Chapter Seventy-Five: Shaling Military Academy

Lu Bu also discussed with Jia Xu and Fu Zhu about opening up border trade, strengthening caravan exchanges with various tribes in the grassland, and fighting wars is wars, and business needs to be done.

Since Ding Yuan and Lu Bu and his son took control of the state, they have been encouraging the development of industry and commerce, of course, the industry in this era is only a few handicraft workshops, only those large workshops under the Ministry of Military Industry, can be called factories.

Commerce is also developing rapidly, in addition to some shops and commercial houses opened by Ding Yuan and Lu Bu father and son, many businessmen who were not valued before, heard the news of the current state to encourage commercial development, and they all have the attitude of trying to test the waters.

Lu Bu lowered the commercial tax, and through the designated department of the government, he provided loans to those who wanted to do business, as long as there was something to mortgage, he was asking the government to prepare a money bank, and it would open soon, after all, the government borrowed money from outside, which is not the case.

In addition, in the counties under its jurisdiction, a unified management of the bazaars was built, allowing merchants from all ethnic groups in the grassland and the Han to trade here, and sent troops to protect them and collect appropriate fees.

The grassland tribes are particularly in need of food, medicine, tea, salt, metal products, etc., which can be exchanged for their own inexhaustible furs, livestock, and even raw ore. Cattle, sheep and horses, ores and minerals were purchased directly by the military or bartered.

Another major event is the junior military academy founded by Lu Bu, which is located on the shore of Shaling Lake, and Lu Bu named it Shaling Junior Military School.

Now it is being supervised by Song Xian himself, breaking ground for construction, new school buildings, new student dormitories, training grounds, shooting ranges, training grounds, real training grounds, libraries, canteens, etc., everything is under construction, and Song Xian is now the person in charge of the new logistics department.

Lu Bu personally formulated the syllabus of the military academy, and the curriculum of the military academy was mainly divided into military courses, ideological courses, cultural courses, physical education courses, and practical courses.

As the name suggests, military courses are to teach all military-related subjects, such as infantry training, archery, field camping, field reconnaissance, combat marching, weapon explanation and use, tactical courses, strategy courses, horsemanship, drawing, fighting skills, wartime communication, etc., which are very practical.

Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Xu Huang and even Zhang Liao all served as instructors, teaching students the subjects they were good at here, and there were a lot of practical and actual combat exercises and other activities.

The ideological class is to explain the idea and meaning of the world harmony and the common good of the world put forward by Lu Bu and Professor Fu.

Perhaps the cadets may not be able to appreciate the profound realm of frustration, but they can learn to love the country, the nation, and the people, and understand that being a soldier is not just about eating with a mouth, but should have higher pursuits and responsibilities.

Anyway, it is an in-depth explanation, not to be able to understand and accept, but also to let them know and understand.

Some of these officers and cadets are future secretaries, and the focus of their study at the military academy is ideological classes, and Lu Bu also expects them to go to the army to brainwash the lower-level officers and soldiers.

By teaching at the same time, he found out that Fu Zhu is a talent in this regard, and the Wen Hui brought by Fu Zhu is very good at doing ideological work. Both of these people speak better than him, especially Wen Hui, who is better at reasoning in a language that ordinary people can understand, and the effect is better.

Most of these newly promoted officers are veterans who are being promoted, and their education level is generally low, so Jia Xu, Fu Zhu, and Gao Shun also give them cultural lessons, and Lu Bu has always believed that an army without culture cannot fight well.

Physical education classes are used to exercise and increase physical fitness. The practical class was also proposed by Lu Bu, so that these officers could go to the factory of the Ministry of Military Industry to see with their own eyes the manufacturing process of the weapons they used, as well as the research and development of new weapons.

In doing so, you can not only better understand and use the weapons in your hands, but also feel the strong strength of Lu Bu and enhance your self-confidence.

The emergence of the Shaling Military Academy ensured the steady improvement of the combat effectiveness of the army under Lu Bu, and a large number of outstanding junior officers were continuously replenished into Lu Bu's army.

Those courses that were ahead of the times made the quality of the officers who graduated from the Shaling Military Academy completely surpass all the armies of their time. Then, after continuous actual combat, especially continuous victories, self-confidence will be accumulated and continuous upward movement. Moreover, the emergence of a large number of professional officers made it possible for Lu Bu to realize his idea of establishing a staff organization as soon as possible.

Lu Bu considered the upcoming Yellow Turban Uprising, so he decided to start classes at the Shaling Military Academy while building, using tents if there were no classrooms, and requisitioning the training base for recruits trapped in the camp if there was no training ground.

It is already November of the sixth year of Emperor Guanghe of Han Ling, according to the history of the previous life, the Yellow Turban Rebellion will break out in March next year, and now it has entered the final stage of preparation for the uprising.

Li Su has recently sent more and more information about Taiping Dao, especially about Ma Yuanyi, which is particularly intensive.

Li Su said in the letter that he had controlled Ma Yuanyi's junior brother, Tang Zhou, who was also a disciple of Zhang Jiao, because this Tang Zhou was greedy for beauty, he had been bought by Li Su and poured poison to control it, and he had to take Li Su's antidote on time in order to survive.

He had already handed over the original letters exchanged between Ma Yuanyi and the eunuchs in the palace, Feng Zhen, Xu Feng and others, and now everything was ready, just waiting for Lu Bu's next instructions.

Lu Bu discussed with Jia Xu and Fu Zhu how to operate the assassination history, so that his side could get the most benefits.

In the end, the three of them agreed that directly reporting and exposing to Emperor Han Ling may not be able to shake the trust of the ten permanent servants in the emperor's heart, and the eunuchs must cover each other, and offend these eunuchs plainly, and the gains outweigh the losses.

It is better to dedicate Ma Yuanyi to He Jin, the head of the foreign relatives faction, He Jin, who had already become Henan Yin at that time, to help He Jin catch Ma Yuanyi and his henchmen, and then Queen He to help He Jin, the emperor will reward He Jin, and it is indispensable to add officials to the knighthood.

In this way, it is most advantageous to be able to befriend He Jin without directly offending the ten permanent servants, and at the same time dismantling the platform of Taiping Road, it is possible to force Zhang Jiao to get up in advance, and then there will be a chance to fish in troubled waters.

After the discussion was established, Lu Bu sent a letter to Li Su, asking him to secretly form an alliance with He Jin on his behalf, send Ma Yuanyi and evidence as a meeting gift, and at the same time closely monitor Ma Yuanyi's whereabouts, and if necessary, immediately arrest Ma Yuanyi.

Li Su's subordinates also secretly trained a special operations codenamed "Shadow" to carry out covert operations such as assassination, tracking, sabotage, rescue, and intelligence theft, and also asked Li Su to bring his own letters to Chan'er.

It turned out that after Lu Bu left Luoyang, he had been secretly communicating with Miss Chan'er through Li Su. Through these correspondence, Lü Bu discovered that Chan'er was also a strange woman, well-read, not limited to Confucianism.

Some of Lu Bu's ideas and opinions can be accepted, and the more they talk, the more speculative they become, and they have begun to express their love for each other in their letters.

Chan'er just didn't dare to say it because of her father Wang Yun's disgust with Ding Yuan and Lu Bu's father and son. Lu Bu had already made an oath to let Chan'er wait for her to go to Luoyang again, and take her to her side in a beautiful manner.