"I have a few things to tell you here."

The craftsmen were silent for a while, but Chen Yan was not annoyed, and took out the papers with the words iron-making, cement-making, and glass-making from the table behind him.

"First of all, I have a task for you to do."

As he spoke, Chen Yan handed over a few pieces of paper in his hand to Craftsman Guo, the leader of these craftsmen.

It's just that Guo Jiangtou glanced at the paper handed to him by Chen Yan, but his face was bitter, and he said helplessly.

"Uncle, we don't know how to read!"

Chen Yan: "......"

The corners of Chen Yan's mouth twitched, and after thinking for a while, he said.

"I'll teach you how to read, but there are conditions."

"On what terms?"

"Uncle, even though he said, we all agreed."

"That's it, yes."

All the craftsmen said one after another.

In this era, let alone reading, even literacy is a very difficult thing, at least all of these craftsmen don't know how to read.

Chen Yanken taught them to read and write, which is definitely a great kindness in their eyes!

"Well, follow me in the evening and read with those half-grown boys, but you need to help me bring out a group of apprentices, whoever they are."

Many craftsmen changed their faces, and they were very unhappy to let them teach others the art of eating!

Seeing the unhappiness on the faces of these craftsmen, Chen Yan opened his mouth to add.

"I don't want you to teach in vain, for every apprentice I bring out, how about the reward I give you the same money?"

The many craftsmen glanced at each other, and then nodded in unison and agreed, letting them teach their eating skills to others for nothing, and they must not be happy.

But if Chen Yan is willing to give them money, it is not unacceptable!

After Chen Yan arranged things, he went to the school field to watch Liu Yueying use "Ji Xiao Xinshu" to train soldiers, and as soon as Chen Yan walked into the school field, question marks sounded one after another in the school field.

"Hello sir!"

"Why is the gentleman here?"

"Hello ...... sir"

“……”

Chen Yan smiled and nodded at everyone, then stood in the queue and practiced with everyone, his body bones were indeed a little weak, and he needed to exercise well.

For the next period of time, Chen Yan practiced with ordinary soldiers on the school field during the day, and taught them to read and write in his free time.

And in the process, instill in them the concept of nationality, as well as the concept of being loyal to his words and loyal to the cottage.

In the evenings, he went to give lectures to the half-grown children and craftsmen, and it was essential to instill the concept of loyalty, but in addition to this, Chen Yan taught them the knowledge of science.

In arithmetic, Arabic numerals were introduced, and some basic attempts were popularized in physics and chemistry, which greatly broadened their horizons, taught them to read and write, and tried to cultivate scientific talents.

……

On the 14th day of the lunar month of the third year of Xuanhe!

In Qinzhou City, a large number of soldiers in military uniforms walked out of Qinzhou City, and the generals led by them stood at the gate of Qinzhou City with tall horses.

In front of him, there was an official wearing a four-grade civil official costume standing with his hands in his hands, his big sleeves fluttering, and a wisp of beautiful hair on his chest fluttering in the wind, looking upright.

This person is Yin, the governor of Qinzhou, Liu Wenhan, Lord Liu!

"Lord Liu, let's go!"

The general bowed to the civil official.

"Zhou Dutou should remember to be careful on this trip, the bandits of Erfeng Mountain have been entrenched in Erfeng Mountain for many years, and their strength should not be underestimated, I wish Zhou Dutou all the best on this trip, suppress the group of bandits in Erfeng Mountain, and return the people of Qinzhou to a peace."

Liu Wenhan raised his head and said with a salty attitude, without the slightest respect for Zhou Dutou.

In his opinion, he, Liu Wenhan, is a noble Jinshi master, why should he respect this stinky hill eight?!

Just kidding, besides, this surnamed Zhou is just a Duyu Marquis, there are only five hundred soldiers under his hands, in his eyes Liu Wenhan, he is just a bedbug that can be pinched to death at any time, why respect?!

"The Last General's Order!"

Zhou Dutou didn't dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction.

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, in order to prevent the recurrence of chaos in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and suppress the leading generals, the national policy adopted is to emphasize literature and suppress military force.

In the Song Dynasty, the status of military attachés was extremely low, and even Yue Fei, who supported most of the Song Dynasty, could be killed at will by a civilian official Qin Hui on trumped-up charges, so you can imagine how low the status of military attaches is.

Zhou Dutou didn't dare to offend Liu Wenhan, a magistrate like him.

"Well, go ahead!"

Liu Wenhan waved his hand, as if driving away a piece of garbage.

The army pulled out, carrying enough grain and grass, and went straight to Erfeng Mountain!

……

On the school field of Erfengshan, Zhao Qian, who suddenly arrived, interrupted Chen Yan to continue teaching the soldiers, his face was full of solemnity, he walked to Chen Yan's side, and said in an extremely serious tone.

"Uncle, there is news, the officers and troops of Qinzhou City have moved, there are five hundred people, all of them, and they are heading straight for our Erfeng Mountain."

Chen Yan threw down the chalk in his hand, turned his head and said to Liu Yueying and Zhang Sanhu.

"Leave one person here to straighten out the team, and the rest of the people will all meet in the council hall!"

The entire Erfeng Mountain moved up and down, and the atmosphere was instantly clear, and everyone knew that the officials and troops were going to enter the mountain to encircle and suppress.

On the council floor!

Chen Yan, Zhang Sanhu, Zhao Qian, Wen Haisheng, Ma Liu, Liu Yueying, Li Wu and others all gathered together.

Chen Yan stood in front of everyone and said loudly.

"The officers and troops are about to enter the mountains, and we must fight this battle well!"

"If we lose, the cottage will be gone, and all of us will have to be pressed by the imperial court to the entrance of the vegetable market."

"However, if we win, it will be a real sea with a leap of fish, and the sky will be high and the birds will fly!"

"It's the month of Layue now, and it's about to be the New Year, and after the New Year, the imperial court will send a large army north to attack Liao, and then Qinzhou, where the army is empty, can let us do whatever we want."

"That is to say, just this time, as long as we survive this encirclement and suppression, we will be safe, and I will have an incomparably great future!"

Chen Yan's words were full of demagogy, and everyone who said it was enthusiastic, as if they were fantasizing about their incomparably better future.

Fantasize about yourself in Qinzhou, do whatever you want!

Chen Yan issued a war mobilization order, and the entire Erfeng Mountain was busy.

Zhang Sanhu and Liu Yueying went to rectify the soldiers, Zhao Qian mobilized his subordinates to go out to find out all kinds of news, Wen Haisheng and Ma Liu counted the number of materials in the village together......

Chen Yan also stood in front of a very rudimentary map, thinking about strategy!

Baskets of earth-shattering thunder from the black/gunpowder workshop were brought out, and bundles of swords and weapons from the blacksmith's workshop were sent to the school yard to arm the soldiers.

The warehouse door was opened, and a large amount of money, food, and supplies were shipped out and distributed to where they were needed!

……

Outside the city of Anping, Song Zhiwen, the county magistrate, and the lord Bosun Yousheng stood outside the county with a group of government officials and townsmen, waiting for the army to enter Erfeng Mountain to suppress bandits passing by.