Chapter 1057: The Terrifying Young Barracks

After the examination in late February, the entire Tang Empire has returned to a calm period, although there is a palace examination after the examination, but because there will be basically no unsuccessful candidates in the palace examination, it is basically just a re-ranking, and in recent years, the Tang Dynasty's attention to the palace examination is only average.

More often than not, the palace examination is just a passing motion, so in the hearts of many people, in fact, the spring imperial examination is basically over.

Among the many scholars, except for the candidates who took the entrance examination, everyone else also began to make their own plans.

Some are ready to return to their hometowns and prepare to take next year's provincial entrance examination, which will be less competitive, while others are preparing to apply for Guozijian University or Jinling University, and some simply stay in Jinling and wait for next year's entrance examination.

Of course, it is inevitable that he will be completely disappointed in the imperial examination, and he is ready to return to his hometown to be a gentry, and honestly harm the township.

Therefore, during the period after the end of the examination, Guozijian University and Jinling University, as well as normal schools in various places, also began to get busy.

It is not the same as the autumn enrollment in later generations, because of the existence of the traditional imperial examination, the universities of the Tang Dynasty and even other primary and secondary schools have the enrollment season in the spring.

Most of the enrollment work for elementary and middle schools begins after the Spring Festival, while preparatory schools, teachers' training, and universities begin in late February, that is, after the entrance examination.

However, spring happens to be the spring ploughing period, so schools will have spring break shortly after the start of school.

Because of the existence of farming, primary schools around the country will basically have busy farming holidays, but according to the different climate, the time is not uniform, for example, the southern provinces, especially the two Guangxi regions can plant two crops of rice, and their rainy season comes early, spring ploughing time is also early, so the spring vacation is also relatively early, at the same time in the summer, there will be summer vacation, and when it comes to autumn, there is also autumn vacation like other places.

In other places, rice and wheat are basically planted for one season, so it is not the same as Lingnan during the holiday.

Basically, school holidays everywhere are tailored to local conditions, and there is no uniform statement.

But spring break and autumn break are basically available, but the time is not uniform.

Why give students a holiday? Quite simply, the students in schools everywhere are local teenagers, and not every one of these students is from a wealthy family, most of them are ordinary people, at most they are small landlord families, and they need to go home to help when they are busy farming.

On weekdays, they can go to school, but during the busy farming season, if they don't go home to help, their families' farm work will be affected.

However, there are exceptions, that is, the Datang Royal Institute of Technology and the young military camp, they have never had all kinds of holidays.

Datang Institute of Technology is not to mention, this thing is not a pure school at all, but more like an official comprehensive research institute, every student in it has an official body, to put it bluntly, all the students in it are officials, and they are on vacation when they become officials? In the Tang Dynasty, there was no such good thing.

The Tang Dynasty is the same as the traditional dynasty, except for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival and other traditional festivals will have a few days of short vacation, the other time has to go to work, the possibility of wanting to take a long vacation is very low, unless you don't want to do it.

It is actually very difficult for officials to go home, otherwise the term eunuch would not have appeared.

has been an official for more than ten years, and it is very common that he has never returned to his hometown once.

Generally, when I return to my hometown, there are basically three situations: Ding worry, Zhishi, and recall.

For officials, the other two are not good things, except for old age.

As for the young barracks, because the students in it are all orphans and don't even have a home, they don't have any farm work, but in fact, after these students in the young barracks enter the young barracks, they basically have little to do with farm work.

The only thing they have to do is learn, train!

These orphans, who have been in the infant barracks since childhood, spend every day in study and training, and the talented ones with excellent academic performance will continue to skip grades, and finally go to the Royal Institute of Technology.

But these geniuses are always a minority, and most of them end up in the military or politics.

When they were in the young military camp, they were already trained in different classes according to their personal qualities and hobbies, and those in the science class often entered the Royal Institute of Technology last, those in the military class entered the Imperial Academy, and those in the literature class entered politics directly.

These young military camp students who have not done anything since they were young, and only know how to study and train, to be honest, they don't even know how to do farm work, what kind of farm holidays do you give them!

But the talents cultivated by this system are the top talents of this era in Li Xuan's mind!

Talents cultivated through other external channels, even if they are students from Guozijian or Yuxuetang, these people still have too many traces of this era, and they can't change them if they want to.

But the students in the young barracks, they are orphans, and they are basically recruited before the age of ten, their worldview has not yet been completely formed, and the education in the young barracks is closed, and all the education systems, to be honest, Li Xuan is copied from later generations, which is completely different from the schools outside.

Therefore, the students who come out of the young barracks are far superior to ordinary people outside in terms of knowledge.

Even if their level is placed in later generations, most of them are at the level of primary school students, but can modern people and indigenous people at the level of primary school students be the same?

It's not the same!

The difference is so big!

After the end of this year's examination, the young military camps in various places have also ushered in a new round of graduation and enrollment.

Many of the recruited orphans, after a long or short simple training in the early stage of last year, will officially enter the first grade of the young military camps in various places this year, and many sixth grade students will officially graduate this year, some of them will enter the Royal Institute of Technology, some will enter the Imperial Academy, and some will enter politics.

Speaking of which, they have an advantage over ordinary people, that is, they can join the army without going through the entrance exam of the martial arts academy, and you must know that every student in the imperial academy is basically an active officer.

And if you are in politics, you don't need to participate in the imperial examination, you can directly enter politics, of course, their grades are generally relatively low, most of them are below the eighth grade.

But even so, these people still played a huge role in the scientific, military, and political affairs of the empire, and at the same time brought great influence.

Especially in science, students from young military camps basically account for more than 80% of the hundreds of teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology!

There is no way, because in this world, only the young military camp currently has a complete education, which is equivalent to the first to sixth grade in the later generations, and although there are nominally primary schools, middle schools, preparatory departments and even universities in other places, to be honest, even the science level of Guozijian and Jinling University is actually not as good as the six-year education of the young military camp.

Even in the military, the students of the military class of the young military camp began to study military affairs from an early age, and they learned how to fight from childhood to adulthood, and after three years of complete study, from childhood to adulthood, people specialized in learning how to fight, and other halfway monks, who were almost twenty years old before running to apply for the martial arts academy, and finally entered the military academy The officers are completely different!

How is it different?

Ordinary officer, in addition to his military identity, he used to be a scholar, and then he knew a little bit about other life skills and whatever, and maybe even proficient in it.

But an officer from a young barracks!

They don't know anything but war!

The special education system of the young military camp has created a special group of students in the young military camp, and then has an impact on the political, military, cultural and economic economy of almost the entire Tang Dynasty, and this influence is also what Li Xuan has always hoped to see.

If there were no students in the young military camp, there would be no Royal Institute of Technology, then there would be no various inventions, and many of the things in Li Xuan's memory would not be able to be copied in this era, and the army would not have access to howitzers, flintlock guns, steam engines, and so on.

However, in the early years, the students of the young military camp were mainly concentrated in the field of scientific research, and others, especially other officials in the court, did not feel much about them, but in the past two years, after the students of the young military camp began to enter the military and political two terms, they gradually attracted the attention of other officials.

It's okay in the political circles, there are too many civilian officials, and the total number of students in the young military camp is only a few hundred, most of them are low-level officials, and the impact is not great.

But in the military world, the influence of young military camp students is getting bigger and bigger!

This can be seen from the situation of the Guards, at present, most of the students in the young military camp will enter the Guards after graduating from the Imperial Academy, and a small number will enter the army to serve, while the navy has only a few students in the young military camp.

As a result, more and more officers in the Guards came from the small military camp, and then temporarily occupied most of the positions.

From the senior positions such as chief of staff and deputy chief of staff of the Guards, to the middle and senior positions of regimental commanders, deputy regiment commanders, staff officers, battalion commanders, and captains, the students of the young military camp already account for more than half!

That's a pretty scary number.

This is the case on the side of the Guards, and at the same time, the size of the Guards is small and the positions are limited, so now some officers from young military camps are beginning to serve in the army and navy, and this has aroused the fear of many officers.

This is not to say that they are afraid of any rebellion risk or anything like that, but because these people threaten their position.

Although it is said that military talent is needed, but after studying for so many years, even if it is a step-by-step command to fight, it will not be too bad.

What's more, these people are still young, and the officers of the Tang Army and Navy are young enough, many of them are in their twenties and thirties, and there are not many who are over forty.

But the students of these young barracks are now in their early twenties, and the youngest ones are only fifteen or sixteen years old!

But more importantly......

These officers from the young military camp are almost all school officers!

That's right, but all officers who were born in a young military camp, after entering active duty, all started as majors!

Why, because they all enter the Imperial Academy first, and then enter active duty after graduating from the Imperial Academy, and the students of the Imperial Academy will be awarded the rank of major after graduation.

Imagine what role a group of officers from a special group of school officers, who are still very young and not a small number, when they grow up?

In response to this situation, Lieutenant General Lei Wan first talked about the issue of young barracks officers, and then even Hao Bonian, who had never dared to participate in other affairs, was afraid that his high merits would shock the master and lead to death, and he wrote a special letter to Li Xuan, also talking about the issue of young barracks officers.

The two military bigwigs took political risks and made a break, although they were all secret folds and were not made public, but this also shows the seriousness of the matter.

For a while, even Li Xuan himself had to re-examine his young military camp policy!