Volume 1: Birth! Seven time travelers Chapter 106: Set Sail Now (I)
"Ding~ Stab to the right!"
"Wow~~"
"Stop! Wang Shunwen, step out!"
With two "pa pa" sounds, a teenage boy walked out from the neat row with his head held high but a frustrated look on his face.
" Why ?"
"Instructor, it's all my fault. I have nothing to say!"
"Well, I won't say more. Anyway, if you are so timid during training, how can you win the battle on the battlefield? After training for so long, you still have to hide when you see the wooden sword on the opposite side. How long will you be punished with the military stick? Forget it! I will deduct 1 point from your credit today and punish you with the military stick as usual. Since you didn't bow your head when you stepped out, I will reduce the punishment as appropriate. Go to the military court to receive five military sticks."
"Yes, sir!"
At the foot of the mountain on the southeast side of Fangshan is the resettlement site for more than a thousand flood orphans that Zhu Youdong asked Cao Huachun to buy.
Among these orphans, there are about 900 boys and less than 200 girls. The oldest is 12 years old and the youngest is only 7 years old. In Zhu Youdong's plan, these children will become the officers of his personal guard in the future.
The tree of the Ming Dynasty had been rotten from the inside out, and Zhu Youdong had no intention of repairing it. However, it was not a good idea to cut off the rotten wood rashly before new saplings grew up. Therefore, he could only earn money and send it to the palace in the hope of keeping the rotten wood alive. On the other hand, he worked hard to cultivate his own new power.
Since this is his future reliance, Zhu Youdong has of course spent a lot of effort on it.
Zhu Youdong was not stingy in hardware facilities. Whether in Honghezhuang or Fangshan, the houses these children lived in, the clothes they wore, and the food they ate were all of extremely high standards. They were definitely far better than most small landlords in the Ming Dynasty at that time.
In terms of software, the schedule of these children is as follows: In the morning, the scholars and old students hired by Nanhua Palace will teach these children to read and write. In the afternoon, Liu Zhaosun, Li Shizhong and a group of guards will take turns to give them military training. In the evening, as long as Zhu Youdong has time, he will come to brainwash them personally, uh, no, it is patriotic and loyal education.
In fact, although His Royal Highness was very busy, what he really cared about most was the Fangshan Base. As long as he had time, Zhu Youdong would change his clothes and go out to train with these children. Moreover, what Liu Zhaosun, Li Shizhong and others admired the most was that if the Royal Highness made a mistake, he would still be beaten with a military stick - of course, as long as the soldiers in charge of the execution were not extremely stupid, they would know how to use the stick according to the person.
In terms of military training, queue training is of course the most basic. But boys also have to learn cold weapon combat and gun array thrusts - although due to the seven time travelers, this world will soon enter the era of hot weapons. But in any case, an army that dares not fight hand-to-hand is unreliable. Moreover, in the short term, due to technical bottlenecks, the research and development of automatic firearms will take a long time. In other words, in the foreseeable ten years, the firepower density of bullets will still not exceed the battlefield density of soldiers. Therefore, in the short term, hand-to-hand combat is still inevitable.
Liu Zhaosun, Li Shizhong and others greatly agreed with Zhu Youdong's arrangement. However, what the two young generals did not quite understand was that His Royal Highness the Grand Prince rejected their idea of slowly teaching these children knife, stick and sword techniques. Instead, he kept telling them that hand-to-hand combat and spear formations would suffice. Even when fighting alone, they only needed to be taught the simplest blocking and thrusting moves.
As for the girls, Zhu Youdong had no intention of training them to be like Qin Liangyu - that required talent. So, when the boys were doing military training in the afternoon, they either followed Wu Youxing and others to compile medical collections such as "Ming Yi Hui Zong" and "Xin Yi Hui Zong", or followed Xu Guangqi, Zhao Shizhen and others to be their experimental assistants.
Of course, people are divided into hardworking, lazy, smart, and stupid. Once more than a thousand orphans enter the heavy study, the gap between them slowly emerges. Zhu Youdong, together with Zhang Yicheng, the chief instructor of cultural courses for this group of children, and Liu Zhaosun, the chief instructor of military training, developed a credit system. Those who fail to reach the basic credits every year must repeat a year, and if they repeat a year, they still cannot catch up with the progress. The two production bases of Honghezhuang and Fangshan, as well as the future sea trade based on Chongmingsha, all need a large number of manpower. These children who have studied for a few years and have some military knowledge can find a livelihood in these places in the future.
Yes, in Zhu Youdong's plan, the training of orphans was not limited to this one class. At least, before he ascended the throne, Fangshan School would continue to operate. There might not be many other things in the Ming Dynasty at this time, but there were refugees everywhere. It was not too easy to buy children.
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"Mr. Xu, according to our plan, the first batch of students at Fangshan School will begin math classes Have you compiled the textbooks?"
"Your Highness, teaching materials are not a problem. But the teachers... According to the small class teaching you requested, even if we add mathematics courses and alternate with Chinese courses, these more than a thousand children will require at least thirty teachers. If Eunuch Cao buys more than a thousand children in the second half of this year... and the teachers who have been confirmed so far are only me, Zhongjian (Yang Tingyun), and Zhenzhi (Li Zhizao). In addition to our own duties, the three of us have many experiments to do in the laboratory on the top of Fangshan Mountain, which..."
According to Zhu Youdong's regulations, all students in Fangshan School were taught in small classes, with only about 20 students in a class, and each scholar was responsible for the writing homework of a class. During military training, a guard was also responsible for a class. This resulted in the scholars and guards in each class trying their best to teach these children well - there were monthly exams every month, and the monthly exam rankings were not only for individual students, but also for classes. Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not specify how the teachers and instructors of the class ranked last in the monthly exam would be punished. But everyone has to have some face, right? If your class is always at the bottom of the list, the two people in charge will not be able to make it.
As for the irregular brainwashing, er, no, lectures by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at night. Of course, it is impossible for more than a thousand people to attend at the same time. Instead, the top three students in each class will attend. After listening to the lecture, these children will be responsible for retelling the story when they return to class, and the quality of the retelling is very important: the score of the Crown Prince's quotations in the monthly exam is extremely important!
There is no doubt that those who can rank in the top three in the class every month and continue to appear in front of the Crown Prince will definitely be the first to be promoted and used by the Crown Prince in the future. The rest will be driven by these elites who have long occupied the top three.
People are divided into different levels everywhere. At least Fangshan School gives you a fair chance to compete, right?
But let’s talk about the math teacher.
There were still many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and there were even more in Jiangnan. Therefore, when Fangshan School offered a salary of five taels of silver per month to recruit liberal arts teachers, countless poor scholars who had not passed the imperial examination for a long time fought hard to get a position.
There were people in Nanjing officialdom who objected to His Highness's establishment of a school, but the royal family took out money to adopt disaster-stricken orphans and let them go to school. From a righteous point of view, they had already reached the highest moral point.
The next day after the Crown Prince came to Nanjing, he went to the Huangce Library. When the news spread, not only Nanjing, but the entire Jiangnan officialdom shuddered - as a group, the gentry class was not afraid of the imperial power. But as an individual official, what if he was caught by the Crown Prince and made an example of?
As a result, after the crown prince had read the yellow book, he said nothing for two months. While everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they also spontaneously said to each other: Unless you are really forced into a corner, don't provoke the crown prince!
Therefore, on the one hand, it is to stand on the moral high ground, and on the other hand, it is the overall tacit understanding of the Jiangnan officialdom. Therefore, Zhu Youdong recruited poor scholars to give lectures to orphans, and he did not encounter any opposition - of course, don't even think about praise, people of the royal family, squatting quietly on the stage as mascots is the style of a wise monarch, like you who toss around all day long. If you hadn't seized the moral high ground without infringing on our interests, we wouldn't have let you go so easily!
The eunuchs and imperial guards of Nanjing reported everything Zhu Youdong did in Nanjing to the palace in Beijing. But Zhu Youdong was the crown prince, so when reporting, they could only objectively describe the specific things that the crown prince did, and did not dare to add any subjective speculations, such as buying people's hearts and having ulterior motives.
And as long as Wanli could continue to trust him, these reports did not cause him any harm.
"Mr. Xu, how about this? I will issue an order to the county governments of the four provinces in Jiangnan, asking them to recommend talents who are good at mathematics to come to Fangshan to work?"
"Your Highness, many of the so-called talents who are good at mathematics are clerks with many years of experience. These people must have no problem with mathematics. But I have two concerns."
"Mr. Xu, please speak?"
"First, His Highness pays those scholars five taels of silver per month. After these clerks come, they can at least not earn more than those scholars. And with five taels of silver, these clerks may earn less than this by doing business in the county and the countryside. If the money is too little, these people may not be willing to come. Second, most of these clerks have bad character, and they come to teach these children..."
"Mr. Xu's words make sense, but I have other ideas about this matter."
"Your Highness, please explain clearly."
"First, the clerks in each county are often hereditary. Many clerks will also worry about the future of their two or more sons. This time, the decree is not to ask them to recommend clerks, but to recommend talents. Therefore, most of the people who come here are those who have learned their skills and have been waiting for vacancies. Second, most clerks are cunning, there is no doubt about that. But my students can't be stupid and only learn the words of saints. Third, if there are clerks who can give up their jobs in the county government and come here, such people either have great ambitions in their hearts or are opposed to getting rich by oppressing the people. The above three categories, no matter which one, are what this school needs."
