On that day, Master Zhao asked Yu Guanzi for advice on many strategies for governing the country. Yu Guanzi gave opinions one by one, and Meng Zhong also listened carefully.

So far, Meng Zhong has learned a lot of ideological and propositions on governing the country, such as the Taoist "inaction" idea, the Yang Zhu School's "rewarding me" idea, Mencius's "benevolent government" idea, and the "rule by law system" idea mentioned by Feng Guanzi today. In his opinion, among these ideological propositions, the idea of ​​"rule by law system" that Feng Guanzi is the most realistic and perfect.

In contrast, the "pride of me" by the Yang Zhu School will make people more "self-interest" - even this school actually advocates not infringing on the interests of others; while Mencius's "benevolent government" idea is easy to do, there is still no specific constitution to implement it. The outdated national system of the "well-field system" alone is not enough to support "benevolent government" - Teng State, which was destroyed by the Song State, is the best example.

Only the idea of ​​"ruling by law and system" in Fengguanzi.

However, this ideological proposition of Juguanzi is really very similar to the Legalist thought. The only difference is that Juguanzi's ideological proposition is still to "govern inaction", unlike the Legalist's ultimate goal is to "reform and strengthen" - the final focus of the two is different.

When Wu Guanzi finished his thoughts and propositions, the night was already dark, so Meng Zhong simply reported to Zhao Zhufu that "five hundred soldiers have been selected from the leader of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao." Zhao Zhufu was also drunk because he drank with Wu Guanzi, Meng Zhong, Pang Xuan and others while drinking while discussing the strategies for governing the country, and did not ask about this matter in detail.

After returning to his residence in the evening, Meng Zhong recorded the ideas and propositions of Guanzi on the bamboo slips with lights. He was like the past, and prepared to ask someone to send them to Zhuangzi, Mencius and Hui'an to listen to the three of them's comments on this.

In fact, it is mainly to listen to Mencius and Hui'an's evaluation of this. As for his teacher Zhuangzi, the latter pays more attention to the moral education of "people", that is, how to improve the moral standards of the world. Zhuangzi has never been interested in national politics.

Meng Zhong still wrote a letter to Zhuangzi even though he knew about this, just to tell his teacher what he saw and heard in Zhao State, that's all.

The next day, Meng Zhong got up early and said goodbye to Zhao Zhufu, preparing to go to the military camp of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao, and train the 500 soldiers.

At this moment, Master Zhao thought that he had received relevant reports, learned about Meng Zhong's process of subduing the 500 soldiers yesterday, and gave Meng Zhong a high evaluation on this matter.

He smiled and said to Meng Zhong, "I thought the five thousand cloth coins were to buy the five hundred soldiers, but I never thought that you had bought the soldiers' hearts."

It has to be said that Zhao Zhufu was still suspicious of whether the soldiers who could be bought with money were trustworthy, but unexpectedly, Meng Zhong's methods were more skillful than he expected, and he directly "buyed" the hearts of the five hundred soldiers, and also established the initial trust for the Xinwei Army.

This made Meng Zhong even more respectful.

After saying goodbye to Zhao Zhufu, Meng Zhong took Meng Hu, Meng Sui and others back to the military camp of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao, and met with Le Yi and others who stayed in that military camp to discuss the next thing together.

The problem of soldiers was solved and the problem of garrison barracks was also solved. Then the next step was to discuss the adjustment of the troops of the 500 soldiers and the corresponding training methods.

The so-called adjustment of troops, as the name suggests, means adjusting the proportion of each army in the army, which also involves many factors.

For example, Meng Hu advocated that the chariot convoy would be built into a chariot convoy. The three soldiers were riding on the same chariot, and it would take about 160 chariots.

It must be admitted that if the "war chariot convoy" was built in the way Meng Hu suggested, these 500 soldiers would be very attacking, and even if they defeated ten times the average infantry on the front battlefield, it might not be a problem.

But the weakness is also obvious: lack of long-distance strike capabilities, and the enemy's rain of arrows may cause them to lose too much.

Following Menghu, Meng then suggested transforming it into a cavalry.

At this time, cavalry was still a unique military branch of Zhao State. Compared with combat chariots, it has the advantages of faster speed and higher maneuverability. Especially when cavalry trained after "cavalry and shooting", it actually covers the ability of "bow and cavalry".

But again, the shortcomings of cavalry are obvious.

First of all, cavalry cost is too high.

Under normal organization, a cavalry must be equipped with two war horses to exchange for riding so that one war horse can always maintain its full physical strength. The war horse is a very precious war material and needs to be raised, selected and a series of related domestication. It does not mean that any wild horse can be used as a war horse when it is tied with reins. The kind of horse that has not been tamed by artificially will definitely ruin the lives of the cavalry on the battlefield.

Secondly, the training of cavalry is too difficult.

Without bilateral stirrups and saddles, a cavalry needs years of training to master skilled riding skills. However, killing a cavalry only requires an arrow.

This is also the reason why the cavalry is not yet the main force in the battlefield, because its defense ability is too weak to resist weapons such as bows and crossbows.

As for the third point, it is that cavalry is not good at siegeing and defending cities. Since Xinwei is the guard of Zhao Zhufu, it must have the defensive ability to resist foreign enemies, while cavalry's defensive ability is very weak - from a non-strategic perspective.

"Mix the crossbow."

After thinking for a while, Meng Zhong told his considerations to his friends.

The bu, that is, infantry, is easy to understand. Given the different weapons used, they can be divided into halberd soldiers, spear soldiers, etc., mainly long weapons.

The crossbow refers to a crossbow soldier holding a crossbow machine.

In the early years, South Korea had developed a crossbow that could be used by individual soldiers. Since then, it has been quickly imitated by the Central Plains countries and has become a more terrifying long-range killing weapon than bows. Although it is not as good as a bow in terms of range, the killing power of the crossbow is very considerable at a medium distance within a range of dozens of feet. The military-style cowhide armor cannot stop this weapon at all.

Secondly, the relevant training of crossbow soldiers is the simplest.

The other types of troops, whether it is chariots, cavalry, or archers, must undergo long-term and rigorous training. Take the archer as an example. The angle and strength of the bow will determine the shooting position and range of the arrow. This is what every archer needs to be familiar with.

But crossbow soldiers don't need it. Crossbow soldiers only need to master how to aim, how to pull the trigger, and how to load the crossbow arrows, and they can immediately enter the battlefield.

But on the other hand, the shortcomings of crossbow soldiers are also obvious.

First, crossbow soldiers will be restrained by bow soldiers because of their range;

Secondly, the crossbow soldiers are slow to load crossbow arrows, and the shooting interval is, let alone cavalry and chariots, even infantry is enough to take advantage of this gap to rush to the crossbow soldiers. Once they are advanced by the enemy, the crossbow soldiers' counterattack ability is far inferior to that of an ordinary infantry;

Again, the lethality of a crossbow soldier depends on the crossbow machine in his hand. Once the crossbow machine fails, the crossbow soldier's role is mostly worse than that of an infantryman.

This is also the reason why Le Yi showed hesitation after Meng Zhong said the word "cross crossbow", because in his opinion, the limitations of crossbow soldiers are very great. If they are put into use on the battlefield, a team of combat vehicles that are good at advancing can kill the crossbow soldiers without leaving any armor.

As for Meng Zhongze, I explained: "As Zhao Zhufu's guard, my Xinwei focuses on defense ability first, and the construction of the Buqiu mixed-engraved organization is most suitable for defense."

Le Yi then felt relieved: Just as a guard, it is actually enough to mix the crossbows.

However, although he planned to adopt the method of crossbows mixed, Meng Zhong hoped to do better. To put it bluntly, he hoped that every soldier would take into account the abilities of infantry and crossbows at the same time.

After learning about Meng Zhong’s thoughts, the friends were a little stunned, and Le Yi couldn’t help asking: “Do you want to train a group of “Wei Wushangs”?”

The Wei Wuzhang was the most powerful army in the Wei State and even the Central Plains. It was trained by the famous general Wu Qi and called "Wuzhang". Each soldier wore three-fold armor, held a long halberd, hung a long sword on his waist, and carried a powerful crossbow on his back. He could deal with various situations. He once made a feat of defeating the Qin State's 500,000 troops with 500,000 troops. So far, no army in any country has the ability to do as Wei Wuzhang.

"Since you have to do it, why not choose a higher goal?" Meng Zhong said with a smile.

Hearing this, Le Yi, Meng Hu, Meng Sui, Xiang Liao and others looked at each other, and then, their hearts seemed to be ignited with enthusiasm.

After all, that was the Wei Wushu. He was the army with the strongest combat capabilities in the Central Plains until now, no doubt about it.

"But the foundation of Wei Wuzhu..." Le Yi still raised the last trace of doubt in his heart.

It is nothing else because the most critical foundation of Wei Wushu is the special treatment given to these soldiers by Wei State, such as high pensions, exemption of taxation, etc., which allows these Wei State soldiers to die for the country without any worries, and Xinwei does not have such privileges.

Meng Zhong smiled and said, "Take it slow, I believe that the guard of Zhao Master Zhao's father, and I will eventually get some special treatment."

Le Yi nodded when he heard this, and then asked excitedly: "How to do it specifically?"

Meng Zhong thought for a while and said, "I will find a way to treat, military, food and salary. As for training... the most important thing about martial arts is physical fitness. First, strengthen the training in this area. Ayi, you will first train the physical fitness of the soldiers, let Ahu, Asui and others help you."

Le Yi and his friends nodded.

So, Le Yi carried out physical training for 500 Xinwei on that day. To put it bluntly, it was running with weight. At Meng Zhong's suggestion, Le Yi asked each Xinwei to cut down a tree in the woods outside the camp, cut off branches and turn it into a log, and carry the log to run around the military camp.

Meng Zhong visited Zhao Xiangfei Yi again and asked the latter to allocate arms.

I have to say that when Fei Yi saw the weapons and equipment listed on the bamboo slips, he was also a little stunned, because Meng Zhong asked him for 1,500 sets of leather armor, 500 sets of long halberds, 500 sets of long swords, 500 sets of crossbow machines and corresponding crossbow arrows. Fei Yi lived in the Central Plains for so many years, how could he not know the equipment of the Wei State military soldiers?

"This boy's heart...is very big."

Fei Yi sighed secretly.

But even so, Fei Yi still agreed readily. After all, Xinwei was Zhao Zhufu's guard. Even though Meng Zhong asked for a lot of weapons and equipment, it was within the allowable range - after all, there was only a five hundred personnel organization.

Soon, this incident spread to celebrities in Handan, and to the ears of others such as Anping Jun Zhao Cheng, Fengyang Jun Li Dui, Yangwen Jun Zhao Bao.

Anping Jun Zhao Cheng smiled at this and said, "Does this son actually train a group of 'Zhao Wushu'?"

Fengyang Jun Li Dui also shook his head and said, "Why Meng Zhong thinks he is Wu Qi?"

Few people took this matter seriously, but instead thought that Meng Zhong was too arrogant and wanted to imitate Wei Wuzhang, who was simply unaware of the great power of the world.

"Look at how this child will end in the future."

These people sneered secretly at this.
Chapter completed!