In the autumn of the ninth year of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty was in a mess because of the military academy, among which Zhang Yong, the head of the inner court, under the instruction of Zhengde and the help of Yang Yiqing, had a huge conflict with the cabinet that opposed the construction of the military academy for the first time.

Regarding the quarrel in the court, Zhengde sat firmly in the Jinluan Palace, and didn't seem to care at all, but Li Dongyang and they didn't dare to take it lightly, because they all knew that the reason why Zhang Yong, who had a good relationship with the cabinet, was so tough on the affairs of the military academy was because of the support of His Majesty the emperor.

Sure enough, a month later, the court and the cabinet were exhausted by the quarrel between the inner court and the cabinet, and it was at this time that Zhengde finally made a move, and he decided to build the Ming Military Academy, and personally named it "The Royal Military Academy of the Ming Dynasty", referred to as the Royal Military Academy, and the military academy has two branches, one of which is the Royal Army Military Academy in the capital, and the other is the Royal Navy Military Academy in Songjiang.

For Zhengde's tough decision to build a military academy, the ministers below are also resolutely opposed, and even many ministers can't kneel outside the main hall, asking His Majesty the Emperor to retract his order, otherwise they will kneel and die in the imperial city. It's a pity that the threats of these ministers have no effect on Zhengde at all, because he was originally a heartless guy, but as a result, several elderly ministers outside knelt and fainted, one of them was declared dead due to ineffective treatment, and the rest of the people after the most Lu saw that it had no effect, so they could only helplessly let their families carry them back to the house.

No matter how the civilian officials of the Ming Dynasty objected, Zhengde was determined to build the military academy, and Yang Yiqing officially took over the burden of building the military academy. Anyway, he is the secretary of the military department. It was his job. No one can intervene. However, in order to support the construction of the military academy, Yang Yiqing also paid a great price, and the civil officials in the entire court regarded him as a traitor, and many former friends broke off with him, which made Yang Yiqing, who originally had black and white hair, all his hair and beard become snow-white in just a few days, which shows what kind of mental pressure he is under.

However, Yang Yiqing is also a person who admits death, since he has taken over the important task of building a military school. And he was appointed by Zhengde as the first sample supervisor of the army school, so now he is also determined to build the military school, at the beginning, the household department and the Ministry of Industry did not cooperate, one was unwilling to pay, and the other was unwilling to produce craftsmen, but this was not difficult for Yang Yiqing, because they and Zhengde had long expected this situation, so the construction cost of the military school was all from Zhengde's inner treasury.

Speaking of the vigorous development of maritime trade from Congzhou, Zhengde no longer worries about the lack of money, and the taxes collected by various ports are naturally handed over to the treasury. However, Zhengde took out the money early for Zhou Zhong to help operate, and now the money has been turned into a fleet. Coming and going between the Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang, every time you can make a huge profit, it can be said that Zhengde is now also a maritime trade merchant, and it is the top kind, except for the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in Zhouzhong, there is no one on the sea who can compare with Zhengde's fleet, and it is precisely with this fleet, so Zhengde is not short of money at all.

As for the craftsmen, it is easier to do, Daming may be short of food and money, but only there will be no shortage of people, as for the craftsmen are everywhere, although the Ministry of Industry has a group of craftsmen, but there are more craftsmen in the people, and even the army has special craftsmen, so as long as Yang Yiqing has someone in his hands, and there is the support of the army, it is easy to recruit some craftsmen who work.

There are rich people, the construction of the military school was soon put on the agenda, Yang Yiqing took the leader of the craftsmen to choose a place with mountains and rivers in the west of the capital, and then immediately began to build the military school. It is said that it is a military school, in fact, the entire military school is built according to the military camp of the Ming Dynasty, the school building inside does not need to be beautiful, as long as it is strong, and there are canteens, dormitories, drill grounds and firearms testing sites in the military school, etc., and so on, after the start of school, the military school will implement militarized management, and no one is allowed to go out.

In addition to the hardware facilities of the military academy, the military academy naturally needs some instructors to teach, these people either have to be proficient in the art of war, or they are the fierce generals in the army who have experienced the battle formation, and only under the teaching of these people, the students in the military academy can become successful, so Zhengde also attaches great importance to this, and ordered Qiu Yue to personally find the instructors of the military academy, and then he personally investigates.

Qiu Yue was originally a general in the army, and he was very familiar with the situation in the army, so he quickly drew up a list of these people, these people are all veterans in the army, and some of them are not much worse than Shen Ying, but they were suppressed by civilian officials before, so they are not as good as Shen Ying and Qiu Yue in terms of titles, but when it comes to real credit, they are not worse than them.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that when Zhengde stepped up the time to recruit teachers for the army school, the most lull actually attracted a big person, this person is named Xu Li, the word Gongfu, the fifth grandson of Xu Da, and also the Wei Guogong of this generation, who had been in charge of the Left Army Governor's Mansion and the Central Army Governor's Mansion before, and now he is old, so he retired a few years ago.

Xu Da was named the Duke of Wei, guarding Nanjing for generations, and Xu Da also had a son who was named the Duke of Ningguo, and the Duke of Ning stayed in the city of Beijing, and there were two dukes in one door, and there was only one door of the Xu family in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, and although the Duke of Wei and the Duke of Ningguo lived separately, they were closely linked, it can be said that one was prosperous and one was lost, and the descendants of the two Dukes were also full of talents, and the five armies of the Governor's Mansion had never lacked the people of the Xu family, which can be said to be the first wealthy family in the Ming Army.

Xu Li is over sixty years old this year, he has been in the army since he was young, and he has led troops to exterminate the border troubles and rebellions of the Ming Dynasty several times over the past few decades, these real military exploits coupled with the name of their Xu family have made Xu Li's prestige in the army extremely prosperous, and it is not at all comparable to people like Shen Ying and Qiu Yue, so Qiu Yue did not dare to list Xu Li at all when drawing up the list of teachers in the military academy, and even if Zhengde wanted to let Xu Li go out of the mountain, he had to discuss with Xu Li in advance, only the other party agreed, Zhengde dared to put the other party's name on the list of teachers in the military school, but Zhengde felt that he didn't have to disturb Xu Li's later life, so he didn't notify Xu Li, but what everyone didn't expect was that after Xu Li heard about the military school, he immediately sent someone to write and ask to serve in the school, and at the same time, he had already set off from Nanjing and would arrive in Beijing in a few days.

For Xu Li's sudden joining, Zhengde is overjoyed, you must know that the Wei Mansion and the Ningguo Mansion have always been the representatives of the Ming magnates, especially Xu Li himself is also very talented, and he made a lot of meritorious achievements in his early years, it can be said that he is the head figure among the Ming nobles, and he is also very influential among the nobles, it can be said that there are such figures to join, one can reduce the resistance in the construction process of the military academy, and the other can greatly improve the authority of the military school.

It is precisely because of this that Zhengde welcomed Xu Li's arrival, and even he discussed it with Yang Yiqing, and finally decided to give up the position of school supervisor to Xu Li, after all, whether it is in terms of prestige or merit, Yang Yiqing can not be compared with Xu Li, and if Xu Li serves as the school supervisor, no matter who sends his children to the military school in the future, he must obediently abide by the discipline of the military school, otherwise the military stick will be ruthless.

The army military academy on Zhengde's side has Xu Li to join, and there are also Yang Yiqing, Zhang Yong and Qiu Yue and others to assist, so the entire military academy has become the focus of the entire Ming Dynasty from the beginning of its construction, everyone is focused on this military school, the civilian officials gnash their teeth at it, and the generals are ready for their children and grandchildren, as long as the military academy begins to enroll, they will send their children and grandchildren in, whether they can succeed in it or not, at least when they come out, they will have the title of a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and more importantly, they can also make a group of friends in the military school, which is extremely beneficial for their future development.

Compared with the vigorous Beijing Army School, the naval school in Songjiang is much more low-key, and the Ming Dynasty does not pay much attention to the navy, although the maritime trade has developed rapidly in recent years, but people's eyes are still habitually staring at the land, except for a few people, almost no one cares about things on the ocean. Second, the Army Military Academy has also attracted everyone's attention, so the naval school that was opened together with the Army School has been ignored by most people.

However, this kind of lack of attention is also what Zhou Chong dreamed of, because when everyone was paying attention to the army school in Beijing, the naval school had already broken ground in Songjiang, and the construction speed was faster than Beijing, the entire naval school used bricks and cement as building materials, and soon built the first batch of military school buildings, and then those who were recruited to study immediately entered the military academy and studied with some old people in the navy and astronomy and arithmetic masters hired by Zhou Zhong with high salaries, as well as Portuguese prisoners of war.

In addition to the above scholars, Zhou Zhong also began to select some smart and clever young people in the Nanyang Navy, and then let them enter the naval academy to study, after all, the current navy is expanding too fast, not only lack of soldiers, but also lack of generals, those who read can only be used as technical officers, as for the real command of the navy to fight, but also need real naval officers.

Speaking of the navy is different from the army, the navy of the Ming Dynasty was originally blank, so there is no entanglement of interests in the navy, which allows Zhou Chong to sway freely on the big canvas of the navy, and now the establishment of the naval academy is the thickest stroke that Zhou Chong has drawn on this canvas. (To be continued......)