Officers from the Young Military Camp had little influence in the Tang Dynasty's military when the number was small in the early years, but now that the number has increased, their influence has gradually increased.
Although this kind of influence cannot be said to be huge at present, if we consider the future, then this potential influence will be very huge.
It was so big that Lieutenant General Lei Wan and Lieutenant General Hao Bainian both talked about this issue by chance.
Of course, they did not dare to say that the officers of the Young Army Camp were not good, nor did they say that graduates from the Young Army Camp were not allowed to join the army. If they dared to say so directly, it would basically be concluded that their political future was over, because no one would
I know that the Young Military Camp has an independent system, and this system has always been personally controlled by the royal family, and neither the cabinet nor the military can interfere.
To a certain extent, the officers of the Young Military Camp also represent part of the royal family.
So they were very tactful when they talked about it.
This tact allowed Li Xuan to put aside other concerns and start to seriously consider whether there was really a problem with his young military camp policy.
At the beginning, Li Xuan did not have many plans or hopes for the young military camp. The original goal was just to settle the war orphans and at the same time train these orphans to become part of the force directly under the royal family.
When it was still the Zhaoqing era, Li Xuan relied on the Young Army Camp to cultivate a group of young people who did not have too many scruples and were only loyal to him.
But the original idea was not to make the scale too large. This can be seen from the size of the small military camp at that time, which was only a few hundred people.
But later, with the expansion of the Tang Empire, the Young Army Camp also expanded. In addition to the main camp, there were also branch camps in various places. At present, basically every province has established a Young Army Camp branch, and the Young Army Camp students from various places
Altogether, there are already more than 10,000 people.
I don’t know what the scale will be like in the future, but now, after these tens of thousands of young military camp students graduate, a very small number of them will enter the Royal Institute of Technology, but the vast majority will enter politics or the military.
This means that not to mention the future, even among the current students, it is estimated that thousands of them will enter the military. According to the current system, everyone will start as a major when they first enter active service.
Damn it, how can the three armies of the Tang Dynasty have so many positions for them!
Not to mention, the scale of the Royal Academy is already small. Now it only recruits more than a hundred students each year, and less than two hundred. From now on, if there are hundreds or even thousands of young military camp students coming in every year, no matter how you think about it,
They all think it's nonsense.
But it would be even more nonsense to directly cancel the young military camps or prevent them from joining the army.
The military students in these young military camps have received military education since they were young. They know nothing but fighting.
And it would be a waste not to let them join the army, because no matter what, their personal qualities are quite good. The six-year education they received since childhood allowed them to have a lot of experience in military theory, cultural knowledge, and even before entering the Royal Academy.
Their physical fitness must exceed that of ordinary soldiers, so giving them up would undoubtedly be a waste of resources.
You must know that the royal family spent a lot of money on the Young Military Camp.
After much deliberation, Li Xuan finally made a decision for the young military camp. The first thing to do was to restrict the enrollment. It cannot be like now, where even an orphan can be recruited.
The original intention of Youjun Camp was not to be an orphanage, let alone to solve the problem of orphans in society. That was the task of relevant cabinet agencies and local government agencies, and had nothing to do with Youjun Camp.
The purpose of the existence of the Young Military Camp is to cultivate talents that meet Li Xuan's vision.
And this kind of talent is not only military talent, but also government talent. In addition, there are more important scientific talents.
Based on this, Li Xuan is planning to reform the admissions process. Whether they are orphans or children from ordinary families, as long as they have enough talent, they can enroll for free.
At the same time, graduates cannot directly enter the Royal Academy to study. They will become majors after completing their studies. This is too nonsense. Li Xuan didn't notice it before, but now he will naturally plug this loophole.
In response to various considerations, Li Xuan quietly carried out the second reform of the Youjun Camp. The last reform was to separate the science classes of the Youjun Camp General Camp and establish the Royal Institute of Technology.
The current second reform is even larger in scale.
At the same time, because the Young Military Camp, like the Royal Institute of Technology, is an institution that directly belongs to the royal family and is not under the management of the cabinet or the military, if Li Xuan wants to carry out any reforms, he does not need to alert outsiders. He can directly issue an imperial edict, and the Young Military Camp can
Reform can be carried out.
According to the decree, the Zhaoqing General Camp of the Young Military Camp will be split into the Royal Preparatory School and the Royal Youth Military Academy.
The infant military camps in each province and territory have undergone great changes in their enrollment and arrangements for graduates.
The provincial military camps will recruit students from the whole society. As long as they pass the rigorous entrance examination, they will be able to enroll. At the same time, the difficulty of the courses will be greatly improved. The starting content of the courses will basically be the level of each middle school.
Students with this level of education are often seventeen or eighteen years old.
However, the enrollment age for young military camps in various provinces is under twelve years old. In other words, they only want geniuses!
At the same time, more professional military education was abolished in the provincial military camps. Originally, Li Xuan wanted to set up junior military academies in each province, but found that if this was done, the number of people would be too large, and the same difficult arrangement situation would still occur, so he simply left only
A Royal Youth Military Academy, and the positioning of this Royal Youth Military Academy is the same as that of a martial arts school, both of which are designed to train middle- and lower-level officers.
As for the training of senior military officers, it is still the Royal Academy.
Li Xuan did not want to establish a military education system in addition to the existing military education system, which would appear to be unnecessary.
As for how to arrange the current military class students in the provincial military camps, Li Xuan also gave relevant plans. Senior students in the fifth and sixth grades will continue to study step by step, and then apply for martial arts schools or youth military schools.
As for middle- and low-level students, they actually don’t study much, so they can fail even if they take the exam. So how to arrange it?
Switch to liberal arts and science, then study hard and make progress every day!
To be honest, what the Tang Dynasty lacks now is not officers, because it already has a systematic education system for officers, which is not inferior to that of the Young Military Camp.
What they lack is a large number of high-quality liberal arts and science talents!
Because the current level of imperial examinations and primary and secondary schools in various places is so poor that it is difficult to undertake such an important task in a short time. Otherwise, more than 90% of the students at the Royal Institute of Technology would not be from the Young Military Camp.
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It’s not that we don’t recruit other students, it’s that the quality of other students is too poor and they can’t get in!