Chapter 146 145 Sutras Were Taken

Wei Guangde naturally only thought about the issue of sharing the silver from the suppression of the Japanese, and would not write it into the policy paper.

That would be implemented after he came to power and the court implemented this policy.

If he was of low status and had little influence at that time, it would be really difficult to deal with it, and he probably would not even be qualified to see the minister.

As for selecting generals and training soldiers, Wei Guangde, as a military household, was relatively clear about the problems of the garrison. Although he could not say everything, he was clear about the problems that had been exposed.

In the final analysis, the silver received by the lower-level soldiers was too little.

So far, the only thing Wei Guangde knew was that if the soldiers of the garrison died in battle, no one would embezzle the silver from the burning and burial, because that was robbing the dead, and this was still taboo in traditional thinking.

In his opinion, as long as the military pay could be guaranteed, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers could be guaranteed.

For selecting generals, it was naturally recommended to select military officers trained in the war in the border towns, and for soldiers, the elites in the garrison and the brave men recruited from the people were selected.

He felt that relying on the garrison soldiers alone to suppress the Japanese was not very effective, and that recruited soldiers should be used to suppress the Japanese.

These days, recruiting soldiers has actually been made public. When the Ming Dynasty fought against the Mongolian Tartars in the north, most of the main combat soldiers were recruited soldiers, that is, camp soldiers. The garrison soldiers were rarely sent to fight. The task of the garrison soldiers was mainly to defend the city.

As for how to train, it depends on the military officer's method of fighting. Wei Guangde did not specify how to train.

These days, every family of military officers has its own heritage, and there are a set of untold secrets on how to fight and how to train soldiers.

Wei Guangde naturally would not worry about these, as long as he could win the battle after paying the silver.

Wei Guangde was still a little complacent about his own strategy to suppress the Japanese.

He would not be naive to think that the garrison's combat effectiveness was poor because the generals did not care about their lives and the soldiers were greedy for life and afraid of death, and that they could defeat the Japanese pirates just by shouting slogans to inspire fighting spirit.

However, Wei Guangde actually had some concerns, that is, if his fellow examiner was a pedantic scholar, it might be a bit troublesome.

Because of these things, many of them will not be recognized by these pedantic scholars.

In their minds, loyalty to the emperor and serving the country is the right thing, and the rest are minor matters. After all, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has shouted the slogan of "starving to death is a small matter, but losing one's integrity is a big matter".

Fortunately, Wei Guangde's worries did not become a reality.

At this time, in a room in the Hengjian Hall of the Nanchang Imperial Examination Hall, a fellow examiner had just turned over Wei Guangde's paper.

After a hasty look at the articles on the paper, several articles were quite standard. Putting them in this pile of test papers, they can only be considered medium-level, not even close to the top, a little bit below.

Gently shook his head, the fire was not enough, and he needed to continue studying.

This was the judgment given by the examiner after reading the beginning and end of Wei Guangde's article. If nothing unexpected happened, he was another candidate who failed the exam.

However, unlike usual, in the past, in such a situation, the paper was directly dismissed by the examiner and would definitely not be on the list.

Why is this so?

In fact, it is very simple, it is due to interests.

I recommended the examination papers myself, and they had to go through the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner. If I got the papers, it was fine. If I didn't, it would be a waste of the quota.

Why should I choose good articles? Isn't it to increase the chance of getting the papers?

As for why I recommended more papers with a high chance, it was because I was the room teacher of this candidate, and the thank-you gift would not be small.

In order to increase my chances of getting the papers, I sent a lot of rubbish papers. I'm afraid that the chief examiner will not look at the papers I recommended in a few days.

The eight-part essay was not very good, but the examiner did not throw the papers aside. Instead, he turned a few pages, skipped the second test paper, and went straight to the last policy paper.

The whole action was like flowing water, and it had been repeated countless times.

"The Emperor Taizu Gao unified the world. Everyone outside the vast sea was his servant. Only Japan did not come, so he sent envoys to tell them."

It's a bit interesting. Unlike many papers I saw before, most candidates' papers started with denouncing the cruelty and inhumanity of the Japanese pirates, and then sent heavenly soldiers to rectify the rules and regulations.

Unconsciously, the examiner read Wei Guangde's strategy to pacify the Japanese pirates, and then closed his eyes and pondered.

The Japanese pirates, the Japanese country, are ambitious and daring.

The surrounding countries have all surrendered, but this small Japanese country still dares to challenge the power of the Ming Dynasty.

The king of Japan is really damned.

Although Wei Guangde knew that Japan was the so-called emperor, most people in the Ming Dynasty did not know it at this time, and he would not point it out. Is it meaningful?

People asked, how did you know?

It was too difficult to explain, so Wei Guangde only used what he saw from books and court newspapers to write this article.

As for the latter, the selection of generals and training of soldiers are actually old-fashioned, and they have always said so in previous wars.

It's just that the examiner is a little confused about the proposal to collect taxes to suppress the Japanese in the Japanese-invasion areas and ensure that the military pay and reward silver of the officers and soldiers who suppress the Japanese are issued in time.

The military system of the guards is corrupt and unfit for war. They actually know it very well, but knowing it doesn't mean they have to say it.

The good thing about this article is that it only proposes to let the garrison soldiers defend the city, and to use the newly recruited camp soldiers to suppress the Japanese.

Camp soldiers are expensive, and they are not as easy to train as garrison soldiers.

If the military pay is not paid in time, you can quit at any time.

However, for fighting, camp soldiers are indeed much more useful than garrison soldiers.

In fact, the thing that made the examiner a little unsure about this article was the suggestion of collecting taxes, which was too involved.

However, this is also a meaningful article, much better than those boastful articles. In the policy papers I saw before, they all talked about mobilizing heavy troops from all over the country to encircle and suppress the enemy. Most of them did not mention the money spent on the war, as if the court had too much money to spend.

When he opened his eyes again, the examiner put Wei Guangde's paper aside and prepared to send it to the examiner later, asking the examiner to make a decision.

The eight-part essay was average, but the policy paper was a bit outstanding.

While the examiners were looking through the candidates' papers, Wei Guangde and a group of classmates had already gone to a famous brothel in Nanchang City to eat and drink.

After suffering so many days in the Imperial Examination Hall, it is natural to enjoy it at this time to make up for the suffering.

"Do you know? I just heard the news today that Lord Zhang Jing was arrested by the Jinyiwei sent by the emperor."

Zeng Yuanshu, who lives in Nanchang, put down his wine glass and said to everyone.

A seemingly ordinary sentence instantly shocked several tables of classmates around.

These people all knew that not long ago, Nanzhili had just won a great victory in the battle against the Japanese invaders. The person who passed the news was still sitting there. Could it be that he passed on false news, saying that the government army's defeat was a great victory?

Instantly, countless pairs of eyes shifted from Zeng Yuanshu to Wei Guangde, making Wei Guangde depressed for a while.

"Why are you staring at me?"

Wei Guangde couldn't help it. He was small, but his temper was not small. He was not like many people in the garrison. He was cautious in speaking and doing things in front of literati.

"What crime? Don't say half-heartedly. Tell us everything you know. Let's discuss it together."

Wei Guangde curled his lips and said, "Strange, just won a victory, and was arrested."