One village chief worried: "Although there are a lot of cattle and horses in the village this year, they are all on credit, and we have to raise funds to build the school, so I'm afraid the villagers will not be happy." ”

Shi Wenbin took out a notice to show everyone, "This is an announcement on the construction of the school. The county also fully considers everyone's difficulties and will not let everyone raise funds. The county is responsible for planning and design supervision, and each school provides skilled craftsmen, bricks, tiles, lime and other building materials worth a total of 50 yuan. As for the labor force, the village needs to contribute, and the county order provides the food rations for the workers. In addition, the stones used to lay the foundation and the wood used for the beams and desks were cut down by the village itself. ”

The village elder Sun smacked his lips and said, "I have seen the design drawings, but the house does not need so much money at all, why do you want to build a square covering an area of four acres, and use a wall more than one zhang high to enclose the school." ”

Shi Wenbin said: "The design of the school is based on the Chaojia Village to finalize, Chao Tuanlian also explained this problem, the wall is tall because we have many beasts, there are often wolves and insects, there is no tall wall, how can you rest assured that the children are in school." As for the square, it is reserved for students to do sports when they are resting, and the children not only have to learn culture, but also learn some martial arts, both civil and military. ”

Everyone listened to it and suddenly became enlightened, in fact, the design drawings are written, but the old grandson has limited literacy and does not recognize it, learning culture is not enough, and then learning martial arts is not more bullish, the ancients paid attention to the general into the phase, that is, the horse can fight, the horse can govern the country, so learning culture and school martial arts are very desirable, but for a long time, only the rich can go to school, and the poor can not afford to go to school.

The four village chiefs expressed their attitudes one after another: "There is no problem, there is less farm work in summer, except for hot spots, everything else is fine, and there is no problem for the four villages to produce 100 laborers every day." There are more stones and timbers on the mountain, and the villagers are not short of strength, and besides, the school where their dolls will study in the future is naturally the best to build. ”

Shi Wenbin spent three days visiting, arranging the construction of 20 primary schools, and communicating with the village chief and villagers, who were very grateful and very willing to contribute to the construction of the school. In the era of no cement, in order to ensure the safety and firmness of the project, even the construction of a tile house has to take three months, in order to ensure the quality of Chao Gai to relax the construction period to half a year, after the Chinese New Year can be used, because this time needs to recruit training teachers, compile teaching materials, Chao Gai does not want to work hard to train students can only read poetry, no real talent and learning nerds.

In the office of the night school of Chaojiazhuang literacy class, Wang Lun made a cup of strong tea and the stewed carp he ate in the morning still feels greasy.

There are still six teachers next to him, all of whom are recruited cultural people.

Wang Lun said: "The matter of compiling and training textbooks has fallen to us, although it is a heavy responsibility, but it is even more glorious. This is the trust of Chao Tuanlian, so don't complain about being tired. ”

"Principal Wang, I know, you've said it eight times. Let's talk about the textbook. A teacher said.

"The first textbook is called Chinese, which is actually a collection of subsets of scriptures and histories, poems and articles. The only difference is the introduction of ABCD such a letter, called pinyin, students learn the word first learn pinyin, learn pinyin and then learn the word twice the result with half the effort. The subsets of scriptures and histories, poems and articles are vast, and we have to choose the representative ones. The second textbook is called mathematics, that is, the meaning of calculation, Chao Tuanlian invented a new word 1234567890, the use of this new number will greatly simplify the use of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine, I plan to find a bookkeeper as the compiler of mathematics textbooks, and the recruitment of mathematics teachers is also based on people who have done bookkeepers. ”

At this time, a teacher said: "Why do you want to compile a book on agriculture, explain how to farm, how to raise fish, and add the knowledge of horses and cattle to the curriculum? ”

Wang Lun said angrily: "Qianqiu Sheji, agriculture-oriented, just know how to read and write poems, can I eat or drink, I am such a nerd who can only read, once I can't get famous, I can't do anything, this is a lesson, to learn." We not only have agriculture, but also engineering, mainly explaining carpenters, blacksmiths, vehicles and ships. There are five courses in total, Chinese, Arithmetic, Agriculture, and Engineering. There is also a course that teaches students to exercise and is called physical education. This is the innovation of Chao Tuanlian, all of which have been deeply thought-out, we can have doubts, but we can't not implement them, each of them will do their own problems, and no one is allowed to delay. From tomorrow onwards, more people will apply for teachers, and the salary of two times a month is very attractive. ”

Everyone nodded again and again, and the scholars were self-righteous about this stinky problem, and always thought that the school should learn a subset of scriptures and history, and any agriculture and industry were inferior. Such an educational reform will certainly attract criticism, but the scope is small, only limited to Yuncheng County, and there is no big problem.

On Liangshan, more than 50 people took saws and axes to cut trees in the woods, requiring large trees with a diameter of more than 50 centimeters, and there were more than 10,000 such big trees on Liangshan, all of which were huge pines, cedars, elms, and so on. One by one, the trees were cut down, and then the branches were repaired, and the branches were bundled back to make firewood, and the trunks were piled up and kept for shipbuilding.

Li Kui cut down more than ten big trees one after another, and saw that there were two soldiers not far away who were lazy, and shouted: "Do you two want to run a long distance or do you want to be hungry?" ”

The two lazy soldiers were frightened, and said, "Report to the platoon commander, I'm going to pee twice, so I'm going to cut down the tree." ”

"Can you still sit while peeing? There will be another 20-mile cross-country run. Li Kui said.

In order to build a ship and go to sea, Chao Gai sent Li Kui to lead 50 people to cut down trees for three days, and more than 3,000 big trees have been cut down. A centipede boat quickly came to the island, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, and Jiao Ting jumped down from the boat, looking at the accumulation of towering trees Chao Gai was somewhat unbearable, not that he was sad and pitiful, but Chao Gai understood the importance of trees to the climate and the environment.

Although it was only a large tree, many small trees were smashed when the big trees fell, and when the trees were transported down the mountain, they had to cut down trees to build roads, so at least half of the trees on the entire mountain had to be destroyed.

Wu Yong said: "I think my brother can't bear to cut down these big trees." ”

"It's not easy for these trees to grow so big, but they have to be cut down for our great cause of going to sea. I wonder when we'll be able to restore this forest after we've cut it down. Chao Gai said.

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Brother is worried that it is redundant, not to mention that we are just cutting down the big tree, even if it is all cut down for three or five years, it can be all restored, do you think, there are countless seeds on the tree that fall into the ground, take root and sprout, and don't they become small trees in three or five years?" A small tree will become a big tree in ten or eight years, and a big tree will become a towering tree in thirty or fifty years. Trees are a good thing, car building and shipbuilding are inseparable, not to mention other places, just say that we have a large area of tens of thousands of acres of barren mountains in Wujia Village, if you have the heart, like Chaojia Village, planned into a mulberry garden, or other orchards. ”

"Is there a barren mountain in the back mountain of Wujia Village? I remembered that it was a gravel mountain, and the soil was too little to plant fruit trees and mulberry trees, but it was possible to plant fir trees, and widely mobilize the masses to plant fir trees. Chao Gai said.

Wu Yong shook his head and was silent, and Chao Gai asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Although I rarely plant trees, I know that planting trees is not easy and requires professional knowledge. From seedling cultivation to planting, to management, it is not as easy as you think. I suggested that my brother first choose an ownerless barren mountain from our Yuncheng and set up a few forest farms. Make 350,000 acres, the purpose of this forest is to plant trees, and cut them down in batches when they grow up. It would be more troublesome to mobilize the masses as you mentioned, and it would be difficult to mobilize enthusiasm, so it would be better to divide the barren mountains into equal batches for everyone, let them plant them themselves, stipulate how big they must grow before they can cut them down, and the trees that have been cut down belong to them. ”

Chao Gai hurriedly shook his head: "We occupy tens of thousands of acres of ownerless barren mountains, and in the past few days, we have ordered people to set up a forest farm and start raising seedlings and planting trees, and there is no problem at all." But we can't divide the barren mountains to everyone, this point will cause us endless trouble. This matter should not be brought up again. ”

Wu Yong also understands the stakes, dividing the land is equivalent to being an enemy of the imperial court, at least for the time being, it is not something Chao Gai can do.

"Brother, Mr. Wu, and Jiao Ting, have you come over to help me cut down the tree?" Li Kui shouted from afar.

"Li Kui, come here." Chao Gai called Li Kui over, "How many trees have you cut down?" ”

"I'm not good at arithmetic, it should be more than one or three thousand." Li Kui said.

"Okay, tomorrow I will cut another day and go back to the camp to practice, let Hua Lei bring people to continue cutting, and cutting trees will have to be used as a training subject in the future." Chao Gai said.

Li Kui was surprised: "Ah, you have to train to cut down trees when you are a soldier." ”

Jiao Ting said: "Mr. Wu said that wood is needed to build camps, build pontoon bridges, and siege equipment, and wood is not dropped in the sky, and where to get it without cutting down trees." ”

Li Kui said: "As long as you can, of course I know the purpose of cutting down trees." ”

Most of the fifty soldiers in Li Kui's platoon were woodcutters, and the precautions for cutting trees were very clear, and they didn't need Chao Gai to point out, so they returned to the camp after checking Chao Gai.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the camp, he met a person sent by Liu Liang, who came to say: "The shopkeeper said that Shi Xiu is back, and there is a batch of thousands of horses to be done, let the owner of the village come over." ”

"What thousands of horses? Rushed to the horse market? Chao Gai asked in surprise.

The messenger said: "I didn't see it, it should just be such a message, and the specific shopkeeper didn't tell me." ”

Chao Gai said: "You go back first, I'll be there immediately." ”

Chao Gai went back to the camp to look at the training of everyone, Liu Tang was training soldiers, Wang Jin was teaching Chao Ran, Chao Zhang, Shi Jin, Chao Wei guns and sticks, everything was in order.

Chao Gai and Jiao Ting took four other guards, and a group of six rode out of the camp and hurried towards the county seat.