The boat came to a steady stop, and a young man in his twenties jumped from the bow. It was Zhao Qian who came to greet him, and after the two met, they shook hands with each other directly in accordance with the habits of the army.

"Ouyang, thank you so much for building things so quickly!" Zhao Qian was full of smiles.

"Take it and try it first, then it's easy to use." The young man surnamed Ouyang replied calmly. After speaking, he returned to the boat and easily picked up a wooden box and handed it to Zhao Qian on the shore. Zhao Qian stretched out his hand to take it, but he felt that his hand was heavy and he almost didn't hold it. This Ouyang hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold it on the box, which was considered to be stable. Seeing Zhao Qian's struggling appearance, Ouyang simply disembarked with the box himself. Three more round-trips, and the four boxes were unloaded from the ship.

The things were loaded onto the donkey cart, and the fellow drove the donkey up, and Zhao Qian, who followed behind, praised, "You are still so strong." ”

"That's it. If you don't have two strengths, you can't eat the iron. Ouyang said with a smile.

The two are comrades-in-arms in the army and are naturally close. During the exchange with each other, Zhao Qian couldn't help but ask about the disappearance of cadres in his village. Ouyang replied, "I haven't heard of it." ”

"Huh? No way. This is what the auxiliary president said. Zhao Qian was a little surprised.

Ouyang rolled his eyes and replied disdainfully: "You can believe what he says." He also said he could help me sell knives. You didn't say anything, and in the end it was you who helped me find a channel. ”

Zhao Qian didn't know what to say for a while. His comrade-in-arms Ouyang Ye was born in a blacksmith family, because he didn't want to work with his father and wanted to go to school. After graduating from elementary school, his father refused to let Ouyang Ye go to junior high school, so Ouyang Ye hid from his father to join the army.

After receiving education in the army, Ouyang Ye used the retirement money to buy equipment after retirement, adopted new coal stoves and new technologies, and finally did not have to strike iron like his father. Maybe it's because the quality of the knives is excellent, but it's not easy to sell in China. Zhao Qian learned of this situation when he ran the veterans' counseling meeting, so he contacted the person in charge of the Maritime Safety Administration in charge of this kind of export single project, and Ouyang Ye's knives were a great success and signed an order for export to the Tianzhu area.

As the son of Zhao Guan's family, and having experienced so much, Zhao Qian no longer feels that helping others recommend a channel is considered his own credit. Ouyang Ye's evaluation of the president made Zhao Qian feel very concerned, judging from common sense, what the president said was indeed worth questioning. Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Ouyang Ye continue: "You asked me to fight a few swords last time, but I still feel dissatisfied after I finish fighting. But I don't know how to be dissatisfied, so I brought you the knife. ”

After speaking, Ouyang Ye opened a long box, revealing several knives with knives inside. Zhao Qian picked one up, just pulled the knife out of the sheath, and felt the sharpness of the knife. Ouyang Ye's knives all used the army's tile blue technique, and only the edge of the blade revealed a thin silver light. As soon as I slashed at the wooden box, I immediately cut into it.

"Good knives." Zhao Qian praised.

Ouyang Ye didn't speak, and took out a heavy stabbing sword from the long box. When he drew his sword, he saw that more than an inch of the tip of a steel pillar had been sharpened into a sharp point. All time in the army is associated with combat, and the use of various weapons is part of basic training. The two of them carried the guy in a gesture, and Zhao Qian immediately felt the problem. The blade is sharp, and if you want to slash someone, you have to swing it, and the attack range is reduced, and there will be empty doors. The stabbing sword is the tip of the sword against the enemy, and the sword body is not afraid of slashing at all. Just pulling away the stance, I feel that the sword is inefficient.

The two put away the guys, and Ouyang Ye said: "I used to just want to make a sharp knife, but now I can hit it, and then I feel that it's not that the knife is bad, but that there is something wrong with this knife itself." ”

As a science and engineering man, he fought on the battlefield, Zhao Qian felt that he completely understood this statement, and he smiled: "Do you know who wants to buy these Japanese knives?" ”

"Who is it?"

"Some civil servants." Zhao Qian announced the answer.

"What do they want knives for? Do civil officials know the sword skills of the official family? ”

Zhao Qian didn't expect to hear his father's name here again, and he couldn't say it for a while. The so-called Zhao Guanjia's sword technique is mainly the knife drawing technique. In the past, the blade of the sword was down, and after drawing the sword, it needed to be adjusted to enter the attack state. Zhao Guanjia's sword drawing technique is that the blade is upward, and when the knife is drawn out of the sheath, the knife will be erected, and then it can attack the enemy's head, chest, and other important positions. The efficiency of using the knife is greatly improved.

According to the experience of war, there is a summary that 'three arrows are not as good as one knife, and three knives are not as good as one shot', or more concisely, 'stabbing to death and slashing'. The stabbing technique fully implements this theory. Therefore, whether it is sword fighting or stabbing sword, it is a bloody battlefield school, and the purpose is to kill people. Zhao Qian felt that Ouyang Ye said it well, these and civil officials did not match this thing. He replied, "Maybe it's because they don't understand that they want to fill the scene with these things." ”

"Oh." Ouyang Ye nodded again and again, "No wonder, I'm still wondering why these people have to fight." ”

This is also something that Zhao Qian feels very speechless. People who use weapons regularly believe that they should only be bladed before they are officially used. The views of the civilian officials are very different from those of the weapons users, and they are very persistent. But from another point of view, Zhao Qian doesn't have to ask those civil officials to change their views. These people are customers, and it is the job of the merchant to meet the customer's requirements.

The two walked and chatted, from the small pier by the river to the mulberry woodland. By this time thousands of mulberry trees had been planted, and the first priority was to prepare for pruning. Cut off the branches that grow quickly, leaving the branches with fast leaves. Take out a special knife and try it, and those selected branches are easily cut off.

Ouyang Ye cut off the branches of more than a dozen trees according to the ropes left on the trees, and he felt tired. He wiped the blade and sighed, "No matter how skilled it is, it's hard work. ”

Zhao Qian first glanced at Ouyang Ye unhappily, but after a while, he laughed out loud because he had figured out the problem. What Ouyang Ye said is so right! At first, Zhao Qian felt that this agricultural technology had a high technical content and should be respected. So when manual labor brought unhappiness, although Zhao Qian accumulated negative factors in his heart, he didn't know how to face it.

Ouyang Ye's words were like a bolt of lightning, making Zhao Qian think about the problem that he, a science and engineering man, had never figured out before. Psychological orientation and actual feelings are not the same thing. This line of thought was clear, and Zhao Qian's train of thought instantly diverged and discovered the true meaning of materialism. The body first exists with consciousness, and the respect for science is the scope of consciousness, and if you think that science is correct, you think that the body will obey consciousness, which is undoubtedly an idealist idea.

Science and engineering men like to understand the truth, and this kind of 'death can be done at night' moved made Zhao Qian's body feel high-spirited and happy.

For the next week, Zhao Qian worked in the fields with the villagers. Seeing that Zhao Qian, an official of the public family, was so serious, the villagers unexpectedly followed suit. If it was before, Zhao Qian would only think that those villagers were lazy and afraid of being tired. Although he still feels this way, he has more understanding. Zhao Qian can do it until he can't bear it, and that's because Zhao Qian is willing. The fact that the villagers can do so much without seeing the actual benefits cannot be accused of being lazy. Without hundreds of villagers working together, it would have been possible to complete the pruning work for thousands of mulberry trees in five days.

After the trimming work was completed, the mulberry tree matter came to an end for the time being. Zhao Qian took the opportunity to transport equipment to the Agricultural College and went back to his home in Hangzhou. Zhao Qian was anxious to tell his father his thoughts, but he saw that his father was full of joy, "Da Lang, you finally understand your own material and spiritual level. That's great! ”

"What's so ...... about this," Zhao Qian felt very embarrassed. After realizing his body, Zhao Qian found that although his spirit pursued unlimited progress, his body seemed to be loyal to comfort. Before facing external challenges, Zhao Qian had to fight with himself in an almost doomed struggle.

Zhao Jiaren was happy in his heart, and his tone was also very relaxed, "A materialist must truly admit the primacy of matter and the secondness of consciousness. When you realize that your ** precedes your spiritual being, and that your ** reaction is the basis of your mental state, you enter the stage of seeking truth from facts. I couldn't be happier with that. Don't feel that the embarrassment and self-deprecation that comes with this realization is unique to you, and those amazing people have made it through. Guess how they got there? ”

"How did they get there?" Zhao Qian hurriedly asked.

"By learning. From now on, we can learn step by step. ”

"Learn what?" Zhao Qian was a little annoyed by his father's god-like attitude.

"If exercising makes your body feel uncomfortable, it's a sign that something is wrong with the way you exercise. Now that you have realized the primacy of matter, let's start by standing, walking, and running. ”

"Isn't this the basic skill of the troops?" Zhao Qian was stunned.

"After the little dolls are born, they grow up slowly, and they have to figure out how to climb, how to stand up, how to walk, and how to run on their own. Without being taught, they try to master standing, walking, and running. This shows that standing, walking, and running are the basis of human sports. When you were a soldier, your level of ideological understanding was relatively basic, but now that your level of understanding has improved, why don't you try to study it again. Preview, study, review. Many times, we mistakenly think that the learning process is very short, and it will be over in three to five days. But in fact, the process here is likely to take three or five years, thirty or fifty years, and some people may not be able to complete this process in their lifetime. What's the point of reviewing. Learn and learn, not to say. ”

Dad spoke, and Zhao Qian chose to obey this time. In just three days, he found that what the instructor said had been said in the army, but Zhao Qian just relied on the advantages of being young, in good health, and light in weight at that time. So those foundations are all in vain, and they don't really follow the core points of the instructor.

Now when he followed those action points, Zhao Qian only felt that the whole person was wrong. But Zhao Jiaren didn't let Zhao Qian start from scratch like this, let the instructor and Zhao Qian agree to meet once a week on a day off, and Zhao Jiaren asked Zhao Qian to go back to continue his work.

"You have today's progress by labor. It depends on eating together, living together, and working together with the people. So keep going, I'm sure you can learn more if you are willing to be a good student. The six hexagrams are auspicious. If you are really modest, you can naturally see that there must be a teacher in the threesome, choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. Go ahead. ”

With such an old-fashioned teaching from his father, Zhao Qian escorted the seedling equipment and embarked on a journey back to Sizhou.

Back in Sizhou, Zhao Qian reported to the Agricultural Bureau. This seedling base is the work of the Agricultural Bureau, not Zhao Qian alone. The first question for the director of the agricultural bureau was naturally that the imperial court had asked all localities to increase the production of silkworm cocoons and raw silk, and that Sizhou had developed waterways and that silk reeling factories had been opened near the city.

"According to the experience recommended by the imperial court, in some places, the number of silk reeling workshops is insufficient, and the cocoons produced cannot be reeled on time, and the result is that the moths break out of the cocoons, and those cocoons are wasted. In some places, there are too many silk reeling workshops and not enough cocoons. This fitting ratio is ......"

The director spoke above, and Zhao Qian took notes below. The imperial court not only asked the local government to do something, but also summarized the experience of each locality, and told the local government in the form of documents and specific figures. So the specific content is very clear, at least Zhao Qian feels that he understands.

After reading the documents of the imperial court, the director put down the documents and said: "Since the imperial court has given the proportion, we will divide it like this." The bureau will divide it for everyone. ”

Zhao Qian listened to the director's assignment and took notes at the same time. More than halfway through the memory, he raised his head from time to time. When the record was finished, he didn't look up, but did a few basic proportional calculations with a pencil. According to the calculation of the entire number of acres, the number of acres on Zhao Qian's side ranks third in Sizhou, but the amount of cocoons allocated to Zhao Qian is lower than this ratio. Probably in sixth place.

What exactly does this mean. Zhao Qian felt a little incomprehensible. However, according to calculations, in addition to Zhao Qian, there are three districts that do not match the proportion of mulberry trees. Zhao Qian wanted to ask, but the deputy section chiefs in other districts didn't speak, and Zhao Qian didn't dare to speak directly.

"This time, the seedling cultivation center is placed next to Sizhou City. Lin Wanli is in charge. The Director moved on to the next topic. This made Zhao Qian immediately stunned. Before the meeting, Zhao Qian felt that he was the one who brought the project to the Agricultural Bureau, and thought that Zhao Qian should be in charge of this errand. But he didn't expect the director to directly hand over this errand to his cronies.

When the news was released, Zhao Qian saw several people looking at him, with sympathy and ridicule in their eyes. Lin Wanli is the only junior high school student among the deputy section chiefs, and he has no military experience. The most important experience is probably that he is the nephew of the governor of Sizhou. Because it was a relatively early junior high school student, at that time, the units at the level of Dasong Prefecture still directly recruited junior high school students. When Zhao Qian is at this time, he has to be a high school student.

This time, Zhao Qian had no intention of questioning, because he understood that nepotism was all about.