My uncle's name is Zhu Di

Chapter 328 Little Thief
"Donggong Ding's sand table deduction, the winner is not Qi Guogong, but all the veterans in the army!" Zhang Fu sighed very much, as a leader of the younger generation, Zhang Fu saw it clearly.

What makes Xu Jingchang great is not the decisiveness before the battle, leading the soldiers to charge, nor the charge to fall into the battle, personally taking risks... In the past few years, Zhu Di's prestige, who always took the lead in the charge and beat the Southern Army to flee, is not what Xu Jingchang is good at.

But Xu Jingchang was still able to crush Qiu Fu, mainly because of his ability outside the battlefield, or in other words, in Xu Jingchang's hands, everything became a tool of war.

This is the general battle advocated by martial arts recently!
That's right, after the military household system was gradually abolished, Yingtian, Beiping, and Fengyang successively established martial arts to train military talents.

In martial arts, apart from the original military skills and military tactics, many courses have been added... Zhang Fu is very clear about this.

His younger brother Zhang Min was studying martial arts.

Of the three brothers of the Zhang family, Zhang Fu, the eldest, inherited his father's title, and the remaining two were either favored, or followed the path of martial arts, and only by climbing up little by little, could they hope to stand out.

After all, not every family has two dukes to inherit.

Zhang Fu wasn't worried either, martial arts was actually not difficult.

The literati imperial examination mainly examines stereotyped essays. After becoming an official, one becomes an official of the court... After passing the military examination, one can serve the country in the army and become a general. This should be a matter of course.

But in fact, if you have a little understanding of the content of the martial arts exam, you won't think so.

There are about three major items in the martial arts assessment. The first is archery, including standing shooting and riding shooting. This item has a very high proportion.

The ability to ride and shoot is also the most important ability of a military commander. After all, he can kill opponents from a long distance, so why bother to get close and desperate!

In addition to archery, strength is also tested, such as grasping stone locks, which require extraordinary physical strength.

As for the third item, which is to examine the art of war and write articles, the share of this item is not important. After all, he is only a martial artist, he can write a few words, and he should just be blind.

Zhang Fu's confidence also comes from this. The two brothers of his family are both physically strong and good at riding and shooting. Although they don't have much literary talent, they can at least be able to read and write.

After all, it would be a joke if a noble family like them didn't even have this ability.

It's just that all these good things have changed since the establishment of martial arts.

In fact, it can be seen from the content of the martial arts exam that this is not a selection of generals, but a selection of warriors... Although as a general, personal force value is very important, but you must not win a war by force alone.

This brings up a very important question, why can't the martial arts exam be closer to war?

The answer is that it cannot be done.

It's that simple.

Thousands of martial arts scholars, each gave them a hundred soldiers, let them practice with each other with real swords and guns... No champion of martial arts was selected, but a lot of casualties. It simply cannot be done.

Therefore, the selection of martial arts can only focus on the value of personal force.

Then the warriors who are selected go to the army to practice and accumulate experience from the beginning. If they are lucky enough and talented, they can accumulate experience from battles and complete their transformation. Maybe they are expected to become generals. If not, they can only disappear from everyone .

In fact, if you are familiar with this process, you can understand why there is a problem of inheriting the generals on the general side.

After all, inheriting family experience is much more convenient and easier than realizing it by yourself.

If there is a long period of peace, there may not be a chance to make meritorious deeds.

And take a step back... Who can guarantee that military promotion is absolutely fair?
All in all, there are too many places that can be manipulated in the army, and too many things that can't be explained... These vague areas are the fertile ground for generals to survive.

The Xu family is also a general, and Xu Jingchang knows the way of it too well... Then he thoughtfully added mathematics courses to martial arts, and then added statistics, graphics, languages, customs, geography, astronomy...

Isn't it impossible to quantify?
This is not easy to handle, just add mathematics courses.

Then Zhang Fu was dumbfounded, completely dumbfounded in the literal sense.

The textbooks brought back by his brother Zhang Yu, he thinks he can grasp them with his hands, what is there?

I am a leader in the army, but I can't teach you a little doll?

Then Zhang Fu was hit in the face.

If you can't teach, you can't teach.

He really doesn't know these things, and Zhang Fu couldn't figure it out at first. Is Ding Guogong deliberately torturing people?

But gradually, Zhang Fu understood that these courses turned the art of war, which originally belonged to the category of metaphysics, into something tangible.

For example, calculating food, grass and military equipment, how many troops to march, how far to go, and under what conditions to fight... How much food and grass will be consumed, how many livestock and laborers will be needed, all can be calculated.

Not only that, as long as you have mastered the courses about terrain, you can draw topographic maps, choose the location of the formation, and arrange troops according to the terrain.

This thing is definitely more reasonable than the perfect victory formation that the emperor came up with in the capital.

As for the content of informatics, the phrase "know yourself, know your enemy, and win a hundred battles" has been turned into a thick textbook... and Xu Jingchang, the governor of Jinyiwei, wrote this course himself.

Xu Jingchang emphatically emphasized one point in it, intelligence does not have to be secret letters obtained through untold hardships, or confidential information obtained by prying open cabinets... In most cases, it is based on Scientifically analyze the news and draw reliable conclusions.

Zhang Fu saw that his second brother was as busy as a spinning top every day, spinning non-stop... He often stayed up late at night, and then got up early, and he didn't dare to neglect him at all.

This is not martial arts, it is even more terrifying than the ten-year imperial examination period!
Hard work often yields unexpected results.

In order to check his brother's ability, Zhang Fu had a debate with him.The result was beyond expectations, and Zhang Fu didn't get any bargains.

Since then, he didn't dare to be negligent, and bought an extra copy of his second brother's textbook, and he also studied it painstakingly, and even went to the martial arts school to attend.

Even if he led his troops to the southwest, Zhang Fu couldn't let go of the book, and the speed of promotion was very fast.

Because of this, Zhang Fu could see clearly that Qiu Fu's defeat was due to intelligence and self-righteousness... On the real battlefield, the Oirats should not have Xu Jingchang's calm means, and the Oirat tribes would not be able to do as much. Make finger.

Hundreds of thousands of people retreated in a large scale, and the losses during the period were also very large.

But no matter what, the chances of winning for Qiu Fu to lead the army are not great.

He has been eliminated!
It's cruel, but it's the truth.

"Duke Qi is 65 this year." Zhang Fu murmured, "He can also take care of himself."

Brother Zhang Yu looked at his eldest brother, not knowing why.

"What I mean is that you're not yet twenty...You kid, study hard for me. What you learn in martial arts is not just talk on paper, it's a way to really defeat the enemy!"

After Zhang Fu explained, he rushed his second brother to study.

Afterwards, he turned around and went to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion.

He doesn't care what others think, anyway, he is going to improve the academic level of his subordinates, at least to greatly increase the mathematics courses... If necessary, recruit more people from martial arts.

These young people have a bright future!

"Your Majesty, this is the general battle that I have finalized. Please read it over."

After the deduction was over, Xu Jingchang took the time to enter the palace and put a manuscript by Zhu Di's hand.

Zhu Di took it over and looked at it carefully, but he was not shocked immediately, but smiled lightly: "Xu Jingchang, your book is not as good as Sun Tzu's Art of War. The things you write are also commonplace... such as knowing yourself and the enemy, such as the army has not moved. Food and grass come first, this has been repeatedly emphasized by the military strategists of the past dynasties."

Xu Jingchang smiled faintly, "Your Majesty, I didn't write this book to be new and different. On the contrary, the military strategists of all dynasties said, but they didn't talk about how to do it in practice, so that no matter how much they read from the book, the future generations will have to read it." Look at your own understanding. And what I write, I try to make every middleman, after reading it, know how to fight."

Zhu Di picked it up again, looked at it again, nodded deeply, and said with a smile: "That's right, you're right. From this point of view, our Daming's soldiers and horses are not too bad?"

Xu Jingchang nodded happily, "Your Majesty is wise, with the great Ming, not making mistakes is the greatest victory."

Zhu Di nodded, "Okay, I know what's in my mind. Originally, I was thinking of giving Qi Guogong a chance to lead the army, but now it seems that it won't work."

Xu Jingchang was stunned for a moment. Sure enough, Zhu Di wanted to use Qiu Fu... But it is absolutely unreliable to let him deal with the cunning Wala. If you really want to give him a chance, you should find those soft persimmons with little combat power...

When Xu Jingchang was thinking, a eunuch suddenly came over and said that the queen invited His Majesty and Duke Ding to come over.

Empress Xu greeted, and the monarchs and ministers did not dare to neglect. After they came, they found that Zhu Zhanji was there, and Xu Xianzhong's child was also there.

Moreover, he was facing a cricket pot with Zhu Zhanji, yelling loudly, completely immersed in it.

"Bite, bite quickly! Hard, hard!"

The two guys clenched their fists and howled.

Seeing this, Xu Jingchang felt that his head was getting bigger.

Zhu Zhanji, you are so depraved, don't take my son with you!

If it weren't for seeing Zhu Di here, I would definitely beat you up!

Xu Jingchang stretched out his hand, grabbed his son's collar, and lifted Xu Xianzhong who was screaming happily.

The little guy was in a hurry, "Don't make trouble!"

Turning around to see that it was his father, he was dumbfounded.

Xu Jingchang chuckled, "Are you having fun?"

"Open, happy."

Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "Just be happy, you can enter the Mongolian School in a few days, and study hard for me."

Hearing the reading, Xu Xianzhong immediately fainted... He didn't even eat a few mouthfuls of the imperial banquet that was connected, and then he followed his father and hurried home.

When their father and son left, Zhu Di called Zhu Zhanji over and asked about his homework, "I'm going to let you study martial arts... all martial arts taught by Taixue, and those who don't teach Taixue, you can also learn martial arts. You Be careful."

Zhu Zhanji quickly agreed, when Empress Xu suddenly said: "I prepared a piece of Tianhuang for Your Majesty, why is it missing?"

Almost at the same time, Xu Jingchang, who was sitting in the carriage, noticed that his son's arms were bulging... Xu Jingchang reached out and grabbed the cub, only to find that it was a piece of Tianhuang the size of a fist.

"What are you doing with this?"

Xu Xianzhong rolled his small eyes, "Give it to Mr., then, it won't make things difficult for others."

Xu Jingchang was dumbfounded... You bastard, how old are you that you already know how to bribe?
(End of this chapter)