A word came directly to Gao Pragmatic's mind: interest groups.
The question is, which group?
The Zhu family's royal family and clan group? The civil servant group? The honorable group? Or some other group that I haven't noticed?
Gao pragmatic pondered for a moment and asked: "What is the current process of supplying weapons and equipment?"
Qi Jiguang thought to himself: This is really a child prodigy. When I said "I can't tell", he immediately understood that there must be interests involved, but he couldn't ask directly, so he asked about the process of supplying weapons and equipment. Once the process was explained,
Isn't it clear which links in the middle may be related to interests? Isn't this... this is too amazing? When it comes to prodigies, it's not surprising that they have some fantastic ideas. They have a photographic memory and can draw inferences from one instance to another.
But isn’t this issue of interest entanglement something that requires life experience? How could he, at his age, even understand this kind of thing innately? Are there really “people who are born with knowledge” in the world?
But no matter how shocked he was, after all, the two people's goals were the same at the moment. Qi Jiguang was shocked, excited, and inspired. At that moment, he felt an inexplicable confidence in Gao Pingshi: What if the genius really has a way to solve it - or at least
How to find a loophole to avoid this trouble?
At that moment, he cheered up, sat up straight, and said: "When it comes to the supply of weapons and equipment, in fact, there are differences between the Beijing camp and the border troops and even the local guards. However, if we talk about it roughly, it is roughly the report of each army to the Ministry of War.
How much armament is needed this year or within a certain period of time, the Ministry of War will issue a written reply to each army for approval or adjust the quota, and then the capital department of the area guarded by each army or the adjacent area will usually allocate military households to build it. After the building is completed, the local Arms Road will inspect and accept it on behalf of the Ministry of War.
It will then be inspected and accepted a second time by the governor or governor, the local guarding eunuch and the patrol censor, and finally handed over to the commander-in-chief for final inspection and acceptance."
Gao Pingshi was just stunned when he heard it - isn't it, so troublesome? Then there are too many places to make a fuss about, right?
He had no choice but to make use of his later political experience and asked "focus on the key points, focus on the key points": "I have two questions: First, what kind of armaments are needed? First of all, are the requirements made by the local commanders, commanders, civil servants and military departments? Second, in the end, these
Does the manufacturing of weapons and equipment fall on military households in various places?"
Qi Jiguang was too lazy to be shocked and answered directly: "Let me answer the first question first. Of course, the commander-in-chief can write a letter to ask the Ministry of War to allocate any weapons and equipment needed, but the Ministry of War may not provide them according to this standard. Moreover, it is not what you want ten
Yes, I'll give 70% for such a simple 'bargain'. In fact, the final decision on how much each town and army can take rests entirely with the Ministry of War: if the Ministry of War thinks you are in short supply, you will be in short supply, and if you are not in short supply, you will be in short supply;
If the Ministry of War thinks you are not lacking, you will not be lacking, and you will not be lacking."
understood.
Gao Pragmatic sighed secretly: No wonder the military generals at this time had almost no human rights in front of civilian officials. Not only were their food and salaries severely restricted, but even the supply of weapons and equipment was under the control of the Ministry of War. The commander-in-chief in various places was supposed to know the needs of his subordinates best.
, however, their superiority is basically just a formality. You can listen to the Ministry of War if you like it, and if you don’t like it, don’t listen. Anyway, you have to accept whatever I give you in the end. Even if I don’t give it to you, there is nothing you can do about it.
If it's a dragon, you can coil it up for me. If it's a tiger, you can lie down for me. If it's a dog, you can wag your tail and stop barking.
Then make a woolen yarn? There is something fundamentally wrong with this. Fortunately, I used to think that it was just the guard station that was rotten and the products made by the military household were substandard! If the officials in charge of the Ministry of War don't understand this at all, why don't they?
Does it mean that laymen command experts, and laymen lead experts? Later generations of Lao Tzu held countless meetings, saying "laymen are not allowed to command experts, and laymen lead experts" and "we must fully solicit the opinions of experts and front-line practitioners from all walks of life."
My ears are ringing with cocoons. This kind of thinking did not exist in the Ming Dynasty. Oh, maybe this kind of thinking was completely rebellious in the Ming Dynasty!
This matter is a bit difficult to deal with... Gao Pragmatic's brows suddenly wrinkled.
Qi Jiguang looked at him and knew that Gao Jingshi had seen the problem, but he could not predict what Gao Jingshi was thinking. He originally planned to continue answering the second question, but now that Gao Jingshi was frowning and thinking, he did not dare to speak immediately.
Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic only thought about it for a while and put down the problem first. Instead, he took the initiative to ask: "What about the manufacturing of weapons and equipment? It is all done by military households in various places? The acceptance of weapons and equipment... is it easy?
pass?"
This is an interesting question. The quality of weapons and equipment in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was really Wang Xiaoer's New Year. It was worse every year. If it weren't for the first acceptance inspection of the military equipment in various places, how could it pass the test?
"This..." Qi Jiguang originally thought of a more roundabout way of saying things, but who knew that when Gao Pragmatic took the initiative to ask, he asked so straightforwardly, which suddenly left him with no room to retreat, so he had to say slightly awkwardly:
"Military preparations in various places... After all, we have to give some face to the local guards... Besides, it is indeed... well, it is indeed more difficult for the local guards at the moment."
Well, such a Shandong man who is supposed to be straightforward and heroic, an invincible general, is almost stuttering when talking about this matter. It can be seen that it is not a certain link that is broken here, but the whole thing.
Rotten.
It’s not like Gao Pragmatic has never been in the officialdom. You can guess some of the little ones here with your toes - they all benefit from it!
First of all, before the Ministry of War writes the document, someone must have "discussed" with them how much the national military expenditures will be discussed by the cabinet this year, and then how much weapons and equipment a certain army in a certain place will be equipped with this year, according to certain standards - generally taking into account the comprehensive consideration of a certain army and that army.
The degree of contribution of the regional guard station - to determine a rough allocation quota, the Ministry of War passed the test.
Next, each health center will receive production requirements and start production, but silly production alone is not enough. You have to contact the acceptance leader of your product immediately - the local military preparation road. The local military preparation road will be based on your contribution.
Determine whether the product you deliver is qualified, or how much is qualified.
However, since Bing Beidao was not the final decision-maker, he had to honor his leaders - from the governor-general (double leadership in some areas, there are also separate leaders) and the guarding eunuch, to the local patrol censor.
One thing to mention here: Although the rank of the censor is not high, and his rank is much lower than that of the army, he has extremely amazing power of picketing. Even the governor, governor, guarding eunuch, etc. can all be impeached legally.
The Ming Dynasty also expressly stipulates that when the censor patrols the place, he represents the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so "big things are reported and small things are decided." As for what is a big thing and what is a small thing, it differs in each period.
This involves the power struggle between the governor and the governor that lasted for at least a hundred years, etc. There will be a more detailed introduction in the future, so I will not mention it here for now.
All in all, from the Ministry of War to the final commander-in-chief, every layer and every level is a link in the chain of interests - there may be one missing piece: the direct leaders of each military post are the local military commanders, and the direct leaders of each local military commanders are
The leader is the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army, that is, the nobles.
Oh, it's over. The civil servants, military generals, and nobles of the Ming Dynasty were all included. In other words, the emperor was kept in the dark, and the royal family members continued to be treated like pigs and could not be questioned.
In this corner of the Ming Dynasty, everyone except the Zhu family could dig him out.
Awesome.
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