Chapter 285: Rejecting Li Gang
Hearing Li Qingzhao's name, Wu Song's excitement was really overflowing. Only then did he realize that the era he had traveled over was actually the same era as Li Qingzhao, the most famous female lyricist in Chinese history!
In the era before the crossing, Wu Song liked Li Qingzhao's words very much. Now, I am lucky to be in the same era as her, and even know her cousin, and I have the opportunity to meet her in person, how lucky is this?
At this time, Zhou Bangyan saw that Wu Song was happy, so he smiled and explained the purpose of bringing these great literati and great talents to see Wu Song.
It turns out that these great literati and great talents are of different ages and positions, but they have some common characteristics, that is, they are not used to the behavior of traitors such as Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and Gao Yu who mislead the country, and they all stoop to the lower position because they have offended these traitors, and they are very unsatisfactory in their careers, and more importantly, they all have a heart of worrying about the country and the people.
Wu Song's analysis of the internal and external troubles of the Great Song Dynasty and his far-sighted plan to establish a new forbidden army to save the Great Song Dynasty convinced Zhou Bangyan. When Zhou Bangyan relayed Wu Song's words to these literati who came, it immediately aroused their strong resonance. Everyone realized that although the Great Song Dynasty was now singing and dancing, the emperor was mediocre, the traitorous ministers were in charge, and there were strong enemies outside, and they were in danger.
Therefore, when they heard that Mr. Zhou Bangyan was unprecedentedly willing to participate in the new forbidden army, they were also curious about Wu Song, some wanted to come over to see Wu Song and the new forbidden army, some wanted to express their support for Wu Song's new forbidden army to go out to suppress bandits, and some wanted to join the new forbidden army like Zhou Bangyan!
Among them, Li Gang's mood is the most urgent.
Li Gang himself came from the family of Jiangmen, and he was originally very interested in marching and fighting, and at the same time he also had a strong heart of worrying about the country and the people, and now he was squeezed by traitorous ministers in the court, and he could not see the future, so he was willing to follow Wu Song's new forbidden army and try it in the army.
Wu Song was very happy and had a feeling that his wishes had come true.
His new forbidden army, unlike any army of this era, was formed according to the methods of a post-modern army for more than a thousand years. Therefore, the new forbidden army not only attaches importance to military drills, but also attaches more importance to ideological and political work and military propaganda and education work; only in this way can the army be able to make concerted efforts from top to bottom and twist into a rope, so that only such a soldier can have backbone, only such an army can have a military soul, and only an army with a military soul can truly have combat effectiveness!
In the era before his crossing, Saddam's millions of troops in Iraq were on the verge of collapse under the attack of the American army, and almost no decent resistance was organized, not only because the weapons were inferior to the American army, but also because the army's spirit was gone. The army of the Northern Song Dynasty was actually stronger than the Jin, Liao, and Mongols in terms of numbers and weapons and equipment, but it was repeatedly defeated because from the imperial court to the soldiers, the spirit was weak and the will was not strong.
Therefore, in order to build the new forbidden army into the strongest army of this era, Wu Song must pay special attention to the military's ideological and political work and propaganda and education work. And this, what is needed is not only the generals who can fight well, but also these great literati and talents brought by Zhou Bangyan. If they write a good poem, it will become a good military song and greatly boost the morale of the army, just like the military songs of later generations, such as "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" and "Our Troops Towards the Sun".
And in the longer term, it's not just the military in the future. If Wu Song wants to make contributions in this era, he also needs these literati and writers to create public opinion and strengthen propaganda for themselves.
Therefore, Zhou Bangyan was able to bring so many people here, which was really in line with Wu Song's intentions. Wu Song expressed his appreciation and gratitude to Zhou Bangyan, saying that as long as everyone was willing to join the new forbidden army, he warmly welcomed it and would definitely reuse it.
However, there were two people, Wu Song did not agree with them to join the new forbidden army.
One is Li Gang.
Li Gang's desire to join the new forbidden army was the most fervent, but Wu Song did not agree to his joining. Li Gang was unconvinced and said, "General Wu, why are you doing this?" ”
Wu Song said with a smile: "Because you are still young, if you stay in Bianjing and stay in the imperial court, you will have greater development prospects, and you will be more able to help me and the new forbidden army!" ”
Wu Song was telling the truth. As a traverser, with some memories of his previous life, Wu Song knows: Although Li Gang is not ambitious now, because of his outstanding character and talent, he will eventually stand out, and later even became a secretary of the military department and a prime minister.
Such an outstanding talent can serve in the new forbidden army, of course, it will bring great help to Wu Song. However, after all, the new forbidden army is still a new army, the future is still unclear, and Wu Song's own position is not high, so letting Li Gang enter the new forbidden army is wronged him. He couldn't bear to delay the future of this patriotic hero.
More importantly, the new forbidden army is going out on an expedition, and it needs someone in the court to respond. If Li Gang can get ahead in the court and cooperate with Wu Song, it will be more beneficial to each other.
Another Wu Song who did not agree to join the new forbidden army was the Xie Ke family.
The reason is similar to Li Gang. The Xie Ke family is a person who has a lot of officials in the family, and he has a certain strength in the court, and more importantly, the Xie Ke family itself is both a literati and a fierce man, whether it is the current Cai Jing or the future traitor Qin Hui, he dares to follow suit.
Such a person staying in the court is more conducive to his own development and more conducive to Wu Song. He can speak for Wu Song in the court, especially when Wu Song is leading the army, if there is any movement in the court, except that Master Li can directly blow the pillow wind to the emperor, if there is Xie Ke's family in the court to cooperate with the appeal, of course it is better.
"There are people in the DPRK who are good officials." Wu Song originally lacked experience in the struggle in the imperial court, and now he is leading his troops out and away from the imperial court, and he needs to have his own people in the imperial court. After all, Cai Jing, Gao Yu and the like can only be used, and they will be opposed to Wu Song after all. As for Tong Guan, he hates Wu Song now. Wu Song had to install his own people in the court.
People like Li Gang and Xie Kejia are different from Zhou Bangyan and other literati, and their main specialty is to write some articles and poems. Li Gang and Xie Kejia are not only good at writing articles, talented, but also good at fighting political opponents in the imperial court, and are good hands in officialdom.
Wu Song euphemistically explained these meanings, and Li Gang and Xie Kejia were also extremely smart people, and they immediately tacitly agreed that they would not forcibly ask to join the new forbidden army. But they all hit it off with Wu Song at first sight, and they also witnessed the strong military appearance of the new forbidden army, so from now on, they have actually become Wu Song's allies in the imperial court.
This is also the acquaintance of heroes.
For the rest, Wu Song welcomed them into the new forbidden army, and arranged their positions one by one, led by Zhou Bangyan. After all, Zhou Bangyan is the most famous and the oldest among them, and he is completely able to convince the public.
With the help of these Wenqu stars, Wu Song's new forbidden army can be said to be like a tiger with wings. Just as he was about to set off, the soldiers came to report again: a person who claimed to be the director of Kaifeng Prefecture, named Song Jiang, came to ask for a meeting.