The next morning, after breakfast, Du Zhongxiao and Di Qing and others met in the official hall.

After the lecture, Du Zhongxiao said, "You have stayed in the military city for a night and have a good sleep. Are you used to it?"

Wang Gongchen said: "Everything is good, but the bed is too hard. I asked the guards and said it was a earthen kang, made of soil as bricks, rather than the common wooden beds in the Central Plains. The court had a lot of money and food through Hequ Road, so there was no need to be so frugal."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Nehan doesn't know that in the extreme north of Hequ Road, the winter is long and cold, and it is not suitable for beds. The biggest advantage of the earthen kang is that it can burn fire below, which is extremely warm and saves charcoal. If you don't sleep on the earthen kang and sleep on the bed, you can't stay here in winter."

Wang Gongchen bowed: "So that's the case, I'm misunderstanding. I heard that there are many coals in Shengzhou, so I want to make it easier to burn the earthen kang."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Yes, Shengzhou is full of coal. It's just that there are few people here, so you don't need to dig it out. Nowadays, coal is used for trains and steam engines, so it's natural that it's different. However, Hedong Road in the south also produces coal, otherwise it can be sold for a lot of money by relying on the coal in the ground."

This is a helpless place. The richest mineral on Hequ Road is the coal mine. However, to be transported to the Central Plains, you need to pass through Hedong Road in the south, which is the sea of ​​coal in later generations, and this business is difficult to start. When Datong, which was famous for coal, now the Khitans lacks good coal.

After talking for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to Di Qing: "Taiwei, today I will take you to the military academies around and go back to Shengzhou in the afternoon. If you have any problems in the future, just ask Zheng Lian. The residence from the court reported the official documents, and I will ask a special person to deliver them here every day."

Di Qing said: "This is exactly what I want. It's not too late, so let's take a look everywhere."

Everyone stood up and walked out of the official hall. Du Zhongxiao said: "There are four military academies in the military city. We look at them from east to west. The cavalry on the north side, artillery on the south side, and infantry on the east side. The academies on the east side are mainly soldiers, which are actually places for training new recruits. The new recruits first entered the military camp for two months and practiced military postures outside the city. After passing the qualification, they went straight to the Academies to study. There were not many things to learn, and one month later, they were subject to examinations and selections. Those who passed the qualifications could practice for another three months. If the assessment was excellent in three months, they could be promoted to utility. Those who were excellent in the assessment could enter the other three military academies according to their wishes. Those who studied the three military academies were all utility and envoys."

Wang Gongchen said: "This is a little different from the military academies in the capital. The military academies in the capital all submit their own letters. The Privy Council sent people to pass the exam and were assigned to various military academies. What comes out of the military academies is about the effectiveness and generals. If you can't learn it, you will be a military post, either a military post or a military post."

Du Zhongxiao said: "There is no way. There are many talents in the capital, so you can choose any person. The Hequ Road is different, and there are almost no people. They are all transferred from the imperial guards and wing troops in various places. They can only find ways to select talents from the soldiers."

Di Qing said: "What's wrong with selecting soldiers from the strokes? This martial arts performance is a great victory for the soldiers and horses in Hequ Road."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Taiwei, the reason for the victory of Hequlu this time is hard to say. It is difficult to choose from the soldiers, and there are too few people who read and read. It is too difficult for officers, artillery and cavalry to choose people. Especially for artillery, it is not easy to choose one person."

The capital city held three military academies, and the initial candidates for the juren were Yang Qi, the cavalry was Shisanlang, and the artillery was Yao Shouxin. But in fact, Yang Qi and Shisanlang did not make up for the actual work. The emperor, the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council directly sent people, and the two governments were the decisions of major affairs, and some were decided by the emperor. The officials sent by the court were familiar with the rules of the capital city, so Yang Qi and Shisanlang could not make up. Even the daily teaching was the ministers in the court. This was changed, and that was changed, and even the Taichang Liyuan came forward to determine the etiquette.

There is only an artillery school, and no one in the court understands it. Tang Longzhen's killing Yelu Zongzhen was amazing. No one dared to speak irresponsible to Yao Shouxin. Yao Shouxin is smart, and he can't write poems and write articles. Others can't do the professional knowledge of artillery. Only a few officials from Sitian Palace can discuss mathematical problems with him. Artillery is a professional army, which is relatively pure. It is generally not a single army, and does not involve military power, and Zhao Zhen does not allow others to interfere.

This time, the artillery did not participate in the martial arts performance in Beijing, and the artillery was not good at showing its heights with Hequ Road. All the ministers had not intervened in the artillery school, and everyone ignored this matter. Anyway, when Yao Shouxin was in charge of artillery, he was in charge of the artillery in the capital. There was nothing better to compare with the real power.

Du Zhongxiao said that artillery soldiers were difficult to choose, and everyone who traveled with them recognized them. In the artillery schools in the capital, some people came from the failed scholars, some students from Sitianjian, and some were recruited from the people. There were very few people who were selected from the imperial guards, and they formed their own system.

Since Du Zhongxiao established the Tianxiang Army, the treatment of artillery was the highest. After the establishment of the artillery school in the capital, its status was improved a little, and its treatment was higher than that of the Fourth Army. Since most of the people were useful and envoys, their salaries and benefits were actually compared with the various squads and they were straddled by the army.

As everyone spoke, they left the East City Gate. The gate of the military academy was not in the middle, the east gate was closer to the south, the west gate was closer to the north, the south gate was closer to the west, and the north gate was closer to the east. The military academy itself is part of the city city, and their school gate was also the city gate, which was only for the people in the military academy.

When I arrived at the school gate, I saw the plaque on the gate saying: "Hequ Road Infantry School". On one side is "Iron Discipline" and on the other side is "Iron Style". The school name is nothing, and these two sentences next to it surprised everyone like Di Qing.

After a long silence, Sun Mian said, "It's simple and direct to manage here. These two sentences are good, but they lack the charm."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It is better to be simple and direct in the military camp. School A trained soldiers, so it is good to read and read. You can also expect them to write poems and articles. If you don't write these two sentences, it is even more inappropriate to write 'yellow sand and wear golden armor'."

Wang Gongchen said: "Poetry and prose are very simple and clumsy. If simple and clear, they are good sentences. However, those who are wise can write simple and clear words into articles with a long-lasting charm, which is for everyone. Ordinary essays do not have such talent, so they can only pile up gorgeous words and sentences."

This is the Hanlin Bachelor of Science and Technology, who snatched the top scholar from the literary leader Ouyang Xiu during the imperial examination. Since Wang Gongchen said so, everyone will no longer comment. These two sentences at the door are the most common slogans in the military camp in Du Zhongxiao's memory. They seem to have no literary talent, but they are actually hard to replace them with other words.

The entourage went to report to the guards, and the guards saluteed them, and raised the generals from the school and brought everyone into the school gate.

As soon as he entered the gate, two large signs were erected on both sides of the road. One said "Sweat more often in normal times and bleed less in wartime", and the other said "Prepare for war at all times." Sun Mian looked at it and smiled bitterly. With the sign at the door as an example, he no longer had to comment on these two sentences.

Wang Gongchen looked at it and thought something. With his talent, he could certainly come up with sentences with the same meaning and literary talent. But he always felt that if it were other sentences, even if the meaning was the same, it would not be suitable to stand here. From the school gate, the military academy of Hequ Road showed a completely different style from the military academy in Beijing. Perhaps, from these simple slogans, there were answers to the results of the last martial arts performance.

As a Hanlin Bachelor, Wang Gongchen, the military academy of the capital, did not participate and knew the general situation. It was precisely because he was an outsider and a pure civil servant that he was sent here. The Hanlin Bachelor was an internal minister, nominally the emperor's personal consultant. He had a different purpose from others to come here, and of course he saw something different. Wang Gongchen's task was to tell the emperor what the difference between the Hequ Road Military Academy and the Beijing Military Academy, and the details would not be investigated in detail.

Not far from the door is the official hall and the yamen, and behind it is the school grounds. The setting is no different from other yamen and military camps.
Chapter completed!