Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

In the next few days, Zhao Chen, Li Gang, and Wang Shu have been discussing the appointment of officials! After experiencing the Zhe Keqiu Rebellion, there was a lack of officials in the court. Now, except for the two prime ministers Li Gang and Wang Shu, there is no Yushi Zhongcheng, six ministers, and ministers in the court! The official gap in the DPRK and China is too great, and it must be filled in a short time, otherwise the government will not be able to function normally at all!

Zhao Chen originally had his own ideas about the appointment of officials by the imperial court. He was determined to change the official system of the Song Dynasty, but all this could only be implemented after the situation in Hanzhong was completely stabilized.

On the tenth day of June, Zhao Chen left Hanzhong City and brought a group of soldiers from the Imperial Battalion to the Forbidden Army!

Zhao Chen had just appeared at the gate of the Forbidden Army, and the soldiers of the Forbidden Army couldn't help cheering, and countless soldiers of the Forbidden Army knelt down on the ground to welcome Zhao Chen's arrival!

Zhao Chen only stayed in the Forbidden Army for a few days that day, but he left a deep impression on the soldiers! These days, some people even look forward to Zhao Chen coming again, and now everyone is naturally excited to see Zhao Chen!

"Where is Yue Fei?" Zhao Chen asked loudly.

"General Yue is in the room over there!" A soldier pointed to the front and said.

Zhao Chen nodded, and he rode his horse towards that side! After a while he got off his horse and entered the room over there!

Yue Fei was discussing something with several generals, when they saw Zhao Chen coming, they also knelt down hastily and said, "See Your Majesty!"

Zhao Chen helped Yue Fei up, and said with a smile: "From now on, kneeling is not allowed in the barracks! What are you discussing?"

Yue Fei said: "I think the army should train every three days! These generals don't agree with what I said!"

The faces of those generals all showed disgruntled expressions, and one general said: "Your Majesty, isn't training every three days a bit too hard? We have been in the Northwest for many years, and the original Zhong Family Army was only training every five days! If you do this, I'm afraid the soldiers won't be able to bear it!"

Zhao Chen said: "Training every three days? Training every five days? What is this?"

At that moment, Yue Fei hurriedly explained that training every three days means training once every three days, and training every five days means training once every five days! The ancient Chinese army, except for the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, was already very lazy in the Song Dynasty! In the Western Army, not to mention training every three days, even training every five days is extremely rare. Many troops even train once every ten days or half a month! In the Ming Dynasty after the Song Dynasty, army training was also lazy! Like the famous general Qi Jiguang at that time, the amount of military training under him was the strongest in the history of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was only a small training for three days, and a big training for five days! It seems that in the modern society of later generations, soldiers in the army train every day, which is unimaginable in the Song and Ming dynasties!

Zhao Chen shook his head when he heard this, and said, "Training every three days? Training every five days? I think it should be training every day!"

When Zhao Chen said this, Yue Fei and the others were stunned. Yue Fei said, "One training a day? Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to do this!"

Zhao Chen sneered and said, "What's wrong? Our Song army is used to laziness, so it's hard to be diligent! It's unbelievable to have things that are normal! From now on, except for occasionally dealing with state affairs, the rest Time to stay in the Forbidden Army and train with the soldiers!"

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Yue Fei was taken aback and said, "Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven, how can you train with the soldiers?"

Zhao Chen said: "This is a chaotic world, different from the past! When I was in Kaifeng, the day I got the Seven Star Dragon Yuan Sword, I swore in my heart that I would use this sword to destroy thousands of miles of land and restore our Han people's civilization! The most important thing is the appointment of officials, but the appointment of officials requires assessment of officials, observation, and a certain amount of time. I can completely leave it to Li Gang and Wang Shu to do it! I will stay here and train with you!"

Yue Fei was a little surprised, but also excited! If Zhao Chen stays here, it will indeed be of great benefit to his military training! Zhao Chen staying here can naturally boost morale. Of course, Yue Fei still disagrees with Zhao Chen's one training a day, he thinks it is difficult to do it!

At that moment Yue Fei said: "Your Majesty, the Forbidden Army has been under the command of Keqiu for many years, and their morale is sluggish. Only Your Majesty can boost their morale!"

Zhao Chen said: "How is morale so decadent?"

Yue Fei said: "The soldiers are not willing to train! They are also very lazy on weekdays!"

Zhao Chen thought for a while, and said, "Go and gather all the soldiers of the Forbidden Army, and I will give them a lecture!"

Yue Fei hurriedly nodded and agreed, and he took a few generals to do this!

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The laziness of the imperial army was beyond Zhao Chen's imagination. Zhao Chen came here in the morning, and it took more than an hour for the imperial army to gather!

The 60,000 forbidden army gathered in an open space, most of the soldiers were standing or sitting, and many soldiers were whispering there!

When Zhao Chen came to him, he thought that the training field was full of flies, buzzing constantly!

It wasn't until Zhao Chen boarded the high platform that the whispering below slowly stopped!

Zhao Chen looked at the soldiers below, frowning, Yue Fei followed beside him, frowning involuntarily!

"See Your Majesty", "Long live Your Majesty", "Long live, long live, long live"... After a while, the sound of mountains and tsunami came from below, and the soldiers shouted there one after another. Hearing this sound, Zhao Chen couldn't laugh or cry .

He raised his hand and slowly pressed it down, and the voice below stopped!

It's just that the sound of long live disappeared, but those whispering voices slowly sounded! Some soldiers turned their heads to talk to the people beside them, while others talked to the people behind them! Some soldiers simply sat on the ground and fanned the wind with their hands!

The weather in June is too hot for these soldiers to bear!

"Look at your appearance, do you still look like a soldier?" Zhao Chen suddenly shouted coldly from above!

Hearing this sound, the soldiers below were slightly taken aback. Many soldiers hurriedly stopped whispering, and those who sat down also stood up one after another!

"Can't you even stand upright?" Zhao Chen said coldly.

These soldiers stood crookedly, not looking like they were, some were bent over, some had their legs splayed, they were not so much soldiers as a group of gangsters!

Zhao Chen didn't expect that the forbidden army would turn out like this! No wonder such an army was vulnerable to the Jurchens back then! If the army continues to behave like this, it would be a dream to rely on the army to realize one's ambitions!

"Your Majesty, they are like this, and they need to train hard to get over it!" Yue Fei said.

"Today I will accompany them to train hard! You pass down the order to make everyone stand up straight! Today I stand here and they stand below! Let's stand together under the scorching sun for a few hours! Hmph, even standing Not at all, is this still a soldier?" Zhao Chen said coldly.

"This..." Yue Fei nodded, and the generals of the Forbidden Army called one after another and gave Zhao Chen's order!

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In the scorching sun, Zhao Chen stood there like this!

His martial arts has reached the seventh level of Houtian, but after all, he has not entered the level of innate, and he still cannot achieve the level of invulnerability to cold and heat!

At first, Zhao Chen didn't feel anything, but after a while, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, and the sweat gradually increased, and his clothes were already soaked!

But Zhao Chen still stood there, motionless!

The generals and soldiers below have all received Zhao Chen's order. Zhao Chen wants them to "stand" here, and all of them must stand upright!

The whispering of the soldiers had already stopped, the weather was too hot, they didn't have the energy to speak at all!

Some soldiers couldn't stand up straight, and immediately a general stepped forward and slapped them hard on their backs and legs. These soldiers had to continue to stand up straight!

Time passed gradually, and it had been half an hour. Countless soldiers had numb legs and feet. They wanted to sit down on the ground, but on the high platform, Zhao Chen was still standing there!

Zhao Chen stood there motionless, and he was almost at his limit now, but he was still standing!

"From Kaifeng to Hanzhong, I don't know how much suffering I have experienced in the past year. Can I not do it now? If I can't do it, how can I ask those soldiers to do it?" Zhao Chen tightly He clenched his fists and said secretly.

He continued to persevere, and gradually the feeling of fatigue disappeared, and his chest seemed to have strength again! Zhao Chen knew that he was tired after that period of time!

He was still standing, but many soldiers below could no longer bear it!

The bodies of many soldiers are already crumbling!

Under such scorching sun, many soldiers already felt heatstroke and dehydration! They hardly train on weekdays. Once they encounter such high-intensity training, their bodies and wills can't bear it at all!

It has been an hour, Zhao Chen is still standing there!

Many of the soldiers below could no longer bear it and fell to the ground! The general beat them hard with a whip, but they still couldn't get up! At this moment, even the patrolling generals couldn't bear it, and many generals couldn't help but want to find a cool place to rest!

An hour and a half passed, Zhao Chen was still standing there, and most of the imperial soldiers below had fallen down!

Two hours passed, Zhao Chen was still standing, and less than a tenth of the guard soldiers below could stand!

Including Zhao Chen, no one had eaten at noon, many soldiers were hungry and tired, and some even wanted to die immediately!

There was never such a training program as "standing" in ancient Chinese army training. This is a great test of endurance!

It's been two and a half hours, and the number of soldiers who can stand below is less than a hundred!

Zhao Chen finally stopped at this moment!

"Is this the Forbidden Army? I gave you the title of Forbidden Army that day, saying that I will restore you to the style of the founding era! But take a look, what do you look like now?"

"You are used to defend your home and country, you are used to protect me! But now I am still standing here, but you all fall down! Can you protect your home and country like this, can you protect me?"

"I'm just a twelve-year-old boy, and I can still stand upright, but you are all adults, why can't you stand up?"

Zhao Chen asked coldly from above.

Many soldiers were lying on the ground, but after hearing such words, they felt ashamed, and some soldiers had already struggled to stand up! It's just that although they stood up, their bodies were still shaking because they were too tired!

"It is said that we Han people are not the opponents of the Jurchens. I didn't believe it! But seeing you like this, how can I believe that you can beat the Jurchens? It seems that you can't do it. If you really meet the Jurchens, I'm the only one who rushed up!" Zhao Chen was extremely disappointed.

"Your Majesty, I am ashamed!" A soldier below bowed his head.

Zhao Chen looked at the soldier, he knew that this soldier was the one who had been standing just now! At this moment, his face was flushed, obviously ashamed to the extreme.

"What's your name?" Zhao Chen asked.

"Little man Wang Ying! We were supposed to protect His Majesty, but we are not as good as His Majesty, so I am extremely ashamed!" said the soldier named Wang Ying.

"You are very good! Being able to stand with me for such a long time is far better than others! I remember your name!" Zhao Chen said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Ying said gratefully.

"Your Majesty, I am ashamed!"

Soon, a shameful voice came from below! Countless soldiers struggled to stand up, their heads drooping, their hearts extremely ashamed! At this moment, even those generals are drooping their heads, feeling extremely ashamed in their hearts!

"Your Majesty, I feel ashamed for not training them well!" Yue Fei also said.

"It's good to be ashamed! What I'm afraid of is that you don't have any sense of shame! Mencius said that when you know shame, you will be brave. If you know shame, then you should train hard from now on! I will be with you every day from now on. Don't be worse than me! If you You can't even compare to me, why should I believe that you can defend your home and country, why should you believe that you can defeat Jurchen and King Kang?" Zhao Chen looked at the soldiers below and said every word.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, we will definitely train hard and never slack off!"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, why can't we do what His Majesty can do?"

"Your Majesty is so able to endure hardships, why can't we endure hardships?"

The soldiers below gritted their teeth one after another, each expressing their determination!

A smile finally appeared on Zhao Chen's face, and he said, "Very good! You must be very tired after standing in the sun for so long today! Drink some water first, and take a good rest. I want to talk to you guys." General, discuss matters in the army! Starting tomorrow, I will train with you in the barracks!"