Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 134 You are unworthy of being the son of a general!
"General Qiu, let's begin!"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Xia Yan and Zhang Lun who were riding horses on the parade ground, and gave instructions to Qiu Yue.

"Yes!"

Qiu Yue stood up and waved the flag. Immediately, Xia Yan and Zhang Lun, each riding a horse, rushed towards each other with wooden swords in hand!

"kill!"

"kill!"

Xia Yan and Zhang Lun each shouted loudly.

Although one was a scholar and the other was a noble son, they both looked quite brave and had a bit of warrior spirit.

The two of them had sprinted past each other without knowing it, but in a flash, only Xia Yan was still riding calmly on his horse, and after nearly a month of horseback archery training, he was able to stop steadily.

However, Zhang Lun screamed miserably, and then he lost control of the horse he was riding, and fell out directly, with his entire face scratched.

Zhu Houzhao rode up on his horse and pointed directly at Zhang Lun:

"Useless thing! He is a scholar, a weak scholar! You were knocked off your horse by a scholar. You are not worthy of saying that you are the descendant of Zhang Yu, the Duke of Ying. You are also from a military family. Get on your horse and fight again!"

Zhang Lun felt humiliated by Zhu Houzhao's scolding. He endured the burning pain on his face, gritted his teeth, jumped on his horse, and shouted at Xia Yan with his wooden sword: "Come again!"

Xia Yan was still very excited, thinking that he was now a man of both civil and military talents. He was a Jinshi and could parade in the streets, and he could kill the enemy with a single blow. Yu Shaobao was probably no better than him. For a moment, he was filled with heroic spirit and wanted to compose a poem. Seeing that Zhang Lun was not convinced, he even smiled and agreed straightforwardly, "Okay!"

So, the two of them rushed towards each other again at lightning speed.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Perhaps it was because Xia Yan had a relatively high IQ and quick reactions, and coupled with the fact that Zhang Lun had been spoiled by alcohol and women since childhood, that Xia Yan was always able to cleverly dodge Zhang Lun's fierce attacks. When Zhang Lun was exhausted and breathing rapidly, Xia Yan would suddenly ride back, ready to launch a fierce attack!
Zhang Lun didn't have much strength now and knew he was going to lose, but he didn't want to fail just like that, especially since the Emperor, his grandfather and other nobles were watching beside him. So he pulled the horse's head with force, took off the hairpin on his head and stuck it into the horse. The horse immediately roared and charged towards Xia Yan.

Xia Yan panicked when he saw this, thinking that Zhang Lun was trying to play with his life!
Wang Yangming, who was watching the fight on the side, immediately rode over, kicked Xia Yan away, pulled Xia Yan's horse back, and then while flying into the air, he whipped Zhang Lun's horse in the face, forcing the horse Zhang Lun was riding to turn around in pain, and Xia Yan's horse also stopped.

Wang Yangming could not help but scold Zhang Lun: "Don't you want to die? Are you going to die together with me?"

Zhang Lun felt somewhat sullen and at the same time even more devastated. He thought that here was another scholar who was better at riding and shooting than him. This was too discouraging!

Zhang Lun was not the only one who thought so. The nobles present, such as Zhang Mao, were also a little embarrassed when they saw Wang Yangming's superb riding skills and were grateful to him for saving their grandson. They thought to themselves, "It seems that what your Majesty said is right. We, the sons of nobles, really need to strengthen our training. We are not even as good as the scholars in guarding the house. No wonder we are being bullied by the civil officials!"

Zhu Houzhao did not use this opportunity to attack these nobles who had lost face. He just smiled at Zhang Mao and said, "Your grandson is a ruthless man! He would rather die together than be defeated! With strict training, you may even be better than your master!"

Zhang Mao was very happy to hear the emperor praising his grandson so much, and began to feel that His Majesty had made the right choice by sending his grandson to the Imperial University of Peking.

Although the military training at the Imperial University of Peking has changed a lot for the scholars and the sons of nobles, and made them more masculine, they are no longer just pursuing luxury and pleasure.

But military training is always short-lived. When the students of the Imperial University of Peking began to learn to obey the rules, the military training was over. After that, they only had cultural classes and morning exercises. As for riding, archery and firearms operation, it was up to the students to do it voluntarily. Zhang Lun did not end the training, and now he did not hate anyone, and did not look for anyone. He only paid attention to Xia Yan every day, and challenged Xia Yan to a horse-riding and slashing game every once in a while!

Xia Yan was extremely annoyed by this.

After finishing the military training for the students of Imperial University of Peking, Qiu Yue took on the task of training the Guards. When training these soldiers, he naturally would not be as polite as he was to the students of Imperial University of Peking. Not only did he use sticks, he also added something new, namely solitary confinement. At the same time, he also introduced the logistics and life management of the military training of Imperial University of Peking into the training of the Guards.

Of course, training nearly 70,000 troops is not an easy task.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao also wanted the training content of this group of guards to not only include military training but also political training, that is, to cultivate the officers and soldiers of the guards' loyalty to the emperor and their own beliefs as members of the guards.

Zhu Houzhao made the Loyal Emperor Society, which Liu Jin had established earlier, come into play at this time.

However, Zhu Houzhao no longer let Liu Jin command the construction of the Loyalty Society in the Imperial Guards system. He personally served as the highest person in charge of the Loyalty Society of the Imperial Guards, and instructed Liu Jin and the Minister of War Xu Jin, who were directly responsible to him:
"From now on, all political affairs of the Loyalty Society in the army can only be decided by the emperor! The purpose of the Loyalty Society is to spread the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor to everyone, including the army, officials, civilians, even peddlers, Taoists, monks and other monks! The purpose of the Loyalty Society in the Guards system is also to spread the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor to every officer and soldier of the Guards!"

"Sir, you understand!"

Xu Jin and Liu Jin replied.

Zhu Houzhao nodded and asked Liu Jin and Xu Jin to set up Loyalty to the Emperor Society organizations at all levels of the Guards all the way down to the company level. The main members would naturally be the Loyalty to the Emperor Society members in these companies.

These loyal emperor societies were responsible for giving regular night classes to the officers and soldiers of the Guards every night. The purpose of the night classes was to popularize cultural knowledge and promote the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor.

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"In the eleventh year of the Hongzhi reign, the little prince invaded Suzhou and killed more than 570 soldiers and civilians in the border town!"

"In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the little prince moved into the Hetao area of ​​our Daming Dynasty! He killed countless Han people!"

"In the thirteenth year of the Hongzhi reign, the little prince invaded Yansui and Shenmubao while living in Hetao, massacring three villages. Nearly a thousand of our Han people were killed or injured! Countless cattle, sheep, and food supplies were looted!"

"In the fourteenth year of the Hongzhi reign, the little prince entered Ningxia from Hongyanchi and other places and plundered extensively, and then plundered Guyuan and left!"

"In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, the little prince surrounded Lingzhou, entered Huamachi, and plundered Weizhou!"

"This is the military news of our Ming Dynasty in recent years. They are all archived reports from the Ministry of War issued by border towns in various places. I have summarized them one by one today so that you can remember this person - little prince, and also to let you know that our Ming Dynasty is not without enemies. In the future, you will all be the ministers who protect the country and the people! You must know this!"

Like the night classes of the Imperial Guards, Zhu Houzhao was also conducting nationalist education and loyalty culture propaganda for the teachers and students of the Imperial University at this time, and the lecture materials were the archives of the Ministry of War on border town wars. Although these things were not a big deal when taken out individually, but now that they were all summarized, they could bring great shock to the teachers and students of the Imperial University, and greatly aroused their desire to wipe out the Tartars.

Seeing that all of these teachers and students had eyes spitting fire and clenched fists, Zhu Houzhao sighed inwardly that people of this era rarely accepted this kind of brainwashing and were therefore easily infected. At the same time, he couldn't help but throw away the charcoal pencil and complained in his heart that chalk had to be manufactured as soon as possible, otherwise it would be really troublesome to spread culture and his hands would get dirty, just like touching coal.

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