"This son of yours is quite good, and he has some talent, but it's a pity that he is here...... Let him enroll in the school, and after studying here for three years, he can be sent to Xinxiang to study in Xinxiang Elementary School, and after the exam, he will be the same as Teacher Cheng. ”

"Mr. Cheng is a star, where can I compare with my little piglet?" Fu Bao said with a smile: "Don't say this to the big officials, the little piglet can't bear it, and he wants to lose his life!" ”

Although Fu Bao is a poor man in a poor country, he also knows that a big man like Yu Guozhen came to talk to him and promised his son a future as a boss, and he must have asked for something. He pondered that his home was like washing, there was nothing, so what he asked for...... I'm afraid it's his life.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the ground beneath his feet.

This barren slope is his life, because it is on a gentle slope, and the family cannot build water conservancy facilities, so he basically depends on the weather for food. Although there are more than a dozen acres of land, it is difficult to fill the stomach with the grain harvested every year.

Yu Guozhen noticed his action, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, these people are ignorant in some things, but shrewd in others. No matter what he did before, Yu Guozhen had experience in his previous life, at least he had seen the relevant situation in books, so he could have a plan, but how to transform the rural areas of a county, he also had to explore from scratch.

Of course, he can also take coercive measures, but this small Nansha village can be coerced, and even the entire Changhua County can be coerced, but what about all Daming?

Therefore, the work must be done carefully. For the people, what they ask for is nothing more than a little benefit. As long as it does not touch their fundamental interests and can bring them more benefits, then things will be easy to do.

Thinking of this, Yu Guozhen decided not to go around in circles, and paused with his feet to protect the ground under his feet: "This kind of slope can't accumulate water, so it's not good to grow rice, right?" ”

"It's really not good. The old man knows everything, and the annual grain production is only about one and a half stones. Fu Bao said cautiously: "This is still a good year." If there is a famine year, there will only be less, and it is not uncommon for there to be no harvest. ”

"Show me your hoe." Yu Guozhen stretched out his hand to him.

But it's a wooden hoe. Seeing that there was not even an iron tip underneath, Yu Guozhen had a rough idea in his heart. The people are so poor that they can't even use iron tools for tools, if they go to increase production!

In Yu Guozhen's mind, there are four main ways to increase agricultural output: technology, tools, water conservancy, and chemical fertilizer. Changhua's farming technology is too rough, there is a lot of room for improvement, the tools are simple, and qualitative improvements can occur, water conservancy construction is almost zero, and there is no ability to prevent and reduce disasters at all. As for fertilizers...... Pure natural bio-fertilizer is used.

This is not only a problem of Changhua, but a problem of the whole of China, except for the economically developed areas to achieve the ultimate in intensive cultivation, the cultivation technology is the highest level in the world in this era, and the vast majority of places have a lot of room for improvement in these four.

"Can't afford iron?" Yu Guozhen asked.

"Huh. Can't afford it. ”

"If I give you a batch of iron farming tools, including hoes, shovels, iron ploughs, and sickles, and then buy your grain, will you take out your fields and lend them to me for a year?"

This proposal made Fu Bao stunned.

He guessed that Yu Guozhen was fighting his idea of cultivating the land, which was the lifeblood of their family. Therefore, he racked his brains to think about how to refuse Yu Guozhen's trickery, but he didn't expect that Yu Guozhen would put forward such a condition.

"One...... A year? He asked in a trembling voice.

"It's just one year, go to the county town and ask the county lord to notarize, and after a year, what you want to plant and how you plant is your business." Yu Guozhen said.

"This ...... This ......"

Fu Bao didn't hesitate for long, and then said with a smile: "The ancestral grave of the villain's family has not yet grown Artemisia annua, such a good thing...... The villain doesn't dare to take it. ”

"What are you worried about, tell me about it." Yu Guozhen dared to have a headache, this peasant was much more difficult to deal with than Dolgon.

"If you don't plant for a year, you won't eat for a year, what will the villain eat next year......"

"This is simple, I tell you clearly, I am here to educate, not only to educate children, you look at your son, a few days ago he was dragging his snot all over the body, what it looks like now, you see. I will also teach you how to farm and what crops to plant. ”

This was said bluntly, Fu Bao thought about it, and said with a smile: "The master is really kind-hearted, merciful, and rescues the suffering, but the master, our family is really not suitable......"

Yu Guozhen was almost defeated, after thinking about it, there should be no problem with his reasons, why can't he do the work of this talisman protection?

For nearly 20 days, Yu Guozhen lived and ate in Nansha Village, observing the people in the village every day, talking with them, and understanding their needs. He felt that this Fu Bao was the bolder in the village and better at accepting new affairs, so he chose him as the breakthrough target.

What he didn't expect was that his perfect preparation was completely useless in front of this peasant.

Yu Guozhen frowned with some distress, did he have to launch the big killer of land reform? But judging from his understanding of Changhua, the big killer of land reform is not useful in Changhua at all, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is wasteland everywhere, and what the people here lack is not land!

"It must be adapted to local conditions, and it cannot be simple and crude." He thought to himself.

He said hello to Fu Bao with some distress, and patted Fu Zhu's head again: "Study hard, if you can get the first place in the exam, I will take you to Xinxiang to play." ”

Seeing that Yu Guozhen did not continue to speak, but left, Fu Bao hoeed the ground a few times, Fu Zhu pouted beside him, with a look of disdain, and asked him to throw down the hoe and was about to beat: "You kid has eaten for two days and is so slappy to your father?" ”

"That's you stupid, more silly than Brother Qinian, the old family of Yu is just borrowing our family to plough for a year, you just need to let him produce food according to the harvest in the harvest of the harvest year, so that even if you give him the land to cultivate for a year, you will not starve, but you are stupid......"

"If you don't fight for three days, go to the house and uncover the tiles, don't run away from you little rabbit!"

"The old rabbit has the ability, don't chase it!"

The father and son chased after each other for a while, but after all, it was Fu Bao who caught the son. After a few whips on his ass, he thought about his uneasiness and returned home with the talisman beads.

Their broken house was crowded together, and soon he returned home and called his mother-in-law out: "Today, that Master Yu came to look for me and wanted our family's ......."

"No way!" The mother-in-law screamed.

"You mother-in-law, listen to me and scream again. He said that he would ask our family to plant for a year, and then send us a full set of iron farming tools......"

After explaining the whole story, Fu Bao asked, "I have already pushed this matter off." You're making a fuss! ”

"You stupid man, why did you push it?" The mother-in-law of the Fu family screamed again: "The old lady married you, and she didn't live a good day." It's just to cut a dish, you have to find someone else's excuse kitchen knife, a rare good thing, why do you want to push? ”

"Aren't you still in a hurry?"

"Master Yu can still look at your few acres of dilapidated land, there is wasteland everywhere, where can not be cultivated! This is obviously seeing that our little pearl has a future, Master Yu wants to pull a hand, and the nobles help each other, you actually pushed it, you should be poor for a lifetime! The old lady somehow married a stupid man like you. Don't hurry up and ...... yet."

"Horn!"

"You dare to beat the old lady, the old lady fought with you!"

Fu Zhu habitually watched his parents tear together, as usual, and the two of them entered the house. Fu Zhu pursed her lips. Running to the side to play, maybe his parents will beat him up with a younger sibling.

After the fight, Fu Bao tied his trouser belt, straightened his chest, pushed the door and was about to go out, his mother-in-law asked on the bed, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Naturally, I went to kowtow to Master Yu. I don't know what to do, but now that I've figured it out, I want to think of ways to round things up. Fu Baoxiong said angrily: "You should be more down-to-earth for Lao Tzu, don't go outside and chew your tongue indiscriminately!" ”

Of course, his mother-in-law knows that this kind of good thing does not necessarily have to be for his family. Where do you dare to go out and talk nonsense, in order to avoid your own big mouth, you simply shrink at home and don't go out.

For these poor peasants, a free set of iron farming tools is indeed a temptation that is hard to resist. Fu Bao refused at the time, but in hindsight, he couldn't help but regret it. And the method that Fu Zhu said in his mouth, if Yu Guozhen said it, he would inevitably suspect that there was any conspiracy afterwards, but what his own son said was completely different. Zhizi is suspicious of his neighbors, and the ancient and modern are the same.

Fu Bao knew that Yu Guozhen was usually on the side of the school, he was thinking about something, and rushed over, but he didn't hear someone call him, until he was pulled up, and he realized that it was Fu Zhu's uncle.

Uncle Fu Zhu's family name is Li, and he is in another small village more than ten miles away, but that small village has a larger population, with more than 40 households and a population of nearly 200. Fu Bao saw him hurriedly saluting: "It turned out that my uncle was here, but there was something at home?" ”

"Brother-in-law, there is something I want to do for you." Uncle hesitated for a moment: "I heard that you and Master Yu, who is in charge of the academy, can talk?" ”

There is nothing new in this poor and remote country, so the news of Yu Guozhen building a school here has also spread to several neighboring villages, and they also came to join in the fun when the school was built. Originally, they thought that this was a whim from a big place and would not last long, but now that dozens of days have passed, the school is not only becoming more and more formal, but also the people in the village are also accustomed to the arrival of these outsiders.

"Sort of." Fu Bao puffed up his chest, because of his poor family, he had no status in his father-in-law's family, and it was rare for his uncle to talk to him in such a tone.

"Then you have to say a good word for your nephew and let him come to the school too." The uncle's eyes were blazing.

"This ......" Seeing his uncle's gaze, thinking that if this matter was done, no one would dare to show him his face when he went to his father-in-law's house again, Fu Bao gritted his teeth: "I'll do my best!" ”

"Do your best, do your best!" Uncle suddenly smiled: "Alas, you don't know, last time your little pig told his cousin about the school, his cousin made trouble at home all day, so he wanted to go to school, saying that he wanted to read and write in the school, and there were canned meat and soft candy to eat...... Is all this true? ”

The two impoverished peasants, even Yu Guozhen, did not know how much help Yu Guozhen had for Yu Guozhen's plan to transform the countryside by using children as a breakthrough. In the future, a storm of the New Life Movement that swept through China was brewing in this small village that had just received an official name, and its influence finally expanded to this village. (To be continued)