The sound of rain outside the window continued. Xu Ping and Li Zhang sat opposite each other, with a wine pot on the table and a glass of wine from time to time.

After stretching his waist, Xu Ping said to Li Zhang: "This time you are asked to take charge of military orders and command operations, it is not about putting in a lot of effort. It is important to learn and be familiar with these matters. This battle is not big, and all the generals will make their own ideas. You just need to do it according to the regulations."

"I know that my brother doesn't expect me to go to war and handing over the things to me is just to let me learn. Don't worry, I have a sense of my heart and will not do anything bad. There is Wang Jianjun on the side."

Xu Ping played with the wine glass in his hand and did not look up: "It's good that you understand it in your heart. At that time, the official family asked you to follow me to Qinzhou, and his intention was to make some military achievements and there was a reason to promote it in the future. As for leading troops to fight, I have never expected you to do it. It's not that you can't do it, but that your identity is not as good as others, and there is no reason to take risks in the battle. In fact, the official family did not expect you to learn much military affairs. This is my idea, and you should understand it."

Li Zhang nodded: "I naturally understand what my brother means. If you win the military reform in Qinzhou, if you win the Dangxiang, the new military system will inevitably be pushed to several other routes. At that time, many generals of the imperial guards will lose their jobs. How can you not hate you? Therefore, you must not propose to push the Qinzhou military system to all imperial guards, nor to propose to the government, but to other ministers."

"Yes, I can't mention it. It must be proposed by others, preferably the priest and other leaders. The new military system does not necessarily ruin the jobs of the generals of the imperial guards, but if they want to save their past things, they are afraid they have to use their strength to save themselves. And from then on, the generals and the generals had their own channels for promotion, and they had their own ways to recruit soldiers. They cut off the military and military positions controlled by the generals, which really attracted people hatred. There are countless storms in the officialdom. Since I entered the officialdom, I have tried my best to stay out of the matter and only improve the beauty of others, but not reveal the weaknesses of others. This is the meaning of protecting ourselves. But if you eat the king's fortune, be loyal to the emperor, and lead troops to fight, there is no way to lead troops to fight. If you don't reveal the shortcomings of the imperial guards now, you can't bring out soldiers who can fight well, so what can you do?"

Once the Qinzhou military system is pushed to the whole country, it will be equivalent to overturning all the original imperial guards to the ground. Xu Ping can think of it with his toes. This involves not only a group of imperial guards in the three yamen, but also involves a huge social class, the soldiers of the imperial guards and the generals of the imperial guards, and they will hate Xu Ping to death.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the different paths of civil and military affairs have not only changed the functions of officials, but also have different requirements for the origin, ability and even personal morality of civil and military officers. This change has a profound impact. Over time, it has even formed a small society of military groups. The backbone of the Three Ya Imperial Guards is actually very narrow, and it is nothing more than along the border three routes and the two capitals. In these places, being a soldier and eating food is not the way out for most people. The soldiers recruited either come from idle people in the city or for generations.

The military family, generals and soldiers, actually formed a small society in the big society, with the army relatively closed and separated from the entire society to a certain extent. The military system of the imperial guards has also eliminated officials and officials who work. All professional knowledge and combat skills have no channels to learn, and they can only enter the army to learn, or come from family traditions. This is the job of a whole social class. No matter how corrupt the country's army is, whether it can fight or not, these people's jobs are there.

The military system of Qinzhou made military affairs complicated and specialization secondly. The key is to break this barrier. The army no longer relies on the military orders of family war formations and military orders. Everything from family archery, horse, sword, and gun can be cultivated from the army. From then on, the imperial guards no longer confined to those places, no longer confined to those generals, but faced the entire society. This new military system connected the previously broken national military and politics, and picked up the broken military tradition again. Under the new military system, martial arts such as bow, horse, sword, gun, formation and other martial arts retreated to a secondary position. The military had its own training system, and even a research and improvement system, which was necessary to make contributions in the military and make a name for themselves, and the cultural level was high.

This is exactly incompatible with the previous military tradition. In addition to pursuing the desire to transform into civil servants, most of the families who rely on their family skills and connections to fight for wealth in the army. It will be difficult to do this in the future.

The most hated thing in the world is to smash people's jobs. Xu Ping is not so great that he has smashed himself to pieces to pieces to promote this. The choice of both worlds is to do things by himself and others will overturn the table.

Last year's war was just a mutual temptation between the Song army and Dangxiang. The real war was in the autumn, and from then on, it was the time to determine life and death. Xu Ping needed not only military achievements, but also to show how he succeeded and what he did to others to see one by one. It is precisely because of this that Li Zhang had to return to Beijing, and others could not do this.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Li Zhang looked out the window and said quietly: "Brother, we were sometimes naughty more than ten years ago, and we also learned to drink like this. At that time, we did not expect to have today. You are the magistrate, who is in charge of power, and you can decide the life and death of tens of millions of people with one word. I actually made this position and could command thousands of troops to fight. Who would have predicted the life experience?"

Xu Ping smiled and shook his head. He didn't expect that he just wanted to take the imperial examination and gain a background at that time, and he would not be bullied by others easily in this world. Even when he was appointed as a magistrate in Yongzhou, he did not take the military intentions. He had to deal with it. He used one state to destroy a country in Yongzhou, but Xu Ping himself was a little confused. He did not command as he was now, and he really led an army to fight against the enemy. After all, his military achievements were too weak, and Xu Ping was a little lucky. He didn't think of the contribution, but he ran to his own hands. Now when he thought about the war in Yongzhou back then, Xu Ping himself was a little funny. At that time, he was still far away from the qualified commander.

Li Zhang looked out the window with a little lonely expression, and looked a little lonely. At this point, both of them could say that they had everything, but they lost a lot, without the carefreeness and warmth of the world as they used to be. Now, every move of the two must take into account the consequences, whether kindness or maliciousness, and there are countless pairs of eyes staring around them.

After a while of silence, Li Zhang said: "Brother, have you ever thought about what duty I will take when I return to Beijing? If you want to do what you have assigned me, you will probably not be able to be a guard minister like before, but what duty is there in the court suitable for me?"

"You don't have to worry about this. As long as you arrive in the capital and tell the officials what you have learned and what you want to do here, the officials will naturally make arrangements. Don't worry, there must be a suitable position in the morning."

"But since I became an official, I have been by my family and only doing some daily chores. When I arrived in the northwest, I was always by my brother's side. I was in charge of Jiyi's writing and arranged some detailed work, and didn't deal with people much. When I returned to Beijing, as you said, I must interact with the ministers, otherwise how could they see anything from me? Then I have never done it."

Xu Ping looked at Li Zhang and smiled and said, "You don't have to think too much. Just follow what you learned here and do it according to the instructions of the officials. The ministers don't have to worry about it. Brother, the world's affairs are in their own way. Don't think about things thoroughly and let others let you do like puppets. People will think about things. As long as you do things, others see them, they will naturally think about them and naturally make ideas. You don't need to say too much."
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