choke element

Chapter 55 Knowledge

In April of the second year of Chongqing, late spring.

The forest around the Feijun River camp is verdant, with poplar flowers and elm pods flying, and some wild animals and birds also come and go in groups in the reed marshes.However, although this year is not as severe as last year and the year before, it is also a year with less rain in the past.A little farther away from the river and the water, you can see the cracked ground.

There are several fields cultivated by the soldiers by the river. It is not that they have spent a lot of effort, but they can be distinguished by looking at the greenery in the fields. They are not as energetic as Fengnian.

If you leave the camp and walk around Anzhou, you will feel more and more that this once rich and prosperous place in Hebei is sparsely populated and full of silence and desolation.Occasionally, there are knights galloping past on the official road, and I don't know what they are conveying. Just looking at the anxious expressions of those knights, it doesn't seem like good news.

Fortunately, it is not so desolate everywhere. From Bianwudian to the south, through Gaoyangguan, to the Xinqiaoying line, some farms are still very prosperous.Those were led by Guo Ning's department and the Yu family of Xinqiaoying, and introduced the village society Baojia jointly invested by many local townspeople.

In the process of restoring these Baojias, several clans who did not know how to promote were eliminated and some people were killed.

The most disturbing one was when Monk Luo personally led a raid on He's manor in Xiongzhou.Monk Luo is very good at this matter. After beheading all the local soldiers under the He clan, he burned the manor to a piece of white ground, and then was escorted by the soldiers under the command of the Yongding Army several miles away. , Shi Shi ran back.

The He family is a big family in a cross-state county, and it took Yu a lot of effort to solve the follow-up matter.Relying on their combined force, the Yu family continued to destroy many strongholds of the He clan relatives.Then Yu Jingchun, a well-recognized benevolent person, came forward to support a member of the distant branch of the He family, thus bringing this large clan into the scope of Anzhou Baojia.

And more often, the soldiers took turns attacking from the Feijunhe camp to wipe out the water bandits and thieves entrenched in the lakes and abysses of Wuzhou.Li Ting was mainly in charge of this matter. After all, when he was stationed in Wuguandian, he was one of the leaders of the water bandits and had a lot of blood on his hands.

Up to now, the farms are distributed in nearly ten counties in five prefectures, and the farms controlled by Guo Ning and the Yu brothers are almost connected and connected as one.And within a radius of tens of miles centered on the Kuijunhe camp, it was completely controlled by Guo Ning's troops.

Recently, someone half-jokingly said that the Feijunhe camp is like the military commander's office of the five states.So some people honored Guo Ning as "Director Guo".Even though Guo Ning himself categorically refused to call him that way many times, someone still called him that behind his back.

In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, it is really not easy to lead [-] soldiers to occupy one side in this kind of world, and to feed them all. It is worthy of the title of a general.Even without the name given by the court, he is still a big shot.

But this big man was very different from the big men the soldiers were used to.

He has very little self-esteem, and has no addiction to gold, silver, and property. He usually practices martial arts and soldiers, or hangs out with his own soldiers and young boys, and he doesn't even have a decent mansion. No.

He was still stationed in the highland north of Bianwudian and on the west bank of the Kuijun River, but the scale of the camp was expanded because the number of his own soldiers and servants increased a lot.

At dusk, when Liu Cheng went from the warehouse to the base camp with books and documents, the distance he traveled was much longer than usual.

Inside the gate, there is a roughly square courtyard more than ten feet wide. In the center of the courtyard there is a corridor paved with gravel, and there are soil yards on both sides.

On the edge of the soil field near the fence, there are weapon racks, even stone locks, wooden stakes and other equipment for exercising strength, which seem to be often used.Several personal soldiers were holding long spears, and they were practicing one by one.

Further on, it is the meeting hall of the Chinese Army.

Many buildings in the camp were built with logs felled nearby. They were neither painted nor leveled, and in some places the bark was not even peeled off.The same is true for the meeting hall. Although the structure is rough, it is very strong.

At the back of the meeting hall is the daily living place of Guo Ning, his soldiers, and his servants. It is a courtyard with two entrances.

Liu Cheng stood at the entrance of the conference hall and listened for a long while, the voice deep in the hall was intermittent.

He sighed.

On both sides of the hall, two armored soldiers standing upright also sighed.

"Is it half an hour?"

"almost."

"Is it really not working? Have you tried everything?"

"I heard that he was sick when he was a child, and later..." A soldier gestured twice: "It's not easy to use."

"Nonsense! Why is this!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "This kid is angry and anxious, he must feel ashamed!"

Looking at the sky, he asked, "Where are the others?"

"The others have already left. Today Li Erlang gathered some raw lacquer and came back. Zhao Jue took everyone to see it."

"Raw lacquer?" Liu Cheng shook his head inexplicably, gathered the books, and stepped into the hall: "Then I'll go in. If I want to come to Ni Yi, I don't care if one more person sees his embarrassment."

The hall in the middle of the meeting hall is empty at the moment.Liu Cheng walked further inside, bypassing the back compartment, and saw in the small side hall on the right, an old scholar who had been recruited a few days ago was shouting impatiently: "Hurry up! The old man is going to eat! "

Next to the old scholar, Lu Han, whom Guo Ning regarded as his family, said in a soft voice, "Don't worry, sir, there is still a while to eat."

She turned to the person standing in the middle of the hall and said, "Don't worry, take your time! People have different temperaments. Maybe you can memorize it slowly even though you recite it slowly?"

The forehead of the person standing in the hall was steaming, it turned out to be Ni Yi.

I didn't finish today's homework for half an hour... This is not the first time.As the leader of the followers, Ni Yi was extremely ashamed and angry.Hearing Lu Han's persuasion, he only felt more and more impatient, and the white air rising above his head rolled up visibly to the naked eye, almost becoming a columnar shape.

Seeing this situation, Liu Cheng couldn't help laughing.

It turned out that after Guo Ning regrouped his soldiers, he often chatted with everyone.Sometimes he tells various stories about the civil and military affairs of ancient monarchs and ministers, and sometimes he tells some strange and strange principles of learning from things, and then extends the anecdotes from foreign lands beyond the mountains and seas.

Someone asked how Guo Ning was able to have such insight and eloquence, Guo Ning all pushed it to Gao Kezhong, a scholar who was attacked and killed by Xiao Haohu's troops before, and only believed that it was taught by Gao Kezhong.

Guo Ning spoke vividly, and the teenagers listened engrossed.Afterwards, even young knights such as Rui Lin and Chen Ran also joined in. After daily training and daily military affairs, they all came to wait for Guo Ning to give a lecture, gathering hundreds of people each time.

About half a month later, Guo Ning suddenly said: "There are still stories and anecdotes. However, I'm afraid that you are not well-informed, and you won't be able to understand afterward. It's a pity."

This made everyone unhappy.

Immediately someone said: Why do you lack knowledge?All of us, no matter our age, have experienced big battles.Having crossed deserts and grasslands, crossed deep mountains and great ravines, and fought thousands of troops, speaking of knowledge, they are always better than ordinary people.Why can't you even hear the story?
What is the lack of knowledge, Guo Langjun, tell us, let us grow up too?

As soon as these words were spoken, huge troubles arose.

The time when the young man and the knights listened to Guo Ning's stories every day moved to after sunset.And one and a half hours before sunset became the time for Kaimeng to study!

This is suffering.

When it comes to fighting, Guo Ning's subordinates are all brave.But when it comes to literacy, among the two thousand and five hundred people, there are probably less than a hundred who can recognize their own names; and those who can write can probably be counted with two hands.

Who would have thought that Guo Langjun would suddenly make such a weird request to the men who were licking blood with knife heads?At present, all the soldiers are all overwhelmed, and even many people can't hold on soon and give up voluntarily.

Guo Ning did not insist on this.

He just invited a local old Confucian to teach from the simplest words.And I rarely pay attention to these things.

The old Confucian preached and taught in the right side hall of the meeting hall, and Guo Ning worked in the left side hall every day without disturbing him.The soldiers who were unwilling to persist were ashamed at first, and then came back every night, wanting to continue listening to Guo Ning telling stories and making jokes, but Guo Ning didn't mind at all and treated them as usual.

As a result, fewer and fewer people are willing to try reading.Not long after, Lu Han brought some children to join, and the number of students was only in their [-]s and [-]s, including Ni Yi, who was stupid and not enlightened.

In the past few days, Ni Yi has been humming in the hall every day, unable to hold back any results, even the soldiers outside can't stand listening.

(End of this chapter)