Chapter 22 The First Batch of Military Academy Cadets
In the past two days, catching rats and cutting off their tails has become the hottest topic among the people in the capital. The whole people participated in the discussion and the enthusiasm of the discussion even made the atmosphere in the whole capital become lively.
A rat tail only costs a penny, and it cannot even be sold for a pound of mixed noodles. But don’t underestimate its influence in the hearts of ordinary poor people. With this penny, the beggar can change his home, and the poor can make more money.
Needles, thread, and brains, the children can eat more snacks. Not everyone can catch mice like the second son of Hong San's family, but some are still capable of killing three or five. With an extra three to five cents, a day's life will be improved.
Much better.
It's impossible for adults to spend all their time doing this, but children can! Children from poor families have long been the masters of the family. Usually they have little chance to make money. With the matter of tying rat tails, children can also do it.
I have some money to supplement my family income.
Most of the people who fight mice are poor people. Rich people will not do such a derogatory thing just for a few pennies. The poor cannot save money when they have money. They are not like some rich families in this era who save a little money.
It's hidden in a silver cellar, even if you have the heart, you don't have the conditions. Any money you have will be exchanged for daily necessities that are urgently needed in life. Most people will save a few kilograms of rice for their families like Hong San did.
Today is indeed a drought, but it is still autumn harvest time after all. There is always more food supply on the market than in winter, so it is more cost-effective to buy food now. If there are more people buying food, the food stores will have more food. They are
The future trend can be judged by the current food market. In addition to the increase in food consumption, sales of other items such as salt and small daily necessities have also increased. With such a comprehensive linkage, the originally lifeless Beijing market has really become active.
To stimulate market vitality and purchasing power, we really need to start from ordinary people. Even if wealthy households above the middle class make more money, their consumption motivation will be much slower than that of ordinary people.
The second son of Hong San's family has now become a celebrity in his neighborhood. His ability to catch rats not only made him money, but also made him the king of kids in the area. Even the eunuch who keeps the rat tails recognized him.
At first, the eunuchs didn't pay much attention to this child who could bring dozens of rat tails with him as soon as he arrived, but after a few days, they began to become enthusiastic. Because after nearly ten days of collecting rat tails, Wang Chengen said
Zi collected millions of tails, and the eunuchs all thought that the job would be completed quickly. But unexpectedly, after a few days of sharp growth, the volume of shipments plummeted.
Rats are not fools. People in the capital treat them as money. They become walking copper coins. How cruel is this living environment? The cruel environment has caused some unlucky people to die under the butcher's knife of the people in the capital, and also made some timid people die.
The rats started thinking of moving and fled the capital. Some of them were clever and lurked deeper. In this way, the probability of people catching the rats was greatly reduced. The volume of goods received dropped off a cliff, and the number of goods received dropped sharply.
Can the eunuchs not be in a hurry? Can they not treat them enthusiastically when they encounter a large supplier?
"Hey, Gouzi is here again? How many rat tails did you bring this time?" The eunuch in charge of the delivery point saw Hong Gouzi in the crowd and greeted him warmly.
Here comes my son.
"Guan Wu, the harvest was not good today, so we got about forty tails."
Forty tails is still not a good harvest? The eunuch was excited when he heard the quantity of goods reported by Hong Gouzi. "It's quite a lot. Among the young and old men in this area, you have the ability. You can kill mice just by hunting mice in a day."
It is rare for a family to be able to support itself. When someone comes, quickly count the dog’s tails and count the money correctly for the doll.”
I really like this smart young man so much that the eunuch in charge even wants to recruit this kid into the palace. Because of his ability, it is not difficult to get ahead in the palace. He is a talent. Hong Gouzi doesn't know that this kind person in front of him
What was the eunuch planning? If he knew that this man was thinking of cutting him off and taking him to the palace, he would probably want to die.
The plummeting volume of goods received made Wang Chengen, the person in charge of this closing operation, very worried. Why is it so difficult to do anything in this world? It is so difficult to even collect a rat tail. 10 million rat tails, I originally thought it would not be enough.
It's not difficult to complete, but judging from the progress in the past few days, it seems that this thing will become a long-term activity.
Lao Wang is worried about the insufficient supply of goods, and Zhu Youjian is also worried about the insufficient supply of goods. The edict to recruit a large number of prison students and military academy students has been issued for almost a month, but the feedback is not optimistic. The military academy
There are more than a hundred students, and even fewer imperial students. The two departments of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works put together only about seventy people. The academic qualifications of the Imperial College of the Ming Dynasty seem to be getting worse and worse.
It’s valuable, but its recognition is extremely low.
According to his original plan, he could gather six to seven hundred people no matter what in the first month! The reality was that only 20 to 30% of the task was completed. It seems that running the school will become a long-term front. In the short term,
It is impossible to complete the construction task of a university with a capacity of 1,000 people within the time required.
Although there are few people, there are still people. Zhu Youjian thought for a while and planned to start the teaching work first. There are about a hundred military cadets, and they will not be divided into subjects! They will be directly organized into a cadet company.
The organization of the cadet company is completely adapted to the military organization of later generations. Twelve people form a squad, four squads form a platoon, and a company is set up on the platoon. The instructors are selected from the Beijing camp of the Royal Horse Supervisor. They are ordinary military skills
The instructor also serves as the chief and deputy company commander, division officer, quartermaster, and chief and deputy platoon leader of the platoon-level unit below. Class leaders are selected from among the trainees and re-elected every month.
The teaching task for the first month is to run ten miles of cross-country around Meishan in the morning, and then practice formation, equestrianism and basic weapon operations. In the afternoon, Chongzhen himself gave an hour-long class, and then the Royal Horse Supervisor selected some
Senior officers came over to talk about battle examples and tactics for an hour, and then went on a five-mile cross-country trip!
To be honest, the overall quality of this group of students is good. They are literate, have good physical fitness, have a basic knowledge of equestrian skills, know how to use basic weapons, and even have a certain knowledge of geography. What is particularly important is that they have the ability to fight for the country.
Passion. With such qualities, he already has the basic conditions for a qualified officer. His predecessor was really a stick. If he had to choose someone who could wield a hundred-pound sword, why should he choose an officer to participate in the Olympics?
In this era, those who are interested in martial arts must have good family conditions, otherwise they will not be able to do this. They are usually children of military families, and there are also exceptions from rich and scholarly families. Ordinary families
, at most cultivate a scholar.
This is like in later generations, the cost of launching nationwide sports education is actually much greater than popularizing cultural subjects! It is not that the country does not know the importance of physical education, but the objective conditions restrict that it can only do mathematics, physics and chemistry first. Like Western countries
, people with good conditions can carry out comprehensive quality education. Quality education is not happiness education. Sports are as important as cultural subjects and the foundation of a country. A country will not develop well if culture and science are not prosperous, and if sports and health are not good, it will be worse.
The country cannot be established. Later, when the country's conditions improved and we wanted to develop comprehensive quality education, a bunch of people still talked about happy education!