The emperor wanted to attend a public lecture, and all the staff of the Ming Dynasty Royal Army Academy did not dare to neglect, and everyone immediately took action.
The college is modeled after the Song Dynasty and has three grades. The first year is called "Outer House", the second year is called "Inner House", and the third year is called "Shangshe".
Zhu Yangen reported to the Ming Emperor that he would choose a class in each of the "Outer House", "Inner House" and "Shangshe".
I chose the ideological and political course in "Waishe", and today I'm going to talk about "Spring and Autumn". This book is one of the "Six Classics" of Confucianism, the first chronological history book in China, also known as "Spring and Autumn Classic", "Lin" and "Spring and Autumn Classic".
"Classic" or "Lin Shi". Because the language used to record events is extremely concise, and almost every sentence contains a connotation of praise or criticism, it is called "Spring and Autumn Writing Style" and "Small Words with Big Meanings" by later generations.
The old gentleman giving the lecture has fair hair and a boyish face, and has a fairy-like demeanor. At first glance, he is a learned scholar.
"Everyone, what I'm going to talk about today is about Zheng Beke's Duan Yu Yan in the Yin AD year. 'In the third month of the month, Gong and Zhu Yi's father made an alliance in Mi. In the fifth month of Xia Dynasty, Zheng Beke's Duan Yu Yan??' I would like to ask all the students.
, Why is Taishu not called Duke Zhuang's younger brother in "Spring and Autumn"? Why is 'Ke' used? Why is Duke Zhuang called 'Bo Zheng'?"
"Sir, I know!"
"Sir, I also know"??
The young students spoke enthusiastically and raised their arms one after another.
"Your Majesty, this is the rule of the college. Students who want to answer the teacher's questions must raise their hands and can speak with the permission of the teacher."
Zhu Yangen explained to Zhu Hengjia, and Zhu Hengjia was secretly amused. He recalled the scene when he was in elementary school before time travel, nodded and said: "Very good!"
Lao Hongru selected a student with a simple and honest appearance.
The student replied loudly: "Uncle Tai does not respect filial piety, so he is not called Duke Zhuang's brother. Brothers fight like two monarchs at war, so they are called "Ke". Calling Duke Zhuang "Uncle Zheng",
It was a sarcastic statement that he had failed to educate his younger brother and had long wanted to kill him."
"Very good, well said," Lao Hongru praised, continuing to talk.
Zhu Hengjia was so happy when he heard that the Confucian classics are so good! Subtly, he explained loyalty, filial piety, moral integrity, and righteousness incisively and vividly. Such an education method can properly cultivate a large number of loyal dogs. No, loyal ministers, come out! <
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Then, I went to the classroom in the inner house and listened to a military theory class. Today I was taught the mandarin duck formation in the "New Book of Jixiao".
This "New Book of Jixiao" was written by Qi Jiguang, a military strategist of the Ming Dynasty. It has fourteen volumes in total. The language is concise and popular, covering many aspects such as soldier selection, training, weapons, formations, laws, camps, and military tactics. It represents Qi Jiguang's lifelong battles.
This work is based on his experience. It includes two parts: formation division and practice. It records various formations from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, accompanied by 319 formation diagrams, especially Zhuge Liang's Eight Formations, Li Jing's Six Flowers Formation, and Qi Jiguang's own creation.
The Yuanyang Formation is detailed.
The gentleman who taught had military experience and switched to this job after being injured. Based on his own practice, he explained the various changes in the mandarin duck formation in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. He also asked the students to leave their desks and chairs and go to the podium to practice the formation.
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Seeing Zhu Hengjia nodding his head repeatedly, it is better to choose someone with military experience as a military instructor who can teach thoroughly!
Finally, I went to "Shangshe" to observe the students' military skills class.
The old emperor spent his whole life in the military, attaching the most importance to artillery, musketry and cavalry, so these three items must be considered when naming.
When I came to a gun mount for coaches, I saw teams of students skillfully pulling the lugs, adjusting the shooting angle, and loading the coach's shells into the barrel; the students skillfully took apart the muskets.
Assembling and inserting fixed ammunition with purge bars; on the martial arts field, teams of students got on their horses and galloped around the playground.
A student on horseback drew his bow and arrow, and hit the bull's-eye.
"Okay!"
Zhu Hengjia shouted "Hello" and was suddenly stunned. The knight on the horse was actually his son Zhu Ruodeng, King of Ji.
After the inspection, Zhu Yangen knelt down and asked the emperor to leave the calligraphy treasure of the academy.
Zhu Hengjia did not refuse, and wrote eight characters: "loyal to the emperor, patriotic, defending the land, and serving the people".
After inspecting the Royal Army Academy of the Ming Dynasty, the old emperor went to the Royal Naval Academy of the Ming Dynasty.
However, I saw more than ten warships of various types moored at Dongshuiguan Pier, most of which were old ships that had been eliminated by the navy. Groups of naval trainees were learning to operate ships on the old ships.
Zhu Hengjia patiently looked at the sailing maneuvers of the Naval Academy students and nodded, yes, they are quite well-trained!
After returning from the two military academies, Zhu Hengjia felt that there were still many problems in military academies' education, especially that the number of students was too small to meet the needs of a million-strong Ming army.
As soon as he returned to the court, he summoned Guan Shouzhen, Su Guansheng, Zheng Feng, Gu Yi, Yu Chao and other important ministers to discuss, and finally decided to set up military academies in each province, with each academy enrolling 100 students. After graduation, students from these local military academies would
Instead of being awarded the rank of seventh-rank commander, he was awarded the rank of eighth-rank sentry commander.
The Ming Dynasty originally had two capitals and thirteen provinces. After the restoration of Emperor Guangwu, Xijing, Guilin, Annan, Taiwan, Nurgan, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Nerchinsk, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, Tiannan, and Tianbei were added.
, there are twelve provinces in Myanmar. Except for Nerchinsk, which is still in the hands of the Rakshasa people, the other three and twenty-four provinces are all in the hands of the Ming army.
Zhu Hengjia ordered the establishment of local military academies in Beizhili, Guilin and the 24 provinces. Each of the 26 local military academies recruits 100 students. Local military academies recruit students regardless of family background, and admission is based on examination.<
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In order to improve students' learning motivation and survive the fittest, Emperor Guangwu also stipulated that examinations be held in spring and autumn every year, called public examinations. Only those with excellent scores will be promoted. If they fail to pass the exam, they will be repeated or even downgraded. If they fail the exam for three consecutive years, they will be dissuaded.
Retreat.
After several combinations of punches, the construction of the military academy achieved very good results. Unexpectedly, it aroused heated discussions.
Many ministers criticized the emperor, saying that he valued martial arts over literature, and asked why the imperial court only taught martial arts and not literature?
Zhu Hengjia had a headache because of the high voices of the great scholars. In fact, he had always wanted to open universities in various provinces to popularize various scientific knowledge. Unfortunately, the national treasury was insufficient, so he could only delay it again and again.
But now that they are being squeezed out by the great Confucian scholars, they can no longer drag it out. So they have to bite the bullet, eat only four dishes and one soup for each meal, and order the establishment of a university in each of the three capitals and twenty-four provinces, in addition to the military academy. Nanjing's
It is called Imperial University, the one in Beijing is called Peking University, the one in Guilin is called Xijing University, and other provinces are named after the provinces, such as Anhui University, Huguang University, Guangdong University, etc.
Because as early as in the "Ming Dingguo Shi Zhao", it was stipulated that the imperial examination no longer only tests one subject for Jinshi, but imitates the Tang system and tests scholars, Mingjing, Jinshi, Mingfa, Mingshu, Mingshu, virtuous and upright, and erudite and macroci.
, Cai Kan Jing Bang, Zhi Yan Ji Jian and many other subjects. Correspondingly, in addition to Confucian classics subjects, various professional subjects such as law, astronomy, calendar, mathematics, geography, agriculture and so on were added in these universities.
In order to increase students' motivation to enroll, Emperor Guangwu ordered that university students be awarded the title of scholar directly after three years of graduation.
He also ordered that the Imperial University enroll 300 students and other universities enroll 200 students each. The number of students far exceeded that of the military academies.
When the news came out, the great Confucians applauded in unison, thinking that the Emperor had finally put the scholars above the warriors.