My Years Teaching in the Three Kingdoms

Large, durable pontoon bridges still require boats or pontoons as piers. My country has a long history of building pontoon bridges, with the earliest record being in the Book of Songs, where King Wen of Zhou built a pontoon bridge on the Wei River.

We'll have to see if we can improve Cai Lun's papermaking technique. I remember that by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was already an improved paper called Zuo Bo paper.

It also depends on how well it is implemented, so once the policy is formulated, the cadres are the key.

These kinds of public intellectuals, in retrospect, are like the "Ancient Tomb School" of public intellectuals—they're practically half-buried.

At that time, Liu Bei hadn't even entered Sichuan yet, so how could they be called the Shu army? They should have been called the Sun-Liu allied forces. Furthermore, "Shu" was a derogatory term used by the Cao Wei regime to refer to the Han dynasty established by Liu Bei. At that time, Liu Bei's side directly referred to themselves as Han or Great Han, or Liu Han.

Zhang Fei at Changbanpo was a bridge built over water, so it must have been a bridge spanning the water.

This is Yuan Shu, not Yuan Shao.

Logically speaking, traveling south from Ji Province would definitely involve taking a waterway, as Ji Province is a place with many rivers. Just like the Battle of Jieqiao between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, Jieqiao was a bridge located in the southeast of Ji Province, and it was a necessary passage to Ye County in Wei Commandery, the core of Ji Province.

Tents should be pitched in high ground, or drainage should be ensured. Setting up camp in ancient times was a complex art, requiring consideration of many factors. After Zhuge Liang's death at Wuzhang Plains, the Han army retreated, and Sima Yi, upon seeing the Han army's fortifications, recognized Zhuge Liang as a genius of unparalleled talent.

The character "" at that time was written in the traditional clerical script, with a "" structure.