Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 658: Ancient and Modern War
The Lantian camp was full again after several years.

When Yu Fan arrived at the plateau, he saw from afar clouds gathering above the Lantian camp. They were the smoke and dust caused by life.

After moving the tombs of Sun Jian and Sun Ce, Zhou Yu immediately attacked Huang Zu.

At the same time, Black Bear began to reorganize the Qinghua Guards.

There are currently eleven battalions in total, and another batch will be selected in the spring of next year to make up the twelve battalions.

Therefore, this time the main selections were for the first five battalions, as well as a small number of outstanding guards from the sixth and seventh battalions. A total of 18,000 people gathered in the Lantian camp.

There are no teams of 100 people within the Qinghua Guards, only teams of 50 people.

This is mainly due to the lack of management and self-discipline abilities of teenagers; but when giving lectures, there are always two or three hundred people listening together.

The most experienced Jiazi Battalion has been in service for five years, and the highest-ranking officer has reached the rank of lieutenant.

To maintain the operation of a primary school, at least three people are needed. Considering various factors, it is more appropriate for this primary school to have five people.

There are five Qinghua guards and two veteran scholars selected from the local area. Even if the Qinghua guards lack experience, they will not be controlled to death by the local scholars.

Out of 18,000 men, only 15,000 could be sent out.

It seems like a lot, but it can only build 3,000 primary schools.

Basically there is one in each township, and one in each hundred-household office.

Small counties need eight, larger counties need thirteen, and the largest counties only need twenty.

On average, ten per county, which means more than 300 counties can be allocated.

It can generally meet the needs of Sanfu, Hanzhong, Nanxiang, Hongnong, Hedong, Taiyuan, Xihe, Shang, Anding, Tianshui, and Longxi.

In the next two years, Ba County, Shu County, and Guanghan County will be rebuilt, and Yizhou will become prosperous and its vitality will not be damaged.

If we don't seize the time to enrich it, the locals will build their own primary schools.

Only by building primary schools can private education be banned on a large scale.

If you want to give private lectures, come to Chang'an, register with a school, and give lectures in public.

When Yu Fan came to the Lantian camp, the Qinghua guards in the camp did not train, but assisted in printing and binding textbooks.

The cost of teaching materials is too high, so Black Bear basically has to pay for it himself.

So it was impossible to distribute it to everyone, or give each person a copy. Basically, there was one book for every three people and one book for the lecturer.

This is only the textbook for first and second grades. The content is relatively small, so not a lot of paper is needed for printing.

The initial print run was only 100,000 copies, about one volume each for Chinese and mathematics in 16-page format; 15 full sheets of paper were required.

A total of 1.5 million sheets of paper were needed... Faced with the huge demand, Black Bear had no choice but to give up the requirements on paper quality.

As long as it can be used for three to five years, it will break down.

He even had to give up boarding school because the cost was too high.

Unless boarding schools are set up for the children of officials, maids to take care of the children will be an additional expense.

He personally inspected the printing and binding work, and the entire camp was filled with the smell of heated ink.

There is no ink smell at all. In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, ink is a by-product of the charcoal field.

Grease and glue are also mixed in to ensure that the ink will not disperse after being soaked in water after printing.

At this point, Black Bear no longer hid anything and met Yu Fan under the printing shed.

The further Yu Fan followed the guards inside, the more frightened he became.

He had never seen mountains of paper in his life, let alone books bundled and packed in boxes.

Under some sheds, piles of books are like buttresses.

He couldn't help but think of the dragon bone inscriptions and the Hanoi bamboo slips. If they were translated and compiled, they could also be printed in this way and distributed throughout the world.

The schools of ancient and modern classics will be completely defeated!

He really never thought that there could be so many books that he had the illusion that they were cheap.

His Yu family had been studying Yijing for five generations, so they already had a solid foundation, and learning the Book of Changes was not difficult. After he had learned a lot and had the relevant foundation, he still had to read other families' faces when negotiating with them.

It is the unremitting pursuit and study of generations that have brought together the strengths of various schools to create their own Yu's Yi. He couldn't imagine that if his own Yu's Yi was printed, a few copies would be sent to each county for scholars to copy and study...

His heart was pounding with excitement, and he couldn't help but walk faster.

Inside the long shed, the puppet Taoist soldiers printed, cut, and sorted the books in an orderly manner, and then gathered the loose pages into books, along with indigo covers.

Once a copy was gathered, it was handed over to a Qinghua guard waiting in line, who would punch holes in it personally and bind it with silk thread.

Some textbooks with poor binding quality have been distributed for research and study by the Qinghua Guards.

Seventy to eighty thousand books can be bound here every day, and Black Bear enjoys the current situation very much.

Only when he is with the Qinghua Guards can he truly relax, as if he is really a young man.

In a small wooden shed outside the long shed, Hei Xiong and Yu Fan sat down, where a cast iron stove was burning.

The smoke is exhausted through a bamboo tube, and a clay pot for boiling tea is placed on the surface of the stove.

Black Bear didn't mind whether the tea was old or not, and scooped tea for each other: "Sir, your journey to Jiangdong really relieved me of a worry. I was worried that Zhou Gongjin's swift use of troops would destroy the tombs of Sun Wentai and Sun Bofu."

Yu Fan listened with mixed feelings. Basically, when he escorted the coffin across the Han River to Nanyang, Zhou Yu and Taishi Ci began to mobilize the army and start fighting.

After a slight hesitation, Yu Fan took out a letter from his sleeve and said, "Grand Marshal, there is someone in the southeast who claims to be an old friend of yours and asked me to deliver a letter."

"Does he want to ask about his son's safety?"

Black Bear reached out to take the letter, and seeing the lacquer seal, he tore it open casually, took out the letter and glanced at it: "He and his son are too naive. Personally, I also hope that Liu Jing is alive."

The letter and the envelope were stuffed into the stove by Black Bear, who then said, "What do you want to do next, sir?"

"Zhuge Ziyu recommended the Dragon Bone Script and the Henei Bamboo Slips to me, but I want to go to Wuyuan to serve the Right Sage King."

"Is that so?"

Black Bear took a sip of tea and said casually, "My brother has written to me again and again, asking for a steam two-wheeled vehicle."

Yu Fan looked puzzled, and Black Bear said slowly: "Brother is a straightforward person. I will use a steam car to exchange it, and brother must ask you to come to work for me. How about we skip the process, I will send someone to deliver the car, and you will stay to help compile the dragon bone text?"

"Right Wise King..."

Yu Fan was really speechless. He believed that Ma Chao would really persuade him to serve in the Grand Marshal's office for the sake of the steam car.

After drinking a little tea to hide his emotions, Yu Fan asked, "May I ask the Grand Marshal, how is the progress of the dragon bone script?"

“The true gold is sifted through the sand.”

Black Bear turned his head to look outside the door. "The Hanoi bamboo slips record a rough outline, and the details can be supplemented by the dragon bone documents. Now it seems that these are two tasks, but in the future they will actually be one. I hope you can participate in the final editing and compile a chronological ancient history book."

Yu Fan also turned his head to look outside the door, where were the Qinghua guards queuing up to receive books. They all had young faces and were full of vigor.

Times have clearly changed.

Yu Fan asked: "May I ask the Grand Marshal, where will the Six Classics be placed?"

"Sir, let's be fair, what is the essence of all kinds of classics? They are history books, recording the things of the past."

Black Bear added more tea to his own tea bowl, added a spoonful of brown sugar, shook the bowl, and continued, "In ancient times, people used knots to record events and lived by the water and grass. What is the difference between the wise kings of the ancient times and the chieftains of the various Hu people today? And two thousand years later, in the eyes of future generations, how will we be different from the various Hu people around them?"

"Times are changing, and things are changing with each passing day. To use the methods of the ancients to govern modern affairs is no different from using the methods of the barbarians to govern China."

The black bear took a sip of the tea and felt it tasted good, so he took a spoon and added sugar to Yu Fan's tea bowl.

Yu Fan took the tea bowl and took it. Black Bear continued, "The reason why Confucian scholars admire the ancient and despise the present is that it is difficult to prove the truth of ancient things. Everyone has a desire for beauty. Confucian scholars promote the beauty of ancient times, but people today find it difficult to prove it is false, and they are unwilling to prove it is false. So I think Confucianism is ancient learning, while Mohism, military science, legalism, agriculture, Taoism and even the School of Names all focus on practical application and are modern learning."

A new struggle between the ancient and the modern has begun, and absolute violence is in their own hands.

Black Bear looked at Yu Fan who was deep in thought and said, "As long as it is modern learning, it focuses on the development at hand, and the good and bad can be seen with the naked eye. I hope you can devote yourself to it, prove the false learning of Confucian scholars, and correct the atmosphere of Chinese learning."

Yu Fan also took a sip of tea and asked, "Why doesn't the Grand Marshal use thunderbolt tactics now?"

"I want to kill people, and I want to destroy their hearts."

Black Bear raised his glass to signal, and drank it all up: "Sir, you have been walking around and observing in the camp these few days. I am still in my prime, and I still have thirty or forty years to play with them slowly."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)