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Chapter 178 The first president to graduate from West Point Military Academy! Zhu Houzhao was shocked: Every American soldier has a blunderbuss?
[American Yingzong Cleveland: President Grant, in fact, we have already said this before when we were talking about the Civil War! It can be said that without President Grant, our Civil War might not have ended so quickly. After all, General Lee was also very powerful. 】

[Mericon Grant: No, I'm not that powerful. If it weren't for President Lincoln's full support, we wouldn't be able to win. 】

Before Jackson, Grant was also modest.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: President Grant, there is no need to be modest. In terms of fighting, you can indeed be regarded as the most powerful general in the United States so far, from President Washington in the Revolutionary War, to President Jackson who rose in the Second War of Independence, and then to President Zachary Taylor who rose in the Mexican-American War. You are the best fighting hero president. After all, the troops they command are far less than yours. 】

Cleveland here, incidentally, named important figures in several important wars since the founding of the United States.

Oh, are most of the presidents of the United States really people with combat experience?

Cleveland obviously realized that simply introducing Grant was a bit boring.

It also specifically singled out presidents who rose to prominence due to fighting.

This made Zhu Houzhao realize the specialness of the American president!
[Messezon Roosevelt: I also admit this. Even if we have a subsequent war with Spain, we will only rely on our strong strength to bully Spain. President Grant, who has truly experienced fierce confrontations and wars, is the best war-fighting president in the more than 100 years since our country was founded. 】

Cleveland started from here, and Roosevelt couldn't help but add something.

Although he also participated in the Spanish-American War and became president as a result.

But for him, the war between the United States and Spain was completely bullying.

He himself did not think that he was a combat hero in the Spanish-American War.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: Oh, Roosevelt, I also noticed you mentioned this before. Does this mean we are really at war with Spain? 】

Roosevelt's addition also prompted Cleveland to ask the question.

[Merceron Roosevelt: Well, hit! President Cleveland, you also handled Spanish affairs while in office. Spain in our America... still affected our American interests, so we found an opportunity to expand our army and really fought a war with them. Facts have proved that this battle is very necessary... Our navy has finally been established. 】

Roosevelt also briefly reported on their American strategy for the Spanish-American War.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: Yes. This is good news. 】

Cleveland sensed there was finally good news.

[Merezu Louis XVI: You Americans... attack Mexico first, which is also considered a colony of Spain, and then attack Spain. Okay, okay, okay, you are specifically at odds with Spain, right? You really regard America as your back garden. What? 】

Louis XVI was speechless. He couldn't help but observe two minutes of silence for Spain. He also felt the tyranny of the United States.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: Haha, who made them decline? 】

In this regard, Cleveland only said a few words, which made Louis XVI speechless.

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Houzhao felt a little unhappy for no reason.

[Tang Xizong Li Xuan: So... we in the East have declined, and we will inevitably be bullied by you, right? I remember that you said before... that you are starting to play games in the East. Is this really okay for you? 】

Zhu Houzhao felt the gap in concepts, because China has been very domineering for so many years.

But for some small foreign countries, it is generally quite polite.

At the same time, it respects some big countries that have little to do with its own interests, and has never bullied them because they are weak and declining.

This gap in concepts made him a little uncomfortable.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty, this is the national interest. Kindness is of no use in international competition. Moreover, Spain does have a direct conflict with our national interests and is strictly speaking our opponent. If we take advantage of his decline and attack decisively, it wouldn't be considered bullying. 】

Cleveland felt Zhu Houzhao's discomfort with the trumpet and explained it incidentally.

[Li Xuan, Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty: Okay, okay, I won’t interrupt. Go on. 】

Zhu Houzhao did not argue, the truth was indeed this.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: Okay, I accidentally missed the topic again. Let's go back to President Grant. President Grant is our most powerful fighting president at present. This is actually inseparable from his origin. 】

[President Grant was actually a civilian president. His father, Jesse Root Grant, was a tanner, and his mother, Hannah Simpson, was the daughter of a farmer. 】

[When President Grant was a boy, he basically helped his family haul wood, reclaim and cultivate land, transport agricultural products home or sell them in the market, and other farm work. It is said that he was able to use animals when he was 7 years old and do business when he was 8 years old. He can swim at the age of 9 and dares to cross a 50-meter-wide river. At the age of 10, he was able to raise, train and ride horses. He is our typical American western cowboy style boy. 】

[Of course, these situations are actually very common. President Grant's background is almost comparable to that of His Majesty Napoleon. 】

[The reason why his destiny changed was that he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is also the first president to graduate from West Point Military Academy so far. And our West Point Military Academy in the United States has trained many military talents for us. This military academy was founded during President Jefferson's time. 】

[American Taizong Jefferson: The West Point Military Academy we founded has really cultivated talents for our United States. Grant was actually the president who graduated from West Point Military Academy? 】

This surprised Jefferson. He also did not expect that an unintentional act could cultivate a general and president for the United States. After all... when West Point was founded, there were only 10 cadets and 7 officers, and he almost didn't approve it.

[Meili Zong Grant: West Point Military Academy was indeed the beginning of a turning point in my destiny. Without that experience, I might have died long ago on the battlefield. 】

When it comes to the experience of West Point Military Academy, Grant also expressed a little emotion.

[Li Xuan, Xizong of the Tang Dynasty: Military academy? Is it necessary to establish a formal place for soldiers to study when fighting a war? 】

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the United States was so full of martial virtue that it could build a school specially for soldiers.

Do they value martial arts over literature?

By the way, when talking about this, Zhu Houzhao realized that he didn't seem to understand whether the United States had an imperial examination system and how to select and train talents.

[Meliezu Louis XVI: Hey, Your Majesty Li, over there... don't you have a school specially set up for soldiers? Are such soldiers capable of fighting? 】

The question mentioned by Zhu Houzhao also made Louis XVI curious.

Naturally, the development and establishment of modern military academies in Europe was relatively late. In the 14th and 15th centuries, due to the needs of war changes, some knights spontaneously founded some knight academies, which can be regarded as the predecessors of modern military academies. Among them, the Lüneburg Knights Academy founded by the French Knights is considered an early military academy in Europe.

Subsequently, this trend swept across the German region, which began some professional knight training. Graduates of these academies could relatively easily qualify for officer positions in the army because they had learned mathematics, engineering, artillery, and tactics early.

Beginning in the 18th century, the importance of this "pre-service education" was fully reflected in the military changes that came quietly later.

European powers such as Britain and France began to establish their own military academies.

[Tang Xizong Li Xuan: No, our soldiers directly recruit people...or after becoming soldiers, they learn through actual combat themselves. 】

What Zhu Houzhao was sure of was that there was no such specialized military officer training institution in the Tang Dynasty.

Even their Ming Dynasty didn’t.

[Meili Zong Grant: I would like to add this, Your Majesty Louis XVI, your question is a bit difficult for Your Majesty Lee. Their battles at that time were still with blades and cavalry, and they probably did not apply cannons and muskets to the battlefield. Even in Europe, there were no decent military academies before the Middle Ages. These soldiers obviously did not need training, and the officers were at most hereditary knights, and the families would educate them themselves. 】

[The real birth of modern military academies will come after muskets and artillery are put into the battlefield. No one is born to use muskets and artillery, so because these things need to be trained and familiarized in advance, the Officer Academy was born. The main purpose is to teach them how to shoot guns and artillery, as well as some previous war tactics. 】

Speaking of which, Grant, a military academy graduate, is a professional.

Zhu Houzhao understood immediately.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion really need to undergo special training before they can actually go on the battlefield.

Slow!

He was also reminded that it seemed that...the many weapons Jackson and the others gave him could not be used immediately and needed to be trained.

If you want to train, it is really necessary to set up a military academy.

no……

Wait... there's one more thing!
In the war situation, the Shenji Battalion of the Ming Dynasty was a strange force, while other Ming armies still used swords, guns and armor.

And...the weapons sent by Lincoln and Washington basically did not include knives or swords. This does not mean that three hundred years later, ordinary American soldiers will fight with blunderbuss and cannons.

Zhu Houzhao suddenly realized what he had overlooked.

[Tang Xizong Li Xuan: Wait... what did Grant mean after muskets and artillery were put into the battlefield? Don’t your ordinary soldiers need to be provided with knives, swords, and armor? 】

Zhu Houzhao immediately took the opportunity to ask. The American army all had elite soldiers like the Shenji Battalion. It would be terrible.

Even the Ming Dynasty cannot afford an army of more than 100 or 200,000 people, so they will all use firecrackers.

Thinking of the production of steel in the United States... Zhu Houzhao had an ominous premonition. He was afraid that their high production would be enough to spread to ordinary soldiers, and everyone could have a blunderbuss, right?
[Meili Zong Grant: Do ordinary soldiers distribute knives and swords? Haha, Your Majesty Li, oh, by the way, you don’t even know about muskets and artillery, right? That's understandable. With the upgrading of weapons, our soldiers no longer use swords. They are just decorations. What they actually use on the battlefield is a... musket similar to a bow and arrow. It is a new weapon that can kill enemies from a distance of a hundred meters. Artillery is a more powerful weapon that can kill a thousand meters or more in one go. Enemies thousands of meters away. 】

This……

Ordinary American soldiers can actually be equipped with muskets and artillery!
Zhu Houzhao was completely shocked. He finally knew...

The Ming Dynasty wanted to increase iron production, but where was the iron used?

If the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of thousands of troops were equipped with muskets and cannons, the Ming Dynasty's current iron output of 20 million kilograms would naturally be far from enough.

(End of this chapter)