Zhao Jun raised his hand and said, "I have a watch here, can you help me take a look?"
Yan Shu leaned over and saw that he was indeed wearing something on his wrist, with three pointers on it, each pointing to a different number.
Fortunately, he recognized those numbers, which were Arab numerals. The problem was that he couldn't understand them.
After a moment's hesitation, he said, "The shortest finger is four, the thinnest and fastest finger is between seven and eight, and the longest finger is two."
"Four twenty?"
Zhao Jun asked in confusion, "Uncle Lari, you don't understand watches?"
Yan Shu looked back at Zhao Zhen and the others, and said helplessly: "The village is poor and can't afford a watch."
"All right."
Zhao Jun thought so too.
Many people think that China has completely solved the problem of poverty.
But after watching Baoqiang's movie "In the Octagon", you will know how serious the situation is.
Zhao Jun made sufficient preparations before coming and investigated a lot of information, only then did he realize how poor Daliangshan is.
In many places, people really can't even afford to eat, let alone electrical appliances, home furnishings, etc. It can be said that they are extremely poor.
Especially in deep mountains and old forests like Nini Village, according to the information he investigated, children in nearby villages have to prepare a day's worth of dry food to go to school, which is just some fermented beans or roasted potatoes, which is very pitiful.
Thinking of this, Zhao Jun regretted asking the old villager about the long time, and said, "Uncle Lari, don't worry, the country will definitely increase its poverty alleviation efforts and strive to make everyone in the village live a prosperous life."
“I believe in the country.”
Yan Shu answered according to his words.
Zhao Jun thought for a moment and changed the subject, "By the way, how many students are there in our village?"
"Forehead....."
Yan Shu turned his head and glanced at Zhao Zhen and the others. They winked at him and told him to make up a random number. Thinking of his own ten children, he casually said, "Ten."
"Ten?"
Zhao Jun was surprised and asked, "Are there so many? I went to the Education Bureau to report before, and the staff there said there were only 28 children in our village primary school. And that's all the students from the surrounding 14 villages. There are 10 in Nini Village alone?"
Yan Shu felt his scalp tingling, having encountered something he didn't know yet. He could only mumble, "So...that's why the school is located in our village."
"Um...yes."
Zhao Jun took a bite of the steamed bun and said, "Actually, I'm a little embarrassed. Although our school has a lunch program and a charity program, we usually have to cook dinner ourselves. Now I'm eating and drinking for free at your house."
Yan Shu said, "It's okay. I really like listening to you talk about history, especially jokes about the Song Dynasty. If Teacher Zhao likes to talk about it, then please tell me more."
"You're welcome, just call me Xiao Zhao."
Zhao Jun smiled and said, "I thought you didn't like it before. If you like it in the future, I will tell you one every day."
"Okay, okay."
Yan Shu sat next to him and said, "By the way, didn't you say before that Li Yuanhao won the war against the Song Dynasty? How did he win?"
"The Battle of Sanchuankou, the Battle of Haoshuichuan, and the Battle of Dingchuanzhai—all three Li Yuanhao victorious, frightening the Song Dynasty Prime Minister Lü Yijian to exclaim, 'One battle is worse than the last, how terrifying!' Coupled with the Liao Kingdom's intervention, Song Renzong had no choice but to acknowledge Li Yuanhao's founding of the state."
Zhao Jun answered casually.
Later, Lu Yijian's face changed slightly. He didn't expect that he had a role in this.
Yan Shu asked, "Then why did we lose?"
"The reason is simple: command disorganization, outdated intelligence, the Song army's low combat effectiveness, and excessive underestimation of Li Yuanhao. There are also some minor reasons such as the generals being afraid of death. Let's talk about the Battle of Sanchuankou first."
Zhao Jun said, "Li Yuanhao was far more clever than Song Renzong and his gang. Before the battle, he gathered intelligence on the generals, troop deployments, and material supplies throughout the northwestern regions of the Northern Song Dynasty. Li Yuanhao even knew about Renzong's dismissal of 270 palace maids in the second year of the Baoyuan reign. He secretly paid a large sum of money to buy off several of them, and thus, Li Yuanhao gained full control of the Northern Song court's punishments and rewards, official transfers, and the secret affairs of the imperial palace."
The court's punishments and rewards, official transfers, and even palace secrets are all known to others?
Zhao Zhen and others immediately gasped.
Their own intelligence was almost like a sieve, no wonder the enemy was able to defeat them.
But before they could be shocked, Zhao Jun continued, "Li Yuanhao made many preparations. After he proclaimed himself emperor of Western Xia, he gathered an army of over 100,000 and began to march south to invade the Northern Song Dynasty."
"Although Li Shibin on the front lines was quite brave, he was also brave but not wise. He was used as an accomplice by several surrendered soldiers from the Western Xia tribe deliberately sent by Li Yuanhao. In addition, the commander Fan Yong was a idiot, and he used those surrendered soldiers as border soldiers. As a result, when the battle broke out, the enemy had tens of thousands of internal supporters, and Li Shibin's bravery was useless."
"Afterwards, tens of thousands of Song troops were annihilated at Jinmingzhai. That idiot Fan Yong actually resorted to speaking directly when passing information to other Song generals. Li Yuanhao intercepted the message and used false intelligence to mobilize the Song troops around Yanzhou to come to the rescue. He employed a tactic of ambushing them halfway with superior forces, setting an ambush at Sanchuankou, the only route the Song army had to take to rescue them."
"So when the Song army, led by General Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun, and several other reinforcements, totaling over 10,000 men, arrived at Sanchuankou to rescue Yanzhou, they found Li Yuanhao's main force of 100,000 men waiting for them. The result is predictable: the Song army was once again annihilated."
"The most infuriating thing is that Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun fought bravely but were captured by the enemy. Huang Dehe, fearing death, fled without a fight. To cover up his guilt, he falsely accused Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun of surrendering to the Western Xia. Upon hearing this, Song Renzong was furious and had Liu Ping's entire family imprisoned. If the Yanzhou military and civilians had not appealed to the Song court on Liu Ping's behalf, it would have been another Yue Fei case."
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