This year, even the two masters and three apprentices of the kiln factory took over their families and built a house in Nanzhang Village. In fact, the two masters are not very old, they belong to poor craftsmen, and they only have some income when they arrive at the Zhangjialing kiln factory. There is only a daughter-in-law and one or two children in the family.

The three apprentices are not locals, and it is also because they have a stable job in Zhangjialing that they have a daughter-in-law, and two of them have not yet married. One of the families was also affected by banditry, his parents were killed, and he had only one younger brother.

Because after Zhang Chun built the city wall, except for the necessary red bricks for building houses, he basically stopped the large-scale firing work. Instead, let the two masters transform the tools and kiln mouth, and fire more advanced porcelain, without requiring output.

In order to ensure a stable life for the families of several people, they were specially asked to take their families over and live in Nanzhang Village. A newly improved kiln mouth was also built in Nanzhang Village. The scale of the kiln mouth is much smaller, and it is the most advanced kiln mouth that the two masters can do, and it can fire relatively fine porcelain. The glaze color has also been greatly improved, with the colorful glaze, they dare not say that it is compared with Jingdezhen, but they say that it should be compared with the Liling kiln in Hunan, because the masters of the two masters came out of there, but they have declined in this generation. They want to regain the craftsmanship of their masters.

These five families are divided into 20 acres of land and 2 acres of vegetable land like the people of Nanzhang Village. In this way, there are 32 households in Nanzhang Village, and a total of 640 acres are allocated. The homestead and vegetable plot are wasteland divided on both sides of a ravine on the edge of Niutou Mountain, and each household adds up to five acres. In fact, it is not necessary to build a house and grow vegetables, so that each family has planted fruit trees behind the house, on the one hand, they can harvest fruits to improve their lives, because they do not pay rent, and on the other hand, the pruned branches can be used as firewood.

In addition to the homestead and vegetable plots, public land was allocated, mainly for the construction of communal threshing floors, public toilets, sewers and composting sites.

Because the area of the homestead left for each family is quite large, after the autumn harvest, each family began to build their own small yards, preparing to buy piglets from Zhang Chun's pig farm to raise them, and Zhang Xiuqing bought two cows in the form of fundraising. Because although Zhang Chun's cattle have developed into twelve, four of them are self-bred calves, which is not enough for thousands of acres of land.

In fact, there is a sense of urgency in each family. Because in the past three years, even the bricks for building houses have been provided for free, and the masters at the kiln can only sell porcelain for money, and burning bricks is a pure obligation. But after three years, it will not be the case, and each family will have to pay for bricks and porcelain.

Although Zhang Chun also tried his best to let everyone have all their belongings within three years. But there are some principles that cannot be moved. That is, the trees in the mountains cannot be cut down at will. The wood used to burn charcoal at the kiln mouth needs Zhang Chun to go to the designated place in person, and he can only cut down old trees, and he is not allowed to cut down small trees. The furniture in Mengxue Hall and each household is very simple, and Zhang Chun himself uses all the furniture left over from the past. Zhang Tian: Their training is in Niutou Mountain, on the one hand, to prevent bandits, manage the farmland of Niutou Mountain, and on the other hand, to protect the forest. Zhang Chun's requirements for the protection of the Niutou Mountain forest are extremely strict. So basically, if you want to buy furniture, you have to go outside and buy it.

Despite this, Zhang Chun was not satisfied, because he had been engaged in construction in the past few years, and many big trees had been burned in the kiln alone. The forest resources of Niutou Mountain are in a state of rapid decline.

There was nothing major this year, but the reality of agriculture and forestry made Zhang Chun very worried. The only thing that made Zhang Chun happy was Meng Xuetang,

Because of Yuan Fang, Julian and Zhang Chun themselves, Meng Xuetang is basically divided into four majors, one is similar to a normal teacher, which is used to train enlightenment teachers for Meng Xuetang itself. One is medicine, Ning Bo, Julian and Yuan Fang attach great importance to it, they all hope that there will be successors in the health center, but studying medicine is too time-consuming, and Ning Bo said that studying medicine is a lifelong thing.

One is agronomy, which Zhang Chun attaches great importance to.

One is Gewu, which Julian taught mechanics and electricity, which is now only to keep the generators running in the health center. But Zhang Chun knew the importance of this, and commissioned Julian to buy books on physical chemistry and mechanics and electricity. The German version is also fine, anyway, Yuan Fang can also translate.

Of course, this is not something that children who have only started to learn literacy for two years can quickly grasp, but mainly to identify children who are interested, and then focus on literacy and practice. The most important thing is books, Julian is one way, and the other way is brother-in-law Wu Sicheng.

The summer and autumn harvests of 1899 were miserable in Zhang Chun's view. But in the eyes of others, it is a good harvest. Wheat was harvested nearly three times more than in previous years. Although there are only 200 acres of cotton, the cotton is picked up from September to the end of December, and the yield is not the same as that of Jinjiling, which is only harvested at one time in November. That is to say, the cotton harvested in Jinjiling is not as much as the tail cotton harvested in Zhangjialing.

Overall rice yields have increased by about 40 percent. However, in the rice planting land demarcated by Zhang Chun himself, the output has doubled, from 170 catties to more than 350 catties at once. This is due to the selection of rice varieties and the strengthening of water and fertilizer management.

This gave hope to the people of Nanzhang Village, because even if there was only 20% of the harvest, each family had more than 400 catties of rice. That's a lot more than before.

The people of Nanzhang Village were elated. And Zhang Chun looked at it with a toothache. These more than 400 catties are not enough for three meals a day, and two people eat until June of the following year, even if they add sweet potatoes and pumpkins in the vegetable field, they will definitely not be able to eat. It is no wonder that even if Zhang Chun has been eating and drinking well for two years, the physical fitness of these adults is still very poor. It will be difficult to return to the normal level of the afterlife.

It seems that the hope is still in the children.

There are more than 60 children, and there are no teachers, so they are only divided into large, medium and small classes. The small class is led by Zhang Chun himself, and they are all children under the age of eight. The middle class is for children between the ages of eight and twelve, led by Yuan Fang. The kindergarten is for children over the age of twelve, and most of them still have to train and do things, so Zhang Chun and Yuan Fang take turns to give lectures in the evening.

Zhang Chun always felt guilty about the children in the kindergarten class, because they were almost abandoned.

Zhang Chun and Yuan Fang are much stricter with the children in the kindergarten class, going out with study tasks during the day every day, and checking them when they come back at night. Not only is the work and training hard, but even the sleep time is less than that of the children in Nursery and Kindergarten.

In order to ensure nutrition, most of the pork in the pig farm is actually supplied to them, and it is only after the scale of the pig farm is expanded in the second half of the year that the children in the kindergarten and middle classes can take their turn to eat meat. These fourteen or fifteen-year-old children are growing up, and the figures of these little ones have been surging upward, Zhang Tian, who was originally tall among adults, has now become an average person, and Chen Jizu has directly become a short person. A bunch of guys younger than them have outpaced them.

But in fact, Chen Jizu also has the appearance of one meter and sixty-four, and he is not short in the entire Nanzhang Village. Most people in Nanzhang Village are below 1.65 meters, and many women are only 1.5 meters. The problem is that they are still young, and they will grow up to eighteen years old.

These little guys in Zhangjialing are now very popular with adults, because they all have red lips and white teeth, although they are a little tanned, they are so healthy that they are alive and kicking around. Although everyone has only been studying for two years, they know the rules, understand politeness, and are very diligent in their studies.

The little guys said, "If you don't learn, you can't do it, the young master is so smart, and he is more diligent than us in learning." We are stupid, we can't compare to him, and we can't disgrace him. ”

The same words are different when they come out of the mouths of adults: "You little cubs, if you don't study hard, see if you can afford three meals a day, that's a blessing that only old men can have, don't you work hard and are you afraid of losing your life?" ”

A busy year, even a little tired, but in fact, I didn't do much, after all, the foundation is too poor. It's far less like the overlord in the novel, and you will do what you want.

The distance between the ideal and the reality is unbearable. Fortunately, Zhang Chun is still young and can afford to wait.

Zhang Chun has been thinking that if he is the Wu family, the Li family, the Yuan family or the Liu family's financial resources and heritage, things must be much simpler.

But on the other hand, if it were these families, could they really let Zhang Chun transform his own territory as he did now? I'm afraid there are countless places where elbows are carried. And these families have become old, hole-ridden wrecked ships that could sink at any moment.

Thinking about Liu Ying's resolute uprising later, I really can't help but admire his courage and courage.

Later, Yuan Chuanjian was already a warlord scuffle, and the national disaster was at the head, and the left and right were ruined, so it was better to resist. In terms of situation, it is not as much as the Liu Ying brothers.

Yuan Chuanjian would occasionally take a boat to see Yuan Fang, the eldest sister. It's just that the Yuan family in the tugboat port is not as enthusiastic about reading as the rice merchant Yuan family, Yuan Chuanjian's enlightenment teacher is his mother, and his father is completely Tian Jiaweng, and he doesn't know many words. So Yuan Chuanjian has now begun to help his family do some farm work within his ability, becoming more and more like a field boy. He has not yet reached the age of taking the initiative to ask for study, and of course he will not remember Liu Suzhen, who may become his wife.

Yuan Chuanjian came to Zhangjialing, more because his mother asked him to come and learn a few words from his eldest sister. He himself was very interested in the training of the convoy. Boys always advocate force.

On both sides of the Yunlong River, they have always been trapped by bandits, and they have never been calm. Therefore, the people here live together in the form of families, so that they can have a trace of resistance. Historically, the people on both sides of the Yunlong River have prevailed in martial arts. At the same time, it is also a place where Jingxiang culture prevails, and there were many literati in the past. It's just that after the Manchus entered the customs, the Manchu-Han disputes have not stopped, and the imperial court once sent some northern tribes to suppress and defend here, resulting in the retreat of Wen and the advancement of the military. Until the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Changmao rebelled, the Han army saved the Qing Empire. The Mongols were gradually assimilated by the Han Chinese and no longer forcibly suppressed, and the culture began to revivenation.

However, this kind of rejuvenation was subversive, and it was only then that the slogan and ideal of "driving out the Tartars and restoring China" came into being.

Yuan Chuanjian did not understand where this impulse to practice literature and martial arts came from, but it was clear that this impulse was not constructive, but destructive, and it was a rejection of the instincts of the old society. In addition to the clash of cultures, this rebellion was exacerbated by the annual disasters caused by the decaying rule of the Qing Empire.

Yuan Chuanjian didn't understand, and most people didn't understand why.

"Every rabbit has a dream of home and country." This is what Zhang Chun thought of when he looked at the little guy's eyes and looked at the training partners.

Zhang Chun may not have had so many emotions before. But now it is a real feeling, for this dream, whether it is a hostile person or not, has paid for it with their ideals, blood and lives. There may be a struggle between classes, but in the face of national righteousness, it is nothing.

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