After checking He Sanlang's injury, Du Zhongxiao straightened up, looked at the big man who came in, and said, "You are Lei Dutou?" ”

Lei Du crossed his head and said proudly: "The last general, Lei Zong, I have seen the lift!" ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded, sat down behind the case, and said to Lei Zong: "Say, why are you beating and scolding the soldiers?" Dozens of military sticks, but they beat this He Sanlang hard. I've seen the injury, and if I don't take care of it for twenty or thirty days, I'm afraid it won't be able to heal. ”

Lei Zong's hand: "Back to the lift, this guy is under the control of the last general, and he doesn't listen to orders." The last general reprimanded, he openly retorted, and there was no military law. How can you fight if you don't have strict military discipline? The last general will give him a slight punishment and let him know that military law is powerful! ”

When Du Zhongxiao heard this, he couldn't help frowning: "You keep talking about military law, let me ask you, is it allowed to extort soldiers and property in the army?" ”

Lei Zong's forked hand: "Back to lift, naturally not allowed!" Although the last general has a good appetite, he is not greedy for his subordinates' money! ”

Looking at Lei Zong, and then at He Sanlang lying on the ground, Du Zhongxiao frowned for a while, and said, "Today's matter, He Sanlang has already talked about it carefully. I'll say it now, Lei Dutou, if you think there is anything that doesn't match the facts, just point it out. ”

Thunder longitudinal fork hand, high claim.

"Last night, after you finished training, you had a drink with a few generals. Because there is wine but no meat, he ordered He Saburo and a few other soldiers to go out to hunt a few chickens and rabbits and come back to drink, but is there such a thing? ”

Ray said yes.

Du Zhongxiao said again: "He Sanlang replied to you, this is the military camp, and it is night, where can I hit the prey." You tell him that you only need meat for wine, and you don't ask whether they hunt or buy it. But within half an hour, when there was no meat on the table, he acted on the law martial. Is there such a thing? ”

Thunder Fork said yes.

Du Zhongxiao said again: "He Sanlang and the others had no choice but to scrape together money and go to the town to buy two chickens." When you go back, let you allocate some money from the army and pay them for the chickens. Yes and no? ”

Lei Zong said: "Promotion, the money and food in the army are supplied to the soldiers, although the last general is the head of the capital, he does not dare to use it!" ”

Looking at Lei Zong, Du Zhongxiao said helplessly: "But that chicken was bought by He Sanlang and others, and you eat it." Shouldn't he be paid? You know that you can't use the money and food in the army, how not to pay them back yourself. ”

Lei Zong was at a loss, and after a while, he said: "Lift, I am the main general of the capital, and my subordinates teach some food, do you still have to pay them back?" The last general has been in the army for many years, and he started as a pawn, but he has never heard of this rule. ”

Du Zhongxiao was so angry that he almost laughed: "Haven't heard of it? Before you enter the military training, the military regulations specially issued are clear inside! ”

Lei Zong said: "Back to the lift, the last general will not be literate." The military regulations have been read, but the memory is a little bad, and I can't remember them completely. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "I can't remember everything, okay, I'll let you remember it all this time!" Yang Dujian sent a few literate people to read the military regulations to Lei Dutou over and over again. When will he be able to go back and lead the army! The days of betraying military regulations will be put in prison! ”

Yang Wenguang said yes. His father, Yang Yanzhao, had suffered the loss of being illiterate, and felt both hateful and pitiful for this Lei Dutou.

Ordered someone to take Lei Zong down, Du Zhongxiao said: "From today on, literacy will be taught in the army." All officers must be taught nucleus, and those who cannot read and write must study for half an hour every day. Other non-commissioned officers, who want to learn, can also be organized by the military. Yang Dujian, you find a few people, sort out the military regulations again, divide them into two parts: officers and non-commissioned officers, and then preach. In the future, the army may conduct random inspections at any time, and if you are not familiar with military regulations, military law will act! ”

Yang Wenguang said yes.

After speaking, Du Zhongxiao ordered someone to carry He Sanlang out and find a military doctor for treatment. The money for his chickens and medicine came from the army.

Everyone left, and Du Zhongxiao sat alone behind the desk, contemplating.

This kind of thing is not uncommon, because it is important to pay attention to the dictatorship of generals in the army, and officers at all levels hold the power of life and death of their subordinates, and take them from them. The punishment for Lei Zong is not severe, because it is too common, and it is really common to beat his subordinates with a few sticks. To put it mildly, for the subordinate non-commissioned officers, the officers can do whatever they want them to do, treat them as they want, and eat two chickens. It is not uncommon for officers to be killed by officers under various pretexts. Lei Zong's accident happened because the battalion army had new military regulations, and he could not read and write, so he could not take advantage of the loopholes in the new military regulations.

What is Lei Zong's style of treating soldiers like this? In Du Zhongxiao's familiar words, it is a feudal style, and a feudal patriarchal system is practiced in the army. Since organizing the training and parade of the Xiang Army, Du Zhongxiao has eaten, slept and trained with them in the army, and he has felt that he is out of place in many places. A few days ago, I talked to Wang Anshi about feudalism and cutting the feudal domain, and finally figured out that the army at this time has a strong feudal tradition.

The Song army was inherited from the forbidden army of the five dynasties and the army of the feudal town, which was the extreme of armed feudal secession, and the central court was only in name. After the Song Dynasty, this tradition was not only not reformed, but was greatly strengthened. As a result, a strange situation arose, in which feudal traditions in society were swept away little by little, and feudalization in the army deepened step by step. The military and society are becoming more and more incompatible.

After the late Tang Dynasty, the difference between civil and military officials and military generals was manifested in the difference between civil officials and military generals, and the deep layer was actually the difference between the great unification of society and the military with strong feudal traditions. These are two worlds, incompatible with each other. From the level of the imperial court, the marriage between the royal family and the generals and the use of private individuals to manage the army is a typical practice for feudal lords in the past. Speaking from the military, it means that power is divided at all levels, soldiers are generals, and power is above the system. The system is dispensable, and the core of the army is on the generals at all levels. The emperor's control over the army was achieved through personnel, not institutions. Nearly one million forbidden troops, the commanders of the above must be appointed by the emperor in principle, responsible to the emperor, and the imperial court system is secondary.

In the past few years, the front-line operations have been ineffective and have been repeatedly defeated, and the military law set by the Privy Council has become stricter and more severe. From generals to soldiers, they will be beheaded at every turn, and there are many death sentences, which are the highest in ancient and modern times. But when it is actually implemented, often the loser is not punished, and for the sake of balance, a small victory is rewarded. The reason behind it is that the emperor's decision is above the system, and with the emperor's support, officers at all levels are also above the system.

Why does Du Zhongxiao disagree with the Juntian system? Because it was actually a small yeoman farmer as a soldier, accompanied by a professional officer corps. Times have changed, and it is not necessary to use small yeoman farmers as the basis of military resources, and most importantly, the Great Song Dynasty did not have a professional officer corps. Historically, the Ming Dynasty took a step back from this aspect to feudalism, implemented the military household system, directly divided the officers, and completely feudalized the army, and the lessons were there.

What the times need is to reform the feudal traditions in the army and establish a professional army with professional officers. Instead of going against the tide of history and deepening its feudal traditions. From the late Tang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, technology has been changing, but the feudal tradition of the army has not changed. Most of the military theories are either metaphysics of the art of war or the feudal style of strict torture, which cannot solve military problems.

In the 70 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, not only did the traditional feudal aristocracy disappear, but the society also abolished the slavery system and changed it to employment. Without the artisan household system, there is no distinction between good and low, and there is still a division of power in the army, so what is the future? However, to reform the feudal tradition in the army, there was a conflict with the current combination of imperial power and military power, and Du Zhongxiao had to act cautiously.