With 100,000 elite soldiers at the start, what should you call me?

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"If you want to go to the battlefield and command the killing of the enemy, that's fine. After this battle, the army may undergo another reorganization."

Li Tian looked at Zheng Youren and immediately agreed.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Youren's face lit up with joy; "Thank you, Commander!"

He felt extremely uncomfortable staying in the rear, especially when he saw some of his former subordinates leading the Longxiang Army to achieve great feats on the battlefield, which made him envious.

"I think there are quite a few other army commanders like you who want to go to the battlefield. If you want to go to the battlefield to command troops at the next meeting, just let me know and I will make arrangements."

Li Tian patted Zheng Youren on the shoulder.

The initial ten armies of the new army will inevitably be disbanded in the future; this is a result unanimously agreed upon after discussions with everyone in the General Staff.

There are two reasons for the disbandment. First, the Longxiang Army will expand in the future, and the Longxiang Army will be the main force on the battlefield. The core of the Longxiang Army's officers will be selected from the suicide squad.

Secondly, with the future expansion of territory, people will be needed to manage local affairs, becoming grassroots cadres such as village heads, town mayors, and county heads. At the same time, factories will be established, which will also require management.

Li Tian will definitely give priority to the 100,000 elite soldiers for some important management positions.

This required a large number of people, and the original Tenth Army was dismantled into a large number of units.

The ten armies are no longer at full strength.

After the initial ten armies of the new army were disbanded, they were either assigned to various departments or became cadre reserves. In short, Li Tian would not treat them unfairly.

In this battle, the territory controlled by the new army expanded rapidly, and the 100,000 elite soldiers would soon be distributed.

"After taking Nanjing, our army can pause and then focus on cultivating a group of people with firm beliefs."

Back in his office, Li Tian looked at the map and data from various locations and began making plans.

These plans were then written down and compiled into a plan document for discussion at the next meeting.

"In Fujian, Zhejiang, and the Nanjing area, there are three to four thousand villages of varying sizes, and about two hundred densely populated towns. At least twenty thousand people are needed to manage them, including local officials and powerful prefects..."

According to the plan, the power structure of this era is very chaotic, so Li Tian directly used the experience of later generations to set up additional institutions, allocate power, and then name them in a way that fits the naming style of this era.

For example, a county magistrate is still a county magistrate, but his power is limited to managing government affairs and people's livelihoods; he has no military power or judicial power.

dong dong.

Just as Li Tian was pondering, there was a knock on the office door.

"Enter."

Li Tian didn't look up, he just replied with a sound.

Just then, a faint fragrance wafted over. Li Tian wondered, did Wei Qiang have this kind of fetish? Did he like to spray perfume on himself like a woman?

But the next moment, when I looked up, I saw a young girl holding a document in her hand, standing nervously in front of the desk.

The girl met Li Tian's eyes and quickly looked away, then explained, "Commander, I am Meng Yawen, a cleaner recently recruited by the command post. Commander Wei has something urgent and asked me to give you this document."

Meng Yawen's voice trembled slightly with nervousness as she held the documents in both hands.

Li Tian withdrew his gaze from the document; "Put the document on the table."

Meng Yawen quickly placed the documents on the table and then fled as if she were escaping.

"Commander, I won't bother you any longer."

After saying that, he closed the office door and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Is that the commander? He's so young..."

Inside the room, Li Tian didn't think much of Meng Yawen's appearance.

In a flash, he guessed what it was.

Is it really appropriate for the command center to be able to hire such a young and beautiful girl for cleaning?

It's no surprise that Weiqiang was behind this.

"This reminds me that the oldest of the assassins is forty years old, and they are all single. We must build a home for them in this world."

The fact that all 100,000 assassins were single is absurd yet surprisingly reasonable.

Perhaps it was the military academy the suicide squad mentioned that selected them.

Upon opening the file, a hint of surprise flashed in Li Tian's eyes.

Enclosed in the document was a letter written specifically to Li Tian by a Frankish commander named Simão Perez.

"Respected leader of the new army, Mr. Li Tian, ​​I am a captain from the Franks, Simão Perez. I have heard that you are doing a great thing, to revive your country. We Franks are happy to help you. I think we should meet... I hope that our help can be exchanged for a place to live in your territory. At the same time, we want to make a deal with you. We hope that you can release our companions. They were inexplicably captured by your soldiers on your land. We beg you to be magnanimous and release them. God bless you."

After reading the letter, Li Tian couldn't help but smile, and then checked the contents of the document.

Zhang Yonghao, who was stationed in Jianning, had his subordinates discover several Portuguese men acting suspiciously outside the military factory, trying to enter. They were caught on the spot by the soldiers.

Due to the language barrier, the strong odor of the Frenchmen, and their resistance, the soldiers chose to arrest them violently and throw them into prison.

After searching his belongings, they found seeds of crops such as tea, rice, and buckwheat in his package, as well as items from Jianning Prefecture, such as a helmet, a kitchen knife, and other local items.

After these Portuguese men were captured, their commander, Simão, went to demand their release. When he failed to do so, he wrote a letter to Li Tian.

The letter we just received was sent along with the package.

When it came to his attitude towards foreign affairs, Zhang Yonghao did not choose to handle it on his own.

"I see. This matter certainly deserves in-depth discussion."

"I don't know what level Western countries are at in this era, but I imagine they aren't very advanced. Given the nature of the West, if they were technologically advanced, they would have invented advanced weapons first and expanded their colonies overseas on a large scale. They certainly wouldn't have let go of the land of China."

Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are coastal areas that frequently communicate with overseas countries, and it is inevitable that they will have to deal with Western countries in the future.

The Zheng family was the most knowledgeable about Western countries.

The Zheng family not only conducted business all over the world, but also fought several battles with Western countries in the South China Sea, making them the dominant force in the region.

"However, these Frankish people who wanted to steal the seeds and technology must not be let go."

A cold glint flashed in Li Tian's eyes.

He maintained a wary and skeptical attitude toward the West.

In later generations, the West became dominant, and their culture spread the widest. However, much of this culture was fabricated and deified, and could not withstand scrutiny. Even the West itself doubted its authenticity.

The most direct impression is in the clothing and attire. In a place where civilization has been passed down, the clothes in the paintings will definitely have distinct cultural symbols and characteristics, just like totems.

However, Western paintings often depict the simplest clothing, like being wrapped in a bed sheet, or even no clothing at all.

And then there was the ever-changing Macedonian phalanx, whose spears were sometimes nine meters long, sometimes six meters long, and a few years later they became six feet long—even Pinocchio's nose couldn't extend and retract like that.

It's just a broken square formation, why the hell is it worth bragging about and spreading it so widely?

He just made up something because he didn't have anything at home, and when people found out it was fake, he had to argue about it, which is how he became famous.

China has so many strategies and tactics, isn't any one of them more powerful than this broken square formation?

The ancient Greek and Roman cultures touted by the West were not nearly as brilliant as claimed, and the so-called omnipotent great men were mostly fabricated gods.

As for why they fabricated the evidence, the significance of doing these things is to attract and cultivate traitors and pilgrims remotely.

By guiding people's understanding, we can help people all over the world form a common understanding that the West is advanced, civilized, and capable of leading the world, while the opposite is that China is ignorant, conservative, and incapable of innovation. Even if there are inventions, they are just lucky coincidences, and that China is not a rational scientific system.

In addition to the disadvantage in the battle for public opinion, the cultural discontinuity caused by the Qing Dynasty led to the above perceptions becoming deeply ingrained in people's minds.

In fact, all progress and inventions in the world are inseparable from the Chinese people, such as Chien-Shiung Wu, who participated in the Manhattan Project to research the atomic bomb and verify the law of parity nonconservation.

Zhu Chuanju and others participated in the Manhattan Project with John von Neumann to research computers, enabling the electronic computer ENIAC to possess general computing and logical thinking capabilities.

These individuals all made contributions to technological advancements that changed history, but because they were Chinese, their contributions were suppressed or even erased, leaving them unknown to the public.

"However, the simple Western alphabet is worth learning from. It can spread quickly, allowing people to learn basic pronunciation, which is also very helpful for future coding. Basic things should be simple and easy to understand."

Li Tian wanted to create dozens of simple symbols, preferably ones that could be written in two strokes and were highly recognizable. He didn't care if they were copied; there were no patents in this world.

After all, the Franks stole seeds and technology right from him, so it's not unreasonable for him to borrow a little bit of their knowledge.

"As for churches, none are permitted to be built, especially orphanages!"

Li Tianke remembered seeing a local chronicle a few days ago, which said that these Western barbarians had started harassing the border, trafficking people, and stealing children to eat during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

This tradition continued to circulate among the upper echelons of society in later generations, so it was absolutely imperative to prevent Western churches and orphanages from being established on Chinese soil.