In the Yanhe Palace, Zhao Zhen flipped through the books on the case casually and did not speak. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Xu Ping sat on the side, holding his breath and concentrating.

Zhao Zhen sometimes studied in the Yanhe Palace, and at this time, he often announced that the ministers entered the palace to answer questions. Xu Ping has been an attendant for some years, but it is the first time he has been announced into the palace like this. In Zhao Zhen's impression, Xu Ping's scriptures and meanings are average, his poems and books are rough, and he can't be his teacher. is to learn "Rich Country Security Policy", and let Li Jing come.

The etiquette of the informal meeting was much more relaxed, and a charcoal fire was lit between the two, and it was burning brightly, not as cold as during the day.

Just when Xu Ping was a little distracted, Zhao Zhen suddenly asked: "Recently, you have been compiling the military system of the Dynasty, like what happened in the forbidden army in the past two days, what would happen if it was in the previous dynasty?" Is it the Imperial History or the military itself for interrogation? ”

Xu Ping cheered up and replied: "All dynasties are different, and the minister thinks that the system is the most complete during the Han Dynasty. In the Han army, there are military law officials, such as the imperial history of this dynasty, and the military law is violated, and they are all interrogated by the military law and his assistants. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, and after a while, he asked, "What if the main general also breaks the law?" ”

"Just as imperial history is not subject to the prime minister, military law is also not subject to the commander. Although the lord will break the law, he can still collect evidence of the crime and go directly to the court. How to adjudicate is up to the court to decide. ”

Zhao Zhen sighed softly: "Compared with the previous dynasty, the Forbidden Military Commission is really simple, and there are no wingmen. ”

This is something that Xu Ping has long been unpleasant to see, and after listening to Zhao Zhen's words, he agreed in his heart, but he didn't say it.

Zhao Zhen said again: "After today's discussion in the Chongzheng Palace, I summoned Gao Daquan and asked him about you leading the army in Yongzhou. Do you know what he said? ”

Xu Ping said: "This kind of thing, how can the minister guess blindly?" Everyone will have a different opinion on the same thing. ”

"Gao Daquan said that in the Yongzhou Army, this kind of thing will never happen. Although Yongzhou's military law is more lenient than that of the forbidden army, no one dares to defy the law lightly. It's not like the forbidden army that looks up and down military law like child's play. ”

Xu Ping couldn't help laughing, and said to Zhao Zhen: "Gao Daquan's words are also not right. Yongzhou's military law is not strict, but it is not as heavy as the forbidden army. It is precisely because the military law of the forbidden army is not strict that the heavy code is used, and if there is any violation of the law in the Yongzhou army, it will definitely be dealt with according to the law, so it seems that the punishment is much lighter. Violations must be prosecuted, so the punishment does not have to be heavy. ”

Zhao Zhen sighed again: "The military law of the forbidden army is not heavy, 'five kills' and 'ten kills', what else?" But this time, they protected each other, and even used the lives of soldiers to take the blame, treating human life as child's play, which really made me feel cold! ”

Because the structure of the armed forces is simple and the level of education is not high, the principle of simplicity is the principle when formulating military law. However, in order to strictly manage the army, the punishment is not severe, and the head will be cut off at every turn. 'Five kills,' 'ten kills,' and even 'fifty kills' came out of this situation. These laws are simple and straightforward, and the common feature is that they all end with the word 'kill'. It seems that military law is extremely harsh, but in fact it is not very enforceable. If you really follow the law, you will kill all your men before the battle. Therefore, in the end, these military laws are inevitably implemented selectively, and instead they have become a tool for the lord to exclude dissidents.

The key to the cultivation of discipline in the military lies in the strictness of the enforcement of military law, not in the emphasis on it. Those who commit petty crimes will be beaten and killed at every turn, but it will be difficult to bring out a disciplined army. As a result, the combat effectiveness of the army is heavily dependent on the commander-in-chief. The commander is a very important factor in whether the army can fight, but the combat effectiveness of the army depends on the commander in chief, and such an army cannot shoulder the heavy responsibility. In the final analysis, there is still a lack of effective management system, which is too simple and crude.

Zhao Zhen sighed again: "For decades, the martial arts of this dynasty have been prosperous, and you broke the toe in the past few years. I often want to select some talents from your army at that time to come to the forbidden army. It's just that the generals in the army can't help but speak, saying that since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the army has always used northerners to serve in the army, and the southerners are weak, unable to wear armor, and unable to hold spears, so the matter has been delayed. This fraud case in the army is a wake-up call, and it is imperative to choose the Yongzhou army to enter Beijing! ”

Xu Ping just listened quietly and didn't answer. Don't think that there is only party strife among civilian officials, and there is never a shortage of party strife in the forbidden army. It's just that the influence of military generals' party struggle is limited to the military and cannot interfere with national politics, so it is not so obvious.

Since the Taizong Dynasty, there have been many contradictions between the central forbidden army and the local forbidden army, especially the border forbidden army, from Yang Ye and Yang Yanzhao's father and son, to the later struggle between the eastern and western armies in Shaanxi, until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. The high-ranking generals of the Sanya often go to the local areas to serve as high-ranking soldiers, but the generals who have made military achievements from the frontier have great difficulties in entering the Sanya. The reason why Di Qing is particularly eye-catching in history is that he began to break the convention that it is difficult for border generals with military merits to enter the Sanya to manage the army. And he was able to succeed because of the increase in the number of literati commanders and the support of the literati border commanders.

Even if he has a good relationship with Li Yonghe, Xu Ping has no influence in the Sanya Forbidden Army, and what Zhao Zhen is saying now is not something he can interject casually. You must know that many of the generals of the Sanya are inextricably linked to the royal family, from the emperor himself, to the queen mother and the empress, they can often talk. Hidden arrows are difficult to defend against, and the power of this kind of rhetoric has to be careful.

Zhao Zhen said: "Sang Yi was originally a Jinshi of Kaifeng Mansion, although he fell into the ranks, he had read poetry books after all, and he was not comparable to ordinary martial artists. I want to select a few thousand people from the Yongzhou army, not to be an army, under the former division of the palace, and Sang Yi to return to the dynasty as the main general. What do you think? ”

Xu Ping said: "Sang Yi is loyal and reliable, brave and powerful, especially not afraid of the enemy, sober-minded, very rare." It is naturally a good thing for him to return to the dynasty to join the forbidden army for training, but when he chose the Yongzhou army to enter Beijing, the ministers did not dare to take the holy will. It is a common practice for the forbidden army not to use southerners, and if so many thousands of people are selected to come back, I am afraid that they will inevitably be excluded, and the water will be subdued. ”

"There's nothing wrong with the soil! The largest number of people in your army back then were Fujianese, how many jinshi were produced there in a year, and I haven't heard of anyone who can't be an official in the north if they don't obey the water and soil! This time, the Yongzhou army was selected to enter Beijing, and the formation of the army does not have to learn from the current forbidden army, but still follow the method you did when you were in Yongzhou. In the end, we want to see how they are different from the current forbidden army! ”

Only then did Xu Ping understand what Zhao Zhen meant, it seemed that what happened to the forbidden army this time really stimulated him, and he finally made up his mind to absorb the experience of the Yongzhou army. It doesn't mean much to transfer only a few people back, and if you really want to see the difference, you can only transfer them to Beijing in an organized manner. Originally, this kind of thing should have been done a long time ago.

In the forbidden army, there are Khitan Zhi, Guiming Bohai, Tuguhun Xiaodi, and Xiazhou Hall, all of which are foreign armies absorbed after winning the battle. After breaking the Jiaozhi, in order to show off the martial arts, there should be a Jiaozhi candidate to enter the forbidden army, not to mention the Yongzhou army that has made military achievements. It's just that because of the obstruction of the three generals, first said that Jiaozhi is a small state, and the southern country of Tibet cannot be compared with the strong enemy in the north, and it is not a great achievement to break Jiaozhi, and then said that the health of the southern people is not good, I am afraid that it will be difficult to pick out a few people who meet the requirements of the soldiers, and it will become a joke for these people to join the forbidden army. In a word, defeating Jiaozhi is nothing great, and the southerners are even more incapable of being a forbidden army.

There is a secret report from the Imperial City Division, Zhao Zhen knows much more about the situation in the forbidden army than Xu Ping, and he is more urgent. He can not be inappropriate for the forbidden army to fight, but it is intolerable to become a big cancer in the capital no matter what.