"I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, the spring breeze in February is like scissors, and the spring is so beautiful, just like a fairyland in a painting."

He Shouxin, who was sitting with a cup of tea, took a deep breath and sighed.

"Whether the spring is beautiful or not depends on the mood of the person, and when the whole country is won, there is no killing, and there are people living and working in peace and contentment, leisurely and leisurely, then it can be regarded as a fairyland on earth."

Duan Zhenghong, who was on the side, put down the tea bowl and answered with uncertain eyes, his hometown is far away in the north, and he doesn't know when he will recover.

"That day will come soon, isn't your hometown known as the stuffed Xiaojiangnan? Soon, you'll be able to kill it back, and by then, it will be so beautiful. The delicate Zhang Chenfeng comforted.

"Wait, when the war is gone, when our industry develops, and all of us, every day, will live in a fairytale spring......"

Lin Xiao looked at the distant mountains and said slowly.

Today he was in a pretty good mood, and just last night, the "Longsheng", which had lost contact for a long time, finally got in touch.

According to Lu Hua, being able to make a radio call means that the distance is already within 1,000 kilometers.

Sure enough, Lao Chen and Li Tao both said a few words to him, and they told Lin Xiao excitedly that despite the twists and turns, they had successfully achieved their goal on this trip.

Now, the freighter laden with rubber saplings has been confirmed to have passed through the Miyako Strait back to the East China Sea, and is about to enter the Taiwan Strait, and is expected to arrive in Macao in two days at the current speed.

After a short pause in Macau, dropping off the temporarily recruited Portuguese employees and some goods, replenishing some vegetables and fresh water, we can return to Fangchenggang in another day.

Thankfully, Lao Chen and they finally returned safely, Lao Zhou and Lao Cao and their long-awaited rubber trees can be planted in this spring, and at the same time, a lot of raw rubber brought back will definitely make Lao Zhou can't close his mouth.

According to Lao Cao, with rubber, not to mention the steam engine, even if it is a low-power diesel engine, he can get it out......

Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly, and in front of him, there seemed to be a glorious city that never sleeps, welcoming merchants of all colors; A high-speed speeding train is galloping in the north and south; Freighters, with their loud whistles, are busy shuttling through the vast ocean, and a fleet of ironclad fleets with dragon flags are cruising in the main straits to protect them......

"Dapeng rises with the wind one day, soaring up to 90,000 miles, our nation, is the Dapeng, if it does not fly, it has soared into the sky, China, will once again become the center of the world......"

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At this moment, Lu Hua, who had just rechecked the handouts he had prepared last night according to the newly compiled textbook, left his small courtyard and was walking towards the classroom in good spirits.

This afternoon, she's going to give her first science lesson to her Intermediate students.

Qinzhou School Hall, located at the foot of a hill on the east bank of the Qinjiang River, has the same structural layout as the school hall in Fangcheng Town, but because it enrolls many students who live in the school, an additional dormitory area is built, covering a total area more than twice the size of Fangcheng Town, and can accommodate more than 1,000 students at the same time to stay and study here.

However, due to the problem of the mountain, the Qinzhou School built by the mountain has a higher terrain for students, and the accommodation area for gentlemen is at the back and is the highest place.

Since coming to Qinzhou at the end of January, Lu Hua has been non-stop, devoting himself to his work, and even feels that he rarely thinks of Lin Xiao.

Sometimes when she thinks of this, she blames herself, if Lin Xiao knows, will she be very angry?

In addition to the recruitment of Mr. Cultural Class, the arrangement of miscellaneous servants, the purchase of teaching supplies and daily necessities, the recruitment publicity, the curriculum setting, and the compilation of teaching materials, there are a lot of other miscellaneous trivial matters.

Fortunately, with the help of Mo Yuanwei and He Lao's shopkeeper in many things, as well as the help of Nangong Yanran's gang, Lu Hua was able to have the remaining energy to focus on the compilation of the two textbooks of "arithmetic" and "science", the first volume of these two textbooks has been successfully finalized and printed a few days ago.

The printing industry of the Ming Dynasty is very developed, many yamen have their own stereotypes, typesetting and printing masters, and most of the places also have private printing houses, so under the vigorous supervision of the prefect Miao Heguang, the printing hall is working day and night, and it is expected that within a month, the first batch of 5,000 textbooks printed with movable type will be sent.

Because Lin Xiao made the decision to enter the school for free, so the people in Qinzhou and the surrounding areas heard about it and rushed to tell each other, there are a lot of school-age students who have signed up for school, and at present there are six or seven hundred students ranging from seven or eight years old to sixteen or seventeen years old, after the official opening of the school in early March, after a few days of school mobilization and etiquette education, the main class has begun.

In this era, there are very few readers, not that the people don't want their children to study, but the cost is too great, and the vast majority of families can't afford it.

Why is it difficult to read these days?

First, tuition fees are expensive, and many farmer families can't even afford to pay for their husbands; the second is that there is one less laborer in the family, but one more person who eats white rice; And the most important thing is that the success rate of the imperial examination is too low, there are so many scholars in the country, but just one talent can make most scholars fail the examination in their lifetime, let alone lift people and jinshi.

And the result of failing the exam is that the family's initial investment has been wasted, and these investments can almost make an ordinary family, the whole family tighten their belts, and wait for the happiness after passing the exam.

"The future of the Ming Dynasty needs countless literate people, even if he is just a farmer, as long as he learns from generation to generation, the ability and quality of the people will definitely get higher and higher, and when that time comes, ......"

This is the original intention of Lin Xiao when he decided to run a school for free, no matter how difficult it is, he will implement compulsory education similar to that of later generations.

Thinking that the Westerners could no longer be given a chance to be enslaved in the future, and that the Ming Dynasty must rise to become the Eastern Empire in their hands, Lin Xiao felt that the first thing was to have countless literate people, otherwise everything would be a castle in the air and a flash in the pan.

Since there were both boys and girls in the school, they had to be taught separately according to the current custom, and there were both literate and illiterate, so Lu Hua also divided them into two grades: the primary class and the intermediate class.

The primary classes account for the vast majority, mainly literacy and poetry, while the educated intermediate classes have less than 100 students and are all boys, and arithmetic and science courses will be offered in the intermediate classes.

Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, education is the most time and patience, otherwise it will pull out the seedlings to help grow, those who are still young, let them grow slowly.

And these people in the intermediate class are not young, and their literary foundation and even ethical and philosophical foundation are already very solid, if it weren't for the war, some of them would have already participated in the township examination.

Lu Hua screened them out separately and placed high expectations on them, and perhaps the first batch of scientific giants of the Ming Dynasty would be born among these people.

(Question: Qu Shiyun and Zheng Chenggong both worshipped Qian Qianyi as their teacher, but there is a big age difference between them, how many years is the difference between their apprenticeships?) ）

(End of chapter)