The people of Jindingshan received the exact news, and it was already in the middle of November of the second year of Chongzhen. Zhang Mengjin immediately withdrew two-thirds of the troops of the cottage and attacked the south with Cai Xiaozi at the top of Artemisia, and the fish hook Chen of Matou Mountain and Zhao Shi of Santai Mountain were easily defeated.

Zhao Shishi was cut off by Wei Heyong of Jinding Mountain. Fishhook Chen was also defeated by Cai Xiaozi, and escaped from the security guard with more than a dozen subordinates. In the two expeditions against the two southern leaders, Jindingshan received a large amount of material supplies, the most obvious of which is that the total number of war horses in Jindingshan has exceeded 200.

The food problem that everyone in Jinding Mountain is worried about has also been supplemented a lot when clearing the cottages in Matou Mountain. After the conquest was over, Zhang Mengjin ordered the brothers in the cottage to take care of the fugitive Qin Wang's army scattered and lurking around. Presumably, by the beginning of next year, Jindingshan's strength will be further strengthened.

In this way, the time came to December, and the entire Yan'an Province was covered with heavy snow. Countless people fell in the snow, and the few who barely survived finally chose to become thieves and join the bandits everywhere.

Zhang Mengjin, the big boss, arranged for most of the Ding Zhuang in the cottage to move around to repair the thatched huts that were crushed by the heavy snow. Ding Zhuang, who returned from his shift, got two sweet potatoes from the people who distributed grain in the cottage. Then they leaned against the fire and warmed themselves up while roasting their sweet potatoes.

In this slightly busy winter, Zhang Mengcheng took his students to continue to read and write in the grass hut. Today, the number of students in Jindingshan Thatched Cottage has expanded to more than 150 people, and so many people are crowded in the Thatched Cottage to listen to a gentleman's teaching, and the quality of this course can be imagined.

Zhang Mengcheng tried his best to use violence to deter these children of different ages to keep quiet. Even so, Zhang Mengcheng, as a lecturer, was almost too busy. Fortunately, the textbooks printed by Shanzhai itself have a certain scale. With the help of these teaching materials, Zhang Mengcheng finally ensured the smooth progress of his teaching.

A few months ago, the people of the cottage robbed a Zhuangzi and, while burning everything to the ground, also captured a carpenter who could carve engraving plates up the mountain. At Zhang Mengcheng's strong request, the eldest brother Zhang Mengjin mobilized personnel and materials everywhere, and Zhang Mengcheng presided over the printing of a batch of textbooks that were quite crudely produced.

The students in the cottage are now able to share a textbook with two or three people, which greatly relieves Zhang Mengcheng's teaching pressure and makes the cottage look a little more formal. Zhang Mengcheng also shamelessly named the cottage thatched cottage Yuewei Thatched Cottage, anyway, in this era, there will not be a big cigarette pouch surnamed Ji jumping out to protest.

The textbooks of the students in the cottage are not printed all at once, but slowly accumulated one paper after another. The first thing that was engraved was not an enlightenment textbook such as a thousand-character text with a hundred family names, but forty-one very strange characters.

Ma Xiangbo, another person who read a lot in the cottage, didn't know what it was, so he asked Xiucai, who was teaching. After some simple study, Ma Xiangbo used fifteen of the symbols to settle accounts.

The students in the thatched cottage heard from their husband that the ten numbers representing zero to nine were from the place where the Buddha lived in Journey to the West. The odd symbols of plus, minus, multiplication, division and equal signs were also transmitted from countries far west of the Ming Dynasty.

Although I don't know what country the west side of the country Mr. is talking about, but compared with the place where the Buddha lived in Journey to the West, the students in the cottage think that this should be a great thing.

For kids. At least they have learned the plus, minus, and equal signs, and they can already count with the strange symbols of the Buddha Kingdom. Moreover, he also said that as long as the 99 multiplication table printed on the back of the book is memorized, they can even use the multiplication and division signs. It will be very useful to help settle accounts at home.

As for the remaining twenty-six strange talismans, the gentleman said that they were helping them to read. With the textbooks that thickened every once in a while, the newly printed paper had a lot of strange characters on it, which were placed on top of the hundred family names and the thousand-character text.

As long as you memorize the strange symbols, you will be able to understand what is written in the book. Unfortunately, the husband was afraid that they would tear up the book, so he did not allow them to take it home, otherwise they would be able to read it to the elders of the family and show how many words they could know now.

In the past few months, Zhang Mengcheng has appointed several student captains one after another. Today, when the number of students in the school is swelling, Li Dan, Guan Yuze and Zhang Yalian finally have some playmates of the same age.

Especially Li Dan and Guan Yuze, for adolescent boys. An opponent of the same age is a very wonderful and precious existence. After Li Dan and Guan Yuze had their own competitors, their passion and motivation for learning reached a higher level. The pace of their learning has surpassed that of most students in the cottage. In Zhang Mengcheng's absence, many things were entrusted to them and several other student captains.

"Whoever speaks, believe first, deceit and delusion, ridicule. It's better to say more than less. But don't be clever. Treacherous words, foul words. The market gas is the ...... of the war. ”

Looking at the students who fluently recited the disciple rules, Zhang Mengcheng felt slightly complacent. Although Zhang Mengcheng did not have much interest in education work. But looking at the children who don't understand anything, they gradually change little by little under the knowledge they teach. No matter what he thought in his heart, Zhang Mengcheng always has a sense of accomplishment now.

In this snowy winter, the horses in the cottage were well taken care of. Neither cavalry nor infantry would go out for training, but would work with the strong men of the cottage to maintain the collapsed huts in the cottage.

Children who don't have to go out to visit relatives and have nothing else to do can only stay in the renovated cottage and study with everyone, and there is no such thing as a winter vacation in this era.

Hearing a student's misreckoning word, Zhang Mengcheng corrected it and asked him to sit down after a word of praise. Then another student was replaced and he continued to carry it. The students who were drawn were able to memorize it at first, but then they began to stumble, and finally they couldn't memorize it at all.

Zhang Mengcheng took the wicker whip, slapped the student a few times, and reprimanded him. Then, no matter what the children with red eyes thought, Zhang Mengcheng changed another student for spot checks.

After all the students were spot-checked, Zhang Mengcheng told a fragment of the story of the Northern Expedition of Yongxi in the Song Dynasty. Although there is still a lot of artistic processing as always, the theme is to emphasize discipline and collaboration. When the final story was over, Zhang Mengcheng announced that the cottage would be out of school and let the children go home to rest.

After that, Zhang Mengcheng took his niece Zhang Yalian to the residence of his eldest brother Zhang Mengjin. There were already quite a few people gathered inside. They are all members of the Zhang family. With the increasingly serious disaster in Yan'an Mansion, almost all the Zhang clansmen took refuge in Zhang Mengjin, the big boss of Jinding Mountain.

It's just that not everyone chooses to fall into the grass, but plans to use Zhang Mengjin's protection to cultivate and graze in the sphere of influence of Jinding Mountain. Many of them plan to go back to live a stable life again at the beginning of next spring. Even a few people who fell into the grass and joined the cottage armed forces also took a nickname and roamed the road.