Xuande

Chapter 427 The Enlightened Ma Chao

This is the last position that Liu Bei still has, waiting for a vacant position.

If the Xun family can take this position away before the final battle, then this position must belong to the Xun family. If the Xun family only reacts after the final battle...

In any case, this position will not belong to the Xun family, but will belong to a family that had the courage to make a decision before that.

If no one takes it away, then this position will disappear forever, and the new position that appears after that will no longer have everything attached to the old position.

Anyway, your Xun family does not have me, and you are also the Fanyue family. Since you have such good self-confidence, without this position, it is no different to you, right?

Liu Bei no longer paid attention to these matters. While accompanying the women at home, he tried his best to spend more time on them. dealt with it.

For example, Ma Chao.

After some "teaching" by him, this problematic student has learned his lesson. He studied hard for three months and passed the quarterly exams. He did not end up being dismissed. .

And the teacher Ma Jie who was beaten and contradicted by him before, after he personally brought gifts and stood at the door of the dormitory for an hour, his heart softened, or he forgave Ma Chao because of Ma Chao's father Ma Teng.

So Ma Chao can finally continue his studies in the state school.

During this meeting, Ma Chao has obviously changed, which is manifested in his enthusiasm for studies.

"Your teachings have inspired me a lot. After that, I studied hard for a while and found that some things are not completely useless."

In Liu Bei's office, he talked with Ma Chao alone, and chatted with Ma Chao about his mental journey for a while, and found it very interesting.

"What is more useful?"

"Arithmetic, I think this is very useful."

Ma Chao said with some joy: "Teacher Ma said that commanding an army to fight a war is not something that can be summed up in bloody battles on the battlefield. In war, decisive victory on the battlefield is the last step, and before that, there is still a lot of work to do." It needs to be done so that the army can support the decisive victory on the battlefield.

Otherwise, without the enemy to fight, the army itself will collapse. Before that, I didn't think so much. After Teacher Ma said, I realized that fighting is so complicated. Teacher Ma also gave an example, saying that he once He has been involved in the logistics of the army and told us the importance of arithmetic with what he has experienced. "

"for example?"

"For example, the amount of food required by the army for marching, stationing, and fighting is different, and needs to be allocated separately."

Ma Chao gestured back and forth with his hands, and said happily: "The food also needs to take care of everyone other than the soldiers, including the cows and horses needed for the march, as well as the donkeys and mules. These are the existences that need food. The soldiers of the Eight Classics only need one stone of grain, so if you count the entire army and normal wear and tear, you need to prepare five stones of grain.

Then the army also needs lodging materials, clothing materials, medicinal materials, various cooking utensils, and money to reward soldiers and motivate soldiers. How to use these things also requires arithmetic operations before drawing conclusions. , can't just randomly give. "

Liu Bei was very satisfied with Ma Chao's perception and smiled.

"That's right, fighting a war is a science, a very profound knowledge. The decisive victory on the battlefield is the last step, and in order for the army to reach this final step, the things that need to be done in the early stage are beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and the most used Knowledge is arithmetic.

If you can master arithmetic well, then you can start fighting wars. A general who doesn’t understand arithmetic can’t accurately grasp all the supplies he owns. If he can’t grasp the amount of supplies he has, he will be deceived, Deception, how can we win? "

Ma Chao nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"You are so right. I have been thinking about this question these days, and then I feel that knowledge is really useful. If I want to become a very powerful general, I am afraid I will not be able to do it without mastering more knowledge. arrive."

"Awakening is quite fast. Most people are not as fast as you think."

Liu Bei smiled and said, "Did someone call you? Could it be that your father beat you up again?"

Ma Chao touched his head in embarrassment.

"It's a beating, and the gift of apology was prepared by my father, but the really important thing is that after I went home, I found that my father was also asking teachers from the state school to help him with arithmetic knowledge."

"Hahahaha!"

Liu Bei shook his head and laughed: "Yes, I have strict requirements for officers at all levels. If every officer wants to be promoted, he must not only have military merits, but also have the knowledge that matches his position. The higher the position, the higher the level. The higher the requirements for knowledge, you need to pass the exam, otherwise you cannot be promoted.”

This is not true.

There were no conditions before, everyone was born in Yeluzi, and they didn't care much about knowledge. It all depended on talent and the accumulation of a little experience. Liu Bei didn't have the time to improve the quality of officers.

But this cannot last long.

So now that he has the money, the conditions, and the environment permits, Liu Bei, while providing basic education to the soldiers, also made requirements for officers at all levels.

When officers are promoted one level at a time, they not only need clear military merits, but also need to have a certain cultural accomplishment, and they need to take a promotion test.

Each rank of military officer has its own cultural quality requirements. If the requirements are not met, even if the merits are met, they will not be promoted.

The promotion can only be completed after passing the exam, otherwise, you will go to tutoring and make-up exams.

Considering everyone's worrisome cultural foundation, Liu Bei specially stipulated that there would be three chances for make-up exams. The exam papers were still prepared by Liu Bei himself. The difficulty was not great, and most of them were practical questions.

If this is not passed, it will be directly regarded as giving up the qualification for promotion.

A person who is too stupid cannot assume a higher military position, and cannot entrust the lives of more soldiers to him, otherwise it will be bad.

This order has been implemented since the beginning of the fifth year of Zhongping. Officers who have been promoted before must also take supplementary courses and take part in the examination to prove that they are qualified for the military position. Otherwise, they will also have to make up the examination. Everything follows the rules.

For a while, the learning atmosphere of the officers in the Liangzhou Corps was quite strong, and a large group of officers gathered together to study in groups, just to pass the assessment smoothly.

Ma Teng had already failed once, and he didn't know how much he blamed Liu Bei for making such an embarrassment for him, but he had to work hard and not make up the exam.

So, he could only hire a teacher from the state school to help him with tutoring, and read the teaching materials all day long. Those who didn't know thought he loved learning so much.

Ma Chao saw the appearance of Ma Teng being tossed about in tutoring, and immediately understood the importance of learning more deeply.

If there is no culture, it is impossible to be promoted to the military position, let alone become a general. Under Liu Bei's command, no officer can be an officer without culture. To be an officer, in addition to being able to fight, he must also pass the exam.

So, Ma Chao soon understood why the teachers in the state school always told them with a tiger's face - those who don't study hard can't do anything well!
Really, Ma Teng told him with practical actions, if you don't study hard, you really can't do anything well, because you have nothing to do.

So Ma Chao can only study hard, and he is especially concerned about the subject of arithmetic. He may wander off in other classes, but in arithmetic class, he is absolutely attentive and meticulous. He belongs to the level where he has to ask the teacher if he has any questions. .

Liu Bei was very satisfied that Ma Chao could reflect so quickly. He encouraged Ma Chao and encouraged him to study hard.

(End of this chapter)