In 1900, the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, the old man Julian returned to China.

The Qing Empire used the Boxer Rebellion to help the Qing Dynasty exterminate the foreigners, and the disputes between the people and the foreign churches intensified. In addition, the Kaiser made a fierce speech, which means that the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance is imminent. Old man Julian also had only one way to return home.

In order not to avoid the vacancy of Julian, a conscientious teacher, Zhang Chun selected two girls with good academic performance from the large class to continue their studies while taking the children in the small class. Zhang Chun's energy shifted to the middle and large classes. However, Yunlong Zhenmeng School came to a student who is said to have a very backstage and has studied in Japan as a teacher.

This person's name is Gu Ming, a classmate of Yuan Fang's third brother.

Gu Ming is a native of Jiangsu, and his father's business in Shanghai is very large, and he went to Japan a year before Yuan Dingguo to study at the Army Academy. After returning to China, Gu Ming's father entrusted the relationship under Zhang Zhidong. But for some reason, he was not valued by Zhang Zhidong, and was assigned an idle position. Gu Ming was furious, and under the pretext of sending a letter to Yuan Fang, he arrived in Yunlong Town. was hired as the principal of Yunlong Town Meng School.

The Meng School Hall in Yunlong Town was funded by the official eunuchs of Baijia Lane, and Gu Ming was asked to be the principal just because of various complicated relationships, or because he wanted to invest in Gu Ming. In fact, there are only more than 30 children from rich families studying in the Meng School in Yunlong Town. There are also two old private school gentlemen.

In addition, when Gu Ming saw Yuan Fang, his eyes were not quite right. So I ran to Zhangjialing twice in three days. He studied military affairs, so he became interested in the training methods of the Zhangjialing Guard.

Zhang Chun was unwilling to waste this "university scholar", so he simply used Yuan Fang as a "bait" and asked Gu Ming to give a cultural lesson to the middle class when he came.

This year, there was a great drought in the Yunlong River, and the grain output was greatly reduced. There was a battle between the victims and the newly created Forces nouvelles, who used artillery. The victims dispersed, and small groups of victims began to loot in all directions. The victims of the disaster in Henan and the local mountain people merged, and Yunlong Town was attacked, but the victims did not attack Yunlong Town, and all the forces of the major families were concentrated in order to protect their business interests. It was the countryside that was lost, but this time the victims did not kill many people, they just looted things.

Grain, deadly grain was robbed, and even the granary of Yunlong Town was robbed. The merchants of Yunlong Town were not afraid, they could easily transport grain from Hankou, so they did not guard the granary. After the bandits, food came, but the price of food tripled.

Zhang Chun couldn't help but wonder if the grain merchants and bandits were playing with the common people together.

Because the Zhang family exclusively enjoyed the irrigation of the Nanhe River, the drought had no impact on Yunlong Town. Wheat is still a bumper harvest, because of the increase in soil fertility and the further optimization of wheat seeds, the yield per mu has reached more than 500 catties. It has exceeded the highest yield of homesteaders that Zhang Xiuqing can remember.

The Zhangjia grain harvest suddenly became a place targeted by the victims.

However, Zhang Chun is "notorious" among the mountain people and lake bandits, so it was not ordinary victims who came at first, but victims with knives and guns.

When the gunshots rang out, Gu Ming, Zhang Chun, and Yuan Fang were all in the classroom giving lessons to the students.

The three of them hurriedly gathered the children in the small class to the inner courtyard. Then he took the woman in charge of logistics and the children of the kindergarten to the north and south gates and closed the city gates. before running up the city wall.

The gunfire was not intense. But it didn't stop.

The gunshots came from the direction of Jinjiling. However, the Zhang family on the top of the mountain also seems to have closed the heavy gate, and someone is on guard on the roof.

The gunfire was scattered and not in one place.

The guards could be seen moving quickly and ambushing, and the hand-to-hand encounters were very brief, almost one-sided slaughter. These children in Zhangjialing have all seen blood and the slaughter of their parents and relatives, so they are not uncomfortable with killing. Even Yuan Fang just bit her lip and kept her face calm.

Gu Ming vomited when he put the telescope down.

The duration of the battle was short. It took less than ten minutes from the time it happened to the end. More than sixty bandits were killed. The bandits were completely defenseless. Some bandits were even killed by bullets and bows and arrows without even seeing anyone. They were originally made up of the victims of the disaster, and they had no intention of fighting to the death, so they were defeated.

At this time, the adults of Nanzhang Village, who were holding sticks and preparing to support, had just run to the bridge.

More than sixty corpses, ragged and skinny, some no more than sixteen or seventeen-year-olds.

These people may be hideous when they are alive, but when they die, they are full of sorrow.

Only half of these people were killed by long-range fire, and half were killed by the guards with daggers at close range. They all had long weapons such as clubs, knives and forks, as well as guns and rifles, but they had no chance to fight back.

The guards, both men and women, were covered in blood, and it seemed that almost everyone had killed two or three people.

It's the adults who clean up the battlefield. Most of them are expressionless.

And the twenty guards silently gathered together, their faces calm. I saw Zhang Chun coming over with Lizhi and Gu Ming and Yuan Fang on his back. I just called "teacher" and didn't speak.

"This is our people, who can unilaterally slaughter those who have enough to eat. How can such a country not perish. Zhang Chun sighed.

Zhang Chun asked: "Mr. Gu, you are a soldier, give you these soldiers, what can you do?" It's not your own people who fight your own people, but the Japanese, the Germans, and the Americans. ”

Gu Ming opened his mouth and couldn't say a word.

"What should we do?" Zhang Tian whispered. Because Zhang Tian has a special tactic, as long as he makes a move, he has almost no survival. But these people killed them so badly that their hearts were weak.

"The one who brings the weapon is the jackal, and we welcome it with guns. If you are dragging your family and cornered, let Grandpa Show ask if you are willing to stay. Zhang Chun said with a cold face: "The premise of doing good deeds is to be able to protect yourself, and your responsibility is to defend the land." ”

Zhang Chun's decision left at least 200 victims who had turned into bandits dead in Jinjiling and Niutoushan.

But slowly, the victims knew that Zhangjialing could take them in, provided that you couldn't loot them with malice. At first, some families who couldn't walk anymore fell in despair on the way to Zhangjialing. They went for the word "grain".

Zhang Xiuqing took Qiangzi and Xiaorong over to rescue them. said that if you can help the Zhang family do things, the Zhang family will have enough to eat.

There are two job opportunities provided by the Zhang family, one is to temporarily burn bricks in the kiln factory, and the other is to tear down the front and back yards of the Zhang family compound and build a more formal school. Inside the earthen enclosure, there are only two buildings that are relatively formed, one is a granary and the other is a health center.

In the past, the Zhang family compound was kept because it was to prevent last-minute resistance. But it seems unlikely that this will happen. So Zhang Chun decided to demolish the Zhang's compound and build a regular kindergarten and Mengxuetang. Zhangjialing and Jinjiling have eighteen children who are more than two years old, and five or six children who are more than one year old. Zhang Chun felt that when he was three years old, he would let all these children go to the kindergarten for enlightenment and parenting, after all, Zhang Chun's conditions were better than those of other families.

"Cash-for-work." This is the method proposed by Zhang Chun.

In this way, Zhangjialing began to receive victims one after another, but as in the previous disaster situation in Zhangjialing, people who came to Zhangjialing either came with knives and guns, or two or three adults came with a large group of children to beg for a bite to eat. These kind-hearted people came to sell their bodies, on the condition that as long as they saved the children, they would hand over their lives to Zhang Chun. They brought not only their own children, but also many orphans and even babies.

The number of children in Zhangjialing increased at an alarming rate, and when the new army in Xiangyang Province came to encircle and suppress the bandits, Zhangjialing accepted more than 140 adults. But it brought more than 400 children.

When Xin Baojiu came to Zhangjialing with a group of New Army soldiers, he saw a "sea" of children.

The Zhangjia compound is gone, and there are more than 30 children under the age of seven in the kindergarten. Many were still swaddling, with three apparently breastfeeding women and four twelve or thirteen-year-old girls in school clothes playing with them, and some mud monkeys being forced to stand in the yard to bathe.

The primary school is divided into six classes for children under the age of 12, ranging from 40 to more than 20 students in each class. In total, there are more than 270 people. Zhangjialing's former children have become the class leaders and class cadres of these classes, and the difference is obvious, regardless of men and women, they are big, in good health, and a little bit of gangsterism. The rest are the children of the sick victims.

The secondary school is divided into three classes, from 12 to 14 years old. There were also more than one hundred and twenty people.

Those over the age of fifteen, even if they are laborers, work with adults, and look like seventy or eighty people.

The kindergarten and primary school halls have been repaired, and there are dormitories in addition to the classrooms. Therefore, most of the children live in it, except for the kindergarten, which has a special adult belt. All the classes and schools are in charge of Zhangjialing's group of little kids, although there are some fights, but on the whole they are not chaotic, and it is reasonable.

The classrooms and cafeteria of the middle school hall have been completed, and the materials that have been demolished from the Zhangjia compound have almost been used up, and the dormitory construction has begun to use red bricks.

In addition to the middle school hall, the north gate is being built a relatively simple one, a bit like a military barracks, with a training ground.

The adults and children live in a straw hut built next to the health center.

"Buddha, this big man Meng Lang, he can afford to raise so many children, I'm afraid he is going to break the fortune." Xin Baojiu said to a booth chief of the New Army.

This head of the shed was the instructor of the New Army who had come to teach Zhang Chun military affairs for three days.

Zhang Chun is not only a broken fortune, if it were not for the fact that Guangxu did not sell grain for 25 years, plus this year's summer harvest, I am afraid it would have been terrible.

After the middle school hall and training camp were repaired. Zhang Chunwei has been studying with him for nearly three years, and has built an agricultural school for seven children who are interested in agriculture. Only then did the resettlement of those victims begin. In addition to the more than a dozen children over the age of fifteen who were selected by the convoy. There were fifty-eight other families, and those children who had become laborers followed their parents with their parents, and those who did not have parents adopted by their families. On average, there are five or six people in each household, because all the children under the age of fifteen are "sold" to Zhang Chun's Meng Xuetang, and Meng Xuetang covers all the expenses of these children. It's not okay if you don't wrap it, in fact, everyone's food and clothing are all Zhang Chun's.

The victims were placed in Niutou Mountain, where a separate village was established called Henan Village. These families really have nothing and can't walk. If Zhang Chun didn't take him in, they would have to die dead.

But when you get here, not only can you eat a full meal, but you can also eat three meals a day. The children were able to read because the words Mengxuetang were written on the north and south gates. And there are really teachers who are serious about teaching.

What these victims could not have dreamed of was that Zhang Chun allocated land to each household according to the rules of Nanzhang Village, and the more than 1,000 acres of water and dry land in Niutou Mountain were finally managed.

Zhang Zhiqiang, also known as Qiangzi, was sent to Henan Village as the village head, mainly to lead everyone to build their own residences and public facilities according to the construction experience of Nanzhang Village.

Chen Jizu was sent to Henan Village to be a little teacher, and selected a militia team set up by 20 sturdy young men, which was responsible for cooperating with the escort team to serve as a guard and guard.

Zhang Chun handed over the mountains and forests of Niutou Mountain to them, and agreed that in addition to farming, the protection of the mountains and forests was the first priority, and they were not allowed to cut down indiscriminately. Every year, the kiln mouth sets a certain amount of charcoal with them, and the good charcoal is required, and the charcoal kiln is built under the guidance of the master at the kiln mouth. They were allowed to collect mushrooms and fungus, as well as grow herbs in the forests. Mountain goods and herbs are purchased in Zhangjiabao according to 70% of the market price. The rent is the same as the tenant farmers in Nanzhang Village.

Throughout the second half of the year, Zhang Chun was resettled with these refugees. At the same time, he acts as a teacher for the children. Zhang Chun's "intelligence" has spread all over Yunlong Town. Yuan Fang can't teach Zhang Chun anymore, but many things have to be taught by Zhang Chun. Gu Ming also felt a little struggling, and Gu Ming was also the principal of the Yunlong Town Meng Academy. Zhang Fenglan and Zhang Yangshi thought about inviting another gentleman for Zhang Chun. However, Gu Ming said that ordinary gentlemen can't teach him, and I'm afraid that he has to find a gentleman who has stayed abroad. Gu Ming can't teach because he is basically a soldier, not a literati.

Zhang Fenglan asked Wu Sicheng to look for something slowly in Hankou. Zhang Fenglan is proud of this younger brother. A lot of things just came out of Zhang Fenglan's mouth.

Zhang Chun's growing fame is related to Zhang Fenglan's praise, and of course, Zhangjiabao's own Mongolian school and taking in refugees also played a great role.

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