The only constraint that restricts Cheng Bushi is his qualifications.
His time in the army was too short!
It was more than four years ago that he began to rise to prominence in the Huben Guards. Then, he was selected by Ju Meng and promoted to assistant.
Now, he is just a thousand-dan tiger guard Wei Cheng.
If he wants to become a general, in theory, he needs to practice for at least ten years, slowly accumulate qualifications and prestige, and then go to the local area to serve as a captain or a school captain, be promoted to a county captain, and finally be promoted to a full-fledged general.
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but……
Now is a feudal society.
The emperor's will decides everything.
As Dongfang Shuo said - if you use it, you will become a dragon, if you don't use it, you will become an insect.
The emperor says you can do it, or you can’t do it!
Moreover, selecting talents simply and selecting talents with discernment are also the requirements of the world for the emperor.
However, Cheng Bushi’s qualifications are indeed flawed.
Especially when he wants to command old and powerful forces like Juzhu Army and Feihu Army.
It's like you were reborn through time and space, returned to the year 2000 AD, and became a rich second generation European, and your family gave you a football club to manage.
This club happens to be a giant like AC, Barcelona, or Real Madrid.
Of course you know who the best head coach candidate is.
But the problem is that the players in the club will probably sneer at the person you choose.
Mourinho? What the hell?
Die soon and stay away. I am a candidate for the Golden Globe Award. I need a famous coach to help me reach the top of Europe.
Now, Liu Che can certainly push Cheng Bushi to the general position.
But can the leaders of Juzhu Army and Feihu Army, as well as Colonel Sima below, be convinced?
In normal times, Cheng Bushi might be able to slowly spend his time training, teaching and taming the Qiu Ba below.
But in wartime, I'm afraid there won't be time.
Therefore, Cheng Bushi could only serve as a deputy, staff officer or deputy general, helping others.
Liu Che needs to choose a general who is famous and has great military achievements, who can make the Qiu Ba men below him obey and not dare to make mistakes!
Using this standard to select people, after excluding veterans, there are actually only a few candidates to choose from.
After careful consideration, Liu Che made a decision.
If you want to support Cheng without knowing the superiors, then you have to choose a general with a good temper and who can listen to others' advice.
Who else is more suitable than Da Nong Ling Zhi Buyi?
"Take Da Nong as the former general. Cheng Bu Shi, the Huben Guardsman, will be the Polu Captain and go to Yanmen to command all the armies!" Liu Che made a decision and announced to everyone. This was telling everyone that Cheng Bu Shi would be the vanguard.
Official.
In response, the generals looked at each other and bowed one after another: "Only your Majesty's orders!"
There is no doubt that I have enough qualifications and enough resume!
It can even be said that there is no more suitable candidate than him!
As for Cheng Bushi being a vanguard, the emperor's labor and management wanted to gain military merit for his henchmen, who could object?
Liu Che closed his eyes and after hesitating in his heart for a while, he said: "Pass on my decree, order the Yanmen County Sheriff and the County Lieutenant to strictly guard military and state secrets!"
Liu Che made a painful decision: "Anyone who dares to reveal military intelligence will be killed without mercy!"
This order actually sent the lives of the soldiers and tribal herdsmen who were guarding and patrolling outside Mayi and guarding the Han Dynasty to the gate of hell.
As many as two thousand people may have died.
However, since ancient times, kindness has not commanded troops.
To a general, the so-called soldiers are actually just a series of numbers written on a report.
To the emperor, the soldiers and civilians on the distant frontier were just a series of meaningless numbers.
The emperor used the world as a chessboard, ruled the world with ruthlessness, and implemented his own policies.
To achieve the goal, giving up the lives of soldiers is nothing.
Apart from that, Roosevelt deliberately allowed Yamamoto Isoroku to attack Pearl Harbor, while Churchill, in order to keep the secret, sat back and watched Coventry being bombed by the Germans.
In order to win, since ancient times, rulers have never been afraid of sacrificing certain individuals.
But Liu Che was not hard-hearted after all. In his heart, he still felt very guilty for this.
However, Liu Che knew very well that if he had ordered the troops and civilians outside Mayi to retreat, then the Huns might not have foolishly crashed into the encirclement.
Historically, the early planning of Emperor Wu's Mayi plan was not without perfection.
But it was because the military officials caught an officer in the Han military pavilion on the road that everything was in vain.
The Huns immediately fled and jumped out of the encirclement.
Three hundred thousand Han troops waited for several days under the city of Mayi, and countless resources, manpower and material resources were all wasted.
This is not to mention the fact that the Huns escaped, which led to decades of melee between the Han and the Huns, resulting in millions of deaths.
The powerful Han Dynasty was almost brought down by the war!
"Before the battle is launched, the soldiers and civilians in Mayi City are not allowed to inform!" Liu Che then categorically issued another order that would put the lives of thousands of people in danger.
But, he must do this!
There were not only scholars but also a large number of businessmen living in Mayi City.
Liu Che could not guarantee the integrity of these businessmen at all.
In the past history, there were not only two or three young men in Mayi City.
In order to win, some sacrifices are inevitable.
"No!" The generals bowed in unison and sacrificed themselves. In this era, it was as common as eating and drinking. No one even felt anything.
"Your Majesty, who will lead the troops in Xiliu Camp?" Prime Minister Zhou Yafu asked.
Now, of course, Xiliu Camp has a captain.
However, stationing and fighting are two different things.
A good captain is not necessarily a good general.
What's more, the current Commander-in-Chief of Xiliu Camp, Wei Chi, is obviously lacking in qualifications.
Usually, relying on Zhou Yafu's care, he serves as a captain and commands Xiliu Camp, and he doesn't know how to speak to others.
However, if you want to lead troops on an expedition and hold the rank of general, let's see if other generals and princes will agree to it?
Zhou Yafu might even be criticized as a dog, saying that he is nepotistic.
But, if it was Liu Che's order, it would be different.
The emperor simply removed him and worshiped him as a general, entrusting him with military and state affairs.
This is a good story and a typical template for discerning talents with a keen eye. No one dares to disagree!
Liu Che has been with Zhou Yafu for so long, so he naturally knows the meaning of Zhou Yafu's words.
Liu Che had met Wei Chi several times and personally inspected the Xiliu Camp he led.
Generally speaking, this concubine of Lepinghou has good abilities and military talents.
Even from Liu Che's point of view, he and Yi Zong are probably on par with each other.
All he lacks is a chance to prove himself.
In this case, Liu Che was naturally happy to give him a chance to prove himself!
"Consider Wei Chi, the commander of Xiliu Camp, as the general, and worship him as the former general!" Liu Che ordered calmly.
"No!" Zhou Yafu was overjoyed when he heard this. He has trained two young people he likes in his life.
One is Wei Chi and the other is Yi Zong.
Strictly speaking, Yi Zong still had the Emperor's bonus, but Wei Chi was different. In Zhou Yafu's eyes, this was his close disciple and the future leader of Xiliu Camp.
Compared with those of his sons, they are actually just chickens and dogs!
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After sending the generals away, Dou Ying shamelessly stayed on.
"General, are you here to plead for Guan Fu?" Liu Che looked at his cousin and asked expressionlessly.
"Now that there is something going on in the country, please Your Majesty, please allow Guanfu to accept his crime and perform meritorious service, and go to the front line to serve as the captain of the light army..." Dou Ying gritted his teeth and bowed: "Even if a man must die, he must die in national affairs. He sacrifices himself on the battlefield and wraps his body in horse leather. How can he die?
In the hands of the swordsman and penman?"
Liu Che turned his eyes sideways and looked at Dou Ying.
These words made Liu Che's ears hurt!
Guan Fu, Liu Che admitted that he was indeed a good man.
Be loyal. Don't be afraid of death and dare to hurt your friends.
but……
The things he did were things that only scum would do!
The dignified Prime Minister of Daiguo, who was worth two thousand stones, was galloping on horseback in the busy city, trampling on the soldiers and the people!
Instead of repenting afterward, in order to cover up the crime, he retaliates against the offender and even imposes punishment.
Coupled with the various behaviors of this guy in his previous life, Liu Che was convinced that he was an incurable scumbag!
If Guan Fu didn't die, Dou Ying would be dragged to death by him sooner or later.
Liu Che really didn't want Dou Ying to repeat the tragedy of his previous life.
But these words are not suitable to say to Dou Ying.
"You must save Guan Fu?" Liu Che asked coldly.
"Your Majesty, Guan Fu, he is a righteous man! Although he has violated the law, your Majesty please remember that he has served the country and the country, and now is the time to employ people, and allow him to serve for his crimes..." Dou Ying did not want to answer Liu Che's question, but instead talked about it.
, it is still useful to bite Guan Fu to death. This is the point where he should be ordered to pay for his crime and perform meritorious service.
This is very consistent with the current views of scholar-bureaucrats and nobles on the issue of crimes committed by officials and nobles.
There is no level in the old Liu family's torture.
A dignified prince with two thousand stones, but he breaks the law and is like a mud-legged person, and he has to accept the punishment of the law?
Of course, the scholar-officials and nobles were full of complaints.
But this was an ancestral system, and no one dared to mention it unless the emperor said he wanted to change it.
Liu Che looked at Dou Ying looking for death, and he really hated the iron in his heart.
But Liu Che also knew that rule requires means.
The so-called "society under the rule of law", even in another two thousand years, will still be seen in the mirror in China. A phone call from the leader is much more useful than the law.
In China, besides legal principles, there is nothing more than human feelings, which is the eternal theme.
Dou Ying begged like this, even if Liu Che refused to give him face.
If word spreads, the public opinion circle will definitely explode!
Back then, Emperor Taizong strictly enforced the law and had his uncle Zhihou Bozhao killed. As a result, he was criticized until now.
In the foreseeable future, people will still get trolled.
Killing King Li of Huainan is a stain that cannot be washed away.
Maybe for future generations, Guan Fu deserves to be shot 10,000 times for a crime like this!
But at this time, from the perspective of current moral and ethical values, especially from the perspective of scholar-bureaucrats - Guan Fu committed a crime and deserved death, but now the country is just using people, and for the sake of the overall situation, let him go
It should be.
What's more, there is Dou Ying begging for mercy!
Who is Dou Ying?
Liu Che's cousin, the Empress Dowager's nephew, also helped Liu Che consolidate his guard.
If Liu Che didn't even give Dou Ying face and word spread, the scholar-bureaucrats would probably shout, "He is really mean and unkind."
This is nothing, the key point is, after this incident, who will work for the old Liu family and be a loyal minister in the future?
Isn't it because everyone kneels down and licks the emperor so that the emperor can help his brothers at a critical moment?
If the emperor handles everything business, why should he kneel down and lick him?
"I will give the general some face!" Liu Che closed his eyes. Even if he is an emperor, living in this world sometimes requires compromise with reality. After all, the earth does not revolve around the emperor.
"But he can be exempted from the death penalty, but he cannot escape from the living crime!" Liu Che said coldly: "Abolish all titles and official positions. They will be demoted to common people and will never be hired!"
"I don't need such a general!" Liu Che waved his sleeves and walked away.
What does it mean to make meritorious deeds?
Should such a cruel general be allowed to continue to harm the people?
Do you, Dou Ying, want you to continue to support him and let his children harm Yingchuan County?
Liu Che's words, "I don't need it," were like a death sentence for Guan's career and future.
Guan Fu will never have a chance to make a comeback. In this life, he can only eat under Dou Ying's door and wait to die!
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The next day, when the people of Chang'an City woke up from their sleep, they were shocked to find that the entire city had turned into a city of soldiers.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The door of the arsenal was opened by dozens of soldiers, revealing countless weapons and armor stored inside.
Bundles of crossbow arrows were loaded onto the carriage.
Hand crossbows were loaded into the carriage.
Soon, hundreds of carriages transporting ordnance formed a long queue from the arsenal to Baqiao, blocking some traffic.
In the city's villages, government servants walked through the streets and alleys, knocking on the doors of many houses. They handed official documents stamped with the government's seal into the hands of the heads of these families.
These official documents are neatly written in regular script: A certain man from a certain household in a certain area is ordered by the Prime Minister to recruit you to join the army. Please report to a certain campus of the Southern Army at noon today!
These are civilian men who have been recruited to transport and maintain various logistics supplies and ordnance to the army.
Outside the city, larger-scale recruitment is also underway.
To maintain an army of 50,000 people to fight in a high-intensity war environment, at least twice as many civilians are needed to take care of various chores.
As a result, countless wives began to quietly pack their husbands' luggage, countless mothers hurriedly prepared dry food for their sons for the long journey, and countless brothers called their younger brothers and sisters to come to them to give instructions on family matters.
People in Guanzhong are not unfamiliar with this kind of combat mobilization.
On the contrary, they are very adaptable to this rhythm.
Starting from Lord Shang, the people living in Guanzhong have been accustomed to sending their relatives to the battlefield.
For people in Guanzhong.
The army has its own beauty like jade, and the army has its own golden house.
Joining the army, even becoming a civilian husband, may change the fate of yourself and your family.
All it takes is an opportunity, a just-right opportunity, to gain a military merit.
The future of yourself, your family, and even your descendants will be completely rewritten.
Therefore, there is no sadness or reluctance, and there is no rolling around and dying.
The wife tied a sword on her husband's head, put a crossbow on her back, and warned her lovingly: "My husband is on this trip, so you don't have to worry about your home. I will take good care of your parents and children at home. I'm just waiting for you to return!"
The old father held a cane and taught his son: "You should act according to the opportunity. If there is an opportunity, seize it as soon as possible!"
The son kowtowed and said, "No! Your Majesty's teachings, I will take them to heart. If you encounter a Northern prisoner, you will definitely take his head!"
The heads of the Huns are much more valuable than the heads of any other enemy and traitor.
According to Han law, if you get a Xiongnu head, you can be directly promoted to the next level!
In Guanzhong, in the past, there were many poor boys who picked up on the battlefield and killed a wounded or straggler Huns.
He was immediately recognized as a brave man, specially recruited into the army, fed with royal rations, and became a glorious soldier of the Northern Army or the Southern Army.
After the war, he was rewarded for his merits and was appointed as a team leader or Sima.
From then on, the family had security and was highly respected in the village pavilion.
There are even countless matchmakers who come to the door to force the daughter of a gentry to come over.
In Guanzhong, if the poor want to counterattack, the only way is to join the army!
Take your own life and fight for a bright future for your family and future generations!
Therefore, in addition to those peasant children recruited by the government, other powerful families in Guanzhong are also undercurrents.
Many children from wealthy families jumped up immediately after hearing about the Guanzhong mobilization.
They like war more than the poor!
"Reading a book!" In the house of the Huang family, a local snake in Huayin County, a young man dressed like a scholar threw the letter in his hand to the ground: "A real man should hold a sword and wear armor, and make contributions thousands of miles away.
Outside!"
He pulled off the Jinxian crown on his head and threw it on the ground. Then, he walked into his small house and took out his treasures one by one.
Armor, sword, crossbow and leggings.
Then, he changed out of his long robe, put on a tight-fitting samurai uniform, tied on his sword, picked up his crossbow and quiver, walked out of the room, and shouted to a few young servants outside his yard.
, said: "Now I want to join the army and make great achievements. Is there anyone who is willing to follow me?"
"Young Master!" A naked, strong man who was lighting a fire in the courtyard immediately ran over, knelt at his feet and said, "Young master, Huang Da, I would like to obey you!"
Among the other servants around him, three or four men also came out and bowed at his feet, saying: "We are all willing to join the army like the master, protect him and make contributions to him!"
These people are all slaves of the Huang family. They know very well that only by seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity can they escape their fate and no longer be slaves.
Besides, this young master and they all grew up together.
Everyone knows that the young master took Wu Anjun as his example since he was a child and wanted to join the army.
Moreover, the elders in the family invited retired soldiers from the Han army to teach the young master various trainings since he was a child.
However, three years ago, after the examinations became popular, the elders in the family felt that studying was more promising, so they asked the young master to study and ordered him not to dance with guns or sticks anymore.
It's a pity that although this young master studied under the Yang family, a famous master in Guanzhong, he also changed his name to an elegant name and adopted the pseudonym.
In the Analects of Confucius, it means that "politics have changed and corrected", so he changed his name to Huang Kuang, which means "policy".
However, he was naturally insulated from literature. He studied for more than three years, took the exam twice, and failed every time.
But compared with his literary attainments, the military talent of this young master was even praised by the county captain.
He was even nicknamed "Huayin Breast Tiger" among the rangers in Huayin County.
If you follow him to the battlefield, you may have a similar background.
So, the scholar named Huang Kuang, along with a few servants who were willing to follow him, took out the crossbows, swords and halberds from the warehouse at home, and then took away five horses from the corral at home.
Two of them can already be ridden as war horses.
After handling these matters, Huang Kuang went to his father and said: "Sir, I want to join the army and serve my father. I hope you will allow it!"
The father looked at his son who was already fully clothed and had no choice but to say: "My son is sure he wants to join the army?"
Huang Kuang nodded seriously.
There is no other way. As a father, he naturally knows that his son will probably not be able to pass the examination and become an official.
But it doesn't matter. For the people of Guanzhong, since ancient times, honoring their ancestors has still to be achieved immediately.
It's no wonder that he only had such a precious son, so he was sent to the army through his connections.
Now, it can't be stopped.
He could only say: "Then you take my letter and go to Xiliu Camp to visit your uncle and ask him to be your counselor!"
"No!" Huang Kuang was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, sir!"
Finally don’t drop your book bag anymore!
Finally free!
"Don't thank me in a hurry!" His father said, "You have to answer my question: when you come back this time, you must get married and carry on the family line for my Huang family!"
"No!" Without even thinking about it, Huang Kuang clasped his fists and said with a smile: "I will let you have a grandson in your arms next year!" (To be continued.)
