Even if Li Xiao was killed, he would never have imagined that this fifth-rank official of the Ming Dynasty, the capital of Liaoyang, was actually a fortune teller.

"Mao Wenlong, what are you teaching the children?" Li Xiao pinched Mao Wenlong's collar and asked fiercely.

"It's just some miscellaneous studies, why are you in a hurry?" Mao Wenlong saw that Li Xiao was coming with bad intentions, so he took a step back and said.

"Miscellaneous studies? You fucking taught them fortune telling. My two little ones are now fortune tellers." Li Xiao was heartbroken! Who would have thought that Xiaoyu, who is as cute as an angel, would actually drag Man Gui and talk about Man Boss?

Her eyes were full of peach blossoms. Man Gui's hands were trembling with excitement! If Li Xiao hadn't stopped him, Man Gui would have rushed to the school and Mao Wenlong would have beaten her up.

"Isn't it a burden to have so many arts?"

"Fuck me!"

"Brother Xiao! Brother Xiao! Don't do anything, we have something to talk about."

Seeing that Li Xiao was really anxious, Mao Wenlong hurriedly raised his hands to beg for mercy. This person was the leader of Pi Dao, and there would be no good consequences if he offended him.

"From now on, you teach, teach the Three Character Classic, and the Hundred Names of Family. Just make the children literate, and I will teach the rest arithmetic myself. From now on, the principal is not yours, I will be the principal myself. I have the final say on what to teach. Do you hear me!

"Li Xiao roared viciously.

"I know, I'm not deaf." Mao Wenlong pretended to pick out his ears. Years of official career have sharpened his heart, thick skin, and shamelessness. If an official doesn't have this ability, it would be really difficult.

What a mess.

Besides, Li Xiao has nothing to do but he wants to lead his troops out to fight a war or rob something. At that time, he will not have the final say in this school. The most knowledgeable people on the island are the two of them. If he doesn’t use himself, who will he use?

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There is nothing that can be done about this old bureaucrat Li Xiao. In these days, as long as he is a scholar, he is busy taking exams to become an official. Many scholars are the victims of exam-oriented education and they are asked to come to the island to teach. Whether they come or not is another matter.

Now that he's here, he may not be able to teach him well. It's better to let this old bastard teach him first. At least he won't have to prick the child with needles.

After letting the old guy go, Yunhao went to find Zhang Mazi. He had to get some teaching aids for the children anyway. Mathematics class is different from Chinese class. This course requires teaching aids!

As soon as he made it clear to Zhang Mazi, he was dragged away by Ao Canghai. He was asked to see the training results of the artillery team. He knew that this guy was showing off, so he had to let him go. Who doesn't have vanity? Lao Ao has been training very hard recently.

Work hard and satisfy him for a little while.

After recruiting this group of 500 people from Shandong, Li Xiao did not organize a new musketry company. The reason was that there were not so many guns. However, the artillery team did form five companies, each with a total of 100 people including baggage troops.

Five companies are exactly 500 people!

Of course, Li Xiao did not have artillery in his hands.

However, Li Xiao could build the trebuchet by himself. Since Zhao Tiezhu lost to the old fisherman in steelmaking skills, Li Xiao asked him to concentrate on building the trebuchet, and even got him a simple bending machine for this purpose.

The training for the trebuchet is as simple as drawing a circle with lime on the open space on the hillside. Then someone will control the trebuchet and throw stones into the circle.

The stones are all modeled after gunpowder bullets, weighing fifteen pounds each.

Ao Canghai's training method is very unique. It doesn't matter how you aim - it doesn't matter! How you control the throwing force - it doesn't matter! How you control the throwing angle - it doesn't matter!

Anyway, there were ten people in a gun crew, and the veteran of the original artillery team was appointed as the gun commander. After learning the simplest trebuchet operation, Ao Canghai didn't care about anything.

A group of people spend all day fighting in circles, and the cost of training is very low anyway. The wear and tear of the trebuchet is the biggest expense.

Ten days is an assessment cycle. According to the regulations, stones are thrown into the circles drawn with lime. Every meal has fish and meat, steamed buns, steamed buns, and rice.

If you fail the assessment, I'm sorry. Seaweed soup is just pickles, and Shandong people like to eat noodles. I just gave you rice to eat. If you want to eat white flour steamed buns, I can tell you that I will give it to you next time when you are thrown into the circle during the assessment.

Facts have proved that the best teacher is not a gold medal teacher or a special teacher. The stomach is the best teacher!

We were eating together in the same cafeteria, and someone had a choice of fish, meat, steamed buns, and rice. After the exam, there was wine and dinner, so I could only eat dry rice and look at it. The taste makes people feel shabby just thinking about it.

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In fact, many people in Shandong cannot afford pickled vegetables and rice, but this is just a matter of fear of comparison.

In order to be able to eat big fish and meat, everyone trained hard. The simple distance measurement method taught by Li Xiao personally spread rapidly among the gunners. You don't need to teach me, everyone is sincere and humbly asking for advice.

Because their calculations were inaccurate, they failed the assessment. The gunners themselves did not dare to look into the eyes of the gunners!

Today is the day of assessment, and I guess the results should be about the same. So Ao Canghai wanted to show off, so he not only invited Li Xiao, but also Man Gui.

Man Gui has not been idle recently, patrolling the island day and night. Master Wu brought hundreds of war horses to the island, and Li Xiao allocated them all to them.

However, when going out to fight, Pi Dao's ships still cannot bring war horses. There is no way, the trebuchets take up too much space. Li Xiao doesn't have enough ships now!

"Brother Xiao! Brother Man! Take a good look!" Ao Canghai confidently boasted to Li Xiao and Man Gui.

"Okay, let's watch!" Man Gui knew the power of the artillery team on the battlefield. As long as they have this thing, the musketry team is actually of little use!

"First lap, get ready! Let's go!" The first lap is a 150-meter lap, which is the closest lap.

"Bang", "bang", "bang"...! Ten trebuchets were fired together. Ten stones weighing fifteen kilograms landed accurately in a circle with a diameter of two meters.

Li Xiao nodded with satisfaction. The explosive power of nitrocellulose can tear a war horse into pieces within two meters, let alone the people on the horse. Armor is just a decoration in front of the bomb.

"Second circle!" The second circle is a circle of 300 meters, which is a bit far away. But the circle has also expanded to three meters in diameter! At this distance within three meters, the explosive power of nitrocellulose is also very impressive

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This time, the ten trebuchets were still thrown into the circle steadily.

"Third circle! Prepare! Release!" In the third circle, the range doubled again, reaching 600 meters. The circle drawn with white ash on the ground is four meters in diameter!

This distance is almost the limit of the effective range of the trebuchet. It can be thrown farther away. But there is no guarantee of accuracy! There are too many unpredictable factors such as the shape of the stone and the wind speed.
Chapter completed!