Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1088 Patrol Tour of the Patrolman

There are some unspoken rules in everything, just like Tang Monk who is learning the scriptures from the West, even though he knows that monsters have come to him, he still has to pretend to be stupid, because he knows that to get the scriptures, it takes ninety-nine and eighty-nine One difficulty, looking for an easy way, often the result may not be ideal.

   It's like Liu Dan now. Does Liu Dan know that Fei Qian has some doubts about him? This is certainly needless to say, but can we just give up? Obviously not, so I can only obey Yu Feiqian's arrangement.

  But Liu Dan soon realized that the so-called job of patrolling the barbarians is not a good job...

Although many places in the Han Dynasty were relatively desolate, the high slopes of the loess in Bingbei are even more prominent. The yellow dust blown from the Gobi Desert in the north for tens of thousands of years has accumulated here, coupled with the rain in the east and a river in the west. , leading to gullies all over, full of enjoyment up and down.

  It’s on the opposite side, but I have to go around and turn around the ravine to get there. There are too many roads like this...

  At the beginning, Liu Dan still had some interest in the sky and the wild, but then he became numb to these bleak scenes. No matter who it is, for two or three days in a row, except for a group of people like myself, the ghost shadow has not seen a single person.

   "How far is it?"

   "Ah, this, soon, soon..."

   This dialogue has been repeated many times, and in the end Liu Dan was a little numb to asking, and he didn't even bother to ask.

   Not only is the road boring, but also the communication between people is equally boring.

  The barbarian guides will not talk about it, anyway, they will only giggle when they meet each other. For the rest, they can choose one of four options: "eat, stop, sleep, and go". The rest of the Han guards are also ordinary big-headed soldiers. It’s not that there is any problem in daily communication, it’s just that the levels of the two sides are too different. The word Fei. The birth of the Pinglin, and the Pinglin's..." sentence, I don't understand it at all, which makes Liu Dan's feelings so embarrassing...

   Fortunately, finally on the fifth day, I saw a resident camp built far to the south of Yinshan Mountain.

   Liu Dan and his party stopped outside the residential area.

This is also a good gathering place, and it seems that there are quite a lot of people. Not only are there houses built by Han people inside the camp, but there are also some outside the camp, and even some tents can be vaguely seen in the distance. It is said that It is where some Hu people who came to attend lectures lived. On the whole, the address of this residential area is considered to be a good choice. There is a small river on the side, which solves the problem of water intake. There are also many aquatic plants on the river bank, whether it is grazing or farming, it is all possible.

  The person in charge of the settlement has already brought a few small officials to the camp to welcome them.

Although sparrows are small and well-equipped, although there are not too many people in the settlements, and there may not be any administrative affairs, there must be a leader who coordinates and handles some trivial matters in daily life. The patriarch of the surname with the largest number of people in the village will also serve as the patriarch.

   There must also be an archer who is responsible for commanding the hunters, and if there is a blacksmith, who will also be responsible for counting the iron tools and catching thieves. Coupled with a clerk who counts accounts, settles taxes and is also responsible for correspondence, personnel, and handover and registration, such three people are the Big Three in a settlement.

  But such three giants can only dominate in a residential area, so when they saw Liu Dan and his party coming, they naturally greeted them respectfully from the left and right.

  Liu Dan was already exhausted from the bumps all the way, trying his best to make a smile and bowed to the three of them was already a kind of limit.

   "I don't know if the envoy wants to inspect the teaching place?"

  Although Liu Dan really wanted to say that I want to rest and eat, but under the piercing eyes of the surroundings, he couldn't open his mouth, and could only nod a little numbly...

However, in the eyes of the three giants of the village, Liu Dan's indifference seemed to be the majesty and restraint that a superior should have, so he hurriedly led the way in front, and led Liu Dan and his party into the camp. go.

Originally, the three giants of the village wanted Wang Ling and Wang Yanyun, the instructors in the village, to go out of the village to welcome them together, but Wang Ling refused, saying that what the patrol envoys want to see is the result of enlightenment, not flattery, so they didn't come out of the village at all. , but teaching students in thatched huts...

  The thatched hut is in the sunny place, bathed in the sun. More than 20 children are sitting upright in the hut. At the top, a young scribe is holding a roll of bamboo slips, shaking his head and reciting word by word:

"...day is white and night is dark, the sun is bright and the moon is bright, the wind is flying, the snow is dancing, the lightning is thundering. Waiting, cold and hot..."

More than 20 children also followed the recitation word by word, their little eyes sparkling, full of desire for knowledge, during the whole period when the young scribes recited, all the children sat upright and focused, even the thatched cottage Others didn't notice it.

  Books in the Han Dynasty were quite scarce. It is really not a shame to be so scarce that they are illiterate, because the vast majority of people are like this, and they have never even seen a few words in their lives.

  Civilization must have words to record it. A civilization without words cannot be effectively inherited and will inevitably decline soon.

The Huns may have developed a little before, but unlike the Han people, they used sheepskin scrolls to record text and graphics. However, in ancient times when there was no chemical industry, it was quite difficult to keep the sheepskin scrolls without damage for a long time. Things, whether it is mildew or insect bites, will quickly lead to damage to the parchment scroll.

   After all, sheepskin is inherently more complex than bamboo and wood in terms of material, and it is also harder to preserve. So the Huns may have written words, but unfortunately, they have not been able to survive and pass on.

   "Good, today's teaching is convenient..." Instructor Wang Ling coughed lightly, then put down the bamboo slips, and said to the children, "After you go back, you need to practice hard, you know?"

   All the children bowed together: "Thank you, teacher!"

  Teacher Wang Ling also slowly put away the bamboo slips, put them in his arms, nodded, got up slowly, and walked out of the hut.

  After the instructor Wang Ling left the hut, these little boys raised their heads from the ground. Someone suddenly noticed that there were many people outside the hut, including the Big Three from the village, and they couldn't help but panic.

  Xi Wang Ling saluted Liu Dan and the others in a calm manner.

  Liu Dan returned the half salute, looked at Wang Ling who was smiling slightly, and before Wang Ling could say anything, he casually waved at one of the children who were casting curious eyes in the thatched cottage, and called him to the front.

  The little boy came up to Liu Dan tremblingly, and knelt down on the ground.

  Liu Dan looked at the boy's clothes up and down, and said softly, "Ru...well, are you Han?"

  The little boy got stuck for a while, muttered something, then stammered and changed to Chinese, and said: "Returning to the adults, I am... Hu Min..."

"Hu Min?" Liu Dan looked at the clothes on the little boy again, intending to let this Hu boy go back, but worried that what he did was too obvious and would cause some bad effects, he hesitated, and said, "...still Yes, I am not your 'adult', your father is your 'adult'..."

  The little boy raised his head, with a puzzled look on his face, and said, "But...does that mean that he treats his father the same, why isn't he an adult?"

"Ahaha, not bad, not bad, I still understand this, that's 'disciples serve as teachers, respect the same as father', okay, but ah... In this way, you can call it 'master' instead of 'adult'... But your clothes... "After hearing Xiaotong's answer, Liu Dan was a little surprised, and couldn't help laughing.

   But Liu Dan is still a little unclear. At first, I thought that this room was full of Han children, after all, they were all wearing Han clothes, but I didn't expect that there were Hu people's children in it, and they called themselves Hu people...

"The envoy of the Xunfeng, the general who conquered the west, has an order. If you want to learn the Confucian classics of the Han family, you need to start from the beginning, wear Han clothes, know the Han rituals, enter Cambodia, and accept the precepts before you can enter the hall to learn the classics..." Wang Seeing that Liu Dan didn't seem to understand, Ling clapped his hands and read while explaining in a low voice.

   "That's right, goodness..." Liu Dan nodded, praised, and then asked Wang Ling, "How many Han boys are in the hall today? How many Hu boys?"

  Wang Ling replied: "Seventeen Han Tongs, six Hu Tongs."

  Liu Dan nodded, then turned to the little Hutong and asked, "Do you understand what Master taught you?"

   "... some understand, some... don't understand..." Hu Tong replied.

  Liu Dan nodded, and was not dissatisfied because Hu Tong didn't understand the answer, because it's normal for such a young child to not understand some things, and it would be abnormal if he said he understood everything.

   "Can you remember the words you understand?"

   “…can remember some…”

   "Okay, okay..." The smile on Liu Dan's face deepened a bit. He had just listened to Wang Ling's recitation outside the house. It was also a basic beginner's book, but it contained everything and was very interesting.

   Liu Dan pondered for a while, then suddenly said: "What is day?"

   "Well... someday..." Hu Tong replied.

   "Not bad!" Liu Dan nodded, "What is cloud?"

  Hu Tong pointed to the white clouds floating in the sky, and said, "Then, that's the clouds..."

   "It seems that I have remembered a lot..." Liu Dan nodded, and asked again, "...Then what is wind?"

   Wind comes and goes without a trace. It is indeed difficult for children to say what is wind. Hu Tong frowned, looked left and right, and suddenly pointed to Liu Dan's robe that was blown by the wind and shouted: "Wind, this wind, the wind is too late... this clothes..."

   "Well, not bad...it's just 'Fengchi', Fengchi Xuewu..."

  Liu Dan laughed, and between the questions and answers, he had already asked Hu Tong more than a dozen words, and Hu Tong could answer seven or eight words. It can be seen that Hu Tong really understands these words and what they mean. When Xiao Tong answered, he also showed that these memories are very solid, and there is not much slowness or hesitation.

   This is already very rare.

  The three giants of the village on the side exchanged glances with each other, and they were also a little proud. After all, no matter when the merit of enlightenment is, it is a real achievement that can be ranked first.

Perhaps in future generations, children like this eight or nine years old, or even younger, may recognize more characters at the age of five or six than these twenty or so children combined, and some geniuses may be studying junior high school courses , but now, in this unsystematic educational theory of the Han Dynasty, generations of chaotic education and nonsense have become a process that most people must go through.

There is no large-scale cultural exchange, and most teachers and students work behind closed doors. Even if they finally have educational experience, there is no soil for spreading it. The absolute illiteracy rate is almost 99.9999% of the social environment. Most people can only rely on ten fingers to compare the amount, and when the excess is exceeded, they will be blinded immediately...

Of course, even for addition and subtraction within ten, you need to move your fingers again and again to confirm that you seem to be the family property of ordinary people who are not wrong, and you almost never need to use mathematics. , anyway, for those things, the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy is more often barter.

  All kinds of situations like this are brought together. For the learning progress and learning content of the Han Dynasty, it is already amazing and commendable to have such an effect now.

"Good!" Liu Dan waved his hand to let the little boy back down, and then said to Wang Ling, "Teach well, and apply what you have learned! Wang Jiaoxi's teaching and enlightenment can be the best!" The evaluation in the Han Dynasty was generally ninth grade, from From top to bottom, there are some prototypes of the Ninth Grade created by Chen Qun later.

   "The Xunfeng envoy won the prize, so I dare not take credit for it..." Wang Ling took out the scroll of bamboo slips from his pocket, and said, "This book is something learned by the Cai family in Pingyang Bookstore... It is true that getting started with this book will get twice the result with half the effort..."

   "Well..." Liu Dan nodded and agreed, "Cai Zhonglang's character is really admirable... But Wang's teaching is also quite effective, and he has made great achievements in teaching, so there is no need to be too humble... I don't know who Wang is from?"

  For Liu Dan, although he is a descendant of the royal family, he is still alone now after all, so getting to know more people, or even making friends with more people has become what Liu Dan urgently needs to do now. So after seeing that Wang Ling was quite capable, he couldn't wait to start making friends with Wang Ling.

   "A person from Qi County..." Wang Ling said.

   "...Qi County? But after the Taiyuan Wang family?" Liu Dan's eyes lit up, and he asked immediately.

   "...Don't dare to hide from the envoy," Wang Ling cupped his hands and said, "Wang Situ is an uncle of a certain clan..."

   "Oh?!" Liu Dan saw that his teeth could not see his eyes when he smiled, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "...Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I never thought that I would meet Brother Wang when I was here..."

  (end of this chapter)