In less than a year, Wencheng Village has undergone a very big change. And this change is real, and the villagers have received tangible benefits.

It is precisely because of this change that more people believe that Mei Xiaohan can bring them magical power.

One after another, children from other villages were sent to Wencheng Village to come to school, and since the reform was already on the right track, Mei Xiaohan did not plan to stay in Wencheng Village for more.

The biggest headache for him now is that the salt and iron works are in great difficulty, and he has no way to start with either the salt works or the iron works.

The shortage of technicians, as well as the materials needed for construction, are major problems.

Mei Xiaohan decided to experience a handful of iron striking for herself and feel the work of working people.

He found an ironsmith's shop, also known as the "blacksmith's furnace".

The blacksmith is a dilapidated house, with a large stove in the middle of the house, a bellows is erected by the hearth, and when the bellows is pulled, the wind enters the stove, and the flames in the hearth rise.

If you want to strike iron, the first iron tool to be forged is first burned red in the furnace, and then moved to the large iron pier, where one person holds the main hammer and the lower hand holds the sledgehammer for forging.

Experienced in the upper hand, holding a small hammer in the right hand, holding iron pliers in the left hand, in the process of forging, the upper hand should constantly turn the iron by visual inspection, so that it can beat the square iron into a round iron rod or the thick iron rod into a slender iron rod. In the hands of the old blacksmith, the hard pieces of iron became square, round, long, flat, and pointed.

This traditional way of striking iron, although the yield is not very high, and the agricultural tools produced are more exquisite, but the yield is very low. As it is now argued, the cost is too high because the man-hours are calculated on an hourly basis.

With such a blacksmith shop, I was able to find the long-lost craftsman spirit, and I also learned to make some ironware, and I also gained a lot while striking iron.

There are always people in the village who have some traditions, they don't want to change, they don't want to accept new things, they are content with the status quo, which cannot be said to be stubborn, because some people always like the old things.

Just like modern people, they are always very nostalgic for childhood things, and they are always nostalgic for classic things, although some things have withdrawn from the stage of history, but the scenes he left behind, for a moment, can never be forgotten.

The old-fashioned old people in the village are still sowing seeds in the old way, and they are very slow to accept new things, perhaps because they are very old, so they are not willing to change.

Children, the generation that receives new things the fastest, their change is the greatest, when the concept of time is deeply implanted in their young minds, they know that there are only 24 hours in a day, and what time to do in a day is clearly divided.

Because the reform went very smoothly, Mei Xiaohan had more time to inspect other places.

The whole city is his, and all the people are his people, so he has the right and the duty to take care of them.

The children's academic performance has to be verified by exams, and only through exams can they prove that they have learned.

The content of the test is very practical, the Chinese test is about actual communicative language, using Mandarin to communicate and dialogue with another person, and the math test is about arithmetic, how much to pay for a thing, and how much money to find.

The place where the examination took place was moved to a street, this kind of village shopping street, where every member of every shop was part of this organization, they were only paid, and they were members of this organization.

This is a very special way of taking the test, a bit like a situational dialogue, but more realistic than a situational dialogue.

The owner of the shop is actually the examiner, and each shop sells different things, and the points obtained are also different, some sell porcelain, some sell tea, and some sell candy and school supplies.

The school gave each child a hundred yuan, but in fact it was not money, it was just a kind of roll, similar to the meal stamps and food stamps that are used now, although the meal stamps and food stamps are no longer needed, but this kind of thing is popular in this small village.

In this day and age, these rolls in different denominations have become effectively equivalent to money, as children can use them to buy whatever they want.

For example, the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar needed at home, such as school tools, and farm tools can all be bought from the store. Each child was given a hundred yuan in rolls, which is a lot of money, because this hundred dollars can buy a lot of things.

For example, a pencil only needs a penny, and when a child goes to buy a pencil with a hundred yuan bill, the salesperson will ask him, how much should I ask you for a pencil with a hundred yuan to buy a pencil?

As the first examiner, Mei Xiaohan also participated in the exam, and he was the invigilator.

He came to the first store, which was a store that sold stationery, which of course had been planned before. The price of the commodity is already marked on it, and the price is different for different goods.

Although Mei Xiaohan was not good at math before, he can still do simple math problems.

A total of 100 students participated in the assessment, and they were divided into 20 groups of five students, and each student had to undergo three assessments.

On the day of the exam, the villagers attached great importance to it and sent these children to the entrance of the village early. After being sent to the entrance of the village, the lottery will begin, and whatever questions will be taken.

Another thing that made the villagers very happy was that Mei gave each of them a hundred yuan in rolls. The villagers had only seen copper plates, but not many broken silver.

They can't imagine that they can still use paper to buy things. But what they didn't expect was that in a few decades, the Song Dynasty would issue a banknote called Jiaozi.

Jiaozi is a currency issued by the Northern Song Dynasty in the first year of Renzong Tiansheng (1023 AD). The original inventor was Zhang Yong, the prefect of Chengdu.

It is believed to be the world's first paper money. The denomination of Jiaozi varies from consistent to 10 times, and it is temporarily filled in when it is issued. Later, it was reprinted and distributed in two types, five and ten, and soon changed to consistent and five hundred texts. The original quota of issuance shall be a term every two years, and the new will be replaced at the expiration of the term, and private private creation is strictly prohibited.

According to the Qing Dynasty's "Continuation of the General Code. Food's "Coins. It is written that Jiaozi should be held every three years, and its cause is that the copper coins and iron coins that began in the Song Dynasty were mixed and were not easy to carry; By the time of Shenzong, Jiaozi was officially recognized by the official, that is, in the early years of Xining, the forgery of Jiaozi was equivalent to the forgery of official documents, and it was the first paper money to appear in China.

This kind of roll circulating in this village is much more convenient to use than Jiaozi, and it can go directly to buy things.

Once it comes to the issue of interests, both adults and children have become cautious, and under the instructions of adults, these children are told by their parents not to buy things indiscriminately, and to buy them, they must also be able to use them in the buyer's usual life.

Ancient China was far less abundant than modern goods, and everyone ate very little, so it was good to be able to fill their stomachs. Now the villagers are staggered by the sudden appearance of so many abundant commodities in this village. An exam that the villagers are looking forward to begins.

The volumes distributed this time were divided into 10 denominations: one, two, five, ten, twenty and fifty.

Denominations below 1 yuan: 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents.

The paper used in these rolls with denominations is a special material of paper, and before that, Mei Xiaohan had printed a total of 100 million rolls.