Daqin Engineering Corps

"If these are passed on to one place or two places, it may be possible to use bamboo slips."

"But is it going to be spread throughout the counties and counties of Daqin, and even to the hands of every common people?"

Ying Zheng couldn't help being dumbfounded.

Previously, he thought more about paper being used by rebels. He also thought about knowledge and skills, but he didn't expect it to be so deep.

Now hearing what Shen Bing said, Ying Zhengcai suddenly realized, and secretly said:

"Go!"

"It's like the Daqin Tuntian format. Although it is just a few simple words, it is very difficult to implement it to every household from top to bottom."

"The state of Qin even wrote it into the law and implemented it for several years before it achieved initial results."

"The root cause is that bamboo slips are difficult to make and cannot be quickly and scaled up for transmission."

"If there is paper, the farming format can be distributed to counties and counties in the shortest time, and even to the hands of the people...why is it so laborious and time-consuming?"

Thinking about it further, Ying Zheng was startled again:

"As Shen Bing said, paper is good for agriculture and military weapons."

"Wouldn't that make Qin stronger?"

"But the rest of the countries don't know that the method of making this paper can only stay in the bamboo slip era. Is it still far away to unify the Central Plains?"

"So... this Shen Bing was indeed sent by the heavens to help me unify the Central Plains!"

"How can a widow forget this! Just now I thought..."

Thinking of this, Ying Zheng looked at Shen Bing with gratitude on his face, and thought to himself that if Caicai was impatient just now, he might make a big mistake.

Of course, Shen Bing didn't know that he escaped unintentionally. He also asked Ying Zheng:

"Are these papers enough for hairpins?"

"If it's not enough, I'll ask someone to bring some more."

Ying Zheng quickly replied:

"More than enough, thank you Captain, I will take my leave now!"

Zhao Gao felt a little surprised, isn't this the way to ask for paper?

This method has not yet reached the king and left like this?

This is not the character of the king...

But when Ying Zheng said to leave, Zhao Gao dared to say nothing, so he hurriedly followed behind on his horse.

Only after leaving the barracks did Zhao Gao dare to ask:

"My lord, shall I leave just like this?"

"The method..."

In fact, Zhao Gao also has some selfishness, he himself loves calligraphy and is even a famous calligrapher.

Usually, if you want to show calligraphy, you have to write on silk, even Zhao Gao feels heartache.

If you know how to make that paper...

But Ying Zheng interrupted Zhao Gao in the carriage:

"What do you know?"

"This is God's will, I can't wait to interfere indiscriminately!"

"You can't tell anyone about this trip, understand?"

Zhao Gao and a group of personal guards hurriedly responded.

Zhao Gao was more and more puzzled, it was just a method of making paper, how could it be God's will?

However, Zhao Gao didn't dare to ask more questions, he couldn't guess the reason all the way.

As for Shen Bing, it was cool. Whenever he needed anything in the barracks, Shen Bing would "buy" with a big wave of his hand.

What to buy?

If you want wine, food or even everything, you only need to give a few pieces of paper.

Once the paper is valuable and the price is stable, it can be worth ten yuan a piece, then it is actually hard currency equivalent to money... This may be the most primitive banknote, a banknote without any pattern and no need for anti-counterfeiting.

So why does Shen Bing want money?Isn't that pile of papers in the captain's mansion money?

Only then did Shen Bing have a chance to calm down and look through the navy roster.

In ancient times, most armies were composed of generals, divisions, and songs.

The supreme commander is the general or also known as the general, such as Wang Jian, the commander-in-chief of the battle.

There are several deputy generals and assistant generals under the general, also known as generals, such as Yang Duanhe.

The general is divided into several departments, and the subordinates are divided into several songs.

A school captain, such as Shen Bing, the captain of the water army.

One song and one military candidate, Shen Bing has two military candidates under his command.

A school lieutenant usually commands 1 people, and 1 people often need five military candidates for backup.

These five military candidates are not prescribed to lead a certain unit. They are usually the assistants of the school lieutenant, and they are only temporarily assigned command tasks when they need to divide troops into battle.

For example, if Shen Bing has three thousand sailors under his command, only two military officers are enough.

If it is necessary to divide the troops in wartime, divide 3000 people into two teams, one with [-] and the other with [-].

There is no problem with a team of 1000 people, and two to five hundred masters can independently solve the command problem.

But how does the team of 2000 people command and unify the pace?

Temporarily designate one of the two or five hundred masters?

Then the two or five hundred masters have to command their own thousand-man team and command the overall strategy, so it is inevitable that they are in a hurry and their responsibilities are not clear.

At this time, if a military waiter is sent to command the 2000-man team to fight, it will be clear and organized.

The two military officers under Shen Bing were named Li Jian (jiān) and Chen Duan.

These two were appointed by Shen Bing based on their training performance, and they were both descendants of the nobles of the Wei State.

In fact, Shen Bing also wanted to select a few people from ordinary people or ordinary soldiers to serve as military officers, but the result disappointed Shen Bing.

It is true that princes and generals are not born, but they are educated.

This era is not like the modern age where everyone is educated. Except for a very small number of people, ordinary people do not even have the opportunity to receive education.

And those who have no education or even a few words are obviously not suitable for commanding troops.

Chapter 173

This can also be said to be a kind of helplessness of Shen Bing.

An uneducated commoner such as Cang, his shortcoming is that he always considers his own safety first. This mentality, let alone a military officer, is not worthy of the name of any engineer.

Hui is too cautious, and because of the hardship of life, the small peasants have serious thoughts.

All that Ren can think about is killing the enemy and doing meritorious deeds instead of having a soldier in his arms.

What surprised Shen Bing was the seemingly reckless and rude...

Shen Bing originally felt that his straightforward personality was not suitable for commanding troops in battle.

However, during the time when Rang Jiang was the coach, he found that he had excellent organizational and commanding skills, and he didn't know how to train them.

Shen Bing also asked Yu about this matter, and he only said that it was because he led the villagers to hunt for a long time.

Shen Bing knew that this matter would not be so simple, because this ability cannot be cultivated by hunting.

But he didn't want to say anything, so he didn't ask any more questions.

People like Yu can only be said to be one in a million. Most of the uneducated people are not enough to take on the big responsibility in terms of vision, character and skills.

The same is true for the soldiers of the Wei army, so it is still the educated noble children who can stand out in the training.

Li Jian and Chen Duan are the best of them.

Li Jian was originally just a five hundred master, that is, an officer commanding 500 people.

However, the troops under his command can always complete the task the fastest and the best, and even conduct comparisons to investigate mistakes and improve in time.

This is what Shen Bing likes the most, which shows his subjective initiative and continuous analysis of problems and then I improve them.

Chen Duan organized a successful rescue in the shipwreck accident, so he was directly promoted to the rank of military officer.

These two people are also interesting, Shen Bing checked their information, and found that Li Jian likes to learn the art of war, while Chen Duan grew up among soldiers.

Simply put, the former focuses on theory while the latter focuses on practicality.

This is the state of Wei...to be exact, the difference between the Six Kingdoms and Qin.

In Qin State, the children of the nobles and even the outstanding ones among the common people were incorporated into the student registration for unified teaching, so each of the children of the nobles would learn the same things, that is, literacy, official documents, laws, etiquette, art of war, and military training.

Therefore, the generals from the Qin State do not need to read the information. They basically know all these things, but the advantages and disadvantages vary.

Even the ignorant Meng Liang also received these basic education.

But the other six countries are different. They don't have this kind of centralized batch teaching, and most of them invite their own teachers to teach privately.

It is hard for Shen Bing to say which education method is better.

Because the private education of the six countries pays more attention to individual development, for example, if it is suitable for learning the art of war, it will develop into the art of war, and if it is suitable for learning martial arts, then it will be practiced.

However, Qin's education method will inevitably obliterate individuality.

But in the end, there is no doubt that the education system of Qin State won, because the education system of Qin State can use limited educational resources to cultivate as many talents as possible, and then seek the sublimation from quantitative change to qualitative change.

On the other hand, in the Six Kingdoms, a son of a nobleman needs to be taught by one or even several teachers: one teacher of law, one teacher of military art, one teacher of riding and archery...

Even ordinary nobles can't bear it and can only retreat.

The result is giving up an entire forest for one tree.

If the tree is good enough, that's all. If it is not good, or if something happens to it, all the previous efforts will be in vain.

But the state of Qin is cultivating a forest, and in the end there will always be a few trees that will become useful.

Just like the two talents cultivated by Wei Guo's method in front of Shen Bing: one is more theoretical and the other is more practical, who can tell which is more important?

It would be fine if the two could learn from each other and communicate with each other, but if they did not cooperate and fight openly and secretly, then it would be a mess.

In addition, the situation of the two or five hundred masters appointed and dismissed by Shen Bing is similar. Although they have outstanding performance in training, they always have obvious weaknesses.

But these are only tentative, and it will be much easier to rise to the official position as the battle develops in the future: whoever makes the merits will be the leader.

Shen Bing believes that with the development of the war, these soldiers and officers will gradually mature.

Just as Shen Bing was flipping through the roster, Wei Wei entered the door and cupped his hands to Shen Bing to remind him:

"Lieutenant, the Marine Guard has not yet been formed."

"The captain means..."

Shen Bing let out an "oh", forgetting about this.

This is the tradition of this era, and officers usually have one-tenth of their own personal guards.

For example, if Shen Bing has [-] sailors under his command, he should have [-] personal guards.

This is to prevent the main general from being "catch the thief first and capture the king" by the enemy.

In addition, the general's life, food, camping, etc. are all taken care of by the personal guards.

This is actually the modern security force.

The difference is that in this era, in order to let the guards swear to the death to defend the general, their lives are tied to the safety of the general.

After thinking about it, Shen Bing said:

"At this time, if you choose personal guards from the navy, I'm afraid it will disrupt the establishment."

"Let's order another [-] cavalry from Mengshan camp!"