Deputy Patrol Envoy, Zheng Liupin.

The general judgment of the Li Fan Yuan, the five products.

When Sun Jinai saw that Liu Xing actually gave him a temporary sixth-grade official, he directly gave him a yellow-mouthed child who was a fifth-grade official, and then saw Zeng Huaiyou smiling at him with a sneering face, and suddenly felt depressed in his heart.

He was depressed, and Liu Xing saw it.

After he forced a smile and greeted Zeng Huai, Liu Xing patted Zeng Huai's shoulder and said to Sun Jinai: "Don't look at his young age, this little brother Zeng, but he was promoted in the former dynasty at the age of thirteen. His ancestors are also famous. His grandfather, Zeng Xiaokuan, the prime minister of the Xining period, and his great-grandfather was Zeng Gongliang, the famous minister of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Ahh

As soon as he heard Liu Xing say these words, Sun Jinai was suddenly shocked, his eyes stared at Zeng Huai and said, "This, this is the Fujian prodigy, Zeng Xiaoyanei?" ”

Seeing that he was surprised, Liu Xing smiled slightly and said, "It's him!" If you go with him, you will get an excellent opportunity to learn your skills. When I was in the martial arts hall, he had the book in his arms, but I asked for it more than a dozen times, but I didn't get it. If you go this time, learn more from Brother Zeng about the secret things, I believe it will be more helpful to you in the future. ”

The Secret of the Martial Arts is the first work in Chinese history to formally compile and completely collect a number of military works, and the first work to form a systematic military concept.

That huge work was compiled by Zeng Huai's ancestor, Zeng Gongliang and Ding Du, who were jointly ordered to lead people to sort out and compile it.

The General Essentials of the Wujing reflects certain positive changes in the military thinking of the Song Dynasty during the reign of Song Renzong.

Originally, since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, in order to prevent local separatism, the commanders had the exclusive power, and the commanders' power to command troops and the right to formulate battle plans were under the direct control of the emperor.

But it was overkill, and as a result, the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know the generals. As a result, the battle was lost and retreated.

However, in the "General Essentials of the Wujing", the idea of using soldiers in ancient military books such as "Sun Tzu" was re-emphasized and emphasized, which was rare in the military history of the Song Dynasty, but the later rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty did not follow and practice this kind of thinking on the use of troops.

The book also attaches great importance to the role of people in war, advocating that "soldiers should be used according to their strengths and weaknesses." Pay attention to the training of the army, and think that there are no timid soldiers and lazy war horses, but only because of poor training.

According to Zeng Huai, it is precisely because his ancestors saw that the Great Song Dynasty had always restrained the generals and forcibly engaged in the system of monarchy controlling military power.

Even after the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", that kind of thinking was still deeply rooted and deeply rooted in the hearts of the emperors of previous dynasties, which led to all kinds of defeats and inconsistencies.

So Zeng Gongliang learned a lesson in his later years and secretly wrote the "Secret of the Martial Arts" to pass it on. And I hope that in the future, when his descendants meet Mingjun, they will present it with that secret to achieve the fame and fortune of future generations......

After Zeng Gongliang, Zeng Huai's grandfather Zeng Xiaokuan and his fathers were both good at academics, and they were all proficient in the art of war and martial arts. Today's "Secrets of the Martial Arts" can be described as all-encompassing, omniscient, and all-encompassing.

So much so that when Zeng Huai was studying in the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, many of the new weapons and weapons that were originally from Liu Xing were transported from the Hunter Valley to the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and Zeng Huai was able to immediately get started and use them calmly.

As a result, when many students in the same period saw him, they often blackened their faces and took a detour. Resolutely unwilling to be friends with him, they all regard him as a super monster who is very smart.

Weapons can't be beaten, and the art of war can't be fought.

At that time, after Liu Xing knew about Zeng Huai's situation, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "If I meet such a master who suppresses me everywhere, I won't be friends with him, and I will take a detour when I see him." His self-esteem was crushed by him, leaving only low self-esteem. There must be my teacher in the threesome, he is only a teacher, not a student, who wants to be friends with him......"

In the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", a detailed description and introduction of various cold weapons, firearms, warships and other equipment used by the army at that time in the Great Song Dynasty. It is accompanied by a large number of images of weapons and battalions.

In particular, volumes 10 to 13, such as "Siege Law", "Water Attack", "Water Battle", "Defending the City" and other offensive chapters. Not only the weapons and equipment related to these methods of warfare are recorded, but also the situation of fortifications and warships.

The 10th volume of "Instrument Drawings" concentrates the various weapons and equipment of the army at that time, each of which has clear illustrations, and in the four volumes of volumes 10 to 13 alone, there are more than 250 illustrations of various kinds. The figure is also annotated in regular script with detailed text descriptions such as the name of the artifact and the method of use, which is an extremely important material for the study of the history of weapons.

There are two other issues that need to be pointed out here: first, the weapons of the Song Dynasty inherited the tradition since the Han and Tang dynasties, so many types of weapons recorded in the "General Essentials of the Wujing" can be clearly seen from the Han Dynasty onwards. After the development and changes of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, after being summarized by this book, it also influenced the types of weapons after the Northern Song Dynasty.

Second, since the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the army of the Central Dynasty has absorbed many excellent weapons from ethnic minorities in the north and northwest.

For example, the "iron chain clamp" in the "Instrument Map", which is clearly indicated in the book, was learned from "Xirong", and was a weapon used by the cavalry of the northern ethnic minorities to attack the infantry of the Song Dynasty, which was absorbed by the Northern Song Dynasty troops and transformed into a more suitable weapon.

Therefore, the types of weapons and equipment in the Northern Song Dynasty have increased compared with before, and the sharpness has also been strengthened.

In the era of cold weapons, mainly infantry weapons reached a stage of full maturity in the Song Dynasty. The so-called "eighteen kinds of weapons" have basically appeared by this time, and tend to be stereotyped, and these weapons are almost recorded in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts".

In addition, Zeng Xiaokuan and his sons continued to collect, research and reform, and strengthened.

Liu Xing knows very well that in fact, those he has seen from later novels and film and television dramas that the art of war and tactics of "learning to apply" may not be as suitable as Zeng's "Secrets" in today's war in an era where cold weapons are still important.

Because of this, Zeng Huai had no friends when he was in the lecture hall, so Liu Xing asked Yue Fei to "endure the pain and cut his love", and asked Zeng Huai, who could have stayed in the lecture hall to teach, to come out. After some secret training, Liang Xing found that Zeng Huai was very calculating and a high financial manager.

So as soon as he walked out of the secret camp of Wangwu Mountain, he was transferred by Liu Xingxuan to the investment promotion office in Bianjing City. Attract investment in the open and probe in the dark. While exercising his financial management ability, he is waiting for someone to let him out and let him use the skills he has learned from his ancestors and Wutang to fight for a good situation.

Now that this opportunity has come, Liu Xing will think of using the two or three thousand Sun Jiwan bandit gang to train and investigate whether Zeng Huai is an all-round talent who can write and martial arts, as Yue Fei said. is still a person who hides secrets in his arms for nothing and can only be a strategist like Zhao Kuo. (To be continued.) )