Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 761 A Little Noble Goguryeo

Hearing that the soldiers of Shence Guard could read and write, it surprised everyone present.

Qin Qiong continued to speak:

"In the early days of the Qingheyu training camp, among the many veterans who came, there were team leaders and even captains. Liu Mu used a method to let these people sign up by themselves. Those who can read have a chance to become regimental supervisors. 200 people can't read. Yes, the participating teams are recommending themselves, and then they will be tested on military formations, small formations, and martial arts. He calls this small martial arts."

"It's feasible." Du Ruhui was the first to express his support.

Among the original soldiers, it is also a kind of test to select talents by letting outstanding people take an examination similar to the imperial examination.

Qin Qiong said again: "One more thing, the Shence Guard soldiers from the Qinghe training camp..." Qin Qiong stopped, because after he knew the news, he also felt incredible, maybe it was useless, but it was amazing.

After hesitating, Qin Qiong said: "All the soldiers of Shence Guard are literate. Those with the least literacy can read the thousand-character prose, and there is no problem in writing family letters and military reports. I thought it was useless for ordinary soldiers to be literate, but the Shence Guard This has become a trend, and literacy is one of the training subjects in the training camp."

Is literacy useful for big soldiers?

In fact, Liu Mu himself didn't know this question. What is the difference between the most common big-headed soldiers who can read and don't?But Liu Mu still taught these soldiers how to read. They couldn't read the Four Books and Five Classics, but they still had to learn the Three-Character Classic and the Thousand-Character Classic.

Perhaps in the future some soldiers will be able to become captains.

As a captain, how can you understand military orders if you don't even know the words, or just listen to verbal orders?
Is it useful for big soldiers to read and write?
Li Shimin didn't know either, but it didn't seem like a bad thing.

"Then, add another martial arts. The time will be after the Battle of Gaochang, and there will be a selection of older people from Shence Guards who have no chance to become military officers again, and 50 people will be sent to Beisha City. These people It shouldn't be a problem for each person to lead five gangs, since they can read and write, and they are a powerful army, I trust them."

Before the Goguryeo people came to protest, Li Shimin had already decided to swallow Beisha City.

It is said that Li Shimin just made a decision, and Liu Mu has already put this decision into action.

A small Goguryeo nobleman who has just experienced the shadow of death is so small that he can hardly be regarded as a nobleman.The malnourished appearance made Liu Mu feel infinite sympathy when he saw him.

"Eat!" Liu Mu spoke in his few Silla words.

The two high-ranking maids who were transferred from Kinderman placed a plate of very beautiful fruits in front of the little nobleman.

Only now did Liu Mu know that the languages ​​of the three countries on the peninsula have the same origin, but they are not completely the same language.

There are many differences in the languages ​​of the Three Kingdoms, and Liu Mu couldn't figure out these differences.However, the officials of the Ministry of Rites who are proficient in these three languages ​​told Liu Mu that basically he could speak any language, and the other two countries would not have any problems in simple communication.

Official documents are all in Chinese, so there is no need to consider the differences between the three languages.

The little nobleman's face was pale. Looking at the plate of fruit, his face instantly turned rosy, and then he shook his head violently.In the eyes of this little nobleman, there are fresh fruits in such a cold spring. It is estimated that this plate can be exchanged for silver.

I can't afford it.

"Well, how much money do you have?"

As soon as Liu Mu said this, the little nobleman threw himself on the ground directly, which was more powerful than kneeling, and it was called throwing himself on the ground.

The little nobleman spoke for a long time like a ghost, but Liu Mu didn't understand a word.

Liu Mu was about to tell him to repeat it more slowly, when the high-ranking maid from Silla approached Liu Mu and whispered, "He said just now that he is willing to give up all his family property, just to change his way of life."

"You ask him, is it for him alone, or for multiple people in his family."

After listening to Liu Mu's order, Silla's senior maid immediately went to ask.

In fact, Liu Mu already had the answer, but he had arranged for someone to carefully observe these Goguryeo nobles who were imprisoned.

Sure enough, the answer is interesting.

"He wanted his family to survive."

Liu Mu smiled: "Okay, so if I want to reduce one person, who will he choose? If I reduce two people, who will he choose?"

After the maid asked again, the maid herself doubted the answer.

"Master, he said that if there is one less person, he hopes that a concubine in his family will die. I can't figure out which one it is, only the name. If two people die, he is willing to die by himself."

"Interesting." Liu Mu sat up straight.

The little nobleman seemed to know that he was going to die, and he was crying and talking to himself.

Silla's high-ranking maid kept whispering what the little noble had said in Liu Mu's ear.

That means that his little concubine is greedy for money and likes to fight, leaving behind a job that others can't live.My old domestic servant saved my life when I was young, and my own woman knows how to weave and will not starve to death, etc...

Liu Mu rubbed his forehead: "Go and pick him up and bring him here."

The little noble really thought he was going to die, so he cried and begged Liu Mu to fulfill his promise not to kill other members of his family and so on.

A warehouse, which was called from the south of the Yangtze River, is made of ordinary linen made of abaca in Lingnan, which is still powered by hydraulic looms, not real steam engines.

There are many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, and hundreds of waterwheels can't feel the density.

The silk products of Tang Dynasty had many different types such as silk, brocade, silk, satin, brocade, silk, and silk before Liu Mu asked craftsmen to research makeup flowers and so on.

And the linen can also be coarse, fine, hemp, grass hemp, etc...

Among them, hemp is considered to be a medium-to-high-end linen.

The warehouse was full of hemp cloth from Jiangnan, and Liu Mu motioned for someone to take one and put it in front of the little Goguryeo nobleman.

"Tell me, how much does this kind of linen sell in the north?"

The little nobleman was stunned, not intending to kill him.

Holding the linen cloth, he touched it in his hand for a while, then weighed it, and gave Liu Mu an answer: "Five stones of rice!"

Liu Mu turned her back speechlessly.

The little nobleman knelt on the ground and didn't dare to speak. He didn't know if he said something wrong.

It happened that Jiang Ke came over at this time, and after asking about the situation, he came to Liu Mu's side: "Mr. Lang, I don't blame him for this. Goguryeo has no coins. Small goods are bartered, and large goods are made of gold and silver." Exchange. A large number of coins from my Tang Dynasty will flow into Goguryeo every year."

"Looks like I didn't figure it out."

"Your Majesty has a lot of things to care about, and this little thing is nothing. Last year, the Goguryeo envoys wanted to exchange about 30 new Tang coins with gold, silver and copper. No. Such trivial things are not enough to make people care."

Jiang Ke really didn't know, and didn't want to care about such trivial matters.

(End of this chapter)