Chapter 82: Chosen Martial Arts Champion
Originally, according to the rules set before, the examiners were to review the thirty-six military scholars' papers first.
Then the top ten were selected and sent to the Imperial Study for His Majesty to select the top three candidates.
However, Ying Zheng attached great importance to the first military imperial examination, and he wanted to review all thirty-six papers in person.
So, the original rules were changed.
The thirty-six military scholars' palace examination papers were sent directly to the Imperial Study.
Ying Zheng, Chen Qilin, Fusu, Li Si and Wang Ben were busy.
One by one, the papers were cross-checked.
Soon, Chen Qilin's eyes were attracted by a paper, sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning and thinking...
As for whose paper it was, it was still unknown.
Because the names on the papers were all sealed.
This is not the Tiandao Building, and Chen Qilin doesn't want to spend Tiandao points to see who it is. If he really wants to know, he will remove the seal later!
Seeing that the teacher was so absorbed in reading, Ying Zheng also came over.
He had just read a few papers and essays, which were only average, barely passing.
Ying Zheng also prepared to let his eyes refresh themselves.
"【On the Battle of Changping】
From a strategic perspective, this battle was not so much a battle between Qin and Zhao as it was a strategic duel between the two reform forces of 'Shang Yang's Reform' and 'Hufu Qishe', to see who was the strongest reformer.
After two years of fierce fighting, 'Shang Yang's Reform' finally won over 'Hufu Qishe'.
From then on, the strong Zhao became a weak country, and there would never be a day for it to turn over, which accelerated the process of the strong Qin unifying the six countries."
"Great!" Seeing this, Ying Zheng couldn't help but praise: "This boy's discussion on Changping is straightforward, to the point, and goes straight to the essence!"
Chen Qilin was shocked and rolled his eyes at Ying Zheng.
Just read the papers carefully, why are you calling it nonsense?
Ying Zheng saw the look in the teacher's eyes, slightly embarrassed, smiled, stopped talking, and continued to read the papers.
"In the middle of the Warring States Period, various countries successively carried out reforms to strengthen themselves.
Wei Wenhou of Wei State was the first among the seven major powers in the Warring States Period to implement reforms, reform politics, reward farming and warfare, build water conservancy projects, and develop feudal economy.
He used Li Kui and Zhai Huang as prime ministers to reform bad policies; he used Le Yang and Wu Qi as generals, making Wei State the first to become strong and dominate among the princes.
Afterwards, other countries such as Chu, Han, Qi, Zhao, and Qin followed suit.
The wars among the vassal states in the Warring States Period were, from another perspective, a struggle for reforms.
Who was strong and who was weak? The vassal states proved it through war.
In the early days of King Wuling of Zhao, Zhao State seemed quite weak compared to other vassal states that had undergone reforms.
The ambitious King Wuling of Zhao highly appreciated the Hu cavalry and believed that reforming the army with Hu clothing and riding and shooting was the most effective way to strengthen the army.
So, King Wuling of Zhao issued the "Hu clothing and horse riding" order, learning to dress like the Hu people, riding and shooting like the Hu people, and training the army.
Before the Hu clothing and horse riding, Zhao was repeatedly defeated by Qi, Qin, and Wei, and endured humiliation and ceded land.
After the Hu clothing and horse riding, Zhao established a powerful army mainly composed of cavalry.
Successively, it destroyed Zhongshan State, attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and conquered Linhu and Loufan in the west... Zhao became the most powerful vassal state at that time.
Although the "Hu clothing and horse riding" of King Wuling of Zhao had immediate results in the reform of the military field, it was only a means to treat the symptoms and not the root cause.
Looking east, it is not as rich as Qi, and looking west, it is not as profound as the Qin reform.
Shang Yang's reform in Qin was very different from Zhao's purely military reform.
Shang Yang's reform grasped the fundamental principle of enriching the country and strengthening the army to enhance national strength, abolish the old system, establish a new system, and promote social progress in Qin. Promote economic development.
Let Qin truly realize the fundamental goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army.
Comparison between the two:
Zhao's "Hufu Qishe" reform took a short time and had quick results;
Qin's "Shang Yang Reform" took a long time and had slow results.
After 20 years of hardships and obstacles under Qin Xiaogong, it began to show results;
After 20 years of struggle by Qin Huiwenwang, through a series of efforts such as seeking to go east, diplomatic tug-of-war, pacifying Dingqu, and conquering Bashu, Qin truly enriched the country and strengthened the army.
The most important measure was to conquer Bashu.
The land of Bashu not only provided strategic support for the Qin's sweep of the six countries, but also enabled Qin to occupy a strategic commanding height in the war to destroy Chu.
There has always been a saying in ancient times that "get Shu and get Chu, get Chu and the world will be united".
War is the continuation of national politics, and there is no saying of war for the sake of war. .
The Battle of Changping was a strategic decisive battle between Qin and Zhao, which not only sacrificed a large number of soldiers' lives, but also greatly consumed the comprehensive national strength of the two countries.
Although Zhao was strong in military strength, its national strength was inferior to Qin, which was its fatal flaw, and it became more prominent in this protracted war of attrition.
The fundamental reason why Qin was able to continue to fight and even unify the world after the Battle of Changping was its strong national strength.
On the other hand, Zhao was unable to recover after more than ten years of rest.
The confrontation between "Hufu Qishe" and "Shang Yang Reform" in Changping was the last decisive battle of the reforms of various countries in the Warring States Period that lasted for two hundred years.
In this battle, Shang Yang's Reform, with the high attitude of a victor, helped the profoundly transformed Qin Empire to achieve great unification. "
Chen Qilin nodded in deep agreement when he saw this.
The upper part of the test paper was the historical and strategic macro-level discussion of the military scholar on the victory of the Battle of Changping and Qin.
Chen Qilin continued to check the lower part of the test paper. The military scholar discussed the Battle of Changping from a micro-tactical perspective.
Qin was much stronger than Zhao. At the beginning, the Qin army did not attack, but adopted a strategy of confronting the Zhao army. In the end, Zhao could not hold on and ran out of food.
For this reason, the King of Zhao asked Qi for grain, but Qi refused to lend because of the pro-Qin faction in power. This was also the success of Qin's diplomatic strategy of making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby countries.
Qin forced the King of Zhao to temporarily change his generals before the national strength was exhausted, so he had no choice but to abandon the famous general Lian Po who was more defensive and use Zhao Kuo.
Zhao Kuo followed the King of Zhao's will, changed Lian Po's defensive deployment, replaced the generals, and organized the attack.
This was a shocking gamble that Zhao had to take.
Qin secretly replaced the famous general Bai Qi as the commander-in-chief. Bai Qi took advantage of Zhao Kuo's weakness of being eager to win, and adopted a series of tactical strategies such as feigning defeat and retreating, luring the enemy out of the position, and then dividing and encircling and annihilating them, and finally won the war.
Zhao was completely crippled by Qin's Battle of Changping...
Then, this military scholar added:
Even if the King of Zhao did not change his commander and still used Lian Po as the commander, Zhao would still lose the Battle of Changping;
The reason why Bai Qi buried 400,000 Zhao surrendered soldiers;
And why Bai Qi did not take advantage of the great victory and destroy Zhao in one fell swoop.
Finally, the military scholar also wrote down his thoughts on how he would fight this battle if he were the commander of the Qin army, and summarized it...
After Chen Qilin read it, he picked up a brush and wrote three words directly on the test paper:
Top-notch!
He handed the test paper to Qin Shihuang.
Ying Zheng also wrote:
Top-notch!
Fusu, Li Si and Wang Ben were also very surprised after reading it, and also commented:
Top-notch!
After several hours of review, Ying Zheng, Chen Qilin and others finally reviewed all 36 military scholars' test papers and completed the ranking.
Successfully selected the top military scholar, the second and the third military scholar.
However, the seal on the name has not been removed.
Ying Zheng looked at the top military scholar's policy paper with great anticipation and said:
"Come here, remove the seal on my name, let me see what kind of talent is able to write this policy paper?!"