"Knock Knock Knock ......"

At six o'clock, when the fog had cleared, a dull sound of drums sounded in the Great Sect Field, and the utensils used to test the skills of the school's military attachés were also brought up.

Wooden frames, arrow targets, bow frames, longbows, long knives and spears...... These things were brought up one by one, and the last to appear were more than 100 Hequ horses brought from the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

"Your Majesty, the subjects of this examination school are archery and horse riding and big guns, first stepping bows, then riding horses, then riding and shooting, and finally practicing big spear shooting."

On the school platform, Xu Huizu, who was the Duke of Wei and the Governor of the Chinese Army, told Zhu Yuanzhang and told the truth about the subjects in this assessment.

Zhu Yuanzhang bowed his head slightly, and didn't say anything, and Xu Huizu also turned around when he saw this, and asked Zhu Wei to command the envoy to pass the order.

The commander of the guards comprehended the situation, and then asked his subordinates to go to the ten hundred-person phalanx to give orders.

A quarter of an hour later, as the drums stopped, the trumpets sounded, and the first ten men of the first row of each hundred-man team walked out, and a total of one hundred people walked to a distance of fifty paces from the first row of targets.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Gaoxu was not nervous, but relaxed and at ease.

As early as before the start of the examination, he had already done his homework and was familiar with each assessment content and standard.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had very strict requirements for the examination of military officers and soldiers, which was different from the 5,600 people in the outer guard station.

In Kyoto, there are 5,000 people in each health center, and 1,000 of them are selected by lottery on a regular basis.

Zhu Yuanzhang demanded that cavalry must be good at horseback riding, archery, guns, and knives.

Infantry must be good at using spears, bows, crossbows, and firearms.

If they pass the examination, the soldiers who participate in the examination and their superior military attachés will be rewarded.

The main rewards are treasure money, five ingots for one qualified banknote, and six ingots for a number of consecutive qualifications.

If a large number of soldiers are not qualified, their superior military attachés are punished, mainly by suspension of pay or demotion or dismissal, rather than punishment.

Even if some soldiers fail to pass the examination, Zhu Yuanzhang will give 600 yuan to the soldiers who fail.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's tolerance is not all-inclusive, his discipline requirements for soldiers are extremely high, once things such as singing songs and kicking football happen in the army, there will be cruel military law to punish the offending soldiers.

Zhu Yuanzhang has such high requirements for soldiers, not to mention the requirements for military attachés, but as the son of a military attache who will inherit the official position of his father in the future, his heart is full of anxiety.

For example, at the moment, when the hundreds of military attachés walked in front of the lime line, most of them were sweating nervously, and only a few of them were calm and composed.

In front of them, six hundred targets were staggered, fifty, eighty, one hundred, one hundred and twenty, and one hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty.

Such a scene undoubtedly put great pressure on the children of military attachés, and this pressure comes from the standards set by Zhu Yuanzhang for the Ming army.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's standard, each Ming army held twelve arrows, of which six arrows had to meet the corresponding standards.

Among them, the standards of military attachés and soldiers are different.

According to the standard of military attachés, the bearer of the bow must shoot at a maximum distance of 160 paces, and must shoot at a distance of 50 paces, but not necessarily the bull's-eye.

The standard for a soldier is that the bearer of the bow must shoot a maximum of 120 paces away and hit the bull's-eye at a distance of 50 paces.

In order to achieve such a standard, there are first requirements for the bow and arrow of the bearer.

The Ming army divided the pull of archers into four levels, from top to bottom, they were tiger force, upper force, middle force, and lower force.

Among them, the tiger force will pull a strong bow of more than 120 catties, about 158 pounds or more in later generations.

Because it was too difficult, even the Ming Dynasty, which had millions of troops, could not gather a hundred people.

In addition to the tiger power bow, the second upper force needs to use a strong bow of 120 catties, the middle force is between 74 and 96 catties, and the lower force is 40 catties to 75 catties.

Those who take these bows to participate in the examination must not only be able to pull out, but six out of twelve arrows must be fully targeted.

It may not be intuitive to describe it this way, but based on Zhu Gaoxu's archery experience in the archery hall in his previous life, the bow in the archery hall for novices in the later generations is generally 16-24 pounds, and there are very few that exceed 30 pounds.

The exchange ratio of the Ming Dynasty longbow pound to the modern pound is 1; 1.3, so calculated, the minimum standard for the Ming soldiers to open the bow is about 52 pounds in later generations, and the highest is more than 158 pounds without a cap.

In this conversion, we can also see how exaggerated the bow and arrow pull used by soldiers and military attaches in the early Ming Dynasty.

For the generals who have been trained all year round, unless they are talented, most of them will stay at the level of medium force, and the lower force is the common bow force of soldiers, grassroots military attachés and elite soldiers.

In the Xiali Bow, Zhu Yuanzhang's standard for the children of military attachés to take the school examination was set at 60 catties, that is, 78 pounds in later generations.

In the face of such standards, if a person neglects to practice, it will be difficult to pass the examination.

For example, right now, when the 100 children of military attachés in the Great Sect Arena stepped forward to take their bows and arrows, there were immediately many children of military attachés who could not fully draw the 60 catties of lower force bows.

There are those who lose face, and they can't even pull out five points of a sixty-pound bow, let alone shoot twelve arrows.

This scene made Zhu Yuanzhang's face black on the school stage, and the military attachés and Wenchen were also very embarrassed.

During the Hongwu period, it was not Chengping, but it has been using troops against the southwest and north, and the number of military attaches who are good at fighting is not small.

But the problem is that from the current point of view, the performance of this first batch of military attaché children seems to be difficult to hold up the Ming Dynasty more than ten years later.

"I can't open the bow with the lower force......"

"Most of the kids nowadays only know how to have fun, so it's not surprising that they can't drive."

"Since it can't be done, then they should revise the text, instead of coming to this great church to disgrace their father's face."

"I can't open the bow with my strength, how will I clean up the invasion of the northern captives and the southwestern barbarians in the future......

"Alas......"

"......" Listening to the words of the military attache and Wenchen in his ear, although Zhu Yuanzhang's expression did not change significantly, Zhu Yunwen and Xu Huizu next to him could clearly feel his dissatisfaction.

"Four out of twenty!"

While Zhu Yunwen and Xu Huizu were still thinking about how to explain, the military attachés below reported the results of the first batch of disciples.

Among the 100 people, only 24 were qualified, and this surprisingly low number once again made the surrounding military attachés and ministers sigh.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak, but motioned to Xu Huizu to continue.

Seeing this, Xu Huizu could only bite the bullet and let the military attaché's children step forward in rows.

"Eight out of ten passes!"

"Nine out of twenty!"

"Seven out of thirty"

"One in forty!"

"Twenty ......"

Rows of military attache children went up, rows of people were brushed down, and nine rows of children went up, but two hundred and seventy-four people were selected, most of whom could only open the force bow, the medium force bow was less than one-tenth, and the upper force bow was only a few people.

With such results, if it weren't for the fact that the school had just opened, I am afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would have walked away.

"Let's see, if it doesn't work, I'll take the school test first, and then I'll go ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the last row of military attachés, and sighed in his heart.

"Son, step forward!"

At the same time, as the leader of the last row, Zhu Gaoxu also walked in front of the lime line.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was fifteen years old, and he was the youngest among the children of military attachés.

He has a good appearance and figure, thanks to the excellent genes of his father Zhu Di and his mother Xu, he has a height of five feet five inches (176cm) at the age of fifteen.

The only thing that made him melancholy was that because of the profligate behavior of his predecessor, there were a few scratches on his face, so he was not loved by his grandfather.

In comparison, his eldest brother, who is white and mellow, and has polite words and deeds, is one of the grandchildren who are most liked by his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Your Highness, do you use a matching bow or a ......?"

Walking to the lime line, the examiner in charge of the invigilation stepped forward to ask Zhu Gaoxu.

He was born in the Xu Mansion, so he knew that his Royal Highness had great strength since he was a child, so he asked here, but he didn't have much hope.

The standard infantry bow in the army is all under force, which is very enough for the middle-aged soldiers who often train, not to mention that his Royal Highness is only fifteen years old, and he is ......

"Give me a strong bow of one hundred and thirty pounds!"