The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 299 Liu Bei: I just had a few exchanges with Zilong...

When Liu Bei heard Yang Ji say that he needed to ask Zhao Yun about the literacy situation of the soldiers stationed in the farming areas, he subconsciously looked in the direction of Xia Pi.

Liu Bei suddenly had an impulse to fly back to Xia Pi to ask Zhao Yun about the current situation of the literacy campaign among the soldiers stationed in the fields.

It is not easy to draw soldiers from the battle sequence to participate in popular education. As a literacy teacher, he teaches others 3,500 commonly used and less commonly used characters.

However, there is no problem with the garrison soldiers, especially since the garrison soldiers under Zhao Yun's command are spread all over the territory under Liu Bei's rule.

If the literacy campaign among the garrison soldiers is completed well, we can then directly launch a literacy campaign for ordinary people on the spot.

"Lord Xuande, do you want to return to Xia Pi to find Zilong to inquire about the situation?" Yang Ji knew what Liu Bei was thinking just by looking at his eager look.

Liu Bei turned to look at Yang Ji and asked in confusion, "Is there any problem?"

Although Liu Bei was not very clear about the exact number of soldiers stationed in the fields, he still knew the approximate number.

If one-tenth of the garrison soldiers completed the learning of commonly used characters, then they could draw tens of thousands of literate soldiers from the garrison soldiers.

These are tens of thousands of literate soldiers. If they were transformed into teachers of literacy classes, those children from aristocratic families who do not teach seriously could be eliminated from the ranks of teachers in an instant.

Originally, using these scum as teachers for literacy classes was a helpless move. Now that they have the possibility to replace them with people they have trained themselves, of course they have to promptly replace those guys who may cause serious hidden dangers.

As for how to relocate those who have been replaced, that is something to be solved later. The teacher shortage has a higher priority.

Liu Bei looked at Yang Ji, wanting to hear Yang Ji's reasons for stopping him. After all, there were some things he could not react to.

Seeing Liu Bei looking like he wanted to fly, Yang Ji said helplessly: "Did you forget, Lord Xuande, that the spring ploughing season will begin in a few days?

If you go to Zilong now, won't that cause trouble for the upcoming spring ploughing in Xuzhou?"

After Zhao Yun arrived in Xuzhou, he not only took charge of Xuzhou's military affairs, but also presided over Xuzhou's military farming affairs.

After all, Xuzhou was a new territory. Unlike Qingzhou and Yanzhou, Zhao Yun had already established a relatively complete military farming system there.

Even without Zhao Yun's supervision, this year's spring plowing work could be completed smoothly, but the new territory of Xuzhou was different.

In Xuzhou, which had never carried out military farming before, everything about military farming was blank, so Zhao Yun, the military farming commander, had to be personally responsible for it.

Although Zhao Yun has trained a number of military farm captains who can be used to build the military farm system, and even has a military farm god like Zao Zhi as his deputy.

However, the military farming work in the five states of Qing, Xu, Yan, Ji and Yu is different from that in other states and counties. Without Zhao Yun's supervision, Chen Xi and others are also worried.

It is already March in the lunar calendar, which is the busy time for spring plowing. Liu Bei is now looking for Zhao Yun to count the literacy rates of the soldiers stationed in the fields. Isn't this just giving Zhao Yun something to do?
Although after Zhao Yun received this task, he probably just handed it over to the officers below to do the statistics.

However, given Zhao Yun's character, he would definitely follow through from beginning to end, and pay attention to seeing things through to the end.

"Uh..." When Liu Bei heard the words 'spring plowing', he immediately dissipated the internal energy he had just raised. He was really planning to fly to Zhao Yun to inquire about the situation.

"Spring ploughing is more important. Let's send someone to do a count after we return to Fenggao." Liu Bei said somewhat embarrassedly.

Yang Ji just looked at Liu Bei without saying anything. He reasonably suspected that Liu Bei had subconsciously separated the positions of military general and military commander from Zhao Yun because he had recently felt Zhao Yun's powerful military force.

Alas, it’s because once Zhao Yun shows his extraordinary martial arts, people will subconsciously forget that Zhao Yun has a spiritual talent.

Facing Yang Ji's suspicious eyes, Liu Bei subconsciously avoided Yang Ji's sight.

"..."Aren't you just admitting your guilt?

"Well, I had a few exchanges with Zilong a few days ago, and subconsciously forgot that Zilong also had the identity of a military farm commander." Liu Bei said vaguely.

"What about the process and the result?" Yang Ji was not surprised at all that Liu Bei would be shocked into a trance by Zhao Yun's martial arts.

Only by truly reaching the realm of internal energy leaving the body can one truly sense what kind of combat power Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu... these top martial arts masters actually possess.

"..."Faced with Yang Ji's question, Liu Bei didn't want to speak. If there was something to say, would he still need to forget the fact that Zhao Yun was a military farm commander?
"Oh - I know why Lord Xuande subconsciously ignored Zilong's identity as the commander of the military farm." Yang Ji said with a smile.

"You're looking for a fight!" Liu Bei angrily swung his scabbard and hit Yang Ji.

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After several days of marching, Liu Bei finally returned to Fenggao, which was loyal to him.

"Zichuan, we are back from Xuzhou." After Liu Bei entered the Government Affairs Hall, he ran to harass Chen Xi. After all, Chen Xi was the one who looked the most idle in the entire Government Affairs Hall. Who else could he harass if not him?

"Lord Xuande—Ah." Chen Xi yawned, rubbed his eyes, and then said, "Do you have something to talk to me about?"

"Can't I come to see you if nothing happens?" Liu Bei said unhappily. In fact, he wanted to wake Chen Xi up because he saw him sleeping in the Government Affairs Hall.

"No, I didn't say that." Chen Xi shook his head quickly. He couldn't say such things casually.

"Okay, I won't joke with you anymore, let's get down to business." Liu Bei shook his head and patted Chen Xi's shoulder.
"What's the matter?" Chen Xi also sat up straight and asked Liu Bei. Something that could make Liu Bei so serious must be an important matter.

Chen Xi thought to himself that after all, Liu Bei had come to him many times before for some so-called important matters that could be easily solved.

Although what are considered serious matters in the eyes of Liu Bei, Lu Su and others cannot be considered serious matters, after all, many of those matters can be easily solved.

What is a serious matter for Liu Bei and others may not be a serious matter for Chen Xi.

"Do you still remember the incident a few days ago where a literacy teacher taught children bad things? I may have found a solution to the problem." Liu Bei said to Chen Xi with shining eyes.

Liu Bei had long wanted to throw those scum who tried to corrupt the children into the mines to dig, but unfortunately due to the shortage of teachers, this idea had never been realized.

Now that there is a way to obtain a larger number of literacy teachers to replace those guys, how could Liu Bei not be excited.

"..." Chen Xi looked at Liu Bei with a serious expression. Popularizing education is indeed a serious matter, and it is a big serious matter at that.

Before Chen Xi asked Liu Bei what the solution was, Liu Bei excitedly told him.

"Do you still remember the literacy campaign you asked Zi Yu to carry out for our soldiers in the barracks two years ago?" Liu Bei said excitedly. "Lord Xuande, do you want to transfer these soldiers who have completed the literacy course to schools in various places as literacy teachers?" Chen Xi asked with a frown.

He thought Liu Bei could come up with some feasible suggestions, but this is the result?

How could Chen Xi not have thought of using these soldiers who had completed the scholar course?

However, these soldiers who have completed the literacy courses are the backbone of their army.

If these people were withdrawn, the combat effectiveness of the Taishan Headquarters Army would decline significantly.

In this chaotic era, when war could break out at any time, ensuring the combat effectiveness of the army under your command is the most important thing. Chen Xi would not take the risk to dismantle the organizational structure of his army.

"I'm not stupid enough to destroy the foundation for ending the troubled times." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi's shocked expression and said speechlessly.

Chen Xi is really something. Can't he trust him once in strategy? He has grown up now.

"So what do you mean?" Chen Xi didn't care about Liu Bei's silence. If it weren't for the soldiers in the barracks, Chen Xi couldn't think of where Liu Bei could get the missing teachers from.

"When the major legions were laying off veterans, many literate veterans also retired and served as officers in the garrison troops." Liu Bei said excitedly as he looked at Chen Xi.

"Uh...!" Chen Xi widened his eyes and suddenly looked at Yang Ji who was sitting next to him.

"Zi Yu, you should have given the order to those veterans who had retired from the front line to continue the literacy campaign among the soldiers stationed in the fields, right?" Chen Xi asked Yang Ji nervously.

If Yang Ji really completed the task in excess, Chen Xi couldn't even imagine how many soldiers he could recruit to serve as literacy teachers. At least he could gather the literacy teachers needed for the two states and three counties.

As long as Yang Ji dared to nod, Chen Xi would dare to remove those guys from the ranks of literacy class teachers.

Chen Xi had long disliked those guys. When the time comes, he will just throw them into the mine to serve as low-level managers, and the garbage will be fully squeezed out of its surplus value before being thrown away.

Lu Su, Jia Xu, Xun Yu and others also hurriedly looked at Yang Ji. They had also received reports about the chaos in local literacy schools.

When they first received the relevant report, they went down to inspect and dealt with quite a few guys who had seriously messed up. There were also some guys who had to be dealt with lightly. After all, if too many people were dealt with, schools across the country might have to go on strike.

However, these guys are indeed the scum of the aristocratic family. After seeing that they were unable to catch the troublemakers in one fell swoop, they became even more unscrupulous.

In desperation, Jia Xu and his men could only conduct strict investigations and severe punishments. If they found any troublemaker, they would directly throw him into the mine and make him mine for a while.

However, after throwing the troublemaker into the mine, they now have to worry about the problem of the literacy teacher.

There is no way, because the territory Liu Bei occupies is too large, and even if the scholars from the newly occupied areas are added, it is still not enough.

If Yang Ji's literacy campaign among the soldiers in the military farms could be completed to a high degree, the shortage of teachers for literacy classes could be solved at one stroke, and the aristocratic families could be excluded from the great cause of universal education.

After all, it was those aristocratic families who disgusted them in the first place. Since they didn't want to join this great cause, just kick them out, which would just suit their wishes.

The Zhuge brothers, the Sima brothers, and Pang Tong looked at Yang Ji with some confusion, following Xun Yu and others.

Those who had just joined Liu Bei's rule were not aware of the foreshadowing that had been laid a few years earlier.

Seeing the serious faces of Chen Xi and others, Yang Ji said hesitantly: "I did give orders to the veterans who retired from the front line to carry out literacy among the soldiers stationed in the fields, but I am not sure about the execution of the order."

After all, Liu Bei had a lot of things to deal with in the past two years, so how could he have the time to pay attention to this foreshadowing that he had casually laid?

Moreover, it can be said that it is a foreshadowing that was laid casually. Whatever kind of fruit can grow is a harvest, the only difference is whether the harvest is big or small.

"It's okay, as long as you have given the order." Chen Xi laughed. It would be okay as long as Yang Ji had given the order.

Yang Ji's act of teaching soldiers to read and write in the military camp earned him a lot of reputation.

It can be said that Yang Ji's reputation among the soldiers is even comparable to that of Liu Bei. Now, whenever Yang Ji appears in front of the soldiers he has taught to read, there will definitely be soldiers who call him Mr. Yang.

If Liu Bei was not naturally friendly and a new generation of Han succubus, Yang Ji would definitely be the most prestigious general in the Taishan Army.

"Hey, Shuzhi, have someone deliver this document to Zhao Zilong, the military governor."

Chen Xi threw the hastily written document into Wang Xiu's hands with great precision and asked him to send someone to deliver it to Zhao Yun in Xuzhou.

"Yes." Wang Xiu didn't care about Chen Xi's way of speaking. He just put down the work in his hands, walked out of the Government Affairs Hall and found the messenger to deliver the document.

"Well, Zichuan, if you give the document to Zilong, won't it disturb Zilong's military farming work in Xuzhou? Now is the spring plowing season." Liu Bei glanced at Yang Ji, then asked Chen Xi.

"No, if I send the document, Zilong will not personally supervise this matter." Chen Xi shook his head and said.

"Um, but..." Liu Bei looked at Yang Ji. Why did Chen Xi and Yang Ji say different things?

Chen Xi glanced at Yang Ji, who was sitting in a chair and drinking tea calmly, and knew what Liu Bei was struggling with.

"If Lord Xuande were to personally inquire about this matter, or even go to Zilong to ask in person, Zilong would most likely do it himself.

But if I were to inform Zilong of this matter by issuing a document.

He will probably think that I have known about this for a long time, and I am only issuing the document to count the specific number of people. "Chen Xi sighed and said.

If Liu Bei went to inquire about this matter in person, even if Zhao Yun was busy with other things, he would have to take time out to investigate and collect the statistics in person.

It was not because of anything else, but because Liu Bei came personally to look for someone, which meant that the situation had become extremely urgent.

And if Chen Xi notified him through a signed document and asked him to count the soldiers among the garrison troops who had completed the common characters course, then Zhao Yun could just find a garrison captain to do it.

After all, apart from the reasons Chen Xi just gave, since he was notified through written document, it meant that the matter was not very urgent and had not reached the point where immediate action was required.

After listening to Chen Xi's explanation, Liu Bei also understood the difference between him going to Zhao Yun in person and Chen Xi notifying him through written notice.

"Then, what should I do if I need to find you for something in the future?" Liu Bei asked with some confusion.

(End of this chapter)