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Chapter 124 The Empire's Last Glory?

After dinner, Zhou Changfeng and Xia Xiaoshi walked for a while and then separated.

Although people outside the matter may not be able to understand it, Zhou Changfeng has been able to deeply feel the magical situation in all aspects of Daming today after living for this period of time.

Are you saying that Daming is now open?No, there is actually no lack of conservatism; say conservative?Not really, because it's open in many ways.

In this Daming, where a lot of feudalism remained and had to conform to the times and developed for decades, it could be said that any magical situation could happen.

There are two sources of power in a dualistic constitutional monarchy—the first is the hereditary monarch, behind which is the royal power; the second is the parliament elected by the people, behind which is the people, or forces that can manipulate the people.

Obviously, these two sources of power cannot live in harmony, and eventually the general trend will inevitably slide to one of them.For example, although the German Empire had a parliament, it abandoned it early on, and basically the Kaiser ruled.

When the Qing Dynasty was preparing for the establishment of a constitution, they also planned to implement a dual monarchy constitution, but they did not recognize the form—since the Southeast Mutual Protection, the Qing court has been precarious, and its power has declined. In the end, it naively created a "royal cabinet ", can be described as death.

Of course, even if the Qing Dynasty was prepared to make a compromise on constitutional awareness and current affairs, the successful constitutional Qing Dynasty would also change from "real monarchy constitution" to "virtual monarchy constitutionalism" in a short period of time. local power.

However, the situation in the post-Ming Dynasty was very different. Just like the Tianqi and Chongzhen years, even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the post-Ming court still had a certain prestige and influence.

In this way, the forces are barely balanced and the current situation came about after mutual compromise.

Under the dual constitutional monarchy system, vigorous development and construction will naturally strengthen the local power, thereby increasing the influence of the parliament. If left unchecked, the power of the royal family will decline, and sooner or later the emperor will withdraw from the center of power and transform into a "virtuous monarchy with constitutional power". ".

It may even go a step further and directly enter the Republic.

Naturally, the royal family had to try to counter it. In addition to the usual series of tricks such as pulling one faction and attacking one faction, strengthening the army has become one of the important means.

After all, this is what age, it is impossible to rely on the power of eunuchs to help.

It can be seen from this that the dual constitutional monarchy is quite unstable, and the two major forces will work hard to expand their influence and fight endlessly.

But in a sense, this is not all a bad thing. After all, this is not the classical era, so the ambitions of the various factions of the Ming Dynasty are reflected in the rapid development at the national level!
Local forces and bureaucratic capital continue to invest, build, and expand, and they are in the ascendant; the army is also growing and developing, and it is in full swing.

However, this appearance of rapid development conceals the countless ills and irreconcilable contradictions that have not been eradicated in Daming. They will not disappear naturally, and will explode sooner or later.

"It just happened to be the eve of the Great War... Hey, let's return to the light and return to the light, even if extinction is inevitable, but if we can win this war, it will be called the last glory of the empire." Zhou Changfeng sighed.

Well, this is a good home.

Before that, I have to prepare myself to climb as high as I can.

Not to mention being able to save one party or command the three armies, at least he must be the admiral of a corps, so that he can escort the smooth transformation of Ming Dynasty in the changing times, so as not to be stolen by treacherous people.

A few days passed quickly, and after the preliminary theoretical study, the training class also organized the first test.

Although it is called an exam, it is actually like a quiz for admission, except...you need to write an entire article, at least [-] words.

"...You can finish writing, no later than two quarters of the unitary hour, you can refer to books and literature. Let's start."

Yang Zhen, the Admiral's Mansion of the Eastern Fleet who is in charge of the training class, came to arrange the topics in person today. The topics for the captains are slightly different from those for the majors and lieutenant colonels. The former are "smaller".

In fact, what Yang Zhen arranged was a "talk", which was a kind of argumentative style in ancient times. It usually expressed opinions on things and phenomena. The writing and writing were relatively free, and the length was not long, similar to essays.

"Isn't this just asking us to blow water? You can write whatever you want."

For this kind of article with no limitations and a high degree of freedom, Zhou Changfeng didn't take it seriously, and started writing without thinking about it.

"...the Marine Corps can be deployed centrally or dispersedly when performing landing operations.

Concentrated use is to invest in the Marine Corps in an organized way, and this can be divided into four forms. One is that the Marine Corps independently completes a certain task; the other is as the first echelon of landing; the third is to undertake the landing task in a certain direction alone; The fourth is to jointly take charge of the landing mission in a certain direction with the Army.

Decentralization is to break up the organizational system of the Marine Corps, split it into company and battalion-level units, and temporarily strengthen them for the Army.In this case, the Marine Corps is usually used as the advance commando of the landing force, used to attack the landing area, surprise important targets, destroy the enemy's communication lines, remove beachhead obstacles, and so on.

When carrying out the landing mission, if there is an amphibious armor unit to cooperate with the operation, the combat efficiency and attacking ability can be greatly improved, so it is necessary to give priority to the deployment..."

Seeing that Zhou Changfeng wrote a full page in just a cup of tea, Yan Chenwu next to him was slightly startled, and looked at himself, but he had only written half a page.

no?Is this man so fierce?

Yan Chenwu thought back on Zhou Changfeng's performance in class these days - carelessly, with a look of indifference.

A guy from the army didn't know how serious he was in class, but now he writes like a god?Don't even open the book next to the table?

This... doesn't seem reasonable, does it?I'm afraid he is writing whatever he wants?

Yan Chenwu breathed a sigh of relief, and decided not to interfere with him, and concentrate on writing his own.

In this situation, time seems to pass extremely fast.

In just over an hour and a half, Zhou Changfeng, who was blinded by his writing, put down his pen, shook his sore right hand, browsed through his casual work, and then handed it in.

Yang Zhen, who was drinking tea and reading the newspaper, was also surprised. He raised his hand and glanced at the time. He finished writing just halfway through the application time. Could it be perfunctory?
"Is this the end?"

"Yes." Zhou Changfeng answered simply.

Of course Yang Zhen knew his details well, and didn't think he was the kind of showman who was touted, after all, showmanship can't achieve real results.

Therefore, he only felt that Zhou Changfeng was getting a little carried away, and he didn't take this Marine Corps training class seriously.Sure enough, young people are prone to impetuousness.

After putting down the teacup, Yang Zhen took the papers and glanced at them quickly.

Communication coordination with naval units, force projection sequence and steps, special operations unit infiltration raids and markings, smoke curtains and wings covering?
After flipping through it quickly, even before taking a closer look, Yang Zhen realized that his thoughts just now were completely wrong—hey, there is something, this kid really doesn't show himself.

(End of this chapter)