After sending Yuan Keli away, Zhu Youzhen did not go to the Huitong Pavilion to meet the merchant representatives as he said, but walked to the conference room on the other side of the Wuying Palace.

Sun Chengzong, Lu Shanji, You Shiwei and others are already sitting here waiting for Chongzhen's arrival, and today is a regular meeting of the General Staff every 3 days.

After Chongzhen sat down, he began to listen to the intelligence reports of these staff officers on the Army and Navy Academy, the Beijing Battalion, the New Army, the Tianjin Navy Division, the Tianjin Shipyard, and other units.

Listening to these reports, he quickly made a decision, "... I agree with the General Staff Headquarters' opinion on the redundant personnel of the reorganization of the Beijing camp, and we can start to transport these personnel to the Taiwan region as an armed force for opening up Taiwan.

In addition, I suggested that some criminal offenders should also be added to fill the manpower for the development of Taiwan. In addition, there are a certain number of doctors to study the common diseases that have occurred after the migration to Taiwan, so as to prepare for the relocation of ordinary people to Taiwan in the future.

… The number of the first training battalion has reached 2,100 people, and I thought that some personnel could be transferred to form the second training battalion, and several guard posts near Gyeonggi have now completed the restructuring, and the service personnel will soon be gathered in Beijing, and it is imperative to expand the establishment of the new army.

The General Staff Headquarters has made good contacts with the logistics office of the battalion and made logistical arrangements for the new recruits to enter the battalion. In addition, the spring plowing season is about to begin, and the General Staff Headquarters can issue a document to all health centers in Gyeonggi to suspend the conscription work, urge all health centers to do a good job in spring ploughing, and minimize the phenomenon of land abandonment..."

Most of the trivial affairs have been undertaken by the General Staff, but in front of Chongzhen, the various matters that need to be decided are still very amazing.

At noon that day, when Wang Chengen couldn't help but urge the emperor to eat, Chongzhen realized that he had only eliminated more than half of the documents in one morning. He simply ordered Wang Chengen to bring some simple food over and dine with everyone to save time and deal with the rest of the affairs.

During lunch with the staff officers, Zhu Youzhen's casual Sun Chengzong said: "Mr. Sun, I plan to establish a Southwest Army Military Academy in Chengdu, who do you think can be the principal of this school?" ”

Sun Chengzong put down his chopsticks and replied with some hesitation: "The Army Military Academy in Beijing has only been established for a long time, and the ministers have not yet seen what kind of impact this school will have on the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Sichuan is closed on all sides, and the roads connecting the provinces outside Sichuan are difficult to travel, and the influence of the imperial court on Sichuan has always been limited. If a strong soldier is trained here, I am afraid it will not be a blessing for the country. A rebellion of luxury has already drained the energy of the southwestern provinces, and if another uncontrolled province appears, I am afraid that the southern provinces will be greatly affected. ”

After Zhu Youzhen hesitated for a moment, he ignored Sun Chengzong's warning and said: "If there is no army in the southwest that is enough to deter the local people, then the Lu'an Rebellion will never be the end of the Tusi Rebellion.

And in the southwest, there are not only internal Tusi tribes, but also enemies outside the country. Guangxi and Yunnan face Annan, Yunnan opposite Myanmar, Guizhou and Sichuan opposite Tibet.

If the power of our Han people declines in these areas, then there may not be any internal and external collusion to invade the southwestern provinces.

Rather than waiting to make amends, it is better to plan ahead. If these extraterritorial nationalities grow bigger, will the southwestern provinces still be the land of China? Strengthen the power of the Han people in the southwestern provinces, even if there are some careerists among them, the land there is still Han soil after all.

Besides, it's impossible for the army officer school to teach all traitors and rebels, right? I wonder if Mr. Sun is too pessimistic. ”

Seeing that Sun Chengzong was silent, Lu Shanji, who was sitting next to him, understood that there were some things that Inspector Sun did not say to the emperor directly, so he hesitated.

Lu Shanji immediately spoke out to relieve Sun Chengzong's siege, and explained to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the southwestern provinces are all miasma lands, with high mountains and dense forests, inconvenient transportation, and complex population composition.

For example, in Burma, Annam, and Tibet, the people of these places are not as large as the population of the counties in the southeast of our country. Even if they made any changes, the reckless jungles in the southwest were enough to exhaust their troops.

And the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, one is in the southeast, and the other is in the Central Plains. In particular, the area north of the Yangtze River is a land of flat rivers. Since ancient times, if China is in trouble, it will come from the north, and once the northern cavalry breaks through the pass, it will be difficult for the north of the Yangtze River to hinder the enemy cavalry from moving south.

Today, although our Ming Dynasty is in internal and external difficulties, there are priorities, and today's focus is still on the defense of the north. Nowadays, the western captives outside the fortress are declining, and the eastern captives are rising, so the northern fortress defense should be the first priority over the northeast.

After the fall of Liaodong, the only obstacle to the southward movement of the eastern captives was Shanhaiguan. The Shanhaiguan to Shenjing is only a 9-day trip, and if Shenjing is threatened by the captives, the world will inevitably be shaken.

Today's situation in the Ming Dynasty is that Shanhaiguan guards Shenjing, Shenjing guards the Central Plains, and the Central Plains guards the southeast. Therefore, if we want to save the situation, we must first consolidate the fundamentals, and the fundamentals will be multiplied.

In Yichen's view, the defense of the north is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and the rebellion of the Tusi in the southwest is only a temporary damage to the branches and leaves.

As long as the Liaodong rebellion is quelled and the northern border is calmed down, the Tusi rebellion in the southwest is nothing more than a plague of scabies, which can be quelled by raising your hands.

Therefore, the minister thought that today's Ming Dynasty should focus all its energy on the north, and that the southwest only needs to send a minister to lead the southwest guards, and should no longer divide the teachers of the Beijing Army Military Academy, which has just improved..."

Although Lu Shanji said it righteously, Zhu Youzhen didn't think it was what he was saying.

Before the establishment of the Army Military Academy, there were three sources of military attachés in the Ming Dynasty, including the disciples of the Ming Dynasty, the martial arts scholars, and the civilian officials.

It seems that this martial arts jinshi should be the most capable and become the mainstay of the army, after all, they are tested in the field with real swords and guns.

But in fact, this is not the case, the famous generals and marshals in the Ming army who can really command the army are first of all civilian officials who are transferred to military positions, and secondly, the children of generals. Jinshi who was really born in martial arts, but there are few famous generals who can stand alone.

is also based on the imperial examination, why are the results of the selection of Wen Jinshi and Wu Jinshi so different.

On the one hand, whether it is literature or martial arts, it needs to be inherited, and no matter how outstanding a genius is, it also needs countless basic training to give full play to his talents.

As a civil official who took the Chinese entrance examination, he has proved that his IQ is more than half of the people. In addition, the basic inductive and summarizing learning methods that we already have, and then by reading various military classics and historical documents, we can form our own theories on the use of troops.

Then he used his army to test this theory, as long as he paid enough human lives, he naturally learned how to command the battle.

And the children of the generals, who have been under the orders of their elders since childhood, are no strangers to the establishment of the army. And the mistakes made by the elders in the march and the experience they have accumulated will also be instilled in their minds little by little.

Coupled with the tips of the family members who have been on the battlefield around him, as long as he is not a particularly stupid person, he still has basic military command ability.

Only these martial artists who were born in martial arts have no guidance from people who are familiar with the military formation in the army, and because most of their knowledge is only rough and simple, they cannot read military regulations on their own and learn from the experience of their predecessors, so they have limited knowledge of military knowledge, and they are rarely able to take on the responsibility in this regard.

On the other hand, the civil officials are responsible for the Kauvin Jinshi, and the civil officials are also responsible for relying on the Wu Jinshi. In this era, there are only a few civilian officials who are interested in military affairs, and most of them still like poetry and songs.

If such civil officials are allowed to select martial artists, there will inevitably be the content of the imperial examination that is close to the ability of hand-to-hand combat, rather than the content of the imperial examination that focuses on military command.

In this way, the martial arts examination became a mere formality and became a sports competition. Coupled with the prejudice of the court's officials against the military attaché, the court does not attach great importance to the martial arts examination, so the martial arts examination is undoubtedly more common than the Wenjinshi imperial examination.

Therefore, the talents selected by the military examination are completely incompetent for the requirements of army commanders, let alone the importance of the literary examination.

When Chongzhen suggested to Sun Chengzong and others that an army officer school be established, including Sun Chengzong, he only regarded this military academy as an expanded martial arts, and did not attach much importance to this military academy.

However, with the establishment of the military academy, the establishment of various courses, and the continuous expansion of teaching content, they finally realized that the army officer military academy is completely different from the previous Ming martial arts.

If they were asked to describe what the Army Military Academy was, their first reaction would be that it was a college, and the second reaction would be that it was a school that was far more open and inclusive than all the academies.

Only then did Sun Chengzong and others realize that Chongzhen did not want to establish a school to train senior generals, but to divide the function of commanding the army into separate parts, and constantly deepen it, and finally form a command system.

In this chain of command, everyone needs to be held accountable, and everyone can be replaced at any time without having too much impact on the effectiveness of the army.

Although such a command system restricts the free play of certain generals, it ensures the absolute command of the General Staff over the army. There will be no situation where after a general leaves, the army will quickly decay, or it will not be able to command it.

Theoretically speaking, this is exactly the kind of military management system that civilian officials dream of, and it will be difficult for civilian officials to repeat the nightmare of civil officials when they rely on the army to become bigger, and they begin to ignore the orders of the imperial court.