Early the next morning, after breakfast, Du Zhongxiao met with Di Qing and others in the official hall.

After the ceremony, Du Zhongxiao said: "You have lived in the military city for one night, and you still sleep peacefully, are you used to it?" ”

Wang Gongchen said: "Everything is good, but the bed is too hard." I asked the guards, and they said that it was an earthen kang, made of earth as a brick, not a wooden bed common in the Central Plains. After a while, the money and food of the imperial court through the river meandering road are abundant, and there is no need to be so frugal. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Neihan doesn't know, in the extreme north of the river meandering road, the winter is long and cold, and the bed is not suitable. The biggest advantage of the earthen kang is that it can be burned underneath, which is extremely warm and saves charcoal. If you don't sleep on the kang and sleep on the bed, you won't be able to stay here in winter. ”

Wang Gongchen arched his hand: "I see, it's a misunderstanding." I heard that there is a lot of coal in the Shengzhou area, so I want to come to the earthen kang to burn it. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Yes, Shengzhou is full of coal. It's just that it's sparsely populated, so there's no need to dig it up. Coal is now used in trains, and coal is used in places where steam engines are used, which is naturally different. However, Hedong Road in the south also produces coal, otherwise it can be sold for a lot of money by relying on the coal in the field. ”

This is where the helplessness lies. The most abundant mineral in Hequ Road is coal mines, but to transport them to the Central Plains, you need to pass through Hedong Road in the south, where there is a sea of coal in later generations, and this business is difficult to do. Of course, Datong, which was well-known for coal in later generations, is now in the hands of the Khitans, and there is a lack of good coal on Hedong Road.

After gossiping for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to Di Qing: "Captain, today I will take you to the four military academies for a turn, and I will go back to Shengzhou in the afternoon." If there is anything in the future, just tell Zheng Lian. I will instruct someone to deliver the official documents from the palace every day. ”

Di Qing said: "This is exactly what I want. It's not early, so let's take a look. ”

Everyone got up and walked out of the official hall. Du Zhongxiao said: "There are four military schools in the military city, and we look at them from east to west. To the north is the cavalry, to the south is artillery, and to the east and west is the infantry school. The first school in the east is mainly a place for soldiers and soldiers, but it is actually a place for training recruits. In the first two months of the new recruits' barracks, they practiced military posture outside the city, and after passing the qualifications, they went straight to school A to study. I don't learn much, and after a month, I will take the exam. Those who pass the test can enter the various armies, and those who are good can train for another three months, and if they are excellent in the assessment for three months, they can be promoted to effectiveness. Those who excel in the assessment may enter the other three military academies according to their wishes. Those three military academies learned that they were all utility and envoys. ”

Wang Gongchen said: "This is a little different from the Beijing Military Academy. The military schools in the capital are all self-surrendered, and the Privy Council sent people to pass the examination and be assigned to various military schools. What comes out of the military academy is the utility and generals, and what cannot be learned is in addition to the military status, or for the military position, or for the military position. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "No way, there are many talents in the capital, and you can choose how to choose people." The river meanders are different, there are almost no people, they are all turned by the forbidden army and the box army everywhere, and they can only find ways to select talents from the soldiers. ”

Di Qing said: "What's wrong with selecting from the soldiers. This martial arts exercise is a great victory for the soldiers and horses of Hequ Road. ”

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Captain, this time the river meanders to win the road, it's hard to say where the reason is." There were too few literate men among the soldiers, and it was too difficult to select officers, artillerymen, and cavalrymen. Especially for artillery, it is not easy to choose a person. ”

There are three military schools in the capital, and the initial candidates for promotion are Yang Jin, the infantry is Yang Zheng, the cavalry is Shisanlang, and the artillery is Yao Shouxin. But in fact, it was really done, Yang Ji and Shisanlang didn't say it at all, the emperor, the political affairs hall and the privy council all directly sent people, and the two governments were in charge of major affairs, and some were still judged by the saint himself. In daily affairs, the officials sent there by the imperial court are familiar with the rules of the capital, and Yang Ji and Shisanlang cannot call the shots. Even the daily teaching, it is the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government who are in charge, this change, that change, and even the Taichang Rite Yuan has come forward to determine the etiquette.

There is only an artillery school, no one in the DPRK understands it, and Tang Longzhen's real results in killing Yeluzong are too amazing, and no one dares to say anything about Yao Shouxin. Yao Shouxin is smart, he can't write poems and make articles, and others can't do the professional knowledge of artillery, only a few officials from Si Tiandian can discuss mathematical problems with him. Artillery is a professional branch of the army, relatively pure, generally does not form a separate army, does not involve military power, and Zhao Zhen does not allow others to interfere.

In this military exercise in Beijing, the artillery did not participate, and it was not obvious from the Hequ Road. All the ministers, in the first place, did not interfere in the artillery school, and everyone ignored this matter. Anyway, when he was in Suizhou, Yao Shouxin was in charge of the artillery, and he was still in charge of the capital, and he was really powerful, so there was nothing to compare.

Du Zhongxiao said that it was difficult to choose artillery, and everyone in the company agreed. The artillery school in the capital, some of the people are from the Luodiju people, some are from the students of Si Tianjian, and some are recruited from the people, and there are very few people selected from the forbidden army, and they are self-contained.

Since Du Zhongxiao established the camp Tianxiang Army, the treatment of artillery has been the highest. After the establishment of the artillery school in the capital, its status was raised by a cut, and its salary was higher than that of the Fourth Army. Since most of the people are utility and envoys, in fact, the treatment of Yulu is similar to that of the classes, and the army walks sideways.

As they spoke, they walked out of the East Gate. The gate of the military school is not in the middle, the east gate is more south, the west gate is north, the south gate is west, and the north gate is east. The military academy itself is a part of the sub-city, and their school gate is also the gate of the city, which is only for the people in the military academy.

When I arrived at the school gate, I saw a plaque on the gate that read: "Hequ Road Infantry School", next to one side is "iron discipline", and the other side is "iron style". The name of the school is nothing, and the two sentences next to it made Di Qing and everyone else stunned.

After being silent for a while, Sun Wei said: "After passing through here, it is simple and direct. These two sentences are good, but they lack charm. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's better to be simple and direct in the barracks. School A already trains soldiers, so it's good to read and write, and you can still count on them to write poems and articles. If you don't write these two sentences, it is even more inappropriate to write 'Yellow Sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles'. ”

Wang Gongchen said: "The poems are simple and clumsy, simple and clear, and they are good sentences. However, the wise can write simple and clear words into articles with a long charm, which is for everyone. Ordinary writers, without such talent, can only pile up flowery words and beautiful sentences. ”

This is a bachelor of Hanlin, the person who snatched the champion from Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary world, during the imperial examination, since Wang Gongchen said so, everyone will no longer comment. These two sentences by the door are the most common slogans in the military camp in Du Zhongxiao's memory, which seem to be unliterary and difficult to replace with other words.

The attendants went to report to the guards, and the guards saluted, and brought the generals of the school out, and led the people into the school gate.

As soon as you enter the gate, two large signs stand on both sides of the road. One side reads "sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime", and on the other side reads "always be ready to fight". Sun Wei smiled bitterly, and with the sign at the door as an example, he didn't need to comment on these two sentences.

Wang Gongchen looked at it and thought for a while. With his talent, of course, he can come up with sentences with the same meaning and literary style. But I always feel that if it is changed to another sentence, even if it has the same meaning, it is not suitable to stand here. From the school gate, the military academy on Hequ Road has shown a completely different style from the Beijing Military Academy, perhaps, from these simple slogans, there is the answer to the results of the last military exercise.

As a bachelor of Hanlin, Wang Gongchen, the military academy in the capital, did not participate, and just knew the general situation. It was precisely because he was an outsider and a purely civilian official that he was sent. Master Hanlin was a minister, nominally the emperor's personal adviser, and the purpose of coming here was different from that of others, and of course the things he saw were different. Wang Gongchen's task is to tell the emperor what the difference between the Hequ Road Military Academy and the Beijing Military Academy is, and the details will not be delved into.

Not far from the entrance is the official hall and the yamen, and behind it is the school field, which is no different from other yamen and barracks.

At the main entrance of the official hall, a sign was also hung on one side. On the one hand, it is "blood, sweat and tears", and on the other hand, it is "shedding skin and flesh without falling behind". Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they saw it. This is not the place where Du Zhongxiao is in charge, they have to let people take it off immediately.