Chapter 22: Chai Rong's Reform
The first thing Chai Rong wanted to reform was the army, especially his pro-army forbidden army, which he believed was the most urgent.
Five generations of forbidden troops, tired of dynasties, most of them are hereditary, without simple selection, so the majority of the elderly, and arrogant, wartime do not listen to orders.
If they encounter a strong enemy, they will either flee or surrender, which has been common for five generations.
Chai Rong saw Fan Aineng and He Hui of the Eastern Route Army escaping on the battlefield after the Battle of Gaoping, but fortunately, the soldiers did not hesitate to use their lives to turn the tide of the battle.
Otherwise, he didn't know that things would go in that direction, and this time he was even more determined to rectify the forbidden army.
The pro-army of the Son of Heaven is like this, and the other armies are even more unbearable, Chai Rong feels that at this time, he must vigorously reorganize the forbidden army.
On this day, Chai Rong suddenly summoned the jiedu envoys of several important towns into the palace and reversed their positions.
and ordered them to take office immediately, and this sudden appointment took them by surprise.
Although they did not want to leave their original feudal town, they had to obey the imperial decree and go to office.
Especially after the battle of Gaoping of Shangchai Rongzi, the prestige of the whole person is increasing day by day, and the majesty of the Son of Heaven is becoming more and more heavy, and the ministers are all bowing down to their ears.
Immediately afterwards, Chai Rong began to carry out drastic reforms, first he ordered the abolition of the forbidden army.
This retrenchment is not necessarily about how many people are being laid off, but about laying off those veteran soldiers. Young master soldiers, and those who specialize in empty salaries.
At this time, there are only tens of thousands of people left in the forbidden army, and the scale of this reduction is quite large.
Then Zhang Bang recruited strong soldiers from the people to join the forbidden army, and at the same time ordered that each feudal town select its elite soldiers to join the forbidden army.
Send people to various places to make those overseers carry out, because several large feudal towns have just been adjusted, and they are not familiar with the place, and there is no way to read if they want to.
At this time, the forbidden army of the imperial court reached more than 100,000, and they were basically elite, and at this time Zhao Xu proposed a plan to establish a forbidden military academy. ()
When Chai Rong asked him the reason, Zhao Xu said at length and convinced that Chai Rong. What he means is;
From ancient times to the present, all dynasties have attached importance to the generals who lead the army and despised ordinary soldiers, but although the generals of the war are important, the real ones still rely on the soldiers.
There are only so many generals, and the foundation of the army is soldiers, and only when the quality of the soldiers is excellent, can this battle be easy to fight.
Besides, if your own generals are flying, beheaded, or captured on the battlefield, ordinary soldiers will scatter and flee.
At this time, if ordinary soldiers have undergone strict and systematic training, then they can quickly react and organize their own battles.
Some can even spontaneously become temporary leaders and command local battles.
Chai Rong and the others are not mediocre talents, although they don't know what a military school is, but when they say this, they will also know this kind of benefit.
An ordinary soldier can keep the formation unchaotic after losing his boss, and the warrior can also fight spontaneously, such a soldier is a treasure.
Chai Rong couldn't wait to ask what a military school was and how did he train?
After Zhao Xu's explanation, he finally understood that the military academy was for training army generals, so that he could have a series of military knowledge.
Such people are all trained from ordinary soldiers, just imagine that all soldiers have undergone such training, so why can't such an army sweep the world.
immediately asked Zhao Xu what the establishment of this forbidden military academy was, and then he appointed Zhao Xu as the first principal of the Great Zhou Military Academy, and let him be fully responsible for the preparation of the military academy.
And this time, I just let him experiment and see the results, and then decide whether to continue to implement it.
"Unexpectedly, I've become the principal too, this title is really a bit ......" Zhao Xu thought evilly in his heart.
With the emperor's holy decree, the matter went very smoothly, and in the morning, Zhao Xu had already completed the site and house of the military academy. ()
The houses are all ready-made, but the facilities inside are ready-made, and some need to be added or repaired.
When everything was ready, Zhao Xu asked people to write a brief description of the enrollment of the Great Zhou Forbidden Military Academy dictated by him:
Do you want to be a soldier and become a general? Do you want to change from a poor ** silk to a rich and handsome? Do you want to make yourself stand out from the forbidden army and make a name for yourself/
Then come to the Forbidden Military Academy, this is the place to realize your dreams, and here to give your dreams wings to take off.
Here you can have the opportunity to get His Majesty's face-to-face teaching, you have the opportunity to meet peerless famous generals, and here you have the opportunity to realize your dream of being a general.
Come to the Great Zhou Military Academy, this period will enroll 1,000 students, register as soon as possible, and select the best. “
This modern prospectus quickly caused an uproar, although it was not as inflammatory as the various admissions brochures of today.
But in that era, it was more able to arouse your inner **, as the saying goes** is the driving force behind people's hard work.
The lower-level forbidden army who saw this thing for the first time all came to sign up, and they didn't understand what ** silk and Gao Fushuai were.
But they knew what the general meant, and besides, they could still see the emperor here, so they didn't say anything, and they went.
The number of applicants surged to five thousand for a while, and Zhao Xu didn't expect so many people to come at once.
He originally thought that it would be good to have a few hundred people, but he didn't expect to come so much, because he underestimated the power of his admissions brochure.
By now people may have gotten used to it, and no one went back. Who has seen such a thing in five generations.
It is said that some merchants were inspired by it and began to promote similar propaganda, but Zhao Xu did not expect that he would soon become the founder of sales.
But he couldn't collect all the five thousand men, and he didn't have that many people to manage and train them.
After going through layers of screening, he still only left a thousand people, and let the ten of them choose a team leader by themselves, and the ten team leaders have a team leader to govern.
Let the respective team leaders tell Zhao Xu the school rules written by the principal, and memorize them, and if they violate it, they will be severely punished.
As for those who are illiterate, there are special personnel who are responsible for teaching them to read and write, and for those who come to teach them things, they are called teachers, and there are dozens of them.
The next day, he also prepared a opening ceremony, and invited Emperor Chai Rong, Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin and other senior generals to come.
And Zhao Xu wrote a speech for the opening ceremony, but it was all some encouraging words.
But reading it out of Chai Rong's mouth can indeed motivate these soldiers to a greater extent, and after this so-called opening ceremony, everyone is full of energy.
You see that the emperor is here, and it seems that our future is bright.
At the same time, Zhao Xu stipulates that all the students will have a debriefing competition in less than half a month, and they will be conducted one-on-one according to your team.
The captain of the losing team has to learn to bark at the captain of the winning team, and at the same time, in the next half month, he has to wash the smelly socks and underwear of the winning team.
If you lose three times in a row, you will clean the latrine for a month, and at the same time wash all the students' stinky socks for a month.
Although this punishment is not ruthless enough, none of the old men are willing to wash their socks and sweep the toilet, and everyone is secretly determined not to lose.
According to the training course compiled by Zhao Xu, they got up at five watches every morning, quickly sorted out their things, and gathered at the school grounds.
Then they went out to exercise collectively, but it was not the daily training of the forbidden army but a run of ten kilometers in the wild, the physical strength of the ancients was still okay, and no one was left behind in ten kilometers.
They quickly completed ten kilometers at a speed comparable to that of a marathon champion.
In view of this, the next day, Zhao Xu let each person carry thirty pounds, which was a little difficult, and the speed was much slower.
In the mornings they do some extreme training, what to climb over obstacles, exercise their reflexes and willpower.
In the afternoon, special personnel taught them marksmanship, swordsmanship, and various assassination and reconnaissance techniques.
In the evening, there were people who taught them the art of war, and on the first day, these people were miserable, and they all complained.
But no one chooses to quit, maybe for their own future, or for something else......
In this way, everyone survived for half a month, and in this half month, there were bitter and sweet, and everyone's relationship would die by leaps and bounds.
As soon as half a month arrived, Zhao Xu immediately organized a martial arts competition, and sure enough, a few teams lost.
Their squad leader had to learn to bark in front of many people, his face was red with shame, and they had to wash other people's stinky socks and underwear for half a month.
Determined to give birth to them next time, this time, in the process of training, they worked even harder to complete the training tasks of the military academy.
Their squad leader also added tasks to his own team members, but no one complained, everyone was asking for enough stinky socks.
In this way, everyone spent several months in training and competition, and the time had reached the second year of Xiande, that is, in 955 AD.
At this time, officials still have annual leave, and Zhao Xu has been training in the place where the forbidden army is forbidden, and it is rare to have a chance to rest.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he and Gao Guiying walked around Bianjing City all day, and they didn't stop for a moment, Zhao Xu really admired the physical strength of women.
He can't stand this kind of physical strength, but Gao Guiying is full of interest, her eyebrows are dancing, like a little girl in love.
Looking at her familiar face, Zhao Xu had an indescribable feeling in his heart, he had never given anything to a girl.
bought a hosta for Gao Guiying at a stall, although it was not very valuable, but Gao Guiying already felt very happy.
In this way, the two of them would see each other every day, either casually strolling, or walking relatively silently.
The days passed like this, but the dull days were soon broken.......
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