Liu Bei's words were not polite, but Xun Or seemed to have expected this.
"No matter how great my reputation is, it will never be greater than your reputation. Fame really means nothing to you, but I also hope to prove to you that the opportunity you gave me was not in vain."
"It seems that you are very confident in yourself. That's good. Your uncle told me that the children of the Xun family have already learned everything they need to learn. In this case, I won't say anything more and just use the results to talk."
Liu Bei picked up a bamboo slip, wrote an order on it, and handed it to Xun Or.
"Take this and go to the military camp grain depot to find Zhen Yan. Zhen Yan will arrange things for you to do. They are many, complicated, and tiring. But I won't do it just because you are a descendant of the Xun family. Don’t let Xu do it.”
Xun or took the bamboo slip with both hands and smiled slightly.
"Maybe I will never let you down, and I don't just want to be an inconsequential adviser. Maybe I will try my best to gain the trust of the prince, so that the prince is willing to entrust more important things."
"Okay, I like ambitious young people."
Liu Bei said this with full confidence, without blushing at all.
Although Xun Yu is only two years younger than him, judging from the current situation, Xun Yu's status is far inferior to him. When he said this, no one would raise any dissatisfaction.
In addition to recruiting and arranging talents, Liu Bei is also very concerned about the recruitment of the army. From the first day of recruiting personnel to the army, he will take time to personally inspect the recruitment office every day and watch the recruitment situation.
After the recruitment reached a certain scale, Liu Bei began to reorganize the army and planned to start training new recruits immediately.
The Land of Three Rivers often recruits troops for expeditions, so many strong men in the Land of Three Rivers will have military experience and have a certain foundation in techniques and tactics.
However, considering that the level of generals in the Eastern Han Dynasty was uneven and not every recruited soldier had a technical and tactical foundation, he decided to conduct recruit training.
He has experience in this area. His old subordinates from his hometown in Youzhou were trained in this way. Later, after Liu Bei learned professional skills from Lu Zhi, he specially compiled the "Infantry and Cavalry Drill Code" to summarize experiences and lessons and teach his subordinates how to train troops. Law.
Later, as he led more and more soldiers and fought more and more battles, he corrected some of his previous ideas and optimized the "Infantry and Cavalry Manual" several times.
Therefore, before the founding of the army, he held a military meeting, summoned his generals and mid-level officers, and personally taught them the essence of the "Infantry and Cavalry Code" and developed an academic style.
Anyway, Liu Xuande's military training was not about training techniques and tactics at the beginning, but training queues, military formations, and soldiers' ability to obey orders.
This is the road that an army with combat effectiveness must go through. Orders and prohibitions are the basic conditions for a strong army. The force of restraint cannot really be ranked first in front of the army as a large collective.
This has been confirmed many times in previous wars.
The military system of the Eastern Han Dynasty consisted of a team of five people with a captain, a team of ten with a captain, a team of fifty with a captain, a camp with a hundred people with a captain, and a band of two hundred with a military marquis.
In a unit of a thousand people, if there is a school captain, the school captain will lead the troops. If there is no school captain, there will be a military commander. The military commander is the deputy position of the school captain. After that, the school captain will be generally set up to manage. When a war is going out, a temporary center will be set up. General Lang commanded the troops and thought he was the commander-in-chief.
The establishment of troops and above is generally a battalion. The number of soldiers and horses in a battalion depends on the situation. Sometimes a battalion has no more than a thousand soldiers, and sometimes it can reach 10,000 people.
On the basis of clarifying the basic military system of having a thousand-man army under the command of a Sima, Liu Bei set up three departments as one battalion, that is, the establishment of a battalion is 3,000 men, and each battalion is managed by a school lieutenant.
Therefore, after the entire recruitment is completed, the standard result should be ten battalions, thirty divisions, and one hundred and fifty songs.
The army should be reorganized according to this organization, and then basic training for recruits should be carried out to train them in military formations. At the same time, they should also be given basic cultural education so that illiterate soldiers can escape from illiteracy and learn basic reading and writing.
This is also a good way to increase the combat effectiveness and discipline of the army.
However, judging from the current recruitment results, there are quite a lot of literate soldiers joining the army. A little statistics shows that soldiers with basic reading and writing skills account for more than 15% of the entire recruitment group, which greatly exceeds the population of the Eastern Han Dynasty. literacy rate.
This is very beneficial to Liu Bei's military training plan.
Afterwards, Liu Bei took his military team to give these people who came to join the army and could read and write a thorough examination, and conducted a cultural assessment and a thorough assessment of military techniques and tactics.
This assessment took a lot of time and energy, but it selected a group of capable grassroots officers for this new army.
What makes Liu Bei interesting is that after passing the assessment, the two boys Cao Ren and Cao Chun did have the ability to serve as camp commanders, so they were successfully appointed as camp commanders.
What made Liu Bei even more interesting was that a man named Xu Huang passed the examination and was considered to have the ability to serve as a military prince, so he was awarded the title of military prince.
When this person was registering the personnel list, he wrote down his experience as a county official in Hedong County, which attracted the attention of Jian Yong, who was in charge of personnel work, and told Liu Bei about it.
So Liu Bei met with Xu Huang and asked him about relevant matters.
Xu Huang said that after hearing the news about Liu Bei's recruitment of troops, he resigned and joined Liu Bei, hoping to follow Liu Bei.
"You can be a county official, why don't you continue to be a county official? Come join our army now and go to Liangzhou, which is dangerous, but it is not as safe as you being a county official in Hedong County."
Xu Huang smiled.
"Speaking of county officials, there is also a distinction between superior and inferior. The chief officials are strong, vulgar and arrogant. They do wrong things themselves and are unwilling to admit it, so they frame others to take the blame. The county guards are incompetent and cannot control the chief officials, so they can only let them go. Domineering and blessing.
Huang didn't want to take refuge in the chief official as his lackey, so the chief official was rude to Huang, beating and scolding him at every turn. Huang couldn't bear it. A real man was born between heaven and earth, how could he be bullied by a villain? If he didn't stand up, how could he be worthy? The body of an eight-foot man?
After hearing about the name of Junhou for a long time, he happened to hear that Junhou was recruiting soldiers and horses and wanted to go to Liangzhou to make achievements, so he came to join Junhou, hoping to use his military merits to earn a general and become a marquis. Then he went to see the chief official and see him. Do you dare to bully me?"
As if he was worried that Liu Bei would think that he had been a county official and had a low status, Xu Huang raised his head and chest, and looked majestic and high-spirited.
Liu Bei was very happy and patted him on the shoulder.
"It is said that good birds choose trees to roost in. Gong Ming has civil and military strategies that the county guards and officials cannot use, but they make me a strong man. How can it not be a beautiful thing? Hahahahaha!"
Liu Bei's joy gave Xu Huang a good impression. Xu Huang felt that he was taken seriously and had a promising future.
Liu Bei considered that Xu Huang was from Hedong County, so he incorporated Xu Huang's troops into the command sequence of Guan Yu, who was also from Hedong County, and asked Guan Yu to pay a little attention to Xu Huang and try his abilities.
After a group of grassroots officers were selected, the leadership of this army was almost completed. Liu Bei commanded this army as General Zuo. The basic establishment was ten captains and thirty army commanders, with the following military lords and Tunnel commanders. Long, captain, very long, five commanders like a thousand.
Among them, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xia Houyuan and Xiahou Nuo were appointed as captains under Liu Bei because of their previous military exploits and experience. They each commanded a battalion of troops and could fight alone.
Because there are currently no suitable candidates to serve as captains, the remaining five battalions are directly commanded by Liu Bei and belong directly to Liu Bei.
