On the third day, Wang Xuan went to the Government Council as usual, and this time he went to the Ministry of Agriculture to find Ai Hua to understand how the farm crop harvest plan was prepared.

"There is still a shortage of tools, and the steel mills and hardware factories are rushing to make them day and night, and there is not much gap in the harvest at the end of July. However, since wheat and rape were planted at the same time as rice, the yield is likely to be lower than expected, estimated at about 7,500 tons, and nearly 120,000 mu of rice is expected to produce 60,000 tons. The existing manpower is expected to be completed in 10 days, but an additional 2,000 manpower is needed due to the impact of weather changes. ”

After listening to Aihua's report, Wang Xuan felt a little confident in his heart, even if the wheat and rape were not harvested, the remaining grain was enough for the auspicious person to have a year's rations. As for the shortage of manpower, it is easy to do, so he smiled at Ai Hua and said: "I will give you a few sets of plans, one is to contact the Ministry of Commerce to let Yongsheng stop work for a week, and the workers will support the farm; the second is to contact the Ministry of Construction and transfer the construction corps to support for a week; and the third is to recruit hunters and small businessmen to participate in the harvest." It's up to you to decide which one to choose. What happened to the cattle and sheep, and the second batch should also arrive, do you have any plans?"

Ai Hua was still a little uncomfortable with Wang Xuan's way of speaking, as a lord, Wang Xuan's ability to let his retainers make decisions on these major matters still made him feel a great trust, and after thinking about the wording, he replied: "Back to the Lord, the first batch of cattle and sheep still have the phenomenon of not adapting to the soil and water, and there are still 800 sheep and 167 cattle, and the dead are all old and weak. According to the response plan at the time of transportation, the meat was resold by the Ministry of Agriculture to various factories and construction sites at a proportional low price, and the skins were handed over to Miss Qing'er. Now the rest have basically adapted to the climate in the south, and their fat has recovered a lot. ”

"Can the four Hu Yue families be busy with just those four households?" Wang Xuan thought that more than 20 people were really nervous about managing nearly 1,000 cattle and sheep.

"It's okay, they're veterans. As for the next wave of cattle and sheep, they will still be managed in the same way as the previous wave, and after adapting to the environment, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to sell the newborn lambs and calves to the people for feeding. On the one hand, it reduces the pressure on farm breeding, and on the other hand, it also gives the people a way to make money, which can produce benefits after a year and a half. When the cattle are grown, they can work in the fields, and many people have come to inquire about their purchases. ”

Aihua replied unhurriedly, and Wang Xuan, who listened, was interested.

"How is the development of the raw land progressing, and whether it can catch up with the second crop planting. By the way, there are nearly 100 horses of livestock that arrived this time, and I am in charge of dividing 10 horses from your agricultural department. ”

In these years, horses are rare everywhere, and the military has dozens of them, and they are old horses, and it is estimated that the Ministry of Agriculture can get ten strong horses.

As for whether the raw land can catch up with the planting of the second season, Aihua is clear, he was still researching on the farm yesterday, so he replied: "The raw land to be developed is triangular, located at the intersection of Nongnan Road and Nongdong Street, about 45,000 acres. The land has been cleared, the remaining roots of the trees are still being cleared, and some trails are still being leveled. According to the current progress, about 15,000 acres of land cannot catch up with the planting in the second quarter, and the root system in the raw land is time-consuming and laborious, and the removal of grass roots is also more difficult. ”

"Isn't there a cow, shouldn't it be so slow to plough the land with oxen?" Wang Xuan raised his own question, automatically ignoring the contribution of the people along the Liuyin River. This is not ruthlessness, but the habit of analyzing things and grasping the key points.

"Even if there are oxen ploughing the ground, it is not easy, and the number of ploughs is insufficient. Aihua whispered back.

This is strange, auspicious but all black soil, the field is neither mixed with stones nor cattle, horses and livestock trampled all day long, should be fluffy and easy to cultivate, where does the problem come from?

"Show me what plough you are using. "Seeing is believing and hearing is false, Wang Xuan wants to check it with his own eyes.

So Aihua took Wang Xuan to a farmer's house in the south of the city, and after explaining his intentions, the farmer's owner generously lifted the plow out.

This is a long straight plough, not a curved plough. The advantage of the curved wheel plough over the straight wheel plough is that the straight wheel and the long wheel are changed to the curved wheel and the short wheel, and the plow disc that can rotate freely is installed at the head of the wheel, so that not only the plow frame becomes smaller and lighter, but also is convenient to turn around and change the direction, and the operation is flexible, not to mention that it also saves manpower and animal power.

After seeing the plough and thanking the master's family for the kindness of the meal, everyone returned to the government council, Wang Xuan drew a drawing similar to the curved plough according to his memory, and asked Aihua to send someone to the hardware factory to try to build two plowshares, and then send them to the plate factory group on the plow frame for trial.

If it is true that part of the raw land can't catch up with the planting of the second season, then give up, the current grain produced by the Chengnan farm is enough to eat, plus the auspicious agricultural tax can add some more food, there is no need to consume manpower excessively, it is really not possible to buy it from the Great Summer!

For lunch, the Songcai beef stew eaten in the canteen of the Government Affairs Yuan, or the cabbage stewed corned beef, was more appropriate, and Wang Xuan ate two bowls of rice and drank a bowl of leek egg soup.

In the afternoon, I went to give the children a math class as usual, and by the way, I checked their learning of words during this time, and the results made Wang Xuan happy. These children more or less know how rare it is to have such learning opportunities, and some parents almost stage all the five elements in order to let their children enter the school, not to mention that there are also slave-born children, who are more precocious, more hard-working, and they know better than anyone what this means.

Now the leaders of the fifth and sixth groups of a village in Hedong are the most active and serious in doing things, they used to do things for others, but now they are doing things for themselves, which family is not working hard, this kind of good thing can be their turn to be the ancestral tomb is really smoking.

Now Liu Yao of the sixth group sometimes feels that it is not true, when everyone learned that their family of four would be sold to the auspicious territory, the undisguised pity and self-seeking look stung her fiercely. She also resigned herself to her fate, and even thought about using her only appearance to build a small living space for the children, which can be regarded as an explanation for the dead man.

But now look at it, Seon is not a blessing. There is a man who looks at her with a look that is full of certain impulses, but it is limited to the eyes, and there is no other transgression. This made her feel very emotional, all this seemed to be the best arrangement of God, like in a dream.

The Hedong Academy will be completed in July, and her children will be able to enter the academy in September to read and become scholars. Since it is the closest village to the village, there is no need to live in the school, and the children can eat her own meals when they come home from school every day.

Recently, her cooking skills have increased a lot, and the steward has taken good care of her. Liu Yao is diligent and filial, and goes home on time to visit her mother-in-law at noon every day, which is well received by the auspicious aborigines. The chef in the kitchen does not shy away from her stir-frying, and sometimes gives advice, all of which she cherishes.

Wang Xuan looked at a pair of respectful and eager eyes, and felt very pleased.

It is said that ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, Wang Xuan, who was born in a family of teachers, understands the importance of training since childhood, not to mention anything else, under the influence of his father, he is particularly prominent in singing, painting, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Equality and freedom have a limit, or there is a scope and a bottom line, on the contrary, please take a look at "Man and Nature", the law of survival is justified and fair, go there to find pure freedom.

What Wang Xuan can do now is to give everyone a relatively equal freedom and a stable living environment, maybe for a year, maybe five years or ten years, but one day auspicious wealth will attract the covetousness of wolves. He could only do everything he could to protect this peaceful land from being disturbed and its people from being killed, and the outcome no longer mattered.

The distracted Wang Xuan's eyes were a mixture of pity, eagerness, and persistence, and only a smart child could read the inner meaning.

Never underestimate this group of children, they are smart-minded, imaginative, they are simply in line with the principles of heaven and earth, and human ethics.

A burst of thunder woke Wang Xuan up, he smiled apologetically at the children, and asked, "It's thunder, how can we dodge?"

"Can't be under a tree. ”

"You can't stand on a high place. ”

"Better go back to the house. ”

The children scrambled to give answers, and some even whispered that it was only thundering on rainy days.

Wang Xuan has reason to be pleased, and he knows why he knows what he is, this is Wang Xuan's current attitude towards education.

This is the first stage, and it is also the stage of accumulating knowledge, and when you ask this question five or ten years later, you will know more or less the reason for this.

When you ask this question again in ten or twenty years, I hope you will look at you with the eyes of a fool: You still ask what Lao Tzu knew when he was a child, do you want me to explain the principle to you?

It's funny to think about, and it's sad to laugh.

Wang Xuan left this simple school and returned to the courtyard of the lord's mansion.

To his surprise, this temporary school has been preserved with the old lord's mansion, and Jixiang City has not been touched here after several renovations.

In the minds of the old auspicious people, this courtyard and the old lord's mansion are sacred, and it is the most monumental building left to auspicious by their fourth and greatest generation of lords. Although they are not grandiose or luxurious, they symbolize dreams, equality and freedom, just like the incarnation of the young master has always been the guardian of the auspicious collar, which has never been far away!