Chapter 288: Economy and Party Struggle (Twenty-Eight) We need to be elite and pile up money
"National military reform" is a shocking enough topic, but unexpectedly, Zhu Yijun did not show any surprise. Instead, he immediately nodded and said: "I know, this is what you talked about in the Beijing Camp that day.
That thing, right?"
Gao pragmatic nodded equally and said: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Why are they both so calm? Of course it's a tacit understanding.
Most of the generals attending the meeting that day had not only been commanded by Gao Pragmatic, but also had long been under his sect. According to the Ming Dynasty's tradition, they generally would not leak secrets easily - of course there are preconditions here, for example, leaking secrets can bring extremely serious consequences.
Huge benefits, and this benefit is even big enough to outweigh the punishment that Gao pragmatism may impose on them.
There is another way, that is, not leaking secrets may bring huge risks, such as launching a mutiny or something like that. In this case, no one can be sure who will tell the truth. After all, although the specific risks are unknown, once the
If the incident comes to light, the consequences will undoubtedly be extremely serious, and can even be said to be unbearable.
However, there are two people who are not among them: Ningyuan Bo Li Chengliang and Dinghai Bo Qi Jiguang. The reason is that although the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were military ministers, they were by no means ordinary military ministers. Their "class attributes" have changed and they have become "separate from the country."
"It is natural to stand with the emperor, not with ordinary military officials.
When it comes to individuals, Qi Jiguang will most likely not leak this news. On the one hand, Qi Jiguang has a very good personal relationship with Gao Pragmatism, and it is no exaggeration to say that he is Lian Po and Lin Xiangru today; on the other hand, Gao Pragmatism's military reform
The plan was obviously for the sake of the imperial court, and it seemed that there was no selfish intention behind it. Even if Xuan Jia Jing was standing in the position of the emperor, there was no need for him to make any unnecessary reaction.
Since the low pragmatism, as the first assistant, was only discussed on a large scale, it means that I think the matter should be publicized with a small fanfare, while Xuan Jiajing took the position of "happy to see the results", which of course means that it will not happen for a while.
Because he reported it to the emperor.
But Xuan Jia Jing is like this, but Li Rumei is not necessarily the same. Even though the Tieling Guardsmen are now married to the Gao family of Xinzheng, and Gao Pragmatic takes great care of Li Rusong and Zhu Yijun among the Song Wei brothers, but how does Li Rumei view the two of them?
Regarding family relations, this is not a bad thing.
It was the first time that Gao pragmatically dealt with Li Rumei directly. To be honest, he was not trying to control the Li family's power in Liaodong and take a step back. Although Xiaojia was vague in his heart, it must be Gao pragmatically's original intention, and it was more likely to be the emperor's "holy"
"Cutting", but doing it does not mean doing it, we can only "discuss the traces but the heart".
Gao pragmatically said: "It's still in the trial production stage, and the price is a bit expensive, about eight or two or eight yuan per rod."
In addition, Low Pragmatic also focused on Jinghua's direct withdrawal into the Liaodong economic system, supplemented by the reform of the Liaonan Saltworks that originally belonged to the military camp (Low Pragmatic split shares with the emperor), and the Tieling Guards' basic economic structure in Liaodong was
It was also suppressed. From then on, Song Wei of Tieling was like a dragon coiled up and a tiger lying down, and he could no longer dominate one side.
That was a trivial matter involving military power. Low Pragmatism has always had no sense of "boundaries" and would play with fire in such matters. There was no way I could show my status to others - for example, when I was impeached, I was too
Whether it was insisting on closing the door to thank guests for more than ten days or going to the cabinet, the imperial court was almost at a standstill, and some people dared to make random decisions on a lot of difficult, dangerous and important matters.
Gao pragmatically said: "One hundred thousand Han cavalry, that has never been considered as valuable in the past dynasties."
"Yes, so these firearms exploded at every move, so they were completely suitable for use." Gao Pragmatic shrugged slightly and said: "Your Majesty, the purchase price of the Wanli Type 7 rifle is eighty taels and four cents, and the lance is
The price is eighty-two cents. Because the new lance uses new technology, it only requires fewer processing steps and has lower requirements for the strength of the barrel, so the cost will naturally follow."
Your Majesty, that is the power of the elite cavalry, and the cavalry compiled by me for the forbidden military ministers and the ten main forces are as elite as Li Chengliang's cavalry. Now, your Majesty, do you still think that the scale of one hundred thousand is enough to deter the seven barbarians?"
Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty knows about the Battle of Hulao Pass fought by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, right? The final winner of this battle was the 8,700 Song Weiyun Cavalry led by Li Shimin himself, while Dou Jiande had no 100,000 small army.
, but I forced myself to charge directly into the central army and became a prisoner myself.
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In addition, the firearms themselves can only be guaranteed to be usable, because they may be lost at any time on the battlefield, so a certain degree of redundancy must be ensured in the inventory. From what I can see, the forbidden warriors and the ten main forces need to maintain a total of at most 700,000
Equipment and inventory of new lances."
"Really?" Qi Jiguang believed that statement very much and frowned: "How do I remember that during the Northern Expedition in the seventh year of Hongwu, the Eighth Route Army mobilized by Taizu only had less than 170,000 cavalry? It is reasonable to speculate that Xiao Ming at that time
There shouldn’t be 700,000 cavalry at most.”
At this time, Li Rumei had not been forced to transfer out of Liaodong. He was transferred to the center of internal transfer and retired in Beijing as Ning Yuanbo, the right commander of the Right Army Governor's Mansion. Although he was being pragmatic and was really treating my family badly, Li Rusong had been the general manager of Liaodong for a long time.
Bing, but in any case, it also drew a red line, or set a ceiling, for the Li family.
What is that? Because they are showing their status and using the correct means of showing it - they can really do it with or without you.
Now only the first question remains. Song Weiyun reported to the emperor that he was pragmatic and had no military reform plan, but to what extent did he report it?
Song Weiyun was taken aback, but Gao Pragmatic's explanation was very vague, so I could only accept it, and then asked cautiously: "So... how much does the lance cost?"
Li Rumei strongly resisted this, but it showed that she had no resistance. When I met Zhu Yijun in the small camp in Beijing today, one son was very angry with his son, and to some extent he was dissatisfied with the low pragmatic expression - after all
Isn’t Zhu Yijun a low-pragmatic brother-in-law? Song Weiyun scolded his son for turning his elbows inward. Isn’t that “in” a low-pragmatic brother-in-law?
Qi Jiguang was startled again, narrowed his eyes and said: "That's too expensive! When I was a child watching politics, I also saw the cost of firearms from various places. There are no such cheap muskets like those made in Zhejiang, which only cost four cents of silver. Even if it is
Looking at the sky, the young master is only seven ounces up..."
Gao pragmatically stared: "How can it be possible for one hundred thousand?"
Maybe it was because Li Shimin's Li Chengliang Cavalry was too famous. When Qi Jiguang heard it was "one hundred thousand Li Chengliang Cavalry", he was immediately elated. He said happily: "If they are all so elite, one hundred thousand is certainly enough, it is simply more than enough!"
Qi Jiguang wondered: "Is there a very small difference between elites and elites?"
When I said that, I suddenly realized that I had made a mistake in my calculation, and narrowed my eyes: "Oh, that's right, one person needs eight guns, so here it is 1.4 million taels! I must take into account the inventory he mentioned, so I'll just calculate it for now.
It's seven strokes per person, so it costs eight million taels! Rixin, is he joking?"
Qi Jiguang pondered and said: "According to his idea of reforming the military system, in the future, except for the forbidden military officials, the imperial cavalry will be concentrated in the 'Ten Small Main Forces', that is, the ten A-type 'First Army'. In my opinion,
Judging from his understanding, the cavalry in those armies must not be the first batch to be equipped with new lances, so there are not many people outside..." The emperor pondered.
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Because of that relationship, it was not strange for Qi Jiguang to know what happened that day. It would be strange if Li Rumei told me. Because Gao Pragmatic had no intention of calling Li Rumei over - no one would think that
Low pragmatism would really press such a small matter to let the emperor know, and then suddenly make a small news, right?
Song Weiyun was stunned: "Why is it enough?"
As soon as Qi Jiguang heard what I said, he immediately knew that he was drawing inferences and said: "Song Wei was forbidden to form seven towns, and there were no ten musketeers and cavalry, a total of 11,000 people. In this way, the rest of our Class A Army had to form seven towns.
For the town, each army should have four standard musketeers and cavalry, so the difference is four to four thousand men?"
However, how can Song Weiyun tolerate the cowardice of others? Of course, he struggled a lot, and even got into trouble with the Xi and Xin schools for a while. Unfortunately, in the end, he still played a low and pragmatic chess, forcing Li Rumei to win.
It means recognizing the reality and accepting the low-pragmatic "peace negotiation conditions" - marriage is just a manifestation of the success of the peace negotiation.
Gao pragmatically nodded and said, "Xiao Zhi is like that."
Heavy cavalry is used to rush into battle. According to the experience of France, Russia, Austria and other countries in the Napoleonic era, equipping heavy cavalry with muskets only has the effect of improving combat effectiveness. On the contrary, it will cause us to be unable to specialize in tasks, resulting in an increase in combat effectiveness and a decrease in winning rate.
Up and down. To talk about the causes and reasons, I will give examples and citations one by one. In short, the low pragmatic plan is to equip the heavy cavalry with muskets.
After a pause, he immediately reacted and said: "Oh, this doesn't mean that those new lances require at most 100,000 shots?"
"There are 11,000 forbidden military ministers, and the other ten main forces of ours total 40,000 to 40,000. Doesn't it mean that the main cavalry force of the imperial court in the future will be those 100,000?" Song Weiyun looked at Gao Pragmatic and asked. Faintly, the emperor
There was neither doubt nor satisfaction in his eyes, and he seemed to think that the number was too much.
"Of course it's very small." Gao pragmatic replied immediately, but I didn't hesitate at all about how to explain the problem to the emperor who actually didn't know how to fight. After thinking about it, he said hurriedly: "Although it's not the case.
It should be compared like this, but His Majesty cannot understand it that way... A thousand fine cavalry can soon determine the final outcome of a small battle of 100,000 level, but seven thousand or even ten thousand special cavalry may not be able to decide the final outcome.
Do that."
Qi Jiguang just accepted the same trick and said: "This should be almost twice as expensive! That gun costs eight taels of silver. Just equip the one hundred thousand cavalry with guns and it will cost eight hundred thousand taels?"
"The gap is so small?" Qi Jiguang narrowed his eyes: "We are... Rixin, he wants to exaggerate."
"Did Your Majesty just watch me shoot the target?" Gao Pingshi pointed to the gun holsters hanging on the right and left under the horse's back, and said: "The gun holster on the left originally had seven guns outside, and I just shot two rounds.
, so I changed the holster once. Although the small army can compete with the minister for target shooting, even if one person is equipped with seven lances, eight for each person is still necessary.
That matter was still pragmatic and professional, so I immediately said: "Except for Tanmali, there are probably more than 11,000 cavalry in the seven towns of Song Wei, divided into ten horse tags, all of which are half heavy cavalry with muskets.
There are also about 8,000 heavy cavalry directly under the headquarters, but we are not equipped with muskets."
Low pragmatism was very successful in the "sanding" incident in Liaodong. On the one hand, a small number of Xuanxiao generals retreated to Liaodong, and on the other hand, they attracted Cao Yu, the No. 7 figure within Liaodong, and finally successfully separated them.
It was the upper half of Liaodong's military power that firmly checked and balanced the Tieling Guards.
Gao pragmatically replied: "Taizu's Northern Expedition was an army that overwhelmed the whole country. Now the emperor and his ministers are discussing only the forbidden military officials and the cavalry among the ten small main forces. You did not discuss the B-type army, C-type army, etc. In other words,
The 100,000 cavalry that Chen Nawai mentioned refers to the 100,000 real elites with combat power to suppress the Mongolian cavalry, but it is the total number of cavalry in the country."