The Golden Family, rising from the Western Regions

Chapter 125: First Class of Hexi Military Academy
Going to the desert to sell wine?
And he has to be someone trustworthy.

Therefore, the scope should be narrowed as much as possible, and it is best to look for it among the Li family.

As the current patriarch of the Li family, the old man knows every member of the family best.

After a moment's hesitation, he said, "Let Ergunzi go."

"He's been in the desert for two years before, so he's quite familiar with the place."

"Besides, that kid has the temperament and personality of his grandfather. He is very slick and suitable for business."

Hearing the old man's words, Li Xiao murmured softly: "Uncle Stick?"

Then he nodded gently and said, "That's right."

“It’s a bit slick, but it’s also pretty reliable.”

The most important thing is that Li Xiao trusts him!
The Li family is considered a relatively large family in Hexi Fort.

The first generation ancestor was named Li Qiming, a native of Yanyun. He came to the northern border with Yelu Dashi on the western expedition.

Later, Li Qiming gave birth to three sons.

The eldest son was Li Xiao’s great-grandfather.

My great-grandfather had four more sons, who are my four brothers.

However, the second brother died a long time ago, leaving only the three brothers.

The fourth generation consists of Li Dahai and his seven brothers.

Now, Li Dahai and Lao Wu died in battle, leaving only five brothers.

Three thousand households and two hundred households, all holding high positions.

And Ergunzi's name is Li Ergun.

He is from the second branch of the Li family, and is the grandson of the old man's second uncle.

The brothers of this generation of the second branch were named after trees.

The eldest is called Li Dagen, the second is Li Ergun, and the third is Li Sanzhi.

Dagen and Ergun are brothers, but their temperaments are completely different.

Li Dagen inherited the character of the Li family, calm, honest, resolute and unyielding.

But Li Ergunzi has been a gangster since he was a child, with a slippery personality, just like his grandfather.

However, in Li Xiao's opinion, Li Ergunzi's character is not necessarily a bad thing.

In a family, there must be some brothers with different temperaments and personalities.

In the Li family, there are already many brothers like Li Dahai who have tough tempers, are calm and honest.

The existence of Li Ergunzi is like a "muddy current" of the fourth generation of the Li family.

Some jobs are really suitable for people like him.

……

Soon after, Xifenglie's distillation work was completed.

A total of two hundred jars were brewed.

Twenty carriages were loaded with ten jars per carriage and were ready to be transported to the desert.

This is just the first batch, and there are at least 500 more jars being brewed.

"Sixth Uncle, after arriving at Bieshiba, go to the Governor's Mansion to visit Xiao Tuladuo first."

"Leave him two carts of Xifenglie as a gift."

Before leaving, Li Xiao gave some instructions to Li Dashan and Li Ergunzi.

Because it is the first time to go to the desert, and I also need to visit Xiao Tuladuo.

So, Li Xiao asked Li Dashan to lead the team because he knew Xiao Tuladuo.

From now on, Li Ergunzi will have to go alone.

"I understand." Li Dashan nodded slightly.

With Xiao Tuladuo's face, they should be able to sell this batch of wine quickly, and the task of purchasing grain and cotton will not be too difficult.

In addition to the wine, Li Xiao also gave Li Dashan some copper coins.

During this war, he obtained about five thousand strings of gold, silver and copper coins.

Later, Xiao Simo gave him another reward of 10,000 strings of cash.

Li Xiao is a rich man now.

So he took out two thousand strings of cash and gave them to Li Dashan.

All used to buy food and cotton.

All these supplies must be transported back to Golden State before the roads are blocked by heavy snow.

Then, Li Xiao looked at Li Ergunzi and said, "Second Uncle, your task is to familiarize yourself with the situation in the desert as quickly as possible."

"Get in touch with those restaurants. We'll need to cooperate with them on our drinks in the future."

"Also, we should contact more merchants and sell our goods to them."

Upon hearing this, Li Ergunzi nodded heavily: "Don't worry, Dalong."

"If I were to go into battle, I might not be able to match the mountain."

"But when it comes to business, ten mountains can't compare to me."

Li Ergunzi said with a chuckle.

He looked to be in his thirties, quite tall, and not very strong. From a distance, he really looked a bit like a stick.

"Okay, I feel at ease with you two here."

"This batch of goods is now handed over to you."

Li Xiao nodded slightly and said.

After watching their departing figures disappear, Li Xiao turned around and looked at his friends behind him.

"Did you have fun, little ones?"

"Today is the first day, get ready to start learning."

Upon hearing what Li Xiao said, Erhu, Shouhou and others immediately became dispirited.

The ghosts started howling "Ahhhh".

"No, Dalong brother, we just had breakfast."

"Let's run another lap!"

"Why don't you go mow the lawn?"

"Why don't we go down to the river and catch some fish?"

In fact, by this time, the crops had been harvested and the winter grass had been stored. These guys basically had nothing to do.

So, Li Xiao added a task for them.

Learn to recognize words.

But when this matter was mentioned, these boys complained and would rather work than sit down and study.

But at this moment, Li Xiao seemed to have turned into a ruthless dean of studies.

He looked at the group of guys with a cold face and snorted, "It's no use saying anything. No one can leave until they learn ten words today."

The reason why Li Xiao taught these young people to read and write was to prepare for the future.

They are all people who grew up with Li Xiao and are the most reliable team for Li Xiao in the future.

But it is far from enough to just train their riding, archery, martial arts and combat abilities.

He's just a reckless man.

If you want to become a qualified general and commander, or even govern a region in the future, literacy is the most basic ability.

Of course, what Li Xiao taught them were not the current Chinese characters, but the simplified characters of later generations.

The Chinese characters in this era are all written in traditional characters, which is very troublesome. Li Xiao had a headache learning it, which also led to the shockingly low literacy rate among people of this era.

Later generations of Chinese have proven the success of simplified characters, which have played a major role in improving literacy rates.

At the same time, simplified Chinese characters can be temporarily used as a code. People who have not studied with Li Xiao will not be able to understand what is written.

Soon, Li Xiao brought them to a piece of soft sand and started teaching them from the simplest ones.

“This is another way to write ‘一’~”

Li Xiao used a wooden stick to write the Arabic numeral '1' on the ground.

Regardless of whether the Indians invented this writing method, from then on, this has become a way of writing Chinese characters as numbers.

It has nothing to do with Indians and Arabs and was invented by Li Xiao.

In a quarter of an hour, Li Xiao taught these teenagers how to write numbers.

Although it is simple, there are always stupid students everywhere, and of course there are also top students.

"Wei Xuan writes the best. You should all learn from him."

Li Xiao emphasized his praise for Wei Xuan.

They are all about the same age. Since Wei Xuan's injury recovered, he has brought the young men from Sanhe Fort and slowly integrated into the circle of Hexi young men like Li Xiao.

However, Li Xiao gradually discovered that Wei Xuan was indeed a talented boy.

Although his fighting power is average, his understanding of military tactics is much deeper than other teenagers. When recreating the battle process, he can always come up with unique insights.

Now, Li Xiao has discovered another talent of his.

Better learning ability!

Hearing Li Xiao's praise, Wei Xuan was rather flattered and said, "Everyone's writing is pretty good. Mine is nothing special."

I suspect that this guy Li Xiao is trying to attract hatred for himself.

It’s like when a teacher praises a good student, the students with poor grades will definitely be unhappy.

Isn’t it because he was not allowed to talk to his sister two days ago?

"Good is good, no need to be modest." Li Xiao said domineeringly.

Afterwards, he asked Wei Xuan to take his place and teach those teenagers who still didn't know how to continue practicing.

This guy has become Li Xiao's assistant coach.

A few days later, all the thousand-household and hundred-household officers in the various forts in Jinzhou received Li Xiao's orders.

"What?"

"Let us take our bedding and daily necessities and go to Hexibao to study?"

Li Sanhe looked at Tietou, who came to deliver the message, with a look of astonishment.

After Xiao Simo's army left Jinzhou, Li Xiao simply stopped hiding the army.

Directly order the more than 1,100 soldiers to enter Jinzhou.

They occupied the grasslands that originally belonged to the three Karluk tribes and turned them into their territory.

The unit's designation was Jinshan Qianhu Army.

Li Sanhe was the captain of the Jinshan Thousand Households Army.

But he didn't expect that just as he brought his family to Beishan to settle down, Li Xiao's order came.

He was asked to take five centurions from the Jinshan Thousand Households Army to Hexi Fort to study.

"Tietou, tell me honestly, why did the governor ask us to go back to Hexi Fort?" Li Sanhe asked with a serious face.

Tietou, on the other hand, looked gloating, and said with a chuckle, "Uncle San, I told you everything. I'm going back to study."

The pain that these teenagers had experienced was finally the turn of others to experience.

"What are you studying?"

"I'm already this old, what else is there to learn?" Li Sanhe asked in confusion.

Tietou chuckled again: "Learn to read."

Li Sanhe's eyes widened immediately, and he asked in astonishment, "What the hell? You want me to go back and learn to read?"

"What does Dalong think?"

Tietou said, "Brother Dalong's order is this. Not only you, but also half of the other thousand-household troops will be withdrawn back to Hexi Fort."

"After your group has finished learning, the remaining centurions can go over there."

"Take turns, no one can escape." Tietou said with a laugh.

Li Xiao meant to take advantage of this winter when there was no war to summon the backbone forces from his five direct thousand households and have them come to Hexi Fort in batches to study.

Ordinary soldiers may not be able to read, but these thousand-household and hundred-household officers must be able to read.

At the same time, these backbone forces are not just learning simple words.

Li Xiao will also pass on his combat experience from later generations to them, and let them share their combat experience with each other.

Learn together and make progress together.

Therefore, what Li Xiao built in Hexi Fort was not a school.

To be precise, it should be a military school.

"Hexi Military Academy!"

These young men under Li Xiao, as well as the thousand-household and hundred-household officers, are the first batch of students of the Hexi Military Academy.

(End of this chapter)