"It's not a waste, regardless of whether the officer will adopt the plan of the General Staff or not, he can at least understand the strength and situation of both the enemy and us. Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, at least not making too stupid decisions. Zhu Youzhen's assumption is that the people in the staff department may not have the courage and overall vision of the main general, but they must be meticulous and can find out the strengths and weaknesses of both the enemy and the enemy from a large amount of information. The chief general and the staff officer should make up for each other's shortcomings in personality so as to achieve a harmonious state.

Li Chunye and the three of them did not speak, they all understood Zhu Youzhen's intentions. They deeply admired Zhu Youzhen's strategy, and purely from a military point of view, the staff system set up by Zhu Youzhen could indeed prevent officers from making strict mistakes.

"In addition, the military academy will also set up an interrogation class. Recruit all kinds of wizards who are good at climbing, spying, bird language, etc., learn the languages of Mongolia, Jiannu, and Xiyi, let them go deep into the enemy country, use various identities as cover, or engage in business, or engage in miscellaneous labor, or even serve as officials in the enemy country, and try their best to detect the enemy's affairs, politics, economy, and other information, and then use carrier pigeons to quickly transmit it to the Ming Dynasty. "Zhu Youzhen, who came from later generations, knows the power of intelligence. Mastering the opponent's intelligence is like exposing the opponent naked in front of him, and if necessary, he can also create chaos in the opponent's country and make the situation develop in a direction favorable to the Ming Dynasty.

"Doesn't Daming have a brocade guard?" Yan Mingtai still didn't understand the true use of the interrogation class.

"Jin Yiwei is an official who supervises the inside of Daming, but what happened outside Daming, Daming doesn't know." Zhu Youzhen's expectation is that Daming must have two sets of internal security teams, one specifically for the illegal behavior of internal officials, such as Jinyiwei; The other team is dedicated to places outside the Ming frontier to supervise the dynamics of neighboring countries.

"Isn't that a rooster and a dog thief?" Zhao Yan is still a standard civil official, disdainful of these extraordinary methods.

"But these rooster and dog thieves can save Meng Weijun and accomplish many things that the army can't. For example, the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu confronted each other in Liaodong, how many troops Jiannu had and where they were distributed; Who is the general, what is the ability, and whether it can be used by the Ming Dynasty; The Duoyan Mongols submitted to Jiannu, whether they could rebel, and under what circumstances. For example, Annan, after the Ming Dynasty abandoned it, the country has been in constant turmoil, in fact, before they broke away from the Ming Dynasty and stood on their own, it was already a mountain rain that was about to come, if the Ming morning knew these messages, united the weak side, and attacked the strong side, it would not make Annan an independent country. Another example is Xiyi, we know that there are many countries in Xiyi, what contradictions and conflicts there are between these countries, which countries will fall to the Ming Dynasty in the future, and which countries will be enemies of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youzhen talked eloquently, combining the special use of the interrogation class with specific examples in front of the three of them. He believed that as long as he was not an idiot, or deliberately made an enemy of himself, the role of the interrogation squad was still obvious.

As the top leaders of the military department, the three of them are most worried about the current Jiannu. Zhu Youxiao, who usually only cares about woodwork, is not interested in things outside the palace, but is very concerned about the war in Liaodong, although the three of them have not been to the front line in Liaodong, but because they have mastered the military department, they have received a lot of reprimands from Zhu Youxiao.

For Zhu Youzhen's thoughts, they first thought of Liaodong. The Ming Dynasty was militarily disadvantageous in Liaodong, in addition to the fact that the Jiannu were all cavalry and had a congenital advantage over the infantry of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's military movements against the Jiannu were unclear, which was also a very important reason.

When did Jiannu come to the land of Daming to fight tooth sacrifices, when did he organize an army to attack the important towns outside the Ming Dynasty, and when he had to withdraw his troops, Daming was basically a black eye, but Jiannu knew everything about the deployment of troops outside Daming Pass.

Many Han Chinese in Liaodong became slaves of Jiannu, and they made meritorious contributions to Jiannu through guò strategy, hoping to gain the appreciation of Jiannu and thus improve their own living conditions, which is particularly evident in Dolgon's inlaid white flag. Some Han people lived in the city outside the Guan, and they were no different from the people of the Ming Dynasty in peacetime, but at the critical moment, they provided Jiannu with a possible Ming military information.

As Jiannu achieved more and more military superiority in the military, there were more and more Han people who provided information for Jiannu, and they had developed and infiltrated into the Guannai.

Zhu Youzhen wants to set up an interrogation class, and the biggest use at present is to spy on Jiannu's military intelligence, as for Annan, Xiyi, or something, that is a long time later, and the bigwigs of the military department will certainly not oppose things that are beneficial to Liaodong.

"When it comes to language, the languages of Mongolia, Jiannu, and Annam are easy to learn, but Xiyi is thousands of miles away, how to learn the language of Xiyi?" Li Chunye heard Zhu Youzhen say that he believed that there would be a battle between Daming and Xiyi sooner or later, but Daming didn't even know where Xiyi was, how to learn Xiyi's language?

"Missionary. There were many Xiyi missionaries in the Ming Dynasty, and as long as they were promised a higher salary, there would be good language teachers. ”

The missionaries of Xiyi came to Daming, the earliest was Marco Polo, and after he returned to China, in "Marco Polo's Travels", he described the land of the East as too beautiful and rich, which aroused the passionate yearning of Europe for the East.

First missionaries from Portugal, then Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, England, and France came to Daming one after another. But the Ming Dynasty itself has a culture of 5,000 years, its own Taoism and Buddhism, and is not interested in their various sects.

Except for Xu Guangqi, Wang Zheng and others who converted to Catholicism in order to learn their skills, they were basically at the end of their time in the Ming Dynasty. If they can find a job first, accumulate the capital for survival, and then make long-term plans, I believe they will not refuse Zhu Youzhen's kindness.

"His Royal Highness King Xin, there is a candidate for the minister to enter the interrogation class. His name is Zhou Wenqi, deputy Qianhu of Jinyi Wei, and he is good at finding money and things hidden by others, and the money and things he hides are basically impossible for others to find. Zhao Yan remembered this distant relative of his, who seemed to meet the requirements of the interrogation class.

"Jin Yiwei?" Zhu Youzhen frowned, he didn't have a good impression of these people who would only abuse lynching and disturb the court, and he didn't trust them.

"Your Highness, although this person is a Jinyi guard, because his personality is too straightforward, he is not good at camping, and he has always been at odds with his colleagues. He was once squeezed out by his colleagues and sent to Liaodong to do dark stakes, so he learned the languages of Jiannu and Mongolia. Last year, his family repeatedly entrusted him, and the minister used his relationship to transfer him back, saying that he was a deputy thousand households, but in fact he was just taking money and not working. Zhao Yan didn't know why Zhu Youzhen was disgusted with Jinyiwei, it was a loyal dog of the royal family.

"But he's a Jinyiwei, I'm afraid it's not easy to get out of the country, right?" Yan Mingtai's doubts are not unreasonable, the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, once naturalized, unless he dies in battle, he cannot leave the country, otherwise it will be regarded as a betrayal of Jinyiwei and will be hunted down for life.

"If His Highness needs this person, the old minister will personally go and tell the nine thousand years old. The amount of 9,000 years old will also give the old man a few thin noodles. Li Chunye also understands that it is not easy for Jinyiwei to get out of the country, but when he is transferred to a military school, he can still retain his military status, which is different from ordinary naturalized people, so the difficulty will be much less. As long as Wei Zhongxian agrees, who else cares about a marginal figure in the Jinyi Guard?

"Then thank you, Lord Shangshu." Zhu Youzhen bowed to Li Chunye, "However, I want to meet this person first, Lord Shilang don't sue him personally, how can it be convenient?" "If Zhou Wenqi is the right person, he will have to take on the important task of forming the Ming spy system, if he can't be loyal to the imperial court, or loyal to the imperial court, but he is not capable enough, he can't take on such an important task.

"Your Highness, this matter will be arranged by the minister, and the minister will never leak any news to him." Zhao Yan saluted Zhu Youzhen and made a guarantee.

"That's good, there's Lord Lao." The interrogation squad has already obtained their consent, and Zhu Youzhen will not entangle the personnel, "In addition, a military medical squad will be set up." Adults should know that when a soldier is injured, the number of deaths often reaches seven or eight times out of ten. Zhu Youzhen paused for a moment, giving Li Chunye and them time to feel, "Actually, among the wounded soldiers, only a few died because of their injuries, and most of the soldiers died because of wound infection. If the wound is not infected, and the rescue is timely, only two or three out of ten people will die. ”

"So how on earth can we keep a soldier's wound from becoming infected?" Li Chunye: They have been in charge of the military department for a year or two, and they can't deny this fact, but Chinese medicine has no bacteria yet, and it can't prevent the occurrence of infection at all.

"With wine. There used to be servants in my house who were wounded and broken, and occasionally stained with wine, and the pain was greatly reduced, and they were not infected. Later, I did a real thing, wipe the wound with liquor, the possibility of infection is very small, if it is distilled, the liquor is purified, the alcohol content is high, the effect will be better. Zhu Youzhen can't explain the matter of alcohol disinfection, but it doesn't matter, it's not once or twice that he has encountered such a thing, he has long learned to fool. However, the purpose of deception is not to cheat money and sex, but to reduce the casualties of soldiers and promote the development of Ming medicine. If the goal is noble, he has no guilt. "Adults can do real things on cats and dogs to verify the disinfectant effect of alcohol. In addition, Xiyi's surgical medicine is far more developed than that of the Ming Dynasty, and you can also learn from Xiyi. ”

"Isn't Daming's medicine useless?" Yan Mingtai was very puzzled, Daming's medicine has been developed for 5,000 years, is it not as good as Xiyi?

"The treatment of the Ming doctor is mainly based on recuperation, and the patient recovers completely, but the recovery time is very long, which is very unfavorable to the wounded soldiers who want to restore their combat effectiveness, and the Ming doctor has no way to treat the wound infection." Zhu Youzhen was unable to explain to them the difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine, so he had to avoid the important and trivialize. He hoped that in the future, when the conditions were right, an independent Western medical school would be established in Daming for the benefit of the whole people, not just for the wounded soldiers, as it is now.

"Hmm. Your Highness, what else do you command? Li Chunye felt that the more he interacted with Zhu Youzhen, the more ignorant he became, where did he learn the knowledge of this prince? It seems that the secret book in the palace is more likely, Zhu Youxiao only learned woodworking from the secret book, and Zhu Youzhen learned a lot and miscellaneous. From this point of view, Zhu Youzhen's statement that the military academy was completely completed in February and March last year is mostly true.

"Lord Shangshu, it's past noon now, let's eat first and talk in the afternoon!" Zhu Youzhen felt that he was hungry, and the conversation between the four of them seemed to occupy seventy or eighty percent of what he said, and he consumed more energy than others.

"Don't be busy with Your Highness, prepare meals and wine first, the old minister wants to take a look at the military academy first, and then go back and talk to His Royal Highness about the wine, don't see the construction of the military academy with your own eyes, the old minister can't eat. Ha ha. Li Chunye was so excited, regardless of his old age and hard bones, he took the lead in riding a horse and galloping. Zhu Youzhen couldn't help it, working with workaholics, it was normal for the three meals to be not on time, and he and Zhao Yan and Yan Mingtai followed closely behind Li Chunye.

When they arrived at the construction site of the military school, the craftsmen were having lunch. Looking at the red brick wall that was already close to the roof, and then looking at the much lower bluestone wall next to it, although Zhu Youzhen had a hint, he still couldn't believe his eyes: "Your Highness, how did this red brick build the wall?" ”

"These red bricks are the same size. As long as the craftsman can use one of them, the other bricks will be used in the same way, and the technique will gradually become proficient. It is only now that it has begun, and the hands of the craftsmen are not yet proficient, and the speed of building the walls will be accelerated in the future. It's like the assembly line production in a factory. Zhu Youzhen further promoted the benefits of assembly line production to Li Chunye, and last time on the issue of the Firearms Bureau, he had already sold an assembly line production to Li Chunye.

"Your Highness, the old minister has been taught." Li Chunye no longer had to look at Zhu Youzhen with strange eyes, at this moment, he was completely relieved, "Zhao Yan, Ming Tai, let's go back to the military headquarters and drink wine." The old man was also frivolous for a while today, and he didn't get drunk and didn't return. ”