The first educational literacy activity of Mang Castle began on the morning of this day, and Ah Tian stood alone on the high platform on the square of the back mountain.

On either side are the intelligence officers photographed by the intelligence department as assistants, responsible for providing large amounts of ink and large pieces of straw paper that can be written.

If it were later modern times, many people's eyesight would not have supported the ability to see clearly what Ah Tian wrote on the papyrus hanging on the high platform in such a large venue.

In fact, even in ancient times, many people who lacked nutrients had impaired eyesight and were unable to read the contents of the papyrus.

However, whether it is the soldiers from the Wei Institute or the people near Mengyang City, they are all people who live in places with relatively sufficient materials, and their nutritional conditions are much better than those in other places, because their eyesight is also normal.

Everyone gathered under the high platform for lectures, and in the crowd, you can still see the curiosity and enthusiasm of most people for learning literacy.

However, enthusiasm is the most common thing that is still three-minute heat.

Ah Tian taught it to the others in Mang's castle in the order in which Jiang Yufu taught her.

Starting from Hanyu Pinyin to starting to know simplified Chinese characters one by one, this order is said to come from Jiang Yugang, but rather from his primary school Chinese teacher.

This sequence is fine for children who are more curious about the unknown and don't have much to do in the day, but it can be a bit boring for adults who are busy.

After all, some of these people need to take care of the fields, some need to work, some need to hunt, and some need to participate in military training, and they really can't muster much energy to learn such seemingly boring things.

Jiang Yuyan also expected this situation, although this situation is not a good thing from any point of view, but his understanding of education is indeed limited, especially literacy education, almost nothing involved.

Therefore, I can only learn from the same example, and use the education methods of my teachers in primary school to do these literacy eradication of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

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As time passed, Ah Tian stopped and rested three times according to Jiang Yu's class schedule in the middle, which can be regarded as the completion of a morning's class.

In the end, the number of people left was less than 200, some of whom chose to leave because there were too many people in Houshan Square, but most of them gave up because it was difficult to understand the wonder of Hanyu Pinyin.

Of the last 200 remaining, soldiers and intelligence personnel accounted for the vast majority, in addition to some half-grown children, whose parents were mostly people who had seen some of the world and had been to Mengyang City or even further away, and knew that learning and education was a good thing, so they left them behind.

The other children in the village, although they still have some interest in these spell-like letters, followed suit when they saw their adults leave.

In the literacy education of Mang Castle, the only people who are forced to participate are the personnel of the Intelligence Department, and Jiang Yugang has formulated quite strict discipline in this regard, and all those who do not want to participate can choose to leave the Intelligence Department.

As for the education of children, although Jiang Yuxuan thought about whether to force them or use some attractive means to keep them at the beginning, he thought that there were too few people who could teach at the moment.

Ah Tian is the only one who has a sufficient level of education and is able to fully explain all kinds of problems and difficulties in education, and the ratio of teachers to students is still close to 200 people at a time when there is basically no retention, and this terrible ratio of teachers to students is 200, and there are really no objective conditions for further expanding the scale of education.

Jiang Yugang plans to conduct an assessment of these people who follow the study in a week, and select about 30 people as the first batch of talents for in-depth training. They will be the first cultural elements in the castle and will be responsible for the future of education.

Lu Chong, Zhang Dake, Dao Yunyue and others in the Alchemy Academy were also semi-forcibly pulled over by him, although these people are not completely illiterate, but they don't know too many words, and learning more culture will not waste the craft, after all, it is still beneficial.

The first literacy education in Manggu Castle was in full swing, and it was March of the fourteenth year of Orthodoxy, just beginning in early spring.

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One early morning a week after the start of literacy education, Jiang Yugang was also thinking about the further refinement of the construction of Manggu Castle after the expansion of the scale.

Lu Chong was pulled up from the camp tent by him early in the morning, this guy is now sleeping in a rather spacious camp tent with Zhang Dake and Dao Yunyue, the other leaders of the alchemy academy, and it can be regarded as taking advantage of the power advantage of his subordinates to manage craftsmen to seek some benefits for himself.

Jiang Yu will not bother with these little things, after all, in this era, craftsmen have no status without him.

It can even be said that the craftsmen of Manggu Mountain can have the current treatment, all of which is the credit of him alone.

Whether it was the technology he provided from the future that made the craftsmen useful, or whether he was even questioned by others in the Mang Castle because of the various protections and preferential treatment he gave to the craftsmen.

In their opinion, the craftsmen who helped to rebuild the village and build the fortress were a good contribution, but other than some craftsmen were only tinkering with stoves and small iron objects all day long, and a group of people could only make a small bird gun in a few days.

Compared to those who worked hard to plough the fields, transport supplies, hunt or go out to suppress bandits, many of the craftsmen were simply idle and fun.

Jiang Yu tried his best to override public opinion and ensure the status and treatment of craftsmen in Mang Castle, and his status among craftsmen was even higher, and he would not be the person they respected the most.

In fact, Jiang Yugang himself didn't feel that he had done much for the craftsman, after all, he came from an industrial era where science and technology were supreme, and the development of science and technology and industrial production had created countless miracles.

Like the Alchemy Institute in Mang Castle now, it is actually a complex of scientific research and industrial production, and it is natural to receive good treatment.

However, with the development of Mang Castle, it is also time for the Alchemy Academy to need change and a certain degree of new construction.

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The current Mang Castle is roughly divided into three parts:

First, the Intelligence Department composed of him and his cronies is the central part of the entire Mang Castle, responsible for collecting and integrating intelligence, making decisions and judgments on various matters, and finally carrying out some special operations.

Second, the Alchemy Institute, headed by Lu Chong, is the industrial construction and engineering department of Mang Castle, which is responsible for the restoration of various design drawings and design ideas provided by Jiang Yugang, as well as the production of various weapons and equipment. After the construction of Mang Kasbah began, they were also responsible for all the construction works.

Third, the two companies headed by Li Zongqi of the original Ming army and Auma of Nansangzhai were the armed forces of Mang Gubao, uniting the Ming army forces and the local forces in Luchuan.

In addition, there are also the people of Nansangzhai who have been organized by the Ministry of Intelligence, who are now regarded as the people of Manggu Castle, responsible for all logistics affairs of Mang Castle, and are under the supervision and management of the Ministry of Intelligence.

As for these four parts, except for the armed forces of Mang Castle, which relied on the modern military establishment for reorganization, there was basically no problem in management and combat efficiency, and there was no need for any further improvement, and the other three parts could be improved.

However, at present, the Ministry of Intelligence is still in the process of development, and the Manggu Castle has not yet been built, and there are still some cottage forces in the Manggu Mountains that are relatively independent and have not chosen to rely on the Ming army, so it is not good for the Ministry of Intelligence and the people of Nansang Village to make any further modifications.

Analyzed in this way, the reform of the Alchemy Academy appeared on the table and became the most important place to be improved.

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With the construction of Manggu Castle, the people of the villages of the entire Manggu Mountains continue to converge to Manggu Castle.

After all, Mang Castle first had an abundant supply of materials, whether it was organized farming, land reclamation, or hunting in teams, and finally military rations from Mengyang City.

All of this can provide far more than these Ming Dynasty primitive cottages of the inefficient agricultural and animal husbandry productivity, to the Mang Castle, basically say goodbye to hunger, a full meal, can not get a stable life.

In addition to this, safety is the biggest attraction of Mang Kasbah.

Manggu Mountain is close to Mengyang City, there are many relatively gentle valleys, abundant water, abundant products, all kinds of animals inhabit here, and it is not very difficult to survive here.

However, the villagers still formed large and small cottages, because in addition to the villagers who lived a serious life, the bandits who relied on looting for a living did not suffer here, and they posed a great threat to the lives of ordinary mountain people.

As for the Luchuan Army, that's even more to say. Since the large Luchuan army active in the Manggu Mountain area was basically wiped out by Jiang Yugang, the Luchuan army has not organized a relatively large force in this area.

After all, the area southwest of Mengyang City was still the sphere of influence of the Ming army, and their activities here were originally of a certain adventurous nature, and after suffering a great defeat, they hibernated, operating in the mountains further south, choosing to avoid the edge of the Ming army.

However, it was also because of the abandonment of the construction of the stronghold here, and this area became a passage between several other strongholds, and the Luchuan troops often passed through it with an indefinite number of people.

The manpower of the Ming army of Manggu Castle is limited, so it is naturally impossible to organize a patrol and reconnaissance covering the entire Manggu Mountain, and the passing Luchuan troops will not ask for trouble and take the initiative to fight with the Ming army of Mang Ancient Castle.

However, once a larger Luchuan army passed by Manggu Mountain, they did not mind attacking some of the smaller cottages.

And because the stronghold in Manggu Mountain was abandoned and they could not establish effective control over the cottage, their methods were even more bottomless. Small cottages were either slaughtered or almost looted.

As a result, more and more small villages come to Mang Castle in search of protection and survival. These passing Luchuan troops turned into the manpower transport brigade of Mang Castle.

Some of the scattered cottages hidden in the mountains and forests were really attacked by bandits and the Luchuan army, some were terrified because of rumors, and some were simply attracted by the reputation of Mang Castle and came to Mang Castle one after another.

The general shape of the fortress had just been established, and the large cottage inside had just begun to take shape, and the total number of residents had exceeded 2,000.

Fortunately, the Ming army Mang Castle camp covers a wide area, but the size of the area should be more than ten times that of Nansang Village, and the building space and living space are still guaranteed.

As a result of the crowd gathering at the castle, the castle was to be built on the largest scale planned, and in this way, the number of builders needed became extremely large.

Jiang Yugang initially classified these people involved in the construction as craftsmen of the Alchemy Academy, but as the days went by, it gradually developed, and the number of craftsmen involved in the construction was about 300.

At the same time, the other craftsmen responsible for the production of equipment, including Lu Chong, have a total of seventy-six people. The craftsmen who were originally in charge of craftsmanship and smelting have become a minority in the Alchemy Academy.

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"What do you think about this?" Jiang Yu asked Lu Chong.