Thief Emperor

Chapter 530: East and West
As a head coach, the most important thing is naturally to establish the general direction.

Another more important thing is to give subordinates clear goals, preferably clear and specific goals, which is also very important.

Otherwise, unless they are talented people who can stand on their own, most people are like headless flies, flying around aimlessly and unable to accomplish anything.

Now Li Yun has completed these two tasks quite well.

After the military meeting, everyone dispersed, but Su Sheng was not in a hurry to leave. Li Yun also understood what he meant, waved his hand, and asked everyone to disperse, leaving only Su Sheng alone.

In the big tent, the two sat across the table from each other. Liu Su poured tea for them. Su Sheng bowed slightly to Liu Su and said, "Thank you."

Liu Su said softly, "You're welcome, General."

She looked at the two people and said softly, "My husband is chatting with General Su, I will go prepare some food."

After saying that, she stood up slowly and left the tent.

Su Sheng looked at Liu Su's back and said with emotion, "Erlang is a really good helper."

Li Yun smiled and did not answer. Instead, he asked, "Brother, do you have some different opinions on the inspection?"

“It’s not an opinion, it’s just…”

He looked at Li Yun and sighed, "There are just some things I don't quite understand, and I want to ask Erlang for clarification."

Li Yun said "hmm" and nodded, "Just ask."

As for the system, it is very difficult to come up with a seamless and smoothly operating system by relying on only one or two people to think and simulate.

An excellent system first has a framework, which is then continuously filled in and modified through practice by generations of people.

The Ming Dynasty in another era suffered the same loss. Zhu Taizu's ancestral precepts bound the dynasty for more than 200 years. If it had not benefited from the influx of silver, it would have been hard to say whether the Ming Dynasty could have seen the crooked tree.

The same is true for the system Li Yun created. He has almost come up with a framework and has been trial-running it for a while. However, the environment in each army is different, and the current Jiangdong will be different from the Jiangdong in a few years.

This kind of thing really requires the opinions of others.

Su Sheng lowered his head and drank a sip of tea before speaking, "Disciplinary officers have existed in the military since ancient times, but I have never heard of a disciplinarian who is independent of the commander. Now that General Zhou is in charge, there is naturally no problem. I am worried that in the future, someone will use this authority to pursue private matters."

"For example, the party unites and the dissidents are eliminated."

Li Yun thought about it and replied, "I have considered this. Now the inspection will be in the charge of General Zhou. When things stabilize in the future, it will be a three-year term, and you can take turns in this position. By then, brother, you can also do one or two terms in this job."

"Moreover, this inspection only inspects military discipline during peacetime. Once a war breaks out, the generals will take over all authority in the army."

Su Sheng added: "There are still two questions."

"If the commander of the army is at odds with the Inspection Department, the Inspection Department will find fault with him on weekdays, and the commander of the army can do nothing about it. But once a war breaks out, he may kill the people related to the Inspection Department with thunder and lightning, or even send them to their death."

"Once wars become frequent, the Inspection Department will be intimidated by such tactics and will submit to them, just as before."

"The current Jiangdong is not big enough, so there won't be too many problems. Once the territory becomes bigger in the future, for example, the border generals can decide whether to fight or not. It's actually just a matter of a word from them."

"The Inspection Department is a mere formality."

Su Sheng was a son of a general and was quite familiar with military affairs. He paused and continued, "If there has been no fighting in an army for a long time, the power of the inspectors will be above the generals in the army, and they can even make things difficult for them. The Inspection Department belongs to the Inspection Department mentioned by Erlang. Once the officials of the Inspection Department have other ideas, they can even use this to coerce and control a large number of generals."

"And then something bad happened."

Li Yun rubbed his temples and thought about what Su Sheng said bit by bit.

It has to be said that Su Sheng, who graduated from a professional school, has many accurate ideas on military construction.

"Inspection Division, Inspection Department, in the future I will use the Nine Divisions to secretly monitor them."

"As for what my brother said about the border generals ignoring the inspection."

Li Yun smiled bitterly and said, "We don't have any border generals yet, so we won't have these problems for now. If we have these problems in the future, it seems there won't be any better solutions."

“We can only monitor it separately.”

At this point, even Li Yun couldn't help rubbing his brows and said helplessly: "I was originally very proud of the inspection, but now it seems that there are many loopholes. During this period of time, I will think about it carefully."

Su Sheng smiled and said, "The border guards and border commanders can handle special matters specially. In the future, the Border Guard and Border Commander Inspection Office will be completely independent of the army, and will not be under the control of the army in peacetime or wartime."

Li Yun raised his head and drank a sip of tea, then said helplessly: "As long as there are people, there will be no perfect system. Once the place is far away, others want to do whatever they want, and it is impossible to control them."

Regarding this issue, many dynasties actually sent military supervisors temporarily, such as the eunuch military supervisors of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it turns out that this is not very useful. People are selfish and will run into problems over time.

That day, the two brothers chatted in the big tent for the whole night, and it was not until the early hours of the morning that Su Sheng got up to say goodbye.

With Su Sheng's help, the military system in Li Yun's mind became slightly more complete.

But it is still far from perfect.

Perhaps, political and ideological work will also need to be done in the future.

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The next morning, not long after Li Yun fell asleep, he was woken up by Liu Su beside him: "Husband, husband."

Mr. Li opened his eyes drowsily and looked at the sky outside. It was still dark.

He closed his eyes again, his voice a little fuzzy: "What's the matter?"

"Lu Jieshuai has arrived and wants to see my husband."

Li Yun opened his eyes again, checked the sky outside, and finally woke up a little and regained some consciousness.

After waking up, he felt angry and amused.

This guy named Lu is really scared of death. He came to find him before dawn!
I guess this guy didn't sleep a wink the whole night.

After rubbing his eyes, Li Yun lay down again and said, "Go... go and tell him to go directly to Su..."

"Forget it. General Su probably just went to bed not long ago. Ask him to go find Zhou Bi. When it's daybreak, have Zhou Bi take him to find General Su."

"Tell Zhou Bi to let General Su take him to Huangzhou."

Liu Su nodded, covered Li Yun with a blanket, and said softly, "Then my husband, please sleep for a while."

She stood up, put on her coat, and came outside the general's tent. Outside the tent, Lu Yunzhang, who was in dishevel, was waiting obediently. He indeed had not slept a wink all night.

I really can't sleep.

Seeing Liu Su coming out, he hurried forward and saluted, saying, "Madam Li, Lu is here as agreed."

Liu Su listened to his serious words, looked at the sky, and found it a little funny, so he said, "Wait a moment, Marshal Jie, I'll go call someone over."

She called the two guards standing guard at the door and gave them a few instructions. One of them quickly went to call Zhou Bi. After a while, Zhou Bi, who was still sleepy, came over with his clothes on. After seeing Liu Su, he sobered up a little, and hurried forward, bowed his head and said, "Little sister-in-law."

Liu Su smiled at him and told Zhou Bi a few words. Zhou Bi responded and lowered his head slightly: "I know."

After saying that, he turned around and looked at Lu Yunzhang. He was also a little angry, but he still suppressed his anger and said slowly: "Marshal Jie, come with me. I will take you to see the real master later."

Lu Yunzhang was so nervous that he stuttered: "Mr. Li...Mr. Li told me yesterday to come see him this morning. Brother Zhou, you..."

"Stop talking nonsense."

Zhou Bi became angry and grabbed his clothes, dragging him out of the general's tent.

Liu Su couldn't help but cover his mouth and smile. He returned to the general's tent, took off his coat, got into bed again, and took a nap.

Because he was interrupted for a while, Li Yun slept until the sun rose high in the sky. He got up, stretched, and moved his muscles, then had a meal with Liu Su.

When he walked out of the tent, he found out that General Su Sheng had also gotten up early in the morning and was already heading to Huangzhou with Lu Yunzhang and his generals.

This was something he had told Li Yun in advance last night, so it wasn't considered too abrupt.

After asking Zhou Bi again, Chen Da had also arrived at the door of the general's tent and requested to lead the troops eastward to Shuzhou.

Li Yun called him in, gave him some encouragement, and then let him go.

By noon or afternoon, both armies had left, leaving only Li Yun's guards and the two captain camps left by Su Sheng to guard Qizhou.

Liu Su brought lunch to Li Yunduan and asked softly, "Where are you going next, husband?"

"Go to the north, to Zhao Cheng's place."

Li Yun took a big bite of rice and then put down his chopsticks.

"Let's go and see when we can completely drive out the Pinglu Army."

(End of this chapter)