In early February, Zhu Yijun asked the cabinet and the Ministry of War to sort out the Nanyuan Palace as soon as possible and establish a martial arts school, which was completed within a hundred days.
But Zhu Yijun ignored a problem. It was okay for him to take people to live in the Nanyuan Palace, but it was converted into a school. There were so many violations that it could even be said that it would be easier to demolish and rebuild than to rebuild.
The cabinet transferred the Ministry of Literary Affairs and the Ministry of Industry to organize officials and craftsmen who were proficient in etiquette to participate in the reconstruction plan. These three ministries worked together - the daily bickering made Zhang Juzheng very anxious.
It was not until Wang Guoguang entered the cabinet and was responsible for the construction of the Nanyuan Martial Arts School that the progress was greatly accelerated. By the end of June, the Nanyuan Martial Arts School took on a new look. However, there was heavy rain in the capital in the second year of Wanli, so the paint and other renovations were finished and are still under construction.
Not only was the construction progress not as good as Zhu Yijun expected, but according to the school running guidelines he proposed, the establishment of the institution was also slow. At the end of March, the leadership candidates were basically selected and the compilation of teaching materials began.
According to Zhu Yijun's establishment, the martial arts school has a mountain chief, who is personally appointed by the emperor; five deputy mountain chiefs, executive deputy mountain chief Qi Jiguang, has already performed his duties; deputy mountain chief Ding Guogong Xu Wenbi, who is in charge of training and enrollment, has already performed his duties; Deputy Mountain Chief Tan Lun is responsible for weapons and equipment and teaching settings, part-time; Deputy Mountain Chief Ge Shouli is in charge of academic affairs, part-time; Deputy Mountain Chief Zhang Jing is responsible for logistics.
Because this martial arts leader was seen as an important candidate for the emperor's inner circle, various forces almost fought for the position of deputy mountain chief. Even the Empress Dowager Li accepted several requests from her concubine.
Because Zhang Juzheng wanted to avoid suspicion, he basically did not participate in the selection of the deputy martial arts commander. Zhu Yijun asked several times but couldn't get the point. Later, I could only make my own decision and chose the above-mentioned ones I knew well, and temporarily became deputy mountain chiefs.
After the big frame was erected, the command department, engineering department, and logistics department were set up one after another. The selection of the department chair is also a top priority, and the governors of various regions and regions are competing for it again.
After several rounds of discussions between the cabinet and the Ministry of War, only the command department reported Wang Chonggu, Yin Zhengmao, and Liu Yingjie to Zhu Yijun. Zhu Yijun finally chose Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, as the director of the command department, but he had not yet taken office. The logistics department selected Wang Zongmu, the governor of water transportation; Zhu Yijun had other ideas for the engineering department, and Zhou Xuan, who was in charge of internal engineering under Zhang Jing, was temporarily appointed as his replacement.
The Horse-Based Cooperation Department, Navy Department, Firearms Department and other departments under each department have also been set up. After the directors of the three major departments take office, a round of discussion is needed to obtain Zhu Yijun's approval for the transfer, which has not yet been carried out.
In the end, Zhu Yijun had no choice but to compromise due to low efficiency and set the start date in February of the third year of Wanli. This year, in addition to building school buildings, trainees from various health stations and frontier armies were gradually in place. Zhu Yijun asked Qi Jiguang to lead him to train with the Beijing camp, in order to forge discipline first.
Previously, Zhu Yijun had inspected twice in a few months in order to express his attention to the court. At this time, I was feeling a little depressed, so I called Wang Guoguang and Tan Lun, as well as several officials from various ministries and Hanlin officials. There is no need for a big driver or a book, just a light vehicle. It is scheduled to set off on the morning of July 26th to inspect the Nanyuan campus.
The internal officer had already set off one day in advance to inform Nanyuan Martial Arts and help prepare for the pick-up. When more than a thousand of Zhu Yijun's "light vehicles and simple servants" arrived, Qi Jiguang led the soldiers and students from the Beijing camp and lined up at the school ground, ready to pick him up.
It was the hottest day of the year, so Zhu Yijun set out in a pony carriage in the morning. When he arrived at Nanyuan, it was in the middle of the corner, and the school grounds were filled with smoke rising from the strong sun. The accompanying officials nodded secretly when they saw the martial arts trainees and soldiers from the Beijing Camp standing quietly on the playground in full uniforms and weapons, sweating profusely but motionless.
Although everyone had objections to Zhu Yijun's choice of Qi Jiguang as the executive deputy commander, who was above the department heads and other governors, after seeing the results of Qi Jiguang's training, they had to express their admiration in their hearts.
Zhu Yijun saw that the army was in good condition and praised Qi Jiguang a few words. In the past few months, Qi Jiguang used Jizhou's 3,000 soldiers as the backbone, the 8,000 people left behind by the old Beijing camp, and the 25,000 more soldiers he recruited to rebuild the Xinjing camp with 36,000 soldiers.
This recruit training is the most grueling. Zhu Yijun was the shopkeeper, while Qi Jiguang was busy preparing for martial arts, listening to the cynicism of the senior officials; while training the new recruits with Jizhou veterans, he lost several laps of weight in a few months, becoming black and thin.
Zhu Yijun couldn't bear it and said with a smile: "Yuan Jing has worked hard these days." After hearing this, Qi Jiguang knelt on one knee, with red eyes, raised his right fist and put it on his left chest and said: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty, thank you for your hard work." .”
Hanlin Editor Dai Xun came to Nanyuan for the first time. When he saw Qi Jiguang wearing a civil official robe, he did not even kneel down. He was so excited that he completely forgot about Tao Dalin's previous warning to "don't say too much" and scolded Qi Jiguang: "Qi Jiguang is bold and is not wearing armor." Why not perform the national ceremony?!"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yijun turned his head and glanced at Dai Xun coldly. Tan Lun said sternly from the side: "This is the best army in the world! In order to nourish its elite spirit, the emperor has already made a decree. All the people in the new army will half-kneel in front of the emperor, but not in front of the general soldiers and civilian officials. Did you know today?" "
Dai Xun lowered his head and was speechless after hearing this. He really didn't know when Zhu Yijun made such a decree. Besides, this edict was not published in the imperial newspaper. I, the Hanlin official, don’t know what to do - it should be normal, right?
With a gloomy face, Zhu Yijun took over the conversation and said: "The Imperial Academy should discuss thoughts as its duty. Since they are close servants and are on my right and left, they should talk to me about the political gains and losses of the country and the interests of the people. However, when I go to the Imperial Academy, I write poems every day. Craftsmanship and craftsmanship is the most important thing, and the imperial court's care is the way to show one's fame! He claims to be a Qingliu Huaxuan, plays a big trumpet to attract small stars, lingers in the wind and moon, sings poems, and thinks he is elegant and elegant - but what is the use of the country? "
Tan Lun liked Dai Xun's poems better. His intention to reprimand him just now was to protect him, thinking that the emperor would laugh it off when he saw that Dai Xun had an attack on him. But Zhu Yijun called Hanlin today, with the intention of teaching them how to behave, so of course he took advantage of the situation.
"Are you worthy of scolding Gancheng in my presence? Have you ever killed a prisoner to protect the people? Have you ever herded ten miles of land, enough to feed one people? Have you ever taught a hundred people and taught them the teachings of a saint? What? It’s just that he has no merit and is shameless - now he has violated the order and blamed me, general, get out of the school!"
Dai Xun, whose nickname was Rucheng, also known as Yuzhai, and also named Zhangxi, claimed to be an incompetent layman. In the 44th year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty, he became a Jinshi and was awarded the title of Editor of Hanlin Academy. Because he was good at painting and poetry, some people in later generations called him the "Three Dais" among the poets of the Ming Dynasty, along with Dai Deyi and Dai Ao. The representative work is "Hanlin Pine", one of which is praised by later poets as "I know it is not a heartless thing, but the green color is now full of meaning".
This guy became a Jinshi in the Jiajing year. He started as a Hanlin editor and compiled in the second year of Wanli - which shows how successful he was.
At this moment, Zhu Yijun was scolded all over his head and face. His face turned pale and he was sweating profusely. He knelt down on the ground, trembling and not knowing what to do.
Tao Dalin saw that Dai Xun was so ugly. He was already in poor health, and when the sun was shining, he felt dizzy. After finally regaining his composure, he knelt down and said, "Please calm down, Your Majesty. This minister has done nothing wrong by not restraining you. ——Dai Xun, you are still not backing down!"
After Dai Xun retreated, Tao Dalin stood up and apologized to Qi Jiguang: "Yuan Jing has a vast knowledge. There is no need to be as knowledgeable as such a person. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
Qi Jiguang had tears in his eyes. He tried his best to make a smile and said: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." He said in his heart: "I am getting closer to the emperor, and I shed more tears than my mother did when she died."
Zhu Yijun saw that Tao Dalin's face was pale and his eyes were pleading, so he said no more.
Luo Wanhua diverted his attention and said: "Congratulations to your Majesty, this capital camp has changed a lot! Although they are not marching in formation, their posture shows the appearance of elite soldiers."
Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang and said with a smile, "Can we march in line now?"
Qi Jiguang had wiped away his tears and shook his head and said: "According to the emperor's request, it's not enough." The ministers listened to the side and were a little puzzled. They thought to themselves that with such elite soldiers, how could the queue be different?
Zhu Yijun listened and said with a smile: "Then we won't watch the queue today. I will take everyone to the camp to see the internal affairs."
According to the rules of Nanyuan, the soldiers and students lived in the barracks tent. When Qi Jiguang heard that the emperor wanted to show the ministers, he quickly led the way and led everyone to the barracks in the northeast corner of the playground.
