Why Matteo Ricci asked to see Xiao Ruxun and why he was so persistent? Xiao Ruxun knew very well. It was precisely because of this that Xiao Ruxun did not see him.

He wanted to spread Christianity widely on the land of China, which Xiao Ruxun would never allow. Matteo Ricci essentially wanted to use Xiao Ruxun, but over the years, Matteo Ricci had gradually blurred his original intention, but with Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun never forgot that he was using Matteo Ricci for a second.

Sooner or later there will be an irreconcilable contradiction between him and Matteo Ricci, but this contradiction is not at this time.

He was not going to war with Spain for Christianity, but for spices. It was not the same as the reason why Matteo Ricci thought that Xiao Ruxun did not accept Christianity at all. However, at this time, Xiao Ruxun needed to hit Matteo Ricci so that he would not forget that permission was just a matter of his own words.

Matteo Ricci also has value in utilization, and Christianity also has value in utilization. Now is not the time to tear off, so Xiao Ruxun asked the kitchen to send Matteo Ricci a lunch, making him think he was just too angry and not really disappointed and distrustful in Christianity.

Only by giving him some hope can he continue to persevere.

I don’t know when, but Xiao Ruxun became more and more skilled in playing political methods. Not only did he play with mutual checks and balances in administrative areas, he created a model that currently operates very smoothly, but he also had his own model in the army.

After the founding of the Myanmar Army, Xiao Ruxun deliberately divided the officers who held military power among the army into three factions, which were very good at distinguishing between them.

One sect is his own old team. He has followed Xiao Ruxun's old subordinates from Pinglu City, and there are even a few people who are Xiao's hometown generals, such as Zhao Hu and Chen Xie. This sect is all old team who followed Xiao Ruxun to fight south and north. He has great military achievements, many achievements and profound qualifications. He is deeply trusted by Xiao Ruxun, so he is mostly senior officers and is the Pinglu faction with the smallest number of people.

One faction was Xiao Ruxun joined his forces on the way to conquer Hebai, and followed him to fight Ningxia City to fight North Korea to fight Mangyingli. People from the northwest border town headed by the Ma family were the backbone sects in the army, most of which were middle and senior officers, named Northwest sects, with a slightly larger number of people.

The remaining faction was the few southerners who voluntarily left to join Xiao Ruxun's army after the Myanmar War and a large number of newly recruited officers from the back of refugees. These people stood out in the many maritime bandit suppression battles after the establishment of the town of Myanmar. Most of them were maritime military achievements, so they were called the Hai faction, mostly middle and low-level officers, and they were young and strong in the army with the largest number.

These three major factions are easy to distinguish among the army. They are easy to distinguish with their accents and they are also very concerned about each other. In addition, there are police factions with 5,000 police forces independent of the army. The military forces in Myanmar maintain a delicate balance between each other.

The Pinglu faction has the highest status, but the number of people is the smallest. Although they are all senior officers, they are not the ones who command the army directly in front of the battle. The Northwest faction is the backbone, with the children of the Ma family as the core, and most of them are middle and senior officers. Although they are deputy generals of some Pinglu faction bosses, they can directly contact the army.

For the final Shanghai faction, they have the lowest status, but the number of people is the largest. Basically, the grassroots officers are all composed of the Shanghai faction. They stand out in the sea bandit suppression battle and have also performed well in the land bandit suppression battle. They directly master the lower-level soldiers, and are not outstanding in the single one, and are strong overall. Over time, they are enough to compete with the other two factions.

If we distinguish the difference between each other in this way, the core leadership of the army is in Xiao Ruxun's hands. Only Xiao Ruxun has enough prestige and power to command everyone in this army. His soul is the army's soul. He is Zhennan Hou, and this army is Zhennan Army, which guards the southern border waters for the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, if the army is not allowed to have a mountain, the rulers are really worried, for fear that any sect and which one is too prestige will be too great and the achievements will shock the master.

This is very terrible. The army is a simple violent machine. It advocates the strong. Whoever is the strongest will admire them and follow them. Even after the suppression of the Song and Ming dynasties, the army is still the army, and the strong are still respected.

This is very terrible. If a super strong man who is unanimously convinced by the army will definitely become the emperor?

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had such a model. Zhu Yuanzhang set up a military model of the world army system led by nobles. One of the basic needs required was that the emperor needed to have prestige in the army, be able to command the army, and lead troops to attack and lead the army in person.

Zhu Yuanzhang won’t say anything about it himself. Zhu Di was also an emperor who stole Zhu Yunwen’s world. Renzong Zhu Gaochi followed Zhu Di to conquer the world and was naturally familiar with military affairs. Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji was deeply loved by Zhu Di and followed Zhu Di several times to attack Mongolia. He was a good grandson trained by Zhu Di. He also personally led the imperial army to evaluate the rebellion of the King of Han.

Until here, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty could lead troops to fight, and the bad things were all on Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen. If you want to be brave, he also had the courage. His grandfather and his father had done it in person. He had no reason not to do it, but his level was too bad. Obviously, Zhu Zhanji did not educate his son very well on how to lead troops to fight.

But at least, Zhu Qizhen knew the importance of the emperor's personal expedition in the Ming Dynasty's military system.

After Tumu Fort, everyone knew about it, so I won’t say it. Except for Zhu Houzhao who forcibly broke through the civil servants to prevent them from leading troops to the expedition and was also hacked to death, no other Ming emperors had ever led the imperial army in person. To be precise, the civil servants no longer allowed the emperor to directly contact the army, and even the imperial guards did not give it to him.

Xiao Ruxun knew very well what the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty's military system were, but even the modern military system could not eliminate the phenomenon of military mountaintops, or it was not necessary to eliminate it at all.

The ruler does not need a highly united and powerful army. Such an army is very terrible. It can fight outside during wartime and fight inside when closed in peacetime. This is the army the ruler expects most.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun not only did not stop the development of the army's hills, but even contributed to it. Even old men like Zhao Hu, Chen Xie and Wang Hui could not allow them to fully control the real power of the army. This power must be in his own hands, and the people below fought, so that he, the highest power holds the right to arbitration.

The Zhennan Army would not be only of this scale. Xiao Ruxun trained 30,000 troops as 30,000 officers, and after the war, he trained 30,000 troops to the extreme.

When the army needs to be expanded, these soldiers will immediately transform into qualified sergeant commanders and a number of times more than themselves will be pulled up.
Chapter completed!