Chapter 2 My Study Tour

Section 2 Pioneering the Gambling Industry

The next day, when we left, Yu Ban saw us off with the support of his family.

Looking at his swollen face, I couldn't bear it: "Yesterday was rude, I don't know the severity of my hands, and Lord Wangwen gave a lot of Haihan." Seeing Wen Ze like this, I really couldn't bear it. ”

Yu Ban replied: "Xuande is a great talent, I might as well do it, I can't get together for a few more days to talk to my brother, I hope that my brother will return from his study trip as soon as possible, and we will meet again." After a pause, he pulled a horse and said, "I see that my brother is going to travel far away, but the horse he rides is inferior, so I will give my brother a horse, and I hope my brother will accept it with a smile." ”

I rode all the horses that pulled the cart and the thieves who stole them, and the horses in this era were all military supplies, and money could not buy them, and there were such good horses trained by a martial arts family, but of course it was disrespectful.

I thanked me again and again, and Yu Ban motioned to the servant to hand me a cloth bag: "Yesterday, I saw my brother watching this halberd more than once, and I will give this thing to my brother today." The servant opened the cloth bag, and it turned out to be the halberd built by Zheng Hun.

"This halberd is made by a famous family, worth a thousand gold, sharp and abnormal, the younger brother holds this halberd, and the younger brother's martial arts are more than a dozen thieves who can't get close. I hope that my brother will travel thousands of miles with it and return unharmed. ”

Famous family, Wanjin, it seems that Yu Banzhen regards me as Liu Bei, who is talented but has a dull family background, and is lonely and poor.

It is no wonder that we get along with thieves every day, wearing the clothes worn by our subordinates, speaking the language of thieves, and practicing the lowest etiquette, and of course no one will look down on you.

Looking at Yu Ban's compassionate eyes, I suddenly understood. In recent years, with the intensification of land annexation, the consciousness of the high-ranking lords has become more and more serious. People who are not educated by the family are marked with the imprint of rank even the way they speak, walk, and salute. Although I have the name of a clan member of the Han family, I look like a declining child, which makes Yu Ban feel pity.

Well, since we have come to this world, we want to benefit the people of the world in this troubled era, and we want to have the opportunity to recast our Han and continue the glory of our Han nation, so we can completely integrate into this society.

It seems that the next step is to find a Confucian to teach us the manners of this world, so that we can speak according to the rules of this society. However, for now, I have to educate Yu Ban first.

I drew my knife and struck it at the branch of the halberd, and the branch was broken. Lao Tzu doesn't use a knife, you really think that Lao Tzu is holding a cane. Slowly inserting the knife into the hardwood sheath, the shallow chrysanthemum-shaped grinding flowers on the shiny blade slid into the sheath one by one, and I believe that he will never forget that moment. I bowed my head and picked up the halberd branch that I had cut down, and I said, "I am grateful for your good intentions, and I have no way to reciprocate it, and you will meet this halberd branch, and he will meet you one day, and I will meet you with this."

Yu Ban's eyes widened as he watched the knife slide into the sheath: "My brother's weapon is so sharp, I know that my brother showed mercy yesterday."

Not far from Juping County (Tai'an), Zhou Yi sighed: "We wanted to change the world, it seems that it is so difficult to change a forbidden city, I am really worried about our future." ”

I also deeply feel that the hierarchical gap between people in this era is so big, no wonder Liu Bei has been running around all his life in history, but he can only be in one area. Because the people who have knowledge in this era are the children of high-ranking lords, they will only associate with people with the same background, and Liu Bei is just a poor child who studied beside the famous Confucian Lu Zhi for two years. Two years, by the standards of our time, he was just a second-grader. This determines the lack of talents around Liu Bei, although there is no wisdom of Zhuge in the air, but there is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is a pioneer.

When I think of this man, who is known for his benevolence and righteousness, now lying quietly in the valley with unpaid ambitions, perhaps having entered the belly of a tiger and wolf, I can't help but feel sad in my heart. Slowly, I said to Zhou Yi:

"Actually, it's very simple to change all this, you just saw it, even the weapon made by the famous craftsman Zheng Hun can't withstand this knife. If your steel mill had been built earlier, as long as the steel we had trained was half as good as this sword, we would have been invincible in this era, and we would have declared our claims with iron and fire in this era.

You must know that history is always written by the victors, and the victors always like to attribute the reasons for victory only to representing the interests of the people, but to obliterate the power of technology and steel in victory.

As far as I know, the reason why the Qin State destroyed the Six Kingdoms during the Warring States Period was because iron defeated bronze, and the army standardization was the disorder of the armies of the Six Kingdoms. At the time, most people in the Six Nations believed that iron was 'bad gold' and would bring bad luck. Only the Qin army used standardized iron weapons on a large scale, so the Qin Dynasty unified the world because of the large use of "evil" gold, which brought bad luck to the six countries, and had nothing to do with whether Qin Shi Huang represented the interests of the broadest masses of the people.

In the early Han Dynasty, Wei Qing pursued the nomads across the desert and won a great victory, mainly due to the invention of the unilateral horse pedal in the early Han Dynasty, which greatly shortened the time for the Han Dynasty to train a cavalry, and freed the Han cavalry to fight with both hands. Therefore, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were able to chase the Huns for thousands of miles on light horses.

And our Tang Dynasty after that, the reason why the Western Regions, invincible, this is because the sword defeated the sword, the cavalry before the Tang Dynasty were all double-edged sword as the main weapon, when the cavalry sprinted immediately, it could only use the method of chopping against the enemy, and the straight sword in the horse sprint, it is inconvenient to slash, even if the technique of stabbing is used, it is easy to break short, only slightly curved, a knife with a certain arc, it is convenient for the cavalry to sweep on the horse, kill the enemy and win.

Therefore, with our 2,000 years of advanced knowledge, we can completely defeat the enemy in terms of equipment, and with advanced combat methods, we can also be invincible in this era.

Also, fighting a war is about money, and we can produce advanced products, make all the money of the enemy, and see how he prepares for war.

Think about the Anti-Japanese War period, China only has an annual output of 20,000 tons of steel, I am angry, 40,000 people use 20,000 tons of steel, that is, 20,000 people use one ton of steel, evenly spread to one person to have 50 grams of steel, not to mention knives, even each person to add a small piece of small is not enough. Little Japan, of course, will be invading.

Think about it again, even in the era when we came, it was a luxury for ordinary people to even have a good kitchen knife in their homes, and this didn't make me even more angry.

If we can train good steel, we can promote the development of the Han nation.

If we succeed, we will have the ability to make the Chinese nation stronger. ”

After saying these words, I turned around and said, "Zhou Yi, you have a long way to go. After all this, you will be a hero of the Han people, and your name will be passed down through the ages. ”

"Don't worry, I will definitely satisfy you," Zhou Yi said.

Zhou Yi paused and said: "But I still need you to do one thing, I need several craftsmen in this era in order to understand the current level of craftsmanship, of course, the more craftsmen, the better." You seem to have mentioned a name named Zheng Hun just now, and I need his help. I believe that only by using the best talents of this era can we create technologies that transcend this era. All you have to do is get him, and I'll do the rest. ”

"Be mentally prepared, though." Zhou Yi changed his tone and said: "This Zheng Hun is not simple, I vaguely remember this person, he seems to be the only person in history who has been recorded in history as a craftsman, such people are powerful and powerful, you have to plan well." ”

"Okay, let's go to Jinan Mansion, which is a big county, we are recruiting craftsmen there, and by the way, ask Zheng Hun", I waved my hand, and we headed for Jinan.

Along the way, we continued to recruit children, and there were only 90 15-year-olds recruited. The number of 12-year-olds and 9-year-olds had increased to 320 by the time they arrived in Jinan. We appointed six 15-year-old boys recruited from Tai'an as their leaders.

Considering that "heaven" and "earth" are really worthy of our awe, I started from Xuanhuang to call them Liu Xuan, Liu Huang, Liu Yu, Liu Zhou, Liu Hong, Liu Huang, Liu Huang, Liu Huang, respectively, took 10 15-year-old children with Zhou Yi, Gao Shan, Yin Dong, to help them manage 100 12-year-old and 9-year-old children, and the remaining 60 15-year-old children and 20 12-year-old children followed me.

Along the way, we came up with ways to train and educate the boys. Yu Ban once talked about the law of governing the army in this era, ten people are one tithe, ten tithes are one song, ten songs are one song, ten songs are one brigade, and ten brigades are one army. But I don't quite agree with Yu Ban's words, according to modern management theory, a person can manage a maximum of seven people, and one person should convey his orders to ten people, and these ten people will convey to the 100 people below them, which will make many chaotic.

I divided the children into groups, but I didn't completely follow Yu Ban's statement, I gave them a formation according to the five-five system, every five people are one team, five troops are one, five parts are one song, five songs are one brigade, five brigades are one division, and five divisions are one army.

Yu Ban is to mix the logistics troops with the combat units, and I want to separate the logistics troops and allocate the logistics troops in a ratio of five to one, and at the same time divide the areas of responsibility among the logistics units, and each group is specially responsible for the logistics of each combat unit. At the same time, I also stipulate that in case a certain logistics group is too busy and the rest of the groups are too idle, the logistics management department will make a unified deployment. In this way, there is special responsibility in unity, and there is unity in special responsibility, so that we can be busy but not chaotic.

When assigning each group, I specifically wanted to manage Hai, Chen Yong and Wang Zhi also participated in it, and after assigning the group, let them lead one of the parts, among which Guan Hai led the troops I led, and I chose strong talents in this department, and I wanted to teach them military knowledge and let them become our escort force.

In this work, Guan Hai has personally experienced the benefits of being organized, because he is now commanding a miniaturized army, and I believe that in the future, he will no longer have a clue in commanding the army.

I don't know if it's because we have a macho man like Guan Hai in our team, or because of the good governance of Jinan, we marched safely all the way to Jinan. Thinking that the main instrument of war in this era was horses, I trained myself frantically along the way, and of course I would not spare my boys.

During my training, I remembered the knights' spear competitions in the Western Middle Ages, and I thought it might be a good training method. The two knights held 6-meter-long riding spears, walking opposite each other at high speed, and at the moment of lightning and fire that staggered each other, both sides stabbed each other with their spears, and the one who stabbed down and stabbed wins.

In ancient Chinese history, not advocating competitive sports, on the one hand, is related to the golden mean, on the other hand, it also causes the Chinese to fear competition, weakness and concession in the face of problems, if we want to change all this, we must forge the competitive spirit of the Han nation.

Every day, we camp next to the small village and town, so that we can invite some villagers and village girls to watch and stimulate the children's sense of competition. The tournament was played in a knockout tournament, and the winner was rewarded with fifty bronze and paraded around the town in a red ribbon. This greatly stimulated the boys' desire for victory, and every day they did not need to be urged by us, and whenever they had free time, they gathered around several horses and took turns to practice.

But I don't think this way is enough, if you want to make a game popular, you must also let people who can't participate in person, also get benefits, everyone has a gambling nature, just look at how fanatical Hong Kong's horse betting is, then let them bet.

I decided to let them bet on their salaries, their own dinners, their own shoes, and so on. I accept any form of betting, and the person who wins the bet can even do it for the loser without labor.

This immediately made everyone fanatical, and the people under the leadership of Yin Dong made great efforts, they were responsible for registering bets while learning arithmetic, just like elementary school students doing practical problems, learning and practicing at the same time, and their studies improved by leaps and bounds. As a result, modern gambling methods such as handicap and published odds have appeared in gambling.

However, the events that followed caused us to change the way we played, first of all, our protective gear was not very good, and there were casualties in the race. Secondly, because of our fixed numbers, the winners of the game are gradually fixed to a limited number of people, and the outcome of the game becomes unknown without guessing.

Just when everyone was about to lose interest, we took the method of training the knight of the spear to the competition, hanging an iron ring on a high place, the knight rushed through with a riding spear, pierced the gun into the iron ring to win, the one who pierced the most wins, and bet on how many shots the knight can pierce, due to the relationship between the wind, the speed of the horse, and the terrain, the victory becomes unpredictable, which again aroused everyone's interest.

I can't help but think that in the future, if I have a territory, I will start this sport in the territory first, and without spending a penny on me, I will improve the fighting quality of the people in the territory, and this improvement is still voluntary and voluntary, maybe I can still make money from this gambling business. I don't do this kind of trading, I'm really sorry for my years of business experience.

What I didn't expect was that Guan Hai showed amazing talent in the middle, he learned to ride a horse very quickly, and his bayonet skills were the most superb, after all, he was one of the best fierce generals in the Yellow Turban, and even Cheng Zhiyuan and his ilk couldn't compare.

However, Chen Yong and Wang Zhi showed a talent for logistics work that surprised me even more, although they did not like to learn poetry like Guan Hai, but they had a natural sensitivity to numbers, and I often maliciously thought that this may be the nature of robbers, who always calculate other people's things more clearly.

We walked slowly on the road for 15 days, and when we arrived in Jinan, we assessed what everyone had learned. Of course, the winners are Yin Dong's disciples, and they register bets while studying, and I think this is probably the so-called practice to know the truth.

They didn't learn much because of the limited time, but I'm satisfied. Even in our day, it takes six years for a person to complete literacy and basic numeracy skills. We still have a long time to go, enough to train them to become talents.

However, there was a small episode when Yin Dong taught them mathematics, because the Han Dynasty characters were all vertically arranged, and the writing of numbers was quite complicated, such as 31 was written as "thirty-one", and as for hundreds or thousands, the writing method was even more headache. In addition, it is a vertical arrangement, which is simply impossible to learn and unbearable.

Therefore, after a few nights of discussion, we decided, after that, we told the students that mathematics is a special science, and the calculation of numbers must use special symbols, just as we ancients used chips to calculate, we use special symbols to represent the numbers from one to ten (this symbol is of course Arabic numerals, which are the most suitable symbols for calculation after thousands of years of screening, but since we first use this symbol, we call it: Han Fu).

As for the typesetting, we told the children that mathematics must be typeset horizontally to be better calculated, and that the typesetting of poems can be horizontal. Of course, if the poems are also typeset horizontally, I don't think it can be changed in one or two generations. After all, we have been writing with bamboo for thousands of years, and we have developed a vertical writing method for thousands of years, and paper was only invented at this time, and the horizontal layout method is not acceptable, but fortunately, mathematics in ancient China has been underdeveloped, and there are no professional mathematics textbooks and teachers who teach mathematics knowledge. So, there's not much resistance to all of this that we're doing in the field of mathematics, and I'm sure that this kind of horizontal writing will soon be popularized in the field of mathematics.

When I think of ancient China, the only mathematical theory that can be used is the Pythagorean theorem, but this must be just a small water molecule in the ocean of vast mathematical theorems such as plane geometry, analytic geometry, Archimedes, Gauss, etc. And the future generations can only show it off, just like the African natives only have the feathers on their heads to show off, which is sad and lamentable. How can we let this situation continue, I decided that if I had the opportunity to implement the imperial examination system in the future, I must let poetry and mathematics be examined at the same time, and mathematics should be raised to the same status as poetry.

In the old days, Sour Confucians would fill in a few poems and guess a few riddles, thinking that they were talented, but this kind of knowledge was of little help to the progress of science and technology, the development of mankind, and the improvement of productivity. Historically, I have never heard of anyone ending a war by guessing riddles, and they cannot repel a murderous enemy by guessing riddles and poems, nor can they make the opposing politicians bow their heads.

Of course, it's not right to kill all the guessers, these thousands of years of hobbies, we still need to slowly channel, establish a culture of equal emphasis on literature and science, in order to slowly change all this.

In this way, we gambled all the way, gambling in the dark, gambling on the sun and moon. As we got closer to Jinan and the city became more and more prosperous, the way we rewarded them was also renewed, and I bought beautiful armor and helmets as a reward for the winners. These things were intended to be rationed to them, but now they have become a symbol of honor and are being fought over by them.

Of course, I bought these armor from a practical point of view, I have my own views on the protective effect of the armor, I think that the shark suit worn by divers in our era is the most protective, with a small metal ring, interlocking to weave a head-to-head suit, even the shark's teeth can not bite, not to mention the ordinary knife axe split.

It is said that this shark suit itself is also a kind of knight's armor in the Western Middle Ages, because it is made of interlocking, so it eliminates the complicated casting and joining process of the Chinese armor in the joints, so it is lighter and the casting process is simpler. All it takes is a blacksmith to cast the rings, and weaving them is the work of women. At the same time, it is also easier to transport, and can be collected or transported in a group, and when needed, it is an excellent fish scale armor as long as you pick up a set.

I plan to go to Jinan to gather craftsmen to produce it to equip my army, and as for the current armor, it is mainly for aesthetics.

The boys in the beautiful armor were even more swaggering, and I insist that the subsequent series of events made our students more fervent about gambling. In the village we passed, because I deliberately did not set up a fence when we set up a village, and because of our connivance, we held a competition every evening, and from time to time some villagers and village girls came to watch, and when they saw our students wearing armor and heroic figures, some village girls slipped out of the village from time to time.

They followed our team from a distance at first, but when they finished eating the food they were carrying, they went straight into our queue, and after seeing our conniving attitude, they simply followed the team.

At first, I was a little nervous, afraid that their parents or local officials would get us in trouble because of this. Later, when I saw that the world was peaceful, I became even more unscrupulous. Come to think of it, the status of women in this era is low, and most families treat them as money-losers, so Ba has to pay a dowry and marry off. Especially in this troubled time, so their family knows that they have followed the team of a traveling bachelor, and they will only have nothing to do, and they will remember to chase us.

Of course, the women were a little disappointed when they saw my student's face unarmoured. After all, at that time, the man was only 20 years old before he was considered to be an adult, and he had to hold the coronation ceremony (which means that he could wear a hat).

And none of my students are qualified to wear hats, which makes them feel very disappointed. Fortunately, it wasn't long before I saw that there was no one to pick up the villagers, and that they were messing around in our ranks and affecting our queues, so I grouped them up.

I announced that before their parents came to collect them, they would rush to whoever came to her, and she would be assigned to the logistics team responsible for the other party's service. After that, they settled down, and I think it's a pleasure for them to take care of their little men.

In my opinion, my students were so happy that they became more enthusiastic about the gamble, and everywhere they went, they intensified their spear stabbing skills, hoping to win a woman who would take care of them. But the consequence of this is that when they reach adulthood, they all marry wives who are older than themselves.

Many years later, some people sighed: The mathematical foundation of the Han was actually established in the cheap business of gambling, which cannot but be said to be a shame for our Han.

I was furious at this statement and denounced a few corrupt Confucians: What is beneficial to the country is the university, and what is beneficial to the people is the great sage, which has nothing to do with whether it represents the advanced nature and whether it can embody the main theme. The advanced nature and the main theme are all a fart, and you and other corrupt Confucians are unreasonable.

In this way, we slowly walked towards Jinan, and 25 days later, Jinan arrived.