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Chapter 753 Different Angles, Different Choices
"Hmph, Ziying, you think highly of these martial arts." Fan Jingwen said bluntly: "These guys only have their own interests in their eyes, why have they ever had anything else?"

Hearing Fan Jingwen's blunt words, Fang Youdu and Wu Tong next to him couldn't help coughing a few times, winking again and again, reminding Fan Jingwen that Feng Ziying in front of him was also from Wu Xun.

But Fan Jingwen didn't care, and still had a straight face, "Uncle Fang, You Lu, don't wink at me, I know what I say, Ziying won't mind it, am I wrong? A decent one? Niu Jizong, or Chen Jixian? Or that Qiu Shiben?"

Feng Ziying couldn't help laughing, this Fan Jingwen is really rude.

However, they were all from the north, so Fan Jingwen was more open than Wu Tong and Fang Youdu. Although Fang Youdu had a closer relationship with Feng Ziying, he would not say such heart-breaking words.

"Mengzhang, if you say it like this, the martial arts who are relied on by the Great Zhou as the country's capital are worthless in your eyes?" Feng Ziying stood still, but swept the snow on the stone slab in front of her into the pond with her feet middle.

"Guoben?" Fan Jingwen sneered, "I'm afraid that the martial arts are bragging themselves? If you say that you are Guoben during the Taihe period, or even Guangyuan period, there may still be a few people who believe it, but now, Zi Ying, do you believe it? Take a look at the Beijing camp and see what kind of stuff is there, I think it’s not even as good as the Wucheng soldiers and horses!"

Feng Ziying shook her head again and again, not knowing why this guy was stimulated by something, why did he become so hostile and contemptuous towards Wu Xun?
"Mengzhang, what's wrong with you? Why did you become so extreme all of a sudden? You weren't like this in the past." Feng Ziying couldn't help but tilted her head and looked at Fan Jingwen and asked.

He Fengsheng, who was still familiar with Fan Jingwen, had a haha ​​and said: "Hey, Ziying, Mengzhang is a member of the Fifth Army Battalion in the Beijing Camp. He was born as a Wu Jinshi. He has been in the Beijing Camp for many years and has not been able to get ahead. The day before yesterday, Mengzhang I came here to complain for a while, and it must have stimulated Mengzhang."

Fan Jingwen didn't pay attention to He Fengsheng's explanation, and still had a straight face: "It's not entirely because of my clansman. It's normal that I alone can't get ahead. Wu Jinshi can't explain anything, but according to what he said, like him There are quite a few children from impoverished families who were born in Wu Jinshi and Wuju, who have been in the army for many years and have had difficulty getting ahead, even if they are promoted to a position like a hundred households, it is difficult to reach the sky, this is not normal."

Dazhou followed the military system of the former Ming Dynasty, but there were some changes. The martial arts system was popular for a while in the Taihe period, but it was abolished after the fifth year of Guangyuan. Only two subjects were opened, and it was not until after the 29th year of Yuanxi that customization began to form.

Martial arts exams are held every six years, and the schedule is similar to that of Qiu Wei and Chun Wei, but there is no so-called three-examination system for county examinations, government examinations, and colleges, and there is only one county selection test, and anyone can take a test in the county selection test Skills, as long as you pass the county selection test, you can directly enter the martial arts test. Each province still has places every year, but compared with Qiu Wei and Chun Wei, the martial arts places in the northern provinces are much higher than those in the south , which means that the northern folks have more opportunities to obtain official status through martial arts.

However, whether it is the martial arts held directly by the provinces or the big martial arts competition in the capital city in the spring of the second year, its influence is far from being comparable to that of the real Qiu Wei Chun Wei. Even if Wu Jinshi is two levels lower than Juren, this is also the evil result of Dazhou's use of literature to control martial arts.

Although poor in literature and rich in martial arts, Beidi, Beizhi, Shandong, Henan and even Shaanxi are all places where martial arts flourish, so there are still many children who hope to win official status through the martial arts system. It is an important source of middle and lower-level military attaches in the battalions and guards of various places, but the middle and high-level officials are still produced from the children of martial arts and the accumulated meritorious service in the army.

This also formed a situation in the Great Zhou Army where the military officers who were born in martial arts, the military officers who had accumulated meritorious service in the army, and the military officers who were children of military honors divided the world into three parts. However, among the middle and senior military generals, especially the senior military generals, the children of martial arts still occupy an absolute advantage. The officials who have accumulated meritorious service and martial arts in the military account for about [-]% of the middle-level military officers, while among the high-level military generals, only one It can account for [-]% of the total, and even less than [-]% of martial arts.

Because there is only one subject in the martial arts examination every six years, like in the second year of Yonglong, it was not in the fifth year of Yonglong, but this year.

"It seems that Mengzhang has a lot of grievances, and he is fighting for the children of his clan who were born in martial arts. Dazhang, Feixiong, don't you two have ambitions to stay in the Ministry of War? If you become a military officer in the Ministry of War in the future, you can We have to think carefully about whether there is any problem with the selection mechanism of military officers in our army. If there is, how to improve it. We can't let the talents who are good at literature and martial arts always be buried at the bottom, and let mediocre people like Ma Xia A mediocre trash, but because of Wu Xun's background, he is in a high position."

Seeing that Fan Jingwen was really angry, Feng Ziying had no choice but to comfort her, although the tone sounded like the chief minister of the cabinet.

Both Zheng Chongjian and Wang Yingxiong exchanged glances, and they were both a little embarrassed to be pointed out by Feng Ziying. Although it was their wish to stay in the Ministry of War, when they learned that Yang Sichang also intended to join the Ministry of War, they felt that their hope was afraid. Not much anymore.

If you want to stay in the six divisions of the Siyuan Temple, generally speaking, you need at least a second-class Jinshi.

There are only so many places in Siyuan Temple in each department, and after calculation, basically there are only two to five people in each of the six departments. The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry are not many. Generally, there are two or three people, and in some years, only one or two are reserved, and they are mainly recruited from among officials who have performed well after serving for several years.

The Dali Temple and the Department of General Affairs are similar, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Divisions have a little more. For example, the Metropolitan Procuratorate selects about eight to ten Jinshi for each subject.

In addition, the Five Armies Commander's Mansion can select a few people every year, but only those with the worst performance will go to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion. A waste of time is almost a place to eat and support the elderly. Of course, there are also times when someone is lucky and suddenly gets caught by a big shot.

On the contrary, Zheng Chongjian was more generous, and said calmly: "Ziying, even if Feixiong and I can stay in the Ministry of War, when it's our turn to speak, it will be a matter of 20 years later, but what Mengzhang said is true." It is indeed reasonable, there are many evils accumulated in our Great Zhou army, but the imperial court has not much to do,..."

"It seems that Da Zhang stayed in the Ministry of War for a period of time and was very touched." Feng Ziying said with emotion.

"You and I followed Lord Chai, Lord Yang, and your father to Ningxia, Gansu to put down the rebellion. The military attachés and senior military generals we saw were almost all of martial arts background, and most of the middle-level military officers were promoted from military families in the frontier. Not to mention the number of ancestry, and even after ten years of training in the army, they are only at the level of a hundred households. It is not bad to be able to get into the general banner in three to five years, and many children of military households have accumulated success. Those who can't even write their own names, let alone know any military tactics, are not discriminating against them, but this situation is indeed worrying, let alone those who are in high positions like the one you mentioned, Ma Xia. Wu Xun."

Zheng Chongjian is very proud that he participated in the suppression of the rebellion in Western Xinjiang. This is his most important qualification and the greatest confidence for him to stay in the army. Even Wang Yingxiong has to admit that compared with Zheng Chongjian, he is probably inferior to this Western Expedition curriculum vitae.

Regarding Zheng Chongjian's point of view, Fan Jingwen also nodded repeatedly.

"It is because Da Zhang has seen all kinds of ills in the army that he can come to this opinion. It is said that the frontier army is filthy, but in fact the Beijing camp is even worse. When confronting the Mongols and the Jurchens, I was afraid that what I did would cause a mutiny or be attacked by these anxious big-headed soldiers when confronting the enemy. However, in the Beijing camp, there was no such concern at all. They are all living in a mess, and the whole family is in the capital, who is willing to flee easily? So these military generals are even more confident,..."

It seemed that Fan Jingwen really disliked all kinds of things in the Beijing camp. All the students nodded in agreement and thought deeply at the same time.

"Wang Ziteng was used to forming cliques and seeking private interests in his position as the governor of the Beijing camp. He did not change his true nature after he became the governor of Xuanda. He entrusted some of the roles that used to dawdle in the governor's mansion of the five armies. Those guys are not good at fighting. , but grasping power, making money and asking for money is not small. In Denglai, Ziying, or, let’s make a bet, see Denglai start to integrate the coastal guards of Dengzhou Guard and Laizhou Guard to build A so-called Denglai Battalion, those generals, are definitely those who are close to him."

Fan Jingwen looked at Feng Ziying with certainty, and stretched out his hand.

Feng Ziying laughed dumbfounded, this Fan Jingwen was really stubborn to the point of paranoia.

The imperial court asked Wang Ziteng to form Denglai Town, and appointed a special governor. Obviously, it is not as simple as the two towns of Dengzhou and Laizhou. In the future, Jinzhou and Fuzhou in southern Liaoning may be assigned to the governor of Denglai. The main purpose is to make Denglai Jinfu Four Guards a strong backing for Liaodong Town in the future, not only to protect Liaodong Town in terms of logistics, but also to make Denglai the military support point of Liaodong Town through the maneuverability of the naval fleet.

Under such circumstances, Wang Ziteng spent so much energy and even used various public-private relationship resources to form Denglai Governor's Yamen. The generals below do not recommend and appoint his own people. How can he be truly selfless? How is it possible to obey the court's arbitrary arrangements to satisfy the vanity of meritocracy?

That's really playing with your own head, not to mention himself, even his subordinates will not agree.

Years ago, Shen Yourong came to the mansion specifically to look for him, just to discuss the issue of forming a naval fleet.

If it weren't for Wang Ziteng's lack of suitable naval generals, and Shen Yourong is not only a good naval officer, but also very familiar with the situation in Liaodong. With Feng Ziying's strong recommendation, Wang Ziteng also has some ideas about the Feng family, and he also It is impossible to accept Feng Ziying's recommendation to make Shen Yourong the helm of the Denglai Navy fleet.

Although it is said that high-level officials such as the admiral of the Denglei Navy fleet can only be appointed after being recommended by the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, approved by the cabinet, and reported to the emperor for approval, but because the admiral of the Denglei Navy is relatively special, the first is a new establishment, Moreover, it is directly under the Governor's Office of Deng Lai. Secondly, from the navy ships to the officers and soldiers of the Navy, they all start from scratch. It can be said that without the support of the Governor's Yamen in Deng Lai, it will be difficult for this naval fleet to truly fulfill its wish. It was built, and the importance of the admiral of the navy is far less than that of a town commander on land, so the whole court, including the whole court, also acquiesced in the recommendation of Wang Ziteng.

When Wang Ziteng recommended Shen Yourong as the admiral of the Denglai Navy fleet, the Ministry of War and the cabinet were quite surprised.

Because Shen Yourong obviously does not belong to the martial arts group, he is a typical martial arts general, and he has never had any contact with Wang Ziteng, but he can be recommended by Wang Ziteng as the admiral of the navy, even if it is an empty shell admiral of the navy , but he is also the Admiral of the Navy after all.

In order for Shen Yourong to be the admiral of the navy, Feng Ziying even made a promise to Wang Ziteng.

Feng Ziying was even sure that the relationship between himself and Wang Ziteng would determine what Shen Yourong's future admiral of the navy would be able to do.

"Mengzhang, I admit that what you said does exist in many high-ranking generals, even my father has this tendency, but I think there is no way to do this to a certain extent. As a general, of course I hope to appoint people on their merits and appoint the best Excellent and capable subordinates, but the most important magic weapon to win on the battlefield is order and prohibition, and to achieve this is not as simple as relying solely on the ability of subordinates,..."

Feng Ziying did not deny Fan Jingwen's criticism of Wang Ziteng, but he also cleverly explained the reasons and specific difficulties of being domineering and nepotism as a frontier coach.

"... No matter how good you are, but you are unwilling to obey the general's order, it will only be more dangerous than a mediocre person, so this also forces the generals to prefer to use people they know well, rather than people who think they are good but are buried. , Of course, I am not defending those behaviors of nepotism regardless of ability and ability. I am just saying that many times the general has no choice but to do so. After all, there is no other place on the battlefield. If you make a mistake, hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of people will die , bringing even more unbearable disasters to the imperial court.”

After all, my father is the governor of Ji Liao, and his actions now may be worse than Wang Ziteng's. If the father loses the sincerity, I am afraid that he will be marginalized, and this is also a last resort.

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