Change the Tang Dynasty Li Yuanba

Chapter 17 Tiger Meng in Shiqiao Village
Carrying two divine books that are about to change the enlightenment education of the Tang Dynasty, Li Cha went straight to a house in the middle of the village.

"Brother Meng, Brother Meng, are you home?" Li Cha shouted as soon as he reached the door.

"Hahaha, Brother Li, what's the matter with you rushing to find the old man at noon?" A burly man in his 40s came out from the back room, his sturdy aura couldn't be concealed by his clothes.

Especially in the deep sunken eye socket of the right eye, there is no eyeball, which gives people a murderous aura.The person who came was Meng Huhu, the village chief of Shiqiao Village who had been robbed of his position by Li Shimin.

This Meng Huo used to be a tiger general beside Li Shimin. Li Shimin trusted him very much. According to legend, his eye was blinded to save Li Shimin, blocking the feather arrow that was originally shot at Li Shimin. Not only that, Meng Huo directly shot himself He pulled out the feathered arrow and brought out his eyeball, and continued to fight with one eye socket empty until he killed all the enemies before falling on the battlefield.

After the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin conferred great feudal titles on all the officials, and Duan Zhixuan's official position was originally Meng Huhu's, who worshiped General Zuo Xiaowei and made Luo Guogong.Meng Huo firmly refused.

He said that his parents, wife and children all died due to the war, and that he followed His Majesty to fight for the sake of repaying the people of the world. Now that he has achieved great success, he does not seek high officials and rich salary, and does not seek to be famous in history, but only wants to return to the mountains and live the rest of his life.Li Shimin's confidant love will leave.

But Meng Huo forced him to die, Li Shimin had no choice but to compromise, I will not make you an official, and you cannot leave Chang'an City. In the end, Meng Huo stayed in the place where the family members of the old army's Xuanjia Army made their homes, and became the official. Muramasa of Hashimura.Once it is ten years.Not long ago, Li Shimin was just withdrawn.

Don't think that Meng Huo has no place in the court, but in Shiqiao Village, he is definitely the one and only master. Whether it is Duan Zhixuan or Qiu Xinggong, they all respect him. There is no way, who made them two belong to Meng Huo Besides, Li Shimin has always been guilty of Meng Huhu who has nothing to ask for. Who would dare to provoke such a person?
Li Cha knew all of this, so whenever he had something to do, he would come directly to his door. Finding Meng Huhu in Shiqiao Village was better than looking for the emperor.

"I'm sorry, Brother Meng, I forgot the time when I got so busy. I'm so excited." Li Cha looked at the sun above his head, it wasn't even ten o'clock at noon.At this time, it is really inappropriate to disturb others.

"Hahaha, Brother Li, it looks like you haven't eaten yet. Let's go in and have a drink or two with my brother. If there is something exciting, let's chat while eating." Don't look at this Meng Huo who looks fierce, he is indeed quite heroic in his dealings with others. There is no sense of blame.

Besides, Li Cha was someone Li Shimin had specially told him to take good care of. Although Meng Huo didn't know what was special about Li Cha, Meng Huo was willing to make friends with someone who could catch the eye of the emperor.

"Then talk about old brother Meng, I'm really hungry, hahaha." Li Cha also likes to associate with this fierce general who is highly capable but cares little about fame and fortune.For Meng Huhu, he also respects him very much. What he respects is not his military strength, but his original intention that drifted away after being successful and famous.

"What are you talking about, old brother is alone and has nothing to worry about, as long as little brother Li doesn't dislike my poor food and bad wine. Hahaha." Meng Huo laughed loudly.

Two large plates of bear meat and two large jars of old wine were placed on the table in a short while.

"Brother Meng, it's amazing, you can still eat bear meat here, it's really thanks to you." Li Cha sighed.

"Hahaha, who made this black blind man unlucky enough to meet an old man? In order to prevent him from coming out and harming others, we can only let him become a snack for both of us." Meng Hu laughed loudly.

Don't look at what Meng Huo said is simple, this one-man bear hunting is really not simple. As far as Li Cha knows, none of the current fierce generals in the Tang Dynasty can do solo bear hunting. Cheng Yaojin, Yu Chijing Neither Duan Zhixuan nor Duan Zhixuan can do it.

Qin Qiong was able to do it back then, but now that he has suffered a lot of injuries and is old and frail, it is hard to say.The fierce man who could hunt bears alone either died on the battlefield or died under Li Yuanba's double hammers.It can be seen how powerful this tiger Meng is.After retiring from the army for many years, he still maintained his combat effectiveness.Of course, the fully grown black bear mentioned here is not a cub that has not yet grown up.

"Brother Meng, why have you been single for so many years and haven't been reunited?" Li Cha started chatting with Meng Huhu after a few sips of wine.

"What are you looking for? The old man is in his 40s. I don't know when he will go down to see my parents, wife and children, so he won't harm other girls. At first, the emperor saw the old man alone, and wanted to marry the princess to the old man. Well, but a rough man in our army, how can he climb the golden branch of the princess and let a princess come to this village to accompany the old man to suffer? I don’t know what the emperor thinks.”

"Hahaha, let's not continue. The dolls in the village are all my children. Duan Zhixuan even adopted a child to the old man. The old man is also considered a successor. He has made money in this life. Watching the dolls in the village grow up healthily, There are successors in our Xuanjia Army, and the old man will die without regret. Hahaha." Meng Huhu said boldly.

"Brother Meng is still very enlightened. Hahaha. I admire you. The kid who came to see Brother Meng today really has something to do with the dolls in the village." Li Cha said after swallowing a piece of bear meat.

"What, it has something to do with the dolls? That's a big deal, tell me quickly." Meng Huo hurriedly asked.

"Don't worry, don't worry, it's a good thing to wait until you're full. Hahaha." Li Cha replied with a smile.

The two toasted for a while.After drinking and eating, Li Cha took out the "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules" from his arms.Handed it to Tiger Meng.He asked, "Brother Meng, are there many literate people in the village?"

"That's a lot, our Xuanjia Army, as long as we want to be an official, even a commander must be able to read and write. What's wrong?" Meng Huo asked after taking the two books.

"That would be great, I don't need to go out and find someone to copy it." Li Cha said happily.

"It's like this. Didn't Shi Ruying, the teacher in the village, go back to her hometown today? He asked me to take classes for a few days. I was free and fine, so I agreed. But I found that the method of teaching children to read is too slow now. After compiling these two textbooks, there is no place to print them, so I can only find someone to copy them by hand, so there is no way to find Brother Meng here." Li Cha explained.

"Oh, now children learn to read from the "Book of Filial Piety" and "The Analects of Confucius". Are they learning slowly? We were also forced by the emperor to learn characters from the "Book of Filial Piety" and "The Analects of Confucius". I think the current Baby, it’s much faster than we were back then. Let’s see what textbook Li Xiaoge compiled.” Meng Huhu expressed doubts about Li Cha’s words, and he felt that the village dolls can recognize more than 300 characters a year, which is already very good.

"At the beginning of human beings, nature is good. Nature is similar, but habits are far away. If you don't teach, your nature will change. The way of teaching is to specialize. Huh?" Meng Huo put down the "Three Character Classic" in his hand, and said back: "At the beginning of man, nature Originally good. Similar in nature, far away in habit. If you don’t teach, your nature will change. The way to teach is to be specialized.”

"Hahaha, it's amazing, it's amazing, it's catchy, and it will be deeply imprinted in our minds after reading it once. If we used this to learn to read, why would we be scolded by the emperor? There was a sentence back then:' Disciple, when you enter, you should be filial; Just remember, this is really amazing, Brother Li is so talented. The old man thanked Brother Li for the dolls in the village." Meng Huo said excitedly.

"Hahaha, Brother Meng, take it. Brother, I can guarantee that the children in the village will learn [-] words within half a year. Hahahaha." Although the old wine is not strong, it can go down to ten catties in a jar, Li Cha But it also started to be a little erratic, and the tone became louder.

"Convinced, the old man is convinced, with these two books, memorizing a dozen words a day is not a problem at all, hahaha. This teacher Shi Ruying has really done a good thing, good job, good job, haha Haha." Meng Hu quickly flipped through the "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Regulations" written by Li Cha.They are all in groups of three characters, and once the twelve characters rhyme, they can be deeply imprinted in the mind while reading.

"Brother Li, wait a minute, I'll find someone to transcribe. The dolls in the school each have a total of 56 copies, and I will copy some more for older dolls. There are many dolls who know more than 1000 characters. Let them learn it too." Meng Huo said excitedly.

"Brother Meng, wait, is there a place to burn lime in the village?" Li Cha called to stop Tiger Meng who was about to run out.

"Yes, that thing can be used to build a house. Which village doesn't have a lime kiln? There are still a lot of spare lime and gypsum in the kiln. What's the matter? Brother Li, do you want to use it?" Meng Huo was puzzled. replied.

"Great, this saves a lot of trouble, Brother Meng, hurry up and find someone to copy the book, I'll wait for you here. When I come back, I will call a few people who can do carpentry work, I will be useful. "Li Cha chuckled. "Hey, if I have time, I'll make movable type printing. This Tang Dynasty really started from scratch, nothing." Then he sighed.

"Brother Li, what is movable type printing?" Meng Huo asked casually.

"Brother Meng, let's not talk about it. You don't have to be in a hurry. You go first. Let's take it one step at a time." Li Cha waved his hand and said dejectedly.He has too many things in his mind, and he can't wait to take them all out to change the living environment of the Great Tang. Unfortunately, things can't be done at once, they can only be done step by step.

Taking advantage of Tiger Meng's departure, Li Cha went directly to the river and dragged a dead tree with a diameter of more than 50 centimeters back. There are plenty of dead trees in this era, and they were left behind during wars when they attacked cities, crossed rivers, burned mountains, etc. down.

This dead tree is enough to make 56 small blackboards.This world is not without wood lamination technology, don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, but now there are ready-made ones, just cut them directly, and Li Cha will use them tomorrow, so it won't be so troublesome.

Not long after Li Cha came back, Meng Huo led five carpenters and came back with something to do. "Brother Li, I brought you a carpenter. If you have anything to do, please call directly." Meng Huo shouted.

"Five big brothers, can you please divide this dead tree into small boards with a length of [-] centimeters, a width of [-] centimeters, and a thickness of [-] centimeter, and then paint them with black paint and let them dry?" Li Cha asked. (In order for the readers to have a sense of substitution, it is directly converted into a modern unit of measurement. I hope that the readers will not delve into it.)
"No problem, leave it to us." Five people replied.

"Brother Meng, take me to the lime kiln, and find a few more people by the way. Forget it, you don't need to look for it. If you meet someone who is okay on the road, just call and call. It's not a technical job anyway." Li Cha turned back and said to Meng Huhu .

"Okay, let's go. Although I don't know what little brother Li is going to do, it must not be an easy matter. Hahaha." Meng Huo laughed boldly.

It is not difficult to make chalk. There are gypsum and lime, just get it.Li Cha and Meng Huo met a few people who had nothing to do with them on the road, and they made a batch of chalk in a short time.

A group of people returned to Meng Huhu's yard with chalk. Many small blackboards had been made inside, and the first piece of black paint had already dried.

Li Cha looked at the chalk and blackboard in front of him, feeling inexplicably excited.With the strength of alcohol, Li Cha began to show off.

"Brother Meng, keep your eyes open, the time has come to witness a miracle. Hahaha."

I saw Li Cha pick up a piece of chalk and write on the small blackboard: "May the people of the world live and work in peace and happiness, and be happy and healthy."After Meng Huhu read it, he wiped it off with the skirt of his clothes, and the blackboard was still the clean one.

"Hahahaha, great talent, Brother Li, I finally understand why His Majesty cares so much for you. There are not many people who can fall into His Majesty's eyes in peacetime. You are definitely worth it. You have blazed a path of life for the poor in the world." , Powerful, great, the old man admires it." Meng Huo laughed admiringly.

"Hahahaha, Brother Meng, come to the school tomorrow morning, and I will show you what real teaching is." Li Cha, who was slightly drunk, did not know how to be modest now.

After all the blackboards were dry, under Meng Hu's arrangement, everyone and Li Cha sent all the blackboards and chalks to the school and assigned them to each student's seat.By the way, Li Cha painted the wall behind the desk with black paint on a large blackboard measuring three meters long and one meter wide, waiting for his first class tomorrow.

　The unit of measurement in the Tang Dynasty was chi, and one chi was about [-] centimeters. In order for the readers to have a sense of substitution, it was directly converted into a modern unit of measurement.I hope you judges don't get too deep into it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)