Chapter 1002 became the child king

Seeing that Zhao Xing was still hesitating, Cheng Tong proudly boasted: "There are thousands of miles of mountains here, and there are few people. In the nearby mountains, the village of Chengjiaao is the largest, and the number of Dingkou is the most......"

- Is this still big? Zhao Xing couldn't help but disdain in his stomach: This village of more than 20 households and more than 100 people is also considered big? He hadn't seen a city with a population of 10 million.

Cheng Tong didn't know what Zhao Xing was thinking in his heart, he continued: "My family surnamed Cheng is from the Jiangxia Cheng clan, which is a large family in Jiangxia, and it can't be compared with those barbarians in the mountains.

I think that at the beginning, my ancestor fought with the founding emperor (of course, he was killed as a pawn), and this place was still inhabited by Hu people. Later, the ancestor was old, and he was given the gift of Taizu to resign and return to his hometown, but he didn't want to be recognized by the Jiangxia Cheng clan, and the ancestor came here with his bare hands and feet......"

Cheng Tong's words were actually exaggerated, but the information revealed in his words made Zhao Xing very puzzled - when did the Hu people go to the Yangtze River to graze horses?

Grandfather Yuan means the sixth ancestor, Cheng Tong's ancestor had fought on the field, he was bold and ruthless, well-informed, he relied on his ferocity, it was easy to gain a foothold in the mountainous area, after the Yuan grandfather, great-grandfather, great-grandfather, grandfather, father, himself, six generations of efforts, nearly two Jiazi reproduction, the formation of Cheng Jiaao this natural village.

Due to the strength of the Cheng people, most of the people with foreign surnames who live in Chengjiaao have become Cheng hired workers or Cheng sons-in-law, and they can only obtain the right of residence recognized by the Cheng people through marriage.

Cheng Tong finished describing the power of the Cheng clan, and then in a gentle tone, he advised again: "If the guest has no intention of drifting, but live here!" I think that although my Chengjiaao is small, it is not a problem to feed my husband! ”

What else? Zhao Xing learned the appearance on TV and arched his hand: "So, it's bothering!" ”

Zhao Xing's answer made Cheng Tong stunned, but he didn't show his consternation.

There is Zhao Xing's village, and the first change is the improvement of medical conditions.

The medical conditions in the Song Dynasty were extremely poor, and even as an emperor, 70% of the children born to him still did not live to adulthood. But for modern people, parenting knowledge has been worn out by TV shows......

Zhao Xing's treatment is - a bowl of bone broth!

Calcium supplementation and nutrition! Immediate results.

In addition, under Zhao Xing's strong advocacy, the living conditions of infants and young children were also immediately improved. Zhao Xing's requirements are: ventilation, improve light conditions, and let children do more outdoor sunbathing.

Of course, southern China has always been stubborn clan power, and after Zhao Xing knew the origin of Cheng Jiaao, he was not interested in challenging the thousand-year-old tradition, so when doing things, he was careful not to interfere with Cheng Tong's clan power, which made Cheng Tong extremely satisfied, and it was also the mountain people surnamed Cheng who quickly recognized his existence.

In such a remote mountain village as Chengjiaao, even a doctor with "one trick" will gain a high status. However, Zhao Xing made several moves, but the disease rate of children in the village plummeted, so Langzhong, who walked the streets and alleys, was no longer popular with the mountain people, and was replaced by the gradual improvement of Zhao Xing's status. This winter, Zhao Xing has been in a busy state, and ushered in another year's New Year's Day (Spring Festival) in the busy.

Zhao Xing's second shot was in this season of scarcity.

Previously, he had been living on the free support of the villagers. How much savings can the villagers have, as the Spring Festival approaches, Chengjiaao, a village of more than 20 households and more than 100 people, was dragged down by him, an idler, and the grain reserves were exhausted.

In this case, Zhao Xing gathered the children in the village, taught them his knowledge of survival in the wild, and taught the children to improve their hunting tools, make hunting nets, traps, and loopers, and explore the traces of wild beasts......

As a result, the children returned home and the villagers were fed. Zhao Xing also became the king of children.

Zhao Xing's third shot was in Qingming.

On this day, the adults all went to the field to cultivate, and the bored Zhao Xing chatted with the children, and heard the children talk about the day was "Qingming", he wrote the word "Qingming" on the ground, and read Du Mu's "Qingming Season Rain". By the way, I also talked to the children about the proverbs of "24 solar terms" - such as: "In the Qingming season, plant melons and beans", "The earth is stunned, and the farmers are busy" and so on.

In this era, most teachers emphasize "reading a book a hundred times, and the meaning is self-explanatory", that is, students are required to learn through rote memorization and use photographic memory. Zhao Xing's lecture was vivid and unique, starting from the radical and word structure of "Qingming"—that is, retelling the process of primary school literacy...... But in this era, children have never seen this.

After his vivid speech, the child immediately remembered the six words "Qingming, water, green, sun and moon". That night, the parents who returned from the fields were shocked to see the children's show-offs, and they all came to the door with the apprenticeship......

Subsequently, Zhao Xing became a "teacher".

The word "teacher" originated in the Song Dynasty, and it was used to refer to rural teachers. And the word "sir" was used in the Song Dynasty to refer to Fang Langzhong and Taoist priests. It was not until after the Xinhai Revolution that "sir" was used to refer to teachers again.

With a group of children, Zhao Xing spent the rest of the spring and summer of the year leisurely. During this period, he led the child to the nearby Qishui and Yingshan several times...... It was finally confirmed: This is indeed the Song Dynasty, and the time is about the end of Wang Anshi's reform, but at this time Wang Anshi has repeatedly resigned.

When another autumn came, Zhao Xing, who knew the truth, ushered in the season of falling leaves in loneliness. This season is the harvest season, but Zhao Xing doesn't know how to deal with himself - how to position himself.

In order to hide his identity, he could only use the attitude of "cautious words and deeds", patiently hiding in the countryside to teach his children, and working hard to learn the language and habits of this era. During this period, he also occasionally used his half-baked medical knowledge to treat villagers.

Under his care, this year, more than 20 villagers in the whole village miraculously did not have a single child died. This miracle made Zhao Xing famous, so much so that the name of "miracle doctor" spread all over the four ditches and eight towns. The little daughter-in-law of the nearby village often holds the child and treks dozens of miles of mountain roads, whether she is sick or not, she has to let Cheng Jiaao's "miracle doctor" take a look at the child's development.

This autumn Zhao Xing is melancholy, although the villagers have never lacked his offerings, and he relies on the two professions of "teacher" and "doctor", and also makes the house full of various harvests, but he is used to modern life He always feels lonely, so he finds himself to find trouble - under his guidance, the villagers began to learn to "package" their prey and mountain goods - this can be regarded as "deep processing of agricultural products".

The main force of "deep processing of agricultural products" is children, because Zhao Xing can only command children. The children were weak and couldn't do energy, so Zhao Xing instructed the children to make various auxiliary tools - fixing the blade on the wooden table for cutting bamboo strips; The cut bamboo strips are steamed in a steamer, shaped at high temperature, and woven into a variety of exquisite bamboo utensils......

These mountain goods and mountain treasures packed in exquisite bamboo baskets and bamboo utensils have brought the villagers a fruitful fat year. At the same time, the children also learned to read and write 300 words.

After the news of the incident, parents in nearby villages were attracted and sent their children to Zhao Xing here for foster care, and sent a large amount of "tuition and miscellaneous fees" - the Song Dynasty called this "bundle". Of course, they are all mountain goods, the best mountain goods that the villagers can find - wild mushrooms, wind chickens, wild boars, etc., these things are all packed in baskets by Zhao Xing and sold at a high price.

By the end of the year, Zhao Xing's reputation in the mountains was spreading more and more, and he received more and more bundles, so that Zhao Xing's simple wooden house could not be put down. So, he recruited a few potters from the neighboring county town, dug a large kiln near Chengjiaao, burned bricks, and built a brick house for himself to protect himself from the wind and rain......

As a result, after his students learned the skills of bamboo, they also learned to fire kilns, and led Cheng Jiaao into the era of major transformation.

More than 20 villagers have been completely renovated into brick houses, and there are only more than 20 rooms to be built. In order to save bricks. Zhao Xing's house is adjacent to each other, so that most residents only need to build two walls, the front and back, and borrow the brick walls of their neighbors on the left and right...... As a result, it was accidentally built into a fortress-like village similar to a Tujia house in southern Shonan.

By the second year, all the people of Chengjiaao lived in a new-style large brick house. On the New Year's Day, the nearby mountain people who came to pay New Year's greetings saw the changes in Chengjiaao, so they simply moved the whole village to the vicinity of Chengjiaao, and the adults looked for some part-time work in the village, and the prey was directly handed over to Chengjiaao to buy, and the children were taught by Zhao Xing, and then Zhao Xing was found for treatment when they were sick.

After just one New Year's Day, Chengjiaao doubled in size and gradually developed into a hundred villages.

Fortunately, the clay resources near Chengjiaao were abundant, and the excess labor was immediately digested, which also allowed the brick kiln to be quickly upgraded to a pottery kiln.

Under Zhao Xing's planning, the children in the village were divided into six cooperative groups (the Song Dynasty formed these cooperatives into "she"), each in charge of excavation, brick burning, pottery burning, hunting, weaving, bookkeeping and external sales.

By the spring of the third year, the entire Chengjiaao had become a 200-household all-brick village. The whole village is walled according to the mountain, and it is composed of six square or round tujia buildings to form a large building complex, and the walled wall made of bluestone surrounds the col, and each villager lives in a brick and stone house.

But even at this rate of expansion, the village still appears to be underemployed, and the villagers have begun to recruit friends and prepare to merge several distant mountain villages into Chengjiaao.

In this way, the time slowly arrived at the Qingming Festival, which is the annual sacrifice day for the Great Song Dynasty people to replace the "new fire". On this day, people need to extinguish their fires and then have a "cold food festival". At midnight on Qingming Day, the village elders will come forward to distribute "new fires" to each family, and at the same time announce the year-round farming plan.

In the morning light, the newly bought bronze bell "Dangdang" in the village rang, and the sound was melodious. The villagers began to extinguish their stoves and go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors. After the bell died down, Zhao Xing did not extinguish the fire, but still sat by his own fire pit, looking at a book with the help of the firelight.

There was a knock on the door, and his student Cheng Xia walked in respectfully.

Cheng Xia's original name was Cheng Qi, and "seven" was his ranking, because he was born in the summer, so Zhao Xing finally named him Cheng Xia. He first knelt on the ground and saluted the teacher, and then said respectfully: "Teacher, Ah Da told you to go to the ancestral hall for a meeting." ”

The "Ah Da" in Cheng Xia's mouth refers to his father, the patriarch Cheng Tong.

Hearing Cheng Xia's call, Zhao Xing raised his eyelids, turned a page of the book, and asked calmly, "I'll go?" Square peg!

Cheng Xia didn't salute or speak, he replied while kowtowing: "Ah Da said: I want to listen to the teacher's arrangement this year, so I want to invite the teacher to the ancestral hall." ”

The light of the fire pond gradually weakened, Zhao Xing stopped flipping through the book, he looked at the fire pond, hesitated and said, "Cheng family's plan...... I don't have the right to interject, but ......"

Cheng Xia kowtowed: "Ah Da said: The teacher is gone, sit on the head!" ”

This is exquisite, what he means is: Zhao Xing entered the ancestral hall, not to accept the Cheng family's questioning, but to appear as a decision-maker, and there was a seat in the ancestral hall, and he sat at the top.

Zhao Xing closed the book.

It's a sad day without light. The humidity in the mountainous area is heavy, and even if you live in a brick house, you can't put out the fire for a moment. In addition, in this era, it is difficult to make fire, and the preservation of fire is a problem. And "reading" has become Zhao Xing's privilege, and Zhao Xing needs this fire to illuminate, so Zhao Xing has no hope of extinguishing the fire even during the Cold Food Festival.

But now that Cheng Jiaao invited him to enter the ancestral hall and participate in the "new fire" ceremony, the fire needs to be extinguished.

Cheng Xia was still kneeling on the wooden floor waiting for an echo, Zhao Xing thought for a while, poured a cup of tea on the fire, and said, "Then let's go." ”

By the fire pond in the ancestral hall, there are two chairs in the first seat, one is sitting on Cheng Tong and the other is empty.

Seeing Zhao Xing coming, Cheng Tong pointed to the chair next to him with the fire stick in his hand and motioned for Zhao Xing to sit. Zhao Xing shook his head and replied, "Not suitable!" ”

Cheng Tong didn't get up, and several other elders sitting around the fire pit bowed down and insisted that Zhao Xing sit down. But Zhao Xing still refused...... In the end, the empty chair was slightly moved away from the fire pit and rearranged behind Cheng Tong's shoulder, and Zhao Xing was willing to sit down.

After Zhao Xing sat down, Cheng Tong cleared his throat and said, "Before the teacher came, we discussed what to do this year...... Well, in the past few years, pottery kilns and bamboo workshops have made money, and men and women have worked hard in the fields for a year, so it is better to work in two kilns for a month. Therefore, if there are children in the workshop, they are not willing to go to the field to suffer, but are willing to go to the workshop to give the child a hand...... Ahem, the teacher said how to distribute this work. ”

Cheng Tong mentioned the word "thing", which is equivalent to the modern word "thing". It is said that the word "thing" was brought by the Mongols, and before the Northern Song Dynasty, there was another more elegant word in China called "wuwu".

Zhao Xing opened his mouth, but immediately closed his mouth again. He thought to himself: "Be careful! Be careful! ”

These two workshops were built by Zhao, and the design and construction were all his own efforts, and the children were only equivalent to his employees. But now Cheng Tong regards them as Cheng Jiaao's inheritance, and they will be distributed in the ancestral hall - no wonder he was invited.