In the late Qing Dynasty, the formation and training of the new army was actually the transformation of the army in the era of cold weapons into hot weapons, and in the process of transforming cold and hot weapons, there was a higher demand for the cultural knowledge and professional skills of officers. Under these circumstances, martial arts halls have been set up in various localities to train officers needed by the new army.

Chen Ying thought that if we first train a group of officers who are both civil and military in the form of martial arts lectures in the army, and then retire because of the disabled or overly old officers, and resettle them in the localities, we can meet the needs of governing the localities.

"That's right, let's build a martial arts hall first!" The more Chen Ying thought about it, the more happy he became, as long as he established a martial arts hall, he could not only slowly cultivate a large number of military and political talents, but also establish a group of backbone members with Chen Ying as his soul, forming a close relationship network of both glory and loss.

And in this era, the teacher-student relationship is not like that of later generations. In this era, those who are close to each other like teachers and students, simple and strict teachers like fathers, and disobey teachers are also great sins of unfilial piety. It can be said that if you betray your teacher, you will have a big discount in character. In this era, there is actually no market.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying asked someone to inform Xu Jingzong and come over to discuss the matter.

Since Xu Erniang's file is broken. Xu Jingzong avoided Chen Ying, for fear that Chen Ying would be mad at him. When the guards found Xu Jingzong and told him that Chen Ying was looking for him, Xu Jingzong looked sad, for fear that Chen Ying would clean him up.

However, Xu Jingzong did not dare to disobey Chen Ying's order, so Xu Jingzong, who was worried in his heart, came to Chen Ying's study.

Xu Jingzong quietly looked at Chen Ying's face, and found that Chen Ying's face was as usual, and there was no ambush knife and axe hand in the study, Xu Jingzong looked at Chen Ying cautiously, and asked tremblingly: "I don't know what the chief manager called Jingzong?" ”

Contrary to Xu Jingzong's expectations, Chen Ying did not mention Xu Erniang at all. In fact, Chen Ying also figured it out, there is no point in pursuing Xu Jingzong at this time, anyway, he and Xu Erniang already have the reality of husband and wife, and then push the responsibility away, it is too unkind.

Chen Ying said lightly: "The grandson has clouds, and the husband is the winner of the temple without a fight, and it is a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins, and nothing counts! I look at it this way, and I can see the victory or defeat. It can be seen that this war still depends on using the brain, and will not use the brain to fight, that is a reckless man, below our army, the soldiers not only need to be fearless, loyal and brave, but also need to learn how to use their brains. But at present, most of the people in the army are reckless men who don't know how to use their brains, so after thinking about it, the general manager decided to set up a martial arts lecture hall in the army to teach officers the knowledge of restraining the army, drill orders, formation orders, commanding soldiers, marching camps, drills, city defense, attack and defense, and so on...... What does Xu think when he joins the army? ”

Xu Jingzong pondered for a long time, shook his head and said slowly: "Chief, opening a martial arts school in the army and openly accepting disciples is afraid that it will bring innocent disasters to the general manager!" ”

Chen Ying said: "This shouldn't be enough, right? ”

Xu Jingzong smiled bitterly: "It's not that it's not, but it's for sure!" ”

After Xu Jingzong's explanation, Chen Ying understood. In this era, it is not easy to set up courses in the art of war and train military officers.

In fact, Chen Ying was also a little too idealistic, in the era of the hundred schools of thought, the soldiers had always been feared by various factions. The reason is actually very simple, because the threat of the military family to the ruler is too great, and the representatives of the military family such as Sun Wu, Sima Sui Tho, Sun Bin, Wu Qi, Wei Yi, Zhao Hao, Bai Qi, Zhang Liang, Han Xin, etc., any one can easily subvert a regime.

Even if the gods of war obviously don't want to rebel, they won't have a good end. The reason is actually very simple - the merit is high. If Chen Ying opened a martial arts lecture hall in the army and recruited disciples, it would definitely give people the feeling that a soldier had entered the WTO, and I am afraid that Li Yuan would be the most uneasy.

Chen Yingdao: "Is it done?" ”

"Running a school is naturally possible, and it is very necessary!" Xu Jingzong said: "It's just a different name!" ”

Chen Ying nodded, thought for a while, and said, "That's the literacy class!" ”

Xu Jingzong was puzzled, he didn't borrow his knowledge, he could think about it carefully, he hadn't heard the meaning of this word at all, and couldn't help asking: "Get rid of illiteracy?" What does this mean? ”

Chen Ying smiled and explained: "How vulgar the soldiers are, they can't read a basket of big characters, like staring blind. This manager teaches them literacy first, and gets rid of the embarrassing situation of staring and blindness! ”

Xu Jingzong smiled flatteringly: "The word "Manager Chen's creation of blindness" is also appropriate!" ”

Chen Yingdao: "Then do it." ”

On the morning of May 6 in the second year of Wude, Chen Ying sounded the drum of the gathering generals.

"Knock knock ......" With the sound of the thick war drums, the generals at all levels of the Dingyuan Army thought that there was another big military operation, and hurriedly ran from their respective training grounds to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion.

In a short time, Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Liu Tong, Bi Xin, Ryazan , Zhang Huaiwei, and other generals of the Dingyuan Army arrived at the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion. Subsequently, Yu Guni, Chen Jinyong, and Ashina Simo of the Lingwu Army also arrived.

Chen Ying's face was serious, his eyes swept over the generals, and he slowly spoke: "The generals of the Dingyuan Army, the Lingwu Army, and the middle and lower-level officers can not only fight bravely, but also be able to fight with their brains, and literacy is a foundation. We don't use any thousand-character texts or three-character scriptures to teach officers, but I have compiled a thin booklet from some concise principles for administering the army and employing troops, and I will use this to teach. Each branch will first run a primary literacy class, with officers above the rank of the team as the first batch of cadets, including the deputy head of the team, who must participate and must not be absent. The Governor of each Prefecture is personally responsible for a period of three months. The academic performance of the students in the literacy class will be included in the assessment, and any student in the first period, if the assessment results do not meet the standard after three months, he will be automatically transferred to the second period of study, and if the second period of study still does not meet the standard, he will be demoted to one level, and he will be included in the third period of study class, and continue to study, if he is still unqualified, he will continue to be demoted by one level......"

Hearing Chen Ying's words, all the generals below showed a sad look.

Fortunately, it was Chen Ying who took advantage of the successive big victories to establish absolute prestige in the hearts of the generals, if this literacy class was held half a year ago, I am afraid that some generals would jump out and scold their mothers on the spot. But now, Chen Ying's absolute prestige was there, and although these generals were full of complaints, they didn't dare to refute Chen Ying.

Chen Ying didn't seem to see the bitter gourd faces of the generals below, and continued: "Since the second phase of the literacy class award, it is no longer limited to officers at the level of team leader, brigade rate, and captain, but it is necessary to go deep and select outstanding soldiers with potential to be tapped. Cadets who have achieved outstanding results in the literacy class will be promoted by five to eight people and transferred to the secretary's office to join the army. ”

Of course, the rank of joining the army is not high, there are only six rank officers, in addition to the six commanders, but for other officers at the rank of captain officer, it also has a great attraction. Chen Ying's move was to take advantage of the results of the literacy class to establish his own military staff team.