Of course, the methods of martial arts are still cloned from later generations, and only by first cultivating regularized and elite military personnel will there be a strong army close to the organizational ability of modern times.

The "elitism" in it has a derogatory meaning in later generations, but in the Middle Ages and even in modern times, the core backbone of a truly powerful army was mostly the elite of a country or a nation. Even if you are not from an elite background, you must have had the opportunity to receive an elite education. Especially in the Song Dynasty, when military skills were difficult for the vast number of peasants to master, it was a complete dream to expect a group of illiterate peasants who could not read and shoot horses and arrows to be trained into excellent officers in a short period of time.

And formalization is also very necessary. In a regularized army, soldiers can be quickly replenished, officers can be rotated, and command can be standardized and standardized. If a short-term conflict is engaged, the conspiracy may succeed. However, in order to conduct a long-term military confrontation, the role of standardization and normalization is still very important.

If the formation, drills, battle formations, equipment, and orders of each army are all different, it will be very difficult to command and replenish them.

Wu Haogu's set of methods of governing the army, even Zhao Ji, a layman, felt that it was very reliable after hearing it-this should be the appearance of an officer! What is the current forbidden army, the Eastern Army? A group of gentlemen and a group of martial artists who can't read a few big characters, plus a large group of ordinary people from all walks of life who are part-time soldiers, can only see the hell if they can fight.

"Good, good, good!" Zhao Ji said, "Or do you have a way...... However, it takes a lot of time to run a military academy, and it seems that it will take ten years to achieve great results, right? ”

Wu Hao Gu said: "Ten years is not too long, if you really want to do it, you will be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time." ”

Military cadets plus conscripts, as well as positivism and rationalism, as well as the vigorous development of the two commercial markets of Jiehe and Jingdong, can a feudal dynasty really have long-term stability?

Of course, Wu Haogu knew what happened after the Renaissance in Europe? But in his opinion, no matter what, it's better than letting Zhao Ji go to the white mountains and black waters to be a savage, right?

Maybe a revolution or something, it will happen in one or two hundred years. In this way, Zhao Ji can be a male lord and saint monarch in peace......

Zhao Ji asked, "But what about the current model new army?" You can't wait until 10 years to build it, right? ”

"Of course not, there is no model new army, where are military students going to train? The so-called model new army is actually part of the teaching of military science. ”

Zhao Ji asked: "But where did the officers of the Model New Army come from?" ”

Wu Hao Gu said: "Rapid martial arts is definitely not good." ”

In fact, the quick martial arts was also proposed by Wu Haogu, but it was given to Cai Jing by Zhang Yuansai, but on the surface, it was Cai Jing's idea, and of course Wu Haogu would not use it again.

He said: "Now there is already a cavalry academy in Jiehe, because students are recruited from the Yuntai Academy and the Jiehe Sikai Academy, and there are many knights' children enrolled in the school, so it is enough to educate the cavalry.

The minister felt that in the future, the cavalry would be provided by the Jiehe Knight Academy, and the cavalry would also be recruited from Hebei. In addition, the two or three thousand knights sealed in Cangzhou, Qingzhou, Hejian Mansion and other places should be able to deal with it, and there is no need to form another cavalry in the model new army in Kaifeng. ”

"That's right," Zhao Ji said, "The people of Kaifeng Mansion have no place to ride horses, and they have to train the strong men of Kaifeng into cavalry for at least a few years." ”

"Your Majesty." Wu Haogu complimented Zhao Ji, and then suggested, "Therefore, the minister suggested that all the strong men recruited in Kaifeng Mansion should be used as infantry soldiers. In contrast, the military academy opened in Kaifeng Prefecture was also mainly based on infantry troops, while the Jiehe Knight Academy mainly trained cavalry generals. ”

"That's exactly how it should be."

Regarding Wu Haogu's arrangement, Zhao Ji naturally had no way to object. His imperial knights were mainly housed in Cangzhou, where at least 2,000 knights' estates were formed.

In addition, relying on these knights' estates, the horse breeding industry in the river merchant city has also been well developed. Now the third generation of boundary hippos has been bred, which is not only stronger than the first generation of boundary hippos, but also has a significant improvement in yield. The yield rate of the "first-class war horse" with a shoulder height of more than four feet and seven inches can reach more than 40 percent, and the output rate of the "super war horse" with a shoulder height of more than five feet is also as high as 15 percent - this super war horse is a cross between a Persian stallion and a Qingtang dragon mare, and the shoulder height and sprint speed can basically reach the level of the Persian horse, and it is stronger than the Persian horse.

If its stallion is castrated before the age of one, it should be possible to get a fairly good war horse. The 15 percent "yield rate" is not yet up to the so-called "stereotype", but compared with the 2.5 percent production rate of Ma Zheng in the Song Dynasty, it is already an unimaginably high level - the horses that are free-range on a large scale and let them mate naturally are uneven. Moreover, the civil servants in charge of the pastoral superintendent did not know how to breed, and only cared about the immediate political achievements, and often castrated the tall stallions (castration at a young age can make the stallions grow taller), so that the quality of the stallions continued to decline......

Therefore, the opening of a knight academy in Kaifeng Mansion not only does not guarantee the source of students, but also does not guarantee the source of horses.

Wu Haogu then said: "In addition to the two academies of infantry and cavalry, you can also open a naval academy in Haizhou. ”

There is a ship master school under the Jiehe Yuntai School Palace, which includes the Naval Department. However, the Harbour Master School is still mainly shipbuilding, and the Naval Department is only incidental.

In addition, because the boundary river has a freezing period and is an inland river, it is not very convenient to conduct naval training. Therefore, after Jingdong Shang City was placed under the jurisdiction of the Coastal City Shipping and Development Division, Wu Haogu planned to open a professional naval academy in Haizhou.

"Okay, how to do the navy, Dalang, you can just watch it." Zhao Ji knew that the "water army" that Wu Haogu said was actually a sea army, but he was not interested in it at all.

Under the indoctrination of the Wuhao Ancient Dao, he also knew that there were many unowned islands overseas. But it's all wild land, and even if it is encircled, it will look better on the map - it will actually look a lot better! In this time and space, Zhao Ji's historical status is determined by these overseas desert islands!

"Da Lang, you still haven't told me where the officers of the Model New Army come from?" Zhao Ji listened to what Wu Haogu said for a long time, but he was still a little unclear, so he simply asked.

"Oh," Wu Haogu smiled, "the minister said so much that he forgot about it."

In fact, the officers of the model new army can be gradually expanded, first with the dragon warrior as a seed, and the students of the infantry army academy will take the dragon warrior to train - this dragon warrior is not as good as the soldiers from the mountains, most of them have families and houses in Kaifeng Mansion, and they have received the great favor of His Majesty, and they will not be bewitched. ”

"Yes, yes!"

Zhao Jixin said: Who can afford to bewitch those guys? I'm addicted to taking out the deed! If they want to rebel, they must prepare at least a few thousand house deeds, and they must be single-family buildings...... The market price is 100 million! Wu Haogu doesn't have that much money!

"As for the professors of the Bujun Academy," Wu Haogu said, "they can be selected from the right list of jinshi." Many of the Jinshi on the right list have studied at the Boundary River Knight Academy, although they mainly studied cavalry, but there is no problem in being a teacher. ”

In fact, the curriculum of the Boundary River Knight Academy is not divided into step riding at all, and "Infantry Science", "Cavalry Science", and "Tactics" all have to be learned together. Similarly, the students of the Kaifeng Infantry School also had to study "Infantry Science", "Cavalry Science" and "Tactics" at the same time. It's just that the requirements for equestrian training are not as high as those of the Knight Academy.

Therefore, it is no problem to directly let the graduates of the Knight Academy teach the Kaifeng Infantry Academy.

"In addition, the professors of Confucianism, painting, arithmetic, geology, biology and other courses in the infantry academy can also use Jinshi from the Biyong Academy."

"What about the students of the Infantry Academy?" Zhao Ji asked again.

"I recruited students from the children of the generals of the Western Army and the Eastern Army." Wu Hao has long been calculated, "The Western Army and the Eastern Army will inevitably be gradually dismantled, and Your Majesty will always give their generals a way out." ”

"It makes sense." Zhao Ji nodded, and said, "By the way, I have already asked people to check, and the imperial history that participates in you the most is the supervising imperial history Zhang Kegong." How about letting him be the overseer of the model new army? ”

"I can't ask for it!"

Wu Haogu said seriously. But I was smiling in my heart! Now it's not the Imperial History of the Overseer, it's the Overseer sent by the Privy Council!

The promising supervising imperial history has become a military supervisor who can only be in the company of soldiers, and Zhang Kegong is afraid that he will vomit blood - supervising the imperial history is a position that is easy to promote, impeaching a deacon, and a few nonsense such as "please use Qing Guanshu" and so on, you can get a good reputation. If you go further, it is often the Zhongshu Sheren or the Hanlin Bachelor.

Who will impeach the military envoy impeach? Wu Haogu is a military envoy in the capital, and he can't be impeached. Only Zhong Fu, the commander of the model army, and Wang Yu, the commander of the model army, can impeach him, but it doesn't mean much.

"How do you arrange Uncle Zhang's night?" Zhao Ji asked again.

"He is a civil official, so how about arranging a deputy capital military plane, and helping the ministers, civil and military?"

There is no civil and military help, and the civil and military system is almost the same. Although Zhao Ji trusts Wu Haogu, he has not forgotten his ancestors' family law. Moreover, Du Ji Yisi is not an ordinary yamen, but a confidential yamen placed under the noses of officials.

Zhao Ji smiled and said: "Let's talk about it today, I have approved everything you proposed." Go back and write a concerto, and say anything else that I didn't think of today, and I'll do it all!

By the way, you didn't bring anyone with you to Beijing this time, and this is not a way. I will open a convenient door for you, who you want to use, who you want to protect, and give me a concert, I am all approved. How can you do things without a helper?

Du Junji is my staff, and he assists me in commanding the three armies! Therefore, the government office should not be too far away from Qionglin Palace. It's located in the old Cai Wang's Mansion in the New Deal Gate, which is next to Qionglin Palace, and close to your Pear Blossom Courtyard.

In addition, I will also arrange a government office for you in the Qionglin Palace, next to the Chongzheng Palace, and the house that was originally given to the Hanlin Painting Institute will be given to the Military Machinery Division. ”