Dong Shuheng went to Yangzhou from Gaoyou. Originally, everything he needed to do in Yangzhou was settled in Gaoyou.
But he thought of the Youth Military Academy in Yangzhou and decided to go and see the children.
Since going to Jiangning, he has gone to the Junior Military Academy much less often.
When he was in Yangzhou, he would go to the military academy almost every few days.
Give lectures to these children, chat with them, and even play with them sometimes.
Yangzhou Youth Military Academy.
A Cuju competition was being held on the playground at this time.
By the way, this Cuju competition was popularized by Dong Shuheng in the military.
Later, Cuju venues were gradually built in all primary schools. The sport of Cuju gradually became popular.
The traditional Chinese Cuju competition was roughly equivalent to street football in modern Brazil in ancient China.
This is a recreational activity in the market, and in cities, it is unrealistic to have large areas of grass.
Grass is not an important condition. Even if there is grass, the only possibility is that weeds grow in a large open space, and the focus is still on the open space.
This is also related to the rules of Cuju. Cuju at that time was probably similar to the modern shuttlecock. It was allowed to touch the ball with all parts except the hands, but the ball could not fall to the ground.
Therefore, there is no need for turf to smooth the rolling of the ball. Flat ground can also protect the Cuju player's body from injury.
Dong Shuheng has been promoting national sports through the Jingwu Association. Wushu is actually a sport.
However, it is said that martial arts training is too expensive and often boring.
So Dong Shuheng tried to promote some competitive sports. There are still many of these in the history of Chinese civilization.
However, after the Song Dynasty, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism became popular, and Chinese people became more conservative, classifying these sports into the "five black categories".
Cuju is one of them. Since Gao Qiu was reused by Song Huizong for playing Cuju, anyone who plays Cuju seems to have the potential to be a traitor.
The people of China can not only improve the system by having enough food, but scientific exercise is also necessary. Moreover, Dong Shuheng did not want all the weak nerds to be trained in China's schools.
Most of the scholars in the Han and Tang dynasties were versatile in both civil and military affairs. They could kill enemies and lead troops when they mounted their horses, and they could govern the country and govern their affairs when they dismounted.
Therefore, China's Ministry of Education stipulates that all students must have a physical education class every day.
This is a mandatory requirement for all schools, not just primary and secondary schools, but also academies.
At this time, on the grass field of the Junior Military Academy, Guo Yan was definitely the brightest kid.
I saw that he kept the ball close to him without falling to the ground, dodged left and right, and moved closer to the goal. Then he headed the ball into the goal hole, which was not much bigger than the ball.
Cheers immediately erupted from the sidelines of the Cuju court, not only from boys but also from girls.
Later, when regulating the Junior Military Academy, Dong Shuheng decided not to provide separate branches for boys and girls before middle school.
China's conservative male-female defense tradition will gradually be broken. Dong Shuheng does not want all parts of China to have male-female branch schools in the future.
This is also a waste of resources. Sometimes the best way to break tradition is to change the next generation.
Two years ago, when Dong Shuheng rescued this child, he was still a dirty and thin boy. At that time, he used his weak backbone to protect his young sister.
I haven't seen him for two years now, but I didn't expect Guo Yan to grow into a handsome young man.
Maybe he was born a tall man, but he was short of clothes in the past.
Now that he has had enough food for two years, the child has suddenly grown taller.
At this time, Guo Yan was already a teenager.
In fact, Guo Yan still often remembers the days in the mine.
At that time, he was thin and small, and there were some relatively narrow places in the mine that adult miners couldn't get into, so only children like them got in.
Drilling through small holes into mines without any support is inherently dangerous.
Children can drill in and mine, but there are no protective measures such as brackets!
Almost every day, friends around Guo Yan disappear.
Although Guo Yan was young at that time, he had already lived in the mines for many years. He was far more mature than his age.
He knew very well that those little friends were trapped under the mine. Sometimes the collapse only blocked the small hole. But the black-hearted mine owner would not waste manpower to save these worthless children.
Guo Yan once heard the sound of stones hitting the mine wall in a small collapsed mine for several days. It must have been his little friend calling for help, but he could do nothing.
In their opinion, these children are worth less than a basket of coal. The beggars wandering outside can be recruited by just giving them a wotou.
Guo Yan knew at that time that one day he would be buried in a mine like that.
He used the wages he received to exchange for as much food as possible. Most of it was hidden in the thatched hut. Then he told his sister that if he couldn't come back one day, he would let her run away with the food.
And every time he went to the mines, he would bring some food and hide it in his clothes. He didn't want to starve to death like his friends.
Although this little food is of little use, maybe he can try the taste of food again before he starves to death.
This experience became his eternal nightmare. Even after two years, he was still often awakened by the same nightmare at night.
Later, the president rescued them and transformed such a beautiful garden into a school for them to live and study.
He knew that he was just a gray lump of coal, and it was the president who treated them as a treasure.
Allowing them to live a stable life and gain opportunities to learn.
The president's kindness to him and his sister is higher than the virtue of rebirth, because his original life was more terrible than death.
Now sometimes when he looks in the mirror, Guo Yan doesn't recognize himself. None of the young men from the mine owners' families that he met before seem to be as decent as he is now.
He is 14 years old this year and is not old enough to attend the military academy. In fact, he has completed his primary school studies at the military academy ahead of schedule and can take the exam to enter the middle school.
In the Youth Military Academy, every teenager hopes to become stronger and useful. They were once penniless, so they want to make themselves valuable.
There isn't a lazy kid here.
In such a highly competitive environment, Guo Yan became a leader because he worked harder than ordinary people.
He makes almost every minute of his day play a role. Even when he sleeps, he sleeps deeper than others. He wants his sleep to be of higher quality so that he can sleep less.
Spend more time studying.
He loves sports, but it is not because he is playful. He plays Cuju very carefully every time and regards it as an opportunity to polish his body.
This is an outstanding young man. Therefore, when heaven is about to entrust this man with a great responsibility, he must first work hard on his determination.
Only those whose minds have been tempered to the limit can do this.
Such children will definitely be the pillars of China in the future.
Behind Dong Shuheng were officials from Yangzhou Prefecture and leaders of the Junior Military Academy.
He looked at these children from a distance. They were full of vigor and vitality.
Maybe they turned out to be a small piece of grass on the roadside abandoned by adults. They might wither at any time and be stepped into the mud at any time!
But now they have the soil to grow and someone to water them. They have become a thriving sapling.
In troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog, and vulnerable groups such as children and women are the first to be harmed in troubled times.
But in an animal population, females and young are the most important individuals in the population.
On the contrary, male individuals can be used for consumption.
Even animal species know this truth, but high-level animals like humans choose to ignore it.
This is the disadvantage that rationality brings to human beings.
Reason makes humans powerful, but it also makes humans more selfish than any other animal.
Rationality allows some people to put individual interests far above the overall interests.
But humans are social groups!
Dong Shuheng saw Guo Yan on the field at a glance. This young man no longer had any shadow of the dirty coal-mining boy he used to be.
When Guo Yan scored, Dong Shuheng and his team happened to walk to the side of the court.
Dong Shuheng applauded and applauded along with the children watching on the sidelines of the stadium.
Everyone in the entourage applauded when they saw the president, and they all applauded too.
Only then did the child, who had been concentrating on playing and watching the ball, notice someone coming.
Everyone had a surprised expression on their faces.
The appearance of President Dong Shuheng has always been deeply engraved in the minds of these children.
The older ones were in their teens and the younger ones were seven or eight years old. However, after reacting at this time, these children all raised their right hands sideways and saluted Dong Shuheng together.
Dong Shuheng walked forward and waved to these children cordially.
Next, Dong Shuheng visited the children's classrooms and then went to sit in several children's dormitories.
It happened that he met Guo Yan. Among all the children, Dong Shuheng was the most familiar with Guo Yan. He followed Guo Yan to sit in their dormitory.
The management of the Junior Military Academy is completely militarized. The students' dormitories are very clean and tidy. Now they have replaced them with wooden bunk beds.
But this is also a recent thing. At the beginning, the conditions were simple and they all slept on bunks on the floor.
But no matter what the conditions are, they are extremely satisfied with their current life.
"Guo Yan, you are growing up so fast, you are almost catching up with me. How old are you this year?" Dong Shuheng said with a smile.
"President, I must be 14. My father told me when he left. He said that I am 9 years old and am already a man. I must learn to take care of my sister. So, President, I am now a man." Guo Yanang
He nodded and said.
"Well, you are a man now. A man must take responsibility." Dong Shuheng nodded and said when he saw the little guy's Adam's apple that had just sprouted and the fuzz on his lips.
"Have you thought about your future development direction?" Dong Shuheng asked.
"President, I am going to apply for the Army School. I want to become a soldier." Guo Yan replied.
Dong Shuheng nodded and said without comment: "Guo Yan, no matter what you do, you must first learn knowledge well. I don't recommend that you join the army prematurely. Our army does not lack soldiers, it only lacks money and education.
officer."
"In the future, the army's equipment will become more and more advanced. The era of leading the army solely by bravery and resourcefulness has passed. In the future, the army will be commanded by knowledge."
"Guo Yan, I suggest you go to an academy first and learn a professional knowledge, and then join the army. That way you will go further."
"Yes, President, Guo Yan will definitely study hard. Whatever you say, I will do." Dong Shuheng just made an outlook on the future war, and unexpectedly he was remembered by this little guy.
It took Guo Yan three years to graduate from elementary school, and then another two years to complete the middle school course. Finally, he was admitted to the Political Science Department of Xinjing Academy. After graduating four years later, he was admitted to Weihai Naval Academy. After graduation, he became
A rookie in the Navy.
Dong Shuheng did not favor one over the other and chatted with other students.
What makes Dong Shuheng happy is that these children have not become selfish because of their background.
They get along very harmoniously in this group, like brothers.
They cooperate and compete with each other.
Such a group is healthy and beneficial to every child.
At noon, Dong Shuheng stayed in the cafeteria and had lunch with the children.
There were vegetables and meat for lunch. Dong Shuheng knew that he was in the kitchen and had specially added vegetables. Normally, these children would not be able to eat so well.
But when he saw the children's eating postures, he could tell that they were still able to eat enough.
It is impossible for a child who has not had enough to eat for a long time to eat so calmly when faced with these foods.
The little girls here also eat in the same cafeteria. They all have neat ponytails. There are dedicated female life teachers in the school who are responsible for the lives of these little girls.
Guo Yan's sister Guo Yuer has also reached the age of seven and has entered primary school. The little girl is very dependent on her brother. She is always with Guo Yan every time she eats, and she is eating next to her brother now.
The little girl has big, juicy eyes. The original yellow hair on her head has grown into long black hair, which is also combed into a big ponytail. A pair of cheeks are long and fleshy. Now she looks like a pink and cute girl.
Little loli.
When Dong Shuheng saw her for the first time, she was curled up in a corner of the hut like an abandoned kitten, as if she could be blown down by a gust of wind.
The scene at that time deeply shocked Dong Shuheng. No matter what, he would not let the next generation of China suffer like this again.
Every time China conquered a place, the first thing they did was to set up a welfare home to adopt homeless children.
As for those homeless adults, they have hands and feet, and the renovated farms in various places are where they should go.
At the same time, juvenile military academies are also being opened in various places. These children have no parents, but they still have families, and the country is their home.