NOVPUBChapter 416 -152 Master Chen, the Gang Leader requests your presence! (10,000 characters asking for subscription)_5
Chapter 416 -152 Master Chen, the Gang Leader requests your presence! (10,000 characters asking for subscription)_5
In a regular army, most were still ordinary soldiers. Those in the Skin Refining Realm or Refining Body Realm might have been battle-hardened veterans.
And artillery would be more than enough to deal with them.
Tao Guangyi was definitely a talent. Perhaps other rulers of this era would have difficulty understanding his thinking, but Chen Jie, being a modern person, could understand. *He was a plain scientific researcher, with the most simple and pure dream!*
Chen Jie came from a time where tool use reached extraordinary heights, where mankind achieved invincible power with the help of tools.
This world revered Martial Arts, which made Chen Jie ponder: what about this world’s Double Absolute Peak, Zhang Sanfeng, the Mulan National Master Basiba Living Buddha, with cultivation reaching the heavens? *He wondered, could they withstand a few nuclear bombs?*
These were, of course, wild scientific fantasies. Tao Guangyi’s whimsical ideas caused Chen Jie’s thoughts to scatter wildly.
However, Chen Jie quickly snapped out of this scientific daydream.
Watching Tao Guangyi leave, Chen Jie turned to Xiao Hu and said, “What do you think of this person?”
Xiao Hu replied, “Not much, Master Chen, this person cannot be heavily relied upon!”
“Oh, why is that?”
Chen Jie looked at Xiao Hu and asked. Xiao Hu, upon hearing this, said, “This person speaks nonsense, talking about gunpowder, rockets, Kongming Lanterns, and even wanting to go to the moon, it’s all absurd talk. This person might be suffering from hysteria!”
Chen Jie listened and looked at Xiao Hu, asking, “Is that truly how you think of him?”
Xiao Hu replied, “How else should I think of him? Can we truly believe he can go to the moon?”
Chen Jie thought about it, and indeed, historically, even Wan Hu didn’t succeed. But such forward-thinking was worth acknowledging. Although this kind of thinking was so out of place in this era, even sounding like mere gossip, *geniuses are always lonely!*
Moreover, he knew that Wan Hu’s idea was correct. Humanity indeed could reach the moon in the future, but his method was somewhat naive. Perhaps he wouldn’t accomplish his dream of flight in his lifetime.
But as long as one dared to dream, the future would eventually be realized.
Furthermore, this person had extensive research on gunpowder. It was vital to solve the power problem before realizing the dream of flight, and solving the power problem essentially meant researching artillery.
Artillery!
Chen Jie had ideas. Future large-scale battles would undoubtedly involve Martial Arts experts confronting each other, and ordinary armies would also engage in battle.
With rulers going against rulers and generals versus generals, to achieve victory, in addition to top-level martial prowess, the lower-level soldiers also had to be strong.
To arm low-level soldiers, Chen Jie knew of two methods. One was to form military formations to gain powerful combat strength, and the other was through weapons.
At the level of ordinary people, artillery was certainly more powerful than ordinary swords.
Of course, these were still just early ideas.
Thinking of this, Chen Jie looked at Xiao Hu and said, “Xiao Hu.”
“Yes.”
“In the future, if Tao Guangyi wishes to see me, report to me immediately.”
“Ah, Master Chen, is this person so important?”
Chen Jie smiled and said, “Used well, he could rival an army of ten thousand.”
“Ah, that powerful?”
Chen Jie responded, “Not powerful yet, but given enough time, he is bound to be the most powerful.”
Xiao Hu didn’t quite understand, but it didn’t matter. He knew that Chen Jie placed great importance on Tao Guangyi, so he needed to be more respectful and polite to him in the future.
Chen Jie stretched, rubbed his stomach, feeling a bit hungry, and turned to the maidservant behind him, asking, “Where is Madam?”
Upon hearing this, the maidservant replied, “Madam is teaching students at the school.”
“Oh,”
Chen Jie responded, and at this moment, in a separate courtyard at the rear of White Tiger Hall, there were sounds of reading.
In a spacious classroom, with open doors and windows, more than thirty children were studying inside.
At the very front of the classroom stood a blackboard, on which Su Yunjin was writing a line of words with chalk made from lime powder: [The Master said: Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals?]
Today, Su Yunjin wore a white top, with a Jade Pendant tied around her waist, a gift from Chen Jie on her birthday this year, paired with a red skirt and red embroidered shoes.
Her hair was styled in a simple bun, adorned with just one wooden hairpin.
Although she had many hairpins now, whether gold, jade, or other types, she didn’t like them; she preferred wearing just one wooden hairpin.
She appeared simple and unpretentious, yet knowledgeable.
At this moment, holding half a piece of chalk, she pointed to the line on the blackboard and said, “Come, let’s review yesterday’s lesson on the Persuasion article, everyone read together.”
“The Master said,”
“The Master said: Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals? Is it not a joy to have friends come from afar? Is it not gentlemanly not to become incensed when others fail to understand you? The Master said…”
The thirty children shook their heads and recited from The Analects.
Su Yunjin watched these young students with satisfaction. These children varied in age, the youngest seated at the three front desks in the first row.
At the middle desk sat Ruirui Su Yunrui, with a maidservant named Yin Hongmei to the left.
Sitting at the right desk was a ten-year-old boy named Sun Yong.
His father was one of the six warriors who followed Xiao Hu that day to protect Su Yunjin, but his father died in battle.
To honor his father’s loyalty and bravery, Chen Jie adopted him as his adoptive son, and he was currently studying with Su Yunjin.
The child was very sensible and eager to learn, and Chen Jie liked him very much.
These people were studying earnestly, reciting the words of sages diligently, when Chen Jie appeared at the academy entrance, standing there watching the children.
