Near the sea east of Tianjin City, there is a newly built brick and stone building complex, and there are many students wearing uniform blue and white clothes. They are different from those in the Ivory Tower of the Jingshi University Hall.

The students from the Imperial University are supplied to the civil service system and almost all industries in the Empire, and the students here are dedicated to supplying the Imperial Navy, which is the Navy Military Academy.

Even now, becoming a crew member in the minds of the people of the Celestial Kingdom, especially the crew member in the ocean is a chore of risking life, far less than the prestige of officials sitting in the yamen. Even when they join the army, they would rather send their families to a safer army martial arts hall than to the naval martial arts hall.

This has caused certain difficulties in recruiting students in the Navy Martial Arts Hall, and the quality of students is also lacking.

The Navy should have been a noble profession. Four fleets required a large number of crew members and naval officers.

In order to attract more people to join the Naval Martial Arts Hall, the Naval Martial Arts Hall has adopted two measures to attract personnel to apply.

First, increase the salary, and each student in the Navy martial arts lecture hall will give three taels of silver a month to subsidize. This means that once a student in a family of eight will be selected for the martial arts lecture hall, even a family of eight will have their lives guaranteed. Second, increase the reward. If the student is successful, he will be awarded the honors and become a naval reserve officer.

The Army Military Academy also has similar regulations. For example, after graduation, Goya became an army reserve officer after the Yizhou Gaoshan Tribe.

The current Naval Martial Arts Lecture Hall has a five-year academic system. In order to cultivate naval talents for the four major fleets and reserve technical strength, the discipline mainly includes two subjects: driving and pipe driving and turbine management, namely ship driving and turbine management. The courses offered include geography, algebra, geometry, water science, thermal science, astronomy, climatology, drawing, measurement, gun exercises, and mechanical instrument use. After the course is completed, the students in the Naval Martial Arts Lecture Hall will also go to the steam coaching boat or sailing internship in order to connect theory with practice.

In addition, there is also a preparatory class for the Naval Martial Arts Hall, which starts training some young children who are still young and cannot understand the knowledge taught in the Naval Martial Arts Hall.

The content of the preparatory class ranges from elementary school to middle school, and the school system is also 5 years. This preparatory class is different from ordinary private schools. Children here have been instilled with the idea of ​​sea power since childhood. Almost every day the instructors emphasize to them the importance of the ocean and the importance of the fleet. The idea of ​​sea power supremacy is like a seed in their minds. Once it sprouts, it will affect their lifelong life. Moreover, they must also receive physical training from an early age to maintain the body that a naval soldier should have.

Zheng Chenggong, the son of Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, was born in Japan. When he was at the age of school, Zheng Chenggong was sent to the preparatory class of the Navy Military Academy for training.

Perhaps literati influenced by traditional Confucianism scoffed at the navy, but before being conquered by Chu Yun, Zheng Zhilong, who was the largest pirate king on the southeast coast, knew how important the sea was. Graduated from the Navy Martial Arts Hall, became a naval reserve officer, and then joined the Navy Department, which was a way to advance.

Currently, the military department can compete with the six departments. The Navy, the Army and the Logistics Department constitute the three largest departments of the military department. The naval officers of the Navy often have greater value.

A 15-16-year-old boy has entered the formal naval martial arts hall for a year.

His name was changed by Chu Yun himself, and he became famous as early as the preparatory class of the Navy Military Academy. His name was Zheng Chenggong.

Similar and somewhat different from history, Zheng Chenggong's personal career is still closely related to the sea, but this time he is no longer the manager of the local government, but a student of the Imperial Naval Academy, preparing to embark on the journey of conquering the sea, and his achievements are destined to be greater than before.

Zheng Chenggong is now a second-year student in the Navy Martial Arts Hall.

The second grade of the Navy Military Academy is generally young students ranging from 15 to 17 years old. Many of them have not even lost their childish faces, but they are the future of the Imperial Navy. In the future, they will patrol in all waters around the world and act as world military police.

Sometimes they also learn the latest news from the Navy Department, such as the news of the first main ironclad ship spread in the Navy Martial Arts Hall.

General Fubo is the first steam ironclad ship of the Navy, and this time the one launched the water is the real main ironclad ship.

"The first generation of the main ironclad ships are Daqin-class. It is said that when they are loaded with personnel, ammunition, grain and coal, the displacement can reach 9,000 tons, which is very exaggerated, and the firepower can easily destroy wooden sailboats!"

"It would be better to be able to serve on the main ironclad ship after graduation. If you can serve on the main ironclad ship, it would be much more powerful than serving on a wooden sailboat!"

"The wooden sailboats are not that bad, but the appearance of steam iron armored ships has made them very inferior."

"Zheng Chenggong, are there ironclad ships in your father's Beiyang Fleet?"

Many students looked at Zheng Chenggong who was reading a surveying and mapping book.

He heard everyone ask about the Beiyang Fleet, and then replied: "Beiyang Fleet? It seems that there is no steam iron armored ship yet."

"Why do the Zhili Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, and the Fourth Fleet have steam iron armored ships, but the Beiyang Fleet does not?"

"The Zhili Fleet is the main force of the Navy Department. Needless to say, the Nanyang Fleet and the Fourth Fleet have enemies. The Beiyang Fleet is now in charge of the waters of the Koryo Kingdom and the Japanese provinces. There are no enemies. Of course, the equipment update is the slowest, so you don't need to think too much." Zheng Chenggong said.

At this time, the second-grade instructor of the Navy Lecture Hall came in and hit the podium hard with the instructor stick: "Silent, quiet!"

The naval students in the classroom quickly returned to their seats.

"Come in." The instructor waved outside the classroom.

Many naval cadets discovered that new cadets were temporarily inserted into their class.

"Is it a Westerner? Or a beauty!"

"No, our Navy Martial Arts Hall usually recruits locals. You can occasionally see a few Japanese or Nanyang people. When will a Western woman join our class?"

Many students saw a Western woman about 18 or 19 years old appearing in the Navy Martial Arts Hall.

This person is not anyone, but Hannah, the sister of the head of the Knights Order in the hospital whom Li Jinde tricked him back.

Hanna knew that she could not intervene between Li Jinde and Salina, so she gave up this idea and instead traveled in the East to learn Chinese. She originally knew the languages ​​of several countries, and her language talent was extremely amazing, so she quickly mastered Chinese.

In order to win over the Knights of the Hospital she represented, Chu Yun obtained the Naval Base on Malta Island in the Mediterranean, and also extended an olive branch to win over her.
Chapter completed!