As a senior military officer, Lu Yongyan is an expert in military affairs.
Having been in contact with the army and training the army for many years, he naturally knows how much effort it takes to achieve this beautiful-looking military formation.
So when he heard that some civil servants actually thought that this was the result of the Ming army's assault training and that the purpose was to frighten Lin'an City and strengthen the military's power, he couldn't stand it.
Is this the result of assault training?
So he tried to explain the mystery to laymen Shen Gai, Zhou Linzhi and Zhang Shi who were not very familiar with military affairs.
"This pace formation looks beautiful and seems to be quite easy to train, but it is extremely difficult to train. It is not easy to make everyone listen to the slogans and act according to the orders.
Not to mention walking in such a uniform pace, this is definitely not something that can be accomplished in three or five days, or even two or three months of training every day. This must be the result of years and months of hard training.
I dare not say anything else. If this group of soldiers were placed among the Song Dynasty army, they would definitely be one of the best. I just don't know how elite such an army is in the Ming Dynasty. "
Zhou Linzhi was quite disdainful of this.
"It's so difficult to walk in a neat line? What's important about this? Isn't the most important thing in an army the combat effectiveness? So what does it matter if you walk in a beautiful line? It's just a flowery display, it will be broken if you poke it!"
What the layman Zhou Linzhi said immediately made Lu Yongyan dumbfounded.
"Mr. Zhou doesn't know. On the actual battlefield, a uniform queue represents combat effectiveness. Commanding and prohibiting according to slogans is combat effectiveness. They can even queue up so neatly and execute orders according to slogans. So on the battlefield , their military formation will be unbreakable."
Lu Yongyan sighed: "What the military formation needs is uniformity, orders and prohibitions, and a state carved out of a mold. With such skill, once it goes to the battlefield, it will be an army." Tiejun, no wonder the Ming army is so good at fighting..."
Shen Gai remained silent, Zhang Shi's eyes sparkled, and Zhou Linzhi was full of dissatisfaction.
"The Ming Dynasty can train it, but the Song Dynasty can't train it? I don't believe it. As long as there is enough military expenditure, an army can't be trained to look like this? The people of the Ming Dynasty are all heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals!"
"It's possible, but it's too difficult."
Lu Yongyan gave a more reliable analysis from a professional perspective: "First of all, it will take at least half a year... no, preferably nine months, or ten months. We also need enough military expenditures, enough food, and we can't go hungry. And then we need …”
"Stop talking, leave it at that."
Shen Gai interrupted Lu Yongyan's speech and sighed: "These are not important anymore. Let's think about what we have to do next. Let's not talk about military training or anything for the time being... Have you taken the official medicine?"
Shen Gai looked at Zhou Linzhi.
Zhou Linzhi's expression froze, and then his expression turned into one of deep helplessness.
"After eating it, it's the same amount and the same number of times. The imperial doctor also said that it will be fine for a few days or more than ten days. If it is eaten too many times and for too long, a person's limbs will really become useless."
Shen Gai's eyes moved.
"That's it, we have no way out."
Zhou Linzhi lowered his head and reluctantly admitted that everything Shen Gai said was right.
They really have no way out. They can only walk one way to the dark and see if after the dark, there will be another village of dark flowers and bright flowers, or it will be a dead end.
On the evening of September 24, the fifth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin received Zhang Yuejing's battle report in Zhongdu.
At first glance, he was overjoyed at first, and then as if he had seen some interesting story. He stared at the battle report for a long time, and then announced the convening of a central meeting to make the matter public.
After learning that the Southern Song Dynasty gave up resistance and surrendered, and announced that it would accept all the demands of the Ming Dynasty, the central decision-makers participating in the meeting were very happy and cheered each other to celebrate.
Then Su Yonglin announced the news of a coup in the Southern Song Dynasty. The coup makers handed over most of the royal family of the Southern Song Dynasty, including Emperor Zhao Hao, to the Ming army.
Upon hearing the news, the officials present were very surprised.
"Is this happening?"
Xin Qiji was shocked: "The Southern Song Dynasty has always flaunted its orthodoxy and the justice of its monarchs and ministers. Now such a coup has happened?"
"It's really surprising."
Kong Maojie sneered: "But it doesn't seem strange if you think about it carefully. Anyway, this is how they always say one thing and do another. They talk about the justice of the emperor and his ministers, but in private they are all conspiracy and calculation, but in order to survive, they will kill the emperor." It’s done, it’s really incredible.”
"It's not that incredible. This was originally one of the many possibilities I imagined, but I didn't expect them to do it so brilliantly."
Su Yonglin shook the battle report in his hand: "Except for the new emperor, Zhao Dun's third son Zhao Dun and his family, and the Supreme Empress Wu, all the clans in the Southern Song Dynasty palace were captured and handed over to them. Gave it to us, it reminds me of the Kaifeng city back then, it looks like, it really looks like."
"It does look like it. It was the same back then and it's the same now."
Xin Qiji sneered: "I can only say that after so many years, those people have not changed at all, and have not made any progress at all."
"What's even more interesting is that they even gave away the Kaifeng clan that we rescued and sent back... I went to great lengths to rescue them, are they giving it back to me now?"
Su Yonglin laughed helplessly and said seriously: "Now that the battle is over and they have shown their sincerity, it is obvious what we should do next. We will take this opportunity to make them agree to more conditions and directly Lock them up."
In the following meeting, Su Yonglin mobilized everyone to brainstorm, and finally summed up some additional terms that could be used as additional terms, so that Southern Song Dynasty would accept them all and work them through to the end, leaving them without any confidence to jump ahead.
The first step is to cede land again. This time, the two prefectures of Zhenjiang and Jiankang will be ceded. This will block the possibility of the Southern Song Dynasty rebuilding the Yangtze River defense line. When the time comes, the Ming army will have to cross the river again, which is quite impossible. necessary.
Then there is the garrison.
In order to further deter the Southern Song Dynasty Hao'er from carrying out various tasks and prepare for the subsequent actual destruction of the Song Dynasty, Su Yonglin decided to set up some garrison points in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Stationing the cavalry army seems to place too much emphasis on force deterrence, so Su Yonglin is more interested in stationing the navy at the port for deterrence.
For example, the Ming navy was stationed in the port near Suzhou Yang in an honest manner, and the navy was stationed in the Fujian and Guangzhou areas to highlight the military presence of the Ming Dynasty. This should be a very meaningful thing.
And when he thought about it, Su Yonglin suddenly thought of something more important.
Su Yonglin decided to ask the Southern Song Dynasty to cede the two states of Quanzhou and Guangzhou.
"Zhenjiang Prefecture and Jiankang Prefecture are related to the army going south. Quanzhou and Guangzhou are so far away from the Ming Dynasty. Why is it necessary?"
Kong Maojie, who did not know much about economic affairs, raised doubts: "One is on Fujian Road and the other is in Lingnan. Is it important to us? The distance is so far and can only be controlled by the navy. It is equivalent to an enclave. It’s very unsafe.”
Kong Maojie's words made Lin Jingchun sitting aside very dissatisfied.
"How do you call it important? That is very important! Do you know how long I have been coveting these two big ports?!"
Kong Maojie felt very depressed about being suddenly criticized by Lin Jingchun.
"Old Lintou, why are you angry at me? I haven't asked you for money recently."
"I'm not angry at you, but I'm very dissatisfied with your speech!"
Lin Jingchun said seriously: "Do you know how much tax revenue the two ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou can provide to the Southern Song Dynasty every year? More than two million guan! Two ports can provide more than 2 million guan!
Do you know what more than two million dollars can do? Although Ming Dynasty’s current fiscal revenue is very large, basically none of this money can be retained. Every year when there is a surplus, incense must be burned. Now there are two million more coins. What a good thing! "
Kong Maojie was a little surprised.
"so many."
"Otherwise? Why do you think I focus on the two ports? Over the years, the chairman has been saying that we need to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. We have gone to the extreme in reducing expenditure. How should we increase revenue? It is nothing more than business experience. Do you know that the world's commerce was basically in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty could not compete with the Southern Song Dynasty?"
Lin Jingchun frowned and knocked on the table while saying: "It is too important to capture these two states. We must do something to seize the Southern Song Dynasty's trade!"
