The purpose of Zhao Junsheng's establishment of the military academy is to provide grassroots and middle-level officers for the army, and when these grassroots and middle-level officers who have gone out of the military academy grow up and then return to the furnace for forging, they can become generals and completely break the monopoly of military families on the positions of middle and high-level military families, which is beneficial to the long-term development of the army and the cultivation of loyalty.

Zhao Junsheng said: "From now on, lieutenant generals and officers must come out of the military academy, and those who do not have the experience of studying in the military academy must also gradually return to the furnace and recast!" Even if a civilian martial artist has passed the title of the gold list of the martial arts scientific examination, he must enter the military academy to study for two years before he can be awarded a military position! ”

"In the future, the promotion of commanders, adjutants, chief generals, deputy generals, and senior generals at all levels in the army, no matter who has military merits, no one must have military merits, and no matter how old they are, no matter how old they are, they cannot be promoted without military merits, this is an iron law, no one can violate it, and if there is a violator, it will be seriously investigated and punished!"

Zhao Junsheng said this, looked at the reactions of the generals, and continued: "Those who apply for the military academy have no way to be soldiers in the army or civilian heroes, regardless of their status, the admission conditions are the same!" ”

This regulation seems to bring ordinary civilians to the same level as the children of generals, eunuchs, and nobles, but in fact, those generals, eunuchs, and children of nobles still have great natural advantages, why? The living conditions of these eunuchs, generals and children of nobles are good, and they have a deep family history, some of them have family martial arts, the art of war, and even famous teachers teach them, which are not available to ordinary commoners.

Of course, the recruitment and admission conditions of the military academy must definitely not only look at these, if so, isn't the military academy equivalent to being set up for those nobles, eunuchs and children of generals? So what's the point of setting it up? In fact, Zhao Junsheng had already made a decision in his heart, to try to reduce the recruitment ratio of the children of officials, generals, and nobles, and recruit more commoners, which cannot be said on the surface.

"Bai Jinguang!"

Bai Jinguang immediately stood up and hugged his fists and said, "The minister is here!" ”

"I have decided to personally take up the post of the head of the military academy, and appointed you as the chief manager and chief instructor of the military academy, and are fully responsible for the preparation of the site selection and construction of the military academy, and select the older generals with rich experience in leading troops and combat from all armies to serve as the instructors of the military academy. The first batch of cadets from the military academy were each admitted to the army and the civilian sector fifty! ”

Bai Jinguang agreed: "The minister receives the order!" ”

After the court meeting dispersed, Zhao Junsheng left Bai Jinguang behind.

The two of them walked on the path of the Imperial Garden, and Zhao Junsheng asked, "Do you know why I left you behind?" ”

Bai Jinguang knew it and replied: "Your Majesty must want to talk to the ministers about the preparation of the military academy!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "The required funds are asked for by the household department, I have already opened my mouth, and the household department will not embarrass you." I left you behind to tell you about the recruitment of cadets in the Academy! Do you know why I set up a military academy? Why did you choose you to be the first person in charge and chief instructor of the Military Academy? ”

Bai Jinguang said: "Your Majesty has made it very clear at the court meeting, sending grassroots, middle and high-level officers and generals to the army!" As for why His Majesty chose the minister as the chief steward and chief instructor, please forgive the minister for being stupid, I really can't guess His Majesty's intentions! ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "This is the main purpose of setting up the military academy to send grassroots, middle and high-level officers and generals to the army, and there is also a purpose to prevent the army from appearing in the future with mountains and military families controlling the promotion of lieutenant generals and colonels, forming a complex relationship network between the army and the army!" ”

"After the establishment of the Academy, there will definitely be trouble in recruiting cadets, especially you!"

Bai Jinguang is a smart person, and immediately thought of it, and said: "Your Majesty is saying that once you start recruiting the academy, the generals in the army and the ministers of the court will greet Weichen openly or secretly to stuff their children in?" ”

"It seems that you have figured it out, these people have a lot of face, if you don't agree, there will be no fewer people who will be offended! Once a military family is formed in the army and a mountain is erected, the power of some people will swell to a frightening level, and then they will not only not be the pillars of the country, but may even become a disaster! ”

"The brothers who followed me to fight the world back then, and now they finally have this good situation, and they should enjoy the fun of governing the world together, and I don't want to have to cry because some people's power is so big that they threaten the safety of the world! I don't want to be a king who slaughters the people who have made the nation's founders. Brothers fight the world together, sit and enjoy the world together, and have a happy ending, how good! ”

Zhao Junsheng's words made Bai Jinguang's heart beat a drum, and beads of sweat faintly broke out on his vest, these words have been said very clearly, he doesn't want to see a huge military force similar to the military family in the Qianguo, the army is a big Qian, not someone's private army, the descendants of the generals want to fight for the generals and must fight their own efforts, and the family cannot clear the way for promotion.

Zhao Junsheng continued: "The assessment of the military academy does not only rely on martial arts, the art of war, and strategy, but all of this, as long as the students enter the military academy, the instructors can teach them. Bai Jinguang, you tell me, what do you have to test for the recruitment content of the military academy? ”

The students' martial arts, art of war, and strategy are not the focus of the assessment? So what's the point? Bai Jinguang was a little confused, wait, he came back to his senses, immediately understood, and replied with his fists clenched: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the focus should be on whether the student's family background is innocent, whether he is loyal to His Majesty and Daqian, whether he is healthy, whether he has martial arts and military talent!" In addition, the minister thought that he could also recruit people with special talents and talents, such as people with peerless martial arts and natural powers, or people with particularly sensitive hearing and eyesight, or people who were different from ordinary people in terms of strategy and comprehension and application ability! ”

"Hahaha······ Looks like you get what I mean! Zhao Junsheng nodded with a smile, and asked again: "Why did I choose you to be the chief steward and chief instructor of the military academy, have you figured it out?" ”

Bai Jinguang didn't understand at this time, he said: "Your Majesty chose the minister to be the chief steward and chief instructor presumably because among the military generals ranked in the court, only the minister was completely born in the commoner, right?" ”

Zhao Junsheng sighed: "Yes, everyone else has a family behind them, and I believe that they will not betray me, but because of the relationship between the family and in-laws, they have to do many things involuntarily, and it is inevitable that they will be too selfish." Selfishness can be had, this cannot be avoided, even I am not exempt from vulgarity, but too much selfishness will be bad, but unfortunately they can't master this degree! ”

With the support of Zhao Junsheng, Bai Jinguang prepared to build the military academy within a year, the military academy is located in the southeast corner of Qianjing, close to the city wall, the barracks dormitory of the military academy can be used for 500 people, in addition to the barracks dormitory, there are school yards, racetracks, armory, grain and grass storage, classrooms, practice rooms, classic rooms, canteens, bathhouses, stables, shooting ranges, offices and other buildings.

Don't look at the military academy, there are only 500 cadets at most, the scale is not large, but it covers an area that is not small, and it can be said that there is everything, but in fact, according to the regulations, it can only have 500 cadets at the same time, and only 100 people are recruited every year.

In the year of the establishment of the Military Academy, all the instructors, instructors, and gentlemen who taught and taught the students were all in place, and the classic room of the Military Academy had collected 30,000 volumes of classics.

In the first month of the 11th year of the Great Qian, the recruitment of the military academy was rolled out, and the military academy issued a document to the local government through the imperial court yamen, issued notices, and recruited students from all over the country.

After applying for the examination, the local garrison yamen will send someone to verify the identity, mainly to check whether the family background is innocent, whether there is anyone guilty within three generations, and those with special talents can report their specialties for registration, verify that they are correct and attach to the preliminary requirements after issuing the admission ticket, and send the verification file to the county.

The military academy sent people to various counties across the country to personally preside over the recruitment examination to strictly guard against fraud. Whether to admit or not is a decision made by the examiner through a comprehensive evaluation of martial arts, art of war strategy assessment, loyalty test, character test, talent test, cultural level test, and physical condition verification.

The military academy only recruits 50 people from the people, which is not a high proportion, it can be said to be quite low, like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge.

After more than two months of convening, the 50 cadets recruited from the civilian sector were finally released, and all the 50 recruited from the army were also in place.

On the day of the opening ceremony, Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu all came to the military academy, but there were only 100 people on the school ground.

Zhao Junsheng stood on the stage and looked at the 100 people in the audience, and said: "I heard that the number of people who reported to the military academy has reached 50,000, and only one of you 100 people have passed the assessment of the academy to become soldiers and cadets, this is your ability and luck!" Next, you have to learn skills here, as long as you are willing to work hard and work hard, five years is enough time for instructors to teach and train you to become talents! ”

"You are the first batch of cadets of the Academy, and you should be proud of it, because in the future, all officers and colonels in the army will come from here, and those who want to be promoted must live here for a certain period of time before they can be eligible for promotion!"

"I hope that you will cherish this hard-won opportunity, learn your skills in the military academy, and after graduation, enter the army to serve the country and make meritorious contributions!"

For a long period of time, the military academy has become the focus of attention of the people of the Qianguo, and even the Southern Dynasties, Tuyuhun, Beiliang, and Rouran; in the eyes of the Southern Dynasties and the Rouran people, it is simply unheard of for the Qianguo to set up a military academy to openly teach martial arts, the art of war, and strategy.

But Qianguo did not care about the opinions of the Southern Dynasties and the Rouran people, and the teaching progress of the military academy was still advancing as planned.