Xuande

Chapter 256 Yan Biejia, Will You Walk With Me?

In addition to the welfare benefits for the army, Yan Zhong also found that in addition to heavy military skills training, Liu Bei would also use cultural tutoring to enrich the army.

Liu Bei organized illiterate soldiers who could not read and write, arranged for scribes to teach them, and made them specialize in surprise learning of reading and writing skills.

He found relatively few such things in the army after Guangwu Zhongxing, because after Guangwu Zhongxing, the Eastern Han army used more recruits, and it was unnecessary to withdraw after the incident.

But in the period before Guangwu Zhongxing, such things did exist. At that time, the army, especially the frontier army, had certain requirements for soldiers to master the reading and writing skills, so the literacy rate of the army was relatively high at that time, and the court was willing to invest in it. .

This good tradition disappeared after Guangwu Zhongxing, and I have to say it is a pity.

Based on this, Yan Zhong believes that Liu Bei's army has won the essence of the famous generals of the previous dynasty.

Not only that, Yan Zhong also discovered that Liu Bei had set up a special military law office in the army, which was in charge of all military camp personnel's disciplinary actions for violating military law.

Anyone who violated the military law would be called to the military law office to be punished. Generally, the officers who lead the army have no direct power to deal with the soldiers. They can only report the behavior of the soldiers who violated the military law to the military law office, and then the military law office will enforce the military law.

Yan Zhong didn't quite understand this process, so he asked Liu Bei. Liu Bei's explanation was to make the army the country's army, not the private soldiers of the officers.

"When officers enforce military laws, soldiers will fear them. They may become officers' private soldiers, and the problem of lynching cannot be avoided. The public military law office implements military laws openly. If everything is upright, soldiers will truly respect military laws and become the country's soldiers. Soldiers, not officers."

Yan Zhong was greatly impressed by this, but at the same time he was puzzled, wondering if some officers would be dissatisfied with this.

Liu Bei said no.

Because this is the rule he led soldiers from the very beginning, and those who are familiar with him have long been accustomed to his rules. They have never had the authority to lynch soldiers, and all execution authority belongs to military law.

Everyone is used to it.

The old man got used to it, and the newcomer didn't dare to question it, so he soon got used to it. In this way, anyone who followed Liu Bei to fight must accept this requirement. Is there anyone who is not used to it?

That's okay too?

Yan Zhong was very surprised.

After a whole day of training, at night, as long as it doesn't rain, Liu Bei will ask the barracks to hold a large-scale dinner party.

All the soldiers sat in front of a large cauldron to eat. Whenever Liu Bei was free, he would eat with the soldiers. He walked among the soldiers with his rice bowl, and from time to time he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up food from the soldiers' pot. , quite a feeling of eating hundreds of meals.

In the process, Liu Bei will also communicate with the soldiers, talking with them about life in the military camp, about their hometown, about their relatives, and about their goals for joining the army.

After dinner and before the rest of the army, he would encourage soldiers who are good at singing to stand up and sing songs from their hometown for everyone, and then lead the whole army to sing. Although the level is similar to howling ghosts and howling wolves, the feeling is very satisfying.

Yan Zhong followed Liu Bei with his job bowl in his hand, watching Liu Bei grinning and eating food from the soldiers' pots, some from this pot, some from that pot, this one patted his shoulder, that one kicked his ass, talking and laughing happily with the soldiers, his expression calm.

When the soldiers saw Liu Bei, they would show great respect, with smiles on their faces instead of fear.

Respect and fear are two different things, Yan Zhong can tell very well that soldiers really respect Liu Bei, not fear Liu Bei.

Yan Zhong asked Liu Bei's purpose for doing this, and Liu Bei said that there were two purposes.

The first one is to check whether anyone cut corners and shoddy the food for the army, because no one knows which pot he will fish for food, so the person in charge of the food dare not mess around.

He doesn't completely trust his own means, no matter how good the rules are, people must enforce them. Once people have selfishness and want to do some small tricks, it is easy to take advantage of loopholes.

Therefore, Liu Bei personally intervened in this link, and used this method to supervise the work of the military's logistics department to achieve a deterrent effect.

This is a benefit.

The second advantage is that he wants to take this opportunity to go deep into the soldiers, understand their thoughts, ask them about the difficulties and shortcomings of military life, and understand what else is there for him to run the army from the most direct place insufficient.

"The regulations governing the army will ultimately fall on the soldiers. As a commander, if I can't know what the soldiers think and only get answers from the officers, then I will be deceived. If I am willing to contact the soldiers directly, then No one dared to blind me on major issues.

To put it bluntly, governing the army is to give grace and power together. Three meals a day are grace, and military law is like a mountain.In my opinion, the reason why the world lacks a strong army is the problem. Therefore, start from me and make changes. "

Seeing Liu Bei's serious expression, Yan Zhong was really impressed.

"Today, when we see the rulers and marquises governing the army, we will know why the princes and marquises can defeat many with less. If the Han army is all governed by the princes and marquises, how can there be any chaos between the Qiang and the Hu?"

Liu Bei smiled.

"What can I do alone? My ability alone is always limited, and there are many things I can't do. I need many like-minded people to go forward together, run the army together, and change the status quo together. Only in this way can it be possible to achieve The final victory, Yan Biejia, would you like to walk with me?"

Liu Bei stretched out his hand to Yan Zhong.

Yan Zhong looked at Liu Bei's sincere eyes, couldn't help but stepped forward, and held Liu Bei's hand tightly.

"Stick what you want, don't dare to ask for it!"

So Yan Zhong tried his best to plan for Liu Bei, taking out all the dangerous terrain, climate, mountains and rivers, Qianghu resident and other things in Liangzhou, pointing to the map for Liu Bei to popularize everything Liu Bei wanted to know about Liangzhou matter.

But there is nothing hidden about what he knows. After talking about it, Liu Bei thinks that Yan Zhong is a know-it-all in Liangzhou.

Subsequently, in the first phase of the Liangzhou pacification plan held by Liu Bei, Liu Bei planned to launch a comprehensive military operation against the five counties of Wudu, Longxi, Jincheng, Beidi, and Anding, with the goal of suppressing all armed rebellions in these five counties Power, regardless of Hu Han.

Regarding Liu Bei's action plan, Gai Xun made some comments.

Gai Xun believes that Liu Bei's reputation for bravery has spread throughout Liangzhou, and almost everyone in Liangzhou already knows the "power" of this Xinzhou shepherd. There is no need to continue to fight to show Liu Bei's "power". In the short term, it is only necessary to lay a solid foundation can.

It is true that there are many independent and semi-independent armed groups in the five counties who do not obey the control of the imperial court, but they are not confidantes. Liu Bei should still focus on governance. If governance is done well, these rotten sweet potatoes and rotten bird eggs are trivial matters .

Just hand it over to the local sheriff to calm it down.

And Liangzhou has been through war for a long time, now is the time to recuperate.

Liu Bei didn't think so.

"The premise of governance is stability, and the premise of stability is pacification. Although I have made military achievements in Liangzhou, there are many people in this world who don't see the coffin and don't cry. Han scholars and powerful people know my fame and identity. Ask me and be willing to obey my government orders, so what about others?
In addition to scholars and powerful people, there are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Liangzhou, and there are even more than a million Qianghu people. Do they know my fame and identity?Could it be that what they want from me is to follow me to study and become an official in Luoyang? "

(End of this chapter)