During the period when Li Youzi, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was actively responsible for the design and construction of the official residence, the Privy Council, the Privy Council, the Governor of the Five Armies, also completed the establishment of the Privy Council, preliminarily established the division of labor between the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, and also established a preliminary system for the operation of the corresponding government affairs of the Privy Council.

Jiang Yilin, the former governor of Guizhou, Jin Xuezeng, the political envoy of Zuobu in Yunnan, and Ye Mengxiong, the prefect of Anqing, who were originally studying in the Military Administration Academy under the Ministry of War, were directly asked for the emperor's consent by Fang Fengshi and graduated early and went directly to the Privy Council;

Moreover, Yu Dayou, who was in charge of training the military chariot battalion in the Houjun Governor's Mansion and was responsible for training military generals in the Beijing Guard Martial Arts Academy, was also asked by Fang Fengshi to obtain the emperor's consent and serve in the Privy Council as a privy deputy envoy;

In addition, Fang Fengshi also transferred some people from the Ministry of War, so as to form the basic framework of the Privy Council.

Because the Privy Council is the place under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to take charge of the military aircraft, Fang Fengshi used this as an excuse to absorb the military general Yu Dayou into the Privy Council system and participate in the military ministers.

And Fang Fengshi let Yu Dayou enter the Privy Council, not only because he attached the same importance to military generals as Zhang Juzheng, but also because he knew that Yu Dayou had fought in Zhejiang and served as the chief military officer of Zhejiang, and he intended to use Yu Dayou's understanding of Zhejiang's military minister system to achieve the goal of quickly using a group of military generals to fill the entire military minister system in Zhejiang after arresting a large number of military ministers who were from the background of Jiangnan gentry and family slaves.

Unlike Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou was not good at dealing with Wenchen, so he was repeatedly frustrated in his career, which made many of his old departments dismissed because of his bad situation.

Now Fang Fengshi intends to give Yu Dayou a chance to recommend his old department to be reactivated.

In Fang Fengshi's opinion, Yu Dayou is honest and loyal, so his old department should not be much worse.

Yu Dayou was naturally willing to pull his old ministry along, so he complied with Fang Fengshi's instructions and recommended many of his reliable old subordinates to Zhejiang to fill vacant military officials, and even some vacant military ministers in the southwest.

As a result, because the Jiangnan gentry co-opted some corrupt officials within the Zhang Party, many military positions in Zhejiang and southwest China were installed with many of their people, and the imperial court cleaned them up, and the problem of vacant positions of many local military ministers was quickly resolved.

It can be said that the military ministers installed by the Jiangnan gentry in Zhejiang and southwest China were all replaced in a short period of time.

The Jiangnan gentry who secretly tried to sabotage the New Deal were in vain.

Even the New Deal was given the opportunity to go further.

For example, the establishment of the official residence system, and the military attache Quanxu and the military aircraft were returned to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Fang Fengshi is now in charge of the various types of military administration, which were originally only undertaken by the Ministry of War, but instead of being responsible for the commander-in-chief of the national military strategy, the appointment of military ministers, and even the management of many affairs, such as the statistics of soldiers, horses, money, and grain, and the management of the military administration in Beijing, the workload has been greatly reduced.

Although this has also led to a lot of shrinkage of the power of the official position of the secretary of the military department, it has also allowed him, a senior member who was born as a border minister, to resign from his post in the military department after the arrival of the new secretary of the military department, Liang Menglong, and only concentrate on the affairs of the national military strategic command and the military attache, and can have enough energy to do something that he wants to do but has not had time to do.

For example, we have formulated a military strategy for a long time to come.

As a border minister who had quelled peasant uprisings in Guangdong and Jiangxi, served as governor in Datong and Liaodong, and governor Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi mountains.

Fang Fengshi has always had his own ideas about the future military layout of the Ming Dynasty, and he has also mentioned it more than once in private letters with Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng also recommended him as his own soldier after Tan Lun went.

"The Privy Council has just been established, and the affairs of the military ministers have been basically completed, and now there is only one thing left to do, which is to lay out the political strategy of the entire dynasty in the future!"

"Whether the northwest wants to recover the Loop; Once the southwest changes the land and returns to the stream, which toasts will cause a major war, how should the imperial court take precautions; Will the Jurchen plague in Liaodong recur, and how to eliminate the Jurchen plague in Liaodong? ”

Fang Fengshi said and looked at Yu Dayou, Jiang Yilin, Jin Xuezeng and others:

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's discuss, and when we reach a result, I will give your Majesty a copy of the inscription in the name of the Privy Council, and tell Your Majesty the advice of the Privy Council on the strategic layout of the next dynasty, and ask the Holy Judge."

"All things are foreseen, and nothing is foreseen."

"Since the military power of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was seized by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of War has no time to agree on the political strategy because of the redundancy of various things and is tired of dealing with all kinds of insufficient money and food, resulting in many military events suddenly occurring and sometimes there is no preparation strategy, such as the Gengxu Revolution and the Japanese rebellion, the Ministry of War was at a loss at the beginning! Unprepared strategy! ”

"Now, since the Privy Council has been established, it has to make up for this shortcoming, and put forward a strategy for the world to deal with border affairs."

Fang Fengshi then added.

Since Xia Yan and Zeng Mo were killed for mentioning the proposal to recover the Hetao, no minister dared to mention the recovery of the Hetao.

Although the recovery of the Loop is indeed significant.

Now, when Fang dared to bring it up, and the Mongol tribes in the Hetao area had stopped attacking the border towns because of Alta and Gong, it was enough to show that he himself was indeed bold in his military strategic layout, and even did not hesitate to mention the recovery of the Hetao.

You must know that in the history of the Ming Dynasty, because it failed to solve the Hetao incident, and even confiscated the Hetao when the national strength was strong in the early Wanli period, so that in the middle of Wanli, there was another war in the Hetao area.

Fang Fengshi's proposal at this time can be regarded as a long-term vision.

"Let's talk about it first."

Fang Fengshi said: "First of all, in the opinion of this hall, it is not appropriate to talk about the restoration of Hetao now, mainly because Hegong has not been in trouble for a long time, and there is no chaos in the northwest, so I can't find an opportunity, so I can only take advantage of the current opportunity to pay tribute, slowly educate, and install brocade clothes and guards to prepare for the future." ”

"But now Mongolia is obedient, it is because our soldiers and horses are getting stronger, and once the peace lasts for a long time, our officers and soldiers become lazy, then Mongolia will be plundered again, and will not profit from trade."

"Hu Yi has always been afraid of power but not virtue, so a big battle is indispensable in the future, and it is indispensable to recover the Hetao and cut off the enemy's foundation."

After Fang Fengshi said, Jiang Yilin said: "If the southwest changes the land and returns to the stream, the three toasts that should be vigilant are the Yang, An, and Hao families. ”

"But the southwest mountains are dangerous, so if you want to deal with the war smoothly in the future, you should fight against the enemy!"

"At this time, we should also educate a large number of local students, so that there are more familiar people in Sinicization, so that they can be organized into official soldiers, and against Tusi soldiers, they will be able to get twice the result with half the effort!"

Fang nodded at the right time: "Yin Shaobao thinks the same way." ”

Then, Ye Mengxiong, who had served as the governor of Liaodong, said: "The most important embankment for the Jurchens in Liaodong is the Jianzhou Jurchen!" However, Wang Gao is dead, and Jianzhou is weak, so it is okay now. ”

"It's just that it is inevitable that in the future, the Jurchens will have their own tenant farmers, just like the Mongol Itakura, and then they will no longer only be able to plunder, but can form heavy troops and expand their territory to recruit troops."

"Therefore, it is best for the imperial court to slaughter its tribe, or educate its tribe, and like the southwest, change the land and return to the stream, otherwise, it will inevitably become a huge disaster in the future."

Yu Dayou said at this time: "In this way, it is not only the southwest that should change the land and return to the stream, but also the northwest Mongolia and the northeast Jurchen must return to the land!" ”

"In that case, does the imperial court have so much silver to change the land and return to the stream?"

"The most difficult thing to change the land and return to the river is not to be afraid of the rebellion of the chiefs, but to use money and food to appease the people who are ruled by the chiefs, and to spend money and food to educate them;"

"Or slaughter them, although it is against the way of benevolence, but if you want to kill them all, it will also cost a lot of military salaries, not just to quell the chaos and peace of the country."

"In short, whether it is feasible to change the land and return to the river depends on whether the imperial court has enough funds to do this!"

Fang Fengshi nodded after hearing this: "What General Yu said is the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, and he understands better than me and other ministers, and now I have to think about where it is better to change the land and return to the river first." ”

"Why don't you cross the sea first to increase your wealth?"

Jin Xuezeng suddenly asked at this time.