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Chapter 800: Evening Autumn (Part 1)

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Ministry of War, Grand Secretary’s Valuation Room.

Silent with a faint smile, he looked at the two third-rank officials of similar age sitting at the lower head, the two new ministers of the Ministry of War, Tan Lun and Wu Dui.

Fortunately, Wu Dui's expression was a little excited. This time he was promoted to four levels in a row, and promoted from fifth grade to third grade, which made him unable to calm down for a long time.

"Both of you are my best friends," Chen Si smiled faintly and said, "I won't say much polite words." He said, "Your relationship with me is actually seen by the court. The hat of nepotism cannot be taken off... Brother Zili is okay. You are a third-rank official and you will be transferred back to the Ministry of War to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of War. No one can say anything..." He paused and looked at Wu Dui and said, "Brother Junze is different. In theory, you should leave the military preparations of a province, and then return to the Ministry to become the Minister of this Minister."

Wu Dui's expression became serious and nodded, "This is the right way."

"But I will be relieved only if you are the right assistant minister." Chen Si sighed softly, "I don't know if it's helping you or harming you."

"Where are you, sir?" Wu Dui said in a deep voice: "If you finish the errand, no one will gossip."

After hearing this, Tan Lun couldn't help but look at him and said to himself: "It seems that it is not just about relationships, but at least this unscrupulous heroism is far superior to Yu Zi."

"It seems that I'm worried," Chen Si touched his nose and smiled: "Okay, I'll tell you all the way. Wang Guoguang will basically not come back."

Wu Dui's expression did not change much this time, and he was not surprised that Wang Guoguang would not return to the Ministry of War. A joy flashed across Tan Lun's face. Silence could not make any irrelevant messes. In this way, it was probably that he would serve as his own soldier himself, and the opportunity to show his own strength finally came.

"Someone is already saying that I'm doing a sermon in the Ministry of War." Chen Si said lightly: "How many pairs of eyes are staring at me, waiting for us to make trouble, something goes wrong... Hehe, a few days ago, the military department has published a book, scolding Qi Yuanjing so hard that he was so angry that he was pointing at the mulberry and scolding locusts, haha..."

The two ministers knew that Lord Shen was annoyed by Qi Jiguang's involvement. The censors thought it was too dangerous to let a warrior take such great power. He also had to transfer the soldiers from the south to the north. If he had ambition, how should he control it?

There are more than one or two people who are worried. Chen Si has to argue with these people every day to block open and secret arrows from all directions.

"I will be cautious and try not to cause trouble for adults." The two promised.

"If I'm afraid to reduce trouble," Chen Si waved his hand and said, "Then why should I take over this mess?" He raised his eyebrows and said, "Now we, Prime Minister Rong Zheng, have great power, just to do something, why fear some people's words?" No matter what I think in my heart, I must never admit defeat to my subordinates.

Seeing the two of them listening in full, they said silently: "Do your hands to be very good, don't let people pick up bad things elsewhere. As long as you do these two things, I Shen promise you that as long as I am there, you will be there."

"Yes" For officials with great ambitions, it is really a blessing to meet such a boss in their lifetime.

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"Let's talk about the division of labor." I looked at Tan Lun silently and said, "Brother Zili, your task is to promote the nine sides to achieve strategic transformation."

Tan Lun nodded. He fully understood the meaning of silence. During the Battle of Wanquan last year, they studied the border defense strategy of the Ming Dynasty together, and finally believed that it should be taken in three steps. The first step was to achieve the transformation from current passive defense to active defense; the second step was to change from active defense to key counterattack; the third step was to achieve the comprehensive suppression of Mongolia. Each step was a detailed plan, and the entire plan was optimistically estimated to be ten to fifteen years.

"You're doing a good job in Xuanda," praised Chen Si: "Let Ma Fang and Yin Feng make that spring offensive, and promote it vigorously on the Nine-side."

"My subordinates dare not take credit. This is mainly the proposal of General Ma." Tan Lun said modestly: "'If the enemy wants to move, I will move first, and severely damage the enemy on the frontier." Ma Fang has been calling this sentence for twenty years, and I just borrow it."

"You don't have to be humble." Chen Si raised his hand and said, "Without your full support and coordinated, this battle would be so beautiful."

"My lord is too much." Although Tan Lun tried his best to be reserved, he still showed a hint of lust. Although he was the governor for less than a year, the improvement of the border defense of the Ming Dynasty began in his post.

It can be said that the 45th year of Jiajing was the beginning of Altan Khan's nightmare. Not only did this exciting victory shatter his invincible myth, but it was not because Tan Lun, Ma Fang and others became the "leader of the border commander's martial arts" in one fell swoop. The most important thing is that the Xuanda trio, Governor Tan Lun, General Ma Fang and Yin Feng, who were powerful, could finally mobilize sufficient resources with sufficient power and show their strength to realize their years of combat strategies. Previously, the Mongols were invaded by arbitrarily as if they were in an unmanned situation. The Ming border army was passively defending everywhere, but was beaten everywhere, and finally a reversal situation.

The so-called 'If the enemy wants to move, I will move first, and I will hurt the enemy hard on the frontier's frontier' is replaced by eight words - take the initiative and use violence to control violence. When the border generals of the northern border of the Ming Dynasty were in seclusion in front of the Gangu Huqi for a long time, they had become a chronic disease. Tan Lun and Ma Fang, but they did not hesitate to complete the choice of this strong man, and took the lead in storm of a violent wind in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty.

But 'I want to move the enemy, I move first' is easy to say, but it is too difficult to do. In order to take the initiative, I was silent many years ago and ordered the Jinyiwei to penetrate the Mongols. After understanding that this would be the foundation of my future destiny, Lu Gang and the Thirteenth Taibao would of course spare no effort to do this.

They ordered their subordinates to disguise themselves as fugitives who were abducted by the Mongolian army and take the opportunity to get into the undercover of the Mongolian army. They tried their best to instigate the traitors who Altan Khan trusted at any cost, and developed many "stand-out civilians" one after another. They took the opportunity to send me some tricks to get involved. It was these intelligence personnel carefully selected by the Jinyiwei to send various important information back continuously, and Tan Lun and Ma Fang and others were able to understand the activities of the Tatar tribe, especially the Altan Khan tribe.

General Xuan praised them later: "Although Hu Qi comes and goes quickly, he cannot escape the eyes and ears of the Jinyiwei." This is the best praise for them.

With a successful intelligence war, Tan Lun gradually let go and let Ma Fang boldly realize his "preemptive" strategy. Whenever the information of Altan Khan's invasion came, Ma Fang would send his "Ma Family Killer" to form dozens of 30 to 40 teams, scattered on the border between the two countries. When the Mongolians made a large invasion, the family soldiers immediately dispatched all the troops to carry out crazy retaliatory attacks on the rear, either robbing horses, burning grasslands, or attacking their supplies and food, attacking the main forces forward and backward, crushing the Mongol invasion.

In addition, Ma Fang and Yin Feng organized more main forces to launch large-scale punitive attacks on the Tatar tribes on the border. The two of them either supervised the battle or sent subordinates to attack the nests several times a year, burning and killing countless people, greatly weakening the most arrogant tribes in the border area. Ma Fang personally led the light cavalry to 600 miles behind the enemy, destroying more than 20 tribes of all sizes and sizes in succession. Finally, they climbed up to the ruins of Genghis Khan's Mausoleum, shining their troops and shocked the Mongolian tribes.

Of course, this kind of arrogance also comes at a price. If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. In June this year, Ma Fang and Yin Feng led the main force to attack Beishatan, intending to use the same trick again and severely attack Altan Khan's main force. However, Altan was scheming and cleverly bypassed the Ming army's military front, attacked Xuanfu and captured the important city Longqing. Afterwards, Xuan Da, from the Governor to the General, was impeached by the Censor for the crime of "sitting in the enemy".

If this crime was enough to make the two generals dismissed from office and go home, but under Shen Mo's treatment, they were only severely denounced by the court and demoted to one level. They thought of their past military achievements and made them "make meritorious service with guilt." Then they raided Hohhot last month, almost burning Altan's royal court. After the victory of this battle, they were all reinstated and highly praised.

It was precisely under this fierce attack of unity and strong attack that Altan occasionally had a victory, but he became more and more afraid of Ma Fang and others. Without his order, the Mongols moved their tribes far away from the border, rather than occupying less a ranch than being scared day and night. In their subconscious, they wanted to avoid these evil spirits... The most obvious example is that since this year, the focus of Tatars' invasion has gradually shifted to Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu and other regions, and regard the original "severely affected area" Xuanda as a fear. Since this year, there has been only that surprise attack. If Ma Fang and others were not careless, they would not have succeeded.

It was their victory on the battlefield that gave Shen Mo the confidence to speak for them and greatly reduced Shen Mo's resistance to military reform.

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After assigning Tan Lun's task, Shen Mo turned to Wu Dui and said, "Brother Junze is responsible for more and more complex, as important as Brother Zili." He paused and said, "People's energy is limited. You must learn to focus on the big and let small things go. The daily department affairs will be handed over to a few doctors. You can do your best to achieve the exam. You must focus on the construction of the Nine Arsenals. It turns out that craftsmen in small workshops should try to absorb them, but they must be trained before they can take up their posts, so that they can always remember what production standards are."

"There is also a martial arts competition. You must always urge it to put it into practice. If it is not done well, replace it." Shen Mo said earnestly: "A century-old plan is based on education, and the same is true for military affairs.

"Yes." Wu Dui nodded and responded.

The 'martial vocational competition' mentioned by Chen Si is an extremely important part of his series of reform plans. The purpose is to improve the quality and status of military generals. Of course, this cannot be called out, because in the eyes of civil officials, the so-called military generals are all rude and ruthless, reckless men who look down on these people at all.

For many years, he felt very uncomfortable when he looked at Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, whom he admired in his previous life, were cautious in flattering, humble and silent in front of those civil officials who were much lower than them. However, he knew that the reason for the low status of such generals cannot be attributed to the suppression of the civil servant group. In fact, all the ministers of the Ministry of War have racked their brains to find ways to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, but if one soldier is a bully, the general is a big problem.

Most of the military generals in this dynasty were hereditary. These natural generals were no longer as brave as their fathers, nor had the motivation to improve their studies. Although there were outstanding figures like Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, they could not change the fact that they were mostly useless people who were ignorant of their own and could not use their letters... Although they had to go to Beijing to compete before replacing their military positions, but they were really not qualified. If the Ministry of War strictly inspected, nine out of ten would not pass the test in their lifetime. As a last resort, they were just a story. Don’t look at each one returning with gold and silver, in fact, they were only useless to reduce the granary and slow down. It would be a terrible thing to be respected by such military officers.

However, the hereditary system of military positions has been in existence since its founding. It is not a powerful person, and it can be stopped just by stopping. If you want to improve the quality of military generals, you can only start by improving the quality of young people who have not yet inherited their official positions. After doing work in Tongxujie, he issued an order in the name of the emperor, and then the Ministry of War transferred the article, saying: "Please order all the governors and supervisors to supervise the Constitutional Ministers to attack the shepherd, who are over fifteen years old and have the qualifications to create, and send them to school as supporting them. If you encounter attacks, you will be sent to the school as a supporting staff. Those who should be compared with the age of twenty years and should be compared with the scholars, and the scholars will be transferred to the tutors and pressed. Those who are skilled in the archery and horses are the best; those who are familiar with the archery and horses are the second grade; those who are not familiar with the archery and horses are the lowest grade. Those who are not familiar with the archery and horses are the lowest grade. Those who are not familiar with the archery and horses are the lowest grade. Those who are not qualified for the archery and horses are the lowest grade. Those who are not qualified for the archery and horses are the lowest grade. Those who are not qualified for the archery and do not choose their children to take office in the second year. Those who fail the archery and then apply for the archery and then apply for the rank of the second year. Those who fail the archery and do not win the rank of the ranks will be paid half of the salary according to the country's laws. Those who fail the archery and do not win the ranks of the army.'

This is the most realistic way that can be thought of under the current conditions, and can take into account all parties. First of all, for the army, middle-level officers and above can be both civil and military, and know strategies; lower-level officers are also skilled in bows and horses, which naturally guarantee the quality of officers.

Secondly, for the court, there has not changed any existing system, but only requires the following to improve the quality of the candidates. Of course, no one will object to such a good thing that stands and speaks without a back pain.

Third, this is also a great blessing for military generals. You should know that most military generals can only maintain food and clothing and allow their children to go to school and study, and only think about it. Now the court gives this opportunity to make children become successful, and parents are of course willing... As for their sons who fail three times, they will not deprive their family of qualifications for their posts. They just have to change another child. In this way, except for the son who is the first-ranked son, the whole family is welcome, so it is not a problem.

Finally, for poor provinces, funding is a problem, but the Ministry of War will allocate some special funds, which will even fully bear the provinces with the highest grades; and will include such achievements in the political achievements of the governors and governors. Therefore, there is no big problem.

Zhang Juzheng commented: "According to this method, the most stringent and most forgiving of military vocational assessment, and if you don't abandon it for a long time, you will think about doing your best to help solve the funding problems of each province." He fully supported this strategy and generously expressed that he would do his best to help solve the funding problems in various provinces.

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"A lot of things," after assigning the task, Chen Si smiled bitterly: "There are too many things to do. If you advance at the same time, there will be no manpower." As he said, he smiled at the two of them, "Gaoge said back then that the situation in the Ministry of War was special. In his opinion, two ministers and four ministers were enough. Look, this is true." In fact, Chen Si and Gao Gong discussed very seriously that the matter of adding officials to the Ministry of War was very necessary, but it was unrealistic before taking power.

"We are not afraid of being tired." Tan Lun smiled and said, "I'm afraid of messing up my errands."

"It's good to concentrate on doing things, and leave it to me to consider the consequences," Chen Si chuckled and said, "I won't be so stressed if I win the battle."

"This..." Tan Lun smiled bitterly and said, "I can't hurry. With my Ming army, I can't fight without a few years of preparation." He paused and whispered, "Warning war is not just our Ministry of War."

"Then I'll give you a brief explanation." Silently said: "Zhang Taiyue has promised me that he will give him one year to organize his finances, turn losses into profits in two years, and have money to fight a local battle in the third year."

"What's next?" Tan Lun's eyes lit up immediately.

"Who can tell the next thing accurately?" said silently: "But after three years, this strategy has been decided, you just need to implement it."

"Yes" Seeing the adults serving tea and seeing off the guests, Tan Lun stood up and said goodbye, and Wu Dui also stood up.

Silently sent them to the courtyard, looking at the chrysanthemums in the garden, and a sentence suddenly popped up in my mind, "Wait until autumn comes, September 8th... The whole city is full of golden armor." I couldn't help but chill and quickly throw this absurd idea out.

I returned to the house and sat down, breathed a sigh of relief, and the rectification of the Ministry of War was a successful end. The final work was to summarize and write it into a memorial and hand it over, which was a perfect end.

After spending a morning, Chen Si wrote the gains and losses of this rectification into a three thousand-word memorial, but the title was not written at the beginning. Because he, the Grand Secretary who has recently called the wind and rain, is actually an assistant... And the Prime Minister who was appointed as the Duke of Cheng Guo. Although he has never shown up, Chen Si cannot even deprive him of his right to sign?

I wanted to send it in the form of a public letter, but then I thought, don’t be too arrogant. No matter how you are, you are a lord, so let’s go there.

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