048 【Farmland Reclamation, Establishment of Elementary School】

(Changes have been made to the first few chapters of the opening and do not affect the subsequent episodes)

In later generations of the United States, Kansas, as a mediocre Middle State, really has no sense of existence.

Being in China's horse whistle, the main perception of this state is that Kansas in comic books and movies is where Superman Clark Kent grew up.

Superman was never real, it was just a Kansas farmer's dream — a line that seemed to show that Kansas agriculture was not bad.

It is also true that Kansas is one of the most important agricultural states in the United States.

Ma has little experience in agricultural practice, but when he looks around, he can see that the surrounding agricultural conditions are excellent, the soil is soft and fertile, and the water resources are abundant, which is suitable for agriculture.

There are still many high-quality unclaimed lands in Kansas at this time, which is undoubtedly good news for the Sleeping Bear Clan.

Subsequently, he and Tu Block each led a dozen people along the banks of the Arkansas River to investigate and select, and on the same day, they identified a suitable area for reclamation - the land was flat enough and close to the clan.

In fact, there is no need to choose at all, almost all areas in the vicinity are suitable.

Now the only problem is the lack of farm tools, in the previous transaction with Smith, Ma Whistle also bought farm tools, and most of the Indians with planting experience such as clods of soil also carried some farm tools, but the number was not enough after all, and it was difficult to support large-scale reclamation and planting.

However, Ma Whistle did not expect the Sleeping Bear Clan to transform from a nomadic nation to an agricultural nation this year.

In his view, the most important agricultural goal this year is to accumulate and disseminate experience among the clan and cultivate a group of farmers who can go to the land.

As for the source of food, it is still the hunting of bison, and the bison herd in Kansas is still thriving enough, and there should be no problem in recent years.

"Clods of soil, from today onwards, you will take your clansmen to cultivate farmland here." The horse whistle stopped by the Arkansas River, looked at the surging water in front of him, and said slowly.

The clod asked, "Someone from the planting department?" ”

"All ethnic groups, as long as they have the ability to work, must come to learn agricultural technology." Ma Whistle said.

"All the clansmen!" The people in the planting department were all surprised, after all, there were only a dozen of them in total.

Ma Whistle explained: "Of course not at the same time. I'm going to set up an elementary school and make planting part of the curriculum, just like a writing class. You are the teachers who teach the whole people in batches. ”

"Hopefully, by this time next year, we'll be able to eat food as a staple food......"

How long does it take to build the first elementary school in the Sleeping Bear Clan?

The answer is two days.

A large wooden shed that is enough to shelter from the wind and rain, a blackboard, this is the material entity of the Sleeping Bear Clan Primary School.

It is said that it is a primary school, but in fact it is mainly a literacy class, and the students are men, women, and children. That kind of serious school will not be able to run for a while, after all, there is only one qualified teacher.

Compared with the previous literacy classes on the battlefield, the biggest difference in this elementary school is that it has two grades, the lower and the upper grades.

There are three courses in the lower grades: Writing, Arithmetic, and General Studies.

There are changes in the curriculum in the upper grades: Words, Arithmetic, World.

Needless to say, the text class and the arithmetic class are also literal, talking about some of the most basic common sense, such as the earth revolving around the sun or something.

As for the so-called world lesson, it is actually a high-end version of the general knowledge course, which can also be called a "21st century common sense hodgepodge course", which expands the knowledge of the people and knows what the outside world is like.

In the World Lesson, Ma Whistle will cover all kinds of common knowledge that almost everyone knows in the 21st century, starting with the Big Bang and going all the way to Capital.

Oh no, Capital has not yet been published, and Marx may have just met Engels.

Then there's Robert Owen, the utopian socialist who failed to build a "new harmonious community" in the United States about twenty years ago.

The course of the lecture is clear: after the Big Bang, celestial bodies are formed, then the earth revolves around the sun, and then elements form compounds, inorganic matter synthesizes organic matter, organic matter forms living things, living things evolve into human beings, and human beings develop civilizations......

Although some knowledge seems to be ahead of its time, it is not actually advanced because it is all passed by and does not involve details. It can be said that it looks like it from newspapers and books.

For example, the theory of evolution existed before Darwin, but there are many flaws, and the horse whistle will not attract much attention if it is roughly said.

Another example is the Big Bang theory, which was born after the theory of relativity, and if Ma Whistle really made it clear, after it was spread, the eyes of the whole world would gather.

Of course, he wants to be the greatest physicist in the world, but the current Sleeping Bear Clan can't afford to be watched from all over the world, and he doesn't know what the consequences will be when the time comes.

So the Big Bang he wants to talk about is actually similar to a myth, the universe exploded a bunch of celestial bodies inexplicably, and no details were mentioned.

Classrooms are shared between the lower and upper grades, but class times are staggered.

After passing the exam, students in the lower grades can transfer to the upper grades and also obtain the basic qualifications for positions.

There is only one teacher in the upper grades, that is, Ma Whistle himself.

In addition to the text class, arithmetic class, general knowledge class, and world class, there are two special courses that are not related to the grade level, one is planting class, and the other is physical education class.

There is no doubt that in the education system of later generations, agriculture and physical education are one of the components, but now these two subjects have little to do with Mianxiong Primary School, although they are included in the primary school curriculum, but in fact, the planting department and the military department are directly responsible.

When one grade is in a cultural class, the other grade has to participate in physical education or planting class, exercise outdoors, learn first aid knowledge, and learn planting techniques.

In the classroom of the senior year.

The first world lesson is underway.

The senior cadets were all graduates of the field literacy class, and there were thirty or forty people, including a few teachers in the lower grades, such as the long stick. Now, horse whistles are adding some novel knowledge to their brains.

"Our universe was born in a big bang, ejecting countless elements and then condensing into celestial bodies, like a burst of gunpowder...... Ma Whistle recounted.

The minimalist version of the Big Bang theory was only a few words, but he spoke for a few minutes.

Because in order to describe these things, he coined a lot of new words in the Apache language, which he had to emphasize and repeat constantly so that the students could get used to it. This is also roughly equivalent to the "extracurricular reading" of the text class.

There were no surprises in what happened next.

The long stick asked a question, a question that almost everyone would wonder: "Teacher, what was before the birth of the universe?" ”