Lieutenant Li Dingguo, who graduated with honors in artillery subjects and was awarded a sword by the emperor himself, has become a heroic young officer at this time.

Li Dingguo originally wanted to sign up to go to the front line in Yizhou or Jinzhou, although the emperor preferred that he could stay in the general staff, but instead of dealing with those copywriting data all day long, Li Dingguo preferred to be able to contact those living soldiers.

Chongzhen originally planned to comply with his wishes, but because of the incident of Chahanhot, the emperor finally changed his mind and decided to let him go to the Fengda Governor's Mansion to obey orders.

The young Li Dingguo may have excelled in his professional subjects, but he is a little unclear about the current situation. Therefore, standing beside Zhou Wei and observing the movement of the street outside the Governor's Mansion, he couldn't help but ask his boss.

"Chief of Staff Zhou, we have received so many letters of informant, and the timing and plan of these rebel uprisings can be said to be clear. As long as Commander Cao's troops are transferred into the city, they can crush the rebels before they revolt, so why should they be tolerated now? ”

At this point, the sky had begun to darken, and according to the hints of the whistleblower letters, in another two hours or so, the rebels would start the rebellion by storming the Governor's Palace. Although it was still early, Wednesday Wei did not take it lightly, and after carefully observing the situation outside the mansion, he put down his binoculars and asked the officers beside him, "Have you ever read the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period on weekdays?" Do you know the character of Zheng Zhuanggong? ”

The officers around him were suddenly a little dumbfounded, wondering how Wednesday would suddenly talk about historical figures. Although they were all graduates of the Army Military Academy, they had received a well-educated education in professional skills and ordinary official writing, but they did not really study history.

Although China's written records and educational inheritance have been inherited in the same vein and have not been broken for thousands of years, even today's people can tell the story of the Qin and Han dynasties. But these so-called people today are not ordinary people, but literati with profound family knowledge.

Before the advent of vernacular writing and punctuation, ordinary people could not even break sentences, let alone read those ancient Chinese classics directly. That is, after Chongzhen came to power, he not only vigorously promoted vernacular writing and punctuation, but also took advantage of the opportunity of compiling the history of the rise and fall of great powers, so that the Hanlin Academy began to translate various historical classics into vernacular condensed versions with punctuation marks, so that these historical classics, which could only be interpreted by the gentry and celebrities, began to spread to the people.

However, the reading of history has not yet formed a trend, and even these military academy graduates have access to extremely shallow historical knowledge. Most people only know the old things of this dynasty, a few people can understand the stories of the Tang and Song dynasties, and few people can know the history of the previous years.

Among the officers around Wednesday, only Li Dingguo, who had studied with Xia Yunyi for a few years, couldn't help but reply to Wednesday in a daze, "But that Uncle Zheng who is Duan Yuyan?" ”

Wednesday glanced at Li Dingguo with great appreciation, and then nodded and said, "Yes, this Uncle Zheng is Zheng Zhuanggong." Since you know the story of Keduan Yuyan, why don't you tell you this story, anyway, it's still very early. ”

Li Dingguo hesitated, and did not shirk, so he organized the language to repeat the story he remembered in his mind, and after finishing speaking, he bowed his hand to Wednesday and said, "I don't know if what the lower official said is right?" The Chief of Staff is also asked for advice. ”

After looking at the others, Wednesday nodded and said, "The content of the story is correct, but there is still a paragraph missing.

It is recorded in the history books that when Zheng Zhuanggong's cronies saw that Zhuang Gongduan and his mother Jiang were colluding to plot chaos, they once persuaded Zhuang Gong to strike first, but Zhuang Gong replied to his cronies: The widow is familiar with it! Although Duan is not Taoist, he is not yet clearly rebellious. If I punish me, Jiang will obstruct it, provoke outsiders to talk about it, not only say that I am not a friend, but also say that I am not filial. I put it out of the way now, let it do what it wants, and he is unscrupulous. When he rebelled, when his crime was clear, the people would not dare to help, and Jiang had no excuse.

The situation we are facing today is no different from the situation faced by Zhuang Gong, yes, now almost everyone in Datong City knows that Jiang Hao and the Datong gentry are going to rebel, but for the soldiers and people outside Datong City, and even the gentry everywhere, the crimes of Jiang Hao and others have not been revealed.

At this moment, we can easily quell this mutiny by taking preemptive action, but in the eyes of those people outside, this may become a move that wants to add to the crime, and even if we quell this mutiny, it will not be convincing to the people of the world.

But after waiting for Jiang Hao to officially raise troops, we will suppress the rebellion, although there are some losses for Datong City, but it can be punished canonically, so that the gentry and people in the world have no words to distinguish it. ”

Speaking of this, Wednesday couldn't help but stop, glanced at these junior subordinates, and said: "Although we are soldiers, we can't blindly treat military means as a panacea for solving all problems.

I remember that His Majesty once said that the so-called war is nothing more than the last option to solve the problem by means other than force.

On the other hand, as long as there are other means available, we cannot use force lightly. In other words, before we use force, we will use all means to weaken the enemy to the weakest condition.

I would like you to remember that while a solution by force is the most radical way to solve the problem, it also means the consumption of a lot of resources and the destruction of violence, which is an irreversible process.

As the leader of the Ming army, we must try to avoid this situation. Because even the most powerful sword and sword will break in continuous fighting, and how can the army not be like this? ”

Seeing that the officers around him fell into deep thought, Wednesday Wei also felt complacent. These young officers will be the most reliable cornerstone for him to take charge of the Fengda Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in the future, which is why he will spare no effort to transmit his ideas.

The Ming Army Military Academy has now become the most powerful faction in the army, and for those non-military school forces entrenched in the army, this faction is naturally very united. After all, the pinnacle of their promotion for these officers from the Army Military Academy is in the Army's Brain Staff.

One of the purposes of the establishment of the General Staff Department was to eliminate the local warlords and the so-called Jiangmen Xungui faction in the army, so as to completely control the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely because the purpose of this faction is so clear, and because their promotion space is much greater than that of the officers of the local faction, that the power of the cadets in the army has expanded dramatically, which has caused dissatisfaction among the local factions.

For example, the reason why the old forces of the border army, such as Yang Zhenwei, were full of resentment about the reform of the army. A large part of the reason is that under the exclusion of military cadets, they not only lose their room for growth, but are even further marginalized.

For these officers who have worked in the army for most of their lives, these young officers who have been in military academies for several years are on an equal footing with themselves as soon as they arrive in the locality, and they have received preferential treatment everywhere, and they have been promoted much faster than themselves, which naturally feels unfair.

Moreover, in addition to the front-line military towns such as Jizhou, Liaoxi, and Dongjiang, military towns like Datong, which have been made inland, are being largely disarmed and specialized by the General Staff. The downsizing of the local garrison is bad news for these old officers, not only does it mean that the resources at their disposal are shrinking, but even the current position may be eliminated by the General Staff.

These former officers who have been in the army for more than ten years have become accustomed to life in the army, and once they leave this group, they have no idea how to survive. You can't let them go home and be farmers, can you?

As far as the General Staff is concerned, capable middle- and lower-ranking officers have long been selected by them to study in military academies, and the remaining old officers are either incompetent people who are not worth wooing, or the price is too high to be worth wooing.

Strictly speaking, in addition to having a common support point for loyalty and patriotism, these military academy graduates also have their own requirements according to their different backgrounds.

The low-ranking officers in the army and the cadets who were born as meritorious soldiers were more simple in their quests, and they followed His Majesty the Emperor to make meritorious achievements in order to make themselves stand out.

As for those who are admitted to military schools from society, their minds are more complicated. Some people want to get ahead, some people really want to join the army to defend the motherland, and some people want to be able to defend their family business.

Since everyone has their own aspirations, it is natural that various factions within the graduates of the military academy have formed. When Sun Chengzong was in charge of the General Staff, the various factions could still maintain a semblance of harmony.

However, with the abdication of Sun Chengzong and the transfer of Yuan Chonghuan overseas, there was a big change in the internal pattern of the General Staff, and no heavyweight could suppress the various factions in the army. In order to win the right to speak, the various factions naturally want to show themselves.

Zhou Wei, who was transferred to the Fengda Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, naturally wanted to use this mutiny to establish his authority here, so he let Jiang Hao go to mobilize his subordinates to make a rebellion. Of course, this little bit of caution is not enough for outsiders.

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