marquis of jingan

Chapter 957 The Magic Seed
Because it was already very late when Ling Su and his two arrived in Huai'an, so naturally they couldn't be allowed to rush back overnight. Fortunately, there are quite a lot of rooms in Shen Yi's Xingyuan, and some of them have places to live.

After arranging for two people to stay, that night, Master Shen invited the two of them to have a supper, and the three of them drank some wine before going away.

The next morning, not long after dawn, Su Ding got up early to bid farewell to Shen Yi, but Shen Yi hadn't woken up yet, so he could only look for Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng had already woken up at this moment. After he found Jiang Sheng, he clasped his fists and said, "Brother Jiang, Mr. Su wants to rush to Hui Xiangshui to discuss military affairs with General Xue. When will Mr. Shen wake up?"

Although Jiang Sheng has no official position, but as the saying goes, he has followed Shen Yi for many years and even participated in the establishment of the Anti-Japanese Army. In terms of qualifications, he surpasses many so-called military officials in the Huai'an Army today. Therefore, whether it is Ling Su or Su Ding, they are still very polite to Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng also just got up at this moment, heard the words and said with a smile to Su Ding: "General Su, my son often deals with things at night, and sometimes he will snooze for a while during the day, and it may take a while to get up."

Su Ding thought for a while, then still clasped his fists and said: "Then I will trouble Brother Jiang to say hello to Mr. Shen, and say that I have something to do, so I will go back to the water first."

Jiang Sheng was stunned for a moment, and quickly said: "No rush, there is a kitchen in our camp, I'll ask General Su to make a breakfast, and leave after breakfast."

The kitchen that Jiang Sheng mentioned did not mean that there was a place for cooking in the Xingyuan, but that there was a functional department in the Xingyuan, which was responsible for providing meals for Shen Yi and other people in the Xingyuan.

This kitchen took some effort, because too many people want Master Shen's life now, so Xingyuan's kitchen has to be checked at every level to prevent anyone from poisoning.

After thinking for a while, Su Ding nodded and agreed: "Then I will trouble Brother Jiang."

Jiang Sheng said with a smile: "General Su is too polite, I'll let someone prepare the meal."

After a while, General Ling Suling also got up, and also found Jiang Sheng. Jiang Sheng followed the arrangement and prepared breakfast for him.

After the two generals had breakfast, Master Shen was still sleeping, and they didn't dare to disturb them, so they each greeted Jiang Sheng and left Xingyuan together.

When they reached the gate of Xingyuan, Ling Su and Su Ding clasped their fists to bid farewell, and said with a smile: "General Su, there may be more battles this year than last year. When it comes to the battlefield in the north, General Su will take care of you."

Su Ding hurriedly clasped his fists in return, saying that he didn't dare.

"It's General Ling who takes care of me."

Ling Su smiled, and said, "Mr. Shen relies heavily on General Su, and General Su has a bright future."

Su Ding shook his head slightly and said: "General Ling misunderstood, the reason why I take charge of the Eastern Front is because when Shen Gong wanted to rectify military discipline, he had to start with General Xue, and I only took care of General Xue for a period of time. Things have passed, and the Eastern Front is still dominated by General Xue."

Ling Su got on his horse and said with a smile: "Xue Wei is Xue Wei, and you are you. Mr. Shen said that there must be more than two armies in the Northern Expedition."

He cupped his fists and said, "There are still many things to arrange in Lianshui. General Su, we will see you in Xuzhou in the future."

Su Ding also got on his horse, cupped his fists and said, "General Ling, take care all the way."

Ling Su pulled the rein and steered the horse away.

But Su Ding didn't leave in a hurry, but quietly watched Ling Su go away, he sat on the horse and muttered softly.

"Mr. Shen hired me because of military discipline. The military discipline on the Eastern Front is not good because there are too many Linhai people."

The so-called Linhai people refer to the fact that 1000 people were recruited in Linhai when the Anti-Japanese Army was first formed.

This was the original team of the Anti-Japanese Army.

Among the 1000 people, more than 200 people were born in Linhaiwei, and among those born in Linhaiwei, there are Ling Su, Xue Wei, Liu Mingyuan, Zhang Meng, Wan Zhong...

Except for Su Ding, the senior generals of the Huai'an Army are almost all from Linhaiwei!
At the beginning, in Linhai County, the first batch of Linhai people recruited, with the step-by-step development and evolution of the Anti-Japanese Army, most of them have now become generals.

And this group of people, many of them rely on their seniority and their nostrils are turned upside down.

For example, the two thousand households who slacked off training on the eastern front, and the hundred households who raped the orphan this time, were all the original thousand Linhai people.

It's not that there is anything wrong with the Linhai people, but because they are too powerful in the Huai'an army, when they do things, they are a little unscrupulous and have no scruples.

Su Ding looked at the direction Ling Su was going away.

"General Ling is the biggest person in Linhai. Those veterans on the eastern front have become more and more arrogant because of General Xue's presence..."

"What about the old man Linhai on the western front..."

"Can you really not make any mistakes?"

Having said that, Su Ding narrowed his eyes, reined in the reins, and ran towards Xiangshui.

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When Shen Yi woke up, it was already time. The two generals under his command had already left. After eating breakfast, he looked at Jiang Sheng and asked, "Are they both gone?"

Jiang Sheng served Shen Yi porridge, nodded and said: "I left just after getting up in the morning. I asked the kitchen to prepare meals for them, and I left after eating."

Master Shen stretched his waist, and said, "Just take care of the food, lest they call me stingy after they go back."

Jiang Sheng smiled, did not answer, but asked: "Master, are you going out today?"

"go out."

While eating, Master Shen said, "I have an appointment with Senior Brother Zhang today, and we are going to visit the government office."

Jiang Sheng nodded.

Soon after eating, Shen Yi walked to the magistrate's yamen without taking a car.

The soldiers of the magistrate's yamen had already recognized Shen Yi, and when they saw Shen Yi coming, they did not stop him and let Master Shen go to the backyard of the mansion's yamen.

There are a lot of things to do in the magistrate's yamen every day, but there are still many officials in the government yamen, so most of the things don't need to be done by Zhang Jian and Zhang Fuzun himself.

Not long after Shen Yi arrived at the government office, Zhang Jian, who was dressed in plain clothes but not an official uniform, came out to welcome Shen Yi, and said with a smile to Shen Yi: "Zi Heng got up very early today."

Master Shen knew that he was blaming him for sleeping late, so he was not angry, he just said with a smile: "Senior brother said that he has been found for me, where is the man?"

Zhang Fuzun gave Shen Yi a blank look, and said angrily, "Where can I keep him in the government office?"

"I asked someone to find a house in the city and put them there. I'll show you there."

Shen Yi nodded, followed behind the magistrate, and left the magistrate's yamen all the way. It didn't take long before he came to the gate of a courtyard that looked a bit dilapidated. At this moment, there were two yamen guards at the gate of the courtyard. When he saw Zhang Jian After that, he lowered his head and bowed to salute, calling out to the master.

Zhang Jian nodded and asked them to open the courtyard door, and the two brothers and sisters pushed the door and walked in.

In the yard, a group of children were playing and playing.

At a glance, there are five or six children playing in the yard, all of whom are seven or eight years old, and some older ones are close to ten years old.

There are men and women.

Zhang Jian looked at Shen Yi and said, "According to your request, Ziheng, some of the children who were found were orphans caused by the military disaster of the Qi people last year, and some were children of poor families. The food will be delivered."

Zhang Fuzun paused, and said: "There are more than 30 children in total, and there are slightly more boys than girls."

Among these children, if they were boys, most of them lost their parents because of the war. After all, no matter how poor they were, very few would send their sons out.

Shen Yi took a look at these children and asked, "These children, have you memorized all the nine-nine multiplication tables?"

Multiplication formulas have been passed down for thousands of years. In this era, children are just learning, and some private schools will also teach multiplication formulas.

And Shen Yi's only requirement for selecting these children is that they can recite multiplication formulas.

"Well, it's all memorized."

Zhang Jian nodded and said: "Some smarter children can recite more than 20."

Having said that, he looked at Shen Yi and said, "What does Ziheng want these children to do?"

"Naturally, it is to find a livelihood for them."

Master Shen said with a smile: "I have invited back from the West a few foreigners who are intensively studying physics and alchemy. They have already arrived in Huai'an a few days ago."

"In my imperial envoy's office, there is also a gentleman who is proficient in arithmetic."

Shen Yi looked at these children, squinted his eyes and said: "I am going to set up a Huai'an school, so that those Westerners, and Mr. Song from Xingyuanli, can teach these children all their abilities."

Zhang Fuzun was a little puzzled, and asked, "Is there any use in learning this?"

"It's useless now."

Shen Yi shook his head slightly and said, "It's useless to me or to the Northern Expedition."

Having said that, Master Shen looked at these children and sighed softly.

"But in the future, some of them may become great people and do great things."

"Even if there are no great figures among them, in the future they will pass on their knowledge from generation to generation, and there will always be some great figures."

Zhang Fuzun still didn't quite understand what Shen Yi meant. He scratched his head and said, "At first, I thought that Ziheng was going to train these children to go to the battlefield, or to enter the newspaper office. What does Di Baosi have to do with the ninety-nine multiplication table?"

Master Shen couldn't help laughing.

"Brother is thinking too much, I just want to leave a few seeds for this world while I have the ability."

"As for whether they can take root and sprout, bloom magnificent flowers, and bear the fruit of my dreams..."

Zhang Jian and Zhang Fuzun naturally don't understand what science is, and they are unlikely to understand the importance of this subject, let alone imagine how much change this subject can bring to the world.

In this world, apart from Shen Yi, probably there is no other person who can think of it.

Master Shen was stunned for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "That's not important anymore."

"The important thing is that I am in this world..."

"The seeds were planted."

(End of this chapter)