Chapter 128 The Burning Years
Since the new martial arts scholars entered the martial arts hall, it was as embarrassing and uncomfortable as if they had suddenly fallen from the peak of their lives, and they had fallen like a. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
These people originally thought that they would never be the same as before, but they didn't expect that all of a sudden they would become recruits who didn't know anything and didn't know anything.
Every day, all kinds of study and training are endless, and at the same time, they have to endure all kinds of ridicule and ridicule from the first batch of students of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall.
Especially when the queue is drilling, these martial artists with outstanding martial arts, some of them have been training for several days in a row, and they will still make mistakes if they are not careful, and whenever they make mistakes, they will inevitably be ridiculed unscrupulously by the first batch of students who temporarily serve as queue instructors.
For this reason, Xu Yanqi, who was young and vigorous and hot-tempered as the fifth place in the new science and technology jinshi, almost had a fist and kick on the spot with Huang Degong, a temporary queue instructor who was also hot-tempered.
And the end of working against the instructor is to run ten laps around the large playground with a circumference of five miles around the lecture hall, otherwise you will have to bear the punishment of 30 military sticks.
Xu Yanqi, who is quite familiar with current affairs, of course, consciously chose to run laps, and after running ten laps, in the next training days, no matter which formal instructor or temporary instructor he encountered, Xu Yanqi was respectful and respectful, and let him do whatever he wanted, fully demonstrating the consciousness of a hero who does not suffer immediate losses.
And those veterans who have been in the lecture hall for a month have naturally understood the power of the rules and regulations of the lecture hall for a long time, and they are all very polite in front of the lecturers of various disciplines, including those instructors of the Hongmaoyi people.
Even the most unruly people, such as Mao Youjian from Dongjiang Town, Xu Dingguo from Huai'an, Zu Zeyuan from Datong Town, and fierce as a tiger from Yansui Town, were all awesome when they first entered school, and they walked on the road with their nostrils facing the sky, looking like no one looked down on him, and no one looked as strong as him, but after being cleaned up several times, or even just locked up a few times, these people have all changed, in front of those chief teachers and bishops in the martial arts hall, and even in front of the red-haired devils who have always discriminated, are also honest like rats seeing cats, one by one they have to hold their tails to listen to the greetings, let the east go east, let the west go west, let the dog never pick the chicken.
Over the course of a month, these thorny soldiers when they first came became the most boring subject in the entire lecture hall, that is, the benchmark for queue drills. As the temporary instructors of these new martial arts warriors, they are also impressive and impressive.
In this regard, these new science and technology scholars are still very admired, especially after hearing that many of these first batch of students are heroes who survived in the sea of corpses and blood that fought against Jianyu, their pride as a martial artist has also dissipated a lot.
But what upset these new recruits the most was that the veterans seemed to be just waiting to see their jokes, wishing they had made a mistake in the queue training, and then there was a joking and happy laugh.
Of course, after all, the new martial arts warriors are all martial arts, and most of them are coarse and literate, and when they are trained, they are still better than these border sergeants, and some of them don't even know a few big characters.
And the subject of the ten-mile long-distance run, the speed of reaching the standard is naturally faster than that of the first batch of students.
Especially for Chen Zuoting, who has practiced the inner family boxing method since he was a child, the ten-mile long-distance run is like a leisurely walk for him, that is, a matter of lifting his feet. This naturally amazed the first batch of trainees who came to act as temporary instructors from time to time.
At the same time, the reserve battalion of the New Army in Zhuozhou has been burning with their passion since mid-May.
Whether it is a heavy rain downpour, or a scorching sun, every day when you get up at the end of the day to exercise, Shen Shi to close the exercise, you must practice for five hours, and the content is much more boring than the lecture hall, day after day is ten miles of long-distance running and queue drills.
It's okay to run ten miles, but at most you can spread your legs and run along. A whole month has passed, and a large number of young and strong reservists still can't distinguish between southeast and northwest, left and right, and can't even learn to stand up and take a break.
Wang Fu, the left commander of the new army's reserve battalion from Dongjiang Town, also showed his iron-blooded nature tempered in the cruel environment behind enemy lines in Dongjiang Town; from the time the recruits entered the camp to the present, in less than two months, 121 people have died suddenly during training, and 22 people have been killed with military sticks and canes in violation of military discipline.
In addition, 3,157 people were dismissed and removed from the list after failing to meet the standards in the assessment held a month after the basic training. Among them, there are countless recruits who have been whipped and beaten with military sticks and locked up in confinement.
For those who die suddenly during training, the reserve battalion of the new army will be given a bereavement pension of 50 taels per person per household, plus a permanent exemption from the land they have divided.
For those who have been discharged and removed, they need to pay for one month's food and lodging in the camp at the same time as returning the training subsidy, and the treatment of the allocated fields remains unchanged.
Those who were killed with canes for violating military discipline not only did not receive any money, but also took back all the fields previously allocated by their families and distributed them to the new tun households who were still coming to Beizhili to recruit for reclamation.
Because Sun Chengzong, the minister of supervision and training of the new army, had too many part-time jobs, the time in the new army reserve camp in Zhuozhou, which is now known as the new army training camp, was really limited, and in addition to major events, Yang Yingqian was responsible for the specific camp affairs, and the training was given full authority to Wang Fu, the left-commanding commander, and Zhu Mei, the right-commanding commander.
Because Zhu Mei is a Confucian general, he looks like a humble gentleman, although he is slightly older than Wang Fu, he never competes with Wang Fu for power, so in the huge new army training camp in Zhuozhou today, it is basically Wang Fu who has the final say.
But even so, for the reservists of the New Army who can stay today, compared to the iron-blooded and even brutal leftist Wang Fu, and the iron-faced and ruthless General Military Justice official Kong Jiong, it is the chief instructor Huang Daozhou who has a headache and life is worse than death.
Huang Daozhou's rigidity and stubbornness of Taoists finally found a place where they could freely swing, not only forcing these illiterate former farmers to read and write, but also every time they returned to the camp, the recruits who were tired to death had to drag their tired and sleepy bodies to gather in the large lecture halls of each camp to listen to the "lectures and teachings" of the instructors at the head of each battalion.
If you want to talk about the results, of course, there is, just when the new scholars of the martial arts hall began to recite Emperor Taizu Gao's "Seeking Yuan Yuanwen", the new army reservists in the Zhuozhou camp were already able to recite this peerless classic neatly. Including the homeless young people who didn't know a single word before joining the army, now they can say a few words when they open and close their mouths: "Those who belong to me will always be at peace with China, and those who carry me will run outside the fortress by themselves"!
The reason why the remaining reservists of the new army can still hold on is that although the intimidation and deterrence of various punishments and the moral constraints instilled in them by the instructors play a role in it, it also has a lot to do with the food and treatment in the Zhuozhou camp.
Three meals a day was normal in later generations, but in the late Ming Dynasty, even self-sufficient homesteaders were uncommon, and it was more common to have two meals a day. And for these reservists of the New Army, who have not yet come out of the shadow of hunger, let alone three meals a day, a full meal, even if they can eat a full meal, is the dream that most of them have been cherishing since they were born.
Now that they have arrived at the Zhuozhou camp, this dream has been easily realized, and many reserve soldiers who died suddenly died of sudden stomach and intestines because they were too full of food.
Three meals a day, a meal of meat, let these reservists of the new army training battalion, live a life that once only in a dream, although the training is very hard, tiring and tedious, but compared with the unforgettable hunger experienced, all this in the training camp is bearable.
In particular, most of these people are honest peasants, and whether such training is good or bad for them is actually known in their own hearts.
Let's talk about literacy and reading, any reserve soldier of the New Army's training battalion, let them touch their conscience and say, they have to admit that this is a good thing that can be met but not sought for them.
The lecturer of the Zhan Mansion was originally a teacher who taught lessons to the crown prince, but now the emperor has sent him to teach moral knowledge to these big-headed soldiers, what level of treatment is this, and what is there to complain about.
The other is the subsidy silver for training, not only for food and housing, bedding and clothing, everything is given for nothing, but also one tael of silver for the first month, and two taels of silver for the second month, and persists until the end of the third month of training, regardless of whether or not they can be selected into the new army, three taels of silver will be issued.
Where to find such a good thing, as long as you grit your teeth and persevere, the silver you get is double the previous one.
This temptation is certainly impossible to refuse for those who have never seen silver in their lifetime.
Of course, whether it is what is happening in the martial arts hall or the progress of training in the new army camp in Zhuozhou at the moment, Emperor Chongzhen is naturally clear, looking at the secret reports sent by Jinyiwei and Dongchang respectively, only relief emerges in his heart.
Today's martial arts students, including those new martial arts scholars, and even those new army reservists who can continue to stay in the camp, may not understand this kind of training, and even have all kinds of dissatisfaction and complaints.
But a few years later, maybe just a few months later, when they face the Jiankou or the Liukou, when they see the power of what they have learned now, they will be glad that they have spent this time full of blood and passion in the lecture hall and in the Zhuozhou camp.