"Our fight is not in vain. Through the committee, we can allow the two places to invest in supporting the regiment training and armed forces, but if we want to support the government and the army, I am afraid that many people will withdraw.
why? Because regiment training will stay to protect the hometown, and the officers and soldiers may be transferred elsewhere in the future, and even like the Ranger battalion we set up this time, most of them may be disbanded after the battle, so the sponsor Isn’t it worth the loss?
Therefore, the funding committee is only suitable for team training and is not suitable for supporting officers and soldiers. If the officers and soldiers want to obtain sufficient supplies, they may have to find another way. "
The method Li Dan came up with was actually based on the salt introduction system he had seen in his previous life. The core of this method was the contract system. List the various items such as grain transportation and provision, clothing, weapons, livestock, etc. that the army needs, find a contractor to take specific responsibility, and allow the contractor to subcontract sub-items to lower-level subcontractors.
Then the army signs contracts with contractors and subcontractors respectively. The army is responsible for their protection and smooth trade routes. The merchants are responsible for delivering the materials to the units designated by the army on time, quality and quantity.
The army received supplies and in turn gave back part of the profits from the seizures to the merchants.
What is more important is to agree to give priority to auctions of ownerless, enemy-owned commercial, industrial and mining resources in controlled areas, especially newly occupied or recaptured areas, or provide them with officially promised tax reductions, customs clearance concessions, etc.
While Li Dan was talking eloquently, Zhao Chongbi's eyes were already shining, and he hurriedly sent for the Secretary Wei, the same wife he had sent to the capital to see the emperor.
Secretary Wei and Li Dan discussed this method carefully and immediately felt it was very good. "Such a good idea cannot be implemented only in Yu Qian and An Ren." He turned to Zhao Chongbi:
"Why don't you go to Lord Shufu and ask him to agree to announce and implement it in Quanrao Prefecture? Using the power of Rao Prefecture to support more than 10,000 officers and soldiers is better than two counties!"
Zhao Chongbi made an immediate decision and decided to ask Master Wei to write a letter to Wan Zhifu, and then return to Poyang in person to implement the matter. "Whether our army of ten thousand people can form an army as soon as possible depends entirely on Sir!" He handed over to the Secretary of State Wei and said:
"As for the source of recruitment, I have also thought about it. There are currently two thousand Lake Bandit prisoners, and some of them can be screened for use. There are also several miners and ironworkers who have previously expressed their willingness to accept recruitment. You may wish to contact them.
The remaining half will depend on local recruitment. He turned his face and saw Li Dan's thoughtful look, and asked, "What is Sanlang thinking? Is there something wrong?"
"No." Li Dan quickly crossed his hands and replied, "I just thought of an idea, but I felt it was inappropriate, so I put it down."
"What's the idea? Tell me."
"I just thought about recruiting businessmen's children to join the army and give them some official positions. But then I thought that these people have no experience in the army and no military skills at all. They can barely enter the regiment training, let alone the official army? So I put this idea aside. "
Secretary Fang became interested: "Otherwise, the army also needs civilians, who are indispensable like this old man. For example, purchasing, distribution, concentration, and transportation cannot be done by people who are illiterate.
I think you can give it a try. If you are not suitable to be a sergeant, then you should be able to be an official. "Zhao Chongbi nodded and asked him to add this.
In fact, Li Dan was thinking about another thing. He originally planned to remind Zhao Chongbi that miners' large proportion in the army might easily cause conflicts. But then I thought about the words on my lips but didn't say them out.
It doesn't matter, let Zhao Tongzhi bring these people out of the mountains first. If that doesn't work, he can put the people he recruited into the army to replace these miners and smelting workers, and then send them to the smelting and metal manufacturing factories to be built, where A large number of experienced workers are needed.
Before and after the battle with Liaohuazi, he obtained some talents who were familiar with ore knowledge and mineral processing technology and sent them to Sun Xun for ten thousand years. However, the number of people was too small and they were limited to three types of ores: iron ore, black lead (graphite) and quartz. .
How important talents are! In the past few days, he felt more and more that this matter even exceeded the training of the army, because training can be done, and talents are rare.
He finally met the well-known prodigy Hu Juren this morning, but was disappointed. Compared with Hu Jusheng, who grows vegetables and records the hatching process of silkworms, this is a well-behaved child who is obsessed with writing, but lacks independence and initiative.
and innovation.
He stood in front of Li Dan and answered respectfully and cautiously. Li Dan wanted him to come forward but refused because he thought Li Dan was of high rank and he could not stand side by side to avoid losing etiquette. Li Dan smiled, encouraged and ended the meeting.
This is a lesson for him. Collecting celebrities does not seem interesting. Their talents and abilities may be good, but for Li Dan's needs, this kind of "talent" is not what he wants.
In contrast, he felt that the rustic poor boy Hu Jusheng was closer to the talent he thought could be created.
Without reading "Biology", he actually proposed the classification method of "all things in the world, in fact, the only ones that are alive are humans, animals, birds, fish, insects, trees, shrubs, and lichens (moss)". Li Dan was impressed by this child.
"But where do you divide the mushrooms?" Li Dan brought two candles, a ream of rice paper and needle and thread to the small woodshed at night, and used a small section of mulberry branches to show him how to press plant specimens. he asked as he went about his work.
"Uh, maybe... it should be placed in the lichen category?" Hu Jusheng answered hesitantly.
Li Dan smiled: "Look, with such a reluctant answer, does it mean that you are not even sure about it yourself?"
"Hey, the student is really a little unsure. This mushroom is not green, and it is not as delicate and soft as lichen.
From the appearance, it seems that the two are not the same category, but if they are not put together, wouldn't there be another category? "Hu Jusheng said that he dared to ask himself questions and would not give answers easily, which made Li Dan very happy.
"Then there will be one more category." Li Dan said.
"But..., there are already so many types."
"It doesn't matter. Asheng, do you have any principles for classification? For example, under what circumstances do you belong to the same category, or what conditions can be met to belong to the same category?"
"It mainly depends on whether they look similar, and where the two things live, etc."
"That's right!" Li Dan patted him on the shoulder: "Look, humans have shoulders, pigs, and horses also have shoulders. Are they the same type? But there are no big trees and weeds, so they are not the same type as us, right?"
"right!"
"Humans, pigs, and cows, like fish and birds, all need to eat to survive, but big trees and weeds absorb nutrients from the soil through their roots, so they are different from us. Right?"
"right!"
"Then we can find that humans, pigs, cattle, fish, birds, like crickets and snails, all have legs and feet that can move, even if the legs and feet are soft or have no clear shape of feet or feet. So bugs and shells They have something in common with us, right?”
"right!"
"So what conclusion can be drawn after summarizing the above? The six categories of humans, animals, fish, birds, insects, and vectors can actually be put into one major category. Different from flowers, plants, trees, shrubs, mushrooms, and lichens, these They are all movable, how about we call them 'animals'?"
"So……?"
"So the four categories of flowers, trees, shrubs, and lichens have leaves, stems, and roots, and can be planted in the ground with cuttings or seeds. How about we put them in one big category and call them 'plants?"
"Oh, I seem to understand a little bit. Are you trying to teach me how to classify life?"
"To be precise, it is the classification of living things. What we are talking about is the classification of living species. Corpses are also a thing, but they do not have life, so they are not within the scope of our discussion.
On the other hand, a green leaf is alive, but it will decay and wither after a short period of time, so it is not a living thing. Living things must be relatively numerous, possess life, and be able to maintain this life state in a certain way over a period of time and achieve self-reproduction.
For example: a cow is not a living thing. Hundreds or thousands of animals with similar shapes, chewing cud, and giving birth to horns are the living creatures named cows. understood? "
"Understood. According to adults, if I see this group of animals for the first time and I call them cows, is it a cow?"
"If other people are willing to follow your instructions and find it very appropriate and acceptable, then it is awesome." Li Dan laughed, feeling that this kid figured it out very quickly!
He found a piece of paper, drew something on it and showed it to Hu Jusheng: "Look, what does this thing look like?"
"Big mouse!"
"Yes." Li Dan added a stroke on it and handed it to him:
"This thing is very interesting. It has a bag on its belly so that the cubs can get into it and migrate with it. If you sailed thirteen thousand miles on the sea and saw a big island, the island would be full of these things. , what are you going to name him?"
"A rat, a rat with a bag. That's called a kangaroo!" Hu Jusheng said excitedly.
"Very good!" Li Dan tore off the piece of paper and handed it to him: "Asheng, remember, this place goes all the way to the southeast of China, on the other side of the sea.
The four seasons in that place are opposite to those in China. The place is so vast that it is almost the same as the empire. The natives are all black and red and have no clothes. There you have your kangaroo!
You named this species. If you discover it alive, you are the first person in China to name this species! "
Hu Jusheng happily took it and put it away. Suddenly he knelt down and kowtowed to Li Dan and said loudly: "Ju Sheng only knows today that there is such a vast and profound knowledge in the world. I am willing to learn from you and listen to your teachings sooner or later."
Li Dan was a little surprised, but this was the first time in his life that he met a student like Hu Jusheng who liked to study "the study of objects". He pondered for a moment and smiled:
"You have to ask Mr. Qian's permission for this matter first, and it's not easy to get into our house. Although it is not the Four Books and Five Classics every day, you must read the sages first and the ancient classics. It is indispensable! You can steal this Not lazy, do you understand?
In addition, I will teach you some practical studies, such as calculation, statistics, geography, and painting. You also need to practice martial arts and riding and shooting. I will let Zhao Jingzi or Yang Qianhu teach you in the future.
When Mr. Wu and Heimu come back, they will teach you history and foreign languages. Well, I don’t blame you if you want to give up. If you want to learn from me, you have to be prepared to endure hardship! "
"I'm deeply in awe of the adults I've spent the past few days with. Although Ju Sheng is dull, he will definitely try his best. As the teacher said, 'Absorb knowledge like a sponge, and apply what you learn to people's livelihood and spread it to people's livelihood in the future!"
Li Dan was very satisfied. He didn't care about his age. He sat upright in a broken chair and accepted a cup of loose tea from Hu Jusheng in the woodshed. This was considered the apprenticeship ceremony.
Then the first lesson given to him was the classification of living things and the comparison of different types of living things.
Li Dan didn't want to instill the concepts of realm, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species into his students right from the start. He thought that was a method invented by Westerners.
Since biological classification was proposed by myself nearly three hundred years in advance, its development should be determined by Hu Jusheng and others, instead of teaching it as an advanced person. How is that different from the colonialism of previous generations?
"Sir, we seem to have missed the mushrooms." Hu Jusheng reminded.
"Mushroom? It doesn't matter, don't worry." Li Dan said: "Can you be sure who it belongs to now? Flowers, shrubs? Or tall trees, or short and weak moss?"
"Uh..., none of them."
"No? Don't you think it's the same as lichen?"
"It's different. It has no leaves and obvious roots, and no flowers or seeds."
"That's good, but how does it reproduce?"
"I... don't know yet."
"Of course you don't know. Well, as your husband, I want to give you a gift. Maybe you can use this gift to see more of the tiny world, because using tools to observe, analyze, learn and transform the world is the key to human interaction. One of the most basic differences between beasts."
After Li Dan said these philosophical words, he looked at the little guy's eyes filled with fanatical admiration and was extremely satisfied.
However, although he happily accepted a student, Li Dan was still quite respectful when facing Lou Liang.
Lou Liang's arduous journey for the past half month has tanned his face a lot, but fortunately he is only twenty
He was young and traveled frequently, so this distance was nothing to him.
He was surprised why Li Dan knew his name and sincerely invited him to be his husband.
Little did he know that he was the first "celebrity" Li Dan had met in this life. In addition, Li Dan did have ideas. He hoped to have a mentor around him so that he could take the imperial examination in Beijing and become a Jinshi in the future.
The first time the two met was neither at Li Dan's temporary shogunate nor at the county Confucian Academy, but at the construction site of the Jinjiang Bridge. Li Dan built a mat for himself here and was busy making a microscope for Hu Jusheng.
This morning Kuai Ma just delivered the lenses, plate glass, alcohol, cotton cloth, peach wood and other items he wanted. Li Dan used peach wood as the lens tube and other hardwoods as the bracket, observation platform and wood screws.
Mao Zaidi handed the tools to the side and watched him tightly fastening the finished parts with wooden pegs and wood screws without saying a word in curiosity.
Lou Liang looked at him with his hands behind his back for a while, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
Mao Zaidi made a gesture of silence to him. Before Lou Liang could understand, he saw Li Dan straighten up and put the two lenses into the wooden barrel, and then gradually clamped the lens barrel onto the guide rail from the slot below, and said: " This is the last step, success now!"
Then prick your hand with a roasted needle, squeeze a drop onto the plate glass, use a small silver spoon to take some clean water and drop it on it, and then use the tip of the silver spoon to gently mix it evenly.
Carefully cover it with another piece of glass, place the two pieces of glass on the stage and press them with a metal pressing piece.
He leaned down, adjusted the bronze mirror below, and then turned the coarse focus knob and fine focus knob successively to let the lens slowly approach the glass piece.
"Well, very good, it's quite clear!" He stood up and nodded with satisfaction, then turned to look at Lou Liang: "Would you like to try it and see what I just saw?"
Lou Liang looked at him, and then at Mao Zaidi who was gloating about his misfortune. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Then, ordinary people, let's try it." After saying that, he stepped forward, closed his left eye under Li Dan's instructions, and used his right eye to Look into the camera.
He was startled when he saw it. He turned his head to look at Li Dan's expectant eyes. He mustered up the courage to look again and asked, "What is this you want me to see?"
"You still have to ask?" Li Dan stretched out his finger to show him the blood spot just now: "Of course it's my blood!"
"This," Lou Liang was so surprised that he couldn't speak. It took him a long time to say, "What's the use of this?"
"Looking at this, you can know how a person's blood is composed. By comparing it with the blood composition of a normal person, you can determine what stage the person's condition has reached or what stage he has recovered to.
We can also see if poison attacks the blood so that its color changes due to the increase or decrease in the number of globules within it…. "
Li Dan was talking eloquently, and as he was talking, he suddenly remembered: "I'm sorry, I don't know your surname?"
Lou Liang closed his mouth, which had not been closed for a long time due to surprise, and after a while he raised his hands and said, "Lou Liang, a common man, I have seen Mr. Li on inspection before!" After saying this, he stood up and bowed.
Li Dan was so frightened that he stepped forward and bowed down: "My disciple, Li Dan, has met your husband. I didn't know that my husband had already arrived, so I was far away from you. I hope you will forgive me!"
"Well, Mr. Li, you don't have to be like this. Ke Zhen (Lou Liang's nickname) thinks... we'd better go back to the city to talk."
Li Dan immediately asked Mao Zaidi to wrap the microscope and other items in the felt that was used to wrap these treasures when express delivery, and put them into the carriage that was coming to the city to pick up Mr. Lou from the pier outside the south gate.
This carriage is the latest model of a two-horse four-wheeler with two rows of seats in both directions. There are spring suspensions at all four corners, and the two pairs of front and rear steering wheels can move forward and backward easily.
Lou Liang looked at the carriage while chatting along the way. Li Dan introduced him to his past studies and his consideration of participating in the imperial examination. Lou Liang asked some questions, such as which books Li Dan had read, and whether he was familiar with laws, policy theory, or classics.
Through these communications, he began to understand his future students’ foundation, strengths, understanding and thinking.
"You are a student who doesn't like classics and righteousness very much!" Lou Liang smiled and stepped out of the carriage and touched the door: "But the carriage is well made. I have never seen such a carriage.
It's so light and comfortable. "
"If you like it, sir, it's yours. Our coachman is always waiting for you every day." Li Dan said with a smile.
"What do you mean... this carriage...?"
"It was designed by students, and the car shop that built it has student shares." Li Dan said: "We started making this kind of car to provide support to Shangrao officers and soldiers. We have recently started trying to make it into a sedan. This is a newly completed car. The third one."
Lou Liang was very surprised. He looked at the car and then at Li Dan and said, "Song Xiucai said that you are talented in civil and military affairs, but I still don't believe it. Now that I see him in person, I know that what he said is absolutely right!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Jusheng ran out to greet him and saluted: "Sir is back, students, please send your regards." Lou Liang was stunned by these words.
Li Dan hurriedly explained to him, and Lou Liang laughed loudly after hearing this: "This kid must be a good one to win your favor." Then he said to the surprised Hu Juren: "You don't recognize me, I am your husband's husband It is also!"
