Chapter 158: Killing

Xu Chao asked people to take an iron drill and put it on the ice, and then ordered the powerful official to use a sledgehammer to smash the iron drill into the ice. The big-shouldered and round-waisted servant raised the hammer and smashed it with sparks, while shouting loudly at the end, "Hey, hey!" ”

"Click, click, click", as the iron drill was excavated, there was river water seeping out of the ice. After smashing a hole slightly smaller than the copper basin, he walked a distance of more than a dozen steps and smashed the next one. After smashing five holes in a row, Menarche shouted loudly, causing the soldiers and officials to wait for a while.

After a while, there was a black shadow shaking under the ice, and then many fish jumped up from under the ice. The people waiting on the side took harpoons and other things, and hurriedly grabbed the fish that jumped up and threw them into the cloth bag, and then dumped them into the cart.

When she saw many fish squeezing and jumping up from the water, Liu Qian clapped her hands and jumped and screamed on the side. Zi Jia'er's purple eyes also widened, and she watched with some surprise as the big fish couldn't wait to jump out from under the ice.

After no more fish jumped up, Xu Chao asked people to take a wooden stick and reach into the hole and stir it vigorously. After stirring for a while, he asked someone to use a hammer to completely break open the ice in this section, and then threw the fishing net down and began to fish.

This time, less than 1,000 people came, and there were several such fishing teams, scattered all over the river. Lian County is located on the edge of the Yellow River, and the temperature is not so cold, but when it is blown by the wind outside, it will still make people feel a strong tingling feeling.

Zi Jia'er and Liu Qian's hands and faces were red from the cold, but they refused to go back to the carriage, but squatted on the shore and watched with relish as the adults pulled up the fishing nets. Whenever they saw a fish being pulled out of the net, they were elated.

Chen Cheng looked at the red and swollen palms of Xu Chao's hands, and saw other people working hard in the cold wind, many of them were officials, and couldn't help but sigh: "Changtai rests to hide his tears, and mourns the difficulties of people's livelihood." ”

He knew that the lives of the vast majority of people in this era were very difficult, but he didn't expect that even a big official like Xu Chao would be so cold. Liu Qian shook her head as if she didn't understand, and said, "The poems written by Master are really good!" ”

Chen Cheng turned around, shook his head and said, "I didn't write it, it was written by Qu Yuan, the third doctor." ”

"Oh!" Liu Qian smiled and said, "I just said that I seemed to have heard of it before." ”

Chen Cheng looked at Zi Jia'er, who had purple eyes next to Liu Qian, and said, "This is your friend?" ”

"Yes!" Liu Qian took Zi Jia'er's little hand and said, "Her name is Zi Jia'er!" ”

Chen Chengxin said: Sure enough, it is not like the Central Plains. He said to Liu Qian: "You yourself are not afraid of the cold, it doesn't mean that others are not afraid of the cold, what do you think she has frozen?" Get to the carriage! ”

Zi Jia'er whispered on the side, "I'm not cold. ”

Liu Qian shook her horn and said to Zi Jia'er: "Ah, it's really cold outside, let's go inside the car." ”

The latitude where Liangzhou is located is not too high, but winter is not a suitable time to go out, let alone send troops to fight. The war in Hanyang County also stopped temporarily, and the princes of Xiliang also stayed quietly in their hometowns, waiting for the spring flowers to bloom in the coming year.

Under Chen Cheng's rule, most of the same, only Yacheng and Lian County are still running at high speed. Winter is not suitable for military training, so there will be too many non-combat attrition, but there is no problem at all in learning cultural knowledge in a warm room. A small amount of qualified paper produced by the Ministry of Industry, except for a part of it for the office of Lian County, the rest was sent to Yacheng.

Zhao Yun has already conveyed Chen Cheng's meaning, and if he can complete the literacy eradication, know more than 500 simplified Chinese characters, and know addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 100, he can enjoy an extra allowance. Ordinary soldiers can be promoted to non-commissioned officers, and officers are given priority promotions. The effect can only be said to be average. The literacy rate among the tooth soldiers is already high, but there are still many people who can't pass it.

It is much more difficult to get those who are illiterate to learn to write than it is to learn the Arabic alphabet to those who would otherwise know some poetry and books, and it is always the most troublesome to start from scratch. On the contrary, the orphans who were placed in Yacheng all burst out with positive enthusiasm, and Chen Cheng felt a little surprised by the progress of learning.

After receiving Zhao Yun's report, Chen Cheng thought about it for a while, and finally decided to squeeze out some money and food, and after the beginning of the year, he would establish an army primary school. He planned to gather the children of generals at all levels and the families of tooth soldiers, first teach cultural courses and cultivate discipline, and then teach martial arts and the art of war after two years.

As for why the scope of recruitment is not extended to all the territories under its rule, it is because there is not so much food to feed too many people who are out of production. Half the size, eat the poor man. But the main reason is that there are no qualified teachers. If we want to promote education, we must first train teachers.

Yang Qiu did not object to this, but he did not approve of it either. Although he knew some words, he did not realize that literacy would help him in fighting a war. Fighting a war depends on the courage of the generals and the courage of the soldiers, and the rest is false. Instead of teaching children to read, it is better to build more spears and halberds. But fortunately, this expenditure is related to the army, and he is happy to see it.

Xu Chao was also very dissatisfied, saying that he had no money, why did he have the money to start raising children? It's okay to raise boys, but what does it mean to raise so many girls? There are only two or three counties of territory, and they are ready to open a harem?

Even Yan Zhong felt that it was a bit inappropriate to raise so many children, there were enough of the hundreds of people in Yacheng, and now that they came out like this, there was no surplus food in this landlord's family!

Among all the important ministers, only Zhao Yun fully supported Chen Cheng. First, he trusts Chen Cheng's vision, and second, he does feel the benefits of learning cultural knowledge. Not only is it easier to convey military orders, but it can also help with many paperwork, such as statistics and verification. When he was the chief bookkeeper in the army before, he often had to stay up all night to deal with official affairs in the army, and if the various commanders and commanders could hand in the data after they had counted the data, then his workload would be much less.

The weather is getting colder and colder, sometimes it will be sunny, sometimes it will continue to snow, but the temperature will keep dropping. Chen Cheng ushered in a long and leisurely time. In addition to urging Liu Qian and her little friend Zi Jiaer to continue their studies every day, there are only two things left left: feeding the horses and exercising. Occasionally, when I'm in a good mood, I'll draw something. Either mechanical equipment, or simply a scene in the courtyard.

On this day, the sky was clear after the snow, and the sky was blue as if it had been washed with water. Chen Cheng, as usual, got up in the morning and added some forage to the war horse, and then exercised in the yard for a while. Before, he always felt that the weapons in the army were not very handy, they were a little too light and short, only the infantry halberd was better, so he asked the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau under the Ministry of Industry to create a double-edged halberd.

Now he grabbed this halberd that was one zhang two long, that is, three meters six, and danced in the courtyard. The halberd weighs more than 40 catties, but it weighs about the same as stone locks and other instruments. But such a weight is generally used for exercise, and above the battle array, this kind of weight is too cumbersome.

However, this painted halberd named "Fang Tian" flew up and down in Chen Cheng's hand, but it looked extremely agile and did not have the slightest sense of heaviness. He grabbed the tail of the halberd, and his wrist and arm worked together, and the wide crescent swept across, and the blade cut through the air, making a "woo-woo" sound.

The snow on the ground was kicked up by Chen Cheng's footsteps, and then it was stirred by Fang Tian's painting halberd, constantly flying up and down. Liu Qian heard the sound in the courtyard outside, opened the door, poked her little head out, and saw the sunlight shining on a cloud of jumping and dancing ice chips. In the center of the ice and snow, Chen Cheng heard the sound behind him, so he stopped, he held Fang Tian's halberd obliquely, and turned his head to look over.

Her heartbeat quickened a little, and she didn't know if it was because of the heavy murderous aura on Master's body, or because of the pure sky in the distance and the beautiful scenery in front of her.

"When you wake up, get up and wash up," Chen Cheng calmed down and said, "Then go to breakfast." ”

"Howler!" Liu Qian's chick nodded like a peck of rice, and closed the door again with a "snap". Chen Cheng began to think about another question: If the room is closed so tightly every day, will it be carbon monoxide poisoning?

The sound of footsteps sounded under the eaves, and it was Yan Zhong who walked over, and he was one of the few people who came in without notice.

"Junhou," Yan Zhong said, "Yan Xing has returned from Hanyang County. ”

"The heavy snow has closed the road and returned?" Chen Cheng smiled: "Shouldn't you miss the new daughter-in-law at home?" ”

Yan Zhong also laughed, he first observed the murder weapon in Chen Cheng's hand, and then ignored it, and said: "Han Sui attacked Shangqi once after the snow stopped, but he was counterattacked by Lu Bu, the chief secretary of Ding Yuan, and lost thousands of soldiers and horses, and even Han Sui's mount was shot to death. If it weren't for the desperate resistance of his generals Tian Le and Yang Kui, I am afraid that even Han Wenyue would not be spared. ”

He sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that there were such brave generals in the imperial court!" ”

Chen Cheng walked up from the courtyard, his footsteps stepped on the wooden plank, making a "creaking" sound, and he casually handed Fang Tian's halberd to the tooth soldiers on the side. The tooth soldier was also a warrior with a big waist and a round waist, and he grabbed Fang Tian's halberd with both hands, his body only sank slightly, and then put the somewhat exaggerated weapon back on the wooden frame.

Chen Cheng asked Yan Zhong, "Han Sui actually dared to use troops after the snow?" ”

After receiving an affirmative answer, Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Hey, I really underestimated him Han Wenyue." However, although his move was unexpected, he did not achieve any results, so there is no need to admire him too much, just admire him a little. Bo Dao came here today, just for this matter? ”

Yan Zhong shook his head, sighed lightly, took out a roll of bamboo slips from his sleeve, and said, "Junhou look at this." ”

Chen Cheng stretched out his hand to take it, opened it and took a look, raised his eyebrows, and said; "Dong Zhongying is so bold!"

Yan Zhong said: "Isn't it? He only took office this year and was appointed as the governor of the state, and last month he wiped out more than 60 state-bound heroes! ”

Chen Cheng glanced at the expression on Yan Zhong's face, and an idea popped into his mind, so he asked; "Bo Dao doesn't want me to learn from Dong Zhuo, right?"