I, Zhu Youjian: the first prodigal son of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 42

"Mao Aiqing, I would like to worship you as the commander-in-chief, would you like to?" Zhu Youjian asked with a smile.

As long as he can prosper, he dares to use it by anyone, and he is willing to award it to any official. Anyway, the black hat of the Ming Dynasty is the least valuable.

"Long Live Lord, Caomin is not suitable to be a general." Mao Yuanyi raised his head slightly, and said seriously: "Although Caomin has handsome talent, it is only on paper, not a real general of Ming Dynasty.

Lord Long Live began to explore the southeast coastal area, and granted Yuan Chonghuan the title of Boss of Zhenhai. The grassroots guessed that Lord Long Live wanted to reorganize the court and reproduce the prosperity of the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. His mind was no longer limited to the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains. Mao Yuanyi's blessing.

It's a pity that grassroots people know soldiers and are not suitable for training soldiers, let alone commanding troops, leading troops, fighting, etc..."

Zhu Youjian was a little annoyed by this nerd's "Zhihuzheye", didn't he just want you to help me prodigal?You can just waste money, food and wages, but you still have so much nonsense.

"Mao Yuanyi, I've made up my mind..." Zhu Youjian wanted to continue persuading, but was interrupted by Mao Yuanyi's 'Long Live Lord'.

"Long live, it's not that the grassroots don't know how to flatter, but that the grassroots know that doing so will harm the country."

Mao Yuanyi knelt down on the ground, grabbed the ground with his head, and said in a deep voice: "Because, according to the grassroots' understanding of the art of war, the first thing to solve is not the elite soldiers and strong generals, but the seemingly inconspicuous things such as occupation rate, military resources, and formation training." , strategy, etc.;

Among them, accounting is divided into accounting and degree.

Occupation refers to astronomy and meteorology, and places are divided into six categories: Fangyu, Zhenshu, Haiphong, Jiangfang, Siyi, and Navigation, which involve geographical situation, fortresses, enemy situation on land and sea, deployment of guards, governors and supervisors, the number of generals, and the source of troops. Wealth, etc., not only takes a long time, but also consumes countless money and food;
Second, the grassroots believe that military resources are divided into eight categories: battalion, war, meritorious service, defense, water, fire, salary, and horse. Preparing the enemy, attacking and defending cities, preparing gunpowder, making firearms, river and sea transportation, warships and horses, farming and mining, food supply, medical care for troops and horses, etc.;

No matter how big or small, everything must be done with the world in your heart and the world in your eyes.

Although Caomin knows the key points in detail, they are only scholars after all. How dare they be like Yuan Chonghuan, Chen Xinjia, Yang Gao and others, who can easily claim that they can command millions of troops? "

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Zhu Youjian: "..."

The idiot emperor was stunned.

I just need you to spend money on the prodigal family, who asked you to spread such inscrutable knowledge of the art of war to me?If I can understand, do I still need you to command the armed forces?
It really makes no sense.

"Cough cough Mao Yuanyi, just tell me how much money you need to command and train troops according to your method." Zhu Youjian coughed lightly and said calmly.

"Long live, this... The number of soldiers is reduced by half compared to the original, but the money and food required are twice, or even tripled."

"However, in this way, there is still a very terrible result, that is, a large number of soldiers and generals will be dismissed. These people are not good at fighting, but if they are allowed to disperse to the local area, it is a hidden danger. If they are not handled well, they will become rebels. Army."

Mao Yuanyi continued worryingly: "So, if Long Live Lord wants to have a strong iron army, he must first properly arrange those disbanded soldiers."

Zhu Youjian laughed and said, "Isn't it just a matter of spending some money? Is that still a matter?"

"Wei Zhongxian, this matter is entrusted to you."

Wei Zhongxian: "..."

This idiot emperor is not a human being, and the slaves didn't say anything. Why did such a thankless thing fall on him again?
"Long Live Lord, servant...obey the order!" Wei Zhongxian said with a bitter face.

"Mao Yuanyi, you really don't want to be my Grand Marshal?" Zhu Youjian tried to persuade again.

"Long Live Lord, the ability of the grassroots lies in talking on paper. If the grassroots can be allowed to open a martial arts school, it is estimated that they will be a good scholar and teacher of Ming Dynasty." Mao Yuanyi said firmly:
"Cao Min once heard in the prison of the Ministry of Justice that Long Live Lord planned to build the Daming Academy. He was very happy in his heart. If Cao Min could survive, he would like to teach and educate people in the University Hall and train some generals and school talents for Long Live Lord."

"In addition, the Caomin can use the power of the Daming Academy to study several new types of warships, new firearms, etc. This is the fate of the Caomin..."

Zhu Youjian was silent for a while, shook his head and smiled wryly, and said, "Okay, I promise you that you will become a teacher.

However, instead of going to the Daming Academy, it is the Daming Lecture Hall.

I will build a university specially for you. You, Mao Yuanyi, will be the first president. There will be a martial arts hall and a new weapon research center in it. As for how to operate it, that is your own business, and I don't care about it.

My only task is to raise money and food for you, Principal Mao."

Therefore, under Mao Yuanyi's insistence, the idiot emperor withdrew his order and decreed to appoint Mao Yuanyi as the first principal of the first lecture hall of Ming Dynasty.

The first martial arts hall in Ming Dynasty was born.

Zhu Youjian's prodigal career has taken another big step forward!

Following the "Daming Academy" and "Daming Engineering Bureau", the Daming Lecture Hall became another big move of Zhu Youjian's prodigal act.

Following Mao Yuanyi's suggestion, the idiot emperor completely abandoned the bad habits of those "military schools" in history that emphasized literature over military affairs, and recruited students in the face of the entire Ming Dynasty, not limited to clan nobles and existing generals and schools. It is higher than Jinshi.

For example, since the weak Song Dynasty, the so-called martial arts path has at most two levels of the provincial examination and the general examination, basically there is no palace examination, so the martial arts examination is considered to be the end.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian "willed to go his own way" and decided that no matter how many students were recruited in the martial arts hall in the future, they would all conduct palace examinations, and one would count as one. Those who passed the examination would be classified as "jinshi and first".

According to Mao Yuanyi's suggestion, the courses in the Daming Martial Arts Hall are subdivided into nearly ten majors, including walking, cavalry, cannon, archery, navigation, engineering, logistics, and logistics, and each major recruits 1000 students;
In addition, ten related professional "corps" were established in the Daming Lecture Hall, ten "thousand generals" were directly appointed by the emperor, and were under the unified command of Jin Yiwei.

This is tantamount to establishing a second branch of the 'Jinyiwei' commanded by the emperor himself, with the Daming Lecture Hall as the core.

However, what is different from Jinyiwei is that this newly formed army will train talents of all levels and types for the Ming Dynasty.

According to Zhu Youjian's meaning, the "students" who graduated from the Daming Lecture Hall are paid at least two or three times higher than Jinshi.

Otherwise, where does his prodigal value come from?

However, these words cannot be said on the table, they can only be used as a goal.

Once the top iron officials of the Ming Dynasty leaked the news in advance, they would definitely make a fuss, which made Zhu Youjian feel dizzy thinking about it.

It can't be, every time in order to pass a "prodigal plan", let Wei Zhongxian pick out several ministers to kill and maim, right?
Therefore, the burden of building the Daming Lecture Hall fell on the shoulders of the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian again, responsible for site selection, preparation of money and food...

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Thus, the twelfth lunar month 23rd of the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

On the day of Xiaonian in the North, Zhu Youjian secretly summoned Yang He from Daming Engineering Bureau, Xu Guangqi from Daming Academy, Song Yingxing, Qian Qianyi and others.

(End of this chapter)