Chapter 709: The Right Values of Soldiers
It feels good to have no serious job hanging on you, you don't have to be so busy, you can do whatever you want.
Therefore, after Sun Xiangfu played a few games of chess with Xiao Yu, he came to Cheng Chumo's house for a banquet, it is said that Cheng Chumo is the eldest son who wants to inherit the title of the old Cheng family, and it is impossible to live separately from Cheng Yanjin in this life.
But Cheng Chumo insisted on looking for Zhao Changsun Wuji, asked for a villa for himself, and lived alone, after all, he is now also a fourth-grade military general, according to the rules of the imperial court to arrange accommodation in Jiangling City, he is qualified to share a villa.
In addition, he explained to the public that this is not a separation, but only a temporary residence for job reasons, and it is not good for the eldest grandson Wuji not to give it.
In fact, where Cheng bites Jin, he will be uncomfortable, and he must always be prepared for the days of being beaten and trained, how can he have a sense of happiness at all!
His cousin's wife has a bit of a big temper, after all, she is the daughter of the Cui family of Qinghe.
Therefore, Cheng Chumo needs to find a group of brothers with enough status to suppress her temper.
Sun Xiangfu is more suitable, if you add Li Tai, Li Ke, the two princes, the eldest Sun Chong, Lawyer Pei, Xue Li, Xi Junmai and other people who have recently become very famous in Jiangling City, as well as a congratulatory gift sent by the crown prince Li Chengqian, then no matter how proud the Cui family is, they don't dare to put it on the shelf.
As for why he was able to marry Zhang Ruyan as a concubine, there is a story here, mainly because his brother-in-law is enough to pit.
Plant trees honestly! Suddenly, I was making a fuss about becoming a monk.
The Zhang family is now a male man, and if he doesn't leave a queen, the Zhang family will cut off the inheritance.
So, Zhang Ruyan, who had no choice, found Cheng Chumo for help, and agreed with him that if Cheng Chumo could persuade Zhang Cheng to marry a wife, or take a concubine, and leave one for the Zhang family, she would agree to marry Cheng Chumo.
Something like this, in fact, there is no bottle of aphrodisiac that can't be solved, if there is, just two bottles.
So, Zhang Cheng had a concubine with a bad child, Zhang Ruyan could only agree to marry Cheng Chumo as a concubine according to the agreement.
"Thank you, brothers, for coming." After completing the etiquette of the worship hall, Zhang Ruyan was sent into the cave room, and Cheng Chumo soon appeared at the big table where Sun Xiangfu and others were drinking.
According to the regulations of the Ministry of Law, even if a woman with an official position is married as a concubine, the treatment she enjoys is not comparable to that of ordinary concubines.
Moreover, their children also enjoy special treatment, not only have the right to inherit second only to their concubines, but also can directly give them to the shadow supplement officials, which is incomparable to the children born to ordinary concubines.
Just like Sun Xiangfu's two orchid concubines, Rose and Ziwei, and the two mixed-race sons he just gave birth to, Sun Zhongxia and Sun Yiqiu.
After Sun Xiangfu and Yu Xiu'er deliberately took the time to return to Jiuyuan County, Li Shimin only gave them the status of first-class citizens, so that they could have a higher starting point in society in the future.
Zhang Ruyan is the eight-grade female official of the art troupe, so this set of etiquette for getting married just now took a lot of time, and everyone should be surprised to see it, after all, this is the first time that a female official has married someone else as a concubine after the introduction of this new law, and Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongsleeve have not caught up before.
Of course, the establishment of such a law for the system of wives and concubines is not to deliberately elevate or belittle anyone's status, but to make all families more orderly.
If the status of wives and concubines is equal, then it is estimated that most families will quarrel.
Because, the person who takes a concubine generally accepts more than one, and there are so many resources in the family, which will become the object of competition for these women, and the people stage palace fighting dramas everywhere, which does not compound the original intention of the country's long-term peace and stability, harmony and progress.
"What you should be most grateful for is not our brothers who are here, but your eldest brother Zhang Cheng." When Sun Xiangfu was waiting for Cheng Chumo to complete the etiquette just now, he heard Cheng Chuliang talk about the whole experience of his brother marrying Zhang Ruyan, and when Cheng Chumo came over to toast, he picked up the wine bowl and laughed.
"He's tormented me hard enough, why should I thank him?" Cheng Chu, who was a little confused, said silently.
"Hehe, you don't want to think about what Zhang Cheng used to do, can he eat the medicine you put in the meal? Even if you can't eat it once, you can't eat it again and again, until you slowly use up both bottles of medicine and let that orchid conceive a child?
I guess! He suddenly became a monk, also to find a breakthrough for you, after all, his sister is in her twenties, and if she doesn't marry, it will be difficult to marry. Sun Xiangfu said with a smile.
Hearing this, Cheng Chumo suddenly realized that it was Zhang Cheng who had choked himself over the years who had made him perfect.
"How's that, don't you feel ashamed? If so, think about how to repay your eldest brother, I think if you take the medicine you gave him at the beginning and eat two bottles of it yourself in front of him, he will definitely be very relieved. Lawyer Pei smiled wickedly.
"Uh, two bottles? Don't be so ruthless! β
"What you want, what you wantΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
It's so rude to eat and chat with these guys from the military, but Sun Xiangfu likes this atmosphere very much.
Soon, Cheng Chumo was besieged by everyone, and went to the cave room in a frustration, looking at his appearance, if he doesn't take drugs today, it is estimated that he can't go to the cave room, and everyone who is waiting to see the joke is not in a hurry to leave.
First of all, Xi Junmai, a patient with ADHD, found Sun Xiangfu and said, "I heard that Your Majesty gave you a piece of festival charm that can pass through the world?" Otherwise, you can transfer me to your Qincha Guard!" This soldier is too boring, feeding the horses and farming all year round, it is better to follow you everywhere freely. β
Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Follow me?" It's not the same as feeding horses and farming. It's just a matter of moving a few places a year. β
"That's better than staying in one place."
"Then if you come to farm with me, and the west fights, won't you miss it?"
Hearing this, Xi Junmai was entangled, Sun Xiangfu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Actually, not fighting is a kind of happiness, you are the head of a big family, more than a dozen women, almost twenty babies!" Have you ever considered that once something happens to you on the battlefield, who do you live on? β
Xi Junmai corrected, "It's not almost twenty, it's twenty-seven, I have nothing to do in Anxi in the past two years, and all my strength has been used on women, in this regard, I am much stronger than you, I just think that people live for a lifetime, do not establish some merits, and break out of the fame, a little blind." β
Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Protecting the people you need to protect, giving them a peaceful, stable, and prosperous life, this is the supreme feat, but it's not how many enemies you have killed on the battlefield, because today's enemies are likely to be your own people tomorrow."
So! Don't think about using killing to prove your worth, this is a wrong idea, besides, you are only in your twenties, and you are already a military general from the fourth grade, and there will definitely be a place for you in the future court.
What you should think! It is your knowledge and ability, whether you can deal with the bigger situation, protect, save more people, the two armies are at war, if you can only fight in battle, you can only be a general, the fourth product is about to reach the top, if you want to be a general of the third grade, command a group army, then you must have knowledge in all aspects, especially if you want to be a future military commander, you need to learn more knowledge, I don't mean he is one, you are also a few of you. β
Speaking of which, Sun Xiangfu pointed to Xue Li, Lawyer Pei, Cheng Chuliang, Cheng Chubi and others, and suddenly, several people became energetic, and Lawyer Pei took the lead in asking, "Then what do you think the future battlefield will look like?" β
Sun Xiangfu thought for a while and replied, "At least, it shouldn't be like now, relying on war horses and guns to rush and kill each other, it should be based on long-range attacks, the farther away you can kill the enemy's army, the stronger it will be."
Just like our current army in the Tang Dynasty, most of them are equipped with crossbows, as long as the enemy enters the range of the crossbows, no matter how strong his martial arts are, it is in vain.
However, the killing range of the repeating crossbow is only thirty or fifty meters, and what if in the future, the armies of other countries are equipped with weapons with a firing frequency such as the repeater on a large scale, but the killing and damage reaches the range of eighty to one hundred meters?
Then our Tang Army may become a passive target and directly lose the entire war. β
What Sun Xiangfu said is easy to understand, although a few people drank a little wine, but a little brain supplement, it feels very reasonable, you can't hit others, but others hit you, that picture is very aggrieved.
Just like the bed ballista of the Tang Dynasty now, the longest range reaches more than 1,000 meters, once hundreds or thousands of aircraft are equipped in the army, as long as the enemy appears in the line of sight, they will begin to be beaten, and if there is no long-range attack equipment of the same level to fight back, you will take human lives to fill in vain, and you don't know how much to fill in is a head.
Previously, they only thought about how to use these equipment to kill the enemy, but they didn't think about what the situation would be like when others had these equipment, or even stronger equipment.
"So, aren't all our skills in fighting in vain?" The belief was overthrown, and several generals felt very uncomfortable, Xi Junmai asked again.
Sun Xiangfu comforted them and said, "Of course it's not completely useless, the most important quality that a soldier should have is bravery, do you know why 'brave' is ranked in front of martial arts?" β
Word games, Xi Jun naturally didn't understand them, and shook his head a little confused.
And the eldest grandson Chong, who was born in a family like Lawyer Pei and has read since childhood, has some insights.
Sun Xiangfu took a sip of wine and explained to everyone, "Training martial arts, in fact, what you practice is everyone's courage, just like you buy you, strong in martial arts, dare to charge, this is a manifestation of bravery, a person with insufficient training, and a person with sufficient training and strong martial arts, go to the battlefield, and the courage shown is different."
I have never heard of people who are weak and unconfident and afraid of fighting, but I have never heard of people who are strong in martial arts and full of confidence who are afraid of fighting, and this is the truth.
So! No matter how the mode of warfare develops in the future, training in martial arts and physical fitness is a must, but our soldiers must have correct values, know what they are fighting for, know how they can defeat, and achieve the political goal of benefiting the country and the people.
Fighting for personal meritorious service is definitely a wrong idea, and it is very problematic for the current military generals to blow the wind of war.
If you put these guys who only want to build up their personal merits on the battlefield, they will definitely think about how to kill more people, today you are strong, you kill others, tomorrow others are strong, others will kill you, this will not solve the problem. The purpose of waging war has never been to make the world a worse place. β
The Han Dynasty is strong enough! Treat the alien race as a pig and dog, and kill at every turn, and then the five Hu chaos in China, but the Han people have been reduced to a two-legged sheep that were wantonly killed by the Hu people, is this all the fault of the Hu people?
Not necessarily.
There is a cause to have an effect, when the Han people are strong, they treat the Hu people by killing, these blood feuds, generations of Hu people, all remember, then, the Han people are weak, the Hu people are strong, and the Hu people will also use the way of killing to retaliate against the Han people.
If you want to solve this problem at the root, it is to educate and integrate, and Han has been strong for 400 years, but only thinks about using war and killing to solve the problem, which is a mistake in political direction.
When you are strong and conquer others, what you should promote more is to educate and integrate, improve the cultural level of all barbarians, so that all people can live a good life and agree with the rule of the Han people. If the Han people and the Hu people had lived in harmony for 400 years, would there have been any later incidents of Wuhu Chaohua?
Definitely not, even if they want to seize the power of the Central Plains Dynasty when the Central Plains is weak, they will not kill people and eat people, at most they will fight for the right to rule like the warlords fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains.
Of course, in Sun Xiangfu's words just now, he also mentioned 'protection' and 'rescue' many times, which is also a direction that the future training of the Tang army needs to develop.
A country's army not only needs to train the ability to kill the enemy, but more importantly, it needs to train the ability to protect and save people.
Datang's current military training is basically a blank in this regard, and in the future, when some problems arise that arise by surprise, it may suffer a big loss.