"I have no experience in the army, and if I am in the Governor's Mansion and face 100,000 soldiers, I really don't know where to start!" Zhu Youzhen is not modest, governing the army is the same as other things, he has to come step by step, suddenly facing 100,000 soldiers, whether he can serve the public is a question, the 10,000 taels of silver given by Zhu Youxiao really want to be placed in the Governor's Mansion, and I don't know how many days it will take.

"Your Highness, the cavalry of the Fenwu battalion is mighty and the infantry is majestic, but what is the purpose of those passwords? The old man really didn't see it! Li Chunye really didn't make a fuss about Zhu Youzhen's identity, he was more concerned about how Zhu Youzhen trained the soldiers, why he trained like this, and whether his training methods could be promoted in all the armies of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, you don't understand these training methods of later generations. Zhu Youjian was not allowed to slander in his heart, "The main thing is to train the obedience of soldiers, and soldiers regard obedience as their duty." ”

"A soldier is obedience?" Of course, Li Chunye understood the importance of soldiers' obedience to winning the war, but he did not understand how Zhu Youzhen raised these principles to a theoretical level and how they were integrated into the army's daily training.

"On the battlefield, if the officer gives the order to attack, even if he faces nine deaths and one life, he must rush forward; If the officer orders a retreat, there is a mountain of gold and silver in front of him, and he must also retreat. If a soldier is afraid of death, or because he is greedy for money, he does not respect the orders of the army, how can he be victorious? Where did the tiger and wolf come from? Zhu Youzhen has always followed the requirements of the soldiers for the soldiers, that is to say, the soldiers he trained were not to deal with the military parade, but to be able to go to the battlefield and be able to go to the battlefield at any time. But if you really want to train soldiers, you can't do without silver, if you can't improve the diet of the Fenwu battalion, no matter how good the theory is, no matter how high the requirements are, it will be in vain.

"What a tiger and wolf division! The Fenwu Battalion is about to become a division of tigers and wolves, right? Li Chunye stroked his beard and stared at Zhu Youzhen with deep eyes, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart, as if his mind was hidden in the deep wrinkles of his brows. He has come out of the shock, and judging from his attention to Zhu Youzhen, he should praise a lot.

"A truly combat-effective army, a real army of tigers and wolves, must go through the bloodshed and life and death tests on the battlefield. At present, although I have arranged actual combat exercises, they are still much worse than the real battlefield. "Zhu Youzhen hopes that the Fenwu Battalion can have a chance to fight, and it is best to fight in a scale that is not too large and the danger factor is not too high, so that the soldiers can grow up quickly, but the Fenwu Battalion is a Beijing division army, and the chance of participating in the actual battle is very slim.

Li Chunye seemed to have an understanding, he nodded lightly, although he had never been on the battlefield, but from the left and right servants of the military department to Shangshu, he still had his own views on the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness.

However, the current corruption of the Ming Dynasty is deep in the bone marrow, from civil officials to military officials, it has become the mainstream and norm to make money for themselves, and besides, the party struggle has intensified since the Wanli Dynasty, first the Qi Party, the Chu Party, and now the opposition between the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party, and the senior officials of the imperial court are from these two parties.

What's worse is that these two parties have no tolerance for people, and anyone who wants to have their own position in the imperial court must choose a side, and there is no gray area in the middle, just like a table tennis match, either win or lose, unlike a football match and a draw.

When the leaders of the two parties promote officials, they do not value your ability and loyalty to the imperial court, but rather your identification with your own party.

Li Chunye's ability and prestige are not enough, he is not the kind of person who can turn the tide. Although he was worried about the corruption of the Ming court and the army, and deeply saddened by the festering of the government and military system, he knew that without the talent and courage of Yu Qian and Zhang Juzheng, he could not carry out fundamental reforms.

Now there is a letter king Zhu Youzhen, the soldiers he trained are deeply shocking, although Zhu Youzhen's age is too young to predict the future development, but with a good start, who can guarantee that Zhu Youzhen can not become the minister of Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty? Thinking of this, he asked Zhu Youzhen again: "What does His Highness's military song mean?" ”

"Boost morale. An army without morale and goals will have no desire to fight and win, and an army without the desire to win will not be able to become a division of tigers and wolves. In Zhu Youzhen's initial summing up of the idea of administering the army, soldiers must not only have good physical fitness, excellent weapons and equipment, but also have the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and death, and the courage to crush any powerful enemy into powder.

"Da Ming needs a tiger and wolf master! At present, Jiannu has invaded the south, and the capital has been set in Shengjing, and I have lost thousands of miles of land outside the border! Li Chunye said this, extremely depressed, of course he didn't expect the Fenwu Battalion to grow up quickly and help the imperial court recover Liaodong. But only the Fenwu Battalion has a little shadow of the Tiger and Wolf Division, and the other armies don't even have a shadow.

"It's not just outside the border. In the south, Annan has long been independent from the Ming Dynasty, and Myanmar has repeatedly invaded large areas of the Ming Dynasty; In the southeast, the Dutch landed on the island of Taiwan and cut off the sea passage between our Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang vassal states, and the Portuguese deceived and occupied Macao, this is the land on the mainland, what are they going to do next? In the southwest, the Uszangdu Division and the Duogandu Division are also unstable, since the Mongol Warat and Shuote Divisions went south, the Tibetans and Mongolians of the Uszangdu Division and the Duogandu Division converged, and there was no fear of the Ming Dynasty, they not only expelled the Ming officials in the local area, but also gradually eroded the Shaanxi Xingdu Division. Lord Shangshu, they have already eroded to the southern foot of Qilian Mountain, right? Is the Hexi Corridor still safe? In Zhu Youzhen's heart, there is also the Shaanxi peasant uprising that is about to break out, which is the most direct reason for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the peasant uprising cannot be said, and no one will believe it, and perhaps they will be impeached by the official for "misleading the public with evil words", but this is what Zhu Youzhen is most worried about; once the peasant uprising becomes a climate, it will not only be difficult to eradicate it, but also, these behaviors, which will not produce and only plunder and destroy, will make a large area of local land barren and the population will be sharply reduced. It is easy to exterminate or pacify the rebels, but it is not possible to restore production in a short time.

The peasant uprising is also fast, right? But Zhu Youzhen couldn't stop it, he was as depressed as Li Chunye, and he was anxious when he thought about it.

Li Chunye looked at Zhu Youzhen again, as if there was a monster sitting in front of him, he was so young and had never been out of Beijing City, but he knew so much about the surrounding environment of Daming, as if there was no such talent around him, how did he know? Although Li Chunye did not fully understand Zhu Youzhen's method of training soldiers, he admired Zhu Youzhen's military talent, and even pinned the hope of the Ming army on this young prince.

He doesn't have much selfishness, and he doesn't have many negative political assets. Although he is under the wing of the eunuch party, this is the current political reality of the Ming Dynasty, and without the protection of the eunuch party or the Donglin party, no one can mix in the court.

Although he belonged to the eunuch party, he did not participate in the persecution of the Donglin party. In fact, Li Chunye is not accustomed to the eunuch party's blatant power and money transactions, but the Donglin Party is not a good bird, one by one they advertise a clear stream, but they do the same thing as the party and fight against differences, and they are merciless in the blows of political opponents, their only goal is not to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, but to defeat their political enemies.

Even on the issue of corruption, the Donglin Party is not inferior to the Eunuch Party, the territory of the Donglin Party is Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, is the richest area in the Ming Dynasty, which member of the Donglin Party is not full of money? Have all their money come cleanly?

It's just that the eunuch party is the dominant Wei Zhongxian family, and the Donglin party is a group of heroes, if the eunuch party is a group of political villains, the Donglin party is a group of political hypocrites, in many cases, hypocrites are more terrible and hateful than real villains.

With no political ambitions and dissatisfaction with the political reality of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chunye naturally hoped that the Ming Dynasty could achieve the revitalization of the Ming Dynasty under the leadership of a certain political strongman, like Zhang Juzheng of the Wanli Dynasty. He doesn't have such ability, nor does he have such prestige, and now that there is a Zhu Youzhen, he pins this hope on Zhu Youzhen.

"His Royal Highness King Xin, can the training methods of the Fenwu Battalion be promoted among other armies of the Ming Dynasty?" Li Chunye finally raised his last question.

Zhu Youzhen didn't speak, he shook his head slowly. Who wants to pay for the better food of the soldiers themselves? If you are not greedy for military salary, the sun has come out in the west.

After the military parade, Zhu Youzhen returned to his usual state, he ran the firearms bureau on the one hand, the Fenwu camp on the other, and sometimes went back to the palace of the king.

In the Firearms Bureau, Zhu Youzhen met a strange person. This person's name is Ding Lan, and his father is a disciple of Wanhu, who made a self-made rocket and ascended to heaven by rocket, but was killed by a fall. Ding Lan's father turned out to be Wanhu's nominal disciple, assisting Wanhu in developing rockets, which was equivalent to an assistant in later generations. After Wanhu died, his children and grandchildren were not interested in rockets, and they were not able to inherit Wanhu's business, but Ding Lan's father got a complete set of materials for Wanhu's development of rockets and inherited Wanhu's business.

Ding Lan has been witnessed by her father since she was a child, and she also likes rockets. But scientific research requires a lot of investment, and because of the lack of funds and personnel help, Ding Lan has not been able to push Wanhu's rocket technology one step further. He failed to bring rocket technology to the practical stage, and of course could not get the understanding and help of others. He had another manufacturing mission in the Firearms Bureau, so developing rockets was just his hobby, and he could only explore in the field of rockets alone, for which he spent all his family funds that were not rich, and he was so poor that he couldn't even marry a wife.