Chapter 344 Come for the Living Water from the Source (Part 2)
Arrangement of Arab scholars can only be regarded as Chen Ke's spare time activity. His serious job is at the Royal Martial Arts Academy.
Nowadays, the martial arts academy is no longer what it used to be. With the attention of the officials and Mr. Zeng, the yamen no longer dare to act against the will.
Under the intervention of Xianggong Bao, the imperial court once again made up the arrears of silver grain and salary. The Spring Festival is approaching, and the teachers and students of the Martial Arts Academy can finally have a comfortable and prosperous year.
What made them even more delighted was that the imperial court announced that starting from the next martial arts examination, the original requirement that only two senior officials must be recommended to take the examination will be changed to only those who have graduated from the martial arts academy to take the examination, and the number of martial arts scholars will also be greatly increased.
Of course, the martial arts academy has also raised the bar and requires passing strict entrance exams to be among them.
However, Zhang Zhen, Mo Wen and other seventeen martial arts students who persisted to the end do not need to take the exam again...
After years of perseverance, the moment finally dawned, how could the teachers and students not burst into tears of gratitude? Naturally, Chen Ke’s impression in their hearts completely changed... It turned out that the court judge had been actively working for the martial arts academy and their future.
Running around, just never said it.
Now looking back at Chen Ke's initial abuse, it seems that it has become a deliberate training, in order to let them go through more hardships. In a word, as much as they hated him at the beginning, they love him now.
Before the enrollment begins next spring, there are only these seventeen students in the martial arts academy. The total number of officials and teachers is more than fifty. Chen Ke did not let the teaching officials herd the sheep because of the small number of students, but asked them to perform their own duties.
assume their respective responsibilities.
So, this winter, six branches of the martial arts academy were established... Although there are less than three students in each academy on average, morning classes, exercises, teaching, training, and evening classes are carried out step by step every day, without any slack.
The idle faculty and staff, under the organization of Chen Ke, compiled the school charter, teaching syllabus, revised teaching materials, and prepared intensively for classes to start immediately after enrollment in the coming year. There was no leisure time at all.
Chen Ke and his two colleagues also had a clear division of labor. He was responsible for teaching, while Tong Yan was on the left, Li Weixian, the envoy to the West Pavilion Gate, was in charge of personnel, Tong Yan was on the right, and Wang Zhongzheng, the envoy of Yanfu Palace, was in charge of academic affairs.
These two co-convicts have great backgrounds. Li Weixian, also known as Baochen, is the son of Li Zhaoliang and the grandson of Li Jiqian. He is a descendant of a well-known family. He served in the third class under the influence of his father. Later, he became the chief minister of the pavilion.
He moved to the west as an envoy to the pavilion. He has always been quiet, but no one dares to doubt his energy.
Wang Zhongzheng, courtesy name Xilie, was a native of Kaifeng. Because of his father's appointment, he joined the inner Huangmen and moved to Yanfu Palace to study poetry and calculus. He soon showed himself to be extremely intelligent. Officials praised his talent and ordered him to serve around him.
During the Qingli Guard Incident, Zhongzheng held a bow and arrows to supervise the guards to capture and shoot, and the thieves were immediately captured. He was only eighteen years old at that time and became famous.
After the rebellion was over, he rose to prominence, and soon moved to Dongtou to serve as an official, and then went abroad... In order to prevent eunuchs from monopolizing power, the Song Dynasty not only set up a separate eunuch rank. It also stipulated that servants should only be promoted to Dongtou to serve as officials.
If you want to be promoted again, you must leave the palace and join the Ministry of Civil Service and become a member of the civil service system.
In the past few years, he had been doing official business in Fuyan and Huanqing Road, dividing and managing affairs on the east side of Hedong. This time he was recalled by the officials to judge the martial arts academy together. This shows the importance the officials attach to the martial arts academy.
The personalities of the two are also completely different. Li Weixian comes from a famous family, he is suave and always has a smile on his face, which makes people feel like spring breeze. Wang Zhongzheng is taciturn. He always has a straight face and squinted eyes. He seems to be scrutinizing you all the time.
It makes people shudder.
Nominally, the two co-judges are Chen Ke's subordinates, but Chen Ke has no power to order them, and any official document cannot be effective without their countersigns. So in fact, these two co-judges are the same as him, the court judge.
, co-ordinate officers who are not subordinate to each other.
Of course, if Chen Ke's official rank and qualifications far exceed those of the two, he can suppress them and let one person have the final say. But whether Li Weixian or Wang Zhongzheng, they are all carefully selected by all parties to be able to compete with him.
It is no exaggeration to say that many people are waiting to see the three of them fight together, not believing that they can become a team.
But what surprised them was that after a short period of getting along, the three of them got along very harmoniously. They always spoke with the same voice, without the slightest hint of internal strife.
However, 'like a person who drinks water, he knows whether it is warm or cold'. The three of them are all well-educated people. They get along well with each other on the surface, so there is no problem, but they are still far from the stage of heart-to-heart communication.
It's easy to say that Wang Zhongzheng may have been instructed by the officials to cooperate with Chen Ke as much as possible, so he never behaved in any excessive way.
But what about Li Weixian's background? Even if he wanted to live in peace with Chen Ke, if those elders who watched him grow up, from childhood to adulthood, followed his path and wanted to enter the school without taking the exam, Li Weixian simply couldn't refuse. In fact, Li Weixian couldn't refuse.
I had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask Chen Ke if I could find a way to be accommodating.
Naturally, Chen Ke would not refuse him face to face. He said, "In fact, I have many requests from me, and many ministers have recommended me, which no one can refuse."
Li Weixian felt the same problem and said: "Yes, we have no time to ask others for help? If we reject them all, how will we see anyone in the future?"
"But if we get there right away, we will use our connections to open the back door." Chen Ke sighed and said, "This martial arts academy will inevitably become another Imperial Academy."
Li Weixian was from the capital, so he naturally knew that the Imperial College was full of unlearned and incompetent officials' children. All the academic rules and precepts were just for show. The professors and teachers did not dare to take care of them. It was a mess and it was hopeless.
He didn't want to end up like that in his first serious job. So he said worriedly: "Let's see if there is a way to get the best of both worlds?"
"Let me think about it..." Chen Ke said slowly.
This consideration lasted for ten days and a half. Seeing that the New Year was approaching, and visiting relatives and friends during the New Year, if you were not sure yet, you would inevitably be in trouble. So that morning, Li Weixian blocked Chen Ke in the check-in room.
He rambled on for a while, then asked with a smile: "How are you thinking about that matter?"
"That matter." Chen Ke didn't pretend to be stupid, nodded and said, "I just wanted to discuss it with you."
Li Weixian secretly cursed, "If I don't look for you, you won't look for me either!" But with a smile on his face, he said, "No need to discuss, I'm all ears."
"Brother Baochen has said it," Chen Ke said with a smile, "I'll start by throwing some light on it and telling my own opinion."
"First of all, we must train qualified officers for the Song Dynasty." Li Weixian nodded, and then heard Chen Ke say: "When China was strong, the Western Regions were all hidden, let alone Youyan. Now the Li family in Longxi has rebelled.
For a long time, Khitan Yelu even considered himself the Northern Dynasty, which was really a disgrace to the warriors of this dynasty!"
"In fact, Youyan is difficult to recover. Xixia's rebellion is not a crime of war, and the military personnel cannot bear the main responsibility..." Li Weixian said with a wry smile: "We brothers have no taboos when talking. I think Brother Zhongfang also knows that our Song Dynasty
Warrior, how sad isn’t it?”
"Well..." Chen Ke nodded and said, "Are you going to continue to be so sad until you are trampled by a foreign cavalry?"
"Alas..." This is the lingering shadow of the Song Dynasty people forever. Li Weixian could only continue to smile bitterly: "This is not something we can change."
"I don't say nonsense like 'How will you know if you don't try'." Chen Ke said solemnly: "But the Royal Martial Arts Academy was only the first step in the military reform of the Song Dynasty. How much high hopes did the officials and ministers place on it?
If it becomes a puddle of mud here, how can the follow-up reforms be carried out?" After a pause, he said: "Well, actually, I don't have enough confidence in the military reform. Maybe there will be no follow-up, but this stick cannot hit us.
In our hands! Otherwise, we will have to bear the responsibility for the failure of the Song Dynasty’s military reform! Maybe in the history books in the future, we will also be blamed for the subjugation of the country and the annihilation of the species!"
Chen Ke's words made Li Weixian break into a sweat in the winter. He had never thought about this issue. Although it felt a bit far-fetched, it also made sense...
Then I heard Chen Ke continue: "It would be easy to understand if there were civil servants trying to gain access to me. What makes me unbelievable is that the generals of the Song Dynasty, who should have been the strongest supporter of military reform, actually did the same thing!"
As he spoke, he looked at Li Weixian and said, "It is true that the military reform may affect some interests of the generals in the short term, but in the long run, who will benefit? Have they not thought about being able to compete with the civilian officials?"
"This..." Li Weixian's wry smile froze: "Zhong Fang talked about military reform. I don't even know what military reform is."
"If we draw out the blueprint as soon as we come up," Chen Ke sneered, "Do you think the civil servants will agree?"
"That's true, they are guarding us like thieves," Li Weixian nodded: "But, Brother Zhong Fang, you also said that you don't have enough confidence?"
"Any reform must have firm supporters, and the strength cannot be weaker than the opponents, otherwise it is doomed to fail." Chen Ke spread his hands and said: "How can a military reform that is not even supported by the generals succeed?"
"That's what I'm saying..." Li Weixian took out his handkerchief and wiped his sweat and said, "If the reform can really succeed, of course they will support it."
"You can't blame them for this matter," Chen Ke said with a sincere face: "The people who should support us don't support us because we didn't communicate well." He said with a smile: "So Brother Baochen, you still have to do a good job.
their job."
"Yeah." Li Weixian said, scratching his head, and said with a helpless smile: "Brother Zhong Fang, you took me to the ditch."
"Brother Baochen, I am absolutely telling no lies." Chen Ke said in a deep voice: "You might as well make it clear to them and let them in, okay! But after entering the gate of King Wucheng's temple, there will be no princes, princes or grandsons anymore. They are all
Ordinary martial arts students must strictly abide by school rules and disciplines. If there is any violation, they will not be lenient. If they can agree, they will come. If you don't want your son to suffer, don't take this road as soon as possible, otherwise you will be expelled and your face will be ugly."
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It hurts so much...
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