Chapter 42: Gathering [II]

Zhang Han spent a lot of effort in ethnology, every student is literate and hyphenated, has studied for more than five years, and is skilled in martial arts. Zhang Han didn't have another five years. But the actual combat is a must to pass. One set of iron armor per person is not a problem, and if there are hundreds of more sets, the Zhang family can also take it out, but the problem is that the Zhang family does not dare to take it out. Zhang Han equipped the students with refined chain mail and special underwear—fine linen woven with tussah silk was extremely dense and tough, and could resist bows and arrows. In due course, he would also be equipped with some rudimentary leather armor and shields.

The degree of mechanization of small workshops has always been unsatisfactory. The lathe is pulled by hemp rope, and the craftsman cuts with a hand-held knife, and can only make an arrow shaft, a wooden stick or something. The screws are buckled and the nuts are cast. Screws, jinglun, bearings, gears and other parts are all in the process of experimental development, the future is bright, and the road is tortuous. Hydraulic presses and the like, are legends. The small hoops of chain mail are stamped with a lever hammer, but the lever hammer using herringbone gears can only punch small parts. It was only recently that the shape of several sets of gears was finalized and a batch of durable gears was cast, that large lever hammers were created – large pieces of armor capable of stamping helmets, masks and plate armor that could be mass-produced.

Prior to this, Zhang Han also had several full-body armors and plate armor created by hand. However, these armors were all collected by him, and they were not circulated, and few people knew about them. Even the Xuanjia (iron armor) can't be worn out openly, and Zhang Hanzi won't pass on these armors to cause trouble.

"Let's go! It's all waiting for you inside! ”

Several people gossiped for a while, Zhang Han and the two entered Bian Nanzhuang together, and Zhang Huan and Wu Zifang were the last to arrive. Zhang Jian, Zhang Chao, Zhang Xi and others have already returned, and in addition, Zhang Han has picked outstanding students to stay in the past two years, and more than 20 people have gathered together, filling the main hall. Everyone hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they were all busy catching up.

"Okay, be quiet, be quiet, sit down, let's talk about the old days for a while, let's get down to business first......"

Zhang Jian said it twice before the room calmed down.

"Seventeen, look......"

"Third brother, in the past year or so, there have been a lot of changes in ethnography, and you know all about it, so you can introduce the situation to everyone......"

During the past period of time, Zhang Jian was mostly running outside, and only came back three months ago. Counting it up, the older ones in the ethnology have left the ethnology for various reasons in the past two years. Zhang Huan joined the national soldiers of Luguo County, Wu Zifang went to the border county, Zhang Chao went to Luoyang as a student, and Zhang Xi went out to study...... Anyway, in the summer of the sixth year of Xiping, all of them were no longer in the clan studies.

Since Zhang Han realized that he would stay in the clan study for less and less time, and he would leave after all, he decided to send all these old qualifications, prestige, and teachers in the clan study under various names. Zhang Han is not a friend who does not believe him, but without being tested, he does not dare to say who is completely credible; And those who have passed the test are not friends anymore. Zhang Han won't put all his eggs in one basket, he doesn't want to test his friends, and he won't give them a chance. Zhang Han is becoming more and more like a Han Chinese, but deep down, he is still the same.

Speaking to Zhang Jian, Zhang Han said very bluntly - "The world will be chaotic, and the husband will make contributions, at this time!" "It's easy to send Zhang Jian out, but it doesn't hurt his feelings, and it doesn't make him feel raw, so he needs a very appropriate reason. Zhang Han thought about it for a long time and decided to let him preside over the establishment of an intelligence network.

The Zhang family already has a set of business intelligence networks, but it is semi-public, and anyone who cares knows that once something really happens, it can't be counted on at all. Zhang Han is going to rebuild a new intelligence network, the scale does not need to be large, initially there are twenty or thirty people, this intelligence network is usually in a semi-dormant state, only concentrated on development, some of them are rarely active, and the other part is simply inactive, until the time is needed, it will play a role. Zhang Han said as he handed over a stack of materials to Zhang Jian — all the students who participated in the business intelligence network were required to submit an observation report every three months.

Zhang Han wants to have manpower, money and wealth, and he is unwilling to be lonely. The development of power in the Zhang family has basically reached the limit, and if it continues to develop, it will depend on time to slowly penetrate. Naturally, Zhang Han turned his attention to the Great Han Kingdom. Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, winning all battles, this small intelligence network is Zhang Han's first attempt, and it is also a crucial step.

Subsequently, Zhang Jian sometimes followed the caravan, sometimes studied alone, traveled back and forth between the north and south of the Han Kingdom, and personally arranged for twenty-six people to lurk. These people were all from the servants trained by Zhang Han, who were literate and hyphenated, and had learned to draw maps and gather intelligence. Each of them received a sum of money, some of them pretended to be small merchants, some opened a small wine shop, and some of them pretended to be merchants and went deep into Beirong and Nanban to trade with them. Because there was no deliberate intelligence collection and no urgent goal, except for one person who died accidentally, the rest of the people successfully took root.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, for this foundation, Zhang Jian was busy for more than a year before he successfully completed this matter. By the time he returned, the ethnology had taken on a new look. These little gentlemen in the ethnology left one after another, and Zhang Han naturally chose the ones with good knowledge and outstanding ability among the students who graduated from the ethnology. These people are all seventeen or eighteen years old, in their twenties, and they were brought out by Zhang Han himself, and he pulled them out with his hands, so that after Zhang Han left, he would not have to worry about his influence being weakened for a long time.

Then, Zhang Han further deepened the curriculum in ethnology. The original curriculum of ethnography was to pay equal attention to military affairs, poetry, etiquette and arithmetic.

After the students have a certain foundation, they must choose the direction for further in-depth. The students of ethnology study the same curriculum, but they are divided into five interest groups: military, politics and law, agriculture, engineering, and gewu.

Of course, the military group mainly focuses on the art of war, mainly studying the "Sima Law" and other military books and tactics, as well as various combat examples that can be found, and often conducts war games and formulates military action plans.

According to the problems reflected in the actual battle, Zhang Han constantly improved the exercises and training of ethnology, making it closer to the actual combat, and listed the wargame deduction course as a compulsory course in ethnology. Every two months, there is a big competition and a wargame deduction competition, which are staggered with each other. At the same time, Zhang Han also asked everyone to draw up a military action plan, and then select a typical plan -- including the correct model and the wrong one, and conduct practical exercises so that the formulator can personally understand whether the plan is feasible or not. The continuous mountainous area behind the mountain has become the main place for ethnic training and military training.

In these activities, members of the military group often dominate and occupy most of the country. Of course, the military group has the largest number of members in ethnology, accounting for more than forty percent of the total number - in ethnology, Zhang Han still has appeal. The world is in turmoil, the army is the most important, and if you can't win a war, it's useless to say anything. However, the requirements of the military group are also high, and only those who have actual combat experience, have blood on their knives, or have been injured themselves, are recognized as real members, and the rest are reserve members.

Among the rest of the students, the political and legal group accounted for half, and the other half accounted for agriculture, engineering and gewu. Mr. Zhou Nan (Cen Hui) personally led the political and legal team, which is also quite attractive. Among those who joined the profession of agriculture, engineering, and Gewu, a few were interested in these, and more were low-minded, stable, and considered a way out in the future. Engineering was later divided into two disciplines: mechanical and smelting, and Gewu included the content of physics and chemistry, which was very similar to engineering, but Gewu Group focused on theoretical and experimental research, while engineering focused on production practice. Some people say that the agricultural group is more likely to haunt the botanical garden; The lattice group is often entrenched in the laboratory; The engineering group wandered into the small workshop.

With the participation of students, the planting methods of the botanical garden were organized into a system. The experiences of Wang Da and Song Laohan were also compiled into written records. Roughly speaking, the students divided it into soil, water, temperature, fertilizer, and sunlight, and widely used methods such as seed selection, breeding, nursery, grafting, and seed cultivation to planting. The students recorded the growth habits of various plants and observed and recorded the growth of various plants in different environments. Zhang Han doesn't expect to see results in the short term, and after a long time, there will always be smart people who will come up with something.

"......, the situation in ethnography is more or less the same. In two days, there will be a wargame tournament in which everyone will participate. This is the case with ethnography. ”

After Zhang Jian introduced the situation, Zhang Han immediately continued.

"The children of the clan are all members of the Zhang family. Today, I would like to tell you this in order to ask you to continue to provide support for ethnography in the future. After a while, I'm going to Luoyang, and I don't know when I'll see you again, so please come and get together. When I'm not there, if I have something, discuss it with my third brother more......"

After Zhang Jian returned, as before, he continued to be responsible for the day-to-day management of ethnology, and at the same time added to that small intelligence network. Zhang Han's words today have basically established his position as the head of the company. Zhang Huan and Wu Zifang each led one side to provide assistance for actual combat training. After a while, Zhang Han was ready to transfer Wu Zifang back, the border county was too dangerous, if there was really an accident, it would not be worth it. Zhang Chao will stay in Luoyang and will be in charge of Guanzhong in the future. Zhang Yin's observation report on the business intelligence network was very insightful, and he also performed well in sorting out and analyzing data, and Zhang Han was asked to return to ethnography and was responsible for setting up an intelligence analysis team, which was directly responsible to Zhang Han.

Zhang Han also arranged for the students of ethnicity to open several classes in Bian Nanzhuang, which were open to everyone, providing literacy and arithmetic education free of charge. In addition, there are more than 100 students who have graduated from ethnology, and Zhang Han also asked them to do the same-they can all recommend excellent children to ethnology. This piece was handed over to Cen Tao by Zhang Han to be responsible for management.

These things, Zhang Han will explain them one by one, but there is no need to say much at this moment, today is the day of gathering, everyone here knows that Zhang Han was promoted to Maocai, and this time it is at least the county order of Qianshi, and they are all happy for him, and at the beginning of the banquet, they all came forward to toast. Zhang Han placed the family studies properly, and he also went to his heart, so he did not refuse.

Holding the wine glass, Zhang Han was excited, and he had been working hard for so long, and he was finally about to start.

[Be kind, read a book and smash the ticket]

If there are useless tickets, throw them to me, I don't dislike them......