Chapter 195 I must put that military prodigy to good use
Chapter 195: I must put that military prodigy to good use
Zhao Ji paid homage to Li Gang, and Quan Shangshu Zuo Cheng;
Bai Zongze was temporarily appointed deputy envoy to the Privy Council.
Let each of them receive the imperial edict and lead three thousand imperial guards in the capital respectively. They are also given the power to dispatch the Xiang army to suppress the bandits.
Set off today and go to Hedong, Henan, Hebei, as well as the roads west of Beijing and Huainan to recruit the bandit Wang Shan, the bandit Yang Jin, the bandit leader Wang Zaixing, Li Gui, Wang Dalang and others.
Li Gang and Zongze were more than twenty years apart in age. Although they had no personal friendship, their political opinions on handling national affairs most of the time coincided, which prompted them to meet each other as heroes.
Cherish.
After the Jingkang Incident in history, the position of governor in Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, was vacant. Li Gang recommended Zongze to the imperial court, writing a letter saying: "Zongze must be the only one who can stabilize and restore the old capital..." Soon after, the imperial court
He was changed to Zong Zezhi of Kaifeng Prefecture, and later promoted to stay in Tokyo.
At that time, the Jin enemies were still stationed on the edge of the Yellow River, and the sound of war drums could be heard day and night. However, all the warships in the capital were destroyed, soldiers and civilians lived together, thieves roamed freely, and people were in panic. Zongze had always had a high prestige, and after arriving in Kaifeng
, he first killed several thieves in the old capital. Zongze ordered: "Thieves, regardless of the amount of stolen goods, will be punished according to military law." Since then, the thieves in the old capital have calmed down, and the people have been able to live in peace...
At today's court meeting, after Zhao Ji sent Zongze and Li Gang on an errand to recruit Anlu, he issued an order to summon Chen Gui, who was once a Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty's Law Department and is now the Magistrate of Anlu County in De'an Prefecture, back to the capital.
The civil and military officials simply couldn't understand why the Zhao family suddenly summoned Chen Gui, the small local magistrate, to rush back to Beijing?
What's more, the civil servants of the imperial court who are participating in the court meeting today look down on Chen Gui, a Jinshi from the Mingfa Department, who has a lower status in the imperial examination, and they all have a little contempt in their hearts.
"Ming Fa Ke" is one of the subjects of the imperial examination. In the Han Dynasty, the imperial edict was issued to examine talents, and the subjects included Ming Xi Law, which was the beginning of the Ming Fa Ke. It was established as a regular subject during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. It was used to examine the specialized knowledge of laws.
Selection of specialized talents who know how to study laws and regulations. In the early Song Dynasty, the system of Tang Dynasty was inherited, and there were forty clauses in the legal decrees, ten clauses in the Analects of Confucius, ten clauses in the Erya and the Classic of Filial Piety.
In other words, those who come out of the Ming Law Department are legal talents (and must also understand some Confucianism). They are destined to be almost impossible to reach the top of the civil service group in the future, let alone be worshiped as prime minister.
However, no one among the civil and military officials dared to raise a rebuttal when faced with Zhao Guan's family's request to summon Chen Gui back to Beijing. After all, in the eyes of these court officials, Chen Gui, who had a low official position, was really not in their eyes.
All the ministers were thinking in their minds: After the great change in the Zhao Guan family's character, they can do whatever they want! This kind of small personnel transfer does not involve personal interests. Who would dare to talk too much and dare to refute the Zhao Guan family's holy will?
As early as when Li Jixian's bamboo-tube musket was named Chengjie Lang and the deputy envoy of the firearms workshop of the Capital Ordnance Supervision, Li Jixian confessed that the reason why he was able to invent the bamboo-tube musket was inspired by the traditional creativity...
At that time, Zhao Ji had the idea of calling Chen Gui back to Beijing for re-employment.
Zhao Ji knows that the stereotypes in historical records can be called a military wizard!
According to historical records, the originator of the earliest development and use of tubular firearms was Chen Gui. The tubular firearms he invented were made of long bamboo poles, and the bamboo tubes served as barrels. Before use, gunpowder was placed in the bamboo tube, and during combat, the gunpowder was placed in the tube from the rear to the rear.
Light a fire and spray burning gunpowder at the enemy. The gunpowder can be sprayed several feet away.
In the second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1132), Chen Gui used the musket he invented to form a musketeer team of more than 60 people. Two to three people held a musket and defeated Li Heng's bandit army who attacked De'an City and fled.
.This is also the earliest record of bamboo tube muskets being used in actual combat in official history.
Zhao Ji decided to first recall Chen Gui, the magistrate of Anlu County in De'an Prefecture, to the capital, and first grant him the title of firearms workshop envoy of the capital's weapons supervisor. He would then work with Li Ji, deputy envoy of the firearms workshop, to develop more powerful firearms.
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In fact, Zhao Ji also knew that even if I drew the design drawings of muskets and other weapons for Li Ji,
After Chen Gui and Li Ji took charge of the research and development, in this era where technology is relatively backward compared to modern society, the possibility of developing extremely lethal firearms is probably not too high.
It may very well be like modern European society, where the newly developed rifleless muskets could only be lined up in front of the two armies to 'shoot' each other.
However, as a time traveler, Zhao Ji knows very well that if muskets and artillery can really be used in future operations against the Jin Army in this era of cold weapons, the lethality and deterrence they will bring to the enemy should be extremely high.
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The Song Dynasty did not lack scholars and scholars, nor did it lack officials who could serve as county magistrates in a certain place. What they lacked was officials like Chen Gui, the county magistrate of Anlu County, who was a Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty. He also knew how to create and invent firearms, and was loyal and patriotic.
A warlike military genius.
Traveler Zhao Ji knows that in history, in addition to the invention of the bamboo musket recorded in history books, Chen Gui also had an excellent record against the Jin Army.
In the second year of Jingkang (AD 1127), the Jin army went south, and bandits broke out everywhere. Chen Gui acted as the magistrate of Anlu County as the prefect of De'an, and attacked the bandits, winning one after another...
In the first year of Jianyan, Chen Gui was promoted to Zhilong Tuge and the prefect of De'an Prefecture. During this period, he commanded his officers and soldiers to resist bandits, and he was quite famous...
At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Gui led the Xiang army to defend the territory of De'an for fifteen years. In the absence of strong reinforcements from the Song Dynasty, he was able to withstand the strong attack of the Jin enemy several times his own, and achieved nine battles and nine victories.
Once defeated, it can be seen that he is quite knowledgeable in military affairs and is very good at defending the city.
In De'an City, Chen Gui defeated nine of the nine Jin armies. Based on his practical experience in defending the city, he wrote the book "City Defending Record", which has been passed down to the world...
In the tenth year of Shaoxing (AD 1140), Chen Gui was appointed as the magistrate of Shunchang Prefecture. During this period, he and the famous general Liu Qi fought against the Jin army. The famous Battle of Shunchang took place.
In the Battle of Shunchang when the Jin Dynasty attacked the Song Dynasty, the general Liu Qi adopted the correct advice of clichés on city defense. The Song army defeated the larger number with less, and repeatedly won the city defense battles, and finally defeated the crazy attack of 100,000 Jin troops. This
It was the greatest victory achieved in the battle against the Jin army since the Southern Song Dynasty had been in peace for fourteen years, and it opened a new pattern of confrontation between the north and the south of the Song Dynasty and Jin...
In the eleventh year of Shaoxing (AD 1141), Chen Gui was appointed as the magistrate of Luzhou and the pacification envoy to Huaixi. He died shortly after taking office at the age of seventy. He gave it to the right doctor to advise him...
Zhao Ji, a top student in history and a time traveler, recalled the records about stereotypes in the history books he had read, and he became more confident in reusing stereotypes.
Although Chen Gui is now nearly fifty years old, he can still live for another twenty years, and he can still contribute twenty years of strength to me and the Song Dynasty.
I will first call Chen Gui back to Beijing, let him take charge of the firearms camp, and cooperate with Li Ji to see if we can draw the schematics for making gunpowder weapons and be ahead of the world in developing things that only appeared in modern society, such as muskets.
, artillery, explosive packs, grenades and other weapons and weapons?!
For military talents like Chen Gui, I put him in charge of the firearms camp for a year and a half at most. As long as the work of the firearms camp is smoothed out, I should further reuse Chen Gui.
Of course, Zhao Ji would never reveal a word of these thoughts to the civil and military officials at the court meeting.
Originally, it was enough to transfer a small county magistrate back to Beijing and let the officials issue official documents.
However, Zhao Ji asked Zhongshu's disciples to follow his imperial edict and draft an edict to urgently summon Chen Gui, the magistrate of Anlu County, to return to Beijing.
Zhao Ji received the imperial edict, stamped it with a jade seal after reading it, and sent someone 800 miles away to send it out immediately...
All the officials at the court had guessed that the Zhao Guan family personally issued an imperial edict to summon the small Anlu County Magistrate back to the capital, and that he must be reused. However, no one could guess which vacancy in the capital officials Chen Gui would fill.
From the perspective of Zhao Ji's time travel, Zhuge Kongming's view of "Be close to the virtuous ministers and stay away from the villains" in "Chu Shi Biao" was very correct.
In addition to reusing the virtuous ministers Zongze and Li Gang of the main war faction, and summoning Chen Gui, a military prodigy from the main war faction, to return to Beijing, Zhao Ji also wanted to be a "far villain".
Zhao Ji asked the supervisory censor Cao Fu:
"Before I personally conquered Fangla, the imperial students in the capital collectively remonstrated with me, begging me to punish Li Bangyan, who was nicknamed the 'Prodigal Prime Minister'. At that time, I asked Cao Aiqing to send someone to investigate the matter.