"On June 18, I went to Xia County, and Ji Xia had already returned to China by boat. Pen&Fun&Pavilion www.biquge.info the county guard said that I was right, and gave me a bar of soap and a new set of clothes. I was also stuffed with four children who had just finished their agricultural classes, and I was in charge of a total of 200 households, but there were four more young people...... I really don't know what to do, with all this money and food, maybe I should raise more soldiers who don't have to work. ”

On the sixth day of the seventh month, these four children worked quite diligently, and the county guard said that they should learn how to be good farmers...... It's the same elsewhere, so many people are in charge of people, but how can there be so many people who can manage them? Li Da was not very happy, he thought that he was going to be the boss in the future, and I said that he did a good job and others couldn't rob him. I don't think Ji Xia would have made such a person to be the Ris. ”

"On the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the Qiqiao Festival, it's a pity that only the people of Xiacheng had such a festival before, and I have to tell the story of the Qiqiao Festival that Ji Xia said to these two hundred households. I don't know if they would like to hear this story, but they are happy to eat the sweet pastry that was handed out above, and they will remember what this day will be about next year. ”

"On July 15, there are only three of the four children who followed me to learn how to be a farmer. One was bitten to death by a snake, and according to the new rules of the county, it would affect farming if it could not be buried in the ground, so he was buried on the slope of a hill where it was impossible to farm. How much does it cost to support a child who has completed agriculture? Three years of enlightenment, after 14 years, you have to study for another year, and you have to go to the countryside to study for another two years, and you have to get 3,000 catties of grain in six years, plus 35,000 catties of salary, where do you need so many people? ”

"On July 20, I asked the county guard, and the county guard said that there are not so many people needed now, and that they will be used in the future. It takes six years to train a person who can manage two or three hundred farming households well, and when it is really time to use it, it is not something that can be conjured by skipping these six years. ”

"On July 21, I rested for a day in the county, not only the peasants in the county and township, but also everywhere, and everyone who had been doing it for a year had to bring two or three new people. These newcomers are also part of the year-end evaluation. Hopefully, these children will know how many farmers they need to work in the fields to feed them. ”

"On September 12, the autumn planting was over, and I received the king's order to go to Yucheng to study. There were thirteen people in the county who went with me, and in addition to us peasant officials, there were also those who were in charge of money and laws and regulations, all of whom were assessed by the higher authorities last year. I divided the four li to the three young men and left them alone to take care of it, hoping not to do anything bad when I came back. ”

"September 18, on board. Encountered the ships of the nearby cities, the ships were loaded with tin ingots and saltpeter, and the method of raising nitrate had been spread to the rest of the cities, and the craftsmen of the old Xia City had some of them to go to other cities, but the gunpowder was still prepared by the Xia Kingdom. In fact, there was not only one ship, but also some pottery, grain, lime, charcoal, and captured slaves. It is more to take three slaves and sell one for two iron tools than for all three of them to do with wood. There is no copper in the cities with tin mines, and there is no tin in those with copper, and none of them can do without the Xia Kingdom, and perhaps the Xia Kingdom cannot do without them. ”

"On September 29, the smell of Yucheng was very pungent, even worse than when I left, and there was a smell of soot everywhere. I didn't see a workshop that made coal into charcoal, it was said to be in the place where the coal was mined, and Ji Yun was in charge of the coal mine and the people who mined it. He is not confused about big things, he should be able to manage it well, and there are thousands of slaves under his hands. In total, I am in charge of five or six hundred people, and if those children grow up and do not divide the family in the future, I may be able to manage thousands of people. ”

"On the first day of October, classes began, and Ji Xia taught us. Ji Xia taught in the morning, once every four days, and learned arithmetic in the afternoon. The name of the new school is Jixia Academy, and it is all brick and stone, wrapped in window paper soaked in wood oil. ”

"On the third day of October, I listened to others talk about what they encountered when they were farmers and how to solve them. They all solved it very well, because the evaluation was all superior, and those who were not good could not come, and some were reprimanded. They all say it well. Ji Xia found me and told me that I would go up tomorrow to speak. But what shall I say? ”

"On the ninth day of October, I said very well a few days ago, Ji Xia said, 'Learn from Shiquan', in fact, everyone has their own methods, maybe I do the best. I know that Ji Xia is talking about me before I went to school, what will I be like in the future? So I also have to learn from myself, of course, from the old me. ”

"On the tenth day of October, a new set of clothes was issued, which were cotton. I went to the dyeing and spinning department to have a look, and finally knew what cotton was, very strange things. ”

"November 22, I've been studying for almost two months, and I don't have time to write about these things. Study at night and study during the day. Why do we fight? Why Study? Why become an official? What are the Great Rivers? What is one's own person and what is an enemy? We've been thinking about these things all the time. ”

"On December 20, my sister introduced me to a woman. I have met with me a few times before. Her name is Lian, she was sold to Yucheng with her sister, and now her sister is lying there on the other side of the river to exchange her body for money, she uses her hands to exchange money, spinning and weaving are very good, and she has done a very good job among the more than 3,000 female slaves, Ji Xia learned very quickly after getting a new loom, and she is a good hand in the dyeing and spinning division. ”

"On the twenty-first day of December, I wore my latest cotton shirt and hung all the bronze medals, and went to see Lian. I didn't know what to say, so I asked her how many ways she could weave cloth. She said that spinning wool, hemp and cotton are not the same. I honestly said I didn't know how to weave, and she laughed. I asked her what she had knitted, and she said cotton. I said, oh, that's what I'm wearing, it's good...... After that, I didn't know what to say, but at this time my sister came and said something to her, and when I came out, my sister told me that Lian was very satisfied, because she often heard my name, and my name was often mentioned when I was studying. ”

"December 30, Chinese New Year. Lian gave me a bunch of shells, and I gave her some grease to wipe her face and hands, which my sister asked me to give, which is not something that can be bought with money, and I don't have that much money. I went out to watch the children set off firecrackers, and the padded jacket was burned, so Lian asked me to take it off and mend it for me. ”

"On the seventh day of the second month of the 39th year of the Chinese calendar, I finally finished my studies, and I understood why we were fighting and why we were officials, and I also understood that it was the peasants who were supporting us. Last year, I got another upward evaluation, and someone at the regular meeting of officials elected me as the agricultural official in charge of the entire Xiadong agricultural affairs, and Ji Xia approved it. I'm going to take office after Xia Fu is finished, I'm afraid I won't be able to do well, but Ji Xia directly told me that he has no one available now, and asked me to try to do it well. ”

"On February 16th, I was going back, and Ren and I rowed for a day in Onozawa. I'm going back to Xia Dong, and she still has to work in the dyeing and spinning department here. I couldn't think of a better way, so I asked her to wait for me, but how long would it take? I said that it would be nice if she didn't work in the dyeing and spinning department, and she said that it would be nice if I didn't work as a farmer, and both of them were not happy, but they were very busy. It would be nice to wait until those young people grow up to take over what they are doing now. I don't dare to ask Ji Xia, he is busy getting a new army in the school yard these days, I saw the fourth brother of Li Da, asked me to bring a good one to his brother, and sent me some good things to carry. ”

"On February 17, Helian did something in the woods. It's great, it would be nice if I could do this every day, but unfortunately not. I went to my sister to say goodbye, and my sister told me that it was better not to have a baby and not to do that kind of thing recently, and I don't know why. ”

"On March 18, I returned to Xia Dong. The appointment came down early, and I became the agricultural officer in charge of Xiadong's agricultural affairs, and I thought I would have to wait until the summer harvest. The county guard said that those who went to Beidi to fight have returned, and they have brought back many people, and they will be divided into the eastern and western counties, and I will take care of these things. This is much more difficult than managing those 200 households, and I can do it under the protection of my ancestors. ”

"On March 20, those people returned. Of the eight people who went in the four miles at the beginning, five came back and three died, and all of them who were alive made meritorious deeds, wore armor, and became armor soldiers who specialized in fighting. They have been fighting for more than half a year, and each one has great strength, and each of them can approve very heavy armor. ”

"On March 23, there were more than a dozen Beidi people and wild people in the mountains and wilderness in each of them, who needed help with harvesting, planting, and reclamation. Someone in the household department had already calculated, and Si Xiangji ordered that each newcomer should be given three acres of land after reclamation, and the rest would be owned by the township. These three acres of land are good, that is, enough to eat for a year, and they are allowed to reclaim new land, but the good land in the vicinity has long been gone. They have nothing to do, so they can only go to the countryside to do short-term labor, help with harvesting, farming, reclamation, etc., in exchange for what they want, and also take on some things like forced labor. When did you learn to speak the words of the great rivers, and when did you learn the simplest fifty or sixty words, then you can be divided into your own shovels, hoes, etc., and become a countryman. It's impossible for their generation, maybe it's possible for the children. ”

"On the eighth day of the fourth month, there are too many things for agricultural officials to take care of, and they are completely different from agricultural officials. Those Beidi people thought they were going to be slaves, and they had always been like this, and they had lost, but they didn't. They did not resist for the time being. Some people in the village said that it would be good if they were like this in the future, and that they would give those people very little land and a lot of land for themselves, instead of treating them as slaves and letting them help them cultivate and harvest...... It is better for one person to have four or five hundred acres of land, and thirty or fifty people with very little land below, so that nothing needs to be done, and everything on the land can be taken care of. ”

"On June 21, a ship came from Yucheng and received a gift from Lian and a few words, she could write, and she could write her name. The person who came brought me news, saying that the cotton harvest over there was good, but there were not enough women spinning and weaving cloth, and Lian might have to be transferred to Xia County to teach the women here to spin cotton thread and weave cotton cloth. That's a good thing. ”

"On June 23, a new batch of children from the agricultural class came again, and I mentioned from below that a few peasant officials who had been rated as high were my deputies and wanted to learn from me. Okay, a farmer and peasant official in Xiadong County will be able to manage three Xiadong counties in a few years, but children can't grow up in a few years, where are there three Xiadong counties? It seems that the law and the tax are all in one with three. A few days ago, when I went to Xia County, I laughed with Sister Hongyu, and I said that if there were suddenly three more people from Xiadong County, it would not take five years, and I would not need to send people from the agricultural class again, and my farmers in Xiadong County would be enough to support these three new ones. ”