On the large campus of the School of Physics, Tang Shunzhi was commanding his forty-eight disciples to line up in four mandarin duck formations, constantly practicing, while Yang Cong led seven students to practice riding and archery on the side.

In recent years, the academy is generally full of books, but Yang Cong has made such a shouting and killing sound, which is really a bit strange.

However, in this regard, the real wonder is not Yang Cong, but the current scholar, or the Ming court.

The Ming court also didn't know when it began, there was a strange rule, the military general was responsible for charging into battle, and the civilian official was responsible for leading the troops to fight, that is to say, on the battlefield, the commander was generally a civilian official, and the military general could only obey orders!

How strange this rule is for the time being, let's not talk about it, what is even more strange is that the Ming Dynasty has never stipulated that civilian officials who lead troops to fight must know martial arts, and scholars generally only read, never care about martial arts or not, and don't care what if you want to go to the battlefield one day, you have to lead the troops to fight, what to do.

This is a self-contradictory thing, since you stipulate that only civilian officials can lead troops to fight, why don't you let scholars practice martial arts, otherwise, what if you go to the battlefield?

Of course, it is not that there is no martial arts practice among the scholars, like the scholars from the military family generally practice some martial arts, such as Shen Lian and Qi Jiguang.

Tang Shunzhi's disciples are even more incredible, they are all military households, all of them are good at kung fu, and they are all talented!

This thing sounds a bit incredible, how can there be so many talents among the military households?

In fact, it is not surprising at all, because there are too many military households in the Ming Dynasty, there are nearly three million households, if calculated according to the average of five people per household, it is nearly fifteen million people, and the total population of the official statistics of the Ming Dynasty is generally about fifty or sixty million people, that is to say, the number of military households accounts for more than two percent of the total population of the Ming Dynasty, and the military generals are far less popular than civilian officials in these years. Like the seven disciples recruited by Yang Cong, Hai Rui, Shen Lian, Zhang Juzheng, and Qi Jiguang are all from military families, accounting for more than half.

Of course, these disciples under Tang Shunzhi are not as good as Hai Rui and Zhang Juzheng in terms of reading, and the disciples he recruited are basically tried and tested, and it is hopeless to rely on lifting people, because only this kind of person will calm down and honestly learn the art of war from him, otherwise, these people will not have to study hard and prepare to take the exam, after all, there is a world of difference between lifting people and Xiucai, and there are a few Xiucai who don't want to be lifters.

Tang Shunzhi has already resigned from his position in the military department at this time to concentrate on teaching disciples with Yang Cong, anyway, their retirement is only temporary, at this time the power of Yan Song and Xia Yan in the court is flourishing, and he has no future in the court, it is better to teach some disciples to come out, so that he can take them to make contributions in the future.

Tang Shunzhi's practice here was in full swing, which naturally attracted Hai Rui, Shen Lian and Qi Jiguang, who were originally from a military household, to be hot, they all looked eager to try, they wanted to go up and command, and they were addicted to being a general, and even Tan Lun and Yang Jisheng, who were not from a military family, looked at Tang Shunzhi's majestic appearance a little hot, but Zhang Juzheng, a child of a military family, seemed to have something on his mind or something, and turned a blind eye to the scene of Tang Shunzhi's drill. Instead, he secretly glanced at his master Yang Cong from time to time.

Yang Cong was also secretly paying attention to the disciples' every move, and when he saw Zhang Juzheng looking absent-minded, he couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Uncle, what's wrong with you, do you have something on your mind?" ”

When Zhang Juzheng heard this, his face obviously showed a trace of panic, but he quickly suppressed the panic in his heart, and plucked up the courage to say to Yang Cong: "Teacher, students want to participate in next year's entrance examination, I don't know if I can ask for a leave to go to the capital to report." ”

Oh, it turns out that this kid wants to participate in next year's exam, but this can't be done!

Yang Cong shook his head slightly, and then taught: "Uncle, do you know that being an official is the most jealous and impetuous? You are still young, it is not a good thing for you to enter the officialdom at this time, besides, Yan Song and Xia Yan's party are in full power at this time, and they are trying to suppress us, if you all go to participate in the examination, it is estimated that they will find excuses to brush down a few, which is not good, so this time for the teacher, I am only going to let Zishi, Chunfu and Zhongfang go to participate in the examination, and Ruxian and Yuanjing will also participate in the hospital examination and the township examination, needless to say, you and Zili had better calm down and sharpen yourself a little more before going. ”

It's still grinding, and it's another three years of grinding!

Zhang Juzheng said with some eagerness: "Teacher, the student knows that he is still a little young and vigorous, and if he doesn't control his temperament, it will be easy to offend people in the officialdom." However, you can rest assured that since students know this, they will always be careful not to cause trouble. Teacher, you just let the students go, the students don't want to wait another three years. ”

This kid, with your anxious heart, can you please the officialdom?

Yang Cong thought for a while, and then asked: "Well, then tell me, what problems Da Ming has now, and what are you going to do after you enter the officialdom?" ”

Zhang Juzheng replied without thinking: "The students think that the main problem of the Ming Dynasty is poverty, of course, this poverty does not mean that everyone is poor, the main thing is that the court and the people have no money, and those local tyrants and squires are in cahoots with the corrupt officials and corrupt officials cultivated by the official eunuch family, and they annex the land through various means, evade taxes, and damage the public and private interests, so that the court taxes are getting less and less, and the people are getting poorer and poorer. If the student enters the officialdom, the first thing is to find a way to take power, once in power, the student will implement a whip law created by Lord Wenxiang Gonggui, simplify the tax system, so that the corrupt officials have nowhere to start, and at the same time clear the land, into the hands of the local tyrants and gentry and the official eunuchs, the land is cleared, so as to increase the tax, so that the court is increasingly rich, so that there is money to organize an army to clean up the tartars. ”

, this kid really has the posture of the first assistant!

Yang Cong really didn't expect that Zhang Juzheng had such a deep understanding of the problems existing in Daming at a young age, and he could find a way to solve them.

However, his approach was a bit too extreme.

At this time, he kept saying that he tried not to offend people, but his method offended all the vested interest groups, what kind of jokes, arresting the local tyrants, squires and official eunuchs, and looking for death!

It is no wonder that as soon as he died, the Wanli New Deal was abolished, and even his family was exiled for thousands of miles and starved to death on the frontier.

The root of this lies in the method he uses, and he is simply against the entire ruling class of the Ming Dynasty!

When he didn't die, he could still rely on his identity as an emperor to suppress the ministers and control Wanli, as soon as he died, the vested interest groups would not ruin his new policy and clean up his family!