For candidates who are serious about studying, the written martial arts exam is actually very easy.

"Elementary School", "University", "Analects", "Mencius", only one of them is required.

"Seven Books of Martial Arts", seven military books, and only one of them is needed.

Yu Dayou chose "Mencius" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War", combined with the results of various subjects in the martial arts test, and only won the third place - he dragged his feet in riding and shooting.

is different from the excitement of the list of the literary examination, when the list of martial arts is released, there are no idlers to come to see the excitement, only the martial arts people themselves are silly there.

It is a palace test non-stop, but unfortunately the regulations are shabby, and it is chosen to be held in the Wuying Palace.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di also summoned ministers in Wuying Palace, and later summoned all in Wenhua Palace.

Now, Wuyingdian has been reduced to a place where the emperor fasts, and the queen mother and empress also summon the maiden in Wuyingdian. In addition, Wuyingdian is a place for compiling books and paintings, and the officials of the Hanlin Academy don't like to compile books here, so Wuyingdian gathers a group of court painters all year round.

Tang Bohu is now very moisturized, and Wuyingdian has become his old nest, where he paints half of the time every year.

Li Zicheng read little, and after conquering the city of Beijing, he actually announced his ascension to the throne in the Wuying Palace, and he thought that the Wuying Hall was a place dedicated to martial arts. Dolgon was also a little confused, and many halls were not chosen, but he wanted to be regent in Wuying Hall (there was also a reason why Li Zicheng burned the palace, and Wuying Hall happened to not be burned).

This is the arrogance and contempt of the civil officials, although they agreed to open the martial arts, but the martial arts hall was set up in the Wuying Palace.

Of the 198 Wuju people, except for 14 who had an unbearable cultural level, the remaining 184 people were all admitted as Wujinshi. And the fourteen who were not admitted to the martial arts were also recruited by Zhu Houzhao to the leopard room because of their good martial arts.

When they came to Wuying Palace, the candidates were very excited to see the emperor, and the emperor was also very happy to see the candidates.

Zhu Houzhao likes martial artists, there are warriors in front of him, and all the heroes in the world are in my place!

The palace examination was a policy theory, and a bunch of sage words were pulled, and the emperor asked the martial arts candidates to discuss it as the foundation.

Yu Dayou's military thinking is inherited from "The Art of War", and his writing of strategies and theories is also the set of "The Art of War", talking about time, location, people, logistics, national strength, and strategy. However, with a turn of the pen, he believes that now that the military system is rotten, the generals should first be honest, and they should not deduct the food and salary of the soldiers, otherwise it is useless to say anything, and the soldiers are not willing to fight at all.

Then, Yu Dayou said that if there is no shortage of food, there will be morale. However, military discipline should also be strict, and the local guards do not know what military discipline is, and such an army cannot go to the battlefield.

Anyway, it's something very practical, easier said than done.

Wang Yuan did not participate in the palace examination papers, and all of them were judged by officials of the Ministry of War.

Zhu Houzhao promised the top 30 and asked the officials to read it to him, and finally selected Yu Dayou as the martial champion.

The birth of Wu Zhuangyuan was also not lively, and the civil officials didn't care at all, but the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies held a celebration banquet for them.

Leopard room.

Zhu Houzhao pointed to the six people in front of him and said, "Erlang, these are all those who are in armor. ”

"I've seen Wang Shilang!"

The six of them were quite excited, Wang Yuan was the god of war of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yuan smiled and arched his hand and asked, "Are you Yu Dayou?" ”

Yu Dayou saluted and said, "Exactly! ”

"Sure enough, a brave man." Wang Yuan said approvingly.

Yu Long Qi Hu, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, that name is very big, even Wang Yuan, a historical novice, knows it.

To be honest, Yu Dayou's life experience is more suitable for making martial arts films rather than military war films.

Not to mention the anecdote of entering the Shaolin Temple alone, he is also particularly magical in quelling the chaos in Guangdong.

At that time, Yu Dayou was serving as the commander of the capital in Guangdong, and the governor asked him to lead troops to quell the rebellion.

Yu Dayou didn't have a few soldiers in his hands, and the local guards were all in ruins. He simply told the soldiers to defend themselves, with only a few retinues, and ran to meet the rebel leader.

Yu Dayou has a reckless atmosphere, makes friends with the rebel leaders, and teaches them to learn mastery swordsmanship. There is a leader named Su Qingsnake, who is known as being able to subdue the tiger, who disobeys Yu Dayou's martial arts and is killed by Yu Dayou with a sword. In this way, the leaders of the rebel army obeyed, and they sent Yu Dayou as the leading brother.

Not a single soldier was fired, and the rebellion was quelled.

In this way, he is not like an officer, but more like a chivalrous man.

is a little unlucky, always inexplicably involved in civilian and political struggles, and many of the military exploits have been encroached upon.

The eunuch brought wine and food, and Zhu Houzhao gave everyone a seat, and they drank wine and ate meat together.

After laughing and talking for a while, Zhu Houzhao pointed to one person and said: "Erlang, should the subjects of the martial arts examination be changed one or two, a warrior like Zheng Hu actually fell off the list." ”

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "The minister thinks that there is no need to change, didn't Zheng Wuju enter the leopard room?" ”

Zheng Hu, a native of Shandong, is an ordinary household.

With the prosperity of business, there is now a dart game, and Zheng Hu was hired as a dart master because of his strong body. I heard that the martial arts were booming, Zheng Hu went to sign up, this guy had never read the military book at all, and he only knew a few big characters.

However, Zheng Hu was too strong. Even if he couldn't write articles, he still took the exam all the way to the capital, and the examiners at all levels were reluctant to brush him off.

Until the martial arts meeting failed the list, he was recruited by the emperor into the leopard room to listen to it.

This thing didn't know what to eat, it was nearly two meters tall, and it had big shoulders and a round waist, and its arms were as thick as ordinary people's thighs.

Wang Yuan saw Zheng Hu glaring at him, and felt quite funny: "What, are you a little unconvinced?" ”

Zheng Hu was stunned and said: "I am in Shandong, and I have heard of Wang Erlang's prestige, and it is rumored that Wang Erlang has three heads and six arms. When I met a real person, I don't think it's very powerful, I want to compete with you. ”

This is too presumptuous, not only does he call Wang Erlang, but he also wants to learn martial arts from Wang Yuan.

Zhu Houzhao just laughed and did not scold.

Wang Yuan just didn't hear anything, with his current status, can he ignore a mess of people?

Zheng Hu actually asked: "Do you dare to compare?" ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said to Yu Dayou: "Yu Zhuangyuan, I am Wen Zhuangyuan, and you are Wu Zhuangyuan." How about you teach this guy a lesson on my behalf? ”

Yu Dayou immediately got up: "Don't dare to resign." ”

The Emperor immediately moved to the inner school ground, where the training stopped, and the soldiers gathered around to watch the competition.

Zheng Hu made a four-foot machete, and Yu Dayou begged for a two-handed sword.

The machete, which is more than 30 catties, is purely used for martial arts, and it is impossible to go to the battlefield at all, because if you can't cut a few enemies, you will be tired and lie down. But in Zheng Hu's hands, it was like a straw, dancing like a tiger, catching Yu Dayou and chopping it continuously.

Yu Dayou was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood, he had countless exquisite sword moves, but in the face of the four-foot machete, he couldn't use it at all - unless he was injured, he would also stab Zheng Hu to death, but it would not end well.

"Dang!"

Unable to avoid it, Yu Dayou swung his sword to block, and the big swords in both hands were cut off, and Yu Wei shocked Yu Dayou's arm numb.

"No more fighting!" Yu Dayou abandoned his sword and conceded defeat.

Zheng Hu smiled at Wang Yuan and said, "I won." ”

Zhu Houzhao laughed.

In fact, Yu Dayou can win, but he must fight to the death, and the Leopard School is not a desperate place.

Yu Dayou didn't defend himself either, and said to Wang Yuan with his fists: "Wang Shilang, you have a humiliating mission. ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "From beginning to end, your body and feet are very stable, and you have always left some strength to spare, and your loss is not ugly." Zheng Hu's swordsmanship is a wild way, but your swordsmanship is a battle formation technique, where did you learn it? ”

Yu Dayou said: "It was learned by Master Zhao in Quanzhou, and it is said to have been passed down from Shaolin Temple. ”

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "How can the monks know how to fight the formation swordsmanship?" Most of them are false. ”

"I don't know about this matter below." Yu Dayou could only answer like this.

Subsequently, Zhu Houzhao personally went into battle, carrying a sword to fight, invincible, unstoppable, so angry that the emperor was not interested.

"Don't fight, let's get down to business," Zhu Houzhao suddenly asked, "Which of you wants to be a Daning military general, Wu Zhuangyuan, Wu Bangyan and Wu Tanhua can be immediately assigned to the commander, and the rest of the Wu Jinshi can be at least a thousand households." ”

"I want to go!" Everyone fell to their knees.

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "If you go to Quanning, you can't be a hereditary military attaché. Have you figured it out? ”

Everyone was stunned and unable to decide.

The military attache system of the Ming Dynasty is divided into world officials and stream officials.

There are nine ranks of secular officials, commanding envoys, commanding fellow knowledge, and commanding affairs, all the way to thousands of households, hundreds of households, and trial hundred households, all of which are basically hereditary.

There are eight ranks of liuguan, and the governor and the governor know the same, and until they stay in the locality, they need to be promoted on merit, and they cannot be hereditary.

In addition, the town and garrison system, that is, the general army, deputy general soldier, staff general, guerrilla, garrison, general and other positions, were basically held by honors and nobles in the early Ming Dynasty, and now they have basically become military officials, and they cannot be hereditary.

In addition, there has always been a way out, that is, the health system, which can also be served by liuguan.

This is an opening deliberately left by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is also a breakthrough for Wang Yuan to reform the military system!

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was a commander or a thousand or a hundred households, as long as there was a vacancy, priority was given to promoting liuguan to serve, which was to maintain the vitality of the army.

However, as time passed, those rogue officials gradually became hereditary.

Nowadays, it is still possible to let the liuguan serve as a thousand or a hundred households, but according to the unspoken rules, it should be given to the hereditary after many years. This is how the martial arts system was destroyed, and the martial arts and martial artists were awarded the rank of liuguan, which could not be hereditary in itself, and it was hereditary again in front of them.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang kept his mouth, how could Wang Yuan not use it?

The rules can be gradually specified, and in the future, Wujin Shi and Wuju people can only serve as liuguan and cannot be given hereditary succession, unless they have made great achievements.

In this way, there are more and more martial champions and martial artists, and there are more and more military officials. Local hereditary military attachés, there will always be a time when there will be no heirs, and there will always be a time when they will be convicted, and once they vacate their seats, they will immediately let someone from a military position serve as a new military attaché group.

These new-style military attaches cannot be hereditary, so they must rely on meritorious service to be promoted to reap more benefits for their children and grandchildren. They will also spontaneously compete with the hereditary military attaché for profit, and at the same time promote people with the same background.

Perhaps, in the future, the generals will narrate the year: "Oh, you are also a martial artist of such and such a year, and we are still the same year!" ”

Of course, it has to be taken step by step, and it can't be promoted on a large scale now.

Yu Dayou was only slightly stunned, and vaguely guessed that the emperor wanted to reform, and immediately shouted: "The minister is willing to go to Daning to be a military general!" ”

Zhu Houzhao said happily: "Okay, I will let you be the commander of Daning Wei!" ”