After Lu Zhi kowtowed, doubts arose in his heart once more.
"Why haven't I seen the study of warfare?" he asked someone.
At that moment, a student beside him mocked, "Do you really take us for fools? If you outsider Han officials study the other subjects, they won't show results until ten years later. But if military studies are open to you, won't you immediately learn the truth of our strengths and weaknesses?"
"Exactly. Only those in Class B are qualified to study warfare."
Lu Zhi felt ashamed.
They were right. Warfare was a matter of the state, the ground of life and death, the way of survival and extinction.
How could it possibly be shown rashly to outsiders? It was like the Han army now had no secrets at all.
As long as one paid money, outsiders could enter at will and pry into the methods of warfare and the secrets of weapons and armor. Where was any thought of confidentiality? Lu Zhi's reasoning was correct. It was precisely because the Han Dynasty had fallen into chaos, secrets had been lost, military methods had spread, and weapon technologies had diffused across the grasslands that the sight of one Han fighting five barbarian tribes would never be seen again.
For the first time, the Five Barbarians Uprising appeared.
One had to know that during the Three Kingdoms, each faction had only a few million people, yet they fought endlessly while still campaigning north against the Wuhuan, pacifying the Southern Barbarians in the south, and subduing the Shanyue in the east.
In truth, it was the grave drawback of internal secrets being leaked.
But he quickly returned to normal.
A great Confucian scholar was still a great Confucian scholar. As long as I'm not embarrassed, the embarrassed one is someone else.