Author: West Lake in the Rain

"Civil coup?" Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly.

Civil uprisings are not unfamiliar. They have been recorded countless times in the annals of history. Even in some poor and remote areas, two or three civil uprisings occur every year. However, in Jiangnan,

Jiang Xinghuo vaguely felt that the historical line seemed to have shifted slightly under his influence.

Because there were indeed floods in the summer and April of the first year of Yongle, but there was no news of civil unrest.

How did he know?

Of course Jiang Xinghuo has not read "Records of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty" seriously, but "The Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty: Flood Control in Jiangnan" is a simulation test of classical Chinese reading in the college entrance examination.

"In the summer and April of the first year of Yongle, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, was ordered to control floods in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, Jiaxing, Su, and Song prefectures were suffering from frequent floods. They repeatedly issued orders but failed to supervise the administration, so this order was given."

In the final analysis, strictly speaking, the flood incident has something to do with Jiang Xinghuo's prayer for rain, but it has little to do with it.

The premise of artificial rainfall is that there are already conditions for rain. Regardless of whether he prays for rain or not, this heavy rain that lasts for several days or even more than ten days in Jiangnan will happen, but it will happen in March or April.

The question of the month.

Emperor Yongle had been reminded beforehand to make preparations, such as dredging rivers and mobilizing disaster relief food. Jiang Xinghuo did everything that could be done at the moment.

Furthermore, it can be said that the root cause of floods in various prefectures south of the Yangtze River is not even rain.

The reason lies in the serious neglect of the maintenance of water conservancy projects and the extreme lack of attention to river dredging by the civil servant group that was briefly in power since Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne.

Naturally, the water conservancy project is because nothing will happen if it is left alone for a year or two. The reason why river dredging is not taken seriously by the Jiangnan gentry is not because they are really short-sighted to the extreme. River dredging is beneficial to their own families.

Transportation.

The crux of the problem is that the tides along the coast of eastern Zhejiang, such as the famous first-line tide, are very powerful. Every time the rivers entering the sea are dredged, they will soon be pushed back by the tides.

Over and over again, money is spent in vain, but no results are seen. It is like spending money to reclaim the sea, and no one is willing to do it.

However, without dredging the tributary rivers that enter the sea, the result is that when floods occur, the floodwaters cannot be discharged into the sea, causing the paddy fields to become a swamp.

But I'm afraid it's useless to say this. It's just Jiang Xinghuo thinking in his heart.

Jiangnan gentry may not know how to arrange themselves, and the cause and effect will always be attributed to Jiang Xinghuo.

——Nanjing prays for rain, but Jiangnan suffers disaster.

Now that things have come to this, someone has to clean up the mess.

Jiang Xinghuo gently breathed in the moist water vapor and suppressed the fluctuations in his heart: "I understand. I will deal with the matter here for a while, and then I will rush to the palace with you."

Zheng He left as he was told, and Wang Bin asked tentatively: "Master National Preceptor?"

"Go to the military academy first and finish the matters at hand."

Everything is chaotic, but there are priorities. If you want to go to Jiangnan to provide disaster relief, then you have to put aside the matters at the military academy. But now is the critical period for the Ming Army's military reform pilot. As the vice-principal, you can't directly

Put down your picks, and before leaving, you should explain what you have to do and arrange it.

Surrounded by the guard soldiers, Jiang Xinghuo walked slowly down the mountain from Yanzijitou.

The altitude of Yanzijitou is only a few dozen meters. To be precise, it is thirty-six meters. However, the distance of the mountain trail that needs to be walked cannot be calculated based on the height. It was rainy and slippery, and it took a long time to walk before going down.

Below Yanziji is the Royal Military Officer School of Daming.

Looking away, the barracks still lit the lights in the rain curtain, and there were soldiers patrolling. Not far away were training venues, and the shooting range.

Well, this shooting range is not a shooting range. This year's fire is like artillery, which is a probability weapon. It relies on the density of firepower.

It's too outrageous. You usually practice more. Don't go to the battlefield and let the sky be empty. This is not a joke. Even if you have been on the battlefield before, you are transferred to a novice.

It's.

Recently, Zhu Gaoyu was too busy all day long, and he was working hard to practice these taxes.

In terms of taxes of taxes, fires are not equipped with artillery, but artillery commands who lack a system, staff, non -commissioned officer.

Let's talk about the fire. As a pure fire -based test forces that Yongle Emperor, most of the resources and production capacity of the Army Bureau are supplying the R & D original fire rifle, which is "Yongle's first year fire".

Hongwu's 28th year of generals, etc., have already become a conventional habit within the Ming Army.

It ’s just that the thing of the fire rod looks simple. If you want to achieve the standard of production, you also need a variety of design, testing, modification, and considering the level of casting technology.

We can only practice with the previous fire and the wooden gun with a knife.

In terms of artillery, it is trapped in a strange circle of "soldiers lack knowledge and cannot learn basic artillery operations" and "Military Academy students have knowledge but are unwilling to dry artillery". Jiang Xinghuo is lacking in skills, and there is no way to train the first batch of artillery.

The nobles of Jingnan are born in the middle and subordinate officers. Their children's illiterate rate is relatively high, but the children of Hongwu's founding honor generally read a lot of books, so they can only die as a living horse doctor at the moment.

This recently compiled a good book to see if these military schools can understand themselves.

Looking at the nearest place, the lights are bright in the military academy, and the countless tents in the surroundings of the tax stale guard camp are like a huge forest, guarding these buildings in the middle.

Here, it is the first martial arts, military academy in Daming!

In front of the school gate, there are two statues of Han white jade lion with a few feet high.

It is the second lion titling bead, and the four eyes are open, which is lifelike.

In front of the two stone lions statues, there was a team of warning school students, wearing armor, holding a sharp blade, and a cold blade.

They were carefully selected, and the officers of the next generation of Daming.

"Master National Teacher!"

Seeing Jiang Xinghuo approaching, the military school students saluted, and their voice was neat.

And this scene fell in Wang Bin's eyes, and he couldn't help but surprised.

Obviously, after the rain, in the minds of the noble children, the majesty of the national teacher has been initially established.

Although these military college students are dressed as people in the officer, they may still have a lot of gaps compared to the veterans of the taxi.

But like Guozijian, the Royal Military Officer School, although the nominal supervisor/principal is not the emperor himself, but they are counted as the students of the emperor in a sense. Zhu Xi did not have the idea of ​​being his principal before, but the civilians

In this question of this fine branch, he expressed strong objections. Why did the emperor prefer the military academy so much, and did you see which emperor personally served as the Guozi Supervision and Supervision?

Therefore, the current principal of the military academy is a senior general, Qi Guogong Qiu Fu.

Qiu Fu's coaching philosophy is different from Jiang Xinghuo's.

Well, this again involves the issue of the educational philosophy of military schools. In other words, since the decline of martial arts in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the philosophy of training officers has been a piece of shit.

According to Qiu Fu's idea, military cadets should naturally be able to wield swords and lift stone locks. As for Tao Lue's art of war, just study "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Six Tao and Three Strategies", "Wei Liao Zi" and "Li Wei Gong's Questions".

Jiang Xinghuo's educational philosophy is completely opposite.

Since we are training officers, physical fitness certainly requires certain requirements, but it is by no means the most important condition.

What is the most important condition? To learn the art of strategy and war?

Neither.

That stuff is for senior generals to learn, and military school students are trained as grassroots officers. In the future, most of them will stay at the middle-level officer stage for a long time and are the backbone of the Ming Dynasty's army. But these backbones don't need to spend a lot of time studying these things.

What senior generals need more than what they study is teaching materials to guide them in planning and commanding specific campaigns and battles.

Jiang Xinghuo does not have the ability to compile other textbooks for infantry and cavalry, but for the Fire Gun Soldiers, the future Fire Gun Cuirassiers, and the Artillery, Jiang Xinghuo is capable of compiling actual combat textbooks. First, solve the problem of availability.

It can be improved version by version later.

But the problem in the military academy now is that after the actual combat test of the Jingnan Campaign, the military concept of "cavalry is king" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The cavalry looks down on the infantry, the infantry looks down on the artillery soldiers, and the artillery soldiers look down on the artillery.

From the transferred teachers to the military students below, they all have this idea, and it is difficult to change the trend of thought for a while.

The soldiers in the tax guard were able to obey Zhu Gaoxu's orders and become artillerymen and artillerymen. That was because Zhu Gaoxu had the final say in the tax guard.

But not in the military academy. Although Jiang Xinghuo has a high status, his right to speak is not high. At this time, the Ming army is most concerned about military merit and qualifications. Jiang Xinghuo has no military merit at all. Why should these battle-hardened Uncle Hou listen to you?

Guidance in the military field?

The battle of Jingnan has proven that the elite cavalry can conquer the world. Why do you let the firecrackers and artillery soldiers ride on top?

It's no use saying how powerful the musketeers and artillery soldiers will be in the future, you have to come up with the real thing.

But now, the officers of the firearms unit have not been well trained, and there is no way to prove the correctness of the theory.

This becomes a chicken-and-egg paradox.

These matters can't even be solved by Zhu Gaoxu's help and words. They can only be solved by Jiang Xinghuo himself. However, the flood happened again. The original idea of ​​training the key officers of an artillery unit was shelved. Jiang Xinghuo

We can only find another way.

Fortunately, Jiang Xinghuo found a reliable helper.

In the vice principal's office, Jiang Xinghuo saw the person he was waiting for.

"I've met Principal Jiang."

Soon, a tall man wearing armor and a long knife on his waist came out and raised his hands and fists towards Jiang Xinghuo with a very respectful expression.

This person's name is Liu Sheng. He was hereditary guarding hundreds of households in Yanshan. He experienced more than twenty battles in the Jingnan Campaign. Due to his accumulated military exploits, he was promoted to the governor of the Zuo Army. If the historical line does not change, in the future, he will be regarded as Zhang

Fu's deputy pacified Annan and sealed the throne.

Of course, what's more important is that Liu Sheng is the future commander of the Shenji Battalion and personally organized the first regular artillery force in Chinese history.

In the historical line of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, in the eighth year of Yongle, Liu Sheng followed Zhu Di on the northern expedition, arrived at Huiqujin, and led the Shenji camp firearms unit as the vanguard, defeating Arutai; in the ninth year of Yongle, Liu Sheng followed the army on the northern expedition.
To be continued...