Chapter 125 State affairs
After helping me put on my clothes, Lin Zhongsheng did not leave. Obviously he wanted to talk to me about something.
"Please trouble you, Lieutenant Lin, you are burdened."
"You are polite, Lieutenant Gun. What's the point of asking for trouble?"
Perhaps because Wen Xiangwu arranged for me to help, Lin Zhongsheng's tone of speaking became much closer. Although his speech was kind before, he always gave me a clear sense of distance.
"How can that be? Lieutenant Lin, if you have a chance another day, you can give me some face. I will treat you to a meal and give me a chance to thank you. OK?"
"This won't work. Second Lieutenant Gun, I have said a long time ago that I just obey the orders and it is the principal who cares about you. If you want to thank you, go and thank the principal."
"Lieutenant Lin, I think you are not a Yuanxing person, and you may not know the habits of our Yuanxing people. We Yuanxing people pay attention to work and gain, and you do the work, so I have to thank you. Of course, I must remember Mr. Wen's intentions. I cannot repay such great kindness. The only thing I can do is to do my best under Mr. Wen's seat."
"Since Lieutenant Gun has this kind of heart, I won't be polite to you." Lin Zhongsheng smiled, "In the future, we will work together for the principal. I hope Lieutenant Gun and his colleagues will work together to advance and retreat together."
"Of course."
Now, my only way out is to join the Wenxiangwu faction. Although Xuansheng Hou had attracted me before, that person was too terrible. As long as there were choices, I would never do anything for him. If one day he forced me to "do loyalty" for him, or let me die inexplicably, who would I ask for reason?
"Speaking of this, Lieutenant Gun must have been to school, right?" Lin Zhongsheng suddenly changed the subject and said, "People say you have never been to school, but listening to your conversation, it doesn't look like you haven't been to school."
"Well, this... I've been studying for a few years. When I was in my first grade of middle school, there was an accident at home and I couldn't support me in school anymore, so I dropped out of school."
"If I guess correctly, you will definitely not give up on studying after dropping out of school."
"Haha... It's true. If you don't have to be in school when learning this kind of thing. I know some grammar and check dictionaries so that I can understand books. All my knowledge is in books. If I can understand books, wouldn't I learn about them?"
"Yes." Lin Zhongsheng nodded in agreement, "I wonder what books do you usually read?"
"In the past, I liked to read history books. After joining the army, I came into contact with a lot of foreign things - to be precise, Western things, and became interested in Western culture. After that, I began to read Western books translated into Chinese."
"Western people have many excellent military scripts, but unfortunately many of them have not been translated."
"There are many translations. For example, the book "Mobile in Strategies and Tactics" written by the Zhemani people is very good. I bought one and have read it. The only drawback is that this book was translated by the Dawu people. It is full of Wu dialect. It is very different from the Daxian dialect in grammar, which is difficult to understand. Also, some characters are different from Daxian's characters. Although the characters are similar in shape, they are still difficult to recognize at first glance."
I found this book in the fritters market in Anminfang. There are everything in the fritters market, but most of them are defective and fakes. If you want to buy good things, you can only take your luck.
"Oh? Do you have this book?" Lin Zhongsheng's eyes lit up. "I have known this book for a long time and I have wanted to buy it for a long time, but I haven't bought it."
"If you want to see it, come here to get it another day."
"Then I'll thank you for the Second Lieutenant Gun!" Lin Zhongsheng said with his eyes lit up, "I will finish reading it as soon as possible and return the book to you!"
Lin Zhongsheng has a very good character. If it were an ordinary person, if he heard people say "You come here to get it another day", he would definitely take it for granted that I wanted to send a book. I do want to send a book, but Lin Zhongsheng understood it as borrowing it, which shows that he knows the value of a book and is not a greedy person.
I was not polite to him. To be honest, I gave books just to make friends with Lin Zhongsheng. If possible, I really don’t want to send this book out. Since he is a good person, I can save this book. Because good people are easy to make friends with, as long as you don’t plot, you can get through it.
After that, I talked to Lin Zhongsheng about some topics about books. I found that most of the books he has, I don’t have, and most of the books I have, so I suggested that it’s better to exchange books and read them. Lin Zhongsheng happily agreed.
"Actually, there are many excellent military books in our Central Plains." Lin Zhongsheng said, "For example, "The Art of War" and "The Art of War of Wu Zi" are all enduring classics. But these books are too old. I am not saying that the content in them cannot keep up with the times, I am saying... well... how do you say it?
I think that in these ancient books, the weapons and equipment rarely talked about, mainly talk about the methods of controlling military use. The methods of controlling military use are important, but weapons and equipment are also very important. In the past, or now, wars are not just about people, but also about equipment.
With advanced equipment, the tactics that can be used are advanced. The reason why advanced is called "advanced" is because it does not lag behind and can crush backward. The reason why we were defeated by the Tuta people and the Ming Dynasty was because we were backward in equipment. If we lag behind in equipment, the tactical thinking will naturally lag behind.
Fortunately, the principal presided over the military system reform and fundamentally solved our equipment problem. Now, it is the time for me to rise again first! Humph! The Donggui Party, a group of eccentricists, said that the world must return to the Ming Dynasty, is purely fart! The Ming army bought it from head to toe! In the past, it was bought, but now it is still bought!
Humph! When I think of this, I get angry! Those short-sighted rats actually say, it is better to buy it than to make it! Because it is cheap to buy it! They know nothing! Arms! It is the foundation of the army! The army is the sword and shield of the country! Only buying but not building is to hand over the sword and shield of the country to the hands of other countries, and they will only be controlled by others!
If I want to see, the Ming Kingdom is a dog of the Westerners! It is dedicated to helping the Westerners weaken the strength of the Central Plains countries! Let's watch it! The Ming Kingdom is a grasshopper after the autumn, and it will not be able to jump for a few days! When the situation in my first precedent is stable, I will definitely join the anti-Ming alliance organized by the Daxia organization. At that time, the five countries will attack the Ming Dynasty with five armies. If the Ming Dynasty can be blocked, I will write the word Lin upside down!"
The Anti-Ming Alliance was a concept that had been established very early. It is said that the person who proposed this concept saw an ancient man named Su Qin and proposed the strategic plan of the six kingdoms to counter-resist the Qin Dynasty, and then he had this idea.
Indeed, the current trend of the world is very similar to the last weekend. The Ming Dynasty relied on the arms sales agreement between the British Empire and the United States to conquer the people, and the northern expedition of Zhao Daxia, the southern expedition of Chen Dawu, and the western expedition of Daxian, offended the other five countries in the Central Plains. Because the other five countries were relatively backward in military provisions, they could not defeat the Ming Dynasty in one-on-one situation, so they could only let the Western powers help mediate.
Ten years ago, in the 19o4th year of the Western Liberation, Daxia organized an anti-Ming alliance. In order to form this alliance, Daxia gave up its grudges with the old enemy Da Zhao for the first time, and joined forces with Da Zhao. Two armies fought south to the Ming Dynasty. As a result, 400,000 troops were beaten to pieces by the Ming Dynasty.
Five years ago, the Ming Dynasty made its second southern expedition to Dawu, and Dawu immediately joined the anti-Ming alliance. After Dawu joined the anti-Ming alliance, Da Zhao and Daxia immediately sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty again. Under the situation of fighting on both sides, Da Ming had to make peace with the anti-Ming alliance. This was the first time that the Central Plains countries did not mediate through Western powers and negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty on their own after the Ming Dynasty accepted the Western military system and signed an arms sale agreement with the Westerners.
Chapter completed!