I am Da Song

Chapter 71

After the matter of taking military officials as officers was confirmed, Zhao Huan asked Yue Fei: "How do you think about soldiers?"

If the officer system still has traces to follow in the Song Dynasty, then the non-commissioned officer system has no reference at all in the Song Dynasty.

In theory, veterans with rich battlefield experience and many years of service in the forbidden army should be selected to serve as non-commissioned officers in the new army, so as to teach the soldiers and improve their combat effectiveness.

But the virtues of the Forbidden Army are obvious to all in the Song Dynasty, and both Zhao Huan and Yue Fei resolutely resist this approach.

Therefore, if we want to choose non-commissioned officers, we can only find another way.

Yue Fei thought for a moment, then said: "A minister who hears about learning is called a scholar, and he who uses his talents is called a scholar. Thinking about it this way, is a scholar-official a man who is erudite and knowledgeable?"

This answer is in line with the social ethos of the Song Dynasty where everything is inferior, and only reading is high.

Zhao Huan said frankly: "I plan to appoint ten non-commissioned officers under each Marquis of Yu to command the soldiers. How do you think they should be selected?"

Yue Fei didn't think too much about this aspect, and immediately said: "I think that the Shenwu Youjun has been established for three or four days. These soldiers can stand out from the crowd. The temporary leaders and Wu elders must have their own merits. Or they are loyal and resolute. , Strictly abide by military discipline, train hard. Or be burly and majestic. Or be knowledgeable and have an outstanding bearing."

"These people can continue to serve as non-commissioned officers. Then the selection criteria for non-commissioned officers will be promulgated, and the assessment will be carried out in ten days."

"Those who can pass will continue to serve as non-commissioned officers. Those who cannot pass will be eliminated, and another sage will be selected. I believe that the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty are unwilling to be inferior. On the day of selection, there will inevitably be a large number of soldiers to participate in the assessment to replace those who cannot pass the assessment. Sergeant."

Zhao Huan was thoughtful, choosing his sages and weeding out his sand was in line with the values ​​that the Central Plains had always held.

"It's just how you plan to set the selection criteria to select the 'those who learn to be in positions' as you just said"?
Yue Fei said with a smile: "In the army, he is knowledgeable and knowledgeable about the army. Of course, he is proficient in flags, drums, military orders, and military discipline."

Zhao Huan nodded, Yue Fei's idea was very consistent with his own cognition.

A powerful army must be an army with strict military discipline and good command.Non-commissioned officers are responsible for helping officers pass on military orders and maintain military discipline. The understanding of banners and military orders is more important than personal bravery.

Afterwards, Zhao Huan said with a smile, "However, I have a proposal, which has nothing to do with military affairs, but about life. I plan to set up a storyteller in each team of soldiers, and I will tell you stories in my spare time."

Seeing the smile on Zhao Huan's face, Yue Fei thought the officials were joking, and said: "I heard that there are clerks in the army, but I haven't heard that there are storytellers."

Zhao Huan, however, was in high spirits and continued to say: "The clerk is too high-ranking and doesn't have much contact with the soldiers. But the storyteller is different. He can tell stories to the soldiers every time he camps and rests, and during lunch and exercise. You must know that there is a soldier in Tokyo. Huo Si is famous for his three points. When I was the prince, I saw it with my own eyes. When he told the book, the people did not avoid the wind, rain, cold and heat, and surrounded Jiuzhong, and it was like this every day."

Yue Fei was finally convinced that the officials were not joking with him, but really planned to set up an official position in the army to tell stories to the soldiers.Surprised and inexplicable, he asked: "What do the officials plan to let these officials tell the soldiers? Say that the world is divided into three parts?"

Zhao Huan said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you talk about three points, or "Spring and Autumn", you can talk about the generals of the Zhe family or the generals of the Yang family. The key is to tell the soldiers about loyalty and righteousness."

Zhao Huantu saw it poorly, storytelling is just a carrier.The key is what kind of thought is conveyed behind the story.

This can be regarded as the embryonic form of the company under the political (commissar).

It's just that Zhao Huan has not yet summed up a set of ideas, wrote books and handed them over to every official to establish military thinking.Besides, even if Zhao Huan wrote it, whether the soldiers in the army would be willing to listen to those boring feudal dogmas is another huge question.

But on the other hand, in a feudal society, there is no need for a too complicated guiding ideology for the whole army, as long as it can instill the concept of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism in the soldiers.It is enough for this army to have a unified mind, enough for this army to be loyal to the country, and even enough for this army to be brave enough to fight and kill.

Yue Fei had never seen such a form before, and was a little surprised and at a loss for a moment.

Zhao Huan said with a smile: "It's okay to try. I heard that Qing likes to read "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu", so let's start with "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" and use vivid and vivid words to tell the interesting stories about it. story."

Yue Fei's eyes lit up, he admired "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" very much, if all soldiers understand the allusions of Spring and Autumn, the whole army will be able to establish loyalty and faith.

Then he suggested to Zhao Huan: "There are a lot of scholars in the army. You can let them tell stories to the soldiers. It's just that scholars are so proud. If you use the name of storyteller, they will definitely look down on them. It's better to change the storyteller to lecture the scriptures." Officials, scholars are bound to flock to him."

"Spring and Autumn" was originally one of the Five Classics of Confucianism. Letting scholars talk about "Spring and Autumn" will help improve the perception and impression of the military among the scholar-official class.

But there are advantages and disadvantages.

Zhao Huan said: "I'm afraid that a group of Confucian students will tell a good story sour and smelly, like an old lady's foot wrap."

I didn't expect the officials to be so disgusted with the popular foot binding.Yue Fei replied: "As the officials say, foot binding is popular only when people welcome it. If the scripture lecturer can't tell the story well, the soldiers don't want to listen to it. Scholars will also compete. It is more acceptable to compare which school of ideas. The minister believes that the lecturer will gradually improve his language and increase the interest of the story."

Zhao Huan did not deny this point.Confucianism even has an almost paranoid pursuit of promoting its own school.

Maybe, after the establishment of lecturers, many schools even took the initiative to send people into the army to grasp the position of public opinion.

Zhao Huan said with a smile: "Let's do it like this. The size is no more than a lecturer. He has neither power nor influence on command. He just tells a few stories to the army."

Obviously, Zhao Huan's proposals for non-commissioned officers and political commissars have been forced to succumb to the characteristics of the times.

Song Dynasty is such a low-grade in everything, only the characteristics of the era of high reading, if you want to reform, you must fully consider the vanity of scholars.

Of course, if you make this group of people happy, it can also produce quite impressive results.

For example, in the position of lecturer, it was the first time that scholars tried to instill factional ideas into a group of soldiers with low education levels.

Zhao Huan is very much looking forward to the changes that Confucianism, which is said to be the school that best meets the needs of the ruler, will make such changes.Come to think of it, there will probably be a lot less words like Zhihuzheye, right?
After discussing with Yue Fei a series of plans for governing the army, Zhao Huan ordered him to take over the Shenwu Youjun.

(End of this chapter)