Due to the need to host martial arts competitions and craftsman skill competitions, coupled with the wars during this period and the transfer of people in various states and counties.

Zhang Mao was busy with his worries.

Zhu Gui could also see it, so he sent someone to find the Wang butler of the Acting Palace, and asked him to help together.

This Wang steward was brought by Zhu Gui from Nanjing, and was personally selected by Concubine Guo Hui as an old servant of the Guo family, who had nothing to say about loyalty or ability.

Zhang Mao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lord Wang, the national martial arts competition and the whole army will be held in three days, a craftsman skills competition will be held in a week, and the first trade fair with the Mongols will be held in half a month, and there will be ......"

Zhang Mao began to endorse Zhang Mao, and only after a stick of incense did he finish reading the arrangements for this time.

"The sum of these miscellaneous items will probably require an expenditure of one million taels, and the state government can only come up with one hundred thousand taels."

Zhang Mao said with some embarrassment.

"No need, this money will be paid by the acting royal government, and another 100,000 taels will be allocated to the state government to subsidize local officials, so that they can work harder during this time."

Zhu Gui said.

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

Zhang Mao hurriedly thanked him.

100,000 taels, there are less than 100 officials in Datong Mansion, plus this money has to be divided according to official ranks, and the amount that can reach him is also very considerable.

At the same time, he really felt the acting king's generous shot.

……

Three days later, the Datong Mansion Guard Station.

The two large martial arts arenas were already surrounded by people, one-third of whom were garrisons of the guards, and the rest were spectators from Datong Prefecture and County.

On the left side of the martial arts arena is an all-army martial arts competition, and on the right side is an all-people martial arts competition.

More than 300 people attended the all-army military exercise and more than 1,000 people participated in the all-army military exercise.

The game on both sides is in full swing.

Zhu Gui and Xu Miaoqing also came to the scene, which also ignited the atmosphere present.

Xu Yingxu and Zhang Mao each held a booklet, which recorded the more outstanding figures in the conference on both sides.

Zhu Gui looked at it and nodded.

"Yes, yes, I didn't expect that the garrison of the guard station is also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it seems that the previous promotion system did have a lot of drawbacks."

Zhu Gui said to Xu Yingxu.

"What the prince said is true, but the martial arts competition can only test the physical fitness and fighter skills of the soldiers, and the generals also need strategy."

Xu Yingxu said.

"General Xu is right, so let's do it, how about running a military school?"

Zhu Gui's eyes lit up, and another thought popped up.

"What is a military school?" Xu Miaoqing hurriedly asked.

"The military academy is the counterpart to the academy, but what is taught in it is the ingenuity of marching and fighting, and it is specially used to train personnel related to combat command, how about it?"

Zhu Gui looked at Xu Yingxu.

In the past, most of the generals were from families, either inherited from the family, or they were gifted or savvy.

As a result, most of the people in the army who can be called generals are just reckless men.

And now Zhu Gui plans to break this shackle and mass-produce battlefield commanders.

It's just that Xu Yingxu has a difficult face.

"Although the prince's idea is good, it is not an overnight task to train combat commanders who can take charge of themselves, and these people also need to have talent in this area."

Zhu Gui nodded and said: "Yes, but it's better to learn more military theories than to explore them yourself, so let's fund the Wangfu and build a military academy in Datong Mansion for a period of trial operation." ”

"Zhang Junshou, I will teach you the things about collecting military classics, and you can explain the expenses to Steward Wang."

Zhu Gui said to Zhang Mao.

"Xia Guan knows."

Zhu Gui looked at Xu Yingxu again.

"General Xu, you should have some familiar generals in Nanjing, right? If they are idle at home, they can be hired to Datong Mansion, and everything else is easy to say, as for this first batch of students, they will be selected from this martial arts competition. ”

Zhu Gui looked at the anxious battle on the martial arts arena on both sides and said.

Xu Yingxu nodded again and again.

He glanced at Xu Miaoqing next to him helplessly, but he didn't expect the latter to make a grimace at him, and whispered: "I think Zhu Gui's idea is feasible." ”

……

The tournament lasted for two days, and a total of 32 soldiers in the army were rewarded with official positions.

The top 100 winners in the national martial arts competition were all included in the palace of the acting king and accepted as guest secretaries.

And this time, many people joined the garrison of the guard post and made up for the losses in the previous battle with the Mongols.

Many others became reservists.

Since Zhu Gui personally entrusted Zhang Mao with the military academy this time, he was extremely serious.

He actually used his connections to buy a very good mansion in Datong Mansion, and then reported the matter to Zhu Gui.

So those twenty schools and this military school opened on the same day.

For a time, it was rumored to be a strange talk of Datong Mansion.

The Acting Royal Government once again issued a notice that all children over the age of six and under the age of 12 must be compulsorily enrolled in school.

In order to encourage farmers to send their children to school, all families with school-age children can be exempted from the imperial court labor for that year, and all the expenses for all children to enter the school will be borne by the royal government, and a subsidy will also be provided.

This policy is mainly to take care of families who treat their children as family labor.

As soon as this policy came out, within a few days, all schools were already overcrowded, and the total number of people who signed up for enrollment exceeded 10,000.

When Zhu Gui said this data, it was also unbelievable.

After urgently adding ten more schools, he began to let Zhang Mao investigate the matter.

In the end, he came up with an answer that made him laugh and cry.

It turned out that because the policy of the Acting Prince's Mansion was so good, many people under the age of six or over the age of twelve also concealed their real age to enroll.

There have even been quite a few farces in which adults are clearly disguised as children.

In the end, after Zhang Mao consulted Zhu Gui, he severely punished the situation, and finally curbed this bad trend.

In the end, the total number of students enrolled in Zhu Gui's hands that year still reached more than 8,000.

This also shows that the education situation in this era is indeed very worrying.

Of course, this is mainly because the population of Shanxi was still very large during this period.

In contrast, the situation at the military school is much more orderly.

Because these people all stood out through the martial arts competition, but the instructor Xu Yingxu found from Nanjing had not yet arrived, so he could only personally bring more than a dozen captains of the guard station and thousands of households to personally go into battle to teach these new students.