Among the high-level division of labor in the Eighth Route Army, Zhou Zhengyu's division of labor is the most ambiguous, and his authority is often the only general in the army other than Li Wenge. Shen Chen was responsible for the day-to-day military command, while the work of military law, military discipline, organization and personnel belonged to the military supervision departments at all levels led by Wei Xun, and Lu Xun was responsible for the mobilization of soldiers and the distribution and transportation of supplies, as well as the negotiation and coordination with the local state and county governments. Regimental and battalion officers at all levels know in their hearts that at present these troikas are the basis of the power of the entire military town.

And Zhou Zhengyu, who is above these troikas in terms of rank, has almost no exact division of labor and authority except for the fictitious title of a guerrilla general. Nominally he can manage everything, which means that he can't actually manage anything.

But strictly speaking, this statement is not entirely true.

At present, the two battalions of the Xiang Corps, the Ordnance Engineer Battalion and the Cooking Battalion, are directly responsible to him, and Lu Xun basically does not ask about the affairs of these two battalions.

Carpenters, blacksmiths, and men, these are the soldiers directly under Zhou Zhengyu's command.

At present, the most frequent contact with Zhou Zhengyu is the couple "sir" who Li Wenge invited back to offer back like an ancestor, and they have been responsible for teaching some children arithmetic homework on weekdays, and all day long they are tinkering with things that no one can understand or understand. A month ago, when Li Wenge was leaving, the pair of gentlemen began to teach some arithmetic courses for officers with a little literacy foundation, and no one could understand why the Qiu Ba who were soldiers ate food and fought wars should learn these strange things, and the list of disciples was also included in some officers who had made great achievements in the battle, most of these people had the rank of Tian Tu, and some even saw the county commander and county lieutenant, and these local parents and officials all performed the peace ceremony, but now, these heroes must be disciplined and use the etiquette of respecting the teacher to honor these two gentlemen- In particular, there was a female gentleman among them.

The Qiu Ba were not convinced, and the group of living dead who had returned from the battlefield were ready to give the two gentlemen a lesson in their first lesson. This plan was finally stillborn, because the senior in the class was Shen Chen, the dignified captain of the Seven Grades Zhiguo and the subordinate general of the Eighth Route Army, who saluted the two gentlemen as soon as he came up. and ordered the soldiers on duty to drag out a brave lieutenant who had just made a splash on his tongue to the female gentleman before his arrival, and beat him with twenty military sticks.

It is said that the unfortunate old man was later confined for ten days by the regimental prison and military department, and the sentence was made by Wei Jianjun himself, because it was not a death sentence and more than 40 military sticks, so it could not be appealed.

Since then, the officers have been much more honest when they were trained in the basic knowledge of mathematics, at least not as lacking in discipline as they were when they were in the Liutao Pavilion in the military strategy class or the war case training and analysis class, and many people usually talked about a lot less meat jokes.

Still, ten Arabic numerals, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of four digits, that's it. This group of masters has been studying for nearly a month, and they can hardly see any growth, and Mr. Ye is about to run out of patience for this. In almost every class, the good men heard the ugly gentleman use metaphors for animals that represented stupidity and clumsiness, even though they were aggrieved and angry. But no one dared to raise even a verbal protest, because the first person to be scolded was Shen Chen.

In contrast, the female gentleman Zu Lin's class gradually began to be popular with the soldiers, not only because Zu Lin's beautiful appearance made many officers who had never seen the world secretly swallow. It is not only because Zu Lin's teaching is organized and easy to understand, but also because a large part of the content taught by Zu Lin is geometry, and the ratio of length, width and height, distance estimation and measurement calculation methods are closely related to the officers' daily wars and their own jobs. The officers were a little quicker to take it.

Zhou Zhengyu does not participate in these courses, and the reason why he is currently in frequent contact with Zu Lin and his wife is very simple, because Zu Lin and Ye Qiyu are helping to improve the crossbow that is currently the killer weapon of the Eighth Route Army. Li Wenge really wanted to make the legendary Zhuge repeater. However, after a few attempts, he abandoned this intention - any non-humanly loaded crossbow would inevitably lose range and firing accuracy. So before leaving. Li Wenge changed the direction of research and began to study how to effectively increase the speed of manual filling chord. At the same time, the power loss during the winding process is reduced.

The reason why this kind of experiment was possible was that without Li Wenge's participation, the Ye couple actually drew an involute line one day. Afterwards, the two took this line to discuss with Li Wenge, and General Li, who was so surprised that he almost fainted, struck while the iron was hot and described the concept and shape of modern gears to the mathematician couple.

There were also gears in ancient China, but those gears were too rough and did not have the corresponding mathematical basis, and the craftsmen of this era could not make gears with relatively high precision.

Now that there is an involute, it is an extremely faint glimmer of light for the technology of this era.

When Li Hu, the commander of the middle battalion of the Yan'an regiment, Xuanjie Lieutenant, was ordered to come to the place where Zhou Zhengyu was located, Zhou Guerrilla was listening intently to Mr. Zu telling a group of carpenters and blacksmiths about things he did not understand at all.

“…… Polishing an arrow requires a skilled manual effort to spend an entire day. But if you have this thing, as long as the bracket is stable and the structure is solid,

The whetstone of the disc, two people can polish a hundred in a day, of course, here to count the loss of the grinding stone, the large gear is relatively durable, and the replacement of the small gear may be frequent. The key is size, the better the size accuracy is controlled, the easier it will be to replace it, and the less time it will take. These objects must be made of iron, and wooden ones cannot be carried at all. Although there is not much pig iron today, it is enough to build such a few things, and the key is the size. Before you do it, you must first make a ruler, the length of the ruler is naturally one foot, divided into ten inches, remember that it is ten inches, not sixteen inches. Then each inch is divided into ten points, to be divided equally. The specific casting method is to first use a small piece of pig iron to make a one-point mold, and then multiply the engraved lines by ......"

"These are very labor-intensive......," said a blacksmith in a rough voice, "just these rulers will take ten or so days, and a lot of waste will be produced in the middle, and the things on this paper must be made and combined in one place, and they must be usable, I am afraid it will take more than two months?" And the wear and tear must be severe, and if one object is broken, the others will be useless. At this time, everyone will do it together. Hundreds of arrows have been made......"

Zhou Zhengyu lowered his head and looked at a picture drawn by Zu Lin, contemplating his eyebrows, Ye Qiyu sneered and said: "The eyes of the rat are inch! ”

"Sir, how many pounds of iron does this thing cost?" Zhou Zhengyu asked.

"At least two hundred catties, there is a lot of waste at the beginning, so you have to make a margin!" Zu Lin said softly.

Two hundred catties of iron is enough to make nearly two thousand arrows and one hundred spear heads.

"Made. Let's make it according to Mr.'s drawing, let's approve a note, Lao Hong will take it to Treasury Liu tomorrow to use it, if this thing is really useful. In the future, if the time is saved, it will be useless to cast, and the waste objects will not be useless when they are returned to the furnace! Anyway, there is firewood on the mountain, and it only takes some time to get around. It's a risk worth taking! ”

Zhou Zhengyu made a final decision, and everyone had nothing to say and dispersed.

personally sent the Ye family out, and Zhou Zhengyu turned around and smiled at Li Hu: "Brother Hu'er is neglected!" ”

Li Huping saluted on his chest: "Xiaguan has seen Zhou Guerrilla!" ”

Zhou Zhengyu stood up straight and returned the salute. Then he relaxed: "Brother sit casually, we don't have so many rules here, don't be restrained!" ”

Li Hu smiled. In the corner of the wall, he took a hu bed, opened it and sat down.

Zhou Zhengyu had an unnatural smile on his face. Gaze brows pondered for a while. asked: "Brother Hu'er, everyone in the army knows." Adults treat you like a brother. Calling you this time is our own proposition, some trespassing, I hope you don't be surprised! ”

Li Hu said: "Zhou Guerrilla is polite, the regulations in the army, you are a superior, and it is only right to summon the subordinate officials to come, and there is nothing to transgress." What is the guerrilla command, as long as you don't violate military rules, Li Hu will take the order! ”

Having said that, he didn't think that Zhou Zhengyu had the qualifications to order him to come, everyone in the army knew his relationship with Li Wenge, and even real power figures like Shen Chen and Wei Xun didn't dare to treat him as a subordinate on weekdays, not to mention an idler like Zhou Zhengyu who had no real power. Li Hu didn't think that Lao Zhou had any serious military affairs when he called him - it was not Zhou Zhengyu's turn to interfere in those things.

However, what Zhou Zhengyu said below made him stunned.

"Brother Hu'er, you have to abide by the rules when you say this, but we know what kind of material we are. Adults give us face, we can't kick our noses in the face, but in any case, this team is created by adults, and we have to take care of some things for adults, otherwise we don't do anything, and we don't feel sorry for adults. Listen to the following words first, and if there is any offense, you can bear with it. A few days ago, the Han family sent you twenty acres of land, but is there such a thing? ”

The eldest son of the Han family is Han Fuji, the eldest son of Han Hongshi, the head of the Han family, he has made friends with Li Hu for a while, and he did send twenty acres of land to Li Hu a few days ago, but today Zhou Zhengyu suddenly asked, Li Hu was stunned, first, he didn't quite understand how Zhou Zhengyu knew about this small matter of sesame mung beans, and secondly, he didn't understand why Zhou Zhengyu specially summoned him to the mountain for questioning because of this matter.

"It's true, what's the matter, is this a violation of the rules?"

In an instant, Li Hu had already thought about military regulations and military discipline, but in the end, he didn't come up with any military regulations and military discipline that he had violated.

Zhou Zhengyu shook his hand: "There is no such article in the military regulations, and besides, we don't care about the military regulations, that is Wei Xun's local affairs." ”

He sighed: "Brother, you were fooled, you know?" The Han family is pushing you into the fire pit, you know? ”

Li Hu suddenly became alert, what did Zhou Zhengyu mean by this? He and Han Fuji have been friends for some days, and after contact in the past few months, he feels that this child of the family does not have the arrogance and condescension of Gao Shaoji, and he can also turn in a person like a domestic slave. Moreover, the Han family has always had a good reputation in Yanzhou, and rarely takes the initiative to drive out the poor begging at the door of the village on weekdays, and will take out some surplus grain to set up a porridge field for relief in disaster years. There was no grudge in the past, and there was no hatred in the near future, and he really didn't see any need for the Han family to calculate his eight-rank martial arts.

Zhou Zhengyu said quietly: "Brother, probably you also know that the lord and the envoy, as well as Qin Buzheng and them, are now planning to change the Ding tax to the mu tax land, and the county town has met several times for the matter of land. The Yao family, the Gao family, and the Han family have always been unwilling to sell their land. Now there is already one in the camp under Fenglin Mountain

If we can't buy enough land in these two months, we will have to raise these homeless people for two whole years, and the adults' family background is like this, we really can't afford to raise it......"

Li Huying also heard some of these things, but he still didn't understand what this matter had to do with the Han family's land gifted to him.

But I heard Zhou Zhengyu continue: "Brother, think about it. In the past, why didn't the Han family make friends with you? It's time to harvest the fields, and the Han family will make friends with you, and give you twenty hectares of land for nothing, why wasn't the Han family so generous earlier? They rushed to the ground, could it be that a family like you was born in the hills? ”

Li Hu looked at Zhou Zhengyu blankly, speechless for a while.

Zhou Zhengyu said again: "Brother, if you are not an adult brother. If it weren't for the command of our middle battalion, if it weren't for the defense of the two counties of Yan'an and Fushi, what eyes would the Han family look at you? Now that they've found you, they're asking for you! ”

Li Hu said confusedly: "But guerrilla. We have always been out of control of local affairs, if the Han family wants to beg me to intercede with them, wouldn't they be in a hurry to go to the doctor? ”

Zhou Zhengyu smiled bitterly: "Brother." You think badly, the Han family didn't want you to help them intercede at all, their intentions are much more dangerous than this! ”

Seeing Li Hu puzzled. Zhou Zhengyu said: "You are just a mouth, do you know?" The Han family just wants to make a hole in our army through you. Everyone knows about your relationship with adults, and they see this one. As long as you take their fields. They will get to know more of the soldiers through you. Then give away the land one by one, so that we, the brothers, can share the benefits of their land. Think about it. When the adults came back, they found that the officers and generals in the army had all become big landlords overnight, and they had all become good friends of these people. If we don't have enough land, what can we use to support our brothers, and where will the fields that those brothers who fought hard to fight and die on the battlefield land? Those of us who are in power swallow the earth, but it is actually the blood and lives of our own brothers who swallow the earth......"

Li Hu was stunned, he really didn't expect so much, Zhou Zhengyu sighed and said, "Did you say they only looked for you?" Let me tell you, the Yao family, the Gao family, and the Han family have been moving around for a while, and Shen Chen, Wei Xun, and they have all looked for it, but they didn't ask for it. It's not that these two brothers have a big shelf, it's really that this friend can't be made in vain, and if you want to make friends with them, you must first tie your head to the waistband of your trousers. ”

Zhou Zhengyu looked at Li Hu and said earnestly: "Actually, I was the last one to know about your matter, Wei Xun and Shen Chen already knew, and Lu Xun also knew it earlier than me." If it was an ordinary officer, like Ling Pu Yangli and them, Wei Xun would have talked to them individually a long time ago. What is he in charge of the military prison? This team is a team of adults, and whoever dares to interfere in this team will be Wei Xun's enemy. It's just that everyone knows that you are a brother and you are treated as a brother, and they all know that you are loyal to adults, and others may be anti-adults, and you will never be able to. That's why I gave up this old face and invited you over, and I honestly told you these words. These rich and big landlords have read the book of the ground, we have never seen it in our lives, they have a lot of twists and turns, brother, we can be more careful, don't be a gun, and be a good person! ”

Li Hu's face turned white with horror at the moment: "You mean...... The Han family wants to deal with the big brother through us? ”

Zhou Zhengyu sneered: "They don't have the courage yet, the knife handle is in the hands of adults, and they don't dare to rebel openly." They just want adults to have scruples, so that adults don't dare to move them easily, shake out the brothers at a critical time, so that adults can't get down, what is that allusion called, fighting mice for fear of hurting the vase, that's how it ......"

He stared at Li Hu and said, "Brother, think about it, this matter is really published, the adults are going to kill people, who will they kill?" Kill you? Do you want to do it? If I don't kill you, how will adults deal with others? The brethren are not convinced......"

At this point, Li Hu fully understood, and he was sweating all over, and even his middle coat was wet.

Zhou Zhengyu hit the railroad while it was hot: "Brother, we are all from a big old man, before we talk to adults, we don't take advantage of anything except a rotten life that may be lost at any time, and now we are officials and salaries, even the big officials from the capital have to look down on us, this is the difference between heaven and earth, isn't it?" Although our own benefits are not too much worse than those of our brothers, I am a general, and my family has only earned 50 acres of land, but we will have a long future, as long as this team is here, as long as there are adults, we will have many opportunities to be promoted and make a fortune in the future. Why bother exchanging your head for land at this time? Isn't that stupid? ”

Nurse Li let out a sigh of relief, stood up and saluted Zhou Zhengyu very sincerely: "Brother Zhou, the younger brother was not very respectful to the eldest brother in the past, and I hope that the eldest brother will not take it to heart, what the eldest brother said to the younger brother today, if it weren't for the real brother, he would never have been able to say it." Big brother rest assured, this group of pickled people want to do bad things for big brother, no matter how confused Li Hu is, he won't let them succeed. ”

Zhou Zhengyu smiled very happily, this was the first time in a year and a half that Li Hu called him "Brother Zhou......