Since the queen Sun Yunqi was pregnant, Zhu Ao would go to her every day to see, but now he can't do bad things with the queen, and Zhu Ao is not a sage to the point of having no desire, but after sitting there for a while, he got up and said goodbye and went to find other concubines.

This night, Zhu Ao stayed in Lan Youcheng's room, compared with several other women, Lan Youcheng's personality is slightly lively and cute, and he is more coquettish to please Zhu Ao.

Zhu Ao changed into civilian clothes early in the concubine's room, but did not go straight to bed, because the military academy was about to start after a while, and he had to quickly write the school motto and school rules. Although he is very good at calligraphy, but the army is the cornerstone of a country, in writing the school motto, school rules must be cautious, to let the future officers of the Su country see that he, the king attaches great importance to the military school, so he wrote several times in a row is not satisfied, and then spread out a piece of paper again, dipped in ink, carefully wrote down the eight characters of loyalty to the country, dear and sincere.

I was quite satisfied with what I wrote this time, and I felt that I had written out the expectations placed on them in my heart, so I smiled unconsciously, put the brush away, and said to Lan Youcheng with a smile: "Ai Fei, how can you come and see what the widow wrote?" ”

Lan Youcheng had already taken off her shoes and went to bed waiting for Zhu Ao's favor, but when she saw Zhu Ao writing over and over again, she refused to come over and pamper her, and her heart felt a little uncomfortable, didn't I have those words in the king's heart? Girls have delicate hearts, and it's not surprising to have such nonsensical thoughts. Now seeing Zhu Ao calling her, a trace of surprise passed through her heart, and her sexy legs took a slight step, and she came to Zhu Ao's side with small broken steps without putting on shoes.

Lan Youcheng grabbed Zhu Ao's arm with one hand, stretched his little head forward slightly, looked at the words on the table, and was immediately attracted by Zhu Ao's exquisite calligraphy, and said with a smile: "The prince's writing is really good." These eight words are very charming, and you can see the prince's ardent expectations for those officers. ”

Whether it is a woman from a big family, or does she know some calligraphy, Zhu Ao couldn't help but glance at Lan Youcheng, put one hand around her delicate waist, and smiled very smugly: "The widow also thinks that these words are well written, and he writes all the thoughts in the widow's heart." You can hang it out in a grand way. ”

Lan Youcheng smiled sweetly, hugged Zhu Ao's arm and shook it, pouting and coquettishly: "Lord Wang, let's write here today, the concubine is tired, what kind of military regulations will be written tomorrow." ”

Zhu Ao gently scratched her little nose and said with a smile: "You are suspected of seducing the king and neglecting his government, are you jealous and jealous when you see that the queen is pregnant with a child?" ”

Zhu Ao was just joking, but he didn't expect Lan Youcheng to be stunned after hearing this, hugged Zhu Ao's arm, stared at Zhu Ao with big black eyes, and said: "The prince spared the concubine, the concubine is very envious, but there is absolutely no jealousy and hatred, my sister can give birth to a son for the prince to inherit the thousands of miles of Su country, and the concubine is also very happy in her heart." ”

Zhu Ao then remembered that the words used by the ancients are still very different from the words used by modern people, this envy and jealousy may be a joke in the eyes of modern people, but in the eyes of the ancients, it is a great hat, if he dares to say this, in case the queen has an discomfort one day, it will definitely not be able to eat and walk around, maybe he will lose his head.

Lan Youcheng has been framed once, and almost met the Lord of Yama, so he also attaches great importance to life, and is more cautious in dealing with people.

"Good, good, good. The widow's virtuous concubine is the best, and the widow is also playing with you. In fact, you don't have to envy the queen, the widow can have another one with you. Zhu Ao picked up Lan Youcheng horizontally, walked to the bed and slowly put it down, and said with a straight face: "Don't worry, in the future, the widow will conquer thousands of miles, in addition to the prince will inherit the widow's position, the widow's other sons will also get a piece of their own fiefdom, which they will run by themselves, just like the widow." Our son will also be the king of the south in the future, and he will be a king. ”

Lan Youcheng's heartbeat in this sentence sped up dramatically, the love of parents and children must be far-reaching, how can it be considered far-reaching? Naturally, it is to get an industry and have the final say, rather than living under the noses of others. Although Lan Youcheng knew in her heart that in the future, the territory that her son could seal would definitely be much smaller than that of the prince, and the location would be very remote, but this already made her very content, at least there was a place for him to stay, even if it was a county.

What's more, no matter what you do, you have to rely on your own ability, even if you are in a poor and remote place at the beginning, as long as the monarch works hard, he will do a good job. Don't talk about it from afar, just say that her husband, Su Wang Zhu Ao, didn't he start by his own hard work? When I first came to Suguo, what did Suguo have? Now it has become the richest and most prosperous place among the nine stops.

There is also the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period in history, which is also in a place where there is a lack of people in the south, and it has not become a strong country? The huge territory of the Chu State was also built step by step by itself by hard work, and the ancestral training of the Chu State clearly stipulated: If the monarch does not fight for three consecutive years, he cannot enter the ancestral grave after death.

It is precisely because of such ancestral teachings and urging that the successive kings of Chu have not been idle, but have been committed to expanding their territory, and finally became the largest country in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The situation of the Qin State is similar, the Qin State only began to establish the state in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when the King of Zhou You was attacked and killed by Xirong, the Western Zhou Dynasty perished, and the King of Zhou Ping was forced to move east to Luoyang.

But at this time, these lands were not in the hands of the Qin State, but in the hands of the Dog Rong who destroyed the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is to say, what the Qin State got was just a blank check, which needed to be cashed with its own iron and blood. King Zhou Ping also swore that "the dog Rong will not be moral, and will encroach on my Qishan and Fengshui land, if the Qin State can drive away the Rong people, these lands will belong to the Qin State." "It's completely a stinky and shameless behavior.

Then, the ancestors of the Qin State began the arduous entrepreneurial process, this process is a bit long, specifically nearly a hundred years, in this nearly a hundred years, the successive kings of the Qin State and Xirong fought hundreds of times, inch by inch to recover the homeland, and finally occupied most of the Guanzhong Plain in 677 BC, and moved the capital to Yongcheng, since then there is the capital to compete for hegemony in the world.

Success is not always easy.

Later, Mongolia, Liaojin and other places were also in the poor countryside at the beginning, and they all relied on the king's own efforts and a certain amount of luck to lay down thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

Lan Youcheng believes that they can also have their own sons, because her son not only has the blood of King Su but also the blood of Lan Yu, the god of war of the Ming Dynasty, and has these two powerful genes, as long as he is given an inheritance, he can lay down his own world and enjoy wealth and wealth with his descendants forever.

The more Lan Youcheng thought about it, the happier he became, and his heart became sweeter and sweeter, he was very glad that he was with the right person, and he didn't mind that he was the daughter of a thief who came out of the slave camp, and he had always loved herself, and she couldn't help but hold Zhu Ao's head, raised her neck and kissed it, and said, "Thank you, Lord Wang." The concubine thanked the prince for his great kindness for our unborn child. ”

What can make a man feel a sense of accomplishment more than making his wife happy, Zhu Ao couldn't help but be moved by Lan Youcheng's sincere gratitude and happiness, his heart was surging, he hugged her and kissed her wildly for a long time, and said with a smile: "The widow once said that you have a share in the future development of the Su Kingdom, how can the widow break his promise to you?" ”

Lan Youcheng touched Zhu Ao's hair and nodded, and the two then blended together and spent a harmonious night.

The military academy finally opened as scheduled, Zhu Ao came to the school as a special observer to watch the students' drills, he didn't want to expose his identity as the king, because he knew that when the king was there and when the king was away, the students' training was definitely the same, and he wanted to see the students' real level of drills.

According to Zhu Ao's regulations, all the adult men of the Su State are soldiers, and the military households needless to say, in addition to farming, they are training, but they do not have to serve conscription, and the private households are under the constraints of the armor protection system, in addition to farming and paying grain and serving conscription, they also have to train in their leisure time, but their training level is relatively low, just let the strong men in the armor have basic military qualities, after all, they belong to the potential source of troops in the Su State, and they are reserves, unless they need to go out of the country during the last war of the Uighurs. Under normal circumstances, Zhu Ao would not let them go to the battlefield. Because they are the main labor force of the country, if they are pulled up at every turn, the agricultural time will be delayed, and the grain harvest will fail, which will not only affect their lives greatly, but also affect the treasury income of the entire country. Therefore, the burden of training soldiers in Baojia will not be too large, and it is completely within the scope of the residents.

Since the beginning of compulsory education, Zhu Ao has regarded military training as an important indicator of achievement, because what he wants is not those nerds who can only shake their heads, but the ability of the country to be both civil and military.

Public compulsory schools are different from military academies, in that they are for civilians and children of grassroots military households, and these people will only be small soldiers even if they go to the battlefield in the future, and the training of small soldiers should be refined and professionalized.

So far, Zhu Ao has divided the small soldiers of Su Guo into six categories: infantry, firearms, baggage, cavalry, engineering and medical soldiers, in addition to the small category of reconnaissance subjects that are not collected at night, an ordinary soldier only needs to be proficient in one of the subjects to graduate, because on the battlefield it is necessary to cooperate with multiple arms, he does not have so much cost to train each soldier to be all-round, and there is no need for that at all. As for the night not to collect, it is to choose capable soldiers to serve, and not everyone is qualified to learn.

But officers are different, as the commander of an army, they should know everything and have a comprehensive understanding of the army in their hands, so the students of the military academy are required to pass these six categories of subjects and reconnaissance subjects before they can graduate, and they can't do it without one subject. Anyway, they have a three-year semester, and they live on campus all the time, and some of them have time to study all the subjects.

The infantry subject is the first subject that the cadets of the military academy learn, because the infantry is still the basic strength of the country, even in the future, the Shandan military horse farm and other military horse farms are established, with enough horses, the infantry is also indispensable, because some live cavalry can not do it, the most typical is to climb the city wall.

The weather on this day was not bad, Zhu Ao stood on the hillside not far away, looking at the more than 3,000 officers below, wearing the overall armor, standing in the overall queue, standing on the large playground of the military academy, not only happy in his heart, these are the backbone of his future maintenance of the system, watching them so energetic on the playground to prepare for drills, than watching those Zhuang Ding working on the farm is more exciting, these people are all fighting for the widow's country, what a group of the loveliest people.

The instructor below swept around these young officers' children with tiger eyes, and said in extremely majestic words: "I know that you are all the sons and daughters of the big man's family, and many of you will be older than my official position, and you people will sit in a higher position than me in the future, but I tell you, I don't care whose son you are, when you come here, you are just an ordinary student, you are a dragon and a tiger are lying down, from now on, if you don't do a good job in the actions that Lao Tzu teaches you, Lao Tzu will not talk nonsense with you, It's a whip to go up, do you understand? ”

"Understood!" More than 3,000 students shouted in unison, the sound shook the world, and Zhu Ao, who was standing on the hillside, could hear it vividly, and his heart couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy.

"Good!" The instructor exclaimed loudly, pointed to a hill five miles away, and said: "From now on, run to that hill with all your arms, and take back the bamboo sticks in the hands of the person standing there. Begin! ”

This is also the training method proposed by Zhu Ao, no matter when, no matter which country, the training army can not ignore the training of soldiers' physical fitness, soldiers are like this, officers are even more so, without a good physical fitness, a rapid march may be exhausted, what kind of battle?

"Yes!" These more than 3,000 officers sang a promise as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, turned around and ran towards the hill in front, not only for the sake of food at night, but also for the honor and dignity of men, here, they are not commanders, sons of a thousand households, it is very embarrassing to say goodbye to others, the only thing that can be compared is their own training performance, this is the only way to win the respect of others.

This is compared to the five-kilometer race off-road, but also to wear armor, the physical requirements for people are still relatively high, but Zhu Ao thinks that this is only the most basic quality that the officers of the Su State should have, and they can't even run five kilometers with full armor, how can they follow the widow to expand the territory in the future?

It took less than two quarters of an hour, and these officers of Su Guo basically came back with a bamboo stick, although they looked like they were still wheezing very much, but it was still very good to be able to run down for the first time, Zhu Ao was very satisfied with this result, standing on the hillside in the distance, he couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"Look at your birds, one by one panting like a bear. When we followed the king to rescue Turpan, the rapid march of 800 miles was not like yours, if you caught up with such a thing, you would have been tired and lying down, what kind of battle would you fight? The instructor seemed very dissatisfied with their results and reprimanded them with a straight face. After speaking, he pointed to the last ten members who rushed over, and shouted with a tiger face: "The ten of you go to boil the bath water, and the rest of the people can go to dinner and disband!" ”

Strict requirements for the army were the basis of Zhu's policy of strengthening the army, and he asked these instructors not to praise their students under any circumstances, but to let them know at all times that they still had shortcomings, and to win the first place, because on the battlefield, the second place is meaningless.

"Come, come, come, come, come. Sit here and eat lamb stew! When the master in the military academy room saw Zhu Ao and the others, he hurriedly went up and greeted him warmly. Although he didn't know who Zhu Ao was, he had already heard from the leader of the military academy that this was an observer sent by the imperial court, needless to say, it must be a big official, so he greeted him very courteously.

Zhu Ao nodded slightly, slowly walked around the restaurant, looked at the food situation of the military academy, and was still very satisfied, it can be said that it met his requirements.

According to Zhu Ao's regulations, the food in the military academy is a table for eight people, and the north is mainly based on noodles, so their staple food is basically noodles, or porridge and steamed buns. Although the meal is simple, the dishes are very rich, six dishes on a table, and one stew, to ensure that the students can eat well and ensure that they can have sufficient physical fitness for training.

The dish is three meat and three vegetables, and the stewed soup is generally stewed mutton or elbow, and sometimes it is replaced by chicken, duck and fish, but there is no beef or donkey meat, because there is still a lot of arable land to be cultivated in Suguo, and cattle and donkeys and other livestock are the main force of labor, which is strictly forbidden to be slaughtered by Zhu Ao. Even if these animals are sick, they must be reported to the government before they can be slaughtered.

Although he also likes to eat steak, he doesn't allow others to eat it, no way, who made him king? If it is the king, he should have a little privilege, not to mention that Su Guo is now a big family, and he and his women can't eat a few steaks. With the war reparations from the Uighurs alone, he bought 100,000 head of ploughing cattle at one time, which he would not have eaten enough by himself.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, a ploughing ox was worth about three taels of silver, and he allocated one million taels of silver to the agricultural project, in addition to 300,000 yuan for the purchase of ploughing cattle, all the remaining land money was used to buy or build farm tools, build water conservancy, and Suguo agriculture ushered in the second period of great development.

What's more, his fief is the most northwestern region of the Ming Dynasty, the northwest region has a thousand kinds of bad, all kinds of bad, the winter climate is cold, can freeze people to death, the amount of precipitation is less, and the climate is not as warm as the Jiangnan region, but the northwest region also has its unique advantages in ancient times - that is, animal husbandry is very developed.

In ancient times, the productive forces were very low, and the main industries that produced material means of subsistence for the people of the country were agriculture and animal husbandry, plus a little handicraft, the place where agriculture was the center was the Central Plains Dynasty with the Han nationality as the center, and the place where animal husbandry was the main was the nomadic people in the north.

In our previous cognition, the agricultural civilization was more advanced than the animal husbandry civilization, so the Central Plains Dynasty was ahead of the nomads in the northwest and northeast most of the time, and only in the case of a few decays, it will be taken advantage of by the minority minorities.

Actually, strictly speaking, this is not the case. In fact, agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively primitive, relatively low-end industries, are the use of some simple technical means to beg for food from nature, the only difference is that one eats plants, the other eats meat, half a catty to eight taels, no one can talk about how advanced than the other. And history and reality tell us that people who grow up eating meat can often beat people who grow up eating plants.

In China's thousands of years of history, the Han dynasty in the Central Plains has been harassed and plundered by the nomadic peoples of the north. Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty has been attacked and harassed by the dog Rong, and was finally wiped out by the dog Rong.

Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty successfully counterattacked the Xiongnu and drove the Xiongnu to Mobei, he also hollowed out the national strength of the Han Dynasty, and had to issue an edict to recuperate in his later years.

Needless to say, the Wuhu Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty almost wiped out the Han people, and the Tang Dynasty basically lost the prestige of the Heavenly Khan since the Anshi Rebellion, and the northern nomads at that time even dared to insult the prince of the Tang Dynasty in public. Not to mention the Song Dynasty, everyone knows about it. Even the Central Plains Dynasty, known as the most backbone in history, the Ming Dynasty, has been harassed by the northern nomads since the beginning of the founding of the country, and was finally seized by the Houjin.

In the three hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the harassment from the northern ethnic minorities has basically not been broken, and the early stage was harassed by the Mongolian tribes, large and small, the most famous is the Tumubao change in the Ming Yingzong period, and the Altan Khan in the Jiajing period besieged Beijing.

One arrested the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the other made the Jiajing Emperor, who regarded himself very high, majestic and sweeping, and pulled the then military department Shangshu to the execution ground and slashed the matter.