Zhu Mu was also embarrassed for a while, he also knew that the ministers said this, in fact, there was no better way, and he also knew that if he wanted to realize his ambition, then the military construction could not be relaxed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Training and education in the army! Don't let up! That's dozens or even millions of weapons and equipment, are you so relieved to hand it over to a group of recruits who have only been in school for a few days to operate? In the end, Zhu Mu still frowned and vetoed the cabinet proposal to reduce some of the soldiers' training costs.

The soldiers of any era were not made up entirely of newly recruited peasants. In ancient times, the army had to train various fighting skills and practice formations in order to form a certain combat effectiveness. In modern times, soldiers have more things to master, and the problems they need to face are more complex.

First of all, the complexity and specialization of weapons and equipment, just the rifling cleaning of various guns, as well as disassembly and repair, is a process that requires a lot of time to run in and adapt. Allowing each soldier to learn to repair and clean his weapon from time to time will make the soldier more trusting and familiar with his weapon.

Allowing soldiers to master more skills can make these soldiers play a more role in various situations: if it is just an ordinary soldier in the Ming Empire in the past, when facing the enemy's fire point, he can often only wait there, there is no way - but if this soldier can bring the detailed location of the fire point back to his company headquarters or even battalion headquarters, the troops can better coordinate the next artillery attack.

When every soldier is able to do more, the promotion of the entire army will be a terrible leap. This force will be terrifying to the enemy, as they will find themselves completely suppressed in every detail!

But now the problem also arises, although training soldiers and training them rigorously will increase their combat effectiveness exponentially. However, the corresponding expenses of this kind of troops are also incomparable to the old troops of the Ming Empire - now the entire army of the Ming Empire is competing for its own military expenses, and it is obvious that the excessive military expenses obtained by the new army have caused great dissatisfaction among other troops.

"Your Majesty, you don't just need 200,000 combat troops, our army has a base of more than 2 million, what good if you don't plan to rush to war against other countries, but just try to strengthen some of them?" Ge Tianzhang raised an objection and questioned: "Your Majesty, after a year, we have gained a firm foothold in Liaodong, and the cost of the war can be compensated. ”

A year later? Zhu Mu looked at Ge Tianzhang, and what he was thinking in his heart was that he would take action against the southern theater in a year and suppress Ceylon back to Australia. A year later, he would launch troops in the southern region, completely occupy the Strait of Malacca, and enter the Indian Ocean to once again kick off the Battle of the Persian Gulf. At this time, if he stops and waits, then the little advantages that he has accumulated with great difficulty will be caught up by other countries.

Can he afford to wait? In fact, he couldn't afford to wait. Because no country will stand still, after they feel the threat of the Ming Empire, they will only progress faster and become stronger! As in the days of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, musket technology will be inexplicably lost, and attempts to monopolize technological superiority will fail over time.

On the other hand, it is because the Ming Empire's investment in infrastructure and industrial facilities has reached a peak. There are countless commodities throughout the empire that are waiting for new colonies and new territories to digest, while the capitalists are chasing cheap raw materials, and the imperial will wants to get more and more territories to rule.

Just when Zhu Mu was hesitant because of the advice of the ministers, a secretary of the emperor's secretariat hurriedly knocked on the door of the conference room with a telegram, and after getting permission, the secretary walked straight to the emperor's side, and then put the telegram in front of Zhu Mu's eyes, stood respectfully, and closed his mouth after only saying one sentence: "Call from Liaodong, urgency." ”

Under normal circumstances, such cabinet meetings are not to be interrupted, and the secretary of the secretariat is not allowed to enter the chamber except for one person on duty who accompanied the emperor into the chamber to record the proceedings. However, there is one exception, that is, there is a special emergency marked as urgent, which must be delivered to the emperor as soon as possible.

"Liaodong?" Cabinet Minister Huang Yao looked at Ge Tianzhang on the side, with a confused look on his face. It stands to reason that in addition to the victory that has been firmly won in the entire Liaodong, there should be no variables. Zhang Huai and Bai Fei also frowned, what they thought in their hearts was, "Isn't there any change in Liaodong?" ”

Zhu Mu is also in his heart, what he is most afraid of is that something is wrong in Liaodong, if there is any recurrence in the battle situation in Liaodong, it will definitely make his plan completely collapse, maybe in the remaining time, he will have to be like his father, Taoguang Yanghui will wait until he dies, and there will be no chance to turn over.

But soon he calmed down, after all, the Praetorian Guard, Jinyiwei and even the people from Dongchang did not send back any news, Sima Mingwei is also a generation of famous generals, and the possibility of a collapse is very small...... So with apprehension, Zhu Mu picked up the telegram and was stunned after just one glance.

"The rebel puppet emperor Yehe Haolian surrendered, and the rebel general Todeltai led his henchmen to forcibly break through the siege and die......" The content of this telegram was so strange that Zhu Mu almost threw the telegram with a shake of his hand. He resisted his urge to laugh out loud, and read the rest of the content: "Ye He Hao Lian will be sent to Beijing in a few days, and the 100,000 army will go north along the way, and Changchun is already in the bag!" ”

"Alas......" sighed, Zhu Mu pressed the telegram in his hand, looked at Wang Jianfeng and Ma Siyuan, and said slowly: "It seems that this matter of sacrificing ancestors and sacrificing prisoners will be postponed for a while. ”

As he spoke, he handed the telegram in his hand to Wang Jianfeng, who was so frightened that he quickly took the telegram and looked at the contents. Although he did not support Emperor Zhu Mu's overly radical strategy of expanding armaments, he still did not want to see any recurrence of the situation in Liaodong.

After he finished reading the telegram, Zhu Mu's face also had a smile, and Ge Tianzhang and the others knew that what was written in this telegram was that Liaodong had won another big victory. However, he couldn't guess what the content was, and he could only guess about the recovery of Changchun.

But when the telegram reached him, the octogenarian was also completely taken aback by the grandeur of the Ye He family - Ye He Haolian did not choose to commit suicide or die in battle, but surrendered to the Ming Empire with such a grovelling knees?

For a while, his mind was full of unwillingness and remorse: just such a thing, he actually assigned Wang Futong, and he spent so much time facing it in vain. Why didn't he Ge Tianzhang want to directly eliminate the hidden dangers in Liaodong, and then concentrate on dealing with the hot potato of Ceylon?

made him regret in his heart, why didn't a talent like Wang Jue appear ten years earlier? If in the period when Ge Tianzhang was in full swing, there was a general like Wang Jue in the military department who could realize strategic planning for Ge Tianzhang, wouldn't the Ming Empire sweep in all directions? If this is the case, why did he Ge Tianzhang bother to use Wang Fu with such a person? Why did he Ge Tianzhang hand over the military department to Cheng Zhixin, who could only defend it?

"It seems that we really have to postpone the matter of sacrificing the prisoner Taimiao. How can this 'prime minister' who sacrifices a rebel army compare to the head of the enemy chieftain? Zhang Huai handed the telegram to Bai Fei, the last cabinet minister, and then said to Ge Tianzhang beside him with a smile: "Congratulations to all of you...... This Liaodong henchman is in great trouble, and it is finally gone. ”

Bai Fei returned the telegram to the secretary beside the emperor, nodded with a smile, and congratulated the emperor: "Although Your Majesty Wenzhi has not left a name, this great martial art is enough to comfort the first emperor!" ”

"This Sima Mingwei should be rewarded." Huang Yao, as a minister, is the best at selling well at this time, he is in charge of economic affairs on weekdays, and in most cases he only gives Wang Jianfeng and Ma Siyuan a hand, and there is no room to play, so this kind of praise is often the most active: "Liaodong is a big victory, how to say it, we must reward the three armies......"

"Reward, it's a reward, but I can't get the money to reward the three armies." Zhu Mu interrupted Huang Yao's words with a smile, and commanded: "I gave Wang Jue a general, so I don't hesitate to give Sima Mingwei a general!" So that the heroes of the world know that those who can win the battle for me are not favored by me, no matter who they are! ”

Hearing that Wang Jue wanted to give Sima Mingwei the rank of general, Ge Tianzhang was of course happy in his heart, this Sima Mingwei was a general he discovered in his later years, steady and enterprising, if it wasn't for Wang Jue being born, he would definitely be the most dazzling general in the Ming Empire.

Now that His Majesty the Emperor has promoted Sima Mingwei, it can be regarded as a signal of goodwill to the Ministry of War, it seems that His Majesty the Emperor attaches great importance to the character of hard work, not to favor Wang Jue's personal friend, but to treat the ministers who have contributed to the Ming Empire equally. Thinking of this, Ge Tianzhang of course would not get in the way, and waited for a few ministers to agree to this promotion. Wang Jianfeng, as the first auxiliary minister, secretly raised his eyebrows, but he also didn't say anything, and then directly agreed with the decision of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Mu. (To be continued.) )