"That's what he said?" Emperor Jiajing stared at Lu Bing, obviously not believing the words that came out of Lu Bing's mouth, in his eyes, how could a student who was born in the book of sages and sages do such a thing? Each of them is a dead brain, and they only know what to sacrifice their lives for, what fish and bear's paws can't have both, etc., how can they have such a lively thinking? Not to mention that Zheng Guang is still an elite figure among the literati. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's true, Your Majesty, the minister is also a little skeptical, why Zheng Guang has such an idea, but, judging from what he did, it is indeed the case!" Lu Bing said this, to put it bluntly, he was actually very skeptical, but Zheng Guang's actions shocked him, and it was a little difficult to accept what he said in the eyes of Taoists as a great rebellion, after all, Lu Bing was also a person who had read books.

Emperor Jiajing didn't speak, and after a while, he asked, "Then, what benefits did he give you?" ”

Lu Bing didn't plan to hide it, to be honest, there was no need to hide it: "In addition to paying tribute to Your Majesty in the future, I will also send a Jinhua ham and stinky tofu to Jinyiwei to improve the food." ”

Emperor Jiajing couldn't hold back, burst out laughing, then quickly adjusted his expression, looked at Lu Bing with an unbelievable expression, and asked, "He used this to bribe you?" Didn't offer you any gold, silver, jewelry, or anything like that? ”

Lu Bing nodded helplessly: "He really said that, if he said something to the minister, gold, silver and jewelry, the minister would definitely arrest him immediately and abolish his school status, but he just said to give some ham and stinky tofu, the minister thought, these two things are very durable, easy to store, and are the best choice of military food, which is very suitable for some subordinates under the minister who need to perform tasks for a long time, so he agreed......"

"I never cared about that, you don't have to worry." Emperor Jiajing seemed to mean something and said: "However, did he tell you the reason why those Yiwu soldiers were so able to fight later?" ”

Lu Bing said: "He didn't elaborate on how to train the troops, he only said that he and his master had studied a formation specifically for the Japanese Invaders, called the Mandarin Duck Formation, which was very effective against the Japanese Invaders, and then he focused on how to select and recruit troops, saying that this is the most important problem that the Ming Dynasty needs to solve immediately." ”

"Recruiting and recruiting?" Emperor Jiajing bowed slightly: "Go on." ”

"Yes!" Lu Bing continued: "Zheng Guang said, the selection of soldiers to choose honest people in the mountains, the more honest, the more good soldiers, those farming farmers, the children of workers working in the mine is the best choice, these people are honest, hard-working, the most obedient to orders, and the most unselectable is the market slippery people, these people are slippery, only know how to take advantage of small advantages, and they will definitely escape in the face of hard battles, including the current soldiers of the guards, are all ancestral escape masters, ancestral escape skills, one can top ten of the Japanese Kou, These guards are even more hateful than the slick ones in the market. ”

The more Emperor Jiajing listened, the more he felt bad in his heart, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has deteriorated over the years, as the emperor, in fact, he knows very well, remembering the majestic Ming army in the era of Taizu and Chengzu, fighting in the north and south, fighting all over the world invincible, pressing the Mongolian iron cavalry to the ground and beating it fiercely, since the change of the civil fort, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has plummeted, he thought at first that the generals could not be others, and now it seems that the problem is not only in the generals, but also in the soldiers themselves.

The thinking of the ancients is that a thousand troops are easy to get, a general is hard to find, as long as there are good generals, there must be a strong army, this statement is wrong, from the Song Dynasty after the division of the soldiers, the general can not directly contact the army, the training is the training officer, the commander is the commander of the army, the commander can only use the country's soldiers to fight, after the war will hand over the military power, this is a very good way to control the army, but the problem lies in the gap between the command of the army and the training.

If you have a little ability and are more responsible, the combat effectiveness of the trained soldiers will naturally be strong, and when you meet a better commander, you will naturally be invincible with them, so it is nothing, but the key is that with the decline of the status of the military and the decline of the status of the generals, the training officers are becoming more and more irresponsible, trying their best to eat empty salaries and drink the blood of the soldiers, regard the soldiers in the guard as their own personal troops, and work to make money. What is the point of a person who knows what he wants to do from birth, after losing all hope of progress?

There will be no heart for training, the soldiers have no intention of fighting, and I don't know when it began, the guards no longer trained, but began to engage in their own livelihood, embarked on the old road of the Song Dynasty army, each begging for a living, doing business, once the war started, such an army was requisitioned to fight, even if the commander was the king of Tota, he could not win the battle.

Wartime for soldiers, farming during farming, so raising millions of soldiers without consuming a grain of rice for the people, what a perfect design, but Zhu Yuanzhang definitely did not expect that no matter how perfect the design is, it is not immutable, not to mention that in the design of the national political system, Zhu Yuanzhang himself made a big mistake, referring to the Tang Dynasty's government soldier system to create the guard system, but what greatly dragged down the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was the guard system.

The Tang Dynasty's government soldier system gradually collapsed during the Tang Ming Dynasty, and it was completely unable to play a role in defending the country in the Wu Zetian era.

After the Wanli Emperor, the main force of Liaodong to resist the Manchu Qing Dynasty was basically the private unit of the Liaodong Generals, not the central army of the Ming Dynasty, so the better I thought, the more terrible it was after the collapse, Emperor Jiajing suddenly thought of the fate of the Tang Dynasty's military system, and couldn't help but be worried, as soon as I thought of this, Emperor Jiajing instructed Lu Bing: "Lu Bing, you go and prepare, tomorrow, summon Zheng Guang to meet secretly, don't let the courtiers know." ”

Lu Bing understood what the emperor meant, so he promised: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Zheng Guang is still preparing to walk around Beijing in the past few days, step on the point, familiarize himself with the environment here, and prepare for the test, he thought that the emperor would not be in a hurry to summon him, but he didn't expect that the emperor was really anxious, the evening after Lu Bing left, Ma Tao hurried to Zheng's mansion, and conveyed to Zheng Guang the decision that the emperor would summon him tomorrow afternoon, Zheng Guang was stunned, and after reacting, he grabbed Ma Tao and asked: "Is Your Majesty in a hurry?" ”

Ma Tao said with a puzzled face: "I really haven't seen when Your Majesty is so anxious to summon your courtiers, you are still the first, I think Your Majesty has something important to know soon, I guess, the day of your kid's flying Huang Tengda is coming, and it will be Huang Tengda in the future, but I have to remember to thank you Brother Ma and me!" Anyway, I was the first to know you, wasn't it? ”

Speaking of the back, Ma Tao's face was full of shrewdness, but this is normal, as a high-ranking official at the feet of the Son of Heaven, or a high-level spy, it is normal to befriend the minister and leave a way back, but he has such a good sense of himself, it really makes Zheng Guang a little puzzled.

"Then I'll take care of it, Brother Ma, you have to know, I am a civil official, and if a civil official does not have the status of a jinshi, he will be promoted to pull out the seedlings, which is definitely not what I need, I still have to take the imperial examination, wait for the examination and the palace examination, and get a ranking, and now His Majesty is conferring an official on me, that is not promoting me, that is to ask me to resign and go home!" Zheng Guang said with a look of helplessness.

Ma Tao didn't seem to care, and said with a look of you being a turtle: "You kid don't understand what Your Majesty means?" But in fact, it's just a little bit worse, let me tell you, if there is no Grand Governor, you guess really well, you really have to go back to prepare for the resignation, or simply come back in three years to try. ”

Zheng Guang was stunned for a moment, this is not right, this is clearly something in the words, without Lu Bing, he would have to prepare to resign and go home or prepare for the re-examination in three years, what does this mean? Zheng Guang then asked, "Brother Ma, please advise, what is going on?" What does it mean to come back in 3 years? ”

Ma Tao looked around, lowered his voice and said: "Your Majesty was very happy when you first knew about your defeat of 7,000 Japanese with 3,000 new troops, and called the governor of Dadu over, planning to order the cabinet to give you an official position, it is said that he is the deputy envoy of Zhejiang's military garrison, let you take the military position as a person, responsible for assisting Zhu Kun to clear out the Japanese in Zhejiang, and then go to clear the Japanese in Fujian after clearing Zhejiang, all in all, I plan to give you three years, so that you can train an army of 30,000 to pacify the Japanese in the southeast, and then come to participate in the imperial examination of the next subject, when the time comes, Give you a knighthood, and then give you a civil position. ”

Zheng Guang was stunned for a moment.

"Who made you so capable of fighting, 3,000 recruits, and cut off the heads of 7,000 Japanese in a month of training, do you know how shocked the military department and the household department were when they learned about this? The military department and the household department jointly wrote to His Majesty to verify the authenticity of this matter, and the cabinet made a lot of noise about it, they always think that you are a good and risky merit, and no one has been able to win such a big battle for more than 20 years, how can you, a little boy, train such a powerful soldier and horse? Winning such a big battle?

Your Majesty is also thinking in the end, give you a military position, let you be directly responsible for pacifying the Japanese Kou, Zhejiang military equipment, Zheng Sipin military position, you are seventeen years old, and you are not a hereditary military general, how many can you do such a military position at your age? It was the Metropolitan Governor who said a few words for you, saying that you should be reused, and compared to your military talent, what you do in Yiwu highlights your political ability, such talents can not only be used to fight wars, but should be cultivated more carefully! ”