In addition to people from the Tang Dynasty, there were also countless foreign travelers who entered the Tang Dynasty.
People from Persia, people from Kushan, Hu people who moved south from Liaozhou, Anxi Duhu and other places, and even people from Western Turks, Arabia, Rome and other countries...
These many foreigners have different purposes. Some of them go to foreign countries to seek wealth and fame, while others have unknown purposes. But...whether they travel to seek wealth or have ulterior motives, the one thing these foreigners have in common is that
I am highly curious about the Tang army.
This martial arts performance held by the Forbidden Army of the Tang Dynasty naturally attracted countless attention. Of course...
Just like Li Xiaogong and Li Ji, just like Yuan Gaesumun, and even...just like Li Sheng's random guesses, these foreigners have no expectations that those thin-skinned and tender scholars can win.
After all, although the dynasty established by the Han people today is awesome, knowledgeable people all know that the Sui and Tang dynasties came out of the chaotic times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the chaotic times of those years, scholars were definitely a group that cannot be ignored.
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Everyone knows that the heroes of the Tang Empire were the military elites of Guan and Long, and these scholars were basically all held back... They were not at the same level as the legendary intellectual elites of ancient China.
...How can such a group of people, even with the training and guidance of the God of War Li Sheng, defeat the elite Imperial Guards under His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire? It's impossible just think about it!
but.
In this martial arts meeting, although everyone was not optimistic about Li Sheng's army, there was one person who had a completely different attitude towards the outcome of the battle.
His Majesty!
That's right, Li Er was different from everyone else. He believed that these young scholars could win. In other words... Li Er was the one who most hoped that these young scholars could win in this competition.
Different from what ordinary generals, ministers and common people think, Li Er's thinking is much more profound and macroscopic. Nowadays, Datang Guangjian Academy is sending more and more young people to study in the academy. One day in the future... it is very possible
, all young people in China will become scholars.
At that time, to whom will the fate of the Tang Dynasty be entrusted? When the founding tigers and wolves are all gone, if China cannot complete a profound enough self-reform, then it will become... a regime like the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
In Li Er's opinion, the probability of this future occurrence not only exists, but is also very high!
Thinking of the painting style that brought about the end of the Wei and Jin dynasties, Li Er couldn't help but have trouble sleeping every time he thought of it.
but!
This situation is not irreversible, because China has been producing something since ancient times - the kind of thing that can appear as a general or a general. Although he can fight, he is also a scholar; although he is a scholar, he seems to be able to do anything.
You can succeed in anything you do.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang, who was a scholar himself, criticized the scholars for writing a poem in his youth called "Hao Shu Su": "I have read tens of thousands of volumes, but I really don't have a plan in my mind." After so many years, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan... and today's Li Er
, after repeatedly thinking about the difference, the conclusion is that Zhuge Liang, a scholar, has more martial virtues than other scholars - but Zhuge Liang's martial virtues are developed through being alone, and a large number of scholars... The imperial court
Then it would be difficult to set up a large number of solitary occasions to produce talents like Zhuge Liang.
For this reason, Li Er now attaches great importance to Li Sheng's work. If this work is completed, Datang's talent training system will be in the future... Hehehe, it will be wonderful.
Because of all the above, Li Er summed up, the Southern and Northern Dynasties had a history of hundreds of years in Shenzhou. To put it bluntly, it was because there was a problem with talent training. There were no players who could truly interpret the situation and control the situation at the same time. If the scholars of the Tang Dynasty were all
If you can really become talented, then...
Only in the Tang Dynasty could it truly be possible to start a long-term governance!
Instead of being like this group of short-lived ghosts in the Sui Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, they always said they were finished.
This eager expectation in Li Er's heart is really strong and cannot be expressed in words. But... as we all know, people in the world are always afraid of what will happen. Another philosopher said: Ninety-nine times out of ten, if you travel a hundred miles, things will not go as planned.
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Although I am very much looking forward to it, and I also try to convince myself that Li Sheng's talent is not a joke, these scholars from Hangzhou will definitely perform brilliantly... Well, "dazzling" is a good word, it comes from Li Sheng
I read it from the storybook of Zizhenzhai...
But just because I was looking forward to it, actually...
Even Li Er was quite anxious, what would happen if these scholars failed in this competition...
And Li Er couldn't help but sigh after a little introspection. In fact, he even used the word "dazzling" and considered "what would happen if he failed", which showed... In fact, his subconscious intuition was not the same.
It is believed that this group of scholars can defeat the real Imperial Army in a competition after only one month of training.
The real Forbidden Army, this is... a mere group of scholars, let alone military training, most of them have never even done heavy work at home. And because the Northern and Southern Dynasties have produced too many military heroes in the past few hundred years, in fact...
...As one of them, Li Er knew that military heroes with strong military virtues were not always good people, and there were also many wolves among them. The scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties had a natural fear of warriors, which was also due to the literary culture of the Sui Dynasty.
The emperor and the Emperor Gao of the Tang Dynasty were worried about military riots, and cavalry and archery in Confucian education were gradually abolished.
In other words, the scholars in Li Sheng's hands may not be as good as ordinary young people in terms of physical confrontation.
How is it possible that after one month of training, one can compete with the Forbidden Army? This is simply becoming more and more impossible the more I think about it.
Li Er was worried about this. If the competition failed...then morale would be depressed. Maybe a mechanism that allows scholars to truly become talents will wither away, and no one will recognize and participate. How can this be good? This is obviously
not good.
But as mentioned above, Li Er became even more worried when he realized his worries. It can be said to be a second-order worry - after doing it for a long time, he also acquiesced that Li Sheng's team would lose...
In this complicated mood, Li Er spent more than a month.
People all over the world are commonly called the masses, but the mood of the masses is different from Li Er. It is not that complicated. On the contrary, basically... they all agree that it is impossible for scholars trained by that "rugby" method to defeat the imperial army, and basically they are not able to beat the imperial army.
No doubt whatsoever.
The main ones who are feeling complicated are Li Er, of course... and the top advisers around Li Er such as Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, etc. Of course they also know what Li Er is worried about.
It’s just that time waits for no one, no matter what a person’s mood is, time passes by the same way... One month passed, and the competition finally...
