Under the strong request of Zhang Gongwei, Marquis of Longping, Zhu Daolin had no choice but to lead everyone to visit the barracks and barracks, and during the whole visit, the colonels praised them one after another, their eyes were red-eyed, and they were eager to move this well-equipped barracks with all kinds of items to their own territory, but no one saw Zhu Daolin's good intentions.

Zhu Daolin was very calm, and when everyone was done, he took everyone to the back of the review stand in front of the barracks, pointed to the ten military regulations inscribed on the three-meter-high and two-meter-wide bluestone slab, and politely asked everyone to give valuable opinions.

After reading it, the generals looked at each other, and Xu Hongji asked Zhu Daolin in surprise: "Why don't you use my Ming military regulations?" ”

Zhu Daolin asked rhetorically: "Does Daming still have military regulations?" ”

Xu Hongji was stunned when he heard this, and the thoughtful Longping Marquis Zhang Gongwei looked at the towering bluestone slab again, and the generals reacted one after another, looking nervously at Xu Hongji and Zhu Daolin in the middle, and no one dared to make a noise.

Zhu Daolin decided to take this opportunity to teach these people a lesson, he began to explain from the first of the ten military regulations, "obey orders, obey commands", and compare the strength of the Ming army in the Taizu and Chengzu eras with the rapid decline in recent decades, and analyze the reasons one by one.

When the generals were enjoying the correction, Zhu Daolin changed his words and said with great confidence the phased goal he wanted to achieve: "Your predecessors are all masters of Rong Ma and Ma for half your life, and you will definitely be able to see my Zhu Daolin's efforts to revitalize the military prestige of the Ming Dynasty from these ten military regulations and this barracks......"

"I don't dare to say that the path I am taking is the only right one, but I dare to say that as long as I stick to the direction of professionalism and regularization of soldiers, it will be a year from now. The 1,500 officers and men of the Shangyuan Thousand Households Institute will surely become a new-style army with strict military discipline and tenacious work style, and whether it is training or fighting, it will be able to recruit and fight, and win in battle! ”

After hearing this, the generals looked at each other, most of them were skeptical, but no one questioned it at this time, but Xu Hongji's henchman Cheng Jizu jumped out first.

Cheng Jizu took a step forward. Pi Xiaorou asked loudly without smiling: "Dao Linxian nephew, we all admire your ambition and superb means, but training is different from doing business, the army has its own rules in the army, and silver cannot solve the problem at a critical time, if you want to make the officers and soldiers under your command have a reborn change in just one year, is there any other way besides relying on silver?" ”

Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei couldn't help but glance at each other. The generals who had been taught by Zhu Daolin, a junior for half an hour, also suddenly came to their senses.

Xu Wentao, the newly appointed deputy of the Shangyuan Thousand Households and the title of General Guangwei, stared at Zhu Daolin's face with blazing eyes, and everyone was waiting for Zhu Daolin's reaction.

Zhu Daolin was not the slightest bit unhappy, nodded slightly, and replied calmly: "General Cheng, my method is more than silver!" To tell you the truth, my greatest reliance is not on silver, but on an invincible magic weapon: no matter what kind of soldier, as long as he enters my military camp for three months. I will be able to make him understand, what is a real soldier? Why be ready to go to war at any time? For whom are you going to fight hard? ”

"As long as you can figure out these three questions. It can solve the two hundred years of disease of the Ming army in one fell swoop! ”

The generals were dumbfounded after hearing this, Zhu Daolin no longer gave any explanation, and respectfully invited Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei to visit their shipbuilding workshop.

The generals were full of suspicion, but after seeing Zhu Daolin and the two bigwigs walking away, they hurriedly followed, and walked through the passage that the officers and soldiers of the Shangyuan Institute hurriedly opened. Walk through the bustling docks and enter the high walls of the shipbuilding workshop under the watchful gaze of thousands of pairs of awe.

Zhu Daolin briefly explained a few words to the leaders of the craftsmen who gathered around, and told everyone to do whatever they should do, and then led the interested Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei to start visiting. Stop and go to the second and third docks.

Xu Hongji, Zhang Gongwei and others were deeply surprised by the complex and sturdy new structure of the battleships under construction, and were even more amazed by the exquisite construction tools used by the craftsmen and the measuring tools they had never seen before, and constantly asked Zhu Daolin such and such questions.

Zhu Daolin waited for everyone to finish asking questions before giving a detailed explanation of the application of the metric system of weights and measures, and then pointed to the new warship that was carrying out upper deck construction and told everyone why a 300-ton warship needs such a thick hull?

What are the advantages of this type of warship? What is the relationship between the caliber of the gun and the thickness of the hull?

Why did the Franc man use soft sails instead of hard sails? How did the Hushan Manor shipbuilding workshop develop a rapidly lifting cross-truss semi-rigid sail? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a sail?

Why can the new winch be installed to save manpower and material resources for raising and lowering the sails? How does a steering wheel system that replaces an older rudder work? Why are there so many models of sharp axes and hacksaws in the hands of craftsmen? What is the importance of the measurement tools in their hands to the innovation of shipbuilding?

During the one-and-a-half-hour explanation, everyone listened very carefully, for fear of missing the key points, and no matter who asked the question, they all received Zhu Daolin's patient explanation.

Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei frequently sighed that their eyes were wide open and they benefited immensely, and the generals had a deep feeling of being unreachable and sincere in front of the erudite and talented Zhu Daolin, and no one dared to question Zhu Daolin's ability anymore.

Zhu Daolin quickly established his prestige through this move, and basically achieved the goal he wanted to achieve, and he was naturally very happy in his heart, he pointed to the two warships under construction in the adjacent dock, and said to Xu Hongji with a smile:

"In half a month, the two warships will be able to conduct sea trials, and after completing a month's sea trials, if there are no problems, one of them will be handed over to the senior sailors' base camp for official service, and the trial voyage will be handled by our brothers from the Shangyuan Institute."

"Excuse me! How could my warship be handed over to your Shangyuan Institute for sea trials? I'll do it myself. Xu Hongji immediately vetoed Zhu Daolin's opinion, and the sentence "my battleship" was extremely domineering, causing the generals to burst into laughter.

Xu Hongji was very proud, he liked these two new warships with smooth lines, sturdy and beautiful very much, and he had already calculated in his heart that both of them would go back, even if it was worth giving Zhu Daolin an extra 60 high-grade shipbuilding timbers that had been in stock for decades, and one of them would replace his existing flagship.

The flagship, which was praised by Xu Hongji as "the fastest and best warship of the Yangtze River Naval Division" a few days ago, has become an old and old thin-skinned cargo in his heart at this moment, and there is nothing to boast about.

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