Wanli Youming

Chapter 120 Talking about Military Aircraft

Chapter 120 Talking about Military Aircraft

During the period when Li Youzi, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was actively in charge of the design and construction of the official residence, Fang Fengshi, the chief of the Privy Council of the Junior Division and the governor of the Five Armies, also completed the establishment of the Privy Council, and initially established the division of labor between the Privy Council and the Ministry of War. The preliminary operating system of the corresponding government affairs of the Privy Council was established.

Jiang Yilin, the former governor of Guizhou, Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Yunnan Zuobu, and Ye Mengxiong, the prefect of Anqing, who were originally studying in the Military and Political Academy under the Ministry of War, graduated early and directly served in the Privy Council because of this.

Moreover, Yu Dayou, who was originally in charge of training the army chariot battalion in the post-military governor's mansion and in charge of training generals in the Jingwei martial arts school, was also asked by Fang Fengshi to get the emperor's consent to serve in the Privy Council as a deputy envoy of the Privy Council;

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

Because the Privy Council is the place in charge of military affairs under the command of the five armies, so Fang Fengshi used this as an excuse to recruit military general Yu Dayou into the Privy Council system and participate in the civil service of military officials.

And Fang Fengshi let Yu Dayou enter the Privy Council, not only because he valued generals as much as Zhang Juzheng, but also because he knew that Yu Dayou had fought in Zhejiang and served as the chief military officer in Zhejiang. After capturing a large number of military officials who were from the background of the gentry and domestic slaves in the south of the Yangtze River, they can quickly use a group of generals to fill the entire system of military officials in Zhejiang.

Unlike Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou was not good at dealing with civil servants, so he was repeatedly frustrated in his official career, and many of his old ministries were dismissed because of his bad situation.

Now Fang Fengshi intends to give Yu Dayou the chance to recommend his old department to be reappointed.

From Fang Fengshi's point of view, Yu Dayou was honest and upright, so his old department should not be much different.

Naturally, Yu Dayou was also willing to give his old troops a hand, so he followed Fang Fengshi's advice and recommended many of his reliable old troops to Zhejiang to serve as vacant military officials, and even some vacant military officials in the southwest.

In this way, because the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River wooed some corrupt officials in the Zhang Party, many military officials in Zhejiang and Southwest China were replaced by many of their people, and they were cleaned up by the court, resulting in the problem that many military officials in the region were vacant , was quickly resolved.

It can be said that the military officials placed by the Jiangnan gentry in Zhejiang and the southwest were all replaced in a very short period of time.

The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River who secretly tried to sabotage the New Deal had nothing to do with their calculations.

It even gave the New Deal an opportunity to further expand.

For example, the establishment of the official residence system, and the military affairs of military officers and the transfer of military aircraft to the governor's office of the five armies.

Fang Fengshi is now because the Privy Council and the Ministry of War are responsible for all kinds of military affairs that were originally solely undertaken by the Ministry of War. He no longer has to be in charge of the national military strategy commander, the appointment of military officials, and even the management of the statistics of the number of soldiers, horses, money and food, and Many affairs such as the management of the Beijing camp military administration have greatly reduced the workload.

Although this also caused the power of the Minister of the Ministry of War to shrink a lot, it also allowed him, a senior official who was born as a frontier minister, to step down from his post in the Ministry of War after the arrival of the new Minister of the Ministry of War, Liang Menglong, and only concentrate on being in charge of the country. Military strategic command and military attache civil service, and can have enough energy to do things that I want to do but have never had time to do.

For example, formulate a military strategy for a long period of time in the future.

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

Fang Fengshi has always had his own ideas about the future military layout of Ming Dynasty, and he mentioned it more than once in private letters with Zhang Juzheng, and it is precisely because of this that Zhang Juzheng recommended Tan Lun to serve as his soldier after Tan Lun left.

"The Privy Council has just been established, and the affairs of military ministers have been basically completed. Now there is only one thing that remains to be done, which is the layout of the military and political strategy for the entire country!"

"Whether the Northwest should recover Hetao; once the Southwest is reformed and returned to the land, which chieftains will trigger the big war, how should the court plan ahead; will the Jurchen crisis in Liaodong be revived, and how should the Jurchen crisis in Liaodong be eliminated?"

As Fang Fengshi spoke, he looked at Yu Dayou, Jiang Yilin, Jin Xuezeng and others:

"Let's discuss it, everyone. When the result is reached, I will submit a copy of the title to Your Majesty in the name of the Privy Council, and present the Privy Council's suggestions on the strategic layout of the country's military and political affairs to Your Majesty, and ask the Holy Judge."

"Forewarned is forearmed, without prejudging the waste."

"Since the military deliberation power of the five armies was seized by the Ministry of War in the State Dynasty, the Ministry of War had no time to agree on military and political strategies due to the complexity of various matters and the lack of money and food. As a result, many military incidents occurred suddenly and were unprepared. For example, when the Gengxu Incident and the Japanese Invasion occurred, the Ministry of War was at a loss from the very beginning! Unprepared strategy!"

"Now that the Privy Council has been established, it has to make up for this shortcoming, and propose a strategy for the world's military administration, as a guideline for the governor to handle border affairs."

Fang Fengshi then added.

Ever since Xia Yan and Zeng Mi were killed for proposing to restore Hetao, no minister dared to bring up Hetao again.

Although the recovery of the Loop is indeed of great significance.

But now, Fang Fengshi dared to bring it up, and when the Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area had stopped harassing the border towns because of Alta and Gong, it was enough to show that he was indeed courageous in his military strategic layout, and even did not hesitate to Let's talk about recovering the Hetao again.

You know, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, it was because the Hetao issue could not be resolved all the time, and even the Hetao was not recovered when the national power was strong in the early Wanli period, which caused wars to break out in the Hetao area in the middle Wanli period.

Fang Fengshi brought it up at this time, which can be regarded as a long-term vision.

"Let me tell you 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 the peace with the tribute has not been long, and there has not been chaos in the northwest, so we can't find an opportunity. We can only use the current opportunity to make peace with the tribute. Slowly teach and educate, and arrange Jinyiwei to work carefully for the future."

"But now Mongolia is obedient, that's because our soldiers and horses are getting stronger, and once the peace goes on and our officers and soldiers become lazy, Mongolia will continue to plunder, and they will not take advantage of trade."

"Hu Yi has always been afraid of power and not virtuous, so in the future there will still be a big battle, and it will be necessary to regain the Hetao and destroy the enemy's base."

After Fang Fengshi said, Jiang Yilin said: "If the Southwest is to change its land and return to the people, the three chieftains of the Yang family, the An family, and the She family should be the most vigilant."

"However, there are many tribes in the southwest mountains, so if you want to deal with the war smoothly in the future, you should fight barbarians against barbarians!"

"At this time, we should also educate the local barbarians in large quantities first, so that more familiar barbarians can be Sinicized, so that we can organize the barbarians into the official army, and deal with the chieftain soldiers, which will surely get twice the result with half the effort!"

Fang Fengshi nodded: "Yin Shaobao also thinks so."

Then, Ye Mengxiong, who once served as a patrol officer in Liaodong, said: "The Liaodong Jurchen should be guarded most by the Jianzhou Jurchen! But Wang Gao is dead, and Jianzhou is weak, so it doesn't matter now."

"It's just that it's inevitable that Jurchen will have its own tenants in the future, just like the Mongolian Alta has Itakura, and will no longer be able to plunder, but will be able to form a large army and expand the territory to recruit troops."

"Therefore, it is best for the imperial court to massacre all their clans, or educate their clans, just like the Southwest, reform the land and return it to the people, otherwise, it will inevitably become a huge disaster in the future."

Yu Dayou said at this time: "In other words, it's not just the Southwest that needs to change its soil, it's the Northwest Mongolia and the Northeast Jurchens who have to return their soil!"

"In that case, does the imperial court have so much money to reform the land and return it to the people?"

"The most difficult thing about reforming the native land is not that the chieftains will rebel. The most difficult thing is to use money and food to appease the Fan people who are ruled by the chieftains, and to spend money and food to educate them;"

"Or kill them all. Although it is against humanity, it will cost a lot of military pay to kill them all, not just to bring peace to Anbang."

"In short, whether the land reform can be done depends on whether the imperial court has enough state funds to do it!"

Fang Fengshi nodded after hearing this: "Old General Yu's words are old-fashioned words for the country, and he understands better than me and other civil servants. Now we have to think about where it is better to reform the land first."

"Why don't you cross the sea to level the Japanese first, so as to increase your financial resources?"

Jin Xuezeng asked suddenly at this moment.

(End of this chapter)