In April of the 21st year of Xingqian, this time of year is the graduation season of the academies of the Ming Dynasty, not only among the people, but also for military academies. Although now, with the increasing refinement of military divisions, many other military academies such as artillery schools, cavalry schools, and army and sea division manager schools have been established. However, as we all know, in the military education system of the Ming Dynasty, only the Royal Land Division School and the Royal Sea Division School are its real core, and they both belong to the highest military academy of the Ming Dynasty.

Over the years, the competition between the two schools has never stopped, especially in the various sports events of the college, the collision between the land and sea teachers school is extremely fierce, and every time it will cause a sensation. "Sink the sea division" and "defeat the land division" will become the slogans of both sides. The competition between the two sides is not only limited to military spending and various sports competitions, and even the graduation season is secretly competing, and the two sides are competing not for anything else, but for the graduation date, after all, unlike other schools, their nominal principals are all emperors, so the emperor will attend the graduation ceremony, and they are competing for the emperor to attend the graduation ceremony of that school first.

Although because the Lu Normal School was established the earliest, he graduated three days earlier than the Maritime Normal School, but for many years, the Maritime Normal School has been trying to advance by five days, and the competition between the two academies has also made the army and navy military departments frightened, and neither side has ever made concessions on the issue of principle.

In the face of this kind of secret competition, as His Majesty, Zhu Mingzhong, tried to merge the graduation ceremonies of the two schools, but was opposed by the Lu Haishi, obviously neither side was willing to go to the other or let the other party graduate on their own "turf", so for many years, the graduation ceremonies of both sides still followed the old practice.

The graduation ceremony is still held on the sixth day of April every year, while the graduation ceremony is held three days later.

The graduation season of the Lushi School every year is a feast for the people of Zhongdu, although in Zhongdu, there are two school parades held in the town of Konoe every month. But what people like to see the most is still the graduation review of Lu Normal School.

In fact, every time a review is held in front of the palace, it arouses a frenzy among the people, and the spectacle of rousing music and marching flags often excites the onlookers along the road, and even makes them eager to share the honor under the guidance of the flag. At the end of each school review, a number of young people volunteer to join the military and the military.

This is not only the case for locals in Zhongdu, but also for tourists from other places, who are also very interested in proofreading, and many people think that proofreading is an amazing and desirable thing. Naturally, the local citizens will not miss the opportunity to provide a viewing platform, and they will rent out one of the windows of their homes, from which they can perfectly see the passage of the parade troops.

As in the past, the school parade of the Lu Normal School was held in the school, and unlike the closure of the past, today the Lu Normal School is open, early in the morning, there are thousands of citizens pouring into the school, crowded on both sides of the wide training ground, how many hours later, those who are wearing gorgeous dresses of the martial arts students, lined up in a long line to lecture on the martial arts students' unique military appearance, lined up into the training ground. In the face of this group of neat sergeants, although there was no artillery and other ordnance to cheer the guards and garrison troops, the neat military appearance still made the people cheer excitedly.

At a quarter past nine, when Zhu Mingzhong, who was dressed in military uniform, slowly appeared surrounded by a group of royal forest soldiers, a tsunami-like shout immediately sounded.

"Long live the Emperor!"

The sound of long live like thunder came from the onlookers, and in this cheer, Zhu Mingzhong showed a smile of relief. And Zhu Hejia, who followed closely by his father's side, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, kept a distance of half a horse behind his father with a solemn expression. This is the first time he has participated in the ceremony of the Lu Normal School since he retired from the Sea Division, but he is no stranger to this scene, and he was also a member of the reading back then.

Soon the 3,600 students of the Lu Shi Lecture Martial Arts Hall who graduated this year passed in a neat queue from the reading platform to the school reading platform, Zhu Mingzhong's expression was serious, watching the passage of these young people, many of them are the sons and daughters of the emperor's nobles, and it is their duty and necessary process to join the army, but many of them will retire after a few years, and then enter the officialdom and become a member of the imperial officialdom.

Although the civil service examination and the new civil service system replaced the imperial examination system, the officialdom of the empire has regressed to a certain extent - the sons of the nobles can directly enter the officialdom after retiring as officers, which is a compromise made to ensure that the nobles and honorable groups maintain a certain strength in the officialdom and to ensure the balance of power between the two sides.

Compared with the imperial examination system, which is mandatory for the selection of officials, this is indeed a kind of regression, but it is beneficial for the rule of the empire.

The passage of the troops under review only attracted bursts of cheers from the surrounding onlookers. When a small team of 100 people passed, Zhang Jinsheng said softly on the side.

"Your Majesty, the team that has passed through now is the son of the Miao Tu official of the Southwest Mountain, and they have been ordered to enter the lecture hall to study, and they will serve in the army for a long time in the future."

Zhang Jinsheng's words made Zhu Mingzhong smile.

"They are also Ming people! Don't say anything about the mountain seedlings at every turn. ”

Although the heirs of the local officials are recruited into the lecture hall and serve in the army, to some extent it is equivalent to proton, but on the other hand, compared with the northern nomads, fishing and hunting peoples, now the Ming Dynasty is tolerant of the southwest mountain seedlings, although "changing the land and returning to the stream" is the Ming Dynasty's national policy, but on the other hand, in the southwest, the Ming Dynasty now pays attention to "the mountain is the seedling, and the mountain is the Han". In other words, the Miao and Tu people living in the mountainous areas and tribes are Han people as long as they are educated and willing to live in the mountains, and the government under the mountains also gives them all kinds of relaxed policies, especially on renting official land, giving them all kinds of preferential treatment. It was a series of loose policies and regulations that attracted a large number of mountain barbarians who were oppressed and enslaved by the head people to take the initiative to go out of the mountains and dissolve into the Central Plains, where they worked with the same peace of mind as the Han people living on this land, and they were also regarded as members of the Han people.

In fact, the current Ming Dynasty never recognized the "mountain barbarians and Miao Yi" in the southwest, but regarded them as a part of the Han people, and the policy of "Miao in the mountains and Han in the mountains" provided the foundation for the education of the barbarians in the southwest.

Of course, the relaxation is only for those who are willing to educate, for the mountain barbarian tribes who dare to attack the Han people, the Ming government also holds an iron fist, and exterminates its clan at every turn, on the one hand, the liberal naturalization policy, on the other hand, is an iron fist, so complementary to each other, and finally paves the way for the indoctrination of the southwest, although the assimilation policy has only been implemented for 20 years, the degree of indoctrination in the southwest has exceeded the past two hundred years, after all, this is the first time in the history of the Ming Dynasty that the government took the initiative to send teachers to build schools, and sent to worship to build "holy temples", These are all for the purpose of edification. It is precisely because of the efforts that have lasted for more than ten years that the education in the southwest will be carried out in an orderly manner, and in a few decades, the so-called mountain seedlings will disappear without a trace.

And now that the Southwest Mountain Miao has become more and more recognized by the Han people, Zhu Mingzhong is naturally pleased with this. Because that's exactly what he was hoping for.

"What Your Majesty said is very true, it is the minister who lost his words, Your Majesty, now the Western Regions is imminent to use troops, and now the Jiannu steals and occupies many mountainous areas, and the southwest mountain people have lived in the mountains since childhood, so the Governor's Office of the Five Armies intends to transfer the troops composed of the southwest mountain people to the Western Regions, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks?"

Zhang Jinsheng's suggestion made Zhu Mingzhong wave his hand and said lightly.

"If necessary, you can mobilize, whether it is the people of the southwest mountains, or the people of the Central Plains, they are all the people of my Ming Dynasty, since joining the army is my Ming official army, the country needs it, and it is normal to mobilize it, why not?"

Because of the special situation in the southwest, in the face of a large number of local people, after the official army entered the southwest, they recruited some of the mature seedlings into the army, and it was those with the help of the mature seedlings that the Ming Dynasty had to quickly quell some of the rebellions of the southwest mountain barbarians, and this also led to the long-term deployment of dozens of brigades in the southwest region to garrison the troops, for those who are good at fighting in the mountains, the five military governors have long been remembered. Especially in the next use of troops in the Western Regions, the special environment of the mountains made the Ming Dynasty need that group of mountain people from the southwest.

"Got it!"

Zhang Jinsheng replied respectfully.

At this time, he had already calculated in his heart that when the time came, he would recruit those troops stationed in the southwest, after all, among those troops, there were many elites whose combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty, and he would certainly not let them go if he had coveted those troops for a long time.

Just as he was thinking about this, he heard His Majesty ask again.

"The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has been decided?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the problem of Jiannu must be solved, otherwise they will slowly grow bigger, when Jiannu fled to the Western Regions, Ding was only more than 100,000, and now there are more than 1 million people, and in another 20 years, I am afraid that there will be no less than millions of people, and then it will definitely be my Ming belly."

Over the past two decades, the Manchus have continued to rob the natives of the Western Regions to give birth to children, which directly led to the expansion of the Manchu population. A Manchu Qing with a population of several million was a self-evident threat to the Ming Dynasty, so it was necessary to cut off their development, and this issue could not be postponed any longer.

Of course, Zhu Mingzhong also had a clear understanding of this, so when he heard Zhang Jinsheng say this, he just nodded slightly, and then said.

"It's time to solve this problem once and for all......

Then he turned his gaze to the graduating students who were undergoing the school review, and then said softly.

"Some of them will also be sent to the battlefield to hone their skills, well, send a telegram to Li Dingguo, before acting, I always have to see him!"

Indeed, before the Ming army acted, as the emperor, he always had to meet the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army. There are always things that need to be told in person.

Moreover, in the past few years, Li Dingguo has been in the Western Regions. Work for the country. As an emperor, of course, you have to show him something.

Fortunately, the transportation is convenient now. If he came back by train, it would only take a few days. However, the back and forth time seems to be a little too long.

After thinking about it, Zhu Mingzhong said again.

"So be it. I will go to Shaanxi, and I will meet the King of Jin in Shaanxi, after all, it is also his hometown. ”

Besides, I haven't been to Shaanxi for several years, so it's time to go there and see how it has changed over the years.

After all, for many years, he has been extremely concerned about Shaanxi. After all, the people who came out of that land once overthrew the country.

That's why, over the years, he has never relaxed his focus on it. Of course, more often than not, it's trying to change everything there. Let that barren land no longer be a breeding ground for rogue bandits.

But that didn't get the support of the local people. At least it did not have the support of the vast majority of the people, but was opposed by the majority of the local people.

If it weren't for the calamities they suffered under the rule of the Manchus, perhaps there would have been rogues there a few years ago. Of course, as the emperor, Zhu Mingzhong preferred to believe that the reason why the local people did not violently resist the emigration, and more importantly, the imperial court has always maintained a garrison of 100,000 troops there.

If there is a change in the local people. Not only the 100,000 garrisons will act immediately. Together with the local meritorious veterans, they will be armed as soon as possible to assist the imperial court, and the official army will carry out a series of operations there.

Under this threat. But anyone who is a little more sober is unlikely to choose to take risks.

But even that did not prevent those people from being forced to move out of their homeland. In his heart, the words were cursed to the court and to him, the emperor.

But that's not all they can do.

Li Dingguo is a native of Shaanxi.

There should always be some explanation for him.

I thought so. Zhu Mingzhong made a decision in his heart.

"It's time to meet him."

Whether it is public or private, you should go and see him.

Of course, what is more important is the young military attachés in front of you who have just been trained. Many of them will soon enter the military service. And with the official army, they launched a final attack on the Western Regions and the Manchus, and some of them may lose their lives in this war.

Look at the young, energetic faces. A special emotion welled up in Zhu Mingzhong's heart, did they now know that some of them were about to join this war? Because what about being part of the war?

Is there something to say about these young people who have been in peace for a long time? Shouldn't they be reminded that there is no eternal peace in this world.

They should be told. As military attachés of the Ming Dynasty, they must always prepare for war, and be ready to sacrifice their lives to protect the country anytime and anywhere in the war. And that's exactly what they do and what they do.

“…… I have a question for you. ”

After the school review, Zhu Mingzhong said solemnly to the young people in front of him.

"What do you tell me is the duty of a military attaché?"

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