Ding'an County, the Khitan people occupied Ulzhou before it was set up, it was originally just a relatively large temple town, more than 20 years ago, the Khitan people set up Anxian County here, and moved to hundreds of Bohai people, however, these Bohai people are relatively high degree of sinicization of agricultural Goguryeo, later generations, these people and Goguryeo was brought into the Guannai by the Tang Dynasty, and slowly integrated into the Chinese family.

Ding'an County was originally just a low earthen city, which also guarded against small bandits, and now, relying on the north city wall, it is already a continuous Qi army camp.

Lu Ning led the front army of the palace and the Shenwu army to take Ding'an, and the Goguryeo county commander appointed by the Khitans fled when he heard the news, but he was still intercepted by the Shenwu army, which had already set up an ambush with light cavalry, and captured him and his family entourage.

Lu Ning actually wanted to set up a camp in the foothills of the mountains ten miles away in the north, where the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But after thinking about it, if this place really becomes a battlefield, the people of Ding'an County will inevitably suffer, and Ding'an will become the garrison and supply point of the Khitan army; Second, if Ding'an County is included in the scope of the military camp, the water source will be very convenient, and there is no need to dig another well; Third, it is the end of summer and early autumn, with Ding'an County as the station, a wave of grain crops can be harvested.

Therefore, Lu Ning ordered the general camp to be stationed in the north of Ding'an County, and military horses were also stationed in the county.

At the same time, Ding'an County was changed to Jinning Town, and Yuan Jizhong led the Jinning Town regiment training envoy with a confidential man, so that Yuan Jizhong could participate in the highest-level military meeting, and the communication would be very aspect.

Changed Ding'an County to Jinning, because, although this area in later generations belonged to Hebei Province, but in fact, this area has always followed Yunzhou, Liao, Ming to the early Qing Dynasty, all belong to the jurisdiction of Yunzhou Datong Prefecture, Ding'an County people, voice life customs, but also closer to Yunzhou people.

At the same time as changing Ding'an County to Jinning Town, the town secretary also posted a notice that the people here, in order to avoid the war, can migrate to Yunzhou or Yanmen Pass, and the town department will all open the road.

However, it is difficult to leave the homeland, especially the strict discipline of the Qi army, the common people don't think so much, if they can not flee, they will not flee, and if they can live, naturally no one is willing to leave their homeland with their families.

The cavalry of the Daqi squad once killed robber officials, and along the way, they used enough salt to exchange food with the rural people, and the reputation has long spread around Jinning.

The squad of scout cavalry did not commit any crimes, and moreover, they were generous in exchanging salt for food, not to mention the large number of people.

Speaking of which, the common people are most afraid of the small teams of military horses and errand soldiers with the prefix of "official", these people are often lawless without the restraint of the officials, not to mention if it is a small group of routs.

In the vicinity of Jinning, the reputation of the Qi army is extremely high, and as a result, there are few and far fewer people who have fled, and there are dozens of families who have moved west.

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In the evening, in the square in front of the Yaqian County of Jinning Town, on the high platform erected, a male and a female actor were talking, but the words they said were very different from some popular scripts today, and they were full of jokes, making the black soldiers laugh from time to time.

Sitting under the stage were the soldiers of the first battalion of Jumu.

The periphery of the square is far away, and there are many onlookers, although they dare not approach, but they listen from a distance, and it is also very novel, but they dare not laugh unscrupulously.

Lu Ning was also in the crowd of onlookers.

The male actor on the stage is actually not a male actor, but a letter-writing professor in the front of the palace and a cameo.

The female singer, who came from the former military education workshop of the palace, was a Khitan woman.

Many of the professors who wrote letters from various armies would also speak in books to relieve the boredom of the soldiers, and those scripts also instilled the doctrine of loyalty and patriotism.

The professor on the stage today is usually humorous and witty, and he speaks well, and he is also a professor who disciplines prisoners and slave women.

Lu Ning has been pondering, the problem of entertainment in the army, people are either machines, or soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles, if the mental tension is not relaxed for a long time, I am afraid that the spirit will also become abnormal, and in later generations, it will be the sequelae of various wars.

Camping prostitutes, solving physical needs, is a kind of relaxation, but also a reward.

But in fact, this reward mechanism may not be as good as mentally making these soldiers happy and more condensed combat effectiveness, after all, physiological needs, in fact, is that there is no camp prostitute, most of the soldiers also have a way to solve it privately, and spiritually let the soldiers get some kind of sustenance and some kind of peace, so that the military horses under their command can jump to a higher level of combat effectiveness.

The new Teaching Workshop Division, which has been established in the front of the palace for less than two months, is this kind of experiment.

The family members of the offenders, the captured female slaves of different races, etc., who have acting talents, are selected to be trained by the Teaching Workshop Division, and the available talents are selected from them to fill the military art team of the Teaching Workshop Division.

Of course, first of all, the "political outlook" must be passed, such as the captured Khitan women of more than 100 people, those who are bitter and hateful, and those who have a stubborn personality are naturally eliminated, and those who can be left must first be gentle, malleable, and can truly integrate into Qi people, and then look at it again.

The men and women who can finally be selected into the military art team are freed from the status of prisoners, servitude, and slavery, and are assigned to the military.

Those who have been eliminated continue to serve in the army, and women, especially women of different races, who are now working as laborers, are likely to become prostitutes in the future.

The members of the military art team are incorporated into the army, and even made a register in the inner government, and the dual management of the army, in addition to motivating the military artists to make them more motivated, but also to avoid the soldiers despising them, if they are the female slaves who are despised by the soldiers to perform the show, the feeling of those spiritual pursuits will be weakened a lot.

It is precisely because of the strict requirements that after more than two months, from the Khitan female slaves and the families of Yunzhou prisoners, there are only five members of the military art team, four Khitan women, and one Nanren woman, among which two Khitan women, as the second generation members of the tribe after migrating and mixing with the Nan for more than 20 years, do not even speak the Central Plains language.

But in any case, the grass platform team is set up.

For the time being, there are two scripts, and the rest are music and song and dance performances.

Those two Khitan women who can't speak the Central Plains dialect can sing and dance, but they are also timid and cowardly, and the two of them are performing Khitan songs and musical instruments for the time being.

The two scripts were written by Lu Ning, in today's world, people's laughter is too low and too low, and the ideas of a few jokes in the future generations can become a boutique joke book.

In fact, Lu Ning also prepared a book for drama and opera, but now, naturally he can't rehearse.

From the perspective of the Teaching Division, I naturally thought that these books were made by Secretary Shang next to the Son of Heaven.

The main role of the military art team is naturally not to make the soldiers laugh, but to arm the mind, educate and entertain, instill loyalty to the monarch, patriotism, national pride, and so on.

For example, the words of the professor and the Khitan woman are Khitan women, a strong Khitan man, praising how good the Central Plains is, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, the Son of Heaven is wise and martial, how barbaric and backward her hometown is, she may say that she has entered the play, and temporarily added some bridges, which should be inspired to denounce the Khitan man as an ignorant beast, worthless.

Lu Ningguaner, who said in his heart that this fat girl looks festive, has quick wisdom, and is a talent on the literary and artistic front.

After looking at it for a while, Lu Ning nodded slightly, but the effect was slightly better than what he originally expected, and the grass platform team that had just started was very good.

If the military art team can do a good job, it may not be necessary to camp prostitutes, this kind of system of maintaining the old-style army, where is the ideological armed brainwashing so that the soldiers have a spiritual pursuit, and more cohesion of the army?

Well, we'll see.

I looked at the people around me and put it in the open space of the square, originally thinking that the more people who saw these programs, the better.

However, the front army of the palace and the Shenwu army, each battalion has one round, and the thousand-person battalion has five hundred people per round, plus the military art team also has to rest, that is, each soldier should take more than a month to watch the show, but this kind of thing, if you can watch it every day, it is not rare, and it cannot affect the vigilance and armament training and so on.