Chapter 449: Teaching students according to their aptitude
Chapter 449 Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude
Zhao Duo was sent by Zhang Fu to teach Huo Nian martial arts.
Originally, Zhang Fu saw that Huo Nian had good skills and didn't want to waste his talent, so he sent Zhao Duo to teach him specifically. After Zhao Duo came to the book school, he didn't want to be special and let people stare at Huo Nian, so he asked the book school to teach him.
The dean discussed opening martial arts classes.
Unexpectedly, after the martial arts class started, Zhao Duo discovered several good talents among them, such as Bao Kang, Fang Qi, Gu Yu, etc. He taught them very carefully.
Huo Nian and Bao Kang, with Zhu Feng and others working on small projects, made rapid progress.
Originally, Zhao Duo only taught martial arts, but now he discovered that Huo Nian actually liked reading military books.
"Huo Nian, do you like reading military books?"
Huo Nian nodded: "Master, I like reading military books, it's very interesting."
Zhao Duo's eyes were even softer: "Can you understand?"
Huo Nian nodded, then shook his head: "Some of them can be understood, but many of them can't."
The book of war included discussions on generals, selection of soldiers, and formation of troops, and he just read them. He didn't understand much about offensive battles, defenses, and formations. But he liked to read about archery, flags, skills, and tactics.
These are made while looking at them.
Zhao Duo was very surprised when he saw this.
He is a general of the Zhang family. Starting from his ancestors, three generations of his family have followed the Zhang family in bloody battles on the battlefield. Zhao Duo knows that it is not difficult to replenish soldiers in the camp, and there is no shortage of low-level generals.
He is a general who is good at military strategy and can lead troops in battle.
He knew Zhang Fu's intentions. He wanted to select some talented children from among the people, train them carefully, and serve as generals of the Zhang family in the future. Now that he saw a rising star in the future, how could he not be surprised?
Seeing that Huo Nian liked to hear stories about the battlefield, Zhao Duo adjusted the teaching content.
In addition to teaching martial arts every day, Huo Nian also told the children some actual battles on the battlefield and classic combat cases from past dynasties. Huo Nian listened with great interest.
Zhao Duo had seen some of the military books Huo Nian bought, but they were all very ordinary.
Good military books will not be sold in the market. Most of them are collected as treasures by aristocratic families. The military books written by each general will not be sold in the market. They will only be passed down by descendants from generation to generation and hidden in their homes.
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Military books were classified as banned books in many dynasties and were not allowed to be circulated or sold.
For example, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the law strictly prohibited the private ownership and publication of military books. The main reason for the prohibition was that the military books were too practical, and they were worried that the common people would cause trouble if they read them well.
Those in power are most afraid of a group of educated gangsters rising up to cause trouble.
But after the Song Dynasty, for the sake of defense and to improve the overall combat ability of army soldiers, military books were gradually banned.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin people abducted the emperor's concubines, princesses and princes, relatives of the emperor, ministers' wives, ladies, craftsmen, musicians, etc., and took away tens of thousands of people. What a shame.
As long as the military's combat capability is slightly stronger, why is it so bad?
As a result, the ban on military books was gradually lifted later. By this dynasty, military books could be published on a small scale, but they were all simple and easy-to-understand books.
Zhao Duo saw that Huo Nian could really absorb the knowledge in the military book. After his explanation, Huo Nian also understood and understood it, and he was able to draw inferences from one example. He was surprised that he absorbed it very quickly.
He mentioned this in a letter to Zhang Fu.
Zhang Fu was quite surprised when he received the letter. He did not expect that he would inadvertently discover such an outstanding future general for the Zhang family.
He personally replied to the letter and asked Zhao Duo to go to Zhang's Mansion to pick up some of his treasured military books and give them to Huo Nian to read.
Huo Nian felt like he had found a treasure, but Huo Xi knew nothing about it.
She originally wanted to train Nian'er to become a civil servant through the imperial examination. She often corresponded with her grandfather, and also asked Nian'er to practice the calligraphy stickers sent by her grandfather, hoping that he would get some of the nobility of the Li family. Unexpectedly,
Huo Nian walked astray.
She felt that it was not a disadvantage for Nian'er to have a strong body. For example, Gong Ziyi was a businessman and had learned some kung fu to prepare for self-protection. Of course she hoped that Nian'er had the ability to protect himself.
I never thought that Nian'er would like the art of war and strategy.
I have to sigh about the powerful genes. Nian'er is still young now and is not clear about the path he will take in the future. Huo Xi does not interfere and only relies on his interest.
At the end of October, when the cold air of early winter made people's faces hurt, the ship that had been traveling to Nanyang for a year and four months finally arrived in Beijing.
Huo Xi cried with joy. God knows how much she has suffered in the past year.
If something happened and Uncle Li Yu couldn't come back, how would she explain it to her great-uncle and her family? In recent years, thanks to her great-uncle's help, half of the shopkeepers in the shops were hired by her great-uncle.
"Uncle Yu, you are finally back."
"I've come back again. I've gained a lot this year."
Li Yu took a boat trip to Nanyang, which opened the door to the world for him, and saw the customs and customs of various countries. It also broadened his horizons. He felt that the trip was well worth it.
"Why are you still crying?"
"I haven't had a good life for more than a year. I was afraid that something would happen to Uncle Yu. My dreams were all about my cousin chasing me and beating me." Huo Xi complained with a face full of accusations.
"Hahaha..." Li Yu laughed.
"That's not possible. My cousin is going on his own. What does it have to do with you? We made an agreement before we went. No one in the Li family dares to blame you. Uncle will tell them when he gets back. Thanks to your agreement this time, I
Going overseas opened my eyes and it was worth dying for."
Huo Xi stared at him and looked at him, and saw that he had lost a lot of weight, but his eyes were brighter and he was more energetic, as if he had been tempered in the fire, revealing his scorching brilliance. She was very happy for him.
Five families went together to Nanyang, and each family could only bring more than 1,600 stones of goods, which is about 100 tons. Guangfeng water packed a large amount of silk, sugar, rock sugar, tea, porcelain, and various handicrafts. Now Li
Yu brought back a large amount of food.
Merchant ships returning from Nanyang will bring back most of the cargo list, and spices will account for the majority, and pepper and cloves account for a large proportion of spices. This is almost the case for all merchant ships.
This time, the same thing happened among the goods brought back by the five companies. Spices accounted for the majority.
Fortunately, Huo Xi made a grinder for pepper, and now pepper is extremely popular throughout the capital.
Guangfeng Shui made hundreds of thousands of taels last year just from selling pepper, which is no worse than the profits made by salt merchants from selling salt in a year.
During the Taizu Dynasty, when the Kaizhong Salt Law was first implemented, ministers once suggested that pepper should be used instead of salt to carry out the Kaizhong.
Originally, in order to solve the food problem of the border guards, merchants were allowed to transport food to the military camp and exchange the food for salt.
Later, it was proposed to replace salt with pepper, also because there was a huge amount of pepper stored in the treasury at that time. After some were distributed to high-ranking generals, there was still too much in the treasury.
Now that the sea ban has been lifted, pepper is no longer a rare thing on the market. People are also accustomed to and accept pepper as an indispensable kitchen condiment.
Now that you have a grinder, you don’t have to worry about grinding the pepper too much and it will lose its flavor. You can grind as much pepper as you want.
Because of the large reserves of pepper, the price has dropped, and now the market price is only five or six yuan per catty.
However, the profits from shipping back from Nanyang were still several times or ten times higher. Among the goods brought back by all the merchant ships going to Nanyang, pepper still accounted for a very large amount.
This time Li Yu also brought back 600 stones of peppercorns, as well as a dozen other spices, as well as some jewelry, tin, copper, ivory, rhinoceros horns, tortoise shells, various handicrafts, bird's nests and many other dry goods, medicines, etc.
I'm afraid I can make a lot of money from this batch of goods.