Chapter 32 "Thirty-six Strategies"
Fang Nan and the other two returned to Qingshan Village successfully, and Hu Xiaoya, Hu Zhuang and others were able to let go of their hearts.
More than a month has passed since the autumn harvest. Half of Fang Nan's students have left Qingshanzhai to teach in other villages. The second batch of students in Qingshanzhai have already entered the school, the youngest is twelve years old and the oldest is 14 years old. The teacher is Zhou Lei and his fiancée Zhu Qiaomei.
Zhou Lei, Zhu Qiaomei and those who left Qingshan Village had something to do, and the rest of the people Fang Nan also arranged something for them - the word "Cast" for them.
Fang Nan's students still have to continue their studies, but half of them teach in other villages and can only learn knowledge through books. Fang Nan brought his pen, ink, paper and ink from the outside world, so he had to hurry up and write books.
According to the needs, Fang Nan needs to write books on military, management, medicine, physics, chemistry and other aspects. At the beginning, each book had to be copied more than ten. When Fang Nan's students started their studies, each book would need more copies.
If there are few books needed, just let the students copy them by hand. There are too many books needed, so Fang Nan planned to use movable type printing to print books in batches.
Printing is one of the four great inventions in ancient China. It is the emergence of printing that makes book knowledge relatively cheap and easy to spread.
Printing was originally woodblock printing. On a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness, neatly copied manuscripts were pasted on the front of the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper and the wooden board were pasted, and the characters became inverted and the strokes were clearly visible.
The engraving worker used a carving knife to cut off the part without the text on the page, which became a positive text with a protruding font. When printing, he applied ink on the raised font, then covered the paper on it, gently wiped the back of the paper, and the handwriting was left on the paper.
However, the printing of the woodblock is very inconvenient. The woodblock is integrated. Once it is carved incorrectly, the entire woodblock will be considered useless.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, movable type printing technology appeared, which solved the inconvenience of woodblock printing. Compared with fixed characters in woodblock printing, the characters in movable type printing can be disassembled. Generally, there are several or even dozens of commonly used characters for repetition in the same version.
movable type printing is undoubtedly much more convenient than woodblock printing. There are more than clay movable type printing, such as clay movable type, tin movable type, wood movable type, copper movable type, lead movable type, etc. According to the conditions of Qingshanzhai, clay movable type is the most suitable. Fang Nan's students have basically prepared clay movable type printing since their studies have ended, and are waiting for Fang Nan to write the books.
Before Fang Nan wrote the book, he took out some paper, ink, pen and inkstone to the students and asked them to practice brush calligraphy a little. After all, they used wooden sticks to write on the sand before, which was still a little different from writing brush calligraphy.
While the students were practicing calligraphy, Fang Nan also began to write books, and the contents of the books were memories in his mind.
Taking military books as an example, Fang Nan is preparing to write two books, one is the art of war and the other is the training of troops.
In his previous life, Fang Nan was not a soldier or an officer, and had never learned about military training and command. However, Fang Nan had read miscellaneous books on ancient military affairs and also learned about some modern and modern training methods from TV series and movies.
Fang Nan has never read famous military books such as "The Art of War", "The Art of War of Sun Bin", and "The Art of War of Kongming", but Fang Nan has read "Thirty-Six Strategies", mainly using the examples in "Thirty-Six Strategies" as stories.
"Thirty-Six Strategies" or "Thirty-Six Strategies" refers to the thirty-six military strategies of ancient China. It originated from the Southern and Northern Dynasties and was written in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a military book summarized based on ancient Chinese military thoughts and rich struggle experience.
The book is divided into six sets, namely, victory plans, enemy plans, offensive plans, melee plans, war plans, and defeat plans. The first three sets are strategies used for being advantageous, and the last three sets are strategies used for being disadvantageous. Each set contains six plans, a total of thirty-six plans, respectively:
The golden cicada escapes its shell, throws bricks and attracts jade, uses a knife to kill people, wait for labor, captures the thief to capture the king, takes advantage of the fire, robs the thief, closes the door to catch the thief, snatches fishing in the waters, alerts the snake, hides the sky and crosses the sea, counter-espionage, hides the knife in a smile, pulls the sheep, transfers the tiger away from the mountain, Li Dai Taoshou, points out mulberry and scolds the locust, watches the fire from the other side, flowers on the trees, secretly crosses Chen Cang, walks through the best, fake fools are not crazy, plays a trick, pulls fire from the bottom of a cauldron, cuts fire from the cauldron, empty city plans, fights meat plans, fights far and near attacks, and takes the guest as the main, go up the house to draw ladders, steals the pillars, creates something out of nothing, beauty plans, resurrects the corpse, strikes the east and west, sieges Wei to save Zhao, chain plans, fake road to attack Guo.
After each strategy, there are examples that have happened in history. At the same time, the book mostly quotes the war examples before the Song Dynasty and the insightful sentences of military strategists such as Sun Wu, Wu Qi, and Wei Liaozi.
Fang Nan still remembers a poem composed in sequence of each of the thirty-six strategies: the golden jade and sandals of the king's plan, to capture the robbers, fish and snakes laugh in the sea, sheep, tiger, peach and mulberry, and the trees are separated by fools, the pot is empty and the cauldron is miserable, and there are beautiful corpses on the beams of the roof, and attack Wei Lian and Guo.
"Thirty-Six Strategies" is a book of military strategy that Fang Nan prepared to give to his students. This book is enough. Cold weapons wars and hot weapons wars are very different. In the future, the army that Fang Nan will form will be equipped with a large number of firearms, and they will perform better than the Ming army's firearms. Perhaps there is no need for any strategy at that time, just move forward directly.
There are original books on military strategy, and the training books were written by Fang Nan himself, including queue training, weight-bearing training, running training, etc. Fang Nan has used many contents in physical education classes, and students have experienced them personally, and some people will use them on their students.
There are two military books, and there are many other books. Fang Nan had a total of forty-two students, with the goal of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, but Fang Nan had never thought of training all the forty-two students into officials or military officers.
Officials and military officers only need a part of it for the time being. Scientists who study physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, etc. are also very important. Fang Nan will train them according to students' interests.
It’s okay to say about disciplines such as physics, chemistry, and biology, but there is some trouble in medicine. Fang Nan doesn’t have much reserves of medical knowledge in his mind. Fang Nan only heard of the name of the “Barefoot Doctor Manual” and has never read it.
In medical books, Fang Nan can only write common sense such as "water boils and drinks" and simple medical knowledge such as "sewing with needles and threads after wound cleaning".
This year is the eighth year of Wanli, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" was completed two years ago. If Fang Nan's students want to learn medical knowledge, "Compendium of Materia Medica" is the best choice.
Chapter completed!