Soon, the 11th and 12th teams also passed the review. The performance of the 100-household team from the Guard was just as poor as the previous teams. The performance of the second-year students in the Jiangwu Hall was almost as good as that of the first-year students.
When the last team came out, Yunxi was not in the mood to watch. He turned to Jin Chun and said: "The students in Jiangwu Hall have practiced well and deserve to be commended. Jin Chun, these second-year students, if they start from now on
I didn’t make any mistakes when I graduated. The sanctions that should have been revoked within one year but could not be revoked due to lack of time should be revoked. For first-year students, the punishments carried on their backs will be reduced by one grade. The leader of the team, I heard you say is Zheng
Xuan?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." Jin Chun replied.
"There are ministers ranging from the seventh rank to the ninth rank. I remember that Zheng Xuan's minister was promoted from the seventh rank to the seventh rank." Yunxi said. Jin Chun promised.
Yunxi said again: "I have one more thing to leave to you..."
As he was talking, he suddenly saw Jin Chun's expression change, and his eyes were staring at the school ground below. Yunxi was curious, and turned his head to look at the school ground as well. This time, he saw an extremely surprising scene.
I saw that everyone in the marching team had very straight backs. Even the two teams of students from the martial arts hall were slightly less than that. That's okay, but they were also very neatly arranged horizontally. The footsteps were slightly messy, but they were better than the others.
The guard team is much stronger.
The footsteps of the goose steps were not very uniform, and they were similar to the team of students from the martial arts hall, except that the final circle was a little messy.
Overall, this team can be said to be on par with the team of students from the Martial Arts Hall.
Yunxi asked: "Which guard's team is this?"
Li Bo, the bodyguard standing next to him, was also very surprised: he did not teach the hundreds of households selected by the Shangzhiwei, but he heard that it was not easy to teach them. Who knew that a team could reach such a level.
Hearing Yunxi's words, he quickly replied: "Your Majesty, they are the right guard of the government army."
"My husband's right guard? The commander is Song Xuan? I still remember that there is a fellow commander who is Li Zengzhi?" Yunxi said to himself.
"Where are Song Xuan and Li Zengzhi? Let them come over quickly." Yunxi said to Li Bo.
Li Bo immediately went to look for them. The two of them were not on the stage, but with their own team. Li Bo could only get off the stage and go to the team that had completed the review to look for them.
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Song Xuan put down the clairvoyance in his hand and said to Li Zengzhi: "The last turn was a bit chaotic, otherwise he would have surpassed the students of the Martial Arts Hall. Looking at it now, I'm afraid I can't compare."
Li Zengzhi also put down the clairvoyance in his hand and said bitterly: "Why is it so bad in the end!"
"Don't scold them later. They have performed well. We didn't think of any good way to solve the chaos. Yesterday's rehearsal was just a coincidence. It can be regarded as a routine." Song Xuan said.
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"But," of course Li Zengzhi understood what Song Xuan said, and he actually felt that it was right. However, he was determined to let the right guard team of the government army overwhelm all other teams, but he was not willing to accept that he fell short because of some chaos in the end.
But Song Xuan was the commander. Although he came from a higher position, he could not disrespect his superior and could only suppress his anger.
Song Xuan praised his team, and just when Li Zengzhi was about to hold his nose and praise them, Li Bo came over and said to them: "Commander Song, Li Tongzhi, your Majesty has summoned you two."
Li Zengzhi was completely unwilling to praise them, and immediately agreed upon hearing His Majesty's summons, and followed Li Bo to the rostrum. Although Song Xuan felt it was inappropriate, he could not say anything, so he gave a few instructions to Baihu, and followed him to the rostrum.
When Yunxi saw them, he smiled and said: "Among the eleven teams of the Zhiwei, you are the only one who performed well, almost on a par with the students of the Jiangwu Hall."
"However, I want you to answer my questions. How did you train these soldiers to perform so well?"
"Your Majesty, I and Commander Song have thought of some tricks." Li Zengzhi said.
"What's the trick?" Yunxi asked.
Song Xuan opened his mouth to introduce.
It turned out that after watching the training of hundreds of selected households for five days, Song Xuan and Li Zengzhi concluded that it would definitely not be able to take shape after a month. If there were vertical lines on the ground, it would be guaranteed not to form a snake shape; if there were no vertical lines on the ground, it would not form a snake shape;
It’s not surprising that the threads turn into intertwined snakes.
The two of them started to think of a way. Song Xuan suddenly thought: 'Since there are vertical lines on the ground to ensure that it goes straight, if there are horizontal lines on the ground, can it ensure that it goes flat?'
He immediately put it into practice. According to the distance between most people, he drew countless horizontal lines on the school field of the right guards of the government, requiring them to put their toes on the horizontal lines every step of the way. This achieved certain results.
But it was still not very neat. At this time, Li Zengzhi, who was suddenly ill and went to the hospital for treatment, resorted to a move similar to corporal punishment: he ordered people to make a large number of long wooden boards and tie them to four people in a row. If the wooden boards were broken, it meant that there were no
Move together and punish the soldiers on both sides of the break in the plank.
At the same time, in order to ensure that their backs were straight, Li Zengzhi spent his own money to buy a hundred white poles about the same length as the back and tied them in his clothes so that their backs could not bend even if they wanted to. During today's review, they
There are wooden boards hidden in the clothes.
After hearing what they said, Yunxi suddenly realized: "Let me tell you, why do I feel that their movements are very stiff and their backs are unnaturally protruding. I see. You guys really know how to find a way."
But although Yunxi praised them, he was not very happy in his heart. He wanted to find out their training tips so that he could promote them, but except for drawing horizontal lines on the ground, which could be promoted, the rest had no promotion value.
If it weren't for the fact that the reward given by Yun Xi was too high, if it weren't for Li Zengzhi's own money to buy these things, if it weren't for Song Xuan's high prestige in the right guard of the government army, if it weren't for the fact that the right guard of the government army was already an elite army, if it weren't for the fact that Beijing recently
The food of the guards has been greatly improved, and Li Zengzhi's method is simply not feasible. Under normal circumstances, if they do this for two days, which is equivalent to corporal punishment, the soldiers will dare to disobey orders. This is completely a special case among special cases.
However, Song Xuan and Li Zengzhi still deserved praise, and Yunxi praised them a few more times.
Li Zengzhi was very happy. Since childhood, everyone thought that he had no ability, including his dear father and eldest brother, which made him very unconvinced: I am not a loser either. This time he finally proved it.
Li Jinglong, who was on the sidelines, was also happy for his younger brother: he had just listened to the stories of Song Xuan and Li Zengzhi, and he also believed that their approach had no promotion value; but after all, Li Zengzhi had almost completed His Majesty's mission and would definitely be rewarded.
Sure enough, "I have passed down my oral instructions, and Nie Rong, one hundred households in the right guard of the government, will be given the hereditary title of Thousand Households, and will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver; one hundred trial households will be given the hereditary title of One Hundred Households, and will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver; the general flag and the small flag will be added to Trial
Those with the title of "Hundred Households" will be rewarded with ten taels of silver; ordinary soldiers will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
"As for you two, Song Xuan will be promoted to the rank of General Zhaoyong, and Li Zengzhi will be promoted to the rank of General Huaiyuan. When any guard becomes vacant, I will order you to be the commander."
"Your Majesty, Song Xuan (Li Zengzhi), thanks you for your gift." The two of them knelt down and said.
"No need to kneel back and forth like this, get up." Yunxi said.
When the two of them got up, Yunxi suddenly thought of something and called Jin Chun over and said, "I just wanted to tell you something and I don't want to be interrupted. Have you read the Book of Songs?"
Jin Chun felt that Yunxi's words were very contemptuous of him. Is there any civil servant who has not read the Book of Songs? But he still replied: "I have read it, and I can basically recite 300 poems."
"Do you think the song "Qin Feng Wu Yi" is good?" Yun He said.
"How can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same robe with you..." Jin Chun went over this poem in his mind and said, "It is considered a good poem in the Book of Songs."
"Then recite it again." Yunhe said.
Jin Chun didn't understand, but he said: "How can you say Wu Yi? I share the same robe with you. When the king raised an army, he repaired my sword and spear. I share the same enemy with you!"
How can I say that I have no clothes? I am in the same boat with you. When the king raised his army, he repaired my spear and halberd. I worked together with you!
How can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same clothes with you. When the king raised his troops, he repaired my armor and soldiers. I will go with you!"
Yunxi turned to the generals present: "Do you think, if this poem is set to music, can the soldiers understand it? Will they like it?"
"Your Majesty, do you want to use this poem as a song for the army like the Qin State?" Lan Zhen said suddenly.
Others suddenly realized that this was His Majesty's intention.
Maybe some people don’t know that China has had military songs since ancient times, and the earliest one handed down is “Qin Feng Wu Yi”; during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Rouran State had a rather grand war song; and later the Tang Dynasty’s frontier fortress poems
It is very popular and there are many war songs.
After the Tang Dynasty, Li Cunxu, Emperor Zhuangzong of the Five Dynasties, personally composed military songs, which allowed soldiers to sing loudly, kill the enemy bravely in battle, and sacrifice their lives. It is probably the most typical war song in Chinese history. Unfortunately, its lyrics and music have not been handed down.
Then all the poems and songs about war were songs of triumph after the fact, and it was not until the late Qing Dynasty that military songs appeared again.
In Yunxi's previous life, all countries had military songs. These military songs either emphasized discipline or boosted morale, and were much more useful than official Chinese. So he also wanted to create military songs.
"Your Majesty, this song "Qin Feng Wu Yi" may have been easy to understand in the pre-Qin period and could be understood by ordinary soldiers, but most of today's soldiers cannot understand what this song means," Li Jian said.
"When I reviewed these troops just now, I felt that the chants were very dry. Suddenly I thought of the poem "Qin Feng Wu Yi" and thought that soldiers singing military songs during the march could boost morale? Anyway, I sometimes
Singing can boost the spirit, so I wanted to establish a military song. Since the soldiers cannot understand this poem, it will not be used as a military song. I ordered others to write a military song for the soldiers to sing to boost morale and emphasize discipline."
Yunhe said.
He actually knew that the song "Qin Feng Wu Yi" was not suitable as a military song now, but in order to show that China had military songs since ancient times, he was just restoring tradition rather than innovating, so he had to propose this poem
Come, wait for them to deny it, and then create your own military song naturally.
After saying his last words, Yunxi ended today's review.
