The emperor of the Han Dynasty won the world with his great martial arts, and the once small martial arts are now respected in the north, so in the Han Dynasty, the status of the generals was greatly improved compared with the previous dynasty.

Countless military generals were named Marquis and Princes, which attracted countless scholars to abandon their pens and follow Rong. For many scholars, there are too many scholars in the world, millions of scholars, who have to go through countless exams, but there are only a few hundred jinshi places every three years. And even if it is the title of the gold list, the road to career will not be easy.

But the empire was built when the warriors made meritorious contributions. As long as there is a war, there is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and there is no need to move from year to year, and there is no need to move up slowly step by step. Today he is still just a small soldier, maybe after the first war, he will become a non-commissioned officer, maybe he will become a sergeant major after one more battle, and he may become a middle-level military attache of six or seven grades after two more battles.

There are more than 100,000 troops in the Han Dynasty, including countless military attachés, and many military attachés are promoted very quickly, and many commanders and commanders are young.

Looking at these young generals who are young, but they are all in the first and second ranks, many scholars have resolutely switched to the military world. At the time of the Ming Dynasty, this phenomenon was unimaginable. But in the Han Dynasty, this seems to have become a very normal phenomenon, the military attache has a transcendent status in the Han Dynasty, although the military attache is also limited, once it becomes a military position, if you don't take off your military uniform and change jobs, you may only be able to go around in the army for the rest of your life.

And if you retire and change jobs, you will have to be demoted according to the rules. However, this does not reduce the enthusiasm of readers, especially those who are young readers. Not everyone can persevere in studying hard year after year, especially for those who are under great pressure from ordinary people, especially those from poor families.

Joining the military is a shortcut to becoming an officer, although their physical condition may be poor, but they are scholars, even if they go to the army, it is still an excellent condition. With this, you can get ahead quickly.

When Zhang Huangyan broke the Moxi Mongol army in Dingxi Fort in Qinghai, he fought alone with his subordinates, not only held the Kunlun East Pass and resisted the attack of 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, but also when the Mongols retreated, he unexpectedly led his troops out of the fort and attacked in the dark, taking the retreating Mongols by surprise.

Zhang Huangyan bluffed. created a puzzle to make the Mongols mistakenly think that most of the Han army was attacking, but the Mongols were defeated in a panic and retreated, and were chased and killed by Zhang Huangyan and his troops.

In the end, Zhang Huangyan not only defended Dingxi Fort in Kunlun East Pass, but also killed more than 1,000 Mongolian troops and captured more than 8,000 people, and only a few hundred of the 10,000 Mongolian troops fled in the end.

The captured Mongol cavalry filled Dingxi Fort.

When the flying pigeon flew to Xining, Qinghai with Zhang Huangyan's good news, the Xining general soldiers were shocked. He didn't report it right away. Instead, he immediately sent a pigeon to the soldiers of a military station closest to Dingxi Fort to go and inquire.

Soon, the good news was confirmed, and the details of the battle were returned.

A great victory of killing more than 1,000 enemies and capturing more than 8,000 people. Zhang Huangyan's troops died in the battle of only more than 300, and the main victims were local herdsmen. The casualties of the Han army were actually no more than 100!

It's nothing short of a miracle.

Qinghai Commander-in-Chief Feixin Shaanxi and Gansu Governor and Admiral.

Hong Chengchou, the newly appointed governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, received the letter, and after confirming it, he immediately reported to the Beijing Division.

When Hong Chengchou's good news arrived in Beijing. Liu Jun had already known this good news through Jinyiwei, and even knew the detailed battle of Ningxi Fort very clearly.

There are spies of the Jinyiwei system in Dingxi Fort, and the units above the battalion level in the army of more than 100,000 people in the Han Dynasty basically have Jinyiwei people. They lurk in the army, they may be soldiers, they may be sergeants, officers, closely monitoring this powerful force. Whenever there is a little wind and grass in the troops at all levels, Jinyiwei can quickly know through this strong wind and play the Son of Heaven.

Zhang Huangyan's side is more than one person from Jinyiwei, and even someone from Dongchang. Their secret report completely verified Zhang Huangyan's report.

The Operations Section of the General Staff of the Privy Council quickly reviewed the detailed battle history of the Battle of Dingxi Fort, and after Liu Jun saw it, he clapped his hands and exclaimed. Zhang Huangyan, a young middle-level officer, a former talent, actually had such courage and courage, not only could not leak a drop of Dingxi Fort's defense, but also took the initiative to attack and played a beautiful counterattack. In particular, his bluffing tactics of the suspicious soldiers fully proved that Zhang Huangyan not only had courage, but he was also quite strategic.

Liu Jun issued an edict, specially promoted Zhang Huangyan to the right general and division commander, promoted to the position of the earl of the founding of the Western Republic, and rewarded 100,000 yuan in silver!

At the emperor's behest, the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Propaganda Department, the two mouthpieces of the empire, quickly became operational, and for a time, the major newspapers and periodicals in Beijing were overwhelmed with news headlines about the great victory in Dingxi and Zhang Huangyan.

All kinds of praise are endless.

There is not only a detailed experience about Dingxi Fort, but also how Zhang Huangyan commanded well and how courageous he was. There are also many newspapers that have begun to dig up Zhang Huangyan from all aspects, such as where his hometown is, what celebrities his ancestors have produced, what places he showed extraordinary when he was a child, and how he was sad and angry about the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, and how he abandoned his pen and threw himself into the army, from a showman to a pawn under the emperor.

Step by step, the southern and northern expeditions have slowly grown into today's immortal generals.

This kind of all-round explosive propaganda has made Zhang Huangyan another imperial star after Huang Zongxi, the first champion of the empire and the first great talent of Lianzhong Sanyuan.

A dazzling star is rising!

Zhang Huangyan, the twenty-one-year-old General Jinhu, was the founding earl.

At this age, this official rank and title are all amazing.

Many people think that Zhang Huangyan, who is so talented, has not given up his pen and thrown himself into Rong, so he may still be just a showman now. Even if he carps and jumps over the dragon gate, he is at most a jinshi. It will take four years to become an eight-rank petty official.

Look at today's world-famous genius Huang Zongxi, the leader of the Restoration Society, the champion of the new department, and Lianzhong Sanyuan, but now it is just a seven-pin, and it is still a seven-pin who is studying in the ministry.

If Huang Zongxi wants to achieve the three products, it will take at least twenty or thirty years. And if you want to be an earl, it is even more unattainable.

With such a comparison, countless readers were not calm.

At this time, a newspaper published a special issue, which was just a tabloid with sales of less than 3,000 copies, and their special edition was a special issue that ruled the original identity of those middle and senior officers above the military academy in today's military circles.

As a result, they came up with a striking result. Among the middle and senior officers in the military circles of the Han Dynasty, more than half of them have read books, and among these people who have read books, only a small number of them have made meritorious contributions such as Xiucai, Tongsheng, and Gongsheng.

It turned out that many people abandoned their pens to join the army, and only a few of them really had military careers.

Many people have not only read books, but also taken exams, and many of them are still children.

The vast majority of the current high-ranking officers have read some books, but none of them have any real fame, and most of them have not even obtained the qualifications for children.

Even the Son of Heaven. It's just a martial artist. Today's privy envoy Fu Shan is also just a tribute, not a man.

They were once disappointed in scientific research, but they shined brightly in the military world.

Many scholars, especially those who study hard, but are still struggling at the bottom, and can't even get into the children's show, can't help but think that maybe they just chose the wrong path, if they join the army. Maybe he can be like Fu Shumi and Wang Admiral, and they will already get ahead.

The Han Empire suddenly broke out into a frenzy of military defection, and many of them were famous children. But if you want to be a soldier, it's not so easy. Readers naturally have some advantages, but they are not easily selected.

Liu Jun is very satisfied with the upsurge of joining the army and advocating martial arts that he has single-handedly driven. The imperial court should be a combination of civil and military, rather than blindly suppressing martial artists.

Although Liu Jun also thinks. For the sake of long-term peace and stability, the imperial court should also be a court ruled by literati, but the warriors should not become a group that is completely excluded and suppressed. Opposite. The imperial court also had to increase military spending and always maintain a standing army with strong combat effectiveness.

The imperial court can choose to separate civil and military, the army is a pure army, the army of the Han Dynasty should be a standing army and a professional army, and the officers are also professional soldiers, they cannot interfere in state affairs, and civil and military officials cannot change their identities at will. Civilian officials may not be converted into military attachés, and military attachés must be professional military personnel.

If a military attaché becomes a civilian officer, he must be retired from active service, and once he retires from active service, he cannot return to the military and serve again.

Relying on self-abolishing martial arts and self-castration will not work.

The sword still has to be sharp, but it has to be controlled.

Liu Jun hopes that scholars will regard joining the military to serve the country as an honor, and hope that the people of Dahan will regard joining the army as a kind of glory, and hope that everyone will regard the military as a symbol of respect.

"I heard that the Oirat coalition army has defeated the army of Zangba Khan, captured Zangba Khan alive, and occupied Zangba Khan and Rear Tibet!"

In the Hanlin Courtyard, Chen Mingxia said to Huang Zongxi. "The Moxi Mongols are so fast."

"That's my big man, and he doesn't plan to send troops to Tibet." Huang Zongxi didn't raise his head.

At present, the time has entered March of the second year of Longhan, and Beijing Normal University has opened on the sixteenth day of the first month, and Huang Zongxi, Chen Mingxia, and Gu Yanwu, the first and third students of the new department, are also reported to be enrolled in the school. However, they are first-class, receive special treatment, and have been ordained in the Hanlin Academy. They take turns at the Hanlin Academy on weekends every week, and attend classes at Beijing Normal University for the other five days.

The weekend shift is nothing, and there is really nothing to do with the newcomers. Therefore, when they were on duty, they were more engaged in private work, making tools for compiling the big Chinese dictionaries assigned by the school professors. The professors are each responsible for a part, and then assign tasks to their own students, so that with the help of tens of thousands of students at Beijing Normal University, the dictionary is compiled quickly, and it is expected that in another three months, this unique dictionary will be completed, and even if there is no teacher, you will be able to learn on your own.

In the second year of Longhan, this is a quiet year.

While the imperial court was trumpeting the victory at Dingxi Fort, the main force of Oirat, the combined forces of the Heshute and Dzungar tribes, under the leadership of Gushi Khan and Batur Hongtaiji, entered Tibet with surprise troops, and they attacked fiercely and quickly occupied most of the former Tibet.

The defeated Zangpa Khan led the remnants to retreat to Houzang, and Gushi Khan took advantage of the victory to march and captured the Zangpa Khan Karma Tenchen Wangpo alive, and put the leader of the anti-Yellow Sect into a cowhide bag according to the custom of executing the Mongol nobles, and threw him into the turbulent Brahmaputra River.

At this point, the Kagyu Karma regime, which had ruled the Xizhang region for more than 20 years, officially ended.

The Yellow Sect successfully colluded with the Moxi Mongols to enter Tibet, destroyed their opponents, and enabled the Gelug sect to successfully sit in the position of the first religion in Tibet.

Gushi Khan, who successfully occupied the Tibetan area, also officially settled in Lhasa and became the king of the Tibetan Khan. Although Kang and Qinghai were taken by the Han Chinese, not long ago they also inflicted heavy losses on the Moximeng army in the Kunlun East Pass. But the Han did not take advantage of the victory to enter Tibet, which made Gu Shi Khan breathe a sigh of relief.

After the Dzungar and other allied forces helped them conquer the Tibetan area, they retreated as promised and handed over the Tibetan area to the Heshute Ministry. From then on, Heshute officially moved into Tibet, and the Western Regions belonged to the Dzungar Department.

Although they failed to defeat the whole of Qinghai and Tibet as agreed, after discussing with Batur, Gushi Khan decided not to fight for Qinghai and Kham for the time being, and they took the initiative to withdraw from Qinghai and Kham and only occupy Tibet. It has the meaning that the Tibetan and Han will not offend each other from now on.

Dzungar and other ministries returned to the division, and Gushi Khan immediately gave his teacher Lobsang Choji the title of **** Bokeduo, which is the same as the title that Altan Khan gave to Sonam Gyatso Dalai that year. "Ban" is the abbreviation of Sanskrit Pandita (scholar), "Zen" is the Tibetan word for great, and "Bokdo" is the Mongolian word for both wisdom and courage and outstanding people. Since then, the reincarnation system of the **** living Buddha has been established.

Lobsang Choji was the teacher of the Fifth Great Lai, and it was he who advocated the introduction of Gu Shi Khan into Tibet.

After this war, the Yellow Sect was able to become the largest religion in Tibet, and Gushi Khan, as the protector of the Yellow Sect, became the supreme secular ruler of Tibet - the Khan King.

Gu Shi Khan first gave Luosang Quji the title of **** Bokeduo. Then let Dalai be in charge of the former Tibetan religious affairs, **** in charge of the later Tibetan religious affairs, and he himself is the Khan king who rules the entire Tibetan region. Through this arrangement, there are two systems of reincarnation of living Buddhas in the Yellow Sect. Two centers were formed, so that he could have better control over Tibet.

Gushi Khan sat in Lhasa, and since then the Heshuo Department has moved to Tibet, and Gushi Khan has been a great hero. The Mongol and Tibetan nobles who had conquered Tibet with him were given high positions in this new secular regime, made them nobles, and gave them estates and serfs.

"The Heshute tribe captured Tibet. Will they come to avenge the revenge of Kunlun Mountain next? ”

"I'm afraid that now the envoys sent by Gushi Khan to Jingshi are already on the way."

"What messenger?" Chen Mingxia asked.

Gu Yanwu said on the side, "It must be the messenger of peace, in the battle of Kunlun Mountain, I heard that the 10,000 horses that were annihilated belonged to the Heshuo Special Department." The loss of 10,000 horses at once is a bit nerve-wracking, not to mention, it is only my big man who killed them, less than 3,000 people. I believe that Gu Shi Khan must have known that my Han soldiers are strong and fierce. Now that the Dzungar and other departments have returned to the Western Regions, it must mean that Gushi Khan does not plan to start a war with us again, otherwise the Dzungar and other departments will not return to the west but to the east. ”

"That's it, Gu Shi Khan?" Chen Mingxia was a little surprised.

"For Gu Shi Khan, it is better to be able to ensure that the Tibetan area he has just laid down is under control than to anger the big man and fight with nothing left. If he can make peace with my Han, then he can also be his Tibetan Khan King with peace of mind. If he can't fight for Qinghai and Kang to the east, he can also go west to knock down the Ali Plateau, or even to the south, where there are still countries such as Nibala and India to fight. Gu Yanwu said with a smile.

"Then do you think the court will agree to peace?"

"It is possible to agree and it is possible to disagree." Huang Zongxi raised his head, he leaned back and changed into a comfortable position.

Huang Zongxi took a sip of tea from the cup and continued, "If Gu Shi Khan is really honest, then the imperial court may accept the invitation to peace, after all, there is an accident in the southwest now, and the war to conquer Japan in the east is about to start again. ”

Gu Yanwu added on the side, "There is another problem, that is, the imperial court has just taken Xikang and Qinghai, and Gansu has been newly established, these places have not yet been completely occupied, and we do not have much advantage in going deep into Tibet at this time, don't forget, the climate in Tibet is a very troublesome problem, and transportation and supply are also big problems." In addition, the current Yellow Sect in Tibet is in a hot fight with Gu Shi Khan, and the Yellow Sect is a sect that the Mongolian tribes are quite reverent in now, so if we use the Mongolian princes to fight the Tibetan area, there may be accidents. But without the Mongol princes, our soldiers are not adapted to the Tibetan climate. ”

Huang Zongxi also nodded, "I don't think there's any need to worry, there are many ways to solve the Tibetan problem, and there will always be one that is most suitable." ”

A few young talents, although they have unlimited scenery outside, but after they really stepped into the official career, they found that they were just a group of new people who could not be new, not to mention pointing the country, no one listened to the current situation in the world, and no matter how simple some small chores were, they were not handed over to them to do.

Now they can only honestly watch and listen.

There are no outsiders here today, and the three of them can't help but take the opportunity to point out the country.

In the end, the three of them couldn't help but talk about Zhang Huangyan, who is now infinitely beautiful.

"This is really lucky, and it was a success."

"Yes, I'm only twenty-one years old, and I'm already the right general of Zheng Sanpin."

"Stop, it's also the founding uncle."

Speaking of which, the three of them couldn't help but have a little pantothenic acid in their words. They are already the luckiest among the scholars, but Huang Zongxi is also in his thirties, but Zhang Huangyan is only twenty-one years old this year, and he was only a showman two years ago. Speaking of which, it was their late junior, but now they are crowned with three grades, and they are knights.

"When the two-year study period of Beijing Normal University expires, I want to apply for the foreign border province to patrol the imperial history!"

Huang Zongxi said suddenly. (To be continued.) )