Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 147 Performance New Book
At exactly the right time, Chongzhen finally ordered to camp.

At this time, the heavy rain had already stopped, but the ground was still wet and muddy, but the scholars no longer cared about it, they propped up the tent hastily, and lay down one by one.

In less than a moment, there was thunderous snoring in the camp.

He fell asleep in a daze for less than three hours.

Before dawn, the swan sound of oh oh oh suddenly sounded.

The sleeping scholar was awakened immediately, and his mind went blank at first. This is a normal physiological reaction after the human body is over-tired. After a few seconds, the senior scholars came to their senses.

"Get up, get up quickly, start a fire and cook, hurry up!"

The voice of the chief scholar sounded, and the scholars who were in a state of trance sat up in shock.

Including the children of the aristocratic families like Gu Gao and Wu Yingji, they all started to get busy. This was their first night on the journey north, but it wasn't the first time they camped.

When I was still in Nanjing, I had done several camping trips.

But at that time, the furthest was to live in Zijin Mountain for two nights.

Those camping trips left only good memories for the scholars, but now they have become nightmares.

Soon, a mouthful of iron pots were set up, and each group of scholars on duty began to fetch water for cooking.

However, before the water boiled, Yi Ding, who had been degraded by the scholars from "friendly allies" to "violent gods and evil spirits", came galloping on his horse, and his whip rained down like rain.

"There is an order from the Holy Spirit, no fire is allowed."

"There is an order from the Holy Spirit, no fire is allowed to make food!"

"Huh? Is this asking us to eat cold food?" The scholars felt bitter.

No problem, the chief scholars of each group shared the leftover cold rice from yesterday, and gave each of them a piece of salt, a small sesame ball as a condiment, and a dried ebony plum to quench their thirst.

But where is this cold food enough?Gap between teeth is not enough.

However, the military order is like a mountain, no matter how hungry you are, you can only bear it.

The hardest part was the group of outpost soldiers on duty.

Before the other Qin Wang scholars sat still, this group of outpost scholars set off early to scout the way.

Soon, the swan sound sounded again for the second time, and the scholars who were resting quickly packed up their luggage and straightened their flag armor. Well, the scholar Qin Wang was not issued armor at this time, and was still wearing a shirt.

When the swan sound sounded for the third time, they all set off on the road.

Maybe it was because they recovered a lot of physical strength after resting overnight, or maybe they had other plans, Gu Gao, Wu Yingji and other aristocratic children stopped making noise and started to practice the army.

But how could Chongzhen let the scholars stop?

Soon, Zheng Sen and other senior scholars were called to the Chinese army.

When Zheng Sen came back from the Chinese army, he had a bundle of pamphlets in his arms.

"Gu Gao, Wu Yingji, and Fang Yizhi, come and help me distribute it," Zheng Sen said.

Gu Gao stood still, but Wu Yingji came forward and asked, "What is this? Could it be a book of war?"

"That's right, this is exactly the book of war." Zheng Sen responded loudly, "Qi Shaobao wrote a new book on performance, and it was edited and revised by the Holy One himself."

"A new book on performance?" Gu Gao said with disdain on his face, "I only read Sun Tzu's art of war, not those bullshit new books made up by those scumbags."

Although Qi Jiguang is a famous general in the world, he is not favored by the civil official group.

Gu Gao grew up in a family of officials and eunuchs, and he also inherited the contempt of military generals from the civil official group, so he didn't look down on Qi Jiguang's new performance book at all.

"Zi Fang, don't say a few words."

Wu Yingji persuaded Gu Gao in a low voice, lest he would offend Zheng Sen.

Fortunately, Zheng Sen was busy distributing books and had no time to pay attention to Gu Gao.

Wu Yingji distributed a new performance book to each of the sons, and gave the last one to Gu Gao, and kindly reminded Gu Gao: "Let's put on a good show."

However, Gu Gao refused to even put on a show.

Gu Gao was deeply disappointed in this trip to the north.

So he didn't even want to do superficial efforts, and even secretly hoped that it would be best to offend Chongzhen, and then drive him back to Nanjing, so that he could go back logically.

So Gu Gao directly threw the new performance book on the ground.

This scene happened to be seen by Zheng Sen who had finished distributing the books.

Zheng Sen's face immediately collapsed, he walked up to Gu Gao and said, "Pick up the book!"

"I won't pick it up, what do you do?" Gu Gao seemed to be willing to go all out this time, looking directly at Zheng Sen coldly.

"Gu Zifang, let me warn you one last time, pick up the book quickly!" After all, Zheng Sen was only in his early twenties at this time, and he didn't even dare to whip his classmates, let alone let him kill his classmates.

"Brother Damu, Zifang is joking with you, don't mind."

In the end, it was Fang Yizhi who wiped Gu Gao's butt again, and bent down to pick up the book.

Zheng Sen breathed a sigh of relief, looked around again and shouted: "There is an order from the Holy Spirit, you must memorize the new book of Shishi fluently, and you must memorize the fifth chapter of the first volume within three days."

"The Holy Majesty will conduct random inspections in three days."

"If you find someone who can't recite, you will be whipped twenty times!"

After finishing speaking, Zheng Sen gave Gu Gao another hard look.

Fang Yizhi hurriedly stuffed the new performance book into Gu Gao's hands.

Wu Yingji who was beside him also persuaded, "Let's deal with it casually."

"Yes, just deal with it casually." Fang Yizhi also said, "Brother Zi Fang, with your talent and memory, memorizing the new performance book is not a piece of cake, is it, hehehe."

However, Gu Gao just remained silent.

But finally did not throw away the performance of the new book.

Instead, he held the book in his hand indifferently.

……

Zhu Cijiong is younger than Gu Gao, and his family background is more noble. However, Zhu Cijiong has no contempt for Qi Jiguang in his heart. At this time, he has already immersed himself in the new performance book.

"...The first-class available people are only the honest people in the countryside."

"The so-called honest people in the countryside are black, big and strong, and able to endure hard work."

"The skin and flesh on the hand and face are firm and have the color of earthwork, this is the first."

After reading this, Zhu Cijiong suddenly closed the page and asked Chongzhen: "Father, Qi Shaobao compiled and trained Zhejiang soldiers, and the soldiers recruited were such honest people from the countryside?"

"Yes." Chongzhen nodded and replied, "That's it."

Zhu Cijiong said: "But father, I have been friends with Prince Qin and his sons in the past month, and I learned from them that most honest and honest adults in the countryside are cowardly, and such cowardly people are really worthy of being soldiers?"

Chongzhen said: "This statement is absurd, but it is not the case."

After a short pause, Chongzhen said again: "The honest people in the country are not cowardly, but the reason why they give the impression of cowardice to the scholars in that generation is because they respect the scholars! Or they respect the court behind the scholars! If In the face of artisans and merchants, or in the face of barbarians, these rural and honest people will not be cowardly!"

"It is said that Liao soldiers are the best in the world, but in fact Zhejiang soldiers are more brave and good at fighting than Liao soldiers."

"Back then in the bloody battle at Hunhe, [-] white soldiers and [-] Zhejiang soldiers faced tens of thousands of Jiannu iron cavalry. They fought fiercely for a long time. Instead of losing the wind, they killed more than [-] Jiannu! This is enough to show their prowess!"

"This is an elite team!" Zhu Cijiong listened leisurely and fascinated.

Speaking of this meal, Zhu Cijiong asked again in a low voice: "Father, my son is unclear about something."

Chongzhen asked back: "Do you want to ask me, why don't you directly recruit honest and honest people from the countryside in eastern Sichuan and western Zhejiang to form a new army? Instead, it takes more time to recruit the sons of King Qin?"

"Yes." Zhu Cijiong said, "I also ask my father to clarify my doubts."

Chongzhen pointed to the new performance book in Zhu Cijiong's hand, and said, "The answer is in the book."

"The answer is in this book?" Zhu Cijiong picked up the new performance book again in a daze.

A moment later, Zhu Cijiong had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately said excitedly: "Father, I understand, I understand what you mean, Father."

"Oh, is that so?" Chongzhen laughed, "You should talk about it."

Zhu Cijiong said: "How the white pole soldiers in eastern Sichuan are trained is still unknown, but the secret of Qi Shaobao's compilation and training of Zhejiang soldiers is this new performance book."

"The first volume, Shuwu Chapter, is about how to select soldiers."

"The second volume of commands is about the trumpets and drums in the army."

"The third volume of military law is about military law regulations."

"The fourth volume, Rewards and Punishments, is about the purpose of rewards and punishments."

"The fifth volume, Marching and Camping, is about marching and camping."

"The sixth volume of Weapons is about the control of firearms."

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiong went on to say after a short pause: "As long as you write down this new book on performance and train honest people in the countryside according to the content contained in the book, you can get an elite teacher!"

"But father, you only have one person, and you can only train a team of a hundred people in half a year."

"That's why the emperor wanted to recruit scholars. Because scholars can read and write, they can write down the entire content of the new book of performance in a short period of time, and then train soldiers according to the content in the book. In this way, six thousand scholars can compile and train within half a year. Six hundred thousand people!"

"A real child can be taught." Chongzhen touched Zhu Cijiong's little head affectionately. This kid's political sensitivity is far inferior to Zhu Cihong's, but his military understanding is far better than Nai's brother.

What Zhu Cijiong said hit the point, this is the strength of student soldiers.

Because student soldiers are literate and educated, they not only grow quickly, but also grow much faster, because every student soldier can serve as a grassroots officer.

With a little practice, you can serve as the chief officer.

Just talk about the six thousand diligent princes in front of you.

Roll back and forth in the bloody waters of the Xuzhou battlefield, as long as [-] scholars survive, and then scatter them back to their hometowns to recruit soldiers, and when they gather again, there will be an army of [-]!

These [-] soldiers may not be as good as Zhejiang soldiers and Baigan soldiers, but they will definitely not be far behind.

Supplemented by a large number of artillery and muskets, they will have confidence in field battles with Jiannu.

At that time, the Ming army would no longer have to hide behind the Huanghuai defense line and blindly be beaten passively, but would be able to launch a fierce counterattack against Jiannu more proactively.

From this perspective, the new performance book is really a treasure!
Of course, the new book on performance issued by Chongzhen to Prince Qin is no longer the original new book on performance.

On the basis of Qi Jiguang's foundation, Chongzhen deleted the chapters such as Long Soldiers and Short Soldiers, Short Soldiers and Long Uses, Shefa Quan Jing and Various Weapons in Putrajaya.

Finally, a chapter on firearm control was added, with a total of six volumes and more than [-] words.

(End of this chapter)