Zhao Niannu didn't know how to answer.

Zheng Lang vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he didn't take it seriously, little Lori was young and didn't understand anything, she was growing up day by day, but she was getting older day by day. That girl doesn't love pretty, she is a man and a scholar, she doesn't mention right or wrong, her white face is very valuable, and she can't admit it. It's like standing with Di Qing, let the girls choose, who to choose? It's not okay to be a saint yourself, Di Qing's pretty face can be used as tens of millions of Analects in the girl's heart.

said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, go back." Now you are still young and don't understand, when you grow up, if you see Li Jialang unsatisfactory, I will think about your happiness. ”

Zhao Niannu still wanted to speak.

Zheng Lang didn't give her any chance, no matter the little feelings in her heart that she didn't understand anything, even if she didn't, she couldn't meet like this. He also said: "Your Highness, again, it's not good to meet like this, if I am impeached by Yanchen because of this, stay away from the court, and Your Majesty is bent on marrying you to the second official of the Li family, I will no longer be able to speak for you." ”

After saying that, he hurried downstairs.

Downstairs, Liang Huaiji was waiting, and Zheng Lang said: "Liang Neishi, you are a close confidant of His Royal Highness, and you can also persuade some of them." If anyone else knows, you're a capital offense, you know? ”

"Whoa."

"Also, this matter must not be leaked."

"Whoa."

Zheng Lang didn't dare to talk to him much and left immediately. Not only did Liang Huaiji not let him talk nonsense, but he didn't dare to say it, and it was not the result he wanted to see. But I was thinking about it. Could it be that she said that Xiao Guanyin was small, and the little princess said that she was getting bigger and bigger.

The little witch is really a little witch, and her hobbies are different.

New Year's Day is coming.

Soldiers selected from various localities arrived in Beijing one after another.

In fact, before this, the Song Dynasty also had a system of selecting generals. That is the martial arts carried out in the eighth year of the Heavenly Sage, selecting talents with outstanding martial arts and strategy in the army and the people, and compiling some martial arts textbooks for this purpose. However, the number of admitted students is not large, and there are less than 2,000 people on the 44th list of Song Dynasty. The scale of martial arts is not large, and it was even deposed because no one was willing to go to study, so Wu cited some generals. For example, Xu Sichun, Xiong Anshang, Zhou Hu, Cheng Mingfeng, Zhang Jianhou, Li Zhongfang, Jiang Bohu, Cai Bisheng, Hua Yue, Xue Yi, but famous marshals and generals, such as Di Qing, Chong Shiheng, Yue Fei and others, none of them came from Wu Jinshi.

Wuju also decomposes the test, the provincial test, and the palace test. The time is similar to the imperial examination, once every three or four years, and the examination is held in August. As long as the bow horse is qualified, it can participate in the test. The provincial examination was presided over by the Ministry of Military Affairs and was held in February, and generally only 40 to 70 people were selected, and the number was very small. The palace examination is personally tested by the emperor, which is basically a formality, except for those who perform particularly poorly, as long as the provincial examination is passed. All of them can pass the temple examination. The ranking is because the emperor doesn't understand much, so it is determined by the emperor's likes and dislikes, for example, Di Qingruo participated in the palace examination. has a little white face, and the absolute sex is Wu Zhuangyuan.

The content of the examination is to pay equal attention to civil and military, and generally try the bow horse first, in fact, the bow is the main one, and the horse is supplemented by the cavalry because there are few horses. Bow test step shooting and crossbow stepping, one is the head, the other is the bow strength, and the one with the highest bow strength is preferred. Try the policy theory again, and the policy theory is less demanding. As long as you write some ideas, it doesn't matter if the article is vulgar.

It can't be said that it doesn't work, and martial arts have also created some generals, at least a little better than ordinary generals who were randomly selected. The reason why there are no particularly outstanding generals is a factor of quantity. If the quantity is too small, it will not produce a qualitative take-off. Or, like the later Olympic policy, the national Olympic Games deliberately trained these very few elite talents. It seems that martial arts are being cultivated and established, but who wrote these martial arts, Yin Su and other literati, what martial arts treatises can they write? In the context of the whole era, there was no emphasis on martial arts and martial arts, so there was no elite training policy. …,

But it is a progressive policy, and if it were not for the Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature over military force, this fair mechanism would have enabled many outstanding people to stand out.

Most people don't know, and a few don't dare to say it. Zheng Lang is the latter.

In fact, this big competition happened to be twisted with Wuju.

The provincial examination and the palace examination will be conducted in the spring of next year, and the martial arts examination will also be conducted.

But the big competition is still different from the martial arts test, its division of labor is more clear, the bow is the bow, the horse is the horse, the fighting technique is the fighting technique, and the miscellaneous subject is the miscellaneous subject. The strategy is combined into the miscellaneous department.

The competition is also different, the martial arts are aimed at more comprehensive talents, focusing on the selection of Confucian generals for the imperial court. Dabi is to kill! Kill with weapons!

The bow and crossbow not only need the bow strength, but also the target head, which is not like the common one in the Song Dynasty, set up a target, everyone shoots together, and whoever shoots the bull's-eye more is the first. Instead, the flying saucer method was adopted, and the flying saucer was made of thick cloth, and the captain shouted, and the soldiers threw the flying saucer into the air, and the soldiers of Dabi began to shoot.

It was Zheng Lang who came up with the solution. At first, the officials of Xifu couldn't understand it, but Zheng Lang explained. The reason for the big competition is that the elite soldiers are selected for the imperial court, what the country uses to raise soldiers, protect the family and defend the country, and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. But on the battlefield, the enemy is not standing motionless like an arrow target, especially the biggest threat in the Song Dynasty is still the Western Xia and Khitan, there are many cavalry, and the speed of movement is no less than these flying saucers. Shooting a static target may not necessarily hit a dynamic enemy on the battlefield.

This was the first innovation of the bow, and the second innovation was the ability to carry weight and run. Most of the archers were infantry, and although the soldiers of the Song Dynasty had good armor, they were too heavy to carry heavy loads, so they could not fight flexibly and maneuverably. Not being able to run is even worse. Then there is the bow power, which is not required to be like Xue Rengui, who can hold a six-stone bow and penetrate five layers of armor, nor is it required to be like Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, who can hold a three-stone bow (this is real data, on the bow power of Xue Rengui and Yue Fei is twice as much, or Xue Rengui's data after the age of fifty), at least to reach the bow 60 steps to shoot one stone and two fighting power, and the crossbow to shoot four stone in 100 steps (the crossbow force ratio of the Song Dynasty, those who can pull up an ordinary one-stone bow can pull up three to four stone crossbows).

Ordinary soldiers do not have such high requirements, and those who shoot a bow and nine fighters in a hundred steps are the top, those who shoot eight fights are in the middle, and those who shoot seven fighters are the bottom. The crossbow shoots two stones and seven buckets for the top, two stones and four buckets for the middle, and two stones and one bucket for the bottom. If you don't even qualify for this, go home and hug your wife.

Why is Dabi more demanding, if you can't even meet this requirement, why bother to come to Dabi, embarrassed?

The crossbow method also uses the flying saucer method, because the crossbow has made great progress in the Song Dynasty, and not only is it more powerful than the bow. It is also faster, from the time the enemy enters the range to the time he rushes in front of him, the most powerful person can draw four bows and arrows. Those with less strength can only draw two bows and arrows, or even only one.

But the crossbow is different, the Song Dynasty had Zhang crossbowmen, crossbow people, and crossbow people, which is quite like the three-row firing after the invention of the rifle later, so the firing speed is more intensive. In addition to the Fan soldiers, the number of crossbowmen in the Song Dynasty has surpassed that of archers. But there are advantages and disadvantages, and the aim of the crossbow is not as good as the target of the bow and arrow.

Therefore. The saucer has been improved to be lighter and softer, reducing speed and increasing the crossbowman's target.

The bow and crossbow are changing, and the riding is also changing.

It's not the speed of the race, it's not too much real ability, often the quality of a horse can also play a decisive victory.

Or to kill.

Not only than speed. It's more than killing people, not really killing people, and not doing each other's hands. There are many accidental injuries, and there will be casualties, which Zheng Lang does not dare to bear. But there is a way to set up some obstacles in the place outside the city, which depends on the ability of the horse, not only to make the horse run fast, but also to require the horse to cross these obstacles safely. There are also some scarecrows along the way, on which are written individual numbers, not names. Many of the soldiers did not know a few big characters. …,

The number is the number of the contest, the red letter is shot with a bow and arrow, and the black letter is slashed with a knife and gun. Fifty scarecrows per person not only required the shortest time to complete the course, but also required to cross the obstacles safely, and the number of scarecrows that were shot and slashed. You can't get the scarecrow wrong yet. This requires better eyesight and reaction speed for cavalry.

Several bigwigs in Xifu looked at each other after hearing this, but they couldn't make a sound.

What are soldiers used for? It's not used to kill people, is it spent six or seven thousand times a year to make decorations, or to cut meat and sell it?

Martial arts are not bare-handed, even if Tyson comes, it won't work. Those who went to war with their bare hands.

In order to find out the reason, Zheng Lang repeatedly asked if there was any legendary martial arts. The result disappointed him very much, there are some martial arts, fighting skills, and methods to strengthen the body, but the legendary martial arts, he asked countless brave generals, and he did not encounter any of them.

finally sighed, a golden boss and a sea lantern have harmed many people. I am a cultural person, and I actually believe in this god-making theory.

Weapons must be used on the battlefield, so all weapons are used, even ordinary clubs with slightly weaker lethality are not allowed, at least a mace or something. In order not to produce death, the knife was changed to a wooden knife, the spear hook and lance were removed from the pointed end, the rod was removed from the tooth thorns, and the thick and clumsy hammers, whips, and maces were also replaced with wooden ones, but these heavyweight weapons were rarely used on the battlefield, but some wrestlers in the Western Xia were seen to form an octagonal hammer army, which was very fierce. But even for the Tangut people, the number of this class is extremely rare. Otherwise, an octagonal hammer army of tens of thousands of people, Hugh said that the Song army, even the Khitans would be invincible.

Applying lime to the tip of the weapon is still lethal, but it is not a big problem, and there is armor on the outside to counteract the impact force. Win or lose by the part of the lime.

It's a murderer, even if the move makes it look good, if you can't hit the other party, it's a loss!

As for the miscellaneous arts, it is somewhat similar to martial arts, and it also requires a part of the weight-bearing, running and arching skills, which is the most basic factor, but it is different from martial arts, the requirements are lower, as long as they are qualified, they can go to the battlefield, mainly their respective strengths, than those who can run, climb mountains and swim, can be scouts, signal soldiers, those who understand strategy can serve as strategists, literate and account-settling generals who can manage accounts, and so on, one by one, screened out one by one, and cultivated, you can preside over some special needs in the army.

Therefore, it is very similar to martial arts, but in fact it is not, it pays more attention to practicality, and it is not a big comparison made by cultivating middle and high-level generals, and only the high-level forbidden soldiers and grass-roots generals are selected, and they are attached to low-level military generals.

It's not started yet.

Because the target is more extensive, starting from the forbidden soldiers, to the box soldiers, the soil soldiers, the Fan soldiers, the Baoding, the strong men, and the archers, it is divided into three and two kinds of horse steps, and it seems that each state only selects the top three in each item, and the number of people is very large. However, some states don't even have a single soldier, so they send fewer candidates. Some states are too far away, such as Lingnan Kuizhou and other places, and they can't send people to Dabi, and only a few big state capitals have sent some people to come over. As a result, a total of 7,000 soldiers rushed to the capital.

Zhao Zhen was also not wary.

It doesn't matter whether the state capital in the distance has elite soldiers or strong generals, the main thing is Gyeonggi Shulu, followed by Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi, and even Jiang Zhun Zhao Zhen didn't take it to heart. But he is very concerned about this matter, the imperial court has spent a lot of money and raised hundreds of thousands of baoding, will there be outstanding performance this time?

Zheng Lang was also worried.

If these Baoding have outstanding performance, they can further persuade Zhao Zhen to cut the army, if not. It is difficult to convince that the Baojia Law will only become a measure to benefit the people, and lose its other effect.

Wang Deyong also arrived in the capital.

The presiding officer must have a powerful general in charge.

For things like martial arts bows and arrows, even Zheng Lang doesn't understand them. Cannot be moderated. Originally, Zhao Zhen wanted to use Di Qing to preside, but Zheng Lang did not agree. …,

He worries about two things.

First, when Di Qing came to the capital, would he let Zhao Zhen use him to quell the rebellion against Beizhou, and Di Qing could no longer be allowed to make meritorious contributions. It sounds very strange, but in fact, Zhao Zhen asked Di Qing to be a privy envoy, Pang Ji resolutely opposed it, and Di Qing did not listen. Accept it. So the sorrow urged.

Pang is an act of love. It's not him, he doesn't have this exquisite mind yet.

This group of Wenchen is a fierce man who eats people without seeing blood, and Di Qing is too far away in front of them.

Di Qing will make meritorious contributions at this time, and without the victory of Kunlun Pass, it is possible that he will be delegated immediately. Even if it is Kunlun Pass, he still wants to go south together and snatch Di Qing's credit. Can't think about it. It's ridiculous to think about it. But what to do? Think about Ouyang Xiu, think about Liu Chang, Wen Yanbo, Jia Changchao, Han Qi, and Zheng Lang's appreciation of Fu Bi, Wang Yaochen, and Bao Zheng. Even the clever little Lu Yi Jian Pang wanted to defend Di Qing, but under the unprecedented cooperation of this huge literati group, they all retreated.

The second is that he still has a good hand in chess.

But it can't be said that the reason is above board, it is a state affair compared to this, although Di Qing has made a lot of contributions, but he has little qualifications and has served as the host. An old general must be selected to lead the leader, and Wang Deyong is the best candidate.

Before Zheng Lang finished speaking, there was a chorus of echo from the palace in the morning.

At this moment, the so-called Zheng Party, Xia Party, Chen Party, Song Party and Pang Party are not visible at all.

Zheng Lang was in a cold sweat.

Lao Wang came to the capital. Don't look at him as a rough man, very smart, this point Di Qing is not used by Wang De, so after so many years of glory and wealth, the literati are loved by everyone. It is precisely because of this wisdom that although the imperial court abolished the edict that the ministers were not allowed to receive guests. The two families are still related, but Lao Wang did not come to visit Zheng Lang.

The civil and military said differently, even if Zheng Lang called the ministers of Xifu to their homes to eat and drink, there was no impeachment. But Wang Deyong could not have close contact with Zheng Lang publicly. He is not Zhang Kang, a famous family, a veteran, an important minister, as soon as he comes to the Zheng family, the two of them will be sad immediately.

However, Dabi is in charge of the Privy Council, and Zheng Lang occasionally goes to take a look.

Wang Deyong saw Zheng Lang, so he greeted him. This is on business, there is no need to avoid it, he punched Zheng Lang and said: "Zheng Xingzhi, there is a future." ”

Zheng Lang was speechless for this old horseman.

Wang Deyong said again: "But you brought me to Jingshi to handle this matter, I like it very much." ”

Laughing and talking.

It's also very hard, he is old, and he really wants to return to the capital, even if he holds an idle position, how comfortable it is to retire in the capital. After saying a few words, Zheng Lang went back.

Zhang Fangping came again and said: "Xingzhi, I don't know where, the three divisions are getting more and more empty, and there will be no surplus immediately." ”

More than 7,000 soldiers, round-trip travel expenses, food, clothing, shelter, transportation, materials needed by Dabi, and rewards, and hundreds of thousands of guan are gone, and it is possible to use one million kan. The money is used like running water, and Zhang Fangping uses it painfully.

"Wait, it's really not good, sell the Ping An Jian Deed shares, and raise some first. You and a few ministers in the East Mansion have been informed. ”

New Year's Day is here.

Except for the little progress in Beizhou, the year was finally peaceful, and despite the disasters and the endless disputes in the eastern government, it was well prepared and there were no major incidents. The rebellion in Bay State had nothing to do with the disaster. In order to celebrate the Lantern Festival, Zhao Zhen released the golden dragon balloon again.

This release actually released something.

Ming Ho came to Beizhou, and he was definitely stronger than Jia Changchao.

Jia Changchao fought like warm and tender, and even sent people into the city to recruit peace, but the result was unsuccessful. Only one good deed was done, and the "Maitreya disciples" in Hebei prefectures such as Shanzhou and Dezhou were sent to prison in time. But God knows how many believers there are in Hebei?

Once the fight has been fought for a long time, these believers see hope and think that this Buddha is very capable, and if they rise up together, there will be big trouble. So intensify the attack. …,

Nor can it be said that there is no way to command.

However, Beizhou is an important city in Hebei, tall and strong, and there are many defensive weapons in it, and Wang Ze himself was born in the orthodox Song Dynasty. In terms of military strategy, he may not be very clever, but there are many believers in the city, fighting to the death for him, and they have some knowledge of defending the city. Therefore, it has been repeatedly attacked.

Ming Ho was annoyed and ashamed, and came up with a stupid way to directly use 20,000 migrant workers to build a long and tall earthen mountain outside the city, and directly approached the city wall of Beizhou, trying to resolve the height advantage of Beizhou City.

When I was overhauling and repairing, I heard the celebration of the Lantern Festival in the capital. He was so angry that he couldn't do it.

This time Zheng Lang is in Xifu, Zheng Lang will not hinder him, Guan Jian Song Dynasty's heavy overhead system, logistics is not only in charge of Xifu, there are also three divisions, and part of it belongs to Dongfu, as well as the internal treasury. Xia Zhu was at odds with Chen Zhizhong, and he was also at odds with Jia Changchao Minghao. Therefore, he secretly cast some small black hands and continued to bring problems to Ming Ho.

Ming Ho was angry in his heart, Lao Tzu is working hard here, you are singing and dancing in the capital, and you are still making a little black hand on me. sent someone into the capital to inquire about the news, Xia Zhu would not let him go, but there were Zheng Lang and Pang Ji to see if they could speak for themselves in the court.

Just brought back the news of the Golden Dragon.

Ming Ho had an idea, his head was still very smart, and he made several extra-large large balloons, with gunpowder bags on them, and rose into the sky with the help of the northwest wind. Set the gunpowder pack on fire and drop it down.

The idea is good, Guan Jian has been in the sky for several years, and it is no longer unusual.

The two sides have been bombarding each other with gunpowder packs many times, and they have also gained some experience in prevention, and when they saw the gunpowder packs flying over, they hurriedly lay down, and their lethality was gradually decreasing. However, this thing flies around in the sky, for example, the big flag of the Buddha is still higher, which is higher than the flag of Maitreya Buddha, which will affect morale.

Wang stood on the tower of the city and watched, watched for a while, and visually measured the height of the balloon, only about thirty or forty paces, ordinary bows and arrows and crossbows would definitely not be able to shoot up, the range was there, but when it rose into the sky, the range would be seriously reduced. However, there is a sharp weapon in the city of Beizhou, the bed crossbow.

This thing has a range of up to 1,500 meters, and it can be lethal within 1,500 meters. If you shoot at a high altitude, the range will drop again, and it will be two or three hundred meters away. More than a hundred soldiers operated the bed crossbow, and the accuracy was insufficient, but it was floating wherever it was, and the target was huge, and there was always one or two powerful crossbows that hit the balloon.

If an ordinary bow and arrow is shot, a small hole, the qi is not leaked, and there is still time to take it back, the crossbow head of the Guan Jian bed crossbow has the size of a small hammer, or like a giant blade, as long as it hits, poof, the balloon immediately deflated, and the soldiers in the hanging blue screamed again and again, quickly descended to the ground, and ten were shocked to death.

The morale of the enemy and the enemy, and then the rebels stood at the head of the city one by one and shouted: "Break Zhao to win, break Zheng to win, break Jia to win, break Ming to win." ”

The balloon went to the battlefield for the first time, and it ended up like this. Zheng Lang was originally confident about the battle situation in Beizhou, but when he heard the news, he almost spurted blood with anger. Grandma, you are against Zhao and Song and against the two front-line coaches, what do I have to do with you?

After pacing for most of the day, Pang Ji, Gao Ruone, and Wang Yiyong all felt funny.

"You don't have to laugh, Hugh is going to underestimate Gewuxue, let me think about it, and use this Gewuxue to break the city!" Zheng Lang was furious, and went to the newly established Ordnance Prison to discuss with the student Shi Heng, preparing to get a few things out. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )