Chapter 56 The Royal Military Academy of the Great Song Dynasty
On the ninth day of the seventh month of the second year of Jianlong, in the palace, Zhao Kuangyin released the military power through a glass of wine, and collected the military power in the hands of the forbidden army into his own hands.
And the next day, above the court, the soldiers of the forbidden army had already surrendered the power in their hands and planned to follow Zhao Kuangyin's arrangement, and Zhao Kuangyin did not treat them badly.
In the past few days, the matter discussed in the court is to open a military academy to recruit students in the west of Kaifeng Fucheng, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and under the vigorous propaganda of the imperial court, recruit 100 students, and the family background is innocent, and the enrollment in the autumn of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is unified, and only 100 students are enrolled in a year, healthy, and the age is divided into three grades, 11 to 13 years old, 14 to 16 years old between 17 and 20 years old.
In the first year, there were 100 places to enroll, of course, excluding the children of the families of the forbidden soldiers, and this time the recruitment of new students in the military academy was the first selection examination held after the release of military power after a glass of wine.
Although Zhao Kuangyin was exempted from the official positions of some military generals, and some were transferred to local places to appoint or demote their positions, Zhao Kuangyin still had a certain sense of guilt in his heart, so in this selection examination, he let the descendants of these generals not need to sign up, and they can directly become students of military schools, which can be regarded as opening the door for them to a certain extent, and also making up for his own practice.
Among them, Shi Shouxin's eldest son Shi Baoxing, Cao Bin's eldest son Cao Can, Li Jilong, the son of Li Chuyun, and Zhao Dezhao's cousin He Lingtu and others also signed up for the military academy selection examination.
The imperial court planned to recruit 100 military cadets, and in order to recruit students, many enrollment notices were posted at the corners of the streets in the capital.
The people in Kaifeng City, it is reported that the imperial court opened a military school, and the children of officials and merchants from innocent families in the capital and surrounding prefectures and counties began to sign up for the first military academy enrollment of the Great Song Dynasty.
After the announcement was posted, many people came to the enrollment point of the military camp outside the city that day, Zhao Dezhao took a look at it, and the number skyrocketed, but the imperial court clearly announced that there were 100 places, so they could only be selected from among these people.
Zhao Kuangyin specially ordered the officials in charge of military affairs in the Privy Council outside the city, specially set up a special elimination mechanism, among these people not only to know the history of the subset and other cultural courses, but also to be healthy, the family background is innocent, through the Privy Council officials one by one selection, the final production of a hundred places, plus the descendants of the forbidden army, a total of more than 130 people.
Now the military academy has not yet been built, but outside the city, there have been cement buildings begun to be built, Zhao Dezhao believes that it will be built in a month, and during this period, because the imperial court wants to open a military school, and temporarily change the location of military academy students to the corner of the Feishan camp outside the city.
The open space outside the Feishan camp is still small, but the place where cadets train is almost the same.
For the three students, there are different training methods, according to age, from the simplest to the most complex, and the three generals who are responsible for the training of these three students are the three generals arranged by Emperor Zhao Kuangyin, Shi Shouxin, Cao Bin and Wang Quanbin.
Zhao Kuangyin's arrangement is also to reassure them, and it is also for other generals to see. After the three of them accepted the emperor's appointment, they were very surprised, and at this moment, Zhao Dezhao, the king of Liang, also went to the Feishan camp outside the city.
On this day, the weather was fine, and Zhao Dezhao followed Shi Shouxin and other three generals to a place outside the Feishan camp outside the city.
"See Your Highness, the last general, three generals." The person in charge of the barracks saw Zhao Dezhao and Shi Shouxin, the three generals, and said.
"Your Highness, are you here to inspect the camp today?"
"Today is the first time that my Great Song Dynasty has recruited new students from military academies, and this king also wants to see what the situation of these student unions is like, so he came here to take a look."
"Your Highness, please go this way." Under the leadership of the generals, Zhao Dezhao and Shi Shouxin came to the open space of the military camp.
Before Shi Shouxin and Cao Bin came to the open space of the barracks, they saw that their eldest sons were in the queue, but they could only show with their eyes.
And Zhao Dezhao also saw his cousin He Lingtu in the barracks, and he also squeezed his eyebrows and greeted him. Originally, Wu Lingqing also planned to train in the army, after all, he also came out of the military academy in his previous life, but now he, like Zhao Dezhao, has a job on his hands, so he can't be willful at will, but Zhao Dezhao and Wu Lingqing are trained people after all, so they know how to train military academy freshmen.
"This is the manual for training new students in the hands of this king, one of you will take it down and look at it first, there are many ways to train you, remember that you are the first military cadet, and in the future you will be recorded in the annals of the Great Song Dynasty, remember to be in the military academy, listen to the words of the instructor. The duty of a soldier is to obey, and then obey, do you understand? Zhao Dezhao said a few sonorous words, roaring and tearing and shouting.
"Remembered." The cadets of the military academy standing below shouted in unison.
"I can't hear clearly, be louder." Zhao Dezhao raised his voice, then drew a knife from the weapon rack, swung the knife straight down, and cut off the table in front of him.
On the playground, the freshmen of the military academy were very uneasy when they saw the child in front of them cut the table with a wave of a knife.
"Remember...... Stayed"
"Louder, I can't hear you." Zhao Dezhao then raised his voice again.
"Remember!"
"Okay, today I congratulate you on joining the Great Song Dynasty Royal Military Academy, serving my Great Song Dynasty in the future, defending the family and the country, and letting the people of the Great Song Dynasty remember you - let history remember you." After Zhao Dezhao finished teaching things, he instructed the three generals of Shi Shouxin, and Shi Shouxin believed in His Royal Highness King Liang, and also knew that His Royal Highness King Liang was obscure in his chest, so he also obeyed his words, after all, in order to protect his wealth and nobility, he had handed over the military power to the emperor, and now the emperor let a few people teach the freshmen of the military academy, which is also a trust in himself, and he also knew that the military school was proposed by Zhao Dezhao, so he also admired him very much.
"Uncle Shi, in the future, the training of the generals of the Great Song Dynasty will be handed over to you, in the future, the soldiers will fight, and the teaching will be taught by your uncles, and Zhao'er can only help from the side when he is free, this book is taught by the immortals in my dreams, which records some training methods that are different from this era, and I also hope that Uncle Shi will have time to see more, Zhao'er believes that according to this law, you will definitely see different changes." After speaking, Zhao Dezhao had something to do and went back to the city first.
And Shi Shouxin took Zhao Dezhao's book and began to read it, which recorded some training methods.
This book is very wonderful, not only words, but also paintings, in fact, this is Zhao Dezhao and Wu Lingqing together with the silent memorization, depiction, it also took a long time for the two, it not only contains training methods, but also other military regulations and other things.
Shi Shouxin opened the book written by Zhao Dezhao and began to read it. When he saw the contents, he was shocked, because he had never seen these things before, such as this "sit-up", looking at that position, it was a person lying on the ground, and then holding his head in his hands, up and down, this posture looked very strange.
And Shi Shouxin is also a person who dares to challenge, he followed the method in the book, and began to sit up, although he has been fighting for many years, but when he does this action, it still consumes a lot of his energy, and the flesh on his abdomen also hurts.
It seemed that this method was still effective, and then he tried "push-ups", "one-knee jumps", "triple frog jumps", "jumping on the spot" and other positions, and he was so tired that his whole body was sore.
I didn't expect His Royal Highness King Liang to have such a means of training soldiers at a young age, Shi Shouxin also looked at Zhao Dezhao with admiration, this night, Shi Shouxin had already lost sleep in the Feishan camp and couldn't sleep.
The next day, outside the Feishan camp, three groups of cadets of different ages stood on the playground a little neatly, while Shi Shouxin was listless, standing with two black circles under his eyes.
Shi Shouxin shouted: "Today is the first day of your official training, and the first thing today is to run laps around the playground, according to age, they are ten laps, fifteen laps, and twenty laps...... Bench push-ups. ”
"Yes."
The cadets began a day's training, and at the end of the day, according to the training method recorded in Zhao Dezhao's book, the cadets were also tortured to death, one by one like frosted eggplants.
Three days later, Zhao Dezhao took Wu Lingqing to inspect the military camp, and saw that the military cadets were studying hard, and Zhao Wu and the others seemed to remember yesterday's time in their hearts, and it was like revisiting the old place.
A month later, the military academy outside the city was finally successfully built, and Zhao Kuangyin named it the Royal Military Academy of the Great Song Dynasty.