Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 150 Military Musician

Lu Cai took a deep breath and said, "Here, Lu Cai, Lu Chuzhi, is one of the planners of the Musician's Project. I will be a sage, and the ministers will give a comprehensive account of the Musician's Project."

"As the name suggests, the Musicians Program can be understood literally, it is a plan to let musicians enter the army."

Hearing this, the ministers present who hadn't read the document were a bit noisy and mocking, but they didn't stop Lu Cai from speaking.

Because it's meaningless, after all, Lu Cai has Li Tai's support, so this sentence will definitely be finished.

And Lu Cai saw that although everyone was talking, they didn't stop him, so the words in his mouth became more and more fluent.

Lu Cai continued: "This matter must first start with why the music can make the troops go from the soldiers to the elite.

Because the span from soldiers to elites is that the entire army relies on organizational strength as a whole, allowing the army to resonate with the outside world in one of the will, skills, and qualities, resulting in will distortion and possessing the talent of the war department.

The existence of military music can strengthen the organizational strength, guide the willpower, and complete the will sorting out of the entire legion.

In other words, according to normal principles, unless music can touch the spiritual musicians, there is no way to use music to help the war department transform from a soldier to an elite. "

"Since that's the case, does your excellency think that this matter is up to you!" Wen Yanbo stood up and said with a frown.

"Of course not!" Lu Cai shook his head and continued, "Only by knowing the whole story of this matter can we start to solve this matter.

After all, I, Lu Cai, only have one person, so it is impossible to incarnate into tens of thousands and assist each army to complete the elite transformation. "

Hearing this, everyone finally nodded. After all, Lu Cai was only one person.

Not to mention that Lu Cai didn't have the time, even if Lu Cai was willing to do this, the imperial court couldn't really use him like this.

After all, this is already a mature physique, and there must be checks and balances between them. If they are all handed over to Lu Cai, then one day Lu Cai will rebel.

Although this is only a small possibility, the reality is that except for the emperor Li Shimin, it is impossible for anyone else in the court to be in power. At most, Li Shimin gave someone the right to handle it, such as Fang Xuanling.

Li Shimin gave Fang Xuanling the qualification to display his internal affairs talents on his own, so Fang Xuanling was able to display his talents in court on his own.

Like streamlining court officials and recommending capable and talented people. Think about it, almost all the ministers in the entire Tang Dynasty are inextricably linked with Fang Xuanling. In other dynasties, the emperor must have trouble sleeping and eating, but Li Shimin doesn't care .

But even so, it is only Fang Xuanling who enjoys this special empowerment, and Lu Cai naturally does not have the qualifications to enjoy it.

"So, the king of Yue made the plan, and I will supplement it, and complete the musician plan, so that ordinary musicians can also assist the army from soldiers to elites!" Lu Cai said, "In this way, the strength of the Tang army will be comprehensively increased! "

"King Yue's plan, of course, is well done!" Fang Xuanling said, "It's just that the plan doesn't say how to make ordinary musicians reach the level of using music to touch the spiritual will that top musicians like you can achieve.

Is it the yin and yang line attached to the last page of the proposal?Can that picture, I don't understand? "

Facing Fang Xuanling's calmness, Lu Caidao, "This is the music score I made based on the reminder of the King of Yue, combining the imagery of numerology and music, replacing the five tones with eight trigrams and yin and yang lines, and using dashed lines to represent scales.

This page is a song. "

"Oh?" Hearing this, Taichang Shaoqing's ancestor Xiaosun couldn't help snatching the piece of music, interpreting the score with five tones, and quickly said:
"King Qin breaks the formation."

Zu Xiaosun looked at the music score in front of him and suddenly understood. As a musician, he immediately understood the meaning of the music score, and even more understood the significance of the markings on it to the music world.

You know, there are many tunes in ancient China that have not been passed down, not only because there are few talents who learn music, but the tunes are few.

More importantly, before Wang Baochang compiled the "Music Book", there was no unified standard of pitch and tone. Even after the combination of the law theory of Jingzu Xiaosun and Zhang Wenshou's "Ear Jue Zhiming", it was put into practice. Solve the problems of tuning and twelve rhythm palaces.

It can be said that there is no unified music standard for many ancient music scores inherited in ancient times. This leads to a few generations later, when a copy of Guqin score is placed in front of you, it is like a modern person looking at the ancient breathing method. can't read.

At most, it is the most amazing among them. People with a very good sense of pitch can simulate the environment of the ancients according to the descriptions of the ancients, and play the ancient scores in a modern way. It is difficult to get the sound.

But now grandparents and filial piety grandsons look at the score in front of them, although it was a bit difficult to understand at first.

But for a musician like himself who restores the ancient piano scores and restores them so much that he wants to vomit, seeing such a score that he can understand almost immediately, his ancestors and grandchildren are sure that this score alone will give the whole world a lot of attention. Tang's temperament brought about earth-shaking changes.

"Because of the new score, according to this playing, although the music will be ingenious, it has a unified standard.

So as long as I use my spirit-like talent to compose the war department talent into a tune, and then use this new music format to compose a score and send it to the musicians.

Then the musicians can perform the composed music for the army and help the army to transform! "

Lu Cai said this, and continued,
"I will compose as many pieces of music as possible, and let the musicians change the talents they need for these fighters as needed.

Even troops that already have talents may be able to exchange talents in this way! "

Hearing Lu Cai's words, the courtiers present couldn't help but take a deep breath. Now they finally understand the value of this thing.

Obviously Lu Cai didn't want to become a transformer himself, so he should train enough small transformers to each army.

Naturally, the courtiers would not object to this kind of thing, and were even willing to support it.

After all, it is better to dismantle the rights and distribute them to everyone, than to concentrate all the rights in the hands of one person.

"The idea is very good, but musicians are musicians after all. If the vocal music of musicians cannot unify the will of the entire army, then even playing according to this score is useless.

And to make the musician's vocal music unified, it needs the musician's musical skills to at least enter the room, so that the vocal music can touch the spirit and even the will! "

As a representative of the military, Li Jing spoke at this time.

No one can ignore Li Jing's opinion, not to mention, Li Jing's opinion is very pertinent.

After all, not everyone has the spiritual talent to analyze every will like Lu Cai.

Lu Cai nodded and continued, "Shangshu of the Ministry of War said that it is not easy for an external will to use music to unify the will of the entire army, so let him join the army and become a part of the army. .

The musicians who join are not ordinary musicians, but military musicians who have to receive military training, obey the orders of the army, and integrate into the army group.

At that time, the music he plays will naturally be a collective music, even if he can't feel the will of the entire army, it doesn't matter.

Because he himself is part of this collective will. "

"Military musician?" Li Jing was a little dazed when he heard this relatively new term. He didn't expect Lu to say that.

It's not a musician, but a military musician. To be honest, Li Jing didn't expect to use a musician like this.

Li Tai added, "In other words, military musicians not only need to master the music notation invented by Lu Cai, but also enter the army. In order to convince people, they must have excellent personal qualities and a certain level of organizational skills. .

This kind of humanities and military skills, at least the main level of 500 people, once you enter the army, at least you start with a hundred people or even higher! "

"A recruit who started as a centurion, does he think he is from a noble family?" Some generals objected.

After all, this is not the status brought by the status, but the status brought by the position, and more importantly, a person with such an important position is very likely to be just a recruit

And Li Tai said calmly, "Under normal circumstances, it takes about 500 talents in the war department to appear.

In other words, only war departments with more than 500 people need military musicians, and they don't need a lieutenant or anything. They just want the starting salary of a centurion commander. I don't think it's too much.

In fact, if other people can change the talent of the legion, it's not just the treatment of a centurion! "

"What King Yue said is true." Tang Jian stood up and expressed his support to Li Tai and said, "Such a talent is only treated as a centurion because he is just a recruit. 500 masters!"

"Yes, yes!" "Yes, yes!" "What Hongluqing said is true"...

At this time, a large number of officials from aristocratic families came out to support, and it seemed that Li Tai responded to everyone.

But in fact, for the aristocratic family, isn't the standard proposed by Li Tai just for their aristocratic family?

To be a military musician, you must have both civil and military skills, and you must understand the six arts of a gentleman. For ordinary poor families, no, it is for the landlords of the common clan. Where can I learn the six arts?

This is the Tang Dynasty, when generals came and went, and most qualified Confucian scholars, especially those from aristocratic families, mastered the six arts as basic skills.

More importantly, compared to Li Taicai's just-started agricultural school, his family has been teaching the six arts of gentlemen for thousands of years.

After experiencing the chaos of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Li Shimin was strictly regarded as the founding king of the country. Every family wanted to arm their children to the teeth. The civil servants in the court counted as one, and most of the muscles on their backs could form a word of virtue after taking off their clothes.

This is also the reason why Li Shimin and others are silent. The musician plan is really good.

Because this plan really reduces the formation cost of the war department's talents. As long as there is one military musician for every 500 people, basically the entire army will survive the battle. talent.

No matter what the talent of the war department is, there is no difference, it is the difference between the pawns and the elite!

It can be said that this operation, which originally required the top talents to change talents, has been changed into that people who have money and received systematic education can train talents according to the scriptures, and even modify talents.

For the entire Tang Dynasty, even if half of the 60 standing army can successfully possess the talents of the war department and become elites, this will greatly improve the overall national strength of the Tang Dynasty.

But at the same time, the power of the gentry will enter the army, which is also Li Shimin's biggest headache.

The power of the gentry was almost fully demonstrated from Han to Tang. Even if Li Shimin himself was not worried, what about the follow-up?

If the power of the gentry is allowed to control the army, I am afraid that they will follow in the footsteps of the big man.

Li Tai said at this time: "Although military musicians are soldiers, they are also special soldiers.

Their biggest task is not to destroy the enemy violently, but to exist as an auxiliary to the army.

So I don't think military musicians are suitable for directly joining the military system. At least in a short period of time, we don't need a large number of military musicians to expand the army.

If the number is small, I think it will be handed over to the sage to take charge of it personally, and supervise the construction of the army as the son of heaven and the army. I believe that the soldiers under supervision will be easier to manage. "

Hearing this, Li Shimin glanced at Li Tai in surprise. It is obvious that after adding such a layer and becoming the emperor's pro-army or even Qianniubei, who is appointed and where is the emperor's decision. .

This matter is naturally indifferent to Li Shimin, but for the successors of later generations, with such a relationship, there are a few more checks and balances.

Who to send and who not to send, where to send and where not to send, it is the emperor who has the final say and that is what matters.

Generally speaking, even if not all the confidants are sent out, at least not all of them are from the family.

"However, where should the money and food for these musicians come from!" Fang Xuanling cast his eyes on Li Tai, and said, "Even if these people follow the standard of a centurion, but according to the whole country, there are nearly a thousand people spending money. Not a small sum!"

During the Zhenguan period, because of the Fubing system, the cost of raising soldiers was actually not high, but these military musicians were not ordinary soldiers, and each of them had to be treated at least as a centurion, especially if they did not follow the system of the Fubing system. Quite a waste of money!

"Don't look at me, Prime Minister, there's no reason for me to support the army, right!" Li Tai decisively disregarded the relationship this time.

Fang Xuanling looked away from Li Tai, really disappointed, Li Tai has always been able to solve the money problem, but this matter is really not easy for Li Tai to solve.

Military power is something that Li Tai cannot directly touch. This is the principle and the bottom line. Li Tai himself understands this very well, and other people will never let Li Tai touch it.

And since it does not touch military power, there is naturally no reason to pay.

After all, as long as the money is paid and the financial power is mastered, it will naturally get involved in the military power, which is impossible.

However, after Li Tai's proposal to hand over the military musician to Li Shimin as the emperor Qin Jun, everyone's eyes fell on Li Shimin involuntarily.

In any case, if the musician's plan is to be implemented, Li Shimin must take care of it first.

"Qingque, do you mean to ask me to pay? But that's a lot of money!"

Li Shimin also had a headache, and he couldn't help thinking, "Forget it, let's raise some first, after all, it can improve the combat effectiveness of the army!"

"Lu Qing, you are able to research this thing, but you have made great contributions to the country, and you have been given the position of Tai Le Cheng. But you don't need to enter the palace to play, but continue to train talents in agricultural colleges and transform music scores!"

Li Shimin looked at Lu Cai and said, "You just need to remember that meritorious deeds are the most beautiful score."

"My lord, thank you sage, obey the order!" Lu Cai respectfully agreed when he heard Li Shimin's words, then got up decisively, twisted his buttocks, and began to dance with hands and feet.

(End of this chapter)