In August, the autumn wind is gentle.

The sea near Chongming Island is sparkling, and warships shuttle through the sea.

After the Zheng family evacuated, the Liang army recovered Chongming. After nearly a year of construction, Chongming had become a navy base.

At this time, a large ship was docked by the dock. Gao Huan walked off the boat. A group of officers wearing navy uniforms on the dock immediately saluted, "Welcome the king!"

Naval warfare is not like land warfare, and it rarely requires close combat, so the Liang army's naval army uses lighter cloth armor.

Gao Huan walked over with a smile and glanced at the many navy officers. Seeing them wearing new military uniforms, erecting their small breasts, standing straight, and laughing, "It's very energetic!"

Liu Hui bowed and said, "I dare not slackewer!"

Chongming Island is actually quite dangerous now. After all, it is far away from land and is easily besieged by the Zheng family navy.

Last year, when Gao Huan went north, the Zheng family navy returned and trapped the Liang army navy in Chongming water camp. Fortunately, Gao Huan had someone transported a large number of artillery in advance and built a simple fort, which repelled the Zheng family navy's invasion.

Now the navy officers and soldiers on the island are always energetic, fearing of sudden attacks.

Gao Huan nodded slightly and asked, "Are you ready in the Navy School?"

"Master, I'm waiting for you!" Liu Hui replied.

Gao Huan smiled and said, "Then go over!"

Gao Huan took the president of Liangguo Lu Normal University, so he naturally would not let the Navy School go.

In this society, the relationship between teachers and students was an extremely important relationship, which could well maintain the loyalty of officers to Gao Huan.

Although Gao Huan almost didn't take any classes, he was determined to be the principals of the two schools.

At this time, Gao Huan, accompanied by Liu Hui and others, left the dock and went to the Navy Academy to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony of the school.

Everyone walked onto the island, and Gao Huan watched while walking. In just one year, Chongming Island became a military fortress.

Barracks, playgrounds, and turrets were built on the island, all of which were made of bricks and stones.

Speaking of building a fort or building a building, it is best to use cement. However, Gao Huan doesn't know how to do this, but he has already made the Engineering Science Hall overcome this problem.

Chongming Island is a large sandbank with a relatively flat terrain and has enough land to build a naval school covering an area of ​​thousands of acres.

In addition, the Liang State Navy lacked talents and did not have enough teachers. Gao Huan could only let the navy officers lead the class, so he could only build the school on the island.

At this time, a rhythmic slogan sounded, and teams of naval army preparation students wearing standard short-ditched beatings ran along the gravel road on Chongming Island.

Gao Huan stopped and looked carefully. He found several familiar figures, Gao Yigong, Li Laiheng and other Shunjun generals who were actually running training in the team.

Seeing this, Liu Hui explained: "King, the navy has high requirements for officers and needs to be literate to learn various knowledge. These officers were selected from the Army University."

Gao Huan nodded when he heard the words and said nothing.

Although Gao Huan felt that Gao Yigong and Li Laiheng, who already had rich experience in land combat, could better play their abilities when returning to the land division, the navy did need talents, and in the future it could also prevent the construction of the navy's land battle camp.

At this time, Gao Huan and his group came to the site of the Navy Academy.

Now there is still a large open space, but a lot of building materials have been piled up, and teaching buildings, dormitories, warehouses, and playgrounds have been prepared.

More than a thousand craftsmen and thousands of civilians stood in the wilderness, waiting for Gao Huan to arrive.

At this time, Gao Huan personally dug a shovel of soil symbolically with a shovel, then wrote the name of the school "Dalian Naval Academy" in his hand, and delivered a speech. The groundbreaking ceremony was over, and the craftsmen began to build the Naval Academy.

On Chongming Island, inside the Donghai Navy Office.

After the groundbreaking ceremony, Gao Huan summoned the main instructors of the Navy Academy, namely the navy generals, to discuss the teaching of the Navy Academy.

At this time, Gao Huan was sitting in the middle hall, Liu Hui and others sat on both sides, the soldiers took the tea and retreated, leaving everyone to discuss.

Gao Huan took a sip of tea, then smiled and said, "Today, while I am here, please tell me if you have any difficulties. I will try to solve them for you."

Liu Hui looked at everyone and said, "Master, there are indeed many problems, and I need the help of the master."

Gao Huan put down his cup and sat upright, "You said!"

Liu Hui said: "I read the school-building guide sent by the king and asked the Navy School to offer courses such as command, tactics, arithmetic, ocean, astronomy, geography, climate, water marks, measurement, artillery, sailing, logistics, life-saving, etc. Some of these subjects are understood, but some are confused. I also asked the King to send the instructors of the corresponding subjects to come!"

Gao Huan was deeply moved by the lack of talents. "I will draw a group of instructors from other schools and hire some Westerners to teach."

As he said that, Gao Huan looked at Zhou Yanru, "Have you not given a reply from the Jesuits yet?"

Zhou Yanru said in a deep voice: "Report to the king, the Jesus agreed to send someone over, but he put forward the conditions."

The Jesuits were one of the main Catholic religious orders, founded by the Spanish Saint Ignatius Loyola, and aimed at spreading the Catholic Church. The priests needed to unconditionally loyal to the pope and perform all the tasks they assigned.

In order to spread Catholicism, this Jesuit attracted believers through preaching, opening schools, hospitals, and spreading technology.

Since the late Ming Dynasty, the arrival of these missionaries has brought advanced artillery casting technology to the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent, and has triggered the trend of Western learning to spread to the east.

In the late Ming Dynasty, after several lesson plans, the Jesuits suffered a blow in the missionary preaching of the Ming Dynasty. Except for a few missionaries who succeeded to the throne, they were recruited into Beijing and helped to make artillery, most of the missionaries from all over the country were expelled.

In recent years, Gao Huan has been trying to recruit some Western barbarians and contact the Jesuits, but because of the distance, he did not successfully get on the line.

Gao Huan frowned, "What are the conditions?"

Zhou Yanru and Taoism: "They want to preach in Daliang and build churches in Nanjing!"

Gao Huan frowned. The Jesus will only serve the Pope, which is something that Gao Huan cannot tolerate. Secondly, Gao Huan does not like this kind of monotheistic religion, which is very exclusive.

If Jesus was allowed to preach in Liang Kingdom, it would inevitably be a hidden danger in the future.

This made Gao Huan think of the three local religions in China. In the future, Liang Kingdom will not only go to sea with warships, but also with culture.

Look at the Jesuits, they all came to their homes, and the three local families knew that they were too Buddhist and could not fight at all. When could they show some fighting spirit and spread Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism overseas?

Gao Huan wondered whether he would make an appointment with Kong Xingxie, and was recruiting Buddhist and Taoist monks and celestial masters to transform them so that they could go to the sea in the future and fight against the West.

"King!" Zhou Yanru saw Gao Huan lost his mind and could not call him.

Gao Huan retracted his thoughts when he heard the words. He had already had the tricks to deal with the Jesuits and was preparing to do an experiment in Nanjing to train and transform the three local religions. So he pondered: "The national mission is definitely not good. You can promise them to preach in Nanjing first, allow the construction of churches, and let them come first."

Zhou Yanru nodded, "I understand!"

Gao Huan then looked at Liu Hui, and Liu Hui continued: "The other problem is the student's problem. The king asked the first phase to recruit 3,000 people, while the navy officers must be able to read and understand arithmetic. The conditions are relatively harsh. I recruited for several months and only recruited more than 300 people!"

The Navy is not as good as the Land Division. It is enough to fire a gun. The Navy is a technical army. If the Liang Kingdom wants to surpass the Zheng family and chase the Western barbarians, it is not enough to rely on a group of illiterate people.

The talents needed by the navy are not enough to pass the junior literacy of the Lu Normal School night school. They must be those who have truly read some books and are flexible in mind to command a warship controlled by hundreds of people.

However, those who have actually studied are all thinking about taking the imperial examinations and entering government affairs schools, but few people are willing to come to the Navy School.

Gao Huan pondered for a while and suddenly said, "This way! If you enter the Navy School for everything, you can receive two silver dollars in military salary every month. Others spend money on studying and going to the Navy School for school, and you can get money after passing the exam. It is probably to attract many poor students."

(It's nothing tonight, update tomorrow)
Chapter completed!