Xiongzhou was slightly envoyed, and Liu Ji set up a wine banquet and invited several important ministers of Hebei Road to the banquet. In addition to Ma Huaide, the pacification envoy and Zhixiong Prefecture along the Hebei Road, there are also Zhendingfu Road Deployment and Zhizhen Dingfu Lu Qin, Dingzhou Road deployment and Zhidingzhou Wang Su, and Gaoyangguan Road deployment and Zhihejian Mansion Wang Zhen. Except for Ma Huaide, who is a military general, the others are all civil and important ministers, and their status is not below Liu Ji.

After three rounds of drinking, Liu Ji said: "Accept the will of the imperial court and open a military academy in Hejian Mansion." In addition to the whole training, in addition to the Hebei Road Forbidden Army on Daimyo Fu Road, it is also necessary to recruit talents from the local government to enter the school, and after studying, they will be assigned to the army. I have been calling people in the local area for more than 20 days, but I can't call anyone. This matter requires the help of the local government, and it is a special thin wine to invite the ministers to come to Hejian Province to discuss countermeasures. ”

Wang Sudao: "Taiwei, Hebei is a side road, and there are not many people who read. And the Daimyo Mansion Road, which has the most readers, is still trained in the capital, and it cannot recruit people to the military academy there. For other state troops, it is of course difficult to recruit people. ”

Liu Jidao: "The military academy recruits people, and it is not a imperial examination of the imperial court, and it does not require poetry and songs. It must be easy to summon people. ”

Lu Qin shook his head: "With all due respect, whether it is poetry and songs, or anything else, it is people's knowledge that is tested after all." There are few people studying on Hebei Road, and there is no place to study, so of course the knowledge is insufficient. To recruit people, of course, it is more difficult than other places. ”

Wang Zhen said: "That's true. In this year's imperial imperial examination, the number of people on the list on the entire Hebei Road is only a handful. The culture of a place can be imagined from this. It is really difficult for the captain to recruit people on this road. ”

Liu Ji was stunned for a while, and he didn't know what to say. This year's imperial examination is different from the previous ones, Ouyang Xiu presided over it, and the style was completely changed. As a result, the results of Hebei Road were very unsatisfactory, and the number of people on the list was extremely pitiful. There are many people who fall off the list, but they were stimulated in the capital at the beginning of the year, and they are not willing to sign up for the army. Besides, the right person among the first jinshi has already entered the military academy in the capital.

Ma Huaide said: "Under the rule of Xiongzhou, most of them were originally two losers, and they were not allowed to enter the military academy. The people of this dynasty have few households and even fewer scholars, so it is difficult to draw people out. This kind of thing of recruiting people in military schools still depends on the armies of other states. ”

Liu Ji asked without giving up: "Even if it is two losers, now that the imperial court has a will, it is not allowed to pay taxes to the Khitan to serve, and they will be the people of the Great Song Dynasty in the future." They can do it too, can you go back and ask? ”

Ma Huaide shook his head again and again when he heard this: "Tai Wei, there are few literate people in Xiongzhou, where can I recruit people?" - By the way, I recently heard from the people below that among the reformers who fled in the summer, there are literate, I wonder if they can do it? ”

"Okay, okay!" Liu nodded several times. "The military academy is not another place, as long as you learn it in it, no matter what it is, you can join the army as an officer. Converts come to the south, which is exactly what the imperial court should reward, and naturally they can enter the military academy. ”

Ma Huaide said: "In this way, I will go back and let the officials deal with it strictly." However, having said that in the front, the captain should not hope too much. ”

Of course Liu Ji knew. Hebei Road was originally a side road, and it was one of the sources of soldiers of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty, and the atmosphere of folk reading was not flourishing. It is easy to recruit illiterate soldiers from here, but it is even more difficult to recruit literate officers. It is impossible to select people from the army, and it is necessary to recruit scholars from the people.

After drinking a few more glasses of wine, Lu Qin said: "Tai Lieutenant, there is really no way, how about lowering the requirements?" As long as you read and write, you can enter a military school, but it is just that it is more difficult to teach. Now I still have to read books to make strategies, which is really difficult for people in the countryside. ”

Liu Ji thought for a while and sighed: "I'll think about it again." The requirements are lowered, it is easy to recruit people, but it is difficult to learn to achieve. What the bachelor just said is good, no matter what you take the test, it is the knowledge of the reader. Now a policy is to test their knowledge, and the requirements are not high. ”

Lu Qin was the champion of the first year of Baoyuan, but he didn't like to interact with people, and he was a lonely minister in the court and did not enter the center. What he said was a fair opinion, and Liu Ji naturally knew it. Since the test is knowledge, once the requirements are relaxed, it will be difficult to learn.

In addition to the Daimyo Mansion Road, there are still more than 200,000 forbidden troops on Hebei Road, and a large number of talents are needed for training. Due to the small number of scholars, trying their best to recruit people could not meet the needs of the army, and the officers needed to make up for it from the capital. Liu Ji wanted to recruit as many as possible, so as not to be unadaptable.

After drinking for a while, everyone stopped talking about the military academy and began to talk about the recent border situation. According to the previous deployment, the defense of the Hebei Road was carried out by officials of the four military roads, namely Lü Qin, Wang Su, Wang Zhen, and Zhidaimyofu Road. Liu Ji Shuai Division was set up, and the defense was actually moved to Shuai Si, and the other four roads were only in charge of the forbidden army that had not been trained. All of them were trained, and in fact they were deprived of their military power.

Wang Sudao: "Since Captain Du won consecutive battles on Hequ Road, the national forbidden army has actually been trained once except for Hebei Road, but the effect is not satisfactory. This time, the training of Hebei Road is always worse than that of the forbidden army in other places. ”

Wang Zhen said: "Not bad. I didn't know about Hebei Road before, but recently three reorganized troops came, and I only knew the difference when I saw them. The current 150,000 trained forbidden troops give me the feeling that they are better than the original 300,000 forbidden troops. ”

Liu Jidao: "If you want to complete the whole training, the most lacking thing is that you are really officers." In the past, the commander of the army was the commander after the training, and he could barely make up the work after the training and downsizing. The rest of the general affairs officers will be difficult. In the past, these things in the army were all handled by junior colonels and officials, and most of them were not enough to be officers. It's too hard to replace them with officers. ”

Lu Qin said: "There are already people in the army who do it, why bother to change it?" What if you use the original school and officials to manage it? In this way, a lot of effort is saved. How difficult it is to retrain people in military schools! ”

Liu Jidao: "Bachelors don't know, the junior colonel and the officials do these things, not by official positions, but by the commanders to use them. Without the commander-in-chief, they are nothing. Now the army is different, these general affairs, in the future, the Privy Council and the three yasan will have to take care of it, they are really not suitable. You must have studied in a military academy and be familiar with the new military system before you can manage it well. ”

Liu Qin said: "Taiwei Du is also a Jinshi, and I don't know how to come up with these methods, which is very embarrassing." Just like in the past, everything is entrusted to the commander-in-chief, and if the war is not effective, punish the commander-in-chief, how simple and clear! ”

Liu Jidao: "What's the use of being simple and clear?" How many victories have you fought before? Since Captain Du trained in Suizhou, more than 30,000 people went to save Tanglong Town, and since then they have won consecutive battles. Even the Khitan lord died in Tanglong Town. The facts are here, so naturally they will come according to Du Taiwei. ”

Wang Su nodded again and again after hearing this: "What the Taiwei said is true." No matter what you say, if you can't win the battle, everything will be empty after all. Since Captain Du led the troops, opened up the meandering road, and restored the Western Regions, which is not a peerless martial art? The forbidden army was trained according to the situation, and the party was easily destroyed. If all the forbidden troops in the country are trained, it will not be difficult to defeat the Khitan and restore Yanyun. ”

Liu Ji is also a Jinshi, and he has won consecutive foreign battles in recent years, and his status as an officer is not weaker than others. The most important thing is that since Du Zhongxiao led the battalion Tianxiang army to participate in the war, he has never been defeated, and his military exploits are incomparable to others. You can disagree with Du Zhongxiao's approach, but you can't doubt it. Real military exploits are better than a thousand words of others.

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