"At this point, do you think that a craftsman with such a common skill as mortise and tenon jointing came here as a suggestion? Do you think that if someone deserves a reward, it should not be rewarded?"

The matter is very clear. The final impact of just a small falcon connection is to increase the wood usage rate by several percent, increasing the final number of siege ladders by dozens. Dozens of siege ladders

Ladders are a big deal when placed in a siege.

The scholars all nodded and said that this should be rewarded.

Then, Li Mengxi talked about the night when the craftsman camp was hastily established and siege equipment was hastily built.

While he was busy, a craftsman came over and asked how long the ladder should be. At this time, Fang felt that he was only busy and ignored the height of the city. Then, he hurriedly entrusted General Guan to go to find out the height of the city wall overnight. After General Guan Yu found out what was going on in the city,

The carpenters camp immediately stopped working to measure the length of the ladders. At this time, it was discovered that four of the ladder crosses that had been made were too short. After all, the carpenters are ordinary country craftsmen. In the countryside, two or three feet is enough to make ladders. This is a habit.

Naturally, he hurriedly built siege equipment without noticing.

If no craftsman comes to make suggestions, the craftsmen come to get rewards. However, although they come to get rewards, their suggestions are of great use.

If the craftsmen hadn't figured this out, five of the ten siege ladders would have been too short. When the city was attacked at dawn, the hundred siege ladders would have been fifty too short. When it came time to attack the city, there was haste and neglect, and the soldiers carried the ladders rashly and rushed to the city.

, as a result, when they were about to build the city using an escalator, they realized that the ladder was too short. This oversight resulted in the death of hundreds of soldiers.

Li Mengxi asked, if the craftsman came to ask the ladder leader that night, should he be rewarded for such an ordinary thing and not taking it seriously?

All the scholars said that they should be rewarded.

Li Mengxi also said that at that time, a carpenter discovered that the two legs of the ladder were of different lengths. It was necessary to saw them evenly. Then he went to test and found that if the legs of the ladder were slightly different in length, if he leaned against the tree casually, it would tilt to one side. As you can imagine,

, if the ladder is put up on the city wall during the siege, it will also be tilted.

Ladders tend to be tilted and easily pushed over. Due to the rush of work, craftsmen cut down the wood, hastily cracked the wood, and then hastily processed the wood to build the ladder. Therefore, in almost all ladders, the length of the legs is not neat enough, or even quite long.

In part, the difference in length between the two legs is quite large.

If we go to attack a city, the legs of the ladder are not aligned and it is easy to fall. Another oversight will result in the death of hundreds of soldiers.

Li Mengxi asked, the craftsman suggested that the ladders are not exactly the same length. This matter is very subtle and seems insignificant. "Then, should I be rewarded?"

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"Natural reward!"

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All the scholars were greatly impressed by the teachings.

In addition, some carpenters said that branches can be used instead of long wood for the stairs. This suggestion is also small, but it uses a large number of unusable branches and saves a lot of wood.

Is this worthy of a reward?

should.

Also, a carpenter suggested that it was dark at night and could not see clearly, and asked if he could light up the fire. This was another oversight. So after that, the army brought in a large amount of firewood and lit up a large number of fires, so that the carpenter's camp site was fully illuminated.

.With this change, the work speed will increase by several percent.

Some carpenters said that there were not enough knives and axes, so they learned that the carpenter camp was short of tools. Although this was not solved at the time, after the march, they deliberately purchased many carpentry tools along the way. In the continuous war that followed, these large quantities of carpentry tools prepared early came into play.

important role.

The Carpenter Battalion is a very important battalion in the army. It is also the first battalion led by Li Mengxi, and it is also the first step for him to gradually start management practices. Similarly, it is precisely because the rebel army has a weak foundation and there are no real arms craftsmen, and it is also precisely because Li Mengxi has great knowledge of carpentry.

He didn't know much about the work, nor was he familiar with the technical points of siege equipment, so he had to rely on ordinary carpenters. War was a major event, life and death depended on it, and he was afraid that the carpenters were not capable enough. At that time, Li Mengxi could only think of ways to motivate the carpenters.

Improve engineering skills as much as possible.

As a result, there was a busy night. Under the influence of the policy of appreciating wisdom, the craftsmen actively used their wisdom overnight and made more than 30 important suggestions for technological improvement overnight.

The result was that a group of ordinary carpenters who had never built a siege ladder before, after improving their craftsmanship more than thirty times, created a sophisticated siege ladder.

Li Mengxi finished telling the story of this first stage. He meaningfully asked the hundred scholars who were selected for the imperial examination who were familiar with the classics, "At that time, there were only a thousand rebels and dozens of craftsmen, and among the craftsmen

There was no military craftsman, and the more than thirty suggestions made by the craftsmen were all trivial and ordinary. They hardly seemed to be useful, and they seemed to be of no use at all.

However, it remains to be investigated, and everything is important.

If there had not been these thirty odd and ordinary words, if these words had not been used, if there had been no gathering of wisdom, no encouragement, and no excitement among the craftsmen, then the rebel army would have attacked a city inhabited by thousands of thieves with only a thousand men, and the gap would be so huge.

, How can we achieve great victory without the wisdom of many craftsmen?"

"Then, I want to ask you, do you already understand this method of appreciating wisdom, this method of stimulating rewards, this method of gathering the wisdom of all people and pooling their efforts?" Li Mengxi glanced at all the scholars.

He looked at Qin Shu, the chief officer of the Ministry of Personnel, and asked, "Qin Shu, if you are asked to lead everyone to develop the structure of the Ministry of Personnel, how will you mobilize the efforts of the people and gather the wisdom of the people?"

Qin Shu had fully understood the essence of what Li Mengxi said. He bowed his hand to Li Mengxi with a calm expression and a confident look on his face. "According to the method of military advisors, the key is to stimulate intelligence with rewards, to gather wisdom from all the people, and to gather wisdom," he said.

Wisdom is used. These three are in succession and cannot be achieved without one.

If we follow this method, our official department should, firstly, set up a system of appreciating and encouraging wisdom; secondly, we should cherish the wisdom of everyone. Even if the suggestions are insignificant, but they are useful, we must collect them and record them; thirdly, if there are useful suggestions, no matter how big or small,

It's light and heavy, but if it can be useful, you must find a way to do it.

Fourth, if the suggestions made by others are useful, they must be rewarded.

Fifth, everyone should not depend on their official position, but should widely accept wise words. Just as the military counselor said, a wise man will make a mistake after a lot of considerations, and a fool will make a gain after a lot of considerations. If you can make full use of the wisdom of everyone, no matter how wise or stupid, then

Nothing goes wrong.”

After speaking, Qin Shu hesitated for a moment and asked, "Military advisor, what is the best way to reward someone?"

Li Mengxi smiled. He knew that Qin Shu was worried that he would not be able to implement the reward method because he had no resources.

He had nothing in his hand, but he still rewarded him with a hammer.

Li Mengxi thought for a while and then gave Qin Shu an idea, "I think there are several ways to reward him.

The first is material rewards. But those who make suggestions will be rewarded with money, grain, brocade, silk, etc.

Secondly, the accumulation of suggestions made by everyone can be the basis for future promotions. Those with more wisdom will be promoted first.

I have these two methods for now, what do you think?"

When Qin Shu heard this, he nodded repeatedly. Qin Shu was more inclined to the latter method. Qin Shu was a scholar. He felt that it was uncivilized to give three to five kilograms of grain and two pieces of meat as a reward for wisdom.

In the latter method, if a person has frequent wisdom, his intelligence is higher than others. When he is promoted to an official position, he should be promoted first. It is very fair.

After all, Qin Shu was not Li Mengxi, and Li Mengxi was not from the late Han Dynasty after all. Li Mengxi valued practical benefits, so he preferred to reward some food and some meat. This method was used in the craftsman camp and on the soldiers. It was great.

, but now that there is a bureaucracy, this reward method may not be good.

Fortunately, Li Mengxi was very good at using people. He was ready to leave all the affairs of the Ministry of Personnel to his own people to handle. The leader of the Ministry of Personnel, Siguan Qin Shu, was a scholar in the late Han Dynasty. It happened that Qin Shu favored the method of reward.

, it is also the reward method that scholars tend to prefer. Whether this is luck or inevitable due to wise decision-making is no longer known.

Li Mengxi used the method of collective wisdom to gain wisdom. He has been using this method for a long time and encountered many problems in the process.

Li Mengxi informed Qin Shu and all the scholars of the relevant issues.

There are many problems. For example, the person responsible for recording suggestions may take the suggestions as his own.

According to the high-low structure, the structure in which suggestions are transmitted upward must be from junior officials to senior officials, senior officials to senior officials, and finally from senior officials to the headquarters of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In this process, there must be corruption of merit.

When Qin Shu heard this, he thought about it again and again. He felt that it was important and asked Li Mengxi if he had any good ideas.

"Cewei is a method to promote meritorious deeds.

It can be ordered that whenever there is a high-ranking official who submits suggestions on behalf of the people below, if the suggestions are useful, the first reward will be given to the person below, and the second reward will be given to the high-ranking official who submitted the suggestion on his behalf.

In this way, using profit as an inducement, the senior official makes a speech on behalf of his subordinates, firstly, he can get favors from his subordinates, and secondly, he can get actual rewards, and both benefits can be gained; but if the senior official swallows it all, then although the senior official will get the reward, he will fail in many undertakings.

the risk.

Of these two, one can gain both human kindness and practical benefits, while the other can gain practical benefits without being merciful and increasing worries. Comparing the two, one can clearly distinguish between superior and inferior.

This method can greatly reduce the possibility of greed."

After listening to Li Mengxi's countermeasures, Qin Shu admired Li Mengxi's rigorous thinking.

After that, Li Mengxi told more about the reward method. For example, when giving rewards, if the supplies are not enough, you can first reward one pound of grain, and the other ninety-nine pounds can be accumulated in notes.

Furthermore, rewards are timely. As long as the suggestions are useful, it is best if they can be rewarded immediately.

Li Mengxi told everything about his experience, and Qin Shu nodded repeatedly.

Afterwards, Li Mengxi smiled and said to the scholars, "I used this method to gather the wisdom of tens of thousands of people in just half a year. In just half a year, I became very familiar with military, political, engineering and legal matters.

However, if I use this method, you guys... I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Qin Shu and other scholars hurriedly asked what the difficulty was.

Li Mengxi smiled, "The difficulty lies in writing down notes! Within half a year, I wrote down notes on a certain day on a piece of cloth. When the battle was about to begin, two carts of cloth had been piled up with notes!" said

Li Mengxi smiled and shook his head, "In this method of gathering wisdom, there are many wisdoms, and there is a lot to remember. If I can remember everything, I can use two carts of cloth and silk, as many people as Julu has, and as many officials as I can."

Wouldn’t we need tens of millions of cloths? How could there be so many cloths, silks and bamboo slips to use?”

"However, you are lucky!" Li Mengxi's eyes flashed, "I, Julu, have already mastered the art of papermaking. I can make tens of thousands of pieces of paper in one day. With this magical skill, I am not limited by bamboo slips. I can remember everything in one day, no matter how big or small it is."

, even if you have to memorize thousands of words, you can still remember it!”
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