Wu Ju originated in the Tang Dynasty and was founded by Wu Zetian, the ancestor of Wu Haogu. At the beginning, it mainly tested martial arts, using long-legged (referring to long-range shooting of step bows), horse shooting, and horse rifles as the examination content to select military talents.

However, during the Tang Dynasty, there was no system for military scholars. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the military scholars and the literary scholars began to be listed as a means of national recruitment.

The origin of martial arts was the Song Dynasty, which emphasized literature and neglected military affairs. At the third year of Qingli, the Northern Song Dynasty established martial arts at the King of Wucheng Temple. However, because no one was willing to enroll as a martial arts student, three months after the first opening of martial arts, Fan Zhongyan, the then-sponsored political affairs, and Fan Zhongyan's idea was quite strange. No one was willing to read it, so he could find someone to read it. Why should he abolish it?

In March of the fifth year of Xining, Shenzong, after the reform of Wang Anshi, martial arts was opened again, and further regulations were made: no low-ranking envoys in Beijing, children of the family, and civilians were admitted after being recommended by Beijing officials and assessed; local officials were recommended by martial arts scholars to be admitted without examination. The quota for martial arts students was limited to 200. In addition, the same method of sacrificing the same as that of the Imperial Academy was adopted in martial arts, including thirty people, seventy people in the inner, and one hundred people in the outer.

The lessons taught in martial arts are martial arts and strategies. Martial arts are mainly step shooting and horse shooting, and strategies come from the great meaning of military books such as Tao, Luan, Sun, Wu, and Sima.

In martial arts, if you sacrifice your students, you can directly be given an official position, and if you sacrifice your students, you can be exempted from the Martial Arts Examination. The treatment is similar to that of the Tai students.

Such a martial arts look a bit like a modern and modern military academy. Martial arts seem to be a good way to select civilian military talents.

However, something went wrong. The martial arts of the Song Dynasty did not cultivate any outstanding military talents. There were even no military officers from martial arts students who were sent to serve in the imperial guards who were actually fighting. Most of them were sent to catch thieves, collect taxes, and manage the situation. The situation of the martial arts in the Song Dynasty was similar, and it basically had nothing to do with leading troops to fight.

"Mr. Murong," Zhang Dun smiled bitterly, "You don't know that the martial arts and martial arts in our dynasty have nothing to do with leading troops to fight. Martial students and martial Jinshi... are not good at fighting, so they cannot be allowed to be the team leader."

In a military academy, students trained by them did not fight or work in the army. In the later words of Gu Yanwu, it was "the Jingkang Incident, and there were no ones who did not know that there were any anti-aggressive people in martial arts." This also shows that the efficiency of the civil government of the Song Dynasty was inefficient.

But Wu Haogu still has a way!

It doesn’t matter if martial arts cannot teach people to fight. People who are already able to fight can learn martial arts... This teacher cannot teach students, so let students teach the teacher!

Find some young officers who have fought wars to gild the martial arts, and let them learn some culture by the way. They also let the martial arts teachers learn some practical methods of leading troops to fight wars from them. "Tao", "Let's", "Sun", "Wu", and "Sima" are all about military talks on paper, not practical military exercises, and they cannot command a team of big-headed soldiers after learning them.

Therefore, the martial arts students of the Song Dynasty did not have the knowledge of actually leading troops, so it was impossible for them to serve in the imperial guards. To solve this problem, we must let martial arts learn from the "students".

"Mr.," said the old man Murong, "It is easy to make it difficult for martial arts students to fight. Let young and strong military officials of the Western Army who are already able to fight into martial arts... Isn't this a war? Isn't there any bottom-locking test in the Song Dynasty? Can't people who are already able to become officials take the Jinshi exam? Those who have become officials can take the Jinshi exam, so why can't those who have led troops to fight into martial arts? This martial arts is ultimately a background!"

Ah? That's OK?

Zhang Dun now admires Military Advisor Murong a little now. This military advisor really has some tricks!

"But... where can I find 500 students who can be the team?" Zhang Dun asked afterwards.

"Western Army!" said Old Man Murong, "Shaanxi, six or seventy people are selected along the way, and there will be a 500-500 number? After the five hundred people are prepared, we will teach them the text while using it to explore the military strategy of each team."

"A team and one piece of military strategy?"

Murong Wangyou smiled and said, "How to recruit, select, train, and eliminate a team of soldiers; how to pass on orders; how to move soldiers and horses; how to match armor, archers and cavalry; how to build camps; how to carry food and supplies; how to drive civilians; how to destroy cavalry; how to fight infantry; how to coordinate infantry; how to treat and provide care and care for casualties; how to implement military laws; how to select armor, bows and crossbows, and how to build and raise military horses... and so on, they should form a pattern that can be followed. This is the military tactic of each team, which can also be called military rituals."

In fact, this is also Wu Haogu's idea. Although he has never been to a military academy, he also knows that modern and modern military forces pay attention to "standardization". Officers of the same military branch are trained with basically the same textbooks. Similarly, the organization and equipment of the same combat units are basically the same as the training received by soldiers.

Only in this way can officers quickly rotate among different troops without the problem of "the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers".

This kind of "standardization" is not contradictory to the "small contract" of the army. Officers who graduated from military academy can also engage in some soldiers for the generals. This situation has also occurred in Western armies in history.

However, it was not easy for Wu Haogu to introduce this "standardization" into the Song Dynasty, because he didn't know how to organize and command a team or a unit.

Of course, Lin Wancheng and Zhong Ge'er both have the experience of leading troops and can teach Wu Haogu some things. But what they two know may not be suitable for the current Song Dynasty. Therefore, Wu Haogu hopes to gather the wisdom of everyone and create a set of the most scientific and effective military organization and training methods.

With this method, and to cultivate a group of Six Arts Confucian scholars who have clans to rely on, if Jingkang Tianqing is inevitable, Wu Haogu will also have the possibility of organizing an army to serve the king.

"Okay!" Zhang Dun strode his hands and shouted, "Mr. Murong's plan is indeed no less than Zhang Zifang of the Han Dynasty!"

Murong Wangyou shook the feather fan and nodded in great interest, but thought to himself: Wu Dalang should be no less than Zhang Zifang! I really didn't expect that there would be such a person in the Song Dynasty... and he is lucky than himself, and he has no time to give birth to the wrong time!

The world seems to be peaceful now, but in fact it is a chaos. Although the Liao Dynasty in the north is dead, the Song Dynasty in the south may not have a good end. After all, Zhang Dun and Zhang are old and cannot bear the rise and fall of the world.

Fortunately, there were finally people like Wu Haogu in the Southern Dynasty...

Murong Wangyou took back his thoughts and continued to give Zhang Dun advice. He said: "The Khitans have always had three confidants, such as Bubu, Nu Zhi and Bohai. Now Bubu has been in chaos. Bohai has been involved in trouble again and again, while Wu Zhi is ambitious with Wanyan's tribe... Just wait for Wanyan's tribe to give birth to a daughter, it will be in chaos. I think this day of chaos will be five years soon, and it will be ten years later.

If the Song Dynasty could train 50,000 elite troops, build Jiehe Shangshi, and finally recruit hundreds of children of Han people from northern China, like this brother Zhao Zhong, then great things would be accomplished."

As he spoke, Murong Wangyou pointed at Brother Zhao Zhong behind him with a feather fan and said with a smile: "If the Song Dynasty can use them, 20,000 to 30,000 elite soldiers are within their reach."

Zhang Dun glanced at Brother Zhao Zhong and looked like he was indeed a hero! If such a hero was loyal to the Khitan, it would be a disaster to the Song Dynasty. If he could win over the Song Dynasty, it would be worth it to support him.

"How to form two or three thousand elites?" Zhang Dun asked, "Will they also be the team general?"

"There are so many ways." Murong Wangyou smiled, "The so-called Yanyun clan is actually the clan of the Yajian clan of the former Youzhou vassal state. Only the Han clan of Yutian is slightly different, and is a slave of the Khitans. The so-called clan of the clan is just talking to oneself. This clan of the generals and soldiers is the best at training warriors, and is no less than the Zhe clan of the Fuzhou Zhe family.

However, the Liao Kingdom has been generally peaceful for many years. Many of these aristocratic warriors were not allowed to be used, and many of them were not successful. The Song Dynasty was able to recruit them. In the future, when the Liao Dynasty was in chaos, they could be granted official positions and money, or they could be asked to recruit soldiers in Jiehe Shang City, or sent to the governors of the prefectures and army to lead troops to the Song Dynasty. This would be effective in attacking Liao with Liao!"

This idea was not come up with Wu Haogu, but Murong Wangyou's idea was from the Murong family. The way of "using his way to do it" was passed down from his family!

Zhang Dun asked: "Why do you need to recruit soldiers in Jiehe Commercial Market?"

He was obviously very interested in the method of "using his own way, he would give his own way."

"This way, you can recruit strong men from the Liao Kingdom!" Murong Wangyou smiled, "The Liao people are poor, and the southern people are rich. Only by recruiting poor people to join the army can you not be afraid of death."

"Can you recruit tens of thousands of people?"

"How can't it be?" Murong Wangyou smiled, "As long as Jiehe Market can rise up and become a place where population, wealth, goods and ships gather, will tens of thousands of soldiers be obtained at any time?"

After hearing what Murong Wangyou said, Wu Haogu's face changed a little.

A market has money, officers, supplies, ships, and can also pull out tens of thousands of war soldiers at any time... What is this bourgeois city-state republic that is not like a flood? Can Zhang Dun, a traitor, tolerate such a market?

However, Zhang Dun seemed to have not thought of this, and just nodded repeatedly: "Okay, very good... but this market is probably not easy to build!"

"How could it be difficult?"

Zhang Dun frowned and said, "Sir, I don't know that building a large-scale project along the Jiehe River is not something that our dynasty can decide."

"Oh," Murong Wangyou smiled, "I know that there is an agreement in "The Alliance of Chanyuan". Without the other party's consent, a city building site can be built on the border.
Chapter completed!