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Chapter 69 The first month

Letting the officers in the recruit camp talk about the past, this is Chen Wen's method to train the officers' abilities and brainwash the recruits. Chen Wen has not seen the specific effect with his own eyes, but according to the training officers in the recruit camp, the recruits' training enthusiasm has been greatly improved, but I don't know if this is a flatterer by the training officers to please him.

Chen Wen is not very clear about what the officer should do and what he needs to do. He used it in Dalanshan before, and now he taught those officers all the tricks he learned from TV series - asking soldiers to chat with each other, using land division and hatred to stimulate enthusiasm for training and fighting, telling stories of Han heroes to boost morale and enhance the soldiers' psychological superiority to the Qing army, and other methods are everywhere in real or fictional stories describing the rise of the Republic, and even many anti-Japanese dramas will be involved.

As for the others, Chen Wen is not very clear. He only remembers the famous saying that Li Yunlong once said to Zhao Gang, "The regiment commander is in charge of war, and the political commissar is in charge of life" sounds a bit reasonable, but what is the specific limit of this life? It has not been measured through practice.

While the recruits were training for military training, the civil service training class and the military officer training class of the garrison office, which only rested during the half-month holiday of the first lunar month, only took a break in the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month.

Most people are still able to reach a qualified level, which may have a lot to do with Chen Wen's urgent need for a large number of officials to control the occupied areas. However, beyond Chen Wen's expectations, in addition to Li Yu, Chen Chen and Lu Liuliang, the three masters with a somewhat perverted intelligence, have also produced some trainees with very good grades, among which one is a student from Huguang who has attracted Chen Wen's attention.

The student Chen Wen specially summoned was Rong Qian, who had been struggling to be in the siege of Quzhou. His experience of working as a staff member of He Tengjiao in the Huguang Governor's Office was of great help to him, which made him unable to overcome his assessment results in money and grain even those three monsters. After all, this experience is still there.

In addition, this person read "The Original Geometry" when he was studying in Nanjing. However, there were only the first six volumes, because this book was translated by Xu Guangqi in the late Ming Dynasty, and the last nine volumes were translated by Li Shanlan and a British man in the late Qing Dynasty. It was not difficult to translate, but because the achievements of Europe's rapid development of science and technology began to appear before the eyes of some enlightened scholars and officials, they prompted them to open their eyes again from the darkness of the two hundred years to see the world.

"The Origin of Geometry" was written in ancient Greece, but it really had a profound impact on the world after the Renaissance. Many great scholars including Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, etc. had learned it, absorbing rich nutrition from it, which was of great benefit to their great cause.

Chen Wen had the idea of ​​continuing to translate this book as soon as he heard it. It’s a pity that Rong Qian had only copied it from his memory. It’s a pity that the nine volumes remained, and because they were not translated, they could not understand and naturally could not record it.

This scholar's previous experience as an aide in Huguang was a great help during the interview. After all, bosses from ancient times to the present, both at home and abroad like employees with work experience, but Rong Qian did not mention this at all. If the official sent to Quzhou to recruit Confucian scholars learned about this experience from his uncle's show of his uncle, I'm afraid no one knows this until now.

From his explanation, Chen Wen can understand that after all, the Ming army in Zhejiang encountered an internal strife initiated by civil servants in the military instigation last year, which developed universal hostility towards civil servants in the military instigation. If we count, Cao Conglong and He Tengjiao are not a heavyweight player in this regard. Even the officers in the Ming army who have some understanding of this have to admit it.

Chen Wen understood that this did not want to arouse hostility from his colleagues, but once he thought of this scholar who left angrily because of several times failed to dissuade him, he finally chose to serve the Ming army in Zhejiang under the inspiration of his relief and tax exemption policies. He couldn't help but think of the previous Confucius family's Southern School, Zhang Gongyan, and more people who chose to serve the Ming army in Zhejiang because of this. Perhaps benevolence and righteousness really have unimaginable power.

In Chen Wen's view, the people naturally long for peace. Only in this way can they and their relatives and friends live better through their own strength. Unfortunately, they have suffered natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the people are almost at the point where they cannot survive. The government should naturally exempt taxes and provide relief. This is beyond doubt. If taxes are collected in this way, it will be unreasonable for the people to rise up.

Benevolence made Chen Wen gain some unexpected joy, but he also left the image of a woman's kindness. This is impossible. After all, in the eyes of people in this era, warriors should ignore the welfare of the people and have blood on their hands. Benevolence is a quality that only civil officials can possess.

Unfortunately, it seems that most civil officials are not as good as his barbaric martial artist. Both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties were trying their best to exploit the people to meet the needs of Shangguan and his own, which led to more families being destroyed. It is really ironic to think about it.

With the efforts of Chen Wen, Sun Yu and others, Jinhua Mansion, which has been revived for a year, has greatly recovered in people's livelihood. Quzhou, which suffered from war last year, began to recover rapidly under duty-free and relief. However, the price of rapid recovery of people's livelihood is that the Ming army can obtain resources in the short term but is much lower. If it were not for those two unexpected incomes, the shortage of resources brought by tax exemption would be enough to make the Ming army's expansion plan still die.

However, such unexpected wealth is indeed hard to come by. Just like the Qing army drove the pig teammates on the Ming army, they are all full of chances, and there is only the difference between which one has a greater chance.
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