Seeing the arrival of His Royal Highness the Prince Zhou Chong, Xu Li immediately took a few people behind him to greet him, and he was very enthusiastic, although Zhou Chong took his position as the school supervisor, but Xu Li was very happy, because he was about to be expelled from the military school by Jiang Bin, and it was Zhou Chong's appearance that made the military school take a turn. And he had heard of Zhou Chong's name before, and even had the idea of visiting Zhou Chong in Shuangyu Port in the past, but unfortunately he never had the opportunity, but he didn't expect to meet in the capital now, and the other party turned out to be the younger brother of His Majesty the Emperor, which made Xu Li feel very surprised.

For Xu Li's enthusiasm, Zhou Chong also smiled, and the two exchanged a few words outside the door, and then Xu Li didn't ask Zhou Chong if he was willing, and immediately helped him introduce a few people who went out with him, originally Zhou Chong thought that these people were important people in the military academy, but after Xu Li introduced him, he found that these people were just ordinary instructors in the military academy, not too important people at all, which made Zhou Chong also very surprised.

"Gong Xu, as far as I know, there are more than 200 instructors in the military academy, why are only a few of you coming out to greet you?" Zhou Zhong is a very straightforward question, although he knows that many instructors in the military academy have been recruited by Jiang Bin, but he is now the hottest prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he has taken over the affairs of the military academy, how dare the people in the military academy not come out to greet him?

Hearing Zhou Chong's question, I saw Xu Li smile and said: "His Royal Highness King Zhao doesn't know, some time ago, there was an unhealthy wind in the military academy, which made many people affected by this atmosphere, and only these loyal people behind the old man can keep their hearts intact, which can be described as very rare, so this time I learned that His Royal Highness was coming, and the old man let those half-hearted guys stay in the military school to reflect, so as not to stain His Highness's eyes!" ”

Hearing Xu Li's explanation, Zhou Zhong and Jiao Fang almost laughed, but they didn't expect that the old man in front of him was really small, and Jiang Bin was powerful before. In the military academy, the instructors either threw themselves on Jiang Bin's side, or the two did not help each other, but now they are hated by Xu Li, and even Zhou Chong came to such an important matter. He also only notified a few henchmen who had always been by his side, and took the lead in introducing them to Zhou Chong, which was paving the way for these henchmen of his to remember that these people were loyal and reliable.

Next, Xu Li accompanied Zhou Chong into the military academy, and introduced the current situation of the military academy to Zhou Chong while walking, in fact, Zhou Chong had read some reports about the military academy before he came, for example, he knew that the military academy was divided into several subjects such as cavalry department, infantry department, firearms department, etc., with a total of more than 200 instructors and more than 3,900 cadets, and it was the same as the naval school. The first batch of accelerated cadets who entered the military academy should have entered the army a long time ago, but unfortunately, because Jiang Bin interfered in the affairs of the military academy before, the entry of those cadets into the army was delayed.

Speaking of which, Jiang Bin made trouble in the military academy some time ago, and pulled nearly half of the instructors in the military academy away. However, since the news of Zhou Chong's takeover of the military academy came, Jiang Bin's side immediately stopped, and the instructors recruited by him in the entire military academy were all honestly attending classes, and no one dared to have any other thoughts, this is the deterrent effect of Zhou Chong, the prince.

Zhou Zhong still has some regrets about Jiang Bin's decisive withdrawal from the military academy, because in his opinion. Jiang Bin is definitely the biggest uneasy factor around Zhengde, so he has always wanted to find a chance to face Jiang Bin head-on, with his identity, even if he kills Jiang Bin with this reason, Zhengde will only complain to him a few words at most. It's a pity that Jiang Bin is not stupid, and he doesn't dare to go against Zhou Chong, who is in the limelight.

However, it was Jiang Bin's retreat in the matter of the military academy. The military academy has been restored to its original order, and Xu Li has also used Zhou Chong's prestige to reorganize the discipline of the military academy, and there are a few particularly unseemly guys who have followed Jiang Bin and have been cleaned up by him. So when Zhou Zhong arrived, the military academy he saw was similar to when Jiang Bin didn't come out before.

The layout of the entire military academy is completely different from Zhou Chong's naval academy in Shanghai, but the strict discipline in the military academy is the same, the entire military academy is actually a high-level military camp, the instructors in it are officers, and the students are soldiers, but they are different from ordinary soldiers, in addition to training physical fitness, they also have to learn a variety of important tasks of the art of war, and even some post-need officers need to learn algorithm scheduling, etc., which can be described as a clear division of labor.

Zhou Zhong actually didn't know the art of war, when he was the governor, although he nominally controlled the army, but in fact, the affairs of the army were handled by the generals Shen Ying and Qu Lie, he was at most managed logistics, as for the establishment of the naval academy, it was mostly with the help of the admirals, and Wang Shouren, who knew more about the military, to help him, otherwise if he let him build the naval academy himself, I am afraid that he may not be able to build it well by now.

It is precisely because Zhou Zhong does not know military affairs, so he can't put forward any big opinions about the army school in front of him, at most he puts forward some small opinions on some management methods of the military school, such as the normalization of sports competitions in military schools, and the cadets of military schools should also try their best to master some knowledge of arithmetic, astronomy, and geography, so as to facilitate the future leadership of troops, and so on. In addition, one of the biggest improvements proposed by Zhou Zhong is to add a military supervision section to the military academy.

Speaking of the name of the prison army, it can be said to be notorious in the army of the Ming Dynasty, the prison army of the Ming Dynasty is generally concurrently served by the eunuchs, and the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty have always been known for their greed, these eunuchs and the prison army to the army, generally do not care about the life and death of the soldiers below, one by one is desperate to drink the blood of the soldiers, some generals if they do not feed these prison troops, it is likely to be killed by these prison troops, and even when fighting, these prison troops will also blame the command of the army, resulting in the failure of the army command, In the end, the army was defeated, but the charges for the defeat were borne by the generals who led the troops, and the supervising army did not have to bear any responsibility at all.

However, although the eunuch supervision army has very big drawbacks, but they are an indispensable group of people in the army, after all, the supervision system has been going back and forth for a long time, especially the generals leading the troops, if there is no one in the army, I am afraid that the emperor in the rear will not be able to sit still, so there must be a prison army to be able to contain the generals in the army, the former army supervisors are not necessarily eunuchs, or they may be civil officials or imperial relatives and other emperor's cronies, but when it comes to the Ming Dynasty, especially Ming Chengzu trusts the eunuchs, As a result, the supervisors in the army were generally eunuchs, and by the time of Zhengde, they had already formed a rule.

Zhou Zhong did not plan to change the supervision system of the Ming army, and even he did not plan to change the rule that eunuchs served as supervisors, after all, it involved the interests of all aspects of the palace, and if it was changed rashly, it was likely to push those eunuchs who held great power to the opposite side of the army.

It's just that the good and bad among the eunuchs are uneven, and some eunuchs know a little bit of military affairs, and they will not interfere with the generals when they are in the prison army, such as Zhang Yong, the first person among the eunuchs now, he is a eunuch who is familiar with military affairs, and he has done a good job in supervising the army several times, and finally he sat in his current position by virtue of quelling the rebellion of King Anhua and participating in Liu Jin's merits.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Chongcai plans to set up a military supervision department in the military academy, specially sending some young eunuchs from the palace to study in the supervision department, on the one hand, to teach them to understand some military knowledge, as well as the duties of the supervision army, so as not to do things beyond their own ability, on the other hand, it is also necessary to strengthen the patriotic education of this eunuch, so that they only have the belief of loyalty to the Ming Emperor, after all, the supervision army is used to supervise the army, if the supervision army also has ambitions, and the generals who lead the army rebel together, so what do you want them to do?

For Zhou Chong's idea of letting eunuchs enter the military academy to study, Xu Li was still a little resistant at first, don't look at Liu Jin's monstrous power at the beginning, but in the eyes of this Duke of Wei, it is just a group of clowns who rely on the emperor's prestige, and Liu Jin can bully those ordinary civil and military officials, but in a meritorious family like him, Liu Jin does not dare to provoke too much. It can be said that Xu Li looks down on eunuchs from the bottom of his heart, and in his opinion, the military academy is the key to reviving the military prestige of the Ming Dynasty, how can he let a group of lowly eunuchs enter?

Seeing that Xu Li was a little resistant, Zhou Chong could only explain to him in person the benefits of establishing a military supervision department, especially fundamentally restricting the power of the supervision army, so as to prevent the other party from commanding indiscriminately in the army, as for asking for property or something, those are all trivial matters, as long as these supervision troops can not affect the normal operation of the army.

Xu Li is also a person who has led soldiers, and he also knows the negative impact of the eunuch supervising the army on the army, plus Zhou Zhong tirelessly explained the joints to him, which made Xu Li slowly change his mind, and finally agreed to this matter, but he insisted that he could not let the eunuch enter the current military academy, but to set up a special military supervision academy next to the military school, so that the supervision of the army and the cadets of the military academy are separated from teaching, and the two sides do not affect each other.

For Xu Li's last small request, Zhou Zhong also agreed without hesitation, anyway, the generals of the supervising army and the army are inherently opposites, and the cadets in the military academy are all future generals, and now they are separated from teaching, so as not to have private contacts between the supervising army and the generals, and it is more convenient for the supervising army to perform their duties in the future.

After visiting the military academy, Zhou Zhong and Jiao Fang returned to the palace together, and now Jiao Fang has resigned from the political position of the Governor's Palace, temporarily serving as Zhou Chong's personal staff, but Zhengde is very satisfied with Jiao Fang's actions in the Governor's Palace, it is estimated that it will not be long before Jiao Fang will appear again, and even directly enter the cabinet.

Just when Zhou Zhong had just returned to the palace, he received an invitation, and the invitations he received during this time were almost piled up in a room, but the land was not as important as this invitation.