The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 45
"Don't gossip. If you come here today, you should get a lot of books, right?" Liu Tai looked at Yuan Yan and said.

After hearing Liu Tai's words, Yuan Yan took out a volume of books and said, "Sang Gong's "Shui Jing" was annotated by Guo Pu, a famous scholar today, and recorded the watercourse conditions of 137 major rivers in the country. How about it? It is consistent with Just ask for it!"

"How much gold!" Liu Tai was not polite when he heard Yuan Yan's words and asked directly.

"Five hundred gold, maybe. I heard that the Guo family is somewhat of a local wealthy family. If it hadn't been for the help of King Chu's military power, I'm afraid this family wouldn't have allowed me to copy a copy." Yuan Yan thought for a moment and reported to Liu Tai. a number.

Liu Tai quickly wrote down a note, and then said, "You take it first. When you need money, just come to me and get it. Now even if I give you five hundred gold, you can't get it back!"

"Okay, okay, I'll accept this white note!" Yuan Yan heard Liu Tai's words and kept the white note without any courtesy.

However, Yuan Yan accepted the note and said, "Why are you collecting these miscellaneous students?

In today's world, either "Yi" or "Lao" should be regarded as the most important learning. If you want to learn culture and become an official in the court, you should study Confucian theories such as "Shangshu", "Poetry", "Li" and "Spring and Autumn". This "Shui Jing" is the top Most of them are just miscellaneous knowledge, so how can the general use them? "

"The collapse of rituals and the collapse of music are practical. In my opinion, this "Shui Jing" is more important than that of Confucianism and metaphysics!" Liu Tai shook his head and said,

"By the way, if there are books like "The Book of Pan Sheng", "The Book of Zhang Heng", "Essential Art of Qi Min", etc., help me find them too."

"I know a little bit about "Pan Sheng Zhi" and "Zhang Heng Shu". Not to mention, I think there should be rare copies in Luoyang.

On the other hand, I have never heard of "Essential Art for Elevating the People". It has such an impressive name. I thought it must be a wonderful book on governing the people! "

Yuan Yan thought for a moment after hearing Liu Tai's words, and then replied to Liu Tai.

Liu Tai only roughly remembered that "Qi Min Yao Shu" was produced by Jia Sixie during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

But further, I don’t know the specific era. Now that I heard that Yuan Yan had never heard of this book, he didn’t care, and said:

"In short, I am interested in all kinds of miscellaneous books that can be used as tools. I can exchange gold for books and I will be honest."

"General, you have a wide range of interests... you are quite different from other generals!" Yuan Yan couldn't help but sigh when he heard Liu Tai's words.

Of course, because he spent some time in Liu Cong's military camp, Yuan Yan also knew that Liu Tai was quite different not only in Liu Cong's military camp, but also in Wang Mi's army.

After all, the army under Liu Tai was probably the only one who asked the military historian to tell the soldiers stories from the Book of Han or Han idioms every time they took a break.

I even heard that some of the Baizhan commanders in Liu Tai's army did not go further because they were illiterate.Once they can read and write, they will basically be promoted.

As for the reason, it is just to take responsibility for the soldiers at the bottom. The higher the official position, the higher the requirements for the soldiers.

The soldiers before the chief of the village were all in a bad mood, and they only listened to the stories of "Hanshu".

After all, learning such a painful thing is not as comfortable as listening to these military historians talking about allusions to the "Book of Han" during the war.

But when the soldiers reached the level of the village commander, they began to study hard.

After all, mastering literacy skills is a mandatory requirement at this time. In fact, mastering literacy skills is not a bad thing.

Liu Tai just let this matter go. At first, Liu Tai wanted all his soldiers to be literate.

But in reality, the skill of literacy is really not that simple.

Although in modern society, only one person can read and write, so everyone thinks that reading and writing is normal.

But looking at it from another perspective, during the time period when human beings accepted things the fastest, it took at least five years to master various Chinese characters. During this period alone, the materials consumed by the country were an astronomical figure.

In his previous life, Liu Tai thought that learning Chinese calligraphy was not a rare thing, but now that he is working hard to promote education, he finds that everything is difficult.

As far as the tools needed for learning calligraphy are concerned, the most convenient ones now are a sand table, a branch, a wooden board, and a box of dried river sand. They can basically be used as the simplest teaching tools. Of course, the most important thing is that it is free. of.

But this kind of thing is only useful in the hands of people who have the subjective initiative to learn.

After all, this kind of thing cannot be used to assign homework. At most, people who really work hard can take the sandbox back, smear it, write it, smear it, and recycle it.

But again, there are too few people with this kind of subjective initiative. Not everyone is so farsighted, and not everyone likes to learn.

Even if you become a village commander by relying on your own bravery and merits, there are still people who don't want to learn, and Liu Tai is quite helpless about this.

After all, to put it bluntly, Liu Tai was just an officer under Wang Mi with limited resources. Although he could fill the bottomless pit of literacy to a certain extent with the financial resources he received, it did not form an effective system.

However, Liu Tai didn't care. At least for now, there was a clear gap between the organization and willpower of the soldiers he trained in this way and other foreign armies.

Needless to say, if you only dare to line up against the cavalry, instead of turning the whole army into battle, your army will become an elite.

After all, in the army, being able to fight is the last word, and as long as there is no peace in the world, being an elite commander is to a certain extent the safest profession in troubled times, so Liu Tai is not afraid of Liu Yao. .

At this time, there was a sudden commotion in the right camp. Hearing the commotion, Liu Tai couldn't help but look at Yuan Yan.

"Gather and form an array!" Liu Tai reacted immediately and immediately issued the order.

Soon, Liu Tai's bodyguards beat the gongs loudly. The soldiers who were listening to the story of "Han Shu" in the military camp suddenly came back to their senses, and came to the school field in the military camp, quickly forming formations to respond. Strong enemy.

At this time, Yuan Yan looked at Liu Tai very strangely. To be honest, he knew that Liu Tai was leading elite soldiers. He even watched Liu Tai's army face the cavalry charge with a spear formation without fear. This kind of infantry It was already quite terrifying in Yuan Yan's eyes.

Just like the Yue Family Army who dared to roll directly under the crippled horse and chop off the horse's legs, this kind of soldier can basically ignore his own life and death, and ignoring his own life and death itself is a rigid standard that an elite must meet.

But now, it takes less than two-thirds of an hour, or about 10 minutes, for the troops to assemble.

Liu Tai's army, which was originally listening to stories in the military camp, has actually assembled in the military camp's school grounds, and each branch of the army has already fought for its own position. Although it is still a little messy, the entire military formation has already Out.

Yuan Yan thought about it again when he commanded the county soldiers. If he could integrate the army in half an hour, he would be very happy.What's more important is that during this process, some people escaped from duty, some couldn't find their team, some didn't wear their armor properly... There were so many problems that gave Yuan Yan an incomparable headache.

But looking at the troops under Liu Tai's command, Yuan Yan realized for the first time why everyone admitted that Liu Tai was leading elite troops, nonsense!How could it be possible that those who could clean up the military formation in such a short time were not elites?

Fortunately, he had attacked Liu Cong's military camp that night. If he had attacked Liu Tai's military camp, he was afraid that Liu Tai would have killed his troops while reorganizing his troops.

The speed of this army's formation is too fast and incomprehensible!

In contrast, Liu Tai couldn't help frowning as he watched the army reorganizing, feeling that the speed of reorganizing the army was still too slow!
In 10 minutes, even the primary school students on campus ran from the classrooms upstairs to the playground and took a good position to do radio gymnastics.

But his army didn't even have a complete queue. This made Liu Tai know that his army was far from enough!
However, after the troops formed their formation, Liu Tai did not rush out immediately.

After all, the right camp is where the Huns are stationed. At the same time, I saw that only the right camp was attacked, and there was no chaos in the main camp. Obviously Liu Cong was fine.

Therefore, Liu Tai decisively made the most irresponsible choice——

He sent someone to tell Wang Mi that he had finished purging the army and would firmly defend his camp.

If there is any arrangement, please make it as much as you can and never refuse.

Why is our army so immovable when attacked? Is this the kind of person Liu Tai is? !

Liu Tai just made a fair, just and open choice and followed the procedures in an upright manner.

The person who can control him is either the commander-in-chief Liu Cong or his immediate superior Wang Mi.

Since both of them were fine, but other friendly forces were in trouble, he naturally needed to ask his superiors for instructions before deciding to act.

As for why the generals were not obeyed by foreign military orders, the problem was that both his commander-in-chief and his immediate superiors were there. Why was he so good at making decisions and going to the rescue? Could it be that he was secretly colluding with the military outside? The inside should not be combined with the outside.

Yuan Yan watched Liu Tai complete the formation in a short time, and then decisively set up defenses in the camp without any intention of rushing out of the camp.

The louder the sounds of fighting in the right camp were heard, the more motionless Liu Tai's army became. Some soldiers even said with great interest that the smoke in the right camp seemed to be burning beautifully!

Yuan Yan couldn't help but said, "General, won't you go rescue the right camp?"

"I have sent scouts to inform General Wang that before his order is issued, it is more important for us to guard the camp!"

Liu Tai was quite calm, "After all, it is inconvenient for me to move without military orders. When marching and fighting, the most important thing is to pay attention to military discipline and military orders. It would be very bad if I act without permission and cause unnecessary trouble!"

Listening to Liu Tai's natural words, Yuan Yan more or less understood Liu Tai's attitude.

Following the procedures in a down-to-earth manner and going through the motions conscientiously is something that no one can fault.

It's just that people are social after all. When a person chooses to do business without any inclination, this itself expresses his attitude.

Yuan Yan didn't say much. After all, the Huns didn't want to see Liu Tai. Isn't this a matter of course?

Since Liu Tai has reported to Wang Mi that he is ready, he can just wait for Wang Mi's order.

Wang Mi’s order?Wang Mi saw that there was no commotion in Liu Cong's middle camp, so he decisively said to stay where he was, defended the barracks, and dispatched the messenger soldiers sent by Liu Tai.

Wang Mi watched the messengers leave, then looked at the army that had just been integrated, and couldn't help but sigh: "Tai'er is really good at running the army."

"General Huben is not only good at running the army, but he is also cautious in doing things!" Chang Shi Zhang Song looked at Wang Midao, "General has integrated the army and is not going to rescue Youying?!"

"The order from the King of Chu has not come, so it is inconvenient for me to carry out the military order.

Now that I have finished purging the army, I can also send soldiers to report to the King of Chu. Our army will naturally obey the orders of the King of Chu! "

Wang Mi couldn't help but sigh, "After all, we look so similar to the Jin army. What if the Turkic soldiers in the right camp think we are the Jin army? We should wait a little longer and wait for King Chu's order!"

To be honest, it was not the first time that the Huns looked down on the Han army. However, Liu Tai's army was strong and he dared to directly use his spears to confront Liu Yao, so he earned a lot of face.

If Liu Tai did not do this and instead let Liu Yao chop off Yuan Yan's head in front of Liu Tai, then Liu Tai's army would probably lower their heads when they saw the Huns.

The Xiongnu and other ethnic minorities are best at bullying good and fearing evil. As long as they find out that you are a soft persimmon, they will inspire them to want to bully you.

It's like being a bully in a school who picks out the soft persimmons. As long as you compromise once, they will become more and more courageous. Even when you resist, it will stimulate their desire for revenge.

But fight back against them from the beginning, so that these bullies know that you are not to be trifled with, and they will look for others to bully you instead.

The same was true for the Huns. Because they knew that Liu Tai had a tough attitude and was not easy to mess with, they decisively put the targets of bullying on other Han soldiers.

Many commanders of the Han army felt that they had to bow their heads under the roof, but as long as you tolerate this kind of thing once, the other party will continue to follow you.

Therefore, this time, the Xiongnu army formed a coalition with the Han army and commanded the battle under Liu Cong. Although the leaders of both sides still maintained peace on the surface, privately, the lower-level soldiers and the Han people were basically bullied more by the Huns.

This atmosphere naturally affected Wang Mi's choice. Like Liu Tai, Wang Mi chose to follow the procedures seriously.

The friendly forces were attacked not because he wanted to remain motionless, but because he had no choice but to remain motionless before Liu Cong gave the order!

At this moment, Bei Gongchun, with his Xiliang cavalry, rushed into the right army camp and it was like no one was there.

No one expected Beigong Chun to rush straight to the camp so openly at dawn.

Moreover, the first person he met was Hu Yanyi who was inspecting the military camp. When the two met, Bei Gongchun used the spear in his hand to dig out the heart with a black tiger, and Hu Yanyi was directly pierced by the blow.

Hu Yanyi's eyes widened and he couldn't even imagine that he, the Great Sikong of the Huns and Han Kingdom, would die here like this!
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