"Hmph, Ziying, you look down on these martial arts." Fan Jingwen said unceremoniously: "These guys only have their own interests in their eyes, how can they have anything else?" ”

Hearing Fan Jingwen's outspokenness, Fang Youdu and Wu Fu next to him couldn't help coughing a few times, and glanced at Fan Jingwen again and again, reminding Fan Jingwen that Feng Ziying in front of him was also from a martial arts background.

Fan Jingwen didn't care, he still kept a straight face, "Uncle Fang, Lu You, don't give me a look, I know what I say, Ziying won't mind this, is there something wrong with what I said?" How many decent ones are there in this gang of martial artists? Niu Jizong, or Chen Jixian? Or is it the enemy Ben? ”

Feng Ziying couldn't help laughing, this Fan Jingwen was really unkind.

However, they are all from the Beidi scholars, Fan Jingwen is more open than Wu Fu and Fang Youdu, although Fang Youdu has a closer relationship with Feng Ziying, but he will not say anything about this kind of heart-piercing words.

"Mengzhang, as you say this, the martial arts who are relied on by the Great Zhou as the foundation of the country are worthless in your eyes?" Feng Ziying stood still, but swept the snow from the stone slab in front of her into the pond with her feet.

"Kunimoto?" Fan Jingwen scoffed, "I'm afraid this is the martial artists boasting about themselves, right?" If it is said that it is placed in the Taihe period, or even in the Guangyuan period, it is barely said that it is the capital of the country, and there may be a few people who believe it, but now, Ziying, do you believe it? Look at what kind of stuff is in the Beijing camp, I see, even the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division are not as good! ”

Feng Ziying shook her head again and again, she didn't know what this guy was stimulated by, why was he so hostile and contemptuous of Wu Xun?

"Mengzhang, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly become so extreme, you weren't like this before? Feng Ziying couldn't help but tilt her head to look at Fan Jingwen and asked.

He Fengsheng, who was most familiar with Fan Jingwen, said haha: "Hehe, Ziying, Mengzhang is a clansman in the fifth military camp in the Beijing camp, Wu Jinshi was born, he has been in the Beijing camp for many years, and he has not been able to get out, and he came to Mengzhang the day before yesterday and complained, which is estimated to have stimulated Mengzhang." ”

Fan Jingwen ignored He Fengsheng's explanation, and still kept a straight face: "It's not entirely because of my clan, it's normal for me to be a clansman alone, and Wu Jinshi can't explain anything, but according to what he said, there are many children of poor families like him and Wuju people, all of whom have been in the army for many years, and it is difficult to get ahead in the army, even if a position like promotion to hundreds of households and thousands of households is difficult to compare, this is not normal." ”

The Great Zhou Dynasty followed the military system of the former Ming Dynasty, but there were some changes, the martial arts system was in vogue for a period of time in the Taihe period, but it was abolished after five years of Guangyuan, only one subject was opened during the Tianping period, and only two subjects were opened during the Yuanxi period, and it was not until the twenty-ninth year of the Yuanxi Dynasty that it began to form customization.

Martial arts every six years a subject, the time regulation and autumn and spring is similar, but there is no so-called county test government test hospital test three test system, and there is only one county selection test, anyone can go to the county selection test to try their skills, as long as the county selection test is passed, you can directly enter the martial arts examination, every year the provinces still have a quota, but compared with the autumn and spring years, the number of martial arts in the northern provinces is much higher than that in the south, which means that the northern people have more opportunities to obtain official status through martial arts.

However, whether it is the martial arts of the provinces or the big competition in the capital city in the spring of the second year, its influence is far from being comparable to the real autumn and spring of the year, even if it is the martial champion and the top three jinshi are far from the same, and the ordinary martial arts are two levels lower than even the people, which is also the evil result of the great Zhou Dynasty's martial arts.

Although it is said that the poor are rich in martial arts, but like Beidi, Beizhi, Shandong, Henan and even Shaanxi are all prosperous places of martial arts, so there are still many children who hope to win the official body through the martial arts system, which is also an important source of middle and lower-level military attachés in the border army including the nine sides and the battalion army guards in various places, but the middle and senior officials are still produced by the children of martial arts and the accumulation of merit in the army.

This also formed a situation in the Great Zhou Army in which the military attaché who was born in martial arts, the military attache who accumulated merit in the army and the military attache who was born in Wuxun was divided into three parts, but in the middle and low-level officers, the military was mainly born in Wuju and the military meritorious, and the middle and senior military generals, especially the senior military generals, still occupied an absolute advantage by the children of Wuxun, and the officials who accumulated merit in the army and the officials produced by the military were probably able to account for one in the middle-level military attachés, while the senior military generals could only account for three percent, and the martial arts produced were not even one percent.

Because Wuju only takes one subject every six years, like Wing Lung in the second year, Wing Lung in the fifth year, but this year.

"It seems that Mengzhang is very angry, and he is very upset for a martial artist like his clan, Dazhang, Fei Xiong, don't you two have the ambition to stay in the military department? In the future, if you become a military selection officer in the Ministry of War, you have to think carefully about whether there is any problem with the selection mechanism of military attachés in our army, and if so, how to improve it. ”

Feng Ziying saw that Fan Jingwen was really angry, and had to be appeased, although this tone was like the first assistant of the cabinet.

Zheng Chongjian and Wang Yingxiong exchanged glances, and were suddenly pierced by Feng Ziying, both of them were a little embarrassed, although it was the wish of both of them to stay in the military department, but when they learned that Yang Sichang was also interested in going to the military department, they both felt that their hope was probably not great.

If you want to stay in the six divisions of the temple, generally speaking, you will at least need a second-class jinshi.

There are so many places for each department to stay in the six departments of the temple of the temple, and after calculating it, there are basically two to five people left in each of the six departments, of which the household department and the criminal department are slightly more, there can be five or six, and the ministry of officials, the ministry of rites, the military department, and the ministry of industry are not much, generally two or three people, and even in some years, only one or two are left, and they are mainly transferred from the officials who have performed well after serving for a few years.

Dali Temple and Tongzheng Division are similar, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six departments are slightly more, like the Metropolitan Procuratorate Each section of the Jinshi will be about eight to ten people.

In addition, it is the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and a few people can be selected every year, but it is the worst performance to go to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and many people would rather go to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but they feel that it is purely a waste of time there, and it is almost a place to eat and support the elderly.

Zheng Chongjian was more generous, and said calmly: "Ziying, even if I and Feixiong can stay in the military department, when it is the turn of our group of people to speak, it will be a matter of one or twenty years later, but Mengzhang is indeed right, there are many shortcomings in our Great Zhou army, but the imperial court does not have much to do,......"

"It seems that Dazhang has been in the military department for a while, and he is very touched." Feng Ziying said with emotion.

"I followed Lord Chai, Lord Yang and Ling Zun to Ningxia, Gansu to quell the rebellion, the military attachés and senior generals in the army we saw were almost from martial arts, and the middle-level military attaches were mostly promoted by the children of military families in the border areas. But this situation is really worrying, not to mention those high-ranking martial artists like the one you mentioned in Marcha. ”

Zheng Chongjian is very proud of his participation in the counterinsurgency in Western Xinjiang, this is his most important qualification, and it is also the greatest confidence of his military department, even Wang Yingxiong has to admit that he is compared to Zheng Chongjian, I am afraid that it is the resume of the Western Expedition.

Regarding Zheng Chongjian's opinion, Fan Jingwen also nodded again and again.

"Or Dazhang has seen all kinds of ills in the army, in order to have this opinion, all say that the border army is filthy, but in fact, there is more than in the Beijing camp, the military generals and officers in the border army have to worry about the Mongols and Jurchens at any time, for fear that what they have done will cause a mutiny or be attacked by these anxious soldiers when they are in a confrontation with the enemy, and there is no such concern in the Beijing camp at all. Therefore, these generals and officers are even more fearless,......"

It seems that Fan Jingwen is really disgusted with all kinds of things in the Beijing camp, and the classmates are nodding their heads in agreement and thinking at the same time.

"Wang Ziteng is accustomed to forming a party and running a private position in the position of the envoy of the Jingying Festival, and he will not change his true colors after serving as the governor of Xuanda, and some of the roles that used to be in the governor's mansion of the five armies have been entrusted with important tasks by him, those guys have no ability to fight, but the ability to seize power and make money is not small, in Denglai, Ziying, or, let's make a bet, see Denglai begin to integrate Dengzhou Wei, Laizhou Wei and those coastal guard armies, to build a so-called Denglai battalion army, those generals, definitely still close to him The gang of people."

Fan Jingwen looked at Feng Ziying with great certainty and stretched out his hand.

Feng Ziying smiled dumbly, this Fan Jingwen is really a little stubborn to the point of paranoia.

The imperial court let the prince vacate to form Denglai Town, and the special governor is obviously not as simple as Dengzhou and Laizhou two towns, and in the future, the two guards of Jinzhou and Fuzhou in southern Liaoning may be assigned to the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai, mainly to make Denglai Jinfu Siwei become a strong backing for Liaodong Town in the future, not only to protect Liaodong Town in logistics, but also to make Denglai become the force support point of Liaodong Town through the mobility of the naval fleet.

In this case, Wang Ziteng worked so hard to spend so much energy, and even used various public and private relations and network resources to set up the Yamen of the Governor of Denglai, and the military generals below did not recommend and appoint his own people, can he really obey the arbitrary arrangements of the imperial court selflessly to satisfy the vanity of meritocracy, how is it possible?

That's really playing with his own head, not to mention himself, even his subordinates won't agree.

A few years ago, Shen Yourong came to the mansion to find himself, that is, to discuss the formation of a naval fleet.

If it weren't for the fact that Wang Ziteng did not have a suitable sailor general in his hands, and Shen Yourong was not only a good sailor, but also very familiar with the situation in Liaodong, coupled with Feng Ziying's strong recommendation, Wang Ziteng also had some ideas about the Feng family, and he would not have accepted Feng Ziying's recommendation to let Shen Yourong become the helmsman of the Denglai Sailor fleet.

Although it is said that high-ranking officials such as the Admiral of the Naval Division of Denglai can only be appointed after being recommended by the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War and approved by the Cabinet and approved by the Emperor, due to the special nature of the Admiral of the Naval Division of Denglai, the first is newly established, and it is directly subordinate to the Yamen of the Governor of Denglai, and the second is from the ships of the Naval Division to the officers and soldiers of the Naval Division, it can be said that if it is not supported by the Yamen of the Governor of Denglai, it will be difficult for this Naval Fleet to be truly built as desired, and the importance of the Admiral of the Naval Division is still far less than that of the general army of a town on land. Therefore, including the whole court, they also acquiesced to the recommendation of Wang Ziteng.

When Wang Ziteng recommended Shen Yourong to be the commander of the Denglai Navy fleet, he still surprised the military department and the cabinet.

Because Shen Yourong obviously does not belong to the martial arts group, this is a typical martial arts general, and he has never had anything to do with Wang Ziteng, but he can be recommended by Wang Ziteng to be the admiral of the sailor, even if this is still an empty shell of the admiral of the sailor, but after all, he is also the admiral of the sailor.

In order for Shen Yourong to be the Admiral of the Water Division, Feng Ziying even made some kind of promise to Wang Ziteng.

Feng Ziying can even be sure that the relationship between herself and Wang Ziteng will determine what Shen Yourong's future Admiral will be able to do.

"Mengzhang, I admit that what you said does exist in many high-ranking generals, even including my father, but I think this is also a matter of no way to a certain extent. As a general, of course, I hope to appoint people on the basis of merit and appoint the best and most capable subordinates, but the most important magic weapon to win on the battlefield is to enforce orders and prohibitions, and this alone is not as simple as relying on the ability of his subordinates,......"

Feng Ziying did not deny Fan Jingwen's attack on Wang Ziteng, but he also cleverly explained the reasons and specific difficulties for his domineering and nepotism as a border coach.

"......, no matter how good you are but you are unwilling to obey the general's order, it will only be more dangerous than a mediocre person, so this also forces the generals to be more willing to use people they are familiar with, rather than people who think they are excellent but are buried, of course, I am not justifying those cronyism and disregard for ability, I just said that many times the generals are also a last resort, after all, the battlefield is not comparable to others, once the mistake is hundreds of people, thousands or even tens of thousands of lives are not guaranteed, and it will bring unbearable disasters to the imperial court."

After all, his father is the governor of Jiliao, and now his actions are only afraid that his behavior will be worse than Wang Ziteng's, and in the future, if the border generals, including the Li family, are unwilling to show their attitude like their father, I am afraid they will all have to be marginalized, which is also a last resort.