Polu Mountain.
Martial Arts Academy.
Nearly four years have passed since the founding of the Martial Arts Academy in March of the second year of Chongzhen.
The functions, authority and scale of this martial arts academy have also undergone earth-shaking changes compared to the original one.
At first, the Martial Arts Academy was only a place for further training and training for military generals in Jingji, Xuanfu and the three places.
Nowadays, the functions of the Martial Arts Academy have long spread to the entire Ming Dynasty. It is precisely because of the existence of the Martial Arts Academy that the functions of the Martial Arts Academy have laid out the world's garrisons. The situation where the world is rebelling has not completely lost control.
Of course, with Li Xiu's changes in the layout of the world, to be precise, the Martial Arts Academy is now more than just a simple military training institution.
By now, the Martial Arts Academy has become an existence that emphasizes both civil and military affairs. It has opened civil sciences to cultivate the abilities of military and herdsmen.
The students of the Martial Arts Academy were either commanders, officers of herdsmen, or powered by the censors, and patrol the world.
Even though it was just a clue, the Martial Arts Academy had become an important existence among the Ming Dynasty's ruling institutions.
The influence of power was also a fear of literati in the world, and it has become an indispensable existence for Li Xiu to control the world.
In this way, Li Xiu was naturally very concerned about the Martial Arts Academy. Not to mention the massive investment in financial and material resources, as long as he was in the capital, he would come to this Martial Arts Academy several days a month, either as a lecturer or inspect and supervise, and never slacked off.
Especially since the establishment of civil sciences, it is difficult to find a suitable literati to teach. When the civil sciences were first established, Li Xiu even took the initiative to study in this martial arts academy for more than a month, and selected useful materials to spend that almost tacit backlash from civil officials.
Recalling the past, looking at the Martial Arts Academy today, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.
Like a quick look, from the schoolyard, watching, the soldiers practiced, shouting loudly,
On the several major campuses, shouts were trembling, and military formations were lined up, including infantry training, cavalry tactics, and rows of various artillery arrangements. Artillery soldiers carrying muskets carried out artillery drills.
In the teaching hall, students may praise the classics of military arts and the laws of the Ming Dynasty, or learn arithmetic with their pens, or have craftsmen to experiment with craftsmen's skills, and observe astronomy and geography...
Everything has almost exceeded the limitations of this era. Many things that seem to be out of the ordinary in the outside world have become common things in this martial arts academy under the three levels of system, military law and Li Xiu's prestige.
Any system will go through this stage from creation to maturity.
The same is true for the Martial Arts Academy.
The expansion of functional authority and scale is a saying, and the improvement of internal institutional systems is also a saying.
For example, above military affairs, there are also five categories of stairs, cavalry, cannons, craftsmen, and water.
As the name suggests, the corresponding ones are naturally infantry, cavalry, artillery, craftsmen, and navy.
Infantry, cavalry, artillery, and craftsmen are naturally trained in this Polushan Martial Arts Academy, while the navy is a water army branch opened by the Martial Arts Academy in Denglai, which specializes in training water army generals.
The subdivision of these systems is undoubtedly from Li Xiu's plan, and naturally many concepts from later generations have been added.
For example, in this era, Li Xiu also left seeds in this martial arts arithmetic, craftsman skills, mythological astronomy, and many modern science foundations that were not valued.
In this martial arts academy that was built by him, he naturally had no need to worry about not being implemented, nor did he have to worry about prejudice and public opinion pressure in the general environment.
The seeds fall, and the rest is waiting for growth and fermentation under the care of the system and policies.
Then in the future, the time is ripe, and then based on these seeds, expanding and spreading, the sun and the moon will change to the sky, will become a real reality!
It can be said that even hundreds of thousands of troops were not as good as the existence of this martial arts academy in Li Xiu's heart.
Not only through the power spreading through the Martial Arts Academy, but also many prototype systems have been cultivated in the Martial Arts Academy.
These are what he values ​​the most.
Cultivate seeds, spread, and form a system.
Then, in the near future, thousands of years of national confidence will not be ruthlessly crushed by outsiders.
This is what he most looks like to do.
Otherwise, he would not have tried his best to make plans with his temporary glory.
"Yes, when it continues, especially the craftsmanship subject, you must increase investment and expand the scale. Don't be afraid of raising idle people. Millions of troops are raised, not less than these hundreds or thousands of people."
"We must also increase efforts to recruit people who are proficient in skills among the people, and there is no need to worry too much about Western learning. For useful things, take them, useless things, and discard them!"
While walking and observing, Li Xiu kept instructing Zhang Mo, the current martial arts academy.
However, when he was talking about Western learning, Zhang Mo, who had been nodding and almost took a small book to write down what Li Xiu said, suddenly hesitated.
After hesitating for a while, Zhang Mo couldn't help but say, "General, please make clear the limit of the acquisition and abandonment of Western learning."
"Um?"
When Li Xiu saw Zhang Mo's hesitant expression, he was also stunned. For a moment, he still didn't react.
Zhang Mo is naturally his unquestionable confidant to be appointed as the Martial Arts Academy to be the sacrificial winemaker for him.
The down-and-out scholar, with a poor family, became a refugee, and eventually joined the Yongwei Camp. He selected his closest guard and trained him many times.
The talent is not very outstanding, but one thing is very appreciated by Li Xiu.
As the name suggests, silence is silent silence.
He is taciturn, never talks much, and says whatever he says is what he says, never makes a good decision, and he is also strict in implementing orders.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that he mentioned it to the position of sacrificial wine in the Martial Academy and implemented various policies and systems in the Martial Academy that were not allowed by the times.
As it turns out, his appointment is obviously not wrong.
Zhang Mo, who sticks to the rules, does a perfect job, does a great job.
In the past, he had never raised any doubts, but he actually raised any doubts about this matter?
This surprised Li Xiu a little.
But soon, Li Xiu reacted and said in a deep voice: "Are you referring to the Western Church?"
"The general is wise."
"Xu Guangqi and some missionaries in the courtyard secretly engaged in regular activities to spread the teachings of Western religions. However, due to the fact that the craftsmen and other subjects were not formed, they could only turn a blind eye."
"But at last, I will think that the doctrine of Western religion is a wrong saying. If it is allowed to develop through the power of the Martial Arts Academy, it may cause considerable disasters."
After receiving Zhang Mo's affirmative reply, Li Xiu's expression suddenly became gloomy!
In today's era, we can naturally talk about Western learning from the group of missionaries.
At the beginning, Western culture could spread all over the world. In addition to the rise of the Age of Discovery, it was naturally inseparable from missionaries who left their hometowns and traveled thousands of miles to spread the teachings of the Lord.
In fact, since he took power, many missionaries have intended to visit, but to the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty today, they are just foreign barbarians.
Not to mention the servants of the Qin Gong Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, they would even be beaten away when they saw it, so as not to defile the noble land!
However, later, with the layout of many modern disciplines in the Martial Arts Academy, after he increased his search for talents, Western learning inevitably appeared in his vision.
In fact, it is not to say that Western learning today is stronger than the "strange and lustful skills" of the Ming Dynasty. It is just that Western learning is more systematic than the suppression of science in the Ming Dynasty environment.
In this way, for the sake of the layout in the Martial Arts Academy, Li Xiu naturally did not hesitate to learn from Western learning.
Remove the dross, take the essence, and incorporate it into the "strange and lustful skills" of the Ming Dynasty, forming standardized chemistry departments belonging to the Ming Dynasty.
Hidden in the Martial Arts Academy Craftsmanship to avoid public opinion pressure in the great era.
In this way, it is naturally inseparable from missionaries, or in other words, from the so-called doctrines of the West.
After all, missionaries are missionary missionaries, and those who are proficient in Western learning in the Ming Dynasty, such as Xu Guangqi, are mostly brainwashed by so-called doctrines and become so-called believers.
In fact, Li Xiu never believed that those Western religions had too much survival soil on the land of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the culture of Chinese civilization for thousands of years was incompatible with those Western sects.
However, if it is allowed to grow with the help of the powerful group of the Martial Arts Academy, it is not necessarily true!
"What I want is to take the essence and remove the dross!"
"Western learning knowledge can be used, but Western teachings must never appear!"
"Western learning is not much better than our own. Nowadays, the craftsmanship has already begun to have a large-scale system, which is really not possible..."
As for this, Li Xiu didn't say much.
From the very beginning, the fate of those missionaries was destined.
The various subjects of the Martial Arts Academy are a combination of crystallization of external wisdom and a combination of academic and research.
Although at present, not many cross-age results have emerged.
But the soil has been formed and there will be a day of fruition.
As the saying goes, if you are not of my race, your heart will be different!
Li Xiu naturally would not let these missionaries go back to the West with the crystallization of wisdom that he had finally integrated.
Their fate either gave up their teachings and became a martial arts academy teacher.
Or, go to hell and reunite with their Lord.
Chapter completed!