Is there really nothing to do?

Actually, there is! It is like Chai Rong, the ancestor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, to train a male army that is enough to sweep the northern country!

"And training!" Mi Youren thought about it and said, "Among the new laws promoted by Wang Jinggong, the most uncontroversial is the "Art of War", but the "Art of War" only strengthened the Western Army, but did not solve the problem of the weakening of the Kaifeng Forbidden Army and the Hebei Forbidden Army.

Therefore, now our dynasty also has the situation of strong branches and weak cadres in the Tang Dynasty......"

The Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty was originally different from the Central Forbidden Army and the Hebei Forbidden Army, and before the Xining New Deal, there were generals such as the Fuzhou Zhijia Army, the Linzhou Yang Family Army and the Qingjian City Seed Family Army, which were not quite the same as other Northern Song Dynasty forbidden armies that "did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know the generals".

The "Art of War" implemented in the Xining Reform further strengthened the control of the Western Army's generals over the army, and in addition to the continuous campaigns in the northwest, the army was tempered, and the people's customs became stronger and stronger. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Western Army is too strong compared to the Hebei and Kaifeng Forbidden Army!

This kind of military layout of external strength and middle weakness was absolutely not conducive to the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are only two ways to eliminate the hidden danger of the Western Army's rebellion: one is to disintegrate the Western Army; The second is to train the new army in Kaifeng Mansion!

It will definitely not work to disintegrate the Western Army, at least not before the Western Xia is subdued, otherwise the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang will come to Kaifeng Mansion to be the Empress Dowager.

And in Kaifeng Prefecture, the new army was trained...... It doesn't seem to be feasible, because of the same thing, Chai Rong, the ancestor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, did it!

Mi Youren smiled bitterly, and said: "In fact, the new policies of our dynasty are all caused by the western thieves, and the scourge of the western thieves is caused by the weak soldiers. The best way to destroy the thieves is, of course, to train a new army. Because the army is rotten over time, and it decays when it is peaceful. A decayed army is useless, and instead of rectifying it, it is better to start anew and train a new army. ”

Mi Youren, who was born in Jiangmen, is very clear about the various shortcomings of the Kaifeng Forbidden Army and the Hebei Forbidden Army. Because there has been no major battle for more than 90 years, and there is the drawback of "generals do not know soldiers, soldiers do not know generals" (the "Art of War" has not been implemented in all forbidden armies), so it has long been decayed and unusable. Moreover, the various forces in the army are intertwined and affect the whole body, and it is simply difficult to rectify them, and it is better to reorganize and train a new army to save trouble.

The Qingli New Deal and the Xining Reform are indeed as Mi Youren said, and the cause is the founding of the Western Xia. The reason why the Western Xia could be established was, in the final analysis, that the Song army was weak in combat effectiveness and was defeated by the party.

In order to solve the problem of weak troops, the focus of reform should undoubtedly be on the military. Of course, the focus of military reform should be on such matters as selecting generals, recruiting troops, training troops, and manufacturing equipment.

Among them, the selection of generals, the recruitment of troops, and the training of troops are the most important.

However, the new policy implemented by Wang Anshi was not centered on the selection of generals, recruitment, and training. Rather, it focused on financial management, and after improving its financial situation through various reform methods of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, it did not invest a large amount of financial resources in the formation of a new army. Only half of the original forbidden army and box army have been sorted out, some redundant troops have been cut, some "generals" with large establishments have been set up, and the "law of changing the war" of tossing military generals has been abolished.

However, it did not carry out truly effective sorting and training of the forbidden armies other than the Western Army, nor could it change the "Heavenly Family Law" that weakened the command of generals and commanders, such as "controlling the army" and "sending troops, commanding troops, transferring troops, and supervising the army".

Only when the Western Army opened a slight opening and formed a "special military zone" did it have the "New Deal Achievements" that are now pressing the Western Xia. However, even with this "slightly open" opening, the emperor did not relax his control over the Western Army.

In fact, the military power of the Western Army was also very scattered, Wenchen and Shuai had the right to transfer troops, and the Western Army held the right to command the army, and there were eunuchs sent by the palace to represent the emperor, such as Li Xian, Qin Han, Li Shunju, and later Tong Guan and others, who supervised each other, pulled each other's skins, dragged each other's feet, and would fight with the Western Xia.

Anyway, it is absolutely impossible to come to the stage to pay respects to the generals and concentrate the power of the Western Army in anyone's hands.

But even so, now a situation has been formed in which the Western army dominates. If there is no strong central army to restrain it, it will have to try to weaken the Western Army, the only army with combat effectiveness, in the future......

"Then why don't you train the new army?" Wu Haogu asked again.

Mi Youren shook his head and said with a smile: "Why does the teacher ask knowingly? In order to be effective in the formation and training of the new army, it is necessary to delegate heavy authority to the ministers, and the selection of generals, the recruitment of troops, the preparation of weapons, and the training of all things are related to one person or one official, and only then can things be successful. However, the ministers or officials who were ordered to organize and train the new army were inevitably too heavy in their powers and responsibilities. And most of the officials of our dynasty are long and deep palaces, and they are not familiar with military affairs......

Moreover, the power of the Kaifeng Forbidden Army cannot be touched by internal officials, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the Shence Army of the Tang Dynasty in the past. ”

In a word: The emperor himself doesn't understand, and he doesn't feel at ease when he hands it over to others, so he can only do nothing and continue to mess around.

If it is the same as the Liao country, it is nothing to eat fasting and pray for Buddha, let's mix together.

But the era of chaos will eventually disappear with the collapse of the Great Liao Empire!

"Since Wang Jinggong and Zhang Xianggong can't do it," Wu Haogu looked at Mi Youren and suddenly laughed, "Then with your and my talents, even if you are a Jinshi, what kind of great thing can you do?" ”

Mi Youren shook his head, he knew how to be an official, but he didn't know how to do things.

Wu Haogu smiled: "Actually, I don't know how to do it, but I know that there will be a lot of people who can do things in the future."

Just like Ma Zhixian, Yunwen Yunwu, a talent who can make a career! If there are 1,000 people, maybe they can do a great job for the country! ”

When you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to get the power to do things, cultivating a group of talents to do things is a way for Wu Dalang, a "horseman", to do his part for the rise and fall of the world.

"The teacher wants to run a college?" Mi Youren asked in surprise.

"How?" Wu Haogu glanced at his eldest apprentice, "Isn't it okay?" ”

Yes, of course!

Although Wu Haogu is a businessman, he is not a small trader who sells cooking cakes, but "the first person in calligraphy and painting", and he is also a scholar. Moreover, Wu Haogu's background is Luoyang Baibo Wu Clan, a relative of Wu Zetian, and he was on the "Clan Chronicles" in the Tang Dynasty.

Because the Song Dynasty did not attach importance to the scholars, they did not rebuild the "Clan Chronicles", so Wu Haogu was still a scholar in theory, and he was qualified to marry a girl from the Zhao family - the women of the Zhao family could marry a merchant, but they must be a businessman who could get along with the Shi clan, so that they could confess to the Dazong Zhengji.

In addition, it is also a matter of time before Wu Hao Gu becomes an official.

It's that His Royal Highness King Duan can't be an official, and if he is promoted, can the official Zhao Xu refute his younger brother's face? When the time comes, Wu Haogu will be an officially certified true sect doctor!

Besides, Wu Haogu can be the "art teacher" of Duanwang, can't he run a academy?

It's just that this academy may not be able to run well.

Mi Youren asked uncertainly: "Teacher, what kind of knowledge is taught in your academy?" ”

If you teach someone to draw, someone should learn it.

"Why don't you start a painting school that teaches people to draw?"

Wu Haogu has never opened a school, but he doesn't dare to run the "Six Arts Academy" recklessly. Studying the "Six Arts" is a high-cost and time-consuming task. And you have to start from the baby, if you don't have a certain amount of experience in running a school, and you don't have enough financial resources to get started, most of them will be messed up.

Moreover, the "painting science" that Wu Haogu is preparing to open is also very suitable for development. In the beginning, the school was only a "school of painting" that taught art skills, but its goal was to teach art, medicine, various natural sciences and craft techniques.

"When the painting study is done well, and it has become famous," Wu Haogu thought about it and said, "You can set up a Six Arts Academy with martial arts as the goal." ”

Studying for being an official has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Song people, so the "Six Arts Academy" must also aim at the imperial examination, otherwise it will not be able to recruit students.

Moreover, the "Six Arts Academy" that Wu Haogu wanted to run first wanted to recruit not the children of poor families, but the children of righteous families and merchants...... In the future, once the world is in trouble, these people can quickly recruit an army of "King Qin"!