The opening ceremony of the military academy was held very lively, so that for a period of time, Bianliang City talked about this topic.

The generals had a cradle, and the literati were a little jealous. When the Imperial College was established, Guo Hao never paid such attention to it.

A few days later, the Minister of Personnel Zhang Zhao found Guo Hao. This Zhang Zhao was not the one in the Three Kingdoms period, but from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Zhang Zhao, whose real name was Zhang Zhaoyuan, was Qianfu, and his courtesy name was Qianfu. He was later from Fan County, Henan Province. He was an official from the Five Dynasties to the early Northern Song Dynasty and a journalist.

Zhang Zhao served in the Later Tang Dynasty, Later Jin Dynasty, Later Han Dynasty, Later Zhou Dynasty, and later served as Minister of Personnel, and was granted the title of Duke of Zheng, and later changed the title of Duke of Chen.

He was also the Minister of Rites Li Fang. Before Li Fang was elected in the cabinet, Guo Hao felt that he was rare. He happened to be the former Minister of Rites, so Guo Hao asked him to take over this position.

Zhang Zhao was a great scholar of the times, and Li Fang was also a Hanlin bachelor. When the two Shangshu joined forces, Guo Hao was a little amused and crying when he saw this.

"I'll say, two sirs, what are you doing?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the old minister received a letter from the six major academies of the Song Dynasty, asking Your Majesty not to favor one or the other. The grand opening of the Military Academy has all heard of it, especially the merit monument, which should not contain only the names of military generals."

Zhang Zhao said and took out a note, which contained petitions from six major academies and signatures of many teachers and students.

After Guo Hao looked up, he looked up at the two of them. He had previously conferred Suiyang Academy as the Imperial College, but only held a simple ceremony. Compared with the Military Academy, it was indeed a bit shabby.

But at that time, Guo Hao had no clear ideas and the court was not rich, so everything was simple.

Now after two years of rest and recuperation, the Song Dynasty's national treasury is full, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. With the promotion of kindergartens, there are indeed a lot more students than before.

"You want me to hold a main ceremony, it's not impossible, but you have to understand one thing, what do you think is this?"

As he said that, Guo Hao stretched out his hands and clenched his fists. The two old men looked at each other, a little puzzled.

"This is my hands, just like civil officials and military generals. Both sides are equally important. They are responsible for ensuring the peace of the Song Dynasty, and there is no distinction between high and low!

And my legs are merchants and craftsmen, who are responsible for the development of the Song Dynasty. Without these two things, the Song Dynasty was also unable to move forward.

This is true for all limbs, so what does my head and torso represent? Do you know?"

Guo Hao used his body metaphor, even if the two gentlemen were well-educated, they were unheard of.

"My head is the court. Without the control of the brain, the dynasty will have no leaders.

And the torso is the farmers. China has been a major agricultural country since ancient times, so the most important thing is actually the people!”

Civil officials, military generals, merchants, craftsmen, courts, people...

This is Guo Hao's idea, which can be translated into: culture, military, economy, science and technology, politics, agriculture.

These six aspects basically cover the development of a country, and of course there are many details, such as laws in politics, and science and technology involve military and agriculture.

"I said this to tell you not to compare yourself with the spirit of comparison. The literati's sons plan for the country, cultivate themselves, govern the country and pacify the world. This is your duty.

And I can hold this main ceremony, but it is not yet now, because there are still 300,000 soldiers guarding the border!

If one day, you literati prove that the Song Dynasty did not need so many troops to guard it, I will give you an explanation!

Besides, I do not ignore scholars. On the contrary, I attach great importance to scholars, otherwise I would not have forced the generals to study.

Once those generals have the same talent and knowledge as you and have great martial arts, what are the advantages of you literati?

Think about this question carefully. As the leaders of the literary world, you two should advise those students to study hard instead of greed for these false fame!”

To rule the world, wars may not necessarily be resolved. There were alliances and alliances in the Spring and Autumn Period, which was the earliest foreign teacher method.

However, in the Song Dynasty, there seems to be no such powerful person yet, and Guo Hao’s planning method still needs time to lay the groundwork.

After hearing what Guo Hao said, the two old gentlemen left in shame.

After the two left, Guo Hao felt that he had said something too much, so he picked up his pen and wrote four lines of poetry.

"The ancients learned without any effort, and they were able to achieve their skills in their youth. They were always shallow when they learned it on paper, and they had to practice it in their own way."

After writing a poem, Guo Hao called San Dezi and asked him to send him to the Ministry of Personnel. With Zhang Zhao's talent and knowledge, he should understand Guo Hao's meaning.

Sandezi arrived at the Ministry of Personnel and handed over the poem to Zhang Zhao. At this time, Li Fang was also here, and there were several ministers.

"Shangshu Zhang, after you left, Your Majesty was afraid that you would not understand what he meant, so he wrote this poem specially and asked the servant to hand it over to you."

Zhang Zhao looked down at the poem. Although it was only four short sentences, the meaning was very obvious.

Many of Guo Hao's policies in recent years have been basically implemented by some grassroots officials, and the participation of war literati is indeed not high.

However, this does not mean that Guo Hao despises literati, but that after the military and political reforms, literati never recognize their status.

If the responsibility of a soldier is to expand territory and defend his country, then what should the responsibility of a literati be?

Later generations regarded officials as public servants of the people, but it was impossible to achieve this in this era. Guo Hao dared not say it too clearly. Anyway, he subconsciously taught officials to serve the people!

In this way, officials will consider the people, that is, they will share the worries for the emperor. If the people live a good life, the world will be peaceful.

Nowadays officials cannot do this, everything is implemented under the orders of the court. If Guo Hao's skills are not strong enough, some policies will not go so smoothly.

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The Military Academy officially started and the students started training. Guo Hao visited once during the period and emphasized discipline, but he did not go again.

According to the plan, Guo Hao should have gone to class, but Cao Bin came to report that the naval training had been half a year and hoped to find an opportunity to train in practice!

Guo Hao has been waiting for the navy to ask for battle for a long time. Now the Song Dynasty has ten warships and a total of ten thousand navy!

The naval force has grown to scale, but it has not been baptized by reality and cannot be considered a real legion. The time has finally come!

Guo Hao made up his mind and immediately issued an order to order the four generals in the southern border to prepare for combat and cooperate with Cao Bin's navy to fight in two groups!

After receiving the order, Cao Bin immediately led the fleet southward and sailed from the East China Sea along the coastline to the South China Sea, which took ten days.

During this period, Pan Mei and Liu Tingrang were impatient, mainly because the Southern Han court was too incompetent. They were on the border and entering and leaving the Southern Han was like entering and leaving the Southern Han.

Such a weak opponent has to defend heavily, and it can be seen but not fought. This has to be said to be a torture.

After waiting for so long, I finally got to take action. In fact, without Cao Bin's navy, the 100,000 army could also destroy the Southern Han.

But Guo Hao clearly explained in the imperial edict that they should take it easy and give the navy some chance. Otherwise, wouldn’t Guo Hao’s navy, which he had worked hard to train, become a decoration?

There was no reason or excuse for this war. Guo Hao directly issued an order to make the Southern Han surrender and start a war without surrendering.

But the emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Hui, was really a weirdo. He thought that his country was strong and he was not afraid of the attack of the Song Dynasty.

Little did they know that generals before the Southern Han Dynasty, such as Shao Ting-jin, were killed because of slander. The Southern Han Dynasty only responded after the war began, and its pre-war preparations were almost zero.

The Song army had been stationed in Lingnan for so long and was already familiar with the local area. They deliberately avoided Qitianling and Mengzhuling, captured Baixia, and marched to Hezhou.

The Southern Han lord Liu Feng was usually not prepared for war. Suddenly, he heard that Hezhou was besieged, so he hurriedly sent his general Wu Yanrou to lead tens of thousands of troops along the Linhe River to rescue north.

At the same time, Cao Bin's navy entered the Pearl River Delta State along the coastline. During this period, he encountered no obstacles and went directly to the south of Panyu.

Panyu is also the seat of the Xingwang Mansion, Guangzhou in later generations, and the southern Han Dynasty.

Cao Bin hit Panyu without knowing it, which made Pan Mei and others speechless.

We haven't started working here yet. Your troops are already at the city. We originally wanted to grab some credit, but now we see that we're just robbing you nothing!

At this time, except for the coastal areas of Song Dynasty, the coastal defenses in various places were almost zero, which gave Cao Bin the opportunity to take advantage of it.

But he is not stupid either. He only has 10,000 new recruits, and his advantage is warships. If he lands in battle, he may not be an opponent of the Han army.

So he contacted Pan Mei and others and asked them to hurry up. When they hit Panyu, they would directly fire thousands of cannons to let them see the great things! 1616046836
Chapter completed!