In the Hongwen Pavilion, dozens of royal children are bowing their heads and writing books, and several Hongwen Pavilion professors are nervously staring at the hourglass, the time is almost up, but most of the royal children have not finished writing.

Zhao Zhen, the son of heaven, sat on the side and drank tea patiently, and he asked each of the children of the imperial family to write a countermeasure for the reform of the army, with a word count of 3,000 words.

This question is very difficult, first of all, the time is urgent, write 3,000 words in an hour, to write like flying, there can be no stagnation, it must be done in one go, and secondly, the requirements of the topic are also high, Zhao Zhen did not disclose the topic in advance, and did not even tell Hongwenguan that he was coming today.

Therefore, the princes must have the goods in their stomachs, and they must always think about national affairs and have clear opinions and ideas in order to complete this exam without any preparation.

Zhao Zhen's eyes glanced at Zhao Zhongzhen from time to time, there was a rumor in the palace in the past two days, Zhao Zhongzhen deliberately showed it to himself that day, this rumor Zhao Zhen didn't care about it at first, but more and more people said it, and it was reasonable, so that Zhao Zhen was a little shaken, could it be that the emperor Zhao Zhongzhen really deliberately showed it to himself?

It is this kind of doubt that has led to today's surprise exam, Zhao Zhen does not test the martial arts of riding and archery, does not test the Five Classics of Poetry, does not test the Analects of Mencius, and only tests the countermeasures that can best see a person's talent.

Zhao Zhen really values this imperial grandson who amazed him, and he needs to see the true talent of this imperial grandson with his own eyes, and he doesn't want to be swayed by some gossip in the palace.

"There's still a stick of incense time, everyone, hurry up!" The leading scholar Sun Min reminded the princes, and then lit a stick of incense.

At this time, Zhao Zhongzhen had stopped writing and began to check his answer sheet from the beginning, it seemed that he answered well, and he didn't find any typos after reading for a long time.

Zhao Zhen watched his actions, and began to have a kind of expectation in his heart.

There was still half a stick of incense, Zhao Zhongzhen was the first to get up, came to Zhao Zhen and bowed, put the paper on the table, bowed again, and retreated, without disturbing other people's exams.

Zhao Zhen couldn't wait to pick up his scroll and read it carefully, the title was "My Opinion on the Accumulation of Disadvantages of the Great Song Dynasty Military System".

What a beautiful little stroke, Zhao Zhen secretly praised that this calligraphy can indeed be admitted to the Jinshi.

He continued to look down, and the first sentence was to the topic: 'The disadvantages of the military system of the Fu and Song Dynasty did not start in the Song Dynasty but suffered from the Song Dynasty. ’

Very interesting, Zhao Zhen understood the meaning of Zhao Zhongzhen's words, the Song Dynasty's military system inherited the Later Zhou, so the disadvantages of the military system should also start from the Later Zhou, but the army of the Later Zhou Dynasty did not show many drawbacks, on the contrary, it swept the world, destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, destroyed the Han Dynasty, destroyed the Later Shu, and swept the world, so Zhao Zhongzhen said that it was in the Song Dynasty, that is, the disadvantages began to appear in the Song Dynasty.

Then he wrote five drawbacks, one of the drawbacks: serious redundancy and overwhelmed financial resources; Disadvantage 2: The general does not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, and the military system is chaotic; Disadvantage 3: The forbidden army is negligent in training and weak in combat effectiveness; Disadvantage 4: Corruption is rife in the military, and false reporting and military deduction are serious; Disadvantage 5: Lack of awareness of distress, lack of war horses, and old weapons.

Zhao Zhen sighed lightly and said it very thoroughly.

At this time, Sun Min, a university scholar, shouted, "When the time comes, stop writing!" ”

With the presence of the Son of Heaven, no one dared to violate the rules, they put down their pens one after another, and more than 30 children of the royal family stepped forward to hand in the papers, Shi Li retreated, and most of them were full of frustration, and they really did too badly in the exam.

Zhao Zhen browsed, except for Zhao Zhongzhen, no one finished it, and most of the candidates only completed half of it, and they wrote it incomprehensibly, which made Zhao Zhen shake his head secretly.

He pulled out the volume of Zhao Wenyun, the king of Langya, and smiled at several professors: "I will look at these two volumes, and please ask a few of you to review the rest of the volumes." ”

Several professors divided the papers and carefully reviewed them.

Zhao Zhen first looked at Zhao Wenyun's scroll, he was very familiar with Zhao Wenyun, he had always felt that Zhao Wenyun's handwriting was good, but he had not compared it with his peers.

He put the words of Zhao Wenyun and Zhao Zhongzhen together, and it obviously felt different, Zhao Wenyun's words were very delicate, the strokes were round, slightly soft, just like the softness of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, Zhao Zhong's words between the lines seem to be majestic, very tough and decisive, without the slightest feeling of dragging mud and water, and there is a great momentum like a majestic mountain in the north.

Zhao Zhen sighed secretly, looking at words is like looking at people, the feeling of heroism and decisiveness that Zhao Zhongzhen gave him was not pretended, but his real character.

Although he emotionally prefers Zhao Wenyun, the future Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty needs a monarch as eloquent as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, rather than a king who is easily controlled by others like a little woman, and in this regard, Zhao Wenyun is obviously too far behind.

Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Wenyun's countermeasures again, only wrote less than half of them, listed several problems, redundant troops, too much financial expenditure, all of which were the content that he had told him, basically without his own opinions, and it was superficial, the content was not profound, and there was no solution, which made Zhao Zhen very disappointed.

Zhao Zhen put Zhao Wenyun's paper aside, and looked at Zhao Zhongzhen's test paper carefully.

Zhao Zhongzhen wrote the battle of Song Liao, saying that the Song army won the battle results are not obvious, and the defeat is a thousand miles, although the victory is more and the loss is less, but the final financial resources and materials and the loss of soldiers are far greater than the Liao State, the reason is that the Song army is too weak to pursue the force, the Liao army is defeated and retreats, the Song army can not catch up, the results are thin, but the root cause is still the loss of Youzhou's strategic consequences, resulting in a plain war, the Liao army iron cavalry can sweep south at any time, and the Song army has no difficulty to defend.

Zhao Zhongzhen wrote about the battle of Song and Xia, pointing out that the Western Xia was supported by the Liao State, the purpose was to cut off the hope of the Great Song River West, and the Liaoxia was in a horn trend, just like the Wushu alliance against Wei, the military crisis of the Western Xia, the Liao army must Chen soldiers go south, if Youzhou is in danger, the Western Xia will send troops to Shaanxi Road, so that the east and west ends of the Great Song Dynasty are difficult to take care of.

Seeing this, Zhao Zhen was amazed, Zhao Zhongzhen has a very big picture and sees it deeply, but he is also a little strange, Zhao Zongshi does not have such a high level, where did Zhao Zhongzhen know?

Thinking of this, he commanded the eunuch behind him, and the eunuch walked down quickly.

Zhao Zhen entered the inner hall and sat down, and after a while, Zhao Zhongzhen hurriedly came and knelt down to salute, "Grandson to meet the emperor's grandfather!" ”

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and said with a smile: "Get up and speak!" ”

"Grandson obeys!"

Zhao Zhongzhen stood up and stood aside with his hands down.

Zhao Zhen pointed to the article again and asked with a smile: "This countermeasure is very well written, I want to hear you talk about it, first talk about your military system change." ”

"Back to the emperor's grandfather, grandson thinks that the military reform can not be impatient, need to be slowly figured out, a hundred years of accumulation, how can it be changed, should start from the easier place, first to reduce redundant soldiers, first the village soldiers, then the Xiang army, and finally the forbidden army, although the number of township soldiers is not much, but there are more than 200,000 people in various places, most of the local financial resources are used to support the township soldiers, in fact, there is no need, as long as the forbidden army is stationed in the strategic critical places, once the local rebellion, or the rebellion of the people, the forbidden army can be extinguished at any time, So the grandson's first plan was to abolish the village soldiers. ”

"Well said, keep talking."

"The second step of the grandson is to reduce the box army, the system should be clear, the age of forty can be discharged home, the total number of the box army in various places shall not exceed 200,000, their losses can be compensated by exemption from labor, Sun Er believes that the box army can be reduced by at least half.

The third step is to empty the army, the empty money mainly appears in the forbidden army, this is not to infringe on anyone's interests, but a real crime, it can be completely carried out by fair and honest means to carry out a strict investigation, at least another thirty percent of the army, so that down, the total army will be cut in half, just like a bloated fat man shakes off the fat on his body and becomes a strong man. ”

"And then?"

"Then there is the reduction of the level of the army, the simplification of the military system, Sun Er believes that the more streamlined, the more effective, this can effectively reverse the problem of chaotic command of the army."

Zhao Zhen took a few steps and asked, "Then how to solve the problem of deducting the low-level soldiers' salaries mentioned in your article?" ”

"My grandson heard an elder say that he could use the function of the money shop, and the money shop would build an account for each soldier, and the soldiers would be paid directly to the soldier's account, and his wife, children, and parents would receive it, so that the money would not have to go through the hands of generals at all levels, and there would be no way to deduct it, which is called the method of separation of people and salaries."

"That's a good idea!"

Zhao Zhen's eyes lit up, and he praised sincerely: "Who came up with a good solution?" ”

"Emperor Qiqi's grandfather, it was Fan Ning who brought it up."

Zhao Zhen was stunned, "You are very familiar with Fanning?" ”

Zhao Zhongzhen nodded, "He is the person that Sun Er admires the most, and Sun Er's views and opinions in his articles are basically discussed with him, and Sun Er has always regarded him as a teacher." ”

Zhao Zhen suddenly realized that it was not Zhao Zongshi's opinion, but Fan Ning's teaching, it seems that this imperial grandson was deeply influenced by Fan Ning.

He smiled again and asked, "I feel that your article is still unfinished, if you give another half an hour, what do you want to write?" ”

Zhao Zhongzhen lowered his head and whispered: "Sun Er wants to write a strategy to destroy Liao." ”

"Fanning taught you again?"

"Yes!"

Zhao Zhen admired the honesty of this emperor and grandson, and frankly admitted that he had learned, but did not insist that he had thought about it himself, how old he was, his experience was insufficient, and the height of seeing problems was not enough, and learning other people's opinions was the way to progress.

Zhao Zhen was interested, so he nodded and smiled: "Tell me, I want to hear your strategy for destroying Liao!" ”

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