Li Dingguo and a few other boy trainees walked in the bazaar, stopping from time to time to buy some things. Although it has only been about ten days since he joined the martial arts boys' camp, at the end of the month, each person was still given a silver allowance of two yuan, which is already a huge wealth for a poor boy like Li Dingguo.

The young man was greedy, and several other people bought some burned candied fruit and the like, but Li Dingguo held back his saliva, he wanted to entrust someone to bring the silver to his family.

Li Dingguo has a family of six, in addition to his parents, he has two younger brothers and a sister. Four young children, who depend on the tenant farming for the squire's family, can imagine the poverty of their family.

Just a month ago, the family was completely out of food, and in order to survive, Li Dingguo's parents almost sold his second brother and third sister, and then led Li Dingguo to become a homeless person.

At this time, the emperor entered northern Shaanxi with the Praetorian Guard, and a large amount of relief grain followed.

Li Dingguo's family survived, and they no longer had to sell their sons and daughters. Moreover, the Praetorian Guards entered Yan'an Mansion and began to fight the inferior gentry to divide the land, Li Dingguo's family got a total of 15 acres of water to irrigate the field, and there was no need to hand over most of the harvest to the squires in the future, and the emperor was exempted from taxes for three years, so that it would not be a problem for the land to feed the family.

Therefore, when he learned that the emperor had established a martial arts school in Yan'an and wanted to recruit boy students, Li Dingguo immediately signed up. That is, in order to have a good future for himself, but also to repay the emperor's kindness.

A group of boys walked around the market, and after satisfying their curiosity, they lined up and returned to the martial arts school in the city, which was the original Yan'an Mansion School.

As soon as he entered the martial arts, Li Dingguo noticed that the guards were much stricter than usual, and he could see guards in brocade clothes standing vigilantly with swords and guns in a short distance.

"Wenxiu, what's going on?" Li Dingguo saw a familiar boy walking by, and hurriedly grabbed him and asked in a low voice.

Liu Wenxiu said in a low voice: "Your Majesty is here, and he is inspecting the school." ”

"Ahh Li Dingguo let out a low sigh, and his expression suddenly became excited.

He hurriedly beckoned a few boys to put his things into the dormitory, and then walked quickly into the classroom, and began to wait for the emperor to arrive.

"At present, there are two hundred and fourteen cadets, of whom eighty-seven are under the age of thirteen, and the rest are adult cadets between the ages of fifteen and twenty.

The children are illiterate and need to be enlightened from scratch, while the adult students are strictly assessed, and all of them are coarse and know some arithmetic. ”

Zhu Youzhen walked in the martial arts, and listened to the martial arts teachings Xue Ju.

Xue Ju, the original Qingjian County Teacher, is the only survivor of all the officials in Qingjian County.

For such an official, Zhu Youzhen was still willing to use it, so he transferred him to the Yan'an Martial Arts School, responsible for the enrollment of martial arts and the life of the students.

Martial arts Xuezheng, Zhu Youzhen personally served, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng temporarily for the left and right sacrificial wine, responsible for teaching management, under which there will be dozens of professors, respectively responsible for arithmetic taxation, criminal law, arrest and other subjects, the professor candidates from the original surviving scribes and brocade guards selected. Since it is a martial arts, it is natural to also teach military battle formations, martial arts and archery and other knowledge, which is taught by the warriors in the Praetorian Guard.

All in all, the shelf of martial arts is set up, and it bears the heavy responsibility of providing township officials for Yan'an and grassroots officers for the army. Moreover, after Zhu Youzhen prepared to return to Beijing, he imitated Yan'an martial arts and set up another martial arts academy in Beijing to train grassroots officers and low-level officials.

"Your Majesty, those adult students have been rigorously tested when they enter the martial arts, and they all know some arithmetic skills, as long as they are trained a little, they can be used in two or three years. But those child students, many of them are illiterate, although the recruits are more clever, but at least they have to be enlightened for a few years, and the training time is too long, is it necessary? Xue Ju couldn't help but persuade.

Just the allowance of the students, now it is more than a hundred taels of silver a month, plus the allowance of food and clothing and the professors, Wuxue has to get a lot of silver every month, as the teacher in charge of the life of the students, Xue Ju is under a lot of pressure. Adult students can graduate in two or three years, and child students have to study for at least seven or eight years, and the training cycle is too long, which makes Xue Zheng very incomprehensible.

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly: "Of course it is necessary, those children mean the future of Yan'an Mansion." ”

Unlike adults with complex minds, these children are very simple, and their loyalty will be very high when they are cultivated from an early age. Of course, there is no need to explain this.

"When I return to Beijing, I will take these boy students away, and in the future, martial arts will only recruit adult students." Zhu Youzhen thought about it and said.

"Meet Your Majesty!" A group of children lined up in a neat queue and saluted Zhu Youzhen, with excitement on their faces.

"It's all excused." Zhu Youzhen smiled, his eyes swept over the faces of the boys, and the smiles were very bright.

Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Li Laiheng, among them have several familiar names, which he has seen in those pictures in later generations.

In the previous life, these children all joined the thieves and became the backbone of the thieves and thieves, and after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, they re-supported the Southern Ming court and became loyal to the Jiannu resistance. Especially that Li Dingguo, he actually pouted the king twice, and killed the Jiannu court to discuss retreating outside the border. Now, these people are in my bag, I want to cultivate them well, and when he comes, he will definitely be able to raise the power of my great Ming!

Inspected the children's classroom dormitory, and made a speech, encouraging the children to study hard and serve the Ming Dynasty well in the future, in the respectful eyes of the children's students, Zhu Youzhen left the martial arts and returned to the emperor's palace, which was the original Yan'an Mansion.

"Your Majesty, Lu Bingxian has been leading troops to Yan'an for a few days, and Li Hongji is also in Lu Bingxian's camp, Your Majesty, when do you think someone will bring that Li Hongji?" After talking about martial arts, Hong Chengchou suddenly said.

Zhu Youzhen was stunned: "I almost forgot about that guy......"

"Your Majesty, the minister asked him, that Li Hongji was just a post boy before, because his wife stole someone and killed his wife, he fled to Baishui, and led the homeless people to rebel with Wang Er, it seems that there is nothing special." Hong Chengchou couldn't help but say. is such a countryman in northern Shaanxi, Zhu Youzhen actually mentioned it last time, which made Hong Chengchou very curious.

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a moment, and said: "I had a dream before, there was a man from northern Shaanxi named Li Hongji, who led countless displaced people to rebel, broke through the city of Beijing, destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and forced me to hang himself. ”

Hong Chengchou suddenly realized, it turned out that it was just the emperor who had a dream, so he specially sent someone to find this person named Li Hongji.

"Your Majesty, dreams are all reversed," Hong Chengchou comforted, "If Your Majesty is worried about this, the minister will let people kill Li Hongji." ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "I have changed my mind." I want to keep this Li Hongji alive to remind me not to make mistakes in the future, otherwise there is a risk of losing the country! ”

"Then what should Li Hongji do with this?" Hong Chengchou said.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while: "Let him enter the martial arts first to learn some rules, and then transfer him to the Praetorian Guard." ”

Didn't you die in the last life? In this life, I want you to be a bastard and a cow and a horse for me, fight for me on the battlefield, and atone for the sins of your previous life!