Xinshun 1730

Chapter 21 talk on paper
What is unwarranted?
This is called unwarranted.

Missionaries know a shitty military system?
There is a specialization in the art industry, and the cost of acquiring knowledge at this time is too high. Liu Yu is convinced that these missionaries can't possibly understand the context of military reform.

In particular, these missionaries would not understand that what triggered this round of military reforms was not the delicate-looking flintlock action, but the inconspicuous bayonet that seemed to have no technical content.

He understands, that's why he made it out of necessity-the missionaries may be very clear about the words of criticism, but they deliberately didn't tell us, these people are not good birds.

A few light words not only aroused the emperor's interest, but also put aside the fact that he had a close relationship with the missionaries.

By the way, he pinned a huge black pot on the heads of missionaries such as Dai Jinxian, who he once "taught" him.

Knowing one but not the other, or knowingly and deliberately only mentioning one but not the other, it depends on what the emperor thinks.

From his father and the Duke of Qi, Liu Yu already understood the court's attitude towards banning religion in the future, which was very clear.

At this time, it is natural to clean up and clean up.

The broken ship of the missionary is going to sink, and I don't have the heart to go with it.

If you sell the old man, you will be charged with a big scapegoat and kicked.

Then he, Liu Yu, is "in Cao Ying and his heart is in Han", at least he is "worrying about his country when he is far away from the rivers and lakes, and worrying about his people when he lives in a high temple".

Loyalty is very useful.

The half-knowledge of the missionaries is matched with the mouth of the literati. According to the normal development trend, the gap will only become wider and wider.

As far as the literati of the previous dynasty saw the Dutch armed merchant ships recording the virtues of "the ship was tens of feet wide and more than ten miles away with one cannon", it was a dream to expect them to investigate the military system.

Li Gan was taken aback by Liu Yu's words.

If someone else said this, Li Gan might not believe it, and even felt that it was a deliberate act of creating something out of nothing, an unwarranted crime.

But he had just read "A Brief Examination of the Western Countries" written by Liu Yu, and there were some things in it that even those missionaries couldn't explain so thoroughly.

Here comes the problem.

No one is born knowing.

Liu Yu knew that someone had to tell him.

Even if he asked insincerely, someone had to know.

There are a lot of missionaries in the court, why no one made it so clear?

Especially in terms of translation, why hide the title of King of Kings?

It can't be that Liu Yu is born knowing, sitting at home and knowing things thousands of miles away, right?

Apparently, the missionary didn't say anything, Liu Yu knew about it because of his mental calculations and inadvertent insinuations.

Missionaries know but don't say it, isn't that what they want to punish?
This seems reasonable.

And it was the only reasonable explanation other than "a traveler who was born with knowledge".

Now that Liu Yu said this again, Li Gan murmured even more in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "What do you mean by the so-called reform? Could it be that the self-generated firecrackers they paid tribute to are not the most delicate things? They are actually deceiving me? "

Liu Yu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, I have made many inquiries. The key to this thing is not the self-generating firecracker, but the bayonet on the self-generating firecracker."

At the moment, he explained what a bayonet is, which is easy to understand.

"Your Majesty, matchlock guns have open flames between them. If they are too close, they may catch fire and even explode the gunpowder. Therefore, they can only be separated by more than one person. Flint guns, without open flame, can be very close together, just like guns. The wall of formation. This is one of them."

"Arquebus, bird and blunderbuss, you can't fight melee. There must be rattan players and spearmen on both sides to take care of you. If the enemy retreats, the melee soldiers will charge; Become a pure team, one person can be both a musketeer and hand-to-hand combat. This is the other.”

"The distance between the matchlock and bird guns is very large. If the enemy rushes in, they will disperse and cannot hold on. But the self-generating fire guns are equipped with bayonets. They can shoot salvos from a distance, and can form a spear formation from a distance. Everyone is close together, even in hand-to-hand combat. Don’t be afraid. This is the third.”

"Matchlock guns must be covered by half of rattan players and spearmen. A team of thousands has only 500 people for long-range shooting; and only 500 people for close combat. Self-generated fire guns with bayonets, a team of thousands, and thousands of people for long-range shooting. In close combat, it is still a thousand-man team. This is the fourth."

"Matchlock bird guns, combined with hand-to-hand soldiers, require a variety of formations. Self-generated fire guns, although the formations are changeable, they only need to be kept in mind by soldiers and battalions. In this way, even if you don't know soldiers, If you don’t know the general, as long as you follow the pattern and change according to the predetermined formation, you will not be easily defeated. The soldiers will be separated and the five battalions will be exchanged, which will not affect the combat power. This is the fifth.”

"Arquebus blunderbuss, combined with hand-to-hand soldiers, has many formations and is extremely difficult to practice. If you want to become an army, you have to work hard for two or three years. Self-generated firecrackers and bayonets, there are not many formations, and there are not many transformations. The posture can also be practiced, and an army can be formed in three to five months. This is the sixth."

"The missionaries only offered flintlock guns, but they didn't talk about the transformation of the army formation and the transformation of bayonets from flower teams into pure teams. Therefore, the people of insight in the country only felt that the self-generated firearms were not much better than the matchlock bird guns. rate, thinking that it is not useful.”

"This is what worries me. I don't fight Xiyi, so I can only hear it from hearsay. I haven't seen what the Xiyi army is like, so how can I know the mystery of it?"

"That's why Xu Guangqi said in the former Ming Dynasty: Today's Jian thieves have turned into tigers and leopards. If they are real tigers and leopards, they are also barbarians in Fujian. We must investigate and guard against them."

Liu Yu intentionally misinterpreted Xu Guangqi's prophecy. Xu Guangqi is a Catholic. What he said about the barbarians in Fujian was referring to Protestant countries such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This is mixed with religious sentiments.

Another one, Xu Guangqi is a member of the Freemasonry, this is a certainty.

In the illustration in "The Elements of Geometry" published in the 35th year of Wanli, on the heads of Xu Guangqi, Matteo Ricci and others, in addition to the cross, there is also an obvious pattern of compasses and squares of the Brotherhood of Masons.

The Masonic compass square logo is easy to identify and can be regarded as an identity authentication.

Freemasonry is not so mysterious and exaggerated, but it must have its own ideas, which also led to the dispute over Catholic etiquette in Zhuxia: Matteo Ricci, Xu Guangqi and others advocated adapting measures to local conditions, violating the ban of the Holy See, and translating it into God and the like The easy-to-understand vocabulary of Chinese people made Catholicism take root in Zhuxia.

Without the translations of these people, it would be difficult to develop the article full of strange words such as "Dousi". It is really hard to imagine what the group of Freemasons think.

What he said was concise and easy to understand. The key to what he wanted to say was the last sentence of Xu Guangqi's prophecy.

Li Gan is a man who knows how to fight, so after thinking about it for a while, he completely understood what Liu Yu meant.

But Li Gan didn't care about Xu Guangqi's prophecy. What really touched his heart was Liu Yu's fifth point.

Even if the soldiers don't know the generals, the generals don't know the soldiers, and the soldiers are separated, they can still exert their combat power.

The soldiers will be separated, and they can also fight.This is exactly the problem that countless emperors want to solve.

Now there are border troubles in the Northwest, this change can be tried.

Even if the northwest battlefield is not used, if it is true that "soldiers don't know their generals, generals don't know their soldiers, and the five battalions can rotate at will without reducing their combat power", then it will be a great thing for the imperial power.

You don't have to worry about the lack of combat power in the Song Dynasty, you don't have to worry about the chaos of the army leaders in the late Tang and Ming Dynasties, and you don't have to worry about how to control and weaken the influence of the old nobles in the army.

If you think about it carefully, you can figure it out.

When the flower team becomes a pure team, there must be less changes in the formation. It sounds very rigid, but it can indeed be used even if the soldiers do not know the general or the general.

The question is, is this Liu Yu's fantasy?
Or can it really be so?

Dashun has never fought a big battle with the western countries, let alone observed whether this tactic can be used at close range. It is really possible to rely on a child's imagination, or maybe it is just hearsay?
Does this person really have the talent of Sun Bai?

Or Zhao Kuo and Ma Su?

Thinking about his previous decision, Li Gan thought this was an opportunity.

Originally, I only thought that this child could be used among the noble children, and I was going to let him go to the Northeast for some experience.

It is not only an experience, but also because this matter requires a trustworthy, Western-learned and thorough teacher.

It is not difficult to expand the inscription of Yongning Temple.

The difficult thing is to lead some small figures of the Western French Party who are on the cusp of the military government to survey and map the frontier.

I thought that it would be difficult to use the map of the Raksha Kingdom for future negotiations; at the same time, I should bring out those useful talents who might be involved in this party struggle, so as not to get burned in the capital.

Another one is to find someone who understands Xiyi and Xixue to check the reality of Raksha Kingdom, fortress deployment, roads along the way, etc.

Originally, they planned to use missionaries, but in the current situation, they dare not use them at all, and they have no trust in each other.

Liu Yu, a strange embryo, became a suitable candidate.

Speaking of this now, the Raksha Kingdom thought it was a Western method of warfare, and this kid had a lot of research on it, and if he saw it with his own eyes, he could see it more thoroughly than others, and he could see the key points.

Even if others read it, they may not be able to understand it.

That being the case, the previous decision really killed two birds with one stone.

In Qi Guogong's memorial that day, Li Gan mentioned a sentence about the "Yongning Temple Monument": The responsibility of honor is not to find chapters and quotes?
I wonder if Qi Guogong understands?

When I saw him today, this kid was very courageous and ambitious.Is it a character like Ma Su and Zhao Kuo? It needs to be tested out early, so as to balance the layout of the court in the future.

(End of this chapter)