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In order to prevent this situation from happening, Jia Cong decided to conduct military exercises.

Military exercise is a term that has never appeared before.

Of course, there have been similar activities before.

For example, military parades, hunting, etc.

But military exercises are different from both of these because their purposes are completely different.

Military exercises are the military drills that are closest to actual combat. Except that they are not real life-and-death battles, everything else is exactly the same as actual combat.

The reason why Jia Cong held military exercises was not to build up the courage of the new recruits.

In fact, courage cannot be developed through military exercises alone.

What Jia Cong had to do was to make the officers and soldiers of each army familiar with how to mobilize food and grass, how to deploy troops, how to march, etc.

I believe that after several military exercises and with the experience they have gained, when a real war breaks out in the future, they will be able to march in an orderly and step-by-step manner.

Similarly, the ten naval bases also conducted military exercises in pairs.

Military exercises are also very expensive.

This time, the Minister of Revenue could no longer tolerate it and began to openly resist.

At the court meeting, in front of all the civil and military officials, the Minister of Revenue flatly refused.

He also stated righteously that there was not much money left in the national treasury and that military exercises were useless except for wasting time and money.

Therefore, he would definitely not pay the money unless the emperor arrested him and replaced him with someone else as the Minister of Revenue.

To be honest, Jia Cong felt that the Minister of Revenue was doing a good job.

He managed his purse very well, never made any mistakes, and was not greedy or wasteful himself.

He was just a bit stubborn, which made Jia Cong quite helpless.

Jia Cong was also unwilling to take down this stubborn guy just because of this trivial matter.

In desperation, Jia Cong finally decided to hold the military exercise at his own expense.

Now, the silver in Jia Cong's treasury far exceeds the remaining silver in the national treasury.

However, this is not because Emperor Jia Cong is greedy and does not care about the lives of the people.

He did not take a single penny from the national treasury for this money; it was all earned through the Chamber of Commerce.

Therefore, when all the officials heard that the emperor wanted to hold the military exercise even at his own expense, they were speechless for a moment.

They really met a weird emperor.

Their emperor was not greedy for money or lustful, and his literary talent was the best among all emperors.

His martial arts are also the best in the world - the martial arts here refers to the ability to command troops.

The only thing is that there seems to be a tendency to be persecuted.

I always feel that there will be countries that are unfavorable to China, so I am always very anxious.

But now China is developing rapidly, and it is the same every day. It has entered a peaceful and prosperous era.

Now is the most prosperous period of China. How could there be any country so blind as to dare to provoke China at this time?

Not to mention the small countries around it, even if they were given the courage, they would never dare to raise their claws to China, otherwise, they would be destroyed as soon as possible.

As for the West, the officials did not believe that the West would use force against China because the two sides were too far apart.

Not to mention anything else, they were completely unable to keep up with the logistical supplies alone.

In this case, how can they fight China?

Isn't this a definite act of seeking death?

It is because the officials have such thoughts that they find it difficult to understand why the emperor is so anxious?

However, now that the emperor is paying for the military exercises out of his own pocket, they can no longer persuade him.

Jia Cong also closely followed the military exercises.

He would send people to watch every military exercise and take detailed records.

Jia Cong also personally visited the military exercises of two navies near the capital.

The military exercise scene is hard to describe.

The battleships of both sides had already been thrown into disarray before they reached the designated battlefield.

After arriving at the designated battlefield, one-third of the warships failed to keep up.

Those who followed were also in chaos.

Next, both sides fired a wave of artillery shells at each other, which were hollow bullets, not live ammunition.

The accuracy was naturally hard to describe, and then they began to approach each other for the final fight.

In the end, both sides climbed up each other's warships to fight, and the scene was extremely eye-catching.

Many soldiers lost their grip and fell into the sea while climbing.

The scene of fighting was even more unbearable to watch.

Jia Cong, on the other hand, was watching the battle from a hot air balloon with a telescope.

The marshals of the two naval bases were guarding Jia Cong.

The two marshals looked very unhappy.

In this performance, the performance of their two navies was really poor.

During normal training, nothing could be seen.

This military exercise exposed many problems.

In particular, the Emperor watched and witnessed their insurance in person.

The two marshals were immediately ashamed of their crimes.

Jia Cong said calmly: "The navy is not created from scratch, but the new navy and the old navy have two completely different ways of fighting."

"The navy's training nowadays is all about crossing the river by feeling the stones. It is within my expectations that you will perform like this in such a short period of time."

"However, I am still very disappointed. I was also a general before, and I was also the champion marquis of the previous dynasty."

"I have never had such a bad army under my command!"

"I'll give you a year to work on this. Next year, I'll hold another military exercise. I look forward to your performance next year."

After hearing this, the two marshals felt even more ashamed.

They solemnly told the emperor to rest assured and wait and see their performance next year.

After the military exercise, the two marshals told all the soldiers the emperor's words verbatim.

The officers and soldiers of the two navies felt extremely humiliated in their hearts.

In the eyes of the Chinese people today, Jia Cong is simply an omnipotent god who saves people from suffering.

It would be strange if they felt nothing at all when being looked down upon by the Emperor.

The reason why Jia Cong said those words was that he hoped these soldiers would learn from their mistakes and become braver.

This military exercise has ended. Overall, the performance of the infantry far exceeded that of the navy.

In particular, the Youzhou Army led by Jia Cong was well disciplined and invincible in every battle.

As for the new army, its performance was much worse, but overall, it was still satisfactory.

Through military exercises, they also realized their own shortcomings and deficiencies.

As for the navies, the performances of the ten navies were basically the same.

The performances were all very poor.

And this was actually within Jia Cong's expectations.

How can it be so easy to train navy personnel?
How can we train a qualified navy in just one year?

This behavior is normal.

However, Jia Cong was still prepared to encourage them.

Therefore, Jia Cong summoned the ten naval officers and asked them.

I established the navy to defend against foreign enemies. If a war really breaks out, you navy members will not kill yourselves, right?
Well, what this means is that if an enemy really attacks them, then they probably won’t need the enemy to attack them.

They were in such a mess that they were afraid that they would mess up their formation and become a mess, and then they would be defeated. Why would they need the enemy to attack them? This was sheer contempt.

The ten naval marshals were all furious.

They also secretly made up their minds to train themselves well enough to impress the emperor.

……

Time flies by like a fleeting moment.

Before I knew it, eleven years had passed.

Now Emperor Jia Cong is 35 years old and has officially entered middle age.

However, because Jia Cong had superb internal skills, his appearance had not changed significantly from eleven years ago.

However, the Queen Mother was already very old, with gray hair and unsteady movements.

There is also Grand Secretary Kou. Although he is still in the cabinet, he rarely asks about affairs. If there is nothing to do on weekdays, he no longer comes to the court.

It was not that Grand Secretary Kou was attached to the position of Chief Grand Secretary. In fact, he had requested to retire and return home many times, but the Emperor refused to allow him to do so.

It is said that the emperor is bloodthirsty, but in the past eleven years, he has killed quite a few corrupt officials at the bottom of the society.

Once corruption is discovered, there will be no mercy.

Therefore, China's politics has been clear to this day.

However, Jia Cong treated all the officials in the court very well and never killed anyone.

Of course, this is also because all officials dared not act rashly under Jia Cong's nose.

If we look at it from this perspective, Jia Cong is a rare good emperor.

In the past eleven years, the whole of China has undergone earth-shaking changes.

First of all, in terms of national military strength, all the troops were equipped with new rifles,

Modern weapons such as grenades and cannons are also fully equipped.

As for the navy, its performance has been quite good since the military exercise in the second year.

At least there was no problem of the formation being scattered in the middle of the game.

In the following years, these navies took the initiative to volunteer and began to eliminate the pirates who were entrenched in overseas islands.

Over the years, through wars with pirates, the Chinese navy has gradually matured.

Having participated in at least several naval battles, the soldiers had blood on their hands and had sufficient combat experience.

Today's navy is no longer just a decoration.

However, China's military expenditure is increasing year by year.

This made all officials, especially those in the Ministry of Revenue, full of resentment.

They never understood that China is now peaceful and the people are living and working in peace and contentment, and there is no danger at all.

Why does the emperor waste so much money every year?
If all this money were used elsewhere, China's development would only be further improved.

But only Jia Cong himself knew that war was probably not far away.

Due to its large size and good policies, China has experienced a period of technological explosion in the past eleven years, leaving the West far behind.

China's technological products are naturally increasing.

Nowadays, China has already developed electronic products such as cameras and video recorders.

Even televisions were developed.

As for other technological products, there are countless.

Chinese products are sold all over the world.

China also used these commodities to frantically plunder wealth from all over the world.

Therefore, over the past eleven years, the lives of the Chinese people have undergone tremendous changes.

Today's Chinese people have already solved the problem of food and clothing.

Even though there are still some people who are still in poverty due to physical or other reasons.

Poverty is difficult to eradicate completely.

However, because Jia Cong had excellent welfare policies, even poor people could receive relief from local governments and have minimum living security.

In China, more than two-thirds of its territory now has access to railways.

Highways are now being built across the country.

Nowadays, many Chinese people have started to build two-story buildings.

In most areas, people live in houses with upstairs and downstairs, and have electricity and telephones.

Today's China has basically achieved the state of universal peace and harmony that the ancient sages believed in.

Since Jia Cong ascended the throne, it took him only a dozen years to complete the journey that his predecessors had failed to complete in thousands of years.

The reason why they were able to develop so rapidly is closely related to their acquisition of countless wealth in the world.

Today, gold and silver are flowing out of other countries in large quantities.

Their vigilance has been aroused, and they will certainly not give up.

Now, they are preparing to unite and jointly formulate a strategy to fight against the Central Plains.

Moreover, now they also covet the wealth of the Central Plains.

There is no need to talk about Zhongyuan’s own development. Over the years, it has made them countless real money.

If they could swallow up the Central Plains in one gulp, they would surely be overwhelmed.

Now, they are plotting a counterattack against the Central Plains and formulating a plan to fight against the Central Plains.

What they don’t know is that after more than ten years of planning, the Jinyiwei from the Central Plains have spread all over the world.

Well, to say it’s all over the world is a bit of an exaggeration.

The Jinyiwei did not have any deployment in many impoverished areas.

After all, even after more than ten years, they didn't have so many people.

However, the Jinyiwei can be found in the most powerful countries.

The members of Jinyiwei are not just Chinese.

There are also many peripheral personnel who have been bribed by them.

For example, a cleaner in the Lion Country Congress was secretly bribed by them.

Although this cleaner has difficulty accessing confidential information, he can always get a glimpse of some secrets.

There are also horse grooms, car mechanics, and so on.

Of course, even the lovers of some high-ranking officials were bribed.

In short, most people in these countries are very selfish.

Their sense of national identity is weak, and as long as they are willing to spend money, it is not difficult to buy the information they want.

Therefore, these countries thought they were hiding their conspiracies from China, but little did they know that everything was under China's control.

……

Let’s talk about what Jia Cong was drawing in the Imperial Palace of China.

China is developing rapidly nowadays, but Jia Cong is not very busy.

He focused his main energy on technological development.

Jia Cong handed over most of the government affairs to the prince.

Half of it was to train the prince, and the other half, naturally, was just to be lazy.

Jia Cong only needs to check the general direction.

As an emperor, it is rare in the entire history that he can trust the prince so much.

It is not that there haven't been royal fathers and sons who have such trust in their families, but it mostly happens when the emperor has only one son, the crown prince, or when the other princes are really unable to bear the responsibility.

However, this is not the case with Jia Cong's princes. Because of proper education, almost every prince is very outstanding. (End of this chapter)