Chapter Twenty-Four: Edutainment in the Army
Li Yongji is well aware of the truth that if you say too much, you will lose, so when telling the story, try to be ambiguous, nine falsehoods and one truth.
But after all, the story is a story, there is no evidence, and it can't withstand careful scrutiny, so after Li Yongji finished talking briefly, he didn't give Wang Sanwu time to think, but pulled him to see something practical, to see it is believing.
Because Li Yongji raised the recruited people in several big houses outside Qingpu County, it would take a certain amount of time to get from the county seat to that place, originally Li Yongji wanted to continue to go in a sedan chair, just like when he came, who knew that Wang Sanwu was too slow, so he simply took out a horse, took Li Yongji with him, put it in front of him, and after asking the direction, he immediately beat the horse and left.
Although it is only a relatively short Mongolian horse, and it is also a trained military horse, and the road in Qingpu County is not bad, so the horse runs relatively peacefully, but Li Yongji still feels very bumpy, fortunately, the distance is not too far, and Wang Sanwu's driving skills are also good, so it is still within the acceptable range.
After a while, they came to a large mansion with high walls, which was where the group of people recruited by Li Yongji lived temporarily.
As mentioned earlier, Li Yongji has just relied on his generous treatment to recruit 200 strong men who are coarse and literate, plus the slaves and maids he bought before, there are more than 300 people, so many people gathered together, according to the calculation of later generations, it is equal to the total number of people in a grade of ordinary middle school, and it is a storage zài that can occupy an entire playground, and to arrange so many people, it is not possible to make a small place.
Due to the large number of people and the need to be concentrated, the houses in the city are not suitable, so they can only rent houses outside the city, and so coincidentally, it happens that the Longyou Gang has a large courtyard outside the city that is empty, although the courtyard is a little dilapidated, but it covers an area of one and a half acres, and there are three large tile houses, enough to stuff more than 300 people into it.
Li Yongji saw that the whole house covers a large area, surrounded by a three-meter-high brick and stone wall, and there are bamboo sticks inserted on the wall.
The image of the house is like this, coupled with the nature of the Longyou Gang's trading, so Li Yongji Yan Zhan Ng suspects that this is a place where the Longyou Gang specializes in imprisoning people.
However, considering that there is no more suitable house nearby, and it is only a temporary residence, and this group of people is newly recruited, they are not familiar with each other, and Li Yongji lacks both enough manpower to manage and lack enough prestige to serve the public, so for the time being, he can only rely on inducements to maintain this group, so it is not a bad thing to have such a prison-like house.
After arranging people in, Li Yongji did not arrange any actual training content, but just let them stay here with good food and drink, get familiar with each other, and learn the rules they set by the way. As for the real training, Li Yongji planned to wait for the qualification for group training, and then take them to Yangxinju to open up a regular training base, and then start formal training.
Although there is no actual training plan for the time being, just keep them in the house, but in order to prevent them from being bored and causing trouble, Li Yongji not only eats and drinks well and makes them memorize the family rules he has set himself, but also asks Zhang Xinda to get a batch of yellow book booklets written in traditional Chinese characters to show them.
These pamphlets are all thirty-two pages, without any titles on the surface, collectively referred to as the nameless yellow book, the content is actually copied from the junior high school history textbooks of later generations, but after some selection, only domestic history, and in order to prevent accidents, history only until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, reduce sensitivity.
Because the content of junior high school history textbooks is relatively simple, mostly based on historical stories and character explanations, plus illustrated texts, and the use of traditional Chinese vernacular is easy to understand, so it is quite popular among these people who are coarse and literate.
You must know that the way for the Qing Dynasty people to receive cultural knowledge at this time was quite narrow, because there was no Hanyu Pinyin, and there was no systematic teaching materials, their learning efficiency was very low, and most of them started from the Three Character Classic. And because of the Baguwen, most of the follow-up studies are to read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and for the study of history, many of them are obtained from miscellaneous books such as storytelling.
Unless some of them have a well-to-do family and can get some history books that the Qing Dynasty allowed to circulate, they have very little understanding of the history of Chinese civilization, and it is quite good to know the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty. Obviously, even if they get the so-called history books, because the history books circulating during this period are all in classical Chinese, which are obscure and difficult to understand, and they cannot read without a certain amount of time and knowledge accumulation.
Therefore, when these illustrated and written in the vernacular, the easy-to-understand history books are presented in front of them, they immediately attract the hearts of their cultural **, even if there is no reward, they will frantically absorb the knowledge inside.
People are like this, you don't know how to read at all, you have never read a book, once you know Braille, you have read a book, and the age is not so old, then the thirst for culture will be extremely strong, as long as you see a little text will pounce on it and read it repeatedly, that kind of culture **, in the information society is unimaginable.
However, after all, the previous education process of this group of people was different, some knew more words, some knew less, and even if these pamphlets were all in the vernacular, not all of them could understand them all. Therefore, in order to facilitate everyone's learning, and also for the needs of management, Li Yongji divided this group of people into groups of four according to the class management system of primary and secondary schools.
Each group will choose a person who knows the most words as the group leader, and then when reading, each group will study together according to the group, usually by the group leader who knows the most words to read and help others solve doubts, and if the group leader also encounters can't, you can ask the leader of other groups to discuss with the group.
To put it simply, it is to divide this group of people, take the group as the basic unit, and the group leader is the head of the small group of this unit, and the group leader not only has to lead the study, but also the group leader to arrange the food and accommodation of the group members.
The benefits of this are obvious, the group study not only gives these people something to do, pass the time, not to be boring, but also learn more cultural knowledge, and the process of group naturally forms a grassroots organization.
For example, the leader of the reading group naturally establishes his authority in the process of leading the study, and in fact, he is the subordinate officer in the future, which facilitates the management in the future, and when the military system is reorganized in the future, he can directly promote the officers to a higher level from this group leader.
Obviously, Li Yongji used the organizational principles of the junior high school freshmen in later generations to arrange this group of people, and did not come in accordance with the rules of the army, and mainly based on inducement, the reason why he came like this is because Li Yongji still lacks effective means of intimidation for the time being, so he can only lure them in this way to benefit and move them with affection, and the effect is obvious and very effective.
Of course, due to the short time and the familiarity with each other, there is only the most basic group of four, and a higher-level management structure has not yet emerged.
That is to say, among the two hundred people, only the group leader can be called the leader, and then directly above is Li Yongji and his subordinate Li Jinbao, and there are several layers of leadership missing in the middle, but this is only temporary, and it will definitely be rearranged with the military establishment on the basis of this group in the future.
In addition, the method of reading the history pamphlets in these groups is only aimed at the 200 strong men who are coarsely literate, and there are other arrangements for those who are Li Yongji's slave maids and whose cultural literacy is generally not high.
The middle-aged women and adults in the slaves, because the su zhì is too low, they are all arranged to be miscellaneous laborers, and they are usually responsible for laundry and cooking.
The children were arranged by Li Yongji alone in a courtyard, also in a group of four, and Li Yongji is currently teaching cultural classes himself, using the first grade textbook of primary school, but the simplified Chinese characters are replaced by traditional Chinese characters, and everything else is the same.
In short, whether it is a temporary emergency or not, Li Yongji adheres to a concept, that is, uneducated subordinates are not good subordinates, so he paid close attention to the education of his subordinates from the beginning.
He plans to continue to improve this educational mechanism in the future, combine it with reality, and then add militarized management, so as to form a militarized education system, which is referred to as edutainment in the army, that is, in the process of military training, it is compulsory to accept the cultural education promoted by Li Yongji.
Before the change of the new form, this kind of policy of educating the army is estimated to be the Li Jiajun, at least the tradition of the main force of the Li Jiajun, and I don't know how effective it is, but it won't be too bad if I think it will be stronger, and it should be stronger than the Hunan army.
Because the shopkeeper Qi was too efficient, he quickly obtained the qualification for group training, so that Li Yongji's charter started in less than five days, and due to the short time, it seemed very hasty and jerky. For example, children's Chinese pinyin has just begun, and those strong men have only learned the history of the pre-Qin period, and they are still far from the beginning.
Despite this, according to Li Yongji's observation in the past few days, this group of people is quite satisfied with their current life, and there is no unruly or disobedient discipline, it seems that from the moment they signed the employment contract with Li Yongji, they really regarded themselves as people and Li Yongji as their masters, and they were truly obedient from the heart.
In this regard, Li Yongji could only say in private, not to mention anything else in the Qing Dynasty, the enslavement education was still quite successful, if this is in modern China, how can so many people be so honest.
Just thinking about it, Wang Sanwu suddenly opened his mouth and asked Li Yongji, after confirming whether it was here, and after Li Yongji confirmed, the two turned over and dismounted.
After Li Yongji also dismounted, Li Jinbao, who had been notified by the porter, also ran out, recognized the person who came as Li Yongji, and without saying a word, he flew over with a thin man beside him.
"Young Master, you're back." Li Jinbao, who ran over, smiled flatteringly, "Why is it so fast." ”
"It's okay, it's smooth." Li Yongji nodded.
After Li Yongji said this, Li Jinbao looked at Wang Sanwu, who was comforting the horses: "Ah, third master, you are here too?" ”
"Hmm." Wang Sanwu just nodded, but didn't say much, obviously he knew this Li Jinbao, and he didn't take him seriously.
"Zhao Quan!" Li Jinbao suddenly shouted loudly, and then after the thin man behind him ran over, Li Jinbao pointed at him and said loudly, "Why are you stunned, why don't you tie the horse to the third master quickly!" ”
"Yes." The man named Zhao Quan bent over, and then hurried over to lead the horse.
When Zhao Quan took the horse away, Wang Sanwu looked at Li Jinbao with a smile: "Hehe, Xiaobao, okay, it's majestic, I can manage my subordinates." ”
"Hehe, the third master smiled." Li Jinbao touched his head, "I'm just a subordinate, and this qiē is not all given by the young master." ”
Indeed, Li Jinbao, as the domestic slave of the Li family and the first person to do things with Li Yongji, can be regarded as an absolute old man, so when Li Yongji is short of manpower, he is the rightful second-in-command here, so that when Li Yongji leaves, he has the greatest power here, and he can supervise these people instead of Li Yongji, and give orders within a certain range.
For example, the man named Zhao Quan was one of the first adult house slaves bought by Li Yongji, and because his eyes and legs were better, he was arranged to be a porter. However, as Li Yongji's domestic slave, Li Jinbao shouted and commanded him without pressure, and the other party seemed to take it for granted.
Li Yongji did not particularly explain these things, but naturally, everyone regarded Li Jinbao as the number two person in this group, and when Li Yongji was away, regardless of whether he was Li Yongji's house slave or not, he would automatically obey Li Jinbao's command.
Relatively speaking, although Sun Wang hasn't left for some reason and is still staying here, because he is not Li Yongji's house slave, everyone doesn't treat him very well.
Therefore, the house slaves of this era, which should not be underestimated, give a little power and be brilliant, holding chicken feathers as arrows, which are all natural attributes, and there will be no ambiguity at all, and the people of this era seem to naturally abide by the order of superiority and inferiority, once they think they are inferior, they will automatically form a circle according to their relatives, distance and proximity.
Fortunately, Li Yongji doesn't care about these stereotypes, and he is already short of people, and these outdated rules are also conducive to the extension of power for the time being, so he acquiesced to Li Jinbao's style.
This is not to say that Li Yongji likes this, but for the time being, his ability is limited, and he can only stick to the rules, if it is in the future, it must be calculated according to the level of ability and loyalty.
"Jinbao." Li Yongji said quietly, "How about it, during the time I've been gone, everyone is fine." ”
"It's okay, it's all right." It seems that because of the experience during this time, when Li Jinbao faced Li Yongji, he would always automatically lower his voice a little, and automatically lowered his posture a little, "I'm full in the morning, and I'll read in groups according to your instructions at this time." ”
"That's good." Li Yongji nodded, "You go and make arrangements, let everyone stop what they are doing, and according to the original arrangement, they all go to the front gate of Room 3 to gather in line, I have something to say later!" ”
"Yes, young master, I'll arrange it." Li Yongji bent down and bowed his hand, then turned around and ran away.
After Li Jinbao left, Li Yongji turned to Wang Sanwu and said: "Okay, second uncle, it will take some time for them to gather, after all, I have just recruited people, and I am not familiar with it, and I don't have any decent decrees, so take advantage of this time, let's go and see the weapons first, I think, you will definitely be very interested in these weapons!" ”