Zhu Hongsan knew what Feng Zi was doing with these people, it was nothing more than that the civilian officials wanted to suppress the generals, and any other repetition of the mistakes of the late Tang Dynasty was just rhetoric.

However, what these stinky old nine said is not unreasonable, before the Song Dynasty, there was no good way to restrain the generals of the army. In the early days of the imperial dynasty, each Taizu Gaozu himself was a general who led the troops, so he could naturally control his subordinates. But in the middle and late dynasties, those generals who commanded the army lost the friendship of fighting side by side with the emperor, and the emperor was not fought in the war, coupled with the prominent contradictions in the later period of the dynasty, and the military generals were also needed to frequently suppress rebellions in various places, so it became common for Zhao Kuangyin to play the yellow robe.

After Zhao Kuangyin came to power, he was afraid that his generals would learn that he was playing this hand, so he came to a glass of wine to release the military power, which was a preliminary solution to this problem. However, this is only to solve the immediate problem, as long as in the late period of the dynasty, there are frequent wars, and the generals will still not be controlled by the emperor.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin created a system that influenced later generations, that is, emphasizing literature over military force! Of course, the system formulated by Zhao Kuangyin is not simply the use of civilian officials to bully military generals, but a whole set of systems from top to bottom.

The military system of the Song Dynasty was divided into four types: the forbidden army, the box army, the township army, and the Fan army, of which the forbidden army was an elite army directly controlled by the central government to defend the imperial family, Kyoto and the town. In the second year of Zhao Kuangyin's ascension, he began to rectify the forbidden army, cut out the old and weak, replenish the strong, and ordered all localities to select brave and strong soldiers to be promoted to the forbidden army.

In order to control this armed force more effectively, Zhao Kuangyin revoked the senior generals of the forbidden army such as "checking in front of the palace", and set up the commander of the palace in front of the palace, the commander of the horse army, and the commander of the infantry army, that is, the so-called "three marshals" to command the forbidden army respectively, and the "three marshals" are all served by some people with less qualifications and easy to control, they only have the right to general, but not the right to send troops, and they are often transferred.

At the same time, the Privy Council was set up to hold the power to send troops, so that the power to send troops and the power to send troops were separated, and the two contained each other, and finally obeyed the emperor's orders. At the same time, the principle of "maintaining internal and external relations" was adopted in the garrison of the forbidden army, with half of the forbidden army stationed in Beijing and the other half stationed in all parts of the country, and only a small number of forbidden troops on the border. However, the policy of "guarding the inside and the outside" caused the Northern Song Dynasty to lose one after another in the war against Liaoxia, and it has always been in a passive position militarily.

After Zhao Kuangyin relieved Murong Yanzhao, Shi Shouxin and others of their military power, he began to use Wenchen to know state affairs. For the large feudal clans that supported the division of the army, they all transferred them for some reason, or made them take over other posts, and after their deaths, they did not allow their descendants to take up their posts, and gradually appointed Wenchen to replace the original military generals. Emphasizing literature over military force became a major feature of the Song Dynasty's politics, and the emperors after Zhao Kuangyin also continued to implement this policy, which was called "revitalizing culture and education, and suppressing military affairs". In this way, the military generals were replaced by military ministers, and the military generals were transferred from their military posts, further blocking the road for the warlords to divide their territories.

In order to prevent the generals from turning the soldiers into private assets, the location of the army's cantonment was often changed, while the commanders of the army were stationed in the garrison for a long time and did not act with the soldiers. In the name, it is to let the soldiers "learn to the hard work of the mountains and rivers" and improve their quality, but in essence, it is to "not make the people from above and below familiar with the feelings," resulting in a situation in which the soldiers are impermanent, the divisions are impermanent, and the soldiers are separated. Although this measure has restricted the emergence of a situation in which generals support their troops and resist the central authorities, they have also brought about such drawbacks as the army's inability to train seriously, its ineffective operational command, and its weak combat effectiveness.

But again, China's problems since ancient times have been internal problems, and as for external problems, they cannot shake the emperor's rule at all, so those small military defeats are negligible. Although the implementation of these policies caused the military strength of the Song Dynasty to regress somewhat, it did not degrade on a large scale, and the Southern Song Dynasty withstood the Mongol attack in Xiangyang and Sichuan for more than 50 years, which further illustrates the success of the Song Dynasty's policy of emphasizing literature over military force.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty inherited the Song system, but Lao Zhu did not have the patience to play a glass of wine to release the military power, Lao Zhu is an impatient, directly play humane destruction, and the generals are all killed, so there is no matter if the generals do not listen to control.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the rise of the civil official group, these civil officials were born to deal with the generals, coupled with the emperor's intentional or unintentional connivance, so in the later period, the second-rank general soldiers saw that the fifth-grade soldiers were ready to kneel and kowtow from time to time.

However, the literati of the Ming Dynasty also led several outstanding generals, such as Wang Yangming in the middle period, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting and others in the later period, these people were not inferior to those famous generals in the early days of the Ming Dynasty in marching and fighting, but the general trend of the world is like this, and a few outstanding generals cannot change the status quo that the Ming Dynasty has rotted to the end.

When Zhu Hongsan established the New Ming Dynasty, the generals under him were not inferior to the generals of the founding period of the previous dynasties, Qian Yong, Zhao Guodong, Wang Jinbao, Zhao Guoliang, Ma Kun, and Zhou Yu were all brave people. But Zhu Hongsan did not have Zhu Yuanzhang's worries, afraid that these generals would not be controlled after his death.

The reason is very simple, now Zhu Hongsan's army is an all-firearms army, if there is no logistics supply, the muskets in the hands of these armies are almost the same as burning sticks, and at the same time, all the weapon factories, gunpowder factories, artillery factories, and shipyards responsible for logistics production are under Zhu Hongsan's control, plus Zhu Hongsan still has a strict eyeliner in the army, so Zhu Hongsan is not afraid of the second-mindedness of his generals.

Zhu Hongsan thought so, but the civilian-official clique headed by Feng Ziyong did not think so, you must know that the army under Zhu Hongsan was strong in combat, and the 20,000 people in Nanchang Makun fought against the 250,000-strong army of Dorgon, and won a battle, which really surprised the civilian-official clique.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a common goal of the Manchus and Qing Dynasty to deal with, and the civilian clique had no way to stumble on the military generals, but when the common enemy was defeated, it was time for the rats to turn against each other.

Although there are many factions in the civilian clique, they don't look at each other well, and Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia want to put each other to death. However, no matter how the struggle within the civilian clique is, there is unanimity on the point of suppressing the military clique. When the knighthood ceremony of Fengtian Temple was celebrated, Jiang Pengju drank some wine and said some angry words, and was immediately used by Ma Mingyuan, wanting to put Jiang Pengju to death, even Tong Yangjia, who was a mortal enemy of Ma Mingyuan, did not object, and in the end, it was Ma Jiyuan who said a good word for him on the face of Jiang Pengju who saved his family, and Jiang Pengju escaped.

Today's occasion is the same, although Tong Yangjia and Feng Ziyong are not dealing with each other, but he did not say good things for Zhao Guodong just now, after all, Tong Yangjia is also a civilian official, and he also has to suppress the development of military generals.

Zhu Hongsan smiled after hearing Feng Ziyong's words: "Mr. Feng is a little fussed, Zhao Goudan was saved by me back then, if it weren't for me, he would have died in the camp outside Wuchang City, I can trust the dog!" ”

"Your Majesty, at this time and that time, it is true that Your Majesty had a great favor to Zhao Guodong back then, but Zhou Shizong Chai Rong also had a great favor to Zhao Kuangyin back then, and in the end, Zhao Kuangyin was not a yellow robe?"

Zhu Hongsan's personality is very suspicious, and he also has some doubts in his heart when he hears Feng Ziyong say this, of course, he is not doubting Zhao Guodong's loyalty, but doubting whether he can be Zhao Kuangyin if he hangs these generals in the future?

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said: "Mr. Feng, but the military law stipulates that the governor has this right to transfer less than 10,000 troops, and he only needs to report to the Military Aircraft Department afterwards. ”

This military method of transferring no more than 10,000 troops is also Zhu Hongsan's helpless move, China's geographical area is too large, the northeast is more than 2,000 miles away from Beijing, this is still close, Yunnan and Guizhou are 10,000 miles away from Beijing, if everything must be done by consulting the emperor, then what do you need to lead the generals to do? Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Hongsan formulated this military law in order to give the governors of various border regions certain rights to deal with emergencies.

Feng Ziyong heard the emperor say this and knew that the emperor was already a little moved, Feng Ziyong hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the military law stipulates that there is an emergency military situation, but is there an emergency military situation in the Northeast now?" The Russians are thousands of miles away, so Zhao Guodong is going against the emperor's will this time, so according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, he should be severely punished! ”

Zhu Hongsan saw that Feng Ziyong had found all the steps, but after all, he couldn't punish his love general, Zhu Hongsan pondered for a long time and said: "That's it, this matter is not completely Zhao Guodong's fault, the heavy punishment is a bit too much, your Excellency, just reprimand, after all, there is still war in the Northeast, don't chill the hearts of the front-line soldiers!" ”

Feng Ziyong was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this, he didn't plan to kill Zhao Guodong at one time, this time it was just a reprimand, next time you will make a mistake to see how your emperor is maintaining?

Feng Ziyong bowed out, and after returning to the cabinet, he used the emperor's tone to give Zhao Guodong a sternly worded holy decree, and then sent someone to Shenyang to deliver the edict.

Zhao Guodong, who was far away in Shenyang, was scolded by this holy decree, at first he thought it was the emperor's holy decree, but he knew that the emperor scolded himself for not understanding the rules, and he dared to transfer troops privately without a holy decree, if it weren't for Zhao Guodong's years of combat credit, Zhao Guodong would have been taken. But the emperor is soft-hearted, for the sake of Zhao Guodong's loyalty, he just scolded you, and if you make this kind of mistake again in the future, you won't have this opportunity!

Zhao Guodong has fought bravely for the emperor in the Northeast in the past few years, not to mention whether he has contributed or not, but now he has been scolded by the emperor for being bloody, Zhao Guodong is indeed a little dissatisfied in his heart. But what can you do if you are not satisfied? After receiving the holy decree, Zhao Guodong quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and thanked the emperor for his great kindness.

After the eunuch who passed the decree left, Zhao Guodong was in a daze with the holy decree in his hand, and now he has some small dissatisfaction with the emperor in his heart, he was scolded for the country and the people so much, so how will he work in the future? Do you want to go to Beijing for instructions on everything?