No. 221 Zheng Xia and Trouble
Just like Zheng Guobao, he can memorize the ninety-nine mantra well, but once Cai Dao lets him actually apply it, once he gets to the double digits, the result is not right. Looking at his current appearance, he is not much better than a pig.
The winter wheat planting was over, and Cai Dao only gave all the children one day off. Except for walking out of the door of the academy, you can do whatever you want.
However, Cai Dao took advantage of this effort to teach the children a sport - modern football.
Twenty-two boys clumsily carried the 'kemari' sewn from cowhide and pig bubbles. Of course, the format and rules of the competition were very different from the popular sport of Keju in the Great Song Dynasty, but all the children had a great time.
There are no such vices as in modern football in later generations.
If the players of both sides touch each other with the ball, at most they will wrestle with their opponents, and no one will think of black feet. This kind of sport is more interesting and pureer.
The exciting competition consumed a lot of physical strength of the boys, and also liberated their suppressed minds.
The next day, though, another hellish round of work began.
Winter wheat is planted in the ground, but Cai's School is located in the northeast corner of the outer city of Bianliang City, far away from the river, it was originally a dwelling, at most there are more than a dozen wells for everyone to drink water on weekdays. Therefore, there is no irrigation facility in the fields of the school.
Therefore, Cai Dao arranged for Hua Yiqi and their brothers to drive a special water-pulling cart to the Wuzhang River to fetch water every day.
Later, Cai Dao handed over the work of watering the fields to the children who had reached the age of seven, and this was the work they had to complete in a day. The work was not too heavy, and Cai Dao had carpenters and blacksmiths work together to make a watering can.
All the children had to do was fill the watering cans and sprinkle the ten acres of fields twice in the morning and evening.
Seven-year-old girls feed hundreds of cows with Hua Lanxi.
And those five or six years old, the boys followed Cai Ban to feed pigs and sheep, and the girls followed Yuan Zhaodi to feed chickens and ducks.
People need to eat meat, and children at this age need to supplement a lot of meat. Therefore, Cai Dao plans to let these children learn the skills of raising livestock while trying to be as self-sufficient as possible.
As for the beef and pork eaten in the school today, they also have their own sources.
The centrists led by Sun Jue and Su Shi basically gathered in the northwest region, and Song Shenzong knew that Cai Dao had a very good relationship with these officials, so he handed over the right to trade with those foreign races in Qingtang with spirits to Cai Dao. This is also equivalent to a kind of compensation for Cai Daojin's secret recipe for making wine.
Cai Dao was naturally not polite, he made all the sorghum planted in the land of Genyue in the fifth year of Yuanfeng into spirits, and through the relationship between the old man Sun, he exchanged the Qingtang that the wine met for a lot of good horses and a large number of yaks.
The yak, in addition to not being a ploughing ox, is full of treasures, and the hair on its body can be made into clothing or tents. Meat is rich in nutritional value. The key is that yaks can't plow the land, and even if they kill them, they can't find Cai Dao's trouble. The Great Song Dynasty forbade the slaughter of cultivated cattle.
Sure enough, after Cai Dao transported the yak back to Bianliang City, slaughtered and eaten meat, there were really good people who sued Cai Dao to Kaifeng Mansion for this reason.
Cai Dao knew that this was someone who wanted to trouble him and his uncle Cai Jing. The solution has already been thought of, and when Cai Dao was taken to Kaifeng Mansion, a yak came to follow him.
When the verdict was questioned, Cai Dao only said one sentence, leaving the plaintiff speechless.
"My lord, this plaintiff said that Poor Dao killed a cow, so bother this plaintiff to pull this so-called cow, put a plow, and plough an acre of land to show the big guy, as long as this cow can plow the land, Poor Dao is willing to plead guilty."
The plaintiff was dumbfounded by questioning, and under the pressure of the general judgment, he dragged the yak to plow the land, and the result was obvious: if the yak could plough the land, the sow would be able to climb the tree.
As a result, the plaintiff was reprimanded with a rod in court, and Cai Dao was acquitted. This incident has become an ironclad evidence that Cai Daochang played the judge of Kaifeng Mansion.
There are ploughing cattle in Cai's school, and these ploughing cattle naturally can't be handed over to these rookies to take care of, not to mention that the farmers who used to take care of them will resolutely not hand over these lifeblood to these nine knives.
The children work less intensively and work much less time. Cai Dao also increased the subjects he studied in a timely manner.
The number of textbooks has increased from three to seven, and the number of books read by boys has increased to include Tao Te Ching, Filial Piety Classic, 300 Tang poems, and Song Ci.
The Tao Te Ching and the Book of Filial Piety are available on the market, while the 300 Tang poems were exchanged by Cai Dao from the system, while the Song poems were extracted from Zeng Gong and the collection of words on the market.
The holy ministers of the Zhenzong Dynasty, Li Kang, Kou Zhun, Zhang Xian, Yan Shu, Song Qi, Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan of the Renzong Dynasty, among which Liu Yong, Cai Dao, who was the most controversial, only chose the first juvenile tour. And those who are still alive, Su Dabeard chose five songs, second only to Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu, and Qin Guan's one, which is the song 'Mountain Wipe Micro Clouds'. Like the famous Mao Peng and Yan Jidao at that time, as well as his grandfather Wang Anshi, their works, Cai Dao did not pick a poem.
On the contrary, Cai Dao chose a word for a talented man who had just returned to Beijing at that time and was not too famous, Li Zhiyi's fortune operator.
A total of twenty-nine words were selected, together with a compilation of nineteen ancient poems by Xiao Tong of the Southern Dynasty. Fortunately, this time Cai Dao still had a bit of discipline, and he didn't put his own oil words in order to make up the numbers.
Originally, when Cai Dao chose the lyrics, he planned to select an excerpt from the poems made by every emperor of the Great Song Dynasty into this book. However, since Song Shenzong gave up Cai Dao, there is no need for Cai Dao to use his hot face to stick to other people's cold fart.
In addition to the first three books, the books read by the girls have also added female training and martyrdom biography. Cai Dao's recruitment of female students is already very shocking, and if he teaches some non-mainstream books, it will be deviant. Then he is not far from being humanely destroyed by conservatives.
As for other books, in addition to the Tao Te Ching, as long as girls want to learn, Cai Dao does not prohibit it.
Zheng Xia returned to Beijing, the scenery was infinite on the surface, and his heart was also very calm, or at ease. The locust plague in Hebei has always been handled in this way by the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is normal for some lowly people to starve to death. He has long been surprised in his hometown in Fujian.
Speaking of which, at the beginning, Zheng Xia was able to force Song Shenzong to finally remove Wang Anshi and abolish the new law just by relying on the exile map, and it can only be said that the emperor himself did not understand the following situation. As for the popularity of the people or something, those are just false names, and the history books have always been controlled by literati like Sima Guang. It's not up to them to decide who is loyal or who is treacherous!
Zheng Xia had heard about Cai's Academy's recruitment of female students for a long time, and on the way back to Beijing, he had been thinking about countermeasures.
There is a way, and after Zheng Xia returned to Beijing, he immediately set out to solve this problem.
And the comfortable life didn't last long, and Cai Dao ushered in the biggest troubles since the opening of the school......