When Sun Chengzong was about to speak to stop them from asking questions, Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand to stop him, then turned to Cao Bianjiao and said, "What was the first thing you learned when you entered this school?" ”

Cao Bianjiao thought for a long time, and found that the first thing he did when he entered this school seemed to be a fight with a student from the Beijing camp, so he missed the first lecture when he entered the school.

Huang Degong, who is also from Liaodong, looked at Cao Bianjiao with a smile, and there were few of them from Liaodong who came from the army generals. After all, in the past, the army had never attached importance to the experience of martial arts, but there were still some opportunities for martial arts and martial arts to develop in the army.

However, even so, the military attachés from the Ming army still occupied most of the military positions, and the military attaches from the non-generals' families were always the target of exclusion.

Huang Degong is one of the military attaches who have been excluded, and since he joined the army, he has made a lot of meritorious achievements, but he has been taken by the so-called generals, so naturally he will not have much good impression of Cao Bianjiao.

Zhou Yuji has a more honest temperament, and when he saw Cao Bianjiao's forehead starting to sweat, he couldn't help but say out loud: "On the first day I entered the school, the instructor told me to wait, and the duty of a soldier is: to protect the family and defend the country." ”

Zhu Youzhen glanced at Zhou Yuji, who stood up to relieve Cao Bianjiao, then nodded and said, "Yes, the duty of a soldier is to protect the family and defend the country." Why? Because we only have to read history to know what happens when a country loses the protection of its army.

King You of Zhou lost the trust of the princes' army, and then the dog Rong on the grassland took the opportunity to attack the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the people living in the capital did not survive, and the Western Zhou Dynasty fell from then on.

After the rebellion of Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty, the country was divided, and the frontier Wuhu also took the opportunity to invade the Central Plains.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the feudal towns were divided, and there were five dynasties and ten kingdoms... The two Song Dynasty first had the Jin people and then the Meng Yuan, and the Central Plains was full of white bones, all of which were Han people...

All of the above can tell me that after the collapse of the country, the most miserable thing is not the high-ranking officials and nobles, but the people at the bottom. The destruction of the country and the death of the family is a bloody fact, not the imagination of some people.

When they join the army to defend the country, they are actually defending their own little home. When the country is safe, their families can live a comfortable rural life in the countryside.

As the leading officers of the first training battalion, you should tell them these truths. Only by letting them understand that protecting the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to protecting their homes and relatives, will we have a reliable army.

As for how to convey this to them, then you must first go among the soldiers and listen to what is going on in their hearts. Only by understanding the voices of the soldiers can we instill in them the faith of the army. ”

Regarding what Zhu Youzhen said, not only the students standing in the hall listened to it with solemnity, but also Sun Chengzong and Lu Shanji, who were sitting on the side, were also a little impressed by Chongzhen.

In this era, because of the imperial examination, scholars may be familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics and the Eight Strands of Shiwen, but those who dare to say that they have read history books are not simple readers, at least they are also famous Confucians.

Because I want to find out all kinds of historical events from the historical classics of Khan Niu Saidon, and then annotate the official history, it is not something that can only be completed by one or two outstanding heavens.

This requires a well-developed printing industry and cheap literary and historical talents cultivated in the industrial age, and after several years of hard work, in order to systematically sort out the complete context of the history books.

For Su Changqing, the low-priced history books in his memory are completely the crystallization of the efforts of countless people in later generations.

The historical common sense in Su Changqing's mind is quite an excellent method of interpreting history in the ears of Sun Chengzong, Lu Shanji and others.

Regarding the rumors circulating in the court that Chongzhen hated reading, these military academy instructors, who were originally a little skeptical, finally thought that this was just a nonsense rumor.

After sending these trainees away, Zhu Youzhen asked Sun Chengzong beside him: "Mr. Sun, how is the research work carried out by the staff class of the Army Military Academy now?" ”

Sun Chengzong glanced at Lu Shanji beside him, and Lu Shanji immediately answered: "Your Majesty asks for a summary of every war that Jiannu has fought since the army was raised, especially the battle between Jiannu and my Ming Dynasty.

Sergeants who had been through many wars were also questioned and recorded what they had seen. The ministers recalled 47 veterans from Liaodong, and 13 of them did not receive them at night. Most of them have gone through 2 or 3 battles, and one veteran has even experienced a bloody battle on the Hunhe River..."

Zhu Youzhen listened carefully to Lu Shanji's account before he spoke: "Treat these old soldiers, you should be more concerned about your life and be respectful in your attitude. Being able to record their experience can save the lives of many soldiers on the battlefield in the future.

If they have any personal requirements, they try to meet them as much as they can. In particular, if you don't collect it at night, you have to stay with those who have good ability, and in the future, we will set up reconnaissance subjects in military schools, and these nights will always be used..."

After the military academy examination, Yan Yingyuan and 20 other cadets were immediately appointed as commanders at all levels of the first training battalion.

According to Chongzhen's orders, they had three months to contact the recruits who trained a battalion and turned them from civilians into soldiers.

After the emperor's personal lecture, they finally understood. In the new army that the emperor wants to establish, there will no longer be such an organization.

It is impossible to replicate the situation in the new army that soldiers were generals in the border army in the past. As the emperor said, they must be steadily integrated into these newcomers, and smelt these civilians into an army that integrates the upper and lower levels.

Among these 20 people, except for two who are over 30 years old, the others are young people in their 20s, and although they regret not being able to form a family around them, they do not think it is unacceptable.

The Emperor's enthusiasm for the new army was felt very well by these students, and they were also very excited about it. Single-mindedly wanted to make achievements in the training battalion and thus gain the favor of the emperor.

After receiving the order to command the new army, the trainees rushed to the camp in the northern suburbs the next day to report. The first training battalion was divided into three companies, left, center, and right, which were respectively responsible for Yan Yingyuan, Jin Guofeng, and Zhou Yuji.

After 10 days in the camp, the recruits of the first battalion finally accepted the fact that they had become sergeants.

The fact that they can easily recognize this fact is that on the one hand, the emperor let them live together according to the same village or the same li, which makes the newcomers feel that there is no difference between here and home, and they still come into contact with acquaintances in the village every day.

On the other hand, these newcomers were impressed by the three meals a day provided in the barracks, which were not enjoyed by the average small landowner in the countryside.

Although there are three meals a day, only ordinary rice and pickles are served, and sometimes small rice and steamed buns.

This kind of food, which was too simple in Zhu Youzhen's opinion, unanimously won the praise of the newcomers, and inadvertently dispelled the fear of these newcomers about life in the barracks.

A melodious trumpet sounded, Zhang Wuyi turned over and sat up, and he immediately woke up his roommates who were sleeping beside him.

From the ignorance of the first entry into the barracks, to now being able to distinguish the clarion call to get up, eat, and rest, Zhang Wuyi can be said to be the most diligent learner.

As long as he obeys orders, he can eat enough, which is the first time in his 18 years of life experience. In addition to eating all-you-can-eat rice for the first time in his life, he also put on new clothes. The clothes purchased by the emperor fit well and are beautiful.

If there is anything uncomfortable, it is that everyone is forced to take a shower before changing into new clothes, and they don't even let go of their hair. A group of big men stripped naked and bathed, looking like they were washing a herd of livestock.

For the work and rest according to the time, Zhang Wuyi didn't feel any inconvenience, and after eating other people's food, he naturally had to listen to other people's care. He thought it was a matter of justice, not to mention that the emperor did not abuse them.

After entering the barracks, the newcomers were assigned a room for every group of five people, and the room was divided into two parts, one was the outer room where toiletries and miscellaneous items were placed, and the other was the inner room where they rested.

The inner room has a long earthen kang that occupies half of the room, as well as 5 lockers and 3 tables. Zhang Wuyi is the head of room No. 5 in Xuanzi, and the head of the house is elected by the soldiers in the same house.

At the beginning, everyone didn't know what the head of the dormitory did, and they only thought that the leader might not be a good thing, so Zhang Wuyi, who was considered more honest by the villagers, was elected by the soldiers in the same house.

After working as the dormitory chief for two days, Zhang Wuyi roughly understood that the dormitory chief was a foreman who asked the soldiers in the dormitory to get up, rest, and eat on time, and accepted the orders of the superiors to arrange for the soldiers in the dormitory to work.

Zhang Wuyi is quite satisfied with his current body, except for doing everything, he has to do it with the people in the house. For example, when eating, if one person in the dormitory does not arrive, the others will not have anything to eat. One person didn't finish the work arranged, and everyone couldn't go back to rest.

Although it was only a few days of hard work, Zhang Wuyi had unconsciously brought the verbal language of our house when he thought about things, and of course, there were not a few house chiefs who had changed like him.

Although Zhang Wuyi is honest, his brain is not stupid. He secretly calculated that the new Ding was arranged about 140 rooms, which means that there were 140 dormitory chiefs in their batch of new Ding.

According to the news that Zhang Wuyi inquired from the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp on the side, these newcomers will form a separate army, instead of being scattered and divided into the Beijing camp army next door.

According to the new military system of two rounds for a small flag, five small flags for a general flag, two general flags for one hundred households, and two hundred households for a company, these newcomers will be divided into three companies.

Of course, this is not the point, the point is that Zhang Wuyi heard that the small flag of the new army will be selected among the current chiefs. Zhang Wuyi did not think that the head of the house was an official position, but he knew that Xiaoqi was the smallest official position in the army.

As a countryman from a village background, there is actually half a chance to be selected as a petty official, which obviously makes Zhang Wuyi a little excited, so he is more enthusiastic about doing things.