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The name reported by the Military Aircraft Department was originally called Huangming Lecture Wutang, and the two words of loyalty and righteousness were written by the current Emperor Chongzhen himself.

Although the official army of the Ming Dynasty was originally developed by the Red Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and also had very distinct value orientations or ideologies, such as expelling Hulu and restoring China, etc., this Red Army was not half a star worse than the Red Army of later generations.

And in the late Ming Dynasty Chongzhen years, the Ming Dynasty officials and troops lost their fighting spirit, and there was no strict discipline, in the early years of the Apocalypse, they also dared to fight with the Houjin army in Liaodong, and in the last years of the Apocalypse, especially during the Chongzhen period, in the face of the Houjin army, they could only defend the city and did not dare to fight in the field.

And in the last years of Chongzhen, the Ming official army became a joke, not only when they encountered the Houjin army, they were about to collapse, and even when they encountered Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army, they were still crushed at the touch of a button, and they had no fighting spirit.

If it is said that in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Expeditionary Army under the command of Xu Da and Chang Yuchun was a Ming army with a soul, then in the last years of Chongzhen, the official army of the Ming Dynasty was completely a walking corpse without any faith.

Whether they encountered the Houjin army or the peasant army, the fundamental reason why they were about to collapse at the first touch was that they had no loyalty at all, and they did not know who they were fighting for and why.

In their eyes, and even in the eyes of many generals and ministers, they are fighting for the emperor at best, not for the country, for the nation, and for the descendants of Yan and Huang in later generations.

Therefore, he became a deserter and lost the battle, without any sense of shame, because to say that he would go to the sky, he would just shave his head, change his clothes, and serve another emperor in the future.

If the new army in the future is still such an army without faith and ethics, then the task of organizing and training the new army can be regarded as a complete failure.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly pondered the formation and training of the new army, he found it more and more clear that it was necessary to inject faith and soul into the new army and master this army ideologically.

At the beginning, the supervision of the army was arranged on the nine sides, and later, when the new army was being trained, it was planned to set up training and pacification for each battalion head, the purpose was to better grasp the new army, but these were far from enough, and it was necessary to let the new army know what they were fighting for when they fought against the Houjin army.

This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen insisted on speaking about Wutang today.

Accompanied by Sun Chengzong, Li Banghua, Zhang Weixian and other military ministers, Emperor Chongzhen followed Mao Yuanyi, Sun Yuanhua and other personnel of the lecture hall, crossed the south gate of the lecture hall, and entered the courtyard of the lecture hall.

The 150 students of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, under the orders of Ma Shilong and other instructors, ran forward in unison, and went to the large lecture hall in the North House to wait.

In the early summer, the lecture hall was luxuriant, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, Emperor Chongzhen looked at it while walking, and at the same time explained to Sun Chengzong, Zhang Weixian and others how to make the lecture hall better in the future.

Sun Chengzong, Zhang Weixian and others naturally made no promises.

From the south gate of the lecture hall, all the way to the north of the lecture hall, it is a long distance, usually do not exercise much of the ministers, one by one is out of breath, if there is no emperor in front, it is estimated that these people are either riding horses, or sitting in a sedan chair.

But Emperor Chongzhen went all the way, but he was very happy, maybe it was because he had been sitting in the car for a long time, and when he walked, not only did he not feel tired, but after sweating, there was a feeling of pleasure.

This is the first time he has walked out of Beijing City and the Forbidden City since he came to this world inexplicably, and his heart is full of excitement and curiosity.

Especially walking in the Jiangwutang courtyard that he proposed to establish and did not have in history at all, not to mention the excitement in Emperor Chongzhen's heart, he only felt that he was full of strength, and he didn't feel tired at all, Zhang Weixian advised the emperor to sit in a sedan chair or take a chariot several times, but the emperor refused. And the emperor's approach naturally stirred up waves in the hearts of the 150 students of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty today is not as diligent as the legend, so pay attention to the luxurious scene, but like them, young and full of energy, and full of respect for the martial arts, in the courtyard of the martial arts hall, even the emperor, do not take a car, do not sit in a sedan chair, all walk on two legs.

It is precisely because of the practice during the emperor's visit to the martial arts hall that no matter how big the official is, when he arrives at the door of the emperor's loyal and righteous martial arts hall, he is a civil official, you have to get off the sedan chair, you are a military general, you have to get off the horse, and no one can take a sedan chair or gallop on a horse on the road that the emperor has walked in the martial arts hall.

When he arrived at the Beishe Lecture Hall, Emperor Chongzhen sat down on the temporary throne in the center of the podium in front of the lecture hall, looked at the group of military attachés kneeling in the hall, and then said: "I insist on speaking about the martial arts hall today, first, to see the situation of the lecture hall, the lecture hall was named and established by me, and I have been paying attention to the preparations for the lecture hall. The second is to meet with all of you, meet with you, and share some of my thoughts. ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen paused for a moment, and then said: "On the archway outside the gate of the martial arts hall, there are seven big characters written on the emperor's loyalty and righteousness, why do you want to write the two words of loyalty and righteousness?" This is related to the purpose of the martial arts. I am meeting with you today to talk about this purpose.

"In my heart, the purpose of the Emperor's martial arts hall is to be loyal and righteous and fierce, and to protect the country with martial arts. You are the first batch of students, and you will become the mainstay of our Ming official army in the future, and you must understand the meaning of loyalty, righteousness, martyrdom, and martial arts to protect the country. ”

Next, Emperor Chongzhen spoke loudly to everyone present, including the accompanying ministers of military aircraft and Jinyiwei, Shangzhiwei, Dongchang and other officials, and told the truth of loyalty, righteousness, martyrdom, and elite military protection of the country.

Loyalty, of course, is loyalty, and if an army does not have loyalty, then the existence of this army is meaningless.

If the emperor cannot gain the loyalty of the army, then the emperor will not last long.

All people understand this truth, and the ancient Chinese tradition is also the most loyal, so the acceptance of loyalty among the Ming civil and military officials is very high, and there is no need to say anything, these military attachés here naturally understand this truth.

The loyalty that Emperor Chongzhen talked about is first of all to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, followed by loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and then loyalty to the Chinese nation.

The first two are just clichés, but the third layer sounds quite new to everyone here, and it can be regarded as the emperor's originality.

This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen had to come to talk about the first lesson of Wutang, it is not enough to be loyal to the emperor and loyal to the Ming Dynasty, only the loyalty to the Ming Emperor and the imperial court has risen to the height of the Chinese nation, in order to truly arouse the resonance of all the descendants of Yan and Huang, and in the face of the Houjin Eight Banner Army in the future, it can inspire infinite strength.

The ultimate idea of today's Emperor Chongzhen is to use nationalism and militarism to arm the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty, and take the lead in building the Ming Empire into a militaristic nation-state in the world in the seventeenth century.

Because only in this way can we ensure that everything that I have worked so hard to build now will not die one day in the future.

Emperor Chongzhen talked about loyalty, and then he talked about righteousness.

This righteousness, naturally, cannot be a simple buddy righteousness, but the righteousness of the country and the nation, treating colleagues in the army as siblings, it is righteousness, and if a friendly army is in danger and does not save it, it is unrighteousness, sacrificing oneself and taking into account the overall situation is righteousness, and harming the public and selfishness, selfishness and selfishness is unrighteousness, and so on.

Then he talked about the issue of the ethics and character of the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, he talked about Lie, and now Emperor Chongzhen talks about Lie, which mainly talks about blood, tenacity, and tiger spirit.

The army of the Ming Dynasty must of course become a division of benevolence and righteousness internally, and naturally become a division of tigers and wolves externally, rather than an army that is an expert in the so-called civil war and an outsider in the foreign war.

As for serving the country with fine martial arts, not to mention, if a military general is not proficient in martial arts and the art of war, he is naturally not a qualified general.

Therefore, these things that Emperor Chongzhen said, the civil and military officials present can also listen to them.

In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed, and after finishing this, Emperor Chongzhen said: "In the art of war, soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored. I hope that during the period of study in the martial arts hall, you will listen to the arrangements of the instructors and instructors of the martial arts hall, and study the military art of war, especially the method of training and leading troops in the future, the method of arranging troops and arranging formations, and the formation and training of the new army in the future. You should be encouraged. ”