After Li Junxian arranged the major departments of the army, the special guard began to develop rapidly. Because of those scholars who studied the four disciplines, there was no shortage of literate talents in the entire Tekwei. Li Junxian even ordered that those who had learned the four disciplines must teach those soldiers culture every night, and Li Junxian also went to teach the soldiers in person. In order to squeeze out this class time, Li Junxian even reduced the time for soldiers' combat skills training, which made Du Junqiu, the supervising army, a little puzzled at the beginning. But later, after Du Junxuan saw that the soldiers were literate, he was able to understand a lot of truths, and he also had a preliminary understanding of the country and the nation, so he didn't stop it. As for the teaching materials, they were written by Li Junxian himself, and they were to educate soldiers to be loyal to the country.

Regardless of this, the country and the royal family are integrated in this era, so Li Shimin did not find any problems with this textbook. Li Junxian also made it clear that Li Shimin's Li family is the leader of the country's times, and they will always lead the country. When Li Shimin saw this sentence, he was very happy, and he would no longer investigate what textbook soldiers were loyal to the country. However, Li Shimin and those generals did not find that Li Junxian's country and the royal family were actually separated to some extent, but the current situation was not obvious. The original propaganda was that the royal family and the country were one, but the current teaching materials are only that the Li family is the leader of the country. The leader of an organization and an organization do not have a strict integration relationship. In other words, Li Junxian's teaching materials actually turn Li Shimin's Li family into the leader of the country, and it is no longer the kind of status that is integrated with the country. However, the traditional thinking of this era is deep-rooted, and the inertial thinking makes Li Shimin not realize this kind of academic problem for a while.

Moreover, since the last rifle and artillery coordination exercise, the entire military camp has begun to pay attention to firearms units. Even infantry regiments and cavalry regiments began to want to be armed with artillery and a swarm of rockets. Li Junxian sent the Tiger Squat Artillery to the Infantry Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment, and arranged a firearms battalion in the Infantry Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment respectively, as well as two Tiger Squat Artillery Companies and a swarm of rocket battalions. Next. Other technical arms have also been decentralized, and special service battalions of technical arms have been arranged in infantry regiments and cavalry regiments.

"General Li, the emperor has summoned you!" Du Junxuan brought the news that Li Shimin was going to be summoned.

Li Junxian went to the palace and met Li Shimin.

"Chen Li Junxian has seen the emperor!"

"Jun Xian, let's be even!"

Li Junxian and Li Shimin came to Li Shimin's study and sat down.

"Jun Xianzhen recently heard that you have implemented firearms and infantry to fight together, and the results are very good!" Li Shimin asked.

"Yes, I believe General Du Junxuan also told the emperor!" Li Junxian replied.

Li Shimin said: "I knew, and I didn't expect that the power of firearms would be so powerful. Even, once there are firearms. Then our Datang will sweep the world. However, Jun Xian, who else knows the recipe for gunpowder? ”

"Your Majesty, the complete gunpowder prescription is the only one I know. As for the workers in the gunpowder workshop, they all practiced a new method called assembly line production, so they didn't know the whole recipe. At present, the Ordnance Supervision Department has implemented assembly line production, and the speed of ordnance production has been greatly increased. Li Junxian said.

"That's good. Wait a minute, copy a gunpowder recipe and give it to me, and I'll keep a copy as well. Li Shimin replied.

Li Shimin didn't pay attention to gunpowder before, so he didn't ask Li Junxian for a prescription. But now that you pay attention to it, you naturally have to collect it yourself. Gunpowder and that kind of thing. If the royal family doesn't have it, then I'm afraid Li Shimin is really not at ease!

"Jun Xian, have you been reading to those soldiers lately?" Li Shimin asked.

Li Junxian admitted: "Yes, I am reading and reading for the army. Because I think that the saying in the past that soldiers are wise and wise is very wrong. If an army without culture, it is an army without a future. I've always insisted that. The strength of the armies of the past came from strength. And the army of the future comes from knowledge. In the future, whoever has more knowledge will be able to win. So I spread culture in the army, read and write. Of course, we can't get soldiers to learn those subsets of scriptures, we just need soldiers to learn some basic things. For example, they can learn thousands of commonly used words, as well as basic arithmetic, so that they can learn the basic law and military discipline, so that they can become a qualified soldier. ”

Li Junxian's goal is actually to make these soldiers have a primary school education level after several years of service. However, the cultural level of this primary school is actually castrated, because this army does not teach those natural science courses, so there is no need to learn the language and mathematics courses above this primary school level, what foreign languages and the like.

However, as long as the Chinese language and mathematics in elementary school are learned, the combat effectiveness of the army will be multiplied. The army pays the most attention to execution, and those so-called elite soldiers are actually the improvement of execution. As long as there is a high level of execution, the tasks of many generals can be clearly carried out, and those fighting ideas can be practiced.

As long as you can fully practice the tactical thinking of your generals, you can almost be invincible. Since ancient times, China's military has the idea of valuing generals and despising soldiers. However, Li Junxian, a later generation, believed that as long as the soldiers were strong enough, any general would be able to lead them to win the battle. This is also a microcosm of the ancient emphasis on strategy and light force, because generals need strategy, and paying too much attention to generals is an army that is heavy on light power.

"Your Majesty, there is another benefit to making soldiers read and write!" Li Junxian said.

"What's the benefit?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, there is an old saying called the iron battalion and flowing soldiers, which shows that the army is actually changing people all the time. And if we teach those soldiers to read and write, then once they leave the army and go back to the people's homes, won't they teach their children to read? Although it is only literate, it may not be able to be proficient in any subset of scripture and history. However, literacy is often the most important part of reading, and as long as they are literate, there are always some geniuses who can be self-taught. It's like more than 10,000 people in our special guard, once all the soldiers are replaced, how many people can they bring to read and write when they return to the people! As long as we continue to teach the soldiers to read, then when they return to their hometowns, they can lead to literacy for many people. In the future, the improvement of my Datang culture is close at hand! Li Junxian said.

Li Shimin's eyes lit up, because if it was really like what Li Junxian said, it would really be a good thing! The reason why the ancient emperors launched the imperial examination was that they hoped to reduce the monopoly officialdom of the large group of families and maintain their rule. But now, those who really have books to read are still from big families, and the poor are still in the minority. And once these literate soldiers return to their hometowns, they can influence more people to read, and they can teach those who are next to them to read and write, which raises the cultural base. With this foundation, even if only one percent of the people have the opportunity to truly enter advanced learning, it will be enough to subvert the result of the monopoly officialdom of this family.

"Jun Xian, you must handle this matter well, so that the literacy of the soldiers is more important than the combat effectiveness of the army." Li Shimin said.

Li Shimin now regards the system of the army and the things that the army learns as more important than the combat effectiveness of the army, because this can maintain the long-term peace and stability of his Tang Dynasty! (To be continued......)