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In this era, Chen Wen was always trying his best to eliminate feudalization in the army, because he knew very well that if the feudal army was also fighting, he would not be able to defeat those long-standing generals in such a situation where the enemy and us were disparate, let alone other things.
However, in this era, feudalization itself is the general environment, and his efforts are just a traveler staggering in the storm. Any mistake in a journey may be an endless ending.
After closing his eyes and thinking for a long time, Chen Wen called Chen Fugui, who had been promoted to captain of his personal soldiers after suppressing the rebellion, and asked the rough man who was as muscular as a human-shaped road roller: "I remember you joined the army in Dalan Mountain to want to win his wife and children, but that's the case?"
Hearing this, Chen Fugui didn't know why Chen Wen asked this, but he didn't think too much. Then he smiled foolishly and agreed with Chen Wen's memory.
"You go down first."
Looking at Chen Fugui's back, Chen Wen knew very well that the development momentum of the Ming army in Zhejiang is very strong and is no longer the same as in the past. You Dao is to think about having enough food. Although it is not a good idea to have a wife and a child, you will naturally desire a better future after seeing hope. Herald military post is an example.
The generous rewards of military merits, whether it is silver or military merits, are the fundamental methods used by Chen Wen to improve the treatment of soldiers and achieve the fundamental purpose of improving combat effectiveness. However, hereditary military positions were the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty and the system set by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. He and his subordinates all under the banner of the Ming army in Zhejiang. These ancestral systems will inevitably affect the soldiers in the army, which is normal.
Yu Shizhong was just the first to jump out because he was from a hereditary military family, and he also had a son studying at the Zhejiang martial arts school. It may not take long to enter the army to serve. In the deep love of licking, he naturally had to fight for more benefits for his son.
This is selfishness, but it is also selfishness that serves the public spirit under the public spirit.
Everyone is a separate individual, and it is impossible to have selfishness. To a greater or lesser extent, as long as it is not harmful to the public because of personal gain. After all, there is no fish man who is too clear to observe it, and there is no disciple. Yu Shizhong is willing to tell the inside story of the Cao Conglong Rebellion. In fact, Chen Wen is already reminding him that at least this problem is much stronger than the Yongli court or the Qing Dynasty who kidnapped more officers from him with hereditary official positions. But the key point of this problem is that this is also a feudal counterattack!
I am accustomed to all this and strive to suffocate the Qing Dynasty before the feudalization problem has had a bad impact. In the future, "When I die, don't care about the floods?"
Or should we continue to move on the road to eliminating feudalization, in case the wave of feudalization has been torn apart in this matter, leading to a chain reaction, and causing previous efforts to be wasted?
After thinking about how to act, Chen Wen already had a vague plan in his mind, but it still took time to weigh it, and he would not be able to make a decision for at least a while.
That night, while Chen Wen was still weighing the pros and cons, the envoys of the imperial edicts in the inn and the servants of Zheng Chenggong's envoys had already begun to pack their bags and make final preparations for the journey of returning home tomorrow.
Although the New Year is about to begin and it is not appropriate to go on the road, the mission of the Imperial Envoy has been completed, and I have also had some basic understanding of the Ming army in Zhejiang these days in Jinhua, especially the army that won the battles and won a lot of victory left a very deep impression on the group. As Sun Kewang's confidant, he naturally had to return to Guiyang Qinwang's palace to report everything to Sun Kewang. Zheng Chenggong's envoy was actually just to protect the Imperial Envoy and send congratulations on his behalf. Now that the Imperial Envoy is going back, they naturally cannot stay for the New Year. Moreover, there is a crucial thing in Zheng Qi that needs to return to Fujian to report to Zheng Chenggong.
In fact, using this period of return, not only did they have some basic understanding of the Ming army in Zhejiang, but Chen Wen also gained some preliminary understanding of the situation of Zheng Chenggong and the Ming army in the southwest through various methods.
When Zheng Qi set out, Zheng Chenggong's army had already sent troops to Quanzhou. The previous capture of Zhangzhou was a great replenishment for Zheng Chenggong, and Quanzhou was his second goal to try to roll the snowball. The Zheng family navy crossed the Fujian Sea, and the tolls in the Taiwan Strait were Zheng Chenggong's biggest source of income. Now that Zhangzhou has Zhangzhou, both the supply of maritime trade and the food and grass of the army will be improved to a certain extent. Even if he is not self-sufficient, he can always further strengthen this army.
In addition, Chen Wen, the Zheng family's vine armored soldier, also gained some understanding. In addition to Zhang Jun's report, there are some of the reports that Zheng Qi revealed to show the strength of the Zheng family.
Since Zheng Chenggong started his army, although his territory has been large, his territory can only occupy the islands along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong with the absolute advantage of the navy. Those islands have limited production, especially the food that is crucial to agricultural society. Zheng Chenggong can only continuously invest the silver obtained from tolls, sea trade and other methods in foreign trade to obtain more strategic resources to support his army. However, in this way, iron armored products that are difficult to purchase immediately became Zheng Chenggong's weakness, and the raw materials obtained will be used to process weapons to the greatest extent, so he can only settle for the armor and use rattan armor instead.
Chen Wen was not interested in Zheng Chenggong's rattan armor at all. Although his Zhejiang Ming army was also facing the dilemma of insufficient armor, it was not necessary to spend more manpower to make rattan armor. It was impossible for mediocre infantry to wear armor, and not to approve armor if they were not hand-to-hand infantry. More importantly, Chen Wen was still in the water conservancy workshop to reach a new high for his production capacity, so he naturally lost interest in hand-made rattan armor.
In Chen Wen's view, Zheng Chenggong's vine armored soldiers are not so much a substitute for too few armors, but rather a new tactic. Using three people as a group of coordinated attacks and defenses to achieve more and less on the local battlefield. Although this concept is still a bit far from Qi Jiguang's idea of long and short soldiers in the long and short army of the mandarin duck formation, it has begun to show signs of breaking the solidified thinking of emphasizing personal martial arts.
However, since Chen Wen has decided to continue along the path that Qi Jiguang has not finished, Zheng Chenggong's ideas can only be used for reference. However, compared to his vine armored soldiers, Chen Wen is more like seeing the master of the country in person, not just to see the true identity of this national hero with his own eyes, rather than still being able to outline his image according to the statue of Gulangyu in his mind.
Compared with Zheng Chenggong, who received great supplements this year, the news from the Ming army in the Southwest still shocked Chen Wen, who was already mentally prepared.
Compared with the fire-like offensive of the Ming army in the Southwest, Chen Wen did not have much effort to learn some inside information from the envoy of the Imperial Execution.
Chen Wen knew very well that the Emperor Yongli lived in Anlong Mansion. According to his memory, Yongli's fate of being under house arrest should last for several years. Sun Kewang, the lord of the court, was in charge of all major affairs. After handling major events, he would not inform small matters at all. This was what Chen Wen had known before. But he did not expect that the envoy of the imperial edict would dare to blatantly call the King of Qin in front of him, and to publicize how strong Sun Kewang's strength was. Even Liu Wenxiu and Li Dingguo were described as Sun Kewang's ministers rather than brothers of different surnames. However, he lacked respect for Yongli's monarch and ministers. Even Chen Wen did not ask him, he would not mention the matter of the emperor's emperor.
Chen Wen had some understanding of what Sun Kewang did in history, but he did not expect that this was Zhejiang, and Sun Kewang's envoy could have been able to upset Sun and suppress Zhu like this. It seemed that all this was destined, which made Chen Wen begin to doubt the feasibility of his previous magnificent plan.
However, compared to Chen Wen's lack of confidence in the plan, one of the people in the Xuanying mission obviously had more confidence in him.
"... The King of Xining used troops like a god, and was loyal and righteous, and was actually a figure who could be a good person in the imperial city. In addition, the Duke of Zhang State was rigorous and had strong potential. The navy was rampant in the Fujian Sea and the captives could not be controlled. The Marquis of Anyuan was strict in the army and repeatedly defeated the enemy troops. His troops trained troops with Qi Shaobao to complete the law, as if the Qi family army reappeared in Zhejiang. Now I want to stay in Zhejiang, but there is nothing else. All the generals in the world exploited the people to expand their troops to raise their troops, but Anyuan Hou could reduce the taxes of local disasters that suffered from war. It is rare for him to save the people."
Chapter completed!