Chapter 2 Great Martial Arts

Zhu Qizhen has been on the throne for so many years, except in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, when the tile spur troops approached Beijing, and the other days were generally prosperous.

I don't want to talk about the floods and droughts in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, but in Beijing, in Hebei, although there are also various abnormal weather, but it has little impact on crops.

Even if there was a big hailstorm in April this year, which caused a lot of production reduction, it was not to the point of starving to death, not to mention, the Daming Jingying smashed millions of taels of military salaries every year, and a considerable part of them flowed into all parts of Hebei.

The consumption of hundreds of officials and nobles constitutes a huge consumer market.

In addition, Shaofu is centered on Jingshi, and I don't know how many factories have been placed, and the agglomeration effect is also very large.

It's just that the people don't know the reason, but they just know that since His Majesty ascended the throne today, although there have been small twists and turns, for example, among the locals, many of them have joined the army and died outside.

But on the whole, everyone's life is getting better day by day.

This is the almost spontaneous gathering of the people that caused this situation.

Liu Chang didn't know this either.

Fortunately, after dark, there were fewer people in the city.

Liu Chang took a lot of effort to find martial arts. I didn't expect that there were still people in martial arts at this moment, but I couldn't do anything else, so I just set up a dormitory for him first. That is, the official room. This kind of official house is generally a small courtyard.

Yes, in martial arts, many students have official status.

There are worldly positions, and these are all family backgrounds. Counting up the generations, they were mixed in the military. There is also a meritorious service before you can come to the martial arts school.

For example, Liu Chang. He just gave up the official position of a thousand households and received a silver reward, as well as the opportunity to learn martial arts.

That's the reality.

There are some things that you don't know how much credit you have made on the battlefield and exchanged for your life, but for some people, they are born with it.

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Qizhen did not have too much to change.

After all, in the army, one of the generals trusted by Zhu Qizhen is a hereditary officer of the Wei Institute, and they are the basic plate of the old Zhu family.

Zhu Qizhen can only do this step. However, he believed in the self-metabolism of people, and although the starting point of the two sides was not fair, the young officers selected from hundreds of thousands of troops could surpass the honorable generals in the future.

I can only fight for this by myself.

After all, anything that can only be kept by oneself is truly one's own. If you don't give it to you, fate will lose you for one reason or another.

Liu Chang came to his courtyard, but found that several people had already come.

Liu Chang said hello one by one and talked a few words, all of which were years

Light people, and they are also soldiers, so they are familiar with each other.

One is called Tang Yin. It was Dongou Wang Tang and later, between the words, he wanted to restore the title wholeheartedly. is ambitious, but in Liu Chang's opinion, there is a sense of ambition and talent.

One is named Liu Funai is the youngest son of Ning Jinbo, and Ning Jinbo is Liu Ju, who was named an earl because of his merits in the Battle of Annam. And Liu Fu is the youngest son, and the title is no longer his share. Naturally, it will be sent to martial arts, and good students will learn.

There is also a grandson named Sun Cuo, who is the grandson of Huichang Bosun Jizong, who has only been restored for three or four years.

The other one is Zhang Jie, who couldn't read well, so he switched to martial arts.

Liu Chang immediately knew that this Zhang Jie also had a backstage. Otherwise, it's not so easy for everyone to study and turn to martial arts. At least one official position of four or five grades in the family.

Only then did Liu Chang know that he was probably the only one who was really from a poor family.

He's not even a humble family, he's from an outcast.

However, Liu Chang has been working in the army for several years now, and some communication methods have long been practiced.

Compared to these four young people who were under twenty years old, Liu Chang had time to fiddle with them. After a while, the three of them became familiar with each other.

Liu Chang also asked the question he wanted to ask the most, and said, "What is the situation of martial arts?" ”

Although Liu Chang arrived in November, the actual class will not be until next spring.

And it's Christmas in a few days, and Tang Yin and the others have a few days off, without him, but everyone who teaches in martial arts has official positions, and at Christmas, they all have to go to the palace.

The teachers are gone, and the students naturally have to go on holiday early. After all, when you go to a banquet in the palace, you have to prepare in advance. 、

Liu Fu said: "Brother Liu, you are asking the right person, the ancestor used to be in charge of martial arts. In martial arts, I am very well-connected, and I have also studied in martial arts for a year, and I know the situation very well. ”

"When His Majesty first established the martial arts school, it was still a grass platform team, and it was not divided into three rounds, and it was not allowed to enter the three rounds in the exam. Each of these three houses has its own requirements. ”

"Over the years, martial arts have been added, and now it is divided into five years, the first year to learn words and the method of fighting. Some officers from below have to learn well in the first year if they don't know how to write, and some have a good family background, and their families can't be ruthless in this fighting technique, so they can only be sent to the martial arts school to learn. ”

It looks simple, but it is the foundation of a grassroots officer.

Many times, for a lowest-ranking officer, any lofty art of war is of little use, but what is useful is courage.

One knows everything about the war book and strategy on weekdays, but at critical times, he can't rush to the front, and the other one doesn't know a big character on weekdays, and dares to carry a knife at a critical time, but can kill

of officers, apparently the latter is more qualified.

"In the second year, it is necessary to systematically learn the war book, the art of war, the Sima method, as well as the military system of the dynasty, the drawing method, and so on."

"In the third year, I learned the examples of war, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the just-concluded Duzhang First War."

"In the fourth year, students will study in different subjects, such as water warfare, naval warfare, horse warfare, mountain warfare, firearms, and logistics baggage transfer, and other specific knowledge, all of which are taught by officers who have fought on the front line."

"In the fifth year, the curriculum has been greatly reduced, and there is only one thing, and that is the pre-temple examination. Limited to 300 people per year, it is a martial artist. It is a test of weapons, strategies, and the way to arrange troops. ”

"After graduation, what kind of placement will there be, you have to look at an exam."

"If you are admitted to the Wujinshi, you will be considered a graduate, and if you fail the exam, you can only be regarded as a graduate. But the arrangement is the difference between heaven and earth. ”

After years of tinkering and additions. Martial arts has become closer and closer to the military academy that Zhu Qizhen imagined. Although there are only 300 graduates every year, the number of graduates is increasing.

Sometimes, what the Ming Dynasty needs may not be one or two genius generals, but a thousand or two thousand or more qualified generals.

The scale of martial arts is getting bigger and bigger, and it has become the hematopoietic center of the Ming army.

At this time, the military department invited the martial arts. It is not that the Ministry of War wants to give people who learn martial arts a rank to advance, but they want to use martial arts to suppress the development of martial arts.

But he didn't want Zhu Qizhen to combine Wujinshi and martial arts with his backhand. As a result, you must enter the martial arts to take the martial arts exam. also took this opportunity to expand the recruitment of martial arts, in addition to the children of hereditary officer families, the children of nobles, and the children of relatives, more children of ordinary people.

In the past 20 years, martial arts has become a focus of contention between the nobles and the civil officials, and the first victory of the civil officials is the first year of the basic course, that is, the literacy class, which is taught by the Jinshi of the Hanlin Academy.

Although some talents are of little use, it is also to maintain the army's loyalty to the Ming court.

Liu Chang couldn't help but worry.

Liu Chang had never doubted his martial arts, and when he was really fighting, he had not seen a few enemies who threatened him.

But for the text, it is his painstaking work.

Although he had also studied writing under Xiang Zhong's arrangement, he only remembered hundreds of commonly used words and picked up a book, as if he didn't know the words.

But I don't know if I can learn this Sun Tzu's Art of War, Sima Law and other things.

"By the way, Brother Liu, I just heard you say that you got credit from Wei Nan Bozheng Duzhangman, can you tell me what is going on with Duzhangman, is it easy to fight or not?"

For a moment, several people's eyes lit up.

After all, martial arts has always been filled with an atmosphere of daring to fight and being warlike, and wanting to make meritorious contributions.