Now that we have weapons, the next step is people!

Although the Qing army was approaching the city, since they were only the vanguard, Zhu Guoqiang was not in a hurry. Especially now that the weapon problem was solved, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Before anyone arrived at the school grounds, the noise in the school grounds could be heard through the fence. Through the fence, one could see officers and soldiers with wooden sticks in their hands shouting and beating the soldiers who could not form a unit.

Contrary to what later generations imagined, ancient armies also had to train formations first, and then train formations to coordinate. Formation was also the basis of military training in ancient times. The so-called "Five Teachings" make it very clear. One is to teach the eyes to follow the form.

The flag of color, the second is to teach its body how to give orders, the third is to teach it how far to advance and retreat, the fourth is to teach its hands to use length and shortness, and the fifth is to teach its heart to be sincere in rewards and punishments. These are the five types of training proposed by Guan Zhong

The methods of soldiers are also called the "Five Teachings"

Although Zhu Guoqiang did not know how to train the army, it did not mean that he did not care about military training, especially at this critical moment that was related to his life. Therefore, he deliberately found some military books and gained some understanding of ancient training.

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Although time was tight, Zhu Guoqiang still looked at the school grounds with interest.

Although he did not directly intervene in the training of the troops, Chen Wudi and the others have been training the troops, and this school ground was specially opened in the city for the purpose of training the troops. On the school ground, there were twenty to thirty thousand soldiers training there.

Training. In fact, this is because more people are defending the city wall, otherwise at least twice as many people will be squeezed out.

Although the number of soldiers under his command increased by more than ten times, Chen Wudi and others had a way to deal with it - using the royal palace's ceremonial soldiers and tomb-guarding soldiers as the backbone, thus roughly supporting the outline of the army.

Most of the soldiers in this army are civilians rescued from the Qing army. Although they were tortured in the human circle, on the whole, these young and strong men have good physical foundation. After all,

In such a cold winter, locked in an open-air enclosure, a half-starved body will starve to death even if it does not freeze to death. Perhaps this is what the Qing Dynasty did deliberately - to eliminate the body.

Those who are poor, and the rest are naturally in good health.

Because of this, when Zhu Guoqiang arrived, there was basically no need to screen. When Chen Wudi and the others selected young men, they just sent the young and old to build the city wall as a rule, leaving only those who were over fifteen and forty years old.

A man under the age of 18!

Compared with Minzhuang, who has two meals a day, each of these soldiers can eat one porridge and two dry meals, which really makes many people envious. After all, food in the city is limited now, and most people

He lived on two meals of rice porridge.

Being able to have enough to eat has become the motivation for these soldiers to train seriously.

After Zhu Guoqiang arrived at the school grounds, he was not polite to Chen Wudi and the others, but directly stated his purpose of coming.

"A hundred people?"

Chen Wudi looked at the Crown Prince in confusion, is this the reason?

"Yes, 100 people, it is best if they are all literate and able to count..."

Before Zhu Guoqiang finished speaking, someone over there almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

"Is 100 difficult?"

Zhu Guoqiang raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Returning to the prince, I don't know something. Our Jinan is a large city in Tongzhou. Let alone men, there are women. There are also a few people who are illiterate and can't count. We are standing here, and the past is Wende Street.

, there are dozens of bookstores on both sides of the street. Even ordinary women will buy a few novels such as "The Romance of the West Chamber" to pass the time, let alone men. If they are illiterate, who will sell those novels? But

When ordinary people have children at home, they will buy a few literacy books such as "Four Words on the Opposition", and the women at home will teach their children how to read pictures and read words."

Qian Degong's "Four Words on Opposition" is another world's "talking by looking at pictures". It uses four characters as one sentence, combined with vivid pictures, and contains hundreds of writing methods for common creatures or objects in life, including

The introductory instructions for using the abacus are standard enlightenment education books. It involves thousands of commonly used words and simple addition and subtraction arithmetic. Like other "miscellaneous word" books, the book does not contain the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but more selected

Common words and proverbs serve the children of farmers and ordinary people in the city. Helping them learn to read is not for the sake of scientific advancement, but for the purpose of smooth daily application. This is also the fundamental reason for the popularity of novels in the Ming Dynasty - most people in the city are literate (1)

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However, because he did not understand this, Qian Degong's explanation suddenly made Zhu Guoqiang feel a little embarrassed. Who said that the ancients were all illiterate? However, Zhu Guoqiang did not feel any embarrassment, and was even quite happy.

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"Having said that, I feel relieved. Soldiers with no education are not good soldiers. Our soldiers must not only be proficient in pen and ink, but also preferably be able to write and calculate, and have been acquainted with people who have been in school for several years. Okay, you guys first

Let’s select people. Well, since there are many literate people, let’s select 150 people first.”

It doesn't matter if there are more people. Maybe they can be used as seed officers later. When Qian Degong went to select people, Zhu Guoqiang pointed to the cart beside him and said to Chen Wudi.

"Invincible, this car is equipped with muskets, which are similar to cannons. Do you know how the cannon soldiers are trained?"

"Bird gun soldiers? Your Majesty, look at what you said. Although the general said he has never played with bird guns in the past, he has read the military books. Didn't we also seize hundreds of bird guns this time? The general will keep them.

We have specially trained a battalion of bird cannon soldiers. After all, we don’t have many arrows, so the bird cannon soldiers can always come in handy."

Chen Wudi's words surprised Zhu Guoqiang.

"We have a battalion of gunners?"

"Yes, we got more than 400 muskets from Donglu's camp. We can't waste such things."

After hearing this, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"Then don't choose other people. Just choose 150 people from among them. By the way, the 3000 people you choose will be trained as musketeers. The use of this musket is different from that of a blunderbuss.

, you pick some smart ones, and I will teach them how to use muskets when the time comes."

"The prince knows how to use a musket?"

Although he didn't know what a musket was, Chen Wudi, who thought it should be similar to a gun, looked at the prince for a few times.

In fact, I can’t even call myself proficient!

But it’s okay, anyway, we have the Internet, video, and...

That night, Zhu Guoqiang naturally took out his mobile phone and played the firing gun drill video downloaded from another world, watching and learning again...

(1) Regarding the literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty, I don’t believe the so-called 5% theory. This ratio is the estimated literacy rate in the late Qing Dynasty. However, novels in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China were not as popular as the Ming Dynasty novels. The premise for the popularity of novels is that the people must be literate. This is from

The popularity of novels in mainland China after the 1980s can be seen, and it can be seen from the book "Jin Ping Mei" that the overall literacy rate of the people at that time was relatively high. Pan Jinlian (the maid) was literate, the prostitute Zheng Aiyue was literate, Lian Han Daoguo, Wang Liu

His daughter, Sister Han Ai (a singer), is also literate. They have ordinary family backgrounds, even low status, and they are women, but they are still literate. It is conceivable that the literacy rate of ordinary men will be higher. According to records such as Japan and Korea, basically men are more or less
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