Although the sense of ritual sounds quite hollow, it can inject a spiritual power into people!
For humans, the sense of ritual is indispensable!
Especially for a group like the military, the importance of ritual is even more prominent.
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On the second day, the Liberation Army completed its repairs and embarked on its return journey carrying a large number of captured weapons and prisoners of war.
On the other side, Zhu Hongyu also sent men to Manila.
Prepare to discuss the redemption of prisoners of war with the Manila authorities and the Scotch family.
With the arrival of family members, the population under Zhu Hongyu's rule has reached more than 3,000.
These three thousand people consume an astronomical amount of food every day.
The Liberation Army is still in a state of emptiness, with no stable source of various supplies.
In order to solve the current shortage of supplies, exchanging prisoners of war for supplies is currently the simplest and easiest method to implement.
Four days later, the Liberation Army returned to the river valley.
In this bloody battle, the Liberation Army suffered many casualties. Many family members of the Liberation Army in the valley cried loudly when they heard the bad news.
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Over this period of time, the construction of the valley's defense system has achieved certain results.
At the entrances on both sides of the river valley, a simple fortress was built using cement and stones.
The fortress wall is more than ten feet high, with trenches and traps dug in front, and the walls are densely covered with shooting holes.
In addition, there are also simple forts, turrets, and other buildings.
From a distance, the blue-grey cement walls of the fortress look very solid.
Zhu Hongyu deployed four of the five light cannons he captured to the two forts on both sides of the river valley.
The entrance and exit of the river valley is extremely narrow. As long as two artillery pieces are deployed on the turrets on both sides of the fortress, cross fire can be formed to block the entrance to the river valley.
The remaining light cannon was sent to the weapons workshop by Zhu Hongyu, who asked the workshop to study how to make the cannon.
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In the river valley, there were soldiers and family members of the Liberation Army, everyone with their own business.
Zhu Hongyu was not idle either. As soon as he returned to the river valley, he started to work on literacy education for the Liberation Army and running night schools.
Many of the family members brought back from Manila by the Liberation Army could read and write.
Some of these people were in Manila before, some worked as bookkeepers, some opened private schools, opened bookstores, and there was even an old scholar who had been in Chongzhen years.
His name is Chen Wenbin, a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, with thick eyebrows and yellow beard, and a square face. He is already an old man with smooth ears, but he still looks very energetic.
After the Qing army entered the customs, Chen Wenbin did not want to shave his head and change clothes. After his death, he had no face to see his ancestors, so he went to Nanyang with his family!
From the current point of view, this old Juren of Chongzhen years is probably the academic ceiling in the Liberation Army!
In his previous life, Zhu Hongyu joined the army after graduating from high school.
Life experience is rich enough, but academic diploma is really not enough.
Zhu Hongyu thought that it would be a waste rather than letting these literate people, who can read and write, work together with others.
A flash of inspiration struck him, and he thought about literacy.
Because he knows that only when everyone is literate and sensible can ideological education continue, instead of remaining on paper.
Zhu Hongyu took out the Chinese textbook for the first grade of elementary school that he remembered, and asked Chen Wenbin, an old examiner, to take the lead and use the textbook to educate the entire Liberation Army on illiteracy.
First-grade Chinese textbooks are basically not very in-depth, but they are still very useful for illiterate people.
When Zhu Hongyu copied the textbook from his memory, in order to adapt to this era, he only changed the simplified characters to traditional characters, that's all.
Although Zhu Hongyu wants to promote simplified Chinese characters to replace traditional Chinese characters.
Regardless of whether simplified characters destroy China's cultural heritage, Zhu Hongyu doesn't care.
The mere fact that simplified Chinese characters are easier to master than traditional Chinese characters is enough to overwhelm everything.
But he knew in his heart that he didn't yet have the prestige to make changes in words, so he didn't bother.
But he took out the punctuation marks!
No one has a problem with this, because punctuation marks greatly facilitate reading.
It can also avoid misunderstanding of the content of the article due to misreading of sentences.
Regarding Zhu Hongyu's innovation, even Chen Wenbin, a veteran scholar, repeatedly praised Zhu Hongyu's innovation.
Because during the day, the army has to train and the families have to build their homes in the river valley.
Therefore, literacy can only be done at night.
So, it was a matter of course that there was such a thing as night school!
Zhu Hongyu's requirements were not high, and he was not prepared to cultivate scientists by relying on night classes to eliminate illiteracy.
What he thought was that even if each person could only know three or five words a day, if he persisted for a year, he would be able to master one or two thousand commonly used words.
If you can do simple reading and writing, that's fine.
If you want to train scientists, you still have to carry out systematic education and training.
Of course, with Chen Wenbin being the only one in the Liberation Army, Zhu Hongyu would not waste his talents.
In addition to making him responsible for literacy, he was also given the responsibility for administrative matters in the Liberation Army.
Including various powers such as material allocation and personnel transfer.
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It's night and the sky is dark.
But the valley was brightly illuminated by bonfires. Soldiers and family members of the Liberation Army sat together in twos and threes, attending night literacy classes.
A stone slab dyed black with ink is placed in the most conspicuous and brightest place.
Zhu Hongyu held a piece of chalk made of lime and water in his hand, and wrote two big characters on the blackboard.
One is the word "汉"!
One is the word "明"!
He stood with his hands behind his hands, facing everyone, and the firelight illuminated his face clearly.
Although his skin is darkened by the sun, it highlights his charm and his face is brave and resolute.
The straight eyebrows express his character that he would rather break than bend.
The bridge of the nose is high and straight, the corners of the eyes are narrow red phoenix eyes, the lips are thin, but the shape of the lips is very beautiful.
There is a flying look between the eyebrows, confident and public.
Zhu Hongyu cleared his throat and said loudly.
"When the Mongolian and Yuan invaders invaded the south, the Zhao Guan family lost the country of the Song Dynasty. The iron hoofs of the Mongolian Tatars trampled thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and hundreds of millions of Han people suffered hardship and were reduced to the lowest fourth class of people."
"The nobles of China have fallen to the dust, the country has fallen into a stink, the nine provinces have changed color, and the mountains and rivers weep with blood!"
"Fortunately, I, Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, rose up, the sun and the moon shined brightly, the rivers and mountains were rebuilt, and millions of elite soldiers were raised to drive out the Tartars and restore China!"
"Expel the Northern Yuan and the outside world, and restore my homeland of Yanyun!"
"However, over the course of three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty's national strength has been exhausted. Internally, there are bandits and bandits. Externally, there are disasters such as barbarism, natural disasters, military chaos, corrupt officials, vassals, and evil gentry, all of which cannot be cured."
"Emperor Liezong lived frugally, worked diligently and wisely in government affairs, and managed to survive for seventeen years while the world was unstable, leading to the disaster of intruders and thieves!"
"The Manchus invaded the Central Plains during the Qing Dynasty. They cut off our hair and changed clothes to destroy our clothes. The prison of writing destroyed our culture. The Eight Banners stood high above us and sucked the bones and blood of our hundreds of millions of Han people to feed their millions of moths!"
"I, a billionaire Chinese nobleman, have once again become Zuo Reng."
"Everyone who hears this will feel sad and pitiful!"
"Today, I have raised the army according to the order of heaven, and my purpose is to recreate the great achievements of Emperor Taizu, drive out the Tartars, and restore China!"
"Save our hundreds of millions of people in the Central Plains and revive our Chinese civilization!"
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