After Zhao Jiaren met with the village chief, he went to convene a meeting of the yamen in Fuyang County. Zhao Guanjia preached straight to the point: "If you have read the Analects, you probably know that Confucius is a scholar and an excellent scholar. However, Confucius also said that if you are excellent, you will learn. In the past, the Great Song Dynasty did not have a corresponding study for officials and cadres, but I have decided to change this situation. In the future, officials and cadres should spend a certain amount of time every year on the study organized by the imperial court and the government. I hope you can look forward to it. ”

A group of officials and cadres thought that Zhao Guan's family received them as a lecture or condolence. Whatever the case may be, these people have made a certain amount of psychological preparation. Unexpectedly, the Zhao Guanjia gathered them together and told them that these people still needed to continue to study after becoming officials and cadres. And listening to the meaning of Zhao Guanjia, the learning of these people will be institutionalized. This is even stranger.

After talking about the content to be told to them, Zhao Jiaren asked, "Everyone, what do you think about this?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and finally Liu Boxiong, the magistrate of the county, asked: "Official, but I don't know what this study is about?" Four Books and Five Classics, or ...... What else? ”

When he said this, Liu Boxiong almost said 'science', for literati, science is the main content of their learning. However, the attitude of the Zhao official family towards science is very clear to these people. Although there was no overkill to overturn the case for Han Yanxuan, Shi Miyuan, who murdered Han Yanzhou, has been criticized and criticized, and Shi Miyuan's clansmen and Shi Miyuan's main party members have also been comprehensively purged, except for those who fled to Mongolia to become Song traitors, they were all sentenced for the crimes of murdering Han Yanxuan and murdering the prince.

In addition to the fierce implementation of weapon criticism, a large number of the content of science in the imperial examination was eliminated, and the imperial examination itself was completely overwhelmed by the system of science that did not emphasize science at all. Of course, Liu Boxiong disagrees with this, but he himself will not touch the mold.

"There are a lot of topics to be discussed, first of all, institutional education and legal system education. I think many people probably don't know how to deal with Song traitors. More people do not understand what the legal principles, legal intentions, and legal degrees of this law are. Let's start with one by one. If you don't understand this, you will naturally have a lot of opinions on many judgments of the imperial court. If you understand the system, the legal system and the law, there will be a lot less disputes among everyone. ”

After listening to Zhao Jiaren's answer, Liu Boxiong replied helplessly: "...... Be. ”

After talking about organizational learning for a while, Zhao Guanjia got up and said goodbye. The officials and cadres looked at the backs of Zhao Guanjia and his entourage, and some people couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that I completely understood what the officials said." ”

This was a bit of a big feeling, and someone immediately asked unkindly, "But I don't know what you're talking about." ”

The guy who spoke glanced at the ill-intentioned guy, and he said calmly: "I thought that the official family would say something in a big way, but I didn't expect that every sentence of the official family was what he wanted to do." I just don't agree, but I know why I don't. This alone is the prime minister's courage. ”

Everyone knows that Zhao Guan's family has been alone for many years, and with his political achievements, he can probably be regarded as the first among all the prime ministers in the 320 years of the Great Song Dynasty. Although some people still wanted to say something, they saw Jia Weixin, who was regarded as a cronie of the official family, looking over with burning eyes. So the one who wants to speak swallows the words back into his stomach.

Zhao Jiaren left Fuyang County and quickly returned to Hangzhou, and rushed back to Hangzhou late at night. After a few hours of sleep, he got up to prepare for the morning meeting. As soon as the morning meeting ended, he met with Zhang Shijie. Concubine Yang gave birth to a daughter to Zhang Shijie, although Zhang Shijie felt a little disappointed, he was still happy.

After sending the congratulatory red envelope, Zhao Jiaren said: "General Zhang, I have worked hard for you to travel this time. ”

Zhang Shijie sighed: "Official, I also know that I was specially asked to see the birth of the child, if it weren't for my concern, I should actually go to Hebei to lead the army earlier." ”

"It's not too late. But I don't know how the family has arranged. ”

Zhang Shijie heard that Zhao Jiaren did not have any malicious intentions towards Yang Shufei, so he said: "The Yang family sent someone to take care of it, and this relative finally settled down." However, the minister wanted to ask the official family to help arrange some errands for the Yang family. ”

For such people who want to send troops, it is natural to make arrangements. Taking care of Zhang Shijie is taking care of the Yang family, as long as you take a little care, you can get rid of the mean evaluation, Zhao Jiaren responded happily: "What people, how many are there?" ”

"It's just three people." Zhang Shijie hurriedly responded.

"You should know that now we are not the errand that we used to do when we came up to stewardship. Now, if something goes wrong in the middle of this kind of errand, it will be investigated to the end. It doesn't matter who recommended it. Zhao Jiaren said it in front.

"Except for Yang Shufei's niece, the other two just ask the official family to give them a stable public job."

"Oh? Is it Yang Liangjie's daughter? Zhao Jiaren said with a smile. This Yang Liangjie was considered a resistor in the process of Zhao Jiaren's seizure of power, and Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but feel ridiculous when he thought about it.

"Yes." Zhang Shijie also felt helpless.

"It doesn't matter. Just ask her to write a resume and hand it in. We will arrange it at our discretion. ”

After talking about this, it is time to talk about military affairs. Zhao Jiaren did not have the slightest intention of getting by in this regard, he told Zhang Shijie the latest situation very seriously, and then concluded: "The fundamental thing that any army can win a war is to pay attention to discipline. Even if our military is using cold weapons, it can perform many tactics that the previous army could not carry out at all. When you arrive in Hebei, in addition to learning in this regard, you also need to deal with how to transform the armed forces in Hebei into our people. There are many things to discuss with everyone, and don't go it alone. ”

"Yes." Zhang Shijie replied seriously.

After sending Zhang Shijie away, Zhao Jiaren felt a little sleepy. With a big yawn, he called his secretary over to ask about the rest of the itinerary, only to find that all the back of the itinerary was full. I can only wash my face with cold water, and then continue to deal with it. Thinking that at least this year will be the only way to transfer the mulberry sericulture to the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhao Jiaren feels that time is too slow.

The middle of March in the Song calendar is the fifth month of the Western calendar. At this time, summer has begun in the south of the Yangtze River, and those mulberry trees are luxuriant and ready to be picked. Hu Daquan from Hujia Village, Fuyang County, is busy with the villagers, and the technicians and students of the Agricultural College are using coal to burn the lime kiln with the villagers. The quicklime is boiled with water, and various bamboo tools used to produce silkworm cocoons are soaked in it, and then washed with the water from the coal burn and dried in the shade.

There are waterways in Fuyang County, and coal mines can be transported to those nodes by boat, and then transported back to the village by car. Everyone thought that coal was much more convenient than wood and grass when burning fire, and as a result, a lot of coal was stolen. Seeing that the students did not look angry, Hu Daquan, who felt very embarrassed by the villagers' actions, felt a little relieved.

The silkworm seeds provided by the College of Agriculture hatched quickly, and they were all small black dots at first. The amount of mulberry leaves fed to them is good, and even so, it has already made everyone feel a little struggling. This is different from the previous method of worshipping the gods and praying for protection before harvesting. These technicians and agricultural students don't care about any of this. They built two pools connected by two pipes. The mulberry leaves are placed in a large basket woven of bamboo and skin with a steel skeleton, and the basket is put into one pool, and the bottom of the other pool is not too much quicklime.

When the quicklime was not bubbling, they put it in with a kind of paper. When he saw that the note had turned dark blue, he turned something outside the tube, and the thing washed the lime water from the lime-soaked pool to the pool where the mulberry leaves were kept. After soaking for a while, the mulberry leaves are fished out and put into another thing. The thing would turn the box containing the mulberry leaves, and soon after turning, the sound of water spilling out of it could be heard. After a while, I stopped, and I saw that the originally wet mulberry leaves were gone.

Then soak these mulberry leaves in cold water after boiling, and rinse them with water in that way. Take it out and shake it dry, then put it in a cage made of bamboo to dry.

In the past, everyone's steps were to pray to God and worship Buddha, and then find a time when there was no dew to pick mulberry leaves, and pray to God and Buddha again before returning with mulberry leaves, and then feed the green mulberry leaves to the silkworms to eat. There are expectations and worries in those processes, and the fresh air and natural colors are all pleasing to the eye.

Now all the work is hard work, hard work, hard work. After processing, the mulberry leaves feel no longer angry, just wilting and waiting to dry the water, and then feed them to the silkworms. It's really, very, very unfeeling.

But after all, this was the guidance of someone sent by the Zhao official family, and he didn't let everyone pay. If you have to say it, everyone secretly took the public's coal, and the public family hasn't come out to scold yet, which can be regarded as saving face.

The little black dots kept eating the wilted mulberry leaves after treatment, and they continued to grow and begin to molt. From small black dots to small light-colored bugs. These small insects can be put into a large basket to raise, and the consumption of mulberry leaves increases with the size of the silkworm.

At first, the villagers were curious about these devices and relied on manpower to provide power, but now everyone is tired, and the power is provided by livestock. Even so, there is a lot of work that needs to be done with manpower. Picking mulberry leaves is irreplaceable by livestock, and putting mulberry leaves into baskets also depends on manpower. Every other day, you have to put the mulberry leaves and silkworms into another basket, and then pour out the silkworm dung in this basket, that is, silkworm sand. Then the basket should be washed with lime water and dried. It is not possible for livestock to do such work.

The men in the prime of life are doing the work, and the little girls are doing it. Seeing this little girl named Dong Wanniang sweating like rain, Hu Dayuan felt some sympathy in his heart. Dong Wanniang's father is also a showman, but his family is small, and Dong Wanniang's mother died early, and her stepmother gave birth to two sons herself, which was even worse for Dong Wanniang after Dong Xiucai's death. I heard that I got a lot of money for working here, so I asked Dong Wanniang to work here. There's a lot of money here, but there's also a lot of effort. The little girl is very tired.

However, when his eyes turned back to the basket containing silkworms, the attention of village chief Hu Daquan was attracted by the strong silkworms. Compared with the silkworm species used in the village, these silkworms are large and white, which is pleasing to look at. It's only half a month old, and it's bigger than the kind of silkworm used by the villagers before it spins silk.

The most important thing is that up to now, these silkworms are still alive and healthy, and there are no signs of illness. Those leaves that have been soaked in lime water, although they have been washed with water, Hu Daquan still feels that he can vaguely smell the smell of lime, stump those silkworms have no feeling for such a little lime at all?

Within a few days, these huge silkworms began to spin silk and form cocoons. A soft rustling sound could be heard in the room where the first silkworms were cocooned. At this point, there is nothing to fear. Hu Daquan is extremely grateful to God in his heart, he can have such luck without doing things. And those cocoons are big and white, which is pleasing to look at. Compared with the previous silkworms, the silkworm seeds given by the public now take a longer time to spin silk and form cocoons, so that everyone knows that this kind of silkworm is by no means a good thing.

The silkworms are getting quieter and quieter, and the villagers are getting more and more excited. Everyone obviously felt that the amount of silkworms this time was heavier than before, and the benefits could be imagined.

On the day of the purchase of silkworm cocoons, everyone came over early with their own cocoons. There is a brand-new public scale here, but everyone casts suspicious eyes at the new scale. In the past, there were too many things for tax collectors to fight in and out, and the people really couldn't believe it. So the family told the villagers, "If you take something and weigh it, you can compare the scale of the new scale with the old scale." But this amount will not change. ”

These words immediately caused uneasiness among the villagers, how could different scales be different things. Everyone's eyes immediately turned to Hu Daquan's side. After all, he was a soldier and fought with the official family. As the village head, the village relies on him to support everyone at this time.

Hu Daquan talked to these people in the public family, because he had gone to school in the army, and he vaguely remembered what the so-called proportion meant. But no matter how I listen to it, it still doesn't feel right. This made the family members who were talking to him a little impatient. And Hu Daquan also felt that something was wrong.

At this time, another stood up and said to Hu Daquan: "Village Chief Hu, these silkworm cocoons are already here, right?" ”

“…… Right. Hu Daquan nodded.

"The moon in the sky is already there, isn't it?"

Looking up at the moon still on the horizon, Hu Daquan nodded again and said, "Yes." ”

"The two of us are different heights, we stand in different positions, and our hands are different. But the two of us are different, but we mean that the moon is the same, right? Are you right? ”

This feeling is very reasonable, Hu Daquan frowned and thought for a while, and finally suddenly became a little enlightened. Now he understands the thoughts of the public family, and he also knows the thoughts of the villagers. So Hu Daquan said: "This brother, you want to use the new scale of the government, and let the people use their scale to check the weight." Can we turn it over, and take the people's scales as the mainstay, and you use your own scales to check the weights. It's the same as pointing to the moon, we're all referring to the same moon, but I believe in my hands. ”

Hearing this explanation, the public family couldn't help laughing, and the public family member who led the group was even more amused. After laughing, he stepped forward and patted Hu Daquan on the shoulder while wiping the tears that were laughed out, "Village Chief Hu, you are not a soldier in vain!" Just do as you say. ”

Knowing that their own scales were in charge, the uneasy villagers finally put their minds at ease. In fact, everyone secretly weighed the weight of these cocoons, and at this time found a recognized scale, and everyone weighed it. The cocoons of the white flowers were replaced by strings of copper coins, and the adults laughed, and the children looked at the adults and laughed. It's all a joyful atmosphere.

After harvesting this batch of silkworm cocoons, the public said to Hu Daquan: "Village Chief Hu, we don't want the villagers to keep silkworm seeds for themselves. It's not that we are reluctant, but the bacteria that make silkworms sick are divided into two ways of infection, one is through what silkworms eat, and the other is through silkworm seeds, that is, this silkworm seeds are born with diseases, and they will get sick after growing to a certain stage. If you want to find out, you have to rely on special monitoring. The village definitely can't do it. ”

"This ...... I can't tell you about this. Hu Daquan decisively refused. He had been a soldier and had been vaccinated, so he knew that his father-in-law was right. Everyone knows that people who are not adapted to water and soil will die, northerners go to the south, and southerners go to the north, that is, they are not harmed, they eat the same food and live the same life as the locals, but the locals have nothing to do, and the outsiders suddenly fall ill and die.

Zhao Guanjia told everyone that it was because of the germs, so the army and people of the Great Song Dynasty had to be vaccinated a lot. After such a battle, most of the thousands of people Hu Dayuan saw died from injuries, and only one or two died from diseases caused by eating unclean things. Therefore, when there was a meeting in the army, the boss specifically said many times that everyone should not eat indiscriminately.

It was precisely because of this understanding that Hu Daquan realized that it was almost impossible to convince the villagers. After finally learning to trust the public in the army, Hua Daquan knew better that everyone only believed in themselves, and wanted everyone to believe in other people's standards, which was to get cornered.

"Village Chief Hu, can't you say that?"

Hu Daquan's head shook like a rattle, "This, it's not that I can't say." Only when you see the silkworms you keep and raise the silkworms die and feel evil, will the villagers believe that what you say may have some truth. What bacteria, what a virus. In the army, we say it every day, every month, every year. Everyone listened to the ears calloused, so they didn't believe it or not, they would say so. For these people, they just feel evil. Or I just don't know how, and I just fall ill. As long as people look at it as if it's okay, they feel okay. As for what immunization, vaccines. It's not that I haven't tried, and it doesn't work if I try. ”

Listening to what Hu Daquan said, these father-in-laws all showed embarrassed looks. The leader tried to persuade: "Really? ”

Hu Daquan replied firmly: "No! If you don't believe it, try it for yourselves. I can tell a few people first, if something happens, they may believe whatever you say. As long as you can cure their silkworms immediately. When it passes, whatever you say, they will believe only what they believe. Unless they are asked to be soldiers and take classes in the army. I have always encouraged the young people in my village to become soldiers. But I won't come back until next year at the earliest, and I don't even have anyone in the village who can talk about that. ”

The older ones all retreated, and the younger ones didn't believe it, so they went together to publicize it. At first, the villagers thought they were going to say something, but after hearing their words about silkworm seeds, they quickly pulled down their faces.

That night, someone ran to Hu Daquan to inquire, saying that someone had told everyone that the public family specially gave everyone sick silkworm seeds, but they didn't want everyone to keep the seeds for their own use.

By the third day, the story had spread throughout the village. Everyone's gaze on the family was alert. When Hu Daquan relayed this to these public family members, they all looked depressed.

Hu Daquan also felt unbearable, so he persuaded: "Countrymen are like this, don't forget to go in your heart, they will forget in a few days." ”

The silkworm transforms into a moth, and the moth breaks out of the cocoon and mates to lay eggs. These eggs are for next year, not this year. Last year's silkworm eggs had a time interval when they hatched, and they went on in waves. Although there are rumors about silkworm eggs in Hujia Village, the villagers still continue to use silkworm eggs that do not require money. New cocoons are sold every week, and as the number of silkworms raised increases, so does the amount of labor in the village. Those devices also began to be damaged, which had to be checked and repaired quickly, and in order to solve the problems that could be seen, Hu Daquan was so tired that he was alive and dead.

In the distance that Hu Daquan couldn't see, the cocoons were sent to various nodes. A steam-powered silk reeling workshop has been built there, and many people are working in it. Many of them were Fuyang County workers who had been working in the Hangzhou Silk Reeling Factory, and these Fuyang locals were sent back to the local area to help the new silk reelers get used to the new working environment as soon as possible.

The workers who have just joined the production line are not used to this kind of life, and many of them come and go, and even those who stay feel very miserable. However, there are more and more people in the workshop, because the weekly salary makes these people want to survive the week and stay up until the day when the salary is paid on the weekend. Then they or they will leave this hot, roaring place forever.

But when the next week came, more people stayed and called the people around them here to earn a week's wages.

The people in the county continued to inject labor into the seemingly never-ending production line, and the production line sent a large amount of raw silk to Hangzhou. The silk mills were shocked by the huge amount of raw silk, and received more raw silk in the first month than in the previous six months. Steam power is not the only one used in silk reeling mills, the same changes are seen in silk workshops. High-end goods that require complex textures require manpower, while simple plain silk does not need to be so complicated.

These news spread quickly in the silk production system.