Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1560

Near the sea in the east of Tianjin, there is a newly built masonry building complex, and there are many students in uniform blue and white costumes. They are different from the students in the ivory tower of the Imperial University Hall.

The students of the Jingshi University Hall are supplied to the civil service system and almost all industries in the empire, and the students here are dedicated to supplying the imperial navy. This is the naval lecture hall.

Even now, in the minds of the people of the Heavenly Kingdom, becoming a crew member, especially an oceangoing crew member, is a drudgery that risks one's life, far inferior to the majesty of an official sitting in the yamen.Even if they join the army, they would rather send their family members to the safer army lecture hall than to the navy lecture hall.

This has led to certain difficulties in recruiting students for the Navy Lecture Hall, and the quality of students is also lacking.

The Navy is supposed to be a noble profession.Four fleets require a large number of crews and naval officers.

In order to attract more people to join the Navy Lecture Hall, the Navy Lecture Hall has adopted two measures to attract people to apply for the exam.

One is to improve the treatment, each student in the naval lecture hall will be given three taels of silver as a subsidy every month.This means that once a student from a family is selected for the lecture hall, even a family of eight will have a guaranteed life.The second is to increase the rewards. If the student has outstanding achievements, he will be given the award for excellence and become a naval reserve officer.

The Army Lecture Hall also has similar regulations. For example, Goya became an army reserve officer after graduation from the Yizhou Alpine Tribe.

At present, the schooling period of the Naval Lecture Hall is 5 years. In order to train naval personnel and reserve technical force for the four major fleets, there are two main subjects in the discipline: piloting and engineering management, namely, ship driving and engine management.Courses offered include geography, algebra, geometry, hydrology, heat, astronomy, climatology, drawing, surveying and gun drills, and the use of mechanical instruments.After the course is completed, the students in the naval lecture hall will also go on a steam training ship or a sailing boat for practice, in order to combine theory with practice.

In addition, there is also a preparatory class for the Navy Lecture Hall, which trains children who are still too young to understand the knowledge taught by the Navy Lecture Hall.

The content of the preparatory class varies from elementary school to middle school, and the schooling period is also 5 years.This preparatory class is different from ordinary private schools. The children here are instilled with the idea of ​​sea power since childhood. Almost every day, the instructors will emphasize to them the importance of the ocean and the importance of the fleet.The idea of ​​supremacy of sea power is like a seed in their minds, once it germinates, it will affect them for life.Moreover, they have to receive physical training since childhood to maintain the physique that a naval soldier should have.

Zheng Chenggong, the son of Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, was born in Dongying. When he was old enough to go to school, Zheng Chenggong was sent to the preparatory class of the Navy Lecture Hall for training.

Perhaps the literati influenced by traditional Confucianism sneered at the navy, but Zheng Zhilong, who was the biggest pirate king on the southeast coast before being conquered by Chu Yun, knew how important the sea was. He graduated from the naval lecture hall, became a reserve officer of the navy, and then joined the navy Ministry, after all, is a way of promotion.

At present, the military department can compete with the six departments. The navy department, the army department, and the logistics department constitute the three largest departments of the military department. The naval officers of the navy department often have more gold content.

A 15 or 16-year-old boy has entered the formal naval lecture hall for a year.

His name was also changed by Chu Yun himself, and he was famous as early as in the preparatory class of the Navy Lecture Hall.His name is Zheng Chenggong.

Similar but somewhat different from history, Zheng Chenggong's personal career is still closely related to the sea, but this time he is no longer a local political administrator, but a student of the Imperial Naval Academy, ready to embark on a journey to conquer the sea. Its achievement is also destined to be greater than before.

Now Zheng Chenggong is a second-year student in the Navy Lecture Hall.

The second graders of the Navy Lecture Hall are generally young students ranging from 15 to 17 years old. Many of them are not even childish, but they are the future of the Imperial Navy. In the future, they will be in various seas around the world Walk around and act as the world's military police.

They also sometimes get the latest news from the Admiralty. For example, the news of the first main ironclad ship spread in the Navy Lecture Hall.

General Fubo is the first steam ironclad ship of the Ministry of the Navy, and this time it is the real main ironclad ship launched.

"The first generation of the main ironclad ship is the Daqin class. It is said that when fully loaded with personnel, ammunition, food and coal, the displacement can reach 9000 tons. It is very exaggerated, and the firepower can easily destroy wooden sailing ships!"

"It would be nice to be able to serve on the main ironclad ship after graduation in the future. Being able to serve on the main ironclad ship is much more prestigious than serving on a wooden sailing ship!"

"Wooden sailboats are not that bad, but the appearance of steam ironclad ships makes them far inferior."

"Zheng Chenggong, are there any ironclad ships in your father's Beiyang Fleet?"

Many students looked at Zheng Chenggong who was reading a book on surveying and mapping.

He heard people asking about the Beiyang Fleet, so he replied: "Beiyang Fleet? It seems that there is no steam ironclad yet."

"Why do the Zhili Fleet, Nanyang Fleet, and Fourth Fleet all have steam ironclad ships, but the Beiyang Fleet doesn't?"

"It goes without saying that the Zhili Fleet is the main force of the Admiralty. The Nanyang Fleet and the Fourth Fleet have enemies. The Beiyang Fleet is now in charge of the waters of Korea and Dongying Province. There are no enemies. Of course, equipment updates are the slowest. You don't have to think about it. " Zheng Chenggong said.

At this time, the instructor of the second grade of the Navy Lecture Hall came in and beat the podium vigorously with a training stick: "Silence, silence!"

The naval students in the classroom hurried back to their seats.

"Come in." The instructor waved outside the classroom.

Plenty of Navy cadets have only just found out that a new cadet is being inserted into their class on an impromptu basis.

"Is it a Westerner? Or a beautiful woman!"

"That's not right. We usually recruit locals in our naval lecture hall. Occasionally, we can meet a few Japanese or Nanyang people. When will a Western woman join our class?"

Many trainees saw a Western woman about 18 or 19 years old appearing in the Navy Lecture Hall.

This person is not anyone, but Hannah, the younger sister of the Grand Master of the Hospital Knights that Li Jinde tricked back.

Hannah knew that she could not intervene between Li Jinde and Selina, so she gave up this idea and traveled to the East to learn Chinese. She knew several languages, and her language talent was extremely amazing, and she quickly mastered Chinese.

In order to win over the Knights of the Hospitaller she represented, Chu Yun also offered her an olive branch to win over the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea as a naval base.

(End of this chapter)