"Zhao Jun soldiers ......"

Zhao Xie delivered a speech, re-expounding the announced policies and encouraging the generals.

Next, he loudly announced that those who should have been promoted according to military merits but were not promoted in the past will be promoted today.

At this time, Li Zuoche, who was holding the cloth, walked up to the general's platform and opened the cloth, and read out the list of people who had been promoted and the corresponding military positions.

Among these people, there are all those who have been promoted to Dubo, Junhou, Junsima, and Dutong.

Among them, there are five people who are regarded as the capital by Tibo, namely Yao Long, Xiao Ping, Jin Wu, Jiang Yi, and Song Lian.

Although these thirty-three officers had been notified yesterday, today they heard King Zhao say it himself, and then heard the official announcement of the Tai Lieutenant, these generals still couldn't help but be excited.

"The above thirty-three people, all come up, and the king personally grants the letter of appointment!"

According to the military system, officers of all ranks, even the most junior commanders, have a formal letter of appointment when they take office.

In the past, the letter of appointment of officers was issued by the predecessor of the Ministry of War, Sima Guanya, but now Zhao Xie wants to issue it in person, which is to show the importance of the soldiers.

Thirty-three officers walked up to the point platform and knelt down on one knee to Zhao Xie.

The Military Election and Clearance Division of the Ministry of War held a tray in his hand, and there were thirty-three letters of appointment prepared in advance.

The content of the letter of appointment includes the name of the appointee, what year, month, and day he was promoted to what kind of military rank and rank, and at the bottom left is the joint signature of the Wu Xuan Qing Officials Division and the Tai Lieutenant Li Zuoche, as well as the seal of the military department.

There are four major departments under the Ministry of War, namely:

Military Selection Division: Responsible for the personnel of military attachés, including the selection and assessment of officers, the promotion and dispatch of military ranks, and the distribution of salaries.

Functional Division: Responsible for the administrative affairs of the army, including formulating military systems, understanding local garrisons, recruiting and training non-commissioned officers, and dispatching soldiers, etc., and making judgments based on the military situation, formulating national defense guidelines and policies, and carrying out military overall planning.

Driver Division: In charge of the national horse administration and document delivery, including military supplies, medical and health care, infrastructure barracks, horse husbandry training, intelligence transmission, etc.

Arsenal Division: In charge of military equipment, including weapons and armor building, storage, distribution, etc.

The appointment of a military attache must be signed by the military election and the chief lieutenant to be valid.

Zhao Xie took the letter of appointment from the tray and handed it to Yao Long in person, followed by Xiao Ping, Jin Wu, Jiang Yi, Song Lian, and then Jun Sima, Jun Hou, and Du Bo.

Everyone who received the letter of appointment was excited and swore allegiance to King Zhao.

After the award was completed, Thirty-Three stepped down from the platform and returned to its original position.

Next, it's time to deal with the eleven.

Zhao Xie said loudly: "If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and if you have a fault, you will be punished." There are eleven scum in the army, they have little military achievements, and in order to be promoted, they bribed Lu Tian and needed to be severely punished by military law. ”

King Zhao's heavy speech made some officers break out in a cold sweat.

Li Zuoche took a piece of cloth and read out the 11 lists one by one, including their names and what crimes they had committed.

Among them, there is one person with the most serious circumstances, extremely low combat achievements, and he rose quickly by tying up Lu Tian, and this person is Lu Tatar.

Zhao Xie issued an order on the spot to execute Lu Tatar in public.

Under the watchful eyes of more than 40,000 generals, the executioner beheaded Lu Tartar in public.

Lu Tatar used to be arrogant and domineering, and his attitude towards his subordinates was extremely poor, but he was greedy for life and afraid of death when he fought, which had already caused great dissatisfaction.

The remaining ten were all expelled.

The army must have iron military law and discipline, and there is a clear distinction between rewards and punishments, and the handling of these people has played a great deterrent role.

In addition, there were thirteen other people who bribed Lu Tian and their military merits coincided with their military positions, and they were named by Li Zuoche, severely admonished them, and fined them for one month as punishment.

Finally, Zhao Xie announced that after five days, the whole army would have a big competition, and those with excellent results would be promoted.

More than 40,000 officers and men chanted slogans, their voices resounding through the sky, and the morale of the soldiers was like a rainbow and their fighting spirit was high.

Witnessing all this, Zhao Xie was quite satisfied. He wanted to strengthen the army and enhance his prestige, and his goal was achieved.

After the soldiers dispersed, Zhao Xie did not return to the palace, and after a hurried meal here, he went to the horse farm thirty miles northeast of Xiangguo.

Zhao Xie got into the carriage, and the Praetorian Guards escorted him and set off in the northeast direction.

When the carriage and horses arrived at the horse farm, Zhao Xie drove Luan and observed the surrounding situation.

The horse farm was large and had a wall similar to that of a military barracks, with soldiers guarding the entrances and exits, and watchtowers.

Ma Zheng belongs to the Ministry of War, and the current Qing Officials Department is Zou Tang, who revealed his identity and let the horse farm officials come out.

"Meet my king!"

The officials hurriedly came out to greet them and salute them.

The person in charge is named Teng Qi, who has an official position, and is currently from the seventh grade.

Since the Zhao Wuling King Hufu cavalry shooting, the Zhao State attaches great importance to the cavalry, and the rank of the officials who manage the horses will not be too low.

Teng Qi took King Zhao into the horse farm.

After the horse farm, Zou Tang introduced the basic knowledge of horse breeding to Zhao Xie, and Teng Qi explained the specific situation of the horse farm.

There are two types of horse farms, the first is dedicated to breeding horses, and when the ponies are weaned, they will be transferred to another breed to raise the horses and train them.

At present, this horse farm, called "Xiangguo Horse Farm", specializes in matching horses with breeding, and this kind of horse farm is the only one in Zhao Kingdom.

There are three horse farms for raising and training horses in Zhao State, one of which is in the southeast of Xiangguo, and the other two are in Dongyuan and Quyang in Hengshan County. The officials in charge of the three horse farms are all positive eight products.

Zhao Xie listened to the explanation and observed.

There are many stables and stables in the horse farm, with a total of more than 500 mares and dozens of stallions.

Stallions, mares in heat, mares after pregnancy, mares who have just given birth to foals, and the horses are in different stables depending on the situation.

The mare gives birth once a year, and each litter usually gives birth to a pony.

Among the foals that are born, the male will be used as a war horse after being castrated, and the female will be used as a mare.

In modern times, Zhao Xie did not study much on ancient horse breeding, he mainly studied the breed of horses, and after inspecting the entire horse farm, he finally had a general understanding of horse breeding.

Several people came to Tengqi's office and sat down here to rest.

Li Zuodao: "King, if you want to raise a good horse, you must be in a cold land." If you want to say that there are two best places to raise horses, there are two places in the world. One is the field of the north of Ji, in the north and south of the Great Wall of Yanguo; The second is in the northwest of Guanzhong, as well as Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County. The horses currently raised by Zhao Guo have slightly worse endurance than those raised by Yan Guo. ”

What he said has two meanings, the first is about the knowledge of horse breeding, Teng Qi and Zou Tang can only hear this meaning.

There is another meaning that only Zhao Xie understands, and Li Zuoche further pointed out the importance of seizing the Yan Kingdom.

Zhao Xie said: "The role of cavalry is irreplaceable, at present, the number of cavalry in our Zhao army is far from enough, and it must be vigorously developed!" ”

In the era without stirrups, cavalry had already shown greater combat effectiveness than infantry, and had an organic power advantage, which would be even greater once stirrups became widespread.

Li Zuoche naturally thought that the king wanted to seize the Yan Kingdom as soon as possible, but what he didn't understand was that King Zhao had other ideas.