"A good veteran with a new soldier, handsome, this method is wonderful." In the northwest camp, after listening to Ning Zhiyuan's words, Li Dingbei's eyes suddenly lit up and he applauded loudly.

Including Xiao Zhijian, several other Northwest veterans also felt that this plan was very good, and they nodded their heads in praise.

Ning Zhiyuan said with a full heart: "This strategy has been tried for a period of time in the northeast to find thousands of recruits, and the effect is excellent.

Under the hands-on instruction of veterans, many recruits have gradually picked up, much faster than regular drills. ”

A veteran nodded and said, "Although it costs more to pay for the bonus, as long as the recruits can be trained as soon as possible, the money is worth sending." ”

Li Dingbei had a different idea, "No, I think the overall cost will be less."

Because the sooner a recruit joins the army, the less time and military spending will be spent on training, so it will definitely be earned. ”

Xiao Zhijian also agreed: "Dingbei makes sense, it is indeed earned in this way." ”

Ning Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Since you also think this strategy is good, then we will try it out in the northwest."

When you go back, each of you will pick a few thousand new soldiers and scatter them into your troops, and then you will carry out this law.

If the effect is good, it will be implemented in the whole army. ”

Li Dingbei thought for a while and said: "Dashuai, since we want to do it, it is better for us to make it more solemn."

For example, pick a good day to hold an apprenticeship ceremony, and let the recruits each worship a veteran as a teacher at the ceremony, so as to completely settle the master-apprentice relationship. What do you think? ”

Ning Zhiyuan praised after listening: "Okay, this proposal is good." Lao Zhang, what do you think? ”

Zhang Wenxuan stepped out and arched his hand: "General Li's proposal is really good. With this master-apprentice relationship, not only will the veterans be more attentive to teach, but the recruits will also be more obedient.

It's just that the old man is worried that the relationship between master and apprentice will be certain, and there will be a situation where a small number of veterans will treat the recruits as people, and even beat and scold them at will, so it is better to warn them. ”

Ning Zhiyuan laughed and said: "Sure enough, you old and young people think the same thing, Ah Zhen also mentioned this issue, worried that the veteran will beat and scold the recruit at will."

Therefore, when he and Bai'er were trying out in the Northeast, they also deliberately set up an inspection team to regularly inquire about recruits privately.

Once such violations are discovered, veterans are deprived of their right to teach, and recruits are handed over to other veterans to bring.

If there were to be a trial in the northwest, I would set up a similar inspection team, and at the same time, I would give them the authority to inspect military discipline on a daily basis. ”

When the generals heard this, they knew that the person who proposed this policy was the handsome little son-in-law Chi Fei, and they couldn't help but feel a sudden feeling in their hearts.

This kind of whimsical whimsy is really like the method that the man came up with.

For Chi Fei, these military generals have long been familiar with and understood.

From the beginning of the prevention and control of the plague in the northwest, to the later independence of the northwest, he was the first person to propose to open up to the northeast.

Later, the terraced land law proposed to settle the displaced people, the later reform of the official selection system, the establishment of a clean and honest society system to supervise hundreds of officials, and the current new law on military training were almost all written by that person.

It is precisely because of the general strategy of opening up the Northeast that he proposed that all parts of the Northeast are now developing very well.

In particular, Jiujiang Prefecture has become one of the top port cities and the largest salt-producing area in the Central Plains.

Nowadays, most of the military pay in the army comes from there.

It can be said that the fact that the northwest and the northeast can develop so well at the same time is inseparable from the various measures proposed by that person back then.

With such a genius, it's no wonder that Dashuai would hand over such an important place as Jiujiang to him.

Therefore, without any objection, the brand-new training method of veterans leading new recruits was officially tried out in the northwest.

According to General Li Dingbei's proposal, a few days later, General Ning Zhiyuan held a grand apprenticeship ceremony on the training ground of the Northwest Battalion.

A total of 50,000 recruits, witnessed by more than 100,000 soldiers, formally established a mentor-apprentice relationship with the same number of veterans.

The veterans eat, drink, train, and train with the recruits, and are responsible for teaching them personally.

Since it is a master-apprentice relationship, if a recruit makes a mistake, the veteran who is responsible for leading him will also be jointly and severally liable and punished.

Every once in a while, the battalion conducts combat tests of varying degrees on recruits.

If they pass the test, a certain amount of money will be paid to the veteran who is responsible for teaching until the recruit is able to truly take charge of himself.

Although it is quite troublesome to teach the recruits by hand, in order to get additional bonuses, these tens of thousands of veterans are still very excited.

Because after each passing test, the bonus issued is almost equivalent to a month's military salary, which is a lot of money.

Moreover, this bonus is not just paid once, and the military department will conduct a stricter actual combat test for recruits every one or two months than the last one.

In this way, when the recruits are able to take charge on their own, the total amount of bonuses that the veterans in charge of teaching will be very large.

In addition, all the veterans had never tried the experience of accepting apprentices, and it felt very fresh for a while. Other onlookers who had not yet had a chance to bring their apprentices were even more enthusiastic about this.

In this way, whether it is the conventional way of conducting military training or the brand-new method of veterans leading new soldiers, the whole army has thrown themselves into this warm atmosphere of collective large-scale military training.

By this time everyone already knew that there might be a war before long. This is what several generals themselves said, and there will be no falsehood.

No one wants to die, and in order to save their lives, naturally no one dares to relax at this time.

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Just when the northwest and northeast were intensively training troops, the envoys sent by the capital to negotiate peace in the south finally returned and brought a reply from the Hu people.

The conditions of the Hu people did not change, and they agreed to negotiate peace, but the premise was that the Great Wei court would be a vassal to the Great Emperor, and the annual tribute would not be interrupted.

The Great Wei court wanted to regard itself as a courtier to the Great Turkic Dynasty, and the Great Wei needed to pay tribute to the Great Turk every year 200,000 taels of silver and 400,000 horses of silk.

To be honest, the tribute of 200,000 taels of silver and 400,000 horses of silk is really not much compared with the annual military expenditure of the Great Wei Dynasty, which is close to tens of millions of taels, and it can even be said to be a drop in the bucket.

It's just that the request to be a vassal to the Hu people is too humiliating, and this is the most difficult place for scholars in the world to accept.

In contrast, although the people everywhere also felt that the Hu people were indeed excessive, they also hoped in their hearts that the imperial court could negotiate peace with the Hu people.

For many ordinary people, it doesn't make a difference who is the master, and it is not the same to pay all kinds of land taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the burden on them has not been reduced at all.

Anyway, the days are the same, and the court might as well directly call the Hu people a vassal, so that there is no need to fight and die again.

What is loyal to the monarch and patriotism, that is the business of scholars and officials, and it has little to do with them.

This is what most ordinary people think. It's numb and cold, but it's realistic.

Although it was opposed by countless scholars, it is a pity that these people have no official power and cannot do anything at all.

As for the officials at all levels in the court, no one dared to express their opinions easily, almost all of them were pretending to be dead, waiting for Emperor An, or should I say that they were waiting for An Guogong's reaction.

But since the envoy of peace has been dispatched, it means that there is a good chance that the matter will be settled.

Sure enough, a few days later, Emperor He An wept bitterly in front of all the officials in the court: for the sake of the safety of the country and the people of the world, he would rather bear this infamy through the ages and agree to pay tribute to the Great Turk.

Although everyone knew that Emperor He An was acting, the officials below still hurriedly made a sad and grateful look to show that they could understand the emperor's good intentions, all for the helplessness of the country and the people of the world.

The next day, various newspapers in the capital, including Zhenzhi Bao, also reported on this "touching" scene of the monarch and ministers crying each other, which aroused widespread discussion among the people.

Although the vast majority of scholars in the world find it difficult to accept the matter of being a vassal to the Hu people, they can't do anything about it.

In the winter of the third year of He'an, the Great Wei sent envoys to deliver their credentials to the Great Turks, officially proclaimed themselves ministers to the Great Turkic court, and promised to pay tribute to the Great Turks every year. As for the areas in the south that had already been occupied by the Hu people, the Great Wei promised to cede them to the Great Turks from now on without recourse.

Because the Great Wei was so obedient, the Great Turkic court also accepted the request for peace very happily, and the two countries formally signed an alliance, agreeing that the two countries would be good for a hundred years and would never be violated.

In this way, after four years of fighting, the Great Wei ruled by the Han people and the Great Turk ruled by the Hu people finally reached a peace treaty and stopped the fighting.

Since it is not a glorious thing to be a minister to the Hu people, the whole court deliberately downplays this matter and tries not to mention it more.

For a time, both Beijing officials and local officials adopted the same attitude, that is, what to say in private was another matter, but in public they avoided talking about this matter, and this gradually became a taboo topic that could not be talked about.

Because the officialdom adopted such a silent attitude, and did not post an example to explain the matter, many ordinary people did not even know that the imperial court had reached a peace treaty with the Hu people, and thought that the matter was still being discussed, and the development of the matter was still in the stage of confusion.

The other is true for those who read the books that are connected to each other, many of whom already know about it, and all of them feel extremely aggrieved.

However, after thousands of Confucian students in the capital were cut off from the imperial examination because of their petition to the emperor, these aspiring scholars did not dare to talk in public, but only dared to find one or two credible confidants to get together and scold the matter.

This is the general reaction of the people to this matter.

In terms of military affairs, although the Great Wei and the Great Turks reached a peace treaty, after all, the Great Wei was a passive defensive party, and they did not dare to withdraw all the troops stationed in Jiangkou Prefecture at once, lest the Hu people suddenly reneged on the agreement and attacked the city.

Today's Jiangkou Mansion is the last line of defense to defend Jiangnan. Once this is lost, the Hu people can march into the south of the Yangtze River in a big way, so no one dares to take it lightly.

However, the withdrawal of troops must be withdrawn, but it must be withdrawn in batches.

Two months after the two countries signed the peace treaty, the imperial court finally withdrew 50,000 troops from Eguchi.

A month later, another 70,000 were withdrawn.

In the following two months, the imperial court successively withdrew more than 200,000 troops from Jiangkou Prefecture, leaving only more than 80,000 and less than 90,000 to continue to garrison.

The more than 200,000 troops withdrawn on this day were almost all transferred to Jiangxi without exception.

In addition, the military department transferred most of the soldiers from the three major battalions of the forbidden army, the five military battalions, and the border battalions stationed in the capital to Jiangxi in batches.

This is not only that, the imperial court also issued an order to the local guard offices, asking the local guard stations to transfer most of the soldiers to Jiangxi to converge, and there must be no mistake.

Even in the Jiangdong area, where large-scale civil unrest was breaking out, the imperial court sent envoys to negotiate with the self-proclaimed leader of the rebellious people as the "King of Jiangdong".

The leader of the rebellious people named Du Jin was very proud to see that the court had relented, and he was finally willing to sit down and negotiate with the envoys of Zhao'an.

After temporarily stabilizing the chaos in Jiangdong, the army originally sent to suppress the rebellious people in Jiangdong immediately turned its horse and headed to Jiangxi to converge.

Jiangxi is the closest region to the northwest, and at this time, everyone has already seen that the reason why the imperial court wants to gather a large army here is obviously to fight to the death with the northwest army.

The imperial court is finally going to war with the Northwest Army.

Although such a day was expected, many people still find it difficult to adapt.

After all, the Northwest Army is different from the Hu people, it is the Han army, the real blood compatriots.

Before the independence of the northwest, the Ningjia family of Zhenguo Gongfu had a brilliant record against the Hu people for many years, and was one of the two great pillars that guarded the border of the Great Wei.

Although the imperial court has always called the Northwest Army a chaotic party, it is a real chaotic minister and thief.

However, the Northwest Army has always carried the banner of loyal ministers and orphans, and regarded themselves as the courtiers of the former emperor Jing'an. The reason for its independence from the northwest was due to the reluctance to pledge allegiance to the imperial court, which was controlled by the people of Shijun's father.

For this reason, although many people did not dare to say anything on the surface, they still maintained a good impression of the Northwest Army and the Ning family in their hearts, and even respected them.

Now that the imperial court wants to attack the northwest, many people of insight who know about this matter feel that it is very inappropriate.

The Northwest Army has always been a strong army that can compete with the Hu people, and even if the imperial court can win this battle with the strength of the whole country, it will definitely pay a great price.

If the two sides lose both sides, and the Hu people suddenly turn their faces and invade the Central Plains, what can they do?

Although Great Wei and the Hu people have signed a peace treaty, the Hu people have always been wolf-like, who knows if they will take advantage of the fire to rob.

However, the imperial court, controlled by An Guogong, could no longer tolerate any opposition, and under his compulsory orders, armies from all over the country flocked to the Jiangxi area like a tide.

In just a few months, the army gathered in Jiangxi has reached more than 700,000 people. If we count the even larger number of people, there are more than 1.5 million people. Compared with Emperor Shuntian's imperial expedition three years ago, the scale is larger and the momentum is even greater.

Not only that, An Guogong, who was almost seventy years old, once again put on armor and went to Jiangxi to lead the army in person.

saw that An Guogong actually wanted to personally lead the army to fight, and brought most of the Xie family's children and henchmen to participate in the battle. Obviously, the Xie family is really ready to fight with the northwest this time.

Similarly, the northwest side has long been actively preparing for war.

The most obvious point is that the city walls have been renovated and reinforced, and there are many new fortifications, which look like a new look.

Whether it is the Great Wei side or the northwest side, everyone knows that this time will be a real battle of life and death.

Black clouds crush the city and want to destroy it, and the big war is coming.