"On the military flag of each of your legions, I will stamp it with a jade seal, and also add this seal that I carry with me. When you return to the station after the Chinese New Year, you can take these military flags back."
"Each of these military flags will be the symbol of each of your legions. It is also the only identification of the existence of each legion. These military flags stamped with my seal, I will always look at you, and I will stand among you."
"Each of these military flags will never be seen again from now on. They are the only ones. If you lose or destroy the military flags, then you have lost me. Then the army that lost the military flags will disappear forever in our great Qin Dynasty.
It no longer exists in the army sequence."
"As long as the military flag with the jade seal of our Great Qin Emperor and my seal still exists, then this legion will always exist in our Great Qin and will always be the most elite legion in our Great Qin!"
"Now our Great Qin has twenty-four legions. There is no doubt that there are still a few legions that I have not announced to the world. Including the Royal Forest Army and the Forbidden Army. Five years later, I will order your eighteen legions to compete in a competition to rank among the best.
The first legion, I will give the word 'royal' before its name. For example, the Great Qin Royal Suzaku Legion, of course I am just making a metaphor."
"For the legion with the word "royal", I will only give it to four legions. In the future, unless a certain legion has made a shocking contribution, I will consider giving it to another legion. However, it is difficult to think about it."
"Whether you can put the word 'royal' in front of the name of your legion, which I personally gave you, depends on you. I will give you the same weapons and the same training procedures for each legion."
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In the huge "Loyalty Hall", Hu Hai was talking non-stop.
The students of the Royal Military Academy below were so excited that they almost wanted to cheer. Especially the generals of each legion, even Weng Zhong and Wang Qian, who had a close relationship, were looking at each other with a trace of emotion.
The sound of silk swords and sword shadows.
Only now did they know why the Ministry of War specifically ordered them to carry the flags of their respective regiments to Xianyang, and why they had to hand in the flags when reporting to the Ministry of War.
At first they thought that the emperor thought that there was no war in the world and wanted to disband his army.
Only then did they realize that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to put his seal on his military flag. It was self-evident what this meant.
It's trust, it's entrustment, and it's also a heavy pressure.
In the hundreds of years since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, except for the Dahao flag, which symbolizes the commander-in-chief, which cannot be easily lost, the other various flags have no function. You can throw away as many as you want.
But after Hu Hai put his seal and jade seal on the military flag, this situation will become a thing of the past forever.
The flag with the commander's surname as the flag of the Chinese army will no longer appear. It is no longer important. At least it is not as important as before. After all, the commanders of each army are naturally not as important as the military flag with the emperor's seal.
A level of existence.
Hu Hai naturally had his reasons for doing this.
In today's era, if nothing happens, each commander in chief will command his army forever until he dies. Just like Meng Tian's Jiuyuan Army.
The consequence of this is that over time, the soldiers in each army will only know their generals, and no longer the emperor or country who paid them, gave them weapons, and gave them food and clothing.
Those hundreds of thousands of soldiers eventually became the private soldiers of the generals of each legion. In this way, a situation was formed in which the commander of the army could restrict the imperial court and even resist foreign military orders.
It is also the source of national unrest and the emergence of local warlord separatism.
Since Hu Hai wants to frequently mobilize the generals of each legion and prevent them from being in charge of the army for a long time, and eventually make each legion the personal soldier of the general and become the second in the Jiuyuan Army, the first thing to do is to eliminate the chief generals of each legion.
The weight imprinted on the hearts of the soldiers of each legion changes the status quo that the general is the soul of an army.
And the military flag bearing the emperor's seal, especially the seal of the Great Qin Emperor bearing the name of the Holy Emperor, is obviously much better than Hu Hai's forced use of such means to eliminate the influence of the general on an army.
Think about it, in the next few decades or hundreds of years, these soldiers who hold up military flags with their own seals and shout "His Majesty the Holy Emperor is with us" and charge and fight desperately will completely attribute their honor and disgrace to the emperor.
on, or on oneself;
They associate honor and disgrace with themselves, which means that they always regard themselves as soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, and no longer the private soldiers of a certain general.
Once a general of a certain army wants to support his troops and rebel, he must first face the fact of how to rectify the soul of an army that has lost its faith and is against his own.
If this problem cannot be solved, then rebellion is seeking death. Without the court sending troops, those soldiers who believe in themselves will tear the commander into pieces.
Because that military flag will be passed down from generation to generation, eventually creating the soul of a legion that will be passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years.
That is their pillar, that is their belief.
If you subvert your faith, you will die miserably.
Of course, these things were all done by Hu Hai under Yangguan. Maybe the generals of each legion still don't know the consequences. Maybe Meng Tian has seen something, but so what?
As long as you lay a good foundation, even if you hang it for hundreds of years, as long as these military flags can be passed down from generation to generation, as long as the general flags represent the reason why this army exists and are passed down, it may be difficult for private soldiers to appear again in the future.
Of course, we cannot absolutely say that it is impossible for a talented and strategic general to emerge who can subvert the soul pillar of this army that has been passed down for hundreds of years.
And it is even more necessary to select the four most outstanding legions and give them the right to put the word "royal" in front of their names.
Only in this way can those legions and the soldiers in the legions always remember that they are soldiers of the Imperial Family of Great Qin, legions loyal to the Emperor of Great Qin, and the only legions in Great Qin that enjoy such honors.
This sense of honor and belonging must also exist in an army.
Hu Hai is not sure whether his descendants will be weak kings. Although the inheritance of the Great Qin Dynasty is to establish the virtuous rather than the eldest. But he can do it, his son can do it, and his grandson can do it. They follow the ancestral precepts, but always
There will be people who will try to overturn the ancestral precepts. Although they will not overturn it explicitly, for the sake of their beloved children or for the Emperor of Qin to permanently control his lineage, Hu Hai is sure that someone will think of ways to change this fact in the future.
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Emperor!
What seductive words!
Compared with the position of emperor, ancestral precepts may really be nothing.
Once changes occur, there will definitely be a foolish king. There is no doubt about this, and Hu Hai absolutely believes it.
Therefore, by planning in advance and setting restrictions on group training, there is only so much that Hu Hai can do...
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Looking at Shi Zhao who was wearing an ordinary soldier's armor, Hu Hai stood up, patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Good boy, you have grown a lot stronger."
Obviously, Shi Zhao had grown a lot physically and mentally during the several months at the Royal Military Academy.
Shi Zhao is lucky.
At least compared to 99.99% of ordinary young people who come from poor backgrounds, Shi Zhao is extremely lucky.
Because he met Hu Hai, and Hu Hai was the most supreme being in the world and the Qin Dynasty.
For Hu Hai, maybe he reached out to help Shi Zhao on a whim just because he saw a certain shadow that reminded him of his previous life. But for Shi Zhao, Hu Hai's whim can change the situation.
the destiny of his life.
Things are often so wonderful.
The words and deeds of a superior person can always inadvertently make a person ascend to heaven, and can also cause a person to fall from heaven to hell.
Shi Zhao did not dare to raise his head and look directly at Hu Hai, because that would be disrespectful.
The only thing he could do was to bury Hu Hai's kindness of knowing and rebuilding deeply in his heart, and then work hard to learn what he should learn, and become the most loyal eagle dog of the Holy Emperor.
Although Shi Zhao was only seventeen years old, the child of a poor man had already become a master. He knew better than anyone what it meant to give himself the opportunity to enter the Royal Academy and to become a disciple of the Grand Master of the Qin Dynasty and the Assistant Minister of the Cabinet Office.
Therefore, he did not even dare to tell his family because he was afraid that his family would not be able to bear this kindness or even abuse it.
Of course, at the beginning, Shi Zhao only regarded Hu Hai as a very powerful noble son.
"Students are willing to die for His Majesty! No matter how hard it is, we will die!"
Through the armor on his shoulders, Shi Zhao could clearly feel the strength and warmth brought by the palms placed on his shoulders. He did not expect that the emperor would still remember him, and did not even summon a group of people who had made great contributions to the court.
The generals were the first to be summoned alone.
Obviously, the emperor has not forgotten him, or in other words, the Holy Emperor has been paying attention to him secretly.
Shi Zhao didn't know how he could be treated like this by the Holy Emperor. At this moment, the only thing he could think of and say out loud, and after thinking about it over and over again, it seemed like this was the only thing he could say.
"Haha, I have millions of elite troops, and I have countless generals who are capable of conquering and fighting and are loyal to me. Why would I need a little guy like you to die for me!" Hu Hai laughed and patted Shi Zhao on the shoulder.
yes!
The Holy Emperor has millions of troops and countless invincible generals. Now I am just a student who has not graduated from the Royal Military Academy. What can I do for the Holy Emperor?