In the eastern suburbs of Xiyang City, in the military camp of the Tiger Forest Army, the slogans are endless, and the soldiers are conducting daily exercises, long-distance running is one of them, training queues is the second, and reciting thousand-character texts is the third.

There are many differences between the Hulin Army and other armies, one of which is that the soldiers are required to recite a thousand-character text, once in the morning and once in the evening, and the frequency of daily insistence has allowed the whole army to memorize it backwards.

Therefore, in addition to the sound of slogans on the school field, it is the recitation of thousand-character texts, listening to the sound of "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang, Universe Flood" sounded, and people who didn't know thought that this was Mengxue or ethnology.

According to the words of later generations, "I am familiar with 300 Tang poems, and I can't compose poems and chant", although there is no Tang Dynasty in this era, but after reciting it day and night, the soldiers of the Hulin Army will really shake their heads and recite a thousand words.

But it is also limited to memorization, many people memorize a thousand words are ripe, but not a word can be written, after all, it is easy to follow other people's voices to learn to read, but it is difficult to write with a pen.

In a barracks, more than 20 people are learning to write, these strong men who usually go into battle to kill the enemy without blinking, now one by one holding a brush to write on paper, the brush is held in a strange way, there are any postures but none of them are right.

A young man with a white face and beard stood in front of a white cloth with a big word 'earth' written on it, and the young man was teaching the 'student' in front of him how to write this character.

The thousand-character text is a Mongolian reading material, and the people here are basically over twenty years old, of course, the young people who teach them to learn words are exceptions, this one knows at a glance that he is not more than twenty years old, and a large number of fighting men are like young children in Mengxue in front of him, all of them look honest, but most of them are restless.

Li Shimo is one of them, he only feels that the brush in his hand is very hot, no matter how he holds it, he feels that he can't hold it well, and the heavy axe can dance whirringly, but this small brush stumped him.

It's been two days since I started to practice calligraphy, and the first two days were all about how to hold a brush, but Li Shimo and others couldn't learn anything, if it weren't for the military law that said that abandoning the pen and not practicing calligraphy is equivalent to escaping from the battle, they would have thrown this thing away.

What's the use of going into battle to kill the enemy and learning to write!!

This is the cry in the hearts of most of Li Shimo and the Hulin Army, after the New Year, the coach Yu Wenwen gave an order, everyone above the team must learn to write, and what is written is a thousand-character text, which must be included in the evaluation in the future.

So Li Shimo sat here with a bitter face and suffered, he had never touched the brush, and now he was like a young child who had just learned to use chopsticks, he wanted to pick up vegetables but couldn't pick them up, looking at the messy handwriting on the paper in front of him, Li Shimo couldn't help but sigh, and then wandered.

He remembered Bai Huahua's figure, remembered the scene that made people breathe quickly every night, and then subconsciously rubbed his waist.

At the end of last year, the matchmakers 'entered' Bahe City to make chickens and dogs jump, Li Shimo originally wanted to help his younger brother marry a mother-in-law first, but his parents said that the eldest brother had not married a younger brother to marry a wife, so he had a mother-in-law.

According to Li Shimo's requirements, the mother-in-law is very strong, can do farm work and endure hardships, and then the two of them tossed enough at night, and when they returned to the camp at the end of the holiday, Li Shimo was about to be unable to straighten his waist.

With a home, living in the barracks has a different kind of thought, looking at a room of big men picking their feet, he can barely sleep on the first night, but it is this night, the second day he recovered, just when he was about to live, but was forced to learn to write.

'Yes, at least I'll write my own name later, right?' Li Shimo encouraged himself in his heart, he was not willing to admit defeat, so even if it was difficult to write, he decided to grit his teeth and persevere, now that he has become a family, there will be a son and a half daughter in the future, he doesn't want to be able to even write the names of his children when the time comes.

Outside the window, Yuwen Wenzheng was sneaking 'peeping', this time he incarnated as the most annoying head teacher of the year, and spent his days outside the classroom monitoring whether students were playing with their mobile phones in class through the glass windows.

Looking at the big men in the barracks scratching their ears and cheeks, because the 'dark psychology' was greatly satisfied, so he had a 'sinister' smile on his face.

This is not that Yuwen Wen is bored and tossing his subordinates, his army must be different, so it is inevitable to read and write, and an army where grassroots generals can't even understand military orders has no room for growth.

The army that only knows that the soldiers eat food and get paid, and does not know why they are fighting, has no future, Yu Wenwen deliberately let the soldiers read and write, just to let them understand the military books and be able to summarize themselves.

Having lost a battle, he can learn lessons; Won battles and was able to sum up experience; The formations mentioned in the book of war can be understood and flexibly used; can read the map, know basic arithmetic, and can calculate the daily consumption of grain and grass by the soldiers and horses under his command.

If you can read and read books, you will be able to know all kinds of war examples from the books, you can know the deeds of many heroes, you can feel their loyalty, and you can be touched.

This is the minimum requirement for Yu Wenwen for his subordinates, he feels that a person must have some pursuit in addition to fields, women, and money in order to go to the next level.

Just as he was wandering, there was a jingling bell in his ears, which was the 'bell' of the end of class, and the strong men in the room who were scratching their ears and cheeks heard this sound like a drowning person grabbing a straw and entering a state of returning to the light.

"Bastard, one by one you know how to cut people, how difficult it is to read and write?" Seeing this, Yu Wenwen complained helplessly, and after the 'students' in this row of classrooms escaped with relief, he greeted him.

Of course, it's not to be a head-starter, and to talk at length about educating the fighters to "study hard and get a good exam", Yu Wenwen's goal is the young 'teacher'.

"How do you feel?" He asked, and the young man saluted and then said it was okay.

"All of them are twenty years old and above, but they are not as good as the young children who are educated, so don't worry about teaching them well." Yuwen Wen said with a smile, this is the 'brother and brother' Di Erlang in front of him, and Di Dalang has already gone to the state government to be a soldier and join the army as an official.

"Envoy, I'm just worried that it will take too long, and I see that it has been two days, but many people can't even hold a pen." Di Yu said with some anxiety, he came to the Hulin Army to do clerical work, if he was like his brother to manage logistics and help write letters, he was not afraid, he never thought that he would have to be a gentleman to teach people to write, he was only afraid that he would 'mislead people's children'.

"The young children who are taught are even more difficult to teach, and these soldiers just haven't figured it out, so they are not highly motivated to learn." Yu Wenwen, "The clerk only teaches according to the plan, and as for how to improve their enthusiasm, this official is naturally responsible." ”

After talking for a while, Di Yu retreated, Yu Wenwen looked at the empty 'classroom' and turned to leave, thinking about how to make everyone more enthusiastic about learning.

Illiteracy was a common thing in ancient times, it was normal for the people to be illiterate, literacy was not normal, knowledge was the patent of the big family, not for the poor ghosts to learn.

Nowadays, there is no movable type printing, papermaking technology can not make cheap paper in batches, most of the books are few and expensive manuscripts, as for the engraving printing of books, it is even more expensive, only those who have the money can afford to buy books, can afford to use pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

When you can read the Four Books and the Five Classics, someone has to answer your questions, which means that you have to have a serious teacher to teach you, and it costs money to hire a teacher.

I spent money to buy pen, ink, paper, inkstone and books, invited a teacher to guide the maze and had to include food and lodging, and I couldn't take care of farm work when studying, so the people who read were basically out of work, and this burden was too huge for the common people.

But even if you read a book, what if you want to be an official? No way!

It is delusional for a scholar from a civilian background to want to be an official, and the family, the gate valve, and the powerful can't even arrange the relatives of the side branches, and you are a lowly commoner who is also quite an official? There was no recommendation, no official recruitment, no appreciation of the powerful to introduce the shogunate, and without these, there was no way to enter the official career.

"There is no poor family in the upper grade, and there is no scholar in the lower grade" is the brand of this era, a person from a civilian background, no matter how good his ability is, even if he is lucky to enter the official career, his promotion path is not high.

Not to mention anything else, it's easy to become a grassroots petty official, no one teaches the unspoken rules of officialdom, the etiquette of ushering in the delivery is not clear, all kinds of doors and doors are not clear, and the dirty methods of the officials are not understood at all, and there is always the danger of stepping into the trap and carrying the black pot.

If you don't do it well, you will be reprimanded by the officials, and if you lose your official position and go to prison and die, the people have no motivation to study.

If you are lucky enough not to die on the battlefield, and make decent contributions, then you can be rewarded with money, livestock, and land for military merits, you can marry a wife and have children, if you are lucky, you can get a knighthood, then your son can also get shade, that is much better than studying.

It doesn't matter if you can't read or write with an official and a half-job, you have an adjutant to help you read and write military orders, you can just use a seal or draw a circle when you sign it, and you can also let a literate servant help you write and read letters, so there is no need to be literate to fight a man.

Ordinary soldiers are illiterate and do not need to be literate, this is a matter of course, no matter the country, most of the 'secret books' such as military books are family traditions, and there is no need for these people to understand them, so as not to compete with the children of the family.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Hulin Army read and practiced calligraphy, which is a major initiative of Yuwenwen, and it also makes many people very puzzled, the soldiers are basically illiterate in these years, and they have not heard that they have to learn to write if they want to go into battle to kill the enemy, so this incident has become another example of Yuwenwen's waste of money.

And the soldiers were also a little puzzled, although they were forced by Yu Wenwen's 'obscenity' to learn to write honestly, but many people's enthusiasm could not be raised, Yu Wenwen had already expected this emotion, so he also made corresponding plans.

Generals above the level of the whole army must learn calligraphy, and after half a year, the examination will have a total of 1,000 words in 1,000 characters, and those who can write more than 600 words will be considered qualified, and those who can write more than 500 and 600 words will be counted as 'can still be rescued', and they will be given a chance to make up the exam after a month.

Those who make more than 500 typos during the examination will be directly demoted, and the military master will become the building master, the building owner will become the team leader, the team leader will become the team leader, and the team leader will go to the captain. When promoted, the higher the level of education under the same conditions, the more priority.

Of course, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are provided by the army, and the cost of teaching is also borne by the army, and the soldiers only need to study carefully.

"I can read and write, and the rest will be easy to do." (To be continued.) )