Chapter 340 Literacy classes and military academies
If it is just to train officers, to be honest, his literacy class is only for newly promoted illiterate officers, and there is no need to implement it in the entire army.
Now that the whole army has implemented it, the purpose is to wait for these soldiers to retire and change careers, return to the local areas and become staunch supporters of the Tang Dynasty, and lead ordinary people to support the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, the Tang Dynasty is currently using retired troops to maintain grassroots rule. A large number of officials at the village and town levels are retired soldiers. In order to establish administrative centers at the town and village levels, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty deliberately transferred many active-duty soldiers.
Soldiers served as the peace officers of each town and the robber catchers of each village.
Even the county patrol bureau, a newly established county-level organization, has its director appointed by a retired military officer.
However, there are relatively few senior officials, because that is the territory of civil servants. In the three county yamen organized by the cabinet, there are only a few positions for senior officials. The cabinet itself is too few. How can there be any spare positions?
They were given to the demobilized soldiers of the military. Therefore, the current demobilized soldiers of the military are generally limited to the two levels of town and village.
Literate soldiers are not only the guarantee of the future combat effectiveness of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but also the core pillar of the future Tang Dynasty's rule at the grassroots level, so Li Xuan will naturally not neglect them.
Since a literacy class had been set up for the illiterate officers in Tigan, Li Xuan simply did not stop doing it and directly expanded the scale of the literacy class. Anyway, a teacher can teach twenty or thirty people, and fifty or sixty people.
So when the army began to recruit new recruits and expanded, and a large number of illiterate officers appeared, the literacy classes of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were also launched in full swing. The teachers in the literacy classes were naturally not regular teachers, not even scholars. They were all in the army.
Some people who are literate themselves include officers and clerks, and occasionally a few people are transferred from the cabinet.
You are not required to master any advanced knowledge, as long as you are able to read and write and enlighten others, it is enough.
The scale of literacy classes is no longer as fragmented as before, but is organized and taught directly based on the military establishment. This lecture is the size of half a team or even a team.
Fortunately, the courses taught in the literacy class are very simple, just simple literacy and mathematics. In addition, it depends on the teacher's personal ability. A strong person will also be able to teach some common sense about astronomy and geography. If he is just a dabbler, he will naturally not have any knowledge.
Methods are taught too much in literacy classes.
But this is not important. This literacy class is just the most basic literacy and mathematics courses. If you want to continue learning later, there is also a martial arts school.
Today's martial arts schools are also becoming more formal. Enrollment is still open to all military and even social candidates. As long as you pass the basic cultural examination and pass the physical fitness, you can enroll and obtain the rank of warrant officer.
As soon as you enroll, you will be paid a salary. Although the salary is not much, it is no problem to maintain a living and have a drink occasionally.
There are not many courses in the martial arts school. On the one hand, there are cultural courses, including traditional Chinese studies, that is, the Four Books and Five Classics. In addition, there are also the most basic and even common-sense cultural courses such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and mechanics. The professional courses include
There are four major subjects: footwork, artillery, riding, and baggage.
The academic system is relatively short, only three months, and students are admitted once a month. Only the first month of the three-month academic system is purely theoretical study, and the second and third months are actually for serving in the army.
The deputy platoon leader said it was an internship, but in fact when it came time to fight, he was no different from other officers.
After the two-month internship period, those who pass the assessment will be officially awarded the rank of second lieutenant, and most of them will serve as deputy platoon leader or platoon leader.
A few of the top students will enter the combat department, battalion headquarters, and regiment headquarters to serve as adjutants, combat staff, etc., and will also enter the Royal Academy to continue their studies.
The academic system of the Imperial Academy was not customized before, but now the latest regulation is one year. Hao Bainian and the others, as the first batch of Imperial Academy students, have just graduated.
At the same time, in order to adapt to the rapid expansion of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, people constantly need to enter the Imperial Academy to study. Therefore, the Imperial Academy recruits students once every three months, and approximately twenty or thirty students will be recruited each time. This situation is not feasible in the short term.
It is very likely to change. When the New Army of the Tang Dynasty gets on the right track in the future, it may change, but of course it will not happen now.
In addition to Li Xuan himself, senior military officers such as Hao Bainian, Fang Xitong, and Li Chunjing have become the main lecturers in the Royal Academy.
Although the scale is still small and the strength is very weak, the military academy system of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has actually been established. To develop and grow, all it takes is time.
Just when Li Xuan and others were engaged in internal affairs in Xingquan Mansion, expanding their army, and even sending troops to attack Lianhe County and even surrounding areas, a group of adults in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, finally knew that a group of daring men had appeared in Xingquan Mansion.
The bandit army not only proclaimed themselves emperor, but also captured Xingquan City.
This matter has become a big deal!
The news of the fall of Xingquan Mansion almost reached Guiyang and spread throughout the city overnight.
"Damn it, what did Song Zhiwen do? Didn't he say that the puppet Tang bandit army was just a group of bandits and refugees? Even though it was a bit tricky, they could be wiped out as soon as the army arrived?" Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, was so angry that his beard was fluttering.
He got up and said, "How come it only took a few months for this pseudo-Tang traitor army to capture Xingquan Mansion? I will take action against him!"
Naturally, the group of civil and military officials below did not dare to say a word when the governor made an announcement. The governor of the Ming Dynasty had great power. Even the chief envoy standing below was commanding the envoys regarding punishments and inspections.
Even the senior officials did not dare to say such a word when Zhu Zhihai was angry, for fear of offending Zhu Zhihai, so he asked him to read a book, and the official hat was gone.
In the Ming Dynasty, the governor started from scratch; from temporary dispatch to permanent official; from the beginning of supervising taxation, regulating rivers, and rectifying border areas to controlling the three departments, holding the power of civil and military affairs; from self-recommendation by each ministry to nine
Qing Tingtui, in the end, the governor of a province became the real history of the feudal state, with such authority that he could almost protest with the central branch, well, if the governor was brave enough to rebel.
As the governor of a province, Zhu Zhihai was a second-grade official. He was definitely a local emperor bigger than the sky in Guizhou. Moreover, he had a bad temper and rarely showed any kindness to others. If it weren't for his bad temper, he would be offended.
As a person, he was born as a first-class Jinshi, and he should have been raised in the Hanlin Academy as a noble Hanlin. He would not have been thrown into Guizhou ten years ago.
, but he was unable to be transferred back to the capital.
Therefore, regardless of whether he is an official of both civil and military terms, if you offend him, he will not end well, because he has a bad temper, and more importantly, he can manage both civil and military affairs.
Today I heard that the puppet Tang bandits captured Xingquan Fucheng. Zhu Zhihai was almost furious. Whoever messes with him at this point will be unlucky! 8)