Chapter 4: You are waste
"Master, Xu'er is still a child, when you asked him to join the army, I was scared, Kuang Yin and his two brothers were already frightened in the army, and now they are going to the forbidden army, but I heard that the forbidden army is ......"
The current Mrs. Du, the future Empress Dowager Du has spoken out against it, after all, he also loves this grandson more.
Even He Shi looked at Zhao Kuangyin eagerly, she only had such a child at present, how could she be willing to let him leave her side.
Zhao Hongyin was furious when he heard this:
"The benevolence of the woman, my Zhao family is a martial heirloom, the old man has already gone into battle to kill the enemy when he was thirteen years old, and Xu'er is not small, and being able to join the forbidden army is also the emperor's recognition of Xu'er."
"Mother, my father is right, it's okay to let Xu'er go to exercise, you can't let him be a gentleman, I also agree with my father's proposal, Xu'er is also fine under my command when he joins the forbidden army?"
Zhao Kuangyin said a word to the old woman and He's, and he didn't know what to say when he opened his mouth.
Zhao Xu was listening to the conversation of his father with his ears pricked up at this time, it seems that this era still advocates soldiers, far less than the Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on martial arts.
Zhao Xu left his little Zhengtai uncle Zhao Tingmei, stood up, and said slowly;
The weak crown of the Zhao family does not mourn themselves, and Shang Si is the national military wheel.
Lying down at night and listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse and the glacier fell into a dream.
This was originally a poem by Lu You's desire to serve the country, but it was changed by Zhao Xu and appeared here.
The people around looked at Zhao Xu strangely, especially Zhao Kuangyin looked at his son in surprise, remembering that his son never studied well. How could there be such poetry.
Moreover, this poem expresses the desire to serve the country, and it seems that it is also written by a middle-aged man who has no way to serve the country, how can it appear in the mouth of his son.
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The next day, Zhao Xu went to report to the forbidden army.
The forbidden army is an army directly under the emperor in the feudal era and serves as the guard of the emperor or the palace and the capital. To put it bluntly, it's a bodyguard troop.
However, due to the differences of era, culture and region, there are other names with different names, such as the Praetorian Guard, the Personal Guard, the Guard, the Imperial Forest Army and other different names.
At that time, the forbidden army could be described as an elite, far from being a forbidden army for future generations, just an honorary title.
The forbidden army of the Later Zhou Dynasty was also the regular army of the Later Zhou Dynasty at this time, and the majority of the division was stationed in the capital Kaifeng and nearby, guarding the safety of the Beijing Division in peacetime and going to the front line in wartime.
The forbidden army of the Later Zhou Dynasty belonged to the front division of the palace and the division of the horse army and the infantry army. "The highest officials of the three yas are called the palace marshal, the horse marshal, and the step marshal, collectively called the three marshals.
The governing bodies of the three divisions can be divided into:
As far as the front of the palace is concerned, one time is: the front of the palace is inspected, the deputy of the front of the palace is inspected, and the former division of the palace is commanded.
The deputy commander of the front division of the palace is the commander of Shi, and the former director of the palace is the marquis of Yu
As far as the Ma Jun Division is concerned: in turn, the guards and the pro-army Ma Jun Division are all commanding envoys. The deputy commander of the Guards and the Horse Army Division, and the Guards and Guards and the Horse Army Division are all Yuhou
The same infantry division can be divided into, Ma Jun Division is the commander of the Ma Army Division, the guard is the commander of the infantry division, the deputy commander of the Ma Army Division, and the guard is Yu Hou.
These are the most basic leadership institutions of the forbidden army and can also be said to be the most senior institutions, the current Zhao Kuangyin is the head of the eastern and western classes of the Great Zhou, and he is not a senior general.
Zhao Xu was awarded the position of the head of the capital in the forbidden army because of his military exploits, which can be regarded as a petty official, much lower than his position in the local army, but his status is much higher.
After all, one is a regular army, and the other is a rabble relative to the regular army, and there is no comparison at all, so how big an official is he?
The forbidden army in the Later Zhou Dynasty was based on the battalion grass-roots unit, and the mobilization and participation in the conquest were carried out on the battalion as a unit.
The commander of the battalion is the commander and deputy commander, and a battalion has about 500 people.
There is a capital under the battalion, each of which is usually a hundred people, and the commander is called the head of the capital, which means that Zhao Xu now has a hundred younger brothers, and it is more than enough to fight in a group.
The establishment below the capital should be the system of the Shiwu, with non-commissioned officers such as military heads, "ten generals" (in charge of 10 people), and now it can be said that the current Zhao Xu is already a lower-level officer.
Zhao Kuangyin told him that the soldiers in this capital are all lazy, and they are the lowest in the forbidden army every time, and they are all unenterprising, so Zhao Xu should be careful.
When he arrived at the school grounds, the hundred centaurs of Pontus were already lined up, and where the new chief was waiting, they were all guessing what the origin of this capital was.
Soldier A: "Do you say that this capital head is also a son, I heard that we were on the last capital head, this time I was promoted, and I went to the place to be a assassin, and I can make money." After speaking, he looked envious.
Soldier B: "No matter who it is, it doesn't have our share, I can be a ten-person general and I am very satisfied, and then I will have more money, and I can go to a daughter-in-law." ”
Soldier C: "You still want to be a ten-man general, it's good if you don't get eliminated, and you still want to be promoted?" ”
It turns out that the forbidden army still has an annual assessment, and those who fail to pass will be dismissed or sent back to the local army.
For a while, everyone was talking about it, and they couldn't help but not talk about it, because they were all gold-plated by the children of the official eunuchs who came every time, and even they were about to be used to becoming the young master's army.
At this time, Wu Chang spoke: "Brothers, stand up quickly, our new arrivals are here, be careful that the new official takes office, and he is touched on the head." ”
Under the reminder of the commander, everyone stood straight in an instant, but no matter how they looked at it, they didn't look like the elite troops of the Great Song Dynasty.
The commander is the lowest-ranking officer, five people are in the army, there are five people, there are ten people, ten people are the chief, and the chief is also called the ten generals.
Zhao Xu looked at these hundred and ten people, a little disappointed, the forbidden army he had always wanted to see was like this bear, and he was not even as good as the ruffian **** in later generations.
It's right to think about it, after Zhou Shizong once abolished part of the forbidden army, and those who remained were elite, perhaps it was from that time that the forbidden army became the trump card.
Looking at the way they look now, going to the battlefield is death, and they are not even as good as the local van army, they are purely chaotic.
Zhao Xu walked over, his eyes swept over everyone present, his eyes were so substantial, all the places where his eyes passed, no one dared to look at him.
According to Gao Huailiang, who later became a general, when he saw the prince for the first time, his eyes were so sharp that people didn't dare to look directly, and they were so hot.
All the places where Zhao Xu's eyes passed, those soldiers lowered their heads one by one, this was specially trained by Zhao Xu when he was training in his previous life, and he overwhelmed others in terms of momentum.
Seeing this, Zhao Xu opened his mouth and said, and as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone was calmed, because according to the convention, new officials often say some polite words when they take office.
But Zhao Xu is unusual:
"Guys, I want to ask you, what was the purpose of your hard work to get here?" He turned his back on those people.
There was a riot below, I am so strange to ask this question, there is something wrong with it.
Seeing the reaction below, Zhao Xu seemed to have predicted it, and waved his hand to quiet down that below;
"Do you disdain to answer, let me tell you, the purpose of your joining the army is to be promoted, to make a fortune, to glorify your ancestors, and to seal your wife and son, right?"
He paused: "But the people who came with you to join the army may have become the commander of the army by now, some of them have become the head of the capital, and some have served in the local area because of their merits, right?" ”
Maybe you will say that they are lucky and have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and I didn't catch up with the good time, it's not that you didn't catch up with the good time, it is that you are a bad seed.
You ask yourself how many people you can survive on the battlefield now, you can't even do the most basic training, and you still want to seal your wife and son, you are not a waste.
If you look at the stone locks on the school ground, how many of you can lift them, this was the most basic test for entering the forbidden army.
Look at what you are all thinking about now, with a big belly, standing in a queue, and the waste is better than you. ”
Everyone lowered their heads when they said this, yes, since they entered the forbidden army, they have lost their original pride, and they have been thinking about messing around all day long, and many of the brothers who came with them at the beginning have been promoted.
Seeing that he was still an ordinary soldier, everyone was hot when he said it, and he lowered his head in shame. But there are also people who disagree, and their mouths are full of words:
"We're waste, and you're no better off there, and you look like you're a rich kid, can you pull a bow and make a gun?"
Although it was vague, Zhao Xu still heard it, and he didn't get angry, just smiled slightly:
"The head of the city was transferred here from the local army, and the head of the city killed several local captains at a time in the place, and the ordinary soldiers did not know how many they were rewarded by His Majesty and entered the forbidden army, but you disappointed me, I thought that I could show my own retribution when I came here."
Zhao Xu shook his head: "I didn't expect it, but I saw a group of bad seeds, hahaha" He walked to the training ground and kicked up a stone lock there.
This time it shocked everyone, the stone lock was a hundred and ten pounds, but I didn't expect him to kick it up with such a light kick, if it kicked people...... The crowd didn't dare to think about it.
You group of wastes are not even as good as this stone lock, are you not convinced, and your sharp eyes swept over everyone.
"We're not waste, we've been elite, we're ......," said an unconvinced man.
"That's also once, do you know what the outside said about our capital, saying that we are garbage, and we are not even qualified to go to the battlefield, every time you compete in the army, you are not at the bottom that time, you don't know shame, I, the new head, feel ashamed."
Zhao Xu knew that the soldiers couldn't tell him big truths, because there was no guarantee that everyone knew how to read. Sometimes it is necessary to let them rush to shame, shame and courage.
Sure enough, it worked: "We are not bad breeds, we are also hot-blooded men."
The people below had red eyes and shouted loudly, the most important thing for soldiers is blood, and they have been successfully aroused to blood.
There is still hope for such a military man .
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