The reason why Yang Chao set up a scholar to practice martial arts, which was regarded as a harsh and even insulting condition by scholars in this era, was deeply considered.

Because the literati of the Ming Dynasty are too lacking in blood.

And these people have control over the culture, which leads to a growing lack of blood in the main culture, and the culture has edified the nation more and more weakly.

This is the result of a long-term cultural development, roughly starting from the Song Dynasty, and also accompanied by the perfection of the imperial examination system.

There is nothing wrong with the imperial examination itself, but the content of the imperial examination is too biased, and it is biased towards writing ability.

Therefore, every scholar has been immersed in reading the Four Books and the Five Classics since he was a child, and he is not diligent in his four bodies, and he does not distinguish between grains and grains, and he does not listen to the things outside the window and only reads the books of sages, causing his body to become weaker and weaker, and even the image of a scholar has become the word 'weak in literature'.

Whether the ruler did it intentionally or unintentionally, Yang Chao can't say well.

However, it is clear that as the body of the scholar who has mastered the culture weakens due to long-term inactivity, the culture with their spiritual will will also become weaker and weaker.

In fact, men are naturally aggressive, you don't see uneducated wild children in the countryside, how can there be no fighting, not to mention people, even male animals must fight, otherwise there is no territory, there is no mate, aggressiveness is the nature of male creatures, naturally including men.

However, because of the weakness of these scholars one by one and their immersion in the morality of writing, this kind of cultural education gradually suppressed their aggressive nature and became bloodless, and they later pushed the culture further towards the weakness of the culture, which is a vicious circle.

Before the Song Dynasty, this situation was not obvious, firstly, because the imperial examination was not developed, and there was no atmosphere of scholars desperately studying literature, and secondly, Confucianism at that time also still had the style of antiquity, and did not completely abandon martial arts. Among the six arts of a gentleman advocated by Confucius, archery art is included.

Just look at the Tang Dynasty, which was rated as one of the most violent eras in China, and civil officials like the eldest grandson Wuji could follow Tang Taizong to charge into battle. It can be seen from the fact that such a famous minister as Wei Zheng advocated the complete slaughter of the Turkic people in the steppe, although there was some genocidal flavor in it. But it reflects the incomparably strong temperament of a literati.

As a result, the Song Dynasty, which was separated by a generation, began to weaken jealousy, and scholars did not practice archery, but devoted themselves to the classics.

To say that these people are also very persevering in reading, ten years of cold windows, enduring a life of poverty, it is very hard reading, and all those who can read are top people with extremely high IQs. But it drained his physical strength and became weak.

This can't be blamed on these people, the system is like this, they have no way out of practicing martial arts, and only by studying can they have a way out, so all the children of poor families put all their energy on reading and learning literature, where is there time to practice martial arts, and besides, there may not be conditions, poor literature and rich martial arts. The cost of practicing martial arts is much more than studying, and the poor can't afford it at all.

Therefore, it is the system that will have perseverance and perseverance. The scholars with top intelligence were forced to abandon the martial arts and come from the road of literature.

Yang Chao can't change the system yet, but he is a doer with action, and he believes in the philosophical idea of not talking about reasons, not talking about conditions, and just doing things, so Yang Chao plans to start from himself.

I recruited this group of scholars, of course, the most embarrassed group, otherwise it would be impossible to agree to such harsh conditions, and I am not considered top in IQ. Otherwise, it is impossible not to even fail the test.

But Yang Chaoning can use these people who are not top-notch, and he must also insist on training scholars. For this reason, a large number of smart people are kept out.

In addition to long-term considerations, the original intention of wanting to re-inject blood into the national culture. In fact, there are also short-term considerations in it, after all, although these scholars are Yang Chao's staff members one by one, they will inevitably go to the battlefield in the future, and they don't need to work hard, but they have to run away without being scared.

This kind of courage can't be contained by discipline alone, you have to train them, make them strong, and then you have the courage, just like the governor of Haizhou knows that the law of the country is intolerable, but he can't stand the fear of thousands of captives, so he abandoned the city and fled. If Yang Chao's group of scholars were like that, even if they set strict military rules, they would involuntarily want to escape, and only by training their physique to be strong and giving them a strong foundation could they not escape from the battle.

Of course, if there is a chance, Yang Chao still hopes to be able to change the system, not to overthrow the imperial examination, that thing is originally the most essential thing developed by the Chinese, and is highly respected by Westerners, and later the British were the first to learn and establish a civil service examination system, but the Chinese want to defeat her and then introduce variants from the West.

Replaced by Yang Chao, only a slight change is needed to completely change the view, such as adding some practical things to the content of the imperial examination, such as if the criminal department recruits people, it will be necessary to test the law, and if the military department recruits people, then the art of war will be examined, unlike now, no matter what only relies on the four books and five classics, it can only recruit a large number of false Taoism that can only say benevolence, righteousness and morality that they themselves do not believe.

Of course, everyone needs to exercise, which is also necessary, is the body the capital of the revolution, it is easy to cultivate, and the result is short-lived, which is a loss for the country.

Because of these long-term and short-term considerations, Yang Chao trained these scholars in the army.

Of course, these scholars are not soldiers, they only need to receive basic training, and they don't need to go into battle to fight, and their names will not be compiled into the military register, they are Yang Chao's staff, not soldiers, otherwise these scholars will not come.

But after observation again and again, these soldiers' mastery ability is indeed very poor, obviously they are all smart people, but the practice of military posture, pace and other skills are not as good as a fishing soldier, which probably has little to do with the brain, and muscle memory is closer.

So two months have passed, and the pace training of these scholars has not yet been completed, and Haizhou Minzhuang, who started training at the same time, has been practicing assassination for a month.

Of course, Haizhou Minzhuang's progress is definitely not because they are so much stronger than scholars, but because they have a good foundation, Yang Chao has been in Haizhou for two months, and he has never stopped training these people, so after these people come to Nanjing, they only need to adapt to training and recover, and they can carry out martial arts assassination training.

And feedback based on the situation. Their assassination training is almost complete, and the next step should be to be divided into different general banner teams to start more professional training in birds, bows and arrows, and even cavalry.

As for the new arrivals in Haizhou. Although it is still in the stage of standing in the military posture, no one doubts it a month or two later. They may be able to get out of the new barracks, but it is not certain whether the group of scholar soldiers of their predecessors can get out.

After looking at the situation, Yang Chao didn't intervene in anything, and left, and the system he established was slowly on the right track, like a machine. can run itself, what Yang Chao has to do is to supervise the normal operation of this machine, so that it does not get out of control.

Training is Jin Yong's business, Lao Jin is still doing well, and there are a large number of veterans in the past who have been turned into training instructors, even Jin Yong is very relaxed, let alone Yang Chao.

So Yang Chao quickly left the barracks and went back to deal with other things, such as clearing the wasteland, repairing the barracks, and so on.

Everything is well organized. With the active efforts of a large number of soldiers, brothers and parents, patches of wasteland have been leveled out, and now grass seeds are sprinkled first. Yang Chao promised to buy forage at market prices, after all, Yang Chao wanted to raise horses.

Speaking of that batch of horses, there are only more than 6,000 horses left, 10,000 when they left Haizhou, 9,000 when they left Haizhou, only more than 8,000 when they arrived in Huai'an, and when they all arrived in Nanjing, there were about 7,000 horses left.

Although Yang Chao invited a few horsemen who specialized in raising horses from Xiaolingwei, he still couldn't stop these war horses from adapting to the climate in the south of the Yangtze River. There are still warhorses that are sick, but they are well cared for by the grooms. Black beans, millet and other concentrate feeds were fed, and gradually got better. Now that he is no longer losing weight, when he is completely recovered, Yang Chao should train cavalry.

But it is impossible to always give the war horse as concentrate feed, the horseman said that the horse still has to eat grass, otherwise it is also going to be sick, so it is very necessary to plant grass, the Mongols occupied the Central Plains for nearly a hundred years, and also brought a variety of pastures, Xiaolingwei's royal garden has been raising horses for many years, there are large areas of artificially planted grassland, so grass seeds are not difficult to find.

Yang Chao planted tens of thousands of acres of pasture, plus rice bran and other things are enough to feed tens of thousands of war horses, so this batch of war horses Yang Chao is not worried about not being able to raise, but worried that he will die of illness.

In addition to clearing the wasteland, planting grass and raising horses, it is the matter of the wharf.

The year before last, Yang Chao cleared out the wharf, but it was only the Shuiying Wharf in the past, using giant trees to fix the sediment, hollowing out some waterways to park ships, and it was no problem to dock warships, but it was not convenient enough to dock civilian ships.

So after agreeing with Shi Kefa to do maritime trade, Yang Chao began to rebuild the wharf, and still contracted to Bai Jiangtou, asking him to rebuild the wooden wharf into a brick and stone wharf, and not to use the sample of Longjiangguan Wharf not far south of the water camp wharf, but the wharf designed by Yang Chao himself for Bai Jiangtou.

Yang Chao is studying architecture, and it is still easy to draw some dock drawings, and there is no need to draw them in detail, only need to give a simple drawing, and experts like Bai Jiangtou can improve it, but he really draws a detailed three views, and Bai Jiangtou has to worry about whether he can understand it.

The new wharf designed by Yang Chao will extend from the area of the Qinhuai River to the Yangtze River, with a long-term plan of 500 zhang and 100 berths, of which 10 can berth 3,000-ton ships, 30 can berth 1,000-ton ships, and the rest are also considerable wharves, and there is no problem with the three-masted ships docked at Yang Chao.

In this regard, Bai Jiangtou painstakingly persuaded Yang Chao, what he said was quite reasonable, there are not such big ships near Nanjing, and there is no need to build such a big wharf, but in Yang Chao's plan, as soon as the sea trade is opened, many ships will sail directly from Xinjiangkou into the sea, and he doesn't mind letting the Zheng family's fleet dock directly to Xinjiangkou at the right time, but that will have to wait for the imperial court to rest assured of the Zheng family.

In addition, Yang Chao also plans to build a super big ship by himself, Yang Chao can't always rely on the Zheng family, sooner or later Yang Chao will have to trade directly through the sea, since there are conditions, he will naturally build a good base for his future fleet.

Therefore, in addition to silently slandering Yang Chao's ruined family, Bai Jiangtou can only continue to help contract the dock project.

In fact, Yang Chao's financial pressure is also very high, and as soon as the dock opened, he has been unable to make ends meet recently.

Clearing the wasteland is nothing to Yang Chao, and the profits from shipping are enough to support it, but after planning to open up sea trade, the expenses suddenly become larger.

Needless to say, shipbuilding also has to spend money, although the timber is provided by Shi Kefa, and the construction is also distributed to the Longjiang shipyard labor, but Yang Chao really can't rest assured, if Shi Kefa really can take out the ship from the shipyard without spending a penny, but these ships are Yang Chao's, Yang Chao will not dare to challenge the unspoken rules of the shipyard, not to mention anything else, that is, those shipwrecks are shoddy enough for Yang Chao to drink a pot.

After discussing with Yao Craftsman of the shipyard, Yang Chao promised to give the shipyard 300 taels of silver for each three-masted ship, and Yao Craftsman promised to help Yang Chao build it carefully.

After private discussions, the shipyard also promised not to hack Shi Kefa's materials, and helped Yang Chao build a warship, but Yang Chao wanted to give Yao Craftsman 10,000 taels of silver at one time, and Yang Chao also agreed, originally he could only get thirty, and the additional twenty ships were 10,000 taels of silver, with an average of only 500 taels per ship, which was also quite cheap.

Therefore, Yang Chao needs to give the shipyard 20,000 taels of silver, the barracks are still being rebuilt, and the Zuo Si camp in the past is naturally perfect, but although the new barracks have also been renovated, the facilities are not perfect, for example, there is no bathroom in the Zuo Si barracks, so it needs to be added.

Moreover, it is impossible for a thousand general battalions to meet Yang Chao's future expansion, so at least the front or rear thousand general battalions have to be rebuilt, with the abandoned state of these two barracks, the repair and reconstruction are not much different, and this is a project of at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

But what really costs money is the port wharf, which is five hundred zhang long, and the port is more than two miles long, even if it is placed in the future generations, it is also not a small port, and it is impossible to build it without hundreds of thousands, millions of taels of silver, and it is generally only possible to rely on the strength of the state, and Yang Chao wants to build it by himself, which is indeed very stressful.

Even if there are more than 100,000 taels of silver snatched back from Huai'an, 100,000 taels of dividends can be distributed in the Jinchai Building, and shipping can still earn 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver this year, but compared to the cost of the wharf, it is still a drop in the bucket.

Fortunately, the labor is cheap enough, and the siege of the wharf has attracted a large number of unemployed people, but they have dragged their families to build shacks on the wharf, and the whole family lives on the wharf, which really caused a lot of trouble. (To be continued...... ）。