"Are you all literate?" Huo Gang asked directly.

"Looking back, the slaves and maids are literate." It was still Chunmei who was the first to respond, and it was obvious that among these maids, Chunmei's status should be the highest.

Sure enough, hearing Chunmei's answer, Huo Gang knew it in his heart, and just now he also thought that since the Li family in Longxi wanted to send it, it would definitely be impossible to send some ordinary women, and in this period in ancient times, some top maidservants, especially those who were so beautiful, could almost be said to have no mediocrity.

Especially the servant girls cultivated by these big families, none of them can be taken lightly.

"Very well, you all come in with me." Huo Gang said very simply.

As soon as Huo Gang's words came out, these women didn't have any other ideas, but Wu Ping below was a little entangled, but before Wu Ping could figure out why, Huo Gang had already spoken to him directly: "Wu Ping, send someone to collect the side room next to me, in addition, if there are extra beds, put a few more in my room, and let people prepare some large number of stools." ”

Huo Gang's tone was very calm, Wu Ping paused, and finally didn't say anything, but simply bent down and saluted: "Yes, general." ”

The biggest difference between Huo Gang's return this time and before is that his general's mansion has changed again, now there is not only one wooden house, but also two wings next to it, this time it is also requested by Huo Gang, mainly there will be some more important things placed in it.

For example, these books that Huo Gang got this time.

For the arrangement of these women, Huo Gang has just thought about it, it just so happens that he needs literate people now, these maidservants are all literate people, in this era, as long as they are literate people, they can be useful.

Although it may not be possible to say that these maidservants are used to teach ordinary people outside, after all, they are too good-looking, but they can be used to teach some children, especially the children of these new craftsmen.

Although Huo Gang didn't know the specific number yet, among the six thousand newcomers, there were at least four or five hundred children over the age of three and under thirteen, plus the twenty or thirty school-age children among Huo Gang's one thousand subordinates before, just teaching these children was a huge wealth.

Children are the most receptive, and these children can influence their adults when they return to their homes. In this respect, for the families of these craftsmen, it is simply blood.

And Huo Gang will be able to receive the first batch of huge talents in a few years, Datang can get married when he is over 13 years old, and he will be punished if he doesn't get married at the age of 16, this is because Datang wants to popularize the population, but Huo Gang doesn't need it for the time being.

In fact, the explosion of the population in this era is very simple, as long as you have food, you don't need to say it, ordinary people will directly explode the population to have children, because for them, there is no entertainment at night, what else can they do except make people?

But they didn't give birth before because they couldn't afford to raise it, so even if some of them did, they might have to prescribe medicine for Lang Zhong to flow out directly, don't think that such things were uncommon in ancient times, or that it was a big rebellion, but that was in the Central Plains.

In this place where the Western Regions is struggling to survive, this is very common, like in the Turks, and even some of the leftovers are thrown away directly.

As for finding some beds, it is naturally a place for them to sleep, Huo Gang's current general's mansion even if there are more wings, it is impossible to sleep twelve people suddenly, so it can only be an extra bed, add a few more beds for them to squeeze, if not, it is okay to have a bunk, the conditions here are like this, it is already good to have a house to sleep in.

took these maids into the house, just before Huo Gang looked at the ten wooden boxes, and when he saw that Huo Gang was about to do it, Chunmei and Donglan next to him immediately came over to help Huo Gang open the first box.

After opening the box, Huo Gang knew why he needed as many as ten wooden boxes, because the books inside were not modern style books, but ancient style books, including the same for dictionaries, after Huo Gang picked up one and opened it, he probably understood that this dictionary was not the same as a modern dictionary, to be precise, it was abbreviated than a modern one.

Some words have phonetic pronunciation, paraphrasing, and there are also two example phrases and the paraphrasing of the phrase, and there is nothing else.

But even so, because of the limitations of printing conditions in this era, this set of dictionaries Huo Gang counted a lot, a total of 50 copies! And every dictionary isn't thin at all. It's no wonder that 10 wooden boxes of one cubic meter are needed to place these books.

There are a lot of Chinese characters in China, especially in ancient times, to take the simplest example, the ancients would directly create dozens or even hundreds of Chinese characters to name a horse because of their different coat colors, different heights, and even different ages, which led to the growth of Chinese characters from ancient times to the present.

According to the normal development of history, for example, in the Kangxi dictionary of later generations, there are nearly 47,000 words in it.

This is not counting many Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures, stone carvings, etc., if you count these, there are a total of 85,568 Chinese characters in the sea of Chinese characters in later generations, and the most commonly used Chinese characters by ordinary people may be more than 3,500. For example, there are less than 300 Chinese characters that are the most frequently used and have stable meanings from ancient times to the present.

And this dictionary contains not the most Chinese characters, but it is not the least, there are a total of 9828 Chinese characters in this dictionary, so many Chinese characters should have covered all the most commonly used Chinese characters, as well as some rare words that are less commonly used.

For example, those Chinese characters that are used once in a specific position are probably not available here.

In addition, Huo Gang checked the textbooks of the so-called basic subjects in several other boxes.

These textbooks include Chinese, Mathematics, Geography, Physics and Chemistry, and there are only five of them.

Physics and chemistry Huo Gang flipped through it, it was really very basic, like physics, there was no formula or anything like that, it was more like an explanation of the world, and chemistry had some basic chemical reactions, but these chemical reactions were really very basic, Huo Gang probably took a look at it and understood, these chemical reactions were almost all used by the ancients in ancient times.

Originally, Huo Gang didn't have the knowledge of physics and chemistry, which made Huo Gang a little disappointed, and he also thought that he could save a little trouble, but now it seems that if he wants to develop, Huo Gang has to write out these two aspects of knowledge.

As for geography, Huo Gang also flipped through it, and it is also very basic knowledge, such as rivers, wind directions, etc., in addition, such as the earth is round, these knowledge are also here, and it also contains some basic astronomical knowledge.

Chinese mathematics is Huo Gang's most important thing, after Huo Gang opened the language, he understood that this language is not the same as modern language, it is more in line with this era, there are as many as 30 volumes of language, one of which is a list of commonly used Chinese characters with pinyin.

From the core of the commonly used Chinese characters 300, and the second most commonly used Chinese characters 1,200, and finally the third commonly used Chinese characters 2,000, a total of 3,500 Chinese characters.

However, this language does not have the part that I just started to know pinyin, I don't know if it is because Huo Gang wrote this part.

In terms of mathematics, after Huo Gang opened it, this was the most like a textbook for modern mathematics. I don't know if it's because Huo Gang introduced Arabic numerals, in mathematics, from the beginning of knowing numbers to the subsequent mathematical operations, they are almost the same as modern primary school textbooks, the only difference is that there seems to be no decimal point, but there is the concept of fractions.

That's enough.

After turning these over, Huo Gang took out the Chinese textbooks, which were also very thick, and there were nearly 30 copies of the entire set of Chinese textbooks. With this set of Chinese textbooks alone, to be honest, Huo Gang flipped through the back ones, and he felt that this could no longer be called a basic textbook.

Forget it, don't think about it so much, Huo Gang took out a book of the list of the most commonly used Chinese characters, this book is not thick, but it is different from a dictionary, it only has a single Chinese character, and pinyin annotation, and nothing else.

After finishing it, Huo Gang called a team of soldiers from outside and asked them to arrange the wooden boxes neatly into two rows, and after Huo Gang finished getting it here, Wu Ping had already sent someone to send the stool over.

Placing these stools at the back of the wooden box, Huo Gang looked at the maids, and then coughed dryly before speaking, "Sit down." ”

These maids glanced at each other, they didn't know what Huo Gang was going to do, but just now they saw that these boxes were full of books, they didn't expect to see so many books here in Huo Gang, you must know that some ordinary families may not have as many books as Huo Gang here.

After these twelve beauties sat down, Huo Gang looked at them and felt a little pressure, I go, almost all of the twelve beauties are above eighty-five points, especially the previous ones, to be honest, fortunately Huo Gang is from a later life, otherwise, it will definitely not be able to withstand another person.

Of course, it also has a certain relationship with Huo Gang's memory of Huo Qu's illness, but our ancestors are also people who have seen big scenes, although Huo Gang does not have the part of Huo Qu's memory of Chang'an City, but he has seen those war scenes, which is ...... It's a small scene.

"Ahem, starting today, I'm giving you a new mission." Huo Gang said.

"Yes, Chief, please command." The women said in unison, because they had just arrived, and they didn't know what kind of temper their new master was, at least for now...... Seems not bad.

"I will teach you a new way of learning Chinese characters from today, and after you learn it, you will be responsible for acting as the gentleman of our power." Huo Gang directly said his thoughts.