Ji Yi and Su Shi both raped the two traitors to the world, Cai Jing and Su Zhe didn't know - Su Zhe really has no way to teach his son! He didn't know that his son had gone the wrong way!

And neither of them had the heart to think about the affairs of Japan and Korea. Because Zhao Ji's will to formulate the law for the expansion of the new army has already made them anxious.

What do the two of them know about military affairs? Su Zhe was a pacifist as a whole.

And Cai Jing is one of the few important ministers in the New Party who has nothing to do with the military. But fortunately, he still has a few characters in his hands, such as Zhong Fu, who is guarding the election in Kaifeng Mansion, is a soldier...... Although he performed badly in the previous Song-Xia War, he directly lost his official position after the war and has been guarding the election in Kaifeng Mansion.

So Cai Jing asked his son Cai You to invite Zhong Fu to his home, and asked Cai Bian to bring the Knight Academy textbooks "Infantry Studies", "Cavalry Studies", and "Tactics Theory" that he took from the Privy Council to the Prime Minister's Mansion together, and everyone studied and studied together.

After studying for a few days, Cai Jing and Cai Bian were still confused. Both of them are geniuses with IQs of at least 130, and the "Seven Books of the Martial Arts" can be memorized backwards like a stream, and they can also explain the Tao. However, they did not understand the three books "Infantry Science", "Cavalry Science" and "Theory of Tactics...... Because these three books must be studied together with books such as "Arithmetic", "Metaphysics", "Geography" and "Drawing Theory", and they must also have a certain degree of martial arts and tactical literacy in order to be thorough. In addition, in these books, Wu Haogu also introduced Arabic numerals and punctuation marks, which made Cai Jing and Cai Bian even more difficult to read.

But Zhong Fu could understand some of the things in the book, and sighed when he saw it.

Cai Bian saw Zhong Fu shaking his head and sighing, so he asked, "What?" Weak, isn't there something wrong with this book? ”

Hearing Cai Bian's question, Zhong Fu sighed again: "Master Cai, this book is so right!" If Xia Guan had seen this book a few years earlier, how could he have been so far? ”

Cai Bian nodded, thinking: You didn't block Gao Yu and Tong Guan from raiding Karochuan at the beginning, but now you have already become a member of the Privy Council, what does it have to do with whether you read this book or not?

Zhong Fu then said: "Xia Guan can be regarded as familiar with military books, and he can memorize the "Seven Books of the Martial Classics" backwards, and he has read no less than 20 other military books. However, none of these books are as detailed, meticulous, and rigorous as "Infantry Science...... Bachelor, you look at pages 109 to 19, and they're all about marching troops. There are strict rules on the length and width of a group of 100 officers and soldiers in what formation they should march in! There are also strict rules on the interval between soldiers, which foot to take first and which foot to take later when marching, and how many steps to take every 100 feet! Officers are also required to go through daily queue training so that the soldiers can fully master. ”

"It's really too cumbersome," Cai Jing shook his head, "It's like this throughout, and the text is dry and unliterate, and it's very nagging, and there are strange graphics, which are dazzling." ”

In fact, the earliest version written by Murong Wangwu was not so "uninteresting", how could the old man Murong be a scholar of the Liao Kingdom, and he still had literary talents, and he didn't know metaphysics at that time. However, later Wu Haogu and many students who graduated from the general and doctoral courses of the Yuntai Academy, as well as the military Jiyi who returned from the front line, also joined the revision of the military textbooks. As a result, there is less and less literary style, more and more detailed content, more and more mathematical knowledge is used, various regulations are more and more strict, and more and more attention is paid to the formation - because Zhao Zhongge and other military aircraft should find in actual combat, whether it is infantry or cavalry, the side that attacks in a tight formation can always gain an advantage! So the latest edition of the textbook taught to the Privy Council Editorial Department has become what it is now.

"Xianggong," Zhong Fu said with a smile, "Wu Hao Gu is a businessman, what kind of literary style can his book have?" Besides, this book is for vulgar warriors, and it is most appropriate to write it in the vernacular. In addition, that kind of small dot should be a symbol for sentence breaking, so that it is not easy to misread. This is indeed a good approach, but military orders should avoid ambiguity and be precise. As for those strange characters that should be a kind of counting symbol, Xia Guan has read it in the arithmetic book of the Yuntai Academy.

Although this writing is not written in any style, the methods mentioned in the book for training troops and fighting wars are very good. If you do this, you should be able to train a farmer within a year. ”

"One year is enough?"

Cai Bian didn't believe it, although he didn't understand military affairs, but he had been a privy councillor for a while, and he still knew that the requirements for the imperial court to select the forbidden army were not low. It is to choose a strong man with a certain amount of martial arts to enter the martial arts to facilitate training.

"Enough! Wu Haogu and Gao Yu can do it, and the lower officials will definitely be able to do it! Zhong Fu stood up suddenly and bowed to Cai Jing and Cai Bian, "If Xianggong and the bachelor feel that the lower official is still worthy of use, the lower official is willing to train for the prime minister and the bachelor...... Even if you want to change military resources. ”

It is rare for senior civil officials to transfer military capital in the history of the Great Song Dynasty, and most of them are senior civil officials with a generalist background. For example, Liu Ping, the deputy chief of Dunyan Road and the pacification envoy of Dunyan and Huanqing Lutong, who was captured in the Battle of Haoshuichuan, was born as a Jinshi after the general, and the civil official changed his military resources after supervising the imperial history.

And although Zhong Fu was not born in Jiangmen, he was not born in Jinshi, but Li Xian's staff background, relying on military merits to climb up step by step, so that he has his current status. It's a pity that he performed poorly in the final battle of the Song-Xia War and lost the trust of the officials. If you don't do a little risky trick, I'm afraid that you will soon have to raise the palace.

Therefore, he also didn't care about the dignity of civil officials and the humble military attachés, and put forward a request for military transfer. In fact, it was because the two brothers Cai Jing and Cai Bian did not have any military attachés who could train the soldiers of the new government - there were many civil officials under their command who could be marshals, but there was no military attache who could be the commander of soldiers and horses.

If Cai Jing and Cai Bian want to dominate the Northern Expedition in the coming day, it is not enough to rely on a bunch of ministers who can only shake the pen and play tricks.

Cai Jing smiled: "Ah! The weak man is the most knowledgeable among the civilian officials. If the military resources are transferred, then the dispatch of training the new government soldiers will be the only weak. It's just a weak man, can you come up with a comprehensive strategy? ”

What Cai Jing and Cai Bian want to hand over to Zhong Fu is the work of building the army and training the army!

How to train soldiers, "Infantry Studies" and "Cavalry Studies" said. However, how to form the new army is not in the "Infantry Studies" and "Cavalry Studies".

Zhong Fu didn't know how to answer for a while, and then he heard the low voice of the servant of the Prime Minister's Mansion from outside the study: "Zhang Da's edict has arrived, can the master see him?" ”

"Zhang's Great Teaching?" Cai Jing was stunned, "Why is he here?" ”

Zhong Fu didn't know much about the Great Sect, so he interjected: "What kind of official position is the Great Sect?" ”

Cai Bian explained: "It is the chief officer of the Great Education Regiment, there are seven in total, headed by Zhang Zhiping, the fourth son of Zhang Zihou.

Big brother, can we see him? ”

Cai Jing stood up and straightened his clothes, "Of course I want to see you!" Can Zhang Zihou's son not be seen? Let's meet in the middle hall. ”

No matter how down-and-out Zhang Dian is, he is Cai Jing and Cai Bian's former backers. And now there is no "Yuanyou Party Monument", and Zhang Dian is not a dead tiger - people have Jingdong Shangshi in their hands, and they can smash out millions casually! When Wu Haogu lost his holy family, the official family had to ask the people of the Zhang family for money.

"Yuandu, come with me to see Zhang Zhiping." Cai Jing looked at Zhong Fu again, "Weak, you wait for a while, wait for a while, and then talk to you about the construction of the new army." ”

After speaking, Cai Jing and Cai Bian strode out of the study.

……

Zhang Yuan was dressed in dust, and it seemed that he had just entered Kaifeng City, and he didn't have time to go to his newly bought mansion to rest, so he came directly to Cai Jing's mansion.

He didn't come empty-handed, and he also brought a generous gift to Cai Jing and Cai Bian. Of course, it's not money, but a "solution" for forming and training a new army - exactly what Cai Jing and Cai Bian need most at the moment.

And of course, it was not Zhang Yuan who formulated this plan. The "Military Strategist Cram School" is not of such a high level, and Zhang Yuan is now at a level that seems to understand but does not understand.

It was Wu Haogu's military command and the professors of the Knight Academy who formulated this plan, including Zhao Zhongge, Ma Zheng (he is now the deputy director of the Knight Academy), Murong Parrot, Murong Wangwu, and Wu Haogu himself all participated.

But even with the participation of these people, this plan is still a very superficial plan, not very detailed, and not very meticulous. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Zhang Yuan to come to see Cai Jing alone with the whole plan, at least he would have to push a wheelbarrow.

In the middle hall of Cai's mansion, when they were thinking about how to dedicate this army-building strategy containing "poison pills" to Cai Jing, Cai Jing and Cai Bian had already walked in with a smile.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly got up and saluted with a smile: "Xiaguan Zhang Yuan, I have seen Cai Xianggong, Bachelor Cai." ”

Cai Bian now has a Hanlin bachelor's dispatch, so Zhang Yuan called him "Cai's bachelor". Cai Jing and Cai Bian were also polite to Zhang Yuan, smiled and returned the salute, and then sat down as guests.

After a few pleasantries, Cai Jing asked: "Zhiping, I haven't seen you these days, but are you preparing for the Great Education Regiment?" ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "No, Cai Xianggong, Bachelor Cai, Xiaguan has been sent by my father to the Yuntai Academy Palace in Jiehe these days to ask Mr. Murong for military studies." ”

This bull is still very true, Cai Jing and Cai Bian have eyes and ears in Jiehe Shang City, as long as they investigate, they can know that Zhang Yuan has been in the Knight Academy under the Yuntai Academy for a few days. And everyone knows that Zhang Yuan has the grace of knowing the old man Murong, and teaching Zhang Yuan is not a matter of words?

Zhang Yuan then raised his hand and pointed to the few books placed on the desk in front of him, and said with a smile: "Cai Xianggong, Bachelor Cai, this is some suggestions about the new government soldiers written by the lower officials after consulting Mr. Murong and several of Mr. Murong's protégés in the Yuntai Academy. ”