Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 199
Emperor Chongzhen's easy-going attitude caused the generals in the queue to show different expressions, which they had never dared to imagine before.

"Everyone is brave and good at fighting on the battlefield of gold and iron horses. Why do you show timidity in front of me?" Emperor Chongzhen smiled and looked at the generals in front of him. Wutang, then you are disciples of the Son of Heaven. Isn't it normal to have doubts in your heart and discuss the Tao?
Kong Youde, you speak first! "

"Here!"

Kong Youde, who was named by Emperor Chongzhen, subconsciously stood up and shouted, and immediately ran out of the queue, suppressing the tension in his heart, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, there is something unclear about the students. Why are you studying in the martial arts hall? Chinese characters? Isn’t this what literati should learn?
Students and others are generals who command troops and fight well. It is their job to lead soldiers well and fight well. This argument is also doubted by the middle and low-level generals. "

Emperor Chongzhen established a lecture hall in Xiyuan, under which general and school classes at all levels were administered to train officers at all levels, and at the same time divided into different disciplines so that they could specialize in one field.

The army is a whole, but under this whole, it is subdivided into different arms. This is the case even in the current era of cold weapons.

The test of whether an army is strong or not depends on the coordinated operations among the various arms, each performing its own duties, and fighting well under the same military rules and disciplines.

"This question...I'm thinking about how to answer you."

Emperor Chongzhen pretended to be contemplative, and after a moment of contemplation, he said: "I have also led soldiers in battle. Although compared with you, I have not been on the battlefield many times, but if I can be alarmed to come to the imperial conquest, it must be my Daming encounter." Here comes the catastrophe.

Let's get down to business.

During our marching and fighting, the transmission of military orders is bound to be involved in order to achieve the combat deployment of the commanding generals. The form of transmission can be accurately defined.

So as a general at all levels, when such a document and military order is passed into your hands, but you can't understand and understand it, how can you fight the battle?
It can't be said that in my Ming army, there is a literati who reads military orders for generals and schools at all levels, right?I won't go into details about the reason why artists don't overwhelm themselves, but you people also understand it in your heart, right? "

During the Ming Dynasty, there were illiteracy everywhere, and knowledge, a precious thing, was only in the hands of a few people, which was also the privilege of scholars.

To break the political ecology of unbalanced civil and military affairs, and to strengthen the literate and literate group is one of the things that Emperor Chongzhen must do in order to govern Daming in the future.

Listening to Emperor Chongzhen's serious narration, whether Kong Youde or other people in the queue, I felt a little bit embarrassed.

Who would not sigh with emotion if there is no emperor who puts on airs?
"report!"

Mao Chenglu's voice sounded in the queue at this time. Emperor Chongzhen nodded and asked Mao Chenglu to come out. Since he decided to use the former Dongjiang general school, he should treat everyone equally and must make it clear.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the students are also a little unclear. What can this boring formation training bring? Many middle and low-level generals in the martial arts hall have such doubts and doubts more or less during the actual formation training. Puzzled."

"It is precisely because of the boringness that this training is carried out. Haven't you noticed that before entering the lecture hall and after entering the lecture hall for further training, you have developed the habit of obeying military regulations subtly? ? When something happens, call for a report, listen to orders and respond, isn’t that what my Ming’s army lacks at the moment?”

This time, when he came to Xiyuan and summoned the colleges of these senior generals, Emperor Chongzhen’s ultimate goal was to make them unify their thinking, so that the sparks they collided with and the various learning mechanisms they clarified were what he wanted. .

Emperor Chongzhen could accept that they came from different regions, but he absolutely could not allow hilltopism to prevail. He wanted to use his own method to train professional soldiers for the Ming Dynasty and find out a feasible route.

When the middle and low-level officers of the Ming army all come from a certain lecture hall and receive the same training mechanism, will the incidents like rebellion be reduced?
Of course, Emperor Chongzhen also knew in his heart that it was a long way to go to reach such a level, but he had enough patience and time to do the right thing.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the students are also unclear about one thing. The students have no objection to the high-intensity training set by the martial arts hall, but when they teach their lessons, they say that they will be promoted in the future. This runs counter to my Ming army. , carrying out high-intensity training every day, as far as the current rules are concerned, there will be camp noises and mutinies."

"Cao Wenzhao, I want to praise you in public. I am very pleased if I dare to say such a thing. Then I will answer your question. The current batch of generals and schools you are studying in the lecture hall will be included in my class. The new army to be formed, the new army and the existing army of Ming Dynasty, are two completely different military systems, and have different treatment.

Since you are asked to study these subjects, there is some reason for that.

One thing I want to clarify in advance is that the scale of the first batch of new troops is not large. After all, the daily rations, or even a three-day meal of meat, will consume a large amount of money and food. This is why I set three months later. It is said that military exercises will be held, those who can successfully graduate by then will be transferred to serve in the new army, and those who fail to graduate will have to stay honestly in the lecture hall to continue their studies. "

From the perspective of Emperor Chongzhen, he knew very well that the troops guarding various places were probably all rotten.

Instead of spending time and money on the old army, it is better to take the precious money and grain and temper a new army. Before the new army is tempered, the old generals such as Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, the Emperor Chongzhen will not to move.

With a stable governance attitude, gradually replacing the decaying beams and pillars of the Ming Dynasty and rebuilding a new framework is what Emperor Chongzhen has to do.

Maybe many problems and conflicts will burst out during the period, and then they will be actively resolved at that time. After all, with this group of new army generals, even if the whole world rebels, it will be enough to go to the mountains to fight guerrillas.

"Your Majesty, the students have a suggestion. Although simple queue training and high-intensity training can emphasize military discipline and strengthen personal physique, for students and others, after all, it is necessary to command troops to fight. , the training of weapons, the training of firearms and artillery, after all, it will not be able to be used in the important area of ​​Xiyuan."

"Chen Jisheng, you can think of these things, which proves that you have learned a lot in the martial arts lecture hall. These indeed need to be practiced in real soldiers. At this stage, you should first lay down the foundation. After a month, I will be outside the capital. Find another address, and ask you to carry out corresponding practical exercises in the school grounds, the ancient Zhao Kuo, what he did on paper, must be avoided in my martial arts hall."

Wang Dehua, Zhu Chunchen and others who were accompanying them were amazed when they saw the Chongzhen Emperor who was different from what they had imagined.

Ever since Jianlu invaded Daming, they had rarely seen the Son of Heaven so easy-going, especially for Zhu Chunchen and his companions, only they knew what it was like.

Fortunately, the senior generals' class in the Xiyuan Lecture Hall had their descendants, so they didn't think too much about it. Otherwise, relatives like Zhu Chunchen didn't know what they would think or do.

This time, Zhou Yuji, Cao Wenzhao, Chen Jisheng, Mao Chenglu, Kong Youde, Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong and other high-ranking generals have been in this Xiyuan Royal Terrace for a long time. Through this easy-going and encouraging attitude, Emperor Chongzhen, Calling these lecturers in the martial arts hall, they all have a lot of feelings and touches.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted their loyalty, so he had to talk to these trainees in the martial arts hall from time to time under the premise of emphasizing military regulations, strict drills, and strict studies. Battalion, and use the three major battalions as the benchmark to cultivate new troops to lay a solid foundation.

(End of this chapter)