After Zhu Daming and the ministers finished talking about Enke Wuju, Sun Chengzong suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, before that, the Military Aircraft Department passed His Majesty's will, and recommended a group of generals and officials to go to Beijing to study in the Wutang, and now the preparations for the Wutang are going well, when will these people enter the school, and the imperial court will open the Wuju next year, will these people participate?" ”

This question was something that Zhu Daming hadn't thought about, and he didn't answer it directly, but first asked about the situation in the martial arts hall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSun Chengzong took the opportunity to quickly report the preparations for the lecture hall to the emperor.

After arranging the preparation of the martial arts hall, Mao Yuanyi had made an excerpt, and Sun Chengzong had also talked about it, but the major events of the imperial court were one after another, and Zhu Daming had no time to ask.

Mao Yuanyi was ordered to Tongzhou to build a martial arts hall, first sent people with the emperor's will, to Dengzhou to recruit Qi Yuangong, Qi Yuanfu, Qi Yuanbi three brothers, the three brothers have hereditary martial arts, and all practice martial arts, the eldest is proficient in the art of war, the second is proficient in formation, the third is proficient in guns and sticks martial arts, Mao Yuanyi asked Sun Chengzong, the general office of the martial arts, to the three brothers are entrusted with the post of professor of the martial arts.

In addition to the emperor's appointed Sun Yuanhua, Mao Yuanyi and other martial arts teachings, Sun Chengzong wrote a letter to invite Ma Shilong, Jiang Yingzhao and others, who followed him to fight in Liaodong and are now dismissed from office and still practicing martial arts at home, to serve as the left and right chief instructors of the martial arts hall, and through the military department, Qin Yiming, the nephew of Qin Liangyu, the chief soldier of Shizhu, was invited to be the bishop instructor of the infantry section of the Wutang, and specially taught the spear formation of the Shizhu Tusi white pole soldiers.

At the same time, Sun Chengzong also invited the old generals You Shilu and Meng Qiaofang, who followed him to fight in Liaodong and were later dismissed with his downfall, as the left and right bishops of the Wutang Cavalry Section.

You Shilu, Shaanxi Yulin Weiren, born in the Ming Dynasty military generals family, his eldest brother named You Shigong, Yuan Yingtai supervised Ji Liao, used it as the chief military officer of Liaodong, and soon died on the battlefield in the battle with the Jin army after the capture of the Jian.

You Shilu's second brother, named You Shiwei, is now working as a deputy chief soldier under Zhao Shujiao, the chief military officer of Shanhai Town.

As for Meng Qiaofang, he is a native of Yongping Mansion in Beizhili, and he is also from a military family, and during the period when Sun Chengzong supervised Ji Liao, he did the position of a general, and later with Sun Chengzong's dismissal, Liao affairs took a sharp turn for the worse, and Meng Qiaofang also resigned and returned home.

Of course, when the Manchu Qing invaded Gyeonggi, Yongping fell, and this Meng Qiaofang surrendered to the Manchu Qing under the persuasion of his former colleagues, became the chief soldier, and finally followed the Manchu army into the customs, under the banner of avenging Emperor Chongzhen, together with Wu Sangui, all the way west to pursue Li Zicheng, and in the Shunzhi period, the official to the Manchu court of Shaanxi and Gansu.

Speaking of which, Meng Qiaofang is also a talent, but unfortunately he lacks integrity, and now he has resumed the rank of general, and has been summoned to Tongzhou by Sun Chengzong to serve as one of the cavalry bishops of the Wutang Lecture Hall, and his future life trajectory will naturally change.

As for the bishop of the artillery department, of course, it was Sun Yuanhua, who was appointed by the emperor, and as for the professors and instructors, there were Li Zhizao and Li Tianjing, who were proficient in Western studies, and the German devil Tang Ruowang, who Sun Yuanhua contacted by order and retrieved from Xi'an.

Li Zhizao is Xu Guangqi's old friend, and he is also a god-level figure like Xu Guangqi, who knows astronomy, geography, mathematics and physics. Sun Yuanhua asked Xu Guangqi to write a letter, and sent someone to invite him, and finally invited this great god.

As for Li Tianjing and Tang Ruowang, Sun Yuanhua was also invited by Xu Guangqi, and now they are both compiling lecture notes for the teaching of artillery science. For them, the handout is a military book, and these people have indeed written this kind of military book in history that introduces Western firearms tactics.

In addition, due to the emperor's reminder, the lecture hall also has an engineer section, which is personally served as the general affairs officer by Mao Yuanyi, who has already written the "Wubei Zhi" and has studied the formation and tactics of the car camp, while the other lecturer chairs are in the process of continuing to contact and hire.

The site of the lecture hall was personally selected by Sun Chengzong and Zhang Weixian, and after it was reported to the emperor, it was quickly approved by the emperor, and at the same time, 500,000 taels of silver were allocated from the inner treasury for the construction costs.

With this silver, Mao Yuanyi is naturally a big deal, within a month, first spent 20,000 taels, built a circle of five miles long from north to south, three miles wide from east to west, a total of 16 miles in circumference of the brick and stone rammed earth wall, the whole compound sits north and faces south, the gate is open to the south, of course there are mountains, rivers and flat land in the courtyard. Then the building was built on the flat ground near the wall in the courtyard, and the plan was to build four rows of traditional blue brick houses of different lengths along the wall, and to build about 300 rooms first.

At that time, the blue brick house was enough to build a room with three taels of silver, and there was a steady stream of refugees who went to Tongzhou to recruit for reclamation, and they worked when they were full of food in the slack season, which also saved a lot of silver.

It's just that now only the south house is built, and the south house is divided into two parts, east and west, and in the middle of the two parts is the reserved road, leading to the south gate of the main gate of the lecture hall compound. There are four buildings on the left and right, ten rooms in each building, and one household for every two rooms. The south house that was built first is naturally the place where the staff of the martial arts hall live today, and they all have courtyards before and after, which is quite convenient. Of course, it was the South House where the lecturers lived.

As for the proposed north building, it will be used as a lecture hall in the future, and as for the east and west houses under construction, it will be the dormitory for the students of the lecture hall who will enter the school in the future.

After listening to Sun Chengzong's report, Zhu Daming wanted to personally go to see the site of the lecture hall and see the appearance of the completed part, at least to meet with the instructors and lecturers of the lecture hall, so as to show the emperor's attention to them.

But as an emperor, you can't go anywhere you want, you have been in this world for a few months, and every day you rack your brains to lay out all kinds of personnel and financial problems, and you don't have the time or energy to think about going out of the city to see. Not to mention going to see the Beijing City of this era, it is the Forbidden City of this era, and he doesn't have time to take a good walk.

Thinking of this, Zhu Daming said to Sun Chengzong a little helplessly: "After listening to what Aiqing said, I want to go to the martial arts hall to see it in person." In the future, when the lecture hall officially opens, I must find a time to take a look. ”

Then, without waiting for a few people to express something, Zhu Daming continued: "As for the construction period of the lecture hall, you have to depend on the situation, but by April next year, all the teachers and lecturers must be in place, and the generals and officials who will enter the school in the first phase must also have a place to eat and stay." Sun Chengzong bowed down to receive the order.

Zhu Daming continued: "As for the envoys in Beijing, Jiubian and all provinces, they are all in command of the envoys, and the generals and above are all included in the selection and recommendation. There shall be no less than ten people in each town in the capital camp and the nine border towns, and no less than five people shall be recommended by the commander of each town. In addition, cabinet ministers, Shangshu Jiuqing, six ministers, and governors of various provinces can recommend one or two clans, children of relatives and friends, or other young talents to enter the lecture hall, and upon completion of the ceremony, they will be conferred official positions to serve the imperial court. This will will also be announced to the world on the day of the reform of the Great Palace. ”

If you want the minister to do things, of course, you must give benefits, and with this sweetness, it is estimated that you will be able to reduce a lot of resistance to the opening of the martial arts hall. When Sun Chengzong and the others heard this, they also hurriedly received the order and thanked them. At their level, who doesn't have a three-kin-six-reason to consider.