Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 256 Opening of Arms School
In August, the golden wind brought coolness, and the Armed Forces Academy officially opened.Zhao Zhen, who bears the title of the head of the mountain, drove out of the palace this day, and went to the Armed Forces Academy to preside over the opening ceremony.

When the emperor went out, only Wang Yiyong, the privy envoy, accompanied him, and none of the prime ministers accompanied him when he was in power.This clearly shows the attitude of the civil servants towards the Wubei Academy. Pang Ji even said in front of the emperor and Li Buqi: "After negotiating peace with the Liao Kingdom, I hope that Your Majesty will rest and recuperate. I will not ask about military affairs for 30 years and run the Wubei Academy as an apprentice." Waste of money and food."

However, although there was no cheering by the minister of honor, the emperor's traveling team was even larger, because Li Buqi persuaded the emperor to bring the queen and concubines out, and the whole family was traveling.

The reason given by Li Buqi made the emperor unable to refuse-since the chief executives don't want the military training school, then the military training school is entirely His Majesty's.The students in the school are all children, and now the government treats them like family members, and they will be loyal to the government like family members in the future, so if the royal family invests in affection, it will get a reward in the future.

For this reason, Empress Cao was able to lead the harem concubines to the Armed Forces School logically, where they would distribute snacks and present gifts to the students in the school.This is also one of Li Buqi's efforts to dispel the emperor's wariness towards the students of the Military Academy.Who made the emperor like to use his family to have children? For example, Wang Deyong actually didn't have any military merits. It was just because Wang Deyong's father was an old man from Zhenzong's hidden residence that he was looked at highly, so he was promoted to a general and was boasted as a famous general.

When the emperor came in person, Li Buqi naturally organized a grand welcome ceremony. The teachers and students of the school lined up on both sides of the gate to welcome him.The emperor drove to the entrance of the Military Equipment Academy, and the little eunuch opened the curtain. The emperor looked up and saw that there was no screen wall in the school, but there was a huge stone statue of a general inside the gate. The strange thing was that the stone statue was facing north with its back to the gate.

This is the Royal Military Academy, and Li Buqi naturally had to report everything to the emperor, so the emperor knew that the statue was Wei Qing.

Since it is a military academy, it is necessary to choose a military god to enshrine.Wei Qing was a famous general who attacked the Xiongnu in the north. As a military god, there is nothing wrong with him. More importantly, the history books record that Wei Qing was an extremely human minister without establishing personal authority. He was also the brother-in-law of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and an absolutely loyal minister.The emperor of the Song Dynasty was more important to whether the military god enshrined in the imperial school was a loyal minister than his record. Naturally, Wei Qing stood out from several candidates.

The emperor got out of the chariot, beckoned Li Buqi over and asked, "Why is this Marquis of Changping (Wei Qing) facing away from the gate, and what is his intention?"

Li Buqi hurriedly said: "Firstly, since ancient times, all foreign troubles in China have come from the north. The God of War is always reminding the students not to forget the troubles in the north, and not to forget the northern expedition to Yanyun. Two, General Wei's contribution to the conquest of the Xiongnu is Last but not least, guarding the north is justified.”

Zhao Zhen nodded happily, and then led by Li Buqi to the gate of the Wubei Academy.At this time, the plaque on the lintel was covered by a piece of red silk, and the officer of praise presented a red rope to Zhao Zhen.Zhao Zhen pulled the red rope as Li Buqi told him, and the red silk covering the plaque fell down, revealing the six golden characters "Royal Armed Forces Academy" inscribed by Zhao Zhen on the plaque.

As the red silk fluttered down, a drum sounded suddenly, and then the music came to mind, but it was not the gala music at the ceremony.Zhao Zhen heard the strange tune, so he hurriedly listened to it. At this time, thirty male singers took the lead in singing, and then the immature voices of the students in the school merged into it. There was no trace of melodiousness, but they rushed straight like horns. sky.

"The wind and rain rise, the clouds fly,

The sky is full of flames, and the roc is soaring.

The smoke and dust are rushing, looking at the sky and the earth,
With a longbow, look northwest, and shoot Sirius!
Gold agitation, wolf smoke madness,
Drums and horns contend, iron horses rein together,
In an instant, the clouds turned and the rain turned gray,
Full of blood, full of hatred, fixed in all directions!

I will bear the sufferings of the world!

May there be generations to come,
No more wars and famines,

Kyushu is strong and prosperous, and Changle is young! "

Li Buqi looked at the song he had plagiarized with satisfaction, and the emperor was so shocked that he froze.It wasn't until the singing stopped and he invited Zhao Zhen in that Zhao Zhen came back to his senses and asked, "Is this song written by Changping Hou?"

Li Buqi said: "Exactly."

"Ahem, it's quite appropriate. It's just that I don't know what he hates?"

This is the emperor's narrow-mindedness again. Who said that there was no literary prison in the Song Dynasty?Li Buqi said solemnly: "The king humiliates his ministers to death, the king worries about his ministers' hatred, hates the injustice of the world, and hates those who make the king worry."

The emperor was obviously satisfied with the answer, and walked into the gate of the school with a smile. Li Buqi called the teachers and students to the school grounds.On the reviewing stand of the newly built echo wall, the emperor delivered an impassioned speech—of course, the eunuch read it on his behalf. Then, according to Li Buqi’s arrangement, teacher representatives and student representatives spoke, expressing his determination to be loyal to the royal family.

Zhao Zhen, a country bumpkin, has never seen this before. Although he has long been used to flattery and loyalty in court, when he sees a childish child impassionedly expressing his support for the emperor, look again. Looking at the serious expressions of the other children, there was something different about them.Especially seeing his son standing in the queue facing the scorching sun with his head held high, not only half a head taller than other children around him, but also standing straighter and more stable, he couldn't help feeling a sense of father's pride in his heart.

The emperor was in a good mood, and after presenting the flags to the classes, he visited the school under the leadership of Li Buqi.The school site is a bit big for 80 students. Li Buqi once again explained that 320 students will be recruited every year, and the number of students in the school will reach [-] in the future.And because of the course setting, a large number of specialized venues are required, such as the separation of ordinary school venues and equestrian venues.In order to cultivate students' equestrian skills, the school raises two kinds of horses alone - the short Sichuan horse and the relatively tall Khitan horse and Hexi horse. It is used for middle school students to contact cavalry tactics.

Li Buqi drew a picture for the emperor. More than ten years later, the officers and men of the imperial army of the Song Dynasty were all the emperor's disciples.

When the emperor was visiting, the queen led the concubines to hand out military uniforms and rewards made in the palace to the students.When the elementary school students lined up to receive the rewards, these concubines who wanted to have a boy were going crazy, and they couldn't help holding the child to get closer, and it really felt like a family.But while all the concubines were getting close to these children, they were paying attention to the leftovers who were wearing the same clothes as other students.

The rest lined up in the queue and walked towards the concubines who distributed the rewards together with other students under the guidance of the female officer.Feeling the constant glances, he looked at his nose and his heart, pretending not to notice it at all.

He has been in Li Jiayi School for more than two years, and he has understood from his interactions with ordinary children that being special in a group will result in isolation. special relationship.So although in the eyes of adults, his current behavior is very naive, but he still pretends to be acquainted with everyone in the palace.When receiving the reward from the concubine, he straightened his back like other students and shouted: "Thank you, ma'am!"

Only when he took the small basket with rewards from Princess Fukang, did he smile slightly at Princess Fukang and Concubine Miao behind Fukang, and then quickly put his smile back.Fukang, a girl who grew up in the palace, has a more delicate mind than her peers. Seeing this scene, she knew that Leftover didn't want to reveal her identity, so she just smiled slightly, and then patted the basket lightly with her hand twice to signal that she was not among them. have content.

Then Zuo'er walked in front of the queen, knelt down and saluted like other students, then stood up and returned to the team without squinting.

While dealing with the other students, Empress Cao paid attention to every move of Leftover. Seeing that Leftover returned to the team and stood in the queue and looked ahead, she deliberately didn't look at the other students curiously. side.Seeing the tall and straight figure like a javelin, with the small face slightly raised with confidence, the queen couldn't help but think of the majestic figures of her grandfather and father, and said in her heart: "Since the Taizu, the Zhao family has not produced a civil and military leader. The all-round emperor!"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Concubine Zhang at the side, seeing that Concubine Zhang was also looking at Leftover's position, but there was a look of disdain on her face.Regarding Concubine Zhang's thoughts, Empress Cao felt that she could guess some of them. It was nothing more than that since the remaining son had made it clear to learn martial arts, there would not be a few ministers in the court who supported the remaining son to become the emperor, and the succession of the fourth prince would be sure. .But Empress Cao thinks that it is still unknown who will die. If nothing else, let's just talk about this body.

(End of this chapter)