In the blink of an eye, the harvest of Tianxi taro, Tianxi potatoes and corn was completed. The statistics per mu reported by Sinong Temple are as follows: Tianxi taro yield per mu is 40 quintals (about 4,500 catties), Tianxi potatoes yield per mu is 52 quintals (about 6,000 catties), and corn yield per mu is 10 quintals (1,100 catties). This caused a huge shock in the government and the opposition, Emperor Zhenzong was overjoyed, and the shadow of the alliance of the abyss and the fake book of heaven was swept away. He felt that the heavens favored him, and proved through auspiciousness that he was a promising king, and that he was about to solve the famine problem that plagued the dynasties. He ordered the government hall to immediately come up with a promotion plan. It was decided to give priority to the trial planting in Gongzhou on Qinfeng Road and the Yellow Flood Area on Hebei East Road, Gongzhou is the driest place in the Great Song Dynasty, and the Yellow Flood Area is the most serious waterlogging area in the Great Song Dynasty, both of which are barren land. The Jingzhao Mansion in Bianliang is being promoted in the selection of places. King Zhao of Shouchun County benefited from the second year of Tianxi (1018) and was promoted to the king. In September, he was made the crown prince and given the name Zhao Zhen, later Emperor Renzong.

As for Meng Ming, the family's farm, spring wheat was also harvested in July, only one quintal of eight (two hundred and thirty catties), and corn was also harvested in September. The cotton was also picked and peached. The yield of this 100 mu of cotton per mu is five quintals of seed cotton (nearly 600 catties), and lint can produce more than two quintals (240 catties). Six catties of cotton can go out of the door with a width of two meters and a length of one meter. One hundred acres of cotton can weave 8,000 meters of cloth, about 1,200 pieces of cloth. Now the linen cloth is 1,100 dollars (consistent one). Explain that the exchange of money in the Song Dynasty is as follows: one tael of silver is worth consistent money, and it is always worth a thousand copper coins, and the silver of the Song Dynasty can be exchanged, but it is not in circulation, so the transaction is calculated with Guan and Wen. Meng Ming estimated that his cotton cloth could be sold for a consistent five. Therefore, the gross income of 100 acres of cotton field is 1,800 guan, excluding the cost of 800 guan, and the net profit is 1,000 guan. The income of one acre is up to 10 times. What are the benefits of growing food? At present, the price of wheat is 700 wen per quintal, the yield per mu is 800 wen, the value is always 260 wen, and the net profit is 600 wen. The net income of 100 acres is only 60 taels. You see how many times the gap.

Now, if we talk about the current level of income, in the case of Tokyo, the living standard of the broadest masses of the people is the basic living standard of a dynasty. How much do they typically earn per day? The average daily income of the running staff in the shop is 200 yuan; Helpers who do odd jobs to support their families earn an average of about 300 wen a day by selling their labor; The daily wage of a female weaver is one hundred and fifty yuan; Mr. Bookkeeper can get 10 per month salary; The monthly salary of the shopkeeper can be 15 times; The above is the average situation. In Tokyo, the average family maintains basic food and clothing for about 30 yen a day, and a family of five people about 150 yen a day.

Meng Ming went to the prince's mansion on the first day of October to be a companion, and the current prince is only nine years old, so Zhenzong deliberately found three nobles of the same age to accompany him, including Meng Ming and Cao Ning's younger brother Cao Yu, and a little boy named Guo Yongxin. Meng Ming sat cross-legged behind Zhao Zhen. The teachers who taught were Zuo Shuzi Yan Shu and Hanlin bachelor Chen Zhizhong. In addition, Li Di, who is also a subordinate of the same door, also came. In fact, these lecturers generally talk about micro-words, subsets of scriptures and history, moral articles, and related etiquette. Yan Shu talked about the "Xueer" chapter of the "Analects", and Chen Zhizhong talked about the "discipleship" of "Guanzi". Only listening to Meng Ming's literary texts that his head was a little big, and the most annoying person in his previous life, Meng Ming was a little drowsy. In a trance, he heard a voice calling him: "What does Meng Hou mean by this?" When I looked up, it was Li Di, talking about "Mencius", and the content was "kissing the people and loving things". Meng Ming listened to a few words, and generally knew some of the meanings, so he replied casually. Li Di knew that Meng Ming was distracted, and when he saw that he answered, he didn't embarrass him. Not only Meng Ming, but also Zhao Zhen and the other two companions. Meng Ming disagrees with this cramming model of education, especially as a child. Meng Ming remembered the pinyin literacy method of later generations, and catchy children's textbooks such as "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules".

Meng Ming had taken a class once in three days, and today he was holding three pamphlets that he had transcribed in the past two days, namely "The Three Character Classic", "Di Zi Gui" and "Pinyin Literacy Method". The lecturer spoke on the stage, and Meng Ming flipped through a few pamphlets. Suddenly, a big hand grabbed it and took away the "Three Character Classic" he was reading, it was Li Di again, Meng Ming was speechless, it wasn't him who gave a lecture just now. Seeing Li Di's unhappy appearance, Meng Ming muttered. Li Di flipped through Meng Ming's "Three Character Classic", and finally the more he looked at it, the more he became fascinated, and he watched it for a quarter of an hour until he finished it. Then he circulated the "Three Character Classic" to Yan Shu and Zhang Zhizhong, and finally the lecturer stopped lecturing, so he looked at the "Three Character Classic". Li Di walked over and asked, "Meng boy, where did you get this book?" Meng Ming replied that he had written it, and he looked strange. When he saw the other two pamphlets in Meng Ming's hand, he grabbed them very domineeringly, and looked at them intently, until he read "Pinyin Literacy", maybe he couldn't understand these letters, so Meng Ming explained them one by one.

Because Meng Ming added punctuation, he also asked, and Meng Ming also answered truthfully. These two books were also circulated at the end. In the end, they didn't give him the book after reading it, Li Di looked at Meng Ming for a long time, and patted him on the head: "How do you have a long brain, you kid, with some earth-shattering evil ideas, we may not be able to teach you." Meng Ming heard this and thought about it, the prime minister spoke, and he had to roll up and leave. Zhao Zhen looked at Meng Ming with a puzzled expression at this time, not knowing what was going on, but he still opened his mouth to intercede for Meng Ming: "Master Li, people are not saints and sages, please give Meng Qing another chance." Meng Ming said secretly when he heard this: "What is Renjun" Li Di immediately understood what was going on when he heard it, and his words were misunderstood. I thought I was driving Meng Ming away. Suddenly smiled: "I don't mean anything else, Meng Ming continued to listen to the class." After announcing the dismissal of school, he hurriedly left with three books. Meng Ming also went back, thinking on the way: "These three books, after they appeared, have caused a far-reaching impact in later generations, from the official or to the people, they have praised each other, thinking that they are catchy and suitable for children to learn, and improve the efficiency of children's literacy." There should be no taboos, and the historical allusion of the Three Character Classic, Meng Ming, wrote about the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty.

At this time, Li Di met Emperor Zhenzong in the Wende Palace, and he presented the "Three Character Classic", "Disciple Rules" and "Pinyin Literacy Method" to the emperor for preview. Zhenzong took a look at the "Three Character Classic": "The words are mediocre, and the three words and one sentence will be fresh", Li Di said: "Official, this book is a child to read, to be a book of enlightenment?" Zhenzong read it carefully, stood up and said loudly: "Excellent book of enlightenment, catchy, easy to remember, send historical words inside, teach people morality first." Okay, good, good" and asked: "Which great Confucian wrote this" Li Di smiled and said: "It was written by a yellow-toothed child, only eleven years old." Can the official family guess? The emperor said he couldn't guess. Li Di said: "It was written by Beihai Hou Meng Ming, and the imperial court should praise it" Zhenzong was also shocked, sighed incredible, and believed that Meng Ming was a messenger sent by heaven, and Wenqu Xing descended to earth. Matters concerning rewards shall be prepared by the Government Council. Li Di returned to the political hall and handed over the three books to the ministers for circulation, and unanimously agreed that they were the heirlooms of Confucian enlightenment, and they were the affairs of Wensheng, which should be implemented throughout the world. But the matter of rewarding is not easy to consider. After all, Meng Ming's age is young, and he has been named a marquis again, so it is not easy to be rewarded. Give his mother a title, and seal Meng Ming's mother a three-grade lady (lady). The three books were engraved in the Temple of Literature.