On 15 April, the Ministry of Rites once again presided over another assessment of the examination, the martial arts. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Compared with Wenju, this is the first time that Wuju has been moved to a public place.

The venue for the martial arts was set up on the site of the former Arsenal Casting Bureau, where craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry had bulldozed the former site of the Arsenal Casting Bureau and poured cement on the ground.

According to the overall arrangement of the imperial court, the posts and training grounds of the new military system will be established on this vacant land, and in short, the military guard palace and the general's palace may be relocated here.

However, before that, it was temporarily the venue for martial arts competitions.

The subjects of the martial arts competition were also formulated by Zhao Hongrun and the Ministry of Rites after consultation, because there was no corresponding experience before, therefore, Zhao Hongrun only formulated two assessment categories: martial arts and the art of war.

The rest are like horsemanship, archery, etc., which will not be used in the first martial arts for the time being, and will be expanded in the future.

The so-called martial arts competition, that is, the two sides of the competition in the ring to test the martial arts, because considering the relationship between the sword and the eye, the weapons on the test field are all wooden, although this can not eliminate the danger, but it also minimizes the danger.

As for the art of war assessment, that is, to test the talent of the finalists in leading troops.

I have to say that although the imperial court attaches more importance to the martial arts, the people of Daliang are more interested in the martial arts, so when the martial arts begin, the venue is crowded with people who come to see the excitement.

As for the candidates for the martial arts, the Ministry of Rites has adopted the same method as the Wenju: you can participate if you sign up.

Because of this, those rangers in Daliang City rushed to sign up, hoping to use this rare opportunity to mix up a military position.

Since Zhao Hongrun is the chief examiner of this examination, and this examination takes into account martial arts, he naturally cannot be absent from this martial arts.

So, he took Wen Qi, Jie Ziyu, Wen Shaobo and others, as well as Yan Mo and other generals of the Yanling Army who stayed by his side temporarily, to observe together.

I have to say that the competition of those people in the ring at the venue really disappointed Zhao Hongrun, and he felt that these people deserved a four-word comment: rookies pecked each other.

Seeing the two men in the ring grabbing their hair like women, scuffling together in an unseemly manner, not to mention Zhao Hongrun, even the faces of Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and others were not good-looking.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun finally understood why the imperial court had always paid little attention to the selection of martial arts, but the selection process was too chaotic in the eyes of most officials in the court and China to look up to themselves.

No way, after all, this is the first few rounds of screening, and after a few rounds, the rookies are eliminated, and the situation is much better.

For example, in the later rounds, Zhao Hongrun saw several rangers with good swordsmanship.

Of course, although admitting that the opponent's swordsmanship is good, the fighting style of these rangers running around in the ring still makes Zhao Hongrun feel very awkward.

This is because Zhao Hongrun has stayed in the barracks all the year round and has long been accustomed to the relationship of martial arts competitions in the barracks.

Compared to the so-called swordsmanship that these rangers seem to be fancy, the competition of the sergeants can be said to be very direct and crude, either wrestling or weapons - that is, two soldiers each holding a wooden sword and a wooden shield.

In Zhao Hongrun's view, the competition in the army is what makes people's blood rush, especially when the two soldiers use the shield in their hands to collide in a rough and direct way, and at the same time wave the wooden sword in the gap, the soldiers in the army can fight quite a wonderful battle within a half-zhang radius, unlike in the five-zhang ring at this moment - really on the battlefield, there are people around the front and back, how can there be any space for you to toss and turn?

Zhao Hongrun had no doubt that the Su Wang Army under his command would send a soldier with a wooden sword and a wooden shield to come up, and he would be able to knock those so-called agile and skilled swordsmanship all over the ground to find teeth.

And if you send a non-commissioned officer who is fighting at the forefront of the battlefield, such as 500 generals or 1,000 generals, I believe that this martial arts exercise will have almost no meaning.

"Why don't you go up and try it?"

Zhao Hongrun joked with Yan Mo, the deputy general of the Yanling Army beside him.

To tell the truth, Yan Mo's strength lies in commanding soldiers and horses and commanding battles, and his personal martial arts are not strong in the Yanling army, and it is even more inconspicuous in the entire Suwang army, not to mention Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Water Army, and even Xiang Li, Ran Teng, Zhang Ming and other brave thousand-person generals, Yan Mo may not be able to fight.

But like this kind of rookie pecking competition in front of him, even if Yan Mo is not a general who is good at martial arts, I believe that he can beat those rangers with bags on their heads, and even, just using momentum may be able to deter those people.

Yan Mo smiled and waved his hand, and said a few modest words, but Zhao Hongrun could see from his eyes that Yan Mo also didn't look down on this kind of low-level martial arts.

Zhao Hongrun suddenly felt that this might be the reason why the armies were also not interested in martial arts, because those military bigwigs generally believed that the winners screened through martial arts were too flashy - after all, Ye Luzi's skills would not work on the battlefield, and they would not only kill themselves but also their comrades; And if these winners are allowed to abandon their original wild paths, what is the difference between directly recruiting a civilian to train from scratch?

Of course, this refers to those rangers who are wild roads, and it is undeniable that there are still some outstanding talents in martial arts.

For example, Lu Zhi, a familiar face that Zhao Hongrun met at the martial arts venue, this person's competition was in line with the army's martial arts habits.

How did he get to Daliang?

Seeing that Lu Zhi was holding a wooden shield, and with very rough and direct skills, he knocked down the ranger who was running and jumping in front of him in three strokes and two times, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but be a little surprised, and vaguely had the illusion of seeing the soldiers of King Su under his command.

I have to say that Zhao Hongrun is a little conceited, after all, in the final analysis, the drill of the Su Wang Army has also adopted the regulations of the infantry training and Zongwei training of the Wei State over the years, so it is not the soldiers of the Su Wang Army that are strong, but the infantry trained by the Wei State, which is already quite strong.

The Chenggao Army, the Fencheng Army, the Junshui Army, and the Dangshan Army, the four armies that Zhao Hongrun had contact with, and the soldiers of the infantry battalion in their battalions all have the strength of no less than the soldiers of King Su, but the equipment of these infantry is not as good as that of King Su's army.

The infantry of the Wei State has always been famous all over the world.

And having said that, Lu Zhi's martial arts can also reflect a fact: don't look at the rangers who seem to be superb in martial arts on weekdays, but when they encounter the Wei infantry who have been systematically trained, it is really a matter of being beaten down in three or two hits.

Looking at the depressed looks of those defeated rangers, Zhao Hongrun secretly laughed: Your opponents are professionally trained, what is there to be frustrated about losing to them?

In general, Zhao Hongrun was not very satisfied with this martial arts, feeling that there were more gimmicks than practical, or the Ministry of Etiquette hoped to suppress the militant mood of the people through martial arts, and he was not very eye-catching with martial arts.

It is undeniable that Wei Mu, the general of Nanyan, was selected through martial arts, but the question is, how many people like Wei Mu can there be? Wei Mu is the second son of the prince of Wei, since he was a child, he has been exposed to the ability to kill the enemy on the battlefield under the influence of the ears and eyes of the family soldiers.

Zhao Hongrun had no doubt that except for Lu Zhi and other people who had undergone orthodox training, even if the rest of the rangers who could be shortlisted in this martial arts competition, if they were thrown to the battlefield, they would definitely not survive the end of a war, and even some soldiers would be killed by them.

Fortunately, Zhao Hongrun has already made arrangements for this, he is ready to throw the winners of martial arts to the military academy, and give them an honorary military position with no real power.

But having said that, watching the lively people around the arena at the venue, they watched it with relish one by one, even after the martial arts, they also argued about the winner after dinner, which made Zhao Hongrun, who learned about it, feel ridiculous.

Of course, people with real vision don't pay much attention to martial arts, after all, in the eyes of many people, martial arts are just an addition to Wenju, just a gimmick.

Therefore, from the opening to the end, the martial arts did not cause any heated discussions in the imperial court, in contrast, the various ministries of the imperial court were more enthusiastic about dividing up this year's examination.

And the most eye-catching of them is none other than the double champion meson.

However, what no one expected was that on the day when the Ministry of Rites announced the results, Jie Zilu went to King Su's Mansion and served King Su Zhao Hongrun, and then watched the martial arts with King Su Zhao Hongrun.

A few days later, the Ministry of Rites once again posted a double list outside the walls of the department, and this time, no one had a double list in high school at the same time.

As everyone expected, Jie Ziyu, the top of the double list, gave up the results of the first list and chose the second paper, and after him, Fan Ying, Tang Fu, and He Xinxian, it can be said that all the examinees who were at the top of the second list gave up the list of the first list, so that it caused an illusion: the first list is not as good as the second list.

For this reason, there was a war of words between the examinees on the first list and the examinees on the second list, after all, no one wants to admit that the list they are on the list is not as valuable as another list.

But it's a pity that the first list examiner finally lost, and was sprayed speechless by the second list examiner: even the double list champion Jie Zi Yu gave up the first list, what do you first-list examinees have to say?

As a result, Jie Zilu unfortunately lay down and was hated by many first-class examiners, and he was quite innocent.

Subsequently, Jie Ziyu was invited by Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, to serve as a consultant in the General Administration of Smelting and Manufacturing, and was labeled as a minister of the king of Su, Tang Fu and He Xinxian officially joined the Ministry of Rites, and Fan Ying, who ranked second on the second list, joined the Ministry of War for some reason, and seemed to have accepted the invitation of Zhao Hongxin, the king of Qing.

In this regard, although Zhao Hongrun has some regrets, he is not too regretful, after all, he can get the effect of Jie Zilu this time, which is already a pie in the sky for him.

And the rest of the exams, just like the previous announcement of the Ministry of Rites, the first list of examinees went to the Ministry of Officials to recommend officials, and were used by the Ministry of Officials to fill the vacancies in the country, and in addition, they were sent to Shangdang County.

To Zhao Hongrun's surprise, a few days later, the eldest prince Zhao Hongli suddenly started the Vertical Arch Palace, impeaching the left attendant of the Ministry of Officials Xi Jiang for accepting bribes and favoritism.

Zhao Hongli is about to regain the power of the ministry......

Zhao Hongrun said secretly.