Zhu Hongsan knew what Feng Zi used these people to do, but it was just that civil officials wanted to suppress military generals, and anything else that repeated the mistakes of the late Tang Dynasty was just a rhetoric.

However, what the stinky old Jiu said is not unreasonable. Before the Song Dynasty, there was no good way to restrain the generals in command of the army. In the early stages of the dynasty, all Taizu and Gaozu were the generals who led the army and naturally could control their subordinates. However, in the middle and late stages of the dynasty, those generals who led the army lost their friendship to fight side by side with the emperor, and the emperor was not struggling through the war. In addition, various contradictions in the late stages of the dynasty were prominent, and military generals were also required to frequently suppress rebellions in various places, so it became common for Zhao Kuangyin to wear the yellow robe.

After Zhao Kuangyin came to power, he was afraid that his generals would learn how he was playing, so he came to a glass of wine to release military power, which was considered to have initially solved this problem. However, this was just a solution to the immediate problem. As long as the war was frequent in the late dynasty, the generals who commanded the army would not be controlled by the emperor.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin created a system that influenced future generations, which was to value culture over military affairs! Of course, the system formulated by Zhao Kuangyin was not simply to use civil officials to oppress military generals, but to a complete set of systems from top to bottom.

The military system in the Song Dynasty was divided into four types: imperial guards, wing troops, rural soldiers, and foreign soldiers. Among them, imperial guards were elite troops directly controlled by the central government, used to defend the royal family, Kyoto and town garrisons. In the second year after Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he began to rectify imperial guards, eliminate the elderly and weak, and supplement the elite. He also ordered various places to select brave soldiers and promote them to imperial guards.

In order to control this armed force more effectively, Zhao Kuangyin abolished senior generals of the imperial guards such as the "Dianxiandu Inspection" and set up the commander of the palace, the commander of the cavalry, and the commander of the infantry, which is the so-called "three commanders" to command the imperial guards separately. The "three commanders" all use some people with relatively low qualifications and easy to control. They only have the power to command soldiers, but have no power to send troops, and they are often mobilized.

At the same time, the Privy Council was set up to control the power of sending troops, so that the power of military power and the power of military power were separated. The two were restrained and finally obeyed the emperor. At the same time, the "internal and external" policy was adopted in the garrison of the imperial guards. Half of the imperial guards were stationed in the capital, and the other half were stationed in various parts of the country. There were only a few imperial guards on the border. This method of strong and weak branches played a positive role in weakening the power of the vassal states and strengthening military power. However, the policy of "preserving the internal and external" caused the Northern Song Dynasty to lose consecutively in the war against Liao and Xia, and was always in a passive position in the military.

After Zhao Kuangyin removed the military power of Murong Yanzhao, Shi Shouxin and others, he began to use civil officials to govern the prefectures. The great vassals who had military separatist ruled the country were transferred on the grounds of excuses, or they were allowed to take other positions from afar. After his death, his descendants were not allowed to attack the posts, and gradually appointed civil officials to replace the original military generals. Emphasizing culture and neglecting military military officials became a major political feature of the Song Dynasty. The emperors after Zhao Kuangyin also continued to implement this policy, which was called "promoting cultural education and suppressing military affairs." In this way, civil officials replaced military generals and transferred military generals to the military post, further blocking the road of warlord separatism.

The last one is to implement the "renewal law". The so-called "renewal" means changing the garrison locations. In order to prevent the generals from turning soldiers into private assets, the army's garrison locations were often changed, but the commanders of the generals were stationed for a long time and did not follow the soldiers. In name, it was to let the soldiers "learn hard work" and improve their quality, but in essence it was to "not make the people familiar with each other", causing the situation of soldiers being inactive, generals having no permanent troops, and soldiers and generals being separated. Although this measure restricted the generals from holding troops and resisting the central situation, it also brought about the disadvantages of the army being unable to train carefully, ineffective combat command, and weak combat effectiveness of the army.

But the same is true. China's problems since ancient times have been internal problems. As for external problems, they cannot shake the emperor's rule at all, so those small military losses can be ignored. Although the implementation of these policies has caused the Song Dynasty to regress a little, it did not deteriorate on a large scale. The Southern Song Dynasty withstood the Mongol attacks in Xiangyang and Sichuan for more than 50 years, further explaining the success of the Song Dynasty's policy of emphasizing culture over military affairs.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty took over the Song system, but Lao Zhu didn't have the patience to play a glass of wine to release military power. Lao Zhu was impatient and directly played humanitarian destruction. If all the generals were killed, there would be nothing that would be ignored by the generals.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the civil servant group rose, and these civil servants were born to be incompatible with military generals. In addition, the emperor indulged intent on intentionally or unintentionally, so in the later period, the second-rank generals saw the fifth-rank soldiers kneeling on the ground and kowtowed.

However, the literati in the Ming Dynasty also produced several outstanding generals, such as Wang Yangming in the middle, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting and others in the late stages. These people were no less than those famous generals in the early days of the country. It was just that the world was in such a general situation, and several outstanding generals could not change the current situation of the Ming Dynasty being rotten to the end.

When Zhu Hongsan established the New Ming Dynasty, his generals were no less than the generals of the founding period of all dynasties, Qian Yong, Zhao Guodong, Wang Jinbao, Zhao Guoliang, Ma Kun and Zhou Yu, all brave. However, Zhu Hongsan did not have Zhu Yuanzhang's concern, and was afraid that these generals would not be controlled after his death.

The reason is very simple. Now Zhu Hongsan's army is a full firearm army. If the logistics supply is gone, the muskets and fire sticks in the hands of these troops are similar to those of fire sticks. At the same time, all the weapons factories, gunpowder factories, artillery factories, and shipyards that are responsible for logistics production are under the control of Zhu Hongsan. In addition, Zhu Hongsan has strict spies in the army, so Zhu Hongsan is not afraid of his generals having any intentions.

Zhu Hongsan thought so, but the civil servant group headed by Feng Ziyong did not think so. You should know that the army under Zhu Hongsan was very powerful. The 20,000 people in Makun, Nanchang, fought against Dorgon's 250,000 troops, and actually won the battle. This really surprised the civil servant group.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a common goal of the Qing Dynasty to deal with, and the civil servant group could not stumbling on the military group. However, when the common enemy was defeated, it was time for the mouse to rebel in the knife nest.

Although there were many factions in the civil servant group and they didn't even look at each other, Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia wanted to kill each other. However, no matter how the civil servant group fought, it was consistent in suppressing the military general group. At that time, during the Fengtian Palace title ceremony, Jiang Pengju drank some wine and said some angry words, and was immediately used by Ma Mingyuan to kill Jiang Pengju. Even Tong Yangjia, who was a mortal enemy of Ma Mingyuan, did not object to this matter. Finally, Ma Jiyuan said something nice to him for the sake of saving his family, and Jiang Pengju escaped.

The same is true for today's occasion. Although Tong Yangjia and Feng Ziyong were not in the way, they did not say good things for Zhao Guodong just now. After all, Tong Yangjia is also a civil servant and also wants to suppress the development of military generals.

After hearing Feng Ziyong's words, Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Mr. Feng was a little fussy. I saved him by Zhao Goudan back then. If I hadn't been for my death in the private camp outside Wuchang City, I would have believed Goudan!"

"Your Majesty, it's time and time. It's true that Your Majesty had great kindness to Zhao Guodong back then, but Zhou Shizong Chai Rong also had great kindness to Zhao Kuangyin back then. In the end, Zhao Kuangyin was still wearing a yellow robe?"

Zhu Hongsan has a very suspicious personality. He heard Feng Ziyong say this. Of course, he did not doubt Zhao Guodong's loyalty, but would doubt whether he could become Zhao Kuangyin if he died in the future?

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Mr. Feng, but the military law stipulates that the governor of the military is less than 10,000 troops have this right. Afterwards, just report to the Military Affairs Office. If Zhao Guodong is punished for this punishment, wouldn't it seem a bit unkind?"

This military law, which is no more than 10,000 troops, was also a helpless move by Zhu Hongsan. China's territory is too large, with more than 2,000 miles from Beijing in the northeast, which is still close. Yunnan and Guizhou are ten thousand miles away from Beijing. If you have to ask the emperor for instructions in everything, then why do you have to lead the generals? Therefore, the military law formulated by Zhu Hongsan after the founding of the country was to give the governors of various border regions certain rights to deal with emergencies.

Feng Ziyong heard the emperor say this and knew that the emperor was already a little moved. Feng Ziyong quickly explained: "Your Majesty, what is stipulated in the military law is that emergency military information is encountered, but is there an emergency military information in the Northeast now? The Russians are thousands of miles away, so Zhao Guodong violated the emperor's intention this time, so he should be severely punished according to the Ming Dynasty law!"

Zhu Hongsan saw that Feng Ziyong had found all the steps, but the general who punished his beloved was a little unable to do anything after all. Zhu Hongsan pondered for a long time and said, "Let's do this, this matter is not entirely Zhao Guodong's fault. It's a bit too heavy punishment. Your cabinet will give the order, just scold him. After all, there is still war in the Northeast, don't let the hearts of the soldiers on the front line be cold!"

Feng Ziyong was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this. He had no intention of killing Zhao Guodong at once. This time he was just scolding him. If you make a mistake next time, it depends on how your emperor is maintaining it?

Feng Ziyong bowed out, and after returning to the cabinet, he used the emperor's tone to issue a stern imperial edict to Zhao Guodong, and then sent someone to Shenyang to pass on the imperial edict.

Zhao Guodong, who was far away in Shenyang, was scolded for being criticized by this imperial edict. At first, he thought it was the emperor's imperial edict, but he knew it was the emperor who scolded him for not understanding the rules and did not dare to dispatch troops privately without the imperial edict. If it weren't for Zhao Guodong's contribution to his years of war, Zhao Guodong would have to take down Zhao Guodong. But the emperor was soft-hearted. For Zhao Guodong's loyalty, he would just scold you. If he made such a mistake again in the future, he would have no chance to do this!

Zhao Guodong has fought bravely for the emperor in the Northeast in recent years. Not to mention whether he has any credit, he is now scolded by the emperor. Zhao Guodong is indeed a little dissatisfied. But what can I do if I am not satisfied? After receiving the imperial edict, Zhao Guodong quickly knelt down and kowtowed, and thanked the emperor for his great kindness.
Chapter completed!