The night in early spring is also bitterly cold, but how can the homeless people who are used to eating and sleeping in the open care care about this cold wind?

However, at Guo Bin's request, He Jin urgently dispatched 500 tents to distribute them to the recruited displaced people. About ten people lived in a tent, and it was a lot warmer to huddle together. The reason why the displaced people came to come here was to eat a bite to eat. But now not only do they have hot food to eat, but they also have tents to live in, and they are naturally excited and grateful.

The next day, the homeless people were driven up from the ground by a group of men dressed in strange felt costumes, scabbards, and ordered to run in circles around the camp before they could eat. There are 500 tents scattered throughout the camp, and there are bonfires between the tents, and large cauldrons are driven on the bonfires, and the heat in the pots is boiling. Displaced people who have not eaten a full meal in the past six months only have to snort to know that it is stewed corn porridge mixed with pork, and the intoxicating aroma is so intoxicating that many people have not even tried it for decades.

According to later units of measurement, the camp was about a kilometer long, and the displaced people were required to run five laps around it. For the body that has been lacking in nutrients for a long time, the cross-country five-kilometer run is undoubtedly a very intense sport, especially under the urging of more than a dozen cavalrymen holding scabbards, and the psychological pressure is also very great.

Looking at the people running the circle, Zhang Fei, who was riding on the horse, said to Guan Yu: "You say, what does it mean that the lord let us watch them run in circles and pick out the ones who run fast?" ”

Guan Yu said: "The lord's actions have deep meaning. Yide, don't look at this small place running circles, the thousands of elites in Fulong Villa are running circles. ”

Zhang Fei's eyes widened in surprise and said, "What? Can you run out of elite soldiers by running laps? Don't bluff me, Lao Guan. ”

Guan Yu smiled, stroked his long hair and said: "In Fulong Villa, no matter how old or young, you have to run circles around the school yard when you get up in the morning. At the beginning, Guan didn't know why this was the case, but later he heard the truth of Jingmuro Shanhua Gong, and he realized that there was a deep meaning. ”

Zhang Fei was interested, stretched his neck, and said with round eyes: "Oh? What is the reason? ”

Guan Yu showed a look of reverence on his face, and said: "At the beginning, the lord was seriously injured, and Guan escorted the lord to the Jingmur Shanhua Duke for medical treatment. He was loved by the Duke of Hua, and taught a certain family with five poultry plays. At that time, Hua Gong told us the truth that 'flowing water is not rotten, and the hub is not beetle'. The legends of Huagong are all profound and rational for the internal qigong. Hua Gong said that if you are shaken, the valley will be dissipated, the blood will flow, and the disease will not be born. The lord is training soldiers with the key skills of advanced internal kung fu, which is not something you and I can guess about. ”

Zhang Fei nodded suddenly and said, "I see, the lord means that the faster you run, the better your body will naturally be." As long as you pick out the fast runners and train them a little, you will be an elite soldier. ”

Guan Yu glanced at Zhang Fei in surprise, he didn't expect that this person who looked like a foolish man was so smart and knew how to draw inferences. Presumably, the Lord saw this clearly, so he asked him to take Zhang Fei to select soldiers and teach Zhang Fei the method of training soldiers in Fulong Villa. Although the lord is still young, his thoughtfulness and long-term vision make it difficult for Guan to look at him!

After the fastest person finishes running, naturally there are soldiers to fill in their names, places of origin and original occupations, and after registering a series of information similar to Yangzhai County's household registration, they line up to get porridge and rice.

Guan Yu is very satisfied with the physique of these people. The fastest of them completed the course in just over a quarter of an hour.

According to Guo Bin's request, Guan Yu will form the first 1,000 young and strong individuals individually, and they will participate in the follow-up training as candidate soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion. The rest of the men will not be idle, and the old and weak and young men will become the logistics force of the Viet Cavalry battalion, which will be responsible for transporting equipment, food, and fortifications.

As for the rest of the women and children, it is based on the example of Fulong Villa. The children were taken out from the cabinet of the drunken fairy to teach them to read and count, and hundreds of women entered the new production workshop of "Yang Zhai Clothing" in the capital and began to put into production. The production workshop was built just outside the city, a village-converted dock fort, very close to the place where the displaced people were housed, and not far from the station of the Viet Cavalry Battalion.

Therefore, most of the men lived in the Yue cavalry camp, or as sergeants, or as logistics soldiers, and some who had learned arithmetic or worked in shops even recruited apprentices to Zuixianlou and "Yangzhai Clothing". The women took their children to live in the dock fort of "Yang Zhai Clothing".

When they moved, some people were reluctant, and after the knights were "coerced" with scabbards to enter the barracks or dock forts, they saw the "luxurious" row houses in front of them, and their eyes were straight. The treatment of women is even better than that of men, and the "Yang Zhai Clothing" provides them with a small cubicle made of wooden planks to protect their privacy, and there is even an underground dragon for heating. This is the kind of living environment that most of them have never experienced even before the drought last year!

Xun Yu only really came into contact with Guo Bin's industry when he was ordered to recruit displaced people. Guo Bin's industry in Beijing is only two places, Zuixianlou and "Yangzhai Clothing", as for Yangzhai's soap, it is currently displayed and sold in Zuixianlou. As a big family in Yingchuan, the Xun family naturally has to do some business in addition to the property, so Xun Yu is not ignorant of trading.

But he had never seen a shop with such a high literacy rate, even the young man who ran in the drunken fairy building was not only very literate, but also knew how to calculate the vertical formula, and the calculation was not inferior to the crackling old shopkeeper! Originally, I thought that recruiting homeless people was such a job, and finding the help of people from the Drunken Immortal Building was just to help look at the stalls, and the rest still depended on a few literate special soldiers brought by himself.

But what he didn't expect was that more than a dozen young men from the Drunken Immortal Building, all of whom could write and calculate, and could speak well, recruited people to be more familiar and fluent than him Xun Yu, and he himself became a stall watcher. So the work that originally gave Xun Yu a headache and racked his brains to think of a lot of ideas, with the help of more than a dozen young men in Zuixianlou, it took less than a day to do it properly. Until now, he knows the reason why Guo Bin insisted on vigorously promoting compulsory education in Yangzhai County, even in extremely difficult times.

When Xun Yu first arrived in Yangzhai with Guo Bin, he thought about why Guo Bin had to let his children receive compulsory education. At that time, Xun Yu himself gave the answer: Guo Bin is the commander of Yangzhai County, and it is his responsibility to carry out education; In addition, Guo Bin is a senior disciple of Sima Hui, a famous scholar in Yingchuan, and must be for the purpose of promoting Sima Hui's scholarship; The third reason is that in order to promote Confucianism, Guo Bin taught his children to be loyal and patriotic, and to be knowledgeable.

And when he took this question and went to Guo Bin to find the answer in person, Guo Bin listened to Sima Hui's three reasons for his own consideration, smiled, and said a limerick poem: "How can a beggar have a second wife, and the neighbor has a lot of chickens." At that time, there was Zhou Tianzi, and everything was said about Wei Qi. ”

As soon as this poem came out, the more Xun Yu thought about it, the more right he became, and he stayed in the local area.

The first line of the poem is from Mencius's "The Qi People Have a Wife and a Concubine", which says that a beggar in the Qi Kingdom actually had a wife and a concubine, and he had to beg for leftovers to eat. The second sentence is from Mencius's "The Lunar Soil Chicken", which says that someone goes to a neighbor's house every day to steal a chicken. The last two sentences are a satire of Confucius and Mencius, Zhou Tianzi was originally the co-lord of the world, why didn't Mencius go to assist the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty, but went to King Liang Hui and King Qi Xuan to ask for officials? Is this in line with the "rites" that Confucianism has always advocated?

The young Xun Yu almost gave Guo Bin a satirical poem by Zhou Sixian, a man of the Song Dynasty, who plagiarized it, and collapsed his worldview. A traditional Confucian like Xun Yu, who would question Confucius and Mencius? No one will pick allusions like "Qi People Have a Wife and a Concubine" or "Moon Soil Chicken" to explore whether beggars really have a wife and a concubine, or whether the neighbor really has a chicken farm. All they are concerned with is the truth behind the allusion.

And the last two sentences are really heart-wrenching words. Confucianism has always advocated "benevolence" and "propriety". The core idea of "benevolence" is that people should love each other, that is, "benevolence loves others"; "Li" refers to the religion of etiquette, specifically, it is the Zhou ceremony.

"Benevolence" is the highest pursuit of a "gentleman", and "propriety" is the way to achieve "benevolence". The so-called "one day of self-denial and revenge, the world returns to benevolence." ”

The Zhou rites were based on the patriarchal feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty, involving all aspects of life and politics, and were the code of conduct for people recognized at that time, and the system of rites recorded was the most systematic. Among them, there are not only national ceremonies such as sacrifices, pilgrimages, feudal countries, hunting patrols, funerals, etc., but also specific specifications such as the tripod system, the music suspension system, the chariot riding system, the clothing system, the ritual jade system, etc., as well as the records of the grades, combinations, shapes, and degrees of various ritual vessels.

Confucius believed that as long as everyone acted according to this system, the world would return to the state of "benevolence". The basis of the Zhou rite is not a series of sacrifices or funeral systems, but the basis is that the Zhou royal family occupies the position of the co-lord of the world, and the purpose of the establishment of the Zhou rite is also to ensure the status of the co-lord of the Zhou royal family.

In the poem, it is ironic that Confucius and Mencius did not serve the Zhou royal family, but wanted to seek official positions in powerful vassal states, and did not respect the status of the Zhou royal family, which was a violation of Zhou etiquette. That being the case, then the "benevolence" and "propriety" that Confucianism has been pursuing are the people.

When Xun Yu thought of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Although this is logically true, Guo Bin did not openly oppose the ideas of Confucius and Mencius, and the content he taught in official schools was also Confucian classics such as the Analects. Although there are novelty arguments in the course of teaching, they are also the same, and it is still necessary to teach people to love the motherland and the people.

Xun Yu really can't see through what kind of person Guo Bin is, and what kind of attitude he has towards Confucianism.

However, through the recruitment of displaced people, he finally understood Guo Bin's original intention of vigorously promoting compulsory education, because he also tasted the sweetness of his subordinates for the first time.

(Author's note: Those who are familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms should know the purpose of this chapter, right?) ）