"You can't even tell that this is a phoenix, and no one else can see it, let alone I gave you permission to use it, if only I came to me for something. Of course, you can also think of it as a phoenix. Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"This ......" Xiaoxiao didn't know how to say it well.

"In fact, a more important purpose of the establishment of this ready-to-wear store is to help me listen to the news of the people, which is equivalent to women's brocade guards, and ordinary women talk a lot and gossip, and often can get news from many other channels that cannot be obtained from the mouth." Zhu Youxiao actually knew a little idea, but he felt the need to make her pay more attention to this matter.

"Your Majesty, the slave is afraid that this thing will not be done well." Xiao said worriedly.

"Don't worry, you're just helping me to hear the news, you don't have to do anything else, I will give you the right to play secretly, and you can take the two Western women in the palace with you. I will also train a group of people for you, and with this group of people, you will definitely be able to handle this matter. Zhu Youxiao comforted.

"No." Xiaoxiao's mood is very complicated now, she now wants to do it but is afraid that she will not do it well, and she will live up to Zhu Youxiao's expectations.

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On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youxiao took Zhang Yan and decided to visit the group of adopted children, and this time Zhu Youxiao also brought people from the Royal Academy of Arts and the Imperial Tai Medical College.

After a few months of recuperation, this group of children has changed a lot from when they first came in. This kind of change is what Zhu Youxiao wants to see, and it is also something he can't bear to see. In addition to the physical changes in this group of children, they have also become mature, and even those who are five or six years old have a maturity that does not match their age.

"Who gave you clothes to wear and food to eat?" When the grandmothers asked.

Everyone replied in unison: "Your Majesty." ”

"You have to keep in mind that if there is no emperor, you will starve to death and freeze to death, so how will you repay the emperor in the future?" Mama preached.

"Loyal to the emperor, until death." Everyone replied in unison again.

These brainwashing words will be heard here at least three times a day. What Zhu Youxiao cultivated here is a group of dead soldiers, which may be the most contrary to conscience, humanity and principles he has done in Daming. Although he knew that it was wrong, he still did it because of his insecurity, and the influence of absolute power on him has become more and more serious.

Of course, not everyone will become a dead soldier, at least those who are picked up today will not become a dead soldier.

The first thing to start was the exam, the exam of more than 10,000 people. There are only two exams in the exam, language and mathematics, and the time is an hour, in order to speed up the speed of marking the papers, this time it is all multiple-choice questions, and the exam questions are also from Zhu Youxiao.

It takes time for more than 10,000 people to review the papers, and the more than 100 people brought by Zhu Youxiao this time all participated in the review of the test papers, and then ranked according to the results after the review.

The selection of the Royal Academy of Art does not depend on the results, this time the Academy of Arts needs to select 500 students, some of which are to fill the Royal Academy of Arts, and some of them are to set up a military band in the future.

The army also needs such a performance group, in this period, there is no psychiatrist, the soldiers have to fight at any time, and the psychological pressure of the soldiers is also very great, it is necessary to set up a team to perform for the army, and Zhu Youxiao is also ready to arrange Taoist priests and monks in the army. He felt it was also a way for the military to relieve stress.

Most of the students selected by the Imperial Tai Medical College this time will be sent to the army in the future, mainly to train nursing students, and the number is also 1,000 in the early stage, mainly female students, supplemented by male students.

The selection of Tai Medical College is very simple, that is, it is selected according to the ranking of grades. The whole selection process took three days, of which the Faculty of Art took most of the time.

Zhang Yan originally wanted to select a group of palace maids, but seeing that this group of children were trained very well here, she decided not to pick them for the time being. The remaining thousands of children were all left here to continue studying, of course, in addition to reading, there are also compulsory courses for martial arts, and there are also people to teach them such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

"Continue to adopt children and keep the number of children here at about 30,000." Zhu You said to Wang Liqian.

The problem of students at the Royal Academy of Art and the Imperial Academy of Medicine will not be solved in a short period of time, and after five to ten years at most, the demand for students will increase several times.

1625, the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. The Imperial Army Academy opened first, and Zhu Youxiao was the nominal dean of the academy, and the position of vice president was temporarily named by Xiong Tingbi.

"As we all know, I am the dean of this Imperial Army Academy, which means that from today onwards, you are also the protégé of the Son of Heaven." Zhu Youxiao announced loudly.

Zhu Youxiao's announcement invisibly elevated the status of the military generals, and made the officers present feel a sense of glory. In the Ming Dynasty, only those who have passed the palace examination and are admitted to the Jinshi can be called the protégé of the Son of Heaven.

"From now on, there will be no more martial arts system. From now on, the one with the best grades in the academy is Wu Zhuangyuan. To put it simply, if the two of them have the same military merits, the person with good grades will definitely be promoted first, and what position you can get in the future must be related to your academic performance here. ”

"You only have three months to study here, and there are many things to learn, literacy, strategies, ideological education, and so on, and three months is definitely not enough. The academy will enforce strict military discipline, and those who violate military discipline will not be spared. Do you understand? Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Understood." Everyone replied in unison.

"You only have three months to study here, and there are many things that cannot be taught to you, so I can only teach you some basic things here, and I will rely on you to learn by yourself in the future. I'm going to introduce you to a few teachers. Zhu Youxiao said.

"The first one is Xiong Tingbi, this one doesn't need to be introduced, the second is Man Gui, the commander of the cavalry of the Longteng Army......" Colonel Zhu You introduced the row of people behind him.

For the sake of the military parade ceremony in the future, this time Zhu Youxiao prepared to promote some standardized actions in later generations, such as standing upright, taking a break, and stepping in the army academy, and Zhu Youxiao changed the clothes of the officers of the new army. For the first time, military uniforms were adopted similar to those of later generations, and were equipped with boots, and the level of boot production at this time was already very high, but the style was not as good as that of later generations. Of course, Zhu Youxiao cannot be popularized in the whole army for the time being.