On August 1, 1860 in the Western calendar, many things happened in the world, and many things happened in China, but there was only one thing that was really remembered by later generations, included in the encyclopedia by major search engines in later generations, and set as a compulsory exam question in Chinese middle school history classes -- this day was the day when the Qingpu Military Academy was officially established.

In the history of later generations at home and abroad, especially in military history, Qingpu Military Academy has been given high praise, known as China's first modern military academy, the cradle of China's modern officers, one of the world's four major military academies, and one of China's five major military academies.

Because it is not only a famous general of Chinese nationality that is produced here, but also many famous foreign generals have been born, and many of these famous generals occupy a very important position in the future historical stage, and even there have been famous generals and alumni battles in the same period, so Qingpu Military Academy is also known as an incubator for international famous generals.

Although Qingpu Military Academy was well-known at home and abroad in later generations and was a holy place for soldiers from all over the world, it was not ostentatious when it was established, and it was not valued by outsiders at that time, and even the process of establishment was very simple.

There was no ribbon-cutting ceremony, no military parade, just Li Yongji gave a short speech in front of a group of young people, and took a photo with the first batch of teachers and students of the military academy at that time.

The original site of the military school is to simply clean up the old camp of the Jingwu Army, and then change the plaque of "Qingpu Military Academy" written in italics at the gate of the barracks. Again, the situation is completely different with the erection of statues.

The first principal of Qingpu Military Academy was named Yu Hongrui, who was also a figure recorded in history. At that time, however, he was just a young man who had just turned nineteen. The reason why he was able to become the principal was not because he had any special merits, but because of the special selection mechanism that Li Yongji had done.

Obviously, the first batch of teachers at the Qingpu Military Academy are the 60 top students in the instructor training class, but everyone has the same starting point and the level is not much different. It is not said who is particularly good at what, and there are also different positions among the teachers, such as the director of teaching. For example, teachers in different subjects. Some of the positions are not wanted, but some of the positions are all competing for the head, how to arrange these people one by one?

Li Yongji's method is very simple, choose the principal first. The principal then appoints and assigns the teacher's position.

There are several steps in the selection of principals. The first is Mao Sui's self-recommendation, that is, he stood up and said, I want to be the principal.

If you jump out alone, and there is no one else, then the principal is you, and if there are still others fighting with you, less than five, the people below will vote. The one with the most votes wins, if more than five people run at the same time. Start adding a written test.

The three people with the best results in the written test will become candidates, stand on the stage again, each deliver a campaign speech, and then let the teacher vote, and the person who votes the most is the principal.

The power of the principal is very great, except for Li Yongji, he can appoint a teacher within the school, and can also publicly reward or punish any teacher, and also has the power to fire or dismiss students, just like a dictator.

However, the principal has a term of office, a term of five years, and you can run again after the term is over, and if you are elected, you will continue to work, and if you are elected, you will give way to the new principal. Each president can be re-elected up to three times, and when he reaches the third term, he can no longer run for election, but must give way to a new person and have a selection system similar to that of the president of the United States.

Of course, the difference is that the principal selected within this school is only a nomination, and whether he can become the principal in the end depends on Li Yongji, the boss, to have the final say, but since this set was made by him, then generally speaking, as long as it is a person selected by the teacher, Li Yongji is all in charge.

Obviously, Yu Hongrui was able to become the first principal of Qingpu Military Academy at a young age because of this special selection mechanism.

He won second place in the written examination, then won the second speech and voting round, and finally won the position of first principal.

Therefore, judging from this selection process, although this Yu Hongrui is young, he has solid theoretical knowledge and good popularity and eloquence, and with these qualities, it is no problem to be a principal.

After talking about the teacher, let's talk about the students.

The first batch of students of the Qingpu Military Academy did not select people from the elite army, but reopened their enrollment to the society.

The reason why this was done was to learn from scratch and protect the authority of the teachers, after all, these teachers were also members of the Jingwu Army before, and if they directly asked someone from the Jingwu Army to come over, they might not necessarily buy it.

Since it is to study in a military academy, it is naturally higher than the conditions for recruiting soldiers in the early elite army. If you want to enter Qingpu Military Academy, you must be over 16 years old, under 18 years old, 1.7 meters tall, 2.0 eyesight, good health and no disease.

The written test is to test your knowledge mastery, that is, how much literacy, there are still not too many requirements in this regard, not that you must have the level of talent, lifting people and even jinshi, but that as long as you can read 300000 well, you can recognize about 2,000 words, it is not difficult to read 300,000 such readings, and at the same time can write about 500 to 1,000 words, and you will be able to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, even if you pass.

After passing the written test, there is an interview, the interview session is that you face three examiners alone, and then everyone takes turns to ask you questions, such as asking your background, such as asking your views on the Jingwu Army, such as asking your views on foreigners, such as asking your views on Han people and Manchus, etc. Obviously, this is an ideological and political examination pass, and if the thinking is not too hard, or the brain is not flexible enough, it is generally difficult to be selected. In other words, if you have passed the test before, you will not be able to come in and study.

Although the conditions are harsh, the treatment is too good, because once you enter the Qingpu Military Academy, you will be free of food, clothing, and housing, and there will be a subsidy of one or two silver per month. If the family is relatively poor, you can also apply for the special hardship allowance. Once the investigation is true, you can be given an extra two taels to five taels of silver per month, but if you lie. Immediately expelled from school.

At the same time, once you enter the Qingpu Military Academy, you will automatically become a member of the Jingwu Army, so your family can also enjoy the protection of the Jingwu Army, that is, if you enter the Qingpu Military Academy, your family will not have to pay money and food with the government. If they want to collect it, go to the elite army and collect it!

However, there is a scope for this kind of shelter. That is, you have to live within the control of the Jingwu Army, if you are in an area like Shanxi and Shandong where the Jingwu Army cannot control the zhì, then it will not work, but you can move with your family. The relocation fee Jingwu Army can use the form of an interest-free loan for you. You can just go back to it later.

Once you graduate from Qingpu Military Academy, the lowest military rank is corporal, and you can be a deputy squad leader directly when you come out, and you can be a captain at the highest, and you can be a company commander directly when you come out.

What should be particularly pointed out here is that the Jingwu Army has now begun to fully implement the internal military rank system, which is different from the military system of the Qing court, and uses a completely modern military rank system. Different levels of military rank correspond to different treatments.

At present, the ranks of the Jingwu Army are roughly divided into five levels: soldier, sergeant, captain, colonel, and general. Each of these levels is subdivided.

Soldiers are divided into four levels: private, private, second-class, and upper-class, which are mainly calculated according to the number of years.

All of them are privates within a year of being a soldier; One year later, two years a private; After two years, within three years he was a private; After three years, they are automatically privates. After serving for five years, or up to eight years, a private is required to retire from the army if he is not promoted to a non-commissioned officer during this period. Of course, if you make a meritorious service, the military rank can also be quickly promoted, it is possible that you have made a great contribution in a battle, and you will be promoted from private to private, then the treatment will be different, after all, the treatment will be calculated according to the military rank in the future.

A sergeant, also called a non-commissioned officer, is the lowest-ranking officer, divided into four grades: corporal, sergeant, sergeant, and non-commissioned officer. Non-commissioned officers generally refer to officers from deputy squad leaders to platoon commanders, and non-commissioned officer chiefs are generally platoon commanders and are junior officers in the army.

To become a non-commissioned officer, there are currently only two methods, one is to establish military merit in the ranks, and the boss will specially promote you according to your merits, and the other is to study in a military school, such as Qingpu Military Academy, and after completing the course, after obtaining the graduate qualification, you can directly award the military rank of the corresponding non-commissioned officer according to your academic performance.

That is to say, the non-commissioned officer level does not look at the number of years, and will not be automatically promoted, and there are only two ways to be promoted.

First, you can make corresponding contributions in training or combat, and be recommended by your boss to be promoted; Second, it can be obtained through self-study and self-study, and through the non-commissioned officer examination of the corresponding level of the guò military academy. Each rank of non-commissioned officer, at most five years, if you are not promoted to the next level after five years, you must be forced to retire with your rank, of course, the treatment of retirement is much better than that of soldiers.

Lieutenant, also called lieutenant, is a mid-level officer who is divided into four grades: second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, and captain. It usually refers to the middle commander from the deputy company commander to the battalion commander, for example, the second lieutenant is usually the deputy company commander, and the senior lieutenant is usually the deputy battalion commander or battalion commander.

The promotion system of lieutenants and non-commissioned officers is not the same, not simply looking at contributions, but looking at the number of years and the second at contributions.

Specifically, the appearance of a lieutenant is based on the non-commissioned officer, who has been promoted for his military merits in the army, or because of his outstanding achievements in the military academy, he is recommended for promotion by the principal. Once you become a lieutenant, even if you have been messing around, neither making military achievements nor passing the lieutenant exams at all levels of the guò military academy, then you can mix for a maximum of fifteen years, and after fifteen years, you will be allowed to retire according to your rank at that time.

Next is the school officer, which is divided into four levels: second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, and captain, and usually refers to the middle and senior commanders between the battalion commander and the brigade commander. The promotion system of school officers is equivalent to that of a lieutenant, except that the number of years of service is slightly longer, and they can work for 20 years, and if they become a captain, they can even work for a lifetime.

A general is a general, normally speaking, it is temporarily divided into three levels: major general, lieutenant general, and general, and is a senior commander above the brigade commander, and all generals can work in the army for a lifetime unless they ask to retire. In addition, the creation of special generals and even marshal ranks is not excluded in the future.

It can be seen from this that the Qingpu Military Academy is actually a school that mainly trains non-commissioned officers and low-level commanders, and it will take time to accumulate if it wants to train lieutenants from the military academy.

That is to say, the captains, colonels and even generals of the Jingwu Army will probably only be able to obtain from their military exploits for a long time in the future, but fortunately, there will be opportunities to fight in the future. That's not a problem.

Although the process of the establishment of the military academy was simple, it was very sensational, especially the speech that Li Yongji made to the first batch of teachers and students about the rejuvenation of China. It will always be remembered by history and passed down from generation to generation.

Li Yongji said this at the time:

Dear teachers and students, we are standing here today to participate in the inauguration ceremony of Qingpu Military Academy, so why did I establish Qingpu Military Academy? Is it just to train officers for myself?

Answer: No!

Qingpu Military Academy is not only a military academy that belongs to my private people, but also a military academy that belongs to all Chinese nations. A hope that belongs to all Chinese people, a hope for the rise of China!

Our Chinese civilization has a history of 5,000 years, among which a splendid civilization has been created, and it has never been cut off. But now. At this moment, our Chinese land is wailing, and the people of the earth are wailing, wailing what? Wail our decline, wail our foolishness, wail our weakness!

Yes, decline, ignorance. Poverty and weakness, this is the current situation of our Chinese land!

Check it out. In today's land of China, there are national thieves and civil strife, and there are foreigners who are bullied outside, listening to the ruler as a minority, but trampling on the soles of our Han people, who account for the majority, sucking our blood like locusts, eating our flesh, and forcing us to comb their braids, the Han culture has long become the dust of history, and is even regarded as a flood beast by the rotten Confucianism of the Han family!

Meat eaters are despised, those in power are no longer reliable, and if we want to save China, we can only rely on ourselves. We must clench our fists and fight for a future and a tomorrow for ourselves!

Teachers, students, the motto of our Qingpu Military Academy is only eight words, which is called "Courage to take responsibility, courage to contribute." "What do you mean? That is to say, we must have the courage to assume the responsibility of saving the country and the people, and we must dedicate our one to this responsibility!

I take these eight words as the school motto, that is, I want each of you to remember that the so-called Qingpu spirit is the spirit of sacrifice that has the courage to take responsibility and dedication!

You are not here to study and study, not for me alone, you are studying for the rise of the whole China, you are dedicated to the rise of the whole China, your sentiments are noble, and your ambitions are even greater.

The most precious thing of human beings is life, and everyone's life is only once, and everyone's life is extremely short. So how do we live our short lives without regretting them at the end of our lives?

In my opinion, a person's life should be spent like this:

When he looks back on the past, he will not regret wasting his time, nor will he be ashamed of doing nothing, when he is dying, he can say to others, my life and all my experience are dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world, and strive for the rise of China!.

Yes, strive for the rise of China, this is what I ask of each and every one of you. This is not for me alone, nor for a small group of people, but for the sake of thousands of Chinese, for the suffering Chinese nation!

Therefore, the times are calling, the motherland is shouting, use all your strength, go hard, our journey, not only the land under our feet, is an endless blue ocean, is an endless sea of stars!

……

After finishing the impromptu speech, he took the lead and began to sing the school song of Qingpu Military Academy - "March of the Volunteers"!

Arise, you who do not want to be slaves

Build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall!

The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time,

Everyone was forced to let out a final roar.

Get up! Get up! Get up!

We are all of one,

Braving enemy fire, advance!

Braving enemy fire, advance!

Advance! Forward, Forward!

……

Just when Li Yongji began to sing, the teachers and students who had already burst into tears below also began to sing along, at first sparsely, but the more they sang, the more powerful they became, the more they sang, the more neat they became, although most of the tunes were not good, but they were powerful and powerful, and the passionate mood with a sense of mission jumped out!

Because they were so excited, everyone sang the March of the Volunteers three times in a row to finish, but after that, except for Li Yongji, who was better, everyone else felt as if they were seriously ill and felt collapsed, but their spirits were extremely uplifted.

Obviously, Li Yongji's impromptu speech is a patchwork hodgepodge, and he himself said that he improvised, so it is very problematic in terms of organization.

As for the March of the Volunteers, it was completely plagiarized, but fortunately, no one said anything about it in this time and space, and Li Yongji himself shamelessly became an original, and he also won the title of the original creator.

But at that time, this speech, known as "Striving for the Rise of China", and the "March of the Volunteers", were very infectious and incendiary, making a group of teachers and students cry and unable to help themselves, inspiring and fooling generations of Chinese to selflessly sacrifice for the great righteousness of China's rise.

This speech was impassioned and enthusiastic, and was translated into dozens of countries, and has been hailed as one of the greatest speeches of the nineteenth century.

Li Yongji was also called the greatest orator of the 19th century because of this speech, and this speech was not only recorded in the history of the Qingpu Military Academy, but also compiled into textbooks, which was a compulsory language course for later generations of Chinese in primary school.

In the 21st century, this speech has also been taken out as a model for all orators to learn, and they have begun to continue to learn the routines and methods in it, and even many young people of Chinese and non-Chinese descent in later generations have taken this as an inspirational story to inspire themselves to fight and sacrifice for their ideals.

In this way, Li Yongji's impromptu speech and impromptu behavior have already been over-interpreted in various ways, both at the time and later, and a large number of theories have been derived from it, and even regarded this as the source of the birth of nationalism and national liberationism, which he did not expect.

In any case, Li Yongji's role in establishing the Qingpu Military Academy is still quite large, not to mention the influence of later generations, let's just say that at that time, after his speech was spread in the internal waves, it was equivalent to pointing out the way forward for the group of Jingwu Army for the first time, and made clear ideological guidance for this group. It not only greatly strengthened the cohesion within the Jingwu Army, but also pushed his personal prestige to another peak and set off another wave of fanatical personality cult trends.

It was from this time that Li Yongji really did what he said within the Jingwu Army, and no one could shake his authority anymore. (To be continued......)