The U.S. army is the modern Guanning Iron Horse

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Veteran Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa have written a book together, Danger, which will be published next week.

You may want to warm up before the sale, or you may be guided by the big guy behind the scenes, and a few days ago, the two authors announced an explosive incident in the new book:

Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called his Chinese counterpart twice.

The first was on October 30, 2020, four days before the U.S. election, when Mark Milley assured General Lee that the United States was stable and would not attack China, and that it would warn the Chinese in advance if there were one.

The second was on January 8, 2021, two days after the U.S. Capitol Hill riots, mark Milley assured General Lee that democracy is sometimes a bit chaotic, but we are 100 percent stable.

After the incident broke out, Trump, who was begging for bones at home, stood up and said that the military dared to set me up and Millikin should be tried for treason.

And Biden made Millie's umbrella, saying that he had great confidence in General Milley, and it was completely correct for Trump to call General Lee.

Trump and Biden's tearing, we leave it alone for the time being.

Mark Millie's telephone call to General Lee to prevent the outbreak of war between the two countries is certainly advantageous from our standpoint, but it also illustrates a problem:

The U.S. military does not want to fight China.

As we all know, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has been promoted to the world police, using national strength and military strength to wage wars all over the world, but the targets of the US military are invariably the old, weak, sick and disabled countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

A truly powerful country, the US military has never touched it.

After all, fighting a war is only a means, the ultimate goal is to make money, bullying the old, weak, sick and disabled to earn oil and dollars, that is no problem.

If we are tough with china and Russia and other big countries, it will become a soldier desperately fighting on the front line, the capitalists counting money in the rear, and once the battle is unfavorable, the military will have to carry the pot, and the benefits and costs are obviously not equal.

Therefore, the US military felt that Trump had the idea of starting a war, so it privately connected with each other to inform Trump's imaginary enemy to prevent the outbreak of war and benefit the country and the people.

We all know that the army is a political tool, and it is even more a violent group with a gun, and the army can have the idea of "serving the country and the people", but it must not have the independent will of "taking me as the mainstay".

Once the army has an independent will, it will not move, and even turn its back on the enemy at a critical moment, turning the muzzle of the gun aimed at the enemy to itself.

The independent will of the army is often based on the independent economic foundation of the army.

Then the US military's approach also illustrates another problem: with the support of the military-industrial complex, the US military has an independent will and can decide whether to fight or not to fight at a critical moment.

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For the United States, both of these problems are deadly hidden problems.

Several turning points in China's history have proved everything.

For example, the Qiang rebellion broke out at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the Eastern Han Court did not have money to quell the rebellion, and Kwantung Haoqiang, who occupied important posts in the imperial court, was even more unwilling to pay for the imperial court to quell the Qiang rebellion in Liangzhou.

Some kanto ministers even said that Liangzhou is too desolate, so it is better to give up, we can just hold Chang'an.

Liangzhou is now Gansu, the outer defensive circle of Chang'an and Guanzhong, once Liangzhou is abandoned, Guanzhong will become the front line of the Han and Qiang Wars, and the imperial court will certainly not be able to give up.

The imperial court had no money, and Guandong Haoqiang was unwilling to pay money, so if he wanted to quell the Rebellion of the Qiang people in Liangzhou, he could only give policy.

Therefore, Liangzhou Haoqiang, with the support of the imperial court, armed himself and followed the Qiang lieutenant Duan Hao on a campaign, hoping to change to an official and a half post in the imperial court after the war, and even open up the promotion channels in the official field to compete with Guandong Haoqiang.

Since Liangzhou Haoqiang exerted his subjective initiative, the counterinsurgency war has been very smooth, and Duan Hao used a small number of central troops and a large number of Liangzhou Haoqiang to defend the western part of the empire with a single blow.

However, Liangzhou Haoqiang, who had made meritorious achievements in battle, found that the Guandong Haoqiang and the Jingxue family, who occupied the position of the imperial court, were not only unwilling to give profits to Liangzhou Haoqiang, but also took advantage of the advantage of mastering the right to speak, and often puA against Liangzhou Haoqiang.

The people of Liangzhou are about to think, we have sent people to pay the imperial court to put down the rebellion, and the imperial court has done this to me? So why be loyal to the court? How many cents is loyalty worth a pound?

So after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a large-scale rebellion broke out again in Liangzhou.

Unlike in the past, this time it was a joint rebellion launched by Liangzhou Haoqiang and qiangren.

That is to say, the army with an independent economic foundation has produced an independent will to unite with former enemies to overthrow the imperial court.

It was this large-scale joint rebellion that shaped dong zhuo, a counterinsurgency general who supported the army and respected himself, and also achieved Ma Teng and Han Sui, who divided Liangzhou.

To some extent, the Liangzhou soldiers, which the imperial court could not control, became the catalyst for the disintegration of the Han Dynasty.

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In another 1500 years, the Ming Dynasty also followed the old path of the Han Dynasty.

The "Battle of Salhu", which broke out in 1619, opened the curtain on the Ming and Qing conquests. In the following years, the Ming Dynasty lost troops in western Liaoning, and the Eight Banners of Manchuria continued to advance, with a great momentum of winning the Central Plains.

Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao, proposed to recruit Liao people who had a blood feud with Manchuria to join the army, and at the same time distribute land and real estate to give them peace of mind to fight against the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

In short, the Liao people guard the Liao soil, and the Liao people are raised with the Liao soil.

The advantage of this policy was to bind soldiers, generals, and land together, and let the Liao people fight for their own interests.

As a result, Sun Chengzong cultivated the strong GuanNing Iron Horse, as well as strong generals such as Zu Dashou, Cao Wenzhao, Wu Xiang/Wu Sangui, Mao Wenlong, Kong Youde, and Shang Kexi.

However, the drawbacks of this policy were also obvious, the imperial court gave the Liaoxi army an independent economy, then the army could decide whether to fight against the Eight Banners of Manchuria according to its own interests.

When the imperial court gave strength, in order to gain more benefits, they were also willing to bind with the imperial court and do some feats of charging forward and preferring to die.

But when the imperial court was not powerful, in order to protect the land and officials, they were more willing to stand on the side of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

So the independent economy produces an independent will, and the independent will makes them decide whether to fight or not to fight, and who to fight with.

As the natural and man-made disasters in Guannei became more and more serious, Li Zicheng led the peasant army to attack the city strategically, and the Chongzhen Emperor basically had no power to return to heaven, and the Liaoxi army made its own choice.

Zu Dashou, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others took the lead in surrendering to the Qing, Wu Sangui was originally preparing to enter the capital to meet Li Zicheng, on the way heard that the capital was torturing the gentry, feeling that Li Zicheng could not protect his own interests, so he returned to Shanhaiguan and surrendered to Dolgun and was crowned the King of Pingxi.

In addition to Cao Wenzhao, who was killed in battle, and Mao Wenlong, who was unjustly killed, the Guanning Iron Horse and the Liaoxi General Gate, which were cultivated at great expense by the imperial court, almost all became loyal and filial sons of the Qing Dynasty.

In the final analysis, the imperial court could not control the military-industrial complex with intertwined interests.

After all, whether it is capital or military-industrial complexes, the natural mission is to add value, and whoever can help them complete their mission is their friend.

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I would like to say that the US troops who were kidnapped by the military-industrial complex have gone farther and farther down the road of Liangzhou Haoqiang and Guanning Iron Horse.

The two phone calls to General Lee illustrate the mentality of the US military.

And our war to recover Taiwan is equivalent to the "Battle of Salhu" to break the hegemony of the US army, and at that time, more Li Yongfang and Wu Sangui will call our generals.

Of course, we are hoping for more and more calls.

At the same time, I also hope that the "Guanning Iron Horsemen of Daming" will be able to recognize the situation when the time comes, take the initiative to act as pawns of the lower Jiangnan, and enjoy the world of flowers and flowers with us.

The state dynasty will not be stingy with the rewards of the prince, and Er and others can also be in solidarity with the country.