Taoguang for a while, how to strengthen the people's power is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed, Because the stability of the people is the ultimate guarantee of the victory of the army,

Ni Yuanlu also figured it out at this time, he picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in the cup and said, "According to your Lord Mao's words, I will go to the emperor in two days,"

As soon as Ni Yuanlu finished speaking, he heard his entourage outside ask: "My lord, there is a Lord Sun who asked if your lord is drinking here, how should I answer?"

Ni Yuanlu said in his heart, which Lord Sun, it can't be his teacher Sun Chengzong, if it is really Sun Chengzong who found it here, it must be a big deal, he glanced at Mao Yuanyi, and saw that Mao Yuanyi also made a look of not knowing, so he said: "Please come in, Lord Sun,"

After a while, a person of the same age as Ni Yuanlu was led in, Ni Yuanlu saw that it was Sun Chuanting from the Military Staff Department, the two originally entered the Military Affairs Institute together, and later went to the front line of Liaodong together several times, plus both of them were born in the same year, so there was no such politeness and let him sit directly, Mao Yuanyi did not dare to slack off and immediately asked someone to re-serve the food and change the glass of wine, because the new person added a different atmosphere in the room, fortunately, Mao Yuanyi is now in the armament department, not far from Sun Chuanting's military staff, I don't feel strange when we see each other from time to time, but I wonder what he is doing with Ni Yuanlu,

After Sun Chuanting came in, he was not polite, first bowed his hand and then said to Ni Yuanlu: "I went to Lord Ni's mansion, and your porter said that your sedan chair came back but no one came back, saying that he was drinking in the Drunken Immortal Residence, so I followed,"

Ni Yuanlu asked: "You don't stay at home during the holiday today, what is the saying of running around?"

Sun Chuanting said: "Because I have already accompanied my family at noon, I should do something of my own while I have time, and now I have to think clearly in advance about the New Year,"

It turns out that Sun Chuanting is also a self-motivated person, according to the provisions of the Apocalypse, civil officials have an age limit grade, but the military generals do not, even if it is a civilian official, as long as what you do is related to the army, you can also use it at the first level, and the civil official is determined to die on the issue of grade, but the merit can be accumulated, as long as you accumulate merit and wait for your age to come up, it is not strange to suddenly move from the threshold of this level to the threshold of the next level, Sun Chuanting means that only he and Zhang Xiangan and Chen Qiyu are in the military staff office now, Zhang Xiangan is the heir to the title of Duke of England, so you don't have to worry, Chen Qiyu was borrowed to Lu Xiangsheng to help make up for the absence of Ni Yuanlu.

These two people can not be in a hurry, but he Sun Chuanting can't be in a hurry, he wants to seek a chance to make meritorious service in the front, two years ago was to let him stay in the Northwest Military Region, who knows that last year for the Mongolian affairs he came back to report on the affairs of the Northwest Military Region, after the end of the war with the Jurchens, he did not let him go to the northwest again, this person is like this, as long as you leave for a period of time and do not do what you should do, then someone else will occupy your position sooner or later, and when the time comes, you will not be able to remember your head, thinking of this, Sun Chuanting is not in a hurry and will not succeed, Come to Ni Yuanlu to find some way when you have time,

Ni Yuanlu said: "I'm afraid you're looking for the wrong person, and we're now worried about what to do next year," After speaking, he told Sun Chuanting Mao Yuanyi's thoughts,

As soon as Sun Chuanting heard the thoughts of the two, he immediately said: "You have a point, but I don't think it's thorough, I'm afraid the emperor won't agree, you only said the analysis of the military situation of the Jurchens and my Ming army, but you didn't say the comparison between the two sides in civil use, you think, you want to convert the military to civilian, only analyze the military and not make a specific analysis and comparison of the civil, will the emperor agree with your suggestion?"

This person seemed to have some truth in what he said, Ni Yuanlu blinked his eyes and asked, "Then how do you say to analyze and compare civil?"