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"Eat more. If you don't have enough, you can go find some food." Zhao Wu looked at Hong Chengchou eating meat and knew that his life after being captured was not easy.
Before Hong Chengchou joined the Tiger Flag, he was just a prisoner. Naturally, he would not receive very good treatment. At most, he could be well fed. It was impossible to eat well.
"That's enough, that's enough." Hong Chengchou swallowed the food in his mouth and asked immediately, "Guard Zhao, you and Captain Chen seem to be very familiar with each other?"
Hearing this, Zhao Wu said: "He, like me, is an old man who has followed the lord from the beginning. However, this guy is lazy, illiterate, and has missed several promotions. Later, it turns out that he is following the lord. After many years, I got the position of squadron leader."
"Do people in the army also need to be literate?" Hong Chengchou caught the key point in Zhao Wu's words.
Zhao Wu nodded and said: "The Tiger-Character Banner Army has opened a literacy class. If you want to be promoted, you must accept the assessment, and literacy is a red line. Those who are illiterate can be corps commanders at most, and those above must be literate. I can read military reports myself."
"So many military generals are literate!" Hong Chengchou looked amazed.
The generals of the Tiger-Character Banner Army he had seen before were literate, so he didn't pay too much attention to them. After all, it was normal for the Tiger-Character Banner to have a few literate generals in such a large army.
But now after listening to what Zhao Wu said, I realized that not only one or two people in the Tiger Character Banner Army were literate, but all the generals and lower-level officers in the army.
In his opinion, this was simply too terrifying, considering that some generals and guerrillas in the Ming army were illiterate roughnecks.
Zhao Wu said: "Literacy itself is a good thing. When the Tiger Character Flag was still in Lingqiu, the lord began to promote literacy among the people inside the Tiger Character Flag."
"To be honest, it is beyond my expectation that so many people in the Tiger-Character Banner Army are literate. In the Ming Army, there are not many literate people. Many things in the army are controlled by civilian officials. Some military generals Illiterate." Hong Chengchou said with emotion.
Although Zhao Wu said it easily, he could imagine how difficult it would be to promote literacy within the Tiger Character Banner, especially to get those fighting men in the army to learn literacy.
Zhao Wu curled his lips and said: "The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty wished that all the military generals were illiterate, so that they could be controlled by them, but they did not think about it. The generals who cannot read or write are at best reckless men. Such a Ming army What kind of battles can be won? Look at the battles that the Ming army has fought in these years. They have been defeated. They can't even defeat a small tribe like slaves and thieves. It can be seen that none of these civil servants are good."
Hearing this, Hong Chengchou's face flashed with embarrassment, because he himself was also a civil servant.
"I'm not talking about you. At least you are smarter than those civil servants and know how to assess the situation." Zhao Wu noticed the look on Hong Chengchou's face and explained again.
However, this made Hong Chengchou even more embarrassed.
To put it another way, to assess the situation is to be greedy for life and afraid of death, and to seek glory while betraying the Lord.
"Hurry up and eat. After you finish eating, you have to send the food to your lord." Hong Chengchou changed the subject. If he continued, he was afraid that he would be embarrassed.
Because he knew that one of the most important reasons for joining the Tiger Flag was that he didn't want to die.
After being captured, he saw clearly that the more tolerant and valued Liu Heng was towards him, the less likely he would be to return to the Ming Dynasty alive. If he had insisted on returning to the Ming Dynasty, he was afraid that Liu Heng would really kill him.
Zhao Wu swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "Don't worry, Director Yang is reporting the situation to the master at the moment. Let's go back later."
Sign in the room.
Liu Heng frowned and asked, "Can you confirm when the other party will send troops?"
"It should be within the next few months." Yang Yuan said.
Liu Heng looked thoughtful and tapped his fingers on the table.
After a while, he said: "Can we contact the Naiman and Aohan tribes and bring them over?"
"I'm afraid it won't work." Yang Yuan shook his head and said, "The Chahar tribe has already sent troops to deal with these two tribes, and we are too far away from the Naiman tribe and the Aohan tribe, and the distant water cannot quench the thirst of the nearby tribe."
After hearing this, Liu Heng sighed in disappointment and said, "This Huang Taiji is really powerful. He managed to win over the two Otok tribes of Hutuktu Khan with just a casual plan."
"My subordinates say that Khutuktu Khan is still too useless. When the five Inner Khalkha tribes were attacked by the fake gold, they did not think about rescue, but added insult to injury and worked with the fake gold to deal with the speculation. Now the five inner kalkhas The Ministry is gone, the strength of the Chahar Ministry has not increased much, and they have to face fake gold. Now they can't even save their two Otok tribes." Yang Yuan sarcastically said.
Liu Heng nodded and said: "You are right. Hutuktu Khan is a man of great ambition and talent. If he wants to unite the Mongolian tribes, he must rely on his own strength. If he is not strong enough, he can barely conquer it with the help of others." If these tribes are defeated, sooner or later they will fall into the hands of the enemy again."
Liu Heng asked Zhao Wu, "What did you do at noon today?"
"Pork stewed with vermicelli, the staple food is rice." Zhao Wu replied.
Liu Heng licked his lips and said, "I haven't eaten stew for a while, and this time I have benefited from Mr. Hong."
"This subordinate hasn't eaten meat for a long time." Hong Chengchou's Adam's apple moved subconsciously.
After coming to Tiger Flag for so long, he could look everywhere, but the food he ate was rarely meaty. Now that he suddenly heard that meat was being eaten, his saliva couldn't help but flow to his mouth.
"Haha, just in time, let's go eat together." Liu Heng joked with a smile, took the teapot and walked out.
Zhao Wu and Hong Chengchou followed closely behind, and the insider followed at the end.
As soon as the few people came out of the check-in room, Yang Yuan came over.
Liu Heng, who was walking forward, saw him, stopped, turned his head and said to Hong Chengchou: "It seems that I can't accompany Mr. Hong to the canteen for dinner. Zhao Wu, please accompany Mr. Hong."
With that said, he handed the teapot in his hand to Zhao Wu.
"Mr. Hong, let's go!" Zhao Wu stacked the two tea jars together and made an invitation gesture with his other hand.
"Oh, okay." Hong Chengchou looked at Yang Yuan and then left with Zhao Wu.
Although he has stayed at Tiger Character Banner for a while, he has not seen many of the senior leaders of Tiger Character Banner. So far, he has only seen two. One is Chen Dali, who captured him, and the other is in Qingcheng. Saw Zhao Yutu.
Before learning more about the Tiger-Character Banner, he and most of the officials in the imperial court thought that Zhao Yutu was the number two figure in the Tiger-Character Banner. But after he learned more about it, he found out that the number two figure in the Tiger-Character Banner was a man named Li Shuheng.
No one in the Ming Dynasty knew about this person. If he hadn't gone to Qingcheng, he wouldn't have known that there was such an important figure in Tiger Character Banner.
Now I saw that Liu Heng was staying because of a strange man, and as the man walked over, the guards he passed saluted him one after another.
This made him guess that the visitor must be an important figure in the Tiger Flag.
