Chapter 53: Wenyuan Academy

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The business of new agricultural tools is very good, and it is very popular among the common people.

The price of leasing is cheap, and some wealthy families grit their teeth and buy a whole set directly.

There are also those rich landlords who ordered a large number of farm tools from the blacksmith to go back, including the cultivator assembled exclusively by Kuxia.

They can go to the county yamen to place an order, and then the county yamen will assign it to other blacksmiths to make it, and then the final assembly will be handed over to Kuxia.

Since the beginning of spring planting, Kuxia has made a net profit of 100 taels of snowflake silver just by renting farm tools.

Not only in their county, but also in the promotion of the mustache county order, the new farm tools are all over other counties, and the affairs of Wangjia Village are also handed to the top, and it is estimated that it will not be long before they reach the emperor's ears.

But this consideration is too long-term, and Kuxia is now only looking at the present.

She instructed the villagers on how to better farm the land and how to plant the new varieties she had given, and the planting methods were similar, with only a few minor differences.

There is also a bitter summer almost forgot one thing, at this time there are no pesticides and herbicides, farmers weeding are manually weeded with hoes, if the seedling period of planting wheat is similar to the grass, people have to kneel on the ground, with the naked eye to distinguish which is the wheat seedling which is the grass, damage a tree is grain.

There are pesticides in the bitter summer space, but those are made of chemical agents, there is no way to use them in this world, even if it can, it is short-term, her lifespan is limited, and when she dies, it is estimated that this space will disappear, and pesticides will still be passed on for a long time like this food seed.

Ku Xia found Dr. Qi, a barefoot doctor in Wangjia Village, and told him her thoughts, she wanted to ask Dr. Qi to try if he could use Chinese patent medicine to prepare a medicine for weeding and insecticide.

In her modern world, there are herbicides for each crop, which is very convenient for farmers, and if this world can also have such herbicides and insecticides, farmers in this world can also free their hands.

Doctor Qi listened to Ku Xia's thoughts and thought silently, he had never thought about this aspect before, when it came to medicinal materials, the first thing that came to mind was not to cure diseases and save people, how could he think about farming, and Ku Xia, a person who longed to grow in the ground all day long, could think about this aspect.

In the modern world, Kuxia used the anti-insect powder prepared with traditional Chinese medicine, if this powder could be improved and used on crops, maybe it would also be?

Ku Xia still remembered the prescription, she wrote down the prescription silently, handed it to Dr. Qi, and asked him to study it carefully.

Doctor Qi saw that Kuxia's prescription could indeed dispel mosquitoes, so he saw that Kuxia's idea was not a blind thought, and there was a possibility of implementation, so he seriously promised Kuxia and gave him a period of time, and he would study it well.

Entrusted the research of herbicides and insecticides to Dr. Qi, Ku Xia picked up the things he had thought about running a school before.

At the beginning, she took Yu Wenyuan in order to let the children go to school, but now that she has money, the affairs of the school should be handled.

Ku Xia told the village chief his thoughts, and the village chief was naturally overjoyed, how could he not be happy to let the children have books to read!

Not to mention that out of the identity of the village head, that is, from his private standpoint, he has three little grandsons at home, and there is no school in their small county, even if there is, they can't afford to pay for the shackles of Mr., and there is no money to buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so it has become a luxury to let their children study.

The reason why I am so happy is that Ku Xia said that I don't need to give my husband so many restraints like in the city, and if you don't have money, you can also have food.

Now Ku Xia said that she wanted to pay for the village to run a school, of course, the village chief was strongly supportive, and personally ran errands to the county yamen to complete all the formalities, and soon Wenyuan School was established!

The establishment of Wenyuan School, the people in the village are very happy, they themselves are farmers, but they don't want their children to become the Zhuang family, of course, it is better to study if there are conditions, there is a saying, "everything is inferior, only reading is high."

Reading can not only make them literate and reasonable, but also allow them to get rid of the life of digging in the soil, and can also reduce taxes for their families, which has many benefits!

But it is not easy to provide a famous reader, pen, ink, paper, inkstone and this kind of thing is completely money, I heard that the value of a book has reached more than a thousand taels, and they dare not think of the number of thousand taels!

It is impossible to buy only one book when reading, and when you start reading, there must be one less laborer in the family, and a few years of hard work may not be able to provide a talent, no matter how you think about it, it is not a good deal.

Now I heard that Kuxia is going to run a school in the village, and the villagers are enthusiastic to sign up for their children, and now the grain in the field has been planted, and the rise is good, and the new varieties of grain given by Kuxia have also grown, they gritted their teeth and thought about how to hand over the bundle to Mr., but I didn't expect Kuxia to say again, for the sake of insurance, or wait for this grain harvest to make up for the bundle.

Kuxia herself is very trusted and loved by the villagers because of her various deeds in Wangjia Village, so that the people in the village are even more grateful to her, and for a while, Kuxia's influence in the village has surpassed that of the village chief.

The village chief didn't care, and was even happy to see it, he felt that with Kuxia, their life would definitely get better and better, since the bitter summer came to their village, look at how much they have changed!

First, let them all eat enough and not let them starve to death.

Now Ku Xia is running a school in the village, so that the children can have books, and also said that adults can also go to the school to follow Mr. to read and write, and do not urge them to tie up, which is simply a great kindness!

Yu Wenyuan's reading does not distinguish between men and women, but most of the rural people send male babies, and there are no female babies, and only Yu Daya is the youngest of the female babies who come to study, and the other is Yu Xiaoni.

Li Xinyao and Liu Youxiang still have to help the family work, and they don't have much time, so they occasionally come over to listen to classes, or let their children go back to teach them.

Yu De and Yu Cai were also stuffed into the school by Ku Xia, and no longer let them continue to do farm work, Yu Sanlin and Yu Silin were unwilling to go to school, and Ku Xia did not force them, but only let them have to learn to read and write with their husband, and everyone in the family should be like this.

At present, the land at home is indeed inseparable from people.

After the flood and drought, the population of the nearby villages decreased a lot, and a lot of land was left, some of which were recycled by the local government, and some were thrown away there.

Ku Xia took out wheat seeds, quinoa seeds, white radish, cabbage seeds, millet seeds, sweet potato seedlings, potato seedlings, etc., which can help the people quickly stock up on the granary.

There are also various other high-yielding vegetable seeds that were scattered to the villagers in the bitter summer, just to prepare for the opening of the restaurant in the future.