Once the weapons are available, the next step is human!

Although the Qing army was at the city, Zhu Guoqiang was not in a hurry because he was just the vanguard of the vanguard, especially now that he had solved the weapon problem, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Before the people arrived at the school ground, they could hear the noise in the school ground through the fence. Through the fence, they could see that the officials holding wooden sticks were shouting while beating the soldiers who could not complete the team.

Unlike later generations imagined, the ancient army also had to train the queue first and then cooperate with the formation. The queue was also the basis of military training in ancient times. The so-called "five teachings" were very clear. One is to teach their eyes to use flags of shape and color, two is to teach their bodies to command numbers, three is to teach their magnitude enough to advance and retreat, four is to teach their hands to benefit and short, and five is to teach their heart to reward and punish sincerity. This is Guan Zhong proposed five methods of training soldiers, also called the "five teachings"

Although Zhu Guoqiang did not know how to train the army, it did not mean that he did not care about military training, especially at this critical moment that concerns his life. That is why he specially found some military books and also gained some understanding of ancient training.

Despite the urgency of time, Zhu Guoqiang still looked at the schoolyard with great enthusiasm.

Although he did not directly intervene in the training of the troops, Chen Wudi and the others have been training the army, and this school ground was specially opened up in the city to train the troops. On the school ground, there were 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers training there. In fact, this was because more civilians were defending the city walls, otherwise they would squeeze out at least twice as many troops.

Although the soldiers under his command expanded by more than ten times, Chen Wudi and his friends had a way to deal with it - using the royal palace's ritual soldiers and the tomb guards as backbones, which roughly supported the outline of the troops.

Most of the soldiers in this army were rescued from the Qing military circle. Although they suffered harsh mercy in the human circle, on the whole, these young and strong bodies had good foundations. After all, in the cold winter, they were locked in the open-air circle, and their half-hungry bodies were a little worse, even if they did not freeze to death, they would starve to death. Perhaps this was deliberately done by the Qing Dynasty - to eliminate those with poor health, and the rest were naturally good health.

Because of this, when Zhu Guoqiang was about to be screened, there was basically no need to screen. When Chen Wudi and his friends selected strong men, they just sent the young and older men to repair the city walls as usual, leaving behind strong men over fifteen years old and under forty years old!

Compared to the people who are brave and do two meals a day, each soldier can eat one porridge and two dry meals, which really makes many people envious. After all, the food in the city is limited now, and most people rely on two porridges to make a living.

Being able to eat a full meal has become the driving force for these soldiers to train carefully.

After Zhu Guoqiang arrived at the school ground, he did not be polite to Chen Wudi and the others, but directly pointed out the purpose of the trip.

"One hundred people?"

Chen Wudi looked at the prince in confusion, just for this matter?

"Yes, 100 people are best for all literate people and can calculate..."

Before Zhu Guoqiang could finish his words, someone there could almost help laughing out loud.

“Is 100 difficult?”

Zhu Guoqiang asked with a raised eyebrow.

"When I talk to the prince, I don't know anything about it. Jinan is a big city in Tongzhou. Not to mention men or women, there are a few people who can't read and can't count. Just stand here. In the past, there were Wende Street. There were dozens of bookstores on both sides of the street. Even ordinary women would buy a few novels such as "The West Chamber" to pass the time, let alone men. If they were illiterate, who would sell those novels to? Whenever people had children at home, they would buy a few literacy books such as "The Four Characters of the Condor Heroes", and the women at home taught their children to recognize pictures and read."

Qian Degong's "Four Characters of Opposing" is the "talking of pictures" in another world. It uses four characters as a sentence, combined with vivid pictures, and contains hundreds of common living creatures or objects. It also includes the introduction to the use of abacus. It is a standard enlightenment education reading. It involves thousands of commonly used characters and simple addition and subtraction arithmetic. Like other "miscellaneous characters", there is no way of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism in the book. It selects more common characters and common words and phrases, with the children of farmers and civilians as the service objects. Helping them to read is not for the purpose of academic studies, but for the purpose of daily application without obstacles. This is also the fundamental reason for the popularity of novels in the Ming Dynasty - most of the people in the market are literate (1).

However, because he didn't know anything about this, Qian Degong's explanation made Zhu Guoqiang feel a little embarrassed. Who said that the ancients were all illiterate? However, Zhu Guoqiang did not feel anything embarrassing, and even said happily.

"After saying this, I feel relieved. Uneducated soldiers are not good soldiers. Our soldiers not only need to be able to write and calculate, but they are better able to write and calculate. After a few years of personal familiarity, you can pick out the people first. Well, since there are many people who are literate, then choose 150 people first."

It doesn't matter if there are more people, but you may be able to use it as a seed officer when Qian Degong was selecting personnel, Zhu Guoqiang pointed to the cart beside him and said to Chen Wudi.

"Invincible, the car is equipped with muskets, which are similar to bird guns. Do you know how to train bird gun soldiers?"

"Bird Gun Soldiers? Prince, look at what you said. Although the general of the Mo has never played bird guns in the past, he has read many military books. We have seized hundreds of bird guns this time. The general of the Mo has kept them for a special training camp of bird gun soldiers. After all, we don't have many arrows, and the bird gun soldiers can always come in handy."

Chen Wudi's words surprised Zhu Guoqiang.

"We have a battalion of bird gun soldiers?"

"Yes, I got more than 400 bird guns in the Donglu camp, so that such things cannot be wasted."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"Then don't choose other people, just choose one hundred and fifty people from among them. By the way, there are three thousand people you choose to train as musketeers. The usage of this musket is different from that of a bird gun. If you choose some clever ones, I will teach them to use muskets at that time."

"Chief can use muskets?"

Although he didn't know what the musket was, Chen Wudi, who was thinking that he should be similar to the bird gun, looked at the prince a few times.

Actually, I can't talk about being proficient in myself!

But it's okay, we have the Internet, videos, and...

That night, Zhu Guoqiang naturally took out his mobile phone and played the firing gun training video downloaded from another world, observing and learning again...

(1) Regarding the literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty, I don’t believe the so-called 5% statement. This ratio is the estimated literacy rate of the late Qing Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty, but the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China were not as popular as the Ming Dynasty. The premise for the popularity of novels is that the people must be literate. This can be seen from the popularity of novels in mainland China after the 1980s. It can be seen from the book "Jin Ping Mei" that the overall literacy rate of the people at that time was relatively high. Pan Jinlian (maid) knew literacy, prostitute Zheng Aiyue knew literacy, Lian Han
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