Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

The academy was scheduled to start classes on July 7, and Zhao Yuanzhen sent an invitation to the county magistrate, asking him to cut the ribbon.

The county magistrate came happily.

At eight o'clock, firecrackers blasted, the county magistrate cut the ribbon, and the plaque of the academy was revealed.

The children found their respective teachers according to the classes they were assigned to when they entered school, and went to the classroom with their teachers.

There are a total of 6 classes, all of which are enlightenment classes, but they are divided according to the age of the children.

There is one girls' class among the six classes, and the other five are boys of different ages.

The names of the classes are Enlightenment Classes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

The oldest ones are in Class 1, and so on, Class 6 is for girls.

Zhao Yuanzhen gave each student a copy of the Three Character Classic, and for a while, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of reading.

Zhao Yuanzhen customized a batch of sand tables with the system.

It is a small wooden box filled with sand, which can be used for writing, making it convenient for students who cannot afford the four treasures of the study to practice calligraphy.

The price was not expensive. Zhao Yuanzhen sold them for 10 wen each and made 5 wen for himself.

There were a total of 156 students who registered, both inside and outside the village, including 21 girls.

The tables, chairs and benches in the classroom were custom-made by Zhao Yuanzhen. They were drum stools and single desks, instead of the traditional kneeling mats and tables.

Kneeling for a long time will affect blood circulation, which is not good for children's growth and will also cause numbness and cramps in the legs.

After listening to Zhao Yuanzhen's explanation, the teacher still felt that it was too unconventional, but he accepted it.

The school has a week system. Originally, the plan was to have five days of classes and two days of rest, but the plan was to worry that parents would think that the rest was too much and a waste of tuition, so the plan was changed to six days of classes and one day of rest.

The children are still young, so they need to combine work and rest.

There is also enough time for eating and sleeping at noon.

It is July now, and the enlightenment course has been set up for half a year. By the Chinese New Year, I will have finished learning the Three Thousand Hundred and the Analects of Confucius.

The rest depends on the choices of next year's students.

Zhao Yuanzhen has scheduled spring and autumn recruitment for the college.

Normally we do not accept transfer students. Otherwise, if you send one or two students in, their progress will be different and we will not be able to teach them.

At noon, Zhao Yuanzhen invited the county magistrate, the admissions office and the teachers to have lunch in the private room of the cafeteria.

When the cafeteria was first built, Zhao Yuanzhen separated a few private rooms in Cafeteria 2 to entertain guests or businessmen, but she didn't expect that the college would use them first.

The kitchen prepared 12 dishes and one soup, including both meat and vegetarian dishes, as well as tea, drinks, and appetizer fruits.

The specifications are very high.

The county magistrate ate to his heart's content.

If he eats more, he can eat less when he goes back, and he can save some food for his family.

There was no way, he was too poor. He was a student from a poor family and was assigned to Xiaoshan County after the imperial examination. He had his own ambitions and did not want to be a corrupt official, so he was incorruptible.

There are several children to raise at home, and they are all studying.

He is always stingy for the sake of his children.

Zhao Yuanzhen saw him eat a lot of braised beef in soy sauce and thought he loved beef, so she asked the kitchen to prepare 5 kilograms of beef and bring it to him when he left.

She didn't know that their county magistrate was simply greedy and hadn't eaten beef for a long time. There were very few people slaughtering cattle in Xiaoshan County now. The population was small to begin with, and cattle were a rare resource, so how could they bear to kill and eat them?

When I saw the braised beef in soy sauce, I greedily ate more.

The county magistrate returned with the beef in his hand, looking very happy while hypnotizing himself, "This is not considered as bribery. These are the leftovers from the package. How can there be leftovers from bribery? I just want to cherish the food."

He was happily running and mumbling all the way, and when he got home, he quickly gave the braised beef to his wife.

Let the lady eat some and leave some for the children.

"Madam, come quickly, look what I brought you."

"Coming, what?"

"Look, it's braised beef in soy sauce. Come and try it."

"Beef? Did you buy it?"

As a lady, she knows very well what kind of person her master is and will live a good life.

"No, Mrs. Zhang brought it to me. Try it. It tastes good."

"I won't eat it anymore. I'll save it for the children."

"You can eat it, don't be afraid, Madam Zhang has brought five pounds, you can try it."

The county magistrate's wife tasted a few small pieces and found that they tasted indeed good.

"Master, you try it too!"

"I don't want to eat anymore. I ate two plates at noon."

Seeing that he liked it, Zhao Yuanzhen asked the kitchen to add two more plates.

"Did you have lunch at Mrs. Zhang's?"

"Yes, Madam Zhang's canteen food is really delicious. I'll take you there when I have the chance."

Mrs. Zhang said that Canteen 2 is open to the public and we can go there to eat.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, Master."

They were both born into peasant families. Before the master became an official and was studying, she did needlework to earn money to support him. Fortunately, the master passed the imperial examination and became an official, with an annual salary of 40 taels. However, because the children were studying, they did not live a wealthy life, and the master was particularly good at managing their lives.

Zhao Yuanzhen has been busy with the affairs of the academy recently, and the repaired pond and fish pond have not been tidied up yet.

The pond was cleaned, a spring was placed in it, and a sewer was connected to one side, making it a semi-living water pond. This way the pond would not stink and the lotus flowers could grow better.

The fish pond is not half-filled with running water for fear that the fish will escape.

Zhao Yuanzhen dug a canal and released water into the fish pond first.

It took several days to fill it up.

I bought some silver carp, white carp, crucian carp, black carp, grass carp, dried shrimps and other fish fry and scattered them in.

Three fish ponds were dug, two for raising fish and shrimp, and one for raising turtles.

Soft-shelled turtle is a very nutritious food, so there is no need to worry about its poor sales.

I bought a lot of lotus seeds and planted them in the pond. I don’t know if I can still get lotus roots this year.

After the water in the pond started flowing, the temperature seemed to drop a little and become slightly cooler.

To prevent mosquitoes and insects from robbing her, she also planted mosquito repellent grass, pitcher plants, insect repellent grass, etc. around the pond.

Only when Zhao Yuanzhen had some free time did she have time to think about Zhao Yuanlan. She didn't know how he was doing over there.

Wait for another two days, and if she still doesn't believe it, she will go and check it out.

The next day, Zhao Yuanlan actually sent someone to deliver a letter.

There were two contents in the letter. One was that His Majesty agreed to her plan to reclaim wasteland for planting. The reclaimed wasteland was 4 acres behind the military camp.

Second, they won the battle. Because the king of Jin had died, the city had been breached, and many people had been captured, the court was busy fighting for the position of the king and had no intention of fighting. So they agreed to the demands of the Daliang Dynasty, agreed to reconciliation, were willing to surrender and pay tribute, and depend on the Daliang Dynasty for survival.

Once a new king is elected in the next few days, a delegation of envoys will be sent to the capital to meet the emperor.

It is indeed a great happy event, both of them are great happy events.

Zhao Yuanzhen received the letter and asked someone to notify the leader of the farmer group to hold a meeting in the evening.

The fields are not busy right now, so she wants to reclaim the wasteland first, which will make farming much easier next year.

Half of the farmers were dispatched to reclaim the wasteland, but the specific location needed to be confirmed after meeting with Zhao Yuanlan.

The main buildings of Zhangjiazhuang were basically completed, with only some less urgent buildings left. Zhao Yuanzhen allocated 1000 people to build the road from Xiaoshan County to the military camp.

The transport team also transports various materials.

This section of the road is short and should be completed before the New Year.

Zhao Yuanzhen brought more than 4000 farmers and cattle to find Zhao Yuanlan.

"Little sister, you are here."

"Well, congratulations, big brother, for a great victory."

"My little sister Miao praised it, it's all thanks to everyone's bravery."

"Brother, I'm here to ask you to help mark out some land. The farm is not busy right now, so let's reclaim it first."

"Okay, I'll go get the map and bring someone to help you measure."

"Okay, big brother."

4 acres of land is really too large, approximately an area of ​​more than 5000X5300.

It took a group of people almost half a day to measure and finally determine the area.

Zhao Yuanzhen marked the land with wooden stakes and divided it into 100 plots for easy maintenance, and also left roads in between to connect in all directions.

The rest was left to the farmers to cultivate. She said goodbye to Zhao Yuanlan and went back.

This weather was perfect for drying all kinds of dried vegetables and fruits, so Zhao Yuanzhen asked someone to build a large drying platform with cement and also ordered more than 100 large drying baskets.

Thinking of the mushroom sauce from the instant noodle workshop, I have to buy these mushrooms.

Printed a lot of notices and posted them.

[Zhangjiazhuang buys mushrooms. Clean and non-toxic fresh mushrooms are 4 wen per jin. Sun-dried and non-toxic dried mushrooms are 20 wen per jin. The transaction location is the purchasing department on the first floor of the Zhangjiazhuang Affairs Hall.]

The servants beat gongs and went to various canteens and posted notices on the streets of Xiaoshan County.

There are a lot of mushrooms in the mountains. Xiaoshan County has the most mountains. People used to pick mushrooms and sell them at the market, but they could not get more than 2 cents because everyone could pick them by themselves. I didn't expect that Zhangjiazhuang would charge 4 cents.

For a time, mushroom pickers went up the mountain in groups.

Those who have finished their work in the village and are not busy will get up early and go to the mountains to pick some mushrooms, trying to earn as much as possible.

Zhao Yuanzhen transferred a shopkeeper and assigned four servants to the purchasing department, who were responsible for collecting mushrooms.

Change the shopkeeper's name to Zhang Xiaoshou, and she will be the team leader of the purchasing department from now on.

Since February, a group of people have been burning charcoal at the foot of the mountain near the vegetable garden. Xiaoshan County is really cold in winter, and everyone sleeps on beds, there are no kangs. There are also many people coming from the south, and they are afraid that they are not used to the cold winter.

Charcoal is indispensable. There is a fire dragon in each dormitory building. Charcoal will be distributed according to the population. With so many people, a huge amount of charcoal is needed.

Two rows of sheds have been built here to store charcoal. More than 7 kilograms of charcoal have been burned so far. There are not many people burning charcoal now, but after the autumn harvest, when it will be less busy, we can dispatch people to come and help burn charcoal.

The peaches in the orchard have been harvested, but her sales have not come back yet, so all the yellow peaches can be canned. Fortunately, even without preservatives, they can be stored for more than 7 months.

If it is made now, it can be kept until the end of February or early March next year. This is the best time to sell it during the Chinese New Year, and it is completely safe to eat.

Zhao Yuanzhen picked a lot of nectarines, some of which were a little harder and not yet ripe. She planned to store them in the vegetable cellar to see if they could last until the New Year.

As for other peaches, such as the hairy peaches that cannot be stored, each shop sells some.

The transport team sent a batch to Yanshan Prefecture to try to sell them there.

The fruits from the orchard are canned if they can be canned, stored if they can be stored, and those that cannot be stored or canned are either dried, made into jam, made into candied fruit, or sold directly.

The main point is that it must not be wasted.

Dried fruits, jams and preserves are also selling well.