Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 420 Why Build a Military Academy
He drank a lot last night, and the sun was high, but Wang Zhongfu was still fast asleep.Suddenly, the door was slammed open.Cui Qing rushed in, dancing and shouting loudly: "We have won, we have all won! What luck! I invite you to drink! Go, drink!"

Wang Zhongfu sat up abruptly and looked at Cui Qing blankly.

Xu Shijie on the side said: "It's really good luck to win. It's just that at this time, there is no drinking."

Cui Qing said: "Why not? When I came back from reading the list, I saw a lot of people together, and they all said that they were going to drink! I heard people say that if you graduate from a military academy, you can be an officer. Am I Guangyao's family?"

Wang Zhongfu said angrily: "You have to learn to become an officer. Why are you so anxious? It's early in the morning, and I haven't woken up yet!"

Cui Qingdao: "You come from a wealthy family, and you are both civil and military. Naturally, you don't think it's good to enter a military academy. I'm different. My family has been farming for generations, and there is no scholar, let alone an official. If it weren't for my luck , when I was young, I was liked by the schoolteachers in the village, and after studying for several years, I didn’t even have this chance!”

"Okay, okay, you're amazing!" Wang Zhongfu got off the bed and stretched himself.

Even in other armies, with Wang Zhongfu's identity and ability, he was at least a minor officer.Wang Xiaolie's army is going to enter the military academy, which is really not attractive to Wang Zhongfu.He has studied both civil and military since he was a child, and he feels that the military academy is not a great place.

At noon, Shu Jiming happily came over and went out to drink and congratulate the six of them.

Many candidates come from other places. For this exam, the results are required to be released within five days and admission is required.After enrolling, the school will choose a time to take a vacation to visit relatives.After that, there will be no vacation until graduation.Xu Shijie accompanied the five of them and was not in a hurry to go back.

In the first month of the lunar year, Zhao Gou took the meaning of Shaozuo Zhongxing, which means "Shaoyi Shi's Hongxiu, and the century-old Pixu", and changed his name to Shaoxing.On the tenth day of March, on Ding Wei's day, the military academy under Wang Xiaolie's administration officially started school.

Xu Shijie sent Wang Zhongfu and others to the school gate, watched them go in, and looked at the rising sun in the sky silently.

After entering the gate of the military academy, passing the security forces, and passing many government offices, we arrived at the school grounds.There are several tables lined up there, and a big list is set up next to each table, with each person's name written on it.Each person registers according to their name in the past, and organizes themselves.

Wang Zhongfu and Shu Jiming happened to be in the same team, so they went to sign up and stood together with the others.

After all the formalities were completed, someone came and took ten people to the side, waiting quietly.It wasn't until the sun was high that the person who led him said: "Today is the beginning of school, and the town care envoy came here to give a lecture. Be careful."

After finishing speaking, the person leading Wang Zhongfu directed the ten people to stand still on the school field.

Wang Zhongfu turned his head and saw that there were densely packed people around him, and he didn't know how many there were.From entering the school gate to both sides of the school field, there are soldiers on guard.The vigilant soldiers stretched out of sight, and it was unknown how many there were.

After a long time, a general in his 40s came to the front of the stage and said loudly: "I am Liu Shaoxian, who used to be the defender of Guangzhou. In the third year of Jianyan, Li Qiong attacked Guangzhou and was forced by him to flee to the Xinyang Army. The governor Send, order me to promote the military academy. The military academy has been in preparation for nearly two years, and now everything is in rough preparation, and today is the official start of school. You new students are the first batch."

After finishing speaking, Liu Shaoxian turned his body sideways, and said again: "The military academy is starting today, so this is a big matter. The Zhenfu envoy and Wang Shenhui came to give lectures."

After Liu Shao finished speaking first, he retreated to the back, and Wang Ruohai stepped forward.

Looking at the crowd, Wang Ruohai said: "My servant, Wang Ruohai, is a counselor for the Zhenfu Commissioner. I came with the Zhenfu today because you students are very important to our army. According to the Zhenfu Order, the whole army will be reorganized this year. , there is a shortage of a lot of officers. Especially the middle and lower ranks, who are very important to the army, but they are severely lacking. There are two main meanings of saying that there is a shortage of officers. One is that according to the establishment, there are no suitable people for many positions. The other is that It means that the existing military officers are lacking in knowledge and need to be trained. In this situation, you need to learn as soon as possible and work in the army. I can guarantee that in the days to come, the military academy will not be short of money and food. There will be no shortage. Tell me what else is missing, and I will try my best to solve it! All in all, the Zhenfu Commissioner will spare no effort to ensure that the military academy has enough money and food!"

Speaking of this, the students below sang promises together, and the momentum was extremely large.

When the voice quieted down, Wang Ruohai said: "After entering the military academy, how to study, what to study, and what are the requirements for you, please come and give a lecture! The military academy is a new business, and officers have not been trained in this way before. , everyone has to get used to it slowly.”

After finishing speaking, he walked to the back and asked Wang Xiaolie to come forward.

Wang Xiaolie stepped forward and looked at the crowd.Said: "I have a lot to say today, and it will take a long time. If an official speaks, I will find a place for everyone to sit down. You are soldiers, and you should be able to do it if you stand for an hour. However, today On the first day of school, it is not good to stand here and listen to my speech. Everyone is given a small chair, and everyone sits down."

Soldiers came in from outside the field, holding small chairs behind the crowd, passing forward one by one, one for each.

This is actually the Mazar of later generations, which is easy to carry, especially for outdoor use.It is not very difficult for Wang Xiao to hunt now. Everyone in the army prepares one as part of the marching equipment.The first batch was distributed to military academies.

Everyone took the Mazar and didn't know what to do for a while.Someone is looking around.

Wang Xiaolie said: "Soldiers are different from ordinary people. You have to sit and stand like you stand. Even if you sit down, you must have a unified military posture! You are new to the military academy, so there is no requirement today. Sit down. Sit up as straight as you can!"

Everyone promised.Put down Maza and sat down.

Wang Xiaolie said: "From chasing Yang Jin to Xiangyang, I wanted to set up a military academy to train officers at all levels. It's just that officers were not trained in this way before. There was no instructor, no teaching materials, and I didn't know what to do. So I have been making preparations. Although there are more and more military officers coming here to study, but to be honest, it is not a real military academy. It started with you, and the military academy is considered to be established. You are the first batch of students!"

"Because of the lack of talents, the admissions are relatively loose this time. The admissions are loose, and you can't be relaxed after you complete your studies. The initial plan is this. All of you learn the same textbooks and teaching methods, but it is inevitable that some people learn quickly. Some people learn slowly. After one year, those who have learned well can take the initiative to ask for an exam. If they pass the exam, they will be considered successful. If you are not sure, then study longer. The longest time in a military academy is five years If you still can’t graduate, forget it. According to the results of the exam, after you leave the military academy, you will basically serve in the army below the capital. The graduates are nothing more than the four positions of the capital head, military envoy, left section level, and right section level. You can’t finish it. Those who are not professional can only be employed as support team, escort team, banner head, etc., and are not counted as military officers.”

Having said that, Wang Xiaolie looked at the crowd below.Said: "You assign positions according to the grades you learned in the military academy. Is this distribution appropriate? Is it fair? To be honest, you can't say that this way can make the best use of people, it is fair. There are always special people, although the grades are not good. Yes, but in fact they learned very well. In the army, they performed well in battle. There are also some people who have good grades, but are useless in battle. Such things are always inevitable. So in our army, the right There are remedial measures for this kind of thing. I won’t talk about it here. All in all, the method of using test scores to determine your future is suitable for the Zhenfu envoy.”

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolie paused for a moment.After a while, he said: "Why build a military academy? Many people have asked me this question. My answer is very simple, because it is necessary."

"It has been more than four years since the court set up martial arts in the second year of Chang'an in the Wu Zhou Dynasty. For more than 400 years, some famous generals have been selected in the martial arts, such as Guo Ziyi of Tang Dynasty and Xu Huiyan of this dynasty. But in general, martial arts It has not changed the army completely, and there are many shortcomings. It has been a hundred years since Emperor Renzong opened the martial arts department in the eighth year of Qingli, and there are not many talents selected. Therefore, in addition to martial arts, this dynasty also set up martial arts. Learning. In the fifth year of Xining, Emperor Shenzong established martial arts. Generally, there are 200 people, and it takes three years to complete the study. It is only the later wars, especially the Jingkang Jinlu who committed southern crimes, which shows that no matter whether it is martial arts or martial arts. You can’t really make the military stronger.”

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolie said with a wry smile: "In the Battle of Hedong during the Jingkang period, the 2000th Jin Army defeated the [-] troops of the dynasty. Alas, think about it, each of the [-] people spit, and the [-] people were also spit to death. .But being chased by seventeen Jurchens!"

"Some people say that the Han people are cowardly. What is this? Choose people to fight one-on-one. There are people in the world who are better at fighting than the Han people? But why can't they fight people in war? They can't beat the Khitans, and now they can't beat the Jurchens. It makes sense. Where?"

"If you want me to say, first of all, it is the court's positioning of the army. What does the army do? Second, the organization, system, selection, equipment and training of the army, all kinds of things. Is it based on improving the combat effectiveness of the army? Looking at it now I’m afraid it’s not. How can the army have combat effectiveness if we don’t start with every link? We set up a military academy to start with organization, system, selection, and training to train talents. Use you talents as the skeleton, build Soldiers who serve on the battlefield, build a truly reborn army!"

The most common saying in the previous life was that the military of the Song Dynasty was weak, and the most important reason was that it favored literature and suppressed martial arts.This noun has been exchanged around, some say it favors literature and suppress martial arts, and some say it emphasizes literature over martial arts, in short, they all have similar meanings.When I first heard it, Wang Xiaolie also thought it was right.Later, when I learned more, the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was unreasonable.A country's military is weak because the military status is not high?If the military status is high, the military will be strong?
In the Five Dynasties period before the Song Dynasty, warriors ruled the country, and the status of soldiers was high enough, right?How did Yanyun sixteen prefectures get lost?In the warlord melee period of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China in later generations, the status of soldiers was high enough, right?When the world's anti-Sith war began to counterattack, there was also the defeat of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi.From the perspective of the whole world, when Britain was the hegemon of the world, the army was full of thieves, hooligans, drunks, criminals and tramps.Whether it is from China or from the world, the argument of emphasizing civility over military affairs is untenable.

The military is not good, and the army can't win battles abroad. Instead of looking for reasons from the army itself, it is said that it emphasizes civility over military affairs, and that the court does not allow military generals to be prime ministers. This statement sounds extremely ridiculous.Why was the army of the Song Dynasty not capable of fighting?Of course, the reason must be found from the imperial court's positioning of the army, the organization, system, money, food, training, and equipment of the army.It doesn't sound like a conclusion that a normal modern person can draw to say that it is because the imperial court emphasizes civility over military affairs.Now which country in the world does not emphasize culture over military?As for the faults of the Song Dynasty, there are almost as many beautiful countries in the West. Who dares to say that the army of a beautiful country is no longer good?
After studying Song history for 1000 years, did you come up with this?Others like to say that the only thing history teaches people is that they learn nothing from history.History has taught people a lot, and people have learned a lot. What can't they learn?

Lax enforcement is one thing. The military laws of the Song Dynasty were actually very strict, and they would be killed and beheaded at every turn.Wang Xiaolie felt that the Song Dynasty's military was not good because the people who valued literature over military affairs were very similar to those Song Dynasty civil servants who formulated military laws.Civil servants, seeing and hearing that military discipline is lax, often run away on the battlefield, not to investigate the reasons and solve them, but to kill this and kill that, thinking that the soldiers will be afraid if the sword is held high.People who say that the Song Dynasty's military is not good because they value civility over military affairs obviously don't understand, but they want to dress themselves up as experts.

In this era, if you really believe in some nonsense that emphasizes civility over military affairs, which makes the army's combat effectiveness ineffective, you will fall into the pit.

Wang Xiaolie didn't know who first proposed that the Song Dynasty's emphasis on culture and devaluation of military affairs led to military failure.To put it so clearly, it should be very late after the founding of the People's Republic of China.But it should be my Qing Dynasty who first put forward a similar point of view.Manchuria immediately won the world, and they paid special attention to the bow horse, thinking that it was the foundation for their clan to establish themselves in the Central Plains.The Song and Ming dynasties are often used as negative teaching materials to educate their descendants not to forget the roots.The problem is that when the Qing Dynasty faced the Eight-Power Allied Forces and the world's great powers, it could not see that its army could fight at all, and it lost the face of the Central Heavenly Dynasty.

If I remember correctly, Wang Xiaolie remembers the definition of the Qing Dynasty in history books as the pinnacle of feudal autocracy in China.When it came to the mouths of some experts, it transformed itself into the pinnacle of Chinese feudal society, and even created Kang, Yong, and Qiansheng.At this time, China began to lag behind the West in an all-round way.In the prosperous age behind the world, some people really make such jokes.

If the military is not good, of course we must find the reasons from the military. This is the scientific attitude.What's the use of pretending to know what he doesn't know?How to transform the army, the new China has given the method, it is wrong to turn a blind eye.

(End of this chapter)