The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a holy decree and asked Zhu Yunwen to prepare for the martial arts school, with the assistance of the Governor's Office, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry. Zhu Yunwen drew drawings according to the model of the school in later generations, including dormitories, classrooms, playgrounds, teachers' lounges, flower beds, lawns, etc., as well as some equipment, and then asked the people from the Ministry of Engineering to carry out the construction. After the people from the Ministry of Industry left, Zhu Yunwen patted his head, by the way, he forgot something, and ran to the Qianqing Palace.

"Grandpa Huang, this is the martial arts drawing designed by Yun Wei, you can take a look."

Zhu Yuanzhang took it and looked at it, but he didn't understand it very well, and then took a closer look, and asked in surprise: "Your design is too simple, only these basic facilities, will it be too shabby." ”

"How so? Soldiers, as long as they can eat and sleep, can't they? Martial arts is not for them to play, but to exercise the quality of soldiers. ”

"Yes, that's right. Is it going well now? Is there a problem that I need to settle with? ”

Zhu Yunwen rolled his eyes and thought for a while: "Yes, I have a question today, I need to ask you for advice." ”

"Tell me something."

"That's the case, Grandpa Huang, first of all, I want to set up a flagpole on the playground, hang my Ming Golden Dragon Flag, and hold a flag-raising ceremony every morning, all teachers and students should bow and salute, and sing the teachings of martial arts loudly."

"Discipline?"

"What teaching?"

"What I wrote is roughly as follows: As a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, I swear allegiance to Your Majesty, obey Your Majesty's orders, abide by the laws of the imperial court, practice martial arts diligently, be brave and resolute, regard soldiers as brothers and sisters, regard Your Majesty as parents, open up territory for Your Majesty, sweep away rebellion, and never betray."

"Hahaha," Zhu Yuanzhang laughed heartily: "Yun Wei, you are too powerful, and it is too vernacular, let people know that you wrote it, and you want to be laughed at." ”

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson thinks that this is popular, everyone can understand it, and this is the best for soldiers."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed for a while and stopped: "What you said makes sense, I think your method is good, but you can think about this word again." ”

"Okay, there is another thing, I plan to set up a statue on the martial arts lawn, such as Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and Chang Yuchun, the king of Kaiping, to motivate the soldiers to advance."

"This is okay, you reminded me, this I told the Ministry of Works to make it."

"There is another one, that is, the grandson wants the imperial grandfather to write an inscription for martial arts."

"What's the inscription? Where do you put it? ”

"My grandson wants to erect a stone monument in the playground, which reads 'The sun and the moon will never die, and the sun and moon will never die' to inspire the students' fighting spirit and ambition."

The sun and the moon are not extinguished, and the sun and moon will shine forever! These words immediately moved Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the adrenaline was oversecreted, and the whole person was a little dizzy, "Not bad, not bad, this can be there." I will write it well, you let the people from the Ministry of Engineering take care of the production, and when the martial arts school starts, I really have to go over and take a look. By the way, when will martial arts start. ”

"It's about three months, you have to choose a good person first, and then notify you, some of the roads are farther, and they will be slower, so it is expected that the school will start on the first day of May."

"Oh, yes, yes."

"By the way, there is another thing, Yun Wei wrote the regulations of martial arts, you can take a look."

"Put it here, I'll take a look, you go get busy first."

Janshin.

Zhu Yunwen called a few of his companions, as well as Xu Huizu, Chang Sheng, Li Jinglong, Qi De, and Huang Zicheng, and took out the martial arts regulations that he had prepared for a long time and asked Geng Xuan to read them to everyone.

Everyone listened and listened, and looked at each other, and this regulation is still very long, I feel that it is almost 10,000 words, and it took half an hour to finish reading, and everyone did not dare to interrupt, but after Geng Xuan read it, let everyone put forward their opinions, and everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know how to mention it.

In fact, Zhu Yunwen changed the regulations of the army in later generations, but it was too complicated for the people of the Ming Dynasty. Zid first said: "Your Highness, is it necessary to be so troublesome? The minister felt that His Highness had too many regulations, such as sitting, standing, housekeeping, walking, eating, etc., and even sleeping, and what kind of night gathering, etc., and what kind of confinement, what does it mean? And shouldn't training be about practicing swordsmanship, marksmanship, archery, horsemanship, and the like?"

Zhu Yun paused for a moment and looked at Xu Huizu: "Ladies and gentlemen, you often go out to Beijing to train your troops, how do your soldiers train?" ”

The three princes looked at each other, and Xu Huizu, as the boss, said first: "Military training is actually strict training, unified orders, and rewards must be punished, that's it." ”

"And what if the soldiers don't do it?"

"Stick or kill your head."

Obediently, this is a bit simple and rude, Zhu Yunwen scratched his head and said: "What I said is just the basic daily routine, and the follow-up rules must continue to be improved, and you will need a lot of help from the princess when the time comes." Fortunately, the students still have more than 2 months to come, so you are the prince of the country, and I won't train you, but you select 40 strong soldiers from the guard, and I will train them in the training ground of the avant-garde of your government army, Geng Xuan, you will be the captain, and I will be the instructor. I'm going to start training this afternoon, can a few Guogongs do it? ”

"That's no problem, the last general will lead His Highness forward in the afternoon."

"Okay, you guys go and get busy, and the others stay. Geng Xuan, a few of you are about to receive training, if you have any questions, ask quickly, if there is a problem with the training, you will be locked up in a small black room. Now let's go to the courtyard. ”

When the group arrived at the courtyard, Zhu Yunwen demonstrated several actions, such as standing upright, taking a break, standing in a military posture, walking in a positive manner, sitting and managing housekeeping, etc., Geng Xuan tried it, it felt very simple, and others had the same idea, Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but smile in his heart, you will know when the time comes.

In the afternoon, Xu Huizu and others led Zhu Yunwen and his entourage to the training ground of the avant-garde of the government army, and in order to facilitate Zhu Yunwen's training, they chose a small training ground and moved the barracks of these soldiers. Waiting for Zhu Yunwen to come over, Liu Junfeng, the commander of the avant-garde of the government army, hurriedly came over to say hello, and after Zhu Yunwen nodded, 40 soldiers hurriedly came out to line up and knelt down in unison: "See Your Highness." Zhu Yunwen took a look, but they were indeed quite strong, and they seemed to be elite soldiers, so he looked at Liu Junfeng with satisfaction: "Yes, Commander Liu, your soldiers are well trained." Liu Junfeng hurriedly knelt down on one knee: "Your Highness Xie praises." ”

Zhu Yunwen called Geng Xuan and the four of them over, and asked them to lead a team each, and let Geng Xuan stand in a military posture with them, after Zhu Yunwen talked about the essentials of the action, he took a small stick and scurried around on the field, Zhu Yunwen seemed to return to the time when he was training recruits in his dream, and kept correcting the movements of the soldiers, either his hands were not tight, or his waist was not straight, or his feet did not grasp the ground. Watching Zhu Yunwen beat the soldier with a small stick in the field, he would fly up and kick a soldier out of the air, the reason was that because the foot did not catch the ground, several Guogong, Qi De, and Huang Zicheng were stupid, why did the emperor and grandson not play cards according to common sense today, what a gentle person he usually is, why is he so rude today.

"What are you doing, Your Highness?" "I've never seen such a military training." "That seems a bit strict."

After Zhu Yunwen's strict correction action, everyone's feelings came up, according to the current words, in less than 10 minutes, some soldiers couldn't stand it and staggered. Zhu Yunwen kicked up: "What's the matter, didn't you eat?" ”

"Back to His Highness, he really didn't eat." Liu Junfeng came over and said.

"Huh? How bold do you dare to withhold your wages? ”

Liu Junfeng "pounced" and fell to the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic: "Your Highness, no, the Ministry of War stipulates that you can only eat two meals." ”

"Oh, this can't work, during solitary training, everyone has to eat three meals, and there must be meat dishes."

"Yes, definitely."

"Okay, Founding Father, you come and monitor these people, and it's okay for half an hour."

Chang Sheng is younger, more active, and more rough, with a small stick to come over and knock this, knock that, kick this, kick that, it feels really good, but the soldiers present don't think so. Soldiers usually eat two meals a day, but the weather is still a little hot today, and everyone will feel unbearable after a while. If you are sweating, you can't wipe it, otherwise you will kick it up immediately, the founding prince is more ruthless than His Royal Highness, the legs and hands began to tremble after a while, and people began to shake, and slowly began to faint, and the founding prince didn't care.

"Chang Sheng, let people send the fainted ones to the side to rest, give them some food, and give them some water." Zhu Yunwen was eating beside him, and when he saw this situation, he hurriedly ordered. Immediately someone came and carried the fainted soldier to the side to rest.

Oh! This method is good, more and more people slowly faint, and more and more people are carried out. The guys ate and drank, but instead of coming back to continue standing, they began to laugh at the soldiers who were still standing.

"Look, Zhang Yunfei can't do it anymore, it's starting to shake."

"Guo Xiaohou is not good anymore, he is shaking more and more."

"Cao Guogong, you go over and take a look, let the rested people hurry over and continue to stand in the military posture, you have to stand for half an hour." Zhu Yunwen didn't look like words, so he ordered Li Jinglong to say. Li Jinglong hurried over and punched and kicked the resting soldiers on the side, and the soldiers ran over and continued to stand. Lao Li thought while beating people, Lao Tzu hasn't been so rough for a long time, hey, who made the family the emperor's grandson, I can't afford to provoke it, let's beat people up.

Half an hour later, there were not many people who could stand down all the time, and even two of the four companions didn't do it, and Wu Sheng and Guo Jian both fainted twice. However, Zhu Yunwen strictly ordered all people to stand for half an hour, so in the end, some people stood for a while, fainted, ate and drank, and then came back to stand.

Zhu Yunwen looked at the time, an hour had passed, and he said to Liu Junfeng: "Commander Liu, the soldiers who are still standing now, don't come over tomorrow, you can find some more people to replace them, it will be forty people." ”

Liu Junfeng wiped his sweat and said: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the last general will definitely go back to clean up these rabbit cubs, and he will definitely satisfy His Highness." ”

"No need," Zhu Yunwen said lazily: "You just need to replenish the people, don't have this situation tomorrow, otherwise Lone will doubt your ability to lead troops." Do you understand? ”

Zhu Yunwen patted Liu Junfeng's shoulder and walked away with a group of people.

Liu Junfeng stupidly watched Zhu Yunwen and his party go away, and when he couldn't see anyone, he turned his head to look at the soldiers who were still standing on the playground: "Come on, drag down these cowards standing on the field, everyone has thirty military sticks, don't run a single one, embarrass Lao Tzu at the critical moment, damn!" ”

Immediately, someone came up and pulled the people on the field down, and they were about to beat the military sticks, and everyone shouted one by one: "General, you can't, the last general has saved your life." "Brother-in-law, I'm your brother-in-law, you can't beat me." "Uncle, don't, don't you just don't stand well? The idea of the imperial grandson is too ruthless. ”

"Shut up for me, beat me, hit me hard!" Liu Junfeng's face immediately turned pale, he jumped to scold, after scolding, he looked around, and a cold sweat came out.

He was only promoted after the purge of the Lanyu case, and he still remembers that killing vividly, many generals he knew and even looked up to were dragged to the court and beheaded, it is said that he just made a few complaints, and at this time he heard someone talking nonsense, and almost didn't scare his guts.

After cleaning up these lazy guys, Liu Junfeng said to the more than 20 soldiers who persevered: "You are doing very well today, Lao Tzu will give you more food, and there will be food at noon in the future, you have to behave well, give Lao Tzu a long face in front of the emperor's grandson, you know?" ”

Everyone led in unison.

The commander turned his head and said to the acquaintance beside him: "You hurry up and pick people, you must choose the best, the strongest, the imperial grandson seems to be of great use, this is a good opportunity, but you can't stand it at a critical moment, brother." ”

Tongzhi agreed, and hurriedly went to arrange.

As soon as the imperial grandson came, the entire avant-garde of the government army jumped.

More than 20 people who performed well today had dinner in the evening, each with a large piece of pork, but there was no wine, and the emperor and grandson would come tomorrow. These people are eating and chatting, the food is delicious, comfortable, one of the fierce guys is called Wang Dahai, he is eating meat, while saying: "Brothers, today is really comfortable, I haven't eaten such a large piece of meat for a long time, I am so tired today, it is worth it." ”

"Yes, I really hope that His Highness will come every day, and it would be better if he could become His Highness's personal soldier."

"Think about it, how can Your Highness take a fancy to someone like us."

"Maybe, I think His Highness still values me very much today."

"It's you, stop daydreaming."

......

Wang Dahai raised his hand to stop everyone's laughter, and said: "You say, what is Your Highness going to do, is it picking something, but it is really uncomfortable to stand today, I really don't know how Your Highness came up with it." ”

"Yes, Brother Wang, I'm starting to think that it's just standing? His Royal Highness is still so solemn, but after a while, I feel uncomfortable, but I am hungry today, otherwise I will definitely be able to hold on today. A lean guy chimed in.

"Anyway, I think ah, Your Highness has a deep meaning, and it's definitely not a bad thing, you didn't look at the command to make the adults nervous."

"Yes, we'll knock out a dozen of them today, and we'll have to hold on."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

.......

Zhu Yunwen took the group back to Zhan Shifu, asked everyone to sit down, and asked with a smile, "How do you feel?" ”

Geng Xuan was very tired, and the other princes didn't speak, Qi De stood up and said, "Your Highness, you just let people stand for half an hour in the afternoon, is this also a military training?" ”

Zhu Yunwen said with a smile: "Of course, Master Qi, I think the training of soldiers should start from their daily routine, they must stand, sit, and walk, train them to absolutely obey orders, and then practice the queue, and then they can practice their combat skills. ”

"Your Highness, can your method train an iron army?"

"Yes, let's see when the time comes."

......

Zhu Yunwen finally summed up and said: "Tomorrow, Geng Xuan, a few of you and Gu will go to the vanguard of the government army and start training, I will tell you the specific training content in a while, and you should pay close attention to the selection and transfer of personnel from several national dukes." ”

Several princes nodded yes.

Then, Li Jinglong stood up and said, "Your Highness, can you show the regulations you wrote to the generals?" ”

"Okay, no problem, everyone has a share, and I hope everyone can give their opinions." Zhu Yunwen picked up the regulations from the table and distributed them to everyone.

The others said goodbye to Zhu Yunwen, leaving Geng Xuan and a few people.

Zhu Yunwen looked at a few of his companions, and on the whole he was still very satisfied, Geng Xuan was steady, Wu Sheng was meticulous, Song Xuan was brave, Guo Jian was witty and keen, and he also liked firearms. Zhu Yunwen flicked the regulations on the table with his fingers and asked, "How are you feeling today?" ”

Guo Jian rushed to say this time: "Your Highness, this military posture is very tiring, the last general has never thought that standing can be so tiring." ”

The others also nodded yes: "Your Highness, it is very tiring to stand in a military posture, is it necessary?" ”

"Yes, it's necessary." Zhu Yunwen stood up and looked at everyone: "Lone hopes that the soldiers are noble and proud, and the spirit of the soldiers should be seen at a glance and admired, so Lone Cai decided to have strict requirements for food, clothing, housing and transportation, so that people can keep in mind the discipline of the soldiers in their daily lives, train the queue on this basis, and then train weapons and combat skills, do you understand Lone's hard work?" ”

Geng Xuan was older: "Your Highness, the last general understands His Highness's hard work, and the last general swears allegiance to His Highness and does a good job in martial arts." ”

"Well, well, what about you?"

In fact, a few other people didn't seem to understand, and they didn't quite understand what Zhu Yunwen meant, but they still nodded: "Swear allegiance to Your Highness." ”

"Okay, you go back and take a good look at the regulations, and you're going to train all day starting tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Zhu Yunwen waved his hand and let them out, he still has a lot of things to do, there are daily regulations, and he also needs rules and regulations such as queues and battle formations, which must be found in dreams, and be as practical and complete as possible.

Geng Xuan and the others walked out of the Zhan Courtyard and rode their respective war horses. Several people rode silently for a while, Song Xuan, Guo Jian and Wu Sheng were muttering in a low voice, and Geng Xuan looked back at them: "What are you muttering nonsense?" Come to my house in a moment, and I'll tell you something. ”

The Marquis of Changxing was also on West Chang'an Street, but it was farther west than the Duke of Wei's mansion, and a few people rode horses for a while.

Geng Xuan got off the horse and asked the housekeeper to come over to feed the four horses, and then let people arrange it and buy some wine and food. The four of them sat down in the side hall, and the wine and food soon came up, and the brothers were also hungry, so they began to eat noisily.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Geng Xuan put down his wine glass, looked at the three brothers and said, "Do you understand what Your Highness means?" ”

What does Your Highness mean? His Royal Highness is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and he has tossed everyone enough today, how much does it mean? The three men looked at each other.

Geng Xuan hated iron and said: "You, you are used to the life of the princess family, and you haven't thought about the future." ”

Song Xuan said: "Brother Geng, what's wrong with you, we are all a family of public waiters, what can we do in the future?" ”

"Alas, a few of you have also studied, let me ask you, since the Han Dynasty, why has the life of our military generals become worse and worse?"

"Is it bad? I don't feel it. Guo Jian interjected.

"You ....." Geng Xuan put his hands on the table, feeling that he couldn't talk to these people thoroughly: "That's the case, every dynasty founded, the position of military generals is very important, and this dynasty is actually the same, the rank of military generals is higher than that of civilian officials, and they cannot be knighted without military merits." Today, the six Shangshu are set as the second grade, which is lower than the governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and now should be the best time for our military generals. ”

"What's the best time, all day long." Guo Jian muttered.

"Guo Key, you kid don't want to live anymore." Wu Sheng hammered Guo Key.

"Okay, I was wrong." Guo Jian hurriedly apologized.

"Then listen to me, now the status of military generals is higher than that of Wenchen, and it was like this in all dynasties, but it won't work after that, especially in the Song Dynasty, have you ever thought about why?"

Several people looked at each other, unable to explain why.

"It's very simple, the generals don't have the promotion mechanism of the Wenchen, most of them are vulgar and uncivilized, the world is peaceful, the emperor stays with the Wenchen every day, so naturally he won't like the generals, so the status of the generals has declined. But His Royal Highness personally runs the martial arts, so that the students of the martial arts become the students of His Highness, and the future will be the protégé of the Son of Heaven, isn't this a good thing? ”

"Oh, I see, I thought His Highness was deliberately tossing us." Wu Sheng suddenly realized.

"So, although Your Highness is young, but you are a genius, a few of us are His Highness's companions, and we have to assist His Highness in handling this matter. In these two months, we have to practice well, and we have to mingle with the soldiers of the avant-garde of the government army, and I estimate that when the cadets come in the future, these soldiers will probably be instructors. Your Highness asked us to bring a team each, but we couldn't lose His Highness's face and let the soldiers of the guard laugh. ”

"Well, okay, thank you Brother Geng for your order, I just understood." Only a few people understood what Zhu Yunwen was going to do, and they all secretly made up their minds that they must do it well.

Geng Xuan watched everyone's morale come up, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the task assigned by His Highness was finally completed, His Highness didn't look young, but his mind was very delicate, and he had to work harder.

After the four of them had eaten wine and dinner, they took out the regulations written by Zhu Yunwen to study and discuss together, sometimes those who don't understand will blush and have thick necks, but they understand less and don't understand more, it's not that they don't know how to do it, but they don't know why His Highness wants to do this. In the end, everyone decided to focus on understanding the content and learn to master it in training.

When it was time to discuss the lantern, everyone said goodbye and went home, because they had to get up early tomorrow to train and conserve their strength.

Geng Xuan was studying the regulations with them, and the housekeeper knocked on the door outside and said, "The old lady asked you to pass." Geng Xuan listened, quickly closed the book, and went to the back hall to see his mother.

Because Geng Bingwen fought in his early years, he married a late wife, but the two have a deep relationship and have always had a good relationship. But the two heirs are a little difficult, and they have been married for many years before they have their first child, Geng Xuan, and they are also strict with him. However, Geng Xuan is also very proud of his parents, he does not have the stinky problem of the nobles, he is not only loyal and simple, but also pursues progress, likes to read military books, is skilled in martial arts, and can be regarded as young and promising, so he was taken by Zhu Yuanzhang and did not let him get married, and wanted to be recruited as a concubine, so he was almost thirty years old and had not yet married. Geng Xuan is a clean person, although he is not married, but he does not have the problem of sleeping flowers and willows, and his parents are also very satisfied with this, but they still complain a little about Lao Zhu in their hearts.

Geng Xuan entered the door and found his mother sitting on the main seat of the main hall, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "The child is not filial, and he has been busy sometimes recently, so he didn't say hello to his mother, and he hoped that his mother would atone for his sins." ”

"It doesn't matter, mother knows what you're busy with, you are the companion of the emperor's grandson, you must be loyal to your duties, this is the Geng family's family motto, and it is also the foundation of the Geng family's life, you have done a good job. Mother asked you to come over today because she had something else to tell you. ”

"What's the matter? Ask Mother for instructions. ”

"Today, the crown princess asked her mother to enter the palace, and her mother listened to her, because she wanted to marry the county lord of Jiangdu to you, and my mother had no way to do royal affairs, but I still wanted to hear your opinion."

The lord of Jiangdu? Geng Xuan has also seen it a few times in Duanben Palace, she is a beauty, and she has a gentle temper, she treats them very politely, and she does not have the bad temper of the imaginary princess, Geng Xuan is very satisfied with this. It is his destiny to be a colt, and it is actually good for him to be able to meet his future wife in advance. Thinking of this, Geng Xuan knelt down: "But it is up to the mother to decide, and the son obeys." ”

"Well, since you have no opinion, the old body will write a letter to your father, and there will be no problem on your father's side. You just wait to get married. ”

"The child understands."

The mother and son chatted for a while, and seeing that the mother was tired, Geng Xuan hurriedly said goodbye and went back to rest and go to bed.