Football is growing rapidly in China, although it is not yet the number one sport in China – now the number one sport in China is gun shooting, and Chen Ming has set up shooting ranges in township-level government offices to place muskets and ammunition for ordinary people to practice shooting. The intention of this organization is not to make profits, but to promote shooting and expand the source of troops in a broad sense. The common people are also not low in interest in guns, the war has only passed a few years, the shadow has not completely dissipated from the imprint of the countrymen, and many people are interested in muskets. The main thing is that the price of target shooting is very cheap, and even you can replace it with labor.

For example, cleaning the shooting range, helping to prepare gunpowder, wrapping paper bullets, and so on.

The recruits recruited in the last two years, the initial career record of the recruit camp shows that the quality of the recruits in the process of shooting guns has been greatly improved, and this is the effect.

Chen Ming doesn't know how long this kind of target shooting with the essence of 'exciting' explosion can also make shooting occupy the throne of China's first sport, anyway, before the qualitative breakthrough of science and technology, trapped in the constraints of traffic conditions, the profit of football can only be carried out in large and medium-sized cities, and football is far from having the scenery of the previous life. This period can only be the stage of its solid foundation.

Chen Ming really watched a football match between the first-year infantry department and the third-year staff department, this sport is very popular in universities, and the Central Military Academy has even reached the point where each class has a football team, and then the competition between different departments and different ages can run from the beginning of spring to late autumn.

Although the skills and tactics shown on the court may not be as good as Chen Ming's memory, what makes him happy is the vigorous vitality of the students. This is a passionate and enterprising spirit, which is a vigorous vitality!

In the current Nanjing court, it is difficult for Chen Ming to see this momentum anymore. Compared with the aggressiveness surging in the civil and military officials when they fought the world, what emerges from them now is a kind of slow twilight.

This is a 'predestined' cycle.

Therefore, the court cannot keep a group of people from rising or falling for a long time, and there must be a continuous inflow of fresh blood, and the flowing water will not rot and the hub will not beetle, so as to ensure the vitality and vitality of the center.

Take one of the most unbearable examples, why do so many powerful bad old men like little girls? They didn't work, and they were carried into the house room after room, because the fresh vitality of the little girl attracted them deeply. Of course, there are really some hungry ghosts among them.

I don't know if Chen Ming's presence stimulated all the participating players, or if the football game of the Central Military Academy itself was so 'cruel', and five people were injured in one game. is really worthy of the name of the outside world, and even the staff students who are relatively polite and polite are also on a rampage on the court.

"Zhang Dayong."

"I went back and sent a message to the cabinet, and asked the Sports Committee to order that starting in the second half of the year, there should be a limit on the number of replacement places in football competitions, just five people. Only five substitutions are allowed in a game. ”

Chen Ming originally considered the promotion of football, and there was no restriction on substitutions at all, but now it seems that this article must be mentioned again. This is already a kind of protection for football participants.

Selim came to the side of the field in the second half of the game, and it was the first time he saw this kind of sports competition, and of course he was puzzled. Just watch a group of people scramble around a small ball in order to kick it into the opposite goal. It feels far less thrilling than traditional Turkish olive oil wrestling, just as polo is far less appealing to him than the javelin right away. But gradually, he kind of saw that the way was coming, at first he only thought that it was a kind of crash game, nothing more than to see who ran fast, had great strength, and was physically strong, but gradually he found that there was some mystery in it. The cooperation of the players when they win the ball and send the ball, running back and forth, containing, blocking, pinching, and responding...... There is a sense of solidarity with the group, which is a collective movement.

Selim thinks that this sport will definitely improve the tacit understanding between the players!

This realization made Selim have to open his mind: Is this sport also a way for Chinese to train the army?

"Haha. Where is this for the training of the army. It's just a folk movement. However, 2,000 years ago, Keju, the predecessor of this sport, has really become China's military training method for a while. If you are interested, you can learn about this sport systematically, I personally feel that it is really helpful to the army. ”

"The current military training is too strict, which has suppressed human nature for a long time and has caused too much damage to the mental health of soldiers. You should carry out more recreational sports in addition to training, relax your nerves and enjoy your heart. ”

"Do you want to combine work and rest? This is how the army can keep itself in good shape for a long time. ”

Chen Ming, who was speaking, was standing side by side with Selim behind a group of students with a dinner plate, although the two students in front of him were stiff, but they still had to stand under great pressure and rank in front of the emperor.

This is a rule personally issued by Chen Ming, whether it is a military school or an ordinary school, whether it is the army or a government agency, line up in order, and no one can arbitrarily cut the queue because of their high status. Naturally, he had to take the lead in observance!

The canteen of the Central Military Academy is divided into two, one in the east and one in the west. The food is no different, regardless of teachers and students, regardless of status, everyone eats here.

Chen Ming is in the canteen in the east of the school, he doesn't know if there has been a special cleaning here, but the canteen is really clean and clean. There is no oil on the table surface, and the plates are not only clean, but also have no water stains.

Lunch is two dishes and one soup, stewed chicken with potatoes, stewed meat with potatoes, fried braised fish, fried eggplant shredded with chili, shredded hot and sour potatoes, fried zucchini, one meat and one vegetarian, plus a bowl of seaweed and tofu soup, and the staple food is multigrain rice.

All students don't need to spend a penny and eat as much as they want. The only requirement is that all the meals are eaten and not wasted.

Nowadays, there are very few steamed buns in all school canteens or institutional canteens in Nanjing, because steaming steamed buns is too slow and laborious compared to cooking rice. And leftover rice is also easy to clean up, and uneaten rice can be stirred into porridge without wasting it at all. Although steamed steamed buns are almost impossible to swish off.

Selim had no doubts about the food at the military academy, and although the Turks ate bread and rice, meat was not unusual for them. It's just that the current Ottomans eat two meals a day, and like the Chinese people before, they don't eat at night.

Selim was a little unaccustomed to Chinese food, and many of the members of the Ottoman mission were not used to the lunch, but they all ate their share. Because Chen Ming, the respected emperor, was present. The Chinese emperors with incomparably noble status and incomparably great power have nothing left to wipe out this full meal, how can they be picky?

Chen Ming's intentions obviously did not understand Selim.

"Don't underestimate this meat and vegetarian food, China is not Ottoman, we are mainly agricultural, and animal husbandry is far less developed than agriculture. For the people, meat is precious. It's not about money.

Such a meal is far more valuable in China than your Ottoman SacTava! ”

SacTava was a very popular food among the Ottoman middle and upper classes, and it was a juicy dish that was grilled and then mixed with tomatoes, onions, and peppers, and was best served with rice.

For a noble person like Selim, of course, he would not be surprised by a SacTava, but what about the commoners of the Ottoman Empire?

Chen Ming's words made Selim's face wake up a little.

"The military academy is not a gathering place for aristocrats."

"You can set up a special noble military school, or give great convenience to the children of the nobles, so that they can easily enter the military school. But while they occupy the top position in terms of status, they must not be the majority in numbers. ”

"If your military academy becomes a gathering place for the children of the nobility, and it is difficult for the sons of ordinary people to get in, then it is definitely a failure."

"If you want to change the current situation of the Ottoman army, you need more new blood. Military academies should become a place for civilians to change their destiny and a symbol of honor for the children of civilians, just like the imperial examination in ancient China, which became famous all over the world in one fell swoop. ”

"For the army to be combative, it needs a group of ambitious and enterprising officers. The children of commoners, people who were born in commoners, have a desire to get ahead, change their own destiny, and change the fate of their families are far more vigorous than the children of the powerful. ”

"There are also many children of China's elite in this military school, but under strict discipline requirements, they have to compete with countless civilian students in a relatively level playing field. I don't dare to say that China's military is fair and just, and the children of the powerful will always have many advantages that the children of ordinary people cannot have. But in the school, I will give them the greatest fairness and justice, because it is conducive to the selection of outstanding talents.

We give the best living conditions to ordinary students and create a relatively fair and just environment for them, which can bring out their maximum potential and win their loyalty. ”

It is difficult to say in the history of mankind that any army has absolute justice and fairness, but if any army completely eliminates the channels for people at the bottom to climb up and forge ahead, this army will also come to the brink of completion. This is like the decline of a dynasty in Chinese history, when the commoners with wisdom cannot become gentry and officials above the commoners, then these commoners will undoubtedly become the main force to overthrow the dynasty.

"You look and look at this school, do you find that there is any student who has an advantage over other students or even teachers?"

Chen Ming felt that Selim didn't seem to notice this.

He scanned his surroundings as he spoke, then pointed to a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man and said to Selim, "Look at that student, can you see anything special about him?" ”

The student who was pointed out by Chen Ming was spitting out a chicken bone towards the table at this moment.

Selim looked blankly at the man who then lowered his head and snorted and plucked the rice, and shook his head blankly.

"His name is Chen Shaolin, the second son of my left deputy governor of Yanguo. Sort of my cousin. ”

Selim should know who China's left deputy governor is, Chen Erbao, who does not hold the actual military power in his hands, has not changed at all in recent years, with the functionalization of the metropolitan governor's office, his position as the left deputy governor is simply the deputy commander-in-chief of China's navy and army, and the commander-in-chief is concurrently served by Chen Ming.

Such a person can be said to be the top military minister in the whole of China. As a professional diplomat, if he even knows the specific meaning of the seven characters represented by Yan Guogong, the left deputy governor of China, then he is definitely a mallet.

Selim's eyes shrank suddenly, and he almost reflexively looked at Chen Shaolin again. "Incredible." In his eyes, Chen Shaolin's every move is no specific difference from the military cadets around him, he is like the most ordinary military cadet.

"China is different from the Ottomans, we have only been founded for a few years, and you have been silent for hundreds of years. The network of interests of all sides already exists, they are meticulous and complex, covering every corner of the whole society, and they are incomparably hard. The emergence and development of military academies will mobilize the inherent interests of many, many people. ”

"But I believe that His Majesty the Sultan of your country has clearly understood the necessity of the military academy and has made great determination to complete this breakthrough."

"Then you have to see thoroughly what a military school is."

"Where is its importance?"

Before coming to the Central Military Academy, Chen Ming gave Selim a 'convenience', and the latter could select a few people to stay at the Central Military Academy for a few more days and truly experience the military academy career.

What do you do after lunch?

Selim was very interested in the war chess deduction room, but Chen Ming took him to a small room.

There are two portraits on the wall, a pennant, and on the east-facing side of the room, on a display table are two finely made leather notebooks.

"This is the showroom of the first squad of the infantry section."

"These two portraits, one is still alive and the other is dead. They were heroic models of the infantry squad. ”

"This pennant is the highest honor won by the graduating cadets of the first infantry class and the leader of the troops, and it is also the highest honor awarded by our army to the first-level formation of the team."

In the Sino-Russian War two years ago, he led his soldiers to take the lead in defeating the Russian army in white-knuckle battles five times, thus leading the troops to win the war. His team was also awarded the honorary title of 'Vanguard' after the war. Although in the last battle, Du Jiaping lay in Siberia forever.

"This notebook is called the Heroic Martyrs' List, and the records on it are all graduates or trainees of the first class of infantry who have died on the battlefield; This is called the Hero List, and the names recorded on it are all the names of the previous cadets of the first infantry class who have won the Silver Medal or above. "Both books have Du Jiaping's name on them.

For soldiers, material rewards are important, but don't let them forget the incentive of honor.

Selim and the Ottomans behind him all looked solemn.

This kind of class-based showroom is very popular in every military academy in China. In addition to the class exhibition room, there is also a discipline honor room, a department honor room, and the highest school martyr's hall. This can strongly stimulate the students' sense of collective honor and a kind of passionate and upward comparison.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Ming laid flowers at the War Memorial of the Martyrs' Hall in the eyes of all the teachers and students of the Central Military Academy.

"I swear:

I volunteered to join the army, always loyal to the motherland, obey the emperor, obey orders, strictly abide by discipline, brave and tenacious, not afraid of sacrifice, hard training to kill the enemy, always ready to fight, never betray the army, and swear to defend the motherland to the death. ”

"What is our credo?"

"Soldiers, take obedience to orders as their duty, take it as their responsibility to protect their families and defend the country, and be proud of dying on the battlefield!" (To be continued.) )