Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 215 The Battle Is Coming
The academic work of Daming University of Science and Technology is proceeding in an orderly manner.

As for the opening of this new school, many people just watched the excitement.

After all, most of the students who come to learn are the children of ordinary people, or the children of officials of His Highness Liao Wang.

Therefore, for those outsiders, they all felt that the students cultivated by this school were all the confidantes of His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

For this reason, in Yingtian Mansion, there are still many supervisory censors, who wrote impeachment letters saying that His Royal Highness King Liao cultivated party members and so on.

If it was someone else, he would be panicked to death, and immediately wrote a letter of apology or something.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards Zhu Qi is naturally good, needless to say.

You said that others rebelled, Zhu Yuanzhang believed it, but if you said that Liao King Zhu Qi would rebel, Zhu Yuanzhang would never believe it, and Zhu Biao did the same.

Those who wrote to impeach His Highness Liao Wang naturally had nothing to eat.

But now, there are not many people impeaching His Royal Highness King Liao in the officialdom.

After all, during the Hu Weiyong case, many officials who were against His Royal Highness King Liao had already been pulled down.

Most of the officials arrested by Jin Yiwei were those who impeached His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

Of course Zhu Qi didn't do this intentionally, but in the eyes of outsiders, it seemed that His Royal Highness King Liao, the leader of Jinyiwei, was eliminating dissidents.

Even so, Zhu Qi's reputation in the officialdom is quite good.

Not only because of his many meritorious deeds on the battlefield, he has a great reputation for defending his home and country.

And in the previous Kongyin case, because of Zhu Qi, many people were able to save their lives and wash away their grievances.

However, some smart people are also the first to show an unusual taste.

His Royal Highness the King of Liao has always been ahead of everyone, and will never do anything for no reason.

His Royal Highness King Liao had taken the lead in all the battlefields before, but now he has devoted himself to education and founded the Daming University of Science and Technology.

Moreover, he was still in the Imperial College before, creating courses such as mind learning and mathematics.

Now Mathematics has also been paid special attention by Zhu Yuanzhang, so those people are thinking whether there are some new gadgets in Daming University of Science and Technology, just like learning by heart.

If this is the case, then it is better to learn as soon as possible.

In fact, there were indeed some people who rushed to Liaoyang, Liaodong for the first time, wanting to learn the contents of His Royal Highness Daming University of Science and Technology.

But it was shut out just after arriving at the gate, for no other reason, because Daming University of Science and Technology is geared towards children.

It's not that Zhu Qi looks down on those older people and thinks they can't learn these things.

It's because those scholars have long been accustomed to the Four Books and Five Classics, and hold a disdainful and suspicious attitude towards other things.

Take the saying that the sky is round and the earth is round. If you are suddenly told in school that the earth is round, there is the sun, and there is the universe outside the sun.

Just listening to this argument, it is estimated that I will laugh in my heart.

And Zhu Qi accepted those children because they were all like blank paper.

As long as they are taught well, it is the fastest to absorb and understand this knowledge, and it is also the easiest to cultivate their three views.

Originally, the places for students were already very limited, and if adults who were more difficult to train came to study, wouldn't that be a problem with the brain?

Zhu Qi would not treat those people who went through the back door to find connections or came to be reporters.

Although they were not allowed to enter the school to study, there are still many students in the school after all.

And the textbooks are all ready-made, those curious people managed to get a few textbooks.

And after seeing the content in the textbook, they were completely confused. Take biology as an example.

The purpose is to let the students study insects, watch the changes of silkworm chrysalis, etc. For those who study these things, shouldn’t researching insects be done by farmers or women who raise silkworms?

Why do you let these scholars do this kind of thing?

In addition to biology, there is also a course called geography, and this geography course has given them a lot of recognition.

It is about mountains, rivers, and some things related to water conservancy. Although they are relatively simple, these scholars also know them.

But after seeing the so-called geocentric theory, everyone was a little confused. Let’s not talk about this theory, can you understand it? After reading it from beginning to end, it seems a bit fabricated.

In addition, the two courses such as Chinese and mathematics also made them quite strange.

In the Chinese class, the Four Books and the Five Classics were not taught directly, but some poems and songs were listed, and then we exchanged words to learn to recognize characters. There were also some strange letters, which seemed to be called Pinyin to aid memory, while mathematics words were some weird ones. Numbers, it seems to be called Arabic numerals or something?
They didn't know very well, but they were shocked.

But after walking around, I only have one idea about those smart people at Daming University of Science and Technology, which is too weird.

However, leaving aside the content taught in the school, at least the students are very happy to see that they are living happily in the school and learning all kinds of knowledge. Those scholars are also very gratified.

His Royal Highness King Liao deserves to have the world in his heart. Most of the students in this school are poor children.

I heard that if you work here, you can work part-time and study part-time. Only His Royal Highness Liao Wang can do this.

Those who had gone to the field for investigation naturally praised His Royal Highness King Liao after returning to the court.

As for the things learned in Daming University of Science and Technology, there is nothing special about it.

Things they don't understand don't find it useful, and they don't tell outsiders.

It's just that when someone asked, is there a new Confucian theory as powerful as the study of the mind?

Naturally they shook their heads, but of course they didn't.

Chinese class also learns poems and songs, and then there is basic reading and comprehension of these things, which is not difficult for them.

For those who have studied the Four Books and Five Classics, Chinese lessons are naturally not difficult.

However, Zhu Qi did not rely solely on his own modern teaching experience to open Chinese.

The greater purpose of setting up Chinese language is not only to enable those students to read and recognize characters, but also to understand the principles of being a human being and the way of doing things. This is also something that is often mentioned in the Analects of Confucius.

It's just that Zhu Qi didn't regard him as the whole of learning, but taught everyone in various short stories, which are vivid and vivid, and they are not crooked, so that everyone can't understand.

As for things like composition, it is estimated that everyone can learn it casually.

After all, there were already many templates for writing articles in the Ming Dynasty.

Writing articles in ancient times paid more attention than modern writing.

If you want to write stereotyped essays like those scholars, these children will not learn anything.

He could already occupy all of their time just learning those formats.

In addition, there are interest courses such as physical education and art. Naturally, physical education is a course that everyone must take.

And courses like art are purely hobby courses. Fortunately, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are also things that literati and poets must learn.

Therefore, the ministers who came to check had no other excuses.

On the contrary, seeing a group of children in physical education class running around in action games and the like completely dispelled their doubts.

I thought this school was opened to train dead soldiers for His Royal Highness Liao, but now it seems that there are not as many people as I thought.

But apart from school matters, Zhu Qi has more worries about the frontline war.

Goryeo's side is naturally a mess, and there is no need to take care of it for the time being.

But it's different on Beiyuan's side, although it has been arranged for Aza to set up his stronghold in Yinaiji.

But this stronghold has just been set up, and Beiyuan has already gathered heavy troops to defend and attack.

The pressure on Aza Shilili can be said to be quite great.

Originally, Zhu Qi planned to let Aza face the invading enemy from Beiyuan alone.

However, after hearing the information from Jin Yiwei, he temporarily dismissed this idea.

Because Wang Baobao of Bei Yuan was determined to take Yi Nai Ji back.

An army of [-] was gathered and marched towards Yi Nai Ji from the desert.

It is estimated that in the early spring of the 12th year of Hongwu, it will be able to reach the city of Yinaiji.

You must know that this is also set in the desert outside the pass.

There are no walls or strong fortresses, and the terrain allows them to carry out effective defense.

If the 10 army really came, relying on Aza's strength alone, it would be absolutely impossible to resist.

I am afraid that Yi Naiji, who was finally won, will have to give it up.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Daming does not send troops to help Aza lose his life.

In fact, Wang Baobao was certain that Daming would not send troops.

Because of Daming's strength at this time, he had already fought Bei Yuan for a long time.

This is the difference between farming peoples and nomadic peoples. If you fight for too long, it will be very exhausting for the world.

Because the farming nation is rooted in the land under its feet, if there is no time to farm, it will be a very big blow to the farming nation.

But the nomads are different. As long as they have grass and water, their cattle and sheep will grow on their own, and they don’t need to take care of them.

And the objects they can rob are not only Daming, there are also various objects that can be robbed in the West.

So these nomads are used to fighting and fighting all day long, they don't know how tired they are at all, and they can also capture various populations from other tribes.

The legacy of the Mongol Empire is still very rich.

Although the Central Plains area was lost, and there were various riots in the West, at least the Western market remained stable.

Therefore, we can get a steady stream of support from the West. In fact, the first to gain independence in the Mongolian Empire is the Central Plains, and the Han people who established the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the targets of Ming's battle were not only those ethnic groups on the Beiyuan grassland.

There is also the huge territory established by the Mongol Empire in the west.

This is also one of the reasons why later in history, after Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, Timur, who occupied Central Asia, threatened to enter the Ming Dynasty and re-establish the Yuan Dynasty.

However, this 10 army is all the troops Wang Baobao can produce now.

Zhu Qi was also taken aback when he heard the news. He originally thought that Wang Baobao would not be able to use his full strength for Naha's Liao land. After all, his base was still in the desert grassland.

But looking at it now, Wang Baobao obviously didn't think so.

Naturally, he didn't have any good ideas, but after the news reached Yingtian Mansion, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly convened a meeting of ministers.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's temper, it is naturally impossible to admit cowardice in such a situation.

He has never counseled anyone in his life, and when he encounters something, he just says one word and it's over.

Zhu Yuanzhang quickly issued an order for the surrounding generals to move closer to Yi Naiji with their legions.

It is obvious that a decisive battle with Beiyuan is going to be fought here, and the fourth Northern Expedition has quietly started at this moment without knowing it.

And the core protagonist is naturally on Zhu Qi's side, even though Aza lost his face on the bright side, fighting Bei Yuan's monstrous anger by himself.

But isn't the one being leaned on in Azashili the Liao King of Liaodong?
So the pressure, unknowingly, suddenly fell to Zhu Qi's side.

And Zhu Qi was also very nervous when he knew that the army was gathering here and was going to confront Bei Yuan head-on.

Although he has already had many combat experiences, but now he is fighting with a large group of tens of thousands.

Zhu Qi was still very nervous, but fortunately, he already had quite a few famous generals under his command.

Zhang Yu and Zhu Nengke are both famous generals in history, not to mention the veteran Ma Yun and other well-trained lieutenants.

With them assisting him by his side, Zhu Qi at least has a little confidence.

What's more, Xu Da and the others have already leaned over. If there is a fight, the one who really has to make a decision must not be himself, the king of Liao, but Xu Da, a marshal who has experienced many battles.

So thinking of this, Zhu Qi relaxed a lot.

By December of the 11th year of Hongwu, when every household was filled with the atmosphere of the upcoming Spring Festival, 12 people had already gathered in the border of Liaodong.

And ready to head towards Yi Naiji at any time, and this is all the Ming army that can come over in a short time.

After these Ming troops arrived at the border of Liaodong, the first thing they had to solve was the problem of food and supplies.

Fortunately, the seaway has been opened, so there will be a steady stream of sea-going ships to transport all kinds of grain, grass and luggage from the Jiangnan area to the border of Liaodong, and there will be no mistakes.

And Liu Bowen is even better at logistics. When he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight in the north and south, Liu Bowen was in charge of logistics. At this time, he handed over all the logistics to Liu Bowen, and Zhu Qi felt a lot easier.

And after everything is ready, as the first snow of winter slowly melts, the big battle is coming.

(End of this chapter)