An Ning asked the two senior brothers: "Do the noble ladies live in dormitories or..."
"Most of them should live in dormitories, because they are poor nobles with no money at home." The senior brother pointed to the tree-lined path next to the auditorium, "That road leads to the ladies' dormitories, but you'd better not move.
Brain, the dormitory warden is a ferocious tigress, she will send you to the flogging stand."
An Ning frowned: "Just by straying into the vicinity of the girls' dormitory, will you be sent to the flogging stand?"
"You can give it a try." The senior brother shrugged, "Last year, I had a Marquis whose son did not believe in evil and broke into the girls' dormitory. As a result, he was whipped twenty times with a whip soaked in salt water, and his skin and flesh were all split open."
——Why is it that the Marquis’s son is the one causing the trouble?
An Ning: "Then the Marquis himself didn't come to school to cause trouble?"
"This is the Royal Military Academy of Brienne, a place where future non-commissioned officers for France are trained according to the order of His Majesty the Emperor. Can a Marquis be greater than the King when he comes?" asked the senior brother.
Another senior brother added: "Of course not every school rule is enforced so strictly. There are ten rules in the school rules that will result in caning, but except for the one about not going to the girls' dormitory, I have never seen any other rules violated.
Being flogged.
"Of course, it may be because those who violate the rules are all nobles. You, a commoner, can give it a try."
An Ning: "No, I won't try. Are there many civilians in this school?"
The two senior brothers laughed together: "How can there be more! How many civilians have you seen become non-commissioned officers?"
"Hey, I know that most officers are nobles, but I thought non-commissioned officers..."
The two senior brothers laughed even louder: "What are you thinking! Non-commissioned officers at least need to be literate. How many civilians are literate?"
An Ning couldn't help but frown. He remembered that the literacy rate in France was not low in this era. In a big city like Paris, newspapers and various promotional pamphlets had many civilian readers.
But in the eyes of these two nobles, the common people were still illiterate.
An Ning shook his head: "I remember that there are a lot of non-commissioned officers in the army. There are more than a dozen sergeants in an infantry battalion. Are there so many nobles in France? And not every noble will become a soldier..."
Senior brother: "Don't think too much. There may be civilian non-commissioned officers, but you won't find many companions at Brienne Military Academy. As far as I know, you are the only civilian who has been recommended by the nobles to enroll this year."
Yes, it actually happens like this.
An Ning originally thought that if she could enroll in the military academy with the Duke's recommendation, then others should be fine too. There should be many civilians enrolling with such recommendations.
No wonder the French army had problems at the beginning of the Great Revolution. The army was the target of the revolution starting from the non-commissioned officers. It is no wonder that its combat effectiveness is so high.
Senior brother: "That's enough chatting. Come on, I'll give you a military uniform. The size may not be right. If it doesn't fit, you can take it to a tailor shop and modify it yourself."
"You still want to modify it yourself?" An Ning was a little surprised.
"Of course, many people actually find their own tailors to make their military uniforms, but as a civilian, you probably don't have your own tailor."
An Ning: "That's true. My maid was lent to me by the Duke."
Theoretically speaking, Fanny was lent to An Ning by the Duke, but judging from the Duke's intentions, he didn't care much about a maid, so he probably wouldn't ask An Ning to go back.
An Ning took the military uniform handed over by her senior brother and immediately opened it and put it on.
The uniforms of the French army in the Kingdom era were gray and white, which looked white from a distance, so when the royalists rebelled, people called the royalists the White Party.
An Ning: "Isn't this white military uniform easy to get dirty?"
The senior brother shrugged: "Then it depends on the ability of your maid. It is her duty to ensure that the master's clothes are clean."
An Ning glanced at Fanny, who immediately said: "Don't worry, I won't let you go out in dirty clothes."
Just as An Ning was about to reply, a carriage drove past him, and the mud splashed by the wheels fell on his white stockings.
One of the senior brothers was speechless: "The coat of arms I have never seen before must be the daughter of some poor noble family, and she is going to the dormitory."
"That's right. This morning I saw a lady riding in a carriage that didn't have a roof. It's hard to imagine that a noble family would be so poor that they couldn't even afford a carriage with a roof. However, the lady was quite beautiful and very beautiful.
full."
An Ning was speechless. It seemed that there were more noble ladies in this school than An Ning had imagined. Maybe in the future we would actually see a ceremonial cavalry team composed of all the daughters of noble families.
He turned to Fanny and asked: "Christina shouldn't live in that dormitory, right?"
"Of course not. The lady lives in a manor on the outskirts of the city. The Duke bought a beautiful small manor. You will know it when you go to the ball on the weekend."
Fanny's words made the two senior brothers very excited: "The ball! It's great. Usually we can only attend some balls held by rural aristocrats, which are unstyled and boring. The ball at the Duke's house must be of Parisian quality."
An Ning: "Of course, the Duke also brought a chef from Paris. There will definitely be the most popular desserts in Paris at the ball."
Senior Brother: "How do you know?"
"I came here with Miss Christina." An Ning shrugged, and then gave Fanny a bunch of military uniforms and stuff, "Well, two senior brothers, let's take our leave."
Senior brother: "Ah, goodbye. Remember not to be late tomorrow. Don't blame me for not reminding you!"
In this way, the peaceful life of Brienne Military Academy officially began.
**
Originally, An Ning thought that the military academy in Brienne would be like the military training in China in later generations, with a few months of queue training first.
However this did not happen.
There is indeed queue training, but it only takes place every morning. During queue training, the trainees will take turns serving as non-commissioned officers in the queue and be responsible for the entire team.
When it was An Ning's turn to serve as a non-commissioned officer, the nobles in his class deliberately made An Ning look embarrassed. Only Napoleon obeyed his orders.
Yes, Napoleon was Anning's classmate.
Because only An Ning had a good relationship with him, the two of them were called the pauper duo by their classmates, because one was a poor Corsican noble and the other was a commoner. The nobles subjectively believed that commoners were paupers. The reason why An Ning was so generous was to take action.
, because of the Duke’s funding.
Let’s go back to the queue class.
Facing the aristocratic classmates who were dissatisfied with the management, An Ning resorted to a special move: he took off his gloves!
Being thrown in the face by a glove means initiating a duel.
This group of classmates already knew that An Ning was the "Noble Killer" and had killed three nobles. In addition, An Ning had an astonishing undefeated record in the swordsmanship class by relying on automatic defense, so no one dared to accept An Ning's attack.
In a duel, you risk your life.
So as soon as An Ning took off his gloves, the students immediately obeyed the management and lined up obediently.
Relying on the school's queue training, An Ning finally figured out how to create the formation of queuing to kill in this era.
It turns out that when lining up, the civilian lead soldiers were flanked by non-commissioned officers, front, rear, left and right. In a line formation of infantry, non-commissioned officers would stand at the head of the platoon on both sides, and then non-commissioned officers would be deployed in the middle of the front and the middle of the rear.
Therefore, the leading soldiers of the line infantry were actually coerced by the noble officers - yes, literally coerced - onto the battlefield.
No wonder morale cannot be maintained once the line is disbanded.
In addition to queue training in the morning, there are also various military technical trainings, such as two swordsmanship classes, two musketry training classes and one riding class every week. As for why infantry non-commissioned officers learn riding, it seems to be for
From now on he will be a messenger sergeant.
In the afternoon, it is basically time for cultural classes. The military academy will teach French and mathematics to non-commissioned officers.
As written in later biographies, Napoleon was very good at mathematics, but in Brienne in this time and space, his light was overshadowed by tranquility.
An Ning used the mathematical knowledge of later generations to deal with the mathematics of this era, and sometimes he could calculate faster than the teacher.
Fortunately, mathematics has become more advanced in this era. In addition, An Ning deliberately limited his problem-solving ideas and did not use the knowledge learned in college mathematics classes, so he finally did not come up with something that would allow him to be admitted to the Journal of the French Academy of Sciences.
In fact, An Ning doesn't mind studying in the newspaper, but he has forgotten most of the advanced mathematics content and returned it to the teacher. He is not sure how to play it. He is afraid of being exposed when facing the mathematics masters of this era.