Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 14 Chang Lin Fansuke
"Wang Xuan, His Highness and I are back!"

In the afternoon, under the sun, Zhu Gaoxu and Yang Zhan drove a donkey cart back to the courtyard of the university.

The door to the backyard was open, so Yang Zhan drove the donkey cart directly in, while Zhu Gaoxu got off the car in advance and walked into the courtyard.

When Wang Xuan in the front yard heard the noise, he immediately walked to the backyard and bowed to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Highness, the Duke's Mansion sent someone to deliver a thousand kilograms of firewood and ten stones of rice, as well as a box of military books. I have put them away and put the books in your study."

"Okay..." After hearing Wang Xuan's words, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yang Zhan who stopped the donkey cart:
"You guys put your things away and washed the dishes. I'll make lunch later."

"Yes!" Yang Zhan smiled and bowed. Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also returned to the study room in the front yard.

In the study room, he saw more than ten military books on the bookshelf.

These military books start from "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Six Tao" in the pre-Qin period, and then to "Li Weigong's Questions", "General Garden", "Sixteen Cheap Strategies" and Song Dynasty's "Martial Classics General Essentials" in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

The military books are mainly divided into strategy, war history, military training, weapons production, military geography, military system, logistics, and military figures.

For Zhu Gaoxu, most of these military books are not suitable for him at this stage. Instead, they are "Martial Classics General Essentials", a must-read for civil servants in the Song Dynasty, and Li Jing and Zhuge Liang's "Li Weigong Questions", "General Garden", Books such as "Sixteen Cheap Strategies" are more suitable for him.

Before Qi Jiguang wrote the "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Records of Military Training", the Song Dynasty's "Wu Jing Zong Yao" was the most detailed national defense bibliography in all dynasties.

Zhu Gaoxu can see the importance of this book just by flipping through the bibliography.

It has implications for military organization, military systems, selection of generals, infantry and cavalry training, marching and camping, ancient and modern formations, strategies and tactics, the manufacture and use of weapons and equipment, as well as military geography, examples of military use in the past dynasties, yin and yang astrology, etc. Discussion.

In addition, it also provides a detailed description and introduction of various cold weapons, firearms, warships and other equipment used by the army during the Northern Song Dynasty, and is accompanied by a large number of hand-drawn drawings of weapons and camp formations.

Among them, Zhu Gaoxu especially read the siege chapters in Volumes [-] to [-]. Although he did not look at the "Siege Method", "Water Attack", "Water War", "City Defense" and other chapters, he did not read them in detail. But he can still feel that this is a good book for grassroots officers.

A thorough reading of "Martial Arts General Essentials" can almost make a person who doesn't know how to fight become an entry-level general, which is just right for the current Zhu Gaoxu.

Because of this, after briefly looking at the catalog, he sat down and read the contents quietly.

However, since this military book is a Song Dynasty manuscript with many official characters, he needed to calm down and analyze the specific implementation based on the content.

As far as military training is concerned, in his previous life, although Zhu Gaoxu joined the army and served as a soldier for two years when he was a sophomore, in fact, he was only an acting squad deputy for a period of time.

He joined the army because of pressure from his family, so he didn't show much interest in the army and didn't have much military knowledge.

Especially when the battlefield changed from hot weapons to cold weapons, the little modern military knowledge he had was probably only his own experience as a recruit.

As for making rifles, artillery, and steam engines...how could a liberal arts student know these things?

"If I had known, I would have become a man of science and engineering..."

With a long sigh, Zhu Gaoxu put down the military book in his hand.

Just as he was about to rub his eyebrows, he subconsciously felt that someone was looking at him.

Looking over according to his feeling, he looked through the window and saw two lazy men in the yard who were "looking at each other".

"I forgot about the time..." Zhu Gaoxu looked at the expressions of the two people, laughed suddenly, stood up and walked out of the study.

"Is everything packed?"

"Okay, okay, the rice is also cooked."

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu come out to ask, Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan nodded eagerly.

Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and glanced at the sky, only to realize that the sun had set in the west.After careful calculation, the three of them had eaten nothing except a bowl of meat porridge in the morning.

Zhu Gaoxu touched his belly, and when he came back to his senses, he felt extremely hungry.

He walked to the kitchen and saw that the rice had been cooked and placed on the stove, and the vegetables and meat strips had also been cut and could only be stir-fried.

Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan were good at preparing food, but if they were asked to cook, Zhu Gaoxu might not be able to take a bite.

Walking into the kitchen, he skillfully picked up the spatula. Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan also ran in to add firewood to the stove.

When the fire got a little bigger, Zhu Gaoxu put in the oil as carelessly as yesterday, and then put the Qinjiao into the pot and fried it to get the flavor.

He considered that Yang Zhan couldn't eat spicy food, so he didn't plan to add too much chili pepper, just a little spicy.

Not long after, he put in vegetables and stir-fried, and the aroma of a simple dish of beef stir-fried with celery came out.

After that, he chopped up the roasted water chicken he bought, stir-fried and heated it up, stir-fried pepper eggplant and vegetarian cabbage. Finally, he poured water and added tofu and cabbage.

Naturally, the soup made with cooking oil, water, cabbage, and tofu may not be delicious, but the extra base oil in this era cannot be wasted.

Zhu Gaoxu went to the market town today to learn about oil prices.

Eighty cents per pound of oil is not something he can waste casually at the moment.

He had no source of salary and could only rely on the money worth fifteen guan sent by his elder brother.

Although fifteen guan is a lot, with the way the three of them eat dozens of guan every day, it can only last for a year at most.

If you want to buy some clothes and paper, the expenses will be even greater.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the kitchen, and Wang Xuan and Yang Zhan had already brought the dishes to the table, with a pot of rice next to them.

That pot of rice alone probably weighs no less than four or five kilograms.

Ordinary people really can't afford to feed three people like this.

Zhu Gaoxu walked to the stone pier and sat down, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started to eat first. Seeing this, Yang Zhan and the others also started to use their chopsticks.

"We've almost bought all the things. Starting tomorrow, you two will practice martial arts in the morning. In the afternoon, you will go to the study to get the "Martial Arts Essentials" and learn how to lead troops in war."

"I don't want you two to be beheaded by Japanese pirates and barbarians because you don't know how to fight and only know how to fight."

Zhu Gaoxu did not forget to remind him, and the two of them nodded quickly and said they would study hard.

But after nodding, Wang Xuan remembered something, so he reminded:

"Your Highness, when the Duke's Mansion sent something during the day, a hundred households in the Grand Church also sent someone to send news."

"In August, many military attachés' children will go to Beijing to take the martial arts exam. This time, the number is 2000. I'm afraid they will have to live near us."

"Ignore him, just take care of ourselves." Zhu Gaoxu ate seriously, but his mind was filled with the contents of the military book he had just read.

Since time traveling, not only has his body grown faster than before, but his memory has also improved a lot.

Although it is not possible to have a photographic memory at the moment, it is very easy to recall the contents of the military book.

Feeling his memory, even Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but feel happy in his heart: "It can be considered a golden finger from time travel..."

(End of this chapter)