Chinese New Year

Chapter 5 Students (Additional chapter for leader Wang Ruoyu)
Time passed quickly, and the Pan Garden was covered with white frost and the cold was pressing.

The winter wheat had been planted long ago, and even green seedlings had grown.

The livestock were prepared for the winter and hay was piled up in mountains.

The caravan came once, stayed for two days and then left. Everything seemed normal.

Shao Xun's life was very monotonous.

Work, training, and——

"The sky and the earth are dark yellow, and the universe is vast and boundless. I have taught you for so long, but you still can't remember it. You deserve a beating." Shao Xun looked at the words written on the ground by a young man and said with a stern face.

The boy who was squatting on the ground stood up dejectedly and walked to the door.

Outside the gate, the sergeant Huang Biao sneered, and the boy took off his pants consciously - full-crotch pants, with thin legs and a crotch sewn together, which were introduced by the Hu people from the grassland. Before that, the trousers worn by the Han people had separate legs and the crotch was not sewn together, that is, there were only trouser legs, no crotch or waistband, which mainly served to keep the legs warm, but the Hu people needed to ride horses, and it was very uncomfortable without closed-crotch pants or full-crotch pants.

"Snap!" The whip was swung down heavily, and a clear blood mark appeared.

After being beaten, the boy tidied his clothes, walked back again, and asked his left and right companions how to write the words "comrades-in-arms".

Shao Xun continued to check the homework of other teenagers.

If you encounter someone who is unqualified, there is no need to say anything, just whip him.

Although the teenagers were young and ignorant, they were not stupid. They all knew how valuable literacy was and how much it cost.

Even more, many people are willing to pay the price, but have no way and cannot find a place to learn.

The team leader was willing to teach them to read and write, and he did his best to do so. This was a great thing that made their ancestors' graves smoke green smoke. Therefore, even though learning was very difficult, everyone still had no complaints.

Even if there are some people who really don't want to learn, after seeing others studying eagerly, they will doubt whether they are too lazy and be forced to study hard.

Shao Xun took a long time to finish reading all the students' "homework". Then he made a summary, praised a few people, criticized a few people, and gave each person rewards and punishments - mainly in terms of food.

After the summary, continue teaching: "To comfort the people and punish the criminals, Zhou launched Yin Tang."

He wrote these words on the whiteboard with charcoal, and then asked the students to carefully identify them and recite them aloud.

"To comfort the people and punish the criminals, Zhou sent Yin Tang..."

The sound was not very uniform at the beginning, but after repeating it many times, it gradually became uniform.

Shao Xun patiently read aloud over and over again, his heart calm.

He didn't know how long this peaceful life would last, but as long as he was there, he would be responsible for these kids.

Besides, he also has some little thoughts of his own.

The team leader is temporary, but the apprentice is lifelong. During the Three Kingdoms period, some soldiers died in battle without descendants. Cao Cao ordered that children be collected from the relatives of the dead soldiers and adopted. They were granted land and oxen, and apprentices were appointed to teach them. From that time on, the title "apprentice master" gradually became popular, and was listed alongside titles such as "teacher", "master", "teacher elder", and "master".

The Jin Dynasty came to power in an illegitimate way and was too ashamed to mention "loyalty and righteousness", so it placed great emphasis on filial piety and respect for teachers. After decades of promotion, it achieved remarkable results in this regard - which always makes people feel strange.

There is no doubt that a teacher has much more weight than a team leader or a building leader.

Shao Xun once wondered why the Hu people were able to establish a regime in the north after the Western Jin Dynasty moved south.
He thought of a lot of reasons and found that the most important one was that the Hu people had "their own people" to use.

Establishing a regime requires a large number of local officials. The Hu chiefs have tribes as their base. After the population base increases, there will always be some talents who help the chiefs to manage the local area. They can arrest thieves, collect money and grain, recruit Latin soldiers, etc.

It is true that people from tribes may not be very skilled, but with tribes as their base, the chieftains of the Hu people can bargain with the Han families, gain bargaining power, and eventually give up some of their interests in exchange for cooperation from the aristocratic families and local tyrants. At this point, a not very stable country was initially established.

What if there is no basic tribal base, or the overall cultural level of the tribe is low and it is really difficult to find so many talents?

This is more troublesome, and it may be necessary to give all the grassroots to the wealthy families and local tycoons.

Of course, such tribes generally cannot establish a political power.

Not every tribe can survive in the chaotic north for a long time. The threshold is real. Otherwise, wouldn't the peasant uprising army also be able to establish a country and rule the country?
Shao Xun knew that there were far more conditions to gain a foothold in the north than these, but it was always a good idea to train more of his own people.

He has time, energy, and enthusiasm, so he should do more. Even if the army is disbanded in the future and he is transferred to another place, he can still have some friendship with them. At the very least, it will give these young people an extra skill to learn, isn't that great?

You have to farm...

Yes, someone has to do something.

What he did was much better than the nobles taking Wushisan. In this regard, he had a sufficient sense of moral superiority.

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The first heavy snow fell, and the capital was already on the verge of a war. Some people, either disappointed or frightened, quietly left Luoyang, a place of trouble. But the vast majority of officials and ministers did not leave, after all, the situation in the country had not collapsed to the point where it could not be further devastated.

The simplest manifestation is that the emperor still has some majesty, the grain transport has not been interrupted, the appointment and removal of local officials are still valid, and the army can still be mobilized.

In Pan Garden, everything was business as usual, and there didn't seem to be any waves.

At this time, on the parade ground, there were rumbling drums and shouts.

"Beat the drum and march; beat the gong and stop. Don't you understand?" Shao Xun took a whip and beat the young men who disobeyed his orders one by one.

The boys blushed and felt ashamed.

Some of his comrades made faces and laughed at him, but Shao Xun whipped them a few times and they finally calmed down.

Looking down from the air, the fifty people were divided into three groups.

Thirty people gathered in the middle, holding spears, standing still.

Ten are located in the upper right corner and ten are located in the lower left corner.

This formation suddenly appeared in his mind and was very familiar, as if he had used it countless times in his previous life.

He somehow knew that the偃月阵 was both offensive and defensive, and its essence was to use the thick central army to resist the enemy's attack, and then rely on the rotating crescent (upper right corner) to flank the enemy. It was a very classic military formation.

He didn't know when the偃月阵 appeared in history, but it was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the late Tang and Five Dynasties. This formation was both offensive and defensive, and was always loved by the generals. It appeared many times in important battles.

Therefore, he chose this formation as his first choice to train his soldiers, and he took it very seriously - a team of fifty people might not need any military formation, but he was training these young men as seeds for officers, so the requirements were naturally different.

There were also two other teams training on the training ground.

Their training was relatively simple: just queues.

At this time, the "Eight Formations" were popular among the Jin army.

The so-called "Eight Formations" is actually a variation of the square formation, that is, each formation is located in all directions, "scattered into eight, and then into one".

The center is slightly empty, where the commander is located. Here, the most elite troops are usually kept, called "Yuqi", which is actually a reserve force, to plug the gap at a critical moment, or to resolutely throw in the enemy when the enemy is exhausted and make the final decision.

Compared to the Eight Formations, the偃月阵 is more complicated and has higher requirements.

Shao Xun didn't care about this.

He remembered an incident from later life.

A dance teacher was rehearsing a dance with a group of children. There were a lot of people, some dancing and some playing musical instruments. It was very complicated and required a lot of coordination.

At the final performance, the adults were shocked to see the children's performance, because in terms of the complexity, it would take adults a long time to practice to reach this level of performance.

The teacher leading the team only said one sentence: "Don't ever tell the children how difficult this is."

Yeah, don't tell them how hard it is!
If you don't practice well, it's your own problem. You're too stupid. Hurry up and pay attention and practice hard.

Currently there are only fifty people. In the future, if there are five hundred or five thousand people training together, the difficulty will increase exponentially. At that time, you will still have to continue to find your own problems and continue to practice hard.

Of course, it is easier said than done. To achieve your goal, you will always need a lot of tedious and meticulous work, as well as persistent determination.

The most important thing is to have someone who appreciates you and protects you and gives you a stable space to perform.

"Line up and do it again." Shao Xun ordered loudly after turning around.

"Boom boom boom..." The rumbling sound of war drums sounded again.

"Kill!" Fifty young men shouted in unison in their childish voices, hit the ground with their spears, and the column began to move.

Shao Xun stared at the marching team.

He knew very well that in this era, peace was an exception and war was the mainstream. Any period of peace was extremely precious and must be seized.

Especially this kind of opportunity where someone provides "food and accommodation", and offers training venues, equipment, consumables, food and other necessities, it would be a shame not to make full use of it.

His ambition was not limited to the fifty young men in front of him. In fact, he asked for a lot more.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Take it step by step.

(End of this chapter)