The old man glared at him, chewed the food in his mouth, and when he swallowed it, he said, "What are these words, if you just want to covet the benefits of the academy, you should not think about this as soon as possible, I will sue you!" “

"Don't, uncle!" Wang Ergou smiled, full of big white teeth, "I'm just poor-mouthed, just talk about it, then can you really think so." If I really think so, don't talk about you, my father will cut me! ”

"Is your dad still alive?"

It seems that although the old man is old, he has no lake tu.

Wang Ergou couldn't be deceived, so he had to tell the truth, "I won't tell you, I have helped people move goods at the dock in the past few years, and later I got a small mountain wheel to pull goods, and I made a lot of money." But what's the use of having more money? Any graduate of the Daming Imperial Academy, who is respected everywhere he goes, I just thought, what is money, or is knowledge valuable! ”

To put it bluntly, when you don't have money, you want to earn money, and when you have money, you want status and respect.

The old man at the gatekeeper glanced at him, "What, do you want to go to Daming University of Defense Technology?" Who told you that the scholar who came today knows you? ”

"You mean Xu Qi, right? He's a famous talent in our place, he definitely won't be able to go to Daming University of Defense Technology, right? I heard that this is a military school, and he is a scholar, and he has no power to tie the chicken......"

"I heard, who did you listen to? Listen to me, right? After the old man took a bite of food, chewed it and swallowed it, "You have no power to restrain the chicken, do you think that in the future, you will have to take a knife and gun to cut it?" Tell you, in the future, what the army will lack is high-tech talents, who can drive armored vehicles and repair firearms, and I heard that in the future, they will have to fly planes and bombers, and artillery shells will fall from above, and they will need people to charge into battle? ”

The old man at the gatekeeper gave him a blank look, "In the army in the future, scholars will be much more useful than reckless men like you, and in the future, they will not mainly rely on people to fight." “

Wang Ergou was dumbfounded, and suddenly felt that he couldn't read a single word, and he would become a waste person in this society in the future.

More and more, he wanted to learn something, at the very least, a few words.

"Uncle, you can do well, show the younger generation a clear way, I want to read some books, you say, I am like this, where can I go to college?"

The janitor asked him, "Have you ever read?" ”

Wang Ergou shook his head, he could still pat his chest and say "I don't know how to read words!" At this time, he was so ashamed that he wanted to get into the crack in the ground, and his face turned red, "When I was a child, my family was too poor, and it was difficult to eat, how could I have money to go to school?" Besides, we don't have a better place than this south, and we can't find good teachers. “

This is not a word of truth, let alone half-truths, not a word of truth. When he was a child, he went to school with Xu Qi, Xu Qi read books well, he couldn't memorize an article, and Xu Qi stayed up all night to memorize it.

Although he is poor, his family is still richer than the Xu family, saying that there is no good teacher, why did Xu Qi get promoted?

So these words are all Wang Ergou picking up face for himself.

But the old man who watched the door believed that Wang Ergou was also from a place like Ningxia, and the world could be compared with Ying Tianfu, which was also a Beijing city, and Ningxia should be unimaginably poor and backward.

The old man at the gate saw that Wang Ergou was a spiritual person, and he was still delayed by his family and region, so he inevitably felt sorry for the baby, so he pointed him out a clear way, "What about you, when you inspect the army this year, you will go to be a soldier......

"This year's military inspection? How to inspect the troops? Wang Ergou was shocked, "Could it be that everyone can be a soldier?" ”

"Yes, there will be conscription in May, this batch of soldiers said that it is different from before, when they enter the army, in addition to training, they have to study every night, you go there to study hard, and when you study for a year or two, the army organizes people to take the military academy examination, and you sign up to take the exam."

The old janitor said in a low voice, "As far as I can guess, it must be much easier to get into a military school in the army than to recruit people from outside." ”

How much knowledge can you expect them to have? And when they come out in the future, most of them will have to stay in the army, and they will have to learn, and they will be able to learn for the rest of their lives.

Can it still be like this?

Wang Ergou was a little suspicious, he looked at the old man who was eating the food in the lunch box steadily, and asked, "Uncle, how many years have you been here?" ”

At this moment, a car drove out, the old man hurriedly stood up, stood next to the glass window, watched the car leave, and when the car came to the door, the window on the side of the cab was lowered, revealing a young face, and greeted the old man.

The old man raised his hand excitedly, waved at the other party, and waited for the car to go far away, turning the corner and disappearing, before he sat down.

"Uncle, who is this person?" Wang Ergou had a guess in his heart.

"Yes, Your Highness! is the president of our Southern University of Technology. The janitor ate the last two bites of food, "If you believe me, you will do it, and you will become a soldier in the future, usually for three years, and after three years, if you want to go home, you can go home, you are young, and you will not delay your business." ”

"Isn't it a soldier or a lifetime? All generations will be soldiers. ”

"You want to be beautiful, and future generations will be soldiers, and when you become a soldier in the future, you won't be able to grab a place!"

Wang Ergou decided to believe the old man, he watched the old man eat the last piece of pork belly in his mouth, and couldn't help but say, "Your food is really good!" ”

"The food in the cafeteria is two meat and one vegetable every day, and that's it, the principal also said that the food is not good, why can't it, do you have to let these young men eat him poor?"

The tone was full of pride.

Wang Ergou said goodbye to the old man and returned to the inn, where he went to find Xu Qi.

Xu Qi was sitting in the room at a loss, not knowing what to do, go to Southern University of Science and Technology, may not be able to pass the exam, don't go to the exam, he can still participate in the spring festival in February when he returns to Shuntianfu now, and he will definitely be able to be admitted, but he is very unwilling.

Wang Ergou asked the shopkeeper to bring a pot of tea in, and sat in front of the window with Xu Qi looking out at the bustling crowd, Xu Qi asked him what he had heard, "Do you have any plans?" ”

"I only regret now that I didn't study as well as you did." Wang Ergou said, "The future Daming will be different from before, if you don't study, I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive in this world." All children over the age of six have to read, and the imperial court provides children with free reading, what can we do in the future? ”

"What did the old man say?"

Wang Ergou said, "Only to be a soldier!" ”

He said the words of the janitor and asked Xu Qi, "You have a better brain than me, you say, can you believe these words?" ”

"It should be trustworthy." Xu Qi said, "The old man has been watching for His Highness for so long, I see that he is a kind old man, and he should not lie to us in such a matter related to the future." Besides, the recruitment is in May, and it is still early now, and there will always be rumors in the future. ”

The rumors soon came out.

At the beginning of March, Wang Ergou was working at the wharf, and he heard someone rumoring, "I heard that the imperial court is going to change the military system, and if you have been in the army for more than three years, anyone who wants to leave the army can get a settlement fee, no matter where you settle down, each person can get three acres of land." ”

Wang Ergou didn't want to do any more work, so he stepped forward to stand aside and listen, "Brother, can you talk a little more detailed?" ”

"Isn't there a notice in front of you? It is said that it is a holy decree issued by the imperial court, and you go over there to inquire. ”

Wang Ergou turned around and ran towards the city gate, and happened to meet a literate person reading the notice, and his words were very straightforward, so that people could understand it, and it was not far from the news he had just heard.

Wang Ergou heard a soldier guarding the city gate saying, "The above are all counted, how many people are willing to change jobs, in the future, the children of our soldiers can choose to be soldiers, or they can study and not be soldiers, hehe, what can you do if you are not a soldier?" ”

"You guys are good now, you don't need to go to the battlefield to be a soldier, if you go to the battlefield, it's someone else who dies, and it's not you, if you change me, I won't change jobs."

"Hehe, that's it, it's a fool to change jobs. When I recognize a few words, I will also go to the military school. ”

The entire Ming Dynasty, because of this policy, is all boiling.

Many young people are thinking about their own way out, and when the recruitment starts in October, many people sign up, but this time the recruitment is different from the past, the military doctors of the army check and select people with strong physical fitness to enlist.

At the court meeting, Zhu Di heard that there were millions of people who signed up, and he was also frightened and asked, "How can there be so many people?" Why does everyone like to enlist? ”

A good man should not be a soldier, that's an old saying.

Ru Yu didn't expect to bring such a big change, "Education is a boom now, but many people miss the time to go to school, I heard that the army has to go to class every night, and in the future, they can go to military schools, and the enthusiasm of young people is much higher." “

Xia Yuanji didn't want to see such a change, he stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the number of conscripts cannot be too much, the total number of people who have been discharged this year is 300,000, and the conscription only needs to recruit 300,000 people, otherwise it will affect fertility and farming." ”

No one has children at home, and no one farms the land, which of course has a great impact on society.

Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaoxian, "This year, the Military Academy and the Aerospace University each recruited only 100 people, how many people do you think will be recruited this year?" “

Zhu Gaoxian said, "In the next few years, there will be no war in the Ming Dynasty, and Erchen thinks that the number of recruits does not need to be too much, and the main thing is to improve the training method, pull up the quality of the team, and strengthen the combat effectiveness." “

In this way, the physical fitness of the army is very important.

Zhu Gaoxian couldn't help but think that on the table of the Ming people, there are more vegetarians than meat, and meat is still an ingredient that the common people can't afford to eat, mainly because of the backwardness of the breeding industry.

He remembered that the breeding was supported by corn, but now the corn should still be in South America, if he really wanted to let anyone go to sea, Ma Sanbao was the best choice, and he still owed Ma Sanbao a promise to make a pilgrimage to the wheat field.

Zhu Di was deeply impressed by his son's words, and said, "This time the training of the army will be handed over to you?" ”