Whether it is south of the Yellow River or north of the Yellow River, it is a very cold day in December of the Song calendar. The government soldiers of the Great Yuan Dynasty wanted to use such a day to train, and the army of the Great Song Dynasty was using this time to measure the datum point and prepare for a lot of work next year.

After some cleanup, the thorns who love to talk have been removed. There are no bastards in the army who shout that they are tired and only expect treatment. It becomes easier to talk again, especially after retirement.

"Henan is so empty, and the official family should also emigrate to Henan. But those of us who are soldiers are not familiar with the place, what is it to stay in Henan? Such statements are common, and they are not considered to be mere grievances or complaints.

When I go back to my hometown to farm, I am surrounded by acquaintances, so I can take care of each other if there is anything. After many people become soldiers, their families still expect them to go home to support the façade. If it is according to the propaganda in the army, I hope that everyone can immigrate to Henan and take root in such a place. There are a few soldiers who have no land at home and are willing to divide the land here, and most of the soldiers still feel that it is better to go home.

Zhao Qian also had such thoughts. But of course he didn't want to go back to farming, and his family didn't have any land. Zhao Jiaren's Zhao Guanjia may have been the largest landowner in the entire Great Song Dynasty for a short time, but as he became Zhao Taiwei, these lands and properties were rapidly nationalized. When Taiwei Zhao became Zhao Guan's family, he would have no land left.

Therefore, what Zhao Qian wants to return to is his current home, that is, his home in Hangzhou, not his hometown in Quanzhou. When he returns to Hangzhou, he can do the promising job of the prince, and he no longer needs to bury any measurement datum points with everyone in the field.

It's just that Zhao Qian has listened to his mother the most since he was a child is that his father Zhao Jiaren started from the grassroots level and repaired in Mulanpi, turning the desolate beach that originally only produced grass into a rich farmland with hundreds of catties of rice per acre. That kind of pragmatic political achievements made Zhao Qian feel that it was a very honorable thing to do practical things. Let him leave the work at hand and run away now, Zhao Qian really can't do it.

Since he couldn't run away, Zhao Qian could only continue his work as a squad leader. That is to preside over the normal operation of the troops. Persuading the troops to stay is aimed at veterans, and recruits are required to improve their military skills. After all, surveying is only one of many skills in the military.

If you want to improve your skills, you have to train in the army, and it's winter, which is the right time for cats to be in camp. It's cold, but exercising can warm up your body.

The training of the Song army was simple, that is, to maintain a line and shoot at the enemy in various environments. The front-loading smoothbore guns fired by the fire cap had a high rate of fire, and a skilled soldier could fire even six shots a minute. Securing the queue at all times has become the key to war.

The theory is easy, and when he really started to do it, Zhao Qian understood what it was like to stand for half an hour without moving in the cold wind. Even if you have a military coat, a military cap, and gloves, this is not pleasant. First, the temperature of the body began to drop, then the body exposed to the air began to feel cold, and then the thinner parts of the body began to feel cold.

However, the soldiers had to stand motionless until they were ordered to do so. The only good thing is that these superiors also have to stand in the cold wind. This is the death order of the Zhao Guanjia, this kind of training that has a severe test of endurance, and the officer is never allowed to hide in a place where the soldiers cannot see.

As the class leader, Zhao Qian participated in the study class, and the instructor said it very clearly. Officers exist as models and exemplars, if officers can't even compare with soldiers, what do you want officers to do?

Young people are naturally vigorous and competitive, and Zhao Qian naturally doesn't want to be left behind. However, he was a little skeptical, would such an approach really be acceptable to everyone? When the officers are on the front line, can the soldiers really be unwavering?

In the troops, this kind of training that tests endurance and perseverance is not the most difficult, but the most difficult is ideological education. Zhao Qian didn't quite understand why his father, Zhao Jiaren, a university scholar who was born as a scholar, was so close to this group of soldiers who only began to read and write after enlisting in the army. As far as his experience after he arrived in the army, he found that those new policies basically had to be publicized in the army.

Before New Year's Day, Zhao Guanjia's latest speech was sent to the troops. The whole army should study these contents.

The first to learn is the officers, Zhao Guanjia told the brutality of the five generations of soldiers in the vernacular, and told the tragic fate of the people of that era. After that, it tells about the new system implemented by Zhao Kuangyin after the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, and from then on, the warriors can no longer behave recklessly, and they can no longer run amok against the law.

"You may think that many of the soldiers we have seen before have defected to the enemy and treasoned against the country, bringing disaster to the country and the people. If you compare, aren't those military leaders of the five generations the same? If you say that, you're getting one thing wrong. Now when we mention those military leaders who have brought disaster to the country and the people, everyone thinks that what they have done is wrong, and we all hope that we can stop this kind of atrocity and punish those military leaders who have brought disaster to the country and the people. In the five generations, this kind of disaster to the country and the people was the norm, and no one could oppose it, let alone stop or even punish it. The Great Song Dynasty not only established a country and a dynasty, but also established and restored the system, so that the people had the protection of the system. This is one of the meanings of the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty......"

Listening to this kind of sturdiness, Zhao Qian felt that this was indeed his father's style, that is, he often talked about the world that was too idealistic. Zhao Qian really doesn't hate the world described by his father, but he also knows that this kind of world is often unconvincing when faced with reality. If you want to achieve such a world, you have to fight too many bastards. Doing such a firm fight with a bastard, Zhao Qian felt so hard.

And fighting against these bastards, why do you want to take out the family affairs of the old Zhao family and explain it so clearly to ordinary soldiers. In the previous publicity activities, Zhao Qian really had no illusions about the people's ability to understand.

After listening to this large speech, the company commander asked the officers to express their opinions. The various preambles and remarks made by the people in front of them do not match the afterwords, and it can be seen that these people can't grasp the point at all. The study of Zhao Guanjia's speech must be passed by everyone. When it was Zhao Qian's turn to speak, Zhao Qian got up and replied: "The purpose of this speech is to let us know what kind of country the Great Song Dynasty is, what system the previous Taizu established, and what essence we should leave behind after the Great Song Dynasty has experienced three hundred and twenty years, and what unfeasible dross we must discard." The most important thing is that we must closely follow the guidance of the current Zhao official family and establish a newer and better system for the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Such an official article came casually to Zhao Qian, who could be admitted to the university, but when he saw the company commander and the instructor, his eyes were wrong. Zhao Qian couldn't help but feel worried in his heart, he didn't want to be famous at this time. Conducting propaganda to the ranks of soldiers is a very thankless job.