Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 671 You Must Be Literate

Seeing the expressions of Li Songchen and Li Shi, Wang Xiaolie thought for a while, and said, "Well, I will send some capable personnel to run a class for the illiterate generals of the Hedong Rebel Army. It will last half a year, and those who can read One or two thousand characters, if you can roughly understand official documents, you will be transferred to a military academy. If you really can’t learn to read, then you have no choice but to transfer to other jobs. Our army is different from the previous army, with frequent exchanges of official documents, and Without officials, military officers must be literate."

Li Songchen said: "It doesn't matter if the general is illiterate. Among the forbidden army, there are many illiterate people."

Wang Xiaolie shook his head: "The Forbidden Army has been inherited from the Five Dynasties, and most of the armies of the Five Dynasties did not inherit the habits of the Han people. Looking at the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, how many generals were illiterate? It is unimaginable that the officers are illiterate! Shenzhou Lu Chen, Many Hu people who entered the Central Plains are illiterate. They have no choice but to set up officials in the army and appoint cronies to make up for this deficiency. How can we learn this habit from the Hu people? Official documents in the army, Discussion of tactics and battles is completely impossible without literacy. Don’t worry, learning to read is not that difficult. Children can roughly understand books after two or three years of study. An adult, as long as he is educated properly, he is willing to learn, half a year is enough If you can’t learn it in half a year, it means you don’t want to be an officer.”

Li Songchen sighed slightly and said nothing more.

Most of the volunteers in Lingshi were illiterate, and there were not enough scholars to teach them to read.In Li Songchen's view, literacy is a great thing, how could it be possible to learn it in half a year?Wang Xiaolie said this, just to comfort himself.

When the Song Dynasty was just established, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin once said that he wanted to make all the warriors in the world study.But in the Taizong period, things changed, and generals were no longer encouraged to study.By the time of Song Zhenzong, he had completely gone to the other extreme, encouraging generals not to study, and even promoting illiterate generals on purpose.In history, Yang Yanzhao, a general of the Yang family, became a general at this time, and he was illiterate.In the time of Renzong, Liu Ping, who was born as a Jinshi, was promoted to be a general, known as Confucian general, by encouraging generals to study.In the Battle of Sanchuankou, Liu Ping was captured by Li Yuanhao.From then on, no one cared whether the generals could read or not.

Among the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty, a large number of generals were illiterate.Their official documents are usually borrowed from public officials or close small schools.In addition, there was an important position in the army of the Song Dynasty, which was in charge of Jiji characters and writing Jiji characters.In charge of Jiyi characters, Shuai Chen is allowed to appoint officials he is familiar with, while in writing Jiyi characters, he is directly allowed to appoint his sons.The establishment of the Jiyi writing officer also facilitated the illiterate generals.

There were not many public officials in the army of the Song Dynasty, but their status should not be underestimated.These people are outside the military system, but they are in charge of the core affairs of the military.Even in Sanya, there are dozens of public officials who are really in charge.

Wang Xiaolie's army completely abolished public officials and required officers to be literate. It has a different command system from the Forbidden Army.In this system, it is not allowed to go back and forth, and officers must be literate.Illiterate, not allowed to be an officer.

Seeing that Li Songchen and Li Shi were unhappy, Wang Xiaolie had no choice.There is no need to discuss this matter, I can only help them.

Jiang Min said: "If the Hedong army expands to 3 people, it will be completely different from before. For an army of tens of thousands of people, the system must be sound, and the rules and regulations must be complete. The generals in the army must receive formal training. I It is recommended to divide the curriculum of the military academy into several stages. The study time for each stage is preferably one month. The generals in the army should study in turns within one month. It takes one or two years to complete the training. "

Wang Xiaolie said: "The training of military officers is different from the learning in military academies. Military academies teach people who have no military experience, while most of the officers have actual combat experience, which is another teaching method."

Jiang Min nodded: "Xuan Fu said yes. I've been thinking about this for a while, and it shouldn't be a big problem. Besides, we need to mobilize a group of officers from the army. These officers have experience and can help quickly grow military."

Wang Xiaolie nodded: "Yes. I will transfer a group of outstanding officers from the existing army to serve as the foundation of this army."

After finishing speaking, Wang Xiaolie suddenly fell silent and looked up at the moon in the sky.After a while, he said: "A person can't think about everything clearly, there are always omissions. Our current army is built by me alone. With an army of 10,000+ people, how can I think about everything? ?To be honest, I still have a lot of dissatisfaction with the army, but it is inconvenient to start reforming it now. Moreover, I have won several victories one after another. Naturally, there will be resistance to changing the army system. So I hope to establish a different army on Hedong Road. The army is not built according to my wishes. I see any problems with this army, and I can bring it up, and I can change it if I want to change it. I don’t think you will push me any further.”

Jiang Min listened to Chashou: "I don't dare to work in a humble position!"

Wang Xiaolie said: "Building an army of 10,000+ is not easy in itself. It only takes three or four years, and there are many problems. When the army exceeds 1, the leaders actually don't know what the grassroots are. It looks like it. More than 10 people, even the middle level of the army, such as the control and the supervisory level, many people don’t understand. From Ruzhou to Xiangyang, in a year or two, our army has expanded to nearly 10 People. How can I know the problems at the grassroots level of the army by myself? Now, I don’t know where to start if I want to change it. I hope that every step of the army in Hedong will be clear from the time of its establishment. It is not scary to have a problem, just solve it. The fear is that if something goes wrong, the problem will be hidden below. If the problem is hidden, how can we talk about solving it? Jiang Dutong has been by my side for the past few years. I believe that there is no Those bugs."

Jiang Min nodded and said: "I grew up by Xuanfu's side. Xuanfu knows what kind of person I am. I hope I will make more contributions in the future and live up to my trust!"

Wang Xiaolie said: "In these years, the territory has grown, and it is not as tense as in previous years. I will give you the best personnel and the most sufficient supplies for your army, and fully respect your opinions. I only hope that in a few years After that, you give me back a strong army!"

Jiang Min crossed his hands and said: "The humble job understands! I will live up to Xuanfu's entrustment!"

Wang Xiaolie nodded.After a while of silence, he raised his glass and said, "Drink, drink! I said it was a banquet for you, but I didn't drink much."

A few people raised their glasses and drank them all in one gulp.

After drinking a few cups, Wang Xiaolie said to Li Songchen: "General Li has been in the siege of the Jin army for the past few years. It is really not easy. Most of your troops are poor people from surrounding states and counties, who can read and write. There are not many people. Nothing, this is a normal thing. But in our army, officers must be literate, which cannot be discussed. How about this, you pick out those who are suitable to be officers in the army, and I will send someone to teach them Literacy. It is limited to half a year. If there are still illiterates, they will form a special team and teach them for another half year. If they can’t learn in a year, then there is really no way. Besides the army, there are many industry, we can only arrange for them to do other jobs. Although they are no longer on the battlefield, they still have food and clothing.”

Li Songchen did not expect that Wang Xiaolie kept this matter in his heart.Hastily crossed his hands: "Xuan Fu's arrangement is naturally excellent! Thank you for my humble post!"

Wang Xiaolie said: "Over the years, you have been born and died, and you have made great contributions to the country. How can we forget that? You are in Lingshi County, and Cao Du came north, so it is easy to occupy Lengquan Pass, saving There are a lot of troubles. You have what you can do, and the army has military rules. You should think of a perfect method so that both sides can accept it. I hope you can kill more enemies and make meritorious service after joining the army!"

(There are a lot of things these days, there was only one update yesterday, sorry. Now I owe three more, and try to make it up before the tenth. Forgive me.)
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