The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

Chapter 152

Anyone in the world can love his enemy, only soldiers can't.

Soldiers of any country can retain a bit of dignity for the enemy, but they must not show any mercy to them.

Soldiers are used to destroy the enemy, and there is no need to think about other things.

As for what happens after the enemy is eliminated, that is what the emperor and civil servants should consider.

Seeing that Hua Rong was clearly a soldier who had received the same training, but the result of the battle was so much worse, he asked Gao Ming in surprise, "Could it be that you showed them the heavenly scriptures?"

"To put it simply, it's just a little hate education." Gao Ming squeezed his fingers, blinked and smiled, "Today I just used Shihu's shell to apply a story. If the country fights, we can use up the real names of the Yan family."

Not to mention the present, but many years later, when film and television dramas are available everywhere, some people still can't distinguish between fiction and historical facts, thinking that the drama they see is real.

Knowing Gao Ming's actions, Hua Rong smiled and said, "Can I still do this? But how long will this effect last? It won't happen once and for all."

"Well, the effect is immediate in a short period of time, but it will be forgotten over time, and the effect needs to be consolidated in various ways." Gao Ming said: "Another point, during theatrical performances, you can ask the actors to wear matching gold clothes. In this way, when I actually see a golden man in the future, I won’t be ashamed.”

Hua Rong agreed, "It is indeed a good idea. It is still too boring to simply teach. It is easier to produce results by entertaining and teaching in this way."

"When the lectures are boring, watch dramas. If you feel impetuous after watching dramas, go to class for training." Gao Ming said with a smile: "You can't miss any of them. You must have a strong body and a tenacious spirit."

"I'm so lucky to have you. During the day, you help me with advice, and at night..." Huarong replaced the unspeakable part with a nasal voice of um huh huh.

Gao Ming pretended to be angry, pouted and stared at him. At this time, the coach in charge of the referee came to report the situation and interrupted the conversation between the two.

There were other people present, and they both assumed seriousness.

After Hua Rong listened to the report, he said to Gao Ming: "I think the time is almost here. At the beginning of next month, I can call His Royal Highness King Yun to inspect it."

Today is the end of this month, and soon the beginning of next month will arrive.

"Are you sure? It's not just King Yun who comes here, but other people too." For example, those who want to watch the fun and jokes.

Seeing Hua Rong nodding his head firmly, Gao Ming also solemnly nodded his head in agreement, "Then I will tell His Royal Highness King Yun when I go back. Prepare well, and I will send someone to tell you if there is any news."

Hua Rong actually wanted Gao Ming to come and tell him in person, so that he could see each other again, but he knew that Gao Ming was too busy now, so he could only temporarily press down on his love for his children.

Although the two didn't communicate, Gao Ming also thought the same way, so he let go of his love for his children for a while, bid farewell to Huarong, and left the camp.

On the way back to the city, he only sighed in his heart, the point is that the two of them didn't have a long relationship together, so they have to let it go for a while, it's really depressing human nature.

Although Gao Ming was busy, there was one thing he never forgot, and that was the fact that Wanyan's family from the Kingdom of Jin was coming to the capital, so he took a break from his busy schedule and ordered Shi Qian to take his troops to the landing place along the coast of Shandong to meet Song Jiang and the others.

After finishing this, he went to see the king of Yun, and told Huarong that the training of soldiers had been effective, and he would be able to accept the test next month.

Although King Yun hasn't urged him for so long, it doesn't mean he doesn't care. On the contrary, he paid too much attention to Hua Rong, fearing that his anxiety would put pressure on Hua Rong, so he didn't ask.

At this time, when Gao Ming came to report that the military training was completed, he asked with concern: "You have seen it yourself, what do you think?" Wait for the forbidden army to fight."

"As far as I'm concerned, conservatively speaking, you won't lose too badly."

If he said now, he would definitely win, afraid that Zhao Kai would not believe it.

After all, these soldiers are low-ranking soldiers, and they are only one step away from the old, weak, sick and disabled.

After listening to Gao Ming's cautious assessment, Zhao Kai felt relieved, he didn't dare to expect too much, and it was in line with his psychological expectation that he would not lose too badly, "That's good, the king will go to see it in person on the first day of next month. He thought of those officials in the court, and couldn't help worrying, "Taishi Cai and Privy Tong may both go by then."

He really didn't want to see Cai Jing and Tong Guan get too complacent, after all, as soon as they were complacent, they would slander the military training with the emperor.

It's not that they don't want Da Song to be strong, but they just don't want this power to come from Hua Rong, a junior.

Or to be more precise, they don't want it to come from someone who is not their party member.

Gao Ming had expected it a long time ago, "Since they are concerned about the military equipment of the Song Dynasty, they should be allowed to come and watch. In fact, rather than asking them to speak up, it is better to invite them to attend as a personal favor."

Zhao Kai thought it made sense and readily agreed.

When Gao Ming took the order and left, he thought worriedly, hoping that Huarong would not let him down, and that the soldiers he had trained would not lose too badly.

As soon as Zhao Kai leaked the news that Huarong's military training had yielded results, people who wanted to watch it came out one after another.With Cai Jing and Tong Guan being the most active, Zhao Kai took advantage of the situation and agreed to the two to observe and observe, and agreed to conduct the first inspection on the first day of next month.

Tong Guan did not forget to remind Zhao Kai, "Hua Rong promised at the beginning that when he is ready to practice, he will compete with the four elite imperial guards. I didn't mean to make things difficult for him, just to remind him, I hope he will be a gentleman, don't He deceived His Highness."

For example, the right to train troops was cheated, but the recruits delivered were not the right ones.vague

If it's just training a group of soldiers who dance knives and guns in unison, it can't be said that it's useless, but it's not very useful.

Zhao Kai was more considerate of Hua Rong, "There is no rush, take your time, let's go and see the effect of their practice first."

"Your Highness, since General Hua asked everyone to inspect it, it is natural that he is well prepared, and His Highness does not need to worry about him." Tong Guan said with a smile: "If you don't mind, I want to help him and personally select the top imperial guards for him to fight against. "

Tong Guan made no secret of his desire to find fault.

Gao Qiu was not happy, so he took a step forward and begged for orders: "Private Tong has only been in charge of Northwest affairs for many years, and is not familiar with the imperial guards in Beijing, so let me handle this matter and select personnel."

Do you, Tong Guan, understand the affairs of the Forbidden Army from me, the Taiwei? !Get out of the way!

Tong Guan laughed and said: "It is precisely because Gao Taiwei is familiar with all matters of the Forbidden Army that the Taiwei cannot be allowed to take over, and that Huarong has a close relationship with the son, so the Taiwei should avoid suspicion."

Who doesn't know that Huarong has a good relationship with your son, and even worships you as a foster father, and asks you to choose the required Forbidden Army opponents, you have to let go and pick out the poor ones, so that Huarong can win the limelight.

Zhao Ji felt that what Tong Guan said made sense. After all, he also promised that if Hua Rong's new military training method was effective, he would promote it to the entire army.

After Huarong is done, he has to make a lot of trouble, he has to be more cautious, "I think it is more appropriate for Tong Shumi to take over this matter, not to say that Gao Aiqing will practice favoritism, but people's words are scary, so let's avoid suspicion in this matter." See Gao Qiu still had something to say, so he waved his hands like mud, "Stop talking, let's do this first."

Gao Qiu was so angry that he went home and scolded Tong Guan for being a despicable person.

Gao Qiu believed that he did not wrong the dead eunuch, and he would definitely select the best soldiers of the imperial army to fight against Huarong's recruits.

In case of losing, he estimated that there would be [-] words of slander waiting.

After scolding for a while, Gao Qiu saw that his son didn't respond, so he couldn't help being curious, "Why aren't you angry?"

Could it be that the relationship with Hua Rong has faded?Don't worry about him?

"There's nothing to be angry about, as long as Hua Rong's recruits don't lose."

"So confident?"

"Well, I've never trusted him unconditionally."

Gao Qiu's sorrow came from this, and it turned out that his son's self-confidence came from his love for Hua Rong, and there was no objective reference value.

He sighed a long time, hoping that the imperial guards selected by Tong Guan that day would all have diarrhea.

The fact is that Tong Guan considered that Huarong was originally the commander of the Shenwu Army among the four elite forbidden troops, so he directly skipped this forbidden army, selected 400 people from the better Japanese army, and allocated the best soldiers before the battle. Diet, tell them to recharge their energy and store up energy, just wait for the day of the confrontation to start the war.

On the day of the review, the autumn wind was blowing across the fallen leaves, and everyone stood in front of the Martial Arts Hall, waiting for the review of the recruits.

As the commander-in-chief, Hua Rong personally commanded, and at the beginning it was a normal gun and stick drill.

Seeing that these recruits were steady and full of energy, Gao Qiu couldn't help but feel overjoyed, not bad, at least it can be seen that the effort was not wasted.

Seeing the smile on Gao Qiu's mouth, Tong Guan couldn't help snorting in his heart, it's too early to be happy, a good soldier is a good soldier, and it's nothing to be able to make gestures.

When the routine gun stick practice performance was over, Tong Guan said: "It's time to show your true skills. General Hua still remembers the original promise. Today there are four hundred Japanese sergeants here. Let's learn from each other and work together. Diligent. I don’t know if General Hua can agree.”

"Of course, it would be great if they could be taught a thing or two by the brothers who praised the Japanese army."

Tong Guan knew that under the watchful eyes of everyone, Hua Rong had to agree even if he disagreed, so he waved his hand, "Let's start." He ordered the commander he brought, "Let's arrange it." He smiled warmly at Hua Rong: " I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle it, so I only brought 400 people here.”

Hearing this, Gao Ming sneered in his heart, and exchanged glances with Hua Rong.

They both saw through Tong Guan's plan, and asked four hundred Japanese soldiers to fight against Huarong's recruits. Even if they won, it could be explained that there were fewer people.If you win, it is a model of winning more with less, which is used to illustrate how vulnerable the recruits trained are.

Hua Rong immediately said: "We have 500 people here, since that's the case, then we should also transfer 100 people, this is only fair."

Tong Guan was a little dissatisfied, "You don't need to be like this, you are recruits, and the opponent is an elite who is admiring the sun. It is right to let a hundred of you."

Gao Ming held his sleeves and said nothing, he snorted coldly in his heart, but if he said it, who would care how many people there are on both sides?It can only be said that holding the sun wins more with less, or that recruits can't win with force.

He didn't speak out because he believed that Hua Rong would not fall into the trap. Sure enough, Hua Rong insisted: "Fairness is more important."

Gao Qiu didn't wait for Tong Guan to make a decision, and said directly: "Hua Rong, as you said, 100 people were transferred away, and you also entered the field with 400 people."

Zhao Kai also nodded in agreement, Huarong had the consent of King Yun and the Taiwei, so he no longer cared about Tong Guan's attitude and went straight down.

Tong Guan shook his head and sighed, looking as if he had been wronged, "I did it for his own good."

No one paid attention to him around, Cai Jing also folded his hands and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was scheming or dozing off.

Soon, the two sides lined up to play, and the contrast was obvious.

Because the soldiers holding the sun are taller, the Forbidden Army has strict height restrictions. It is generally believed that the taller the better, and those who do not meet the standard cannot enter the Four Forbidden Army.

Gao Qiu, whose heart was toward Huarong, frowned.

Zhao Kai didn't say a word, he thought to himself, I hope what Gao Ming said is true, and it's enough that he doesn't lose too badly, he doesn't ask much.

Gao Ming looked ahead calmly.

Tong Guan stroked his beard, eyes full of anticipation.

"Array!" The generals of all parties gave an order, and the soldiers took their positions.

At this time, Hua Rong walked up to the trained soldiers, pointed at the Japanese army opposite him and said: "You have been training for so long, and today is the time for your results. You are only facing the army of Song Dynasty. If you even beat them Invincible, how will we go to the battlefield to deal with real enemies in the future? Why can they enter the ranks? It’s just that they are tall. Other than this, who is better than you? Let them know who is the real soldier today! Who is just a fake? Your generation! After today's battle, you are the real elite!"

He saw unwillingness and faint excitement in everyone's eyes.

Huarong is very satisfied, I heard that this is what he should look like when he goes to the battlefield!No one is timid! "Go to war!"

Everyone in front of the Martial Arts Hall held their breath, staring intently at what happened before them.

Soldiers on both sides looked at the commander-in-chief flag, adjusted and changed their formation according to the change of the commander-in-chief flag, and soon fought hand-to-hand. Although the exercise did not use real spears, only sticks were used instead, the intensity was not as intense as a real battle.

The Japanese soldiers thought that they were here to beat up low-ranking soldiers. They were full of food and drink, geared up, and stretched their muscles and bones to show their skills.

But unexpectedly encountered fierce confrontation, beyond expectation, what I saw in the eyes of the other party was not perfunctory, nor was it the resentment that forced me to move forward because I was afraid of being punished, but a kind of ruthlessness that emerged from the bottom of my heart. energy.

The soldiers holding the sun looked at the group of "desperadoes" in front of them, and thought to themselves, are they so serious, they were just ordered to resist, and we didn't kill your parents, so why are they so vicious? !

After so many days of teaching, the recruits under Huarong's command have long known that the Liao and Jin countries outside are looking at each other, and the country's survival is at stake, and they are waiting for them to defend, and the sun is lying in front of them. Obstacles, you must cross them!

Get rid of the Japanese army!

And they soon discovered that going to the Forbidden Army was not that great, they were not doing well, and the other party was out of breath, and seemed to be exhausted.

So I became more confident, and the thought in my mind changed from killing the Japanese army to definitely destroying them!

The state of the Japanese army is not very good. A direct feeling is that this group of recruits is too ruthless. They don't care whether they live or die. If they are caught, they will be beaten!Not afraid of attack at all!

Involuntarily backed away.

Then they discovered that not only was their vigor frustrated, but they also seemed to be inferior to the opponent in terms of physical fitness and weapon control. When they hit the opponent, the opponent was fine, but when the opponent hit them, the weapon fell to the ground in pain.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army found that because of fear of battle, the team began to lose shape. Obviously, some people could not resist and began to flee.

"Hold on! Don't retreat!" he yelled, but to no avail. In a blink of an eye, the team fell apart and the soldiers fled in all directions.

Gao Ming in front of the Martial Arts Hall took his hands out of his sleeves, stroked his palms and said loudly: "Okay! The hard training for many days is not in vain!"

The rest of the people didn't make a sound, and they still haven't recovered from the shock.

Cai Jingdu, who dozed off about the marriage just now, opened his eyes and stared blankly.

Gao Qiu came back to his senses first, he didn't say anything unnecessary, and patted his son's shoulder heavily excitedly.

Zhao Kai's expression changed from shock to surprise. Although he didn't speak, he clenched his fists with joy.

Tong Guan closed his eyes hard and then opened them again, to make sure that he was not dazzled, the one who was beaten and fled was indeed the Japanese army, right?

what happened?Why can't even beat the lowest forbidden army?

The reason... what reason?

With it, he must have underestimated the enemy!

He thought the opponent was a low-ranking soldier, so he didn't take it seriously!The proud soldier must be defeated!

Tong Guan thought bitterly.

Looking at his expression, Gao Ming could probably guess what Tong Guan was thinking.

But he wanted to tell him that he was wrong, and the fundamental reason for the failure of Pengri was lack of strength.

If these forbidden troops are really good, they will not be defeated by the Liao army and the Jin army.

Is the load really enough for the daily training conducted by the Japanese army?Is there any training on physical endurance and coordination?

Rigid, rigid!

Moreover, if the will is not firm enough, if you fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will lose and flee.

The prevailing thinking in the entire forbidden army is to use money to fight, and there is no psychological burden when escaping. At worst, I won’t earn your money.

Insufficient physical training, coupled with insufficient ideological armament.

Gao Ming felt that it was no surprise that Hua Rong's soldiers won.

But others didn't think so, and for them the situation was completely unexpected.

Especially for Zhao Kai, his expectation at the beginning was just not to lose so ugly.

Now, I can't help not losing, but winning beautifully.

He didn't know how to express his joy, "Rewards, there are many rewards!"

The soldiers who had won were excited, and when they heard that King Yun had rewarded them, the audience cheered.

Gao Ming and Hua Rong looked at each other from a distance across the crowd, with smiles on the corners of their mouths.

Both are proud of each other.

Zhao Kai was so happy, he walked down the steps of the Martial Arts Hall and came to the school grounds to express condolences to Hua Rong and the soldiers.

Seeing him walking among the soldiers, the others naturally followed.

Seeing the commander-in-chief holding the sun, Tong Guan hated iron for being weak and said angrily: "You don't stay away, don't get in the way of His Royal Highness King Yun!"

You lose all your face.

Zhao Kai said: "You don't have to go, come here together and listen to General Hua's method of training troops."

Since the inferior soldiers can be trained like this, then the already excellent Pengri can achieve better results.

Gao Ming whispered next to Zhao Kai: "Your Highness, this method of training soldiers is very complicated, it cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences."

Zhao Kai said with a smile: "Well, that book must be listened to carefully! When you tell it later, the more detailed the better."

At this time, all the soldiers in the field looked at them, especially King Yun, who was extremely dignified. He came down to meet them, and both the victor and the loser looked at him expectantly.

Gao Ming felt that this was an excellent opportunity, so he said to Zhao Kai: "Your Highness, please say a few words to everyone."

An excellent time to win over soldiers.

Zhao Kai also realized it, and encouraged him: "You are all good men of the Song Dynasty! I hope you will work harder and serve the country faithfully!"

For a while, the atmosphere was extremely enthusiastic.

Zhao Kai came to inspect and gave a speech, and he undoubtedly had a good impression on the soldiers. Although there were not many people, it was a good start.

In fact, Gao Ming really hoped that the superiors would come down more often to inspect and connect with the soldiers more, hiding in the deep palace and being mysterious, the soldiers could not see anyone, and all they heard were the emperor's lace and gossip. How could the emperor have imperial power? at all?

Who is willing to sacrifice their lives for such a person?That's right, it was Zhao Ji.

But Zhao Kai is different, he doesn't have Zhao Ji's dirty stuff about him, except that he is not the eldest son, he has no shortcomings, he is very suitable to create a brand new image of Mingjun.

However, it's too early to mention this now, although his father intends to pass the throne to him, he is not even the crown prince at present.

After Zhao Kai inspected the soldiers, he told them to retreat.

Call Cai Jingtong and they all left first, and he returned to the Martial Arts Hall with Hua Rong and Gao Ming to discuss the situation of today's inspection, and said to Hua Rong: "What is the method of training your army?"

Hua Rong took out a booklet from his sleeve and held it with both hands, "Part of it is here."

It is the reader written by Li Gang.

Zhao Kai took it, flipped through it first, and found that it was not a method of arranging troops, but more like a textbook for people to understand, "This is..."

"Let the soldiers know why and for whom they are fighting." Gao Ming explained from the side, and told the ins and outs of the compilation.

Zhao Kai suddenly became enlightened, "So that's how it is, strong soldiers first strengthen the heart! The opening sentence is too good, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world."

Noble sentiment should not only be possessed by scholar-bureaucrats, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.

Gao Ming followed Zhao Kai's words and said: "Although that is the case, it is as if everyone is on a big ship. Everyone should worry about the safety of the big ship, but the most important thing is the captain. The captain is to lead the ship to a place full of treasures. The island, or the ship that hit the rocks and sunk? The choice of the captain is really critical."

After Zhao Kai heard it, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, he wanted to be the crown prince, he already knew about it, and for Gao Ming and Hua Rong, there was no need to hide it.

He calmly said: "... But the prince is not at fault... and there is no rush, wait for the opportunity."

Zhao Kai didn't know what would happen in the future, so of course he wasn't in a hurry, but Gao Ming was in a hurry, how could he have so much time to take care of things slowly?

Alas, you can really hold your breath, look at the level of struggle in the Tang Dynasty, and then look at you.

The prince shrank in the prince's mansion to raise goldfish. If you don't cause trouble, you really have nothing to do with him.

"Now the world is in turmoil. The Liao Kingdom is at the end of its strength, and the Jin Kingdom is eyeing it. Your Highness should make a decision." Gao Ming said: "For the most noble purpose, what about using the most despicable means? Besides, there is nothing wrong with saving the world while hurting one person. "

Besides, the emperor's family shouldn't use general morals to judge, the prince can keep his position because of his ability, and don't complain when he is killed.

The royal family is always fighting for power and profit, and now the prince is disliked by the emperor, and his ability is mediocre and has not been abolished. It can only be said that one is the special cultural environment of the Song Dynasty, and the other is that Zhao Ji and Zhao Kai are not cruel enough.

Zhao Kai naturally had his own concerns, "But..."

"Afraid that your blemish will be recorded in the history books, and you will be reviled by future generations?"

Zhao Kai was silent, ordinary people have to take their reputation into account when doing things, let alone the royal family.

Gao Ming shook his head, "Your Highness, you don't have to think about it so much. You know, history books are written by scholars. As long as you don't offend scholars, who cares if you seize the heir? Emperor Qin has been scolded for thousands of years. Isn't it not enough to be talented? Isn't it burning?" Books cheat Confucianism, and being hated by those who master the pen, there are naturally no good words in the history books. If His Highness can ascend to the Great Treasure in the future, he only needs to pretend to be modest and accept advice, and find a famous and elegant Confucian. You, don't get angry, but praise him, saying that he is your own Wei Zheng. But in fact, you don't listen to a word he said, just do what you have to do, and the historical evaluation will definitely not be bad. Besides, His Highness will eventually If you make a difference, don’t you worry about not being famous in history?”

Even Da Song, because of his kindness to scholars, raised a lot of points in the evaluation of later generations.

The emperor's evaluation is basically against the ministers and scholars, and few have good comments.

Many of the wimpy emperors who were manipulated by the ministers were praised, but instead made a difference, and those who touched the cheese of civil servants and scholars were discredited in various ways.

No one in the common people cares about whether the royal family seizes the throne or not, and the scholars actually don't care either. Essentially, they all care about their own interests.

As long as you are a wise king, you can meet the survival needs of the common people, and then act as if you respect scholars, listen to their voices, accept advice humbly, satisfy their psychological needs, please them, and worry about the emperor's career not being well received?

Zhao Kai was obviously moved, he stared straight at Gao Ming, only felt that what he said made sense, but he was speechless.

Gao Ming's remarks, Hua Rong was also extremely surprised when he heard the remarks. They all said that the old fox was well versed in the way of officialdom, so the yamen of his family can be called a fox that has become a master.