Chapter 24 The Water-Injected War Book
A car of more than 30 bamboo slips also scared Zhang Fei fiercely.
"What's the matter?!" Zhang Fei asked in surprise.
Zhang Xi smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "It was because of the interest last night...... Well, write too much! ”
Zhang Fei looked at Zhang Xi, and then at the bamboo slips, his eyes were full of surprise and admiration.
In Zhang Fei's opinion, Zhang Xi can write more than 30 bundles of bamboo slips, which means that he has at least read more than 30 bundles of books...... What's more, it was written overnight.
Zhang Fei was unheard of.
As a wealthy family in Zhuo County, Zhang Fei has been exposed to books since he was a child and knows what more than 30 bamboo slips mean.
Even if it is a masterpiece like "Shangshu", there are only thirty-three articles in total, that is, thirty-three volumes...... Zhang Xi wrote a masterpiece of the "Shangshu" level in one night?!
But when Zhang Fei looked through these bamboo slips, he found that it was not the case at all.
"Sir, how are these written...... So straightforward?! Zhang Fei asked Zhang Xi with a constipated face.
Because the carrier of bamboo slips is relatively cumbersome, people in this era write on bamboo slips, which can be streamlined, as long as it does not affect the expression of meaning, the fewer words written, the better.
One word is a thousand gold, and it is easy to make a word difficult, which shows how streamlined the words used by the ancients to write books.
Although not everyone can write a book and write an article that will last for centuries, no one has ever written the vernacular directly on the bamboo slips like Zhang Xi.
Zhang Xi did this, in the eyes of people in this era, it was simply a waste of bamboo slips.
But Zhang Xi also has his own reasons.
"Isn't this as straightforward as the third general said, so that the officers and men in the army can easily understand?!" Zhang Xi said.
Zhang Xi didn't want to write so bluntly, but didn't Zhang Fei say that it was too esoteric for the generals in the army to understand, wasn't he not used to it?!
When Zhang Fei heard this, his temper almost rose.
"Why do officers and soldiers in the army need to know how to train soldiers?!" Zhang Fei's loud voice flared up again.
This is a military book, it is the way of military training, how can all soldiers understand it.
The big-headed soldiers only need to know what to do, and the low-level soldiers only need to know how to carry out the orders of the commander-in-chief, and what do they need to understand the soldier's book?!
The reason why military books are not widely circulated in this era is not because military books are particularly obscure, but because someone needs him to become obscure.
Otherwise, anyone can train soldiers, and everyone can train soldiers, when will this world be truly peaceful.
If a straightforward military training method like Zhang Xi falls into the hands of someone with a heart, it will be a disaster, and Zhang Fei has the urge to burn it.
But don't you say it...... Zhang Xi's writing is really easy to understand, Zhang Fei feels that it is much more pleasing to the eye, and he is really reluctant to burn it for a while.
In the end, Zhang Fei decided to pack all these bamboo slips and arrange for all his henchmen to be sent to Liu Bei's mansion.
This kind of thing, let's leave it to the eldest brother to have a headache.
And Liu Bei saw that these bamboo slips were also big for a while, and he didn't dare to hand them over to others, so he had to read them first, and then refine the central idea, and write them on the bamboo slips in as concise a text as possible according to his own experience...... In the end, the bamboo slips were burned.
Of course, that's another story.
The main task facing Zhang Xi now is to discuss with Zhang Fei and the two of them to formulate a new training plan for the military camp.
After Zhang Fei had read more than 30 rolls of bamboo slips, he already had some understanding of Zhang Xi's main training ideas.
There are things that can be understood, and there are places that cannot be understood.
For example, Zhang Fei didn't understand why he had to let the soldiers stand in the so-called "military posture" at the beginning, this kind of thing was just standing upright, what was there to practice.
Zhang Xi had to patiently explain to Zhang Fei that standing in a military posture is not only for standing, but also for exercising the perseverance and endurance of the soldiers, and also allowing the soldiers to form some superficial organization and discipline.
Zhang Fei said that I don't believe it, you can exercise perseverance while standing?!
Then Zhang Xi asked Zhang Fei to try to follow his own requirements, straighten his chest, tuck his abdomen, raise his head, raise his buttocks, and stand with his hands close to his sides.
Before he stood for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Fei's whole body was sweating like rain.
Zhang Xi wanted Zhang Fei to experience it, but Zhang Fei didn't do it, saying that he had to try what it would be like after an hour.
Then he stood for an hour.
I have to say that Zhang Fei's physical fitness is really good, and the physical condition of the generals in these years is really no worse than that of some special forces in later generations...... Zhang Fei stood in a military posture for an hour, but he felt a little sore in his hands and feet, and he recovered after a little movement.
But Zhang Fei never raised any objections to this military posture.
Only by experiencing it yourself can you know how difficult it is to stand in the first quarter of an hour, and if someone asks you to rest at that time, there are really few people who can last until the end.
Zhang Fei, the general in the army, was shaken for a moment.
This is indeed what Zhang Xi said, which can make the soldiers exercise their perseverance, and even Zhang Fei thought to himself, if he stood for an hour every day and practiced, the hardships of the march would really be nothing in the eyes of these soldiers.
Compared to standing in a military posture for an hour, walking for an hour is nothing.
As for what kind of physical training and weight-bearing training after that, in fact, the army has been practicing in this era, but Zhang Xi has divided it into a little more detail.
Of course, there is something Zhang Fei doesn't understand, that is, why Zhang Xi stipulates that he must give meat to the soldiers....... Meat is super expensive, well, he can't eat meat every day.
Zhang Xi couldn't explain to Zhang Fei the benefits of fat and protein intake on the human body, which Zhang Fei couldn't understand.
Zhang Xi could only change his perspective and tell him about the benefits of eating meat.
In fact, the reason why soldiers have to eat meat is not that meat is more nutritious, or that meat is necessarily better than food.
It's mostly a matter of algorithms.
Assuming that in the past, a soldier's daily training consumption was "one", and his daily intake of food was "one" or even less than "one", such training could be tolerated.
And now, according to the new training method, the consumption of a soldier's daily training is "two", and if you give him the food that was originally scheduled to be "one", his nutrition will definitely not be able to keep up.
At this point, unless you give up the new way of training and go back to the old ways, you have only one option, increase his food supply.
Generally speaking, the normal practice at such times is to provide more food to the soldiers.
In times of peace and prosperity, this was not a big problem, because the world was stable, the grain production was high and cheap, and the soldiers could be provided with enough food to maintain the army's intensive training.
But now is a troubled time, it is not easy to find a stable place to farm in these years, and the grain production is only that, and the food ration of the army is suddenly increased...... This is a big burden for Liu Bei.
The importance of food is even greater in troubled times, and the princes can explode troops if they have food, so food is a strategic material, and you may not be able to buy things if you have money, so where can Liu Bei suddenly find so much food? !
Not to mention that he is still in a state of sending people under the fence.
In this case, there is only one way to replace food – eating meat.
It's not quite accurate to say this, it's accurate to say that it's a way to increase starch and protein, and eating meat is relatively easy and fast.
Of course, you can also let the sergeant eat tofu, but if you eat too much tofu, it will be harmful to the body.
The most important thing is that if you give meat to the soldiers, it will increase the loyalty of the soldiers to you - only the princes in the whole world eat meat, which prince will eat meat for his most famous soldiers?!
As for meat, it costs more than grain...... Well, it's not Zhang Xi's money anyway.
The truth was explained to Zhang Fei and told him that eating meat can indeed save food, but Zhang Fei still disagreed.
It's not that he feels sorry for his money, it's not that he doesn't want to give meat to the soldiers, the main thing is that Zhang Fei doesn't agree with Zhang Xi's plan to directly add meat to the soldiers' daily meals.
At first, Zhang Xi couldn't understand it, but as soon as Zhang Fei finished explaining, Zhang Xi knew that he was inconsiderate.
Although it is not difficult for Zhang Fei to find a way to get meat that can supply less than 1,000 people, the difficulty is that Zhang Fei has no way to ensure that these 1,000 people will be able to eat meat in the future.
If meat is added to the daily army diet in the first place, it will make the soldiers feel that they deserve it.
If one day in the future, Zhang Fei could no longer provide meat, the soldiers would be dissatisfied, complain, and even mutiny.
Zhang Fei understands the matter of Shengmien's fight against Mi Qiu too well, and Zhang Xi still lacks a little social experience after all.
Therefore, this meat supply must be something special and hard-won for the soldiers.
This involves the issue of subsequent rewards and punishments.
Meat can't be the norm, but it can be a reward, something that everyone can have if they do it well.
And on a daily basis, it can only be based on food.
This brings us back to the same old question...... Where are you going to find all this extra food?!
Zhang Fei had no choice but to go to his eldest brother and ask his eldest brother to find a way.
And Liu Bei really has a way.