At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The staff desk was well protected and was not affected, so the progress of the army was quite smooth, the dispatch of the Ministry of War was also very smooth, and the progress of Zhang Liao, Zhu Ling and Le Jin was also quite smooth.

However, compared with Jingzhou and Yangzhou, the situation in Yizhou is obviously more complicated.

After the army conquered Yizhou, the central army retreated. The number of Guo Peng's troops left in Yizhou plus the newly recruited troops in Yizhou totaled [-].

However, in the face of a more complicated situation, these forces are a bit difficult.

The first is the counties and states.

Then there are the people in the land of Sanba.

There are also the four counties of Nanzhong.

The three aspects of things need to be full of love and joy, and they are very complicated.

In addition, Manchong still had to deal with daily government affairs, and Lejin also needed to eliminate some local bandits who took advantage of the chaos, so for a while, Yizhou seemed particularly chaotic.

At this time, Manchong showed a strong ability to organize and dispatch.

First of all, Man Chong conveyed Guo Peng's order to Le Jin, asking him to assist him in annihilating the counties of Yizhou, destroying the aliens belonging to the country, and cutting off the threat in this regard, but these aliens have not taken the initiative to attack , so leave it alone for now.

The first priority is to put down the thieves and bandits who are making troubles in Yizhou.

These thieves are the confidants of the Yizhou government of the Wei Empire, which has just established itself. Eliminating them will make the people of Yizhou believe in the governing ability of the Wei Empire, and will not doubt whether the Wei Empire can control Yizhou well. This is also a temptation.

"The most important thing right now is to quell the banditry, let the people of Yizhou see my Wei's dominance, let them see that my Wei is unparalleled in all aspects, so that they will be convinced and dare not continue to make trouble, otherwise it will be hard to say This kind of banditry will not shake our Wei foundation in Shu."

Man Chong convened Guo Jia, Le Jin, Guan Yu and other leading figures at the military level, and explained to them the future strategic plan arranged by Guo Peng.

"Well, that's right, everything else can be postponed a little bit, but the crusade against the bandits and the quelling of the chaos is the top priority, and that's what I suggest. I suggest that we immediately disperse our troops to various places to eliminate the bandits, so that the people in central Sichuan can see me Wei Ping's ability and determination to settle Shuzhong."

Guo Jia nodded in agreement, and said again: "Master Man, the army is fighting ahead, you must provide enough food and fodder for the army, the logistics of the army depends on you."

Guo Jia is responsible for making suggestions and judging the enemy's situation. Staying in Yizhou has a symbolic meaning, not for other things. Whether Yizhou can continue to operate depends mainly on Man Chong.

But as far as Guo Jia's understanding of Man Chong is concerned, there is no problem.

Man Chong is a very reliable person, and Man Chong's wife is very close to Guo Jia, so the relationship between Man Chong and Guo Jia has always been very good.

Even if Man Chong had no contact with the military system before, through Guo Jia, he can get along with the generals in peace.

Guo Peng has considered everything for Man Chong, so it's time for Man Chong to play specific matters.

Man Chong did really well.

One month after entering Shu, Man Chong got the list of all the officials in Yizhou, and got to know the background. Then, especially for Chengdu, he began to arrange for officials to prepare for the delivery of grain and fodder for the army to suppress bandits.

Le Jin assigned tasks to his subordinates and generals, and led the troops to various places to take charge of suppressing the bandits. It was expected that the banditry in various places in central Sichuan would be completely quelled within two months, and they would regroup.

In the second stage, attack the counties and countries to destroy those disobedient time bombs.

The military operations in Yizhou are in full swing.

The Jiangnan frontier war was in full swing, and at the same time, Guo Peng started something again in the capital.

He wants to run a military academy.

A few days after the implementation of the business tax increase, when all departments were still busy, Guo Peng issued another imperial decree.

Because of the need to continue to strengthen and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, he wanted to build a military academy near Luoyang.

Whether it is an officer of the staff desk or an officer of the army, this military academy can train all kinds of military knowledge and major books on the art of war as teaching materials to train military talents.

Guo Peng named the military academy the Lecture Hall and decided to build it near Shouyang Mountain in the northeast of Luoyang City, so the military academy was also called the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

The students of the Martial Arts Hall are selected from the army. Outstanding grassroots officers in the army, as well as hard-working soldiers who have made great military exploits, can be selected to enter the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall for further studies.

Learn the art of war, learn the skills and knowledge of leading troops, learn astronomy and geography, and strengthen yourself from various levels.

After graduating from the lecture hall, you can choose to enter the staff desk as a staff officer, or return to the army as an officer, and you will basically be promoted.

Officers are promoted, and soldiers can become officers.

Continuously improving the quality of army commanders in this way will indirectly improve the overall quality of the army, and enhance the fighting ability and continuous fighting ability of the Wei army.

In the edict, Guo Peng described his future plans for the martial arts hall.

For example, how many pavilions, how many barracks, how many walls and practice grounds.

Then he ordered the Ministry of Industry to come up with a charter for the construction of the military academy, and ordered the staff desk to convey the matter to the battalions, the garrison soldiers in various places, and the soldiers who were fighting.

He wanted the army to know it quickly, and soon the staff desk, the Ministry of War, and the supreme commander of the army would jointly select outstanding military talents suitable for entering the lecture hall for learning.

Guo Peng announced that the enrollment would be 500, and that [-] of the best grassroots officers and soldiers would be selected from various armies to enter the lecture hall for further study.

Select excellent staff officers from the staff desk to teach the principles of the art of war books to the officers, and also impart a series of military-related knowledge such as marching, camping, astronomy, geography, etc., so that they can further study military affairs, understand the military, and enhance their comprehensive command capabilities. .

If necessary, famous generals with extensive military exploits will also be invited into the lecture hall to impart knowledge to these young juniors, allowing them to receive the knowledge of top generals.

The news passed through the cabinet to the staff desk and the minister's desk, which immediately aroused considerable heated discussions.

One wave has just calmed down, and another wave rises again.

Obviously, the political turmoil caused by the business tax increase has just passed, and the emperor is going to make trouble again before it settles down for a few days.

And it's unprecedented.

The bureaucrats really don't know why there are so many strange ideas in the emperor's head, all kinds of strange things, so that they don't know how to deal with it.

It doesn't matter whether it is building roads or raising business taxes, what kind of lecture hall is going to be set up now...

Specialize in training military personnel?

Let the big soldiers also learn the art of war?

Break with tradition?

The officials were dazzled by Guo Peng's manipulative show.

Chapter 923 .930 Three Dong Zhao, are you blind?

To be precise, the inheritance of the art of war is more difficult and more sensitive than the inheritance of grammar.

It is very normal to suppress martial arts and cultivate literature during the country's peaceful days. It is completely unimaginable for civilian officials to conduct military education on a large scale.

Even from the perspective of military officers, this is a bit unbelievable.

The inheritance of the Art of War is not like the inheritance of Confucianism. Up to now, these knowledges have a very clear way of inheritance. There are schools and teachers, as well as their own private schools, which are blooming everywhere.

But military science is difficult.

This thing does not have the teaching scale of Confucianism, and the education inheritance lags behind Confucianism in an all-round way. Either it is a family tradition, which produces generals or the like, or it is a natural genius who is lucky and hits the big era.

And generally speaking, who needs military talent in peacetime?

If the country is established immediately, can it be possible to govern the country immediately?

This was the sentence that the Confucian scholars persuaded Liu Bang, and Liu Bang could not refute it.

It is precisely the so-called Taiping that is originally set by the general, and the general is not allowed to see Taiping and the like.

It means that if the country is peaceful, there will be no need for generals, and it will be all right for the literati.

But is the army the kind that can be abandoned for a while and then immediately restore its super combat effectiveness in situ as soon as it is needed?

Without year-round investment and careful maintenance, once a battle is defeated and a large number of veterans die in battle, the combat effectiveness of the army will soon decline.

In this way, once a war occurs, the army will not be able to deal with it, and the country will inevitably suffer a great crisis.

The combat effectiveness of the feudal army was weakened in 30 to [-] years, and it was difficult to maintain. After the founding army got old or died in battle, the recruits could not keep up with that combat effectiveness.

Guo Peng also thought that if he didn't make any changes, after his death, in only two or thirty years, the Wei army would lose its once incomparably powerful combat effectiveness and begin to decline.

It is not that no one has considered this issue in ancient times, and some people have thought about running a military academy.

The first person to implement it was Fu Jian, the former Qin emperor. He ordered the establishment of a military academy called Jiaowutang, so that those who are familiar with the art of war can teach the knowledge of the art of war to the generals of the army.

Later, people objected, saying that this was not good, and Fu Jian did not insist on it later, and the military academy naturally did not go on. This is the earliest record about military academies.

Later on, in the Northern Song Dynasty, military academies called martial arts appeared during Wang Anshi's reform period, but according to the strong tradition of the Northern Song Dynasty, which emphasized literature over military affairs, they did not do much, so they were closed.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the need to counter the threat from the north, martial arts began to appear on a large scale, and the government began to take the initiative to cultivate outstanding military talents instead of letting them fend for themselves.

Until the Song Dynasty, the governments of all dynasties did not take the initiative to set up military academies to train military talents.

In Guo's opinion, this is extremely wrong.

Military talents rely entirely on inheritance and not actively cultivated, all rely on innate talent, and if they are not actively discovered, the army will be defeated sooner or later.

Everyone can think of which one is more likely to produce real military talents, whether a general family whose surname is inherited by blood or a military academy that recruits students on a large scale.

And more importantly, the army cannot be supported by a single military talent. The army is a large organization, organized by thousands of grassroots officers and a larger number of soldiers.

A peerless general is important, but can a peerless general lead an army?

Qi Jiguang was brave enough, and he repeatedly took the lead in the charge on the anti-Japanese battlefield, making great achievements in battle.

But what is very funny is that the army he led the first time abandoned him when he took the lead in charging to attack the Japanese pirates, and almost let Qi Jiguang go to give away the head alone.

The general took the lead in charging, and all the soldiers ran back.

How funny?

A completely rotten army, even if Sun Wu is reborn, he will not be able to bring it up.

You can't see it in normal training, but it will be revealed when you go to the battlefield.

Qi Jiguang learned from the pain and summed up a set of methods for selecting soldiers and training soldiers. He realized that the selection of soldiers is also extremely important, so there is a story about Qi Jiguang going to Yiwu to recruit soldiers to establish the Qi family army that became famous all over the world.

Peerless generals are important, but a steady stream of grassroots officers with qualified military literacy is even more important.

You don't need to be amazing to be stunning, as long as you have professionalism and follow orders resolutely, that's enough.

This is the original intention of someone Guo to establish a military academy.

However, not many people can understand his thoughts.

He has the insight that no one else has.

Few people think ahead of possible future crises.

Therefore, they are not optimistic about the sustainable development of military talents. They think that it is enough to have one or two generals in the army, and they can just make small troubles by themselves.

To establish a military academy?

What a joke!

Opposition immediately erupted.

Many people are opposed to the establishment of lecture halls, saying that doing so is a way of causing chaos, that the army cannot do this, and that control should be strengthened.

But obviously, the emperor didn't intend to discuss with anyone, and directly ordered the court to start preparations.

Some courtiers had all kinds of worries, so they sent a table to Guo Peng and advised Guo Peng, trying to prevent this from happening.

Dong Zhao, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, took the lead in expressing his admonition.

"Your Majesty's expeditions from the east to the west are invincible, and all the land of the world is in your hands. At this time, it is time to stop military affairs and improve culture and virtue. At this time, it is not the right time to establish a martial arts hall to teach the soldiers the skills of fighting. A sign of peace and prosperity.

Moreover, all the armies have survived hundreds of battles, how can there be anyone who does not know the art of battle formation?Let some staff officers and scholars teach them the art of war, is there such a reason in the world?I am afraid that such a thing is not beneficial to the country. I ask your Majesty to think twice, and please take pity on the strength of the people. "

After Guo Peng saw Dong Zhao's melody, he shook his head again and again, very unhappy.

"The peaceful and prosperous age has not yet arrived, so we are in a hurry to whitewash the peace? Is Yanwu Xiuwen the sign of a prosperous age? The foreigners in Liaodong have not yet settled down, the development of the south of the Yangtze River has not been completed, the Western Regions have not yet been opened up, and the threat of the Xianbei people has not yet been completely resolved.

With so many things unfinished, where are their eyes looking?Can't see the country's worries, can't see the hidden dangers in the future, just look at the petty profits in front of you, is this what a person who is a minister can say? "

Then Guo Peng immediately wrote a hand order for the eunuch of Duzhijian to send to the Ministry of War to reprimand Dong Zhao.

"I read books, and I heard that when you enter, you will be unable to protect your family, and if you leave, you will be invincible against foreign patients, and the country will perish. Then you know that people are born in sorrow and die in peace. Don't you see that Liaodong has not yet been settled, Jiangnan has not yet been settled, the Western Regions have not been connected, and Xianbei has not yet perished? How can there be peace? How can there be peace!"

As soon as such a warrant was sent to the Ministry of War, Dong Zhao's side died down.

He knew that the emperor's will was unshakable, so he took out the chapters of Mencius to refute him and tell him to shut up.

Can't you see internal and external troubles?

Can't you see the country's difficulties?

Peace and prosperity?

You tell me where is the peace and prosperity?