Guo Zhiyuan's lecture once again caused heated discussions in Gutian County, although the people feel that Guo Zhiyuan is a little different, and the content and method of teaching are completely different from those gentlemen in private schools, but this does not prevent them from loving Guo Zhiyuan, but it confirms the rumors that Guo Zhiyuan is the reincarnation of the stars, otherwise how can they know so much strange knowledge?

Of course, naturally some people say that Guo Zhiyuan is teaching crooked theories, which is nonsense, especially the teaching of Gu Zhiqian and other corrupt Confucians who oppose it the most, after Guo Zhiyuan expanded the county school, it is equivalent to completely setting up Gu Zhiqian's teachings, he is naturally resentful, but with Wang Demin's experience, he does not dare to openly confront Guo Zhiyuan, so he can only privately spread slanderous remarks against Guo Zhiyuan.

Guo Zhiyuan just laughed at this, he knew that it was impossible for him to change the deep-rooted concepts of people in this era, especially a corrupt Confucian like Gu Zhiqian, to argue with such people, it is better to focus on cultivating those Mengsheng who are still a blank slate, they are the future and hope of this country.

No matter what the adults think, Mengsheng's feelings are the most intuitive, what they like most now is Guo Zhiyuan's "Gewu" class, not to mention the things they have learned, and it is very interesting, the only thing that is a little bad is that Mengsheng is now in love with doing experiments, these days the sky of Gutian City often flies with large and small Kong Ming lanterns, there are many wooden houses in Gutian City, and the unburned Kong Ming lanterns fell, almost burning a family's wooden house, Guo Zhiyuan had to order that these Mengsheng students must avoid the places where the crowd lives for such dangerous experiments, and they must be accompanied by adults.

In addition to Mengsheng, there is another person who also likes to listen to Guo Zhiyuan's lectures, and this person is the poisonous king bee! Like Xu Guangqi, although they also like to listen to Guo Zhiyuan's lectures, they also have to teach, and their official duties are very heavy, so they can't come to audit every class, only the poisonous king bee must arrive every time, at first she still pulled Chu Wan'er to come with her, but later because Chu Wan'er wanted to lead the regiment to train the township soldiers, she couldn't accompany her, so she came alone.

Of course Guo Zhiyuan is happy to see this situation, of course he hopes to recruit the poisonous king bee, he has no real military talents under his command now, so he can only let Chu Wan'er catch the ducks on the shelves and serve as the commander of the regimental training township soldiers, the poisonous king bee is well versed in the art of war, and he is also very good at studying the formation method, if he can recruit it, he will make up for his biggest shortcoming.

For this reason, he also deliberately tested the poisonous king bee after a lecture, and invited her to be the professor of the new school, specializing in teaching the art of war to Mengsheng, but he didn't expect the poisonous king bee to say coldly: "I think you are mistaken, I just came to listen to your lecture to learn more about you as a person, and defeat you openly in the future!" After saying that, he walked away without looking back!

Guo Zhiyuan touched his nose a little embarrassed, it seems that there is really a long way to go to subdue this proud and paranoid woman! At this time, Wang Xi came to report, saying that Zhang Cheng came back with two people, Guo Zhiyuan was overjoyed when he heard it, he sent Zhang Cheng to Changle to save Chen Zhenlong, there has been no news, and now he is back, most of the time the task is completed, and most of the two people he brought are Chen Zhenlong and his son Chen Jinglun!

For this Chen Zhenlong Guo Zhiyuan, who was called the "father of sweet potatoes" by later generations, I still want to see it, there are very few records of Chen Zhenlong in the official history, and even if there is, it is a passing mention, so that for a long time there was controversy about when and who brought sweet potatoes into China, until Guo Moruo clearly put forward in his works that sweet potatoes were brought into China by Chen Zhenlong in 1593, Chen Zhenlong's historical contribution was confirmed, Guo Moruo also wrote a poem to praise Chen Zhenlong's historical merits in introducing sweet potatoes to China, saying that his merits are better than Shennong, who knows?

When Guo Zhiyuan walked into the county government mansion, Zhang Chengzheng and a gray-haired old man and a young man stood at the door waiting, the gray-haired old man should be Chen Zhenlong, at this time Chen Zhenlong was old, even his back was a little rickety, and an ordinary old farmer had no intention, completely inconsistent with the image of a lonely hero who dared to risk death to bring sweet potatoes into China from under the noses of the Spanish colonizers in Guo Zhiyuan's mind.

When Chen Zhenlong saw Guo Zhiyuan in official uniform, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed to thank him: "Grass farmer Chen Zhenlong has seen the county official, thank you for your rescue!" ......", but his son Chen Jinglun beside him was a little arrogant, and he didn't kneel down immediately, but Chen Zhenlong pulled him hard, so he knelt down a little reluctantly.

Guo Zhiyuan hurriedly stepped forward to help the two of them up, and sighed: "Elder Chen, please hurry up, Elder Chen introduced sweet potatoes to the land of my Shenzhou, the merit is in the community, and the benefit is in the future, how dare Guo accept such a big gift from Elder Chen!" Guo should salute Chen Lao on behalf of the people! ......" said that he really bowed to Chen Zhenlong!

Chen Zhenlong looked at Guo Zhiyuan with some surprise, no one had ever given him such a high evaluation, and his face also showed a look of emotion, and he hurriedly said: "How can the grass people be worthy of such praise from adults, it is really embarrassing for the grass people!" ......", the arrogance on Chen Jinglun's face on the side also disappeared, revealing excitement.

Guo Zhiyuan laughed and said: "Afford it!" Well deserved! ”

Invited Chen Zhenlong and Chen Jinglun to the living room of the official residence to sit down, let Wang Xi serve fragrant tea, Guo Zhiyuan was no longer polite, and put forward the idea of preparing to promote sweet potato planting on a large scale in Gutian, Chen Zhenlong heard it but smiled bitterly: "My lord, although this idea is good, but it may be difficult to implement, the governor of the year Jin Daren (note: Jin Xuezeng, once the governor of Fujian) also had this idea, coinciding with the drought in Fujian, but there are some harvests, but this thing is easy to flatulence after eating, quite indecent, so the people do not want to plant, after the drought, There are fewer and fewer people planting......"

Guo Zhiyuan naturally had already thought about the problems that might be encountered in promoting sweet potato planting, and he had already made up his mind with a plan, waved his hand and laughed: "This official has his own way to make the people willing to plant, and Chen Lao only needs to point out the matters that need to be paid attention to in the cultivation of sweet potatoes......"

Chen Zhenlong saw that Guo Zhiyuan was very confident, so he had to smile a little sneeringly: "In this way, the grass people wish the adults a success!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan asked Chen Zhenlong if he knew where there were corn and potatoes, in order to avoid mistakes in the different names of corn and potatoes in this era, Guo Zhiyuan also deliberately drew the general appearance of corn and potatoes, Chen Zhenlong took the drawings drawn by Guo Zhiyuan and looked at them, hesitated for a moment and said: "These two things have indeed heard from the mouth of Spanish sailors, but the old man has not been to sea for a long time, and now he is old, I am afraid it will be difficult for adults to find these two things......