When we open the historical books, we find that there are many civil officials who know the soldiers. Zhao Bing has also made such a consideration. Since civil officials can lead troops and are easy to control, isn’t it the best of both worlds? But in practice, he found that it is not the case at all. There are very few people who know the battle formation and can lead troops.

Of course, this is not Zhao Bing's assumption or prejudice. Because the dynasty was established when the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, there was no need to care about it in the chaos. It can be said that both civil and military officials went on battle. For example, Lu Xiufu once took charge of military affairs after leaving Chen Yizhong, Wen Tianxiang organized a volunteer resistance against the Yuan Dynasty in Jiangxi as the deputy prime minister, and Chen Zeweng fought against the Yuan Dynasty in Guangzhou as the Guangdong Road Transport Envoy, etc. It can be said that many civil officials in the court had the experience of leading troops.

However, most of the endings of civil officials leading troops were not good. Wen Tianxiang was beheaded in Dadu, and the anti-Yuan forces in various places were gradually wiped out. If Zhao Bing had not traveled through time, Lu Xiufu would have been on the sea and died for the country with his young emperor on his back. The last trace of afterglow of the Song Dynasty fell on Yashan. As for this period of history, he thought that the so-called civil officials leading troops would not be reliable.

Zhao Bing thought that the failed board could not be all attacked by these civil officials, but the system problem after the Sui and Tang dynasties made the civil officials lose their environment for growth. The Song Dynasty's emphasis on culture and over military officials gradually developed into a situation where civil officials led military generals and military generals led soldiers, and it was a bit difficult for these scholars to directly command soldiers to charge.

Therefore, it is a joke to say that civil officials knew about military wars after the Sui and Tang dynasties. After entering the Song Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties only knew how to talk about wars on paper, but they also had to give formation maps every battle. Under the military command system, you can imagine that the defeat of the Song Dynasty was actually not too unfair. But some people may say that the Ming Dynasty emphasized literature and over military wars were even more important than that of the Song Dynasty. It can be called "using literature to control military wars". It can be seen that civil officials with military wars emerged one after another.

However, Zhao Bing calculated with his fingers. Only Yu Qian, Hu Zongxian, Zhang Juzheng and others who truly succeeded in the Ming Dynasty. Even if he added a so-called alien Lu Xiangsheng who could determine the country and Wu could have an affair, there were only a handful of famous generals such as Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Li Chengliang, and Li Rusong who were in the same era.

Moreover, the reason why these civil officials in the Ming Dynasty were able to achieve their duties was not to lead the troops themselves. Their success did not claim to be good at using troops, but focused on selecting generals and responsibilities, raising food and fodder, and exercising rewards and punishments. To be precise, they knew the generals, not the soldiers.

For example, Yu Qian, who was ordered to defend Beijing, boldly activated the generals such as Tao Jin, Gao Li, and Sun Tong in the process of defending Beijing, and mobilized the Beicao army from the north and south, Henan, the Beiya army from the coastal areas of Shandong and Nanjing, and the grain transport troops from Jiangbei and Beijing, and immediately rushed to Shuntian Prefecture to operate and plan and deploy in turn.

In response to the insufficient military equipment in Beijing, Yu Qian ordered the Ministry of Works to speed up the rush, and transferred Nanjing's inventory of weapons to Beijing to supplement the city's defenders. He even sent people to Tumu Fort to collect the military equipment discarded by the Ming army when it was defeated.

In terms of grain reserves and transportation, Yu Qian collected large trucks and ordered the official army to transport grain, and on the other hand, he issued a notice to the people in the capital. Whoever was willing to go out of the city to transport grain, while getting the freight, would also be rewarded with one tael of silver for every twenty stones of grain transported. In a few days, all the grain in the Tongzhou granary was transported to the capital for storage. The sufficient grain reserve stabilized the hearts of the army and the people.

Yu Qian's approach of allowing officers and soldiers to advance military pay for half a year made the entire army cheer. It was precisely with his advantages in military strength and material reserves that the Ming army wiped out the decline after the "Tumu Fort's defeat". Finally, he repelled the fierce Oirat army under the city of Beijing.

During the Jiajing period, Hu Zongxian, a famous minister who was ordered to eliminate Japanese pirates, also knew people with keen eyes. Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang and others who he valued were made many military achievements on the battlefield and became the mainstay of the front line of the anti-Japanese war. However, Hu Zongxian had limited authority and needed to personally lead troops to put out the fire. However, compared with Hu Zongxian who was unable to command the front line, Zhang Juzheng's technique of controlling the underworld was at its peak.

When cultivating and crediting Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang, Zhang Juzheng often criticized him. For example, Li Chengliang, who was guarding Liaodong, had made meritorious contributions, but the governor below had applied for a title for him, but Zhang Juzheng personally directed the political storm of Li Chengliang's troops to "kill good people and take credit" and did not continue to hold him accountable and gave hope.

Seeing that carrots were close at hand, Li Chengliang could only work diligently and accumulate military achievements. Finally, after the "Dongchang Fort Victory", at the instruction of Zhang Juzheng, the governor of Liaodong submitted a memorial to ask for contributions to Li Chengliang. In May of the seventh year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun, the Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, issued an order to sign Li Chengliang as Ning Yuanbo of "800 stones of annual branch of the army", and granted his son the position of commander of the garrison.

At this time, Li Chengliang was quite obedient and even took the initiative to resign. Zhu Yijun, the Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, specifically issued a special instruction: "(Li Cheng) Liang made great achievements many times, and he was not abusing his kindness, and he was loyal and brave, and he was rewarded with the goal of repaying the praise, but he refused to resign." This ability that made military generals respectful and did not dare to create is a model for literati to know the military.

What later generations admired the most was Zeng Guofan, who was a literati in the late Qing Dynasty. He was not good at military affairs, so he had the allusion of "fighting repeatedly and defeating repeatedly and fighting repeatedly". But his ability lies in his good use of people and planning. Finally, he built a very powerful Hunan army. Of course, this was the era of foreign guns and cannons, and martial arts were outdated, and wars were fighting weapons and logistics.

Throughout Chinese history, literati can indeed gradually become military strategists through continuous learning. However, theoretical knowledge is still far from successful practice. What's more, war is an extremely complex systematic game, not a personal talent, and whether it is hard work or not.

Therefore, in history, it is not difficult to find that those civil officials who truly emerged in the war, such as Wang Yangming and Zeng Guofan, who have never had the advantages of "knowing the army", but "knowing the army", "using people" and "knowing the army". What about the military generals? Under the thousand-year spell of "emphasizing culture and neglecting the army", they gradually lost their energy and became sturdy martial artists, and in the environment of "civil officials know the army", they became tool people who charge in the battle.

The so-called "a good man does not serve as a soldier, and a good iron does not work hard." During the Song and Ming dynasties, the best talent was devoted to the imperial examination and was unwilling to join the army. After all, the military position was limited and the status was low, which was really depressed. In fact, in order to fight, it was the Song Dynasty that emphasized culture and neglected military affairs.

The competition determined the procedures for the three sets of exams and the examination methods for martial arts in the field, and the examination methods for military books in the field, and the military ritual system was more regular. At that time, the martial arts could not only be used as force, but also had to examine military strategies, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War. The so-called "first with strategy and secondly with martial arts" placed military strategy above military technology. If you fail the strategy exam, you cannot take the martial arts exam.

It is worth mentioning that in the late Ming Dynasty, a person with a good talent for civil and military affairs was also released, as if he was strict in the court. It is said that Xiong Tingbi was first in the Huguang Wu local examination in a certain subject in Wanli, and then abandoned Wu and followed Wen, and was first in the Huguang local examination in Wanli Dingyou, and became the Jinshi the following year.

Such a master Xiong, who was both civil and military, became the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and was in charge of Liaodong. He once blocked the offensive of Nurhaci of the Later Jin Dynasty. He recruited exiles, purified military orders, made weapons, consolidated the garrison, and left the Later Jin side at a loss. But in the end, he was incompatible with Wang Huazhen, the governor of Guangning, and eventually suffered a defeat and was sentenced to prison.

Therefore, Zhao Bing could only sigh and said: "Civil officials know how easy it is to talk about military affairs, and Confucian generals are not equal to civil officials..."

After hearing Zhao Bing's words, Wang Qin's favorability increased greatly. Although he did not speak for himself, he did not "submit" to the "tyranny" of the two scholars, so that they would not think about being a Confucian general, but would cool them down and do whatever they should do. As for the other two scholars, they naturally felt ridiculed, but because they were not able to say anything serious, they had to end the topic.

It was already a little late at this time, and the dispute just now did not turn against each other, but it also made several people a little embarrassed, so they scattered. Zhao Bing left the house and walked towards his camp. When the light of his light swept over, he saw someone flashing out of the darkness behind him, following him immediately, and saw him entering the yard before leaving.

The emperor could share the joys and sorrows with everyone, but everyone did not dare to neglect them. He arranged a single room for His Majesty, and divided the Datong house into three inside and outside rooms with a screen to make His Majesty feel more comfortable living. After Zhao Bing finished washing up, he reviewed several emergency documents and did not go out again and changed his clothes and went to bed.

I didn't have a good rest last night and I drank some more wine today. Zhao Bing felt a little sleepy. The north was cold, and the military camps slept in the fire kangs to keep the cold. He was a northerner in the previous life, but in the era he lived in, the fire kangs had long been eliminated in the city, and he could only enjoy two days when he returned to the countryside occasionally. But he stayed in Qiongzhou for ten years in this life, and has been in Jiangnan since then, and has not slept in the big kangs.

Maybe everyone was afraid that the emperor would be in a cold at night, so they were not stingy with firewood and burned the kang very hot. At first, Zhao Bing felt comfortable and relieved his fatigue. But he couldn't stand it after a while, so he added two mattresses, but his whole body was still hot, and the "pancake" that tossed and turned was gone.

Thinking of today's dispute at the dinner table, Zhao Bing felt something interesting. Now that Zhao Bing has recovered the country is getting bigger and bigger, and the population is increasing. It is no longer as good as when he was in Qiongzhou, he could fart the south of the island and smell it west of the island. At that time, he could easily understand all kinds of big and small things and know what people think.

But now Zhao Bing is so arrogant that even things outside the capital are difficult to understand, not to mention the voices at the bottom, even things outside the capital are difficult to understand. Those "small things" have long been suppressed by officials at all levels and cannot be heard in his ears. Therefore, he is now in charge of military and national affairs, and he is in charge of the overall situation, and cannot understand what grassroots officials and the people think.
Chapter completed!