Regarding the collection of civilians outside the country, many new military laws have been formulated for this point.

Later, Liu Bei discussed more details with Guan Yu and Li Mengxi.

For example, things like hatchets, sickles, and hoes can be distributed to civilians. The result of the discussion between the three people is that they should be distributed to disadvantaged groups.

What is a vulnerable group? Although the most vulnerable group, women, children, the elderly and the weak, have all been organized into the women and children camp, in the civilian camp, if further subdivided, there is still a difference between the strong and the weak between the able-bodied and the elderly.

Therefore, sickles, firewood, knives, hoes, etc. should be given priority to the elderly and the weak.

The reason for such consideration.

First, if we consider the division of labor and cooperation, how can we maximize the overall collection efficiency every time we go out to collect after setting up camp?

That is, the young and the strong should climb high, and the old and weak should choose low.

Old people can also pick things from low places on the ground.

But the old man can't reach the bird's nest branches on the tree.

If the division of labor can be clarified, then the young and the strong will have the purpose to go all out to collect the places that the old people cannot reach, and the old people can also have the greatest harvesting efficiency.

When an old person picks a wild vegetable on the ground, it takes the same amount of time as when a young person picks it.

However, there is only one wild vegetable, and the old man and the young man go to pick it at the same time. No matter who picks it, one of them will pick it, and the other person will have to spend time looking for someone else.

Therefore, if the division of labor can be clearly defined, with young adults collecting branches from trees and old people collecting branches from the ground, and starting work at the same time, the overall efficiency is estimated to be increased by one to two percent.

Thousands of people collected and harvested 10% or 20% more. This total is not small.

Secondly, consider taking care of the elderly and the weak.

If you collect things in the wild, you won't actually be able to collect much.

At most, I can only pick up more firewood.

Even without tools, Qing Zhuang can climb trees and break branches, and can easily uproot Artemisia seedlings from the ground.

But not only was it difficult for the old man to climb the tree, he also had poor strength and inflexible hands and feet.

Without tools, the collection efficiency is much lower than that of Qingzhuang.

Therefore, giving tools to the elderly and weak can help them collect firewood more efficiently.

It's not a big problem now, but it's August and autumn has entered. It will get cold after a while, and you'll have to light up a bonfire to keep warm at night.

If there is not enough firewood, people will freeze to death.

Everyone must have firewood.

Young people can gather enough firewood for daily burning without tools, and old people who are not physically strong can get enough firewood with the help of tools.

It is enough to make the young and strong have no surplus, but it is enough; to make the old and the weak have nothing or lack, it is enough; this is called distribution, this is called equalization.

Also, regarding the tools used as arms reserves, how many should be prepared.

The result of the preliminary discussion is.

You have to keep one hundred sickles, fifty hoes, fifty hatchets, fifty shovels, fifty axes, and thirty saws.

It's getting dark, so it's inconvenient to check the supplies. It won't be too late to do it tomorrow.

Late at night, Li Mengxi took his brother back to sleep.

When Li Mengxi wanted to take out paper and pen to write something as usual, he realized that he had run out of paper.

When we set out from Zhuozhou, we brought hundreds of large sheets of paper with us, but they were all used up. There was no space left to write on, and they were all filled up.

Because of the poor quality of the paper, when I write one stroke, a large area is smudged, so I have to write bigger. The back of the paper is also smudged, and I cannot write on the back.

What can we do?

Helpless, Li Mengxi had no choice but to go back.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu were talking about the art of war, and it was still "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.

Because Li Mengxi learned quickly and Liu Bei's memory was poor, he learned very slowly and couldn't remember it for a long time. Guan Yu had to follow Liu Bei's pace.

Liu Bei hasn’t finished half of the first chapter of The Art of War yet.

One of them was talking and the other was listening. They were immersed in the conversation when they suddenly saw Li Mengxi coming again.

"Mr. Xuande, I have no more paper. I have finished writing."

Liu Bei was a little surprised. When he left Zhuozhou, he brought a thick stack of paper with him, and he had finished writing it all? How many words did he write?

Li Mengxi said that there was a shortage of paper, and Liu Bei and Guan Yu stopped talking about the art of war. Liu Bei said that there was a lot of cloth in the army, so just two pieces would be enough to last for a while, and he would buy more paper when he came across it.

Guan Yu said to wait a moment and go get something.

Then, both of them left.

After a while, Liu Bei came back first, holding five or six pieces of linen in his arms, as thick as a bowl.

After waiting for a while, Guan Yu also came back, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand.

"Here, Xi'er."

Guan Yu handed over the bamboo slips and a carving knife in the other hand, "This is a new slip, not a single word has been engraved on it. I give it to you."

Li Mengxi happily took the slips and the knife. He had not played with bamboo slips yet.

The paper matter was temporarily solved, and Li Mengxi was anxious to go back and memorize things. He didn't stay long and went back with the bamboo slips and cloth.

After Li Mengxi left, the topic between Liu Bei and Guan Yu became related to Li Mengxi.

Guan Yu was also curious about what Li Mengxi had written, and he finished writing all the paper.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu agreed to take a look when they had time.

Besides, when Li Mengxi returned to the car, he spread the cloth on his lap and wrote with a pen.

"August seventeenth.

At the beginning of the rebellion, the civilians were ordered to disperse out of the camp to collect.

Remember in this matter, knowledge about ecosystem complexity.

The areas with abundant resources are from high to low, woods - shrubs - grass - land - desert.

This piece of knowledge can be used in war.

If one day, the army is defeated and flees, and all the military supplies are lost, you can seek food in the jungle, the bushes again, and the weeds again.

In the jungle, there can be tigers and wolves, wild boars and deer, foxes and rabbits, birds and snakes. A tiger weighs five hundred in total and has three hundred kilograms of meat, and wolves, pigs, foxes and deer have two hundred kilograms of meat.

Jin, a genus of rabbit, bird and snake, has several kilograms of meat.

A piece of jungle may yield a thousand catties of meat, not to mention grass, fruits and wild vegetables.

But if you forage in the grass, there are only rabbits, snakes, birds and cranes in the grass, and you can only get dozens of kilograms of meat, which is not enough to meet the shortage of army rations.

From this, we also know that in the past, we knew that people accompanied the army to purchase, but now civilians go out to collect. In ancient times, when marching, there are two known methods of logistical supplementation, one is purchasing, and the other is collecting in the wild.

We can collect wild animals, firewood, herbs, wild vegetables, etc. Although there are not many, they are one of the means of supplementing logistics."

After writing this, Li Mengxi stopped writing. He frowned and thought for a moment, then realized that it was time to write about what he discussed with Liu Bei and Guan Yu that night.

“On this day, we negotiated and concluded regulations on the armament of auxiliary armaments in the military.

If you are going through mountains and valleys, someone needs to cut down trees in front of you to clear the way, so you need to have axes and iron saws in your army.

If a water attack is to be carried out, the army should prepare hoes and shovels.

And so on.

Therefore, in case of emergency, the army should prepare a number of various tools."

"The axe-hand's beheading ax is a special armament and must be prepared."

"There are seven special military regulations for civilians to go out to collect:

First: When you encounter hares, wild vegetables, etc. in the wild, who gets it first and who gets it, there is no fighting over it. If there is a conflict, ask someone to judge it in public, and do not fight in private. Violators will be whipped twenty times.

Second: There are many wolves, worms, tigers and leopards in the wild. We are afraid that the people will be in danger, so we send a team of rangers to patrol around.

Third: The duty of the rangers is to patrol and guard. Therefore, the rangers are not allowed to participate in collection, and they are not allowed to abandon their duties and ignore them. Violators will be whipped twenty times.

Fourth: Rangers are not allowed to ask for anything from civilians. Anyone who violates this rule will be whipped forty times and will be killed if he does so again.

Fifth: Rangers are not allowed to buy anything from civilians. Violators will be punished with ten lashes.

Sixth: If the common people obtain wild animals such as hares and rabbit skins, which are useless in the hands of the common people, they can purchase them collectively to make leather armor. (Whether rabbit skin can be used as armor has yet to be determined)

Seventh: Tools such as sickles and firewood are given priority to the elderly and the weak.

complete.
Chapter completed!