These Confucian scholars are incompetent in foreign warfare, but they are geniuses in internal fighting!

They improved the war machine of the Chinese Empire into the so-called superintendent system: the civilian officials of the supervising army were responsible for the overall strategy of the land, and the deployment of troops, and at what time, where, and what enemy to fight, were also decided by the civil ministers, and the eunuchs of the supervising army were responsible for the supply of grain and grass for the whole army, the distribution of military salaries, and the transportation and distribution of various baggage and weapons, while the specific work of siege, defense, arranging troops, and defeating the enemy in the field were all the work of the military attaché.

From the point of view of civilian officials, this is really a wonderful military system, if we can win a war, the first credit is naturally the civil servants in charge of strategy, China has highly emphasized the decisive role of strategy since ancient times, especially the civilian officials, and it is also called a beautiful name, a clever calculation.

People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic. After the victory, the merits of the eunuchs of the prison army are naturally indispensable, and the merits of the generals are only calculated according to the head. And if it is defeated, then at this time, Wenchen will not recognize the great guiding significance of the strategy, and the responsibility for the defeat must be borne by the military general, because the military general will specifically command the battle process, and it must be this group of Qiu Ba who messed up the good plan, if the military general dies in battle, then the civil officials can generally put the responsibility on the eunuchs of the supervising army, it must be this gang of eunuchs who embezzled armor and military salaries, or they did not give enough food and grass to the army out of instinctive harmful habits, which led to the defeat.

In short, no matter whether the war is won or lost, civilian officials only reward but not punish, but military attaches often do not even receive military salaries, and can only rely on raiding homes and houses to get by, thus gaining a stigma. Civilian officials can impeach and attack in the name of justice, and re-defeat military attaches who have made meritorious contributions.

Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the border affairs are frequent, the court has to rely more and more on the generals, in the eyes of the gentlemen in the court, the generals are like the monkeys who are under the Wuzhi Mountain, and they are about to jump out, so the more generals can fight, the more the gentlemen have to put a seal on their heads, and suppress the temperament of grinding for five hundred years below.

Not to mention that the weapons sent down are all guns that explode after three shots, and knives that curl the blade when they cut twice... It's just sending you to death.

Therefore, as a literati, Zhang Dai's instinctive request is that he does not pay anything, but has countless people who do not need money, food, or any supplies and equipment, and go to the death to fight the enemy, and will not gather afterwards to become arrogant generals, just like the military generals of the five dynasties are so domineering, and those military generals who lead the troops are also obedient, and they die bravely when they fight, but they give most of the credit to the above, and they are at fault for their own backs, even afterwards, they are willing to hand over the power to their civilian officials.

Of course, Zhang Dai may be able to communicate well with the founder of Kaishen Logistics, who is known as the first logistics department and minister of transportation of the Republic in later generations.

We all know that in the era of the late Ming Dynasty, there were only bastards who were reluctant and heroes who died, and that was a few embellishments.

But the arrival of the elders, no matter what kind of social change they bring, is bound to cause the dying throes of vested interests and all kinds of wailing and barking.

A person's habits experienced as a child can often be carried to death, just as future generations are likely to think that rice and vegetables are made in a factory called a supermarket, and without this understanding, it is difficult to make the right choice.

Just as the Indian student was angry that the Chinese woman did not automatically go to his superlative dormitory vacated by the Chinese students to strip naked and let him play with it, killing her and her boyfriend was naturally the most correct choice for the high-caste students, and people are also strange, he just killed a lowly Chinese, why did you arrest me?

Because in the perception of Indians, you are good to me, it is the command of the Indian God, then I can do anything to you, you are not allowed to resist, and to resist is to go against the will of God.

In the same way, for Zhang Dai, it is almost impossible to expect him to move forward desperately, his cognition since childhood, the so-called being an official and a literati, is not to do any formal things, Ouyang Xiu refused to control the river with a sentence of "This is not the law of treating Confucian ministers", the worries of the world are beautiful, and the responsibility for real things will not be borne by him.

What is a Confucian minister? In fact, as long as there is a mouth, the rest can be left unwanted. It can be said that water conservancy, military, governance, education, agriculture, physical exercise, outdoor sports, harmony in the world, all nations come to the court, admonish the king, and supervise hundreds of officials, but when they are asked to do practical things, it is to shake their heads!

This is not the way to treat Confucian ministers!

Zhang Dai and Hou Fangyu are naturally standard Confucian ministers, of course, Hou Fangyu has nothing at this time, naturally radical, Zhang Dai's Zhuangzi, there are still dozens of thin horses, all of which were bought before the age of ten, and they are still waiting to be raised to enjoy it, how is this the same?

For Zhang Dai, this is almost the wisest choice, in his opinion, desperate things, naturally those martial artists and barbarians are doing, he just needs to continue his elegant demeanor, in the quiet manor, reciting poems against each other, playing with the daughters bought by the farmer's family, and at the same time laughing at how ignorant and dirty poor people are so ignorant and illiterate.

Only ask for nothing in return, only speak according to their own interests, and do not think about whether their actions have violated the principles of heaven and human nature, anyway, there are saints to blame for everything, and the saints said that they should be respected and humbled, so since I am respectful, I can use countless means to bully and slaughter the common people, and even slaughter ordinary people It doesn't matter.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, China's population plummeted by two-thirds, but those Donglin gentlemen were still high-ranking officials, enjoying blessings, completely ignoring the fact that the ordinary people who were struggling to survive could no longer live.

Such a tragedy will not only happen in a certain place, but the entire land of Shenzhou will fall into a pool of blood, whether it is the farmers of the Central Plains or the hard-working fishermen of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, they will be betrayed and slaughtered by the civil officials.

Why should our nation suffer such a catastrophe? Why are our defenseless people being killed? Why should our civilization endure such a reversal?

Who is tolerating the adulterer, so that the tiger is in trouble? Who are the people who are betraying our country and pushing our people into misery?

Those sanctimonious Donglin gentlemen will naturally blame everything on thieves and destiny.

But Zhang Dai and Hou Fangyu are not fools, but in their cognition, the peasants should not be able to resist, they should not have any complaints, and let them exploit them, otherwise they will be Diao Min.

Just as the masters of the Republic of China who fled overseas in later generations all wrote their grievances and horrors in the most vicious words, those ignorant mud legs dared to treat them literati like this, it is simply a curse for 10,000 years.

However, as long as there is a minimum guarantee, Zhang Dai now just wants to return to Zhuangzi at home, close the road to foreign exchanges, and just want to let all the women in the class strip naked in the red-sleeved class formed by that family, and let him play with it, and don't want to get involved in these terrible things anymore.

"Virtuous nephew, you just leave quickly, this Jiangnan, there are your reward orders everywhere, although those soldiers from Wuchang have run away, but I am afraid that someone will spread the news, and greedy people are everywhere."

Hou Fangyu smiled: "I'm afraid that if I let my uncle go, you will be the first to betray me." ”

Zhang Dai hurriedly said: "How can this be so, I still have this bit of faith, besides, ......" Although he lacks adaptability, he still knows what he can't say in the following words, to be precise, as a scholar, mixed with a rebel like Hou Fangyu, although he himself can shout that he was held hostage, but who believes it?

That's the yellow mud in the crotch of the pants, it's not but is.

Hou Fangyu also figured out the joints, he Hou Fangyu can be said that everyone shouts at this time, but Zhang Dai still has everything, naturally there is the difference between being barefoot and wearing shoes.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the officialdom, anyone who has such a thing as human nature has been unable to survive, this Colosseum may have a vicious attitude towards the lower classes, but it is not friendly to each other, after all, the wealth of the world is counted, whether it is the Hui merchants or the Confucian lackeys raised in the Jin business circle, they are naturally not harmonious with each other.

In the game of betrayal and anti-betrayal, although there can be a little more warmth and affection of the literati, it is obviously a little more vicious than the straightforwardness of the big bosses.

The upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty, including the clans, nobles, landlords and bureaucrats from landlords, these vested interests used their power to continuously erode the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, even in the face of peasant uprisings and foreign invasions, they still did not consider the overall interests of the country at all, and would only continue to plunder unscrupulously, almost to the extent of psychological and physical perversion.

Their sins have overthrown the country, annihilated civilization, and made the people suffer.

And Zhang Dai and Hou Fangyu are such twisted people, they thought of the joints at the same time, now Hou Fangyu is ruined, it is almost difficult to stay in Jiangnan, not only the people in the imperial capital will not forgive him, but the literati in Nanjing City who have figured out what happened will not let go of Hou Fangyu, a guy who broke the rules.

What rules? For thousands of years, the literati have been tilting against each other, but they have rarely involved martial arts, and Hou Fangyu's approach is to introduce Zuo Mengeng, a warlord who succeeded his father and son, into the capital, and whether it is An Lushan or Zhao Kuangyin can use everyone's imagination.

If someone like Hou Fangyu is not killed, then who will be the next to open the city gate and lead the army into the city?

As for Zhang Dai, he has not been exposed at this time, at least he has not been involved, his best choice is to return to his own manor, continue to play with women, and stay out of the matter, but what he is most afraid of is that if Hou Fangyu is caught, he will casually say that it is also related to clinging to Zhang Dai, or simply say that Zhang Dai is his master and commander!

Of course, Zhang Dai can also find a way to make Hou Fangyu "commit suicide" in prison, but that would cost a lot of money, and there would be great sequelae, which is not what Zhang Dai likes.

Zhang Dai gritted his teeth and said: "Virtuous nephew, why don't you go to Guangdong to raise troops, I will sponsor you with a sum of money, the people in Jiangnan are weak, how can you use it." ”

Hou Fangyu said with a smile: "A sum of money wants to send me away, my uncle really thinks about it." ”

Zhang Dai said anxiously: "Then what do you want me to do, there are only a few hundred people in my Zhuangzi, all of them are for you, where can you lay?" ”

Hou Fangyu said loudly: "Okay, nephew, I won't trouble Uncle Shi anymore, let's get together and disperse, but before leaving, please ask Uncle Shi to help me with a few things." ”

Zhang Dai hurriedly said: "You say." ”

"My father's grave, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to pay respects, so I ask you to help send him back to his hometown, find a place that is dirty, don't let him have no whereabouts."

"Okay, my brother and I are also ......"

Hou Fangyu naturally ignored these and said: "You get me 100,000 taels of silver, I will go to Guangdong to find a way to recruit troops and buy horses, and then gather a million troops, hum." ”

Zhang Dai's heart was broken, he knew that Hou Fangyu had already begun to go crazy at this time, the person who had just died of his father, what sane thing did you say to him?

"Okay, I'll do my best to make it for you."

Zhang Dai was helpless, he didn't dare to go home, and found some rich people who knew him, claiming that if he borrowed cash, Hou Fangyu naturally couldn't take that much away, so what he gave Hou Fangyu was a boatload of silk and gold and silver, probably more than 10,000 taels of silver, of course, how much money can be sold depends on Hou Fangyu's ability.

Hou Fangyu naturally didn't understand the difference between cost price and sales price, Zhang Dai didn't cheat him, and the 10,000 taels he borrowed was also the property of Zhang Dai's family.

Although Hou Fangyu's mind has been distorted, he is not stupid, he knows the truth of advancing and retreating, and knows that Zhang Dai will sue himself directly if he forces it again, and he killed Zhang Dai just to vent his anger.

Mixed in the merchant ship, with his remaining two or three personal servants, bidding farewell to his father's anger, Hou Fangyu issued the most vicious and resentful curse in his heart, the people of this land actually treat their family so poorly, and they can't get preferential treatment for well-educated people, so wait for the future, when I come back with the army, you wait.

Hou Fangyu has a globe in his hand, and he bought it with the intention of knowing the enemy as much as possible, it turns out that the outside world is not small, and the foreign soldiers outside, the Japanese Japanese soldiers, or the red-haired soldiers in the south, and the Indian soldiers in the west, can all be borrowed! As long as he can ensure the wealth and dignity of his scholars, Hou Fangyu is willing to promise that the cities, wealth and beauties he has built will all belong to that country!

Thinking that in the future, those stinking and hairy soldiers rushed into the land of China to slaughter, he couldn't stop the flow of blood with excitement and cheers, he pointed to those words, and said slowly, "Indonesia...... India ......"

(End of chapter)