Thinking of poor Ouyang Zhi, Fang Jifan felt a little melancholy.

But what is even more melancholy is Zhu Houzhao.

Squatting in the West Mountain, Zhu Houzhao weeded, caught insects, and fertilized, except for the resentment in his heart, it seemed to ...... The process was quite pleasant.

Every time Wang Shouren's Mu Xiu, Xishan will be lively, Jingshi and nearby scholars, seem to have mastered the law, so early in the morning, there are people in groups.

At this time, those who opposed Wang Shouren were tired of scolding, after all, the imperial court did not denounce other doctrines as fallacies and heresies, and they had to arrest people to punish them.

The people who come here to study are mainly people who raise people and show talents, especially those who have tried and failed to learn.

In fact, this can also be understood, Cheng Zhu, who has studied all his life, found that he was useless at all, and he studied at home every day, and the more he read, the more he did not understand the essentials.

Today is the rest day, and the West Mountain is already covered with snow.

Many people dressed in thick cotton clothes came together.

There are more than 200 scholars, and Liu Jian's son Liu Jie also came.

Everyone is quite familiar with each other, so they nod their heads to each other.

Xiao Zhu Xiucai came the earliest, in fact, these days, he lives in Xishan, because the most troublesome round trip, this little Zhu Xiucai is no longer wearing Rushan, wearing a scarf, but very sven, wrapped in a jacket, under the cotton breeches.

Everyone saw Xiao Zhu Xiucai and saluted one after another.

Xiao Zhu Xiucai is dark and thin, but he is very happy to see many 'classmates'!

These days, I work hard alone, and it's nothing to be tired, but it's mainly lonely! Occasionally, Zhang Xin would lead him to do something together, but Zhang Xin was too honest, talking to him, talking and talking about death, even Zhu Houzhao was so active that he didn't know how to communicate well, and in the end, the way of communication between the two people was probably 'um'''' ''Hmm' or something.

The 'classmates' are different, they speak very well, everyone saw Xiao Zhu Xiucai, this said: "Mr. is the most important is Xiao Zhu Xiucai, Xiao Zhu Xiucai has been in Xishan these days, I think I have learned a lot of knowledge." ”

"Mr. Xiao Zhu pursues the unity of knowledge and action, what must he know, come on, let's listen."

Zhu Houzhao was very excited, there is really no vain cultivation in this land.

He was about to speak, but he saw a person coming slowly.

This person is Wang Shouren, Wang Shouren's footsteps are unhurried, and everyone salutes Wang Shouren again.

Wang Shouren only nodded, and then looked at Zhu Houzhao: "What did little Zhu Xiucai learn, let's listen to it." ”

At this time, Zhu Houzhao seemed a little embarrassed, he thought about it, and then said: "The country is based on agriculture, and it is the most important thing for the people to have food to eat." ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing, do you still need to say it? Everyone has known this truth for a long time.

Wang Shouren didn't laugh at him, but said with a faint smile: "You go on." ”

Zhu Houzhao thought about it again, and then said, "But how can we make the people have food?" The so-called paper is shallow, and I never know that I have to do it. It can be seen that if you want people to eat enough and not go hungry, it is by no means just a matter of reading words. ”

At this moment, everyone was silent, and no one made fun of Zhu Houzhao, but they all looked serious.

"This ...... It is Mr. Wang's knowledge of the unity of knowledge and action. Scholars can't just talk about it, but also bow down to do it, just like the gentleman taught us to plough the land, does the gentleman just let us plough the land? Those of us who have read the book say that the skill of cultivating land is less than half that of farmers, but in fact, the original intention of cultivating land is to acquire knowledge of cultivation in action, and then accumulate this knowledge and implement it. ”

"It's like...... Fengcheng Bo Zhang letter is the same, you look at that letter, he has read, he is also in Xishan farming, but he is different from ordinary farmers, because he has read, so he has 'knowledge', so when he ploughs the land, he pays more attention to the accumulation of methods and knowledge, but any experience, will be recorded through bamboo chips, after writing down, you can plough better land. Ordinary farmers rely on the experience of their ancestors, if an acre of land can only produce three stones of grain, but he is different, the same crop, he can produce four stones or even five stones, why is this? ”

"That's why he implements the unity of knowledge and action, he will constantly observe what kind of crops are best to fertilize, what kind of crops need to be watered and how much water, and even he will record the growth of crops under different ground temperatures, which is what makes him different from ordinary farmers."

"Scholars always say that they want to rule the country and level the world, but in fact, this is all empty talk! Why did the imperial court entitle Zhang Xin as Fengcheng Bo, but not these scholars who claimed to rule the world? This is because, although a Fengcheng Bo only increased the yield of one stone of a piece of land, because of his unity of knowledge and action, he continued to accumulate these farming knowledge, and in the future, he would spread these experiences and knowledge to the world, and how much food could the whole world increase? A million stones, ten million stones? Or maybe 50 million stones? What a terrible number, and how many people can be fed by this food? ”

"What Feng Chengbo does every day is actually just a small thing, and the scholar disdains it, but his behavior, and the true knowledge accumulated by his behavior, have benefited the people of the world, even if a hundred talented Confucians, ten so-called virtuous ministers, can not match his favor to the people of the world."

The more people listened, the more they relished.

Xiao Zhu Xiucai can draw inferences from one another, which is really amazing.

Zhu Houzhao was at his father's place and did not enjoy respect, but here, he enjoyed it.

Seeing that everyone was listening to him intently, he continued with a beaming heart: "Now Zhang Xin is planning to cultivate a crop that can grow in the desert, if this crop can really grow in the desert, then ...... Do you know how much benefit it will bring to what the sages of all dynasties and dynasties could not do, but they can do it from the hands of Xinbo and Fengcheng Bo? ”

"For a long time, the Tatars attacked my Daming, and the soldiers and civilians in my Daming border town were miserable, but the Daming was always helpless against them, because even if our army defeated them, it could not adapt to the desert environment in the end, and had to retreat to Guanzhong."

"The Tatars are used to living in the grass, they are used to grazing, and we Han people are used to farming, and we are used to settling."

At this time, someone couldn't help but say: "Why are we Han people used to settling?" We Hanmin can also go to the desert to graze. ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing.

But readers, after all, they usually have a lot of fantasies, and they seem to think that this is not necessarily impossible.

Zhu Houzhao raised his eyebrows, looked at the questioning person with an expression like your mentally retarded, and said: "If Hermes-Epitek wants to survive in the desert and completely squeeze the living space of the Tatars, the first thing to solve is two problems, one is to be able to produce, so there is a crop for them to cultivate, which is extremely important. The second is settlement. The so-called grazing is not that you can raise sheep if you enclose a piece of land, the sheep want to raise fat, you must have sufficient forage, and if you want to graze, you need to raise cattle, horses and sheep on a large scale, and when the water and grass in one place are eaten clean, you have to go to the next place, so the Tatars are grazing, they are wandering around, and the Han people are not good at grazing, but they are not good at living in grass and wandering around. Because the world outside the border is particularly dangerous, dozens of people wander around with sheep, once they encounter the Tatars or the thieves on the steppe, they will die without a place to be buried, which is equivalent to letting the Han people use their own disadvantages to fight against the advantages of the Tatars, and the Tatars still can't ask for it, I wish we Han people were out of the customs like this, so that they could come and plunder us. ”

Everyone thought about it, and finally understood.

"But once such crops can be cultivated, then the problem of settlement will be solved, a group of Han people go out to open up the wasteland, crops can grow in the field on time, and with the harvest, more and more people can be fed, everyone can get together, and if you form a village, you can station permanent soldiers, and the village will become a fortress, and the fortress will eventually become a city, and once the Tatars attack us, we can rely on a strong fortress to fight them, even if it is a year, three years, five years, but as long as the ground can grow food, it doesn't matterBecause we no longer have to transfer grain and grass from thousands of miles away, as long as there is grain and people, then there will be bows and crossbows, firearms, and iron cannons! They can't take us today, tomorrow we will open up more wasteland to the north, build more fortresses, each fortress is connected to each other, each horn is each other, echoing each other, if we are defeated once, it doesn't matter, our Han people always have more population than the Hu people...... So, whether we win or lose, our cityscapes will only grow. ”

"Next, step by step, we will encroach on more and more pastures, we will also raise some cattle and horses, but it is not like the Tatars who live by the grass, cattle and horses can be raised less, and the nearby pastures can be supplied, after all, cattle and horses are not our staple food, and in the end, the Tatars will have less and less space to live, and their cattle and horses will also be greatly reduced, and the population will be smaller and smaller, and in the end they will not be troubled. Why don't they become our vassals, completely submit, and begin to learn to settle and farm, just like us, but what if the Tatars learn this, what is different from the Han Chinese? Maybe after three or five generations, they will also be Han Chinese, or they will completely die out, and there will be no nomads in the desert to replace them, because ...... There, it's already the world of my Ming Dynasty. ”