If you are willing to give up, you will get if you are willing to give up. A truly mature person will not strive for perfection, because there are many flaws in this world that cannot be repaired. Only by combining the actual situation and coming up with a practical plan can we really have the attitude to do things.

For example, the two of them clearly knew that the specialty of the Japanese was hand-to-hand combat in land combat, and their skills in naval combat were inferior. Because there is no other way to fight at sea in this era, big ships are better than small ships, big guns are better than small guns, many ships are better than few ships, and many guns are better than few guns, and the role of individual bravery has been limited to a minimum.

If half of the army's military expenditure can be allocated to build the navy, then an invincible naval division can be established that can defend the sea frontier and enter the nest of the Japanese invaders.

Qi Jiguang was particularly fanatical about this, he seemed to see himself leading a powerful sailor to drive out all the invaders, and he felt that if he could have that day, this life would not be in vain.

So when Shen Mo was about to remove this from the wall, he held down the piece of paper and said in an almost pleading tone: "Can you think about it again, maybe with a flash of thought, you can find a way to achieve it." ”

Shen Mo looked at him and said in an almost cruel tone: "If this article is not removed, I dare to pack a ticket, and our entire plan will be abandoned by Zhang Butang." ”

"Why?" Qi Jiguang stared at him tightly, like a child who had been robbed of a toy.

"Zhu Kun once proposed the development of the navy." Shen Mo said softly: "What happened to him is a lesson from the past. ”

"Maybe he didn't find the right way, he can't just choke to death and everyone won't eat, right?" Qi Jiguang is not such a persuasive person.

Shen Mo patted him on the shoulder and said softly, "Come, sit down and listen to me." ”

Qi Jiguang sat down obediently, but his face was still stubborn.

Shen Mo didn't speak as soon as he came up, his eyes fell on Qi Jiguang's self-mentioned couplet hanging in this room: 'Fenghou is not my will, I hope Hai Boping is flat!' Shen Mo asked himself that he didn't have such a high realm, but he didn't want to be a silverfish who was bent on drilling up and only knew how to seek advantages and avoid harm. In that way, even if he is an official and a wife, he is just one of the many mediocre officials in the Ming Dynasty, how can he be worthy of the second life given by God?

Then unify personal struggle with medical treatment for the country! This was Silent Ambition - and for the first time in his life, he had established a belief in life. Therefore, this trip to the front line is definitely not as simple as coping with the emperor's order, but the more important purpose is to see and hear with his own eyes and ears to take the pulse of this old empire to see where the disease comes out and whether there is any help. If there is still salvation, how can it be saved?

The room was very quiet, and Qi Jiguang didn't speak until he came back to his senses.

After sorting out his thoughts, he said silently and softly: "The ancients said: 'The major affairs of the country are in worship and Rong. It can be seen that military affairs have been the fundamental business of the state since ancient times. Therefore, any military issue must be considered in a political environment. If the political environment allows you to do it, then you can do it, and if you are not allowed to do it, you must not do it, otherwise it will ......"

"Don't keep using Lord Zhu as a metaphor, let him rest in peace." After speaking, Qi Jiguang laughed first, and Shen Mo also laughed together, and after laughing, the atmosphere returned to normal.

Shen Mo continued: "Since you have no objection to this, we can discuss why we can't develop the navy now. Because the issues involved and the consequences that will be entailed have gone beyond the issue of armaments to politics. ”

"Actually, it's not that I don't have a navy, but the scale is too small and the ship is too poor, so I don't dare to confront the Japanese at all." This is not to discuss with Xu Wei in that scholar, everything plausible can be nonsense. This is a very serious proposition to discuss with a general, there is no right to speak without investigation, but fortunately, Shen Mo has already investigated, so he said confidently: "If you want to achieve the enemy outside the country, you need at least 200 large ships, 400 small boats, and 50,000 sailors...... Have you ever thought about it, how many shipyards, how many docks, how many manpower are needed to serve it? How much money will it cost in a year? ”

"At least 50,000 people." Qi Jiguang said softly: "Even if the people can be requisitioned, but only the salaries of officers and soldiers will have to be at least one million taels...... Add to that the cost of shipbuilding and operations at sea, and it would have to be another million. Saying that, he also felt that this figure was a bit nonsense, so he remedied: "But these 100,000 people can be transferred from the army, won't there be new military spending?" ”

"Just follow your method and let a part of the army be converted into a navy." Shen Mo arched his hand and said, "May I ask General Qi, how many provinces and how many prefectures are you going to transfer these 100,000 people?" ”

"Is this ......" Qi Jiguang also realized the difficulty of the problem, which is equivalent to cutting off part of the military strength of each province and government, and at the same time, the finances of each province and government should also be cut off accordingly, and it will be managed by the navy department in a unified manner.

This may not be a difficult thing in other dynasties, as long as the method is good, it can be done with the central financial unification. But in the Ming Dynasty, that was absolutely impossible...... Because the Ming Dynasty did not have central finance.

It stands to reason that the household department is the center of the state's finances, and it should coordinate the overall situation and be in charge of the allocation of tax revenues throughout the country. But because Emperor Taizu didn't know much about the economy, he felt that collecting a lot of money and sending it down was a waste of time and financial resources. Therefore, he stipulated that the money that should be spent in many places should not be sent to the treasury anymore, and that it should be collected and spent directly.

For example, on the issue of military spending, which occupies an overwhelming majority of the state finances, the local government directly purchases military supplies in accordance with the prescribed amounts, and then sends them to the nearby guard posts, and the flow of military expenses directly omits the part that goes into the state treasury.

There are many situations like this, all of which have been saved by Lao Zhu in order to save trouble. Otherwise, there would not be a strange thing that the Ming Dynasty, which only collects three or five million taels of taxes a year, on the one hand, and the common people on the other hand, are forced to live by harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The crux of the matter lies in the fact that tax silver, which is seven or eight times or even more than ten times the national tax, has been legally but unreasonably withheld by the local government.

In this case, the role of the household department of the Ming Dynasty can only be to supervise the financial revenue and expenditure of various institutions and local political axes, so there will be the existence of the Thirteen Qing Officials. As for the things that cost money, they have to be solved by the local government, and the little money from the state is still reserved for the Beijing officials, to help the difficult areas, and to repair the emperor's garden.

Thinking about this, Qi Jiguang himself gave up and unified the finances of each province and each province and government and managed them centrally, which was the enemy of all local bureaucrats...... It's better to let him single-handedly destroy the reality of all the Japanese coming.

The high enthusiasm was much lower, Qi Jiguang got up and took the paper off the wall, and stood for a long time before hissing: "Could it be that my Ming navy is going to be hopeless forever?" ”

Shen Mo took the piece of paper from his hand, folded it carefully, and said in a deep voice: "Believe me, I am the person in the world who hopes that the Ming Dynasty will have a strong navy, and I will use all my power to realize this dream." As he spoke, he handed it to Qi Jiguang again, and his voice was low and firm: "Put away our common ideals, and when it can be realized, you will return it to me." ”

Qi Jiguang nodded solemnly and put the piece of paper close to his body.

When this problem was revealed, Qi Jiguang rarely raised objections to Shen Mo's veto, and the progress was invisibly much faster. In the end, it took the two three days to select 88 feasible solutions.

The next step was to write the final training plan and submit the report to the governor's yamen based on these precious materials...... It is clear that the former is a purely military issue, and the latter is mainly political.

The two divided the work, Qi Jiguang wrote a training plan, and it was more appropriate for political matters to be handled by Shen Mo.

For Shen Mo, the focus of his report is not how clearly he wants to explain the idea of army building, but how to impress the person in power, that is, Governor Zhang. You must know that this Zhang Butang is the governor of the military affairs of the six provinces, and he acts cheaply! In other words, as long as he thinks he can do it in this acre and three points of land, then he can do it!

How can you impress your superiors, especially those who are a little stubborn? First of all, you have to let him accept it, that is, don't deviate too far from his understanding; secondly, you have to be innovative, you have to come up with something eye-catching, and picking up people's teeth and wisdom will not be recognized; In the end, it is to make him feel that this is only good for him, and there is no harm in doing so. If these three points are achieved, I believe Zhang Jing will be impressed.

After thinking about it, Shen Mo felt that it was a bit shocking to directly propose 'training a new army'...... Because the recruitment of soldiers has always been the power of the governor's yamen, and now a general also wants to get involved, obviously he has crossed the thunder pool.

After discussing with Qi Jiguang, he changed the first word to 'training' to train the new army, that is to say, he only asked that the recruits recruited by the political axe be assigned a part to Qi Jiguang for training, so that Zhang Butang would not scold his mother when he saw it. In order not to let Big Brother Zhang feel that Xiao Qi is not doing his job, Shen Mo deliberately added the sentence "The last general thinks that the thief can train in parallel".

Then it is to reflect the characteristics, so that Zhang Da Boss's eyes lit up, and he felt that it was beneficial and harmless, so Shen Mo chose two more unique ones from those materials, and they would not let Zhang Da Bang scold his mother. One is to call for the establishment of barracks, so that the troops will be able to "make more efforts after retreating, and be able to fight against each other without fear if they advance." The other is even more unique, that is, it requires the establishment of a special firehead army, and the soldiers carry dry rations with them and can open a gang at any time, which can reduce the burden on the combat troops and better supply the troops.

After the idea was completed, Shen Mo used Qi Jiguang's tone to write a completely complicated text of "The New Ning Shaotai Staff General Qi Jianyan Our Army's Two or Three Things", covering up the grand blueprint that the two of them had built in the past ten days.

(To be continued)