In April, the provinces held township examinations. Because there are too many students in various provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties, and the capacity of the examination room is limited, in order to avoid those with poor academic ability from going back and forth in vain, it is bound to be screened before the three-year competition, and this screening is called scientific examination. The scientific examination is presided over by the provincial academic administration, and only those who rank in the first, second and third classes in the scientific examination are allowed to take the township examination.

However, those who are third-class in the scientific examination and who have not participated in the scientific examination can take a make-up examination one month before the township examination, and those who are admitted are allowed to take the township examination, which is called 'recording'.

In addition, among the inmates, the promotion, excellence, and deputy tribute may not participate in the scientific examination. Students who have been elected as Confucian scholars can also participate in the Autumn Festival without taking the examination.

There are still one or two mobile places in the hands of the pro-people officials of the prefecture and county, and usually the scholars and politicians will not reject their recommendations, so as to show that they are both obedient and wise.

Therefore, by this time, most of the students of Yufeng Academy rushed home to take the exam, and only a small half of them had already obtained the qualifications for the township examination through various channels, and they still stayed in the academy to take classes.

In short, the academy was quiet for the time being, and Zhao Hao didn't have to show up from time to time to brush up on his sense of existence, so he finally had some time to go to Kunshan Agricultural College next to Huazang Temple.

On this day, Yufeng Primary School was on vacation, and Zhao Hao, the incompetent master, finally remembered that he still had two little disciples, so he asked Secretary Ma to call Xu Guangqi and Wang Heng and take the two dolls to see a fresh one.

Wang Heng is the only son of Wang Xijue, Zhao Hao has always regretted that he could not accept Chef Wang as an apprentice, and when he went to Taicang to visit Wang Mengxiang, he took his son to comfort himself. Anyway, it's all on the list, and it's not bad.

But because he was only a six-year-old kid at the time, Zhao Gongzi excused the child to be too young and let him be enlightened at home first.

In fact, Zhao Hao wanted to accept Wang Xijue and his daughter Tan Yangzi as an apprentice, but unfortunately he couldn't open his mouth......

As for Xu Guangqi, he was an apprentice who was ordered to be accepted by Jin Xue when he went to Chongming to take office and passed through Shanghai. At that time, the child was also six years old, and Zhao Hao didn't even let go of Wang Zheng, who was not yet born, how could he let go of this big cow? Although it is still a calf, it has been raised since childhood, and the milk that comes out is smooth.

The Xu family was originally a wealthy merchant family, but they were repeatedly looted during the war, and by the time it reached his father Xu Sicheng, the family had already fallen into decline. Xu Sicheng worked hard to manage, and it was easy to gradually improve, but in the first year of Longqing, he lost a lot of money in speculation and lost a lot of money, and he still owed a lot of debts.

Just when the family was in despair, Jin Xuezeng appeared, and the dignified new science and technology jinshi, the magistrate of the neighboring county wanted to accept apprentices on behalf of the teacher, and Xu Sicheng of course agreed to such a good thing, so Xu Guangqi also became a registered disciple of Zhao Gongzi.

At that time, Jin Xuezeng was short of people, so he simply asked the Xu family to go to Chongming with him to take office. Can Xu Sicheng write and count? became the manuscript master of his signature room, and also took care of the private accounts of the county master, and now he is Jin Xuezeng's inseparable right-hand man.

Last year, Zhao Gongzi opened Yufeng Primary School? Only then did they take these two children to school. Although he didn't teach it personally, the textbooks he used were compiled by Zhao Gongzi himself? It's worthy of them.

Now eight-year-old Xu Guangqi and Wang Heng? I'm already a second-grade elementary school student.

The two of them wore Yufeng Elementary School's white and black edge straight jackets? Tie a boy's bun. A small round face is white and red, and a small pointed face is red and white? The little adult is very cute, and when he saw Zhao Hao, he hurriedly saluted and called him Master.

"Well, yes, yes." Zhao Hao smiled and said to the round-faced child: "Wang Heng, ......"

"Master? I'm ...... Guangqi," the round-faced child said helplessly.

"Haha, yes, why did you eat so fat? Master didn't even recognize it. Zhao Hao pinched Xu Guangqi's cheeks, he was forgetful, and he hadn't met these two children a few times, so he made a mistake.

"My grandfather also said I was greedy for weight loss." Wang Heng hurriedly relieved the master and said, "If you don't see it for a few days, it will change." ”

"Oh? Hahaha. Zhao Hao couldn't help laughing and touched his head and said, "This kid? The little mouth is so sweet. ”

"Let's go, Master will take you to a long time to see." As he spoke, he took a child in his hand and walked towards the gate of Kunshan Agricultural College.

Secretary Ma followed behind, and said that these two apprentices were with Gongzi, and it seemed that they were finally more coordinated. Everyone else is too old......

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Kunshan Agricultural College covers an area of more than 200 acres and is surrounded by clear water. The fields and vegetable fields, mulberry and apricot forests, waterwheels, mills, and barns are all idyllic.

In fact, this is the original Wuben Academy in Liyang, after moving to Kunshan, Zhao Hao felt that it was good to follow the original name. But Ma Yilong disagreed, he had long been tired of those people who were called Xuenong, but in fact they were still dedicated to their careers, and felt that these people were simply wasting their time. insisted on no longer using the word 'academy', and changed its name to the more straightforward 'agricultural college', so that everyone who wanted to study went to Yufeng Academy, leaving only the disciples who sincerely studied agriculture.

As a result, ninety percent of the disciples all transferred schools, and only Shi Jizhi and Kitten stayed behind. Although the country is based on agriculture, who the wants to plant rice in the field all day long?

Although he had been prepared, Ma Yilong was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Fortunately, Jiangnan Group has farm managers who are in urgent need of training. Most of those farm managers and agricultural technicians are familiar with agricultural affairs, and the most important thing is that they really want to learn agriculture well, be able to endure hardships, and be willing to use their brains. This made Ma Yilong very relieved, and he felt much happier than teaching those reluctant sours.

Over the course of the year, he has trained two batches of 200 qualified agricultural technicians. Twenty more graduates were left to teach, and now there are more than 300 students in the school at the same time.

When everyone entered the gate, they saw a piece of Kunshi that was as high as snow and white as snow, with six strong characters written on it, which was the handwriting of Mr. Meng He Ma Yilong.

"This scholar, no matter what he does, he can't forget the people." Zhao Hao taught the two disciples with a smile, and asked Shi Jizhi, who came to greet him, "What about Mr. Meng He?" ”

"I'm teaching agricultural technicians." Shi Jizhi is the executive vice president of the College of Agriculture, and his teacher is too old to care so much, so he has to handle all the big and small affairs of the college.

"Let's go, we'll see." Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"Childe, please." Shi Jizhi took Zhao Hao through the I-shaped teaching house. There are agricultural technicians in the dormitory, teaching them that they are graduates who stayed on last year. In a series of schools founded by Zhao Hao, it is a very common phenomenon to 'bring the old with the new', otherwise where to find so many teachers?

We can only solve the problem of starting from scratch first, and it takes time to accumulate if we want to cultivate a qualified team of teachers from coarse to refined.

After passing through the teaching house, you will see patches of green farmland with small signs on the ground, on which are written different class numbers and names.

Shi Jizhi told Zhao Hao that this is the students' learning field. Adhering to the spirit of 'what you get on paper is shallow, and you never know that you have to bow to it', Ma Yilong gave each student half an acre of land, starting from the preparation of the land and raising seedlings, and taught them how to farm scientifically. When the students complete the harvest with their own hands and the grains are returned to the warehouse, the time for graduation will come.

During the whole cultivation process, Ma Yilong would take the trouble to teach them how to plant seedlings, how to weed and remove insects, fertilize and irrigate drainage, and put great effort into it.

"In addition to teaching, the teacher is also in his own experimental field, absorbing the strengths of each family and constantly improving agronomy." Shi Jizhi smiled and said to Zhao Hao: "But all of them combined, they can't compare to the inspiration of Gongzi to the teacher." ”

"Hey, don't say that, I'm all arrogant." Zhao Hao waved his hand modestly.

"It's not nonsense." Shi Jizhi pointed to the rice seedlings in the field and said: "This year's spring is cold, and the temperature is not up to standard. ”

"It works, it works." Zhao Gongzi smiled and nodded, the so-called smoke black seedling cultivation method is actually in the cellar of Ma Yilong's seedlings, spread a thick layer of chimney ash.

The black heat absorption during the day and the insulation of the ash layer at night can increase the temperature of the soil by several degrees, and it can also provide nutrients to the seedlings, which naturally does not delay the agricultural time. In later generations, before the popularization of mulch, the countryside used this method to raise seedlings.

The two talked, and came to the place where Ma Yilong taught - next to a string of ponds in the farmland.

The students held notebooks in their hands, gathered around Ma Yilong, and listened to the old gentleman's loud voice:

"The Sankey Fish Pond is not a new method, it has been used in Huzhou for many years, and it is already very mature, especially suitable for the collective production of your farm. Go back and dig the depression deep into a pond, and pile the mud dug up around the pond to form a high foundation, plant mulberry on the base, raise fish in the pond, raise silkworms with mulberry leaves, and feed fish with silkworm dung. The silt in the fish pond can be used to fertilize mulberry, and so on and so forth, both benefits are complete, and ten times the crop. ”

The students' eyes lit up when they heard it, their income is linked to the income of the farm, how can they not learn such a magical technique?

"It's not so easy to achieve a virtuous cycle and get the most bang for your buck. Generally, the ratio of the pond to the base is between six to four to seven to three, but after the old man's exploration, in fact, the best ratio is five to five, the pond should be dug into such a rectangle, six to ten centipede-like connected ......"

The wind is warm in the middle of spring. Zhao Hao took two disciples and Shi Jizhi to listen quietly, and Ma Yilong explained the high-yield know-how of mulberry fish ponds.

The old gentleman broke it open and crumpled it and said, like a few treasures, and poured out his pockets. When it comes to the important point, he bends down directly, grabs up a touch of black and wet fertile soil, and explains to these agricultural technicians who have no interest in them how to judge the soil quality, change the soil and protect the fertilizer......

Zhao Hao suddenly had a little moistness in the corners of his eyes, if he didn't know who Mr. Meng He was, who could connect this old farmer with trouser legs, a straw hat, and skin as rough as tree bark with a former Hanlin?

Speaking of which, Ma Yilong is a Ji Shi at the same time as Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Idol is already a high-ranking scholar, but Mr. Meng He returned to his roots and started farming.

So the question is, who is greater?

ps. only wrote a chapter, and then wrote it......