Liaodong was fully restored, Zhu Cijiong should also return to the palace, as for the problem of Houjin, Zhu Cijiong handed over to Sun Chengzong, an expert in repairing forts, to deal with, and at the same time he also made corresponding adjustments to the defense of Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhou and Liaodong.

Sun Chengzong commanded the four corps of the Guanning Army, the Liaodong Army, the Dongjiang Army, and the Dingliao Army, stationed on the front line of Liaohaiwei, Tielingwei, Guanningcheng, and Dingliao Right Guard, to deal with the Houjin, advance layer by layer, and build the fortress to Jianzhou.

Lu Xiangsheng commanded the Tianxiong Army and the First Army of the Border Army, stationed on the front line of Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhou, and Shanhaiguan, to deal with Mengyuan, focusing on defense.

Sun Chuanting led the Qin army back to Shaanxi, and the governor of the five northwestern provinces to suppress thieves was also mainly defensive, and it was enough to keep the central cities of each province. In this regard, Zhu Cijiong began to yin those moths, he had actually received a twist and turn, the thieves had already begun to wander in Henan, he just sent Sun Chuanting back to Shaanxi, instead of exterminating the main force of the thieves in Henan, he just wanted to wait for the thieves to clean up the moths in Henan, and then go to suppress.

As for the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard and the Second Legion of the Praetorian Guard, he naturally returned to the capital with him, and he was ready to transfer Shi Kefa's Second Legion of the Praetorian Guard to the new city garrison on the Tianjin Wei side, because now that the battleship drawings were available, shipbuilding could be put on the agenda.

Thinking of this shipbuilding, he remembered the problem of talent training, now Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing, their workload can be said to have reached the limit, and there is no spare energy to help him manage the shipbuilding affairs, but such an important matter to others to be responsible for him and he is not at ease, so he can only cultivate talents first, liberate them from the heavy basic work, and be responsible for management, so that it is much easier.

If you want to cultivate talents, you must promote Western learning, and now the Ming Dynasty is still the world of Confucianism, and it will definitely not work to hard, only by first making great efforts to promote Confucianism, and then putting forward Western learning as a supplement, so as not to arouse the disgust of those 'great Confucians'.

Therefore, as soon as he returned to the capital, Zhu Cijiong began to launch a public opinion offensive. Now Wu Meicun is already the number one political envoy of the General Political Envoy Division, Zhu Cijiong

First of all, Liaodong was recovered, and such a major victory was naturally to be vigorously promoted, and the "Beijing News" began to publicize Liaodong's victory one after another. This can be said to be the biggest victory of the Ming Dynasty in the past hundred years, the war of millions of people, only in the founding period of the country, this time the Ming Dynasty actually defeated the alliance of Mengyuan and Jiannu, recovered the entire Liaodong, the entire Ming Dynasty immediately boiled, the people of the Ming Dynasty began to celebrate wildly, it was more lively than the New Year's Festival.

Taking advantage of this craze, the "Beijing News" began to publicize the key role of muskets and artillery in this war, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty was able to change the decline and defeat the Mengyuan and Jiannu coalition forces by relying on muskets and artillery, this is originally a fact, coupled with exaggerated techniques, muskets and artillery have simply become artifacts, and for a while the entire Ming Dynasty is talking about these two artifacts.

Then, the point came, after the introduction of muskets and artillery, a special issue came immediately, most of the articles were praising Confucianism, and at the same time there was a holy decree issued, to the effect that the emperor should make every effort to promote Confucianism, and recruit a number of children from all over the country, funded by the imperial court, to teach children under the age of ten for free "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", and the treatment of children can almost feed a family of four or five people. In the middle of these articles, there is also an article on the Ministry of Industry recruiting children to learn the skills of musket and artillery manufacturing, to the effect that the production of muskets and artillery in the Ministry of Industry is a little unable to keep up with the expansion speed of the Ming army, and wants to expand production, and specially recruits a group of children to manage production, although there is no grade, but it is also regarded as an official of the Ministry of Industry, and the treatment is twice as high as that of the children who teach the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", but the premise is that the manufacturing principle of muskets and artillery must be learned.

Now the whole Ming Dynasty is a sensation, you must know that most of the people who read the newspaper are children, after all, the number of talents is limited, almost one out of a hundred, and even more so, almost one out of a thousand, Jinshi is even more precious, almost one out of ten thousand, and the remaining nine out of nine are children.

These children can't be officials without fame, this book is actually equivalent to reading in vain, what should all walks of life continue to do, although there is no problem in supporting a family, but after all, what they are engaged in is an ordinary cheap industry, and there is no comparison with people with fame. Now that the imperial court wants to invite them to teach, this nature is different, no matter how you say it, it is also for the imperial court, and it can be regarded as a noble industry, and the status will naturally rise.

As for going to the Ministry of Industry, it is even more incredible, there is no grade, that is also an official, an official is the most noble profession in Daming, and the status is incomparable to other industries! And to learn to make muskets and cannons, that is an artifact, is an artifact that ordinary people can make?

Therefore, there are more people who sign up to teach than Niu Mao, and there are even more people who sign up to go to the Ministry of Industry than Niu Mao, Zhu Cijiong naturally can't recruit so many people, joking about millions of people, and he can't afford the salary. What to do? Exams.

Of course, this is not the imperial examination, if you want to teach, you must always be able to memorize the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", and the meaning of each sentence must be understood, set a date, just take a simple exam, pick a few paragraphs at will, and write silently; Pick a sentence at random, paraphrase, it's as simple as that, if you can't get a full score for this, then don't mislead people's children. Then there will be an interview by the Ministry of Rites, mainly to look at the conduct and appearance, at least you have to have a teacher's appearance, don't teach the children badly.

As for the officials of the Ministry of Industry, it is much stricter, not only to test the four books and five classics but also to test arithmetic, the four books and five classics are the foundation, arithmetic is the key, the two things are qualified, and then unified by the Ministry of Industry officials interview, the interview is mainly to see if you have the mind to know things, if you are a nerd, then I'm sorry. It also depends on the age, even if you are over 30 years old, when you are trained, you will almost retire.

As a result, Mr. Teaching recruited tens of thousands of people, but the Ministry of Industry only recruited 1,000 people, not to mention those who taught, the promotion of Confucianism is not the goal, but incidental, the main purpose is to block the mouths of those 'great Confucians', the Ministry of Industry is not the same for the 1,000 people, that is really to be cultivated as talents.

So there is a strange school in the capital, what is the name of Daming Firearms College, of course, this is only a temporary name, and after the promotion of Western learning, it is estimated that it will have to be renamed Daming Institute of Technology or something. As for the professors in the academy, Zhu Cijiong could only grit his teeth and add burdens to a few cronies.

Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was even busier, because he was not only in charge of the cabinet, but also in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and he also had to teach Zheng Chenggong and two large classes of mathematics. He has always admired Western learning, but the Ming environment, he is really powerless, and now the emperor has done it, he is naturally excited, this thousand people can be said to be the hope of promoting Western learning, but also the seed of promoting Western learning, a lifelong wish is about to come true, can he not be happy.

Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Zheng, the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry, are also busier, they not only have to deal with the affairs of the Ministry of Industry, but also help Song Yingxing manage the daily operation of the military factory, and now they have to go to the Daming Firearms Academy to teach, Bi Maokang is responsible for the principle of the musket, and Wang Zheng is responsible for the mechanical principle.

There is also Sun Yuanhua, he has been promoted to the secretary of the military department, this time Sun Chengzong can say that his wish has been fulfilled, and the emperor has slowly grown up and is sensible, and he doesn't have to worry about it anymore, so he directly unloaded the burden of the military department and concentrated on dealing with Jiannu.

The title of the secretary of the military department Zhu Cijiong naturally belongs to Sun Yuanhua, Yuan Chonghuan has the problem of arrogance, and has been gradually marginalized, under Zhu Cijiong's insistence, the title of the secretary of the military department finally fell on Sun Yuanhua, the right attendant of the military department.

The new officer is already busy, and he is also responsible for the production of artillery and the training of artillery, so he is even more busy, but he still has to teach this firearms academy, who is called Daming now He knows the most about artillery, he doesn't teach the principles of artillery, who will teach.

Zhu Cijiong's cronies are so tired that they can't do it, but this achievement is also remarkable, these thousand students were originally carefully selected, coupled with the teaching of these famous teachers, the results can be described as a thousand miles.

Anyone who has studied in high school knows that some people are good at liberal arts, and they can easily score more than 90 points in Chinese, English, politics, history, and geography. There are also people who are good at science, and they don't need to read much in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and they can easily score more than 90 points in the exam. Of course, there are also those who are good in both liberal arts and sciences, and there should be very few such people.

Why is there such a big difference between the same textbook and the same teacher? I have to say that this is everyone's talent, some people are born good in liberal arts, some people are born good in science, there is no reason, no reason.

In the Ming Dynasty, if you have a talent for liberal arts, then congratulations, get ready to be a big official, the title of the gold list depends on liberal arts. If you are a science talent, then I'm sorry, you may be a child all your life, don't you see, in high school, those who have good grades in mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese, English or something are basically miserable, and the thousand people recruited by the Ministry of Industry this time are basically this kind of people. They can't get into Xiucai not because they are stupid, but because their talent is not in the liberal arts, four books and five classics or something, they can only learn a little bit of understanding in ten years, but learn mathematics and what mechanical principles, musket principles, artillery principles, that is called a fast, two or three months later, you can basically get out of the school!

This is not an exaggeration, in fact, there are not many things they have to learn, such as mathematics, basically just learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and geometric foundations, these people can pass the exam to prove that they must learn addition and subtraction well, these people can pass the interview, prove that they are definitely not stupid people, so adding multiplication and division and geometric foundation is not a matter at all. Another example is the mechanical principle, it does not mean that they learn how to design pistons, the pistons have been designed, they just need to learn how to use them, and there are so many machine tools as examples, what is the difficulty for people with flexible minds? Another example is the musket principle, not to let them design a flintlock pistol out of thin air, the flintlock pistol sample is placed here, you just need to know the function of all the parts, which is not a problem for people with flexible minds.