“On the east coast of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are two huge continents connected together, the south and the north. One is called North Xinzhou Continent, and the other is called South Xinzhou Continent.
The size of the two continents is larger than the mainland of our Ming Dynasty. Together they are probably as big as four mainlands of the Ming Dynasty!
The northern and southern Xinzhou continents are not only big, but also rich! The land is fertile, the products are abundant, and the plains are open and almost endless! Although there are mountainous areas, they are not dangerous. The mountains are rich in gold, silver, and brass...
What is even more enviable is that such a vast continent is actually a land without an owner! The so-called ownerless, of course, does not mean that there is no one, but that the native people of Xinzhou are weak and stupid. When the Westerners arrived, they found that they had not even invented the wheel..."
In the "TOEFL School" renovated from a prince's residence in Chongqing City, a group of young women wearing rough blue clothes were listening to a student from the Wushu Hall talking about the geography of New Zealand - this is what the TOEFL test is about. of!
Of course, the current TOEFL test cannot test English... nor can it test French. The language used in the test is Chinese. There are a total of six subjects tested. One is the geography of Xinzhou - you have to know where to go!
The second is Xinzhou Agricultural Sciences - you can farm in Xinzhou! Of course, I can just plant any kind, but I still have to learn it, because most of the people from the military households in Dashun Prefecture are not good at farming, and they will not be able to do it without learning at all.
The third is arithmetic. If you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you won’t be afraid of traveling all over the world!
The fourth is Confucianism, which is mainly the knowledge in the "Confucian Classics". You don't need to be proficient in it, but you must be familiar with it.
The fifth is military science, which does not test the things taught in the martial arts hall, but the military science taught in the Dashunfu Military Academy, which mainly includes some individual soldier tactics and some of the simplest platoon-level tactics and organizational methods.
The sixth is to test martial arts, including muskets, bows and arrows, swords, spears, javelins and horseback riding, a total of "six arts".
If you look at the contents of the military science and martial arts examinations, you will know how successful the Li Chu Yi Kong and Fu military systems of the Dashun Dynasty were!
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son spent all the blood and sweat of the working people of Sichuan and Yunnan on cultivating hundreds of thousands of children of soldiers.
It cannot be said that all of them are capable of civil and military skills, but their quality is much better than that of the imperial soldiers of the Sui and Tang Dynasties!
It's a pity that no matter how high their quality is, they still can't escape the fate of being defeated by the Ming Dynasty... Because no matter how great their skills are, they are only a few hundred thousand people, which is nothing compared to the strength of the 30 to 40 million Sichuan and Yunnan people. ! Compared with the power of the Great Ming Dynasty, it is also at a clear disadvantage. After encountering the front and rear attacks of the Sichuan people and the Ming army, the defeat was of course inevitable.
Du Mulan, who was born in Shizhu County, was the little beauty that Li Jinxue looked at with envy. Although she was a girl, she studied literature and martial arts in the Fu Bing Academy just like the boys - not all the second and third generations of the Fu. Women are like her and have received such a good education. Only women of the same age and age will receive the same education as men.
The reason for this is that the revival of the Ming Dynasty made Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son feel a huge sense of urgency, and they had to increase investment in cultivating more second- and third-generation warriors. Even some women received considerable military training in order to continue fighting in their resettlement places after the Ming army invaded Sichuan!
In addition, a large number of second-generation soldiers were trained, which led to an increase in the number of educated people who could serve as teachers in the army academy.
It's a pity that the efforts of Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son were in vain in the end. The second generation and the third generation of Fu who they spent all their efforts to cultivate did not play a big role in the defense of Sichuan due to various reasons. Instead, she became the treasure in Zhu Hehao's eyes...
What makes Li Guo, the Shun Taizong who has ruled Sichuan and Yunnan for nearly twenty years, find it difficult to rest in peace is that the second and third generations he cultivated at such a high price, even accelerating the separation of Sichuan people, do not have the same hatred as he thought. The Ming Dynasty... also had no sympathy for the working people of Sichuan. Instead, the Sichuan people regarded them as slaves, and regarded the Ming officers and soldiers who fought with them as "nobles" like themselves.
After the Sichuan farmers rose up one after another and responded to the Ming army, these small soldiers even regarded the Sichuan farmers who had supported them for more than ten or twenty years as enemy bandits, and they hated them even more than they hated the Ming army!
At least that's Du Mulan's mentality! Although this little girl looks good and is loved by everyone, she also has a good temper. She smiles at everyone and never scolds or scolds the poor and lower-middle peasants. But she had never regarded the farmers in the countryside of Shizhu County as people of the same level as herself... After being attacked by the Shizhu farmers and the Ming army from both sides and having to flee to Dafeng Castle, her hatred for the Shizhu farmers was even more distant. More than her hatred for the Ming Army!
In addition to hatred, Du Mulan and the boys and girls of her generation were also very afraid of losing their identity and becoming civilians. This seems to be as scary as death.
So when the Ming Dynasty's envoys persuading them to surrender brought Zhu Hehao's letter of recruitment and a guarantee that they would become soldiers of the United States, these second and third generations of Dashun were all moved!
Anyway, Dashun is over... If they want to continue to maintain their superior status, it seems that they have no choice but to join the new master.
And they also knew that the Dashun Dynasty could not provide enough land for all of them to become superior soldiers... and the Xinzhou Continent on the other side of the ocean seemed to have a lot of land to conquer!
This group of small military landowners who have lived in "land shortage" since childhood are really eager for rich land!
So when Du Mulan and her classmates were listening to the Xinzhou geography class given by the Ming army officers, their eyes all lit up!
It’s four times bigger than the Ming Dynasty! How much land is equivalent to Sichuan Province? Now everyone should have 40 stones of land, right?
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"Everyone, today is the day for you to take the TOEFL test in the United States! Why is it called the TOEFL test? It is because some of you can rise to the top with this test and become the top hundred, test hundred and deputy hundred in the United States. I’m here!”
The one who was speaking was Zhu Hehao, the local tyrant king. As the King of the United States, of course he has to personally preside over the examination.
Today is the day when Du Mulan and his group of young men from Shizhu Prefecture enter the examination room - although older people can also take the examination, the older generation generally have not drunk much ink. Moreover, he also has feelings for the three old people in Dashun, and doesn't like Daming, so basically no one will take the exam.
Moreover, most of them are not willing to cross the ocean when they are old and eventually die in a foreign country. Therefore, most people choose to use some money for retirement.
Among the less than 3,000 members of the Seokjufu military household, only about half are willing to go to the United States of New World, and 80% of them are boys, girls or even children.
Therefore, there are less than 300 people who can enter the examination room and apply for an official position.
According to Zhu Hehao's plan, the 1,500 members of Shizhufu's military households will be divided into five hundred households. Each hundred households will have one hundred household officer, one trial hundred household officer, and one deputy hundred household officer, for a total of 15 people. Admission rate of about five percent.
The competition is still very fierce!
And the five hundred households they lead will find their own destination in Stone Mountain and become the vanguard of the United States of New Zealand's eastward advance, if they can arrive safely!
While Zhu Hehao was talking, he was also looking at the more than 300 candidates in the courtyard, half of them male and female. There were also many girls aged fourteen, fifteen or six years old, who were quite delicious!
Zhu Hehao has noticed Du Mulan! Among all the girls, she is the most beautiful. Although not as beautiful as Wu Ahuan, she is still a rare beauty.
After taking his eyes away from the beauty, the rich king smiled and encouraged everyone: "Take the exam well! In addition to the 15 hundred officials waiting for you, the king also plans to select 15 guards from among you. Please work hard!"
