Chapter 84 - Lectures on Martial Arts - Preparation
The second thing he noticed was the pirates.
Lao Zhu did not agree to Ban Liming's request in the memorial to vigorously clear out the pirates, but only ordered the coastal guards to strictly guard against the invasion of pirates.
But Yunxi pays great attention to and supports this. Of course, he knows that pirates cannot pay all the money, especially now that the Ming Dynasty does not allow sea trade to exist. Everything is smuggled out, and serious businessmen can only
I can become a 'pirate'.
As a person of later generations, of course I am opposed to Lao Zhu's "sea ban" policy. Tariffs are a very important tax source for the country. Let's not talk about later generations, just talk about ancient times. A considerable part of the taxes in the Song Dynasty were tariffs, and the same was true for the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
, a large chunk of government revenue was lost in the Ming Dynasty; when the sea was opened in the late Ming Dynasty, government affairs were controlled by civilian officials, and countries that opened the sea could not collect much tariffs.
As a modern person, although he has never worked in the customs or a trading company related to foreign trade, because he is more interested in this aspect and has read some information before, he can always come up with something better than the Song Dynasty or the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
The customs system is a superior system.
But these can only be considered in detail later. Things have to be done one by one, and he does not have time to do it now. Because after the exchange of treasure banknotes to stabilize the currency value was temporarily successful, he was told another thing,
It's about managing the 'service officer training course' that will officially start in February next year.
Ever since he proposed to bypass such a 'training course' at the Double Ninth Festival banquet, he and the officials from the Ministry of War had already submitted the instructions as early as that month; according to Lao Zhu's wishes, they established battle rules, archery, horsemanship, and martial arts.
There are ten courses in total, including geography, art of war, tactics, command and history, Chinese language, and foreign vassals. Among them, the course of foreign vassals was insisted upon by Yunxi, because he would use troops abroad in the future, so these future students should be taught
Mid-level and senior military officers know a little about other countries.
In addition, water and land subjects are divided into two subjects, so the content of the two subjects is different in the four courses of command, geography, archery and horse strategy.
The history class has been decided by Yun Xi to be in charge, because the history class includes the content of "ideological and political education" for officers. Others have no idea how to do it. It happened to be Yun Xi who proposed it, so everyone suggested that Yun Xi should be in charge.
If you are responsible for this course and it is of no use in the end, it is your own business, Mr. Zhu's, and has nothing to do with us ministers.
There is no fixed teacher for the regular battle class. Renowned generals such as Lan Yu and Feng Sheng take turns to attend the class. The archery and horse class and the martial arts class are selecting people who are proficient in bow and horse and have strong martial arts skills among the 48 guards in the capital. The final selection has not yet been made.
Geography classes are taught by military generals in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion who have been to fight in many places and are literate. Because it is impossible for a military general to have fought in all places, the teacher is not fixed.
The art of war course is taught by officials from the Ministry of War. It is expected to be a paper-based course, which is probably of little use. The course on combat strategy and command is similar to the combat example course, but the focus of the teaching is different, and it is also taught by famous generals who have experienced battles in turns. The Chinese language is
Many generals who taught them how to write were people who could not read a single Chinese character. Lao Zhu highly praised both civil and military skills, and Yunxi also believed that literacy was very important in institutionalizing the army, so he also supported it. The foreign vassal classes were organized by the Ministry of Rites and the Lifan Academy
For the officials to talk about some affairs of the foreign vassal, it is the most ignored subject, but Yunxi has decided to improve the status of this subject after he ascends the throne.
Moreover, Yunxi, in accordance with the habits of later generations, required that geography, art of war, strategy and command courses should have a complete textbook and a complete teaching plan. This is very worrying for the teachers who are responsible for these courses. The textbooks are always
You can fool someone, but the complete teaching plan has never had such rules since ancient times. The teacher himself has control over everything he teaches.
The generals who wanted to be teachers in the tactics and command courses went to Lao Zhu one by one to complain. After hearing this, Lao Zhu came to discuss with Yunxi. Yunxi finally agreed that the tactics and command courses could not have teaching plans, but they must be informed in advance.
What should be taught every year, and he must ensure that it is completed before the year is over. Because these two courses are taught by different generals in turn, Yunxi can already predict that the person who teaches first will not be able to teach what he said he wanted to teach.
I’ve finished teaching you about taking up other people’s time.
As for the teachers in the geography and military art classes, their arms couldn't twist their thighs, so they could only write textbooks honestly and rack their brains to think about teaching plans.
Yunxi set an example by writing textbooks and teaching plans for his history classes in advance. This was not a difficult task for Yunxi. Even if he had not taught others, he had always been taught by others, and he would still be taught by others in later generations.
I've thought about taking the teacher's certificate exam, so I've learned about this.
In addition, for other courses, except for the regular courses, you must inform them before the start of each year's course what they will teach, and ensure that they must be taught before the end of the year. There will be penalties for those who fail to teach.
This training class, which was named "Da Ming Martial Arts Lecture Hall" by Lao Zhu himself, was of course named by Lao Zhu himself as the "principal" of martial arts. This name was proposed by Yunxi; Yunxi was of course the "vice-principal" in charge.
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This martial arts hall will be a fixed unit in the future, so we can't just find a place. Fortunately, the capital is big enough, so we found a place in the west of the city and are building new teaching classrooms and school buildings. Because in addition to selecting teachers, Lao Zhu
Basically, the boss of the city left his hand and left everything to Yunxi. Therefore, the teaching classrooms and school buildings were designed according to Yunxi's wishes, and the appearance was close to the appearance of the "Yunchang Lecture Hall" he had seen in Kunming, but this
There was no cement at that time, so I just planned to paint it with a layer of gray paint.
Regarding the number of students enrolled, because this was a new thing in the Ming Dynasty and had an "experimental" interest, all those whose fathers had died and who were anxious to apply for the job still followed the original method; this time the students were all fathers
Shang Zai, the descendants of unserviced generals who are between the age of sixteen and under twenty-two, decided to enroll students in ten classes with thirty people in each class, two classes for navy and one for land.
There are eight classes in the division, with a total of 300 people.
Originally, Yunxi thought that this martial arts hall was a new thing, and he might not be able to recruit people if he signed up voluntarily, so he was already prepared to share the quota; but he didn't expect that the news of enrollment had just spread, and he was asking people everywhere to ask him to do it.
There are already many generals in the capital whose children have entered this martial arts hall. When Yunxi once left the palace to go to Chang's Mansion, Chang Sen told him that there were already no less than two or three people who came to him to ask for connections.
There are ten people, and these are just those who are high enough to see Chang Sen; because Chang Jizong is now serving as a Qianhu in Jinwu Guards, countless people who think they have some friendship with Chang Jizong have come to see Chang Jizong.
Zong interceded.
Yunxi thought about it later and discovered the problem, because he was the 'vice principal' and a teacher of a course! Even if he couldn't learn anything, his family could still make up for it; and he had a relationship with the emperor's grandson. The opportunity may only come once, so why not cherish it? So everyone is trying their best to get their children into the martial arts hall.
After discovering this, Yunxi gave up the original enrollment plan and changed the allocation quota to each province: 20 quotas for each of the twelve chief ministers, 20 quotas for the 48 guards in the capital of Zhili area, and 20 quotas for other prefectures. Indicators, there are twenty indicators of titles, which are required to be the children of hereditary generals who command Qianshi and above or non-hereditary military commanders who command Tongzhi and above. Among them, the sixty indicators of the Navy are also included, and the Guangzhou coastal area East, Fujian, Zhejiang, Zhili, Shandong, and Peiping each have six quotas.
There were also people who came directly to Yunxi to intercede. Yunxi found that these were not easy to evade. They were all powerful people. For example, Xu Huizu came to tactfully want his son to enter the martial arts hall. How could he refuse directly? Lao Zhudu There was no way to refuse directly, so Lao Zhu, Geng Bingwen's son, told Yunxi privately to let him in; there were also Li Jinglong's son, Chang Sheng's son (that is, Chang Jizong), Deng Yu's son, and Feng Sheng's son. Can Fu Youde's son not be allowed to come? In the end, all the quotas for the Duke's family were predetermined, and Yunxi had to come up with five of the twenty quotas allocated to the capital to be enough.
Because I was afraid that it would be useless, the school system was changed from three years to two years. However, the two years at this time can be used as the next three years, because except for the winter vacation from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month, there is no summer vacation every year. There are no weekends off, only breaks on the fifth, fifteenth and twenty-fifth day of every month.
This is what Yunxi tried his best to get from Lao Zhu, because there are only three official holidays in the Ming Dynasty: Wanshou Festival (the emperor's birthday), New Year's Eve, and the Winter Solstice; in addition, you can take leave on your own birthday and your parents' birthdays, except for There are no other holidays.
The course schedule is to get up at the beginning of every morning, first practice martial arts and horse arching, and rotate every day; then have a meal at the beginning of the morning, and the first class at the beginning of the morning (8 a.m.). Yunxi arranges it to be a big class similar to that of a modern university. The system consists of one class of five cups of tea (50 minutes), two classes as one big class, with a break of one cup of tea each in the middle, and ends in the morning at almost quarter past noon (11:50).
The first class is in the afternoon at 5:50 p.m., which is equivalent to modern times. Then if it is summer and it is still early before dark, some activities will be arranged. However, Yunxi is still imagining it, and there is no specific one. Arrangement. In ancient times, people did not arrange classes in the evening and could move freely by themselves, but they were not allowed to leave the martial arts hall except on holidays.
There are many other rules, hundreds of them, and Yunxi really worked hard to run this martial arts hall well.
In fact, if it were Commander Yunxi in the past, he would not have been able to come up with all of this in more than 20 days from the end of October to the end of November, even if he had similar templates in his mind. It's impossible; and it has to be combined with the current concrete reality, and he can't do it alone.
Fortunately, Lao Zhu arranged for him to arrange the Zhanshiyuan, and finally the personnel were selected at the beginning of November.