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"Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate, the sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining."

"Okay, you've learned these sixteen words, and I'll teach you the following words today. Look at the blackboard and read with me: 'The cold comes and the summer comes, the autumn harvest and the winter hide, the leap is more than the age, and the law is the sun'"

"The cold comes and the summer comes, the autumn harvest and the winter are hidden, the leap is more than the age, and the law is the sun!" The children read in unison.

"Yes, then let me ask you, do you know the meaning of these words?" The gentleman in his robe and coat asked softly. The students sitting below shook their heads together, and the gentleman continued, "Look at the first word, pronounce 'cold'. You see, the top of the Han character is a '宀' representing the house, and the bottom is a person, the three on the left and right of this person represent a lot of grass, and the bottom two horizontal represent ice cubes. You say, "How would this man feel if he was hunched in the house in the winter, without a quilt on his body, and there was ice under his body?"

"Mr. Report, this person is the same as Bao'er, last winter, Bao'er didn't have a quilt, Bao'er was so cold, she couldn't sleep!"

"Okay, Bao'er is right, if you don't have a quilt in winter, you will feel very cold, and this cold word means cold. Your parents often say that the cold winter wax moon, this cold winter is a very cold winter, do you understand? ”

"Understood, sir!"

"Let's pick up our own chalk and learn to write with me on a small board. Started, first a little, and then"

Geng Jingzhong came to this school after getting up in the morning, wanting to see the specific situation of the school now. He stood outside the window of the school and listened very carefully and quietly as the gentleman taught the young children to read and write. At this moment, his gaze seemed to penetrate time and space, returning to his previous life when he was in the first grade, and the teacher was like this, explaining each Chinese character with a small article.

After a long time, when he came back to his senses, Geng Jingzhong turned his head to Ah Hu: "Ah Hu, have you started classes now?" ”

"Back to the world, the future schools in various places have been built. The school here in Fuzhou was completed at the earliest, and classes began in mid-April this year. According to my lord's instructions, I sent people to post recruitment advertisements in the whole province of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong. Invited Xiucai from all over the world to come and teach. Don't you know, at the beginning, let's go and invite Mr., but those people who read refuse to come. Later, as soon as I heard that the bundle of our future school was ten taels a month, a large number of scholars immediately came to apply. I think these people are just cheap, scattering money, and they are not obedient here! ”

"You'd better not have that idea. It is normal for these readers to study hard all day long, in order to be named on the gold list and get ahead. If you were a reader, you would be like them. I think most of the people who come to us are poor children! As long as they teach students for half a day every day, have plenty of time to review their homework, and don't have to worry about their own lives, of course they flock to it! Let's take a look over there, and you tell me about the specifics. ”

"Yes, sir! Master, now there are six of our schools in Fuzhou City. Each school has 200 children, a total of more than 1,200. Each school invited twenty gentlemen, a total of one hundred and twenty people, and according to your orders, each gentleman only attended half a day's class. There are very few foreign gentlemen, only 30 of them came to Fuzhou last time, and there are five people in each school, and now they give mathematics lessons to the schoolchildren every day. ”

"Oh, yes, most of these students are just starting to learn to read, and they talk so much that they don't understand! Take your time, don't rush! Geng Jingzhong paused slightly, and continued to walk forward.

"That's, sir, don't you know, now in the whole of Fujian, who doesn't praise you and say that you are the biggest good person in Fujian! Last year's disaster relief, how many lives were lived, and this school, not only does not charge school children's tuition, but also provides them with a lunch. The children of poor families in Fujian are about to be sent to our school. ”

"I don't have that much ability, I can't support so many students, now we have one hundred and fifty schools in Fujian, 20,000 schools, and all the expenses add up to 20,000 taels of silver a month. Ye is really distressed! But it's worth it! If you look at it in a few years, there will not be so many scholars in other provinces in the country. Hey, the schoolchildren here seem to be older? As soon as he walked to a window, Geng Jingzhong found that the students here were a bit like high school students in later generations. That's an adult now!

"Master, this class is not the schoolboy we recruited. It was arranged by Mingbo, and they were all young men from Princess Fang and other shops. Mingbo sent people to select a lot of clever and capable young men, and specially came here to learn literacy and arithmetic with Mr. Those who can read and write are in the school on the white horse's side, and they only learn math. ”

"I see. I thought something was going on! You have done a good job here, and in the future you will be the head of the future school, and all the students will be your protégés! You know, Mingbo's grandson, Ah Hou, was sent by me to take charge of an extremely important matter. Now the Future Academy is also an extremely important thing, do it well, don't disappoint me! ”

"Don't worry, master, I will definitely manage the affairs of the school well! I'll take you over there! ”

Several people came to the cafeteria of the school together, and several old mothers were cooking. The long desk is full of prepared dishes, cabbage, greens, radishes, some fish, tofu, and tofu skins are all packed in large wooden basins, all of which are common vegetables, but there is no pork or chicken! It's not that Geng Jingzhong doesn't want to give meat to the students, but the price of meat is too expensive, and the livestock and poultry he raises are all supplied to the army, and there is no surplus to get here. Fujian is close to the sea, there is a lot of fish, and it does not cost too much, and the nutritional value of fish is higher, so Geng Jingzhong did not add other meat to the recipe.

Even so, the food in the school is much better than the food at most school children's homes! Many children from poor families came for this meal, and I have to say that this is the sadness of the old society. Whether it is a prosperous era or a troubled era, it is all Zhumen's wine and meat stinky road with frozen bones! Where will be like the modern new society, there is still a subsistence available.

"Ah Hu, do the schoolchildren have fish to eat every day?"

"Back to my grandfather, the rules of the school are that there are three dishes and one soup every day, one of which is fish, every day. It's either fish stew or fish nuggets! Eat in a different way. Since you sent a large number of fishing boats to the sea to fish, now in Fuzhou City, fish and meat are cheaper than cabbage. Ah Hu talked about this fish and said with great emotion.

In the past, although the imperial court was not very strict, ordinary people still did not dare to go against the imperial court, and few people dared to go into the sea to fish. Since Geng Jingzhong ordered fishermen to be summoned to the sea to fish and supply the army, the Fuzhou prefect no longer cared about this matter. So many boats went to sea, and each time the fishermen caught a large boatload of fish. Although the price of marine fish is not high, it cannot bear the large amount. A fishing boat that returns with a full load of fish has more than 1,000 catties of big fish, and a dozen taels of silver can still be earned. This also stimulated the development of small shipyards, many fishermen who did not dare to work before gathered to cut down their own fishing boats by the river to go to sea, although they could not go out to sea, even the offshore fish are also a lot!

"It's okay, it's okay to have fish to eat, you should notify the coastal counties of this matter, send more people to the sea to fish, and salt more of them and send them to the inland schools, which is cheaper than eating pork." Also, many students are very poor, so they can gather some people to raise some livestock and poultry. In this way, there will be more dishes in the school, and it will not cost anything. ”

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Master, class is over, the schoolchildren are coming to eat, it's messy now, let's go out!"

"No, bring me dishes and chopsticks, and I can try the food in the cafeteria today!" Geng Jingzhong vetoed Ah Hu's proposal and sat down on the bench himself, with several guards sitting around.

The schoolchildren all entered the cafeteria, each holding a pair of chopsticks in their hands, one in size, and it seemed that they had brought them from home! Lunch in the cafeteria is unlimited, so you can continue to serve it if you are not full. The schoolchildren lined up honestly and started to eat, and several canteen aunts also brought them meals. Unlike a bowl in the hands of the schoolchildren, Ah Hu asked someone to put each dish on a large plate and serve it.

"Come on, I'll taste it!" I haven't eaten in the school cafeteria for many years. In the past, the food in my school was not delicious, but today I will try my school food! "Hmm! The taste is okay, but the oil and water are a little less. Ah Hu, this vegetable oil is not delicious if it is missing. This person is short of oil and water, and his whole body will be tired, so he ordered to go down and notify all the schools, and don't be reluctant to put oil in the future. I spent more than 20,000 taels of silver this month, and I didn't care about the extra 1,000 taels. ”

"Okay, I'll call someone to notify all places as soon as I get back."

Geng Jingzhong was eating while observing the students around him. Many students eat very quickly, eating a lot of rice and vegetables at the beginning, but the fish is left behind and eaten slowly. It's not that they are reluctant to eat fish, but it is obvious that they are all hungry, and they are afraid that they will get stuck in their throats by eating fish too quickly, so they eat some rice and cabbage first to fill their stomachs. Now he has too many items to help more people. Hey, thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, let's take it step by step!

After eating, Geng Jingzhong continued to carefully inspect the supporting facilities and various teaching tools in the school. Generally speaking, the general plan given by Geng Jingzhong a year ago is basically reflected here, and some places have also made improvements for the current specific situation, and Geng Jingzhong is still quite satisfied with these, which also shows that his silver is not in vain. Silver, thinking of the more than 80,000 taels of silver spent to build these schools, and more than 20,000 taels of silver every month in the future, Geng Jingzhong is really distressed, lack of money, now!

"Ah Hu, get ready, suspend class once tomorrow afternoon, let the students go back after lunch, and notify all the gentlemen here in Fuzhou to come here for a meeting, and Mr. Yang doesn't need to be called!" Geng Jingzhong thought carefully for a moment and instructed Ah Hu.

"Master, you just need to ask me to do something! No hassle."

"It's nonsense, if you are told to prepare, you will prepare, you have important things, you can't do it! Remember, it's tomorrow afternoon, so let the students finish their meals and go back! ”

"Okay, I know!"