Jinyang Academy was officially opened in March, and the first batch of 300 students was enrolled.

Because Li Qi personally named the academy as the "mountain chief", the news spread, and many noble and wealthy families in Jinyang City immediately found a way to rely on their connections, intending to stuff their own children into the academy. Just kidding, this emperor is also the head of the mountain, and in the future, the students who will go out of Jinyang Academy will at least have the halo of "protégé of the Son of Heaven" on their heads, and the future of this career will be much brighter.

In this year, those who are well-informed and somewhat knowledgeable are also wealthy nobles.

If it is said that the Son of Heaven has the immortal art of "turning stones into gold", many people will not believe it, but the alchemy and mechanism techniques displayed in the Li family's workshop are very profitable methods, and if you enter the Jinyang Academy, you will naturally be able to learn these methods of refining, refining and making organs.

In fact, the curiosity of scholars is much stronger than that of ordinary people, but they did not have so many choices in the Ming and Qing dynasties. There are many officials who will collect some strange books as a pastime, and even silver books about the art of the room, some people will treat them as treasures.

It's just that there is one type of book that cannot be touched, that is, astrological signs, prophecies, and slanderous books, these prophecies of calamity, celestial prophecies, and demagogic books that slander the world are absolutely forbidden by the rulers, and even so, there are still many people who secretly collect this kind of books because of curiosity.

Now Li Qi didn't want to spread any astronomical knowledge so early, the theory that the earth is spherical was put forward as early as the Warring States Period, but only a small number of people believed it, and most people didn't believe it.

"The red sun is rising, and its path is bright. The river flows out of the subterranean and flows into the ocean. The hidden dragon soars into the abyss, and the scales and claws are flying. The milk tiger roars in the valley, and the beasts are terrified. The falcon tries its wings, and the wind and dust are sucked up. The first child of a strange flower, the emperor. The cadres will be hairy, and there will be a man. The sky wears its blue, and the earth wears its yellow. Through the ages, there are eight wildernesses. The future is like the sea, and the future is long. The rise and fall of the family and the country is not in others, but in the youth. The wisdom of the youth is the wisdom of the country, and the wealth of the youth is the wealth of the country; When the youth is strong, the country is strong......"

In the small courtyard of the East Garden of Jinyang Palace, under a huge osmanthus tree, Lu Bi read the article written by Li Qigang and looked at Li Qi who was enjoying the shade with some doubts.

"Your Majesty's Meaning ......"

"I want to take the students of the academy as young pro-soldiers, and tell those who go to the door that if they are afraid of going to the battlefield, they should not be tempted. In addition, the garrison barracks and Huangzhuang around Taiyuan are also preparing to recruit school-age teenagers into the academy and form a juvenile army. Li Qi said unhurriedly.

"But Your Majesty, most of the children of those military families are poor and lowly......"

"There is no class in education, I often think about the chaotic government of martial artists since the Middle and Tang Dynasty, and the army is full of illiterate reckless men. short-sighted, I don't know what loyalty is, I only know how to be a soldier all day long, take money and food to mess around, and rebel and obey. Although there are lessons learned from the death of the people, they still go forward and succeed, all because they don't understand the reasons for the consequences of doing things. Since ancient times, those who can achieve great things cannot achieve things unless they have a strategy in their minds. However, now, with the martial arts in power, the king of grass with a gun is the source of the trouble. The so-called people who do not seek eternity can seek a moment, and I become a young army as a student, is to completely change this habit of martial arts and enemy politics! ”

Lu Bi's face was overjoyed: "Your Majesty does it mean to control martial arts with literature?" ”

Li Qi shook his head: "What is the use of literature to control martial arts?" This marching battle is also a science, and all walks of life must be handed over to professional people to do. This war is to be fought by soldiers. This marching formation, military equipment. Daily training and strict military law are all learning. If you don't understand this, how can you build a strong army? ”

Since the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to depose the hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism, the Chinese civilization, which bore fruit in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, began to decline. Confucianism is only a political trick, and the biggest problem is that it despises practice and production technology. The strength of the Sui and Tang dynasties was due to the result of their integration of many grassland civilizations, the Han civilization did not represent the whole of China, and the glory of the rectified Chinese civilization was in the pre-Qin period, in that era of freedom of thought and a hundred schools of thought.

That was the era when Chinese civilization was truly ahead of the whole world.

What Li Qi had to do was to restore the academic freedom of a hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin period.

The rumor that Li Qi wanted to make all the students of Jinyang Academy into a juvenile pro-army still persuaded some young scholars who were dedicated to studying, but most of the nobles in Jinyang were born as martial artists, and their children came to serve as the guards of the Son of Heaven's pro-army, which was a matter of course for most people.

Yuan Yi, the general of the Son of Heaven's pro-army, stood on the playground of the academy and said in a deep voice to the 1,200 students who had been selected: "Jinyang Academy is a place to cultivate the Son of Heaven's pro-army, not an ordinary academy, although it is a student, it is also a soldier. You have to think clearly, joining the army is not a joke, once the name is entered into the military, it is difficult to quit. Especially this young man is pro-army, and the military discipline is particularly strict, so now I give you time to think about it clearly. ”

Twelve hundred teenagers lined up in the playground of the academy, and most of the children of ordinary military or village families were much thinner than the children of the nobles, but they were very healthy, and they were luckier than most of their peers of this era, at least after entering the barracks or royal estates, they could feed them every day.

These fourteen- and fifteen-year-old boys lined up on the playground had already been screened before, and after listening to them, they replied in unison: "I am willing to serve the Son of Heaven!" ”

Yuan Ren roared: "Okay! From now on, even if you officially join the military, half a day of study and half a day of training. The reading and learning are arranged by the gentleman of the college, and as for the training, it is in charge of a certain family! Now, under the leadership of the instructor, each team is lining up to receive clothing, bedding and other daily necessities, and in the future, in the academy camp, only military uniforms are allowed, and those who violate the order will be punished with 20 lashes! ”

Li Qi handed over the task of training these young cadets to his own general, Yuan Ren and others.

Yuan Ren is a master, not only skilled in bows and horses, but also extraordinary, at least Li Qi thinks so.

At least his own pro-army has become strong under his training.

It's just that Yuan Ren didn't quite understand why he started with a parade, until Li Qi explained that it was to cultivate the habit of obeying the orders of the soldiers, and then he suddenly realized that he was ready to be the first to promote it among the Praetorian Guards.

Under Yuan Ren's intimidation, most of the teenagers looked trembling, because those fierce instructors stood in front of their team with a short wooden stick in their hands. After hearing the order, these teenagers went to the storehouse of the academy in a team of 50 people, led by the instructor, to receive daily necessities such as clothes, shoes and hats.

What awaits them is not only daily study, but also rigorous military training......