Military academy began to recruit students.

This is definitely a huge thing for many ordinary people.

Now everyone knows that students are well treated and have a high future. After entering school, you don’t have to worry about marrying a wife, and you may even have a good future.

Of course, this kind of good future is not worth mentioning for scholars with fame.

But for ordinary people, they are so envious that they are drooling.

As a result, the military academy released the results everywhere, and countless candidates came in a flock of them.

This time there are too many students recruited.

The military academy of the capital will be expanded directly.

The original students are now undergoing urgent training, just to train a large number of freshmen in the future as backbone and team officials after they enter school.

Fortunately, the source of troops is very abundant.

The Ming Dynasty never lacked people.

What's more, we are only recruiting more than 10,000 people at the moment.

In the previous few recruitment periods, a large amount of preparation materials were distributed for free, and they had been copied from the public for a long time.

Anyone who has a not stupid child at home is often willing to urge them to learn.

After all, it is easier to take the military academy than to take the subject exam. You can have the chance to learn the content yourself. If you can ask someone for advice, it will be safer.

Once you pass the exam, you will immediately receive a sufficient salary every month. If you enter the military academy, you will have meat every day and three meals a day, and your family will also be more generous.

In order to deal with this massive recruitment.

Zhang Jingyi directly sent people to Shandong, Baoding Prefecture in Northern Zhili, and in addition to Xuanfu and Fengqiu, Henan, all set up examination rooms.

The number of candidates in Shandong is extremely large. On the one hand, there are many strong men. On the other hand, the male men in Shandong are also relatively burly. The place is in the north and is relatively rich. Many men are very fascinated by military academies.

Fengqiu County, Henan Province, is the basic base of the Zhang family and has gathered a lot of people. It goes without saying that the military academy is attractive to them.

It is worth mentioning that Xuanfu, which is a military center, gathers a large number of children of military households.

The military households of this era, especially those at the bottom, have extremely low status, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as terrible, and are almost regarded as untouchable.

A large number of males cannot get rid of their status as military households, but their lives are hard to sustain. When they are admitted to the military academy, they have become the most convenient way to get promoted. Once they pass the exam, they can get rid of their military household registration immediately.

Therefore... in this world, the enthusiasm of military children to prepare for the exam is the highest, and people are forced to live a life worse than death, so they can only fight to the death.

There was even a scene where I went to work in the fields and studied with various copied learning materials at any time.

In the cold winter, many barefoot people were not covered in clothes, but they were still holding the inferior paper at any time, looking at the paper, and gestured on the ground with firewood sticks.

The stalls everywhere in the world were a group of low-level scholars who were usually responsible for writing letters to others. But now, these people have become in short supply, and they are surrounded by people every day, wanting to ask for advice.

It’s not that ordinary people don’t like to study.

And the outrageously low literacy rate is not something that no one wants to increase.

The essence is that the cost of learning the Four Books and Five Classics is too high. To gain fame, it is a completely extravagant hope for the people at the bottom!

Therefore... although the imperial examinations are fair, they are almost always controlled by proprietors.

For ordinary people who may not even be able to eat enough, there are many smart people among them, but the conditions are limited. Once they feel that they can change their destiny by working hard, they will become selfless.

What's more, Zhang Jingyi thoughtfully reduced the learning cost. Even if it was an exam, Chinese alone would only take 560 of the most commonly used words.

Arithmetic is also the simplest addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Astronomy and geography are common knowledge, and you don’t need to get full marks, just pass the exam.

With this most basic cultural knowledge, after entering the school, we will focus on learning different knowledge according to different teaching teams.

To a certain extent, the changes to a person are huge, especially in this era, and it is not just as simple as learning knowledge here. The most important thing is that people from all over the world gather together, eat and sleep together, and have more opportunities to communicate with each other. With communication, this indoctrination of knowledge becomes silent.

After all, in this era, most farmers may not be able to get out of a radius of thirty miles in their entire lives, and their greatest insight may be just to go to the market to go to the market.

Here, various cultures begin to collide and merge with each other, and with the instructor's teaching, the spiritual outlook of a person is completely different.

Recruiting personnel is a major event, but on the other hand, the work of building workshops cannot be relaxed!

In order to supply large amounts of military needs, more craftsmen should be recruited, and various military ordnances should be improved at the same time.

After being inspired by the short gun, the rear-loading cannons began to make great progress. Yellow gunpowder shells were better built than the short gun bullets. In addition... the rifle in the short gun was also used in the cannons.

In order to improve accuracy, the rifle of the gun is corrected again and again, not only that... For large-scale manufacturing, a large number of punching machines and milling machines have also begun to be used.

Nowadays, the quality inspection department has the greatest voice in ordnance manufacturing, which is also impossible. In this era, the accuracy of mechanical manufacturing is often unable to be completely consistent. In order to be relatively consistent, it takes a lot of time to continuously measure, and many measurement tools have also begun to emerge.

What craftsmen are most afraid of now is these quality inspection personnel. In many cases, the firearms that have been made through a lot of effort can only be invalidated in the end, and if they are invalid, they may have to be deducted part of the reward.

The real modern artillery... has begun to take shape now. The barrel of this thing is long and thin. After all,... the power of yellow gunpowder is huge enough, and there is no need to rely on the thick gunpowder to increase the amount of gunpowder.

The longer-slim gun barrel, coupled with yellow gunpowder bombs and rifles, have greatly improved both range and accuracy, and have reached an incomparable level with the iron cannons in the past.

Of course, this is actually the effect of improving metallurgical level. After all, steel in the past could not withstand such powerful yellow gunpowder explosion.

Zhang Jingyi deliberately began to draw backbones and set up an artillery teaching team.

Of course, everything we have now depends on money and people. Emperor Tianqi paid a lot and was not stingy at all. Although other places were very concerned, as long as they were paid to military academy and paid these craftsmen, they were never vague.

It can be said that he would give as much as he wanted. Zhang Jingyi compiled the budget, so he was almost too lazy to ask in detail.

As for manpower, the Ming Dynasty never lacked manpower or skilled craftsmen. As long as the money was given enough, Zhang Jingyi provided them with direction, which exempted the project from the trial and error costs of gun development!

This kind of breakthrough is extremely rapid, with a bit of a rush to make progress after the industrial revolution.

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Nanjing.

On the Qinhuai River, a graceful woman was holding wine and slowly entering the boat building of the pleasure boat.

The guests in the building sat down, but the ordinary singer had already been dismissed. The guests here held up their mouths, but no one drank.

The woman stepped forward with her lotus feet naked and poured wine for the guests one by one.

But in the past, when guests saw this woman, they would have to make fun of her. However, today, the woman felt that the atmosphere here was different, so the woman was very conscious and said nothing, and just kept silently passing among the guests.

These guests are obviously often here, and this pleasure boat is the property of one of the guests, so the people here will not avoid this woman.

But at this moment, someone said: "Will the court not hear about the incident in Jiangnan when Mr. Li was taken? In my opinion... Your Majesty may intend to purify Jiangnan."

Another man said, "But it may not be necessary. The law does not punish the masses. Jiangnan is thousands of miles away from the capital. This court is beyond the reach. Now... the court is worried about internal and external troubles, and there are bandits everywhere. This alone is enough to make the court frustrated. How dare you care about Jiangnan's affairs?"

"But it may not be. Could it be that brother forgot that Your Majesty and the thief Zhang purged Liaodong?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the guests stopped talking.

"Cough cough..." At this time, someone coughed.

The sound seemed abrupt, and everyone looked at the person who coughed.

The coughing man said lightly: "What are the plans of the court? Let's not ask for it for now. The problem lies with us. Over the years... hundreds of local civil and military officials have been placed in various parts of Jiangnan. Are these local parents willing to be with us?"

Someone said, "Of course, if we were not for us, how could they have the black hats they have today? Besides, if we really have to investigate thoroughly...the most unlucky one is them."

"That's good." The man smiled and stroked his beard: "As long as I can't wait."

At this moment, a small boat approached the pleasure boat, and a man in a straw raincoat came up from the boat.

The man hurried into the boat building, then went to the hall, bowed and said, "The Lords... I have recently received an urgent report. Your Majesty ordered Zhou Yingqiu, the Minister of Personnel, and the Right Deputy Censor, to come to Jiangnan."

As soon as these words were said, a dead silence appeared on the ship.

After a while of slowing down, someone said, "Can Zhou Yingqiu be bought by this person?"

"This person is an eunuch party. I expected that this time the Minister of Personnel came here in person... I'm afraid he was holding..."

"Oh... it's here after all. It seems... this is a goal to find the dagger..." Someone couldn't help but sigh, with a faint worry in his voice.

"Zhou Yingqiu and I were in the same year. We might as well go to see him at that time and see what he is thinking."

The person who had coughed before said coldly: "No need to pay a visit..."
Chapter completed!