Survival of the Chongzhen Emperor Chapter 397: Grassland Nouveaux Cultivation Program, Let the Golden Family Say Goodbye to the Grassland Political Stage!
Chapter 397: Grassland Nouveaux Cultivation Program, Let the Golden Family Say Goodbye to the Grassland Political Stage!
Liu Daqiang stayed at his sister's house for three days before he reluctantly took his son back to his hometown! These days, he has seen a lot of the world and gained a lot of knowledge. The girl's wealthy life has been left to him.
profound impact.
In the past two years, people in the countryside said that being a soldier was well paid, but he only heard about it through hearsay. It wasn't until he saw the life of the girl that he understood how good it really was. The girl has now become an official's wife. Not only does she have money, but she also has food and shelter.
They are all things that I dare not even think about.
When he returned to his hometown, he was even more determined to let his children grow up to join the army and seek a future. Such an idea would have been unimaginable a few years ago. Who would want their children to go to
Join the army? But now, sending your children to join the army has become the mainstream consciousness. This is the biggest change in the thinking of the times.
In February of the 20th year of Chongzhen, the Guihua City Headquarters, former enemy commander-in-chief Mayou Liang and deputy commander-in-chief Ma Xu organized a meeting of senior frontline officers. The content of the meeting was to discuss the latest military orders issued to them by the Ministry of War.
The military order requires Mayou Liang and Ma Xu to use the resources of Guihua City to form a new cavalry division. For the new cavalry division, officers will be transferred from existing personnel. Half of the grassroots troops will be soldiers recruited from the pass, and the other half will be recruited from the grasslands.
Recruiting mercenaries.
"It will take half a year to complete the work of forming the 72nd Cavalry Division. This work is not only done by the officers transferred to the 72nd Division, but other officers in Guihua City also have to assist to the best of their ability.
The newly built cavalry division currently has two difficulties. One is the training of riding skills for the new recruits from the pass. The other is the formal training of the Mongolian soldiers recruited. They need to be taught Chinese and also have to carry out training for them.
Literacy." When it comes to literacy, Ma Youliang's tone is a bit complicated.
He felt that the most challenging job he had ever done in his life was to educate front-line soldiers about illiteracy, which was quite challenging for people’s psychological endurance. When he thought about literacy, he thought of that boy Wang Er, who has not yet completed literacy.
Meeting the standard and literacy has left a psychological shadow on Ma Yuliang. Originally, the situation of soldiers who joined the army has improved in the past two years. 30% of the recruits received some literacy education before joining the army. The work of literacy is much easier than before. Unexpectedly
, this time the imperial court actually gave them a bigger literacy problem. The recruited Mongolian soldiers must complete 40% of the literacy target within one year, and 70% of the literacy target within two years. Where is this?
Is this a request that a normal person can make? It is simply abnormal to the extreme.
"Commander, are you trying to educate the Mongolians about illiteracy? Isn't this deliberately looking for trouble? It's already a big deal that they can speak Chinese fluently, but they still want to teach them how to read and write? Could it be that the imperial court wants to train them to become officers?
No, how can this be done!" Wang Jinbao, the new brigade commander of the 294th Brigade of the 72nd Division, couldn't help but become anxious after hearing May Youliang's mission arrangement. How is this a normal mission? This is clearly to send them
A mission that drives the commander-in-chief of the troops crazy.
"The task of collecting treasures is difficult! But it must be overcome and completed without compromise. I had some objections to the court's arrangements before. But after the principal wrote a letter detailing the matter, I realized how important the matter is. The principal said:
The military camp is not only a fighting team, but also a general reservoir for the country to reserve the foundation for governing the country. Why must we educate the Mongolian people? It is because these Mongolian people trained in the Ming Dynasty military camp will be the new aristocrats of the entire grassland in the future.
, They will be the ballast stone for the Ming Dynasty to complete the maturation work of the grassland! Twenty or thirty years later, the so-called aristocratic bloodlines of the grassland, such as the golden family, will be replaced by the upstarts cultivated in the Ming army camp. This is for the Mongols
The purpose of educating new recruits about illiteracy is to build a century-old foundation for our country, and we must overcome all difficulties to accomplish this and do it well."
Ma Youliang couldn't figure out why the court had such perverted requirements before, and he even reported the difficulty of the memorial to the court. After Zhu Youjian received the memorial, he wrote a long letter in detail, explaining why he was so abnormal.
If literacy is to be carried out in military camps, why must we insist on promoting the literacy system to newly recruited Mongolian mercenaries?
The country spends huge sums of money to raise the army. It would be too limited and wasteful to simply cultivate military skills. Breaking a penny in half and spending it is a good tradition of frugal governance. At this stage, using military camps
Being able to use the advantages of young people to educate enlisted soldiers so that they can be basically competent in grassroots civil service work after they are transferred to local areas is a manifestation of maximizing returns.
For the inside, soldiers who have transferred to local areas can maximize the penetration and control of local governance by the central government, offset the control of local big families and powerful families over grassroots officials, and at least allow about half of the grassroots officials to compete with local forces.
The relationship is not big. This is the underlying purpose of the literacy and demobilization system.
For areas with low maturity such as Mengdi, it is more meaningful to train and transport talents through military camps. This meaning is to cultivate emerging forces that challenge the rule of tribal aristocrats. What do the aristocrats on the grassland rely on? Zhu You
The prosecutor felt that it was nothing more than family resources, better military literacy and educational foundation than ordinary herdsmen. Resources, the Ming court had a way to provide them, and military literacy and education could also be solved in the military camp. Wouldn't this be enough to allow new nobles to emerge on the grassland?
Are the conditions met?
In ten or twenty years, by recruiting mercenaries, tens of thousands of talents with basic aristocratic talents were transported to the grassland. It is hard to believe that this will not have a fundamental impact on the original aristocratic power of the grassland, which is mainly based on blood.
The emergence of these new generations of nobles who were influenced by the Ming Dynasty culture and the new military system provided the basis for completing the work of grassland maturation.
When Mayou Liang received this long letter, he understood that the emperor and the court were very determined on this matter, and he must mobilize his soldiers to do this job well.
"It is precisely because of the difficulty at this time that I said that the establishment of the 72nd Division is not only a matter for the officers of the division, but also for all the officers who are naturalizing. Officers from other units must assist the 72nd Division
The division will undergo literacy training. All officers at the platoon level and above will be required to recruit ten new soldiers from the 72nd Division to undergo literacy training. The completion of this work will be included in the assessment indicators. The general hopes that in
With the help of all the returned soldiers, more than 20% of the new Mongolian soldiers can achieve basic literacy within half a year, and half of the Mongolian soldiers can become blind within a year. In short, this is not an easy task, but it must not be compromised.
To complete it." At the end of the meeting, Ma Youliang gave the participating officers the task of helping the Mongolian soldiers of the 72nd Division become blind. This idea was written in Zhu Youjian's letter to him, and the inspiration was natural
It comes from the favorite method of later generations!