The next fourth thing, compared to the previous ones, doesn't seem to be of much use for a while. However, the development of this incident has greatly improved the reputation of insolence in the surrounding area. But all the scholars who have some vision either praise the arrogance, or remind the people around them to be careful of the arrogance "its ambition is not small"!

So what did the insolence do?

Run a school, teach!

In the original Tianping Army, although the soldiers were strong and had extraordinary combat power, few of them knew how to read. This is also normal.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the spread of knowledge, although it was better than in the previous dynasties. However, if you want to ask for learning, it is still a huge cost.

First of all, there was no national compulsory education in the Han Dynasty.

There are few learned people, and even fewer are learned and willing to teach knowledge to students. If none of your relatives or friends are literate. Well, congratulations, you should go home obediently and take up the promising profession of illiteracy!

Secondly, books are expensive and heavy.

Let's not talk about how much manpower and wealth it takes to make books from traditional silk books or wooden sheets without using paper. The point is, even if you have money, you don't necessarily have books to buy.

If you want to get a book of your own, the most common way is to prepare tools such as wooden slips, bamboo slips, cloth and silk, and then go to the home of a scholar who has a book collection to seek the qualification to copy it yourself.

Why did the scholars of the Han Dynasty emerge and grow day by day? One of the reasons was that the scholars at that time had a monopoly on knowledge.

For example, the Runan Yuan family is a family that has grown up by specializing in the hereditary Meng's "Yi". If an outsider wants to learn Meng's "Yi", the only choice is to go to Runan Yuan to study. There is no other way.

And if you go to study with the Runan Yuan clan, you will automatically become a disciple and protégé of the Runan Yuan clan. With this affection, if someone from the Yuan family comes to ask for something in the future, will you help? Or do you want to help? Or do you want to help?

What the? Dare not help?

Did you know that this was a challenge to the moral bottom line of the society at that time? The consequences are serious, oh dear.

It is precisely because of this that academic families such as Runan Yuan's and Hongnong's Yang can slowly transform into official eunuch families in the imperial court. For example, most of the scholars in the Han Dynasty had such a factor that played a role in their development.

Therefore, if you want to ask for study, you should prepare the travel expenses for a long journey, as well as the cost of food and accommodation during the study, and rush to a certain great Confucian who opened the door to give lectures, and stay steadily for a few years!

By the way, why did the Confucian scholars of the Han Dynasty pick up swords and swords one by one, and cut people down, they all had two hits? I privately think that it is the strength of long-term reading.

Think about it, a piece of wood, set to one or two, you can write twenty words on it. So, what is the approximate total weight of a thousand-word article?

That's a lot of pounds!

Well, maybe you don't care about the weight of these few pounds. However, everyone should know that the ancients read books, but they had to read with books. Holding a few pounds of weight in your hand, for a long time, may I ask, are your hands sore?

The ancient scholars who often passively exercised their biceps like this, did you admire them a little?

Therefore, in ancient times, to describe a person's book collection, words such as "sweat cow full" were used at every turn. Don't be intimidated. Perhaps, this person's collection of books is not as large as the text in the "Duota Game Guide" at your home!

Based on all of the above, we can now draw conclusions. In the Han Dynasty, such a thing as reading was something that only the children of rich families with good fortune could afford. It is understandable that the illiteracy rate among the population at that time was over 90 percent.

Therefore, if Zhang Mad had not been provided with cheap paper and effective block printing, it would not have been possible to train his soldiers to read and write on a large scale.

However, in the process of teaching, I was troubled by the arrogance of the soldiers' poor foundation, and I couldn't help but think of a strange book that I had read on the Internet - "Curves Save the Country-Two Devils and Traitors Li Fugui".

So, Zhang Crazy had an idea, and simply excused himself as "Nanhua Old Immortal", and moved out the simplified words of later generations.

In all fairness, simplified characters are much easier to learn and remember than ancient traditional characters. In order to avoid the opinions of those scholars and wine masters in the Taiping Dao, Zhang Qiang named the simplified character of the later generations as "military book" to distinguish it from the popular official book at that time.

Since it is named "military book", as the name suggests, it is of course limited to the use of the army, a quick and convenient text. In addition, some encouragement clauses issued by Zhang Arrogant stipulate that non-commissioned officers who study quickly will be rewarded and will also have advantages in promoting military ranks, which can be regarded as completely stimulating the enthusiasm of non-commissioned officers in learning.

Also, ancient books have no punctuation. Therefore, when a person gets a new book, the first problem to be solved is how to smoothly add periods and commas to the Chinese characters of the book, which is called "sentence reading".

Therefore, it is very important for the ancients to study and worship a good teacher. Otherwise, the content of a book, you even broke the basic sentences wrong, can the content of the book Chinese characters be correctly interpreted?

If you have any doubts, please break the sentence on "Raising pigs is as big as a mountain, rats are dead, the wine tank is good, the vinegar altar is sour, the people are sick, and the wealth is less". It is read as "raising pigs as big as mountains, and rats are dead; The brewing tank is good, and the vinegar jar is sour; There are many people, few diseases, and wealth", or want to "raise pigs as big as mountain mice, and die on the head; The wine-making tank is good for vinegar, and the altar is sour; People are sick and have less wealth"?

For this torturous writing habit, insolence naturally hates it. He himself does not have much knowledge of ancient literature, and it is extremely difficult to break sentences naturally. Therefore, when creating the "military book", Zhang Madness took out all the punctuation marks of later generations, such as commas, question marks, colons, quotation marks, exclamation marks, etc., in order to facilitate the study of illiterate soldiers under his hands.

With these reform measures, there is no doubt that the difficulty of learning to read and write has been greatly reduced. Even if Cheng Yu, Master Tai and other learned scholars faintly disdain and oppose this, they will not take it to heart.

As long as the effect is good, insolence will be adopted. After going through the process of going from life to death and again, Zhang Qiang has become an extremely assertive pragmatist.

In less than two years, there are no less than 1,000 soldiers in the Taixing Army who can read and write 1,000 commonly used "military books". As long as they are given some targeted training, these non-commissioned officers, who have escaped the category of illiteracy, will have the necessary ability to serve as low-ranking officers or government officials.

Do you see it?

That's right, arrogance is cultivating a large number of grassroots talents that can be easily used, so as to lay a good foundation for future large-scale expansion.

Of course, the price paid for these things that Zhang Arrogant did was also quite expensive. According to rough estimates, in just a few years, the vault of the Taixing army has reduced no less than 20,000 catties of gold! If it weren't for the strong support of the legacy left by Zhang Jiao, the "great sage and good teacher" back then, it would have been impossible for Zhang Jiao to be so comfortable all these years.

The current Taixing Army, the official main force, is still only about 2,500 men. However, as a half-peasant and half-soldier cottage garrison, there are as many as 5,000. If you mobilize with all your might, you can pull up an army of 5,000 soldiers, 8,000 auxiliaries and 10,000 people within a month!

Although the armor is incomplete, he feels that the combat effectiveness of the more than 20,000 troops under his command can at least be equivalent to more than 10,000 regular county soldiers.

And, don't forget, these are just arrogant headquarters. If you add the other rebels who obeyed the orders of the Taixing army, the number of troops can be increased by at least 50,000!

Of course, the combat effectiveness of these rebels, there is not much to say.

However, assuming that it was not the last resort, the arrogance would never have put on such a big battle. The reason is simple:

There is not enough money and food!

In order to ensure the food supply of the main force of the Taixing Army, Zhang Qi was already an extremely headache. If it weren't for the use of the remnants of the Taiping Dao and the high purchase price, the Taixing army could buy thousands of grains from Haoqiang in several surrounding counties every year, and Zhang Qi would have to face this choice:

――Do you stay in the mountains and eat grass roots and bark, or do you go out and plunder in the mountains?

If you choose the former, I am afraid that most of the Taixing troops will mutini or disperse because of this. If you choose the latter, the Taixing army will become the most hostile bandit in the eyes of the powerful clan. In the future, if the Taixing army wants to enter the surrounding counties, it will inevitably cost a much greater price.

So, continue to thank the "great sage and good teacher" Zhang Jiao! If it weren't for the huge fortune he left for Zhang Qi in advance, even if Zhang Qi didn't want to be a thief, he was afraid that there would be no way to change this result.