Great Tang princess

Chapter 710 Terrain Reconnaissance Plan
According to the regulations given by the Ministry of War, the location of this year's military exercise is set in the Changbai Mountains.

The main reason is that considering that marching is not easy in this era, we choose a distance that is not too far for each other.

Only the northern border and the Qingdao Military Region participated in this year's exercise.

The Yizhou Military Region is in a state of preparation for war because it wants to prevent Tubo from taking the opportunity to make trouble.

Dongdu Qianniuwei should also pay attention to safeguarding the safety of the capital, and coordinate with Yizhou at any time.

In addition, this military exercise also has a certain experimental nature, so let the northern border and Qingdao Military Region try it first.

The Ministry of War has set up a director department to be responsible for the specific matters of the exercise.

The gendarmerie was called in to act as battlefield observers.

During the period, they were forbidden to communicate with both sides of the exercise, and they had to faithfully record everything they saw.

The Military Weapons Supervisor was also ordered to build a batch of special weapons for exercises.

Now with the help of the Academy of Engineering, the production speed is very fast.

In fact, it is a batch of long wooden sticks with a cloth head filled with fuel wrapped in front, which is considered a long gun.

If a soldier is stabbed by this thing and paint is stained on his body, he will be killed in battle.

The charge of the grenade has also been reduced to the size of a firecracker, and it is also filled with paint.

This kind of grenade explodes around and will not kill people, but the paint will splash around.

As for artillery and shotguns, their use is prohibited during this exercise.

Battlefield observers are located in any corner of the battle site. Soldiers who died in battle need to hand over their soldier cards to the observers, and then go to the death area to wait for the end of the exercise.

That's right, all soldiers now have a soldier's card and are required to carry it with them.

The purpose of this is to ensure the exercise rules to the greatest extent, and soldiers who are killed in battle cannot continue to attack the enemy.

Although the exercise time was set after the autumn harvest, it was already June, and it was almost time to start preparations.

Li Yuechen took a closer look, and found that there was nothing wrong with the regulations, so he nodded: "Okay, let's send it out."

After an order, the pilot took off on a hang glider and headed straight for the two major military regions with the scroll.

……

In the army, as long as the news is not deliberately kept secret, it usually spreads very quickly.

That afternoon, a group of people came to Li Yuechen's office.

There are Geng Yunqiang, Wang Xiaojie's father and daughter, and Niu Ermao and others...

All of them were old subordinates who had been with Li Yuechen back then.

Seeing them coming, Li Yuechen smiled: "Hey, why are you all here today?"

Geng Yunqiang said with some embarrassment: "Your Highness, I heard that there will be military exercises this year..."

"Well, what? Are you interested?" Li Yuechen asked with his index fingers crossed on his chin.

"This... I just want to ask, why there is no Qianniuwei..."

Soldiers, especially generals, are actually more defensive.

As the commander-in-chief of the Qianniuwei military area, Geng Yunqiang immediately came over to inquire after hearing that Qianniuwei was not involved this time.

As for Wang Xiaojie, Wang Wuqiong and his daughter, they simply wanted to go and have a look.

After all, they are all members of the army, and the special activities of the army should be seen or must be seen.

Li Yuechen was quite patient with his old subordinates.

After picking up the teacup and taking a sip, he explained: "The purpose of keeping Qianniuwei is to prevent linkage with the Yizhou Military Region in case of special circumstances. Otherwise, if there is any change in Tubo during the exercise, the troops participating in the exercise will be exhausted. Tired of work, it’s unrealistic to travel long distances to fight, isn’t it?”

After all, soldiers are human beings, not war machines.

If you are a human being, you have to consider physiological factors. If you go to the plateau to fight when you are physically and mentally exhausted, even if you finally agree, you don’t know how many lives you will lose.

These soldiers were all cultivated by the country at a high price, and it would be enough to make people feel distressed for a long time if they died, let alone a large number of deaths.

Hearing her explanation, Geng Yunqiang felt a little embarrassed.

Although he can be regarded as a literate person, he can't be called literate after all, and secretly cursed himself for not even thinking of such a simple thing.

So he hurriedly saluted and said: "This subordinate knows his mistake!"

Li Yuechen waved his hand: "When it comes to fighting, you have nothing to say, dare to fight and fight. But in the future, the army will need more and more culture. In this regard, you have to learn more."

"Your Highness taught me a lesson, and my subordinates will remember it!" Geng Yunqiang raised his hand and saluted.

"As for the military exercise, even if you don't talk about it, I plan to let you take a look, maybe you can find or learn something from it."

When everyone heard it, they were all moved.

It turns out that although they meet less now, the princess has never forgotten them.

In fact, this is really because they thought too much, Li Yuechen was originally a rather loyal person.

Now that there is something to do, I will naturally take them with me.

Although Li Yuechen has been working hard to improve the country's civilization level for so many years.

But on the point of helping relatives and not helping relatives, it has always been done like this.

If there is any good thing, of course it is mainly based on favoring one's own people.

After all, as the old saying goes, people's hearts are always biased, so there is no such thing as complete justice.

"Speaking of which, besides military exercises, there is another thing that you can focus on."

Li Yuechen continued: "In addition to the annual military exercises, I also plan to organize military competitions. In the future, every spring, each military region will send the most elite soldiers to participate in various competitions... that is, the national military competition!"

When everyone heard it, they looked at each other a few times, and exchanged glances with each other.

It feels like this, the veterans in the army will not dare to fish casually in the future.

After all, even in peacetime, the military competitions at the beginning of the year and the exercises at the end of the year are overwhelming, and you have to train hard on weekdays.

In the final analysis, for the military region, this is also the assessment index.

If you think about it, you know that the military regions that will not get the ranking will definitely not have a good impression in front of the emperor... The series of chain reactions triggered by this will be very serious.

But at the same time, I have to admire the superb wisdom of Her Royal Highness, who can still come up with such a method.

"Okay, this is considered to be an official notification. I will write to other military regions afterwards. After this year's exercise is over, you have to prepare in advance for the competition in the spring of next year!" Li Yuechen said with a smile.

Geng Yunqiang looked arrogant: "Our Qianniuwei followed His Highness from the very beginning, so naturally we can't lose!"

……

Although the words were beautiful, his expression immediately collapsed after leaving the office.

He turned his head and asked Niu Ermao next to him: "Old Niu, do you mean that next year's military competition in the military region, can we win the northern military region? After all, it is the frontier army..."

Niu Ermao had a helpless expression on his face: "Brother Geng, just now you said in front of His Highness that you can't lose, why are you being cowardly at this time?"

"It's not cowardly, but it's a frontier army after all!" Geng Yunqiang gritted his teeth and stroked his hair, "And that kid Liu Huang is still a senior brother of His Highness, and the two of them came out of the same school. I'm afraid...it's not easy to win."

Then you just promised to say that, Your Highness?Niu Ermao complained in his heart.

But on the surface, he still comforted: "Oh, don't care about that. After all, Liu Huang is still young, and he is not a fairy like His Highness. I still have a good chance of winning. Besides, people from the bitter cold place on the northern border , the flexibility may not be much stronger than my Qianniuwei..."

In the eyes of people in this era, people in cold places are naturally resistant to cold, and people in the south are naturally resistant to heat, but in contrast, other aspects are naturally not so good.

This is indeed reasonable in the logic of the ancients.

……

Li Yuechen basically stayed in the Ministry of War throughout June, processing documents from the Western Regions every day.

In fact, it is just some military intelligence.

Now that the friction between the two sides is escalating, the countries of the Western Regions have formed an alliance to fight against Tubo to the end.

The two sides are now negotiating while fighting, and the terms cannot be negotiated, so they can only negotiate while fighting.

At the same time, both sides are also paying attention to the movements of Da Zhou.

The countries in the Western Regions hope that this big country can stand up to uphold justice and maintain the order of the surrounding countries.

Tubo only hoped that Da Zhou would not get in the way, and nothing else.

But I'm afraid they would never have imagined that what Da Zhou planned today was owned by both of them.

The next goal is not only to bring Tubo into the territory, but also the entire Western Regions.

So now it is just acting as an observer, and will not personally participate in the battle between them.

And Li Yuechen just reasoned and guessed what step they had made through the constantly updated information from the Ministry of War.

Of course, this job is still too tiring to do alone, and almost all the management of the Ministry of War and many staff officers in the army are involved.

What I do most these days is to hold meetings, non-stop meetings, almost non-stop from morning till night.

The main reason is that Li Yuechen is trying her best to rush forward with her work, because the military exercise will be held after the autumn harvest, and she must go to the scene to see it in person.

So when the time comes, the affairs of the Ministry of War will still be handed over to the fourth brother Li Dan.

In order to prevent him from giving up again, Li Yuechen could only arrange the most troublesome work in advance.

……

The time has come to July, and the climate is not much cooler than in June, and it is extremely hot every day.

But fortunately, the work at the Ministry of War is much easier now.

Coupled with the activities and assistance of the hidden guards, the situation in the Western Regions became more and more clear.

Although Yizhou did not participate in this year's exercise, they had a lot of tasks.

After carefully observing the intelligence from the Western Regions, Li Yuechen discussed with other high-level officials and staff officers, and decided to ask the Yizhou Military Region to increase the investigation of Tubo.

Now that Tubo is fighting with the Western Regions with all its strength, there must be some emptiness inside.

So Li Yuechen wanted to take this opportunity to let the investigation team cross the border to conduct a comprehensive investigation.

Since there will be a war sooner or later, it is better to take this opportunity to do a detailed investigation of the terrain of Tubo and draw a complete and detailed map.

Then make a sand table and develop a detailed offensive line map.

When the time comes to really fight, you can go deep into the hinterland of Tubo more quickly, improve efficiency and reduce casualties at the same time.

Such a plan was affirmed by all the staff members, who shouted 666 to show that the princess is wise.

At the same time, because the discussion on the provincial system is almost done, if nothing unexpected happens, it can be considered to be implemented next year.

Of course, in order to deal with all kinds of mistakes that may occur in reality, it is not possible to reform the whole country immediately, but to establish pilot projects and then try them out.

In the next few days, after a unanimous discussion by the cabinet, it was decided to divide Shandong, Shanxi and Hebei into the travel province system next year, and then start a trial run.

In contrast, the imperial court issued an order to all regions that this year's autumn will expand enrollment, so that there will be more candidates who will go to Beijing at the end of the year to participate in next year's spring.

It doesn't need to be too much, just expand one or two places in each place.

After all, the three provinces are divided, and more officials need to be added. The existing talent pool of the court may not be sufficient.

In the cabinet, when the meeting was about to end, Zhang Jianzhi suddenly raised his doubts.

He pointed to a place on the map and asked, "May I ask Your Highness, the customs and accent of the people here are closer to this side, why is it divided into Shanxi Province?"

Li Yuechen thought for a while: "It is because the customs and accents are too close, so we have to separate. Humans are inherently xenophobic, but being too xenophobic is not conducive to the stability of the country, so it must be divided in this way."

"I see, this subordinate understands." Zhang Jianzhi saluted with a smile.

However, this kind of answer caused many other people in the cabinet to sink their hearts, secretly saying what a clever trick!
In this way, it is tantamount to binding people and regions together, which can indeed avoid many troubles for the country.

But if you think about it carefully, there are often conflicts within the now divided interior. Once the provincial system is introduced, I am afraid that it will prevent people from uniting even more.

But in fact, Li Yuechen never thought that the clan system was a bad thing.

No matter what it is, it should be viewed from a dialectical point of view.

The clan system actually has its advantages, but it also has huge disadvantages.

In fact, more than 1000 years later, there was still a system similar to clan in the eight countries next door.

For example, if you belong to the same clan as the boss of a large group, no matter whether you know each other or have met each other, all the expenses for your schooling will be borne by the boss, and you will be given priority to enter his school after graduation. Group work.

Of course, if your clan doesn't have such a big boss, then you can only live in your own way, but clans can also help each other in many small things.

Leaving other aspects aside, at least this kind of mutual help between people with the same surname still has advantages.

Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, it is not fair to young people with different surnames.

But then again, where is there so much absolute fairness in this world?
It can only be said that it is not easy to maintain fairness in the law and the bottom line.

So Li Yuechen didn't think about turning the country into an imaginary utopia.

Just a little bit better than other countries is enough.

So it can only be said that on the road of improving the level of civilization, try to gather as many advantages as possible so that this country can become better and better.

In fact, the living standards of the people of Da Zhou have far surpassed that of any dynasty in history.

But this is not enough. Next, after the Tubo matter is settled, the real progress will begin!
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