Longzhong, Zhuge Liang's retreat. Since the defeat in the Battle of Chibi, after learning that Liu Bei had crossed the ocean and fled overseas, Zhuge Liang returned here and became a mountain village man with peace of mind.

Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Bei for a short time, and since he assisted Liu Bei, he has been defeated repeatedly, and in the end, he was even more defeated, so he could only return to Longzhong to farm, so Cao Cao didn't look down on Zhuge Liang very much, so he didn't send someone to ask him to go out of the mountain to assist.

Zhuge Liang? What do you ask him to do? Is it comparable to the old man's virtuous son-in-law?

The wise man of the ages, under the flapping of the butterfly wings on the left and right, has become a cloth cloth that 'does not seek to be heard by the princes'.

Although he made cloth clothes, Zhuge Liang still did not change his habit of paying attention to the world, he had many friends, and he could learn about the world by attending some parties from time to time.

It has been three years since the end of the Battle of Chibi, and in these three years, aside from the year when Cao Cao controlled Jiangdong, Zhuge Liang heard a lot about Cao Cao's new policies in the next two years.

For example, Cao Cao began to promote the status of craftsmen who were good at 'strange and obscene skills', and encouraged the development of commerce and the education of the people. At the same time, we began to develop 'infrastructure' vigorously, and there were many slogans that looked very vulgar everywhere on many bulletin boards and even walls.

For example, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

For example: the strength of many people is great, and the hearts of the people move together.

For example: how bold man is, how productive the land is.

For example: prepare for war and prepare for famine for the people.

For example, a century-old plan, education-oriented.

A large number of 'vulgar' slogans are a bit unsightly and unbearable for a scribe like Zhuge Liang, but from the standpoint of a politician, Zhuge Liang has very intense thoughts about Cao Cao's policies.

Of course, there are also some achievements that shocked Zhuge Liang, such as Cao Cao improved the cultivation technology, so that the yield of 200 catties of wheat per mu reached 500 catties, and other grains also have a fairly high yield, only this point, Cao Cao has great merit.

Second, Cao Cao built schools in the territory he controlled to educate civilian children. Although this point was fiercely opposed by countless families, after Cao Cao sent troops to wipe out some disobedient families, although all the families were resentful, they could only endure it. It's just that these families won't let their family members teach the children of those ordinary people at all, and now all the children's teaching textbooks are compiled by Cao Cao separately.

And the teachers in the school are all scholars from poor families. With Cao Cao's support, these scholars could serve as teachers or even principals of the school, imparting knowledge to the students. Of course, it is not taught in vain, and every teacher has a rather expensive salary and bonus.

The salary is enough to keep them fed and drunk, and the bonus is linked to their educational performance. Whoever cultivates more high-achieving students will have a higher prize. However, now in the new version of the school, there are no high-achieving students, so the test results have become the verification standard for the teacher's professional level. Although it is useless to be a scholar, the biggest advantage of a scholar is that he loves face, and for the sake of face, he can even do without his life. The level of teaching is related to their face, so in order to overwhelm other scholars, these scholars have used all their strength to teach students.

"Listen! In this midterm exam, as long as the score exceeds the second class, the teacher will kill a chicken and stew chicken soup for you to eat! ”

"Students, the exam results are related to your future, if you don't want to become a farmer who can only farm in the future, study hard, take the exam well, and become an official in the future, so as to benefit the people and glorify your ancestors."

"Who will fail the test this time! Syllable! Ring ruler waiting! ”

……

In this era, teachers teach students to work hard, and students respect teachers, and there will be basically no bear children who disobey teachers, and if they really appear, they will be expelled from school and will never be included.

Of course, because of the limitations of the times, girls do not have the right to go to school, and without girls, there will be no animal teachers. The reason why there is a beast teacher, in the final analysis, is not because of the problem of both sexes! Men and women themselves are attracted to each other, combined with each other, and that is not changed by the relationship between teachers and students, so it is inevitable that this situation will occur. But teacher-student love is okay, don't go too far. Attack those little girls who are only a few years old, ten years old, are you still human?

But this era is different, there are no female students, there is no room for animal teachers, teachers and students are at peace with each other, and the promotion of education is very smooth. But it will take more than a decade to see results.

Zhuge Liang also once got the textbooks they learned from local schoolchildren, and when he read them, he couldn't help but be stunned.

abcdmfg…… Is this Martian?

Zhuge Liang was defeated by the textbook of the first grade of primary school, and then humbly went to the school teachers and begged them to teach him how to pronounce and use these letters.

When he learned that these letters could spell out the pronunciation of all words, Zhuge Liang was shocked: There is such a talent in the world? Who is it!? Who wrote these textbooks?

Of course, in addition, primary school students also have to learn mathematics, starting from the simplest recognition of Arabic numerals, and then learning the arithmetic of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Zhuge Liang was stunned, is this really the world I know?

Not only Zhuge Liang, but also the literati in the world were stunned.

This...... Who wrote all this stuff?

……

"Ahh Zuo Xiaoyou rubbed his nose: "Hmm, who is talking about me again?" ”

"Husband, it's cold outside the house, let's go into the house to warm up!" Cao Xian stood in front of the door and said to Zuo Xiaoyou outside the house.

"Okay." Left and right patted the snowman that had just been built, exhaled a breath of white air, and walked into the house.

A coal stove is burning in the house, and the chimney expels toxic smoke from the outside, making the house warm and safe.

There was a pot on the coal stove, and in the pot was stewed pieces of meat, which had been simmering for six hours, and constantly exuded an enticing aroma.

Zuo Xiaoyou poked the meat with chopsticks, and it was already very rotten.

"That's it." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly: "Take out the pieces of meat and put them on the curtain, and put them in the kitchen to refrigerate, whether it is stir-fried or sliced, it is a delicious dish." Broth can be added when cooking to make the dish more delicious. ”

Cao Xian smiled and said: "Husband can always come up with all kinds of delicious food, Xian'er has gained weight in the past few years." ”

"It's better to be fat." Zuo Xiaoyou pinched Cao Xianyuan's sleek face and smiled: "Women are still a little better and more comfortable." ”

Obviously, 'more comfortable' has a special meaning, Cao Xian's face turned red, and he said coquettishly: "Husband~~~~"

"Hahaha......"

Just as he was laughing, a majestic voice came in: "What is the virtuous son-in-law laughing at?" ”

The door opened, and Cao Cao, who was surrounded by a robe, couldn't buy it, and his face was full of smiles.

"Father."

"Why is my father-in-law here?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked: "The New Year is approaching, when there are a lot of government affairs to deal with!" ”

"Haha, since using the method of the three provinces and six ministries of the virtuous son-in-law, the old man is much easier, how can he still deal with government affairs all day." Cao Cao took off his robe, Cao Xian immediately took it, and said with a smile: "Father, the husband has made so many contributions, shouldn't he be rewarded more?" ”

Cao Cao couldn't cry or laugh: "When a girl is outgoing, she knows how to give benefits to her husband, but she doesn't think about her father." ”

Cao Xian smiled: "Who made my father earn a lot of money over the years!" Not to mention anything else, just the sea salt and sugar cane, which one was not handed in by the husband? If the husband did these things by himself, his daughter would already be the richest lady in the world, so how could she even think about buying a piece of jewelry for days? ”

"Okay, your husband has merit, and he has his own reward for his husband." Cao Cao said that this is the case, since Zuo Xiaoyou handed over to him the method of refining sea salt and the method of refining sugarcane into white sugar, brown sugar, and rock sugar last year, the income of the imperial court has doubled in the past year. During this period, it was not so easy for ordinary people to eat salt, and the people who could eat salt were basically from the big families, even if the scholars from the poor families were not able to eat salt all at once, which shows the preciousness of salt.

However, after Zuo Xiaoyou figured out the method of refining sea salt, the problem of salt shortage across the country was solved in an instant. Because the refining of sea salt is too easy, and the daily output is frighteningly high, so in the past year, almost everyone in the world can afford to eat salt, and when people eat salt, they have strength, and with strength, they can work more, and the quality of soldiers is higher.

Moreover, under the operation of the government-run merchant group, these sea salts were sold at a high price to the territory outside Cao Wei, and the income brought to Cao Cao in a year was unimaginable. Especially the nomads of the north, salt is simply an indispensable good thing for them, can you imagine the taste of eating meat without salt?

But with salt, they can eat the supreme delicacy. Therefore, the demand for salt of the grassland people is very strong, and the tea in the Central Plains is also a good thing for the grassland people.

Therefore, relying on the price of one pound of salt for a sheep, five pounds of salt for a cow, and ten pounds of salt for a horse, Cao Cao has plundered a lot of horses, cattle and sheep from the grassland in the past year, especially horses, 600,000 horses, which directly increased Cao Cao's 300,000 cavalry, and now, Cao Cao has 500,000 cavalry alone, and it seems that dominating the world is just a matter of war.

"Thank you, father." Seeing that Cao Cao rewarded his husband, Cao Xian was very happy, so he went to the next room to get a strange dress: "Father, this is a sweater and woolen pants knitted by my daughter, you can try it." ”

"Sweater pants?" Cao Cao was stunned, looked at a white and yellow sweater and pants, reached out and touched it, and asked, "What is this made of?" ”

"Since it's wool, of course it's made of wool." Cao Xian smiled: "This is the wool spun by the husband with a new spinning machine, and then the daughter knitted it with a knitting needle. Dad put it on and try it on, it's very warm. ”

Cao Cao glanced at Zuo Xiaoyou and knew that he had gained something again today. He smiled: "Okay, I'll try it for my father." (To be continued.) )