On the huge playground, the new soldiers chanted slogans and continued their morning jog around the huge playground.
Huo Yun felt as if his body was as heavy as a mountain, and every step he took seemed like he was walking in a muddy swamp.
The morning run has been going on for almost half an hour. Everyone gritted their teeth and persisted, but the instructor was still saying some words that made people want to beat him up.
But at this time, everyone no longer had the intention to pay attention to the instructor's words. They just shouted slogans and followed most of them to persist and persist.
"Dang~dang~"
Finally, as if spring had arrived, the bell rang at the end of the morning run on the playground, and everyone couldn't help but cheer.
However, discipline is extremely important. In these half a month, these new soldiers have only learned one thing, and that is obedience!
As long as the instructor didn't say to disband, no one would dare to disband, otherwise they would suffer a lot.
Soon, each class team slowly ended their morning run. The instructor did not waste any more words and directly ordered the disbandment. Countless cheers rang out immediately.
Only at this moment can they cheer that the new day is over and the morning run is completed.
But this is just the beginning.
After breakfast, the morning training started again, which was very boring and boring.
Under the instructions of the instructor, everyone learned to stand at attention, take a rest, turn left and right, and stand in a military posture. It was very simple. Huo Yun had learned it on the first day he came, but he had been standing for half a month. The instructor always
They were not taught martial arts, techniques for killing enemies in battle, etc. They were just repeating this boring teaching.
"Stand at attention~take a rest~"
"Turn left~"
"Turn right~"
"Pass it backwards~"
Following the instructor's orders, Huo Yun's second class continued to repeat simple formations one after another.
Huo Yun couldn't understand, what was the use of making something like this all the time? Could it be that by relying on this, he could go into battle and kill the enemy?
Or can they become an iron army after learning this?
They couldn't figure it out, but they kept repeating this without getting bored. At the same time, every once in a while, the instructor would ask them to keep still in one movement.
Of course Huo Yun didn't know that this set of things was the most basic thing in the armies of all countries in the world in later generations, and its purpose was to cultivate soldiers' obedience and willpower.
Generally, new recruits need to undergo at least one month of basic training before joining the army, and these basic things will be repeated continuously in subsequent training.
Continuously training the obedience and willpower of these soldiers is the most important thing for a strong army.
After the boring training in the morning, Huo Yun and the other recruits had two hours to eat, rest, and take a nap. This time was also the time that Huo Yun looked forward to most every day.
Because only at this time can he have time at his own disposal, lie down comfortably, take a nap, and forget about the fatigue in the morning.
In the afternoon, it was still boring training, but with the addition of goose-stepping learning. On the huge playground, teams from one class to another continued to walk back and forth in goose-stepping.
This is also an extremely boring process.
Huo Yun didn't understand why he was walking around like this, but this did not prevent him from obeying the instructor's instructions. In half a month, at the beginning, his movements were sparse, but now he has slowly been able to maintain a consistent pace.
, act as one.
After dinner, it was time for Huo Yun's favorite and most tiring part - taking night classes and reading and writing.
Naturally, all of the new recruits recruited this time are children from noble families who can read and write, but Huo Yun and others who are children from farm families, very few of them can read and write, and they are all illiterate.
In Li Yunlong's words, it is like not being able to read a basket of big characters, and not being able to recognize a single character when the pole is reached.
The new army that Liu Jin wanted to build would be from good families. At the same time, everyone must be able to read and write, be able to count, and also learn some knowledge of astronomy and geography, etc.
Naturally, this is impossible if you don't know how to read and write, so night classes are also a must.
The most important thing is to brainwash these recruits through night classes and instill in them the idea of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.
This is the most important thing.
For the army of later generations, no matter which country's army it is, political lessons are the most important lessons. Whether an army is strong or not is another matter. The most important thing is that it must always remain loyal.
In this feudal dynasty, one must remain loyal to the king and the country.
One of the important reasons why Emperor Hongzhi strongly supported the reform of the New Army was that Liu Jin's plan included patriotic education on loyalty to the emperor and instilled the idea of loyalty to the emperor.
What does the emperor fear most?
Of course, the biggest fear is that someone will usurp power. Since ancient times, many of these usurpers have been inseparable from the military. The changes in the country have been inseparable from this point in history.
So from the beginning of the Song Dynasty, they learned this lesson and began to gradually emphasize civil service over military service, suppressing the status of generals. Now, they directly use civil service to dominate military affairs, and use civilian officials to lead and command the army.
Emperors in the past dynasties were very cautious about generals.
In the construction of the new army, brainwashing is absolutely indispensable. The idea of loyalty to the emperor must be instilled, so that Emperor Hongzhi knows that the army is more reliable than these literati and is absolutely loyal to the emperor.
In each classroom, whale oil lamps were lit, and under the influence of glass lamps and mirrors, each classroom was very bright, like daylight.
The new soldiers sat on their desks one by one, holding textbooks and pencils in their hands, listening to the lectures carefully.
The same is true for Huo Yun. When he was a child, his family was poor and his parents simply could not afford to send him to a private school. He secretly went to private schools many times and secretly listened to the teacher's lectures outside the classroom.
In his heart, he is actually very eager to learn knowledge, to be able to read and digit, to be able to read books, and to be able to write.
However, family conditions did not allow it, so he secretly attended classes when he was a child. But as he got a little older, his parents began to arrange for him to do various farm work, and gradually, the desire in his heart was extinguished.
Who would have thought that after joining the army, there would be a teacher in the military school who would teach them how to read and write for free, and that I would be able to sit in a bright classroom, hold a textbook, and listen to the teacher's lecture.
Huo Yun cherishes it very much. He did it fiercely when he was a child, but he didn't expect to realize it after he grew up.
It’s just that as I get older, learning becomes very difficult. I only learn ten words every night, but Huo Yun always forgets. What I learned yesterday is forgotten today, and what I learned today is returned to the teacher tomorrow.
This made him very distressed and made him feel useless.
Ten words are taught every day. After the words are taught, simple mathematics is taught. Arabic numerals, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all very simple contents.
In terms of mathematics, Huo Yun has a very good talent, and he can learn it very easily. Arabic numerals are very simple, making calculations very convenient.
"Okay, that's the end of today's math class~"
"Now, everyone, take out your history textbooks. What we are going to talk about today is the great and glorious history of Taizu expelling the Yuan captives and recovering the Han family cemetery~"
The brainwashing class has begun.
The teaching books were specially compiled by Liu Jin. They mainly told the history of the Ming Dynasty, and the focus was on portraying the great and upright side of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, the story of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, mainly tells the story of Zhu Yuanzhang expelling the barbarians and regaining the country. As for Zhu Di, it is all about his seven conquests in the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the defeat of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. As for how he came to be the emperor, it must be
It can't be said.
When it comes to Emperor Hongzhi, it mainly tells how the current Emperor Hongzhi is, how benevolent he is, how he loves the people like a son, how diligent and frugal he is, etc.
In short, in the textbooks here, every emperor of the Ming Dynasty was a god, and they were all incarnations of perfection. It was their honor to be loyal to the emperor, and it was their blessing that they had cultivated for several lifetimes.
At the same time, the Confucian teachings of the king and his ministers, the king wanted his ministers to die and the ministers had to die, were also plagiarized. Liu Jin also copied the teachings of later Japanese countries and established the loyalty and honor of soldiers in the military academy.
Loyalty and honor, this is the motto of the Ming Dynasty Royal Military Academy.
What Liu Jin wanted was to imprint these two things deeply into everyone's soul, to establish absolute loyalty to the Ming Emperor in their minds, and to regard the honor of the military as their own life.
Of course, Liu Jin also quietly included some private goods in it. In addition to emphasizing loyalty to the emperor, he also popularized patriotic ideas.
Patriotism means loving the land of China and Han civilization.
The civilization of the Han family is eternal, and the dynasties are constantly changing. Loyalty to the emperor and patriotism are equally important things, and they are also things that Liu Jin included in it.
These people who graduated from the Royal Military Academy of the Ming Dynasty should not just be the emperor's domestic slaves, but should also be the patron saints of this land and the guardians of Han civilization.
What we must be truly loyal to is not a certain family or a certain surname, but rather loyalty to this country, this nation, and this great civilization.