In early February, Zhu Yijun asked the cabinet and the Ministry of War to sort out the Nanyuan palace and establish a martial arts school as soon as possible, and it was completed within a hundred days.
But Zhu Yijun ignored one problem. It was okay for him to take people to live in the Nanyuan Palace, but it was converted into a school. There were so many violations that it could even be said that it would be easier to demolish and rebuild than to rebuild.
The cabinet transferred the Ministry of Literary Affairs and the Ministry of Industry to organize officials and craftsmen who were proficient in etiquette to participate in the reconstruction plan. These three ministries worked together - the daily bickering made Zhang Juzheng very anxious.
It was not until Wang Guoguang entered the cabinet and was responsible for the construction of the Nanyuan Martial Arts School that the progress was greatly accelerated. By the end of June, the Nanyuan Martial Arts School took on a grand appearance. However, in the second year of Wanli, there was heavy rain in the capital, and the paint and other renovations were finished.
It's still under construction now.
Not only was the construction progress not as good as Zhu Yijun expected, but the establishment of the institutional framework was also slow according to the school running guidelines he proposed. At the end of March, the leadership candidates were basically selected, and the compilation of teaching materials began.
According to Zhu Yijun's establishment, the martial arts school has a mountain chief, who is personally appointed by the emperor; five deputy mountain chiefs, executive deputy mountain chief Qi Jiguang, have already performed their duties; deputy mountain chief Ding Guogong Xu Wenbi, in charge of training and enrollment, has already performed their duties;
Deputy Mountain Chief Tan Lun is responsible for weapons and equipment and teaching settings, part-time; Deputy Mountain Chief Ge Shouli is in charge of academic affairs, part-time; Deputy Mountain Chief Zhang Jing is responsible for logistics.
Because this martial arts leader was seen as an important candidate for the emperor's inner circle, various forces almost broke their heads for the position of deputy mountain chief. Even Queen Mother Li accepted the order from her concubine several times.
Because Zhang Juzheng wanted to avoid suspicion, he basically did not participate in the selection of the deputy captain of the martial arts. Zhu Yijun asked several times but couldn't get the answer. Later, he could only make his own decisions and chose the above-mentioned ones whom he knew well.
became deputy mountain chief.
After the big framework was set up, the Command Department, the Engineering Department, and the Logistics Department were successively established. The selection of department heads was also a top priority. The various parties and governors in various places were competing for it again.
After several rounds of discussions between the cabinet and the Ministry of War, only the command department was assigned to Wang Chonggu and Yin Zhengmao, and Liu Yingjie to Zhu Yijun. Zhu Yijun finally chose Yin Zhengmao, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, as director of the command department, but it was not yet in place. The logistics department selected Wang Zongmu, governor of water transportation;
Zhu Yijun had other ideas for selecting the candidate for the engineering department, so he was temporarily replaced by Zhou Xuan, who was in charge of the internal engineering department under Zhang Jing.
The Horse-Bug Cooperation Section, Navy Section, Firearms Section and other sections under each department have also been set up. After the directors of the three major departments take office, a round of discussion is needed and Zhu Yijun is asked to approve the transfer, which has not yet been carried out at this time.
In the end, Zhu Yijun had no choice but to compromise due to low efficiency and set the start date in February of the third year of Wanli. In this year, in addition to the construction of school buildings, trainees from various health stations and frontier armies were gradually put in place. Zhu Yijun asked Qi Jiguang to lead
When training with the Beijing Camp, you must first forge discipline.
Previously, Zhu Yijun had inspected twice in a few months in order to express his attention to the imperial court. At this time, he was feeling a little depressed, so he called Wang Guoguang and Tan Lun, as well as several officials from various ministries and Hanlin officials.
We set out on the morning of July 26th to inspect the Nanyuan campus.
The internal officials had set out a day in advance to inform Nanyuan Martial Arts School and help prepare for the pick-up. When more than a thousand Zhu Yijun's "light carriages and simple servants" arrived, Qi Jiguang led the soldiers and students from the Beijing camp and lined up at the school ground, ready to pick him up.
It was a scorching hot day, so Zhu Yijun set off in the morning in a pony carriage. When he arrived at Nanyuan, it was in the middle of the corner, and the sun was shining heavily on the school grounds. Smoke rose from the school grounds. The accompanying officials saw that the military cadets and soldiers from the Beijing camp were fully equipped with military uniforms and weapons, and were quietly on the playground.
Standing, everyone was sweating profusely but motionless, nodding secretly.
Although everyone had objections to Zhu Yijun's choice of Qi Jiguang as the executive deputy mountain commander, ranking him above the department heads and other governors, after seeing the results of Qi Jiguang's training, they had to express their admiration from the bottom of their hearts.
Zhu Yijun saw that the army had been reorganized and praised Qi Jiguang. In the past few months, Qi Jiguang had used Jizhou's 3,000 soldiers as the backbone. The 8,000 soldiers left by the old Beijing camp plus the 25,000 more recruited had rebuilt the 36,000-strong army.
Xinjing Camp with Thousands of Soldiers.
This training of new recruits is the most grueling. Zhu Yijun is the boss, and Qi Jiguang is busy preparing for martial arts, listening to the cynicism of the senior officials; while training the new recruits with Jizhou veterans, he has lost several laps in a few months, black and white
Thin, black and thin.
Zhu Yijun couldn't bear it and said with a smile: "Yuan Jing has worked hard these days." After hearing this, Qi Jiguang knelt down on one knee, with red eyes, raised his right fist and put it on his left chest and said: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty, thank you for your hard work."
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Hanlin editor Dai Xun came to Nanyuan for the first time. When he saw Qi Jiguang wearing a civil official robe, he did not even kneel down. He was so excited that he completely forgot about the warning of Tao Dalin, the director of the hospital, "Don't say too much" and scolded sternly: "Qi Jiguang is bold and is not wearing armor."
Why not perform national rites?!"
When Zhu Yijun heard this, he turned around and glanced at Dai Xun coldly. Tan Lun said sternly from the side: "This is the best army in the world! In order to nourish its elite spirit, the emperor has already made a decree. The new army is half-kneeling in front of you.
You didn’t know until today that civil servants don’t kneel before the commander-in-chief?”
When Dai Xun heard this, he lowered his head and was speechless. He really didn't know when Zhu Yijun issued such an edict. Besides, this edict was not published in the imperial newspaper. I, the Hanlin official, didn't know - it should be normal, right?
With a gloomy face, Zhu Yijun took over the conversation and said: "Hanlin should discuss thoughts as its duty, and since it is a close servant, it is my right and left. You should talk to me about the country's political gains and losses, and the interests of the people. However, when I go to Hanlin, I write poems every day.
Craftsmanship and craftsmanship is the most important thing, and the imperial court’s care is the way to show one’s fame! He calls himself Qingliu Huaxuan, plays a big trumpet to catch small stars, lingers in the wind and moon, sings poems and lyrics, and thinks he is elegant and elegant - but what is the use of the country? "
Tan Lun liked Dai Xun's poems better, and his intention to reprimand him just now was to protect him, thinking that the emperor would laugh it off when he saw that Dai Xun had an attack on him. But Zhu Yijun called Hanlin today, and he meant to teach them how to behave, so of course he had an attack.
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"Are you worthy of scolding Gancheng in my presence? Have you ever killed a prisoner to protect the people? Have you ever herded ten miles of land, enough to feed one people? Have you ever taught a hundred people and taught them the teachings of a saint?
It's just that he has no merit and is shameless - now he has violated the order and blamed me, general, get out of the school!"
Dai Xun, nicknamed Rucheng, nicknamed Yuzhai, and Zhangxi, claimed to be an incompetent layman. He was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty and was awarded the Imperial Academy as an editor. Because he was good at painting and poetry, some people in later generations compared him with Dai Deyi and Dai Ao.
It is also known as the "Three Dais" among the poets of the Ming Dynasty. The representative one is "Hanlin Pine". One of the lines "I know it is not a heartless thing, but the green color is now full of meaning" was praised by later generations of poets.
This guy became a Jinshi in the Jiajing year. He started as a Hanlin editor and compiled in the second year of Wanli - which shows how successful he was.
At this moment, Zhu Yijun slapped him on the head and covered his face with a curse. His face turned pale and he was sweating profusely. He knelt down on the ground, trembling and not knowing what to do.
Tao Dalin saw Dai Xun making such an ugly appearance. He was already in poor health, and the sun was shining brightly, which made his eyes dizzy. He finally regained his composure, knelt down and said: "Please calm down, Your Majesty. It is my fault that I have not restrained you."
.——Dai Xun, don’t back down!”
After Dai Xun retreated, Tao Dalin stood up and apologized to Qi Jiguang: "Yuan Jing has a vast knowledge. There is no need to be as familiar with such a person. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
Qi Jiguang had tears in his eyes. He tried his best to make a smile and said: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." He said in his heart: "I am getting closer to the emperor's grandfather. I shed more tears than my mother did when she died."
Zhu Yijun saw that Tao Dalin's face was pale and his eyes were pleading, so he said no more.
Luo Wanhua diverted his attention and said: "Congratulations to your Majesty, this capital camp has changed a lot! Although they are not marching in formation, their posture shows that they are elite soldiers."
Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang and said with a smile: "Can we march in line now?"
Qi Jiguang had wiped away his tears and shook his head and said: "According to the emperor's request, it's not enough." The ministers listened to the side and were a little puzzled. They thought, how can the formation of such elite soldiers be different?
Zhu Yijun listened and said with a smile: "Then we won't watch the queue today. I will take everyone to the camp to see the internal affairs."
According to the rules of Nanyuan, the soldiers and students all lived in the large tent of the barracks. When Qi Jiguang heard that the emperor wanted to show the ministers, he quickly led the way and led everyone to the barracks in the northeast corner of the playground.