Chapter 109: Cultivation
The first wind and rain drifted away
After the ceremony, Emperor Chongzhen left all 300 Wujin warriors in Beijing and began their half-year purgatory training.
This is the fastest way to learn military skills.
In the past, the Ming dynasties, including Chongzhen's four-year Wujin Shi and the first, were directly awarded the position of military general, and then led the troops to fight.
Emperor Chongzhen thought this was very inappropriate.
Although most of the people in the new science and technology martial arts are okay, the eighteen kinds of weapons seem to have the same shape, and even a few military books have been read.
But so what?
It's not just on paper.
To be honest, some of the Jiangmen families in the frontier are a little better, they have never eaten pork and have seen pigs run, but what about the children of the poor family?
Not to mention bringing thousands of soldiers and horses, it is good to be able to bring a general flag of fifty people.
The martial artists of this era, unlike the military academies of later generations, could learn military skills theoretically and systematically, and they all relied on their own exploration and examinations, barely half of the theoretical school.
If you really want to lead the troops in the army, you will probably make jokes.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen handed them all over to the flat-headed brother Cao Wenzhao and let them learn from scratch.
Objectively speaking, Brother Pingtou doesn't read much, and he is not as good as these martial artists when it comes to theory.
Although he can fight well, he is basically trained by the wild road and belongs to the pragmatic school.
However, the profession of fighting a war is a bit peculiar.
It's like fighting, being slapped with a few bricks, and next time you know whether to take a kitchen knife or a brick, where to start harder?
Always be a spectator, it is difficult to make technological progress.
Therefore, on the battlefield, the pragmatic faction who rolls up their sleeves and works hard is often more mixed than the theoretical faction who reads military books.
Emperor Chongzhen hoped that theory could be combined with practice to produce great energy.
It is hoped that among these martial artists, there will be successful examples such as Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng.
Even, you don't need to be as good as them, you can have half of them, and Emperor Chongzhen will be satisfied.
At that time, some of them stayed in Beijing to lead the troops to fight, and some of them were transferred out to form a martial arts hall and establish a regular military academy in the Ming Dynasty.
This is the foundation of the long-term martial arts of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, Emperor Chongzhen's ambition was too great, and he needed a steady stream of regular soldiers to fight bloodily for the Ming Dynasty to expand his territory.
Therefore, these days of pride found that they were still in the Beijing camp, like other ordinary soldiers, they became the lowest level of the big soldiers, and began to train hard in the whole formation.
It should be said that Emperor Chongzhen's approach has a great sense of disparity with these Wujinshi, which is completely inconsistent with their previous assumptions.
What about paying equal attention to civil and military affairs? What about the high-ranking officials who said they were good?
There is also such a stylish knife giving ceremony, what is it now?
Cao Dudu is like a fierce god every day, and he can't move with a whip at every turn, who can stand this?
However, no way?
They have to bear it.
The military regulations of the Ming Dynasty are strict, if you are a deserter, you can be beheaded on the spot if you are caught.
These basic military rules are naturally understood by those who are martial artists.
Fortunately, these noble sons of heaven found that although Jingying had various punishments and military regulations, there were also various benefits that they did not dare to think of.
Let's start with the most basic three meals a day.
Maybe this is normal in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, especially at this stage, it is rare.
Ordinary people's homes, if they can cook two meals a day, they should be regarded as a well-off home.
At different stages, the standards of well-off homes are different.
Nowadays in Beijing, this is the most basic configuration.
Moreover, three meals a day, meat and fish, three meat and two vegetables, steamed bread, gruel and pickles can be eaten at will, which is called eating a rich ah!
Suddenly, these hard-trained Wujin soldiers and Jingying soldiers lived a life that they could only live in their dreams.
It should be said that among these martial artists, there are still many poor families.
So, although the training is hard, tiring and tedious, it is bearable.
After all, if you can't endure hardship, you can't become a martial artist.
Later, they finally discovered the big problem and realized something.
Food and clothing, food and clothing, solve the problem of eating, naturally it is the problem of clothing.
As soon as I entered the Beijing camp, I was issued a set when I came, all of which were placket armor and long-waisted military boots.
When the weather turned cold, the emperor customized two sets of red mandarin duck battle jackets for each of them, knee-length, narrow sleeves, and filled with cotton, which had the functions of defense and warmth.
That's a great treatment, isn't it?
The situation has reached the present, and even the Beijing camp has been issued a set of military uniforms every year.
Officers and generals naturally don't care, they can be customized at the garment shop.
It is the low-level soldiers who suffer, and no one pays attention to them at all.
Besides, if you have a little spare money to make clothes, no one will make them into military uniforms, and officers are needed by officialdom, which is naturally different.
It's just that the military uniform of the Beijing camp is two colors, one gray and one red.
Soldiers with excellent performance and hard training wear red mandarin duck battle jackets, and those who perform poorly wear cyan for differential treatment.
Everyone understands that the army is originally a place with distinct hierarchies, and they know it in their hearts.
If it is just these, it is not enough for them to realize something, it can only be said that the emperor now attaches importance to martial artists.
But the emperor sent the lecturers of the Zhan Mansion at night to give lectures to these three hundred martial artists, which was unbelievable.
Lecturer of Zhan Shifu, what is that?
That's the teacher who taught the prince!
Now that the emperor has sent them to teach them the knowledge of military books, they know what level of treatment this is.
It is no exaggeration to say that the emperor is cultivating them!
At the same time, it is also testing them and beating them.
They are all outstanding talents in the Ming Empire, and they are all a little forced in their hearts, and these truths are naturally understood.
Looking at the other soldiers of the Beijing camp, including more than 7,000 unsuccessful warriors, although the emperor also sent teachers to teach, but only some of the soldiers of the Guozijian were filled, and the force could not be compared at all.
In this case, the principle of voluntariness is also allowed.
This man can't be compared with others!
The treatment of Wu Jinshi, the soldiers of the Beijing camp are all envious.
But who blames himself for not having the ability to pass the martial arts exam?
However, they were quite content.
Jingying doesn't talk about eating and living, but also cares about bedding and clothing, everything is given for nothing.
Of course, the most important thing is silver.
Cao Dudu said that one tael of silver in the first month, two taels of silver in the second month, and insisted until the end of half a year of training, if he could stay in Beijing, he would be paid six taels of silver.
If you fail to be selected for the Beijing camp, you can be an auxiliary, or a baggage soldier, and you can also have three taels of silver.
Where can such a good thing be found?
Naturally, the soldiers of the entire Beijing camp are all riveting, just to stay in the Beijing camp.
The dynamics of the Beijing camp or the training situation, Emperor Chongzhen is clear.
Looking at the secret report sent by the factory guard, his heart swelled with infinite joy.
Great cause can be expected, and people's hearts can be used!
Today's Beijing camp, including those new martial arts scholars, may not understand such training, and even have various dissatisfaction and complaints.
But a year later, maybe just a few months, when they face the Jiankou or the Liukou, they will be glad that the time spent in the camp is full of blood and passion.
As for Brother Pingtou beating and scolding the soldiers, Emperor Chongzhen said that he didn't see it, what a big deal?
I really thought it was a peaceful period!
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