At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

And this time, Guo Jia was selected by Guo Peng to serve as the general manager of the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, replacing Jijiu Guo, who was too busy with government affairs to teach in person, to manage the [-] elites in the entire Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

The Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall was almost built at the beginning of the fourth year of Yande, and it was basically completed in February.

In March, the final enrollment list was already in hand, and someone from Guo issued an order to start the school, allowing [-] carefully selected elite soldiers to enroll.

They received training in the ability to command the army as officers in the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, strengthened the training, taught them various knowledge of marching and fighting, and further imparted cultural knowledge to them.

Guo Wei's army has cultural lessons every day.

The military judges in the army will teach the soldiers in the army how to read while popularizing the law. Basically, after two or three years, the living soldiers can recognize seven or eight hundred commonly used characters, and the smart ones can recognize more than 1000, which is considered cultural. people.

Not only to recognize, but also to write.

As Mr. Guo became richer and richer day by day, the amount of paper and ink in the army gradually increased.

The army has gradually got rid of the embarrassment of using stones to make gestures on the ground, and has begun to become more professional.

But after all, this is only literacy. If you want to become a real cultural person, you must study.

So where can the big-headed soldiers of humble origins read and understand the truth?

Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

How many people squeezed their heads to go to the martial arts hall. After many rounds of brutal competition, the last 500 people won by a thrill and became the final winners.

These 500 people do not know how many comrades-in-arms Pao Ze in the army died enviously.

Good luck, strong strength, and smartness.

After selecting the best from the best, the quality of these 500 people is quite high. Each of them can know more than a thousand characters, can read and write, and has already possessed the initial learning ability.

So Guo Jia led a group of elite staff officers in the staff desk to start a battle, explaining the art of war to them, and using sand tables and war games to assist education.

500 students are divided into ten study classes, with 50 students in each class, and three staff officers are in charge of one study class. The pressure on the staff desk is not great.

The sand table is set up, the war chess is set up, the war is simulated on the well-made sand table, and the essentials of the art of war are explained in this practical way.

Tell the students how to march, how to choose the road, and how to choose the terrain to set up camp.

This is the art of war class, and naturally military skills and long-distance training are indispensable.

In addition to the normal use of knives and spears, Guo copied some of the various modern exercise equipment he used to exercise his muscles in the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

Then let the carefully selected military training instructors lead them to exercise their bodies and temper their will in a scientific and reasonable way.

A high-protein diet for 500 people is something Guo can afford.

It is not necessary for everyone to have such a high standard, but they will be given meat and eggs every day, so that they can develop a strong body and a strong will with good nutrition.

Then bring this spirit to the army to make Wei Jun more elite.

The five hundred elite students were overwhelmed with gratitude for such a high standard of treatment.

Every morning, they loudly express their loyalty and determination to the stone statue of Mr. Guo in the Lecture Hall of Shouyang Mountain, and then start a new day.

This was proposed by Guo Jia, to let them know who they should be loyal to, who gave them such high treatment, so that they can eat meat and eggs every day, and let them know how grateful they are.

As soon as Mr. Guo slapped his head, he decided to ask the stone carvers to carve a mighty statue of Mr. Guo standing on horseback, and put it in the center of the training ground in the martial arts hall.

Every morning before the training starts, the trainees are asked to express their loyalty and determination to the mighty statue of Mr. Guo, letting them know that their emperor is watching them!

Of course, Mr. Guo wouldn't just stop going to see it in person.

On the first day of school, someone from Guo went to give a speech. When the five hundred students saw the emperor in person, they all flushed with excitement, feeling as if their blood vessels were about to explode.

After that, Mr. Guo also basically kept going to the martial arts lecture hall once or twice a month to show his presence, and would bring some delicious food to the students every time he went.

Earn enough loyalty.

Originally, Guo's prestige in the army was unparalleled.

The current high-level and backbone of the Wei Army were brought up by someone Guo. The Wei Army was established by someone Guo. He was born and died with him countless times, and the strength of the Wei Army and the sense of belonging to someone Guo were tempered in the flames of war.

Now it is just a further strengthening of this attribution.

Because Mr. Guo will not stay in the barracks often, and he will not always lead the troops himself. He is the emperor, and if he leads the troops in battle, he will be conscripted by the emperor himself.

The Son of Heaven can't just drive himself to conquest.

There are only two possibilities for the emperor's personal conquest, one is to be forced by helpless circumstances, and the other is to be sure of victory. Therefore, generally speaking, when the emperor goes out to fight, he must win the battle, conquer the attack, and cannot be invincible.

If you can't stay in the army all the time, then you need to rely on some special means to maintain the influence and dominance of the army.

Lecture hall is one of the ways.

chapter 1021 one thousand and thirty-one

In short, the Martial Arts Hall is running well under Guo Jia's management, and Guo is very satisfied.

Occasionally take some time to inspect the martial arts hall, lecture, and even personally explain to the students the classic battles that he personally commanded.

For example, the battle against the Yellow Turban Army, the battle against Quyi, the battle against Yuan Shao, the battle against Yanzhou, and the battle against Lu Bu.

These are dangerous wars that Mr. Guo fought in order to survive and grow in the process of starting a business. They are wars that he cannot afford to lose. Once he loses, it will bring him very serious consequences.

In the early days, Mr. Guo’s family background was weak, and he didn’t have the capital to make a comeback. Facing a group of wolves, tigers and leopards, he might overturn if he lost once, so he didn’t dare to take it lightly, and planned every battle carefully.

The wonderful planning and strategic conception fascinated the students who had just come into contact with the theory of the art of war.

Nonsense, the emperor personally lectures, who dare not be serious?

Therefore, Guo Peng's lectures often make the students so excited that they can't help themselves.

To be able to hear the emperor's lecture in person, this...

We are all true disciples of the emperor!

Tell it to Pao Ze in the army, or tell it to future generations, what a matter of face!

The founding emperor of the Great Wei Empire taught me personally, and I was his student.

What a feeling!

That taste... just thinking about it makes me drunk.

In mid-May, after Mr. Guo went to the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall again, he learned that the joint caravan had crossed Tongguan and started heading towards Luoyang, and it would arrive in Luoyang soon.

Because the visitor has the semi-official business team of the Guishuang Empire, and his own caravan has also received the hospitality and courtesy of the Emperor Guishuang, so someone Guo feels that it is necessary for him to give Guishuang's semi-official caravan according to the principle of reciprocity. With courtesy.

Anyway, everyone's relationship must be good.

This relationship is not good, and there will be no way to do business in the future. Since the Emperor Guishuang welcomes the Wei State caravan to do business, of course Mr. Guo can't live up to his [good intentions].

So someone Guo issued an order to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ordering the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Simpi, to prepare carefully.

After a long time, Simpi, who had been talking nonsense with the envoys from the Western Regions in the Lifan Academy every day, had another job.

He was very happy, so he took the big and small salted fish in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together to prepare for the return of the joint caravan and the arrival of the Guishuang envoys.

Soon, not many days later, Ma Yuan led the joint caravan back to Luoyang. On the outskirts of Luoyang, Minister Simpi of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally welcomed the joint caravan to explore westward under the emperor's order on behalf of the emperor.

As a representative of the joint caravan, Ma Yuan had a cordial meeting with Simpi.

During the meeting, Simpi spoke highly of the achievements of Ma Yuan and his party's westward march on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor Wei.

Simpi said that Ma Yuan led a joint caravan to go to Guishuang to do business, which is of great significance for the Wei Empire to reopen the silk trade route that had been lost for decades.

The actions of Ma Yuan and his party are of great significance for the Wei Empire to open up commercial and trade exchanges with countries along the power of silk.

Ma Yuan said that his actions were entirely based on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor. He acted on orders, and everything he did was what His Majesty wanted him to do.

He is only responsible for fulfilling His Majesty's orders, which is a matter of course for a courtier and is not worthy of praise.

Simpi also said that Ma Yuan dared to take responsibility and made a difference, and was a representative of the new generation of young people in the Great Wei Empire.

He will call on young people to work hard to learn from Ma Yuan, to learn from Ma Yuan's courage to pioneer and not to be afraid of hardships and dangers, and to learn from Ma Yuan's courage to travel thousands of miles.

Ma Yuan shed tears and said that he was worth it in his life to get such an evaluation from the motherland.

After some business exchanging, the welcome ceremony came to an end.

The official caravan and the unofficial caravan were disbanded on the spot, and each went to deal with its own aftermath. Ma Yuan took Simpi to meet with the semi-official team of Guishuang Kingdom.

Like Ma Yuan's identity, the identity of the leader of Guishuang's business team is not ordinary.

Although he is not an official businessman of the Guishuang Empire, he is a member of the clan of the Emperor Guishuang's favorite minister. He was temporarily appointed by the Emperor Guishuang as the manager of this caravan, and has a semi-official identity.

In a sense, it is the same as Ma Yuan, who came to take an ice-breaking trip to see if the Wei Empire welcomed them, and whether they were really willing to carry out peaceful, friendly, equal and mutually beneficial business and trade cooperation with them as Ma Yuan said.

Facts have proved that this is true.

Ma Yuan introduced Xin Pi, a senior official of the Wei Empire, to meet the envoy of the Guishuang Empire.

Long Lihe, the leader of the caravan of the Guishuang Empire and a special representative appointed by the emperor, heard that this was a high official of the Wei State, and immediately went to see him.

In order to better promote the communication between the two sides, Ma Yuan expressed his desire to ask Dawan Kingdom to use Saqi on his way back when he passed by Dawan Kingdom, so that he could treat Saqi as the official envoy of Dawan Kingdom.

The King of Dawan did not object, so he handed over this task to Saqi. Saqi was also interested in Wei, so he accepted the mission and came to Wei with the joint caravan to serve as an interpreter.

Under Saqi's translation, the Wei Empire and the Guishuang Empire launched a more formal exchange.

Long Lihe asked Simpi whether their arrival was presumptuous, whether the great Wei Empire welcomed them, whether they could achieve the mission of mutual trade, and so on.

Simpi gave a positive and positive response one by one, saying that the Wei Empire is also looking forward to doing business with the Guishuang Empire and welcomes them very much. His Majesty the Emperor Wei has even decided to meet them, although some preparation time is still needed.

Long Lihe was very happy.

To be honest, after he entered the territory of the Wei Empire, he was still a little apprehensive.

Along the way, he saw the scene of the Wei Empire's large-scale construction and construction, and he was surprised by the strength of the Wei Empire's human and material resources.

And after seeing Hanyang County City, I was also very surprised, because the city of the Wei Empire was so tall, it was still built of bricks and stones, guarded by an army with bright armor, it looked quite elite at first glance.

People come and go, he feels that the population of the Wei Empire will definitely not be less than that of Guishuang.

Then he left Liangzhou and entered Yongzhou. The cities he saw were getting bigger and bigger, with more and more people, and the roads were getting bigger and bigger. When he saw Chang'an City, he almost lost his ability to think.

This city is larger than the Lanshi City, the capital of Guishuang.

It's that simple and easy to understand.

After actually seeing the Chang'an City rebuilt by the Guo Wei Empire, the shocking feeling could not subside for a long time. After entering, he saw the masonry pavement, clean streets and the scene of human beings in the city, and Long Lihe was even more amazed.

The people here, not to mention gorgeous clothes, are also very simple, but compared to those untouchable slaves in Lan's city, at least they are clean and tidy.

He didn't know why these civilians looked cleaner and tidier, and the road was full of business travelers coming and going. More importantly, he was surprised that he couldn't smell the smell that should be normal in this city. .

When passing through some small cities and small villages, you can smell that kind of smell, but in some large-scale cities, you can't smell this kind of smell, especially in Chang'an City.

The air is fresh, clean, and there is no foul smell.

Long Lihe felt that he couldn't understand, so he asked Saqi. Saqi also asked Ma Yuan because he couldn't understand, and Ma Yuan gave him a positive answer.

Because large-scale cities have large-scale public toilets, and small-scale or under-construction cities have not yet spread them out, or there are rural areas near the passing mountains, so there will be that foul smell.

What is a public toilet?

Sage back then was as weird as Long Lihe is now.

chapter 1022 one thousand and thirty-two Ma Yuan really misses his majesty

Knowing that the public toilet is a place set up by Emperor Wei in order to rectify the irregular sanitation situation in the city, Sa Qi and Long Lihe didn't understand it.

It is further learned that Wei Tianzi was thinking about the common people in the world, and asked people to use human excrement and urine to turn human excrement into fertilizer that can increase the fertility of the soil, thereby increasing food production.

While making more people full, it also made most of the foul smell pervading the land of China disappear.

From now on, the people of the Great Wei Empire don't have to feel like shitting all the time.

Residents living in cities with better conditions can eat and live with peace of mind without incense.

If the question mark on the head can be realized, the head of Saqi and Long Lihe is as wonderful.

They thought it was a joke.

When they really saw the existence of the public toilets, they saw the people of Wei State running into the public toilets for convenience, and then they came out with a relaxed face. Afterwards, they went in and had a look, and had a little experience.