The sky slowly slanted westward, making the Xinuan Pavilion in the main hall of the prince's mansion appear darker and darker. The earth dragon burned very hot, and Zhu Pingjin only covered a single coat, sitting behind his Nanmu lacquer desk, his fingers tapping silently on the armrest of the chair. He Youyi knelt in the pavilion with his head on the ground. Both of them did not say a word, and the hall was exceptionally quiet. Only the tea cup on the table, wisps of steam, injected some life into this dark room.

Cao Sanbao, the old dog, must be holding the dust in his hands, guarding outside the palace gate like Qin Shubao and Wei Chigong, Zhu Pingjin thought.

"The world is in turmoil, how can there be one after another, there are many of them, and they have their own sons of heaven and hundreds of officials to worry about, and they will do anything in my Shu Palace!" Zhu Pingjin finally broke the silence. His face was calm, his voice was not loud, but his tone was very stern: "There are also two stations in Shu (the governor and the patrol are collectively called two stations) and the three divisions of the yamen are industrious and kingly!" I am a distant branch of the Shu Wangfu, and I can't protect myself but the whole temple protects the community. Sir thinks too much! ”

"It's really what the minister thinks about himself, it has nothing to do with Li Chongwen, and there is no second person in the world who knows it. If the son of the world governs the sins of the ministers, the ministers should accept them as one. What the minister said, every sentence was heartfelt. He Youyi kowtowed on the ground, "The minister is willing to move his family, including the minister's old mother and children, plus the servants of the family left by the ancestors, and the sons of the world are slaves; The family has 1,417 acres of land, three Baoning sauce garden shops, and an ancestral house, which is dedicated to the palace; The ministers and the people in the family, etc., listened to the dispatch and distribution of the prince, and did not dare to complain! ”

This is to prove his absolute loyalty by dedicating his family to servants and slaves, leaving no way out for himself!

Zhu Pingjin sat still and did not move, but said in a soothing tone: "Mr. is serious!" Mr. Wen Tao is strategic, and he is very talented; The father of Mr., who died in state affairs, was generous and heroic. This son admires this very much, so he asked Mr. to come over and talk about it. Sir, don't blame yourself, please take a seat. ”

He Youyi didn't stand up, but just raised his head and said, "Shizi summoned four classmates on Chinese New Year's Eve to ask questions, and the courtier's news was closed, and he was not fortunate to be with him. The minister also has a strategy, please look at it. He Youyi got up as he spoke, took out a folded piece of paper from his sleeve, put his hands flat on Zhu Pingjian's table, and retreated to kneel again.

Zhu Pingjin took the paper and unfolded it, and there were only three words on it: king, soldier, and name.

The word "king" should be pronounced as a verb. Zhu Pingjin thought, I also graduated from university and studied ancient Chinese. So he said after a while: "A man is a man, or a minister, or a son of man, and he should be based on loyalty and filial piety." Disloyalty and filial piety, how is it different from pigs and dogs? How can the world be established, and what is the human being? Mr. Hugh will not mention this matter again. ”

Shizi used pigs and dogs as a metaphor for disloyalty and unfilial piety, so He Youyi kowtowed on the ground again.

Zhu Pingjin said: "Since Mr. Wen Taowu is strategic, it is better to explain the meaning of this soldier word to this world." Sir, please take your seat. ”

He Youyi heard that the prince was unwilling to discuss the "king" and "name" with him, so he still knelt on the ground and replied to Zhu Pingjian: "Taizu has made meritorious contributions to the battle with the ancestors of the ministers, and he has rewarded this guard for the world, and the generation of the ministers has been nearly three hundred years. The family of ministers and generals, who has been in the army with his father since he was a child, and who is a general in that army, also has experience. Soldiers, warriors, most of them are vulgar and illiterate, and only those who are powerful and virtuous obey them. Sun Tzu said, the five virtues of the general, wisdom, faith, benevolence, courage and strictness! A wise man is prescient and not confused, able to plan and change; Believers, military orders are also one; The benevolent person is sympathetic and wins the hearts of the people; The brave are not afraid of righteousness, and can be resolute; Those who are strict will be solemn with authority. The five are indispensable. These five virtues are recognized by the world. However, the minister thinks that Sun Tzu's five virtues are the criteria for selecting military generals, not the criteria for selecting military personnel. Choose a martial artist, both are enough! ”

Zhu Pingjin was interested when he heard it: "Please tell me about it!" ”

"These two, one is loyal; Second, it is said to be brave. There are loyal and righteous people, and the son of the world can use them; There are brave warriors, and the world is available! ”

Zhu Pingjin asked: "Brave, this son has a little understanding. Loyalist, what is the importance of the gentleman? ”

"The loyalty of a warrior lies in obedience, and obedience is important in obeying the words of the Lord. The order of the son of the world is carried out by the generals; The order of the commander is carried out by the soldiers. In this way, the orders at all levels in the army are strict, and the orders are forbidden. The enemy's weak armies are not greedy for merit, and the enemy's strong armies do not retreat first. If so, why the defeat? Under the order of the prince's account, the armies acted vigorously and resolutely, without prevarication and wait-and-see, and without arguing for merit. If so, why not win big? ”

"What the gentleman said is very true. ' All actions are subject to military orders', and the subordinates are absolutely subordinate to the superiors, which should be the first in military discipline and the first in the selection of martial artists. Hearing that the prince finally affirmed himself today, He Youyi's heart stabilized. However, "He Youyi's heart sank again, "This is Xiaozhong." The loyalty of the warriors must also be loyal to my Ming Dynasty, loyal to my Han people, and loyal to my thousands of Li people. In this way, it is great loyalty, and the generals will not be confused. King Yue said: 'Freeze to death without demolishing the house, starve to death without plundering', this is the great loyalty. Today, wherever the officers and soldiers go, they commit adultery and plunder, kill the good and take the merits, and the small people are more afraid of the soldiers than the thieves. 'Thou shalt not plunder the people' should be the second in military discipline. ”

The three loyalties emphasized by the prince were not loyal to the person He Youyi hated the most, so He Youyi praised the head: "The great loyalty and small loyalty of the prince can be described as deafening, and the minister has been taught." Teaching the warriors in this way will make the warriors know why they are fighting and for whom. If so, the soul of a strong army can be achieved! The minister also thought that the prosperous times used literature, and the troubled times relied on martial arts. The prince wants to protect himself, and the use of today's warriors should be even greater than that of literati! ”

The dispute between civil and military has been the trouble of the past dynasties. Zhu Pingjin didn't say anything, but said with a smile: "Sir, who do you think is the available martial artist in Shudi?" ”

Unexpectedly, He Youyi shook his head and said: "Hou Liangzhu, the general also, once broke the luxury and pacified the southwest. Liangzhu died, and there was no general in Shu: Qin Liangyu was old and sick, and his children withered. The stone soldiers have been fighting for many years, and they have no sharpness back then; The current Sichuan General Soldier Fang Guoan, who is afraid of thieves like rats and has no courage, is not a general; Li Guoqi, He Renlong and other Qin generals were unwilling to stay away from the township and take millet from the fire for our Shu people, so they sat and watched the victory or defeat. Such warriors can be relied on as foreign aid rather than as henchmen; Zuo Liangyu and other Chu generals supported the army and respected themselves, and disobeyed the yang and yin of the court, but the court relied on it more. Such warriors are like soldiers, and they must not be used; Northern Sichuan generals, such as Liu Zhenfan, Ding Xianjue and others, have the ability to use soldiers, but they have no talent for military training. You can be a general, but you can't be a handsome. It was the old minister who thought that if the prince wanted to use the army to protect himself, he had to organize and train a new army by himself! ”

"That gentleman thinks that Wang Zhuang can be useful in compiling Zhuang Ding?"

"Wang Zhuang compiles and trains Zhuang Ding, and when he enters, he will protect his family and keep the village, and he will not miss the agricultural time; Out of the general, go into battle to kill the enemy, this is the law of the Taizu Du Siwei to raise troops. Taizu Youyun: 'I raised millions of soldiers, and I did not cost the people a grain of rice. You can see the effect. The minister thought that there were only more than 1,000 people in a village, and there were only dozens to 100 people in Zhuang Ding who could be practiced. The thief brigade arrived suddenly, and there was no village wall, so it may be difficult to support it for a long time. The subtlety of the method of Taizu's capital guard is that half of the soldiers of one are gathered in the guard; The soldiers of the first guard, half of which are gathered in the capital; The soldiers of the capital division are also gathered in the battalion soldiers of Zheng, Qi, aid, and You. the remaining soldiers of the capital guards, or the guards, the states, the counties, and the acropolis; or guard the steep places between the mountains; or gather and scatter to harass enemy forces; or collect grain and grass from the countryside; or to deter the stubborn people. In this way, the capital guard will consume the enemy and frustrate the enemy. This time the thieves entered the country, and the Dusi Guards were many defeated, and the real cover was because of the peace in Shuzhong for a long time, and the soldiers regarded the soldiers as slaves, and the soldiers regarded themselves as farmers. The essence of the army is gathered in the battalion, and if the battalion is defeated, the guard will be afraid. The minister thought that he could gather some of the trained Zhuang Ding in one place, form a Lianzhuang brigade, and choose a dangerous place in the village to build a fortress in advance and hoard grain and grass. The enemy army is so large that it can not only control the evacuation of the villagers, but also find an opportunity to destroy the enemy. ”

Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's system of guarding the post is actually the local military system of the large military region, provincial military district, military subdivision, and county people's armed forces department that has been used by later generations. In the style of homeland defense warfare, this kind of local military system can very effectively organize and mobilize the people, disperse and consume the enemy's vital forces, and delay the enemy's strategic offensive. In the Great War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army mainly used this local military system to resist the Japanese army with advanced equipment, and held out until the Japanese surrender.

"This is the county brigade and the district squad!" Zhu Pingjin thought about it and said with a smile: "Taizu's method of raising soldiers should be used for our children and grandchildren." Mr. has studied a lot of Taizu's method of raising soldiers, would you like to stay by the side of this son and help me? ”

After Li Chongwen left that day, He Youyi thought about it for a few days, and finally made up his mind to catch himself and his family. Today, He Youyi came up and said bluntly, and he was already ready to be scolded for being bloody, or even to take it directly. He Youyi chose this way of taking refuge that seemed to be risking his life, wasn't it just for the sake of the son of the world? Isn't it just to fulfill my father's last words? He couldn't help but feel a wave of ecstasy in his heart, but his personality completely overshadowed his emotions.

He Youyi was in a quiet mood and said to Zhu Pingjin: "There are generals first, and then there are soldiers." The minister thought that to train Zhuang Ding, he had to train a team of generals first. will be trained, the prince can leave one and bring new soldiers, and the rest will be scattered into each king's village to train Zhuang Ding. ”

With the old leading the new, the field army and the local army cooperate with each other and support each other. This is a feasible way to build an army that has been proven in practice. Zhu Pingjin agreed in his heart, but he was a little worried, would Zhang Xianzhong give himself so much time? According to the speed of becoming an army in one year, one old man leads three new, and the scale of his own team is only 3,000 people after three years, is it too small? According to half a year, how much can you become an army after three years? But now is clearly not the time to scale up. What to do?

Thinking of this, Zhu Pingjin asked He Youyi: "Sir, do you know how to train soldiers?" ”

He Youyi said: "Since ancient times, the training of famous generals has been organized into ranks, ranks, military discipline, and strict rewards and punishments; secondly, to train weapons; Finally, practice the method of battle formation. Grandpa Qi's "Record of Military Training" said the same. ”

Zhu Pingjin said: "Mr. knows how to train soldiers, so very good." More than ten days later, this prince will go to Mengding Mountain to watch the caravan training. Mr.'s classmate Shu Guoping has already set off first, is Mr. willing to watch it together? ”

He Youyi nodded and said: "Meng Shizi values it, and the minister can't ask for it!" The minister will arrange the family to contribute tomorrow, and he will not dare to delay the trip of the prince! Since the division parted, the minister has not seen Brother Guoping for more than two years. Now our classmates are gathered under the command of Shizi, and they are in the same boat. ”

It's good that you don't have to connect in tandem beforehand! Zhu Pingjin smiled slightly: "So good! But the gentleman himself does not have to invest in the palace. Seeing He Youyi stunned, Zhu Pingjin explained: "If you invest in the palace, it will be difficult for Mr. to become an official." ”

He Youyi's eyes were hot, and he knelt down and bowed again......

After talking about the matter, Zhu Pingjin personally sent He Youyi out of the palace gate, He Youyi bowed down again and again to thank him, and then turned around and retreated. Zhu Pingjin saw off the guests and did not turn around and enter the house.

The sun that was setting in the west reflected the sky red. It's just that the high palace walls and the cornices picked out by the palace cover a large area of sunset, leaving a few large black shadows like scars.

The world of the Ming Dynasty is dying.

Time, that's a long lifeline!