Lishi Town is located in the Jingguo Mountains, over the Helian Mountain, next door is another country, since it is in the mountainous area, the traffic is naturally very inconvenient, but here because of the mountains, the mountains eat the mountains, the products are quite rich, some people go into the mountains to collect medicine, some people go into the mountains to hunt, it is also considered rich.

Therefore, merchants from the south to the north will also come to Lishi Town every year to make a big purchase.

As for why they didn't come much, it was naturally because of the Mazhai mountain bandits outside Shizhen.

The people who couldn't survive fell into the grass and became strongmen on the mountain, and they didn't know what etiquette, righteousness and shame were, they only knew how to bully the weak.

If there are officials or a large number of caravans passing by, and the men and horses are strong, they will be silent and let them pass, and if there are ordinary people who want to pass by, they will be skinned if they do not die!

It snowed heavily in the winter of last year, and Shili and Eight Villages in Lishi Town suffered a snow disaster, and the village was ransacked by these strongmen, and many children and women were robbed, and the women were left on the mountain, and the children were sold to the bottom of the mountain.

Gu Lan also took the opportunity to save some children.

Later, she caused trouble and provoked the bandits of Xiongzhai to the bandits of Mazhai.

The bandits in Xiongzhai are a little weaker than those in Mazhai, but they are also a big force in Lishi Town, and it is precisely because of the people in Xiongzhai that they are peaceful for a whole winter.

Now Gu Lan wants to take the road to Mazhai and do more business, either cooperate with these mountain bandits, or exterminate them.

can be said to be familiar, Gu Lan is more familiar with Xiongzhai, after all, the rescued children were captured by Xiongzhai.

On the side of Mazhai, she only heard from the businessmen who passed by that there were at least more than 100 bandits in Mazhai, and there were so many people that even the county government had no way to take them.

To suppress the bandits, the men and horses dispatched must be several times larger than the mountain bandits, so that it is possible to capture them from the environment they are familiar with.

How to solve this problem, Gu Lan began to make difficulties again.

She only has the blueprints of crossbow arrows now, and the blacksmith shop hidden in the mountains is working hard to build them every day, but Xiaolongkanli doesn't know much about iron, so she can only grope for it, and only two crossbow arrows can be played in ten days and half a month, although they are indeed much stronger than ordinary bows and arrows, but the number is too small to play a big role at all.

Just when Gu Lan was worried about this, the weather gradually warmed up, the ice and snow melted, people changed their winter clothes one after another, put on spring clothes, and their bodies suddenly cleared, the sky was high and refreshing, and the mood was exceptionally good.

Although Gu Lan was worried about the mountain bandits in the distance, for the men, women, and children of Xiaolongkan, this year's day was really getting better and better.

laughs and laughs every day, and it really has a bit of a paradise.

Gu Lan couldn't think of any other way, so she had to focus on the village, thinking about building the details of the village better.

Zhu'er Liang'er has to go to school in a private school every day, and Old Man Shao has to go to a private school every day to give the children a few "physical education lessons", mainly to teach them to strengthen their bodies and learn to use bows and arrows.

Being stuck at home like this all day is not a solution, what Gu Lan wants is not a math nerd, but a doer.

It's a pity that Li Ergou didn't show any pioneering ability.

Gu Lan had no choice but to persuade him to go to a private school and teach arithmetic lessons to the children.

The private school in the village is called "Longmen Academy", and a stone tablet more than one person high stands at the foot of the mountain, with the name of the simplified academy engraved on it.

After a period of running-in, the academy now has a total of five teaching gentlemen, only Li Yang and Li Ergou are official, and the others like Old Man Shao are part-time.

Li Yang is responsible for enlightenment, teaching knowledge and etiquette, as well as painting; Li Ergou taught arithmetic, Old Man Shao coached physical fitness, bow and arrow, and Old Man Li Zheng was responsible for telling them about the customs and customs of the outside world, as well as Class Master Liu, who sometimes came to the academy to teach children to play musical instruments.

The children in the entire private school are only fifty, there are more than forty children in the village, and three children from other villages.

In this era, children can walk even if they are a laborer in the family, they can do some light work, and watching younger siblings and letting them come to school means that the rest of the family has to do more work.

If there is less work, there will be less food for people to eat, and this is a major matter related to hunger, and no one dares to ignore it.

Forty-eight children are like the hope of Xiaolongkan, and in a few years, these educated children will show a completely different appearance.

Gu Lan is like planting a seed in the ground, watering it and waiting for the big tree to sprout, and one day it will grow into a towering tree.

Gu Lan herself was not idle, she had nothing to do, took back the land left by the Gu family, opened an acre of land by herself, and learned to farm.

Gu Lan had not farmed in her previous life, she should be said to have done farm work and had a certain amount of agricultural knowledge, but after all, she had lived in the city for so long, and some things had long been forgotten.

She could only learn from scratch to understand the farming methods of the villagers, and found that the farming tools at this time were also very simple, ploughing and weeding only by a hoe, the hoe turned over the land, and the large clods of soil had to be pinched by manpower.

It can be said that basically all procedures rely on manpower.

Gu Lan had a black line, she thought about the original owner's work experience, and found that it was really the case.

Gu Lan knew the importance of tools, as the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, she immediately told Aji her thoughts, and under Aji's hands, farming tools such as zigzag plows and nail rakes gradually appeared on the drawings.

Gu Lan happily picked up the paper and kissed it, "Aji, you are awesome!" ”

Aji's eyes deepened suddenly, and unconsciously, he wrapped one hand around Gu Lan's waist, and said a little jealously: "Since you praise me, why kiss it?" ”

Gu Lan couldn't help but feel a little funny when she heard his jealous tone, she showed a sweet smile on the side of her face, "chirp", and dropped a kiss on Aji's face.

"Okay, if you want to reward you at night, let's go to Zhou Yang and make these tools!"

Aji's eyes were full of pampering, he looked at Gu Lan and nodded.

Gu Lan pulled him to find Zhou Yang.

Zhou Yang is now about to become the busiest human in the village, and he wants to teach the people in the village to make a wheelbarrow, which is very portable and stronger than artificial, and has become popular in Lishi Town.

Hearing that Gu Lan was going to make some tools, Zhou Yang temporarily put down the work in his hand and picked up the drawings to look at them carefully.

"These ...... It's all for farming, right? ”

Zhou Yang is an experienced man, and the moment he saw the drawings, he immediately conceived their use in his mind.

It's really easy to use!

Although Zhou Yang is a carpenter, the carpenter also has to eat, with these tools, wouldn't it be much easier for the villagers to grow food?