Linzi County Ya, Zhu Youzhen, Qin Yongnian, and Li Yuan drank together.

"His Royal Highness King Xin, I have more than 100,000 soldiers in Shandong, who were killed by the Japanese and fled. His Royal Highness and General Qin led 6,000 troops of the Beijing Division, and they could completely annihilate the Japanese at a small price, which will surely be recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Your Royal Highness, General Qin, I salute you two with a glass, and thank you for saving the people of Shandong from fire and water. "Li Yuan, the county governor of Linzi, admires the Fenwu camp so much, although he is a civilian official, he still understands the basic military knowledge.

Fighting against an opponent with extremely strong individual ability, such as the Wako, and being able to defeat the opponent with 1:1 casualties, or even 2:1 or 3:1 casualties, is a big victory. There are only 6,000 soldiers in the Fenwu battalion, and it is really a miracle that they were all wiped out in the case of only ten deaths.

"Master Li has won the award. It is the duty of a soldier to protect the territory and the people, and the Fenwu Battalion is also a soldier of the Ming Dynasty. After all, this was the first time he led the troops, and he defeated the Japanese Kou, which not only allowed the soldiers to get the exercise of blood and fire, but also enhanced his confidence. To save Daming, it seems that this road will work. "It's just that although the Japanese have been eliminated, but the local people are ruined, and there are civil officials like Lord Lao Li when it comes to relocating the people, restoring production, and stabilizing local order."

"The people of Linzi are the responsibility of the lower officials, and the lower officials should do their best. Although he did not dare to compete with the Fenwu Battalion to annihilate the Japanese Invaders, Xia Guan would definitely stabilize the local order as soon as possible and let the people live and work in peace and contentment as soon as possible. When it comes to the affairs of the people, Li Yuan talks eloquently, which is his strength.

"Master Li, do you know how much you have lost under your rule?" Qin Yongnian was originally not interested in local affairs, but when Zhu Youzhen and Li Yuan talked about the people, he wanted to see what kind of ravages Shandong had become by the Japanese invaders.

"Back to General Qin, the Fenwu battalion attacked in time, the loss of Linzi County was not large, only part of the farmland was destroyed, affecting the normal growth of crops, in addition, the people of Linzi had no other losses, but the Qingzhou Mansion in the east of Linzi...... As a subordinate county under the rule of Qingzhou, Linzi is duty-bound to help the people of Qingzhou tide over the difficulties. As for Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou Mansion further east of Qingzhou, it is not something that small Linzi County can rescue. General Qin and His Royal Highness King Xin still played the Ming court and made arrangements early. As the magistrate of the county, Li Yuan is still very capable, as soon as the Fenwu battalion annihilated the Japanese invaders, he sent people to check the losses of the people, this spirit is by no means comparable to ordinary officials.

But he is neither from the Donglin Party nor belongs to the Eunuch Party, so he has been the magistrate of the county for fifteen years, and he has not been promoted, but he has been transferred from one place to another, and continues to be his seven-pin magistrate.

Qin Yongnian nodded, Li Yuan's ability to help Qingzhou Mansion was beyond his duty, if it was to restore the prefectures and counties in the eastern part of the Shandong Peninsula, it was indeed not something that the small county of Linzi could do. But he was a soldier, and he didn't have much to do with local construction.

"Master Li, there are some things I don't understand, I hope Lord Li will give me advice." Zhu Youzhen had already seen that Li Yuan was still a diligent magistrate, and his heart was a little stable, and he had a good impression of Li Yuan. "Where did the Japanese invade Shandong this time? Also, after the raids, why didn't they go back to Dongying, but all the way to the west, what was their purpose? ”

"Tell Your Highness that this time the Japanese invaders have landed from Dengzhou. Although the lower officials did not see it with their own eyes, the Shandong soldiers who fought against the Japanese invaders began to rout from Dengzhou and spread all the way to the west; As for why the Japanese went all the way to the west, there were two reasons: First, from Dengzhou to Jinan, there were many wealthy prefectures and counties, and the Japanese invaders naturally went to the wealthy prefectures and counties for the purpose of plundering. Second, the local government soldiers in Shandong are relatively scattered, with the guards as the unit, scattered in various places, it is not easy to supervise in peacetime, and the training is negligent, and the number of soldiers in the company is ...... Therefore, the Japanese regarded the Shandong soldiers as if they were nothing, and plundered westward only as tourism. Speaking of military affairs, Li Yuan frowned, he was just a county magistrate, his grade was too low, although he was a civilian official, because there was no rear station, he could not interfere in local military affairs at all.

"What Lord Li is referring to, but the place is empty?" Zhu Youzhen has long understood the greasy nature of the Beijing Division, let alone Shandong? Based on the empty salary of the Fenwu battalion, it is estimated that it would be good if Shandong's government soldiers could have 50,000. These soldiers are scattered in different guards and have little training in peacetime.

The military expenses of the imperial court were all allocated to the front line in Liaodong, and the local guards did not have sufficient military funds at all, and the silver owed by the imperial court to them was probably astronomical.

There is no military spending, the government soldiers have to farm by themselves, but the military system of the Ming Dynasty has gone through more than two hundred years, and it has long been eroded, and it is impossible for these government soldiers to farm by themselves, because the land allocated to them at the beginning has long been annexed by the magnates in various places, and they have been reduced to the long-term or short-term workers of the magnates, relying on working for others to earn a pitiful living expenses, and there is no time to train at all.

Except for their different identities, they are no different from ordinary people. It is no wonder that when they heard the news of the Japanese Bandits, they fled in despair, and if they did not flee, most of them would have become the ghosts of the Japanese Invaders like ordinary people.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty has come to an end, and it is not compatible with the current economic situation of the imperial court.

The land of the Ming Dynasty is more and more concentrated in the hands of the clan and civil officials, in the Ming Dynasty, these people who own a large amount of land, are not required to pay taxes, some ordinary farmers, in order to avoid taxes, often attach the land to the name of the scholar, and the Donglin Party has repeatedly obstructed the imperial court to collect commercial taxes, so that the income of the household department has plummeted. However, the expenditure of the imperial court is increasing, and the military expenditure in Liaodong alone has exceeded 5 million vehicles, squeezing out the vast majority of the expenditure of the household department.

Now the imperial court does not have any money to pay the military expenses of the government soldiers, and without military expenses, the government soldiers cannot engage in training, and there is no combat effectiveness.

The nine-sided towns in the north of the Ming Dynasty needed an army with combat effectiveness to deal with the cavalry of Jiannu and Mongolia, and the military funds were allocated to the border towns, especially Liaodong. Of course, government soldiers who do not have combat effectiveness will not receive military spending, and this is already a dead knot.

Since the change of "Tumubao", the cabinet and the Ministry of War have realized that the government soldiers are unreliable in war, so they began to recruit troops from all over the country, creating the recruitment system of the Ming Dynasty.

The difference between the army and the soldiers, not only in the literal sense, but also in their treatment is not the same, the "army" can receive more military salaries, although the military salary is not sufficient. With military salaries, soldiers can be separated from production, specializing in training, so the combat effectiveness of the "army" compared with the "soldiers", there is still an improvement, and now the Ming Dynasty has combat effectiveness of the army, are all "army", such as Liaodong, Jingshi and other military towns in the north, are "army", that is, soldiers.

The emergence of the conscription system has improved the combat effectiveness of the army from a certain extent, but the ills of the government soldiers have not been eliminated, and now there are more than one million government soldiers in the country, who have no salary, no income, no training, and if they are peasants, they basically have no land, no freedom of life, and must live in the places designated by the military register, no matter how poor they are; It is said that they are soldiers, no, they have no military funds, they will not participate in any military training, and they do not have any combat effectiveness at all, as can be seen from the fact that more than 100,000 government soldiers in Shandong fled in front of 2,000 Japanese soldiers. Not only Shandong, but also the government soldiers in the whole country are similar.

Although the imperial court had to recruit troops throughout the country because of the military pressure from the north, the government soldiers did not solve it, in fact, no one in the imperial court would care about them, in the eyes of civil officials, they were untouchables, and they were not worth considering at all; In the eyes of the generals, these soldiers have no combat effectiveness, they will only ask for military salaries and discredit the army, and they disdain to consider a way out for the government soldiers.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, the current imperial court is in financial difficulties, unable to pay them full military salaries, and the imperial court does not expect them to fight, but the way out is always given, even if it is like laid-off workers in later generations, the state is unable to raise them, but it can give policies and let them find their own way out, which is also good, so as not to let these people who should protect the safety of the Ming Dynasty become bombs that may explode in the society.

But Zhu Youzhen is now only the commander of the Fenwu Battalion, and the title of King Xin is only a fictitious title, without absolute power and authority, it is impossible to change the cancer left over the past few hundred years.

"It turns out that His Royal Highness already knows...... "Li Yuan is not a military general, so it is not good to blame too much for military affairs, so he has to take advantage of the situation to blame Zhu Youzhen."

Zhu Youzhen is the king of Xin, the emperor's younger brother, if he wants to rectify military affairs, it is a royal matter, and he has the royal backing. If you interfere too much in military affairs and offend the interests of some people, you don't know who your opponent is when you die.

Zhu Youzhen also knew that Li Yuan's grade was too low, and he had no ability to shake the Ming Dynasty's government soldier system, so he didn't want to embarrass Li Yuan, so he and Qin Yongnian said goodbye and returned to the camp.

"Your Highness, it's still early, go and sit in my barracks!" The young Zhu Youzhen commanded the Fenwu Battalion, and he was at ease, Qin Yongnian had already had something to ask Zhu Youzhen, in the Fenwu Battalion, Zhu Youzhen was his subordinate, and Zhu Youzhen was not a difficult person to get along with, so Qin Yongnian did not have any special etiquette towards Zhu Youzhen, just like an ordinary relationship between superiors and subordinates.

"I just don't have the habit of going to bed early." Zhu Youzhen also has something to say to Qin Yongnian.

The two sat down in Qin Yongnian's barracks, and the soldiers made tea for the two.

"You go down first, and I'll call you when there's something." Qin Yongnian took away his own soldiers, and only the two of them were left in the room.

Qin Yongnian stared at Zhu Youzhen who took off his armor, with a broad chest, a handsome face, and delicate skin, the whole capital, only the fortitude on his face had some of the killing aura of a soldier.

"Commander?" Zhu Youzhen felt embarrassed.

"Haha, that's rude." Only then did Qin Yongnian realize that he was staring at this prince, something was wrong, "Your Highness, I have long wanted to ask, how can Your Highness be good at training the army?" How did you come up with a strategy to annihilate the Japanese in Beijing? His Royal Highness is so young, he must not have been on the battlefield before, could it be that he studied in the military book? ”

"Commander, you're really right, I did learn from the military book. But I read a lot of books, and I didn't learn a certain military cheats. "How can Zhu Youzhen say that he has crossed over? That is to say, Qin Yongnian will not believe it. "Throughout history, the era of the Han nation's strong army relied on strict training and absolute obedience. Only by strictly administering the army can we create an army with strong combat effectiveness. Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty, Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty, Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, and Qi Shaobao in the current Dynasty, which one is not famous for its strict management of the army? ”

"Could it be that His Highness's idea of annihilating the Japanese Kou came from Qi Shaobao?" Qin Yongnian will be suspicious, although he is also a widow, but a hundred years have passed, who can know that the current widow is the same as the widow in Qi Shaobao's era? Moreover, Qi Shaobao was specially trained to deal with the Japanese invaders, and although Zhu Youzhen is also strictly training soldiers, how could he have predicted the invasion of the Ming Dynasty? Is it a coincidence or something else?

"Yes and no. If you want to say it, it is to refer to Qi Shaobao's strict training method back then, and train soldiers who are stronger than the Japanese Invaders, so they defeated the Japanese Invaders. If you want to say that it's not, it's because Qi Shaobao created a lot of formations in order to deal with the Japanese with super combat effectiveness, and the training time of the Fenwu camp was not enough to comprehend these exquisite formations, so I chose to use a bow and crossbow to prevent the Japanese from having a chance to get close. "Zhu Youzhen doesn't like hand-to-hand combat, and uses his own shortcomings to fight for other people's strengths, and a fool will do this.

Qin Yongnian pondered for a while, it seemed that there was still something wrong, but he shook his head, and finally didn't ask, after a long time, he seemed to be unwilling, and still asked: "What does Your Highness think of Da Ming's armament?" ”

"What does the commander think of Shandong's armament?" Zhu Youzhen did not answer, but asked rhetorically, he believed that Qin Yongnian's understanding of the soldiers must be deeper than his own.

"Shandong's armament is lax, and non-rectification is not enough to form combat effectiveness. From the point of view of His Royal Highness, how should Shandong's armaments be rectified? The "cunning" Qin Yongnian kicked the ball back again.

Zhu Youzhen originally wanted to hear Qin Yongnian's opinion, after all, he had many years of experience in the army, and he just copied the achievements of his predecessors and the experience of later generations, but rectifying the armament of a province was a systematic work, unlike the Fenwu Battalion, which was a pure soldier, and he was not good at it, but since Qin Yongnian had to ask, he couldn't help but say that he had already prepared a mud pit for Qin Yongnian.