Chapter 213: Practicing Archery with Huang Zhong
A small toothbrush is nothing, but it makes Huang Wudie, Xiaojing, and Liu Xue curious for a long time.
After Liu Xianfan showed them what the toothbrush was used for, they also asked Liu Xian to make one for each of them.
They can't put it down after using it, and they usually use willow branches, or even just a few mouthfuls of water. Who thought brushing your teeth with a toothbrush was so convenient and clean?
Liu Xian couldn't get the toothpaste for the time being, but he used some fragrant plants to squeeze out some juice, stumble on some flour or something, and make it into a paste, which looked like it, and after brushing, there seemed to be a fragrance in his mouth.
This makes them like it even more.
They got this seemingly ordinary, but practical and useful object, and they couldn't wait to share it with others. But Liu Xian hurriedly told them to let them use it themselves, but they couldn't go out public right away.
They didn't know that this small object could bring an incalculable fortune.
After Liu Xian explained to them, they understood and quickly put them away like treasures.
It was Xiaojing who gave Liu Xian a headache, this girl pestered Liu Xian to ask questions and ask how Liu Xian knew and knew how to make a toothbrush. After all, she grew up with the previous Liu Xian, and she knew everything about the former Liu Xian, so to speak, Liu Xian did not have long hair, and where she grew hair, Xiaojing knew it clearly.
However, now Xiaojing feels that this Liu Xian seems to be a different person from the previous Liu Xian.
If it didn't coincide with the death of the housewife, which caused a huge blow to Liu Xian, it may have opened Liu Xian's mind because of this, then Xiaojing would really wonder if Liu Xian was a different person.
Anyway, many of the things that Liu Xian has done now, she can't imagine that the Liu Xian she knows can do.
Although she asked a lot of things, Liu Xian thought that now that his mother is gone, as the young master of Liu Mansion, he must grow up as soon as possible and support the Liu Mansion. In this regard, Xiaojing is also skeptical.
But fortunately, she was actually just curious, and she didn't really want to investigate why Liu Xian had become different from before. In fact, in her heart, she still prefers the current Liu Xian, because the current Liu Xian obviously knows how to care for her better than the previous Liu Xian.
To put it mildly, in the past, where did Liu Xian know how to coax girls? Sometimes you can't hit a fart. Definitely the kind of little boy who is silent and introverted.
Today's Liu Xian will tell some jokes from time to time that make them belly-wrenching, which makes them overjoyed. There are many aspects that make Xiaojing happy.
For example, Liu Xian will pick a flower for her from time to time to wear it on her head, and he actually knows how to design some clothes, and after people cut them out, she wears them, which is as simple as making her a different person.
Now Xiaojing, first in terms of dress, is more like a rich lady, and she is still the kind of rich lady who dresses fashionably and is rich. She looks much more beautiful, and she doesn't know if it's because of her clothes, but now Xiaojing, after a little dress, is not inferior to Zhang Ning and Huang Wudie, and even if she grows longer, she may be slightly better than Huang Wudie and Zhang Ning.
This, in fact, was also done by Liu Xian by chance.
He really can't get used to the woman around him now, just like an ordinary village woman. In addition, Liu Xian not only has to run restaurants and inns, but also many shops, and those shops will specialize in grain and rice in the future, and there will definitely be some cloth and garment stores, as well as grocery stores.
Others can be done slowly, but cloth and garment stores can actually be set up at any time.
It's hard to say in other places, but you can open one in Yang's County first. After all, didn't Liu Xian just settle the money for the people who had contributed to Liu's mansion, and now the people generally have hundreds to a thousand yuan in their hands. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, I finally survived, I don't have to worry about food, and I have a little money in my hand, so it is normal to pull a piece of cloth and sew a new dress for myself and my family.
At present, Liu Xian has moved the spinning and weaving workshop to Yangshi County, although it is difficult to get a large amount of cotton to mass-produce cloth. But it's still some stock. Liu Xian thinks that they can all be used to open a cloth shop.
Liu Xian organized those people to produce and create wealth. Then the big head took it himself, and returned a small part of the money to the people, so that the people had some money on hand. And then by running some stores, and then making money back from their hands.
Then the people continued to produce and work to earn the corresponding money......
This is a cycle, but it can revitalize the economy of Yangshi County.
Many things, as long as Liu Xian thinks of it, he will explain to the village chief Liang Ji, Liu Xian's grandfather, but this time seems to be more and more energetic, especially when he sees that Liulin Village has returned to prosperity, and even better than before, he, the village head, is really happy in his heart. Although he is no longer the person he used to be, he is indeed full of energy when he sees that this war-torn and dilapidated Liulin Village has completely recovered its vitality after one or two months of reconstruction and development.
Liu Xian was messing with things and cultivating in Liu's mansion, but he would come to the door almost every day and ask Liu Xian what he thought about the development of Liulin Village.
Not only him, but also Wenshen, the acting county commander of Yang's County, also came to Liu Xian from time to time to report the situation of Yang's County, and asked Liu Xian for advice on how to govern Yang's County well.
Liu Xian naturally will not be stingy with his opinions. Originally, according to Liu Xian's plan, he planned to build Yangshi County into the most prosperous and largest city in the central region of Jizhou. And Liulin Village is a strong fortress for his own private property.
The city wall of Yangshi County has also suffered serious damage, and Liu Xian believes that Yangshi County should also have a planned redesign and rebuild the city wall in the future. But none of this is in a hurry for the time being.
Liu Xian gave Wen Shen's opinion that at present, the food problem has been solved by himself, and the livelihood of the people of Yangshi County will also be settled in the future. The entire Yangshi County will produce some commodity goods for its Liu Fu caravan in the future. It can be said that in fact, the people of Yangshi County will no longer go to the field to farm in the future, and they will have a better job.
Therefore, Liu Xian believes that what Wen Shen has to do is to stabilize the situation and not let Yang Jie and them do anything sabotage. Liu Xian was attacked and killed earlier, and the matter has been investigated.
But it wasn't Yang Jie who did it, but the fallen son Suo Ji who asked for it.
The Suo family is indeed a big family in Yang's County. Dyed in the wool. After thinking about it, he felt that there were many doubts about his uncle's death, after all, he "escorted" Wenshen to Julu with Suoqi, and he was actually overseer. But what happened later was not at all according to the original plan. He felt that there must be a conspiracy in this.
Then, back to Yangshi County, the development of events made him more sure of his guesses. He believes that all this was planned by Liu Xian in secret. Just by looking at whose hands this Yang County falls into in the end, he can determine who murdered his uncle.
Therefore, he sent people to keep an eye on Liu Xian, and then gathered some members of the Suo family to ambush in that river, where Liulin Village must pass through to and from Yang's County.
Now that Suo Ji is dead, there is no Suo family in Yang County. was confiscated by Wang Bao himself, and Suo Ji led people to resist and was killed on the spot.
Of course, there will definitely be the shadow of Yang Jie and others behind this, maybe Yang Jie and they are also involved, at least there is the possibility of instigating Suo Ji to assassinate Liu Xian.
But Liu Xian asked Wen Shen not to delve into it for the time being. Whether it is a human or a ghost, it will always surface in the future, and if they are restless, as long as they catch their handle, then they can openly disappear from this world.
Now the Suo family's actions are believed to be a good deterrent to them.
Judging from the fact that the government of Yangshi County should count some ownerless fields, which are owned by the government and then distributed to the people for cultivation. Yang Jie and the others acquiesced to these actions of the government, and did not jump out to stop or do any small actions. Some of the ownerless fields and properties they had embezzled earlier did not jump out to say that they were at this time, and acquiesced to the actions of the government.
However, they are also moving fast. They have begun to resume the operation of some of their industries.
For example, those grain stores and shops have also resumed normal business.
Of course, the price of this grain is like diving, and they don't dare to pay more than 100 yuan a pound of grain, but it is not low, 20 yuan a pound.
This is also within the range of affordability. Liu Xian doesn't think there's anything to do with them. At present, there is no concept of macroeconomic regulation and control of the market by the government. Other businessmen, how much they have to pay for their own things, this is also up to the people themselves. Naturally, you can also choose not to buy it.
In fact, as long as the price of their shops is too outrageous, they basically don't care. But they don't have to sell, they just open their doors. Their purpose was not in Yangshi County, but in other counties.
It is unlikely that 100 yuan is a pound of grain, but 20 yuan or 30 yuan a pound of grain. I believe that other counties that are short of food will be happy to purchase it.
Liu Xian didn't pay attention to these either.
In addition, Liu Xian also confessed to Wen Shen. Everything else is on hold, but there is one thing that you must start doing right away.
That's the Academy.
Liu Xian has thought of the name of the college, and it is called Liu Fu College. This is also out of selfishness, running the academy now, and the talents cultivated will be their own in the future. Therefore, it is called Liufu College.
Liu Xian asked Wen Shen to vacate a piece of land in Yangshi County to build Liufu College. Next spring, after the Lantern Festival, school will start.
It may not be possible to build it for the time being, but some houses must be vacated for teaching purposes first.
As for the students, children and teenagers between the ages of six and sixteen in the entire Yang County can all be admitted to school for free, and a free meal is provided at noon.
This is not to let them register for school freely, Liu Xian demanded that every household in Yangshi County, children and teenagers at this age must be enrolled in school.
Originally, Liu Xian planned to be male and female. However, this was strongly opposed by Liang Ji, Wen Shen and others.
As for the reason, it is out of the protection of Liu Xian.
Allowing women to go to school was an ordinary thing in later generations, but now it is in ancient times. Where is it that a woman goes to school with a man? If Liu Xian really did this, this would be a deviation, and no one would know anything for the time being, but the news of Liu Xian's establishment of a college in Yang's County would soon spread. At that time, if it is known by some great Confucians in the world, Liu Xian will definitely be criticized. In fact, if you don't use those great Confucians, even the imperial court will not allow it.
In fact, now Liu Xian is not even qualified to open this academy.
This academy is not something that can be opened if you want to.
But Liu Xian didn't care so much, and insisted on opening an academy. As for the fact that women could not go to school, Liu Xian could only agree with them. However, Liu Xian did not want to block the door for girls to enter the school. But this can't be done publicly.
Liu Xian planned to let those people who joined the caravan of Liu's mansion open another women's college if they were willing to let their girls read and write. Of course, this women's college cannot be made public, and only the women of those ordinary people who have joined the caravan of the Liu Mansion can be enrolled.
But this matter may not be done for the time being, which makes Liu Xian somewhat regretful.
Liu Xian also had to write some teaching materials for the college.
But for the time being, it is not necessary, because for illiterate children or teenagers, it is only enlightenment for the time being. Let them read and write first.
But in the future, Liu Xian will not be able to follow the current era. Liu seems to be targeted to cultivate talents from all walks of life.
Liu Xian traveled to this era, and the time was actually not long, but Liu Xian felt that he had a lot to do, and he really felt a little busy at this time.
On this day, after Liu Xian was governed by Huang Xu, he went to the river with Huang Zhong and a small group of caravan guards who were selected as archers to practice archery.
Liu Xian likes to use guns, and he likes to use knives or swords in close combat, so Liu Xian has to practice these. However, in these three kingdoms, archery is a must-learn.
There is Huang Zhong, the most powerful general in the Three Kingdoms, here, and Liu Xian happened to ask him for archery.
As for the others, it was Liu Xian who asked Huang Zhong, and Huang Zhong didn't mind letting people watch and listen to how he taught him to practice archery, so he deliberately selected those who were good at using bows and arrows among the caravan guards and had the potential to become archers, and let them come along to learn together.
I don't know if it's because of the Taiping True Qi, some of the archery skills taught by Huang Zhong, Liu Xian understood it as soon as he heard it, and he shot arrows according to those skills, which seemed to be the same. It's really not unpleasant to get started.
Even Huang Zhong was amazed at Liu Xian, believing that Liu Xian might have been born a marksman, and if he spent more time practicing, he would probably be able to catch up with his archery skills in the future, or even surpass him.
In this regard, Liu Xian didn't dare to be proud, but practiced more hard.