Chapter 103
The sick Yuchi walked out of the barracks with a large enamel bowl and went to the kitchen to have a meal. He was uneasy. Manager Zheng and Manager Liu on the side looked bad, and they sighed from time to time and walked side by side behind the sick Yuchi.
How to open a bank? How many days can the company be explained clearly? I was a slut in Luoyang City and only knew Tong Dalang and only saw a few big words after starting a short company. If Fan Xiang hadn't been confident and asked the two supervisors to just teach step by step, Manager Zheng and Manager Liu would have given up.
Yuchi left a little further ahead when he saw a doctor. Manager Liu whispered: "Forget it, we just follow the instructions of Punishment Fan Tong. How much we teach. What this guy can learn depends on his fortune. The General's Mansion didn't let us choose two loyal and reliable people each? It's just that these people will go to Xingqing Mansion together and help from the side. Anyway, they just go there to open a store to make money, and they don't have to be a room for the court, so they won't alarm Dangxiang people. Give more rewards, and they are happy to go."
"We have to do our best. Let's leave our destiny." Manager Zheng sighed and kept shaking his head.
The Chinese New Year is only five days away, and the sick Yuchi can't stay in Dingxi City for a few days, and he is still confused about real banks and companies. Sometimes when he teaches, Fan Xiang will be on the side, so he will give some advice. The sick Yuchi is very thoughtful and slowly understands the trick.
It is impossible to learn those theories and systems of Yuchi, unless they work in the shop for a few years before they can get started. But through Fan Xiang's guidance, Yuchi saw that the magistrate was not interested in learning those things. What he needed to learn most was to make money through banks and companies. Teaching him real banking and company knowledge was just to talk to others after returning to Dangxiang and make others believe in him. Using the name of the banking and company, Yuchi was a little unfamiliar with this method, but Tong Dalang was so familiar that he could not be familiar with it. He did this at that time in Longmen Town, Luoyang. With this understanding, although Yuchi was nervous, he was worried, but he ate when he should eat, sleep when he should sleep, and learn when he should learn, and he didn't care about how much he learned.
After Zhang Kang and Tian Kuang entered Sichuan, the new recruits from Sichuan and Sichuan from there had begun to reach Qinfeng Road one after another, and all came to Dingxi City. Dingxi City is located in a valley with a wide terrain and a complete range of terrains around it. It is a good place to train new recruits. After Xu Ping's commander's tent entered, it has become the largest military base on Qinfeng Road and a training center for new recruits.
In the tent, Xu Ping ordered tea and said to Ming Hao in front of him: "You have been in Yuzhong County for a month, how do you feel?"
Ming Hao thought about it and shook his head: "The officials can't say it well, but they just feel that they are different from the military soldiers I have seen before. I don't know how powerful they are, but there is a kind of energy that other military soldiers do not have. In this way, their strategy has exceeded their peers."
Xu Ping nodded: "Everything in the world has its own gods. If you get it, you will enter the house. The so-called combat power is not just a fight with one sword and one shot. From the moment you set up the camp, every step is a part of the combat power. When you first arrive at Qinfeng Road, you will gradually get used to these things. A few years ago, you knew Tongzhou and set up Qing border troops, which had a lot of military achievements. In a few years, the Qing border troops were all over the border areas. It is precisely because of this that you were recruited as the deputy commander of Xuanwei Army. As for changing military positions, you don't have to take it seriously. I have already written to the court. When the war is over, you will change the documents when you go to other duties."
Ming Hao said: "If you exchange literature for military affairs, you don't think it's anything. You are serving the court."
"It's good that you don't have any grudges in your heart, and it will be much smoother when you do it. You have been familiar with the army for a month, and for the next two or three months, you will stay in Dingxi City and learn military affairs most of the time. This is the rule of Qinfeng Road, you must understand."
Minghao was silent for a while and said, "I don't care about the strategy. Xiaguan also read military books when he was free. He used to work in the local area and once led soldiers. I dare not say that he is very familiar with military affairs. At least he knows a little about it and then comes to Dingxi City."
After hearing this, Xu Ping couldn't help but smile and said, "I feel that I don't need to learn anymore, or are I afraid that I can't learn anything?"
Minghao seemed a little embarrassed, paused for a moment, and replied: "The officials should understand everything in the military. As for marching and fighting, using strategies to defeat the enemy, and reading more military books. The officials should learn from the officials, but I really don't know what to learn."
"The basics of the world, the most difficult thing is to learn characters! You don't know what to learn here. In the final analysis, it is because you don't know what to know when you marching and fighting. Arrange troops and formations? Cavalry and shooting skills?" Xu Ping sighed and shook his head. "Those that don't need to be learned are just as they are done. At most, you can practice. You were a Jinshi and read poetry since childhood. I used to practice calligraphy as a master. When we were young, we mostly copied, then copied, and then learned. In the end, we can become our own family and have our own charm. Although not everyone can write well after learning characters, they are always different from others. Copying, copying, and learning are the steps to practice calligraphy. Copying is definitely not called learning, and copying can only be considered as the first entry. Only after these two steps can we start to learn to write. The same is true for war, there are also three steps."
Minghao didn't expect Xu Ping to be able to explain some truth and said solemnly: "I would like to hear the details of it."
"Just like when learning calligraphy, when learning calligraphy, when learning war, you will first understand the arrangement of troops, how to march, how to camp, how to open a bow, how to cut a knife, how to stab a gun. In Dingxi City, learning these are not called learning, but only training. Practicing riding and shooting swords and guns, grabbing and fighting, training soldiers, placing troops, marching and camping, and training low-level commanders and camping officers below. Then upward officers must learn. What to learn? Arrange troops, know why to arrange troops, marching and camping, and know why to marching like this, and camping like this. Before the battle, you should infer how the enemy will fight from the information received by Jiyi and others, and how I will deal with it, and predict the enemy's initiative."
Ming Hao looked at Xu Ping and suddenly Zhan Yan said, "If you say the strategy, I don't know if it's right. Soldiers learn skills, low-level soldiers and soldiers are skilled, while high-level soldiers and soldiers must learn the Tao."
Speaking to smart people is a pleasure. Xu Ping held his hand and said, "Yes, it can also be called skills, skills, and Taoism. Han Feizi said that the prime minister must start from the state department, and the strong general must start from the army. This is a good thing, but there are always people who understand the bias. The prime minister starts from the state department, rather than from the minor officials. The generals start from the army, but are not the commander of the army. Why? War is not a street fight. When it is strong, ten or eight people are very useful. When it is strong, it is not as useful as brave as it is to fight bravely when it reaches the frontier. The so-called powerful generals are those who dare to rush and kill when they are in battle and can charge into battle. When it comes to thousands of people, they are useful, but they dare to rush and kill, but they are useless. What is more useful at this time is to know where to rush and where to kill. And these are not learned in the last lifetime. The real commander of the army is good at learning and understand these principles in his heart."
Quantitative change will cause qualitative change. This principle is simple and clear, but some people don’t believe it and have to go to the end on a simple and rough road. The officers and soldiers in the army have different functions and positions, not only because of different classes and treatments, but because there is a fundamental difference between the tasks they face and what they need to do. A good soldier may not be a good officer, and a good officer may not be a good soldier. This principle is originally very simple, but it seems that no one knows it. Today’s imperial guards actually use the standards of soldiers to ask officers. If you want to list the education of officers separately, it becomes an alternative.
The theory of martial arts lifting strategy shows that people who have established these systems are not confused. In the future and in the future, the education of officers has always been this route. But what is strange is that the martial arts selected from the theory of heavy strategy are incompatible with the army and have no use. So some officials said that theories of policy theory are useless, and the selection of generals should still be brave and powerful from the soldiers. Not only in this era, some people think so, but what is strange is that even a thousand years later, there are people who think so, without looking at how officers all over the world are trained. Martial arts selected according to the correct route cannot become the backbone of the army, but only means that there is something wrong with the military system. On the other hand, they think that there is something wrong with the selection mechanism, so it really makes people unable to understand how this idea comes from.
From the Five Barbarians' Central Plains to the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the Hu people who completely dominated the world's military power changed not only China's military system, but also military culture. The organization, planning and other fine operations of war were abandoned, and the evaluation of military became personal courage and courage, which would be strange if they could fight a good battle. For the Central Plains, which is mainly farming, organizational ability is the foundation of everything. Without this, they can only be slaughtered.
This is not only for the Han people, but also for the military forces of other ethnic groups entering the Central Plains. Military is an extension of politics after all. Politics comes from the social foundation dominated by the economy, and it is not something you can't change if you want to remain unchanged. In history, the Khitan was defeated by the Jurchens because they were sinicized, and the Jurchens were defeated by the Mongolians. It was also said that the Jurchens were sinicized, and the military forces that seemed to be unable to be defeated were enough to promote one. Some people seriously studied how advocating Confucianism caused the weakening of the Jurchens' military power, and completely forgot that the first emperor in history who respected Confucianism beat these alien races around the world like dogs. The last alien race to enter the Central Plains tried to keep their Eight Banners system unchanged, and as a result, the military power of the Eight Banners weakened faster than those Chinese nations. It can only be said that this alienated military culture deeply influenced people a thousand years later.
There is no way, since the military system after the Song Dynasty is actually no big difference from the nomadic peoples, and for many people, they cannot think of other factors that affect their strength except systems and culture.
Through the war with Dangxiang, what Xu Ping had to do was to put the distorted military culture and military system back on the correct track. Doing this would make the Central Plains dynasty no longer be destroyed by nomadic peoples at all times.
Redefining the difference between officers and soldiers, re-establishing the missing organizational system, and re-promoting the military culture built on this organizational system is the fundamental reason for Xu Ping's military system reform.
Chapter completed!