As the saying goes, it takes ten years for a scholar to rebel, but even if a military attaché fails to rebel, it will still bring fatal harm to the world. Just like the Anshi Rebellion in the former Tang Dynasty, a seemingly large and powerful dynasty fell to the ground almost overnight. And triggered more than a hundred years of turmoil. These days, the power of the master can be described as Judas. It can be seen from the perspective of breaking the rigid military attache system, absorbing more fresh blood into the military attache system, and at the same time cultivating military attaches who are more loyal to themselves rather than to their families, as well as the entire historical development.
Especially when firearms began to be used on a large scale, it was urgent to establish a school similar to the Imperial College to systematically train military attachés. Relying solely on martial arts candidates, with a little supplement every year with poor knowledge and foundation, simply cannot adapt to the development of history. With both pros and cons so great, Huang Qiong hesitated for twenty years. But the battle to destroy Liao made Huang Qiong finally make up his mind. Without him, the battle to destroy the Liao Dynasty progressed relatively smoothly, although it relied on the strength of firearms.
The goals set before sending troops were basically achieved. But Huang Qiong was keenly aware that the senior military attaches were doing better, but there were obvious gaps among the middle and lower military attaches. Many junior military attachés were temporarily promoted before the expansion of the army before the war. Many people can't even distinguish the terrain. A large proportion of them even cannot read a single Chinese character. Many people simply do not have the ability to fight independently. Without the command of their superiors who have experienced in the border army, they are like headless flies.
The people who really support the middle-level, especially the lower-level military attachés, are those who have military backgrounds as generals and generals. And these people have been exposed to it for many years. In terms of literacy, it basically meets the standards. But these people are probably more loyal to the superiors who promoted them than to themselves as the emperor or the court. Among them, the firearms camp is the most obvious. Although he, together with the Ministry of War, the Privy Council, and the Palace Front Office, compiled a code of conduct for the use of firearms on the basis of counterinsurgency operations.
But the military attaché commanding the firearms battalion obviously trusted his experience more. The quality of military attaches at all levels is uneven, which makes the level of firearm use also uneven. During the Battle of Changchun Prefecture, he was a military attache who became a monk halfway because he was assigned to be the commander of the firearms battalion. His professional quality was a bit poor, and as a result, Ouyang Shan's cavalry group was almost blown up when he opened fire, and one of them was knocked off his back. If it weren't for Ouyang Shan's experience, he would have almost been overturned by the Liao army. The establishment of formal training institutions is inevitable.
For Yang Jiyuan's navy, this problem is even more urgent. There is not only a lack of gunners, but also a lack of people who can use Sinan, and even the most basic people who can operate a sail. After so many years of training, the number of qualified talents is still insufficient. Especially in the fifteenth year of Chongde before the war, the imperial court divided the navy trained by Yang Jiyuan into three. They are the East China Sea Navy, the South China Sea Navy and the Beihai Navy. Coupled with the establishment of the Yangtze River Patrol Team, the number of qualified talents is even more insufficient.
If it were not for the capture of some rebel merchant sailors during the counter-rebellion, Yang Jiyuan would not even have enough training personnel. Even so, the Northern Expedition was barely supported by the support of some sailors from the Fan family. In the end, after repeated discussions between Huang Qiong, Huang Ruifeng, Yu Mingyuan, Yang Jiyuan and Cao Rui, they finally made up their minds to form the Marine and Land Division Lecture Hall. He also asked the emperor's eldest son to personally lead people to compile certain tutorials for the two martial arts halls with loyalty to the emperor as the core.
As for the school motto written by Huang Qiong himself, it is not only carved on the stele under the equestrian stone statue of the emperor, but also erected in the courtyards of the two martial arts halls. The instructor also led the students in the two martial arts halls to recite it every morning. Whether you can memorize it and be familiar with it is also one of the key assessment items. Not only that, every year during festivals such as the Spring Festival, Huang Qiong not only went to the Master Lu's Martial Arts Lecture Hall to express his condolences, but also rewarded him with pigs, cattle, sheep and other food, and also received an extra month's salary. When the navy teaches martial arts, the emperor's second son, King Yong, is usually sent to express his condolences in person.
While establishing the martial arts hall, Huang Qiong's actions became more and more important. At the beginning of enrollment in the Jiangwu Hall, Huang Qiong issued an edict that all students entering the Jiangwu Hall must shave their heads and are not allowed to grow long hair. Of course, the purpose of the imperial edict is to ensure the cleanliness of the head, avoid the breeding of infectious diseases, and also to provide a good hug after a head injury. In the second year after the establishment of the martial arts hall, Huang Qiong personally issued an edict, and all military camps across the country issued orders to cut off their troops. Especially those in the navy are not allowed to have long hair.
And there are strict regulations on the hair length of the Second Marine and Land Divisions. At that time, many difficulties were encountered in order to implement this imperial edict. Until Huang Qiong personally drove to the Xiaoqi camp and randomly selected ten ordinary soldiers. Ask them to open the bundle and put it into the hot water. As a result, a layer of lice and dirt floating on the surface of the water completely revealed what had been hidden under the water. In fact, even ordinary people know that lice are contagious. We all know that frequent bathing can remove lice.
But in the military camp, especially during marching and fighting, it is very difficult to take a bath. Especially taking a hot bath is even more difficult. Just don’t even think about washing your hair. Throughout the ages, few people would pay attention to this thing. In particular, Chinese people have always been particular about the fact that the body, hair, and skin are inherited from the parents. Except for monks who have severed family ties, they cannot have any haircut or damage. And hair is the top priority. Even though most of the merchants from the east have short hair, in the eyes of the Chinese, it would be extremely unfilial to shave their hair.
Therefore, I would rather spend a lot of experience taking care of my hair every year. But except for the monks, no one wanted to shave their heads. In this way, if a wealthy family has servants and maids to help take care of it, and if the conditions are good, it will be okay to take a bath every three to five days. But poor people have difficulty surviving, so how can they bother to wash their hair every three to five days? Men are not like women who have to wash their clothes several times just to keep their makeup on. Therefore, when you open the hair of many people, you will find lice in groups, clusters of lice, and a lot of dirt and stains.
This may not matter in normal times, but in wartime it can often be fatal. He was stabbed on the head, which was originally only a minor injury. But the large amount of dirt in the hair directly infected the wound, which could be fatal. Although helmets are protective equipment commonly equipped by the Daqi army, they are not completely reliable. Although this order to cut hair was welcomed by ordinary soldiers who did not have much time to take care of their hair, especially the navy soldiers. However, it was strongly opposed by the scholar-bureaucrats in the world.
But Huang Qiong's answer to those people's objections was that one day at the court meeting, the officials of the court were shocked to find that the hair under the Yishan crown worn by the emperor was only a thin layer. The same is true for King Yong, who sits under the emperor's right hand, and King Fu, who sits in the first row of civil servants. The eunuchs in the palace even shaved their heads. If it weren't for the hat on his head, the officials would have thought that they had entered the temple and that all the people coming and going were monks. And at the great court meeting that day, Huang Qiong directly issued an edict to cut off the hair.
All men under the age of sixty are required to shave their hair short. Officials who don't shave will be dismissed from office, and people who don't shave will be fined a thousand coins at a time. In the words of Huang Qiong's personal edict, it has been said since ancient times that the body's hair and skin are affected by the parents. Anyone who damages his hair is considered unfilial. However, after growing hair, pests breed and scrub typhus is rampant, endangering the health of people all over the world. In order to protect the health of the people, we are now ordering them to cut off their hair. Short hair did not already exist in the Zhou Dynasty. What's more, filial piety and unfilial piety are not related to hair length.
And specifically abolished the Kun punishment in "Da Qi Lu Zhong". In order to convince the officials, Huang Qiong copied what happened in the Xiaoqi camp the previous year in a formal way in the court hall. It's just that the targets were twenty ordinary men randomly selected from the street. When the hair of these twenty people was untied, because they had not washed it for many years, the sweat was mixed with the smell of dirt, and several civil servants who opposed the most vigorously almost vomited. When hair is soaked in hot water, lice float on the water.
Several people even vomited on the spot. When I saw these guys, I shivered on the spot. Huang Qiong stood on the jade steps with her hands behind her back and said: "Whether one is filial or not depends on actions, not words, let alone hair. The length of hair has nothing to do with whether one is filial or not. Nowadays, everyone has long hair, but it is not filial. There are many people. And hair can indeed predict a person's body, but it has nothing to do with essence and blood. There are many monks who have shaved heads, healthy bodies and bones, and live to sixty or seventy. Don't talk to me about Buddhist blessings. .”
"Short hair has been around since ancient times. The so-called long hair today is just something that some high-ranking officials and dignitaries deliberately promote for the sake of their beauty. Borrowing the words of Master Confucius to elevate yourself. Since Confucius' words, you civil servants all regard them as classics. Of the six men's arts mentioned by Confucius, how many of you have left now? Not to mention horseback riding and archery, even riding in a carriage is tiring for many people. You have enough food and clothing with the imperial salary. The most inferior ones in the family also have a few book boys. Along with the maid and mother-in-law, there will naturally be someone to help take care of your hair."
"But for those people who work from sunrise to sunrise and breathe at sundown, sweat beads fall to the ground and break into eight petals for three hundred and sixty days a year to barely have enough food and clothing. Where are the maids and women to help take care of their hair? Where are they? Use your spare money to buy firewood and boil water for bathing every now and then. You are all scholars, and you all know that scrub typhus can transmit some diseases. You just saw that there are so many scrub typhus under the long hair of ordinary people, and they are covered with a thick layer of water every time. . If we don’t get rid of this little bug, when will our people be healthy?”
"When I do things, I never talk empty words. I always seek truth from facts. In order to put an end to scrub typhus and make the people as healthy as possible, I made up my mind after much consideration to implement the order to stop hair loss throughout the world. You are all officials of the imperial court, and you all hold the The salary of the imperial court should naturally set an example for the people of the world. I don’t care what you think in your heart. Half a month later, if I see someone else’s head on top again, I will feel free and elegant with one head on my head again. If you have long hair, then go ahead and resign yourself."
After Huang Qiong finished speaking, all the civil servants looked at me and I looked at you, and they couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Some officials did not believe in evil and after attending the court meeting. Go out on the street and find a few random people to experiment with, and you'll probably find they're all pretty much the same. In fact, no matter how you experiment, the results are almost the same. Water in Jingzhao itself is very expensive, and firewood for burning in the city can only be purchased with money. And the price of firewood is actually not cheap. After all, in such a big city, hundreds of thousands of people cook and stay warm every day.
The amount of firewood consumed is definitely a huge amount. As for the surrounding area of Jingzhao Mansion, although it is backed by mountains, there are not many places rich in firewood. Therefore, the price of firewood in Jingzhao Prefecture is much more expensive than in other places. It is difficult for many ordinary people to support their families. How can they have the spare money to buy so much firewood to heat hot water and wash their hair and bathe there every day?
