King of German Mercenaries

After Ada began research on sextants and nautical clocks, he often complained about the lack of assistants. Because research is not something one person can do.

Although, those hired Italian watchmakers can make temporary cameos as Ada's assistants. However, these people can let them do precision machining, but it is difficult to put forward their own opinions. After all, craftsmen are better at craftsmanship than brains. And scientific research requires brainstorming. After all, no matter how good a person is, there are still places for negligence.

In fact, later generations of professors basically used their own doctoral or master students when doing research. In other words, ordinary scientists need high-quality assistants.

However, there are very few literate people in East Frisian State at the moment. How can there be conditions to equip Da Vinci with assistants with a high level of education?

After thinking about it, Marin finally decided to select the clever and clever ones from the apprentice craftsmen to send to Da Vinci...

Before, after recruiting a large number of craftsmen, Marin selected a group of teenagers from the serf families under his name to learn craftsmanship from those craftsmen. There are thousands of people in this young man. However, they belong to various industries. Some learn to make clocks, some learn to build ships, some learn to make muskets and artillery...

Marin selected the 10 smartest people from the juvenile apprentices who learned to make clocks and gave them to Ada as assistants. At the same time, Da Vinci was also allowed to teach these teenagers when he was free.

In fact, the foundation of these teenagers is very poor. Because they are just smarter than the average child, but they haven't been to school. Because there were very few people who went to school in the Middle Ages, generally they were either children of nobles or children of merchants. The family has no money and cannot afford to go to school.

Therefore, these smart young apprentices may learn things faster, but their cultural foundation is so bad that they are inferior to elementary school students. However, Marin has no other way to do it now, so he has to do it first.

After much thought, Marin decided to build a school...

As an earl, Marin was qualified to establish schools. Of course, it needs to be co-organized with the church. Otherwise, if you do it alone, it may lead to dissatisfaction in the church.

However, the church in East Friesland is under the control of Marin. Therefore, the problem of running a school is not big.

As for running a university, Marin doesn't even think about it now. Because there are not many ordinary church schools in the whole of East Frisian, and there are not many primary school students. Who is recruited to run a university?

Therefore, Marin first planned to set up a group of primary schools and middle schools, and cultivate basic talents first. Wait until this group of people have almost finished middle school before starting a university.

However, there is another problem that bothers Marin, that is - Marin wants to educate the children of serfs, but the children of serfs go to school, which is not in line with the rules...

Moreover, it is estimated that they will not be happy to let a group of noble children and children from rich families go to school together. After all, medieval society was very hierarchical. Putting the children of the nobles and the children of the commoners together, the children of the nobles will feel insulted, let alone go to school with the children of the serfs...

For this reason, Marin has a headache. As a later generation, how could Marin not understand the simple truth of "the master is in the folk"? The children of nobles and the rich are born rich and have a safe future. Therefore, they often do not study hard. And the children of serfs would be very excited if they were given the opportunity to learn culture. Therefore, it is easier for them to study seriously and learn more knowledge.

The problem is that this era is an era of strict social hierarchies. To educate the children of serfs and the nobles together is to humiliate the children of the nobles. Moreover, when they were together, not only did the noble children feel dissatisfied, but the serf children would also be very uncomfortable...

In the end, Marin thought about it for a long time and decided to run the school separately...

His plan is to open an aristocratic school for the children of nobles, soldiers and wealthy families...

Yes,

Marin juxtaposed the sons of soldiers and sons of nobles. In order to seek hegemony in the future, Marin decided to treat military families preferentially, so that people would willingly volunteer to serve in the army.

Therefore, Marin specially ordered that all children of East Frisian active duty military families can go to school for free, and the treatment is equal to that of the children of wealthy merchants, slightly lower than the children of nobles.

The school they attended was an aristocratic school jointly run by Marin and the church. At school, students mainly study the Bible (instead of language), mathematics, and basic military skills.

Like the compulsory education promoted by Frederick the Great, Marin actually regarded the aristocratic schools as the cradle of training high-level officers. The students of the school must live in accommodation and implement closed education. Every day, the students of the noble school have to wake up and complete the assembly in the shortest time, and then run the exercise.

Then, the whole morning was spent studying the Bible and mathematics, and the afternoon was spent arranging basic military training or organizing sports activities. As for what sports activities to arrange? Do you still need to ask? Of course it's football!

Football can not only exercise students' physical fitness, but also exercise students' awareness and ability to cooperate with each other. Of course, as a sport for elementary school students, Marin absolutely forbids them from using dangerous moves like tackles. Because, he didn't want his reserve officers to have their legs cut off.

After entering middle school, Marin will add courses in law and management to the children of noble schools. At that time, those who study well will be promoted to civil servants. Those with good military literacy are given priority to be promoted to officers.

Because they have received semi-military education since childhood, when these children grow up, they will easily adapt to military life and have a good basic military ability.

At that time, to form a powerful modernized army, these talents will be needed to serve as grass-roots officers...

The biggest difference between the modern army and the ancient army is the difference in the quality of the grass-roots commanders. In ancient times, the grassroots commanders were all illiterate and had no military literacy, and only knew how to listen to the command from above. If the general is killed in battle, these grass-roots officers will lose their backbone and flee with the soldiers.

Just like the last battle of Lyle County, I heard that the Duke of Saxony was shot dead, and the Saxon infantry who came to attack immediately fled...

The modern army has a strict system. According to the modern military system, if the regiment leader dies in battle, the deputy regiment leader takes over the command. If the deputy commander dies, let the tough battle of the first battalion take over, and if the first battalion commander dies, the second battalion commander will take over... In this order, there will never be a phenomenon of no leader.

Of course, this is because officers in modern armies are educated and disciplined. Even if many grass-roots officers before liberation had little culture, they all received literacy training after entering the army. Moreover, the instructors must be literate people, and they will remind those officers who have little culture that they will not make mistakes.

If the main general is killed in battle, the modern army will generally continue to execute orders under the leadership of the grass-roots officers, or stand by in place, waiting for the order of the new top commander, and will never leave in a hurry. Even if they are retreating, they can retreat in an orderly manner under the command of well-qualified grass-roots officers, without fleeing.

Marin naturally wanted to build such an army, but now, the team captains under him are basically illiterate. Even the captain of the company is in urgent need. That's why Marin urgently needs a wandering knight from a cultured knight family.

However, when Marin used these wandering knights, he also found that these wandering knights were too deeply influenced by the traditional old military thinking, and it was difficult to change. After all, that's the kind of education they've been given since childhood.

Therefore, it is difficult to expect adult wandering knights who have formed their minds to adapt to the modern army. Many wandering knights are still unable to extricate themselves from the thinking of knights who wear plate armor and lead the charge. Let them command the infantry, in fact, it is not appropriate. Only a few quick-witted individuals, such as Frenzberg, could quickly adapt to Marin's modern military style.

And if the children of the nobles are trained from an early age, when they grow up, they will meet the requirements of the modern army very well. In this way, Marin can pull up a team casually and be invincible, just like Prussia and Germany later...