In the spring season, busy people can be seen everywhere in the field, the rye in the field has entered the high-speed growth period after being moistened by winter snow, watering, fertilizing, weeding and killing insects. 》

Zheng Tong took dozens of half-sized men to open the arsenal in Luli, and all the swords, bows and arrows were neatly placed on the weapon rack, and the young people stared at the bright light in a daze.

"Don't be stunned, move the bow out first."

Zheng Tong commanded the young people to work hard, these young people are the children of the village, the oldest is seventeen or eighteen, the youngest is only fourteen or fifteen, in previous years should have been in the field with their parents busy with farming, but in recent years, more and more children have broken away from the restrictions of farmland and entered the public school set up in the county to read and write, they are smarter than their parents, and they have more knowledge.

The public school was opened a few years ago, each county must set up a public school, the county only charges the basic book pen and ink fee, and each semester also charges 30 yuan, each child in addition to the books to learn to write, there is also cheap pen and ink to provide, the easiest course provided in the public school is literacy, three school years to recognize all the commonly used words, and can read the imperial court newspaper and the county issued by the document decree, in addition to the qualification to compete for the food adjutant.

Although the rich villagers do not look down on the fighting food adjutant, but in these years, which family does not have two or three children waiting to eat, according to the Han system of the eldest son inherited the largest field property in the family, it is inevitable to let the younger son go out to make a living on his own, the current imperial historian Zhang Ou belongs to this category, for the lack of a source of income for the younger son or even the illegitimate son, the fighting food adjutant has a lot of attraction.

In addition, those who have studied for three years and are at least fifteen years old can serve in advance. In the army, they will serve as reserve grass-roots officers and vigorously train them, and they will study the "Han Law" and various military regulations and military disciplines. They will also have to receive more professional military command training, and they will serve in the army as professional soldiers for a long time. It's just that the opportunities are usually relatively small.

Those with excellent grades in the public school for three years enter the county school to continue their studies for three years, and receive more comprehensive knowledge indoctrination in this year, and choose those with better grades to be sent to Taixue for the last four years of study, and those with poor grades will make career choices according to the Han law of serving in the army for several years, and the worst can stay in the county to become a merchant (handicraft), and the Han family does not have any regulations that discriminate against the merchant colonist.

Nanzhuang's boy through three years of reading education, can read, read newspapers, write belongs to the village of cultural people, usually these bastard boys are high-spirited, not to mention how majestic, only in the face of the Zhuangzi in the high lord will hang down his head and pretend to be an honest man. Zheng Tong is not only a military meritorious knight, but also a Li Zheng in Lu, and he is usually the one who disciplines these children.

"Boys, look at it, this is what you will come into contact with the most in the army in the future, the longbow! Now I will teach you how to use and maintain the longbow, first of all, by hanging the bowstring. ”

Zheng Tong carried a longbow without a bowstring, and taught the practical skills of hanging a bowstring one by one, and in the Han Empire, where all the people were soldiers, from the elderly to the women who were farmers, they had to master the skills of hanging strings, and the old people were all soldiers when they were young. Women, on the other hand, need to protect their homes when the men at home are not there.

The Han army circulated a variety of skills in hanging bowstrings, some people specially developed practical tools for hanging strings, but more people still use their own local methods to hang bowstrings, usually with their own calves as the support to hang the strings left and right. There are also masters who have developed the art of hanging bowstrings without any support.

Zheng Tong's hanging bowstring skills are relatively ordinary, and smart children can learn them at a glance, and they can learn it after pondering clumsily for a while. Crossing the basic threshold of hanging bowstrings, it explains the various matters that need to be paid attention to in the process of maintaining and using bows and arrows. In fact, what he said was very simple, the children in Lu had learned simple archery skills in the public school. But no one was agitated or dissatisfied, and they listened attentively to every word, knowing that what was going to be said below would be the most important part of archery.

An experienced old hunter is like a living dictionary, they can summarize the archery skills vividly, Zheng Tong is an experienced hunter, he is also an excellent soldier who has stepped into the threshold of a marksman, a good teacher can make students avoid detours, reduce unnecessary waste of time and energy, and can encourage and help students to progress quickly.

Zheng Tong is a calm and clever lack of words of action, he will show every point of archery seriously, the child with high understanding will soon learn his true biography, only need to practice day and night sooner or later to reach his level, but the child with poor understanding is very distressed, some people are not suitable for practicing archery, some people are born with poor ability to learn very slowly, and some are patient enough to learn easy to give up halfway, various reasons lead to half of the people give up archery every time.

"Is there a quick way to speed up archery?"

"Nope."

"How long does it take to become a qualified shooter?"

"According to the learning attitude and talent, it ranges from three to five years, and some people have not practiced it in their lifetime."

Zheng Tong patiently answered every question, he knew that many people were blocked in the early semester of learning archery, and the main reason why a large number of apprentices gave up was this, he would try to maintain a gentle attitude when answering questions from young people, neither denigatory nor scolding, nor swearing, last year Pingyang Hou Mansion published a basic drill book for training young soldiers, this book is only quietly circulated in the Lu Li within Pingyang Hou Mansion, limited to Li Zheng knows very much, ordinary villagers just know a rough idea.

The children happily carry a small bow to practice archery, Nanshan Natural Shooting Range is the favorite place of Chang'an residents, hundreds of thousands of arrows will fall into the dense forest every day, so that picking up arrows has become a money-making business, every evening there will be a special person responsible for recycling arrows to the next day and then sell them to young people who practice archery at a low price.

Zheng Lao sat at the entrance of the village to bask in the sun, the old men in the village went to the Bahe River to fish, Zheng Lao angrily scolded them for being stupid, there were fish fry cages stocked in the village in the Bahe River, and it was really uncomfortable to fish in that place, and after basking in the sun for a while, I accidentally saw a few old men walking around the ridge.

"Hey, why are you here, come and sit and talk." When Elder Zheng saw the person clearly, he hurriedly walked over, and Gongxi and a few three elders who came to him were inspecting the Lu.

A few old men were not polite to him, sitting on the Zheng family's futon and drinking the hot tea he made, and said with a smile: "You guys have been very tight recently!" I saw that the strong men in Nanzhuang were raised to train every three or five days, is there any rumor in the court? ”

"No, no, what news can we have about the small people of Shengdou, it's not that we should prepare early for a war in the north, in case of a little accident, maybe our children and grandchildren will have to go into battle."

Zheng Lao flatly denied it.

A few old men smiled knowingly, everyone is an old fox in their seventies and eighties, and the decades-old brothers have long figured out each other's temperament and veins, in the words of these old men, it is like a donkey pouting its ass and knowing how to pull a few donkey dung eggs.

Zheng Lao is in a hurry to have his own reason, other Zhuangzi is anxious to have their own ideas, Gongxi is the three old masters in the township in charge of the folk customs and education in Luli, which Luli children are studying in the public school, which Lu has recently had a strong man busy outside There are detailed records, although they don't care about educating young people at a large age, but they are in charge of a lot of miscellaneous things.

The rank of the chief official in the township is more like a clerical archivist, or the kind of small officials who go to the countryside to make a table of statistical data, stay in the county government for a long time and cooperate with the county bureaucrats.

Zhang Lao said inconspicuously: "The war in the north has begun. ”

"Well, it's hit, it's nothing to do with our monarch." Li Lao squinted his eyes and said.

"You're going to lose."

"I see it that way, too."

Several old people unanimously agreed, and Gongxi twisted his beard and smiled: "This is not good, our Han army is not a good sign to defeat the battle!" ”

"I think how wise and martial Emperor Taizu Gao was, at the beginning of the army, he was not beaten by the Qin army and fled into the mountains to take refuge, the battle of Pengcheng 560,000 princes and coalition troops were beaten by Xiang Yu's 30,000 cavalry and could not find the north, the siege of Baideng was surrounded by 400,000 Hun regiments, and there were still three defeats with the ability of Emperor Taizu Gao, not to mention a mere horseman."

Xu Lao is temper of the dynamite barrel will blow up at a moment's notice, and he would have been repaired by this group of old men a long time ago, but today he didn't, and the old people ridiculed Tian Wei for him to understand that Tian Wei was indeed a horseman.

The three elders system has extraordinary significance, their existence represents a safety pressure relief valve in the Han family system, the grassroots people represented by the three elders can directly communicate with the three princes and nine secretaries of the imperial court, and the three elders can also directly write a note to the emperor, and the Son of Heaven must reply to the three elders when he receives the three elders' notes.

Since the emergence of the feudal system to the gradual collapse of today, one of the three elders' best institutional innovations, almost perfectly solves the serious deviation between the personal tendencies of the feudal lords and the imperial court system, as well as the exploitation and oppression of the grassroots people by the bureaucratic elite group under the centralized system, which can not only control the power of the grassroots to not be snatched away by the powerful landlords, but also avoid the new bureaucratic elites from grabbing the control of the grassroots in the name of the imperial court.

The three elders are not afraid of offending the three princes and nine kings, and they don't have to worry about the fact that the Taiwei Tian Wei, who is thousands of miles away, has clairvoyance and ears, almost everyone with military common sense knows that this war is very difficult to fight, and it is irrational for the new generals to deal with the Xiongnu with new recruits and new strategies, and they also try to go deep into the Xiongnu steppe to fight a beautiful war of annihilation, such an outrageous request is tantamount to sending 50,000 cavalry to death.

It is inconvenient for the old people to satirize the strategy of the Five Roads to attack the Huns is very stupid, and only Taiwei Tian Wei is the most suitable for ridicule, anyway, Tian Wei's reputation is very stinky, and it doesn't matter if it stinks, there are many lice and no itching, and there are many debts. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)