Lack of funding has always plagued the county schools here. When it comes to investing in education. There are as many as four or five hundred acres of school fields in Lingao County, which can be said to be unimportant. Xuetian is a kind of official field, and as usual, there are official tenants - Wu Nanhai's apprentice Lu Jiajia is. This system was implemented fairly well in the early years, but after a long time, it was inevitably full of drawbacks. The burden of the official tenants was too heavy, and gradually the tenants began to flee, and now there is no one in ten. Tenants were recruited and no one responded. Wang Ci is a scholar, where does he know the way of economy, he is helpless except to ask for people everywhere. In vain, hundreds of acres of haode paddy fields outside the county gate were abandoned, but the county school was so poor that it couldn't even afford the pigs used in the sacrificial holes several times a year. The talents in the county school have not been able to receive the anointing silver for many years, and they rarely come to the school palace, and the county school is barren. The embarrassed money for the renovation of the Temple of Literature could not be obtained, and the famous Jasmine Xuan Academy also became a dilapidated house.

The so-called rush to the doctor, Wang Ci saw that the county school was declining day by day, and it was impossible for the county to take out money to maintain it, and it was not a long-term solution to find gentry donations. It is still necessary to start with the rectification of the school field. But the scholars didn't have anything to do, and no one was willing to come to the tenants, so when he heard that the Australians were willing to help with farming, Wang Ci came to ask them for help.

Ye Yuming didn't dare to call the shots, so she hurriedly reported to the Committee of Agriculture. Wu Nanhai has long coveted the school field outside the west gate of the county. When he heard about this, he immediately agreed. To Ye Yuming next, and to be treated according to the "VIP" jishu service.

At present, the Heaven and Earth Association signed a jishu service contract with Wang Ci, the teacher of Lingao County-strictly speaking, this is no longer a jishu service contract, but more like a contract. Because there are no laborers at all in the school fields, except for a few households of officials who are barely able to farm. Everything will have to be solved by Kao Heaven and Earth.

This matter aroused the great attention of Wu De - this was the first step in crossing the group to cut into the official land of Lingao. So it was reported to the executive committee, and everyone felt that this was a good opportunity to further control the Lingao county government. Although the county school is only an educational institution, it is the management body of the county's scholars, and it can gain a good reputation in this matter, which is very beneficial to win over the hearts and minds of local intellectuals.

In accordance with the inertia of the Chinese people, Zuihou has elevated the matter from a simple business activity to a political level, and both sides "attach great importance to it" and send personnel to conduct "close consultations" in accordance with the inertia of the Chinese people.

According to Wu Daling's meaning, it is best not to provoke this gang of thieves, but it is inconvenient for Wang Ci to stop him from doing this. The county's most important monument, Jasmine Xuan, is about to collapse, and the county school is also in tatters, and he has not allocated a single repair fund so far, and it is still Kao with the donations of Liu Dalin and the gentry of the county to be barely repaired. In the past few years, Wang Ci has not received a penny from the county except for his poor fortune. Kao pulled sponsors everywhere to maintain the county school.

Master Wang said that this matter was very good, and he also said a lot of reasons. Wu County Ling originally had the idea of letting this matter go, but when Wang Zhaomin analyzed it, he felt that it was good for the county, so he completely acquiesced. Of course, there are also his personal benefits.

Wu Nanhai, a member of the Committee of Agriculture, personally stepped forward -- and became the main person in charge of the Xuetian project. He took the two brothers Lu A and Lu B to inspect Xuetian in person.

Wang Ci led the remaining tenants of Xuetian, including Lu Da, the father of the Lu brothers, who was the head of Xuetian, and was half a steward, but his appearance was not much better than the others. These dozen or so people waited on the ground to welcome the arrival of this "chief."

Wu Nanhai and Wang Ci were polite. Wang Jiaoyu is a showman, although he can't speak official language. A broken Cantonese vernacular can still be spoken. The two of them even talked and compared, and they could communicate without a translator.

It was the first time Wang Ci had seen the leader of the "thief" at close range, and when he saw that he had a good face, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, he was not a fierce and evil person in his imagination, and a stone finally fell in his heart.

"This time I'm going to work Mr. Wu." Wang Ci made a gesture, "The grain is not a trivial matter, and the quality of learning the field is even more related to the morale of the high article......"

"I get it." Wu Nanhai smiled, "Don't worry, there will be a good harvest in autumn!" ”

Wang Ci thought to himself why this person could talk big as soon as he came up, and he didn't even say a polite word, he was really an overseas barbarian.

"Then it's up to you."

"This is the head of the village in charge of Xuetian, and the road is big." Wang Ci shouted, "I haven't come to see Master Wu yet!" ”

Lu Da ran over and kowtowed. Wu Nanhai was the first time he met his apprentice's father. Thin and small, he looked like a traditional peasant, dressed in blue homespun cloth and dressed in quails, no better than a beggar.

Wu Nanhai first inspected Xuetian's condition, and after reading it, he even said that it was a pity. This school field is much better than the land they saw in the United States and Taiwan, KAO is close to the river bank, it is easy to divert water, and there is no problem of waterlogging. It's one of the best places in the area.

Lu Da respectfully sent the booklet of Tian Mu, and Wu Nanhai couldn't understand the schematic diagram like a ghost drawing. Just ask, "How many fields?" How many paddy fields and how many dry fields? ”

"If you go back to the master, there are a total of 326 acres and 4 points of paddy fields, 115 acres and 1 point of dry land, and 13 acres of garden land."

"Is there no other land?"

"Nope."

"What are you planting?"

Lu Dayu said that the main crop planted was rice, and the dry land was planted with a local millet. Sweet potatoes and peanuts are also eaten by tenants, but there are not many of them.

There is a lot of land, but there is no one to cultivate it. Originally, Luda planned to recruit some long-term workers to plant wasteland. But in the end, if you recruit long-term workers to plant all the wasteland, you have to pay more money and grain, and not only will you not be able to fall anything, but you will have to pay for it, so it is better to simply abandon the wasteland.

The most useful thing is the garden: grow some vegetables, and then raise pigs with pumpkins and other vegetables in the vegetable field, these tenants can barely survive.

Wu Nanhai had a bottom in his heart and set out to start his school field transformation jihua.

On the morning of this day, a group of laborers sent from the Bairen Commune appeared outside the west gate of the county with tools and pushed the newly produced "purple electric" mass-produced wheelbarrow, and several students who studied surveying and mapping brought the measuring instruments of the local method, and then in the noise, a branch line began to extend on the Bairen-Lingao highway, leading directly to the west gate of the county seat.

To do things first to build roads, this is the consistent style of running industry through the group. Lu Da looked at the road construction site in full swing and was dumbfounded--wouldn't Heaven and Earth want to help farm the land? How did you build the road to the ground first? He originally thought that the Heaven and Earth Society would send seeds and send a few more people to guide him, but he didn't expect that there would be such a trouble.

Hurriedly took Ding Zhuang from the tenants of Xuetian out and saw the "Chief Wu" who led the team, and his two sons were still standing beside him, carrying a green satchel. Lu Da was about to kneel and kowtow, but was stopped by Wu Nanhai.

"There is no need to be polite, gather all the tenants who are tenants and study fields, and I will count the population. Assign work. ”

"Ding Zhuang has all arrived here to wait for the chief's dispatch—"

"Bring out the women, the elderly, and the children. Lu Jia, prepare to register! ”

"Yes!" Lu Jia took out a notebook from his satchel.

"The little one is going to call." Lu Da thought about where this is singing? I didn't dare to slack off, so I hurried back to a side street at the west gate and called out the families of the tenants who lived there. Old people, women, children, not one left.

After counting, there were a total of seven tenant households in Xuetian, with more than 40 men, women and children. Check and register one by one. Subsequently, according to the haode plan made in advance, Lu Jia assigned people to work according to their gender and physical condition. Strangely all Ding Zhuang was ordered to stay and wait for the notice.

The road repair team is fighting, and a new team has arrived. With tools, vehicles, and cattle and horses. Leveling the land, digging ditches. The original messy and vertical ridges were all eradicated and replaced with large square fields. The original rudimentary earthen ditch has been transformed into a system of channels criss-crossed and separated by irrigation and drainage.

Then a herd of cattle came. These oxen carried huge iron-timber agricultural machinery—before the advent of diesel and steam engines, large animal-powered agricultural machinery had appeared in the Americas, each with as few as four horses and as many as a dozen on many sides. It was the first time that Luda had seen such a large animal-powered agricultural machine - here it was pulled by oxen. The scene of more than a dozen cows lining up on the land and dragging huge machinery for deep ploughing made many passers-by stop and watch, unwilling to leave for a long time.

The whole renovation site is noisy like a hornet's nest, and such a large-scale concentration of manpower and material resources for agricultural production makes Lu Da feel shocked from the bottom of his heart:

"This land can still be planted like this!" He muttered. I saw his eldest son standing on the edge of the ridge with a lively spirit, holding a strange thing and gesturing. The youngest son was holding a piece of wood and writing something on it. When he looked over, he saw a piece of paper with a large iron clip on it, and it was full of words and ghostly drawings—he had heard of it. It's called the "Big Food Number", and it's a number used by Australians. The Chinese in Ludale don't recognize the numbers, and seeing that his son is actually skillful in writing, and shouting something with the workers from time to time, his heart is a little sweet - the boys are all out of breath! But it's also a little sour, and I haven't grown up at all as a father......

Not long after his impressions, the Ding Zhuang of the tenants of Xuetian were led by Lu Yi, and all of them were gathered in Bairen Commune. There they will be trained in 15 days of Tiandihui farming.

The training course was attended not only by the tenants in Xuetian, but also by other customers who participated in the Tiandihui planting and promotion jihua. According to the notice, each household will come at least one person and a maximum of three people. Most of the landlords themselves and their families have strong laborers -- many of the small landlords do the land themselves. Fu Fuji himself also brought the long-term work of the family to study.

Wu Nanhai's curriculum focuses on promoting the cultivation of common crops, jishu and field management. These farming methods are practices that have been proven effective over a long period of time. He had long discovered that Lingao's level of agricultural production was extremely low. Many of the planting jishu and agricultural tools that have been widely used in the Ming Dynasty have disappeared here. He once asked the Counsel if there were any local peasant books sellers, and the Edict actually said that there was no bookstore here at all. If you want to buy books, you have to go to Fucheng at least. As for several important agricultural books in ancient times, they are famous such as "Qi Min Yaoshu", and even a reader like Wang Ci has never heard of them.

Needless to say, the new agriculture of the 21st century has not even absorbed the advanced achievements of the 17th century. Therefore, Wu Nanhai made the teaching materials for the purpose of being simple and easy to learn, combined with the advanced agriculture at that time, focusing on the cultivation of rice, wheat and sweet potatoes. To paraphrase a fashionable phrase, it is "in line with the level of social productivity at that time".

Obviously, the agricultural department has done the right thing by adopting the strategy of planting the land first and then promoting it after the results have been achieved, otherwise it would be strange that these farmers would believe Wu Nanhai with some strange arguments when he was in class.

Wu Nanhai was preparing to sow jihua while attending class. He is not prepared to give these customers too many varieties of new crops. In fact, he prefers to turn them into monoculture farms.

Rice is the main part of grain production, and Wu Nanhai plans to promote lodging-resistant rice varieties in these customers' fields this year. According to the climatic characteristics of the high accumulated temperature level in this time and space is inferior to that of modern time and space, the rice-rice-wheat rotation method is adopted.

Although the yield of wheat is not high, wheat also consumes much less labor in field management than rice. Another factor is that many people in the group like pasta, and everyone hopes that the canteen can make some steamed buns, steamed buns, noodles, cakes and other foods that the masses like to see. Zuihou, the Navy expects the future to use baked biscuits instead of strange rice crackers as dry food for navigation.

This is followed by sweet potatoes. He is ready to plant this high-yielding crop in all of his customers' dry fields. In order to play a demonstration and promotion role as soon as possible, so that more farmers can accept this crop. It can produce a large number of sweet potatoes, and with sweet potatoes there is a starch industry, and with a starch industry, there is a modern food industry. Whether in the starch industry or the food industry, the resulting scraps can be used as feed.

With feed, the scale of the aquaculture industry can be further expanded. Livestock manure and manure produced in the breeding industry are returned to the field to provide sufficient nutrients for the soil.

At the same time, the promotion of contract farming is also underway. In accordance with the principle of voluntary application, Ye Yuming signed a breeding agreement with a number of farmers near Bairencheng to lend them chicks.

The number of applicants for chicken farming is more enthusiastic than expected. Only 20 eggs can be exchanged for a chicken, and the future eggs are fully underwritten by Australians, which is quite attractive. Because the value is small, even speculation can afford to risk it for smallholder farmers.

The number of chicks is limited, and only 20 households can receive chicks in the first batch. Other farmers had to wait in line first. Ye Yuming thinks that this is also good: the promised matter of providing formula feed, because earthworm farming has not yet been scaled, and it cannot be fully implemented, so the scale is hastily expanded, but the promised things are not available, which will seriously affect the reputation.

Ye Yuming completely separates the farmers, basically using a one-household-per-village model to spread out along the villages in the main agricultural areas on both sides of the Wenlan River. In order to achieve a more demonstration effect, at the same time, he also plans to use these farmers as agricultural science and technology teaching points in each village in the future.

In addition to the intensive extension project, the Ministry of Agriculture is also engaged in high-yield fields here. Wu Nanhai is difficult to distinguish between two bodies. simply entrusted the affairs of the high-yield field to Fa Shilu. Everyone is busy. However, in this way, the pesticide factory in Jihua has become uncared for. Wu Nanhai thought about it again and again, and decided to jointly set up an agricultural pharmacy factory with the health department, which was responsible for the manufacture of veterinary drugs in addition to the manufacture of soil pesticides.

At the end of the fifteen-day training, Wu Nanhai announced that everyone could go back to the village to prepare farm tools. The "agricultural technicians" who go to the countryside will soon go to the countryside to give specific guidance.

Everyone was confused by the content of the class, because most of them were illiterate, couldn't take notes, and were worried about not remembering completely.

"You don't have to pay the jishu staff who come to your door, these are all included in your service fee. Meals and lodging shall be prepared by each of your families, and they shall pay for their own food. ”

I heard that the door-to-door jishu staff still paid for their own meals, and everyone felt that they couldn't go. Humane:

"This can't be helped, if you invite a long-term worker, the owner has to provide food, and you don't have to pay for this meal."

"Jishu members eat three meals a day, each meal is half a catty of rice......"

"Even if we eat a pound, we can afford it."

"There is a chicken every day, and it is okay to have a fish without chickens, and the kind that is a pound and a pound, and there must be an egg every day......"

The people who were originally enthusiastic about offering free food were silent, only Liu Youren from Calais said:

"It's okay, my family can afford it."

"Rich Master Liu, of course your family can afford it." Someone was talking sourly. ”

Wu Nanhai can now understand a little bit of Lingao's words, so he took a few more looks at the person who said that he could afford it. I saw that this person was only thirty years old, born with big shoulders and a round waist, and dressed like ordinary local farmers, but his clothes were not torn, neat and clean, and his feet were a pair of green cloth shoes, which were stained with muddy water. Wu Nanhai knew that peasants in the old days rarely wore cloth shoes - they were very easy to wear and tear when working in the fields, and most of them were barefoot or wore straw sandals. When you go to the city to run errands, you will bring a pair of shoes, put them on when you enter the city, and drag them down when you go out of the city. Such a person who does not care about shoes at all must be a rich and careless Lord. Look at him again, he still has a cigarette stick of Xiangfei bamboo in his waist, and a white jade pendant falls.

He flipped through his profile. Liu Youren is from Calais Village and reports that he has more than 300 acres of land. However, the intelligence committee told him that Liu Youren did not actually live in the village of Calais, but in a stockade a few miles outside the village. It is a typical local tyrant who preserves himself in the countryside. The land of the entire Liujiazhai is at least five or six thousand acres. Liu Youren's participation in the Heaven and Earth Association is about throwing stones to ask for directions.

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Note: Jasmine Xuan is the most famous monument in Lingao, which was founded in the second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the eighteenth year of Shaoxing, when Hu Quan was demoted to the Jiyang Army, that is, now Sanya, he passed by Lingao and hired him to lecture in the academy for more than a year in the county commander Xie Wu. A few years later, Dai Dingshi, a local student, was admitted to the exam. This is the first person in the history of Lingao. Jasmine Xuan's status among local scholars is very high.

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