When Li Ke went to visit Li Jing at the Duke of Wei's mansion, Li Jing happened to be at home. Since he returned to Chang'an, he has been resigning from his post at home to compile military books at home. This has enabled Hou Jun to become a real boss of the Ministry of War. Although he is still a school inspector, he will be able to remove this word in a short time.

Li Jing was very happy to see Li Ke coming to visit him.

At the beginning, he didn't want others to come to his house because he was an official in the court and didn't want Li Shimin to feel that he had formed a clique.

It's different now. He has retired and has become an idle person. He is not afraid of Li Shimin's suspicion.

The two came to Li Jing's study, and Hongfu presented tea to Li Jing and Li Ke.

Li Ke was very curious about Hongfu, but he did not lose his manners and respectfully treated Hongfu as his younger generation. Hongfu dared not bear it, but the influence on Li Ke was much better.

Li Ke was curious and Hongfu was out of the relationship between Hongfu and Li Jing.

The surname of Hongfu Nu was Zhang. During the wars of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, he was fled to Chang'an and sold to the Sikong Yang Su's mansion as a singing girl. Because he held a red whisk in his hand, he was called Hongfu Nu.

Li Jing was well versed in military strategy and had great ambitions. After the founding of the Sui Dynasty, he decided to go to Chang'an to seek a way to serve the country. In Chang'an, he first joined Yang Su. Yang Su was very negligent at first, and then talked with Li Jing, thinking that this person was very promising. But he was old and weak after all, and no longer had lofty ideals, but just content with the status quo. Li Jing was very disappointed. When the two were talking, Hong Fu stood beside him. Seeing that Li Jing was very arrogant and was a hero and chivalrous man, she secretly admired him, so she sent his disciples to follow Li Jing, and learned about his residence, and went there late at night.

At night, Li Jing sat alone in front of the lamp, thinking about the daytime things, and felt that the future was bleak, and suddenly heard the knock on the door. When he opened the door, he found that it was the maid he saw in Sikong Mansion during the day. Hongfu opened the door and expressed his intentions straightforwardly: he was willing to join Li Jing and accompany him to spread the world. Li Jing was overjoyed, but was worried that Yang Su could not explain. Hongfu comforted him and said: Yang Su was old, and many maids had escaped recently, and Sikong Mansion would not pursue it. Li Jing was very pleased to see that there was a beautiful woman who understood her and was willing to devote her life, so he agreed immediately. Sikong Mansion could not find Hongfu, so he sent someone to inquire for a few days, but it was finally left alone. So Hongfu and Li Jing disguised themselves as merchants and left Chang'an.

That's why Li Ke was so curious about what kind of woman Hongfu was. Under normal circumstances, outsiders could not see Hongfu at all, even if they came to Li's mansion.

Hongfu brought tea to Li Ke and Li Jing and left the study, leaving Li Jing and Li Ke behind.

Li Ke thought that Li Jing would leave Chang'an the day after tomorrow, but Li Jing was not much surprised. He thought that Li Ke's departure was not a good thing. Li Ke knew that Li Jing was not involved in political discussions, so he began to talk to Li Jing about the progress of writing military books. Li Jing attaches great importance to his military books, and talks endlessly about this topic with Li Ke. He told Li Ke that after the battle of the Turkic Republic, he felt that his military books still had many imperfections. He wanted to rewrite them. Now that the outline has been confirmed, it will definitely be completed within two or three years.

Li Ke admired Li Jing's rigorous attitude towards writing books. After discussing the issue of military books with Li Jing for a while, Li Ke moved the topic to opening his own Army Academy.

"General, I want to open a college in Taiyuan Prefecture that specializes in training generals. Do you think it is advisable? Do you have any suggestions?" Li Ke asked Li Jing.

"Open an academy? Cultivate military generals?" Li Jing said in surprise. This was the first time he had heard the idea of ​​opening an academy to train generals, but he was very confident in Li Jing and felt that since Li Ke had proposed this plan, he must have his own ideas. Then he asked, "Your Highness, can you tell me about your plan in detail?"

Seeing that Li Jing was interested, Li Ke told Li Jing about his plan to open an Army Academy.

Li Ke's Army Academy's idea is to hire famous generals to teach at the academy and teach students military strategies. The basic age of the Army Academy must be determined between thirteen and fifteen years old, and they must be literate and physically meet the standards of the academy. Students must not only learn military tactics discussions, but also learn cultural knowledge, physical training and martial arts training in the academy. The semester is determined to be three years. Only when they have reached the civil and military genius, they will be allowed to graduate after three years. Then they will be placed below to the Bingzhou Army for internships based on the students' own situation, and then allocate them according to the internship situation.

Li Ke decided that the college would offer three subjects: command, staff and intelligence.

After listening to Li Ke's introduction, Li Jing began to fall into deep thought. He felt that Li Ke's idea was good, that was, the three subjects offered were a bit difficult for him to understand. Especially the staff and intelligence, he believed that the staff played the role of a military advisor when marching and fighting. The military advisor had no power, which seemed to not meet the standards for cultivating talents in the academy. Besides, the military advisor had no power and no position, who would be willing to be a? However, Li Jing did not understand Li Ke's meaning. The staff in Li Ke's heart was not an ancient military advisor, but a staff officer in the modern army, and a military commander with some authority. As for intelligence, Li Jing was even more confused. He felt that intelligence was important, but there was no need to be specially trained for such talents. But Li Ke knew how much role the dinner in the intelligence system would play in a country, so that this subject would be opened.

However, when Li Jing asked questions, Li Ke gave a detailed introduction to Li Jing, which relieved Li Jing's doubts.

But Li Jing still gave Li Ke a reminder, and he felt that since both staff and intelligence personnel need to be trained, the logistics support personnel must be trained even more, special military marching doctors, etc.

Li Ke agreed with Li Jing's proposal. He listened to Li Jing's suggestions, made new arrangements for the subjects of the academy, and determined that the Army Academy was divided into four subjects: First, military command, mainly to train leading generals and commanders; Second, military consuls, to train military advisors, and all-round military talents; Third, military intelligence, mainly intelligence collection and interrogation, agents, etc.; Fourth, military equipment, mainly marching logistics, medical security, etc.

However, Li Ke himself was also very clear that there was some repetition of things here, just like the two subjects of military command and staff, which are many repetitions, but this is also impossible. Li Ke himself was just a rookie in this regard, and it was the first time for Li Ke to open the Army Academy in the era of cold weapons. It was a test for Li Ke. He was still in the exploration stage. He felt that he had to determine the outline first, and he could practice it slowly in the future and then add some necessary subjects.

Li Jing was very satisfied with the four subjects that Li Ke determined this time, and talked to Li Ke about some of the details, which benefited Li Ke a lot.

However, when Li Ke asked Li Jing to ask him to serve in the Army Academy, Li Jing decisively rejected Li Ke's invitation. He said that he mainly focused on revising and writing military books. When his military books were completed, he would definitely go to Bingzhou to teach at the Army Academy.

Seeing that Li Jing did not completely reject his invitation, Li Ke felt confident. He also knew why Li Jing refused him now, because Li Jing had just retired at home, which was equivalent to rejecting the court and Li Shimin. If he promised Li Ke now, what would Li Shimin think of him?

Therefore, Li Ke himself understood Li Jing's rejection.

Li Ke talked a lot with Li Jing, mainly about military issues.

By the time Li Ke left the Duke of Wei’s Mansion, it was almost noon!

However, he gained a lot from Li Jing's mansion, and he felt that this trip to Li's mansion was worth the price!

When he returned to the palace, Li Ke saw Chai Zhewei and Li Zong coming to find him, and Li Yan also followed them.

Li Ke asked the reason and it turned out that the three of them had already been dealt with in Chang'an. They were in a hurry to return to Taiyuan and specifically said goodbye to Li Ke.

Li Ke didn't expect that these three were still workaholics. As soon as the matter in Chang'an was resolved, they had to hurry back to Taiyuan. He was very relieved. He felt that he had not chosen the wrong person.

When Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Li Yan said goodbye to Li Ke and hurriedly left the palace, Li Ke looked at their hurrying figures and suddenly felt that what he lacked the most in order to complete his great plan.

Thinking of talent, Li Ke couldn't help but frown.

He himself knew very well that the Tang Dynasty was not like the Song Dynasty in later generations, and it was incomparable in science and technology and culture, and the talents in this area were even lacking.

Alas! It seems that it can only be cultivated by myself! Li Ke thought to himself and sighed slightly.
Chapter completed!