Captain Song is about the same age as Sun Yawei, but his figure is very muscular, which is as fat as Sun Yawei's.
However, Sun Yawei didn't care at all about the huge difference in stature between the two people. As soon as he walked in, he shouted enthusiastically: "Brother Song, one day is like three autumns after not seeing each other. In just a few days, you have been promoted to the head of the group."
Got it!"
Captain Song's character may be a bit boring. When faced with Sun Yawei's compliment, he didn't respond appropriately: "Don't you dare accept it? Mr. Sun, you have been promoted to the first border official in the Tang Dynasty!"
He just nodded slightly and said, "Not bad!"
Seeing that this person has a dull personality and doesn't know how to adapt, he only greets me with "hello". He doesn't understand the importance of everyone carrying the sedan chair in officialdom. I won't praise you, and you won't praise me. What do you want me to do next?
It’s a pleasure chatting with you, it’s so embarrassing, okay?
However, Captain Song only briefly exchanged greetings with Sun Yawei, and regardless of the many rules in the officialdom, he directly asked Sun Yawei about the situation of Liping City and the Ming Army's forward.
In response to this, Sun Yawei cursed decisively in his heart. The military was indeed filled with rude warriors. This was a lieutenant colonel, and he didn't understand any rules like those big soldiers.
When you meet me, the first official of the Tang Dynasty to seal borders, can't you be more polite, a little more polite, and even more polite?
Will you die if you flatter me with a few words?
However, Mr. Liu, the first assistant, is right. Most of these warriors are rude and rude. We, the scholars, are sensible and should keep a broad mind and not be as knowledgeable as these common people.
Immediately he took a deep breath and hid the contempt in his heart. Although there were differences in civil and military affairs, they were all officials in the same dynasty. It would be better if there were no conflicts. Besides, I am a magistrate.
, how can you be on the same level as these warriors?
I will bear with you!
But if he knew that the leader of Song Dynasty in front of him was actually a scholar, and his imperial examination scores were better than his. He had passed both the county examination and the government examination, and finally failed in the college examination.
How would people who have failed to pass the county examination feel?
Since then, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has held martial arts schools and imperial schools to recruit scholars to join the army.
And after it is stipulated that officers must be able to read and write, in fact, most of the officers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, especially the middle and senior officers, are actually from the Imperial Academy, and the officers from the Imperial Academy were basically scholars before.
Even low-level officers who are promoted from ordinary soldiers actually need to enter the Royal Academy to study and learn basic cultural knowledge. Not to mention memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, they can still barely write basic family letters, but they are not very literary.
Therefore, in terms of overall quality, the officer class of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is actually going to kill the civilian class in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Most of the officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty are literate, and the education level of the middle and senior officers is not low. However, there are actually many civil servants.
They're all not good.
This has led to a fact that many people will ignore. In fact, the overall quality of the officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, especially the overall quality of the middle and senior officers and even the imperial examination level, has exceeded that of the civilian officials.
If the Tang Dynasty held an imperial examination at this time and asked civil and military officials to take the exam together, there would definitely be more military officers than civilian officials passing the exam.
There is nothing that can be done about this. The officers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty are paid well and have a bright future. Moreover, the current titles in the Tang Dynasty are based on military merit.
Except for a very small number of old civil servants who have been with Long from the beginning, such as Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu, Ma Wei and others, it is actually very difficult for other civil servants to be knighted.
Nowadays, there are many scholars who take the initiative to apply. No matter what the reason is, many people dream of being a founding hero and eventually becoming a noble and wealthy person for hundreds of years. Therefore, many people choose to join the army.
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In addition, the Imperial Academy and the Martial Arts Academy all have cultural courses. It can be said that these officers have never heard of learning since the day they joined the army. This level of knowledge has continued to increase, so that it is common sense that their overall quality exceeds that of the civilian class.
Captain Song naturally did not know the many thoughts of Sun Yawei in front of him. Now he was not in the mood to care about Sun Yawei's psychological feelings. He was more concerned about the situation in Liping City and the related Ming army.
Fortunately, although Sun Yawei felt a little thorny in his heart, he still explained the situation of Liping City and the Ming Army in detail, telling everything he knew.
After listening to Sun Yawei's words, Captain Song and Sun Yawei briefly said a few words, then directly took out the military map they carried with them, and then began to look at it with several officers and staff around them.
When Sun Yawei saw that these Qiu Ba stopped paying attention to him, he immediately felt depressed again, silently thinking in his heart: I will bear with it, I will bear with it, I will bear with it...
Paralysis, I can't bear it anymore, I want to leave!
"Well, Captain Song, I am busy with official duties and there are still a lot of things waiting to be dealt with. I will take my leave now!"
Fu is busy with his official duties, and now he has even lost the city of Liping. Now he is just fleeing with a group of defeated soldiers. The most important thing is to find Li Xuan and explain to him. Fu's future is not guaranteed.
Captain Song might have been too immersed in the situation and didn't even turn around. He just said behind his back: "Master Song, walk slowly!".
Sun Yawei immediately stopped and walked away, even looking back as he walked. Unfortunately, Captain Song and other officers still did not raise their heads to look at them. Sun Yawei was so angry that he had the urge to vomit blood, and he felt depressed.
The next big foot flew out, trying to kick a pebble on the ground.
But if you think about it, the pebbles on the ground are buried deep in the ground. It is estimated that this is only a small part exposed. Naturally, this kick flew over and was unable to kick it. Instead, it made Sun Yawei scream in pain.
, and then cover your feet.
At this time, Captain Song and others turned around, and Captain Song asked: "Master Sun, are you okay?"
Sun Yawei jumped on one foot and covered the other foot at the same time. When he heard this, he turned around and squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying: "It's okay, it's okay!"
"Oh, it's fine!" After saying that, Commander Song turned around and continued to discuss the military situation with his subordinates.
Sun Yawei was left alone and messy in the wind!
Grass!
To be honest, Song Tianbiao is really in no mood to care about Sun Yawei's mood now. He has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders now.
After the main force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty moved south from Tonggu Acropolis, Li Xuan sent Fang Xitong's second brigade as the front army, and Fang Xitong asked his subordinate third infantry regiment to go ahead to clear the way for the army of more than 10,000 people.
As the vanguard of the entire army, the pressure on the Third Infantry Regiment is naturally not small, and Song Tianbiao, the new commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, is also under a lot of pressure.
A few days ago, Emperor Li Xuan established the first brigade and the second brigade, which gave the new army of the Tang Dynasty two real generals, and also promoted the promotion of a group of generals.
After achieving such a huge victory in the Battle of Bronze Drum Acropolis, Li Xuan naturally wanted to be promoted heavily to inspire the soldiers.
As the saying goes, getting promoted and making a fortune was because the Tang Dynasty was short of money. Although the officers had nominal salaries, they were not actually paid much. The current new army of the Tang Dynasty only paid salaries to ordinary soldiers, and most of them were also
Discounted in kind, cash silver is rarely issued.
There was no way, who made the Tang Dynasty poor? All the gold and silver collected were used to purchase various strategic materials. As the scale of the new army of the Tang Dynasty became larger and larger, more and more materials were needed. This cost
There is also more and more gold and silver.
It is said that Old Man Sun, an old friend of the Tang Dynasty, has seen his net worth increase several times since doing business with the Tang Dynasty. This is all the hard-earned money of the Tang Dynasty, so that every time the Tang Dynasty
When the tax officials saw Old Man Sun, they wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood!
Profiteers like Old Man Sun just lurked on the Tang Dynasty and sucked up every drop of blood from the Tang Dynasty. Now I can't even get my mother's salary, let alone get rich through corruption, without him cutting it into pieces.
Ten thousand and eight yuan is really hard to relieve the hatred in my heart!
The Tang Dynasty was so poor that it couldn't make out its daily salary, so naturally it didn't have much money to spend to reward meritorious officers. Except for the rewards for non-commissioned officers and soldiers that needed to be fulfilled, the promotion and wealth of the officers was limited to promotion.
To make a fortune, at most, it is a symbolic distribution of a little money, and then a command knife given by Li Xuan himself.
There is no difference between this command sword and ordinary command swords. They are all the same style and are not gold-plated. The only difference is that there is a line of words engraved on it: "Xuan Ping gave it to so-and-so on a certain month and day of the year."
Well, this is considered an honorary reward!
However, although no money was given, Li Xuan was still very generous when it came to promotion!
After the war, many officers were promoted to military ranks. For example, Zeng Ziwen of the Operations Department was promoted from colonel to colonel.
And several new regiment commanders and battalion commanders were promoted!
Song Tianbiao is one of them. He succeeded Fang Xitong as the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment. At the same time, Chen Keqiao of the 2nd Infantry Battalion was promoted two levels in a row, from the commander of the infantry battalion to the commander of the lieutenant colonel.
, passed the transitional period of deputy leader.
And more importantly, he is also the commander of the First Infantry Regiment, the core force of the Tang Dynasty's new army!
This position is the most prominent colonel position in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. As long as he doesn't act foolishly and waits for a month or two for the transition period, he can be promoted to colonel. In the future, he will have a great chance to compete for the next major general brigade.
long job.
Compared with him, Song Tianbiao and he were both junior lieutenant colonel leaders, but their weight was very different!
But it is precisely because of this that Song Tianbiao wants to make some achievements. Who doesn't want to be like Hao Bainian and Fang Xi, and become a high-ranking general in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and be respected as a general!