The 4*100 relay race finally fell into the hands of the team of the Naval Academy, and the team of Yenching University, which shined last year, only won a third place.

Of course, this also proves that the physical training intensity of the Army and Navy Officer Academy is not coping, and Chongzhen is satisfied with this ending. He didn't care who won the championship in the Army and Navy Military Academy, he only cared about the results of the training of the cadets in these two military academies, and now it seems that both military schools are doing a good job.

But the officials sitting in the stands obviously did not think so, and the officials of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office headed by Yu Zhigao were smiling, while the officials of the General Staff headed by Mao Yuanyi were mostly straight faces, and there was no joy at all.

After nearly two years of development, the Army Military Academy has completely become the core of the General Staff Department, and new members of the General Staff need to enter the Army Military Academy for training for a period of time, and the graduates of each military academy are also the core of the General Staff to control and reorganize the Ming army.

When Chongzhen established the Army Military Academy and gave a demonstration of the reorganization of the Beijing Battalion, the members of the newly formed General Staff immediately understood what the Army Military Academy was for. When the General Staff Headquarters was first established, everyone from Sun Chengzong to Mao Yuanyi and others thought that this was just a substitute for the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Although the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has the right to govern the army, under the joint efforts of the Ministry of War and the local military leaders, it has actually become a pension institution for supporting idlers. The governors of the five armies appointed by the imperial court, and the generals who manage the generals in peacetime can also rely on the authority of the imperial court and let the generals in those places obey their orders.

But let these governors lead the troops to the battle, if it were not for the governors who were promoted from the local powerful faction, they would not even recognize all the army officers under their command, so why should these soldiers obey orders on the battlefield? After all, the army of the Ming Dynasty can obey the orders of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, but will the enemy army listen?

Therefore, in the view of Sun Chengzong, Mao Yuanyi and others, if the emperor just wants to set up a new institution to replace the power of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, then it is actually just an institution that supports people, and the status quo of the Ming army's rampant and low combat effectiveness will not change.

However, after the establishment of the General Staff Headquarters, they used the Army Military Academy to absorb middle and low-ranking military attaches from various armies, and by the way, they installed their own lineages in each army, thus initially establishing the General Staff's effective control and contact with the various armies of the Ming Dynasty, Mao Yuanyi and others suddenly had a great change in their perception of the General Staff.

The establishment of the General Staff Headquarters not only gave Sun Chengzong and others a chance to recover, but more importantly, gave them a platform to give full play to their abilities. Without being restrained by the military department and local military leaders, it is obviously the dream of Sun Chengzong and others to carry out a thorough reform of the Ming army, so as to restore the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

It is precisely because of this that the General Staff cares far more about the Army Military Academy than Chongzhen himself. After all, the loyalty composed of personal relationships such as teachers, students, alumni, and classmates far exceeds the existing relationship between superiors and subordinates in the military and the connection between benefactors and retainers.

And Mao Yuanyi and other officials of the General Staff Department suddenly realized that their rewards were unusually rich after they had spent a lot of energy. In the past, they could only give orders to the commander of a certain army, and if they crossed the commander to give orders to junior officers, they would either be politely refused or ignored.

But when an army is installed as a graduate of the Army Officers' Academy, the General Staff can even issue orders directly down to the company level. Officers with the backing of the Army Military Academy are not afraid of the anger of the commander-in-chief, and even if the commander-in-chief wants to put on small shoes for them, they only need to send a letter and get help from their classmates or teachers.

If in the past, the Ming army was a private army model with the army as the general, then the army that has been reformed by the General Staff today shows a bit of the demeanor of the party army in Zhu Youzhen's view.

The General Staff had tasted the benefits of the Army Officer School, and naturally did not want other competitors to appear in the army. With the exception of Sun Chengzong, who had no desires, the officers of the other staff departments all agreed that the naval officer academy should also be placed under the jurisdiction of the General Staff.

However, this request was naturally rejected by Chongzhen, and before the navy management organization was formed, Zhu Youzhen obviously did not want the army to control the base camp for training naval officers, on the one hand, because of the balance of power in the army, and on the other hand, he did not want the navy to train a group of officers who could fight hand-to-hand at sea.

The Naval Academy was then transferred to the administration of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, not only because most of the officials of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office were from Fujian and Zhejiang, but also because after the Gyeonggi Governor's Office was formed, Chongzhen took back the power of the Governor's Office. Without the authorization of him, the emperor, the General Staff had no right to intervene in the affairs of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office.

Although Yu Zhigao is not good at commanding battles, he is very good at those things in the officialdom, not to mention that there is also a treacherous and cunning Ministry of Industry Secretary Wu Chunfu behind him to give advice. Yu Zhigao knew very well that because of his background as a sailor and the background of the southerners, if he wanted to stand out in the General Staff, there was basically no hope.

But if he wanted to bow down to a group of young officials of the General Staff, he was a little unconvinced. After all, he is not the general army of Fujian now, but the governor of the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Government, and he is a military minister who is deeply trusted by the emperor. Without the emperor's trust, how could he lead the entire army of the Gyeonggi Zuojin?

Yu Zhigao felt that he was naturally inferior to the emperor's master Sun Chengzong, but he was also half a point higher than Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Yuanyi. Sun Chengzong is now over 60 over 5, so who will the emperor appoint after him? Yu Zhigao felt that he still had some opportunities.

As long as a discerning person can see that the apex of today's military ministers is no longer the governor of the five armies, but the chief of the general staff. At present, the duties of the General Staff are to assist the emperor and the military department in managing the army on weekdays, to serve as the emperor and cabinet staff in wartime, and to form a wartime base camp to command the Ming army.

It seems that the General Staff is still under the Ministry of War, but in practice, the Ministry of War can no longer supervise the local armies through the military preparation roads in various places. The General Logistics Department under the General Staff Headquarters has completely taken over the power of the military preparation department, and the power of the military department to praise and paint pictures during combat has also been completely replaced by the power of the staff of the General Staff Headquarters.

Compared with the General Staff Headquarters' complete and detailed operational arrangements on detailed drawings or sand tables, the intrigues and clever plans of the officials of the Ministry of War are obviously no longer able to fool the cabinet and the important ministers in the court.

Moreover, as far as the household department is concerned, the officials of the military department who supervise the grain routes of the border army not only fail to play a supervisory role, but also become accomplices of those border troops who falsely report losses and personnel. If it was the Wanli period when the treasury was abundant, the household officials would also be happy to drift away, adding a few heads to their wives and concubines.

However, since the apocalypse, the life of household officials has become extremely difficult, and the local government has been difficult to collect taxes due to frequent disasters. Empty coffers have become the norm, and some discerning officials have realized that no amount of embezzlement may save their lives.

Cao Cao still knew that he wanted to cut off the grain officials to appease the army, and it was difficult to guarantee that the emperor would not throw out a few household officials to appease the anger of the people and border soldiers in the world. However, the corruption of the household department has formed a chain of interests, and these two officials cannot do it if they want to be alone.

Sure enough, after the new emperor came to power, he continued to adjust the household officials, and then continued to handle cases. The household officials who have been transferred from their original positions cannot cover up the corruption they have previously taken office. This also made the household officials for a period of time not only not happy with their high appointment, but very worried.

Household officials are already the central department with the largest shortage, and it is not only a difficult thing for the Jinshi who have studied the Four Books and the Five Classics to deal with the digital ledger, but also a position that these new Jinshi cannot make achievements. Therefore, the six central departments, that is, the household department Shangshu, are often promoted from the local level to be close to the people, after all, local officials deal with money and grain all day long, and they are more proficient in the affairs of the household department than these Beijing officials who are born as officials and ministers.

Under the year-and-a-half-long rectification of the household officials, some of the families of officials who had served as officials of the eighth or ninth generation in the household department were also removed from the household department, and their appearance finally took on a new look. At the same time, however, the power of the household department began to expand dramatically, which greatly reduced the dissatisfaction of the household officials. Therefore, the household department is the most supportive of the new policy implemented by Chongzhen, even surpassing Huang Liji and other ministers who presided over the new policy.

In the past, half of the Taicang silver in the household came from the salt tax, but since the beginning of the Chongzhen year, the share of commercial tax has begun to grow rapidly. However, what blushes most about household officials is the increase in customs tariffs.

Overseas trade taxes, which originally had a small share of Daming's tax revenue, were renamed customs duties, and Chongzhen had reached one-third of Taicang's income in one year. However, this huge income has nothing to do with the household department, and after the emperor set up the prime minister's yamen to manage customs affairs, the hope of the household department to regain the customs duties is even more slim.

Under such circumstances, the household department hopes that the naval officer school can play its due role, and in the process of establishing the Ming navy in the future, it can overwhelm and eliminate the pirate forces that were recruited by Shibazhi and other recruits, and create some conditions for the household department to take over the customs, which is also due preparation.

It was only with the support of the household officials that Yu Zhigao came up with the idea of competing for the chief of the General Staff. Therefore, any incident that can enhance the image of the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Government and suppress the General Staff will be taken seriously by him. For example, in front of the emperor today, the team of the Naval Academy defeated the Army Military Academy and won the championship of the relay race, which made him feel that he was one step closer to the throne of the commander-in-chief.

Mao Yuanyi and others were also very annoyed, not only because the players of the Army Military Academy did not defeat the players of the Navy Academy, but also because the players of the Army Military Academy did not lose in individual physical fitness and technology, but in the cooperation of the group.

After the reorganization of the new principal, the cadets of the Naval Officer School finally learned to unite. However, the cadets of the Army Military Academy obviously did not receive this education, and the cadets from the junior non-commissioned officers and the cadets from the generals' disciples clearly exposed in the competition, and the contradictions between them were greater than those of other teams competing with them.

Chongzhen obviously also saw this, he vigorously praised the management education of the Navy Military Academy, but did not say a word about the Army Military Academy, as the vice principal of the Army Military Academy, Mao Yuanyi was naturally gloomy, and made up his mind that he would rectify the atmosphere in the school after he went back.

After Zhu Youzhen finished commenting on the military attaches around him, he turned back to the Englishman Methwald who was standing on the side and said: "The competition is over, after I present the medals, you can go back to the city with me, I have something I want you to convey to the king of your country..."