With Zhang Fenglan as a guarantor, the Yang family secretly supported it, and the matter of taking over Zhupishan went smoothly.

There are six families in Zhupixia Village, ten families in Zhupishang Village, and more than 100 people in Calilai, old and young, living in shacks, and the clothes at home are not neat, but the children are litters and litters, and every family has three or four small beans, and I really admire the ability of Chinese people to adapt to the environment. Most of these children, especially girls, were born and sold to large families as maids. Selling children to support their families also seems to be part of the lives of the poor.

Zhang Chun got Zhang Yang's permission, and took a group of elementary school children to start from the small road of Shiba, open the road in the mountains, build bridges when encountering water, and build the road to Zhupishang Village with high spirits. The little children in the upper and lower villages carried their younger brothers and sisters on their backs and watched the children's group work, which was not much older than them. I was amazed.

For these children are clean and look stronger and stronger than they are. Work is no slower than that of adults. Then I saw a group of uncles driving ox carts and pulling red bricks. With a smile on his family, he removed the shack, cleaned the foundation, and built the house.

The house is simple, but much better than a shack. Then there were the bags of grain that came in.

Ten families moved out of Henan Village, and Zhang Zhiqiang took them to live in Zhupishang Village, which is close to a ditch. Zhang Rong, who had quit drug addiction, moved to Henan Village to become the village head. Zhang Chun did not take back the land of the families who had been divided, and the village chiefs were responsible for redistributing the fields to each family.

In the village of Zhupi, whose population has increased rapidly, I have watched houses be built one after another, with public toilets, sewers, canteens and granaries. On the contrary, Zhupixia Village has only rebuilt the houses there.

The road leading from Zhupi Shangcun to Yunlong Town was widened, and the original road along the Nanhe River to Jinjiling was abandoned.

The great changes in the bamboo skin village made the Wu family and the Li family secretly smack their tongues. This little baby is too loser, who would build such a good house for mud legs to live in, red brick houses, although there is only one house, many families are surrounded by a yard, unlike the big ones that weigh a few or a few heavy. But from a distance, it looks more magnificent than a big family.

Yuan Fang and several students were measuring the land, not only measuring, but also drawing on a wooden shelf of paper. This is Yuan Fang's professional map, the first time to use it, Yuan Fang was quite excited, and even Zhang Xiu and a few little girls with rulers and self-made flower poles were also elated.

The purpose of measuring the land is to divide the land. Twenty acres per household, the same rules as Henan Village.

Since it has been almost three years, more than 20 households in Nanzhang Village will only need to pay 50% of the rent for next year's summer harvest. It's a lot cheaper than other families. After more than half a year, the people of Henan Village have also become accustomed to the Zhang family's practices, so they are looking forward to the past three years. The people who made the bamboo skin in the village are also full of longing for the scene in three years.

The upper village was given two calves, and the lower village was given one. They are only a little over a year old, and they have not yet learned to plow the fields. However, the cattle can be used, but the property is Zhang Chun's, and the villagers help raise it.

These small hills in Zhupi Mountain have been over-cultivated and used to grow cotton, but now Zhang Chun has decided to return farmland to forest. So more than 1,000 acres of land were lost by more than half at once. Only more than 400 acres remained. It happened that each household was allocated 20 acres, all in the valley area. Some already have a water source. However, most of them need to be irrigated by canals.

The canal is from the mouth of Beiguang Lake, where there is a mountain range connected to Zhupi Mountain by Niutou Mountain, and the Beiguang River crosses the stone beams to form a waterfall seven or eight meters high, and then down to Beiguang Lake. The canal was brought through Zhupi Mountain, and now this part is all under Zhang Chun's name. So the boy scouts poured onto Zhupi Mountain. Adults dug rocks on Zhupi Mountain to provide stone for the dilapidated canal. The canal was quickly repaired. Most of these 400 acres have been converted into paddy fields, and grain is the top priority. There are more than 100 acres of cotton fields left, which can be regarded as an explanation to Zhang Fenglan, the eldest sister, and Zhang Chun can't say that she doesn't supply cotton from the yarn factory at all.

Zhang Fenglan did not go back to Hankou immediately, but went to Zhangjialing to see the cotton field of the Zhang family, the entire cotton field is a neat ridge, and the cotton is a single plant, and the distance between them is uniform. It's not like everyone else is simply sprinkled on the ground. Between each ridge, farm fertilizer is applied at the seedling stage, flowering stage, and fruit stage, and cattle are used to plough the land. So the plant is much taller than the knee-high cotton in other places. Although the planting density is much sparser than others, cotton peaches are large and numerous, and it is no wonder that the yield is several times that of other places.

There are not many pests and diseases in this era, but there are many natural enemies of pests and diseases, which is the benefit of biodiversity, after all, Yunlong Town has only formed a cotton production area for two or three years, and there is still room for biological survival.

Zhangjialing only grows cotton in Nanzhang Village and Zhupishang Village, the area is not large, but the manpower and material resources invested are a lot more. Fortunately, the farmers are guaranteed three meals a day, which is very different from the lives of several tenant farmers in the surrounding families, which makes the tenant farmers of the Zhang family have a kind of enthusiasm and pride. The cotton harvest is not much different from the original Wu family's more than 1,000 acres, but the cotton quality is much higher.

Of course, it is not that the output of the Zhang family is as high as that of later generations, but that the output of this era is frighteningly low.

Zhang Fenglan believed what her daughter said about how special her little uncle was, this little brother may really not be the material to be an official, but it seems that he can really become an "agricultural expert".

Because the idle dwarf hills of Zhupi Mountain are also idle, and they always return farmland to forests, so Zhang Chun's children's group began to plant fruit trees all over the mountain. There are not so many fruit tree saplings, they are all bought sporadically, or others have heard that the little master of the Zhang family likes to plant fruit trees and send them over. What peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, dates, persimmons, etc., miscellaneous are planted.

As a result, after each fruit was produced, the villagers sent it in baskets all over the mountains. Not to mention the trouble, it is extremely labor-intensive.

But there are also benefits. Because of the clutter, the harm of pests and diseases is not so concentrated. All kinds of birds and small animals have food all year round, and there are many species and natural predators. So there are pros and cons to everything. Naturally, the pros always outweigh the cons.

In 1900, the most humiliating year for the Chinese, the capital fell, the national treasure was robbed, the land was ceded and the reparations were paid, and the door was opened. Galeries Lafayette went to war with the Eight Nations, and the whole country refused to respond. That's not all, the country's army did not deal with foreigners, and killed boxers who resisted foreigners. The warlords have presented their names one after another, whether to Lafayette or to foreigners, they can exchange them for official hats one by one. Some bleed, others gained. Yuan Shikai got rid of his competitors and became the chief military attaché, but the blood debt of the Beiyang Army was no less than that of the foreigners. Zhang Zhidong figured out the southeast to protect himself and pushed the case of President Li Hongzhang, which is very different from the north and the south.

The martial arts people who participated in the Boxer Rebellion threw their blood in vain, at first it was only the north, and then there were also martial arts people in the south who went to the north, and large-scale battles could not be fought, and there were many surprise assassinations that martial arts people were good at. But this sporadic resistance could not save the big picture. The situation in the north was erosive, and the martial arts people began to slowly flow to the south again.

The crisis of national calamity has finally awakened the Chinese who still have this bit of blood.

Zhangjialing ushered in several groups of martial arts people, who walked the villages and alleys, spreading the heroic deeds of fighting foreigners to the countryside.

Zhang Chun did not keep them, because he knew that these people were the spark and could ignite the flame of patriotism on the land. Even though it's very small now, there will always be a day when wildfires will burn the prairies.

In Zhangjialing, hundreds of children were under the stage, and the ground was black. There was no applause, no commotion, but there was a heavy solemnity, because they finally understood what Zhang Chun often talked about was the national shame, and what the pride and glory of the people were. It has never been so imminent and urgent.

The biggest reaction was Gu Ming.

Gu Ming resigned from his position as the principal of the Meng School in Yunlong Town, and also refused to go to Hankou to take up his post. Regardless of the anger of the old man at home, he went directly to Zhangjiabao to be a teacher for the children.

As soon as the time dragged on, it was Layue, and the Gu family, who was far away in Jiangxi, couldn't resist Gu Ming, and ran all the way to Zhangjiabao, where the old man of the Gu family and more than ten relatives attended the wedding of Gu Ming and Yuan Fang.

Yuan Fang and Gu Ming officially got married and lived on the right side of Zhang Chun in the teacher's dormitory area. Hu Dengping and his family live on the left side, both of which are small courtyards with exquisite bluestone wooden structures.

In fact, most of the whole earthen enclosure is empty. But Old Man Gu was also frightened by these hundreds of children.

Fortunately, with the addition of Zhang Chun and Wu Ying, there are six teachers to manage. It's much more orderly than it was a few months ago when it was managed by the students themselves. The old man of the Gu family finally understood the reason why Gu Ming didn't want to leave.

As Gu Ming turned his main focus to Zhangjialing, Meng Xuetang's daily curriculum had detailed regulations. There are physical education classes every morning and practical classes in the afternoon. The so-called physical education class is the army's queue training, and the practical class is labor. Since most of the children can only be regarded as enlightenment, they are only taught three basic courses: literacy, arithmetic, and nature. However, more than 40 students in Zhangjialing, who had been studying for three years, needed to listen to courses in agriculture, physics, and chemistry in a separate "academic hall."

Gu Ming became the teaching director of the escort team, Zhang Tian was the captain, and Chen Jizu came back as the deputy captain. In addition to more rigorous military training, the 35 men also had to study mapping, earthwork, military history, and world history.

There are not many students over the age of twelve, and in addition to attending lectures in the academic hall, the practical classes in agriculture and medicine and gemu are much heavier.

The lecture method of the academic hall is a compromise method that is thought of when so many students are of different grades and basic levels, and there is no way to teach. The heavy weight of practical courses is due to Zhang Chun's lack of labor.

But because of this, the knowledgeable old man Gu felt the novelty and flexibility of this education method.

There are not many buildings in the Mengxue Hall, but the best ones are the academic hall and the health center. The Zhangjialing Health Center has a bit of a taste of integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and it is also the only place where electricity can be used. The other houses are very simple, even the new houses of Gu Ming and Yuan Fang are a row of blue brick houses like the children's dormitories, which are the earliest batch of brick buildings. The treatment equipment and medicines in the health center are comparable to some foreign hospitals in the city, except for Julian who stayed, Gu Ming and Yuan Fang have some connections in the provincial capital, and they also purchased some through the Gu family's foreign goods store in Shanghai.

The old man of the Gu family was quite satisfied with everything in Meng Xuetang, but he was still uncomfortable with Gu Ming giving up the official road that had been paved.

Gu Ming was originally recommended to Zhang Zhidong, although something went wrong in the middle, but it was Gu Ming's own reason. Gu Minglai didn't leave in Zhangjialing, and Old Man Gu had no choice, plus he couldn't find anything wrong with his new daughter-in-law, and he loved Zhang Chun and Liqian, so he wanted to stay in Zhangjialing, at least he could live comfortably. The old man sighed and went back to Shanghai.

The country is bleak, but Zhangjialing has a happy Spring Festival.

Zhang Chun and Lizhi took their teachers and a group of homeless orphans from Nanzhang Village, Henan Village, Jinjiling, Zhupixia Village, and Zhupishang Village to pay New Year's greetings and send enough amount of pork. The over-energetic escort danced the lion from Henan Village to Zhupishang Village, and collected a bunch of eggs, duck eggs, melon seeds, and fruit pits. Except for Zhang Yang's family and the kiln master, who rewarded some silver money, the others could only do so.

prepared a gift and went to Qinghe Wu's house to pay a New Year's greeting to the eldest sister, Qinghe Wu's family originally had some opinions on Zhang Chun, but when they saw the silver sent over and the two children like golden boys and girls, plus the cheerful Wu Ying reconciled in the middle, even if they were dissatisfied with Zhang Fenglan, they were all discouraged. When he returned to Yunlong, he went to the Wu family and the Li family, and had a sweet meal, coquettish and cute, and the two old men just regarded Zhang Chun as their son.

Back in Zhangjiabao, under the auspices of Gu Ming, a contract was signed with the farmers of Henan Village and Zhupi Upper and Lower Villages, and the land distribution was completed.

Wu Ying organized people to build the Nanhe Wharf and expand the warehouse in Nanzhang Village.

After the autumn harvest, the average yield per mu of rice reached more than 380 catties, the yield per mu of Nanzhang Village reached 400 catties, and the yield of the paddy fields that Zhang Chun took care of reached more than 520 catties.

However, now the rice seed is divided into two parts. Some of it is rice from the experimental field, and some of it is used to plant rice in the field. After two years, Zhang Chun has carried out preliminary separation and planting of various rice varieties in the past, and different rice varieties in the experimental field have been purified, but these species are more and less in quantity, and they are completely research in nature.

It is only used for field planting after preliminary screening, and most of the low-yield rice varieties have been removed, and the area is more than 30 acres, and the high-yield rice varieties cut back from each rice field are selected as the planting varieties for next year's rice field. Due to the variety of varieties mixed in this part of the rice, the yield is not high, but the taste is very good, at least better than the rice of later generations. However, after drying and returning to the warehouse, Zhang Chun still asked the rice to be screened again to ensure that the grains were full and the seedling emergence rate was guaranteed.

The output of rice and wheat increased rapidly, but Zhang Chun was not satisfied, Zhang Chun calculated, that is, Nanzhang Village now only collects 50% of the rent, plus the government's taxes, with this harvest, although most of the people in Nanzhang Village are families of three, they can only barely mix food and clothing. Zhangjiabao's rice planting technology should be more sophisticated than other places in terms of seedling raising, transplanting, and water and fertilizer management, and it is completely modern. Therefore, we can imagine the miserable situation of tenants in other places.

Zhang Chun only solved the problem of rice seeds. In order to ensure that the living standards of those who have been allocated land will not be reduced after three years, otherwise the rent will have to be further reduced. But now Zhangjiabao's rent is already the lowest. No matter how low it is, I'm afraid those families will attack in groups. Zhang Chun is still a child and does not want to cause this trouble.

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