What happened to Bacon was not complicated in the eyes of Ying Ming, who was promoted to the small flag officer of the Beiyang Cavalry.

Under normal circumstances, Ying Ming, as a small flag officer, would not know anything, and if he did not follow a good commander, even if the soldiers below 100 households set foot on the battlefield, it is normal not to know who the enemy is.

But in the Oriental Military Mansion, it is different, Chen Mu has a propaganda officer.

This system, independent of officers and soldiers, changed the messaging within the troops, and the preacher in each small flag was not just a third officer, they were also Chen Mu's mouthpiece in the army — ensuring that every soldier knew who to fight for and why, and more.

Only know what the military government yamen thinks they should know.

In the past, Qianhu was a hurdle, and this position went up, basically before the war started, they already knew who to fight against, and some people knew how to fight; And down this position, most of the officers knew nothing about the war, and were often assigned before the war had already begun.

Further down, there are all kinds of situations, just take the past Qingcheng Thousand Households as an example, as a grassroots officer Bai Yuanjie, because the family is deeply rooted in Qingcheng, so he knows the news one step ahead of other hundred households, Chen Mu is highly valued by him, knows more than other small flags, and is basically equivalent to the general flag.

But Chen Mu is a combat unit, not a combat individual, and the individual is Shao Tingda, Fu Yuan, Shi Qi and others during the Chen Xiaoqi period.

If Bai Yuanjie knew 20 percent about the situation of the war, then Chen Mu might be 5 percent, or even one or two percent, depending on Bai Baihu's mood and thoughts.

Then as a combat individual, that is, what the flag army knows, is one percent to one thousandth, and it is possible that they do not know anything.

And that number may contain what they should know or what they shouldn't.

Sometimes it is a good thing for the flag army to know some news, which improves the combat effectiveness; And there are times when there are things that everyone knows that are not good for war.

What's more, there are more than 100 officers in a thousand households under the old system, each of whom has different personalities, choices, actions, likes and dislikes, and there are many people who talk about it, and it is possible not to say what should be said, to say nonsense that should not be said, to say that subordinates are blind to hear, and to spread blindly after listening to it.

In the Oriental Military Administration, what the officers knew and what the Flag Army knew were respectively issued by the two systems of 'the military government yamen to the chief military officer of each department, the chief military officer to the commander, and the commander to the thousand households', and 'the military government yamen to the chief officer of the propaganda department, the chief propaganda officer to the guard propaganda officer, and the guard propaganda officer to the thousands of households.

According to military law, they could not leak military information to subordinate officers, and the pre-war mobilization, interpretation of intelligence, morale boosting, and incitement of the Qianhu Department were the responsibility of the Qianhu propaganda officer, and after the communication with the Qianhu was correct, the subordinate propaganda informed each sergeant.

Under the restrictions of the times, the possibility of spreading rumors in the military should be minimized, and the caliber should be ...... It also unifies the mind.

The most obvious example of this system applied to Ying Ming, a small cavalry flag officer, is that on the third day after Shi Xiaolou returned to Changsheng, the cavalry Qianhu stationed in Changsheng ordered to train a rapid march, and within half an hour of receiving the order, the six cavalry hundreds, two cavalry workers, and one cavalry artillery hundred, gathered the banner troops scattered around Changsheng to perform different tasks and training, and entered the combat state, and marched to the port of Wee on the east coast of New Spain with their marching baggage.

They were accompanied by another thousand infantry households and one artillery thousand households, and the destination was Weigang.

In addition, several units were transferred to the north and south, and the entire Changsheng entered a large-scale military training.

They advanced eastward at a rapid march of 320 miles in three days, and during the break between the marches, the propagandist under the small banner of the cavalry roughly informed the banner army of what Shi Xiaolou had seen and heard in the negotiations in England.

The central idea is that the shame is great, and Elizabeth of England harbors evil intentions; Next, they have to change their previous slightly lax state and train hard to deal with a possible war.

It was a long way to Weigang, but it only took them eight days to arrive, and Ying Ming felt that he was about to be distracted by the horse's back, and he had no chance to think.

But there is always someone who can.

On the way, they summarized the questions of the flag army that still had the strength to think, and each of them convened hundreds of households to preach, and answered all the questions one by one by the small flag preaching, and answered the questions for the flag army on the way after the break.

Ying Ming held back a question: "Yingyi came to Changsheng to ask for trade, but the marshal refused; The marshal sent someone to England to trade, and Yingyi also refused, which is not a harbor of evil, right? ”

Obviously, the same question was asked before, and the preacher was well prepared and replied: "If this is the case, it will not be counted, but the Yi people are not the only one, the conditions put forward by the marshal are exactly the same as their request to us, except that the positions of the two countries are reversed, and the Yi people want us to open a fu, take care of their merchants, and so on; The marshal asked them to open a fu, take care of the Ming merchants, and so on. ”

"Their refusal was not in retaliation for the refusal of the marshal, but in his parliament, which was similar to the court, and they finally agreed that it was harmful to them, so they refused; They had previously submitted this kind of harmful proposal to the Ming Dynasty, which was naturally harboring evil intentions. ”

Ying Ming took this answer all the way back to Changsheng, holding his ass and releasing the bacon who climbed the wall from the cell.

At that time, he thought that Bacon might die.

At this juncture when the Oriental military government was preparing for war, he was the only one in the whole of Asia who came from England, what did it mean?

Shi Xiaolou dismissed him when he came back from Europe is already very telling, in the past he was an investment in Shi Xiaolou, but now he is useless to Shi Xiaolou.

Ying Ming felt that he was not as smart as Shi Xiaolou, and he would not be more well-informed than Shi Xiaolou and closer to the commander of the Oriental Military Government who had the right to start a war.

started a war, under Shi Xiaolou's reaction...... It's almost a certainty.

The preachers did not make any unnecessary incitement, and the banner army had already understood that if there was a war, it would be a war for the purpose of punishment, and punish their bad intentions.

Ying Ming only felt a little ridiculous, Drake and Bacon came over, and they were very badly beaten.

I didn't agree with your request, and made the same request to you, and you refused, saying that the request was bad - this way of thinking about the problem is stupid.

Not to mention that this kind of negotiation is ironclad and unequal, even if it is equal.

Ask Spain, do you dare to talk about equality with the Ming Dynasty?

But Ying Ming didn't have time to think about these issues anymore.

Soon, the Oriental Military Government distributed a batch of woolen winter clothing and military uniforms made last year to his direct command of Qianhu, with less than 500 sets, but all members of the cavalry Baihu Division to which Ying Ming belonged.

Immediately after that, the news reached his ears from the mouth of the preacher that Mr. Tsuneyoshi, the captain of the fleet that had set out from Panama last year, had arrived on the east coast of Panama, and when he learned of the news, the restoration army of King Alan of the Ming Dynasty had already marched towards the port of Wei.

Immediately after that, their dispatch was issued—the vanguard army of four hundred households was stationed in Weigang with the Iran Restoration Army, ready to board the ship.