Traveling back to the Northern Song Dynasty: Picking up a princess as my wife

Soon, Lijiazhai resumed normal production, and the damaged village walls were repaired. However, a lot of the corn planted was ruined by the refugees. Fortunately, Li Zhen did not rely on the harvested grain to make a living, otherwise several thousand people in Lijiazhai would have gone hungry.

However, after the refugees retreated, another three or four thousand people joined Li Family Village. Li Zhen took in all these ordinary people and properly settled them in a certain place in the village.

By this time, Lijiazhai had grown to a population of nearly 20,000, resembling a small town. In the village's planning, Li Zhentong built toilets, canteens, bathhouses, and a supply and marketing cooperative, allowing the people of Lijiazhai to exchange goods based on their points. This measure was met with unanimous approval. Those who were capable and contributed more would certainly have more points, while those who were lazy and slacker would only have a pitiful few points, and some even had trouble getting enough to eat.

The supply and marketing cooperative has all kinds of modern goods, from small items like needles and threads to large items like bicycles and other supplies. As long as you have enough points, you can redeem them at will.

So Wang Changdao bought his wife a new sewing machine. Seeing such a novel and amazing item, all the women were envious. So that night, they whispered in their husbands' ears, making them look at Wang Changdao with a strange expression the next day.

Li Zhen built oil refineries, blacksmith shops, textile mills, and flour mills in the mountain village, employing a large number of villagers. Many craftsmen and artisans, having heard of the generous policies of Li Family Village, moved their families there.

As the population increased, the school expanded several times over. Now there are seven or eight classrooms in the schoolhouse alone. In Lijiazhai, regardless of whether they are boys or girls, as long as they are old enough, they must go to school.

The school provides three meals a day, all free of charge. In addition, Li Zhen provides textbooks, paper, pens, and other school supplies free of charge. He selects literate people from the village to serve as teachers. Li Zhen himself is the principal, and Zhao Yingluo is the director of the teaching department, whose main responsibility, besides teaching, is to manage the children's meals.

At first, some people were unwilling to let girls go to school. They believed that a woman's virtue lay in her lack of talent, and that girls would be difficult to manage if they were to learn too much academic knowledge.

For people with this attitude, Li Zhen gave them two choices: either send their children to school to receive a cultural education, or move their whole family out of Lijiazhai and never set foot in the village again.

Now no one had any complaints, and the children no longer had to follow the adults around doing chores all day.

Just as Li Zhen was carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction in Lijiazhai, an uninvited guest arrived.

That was the same Doctor Guo who had wanted to become Li Zhen's apprentice in Tangyin City last time. If it weren't for the fact that the Fire Worship Sect had organized refugees to attack various cities a few days ago, Old Guo would have come long ago. As soon as he saw Li Zhen, he immediately knelt on the ground: "Master, please accept my bow."

Then he placed another package in front of Li Zhen.

"This is my life savings. Knowing that you like gold bars, I exchanged them all for you."

Li Zhen lifted it by hand; it weighed at least ten kilograms. He never imagined doctors in this era could earn so much money.

He was looking for a few doctors to open a clinic, because the whole village with so many people couldn't function without a doctor.

Finally, considering the dozen or so kilograms of gold and Lao Guo's sincerity, Li Zhen reluctantly agreed to Lao Guo's request.

Li Zhen: "By the way, my disciple, I still don't know your name."

When Lao Guo saw that Li Zhen had agreed to take him in, he grinned happily and said, "My apprentice's surname is Guo, given name is Junsheng, courtesy name is Luoshui."

Li Zhen said to him casually, "I'll still call you Lao Guo from now on. By the way, why did you come alone? Didn't your family come with you? You know, the treatment here is very good. I'll give you a bigger room later." Lao Guo smiled a little embarrassedly upon hearing this, "Well, sir, I brought a lot of people. One room might not be enough."

Old Guo called out to the door, "Why aren't you coming in to pay your respects to your grandmaster?"

All that could be seen was seven or eight people rushing in from outside the door; these people turned out to be Guo Degang's apprentices.

"Greetings, Grandmaster!"

Li Zhen quickly stood up and waved to them, "From now on, just call me Chief. You're making me sound old even though I'm still young."

Li Zhen thought for a moment and said to Lao Guo, "How about this, I'll have someone build a hospital in the village and equip it with the necessary equipment. That way, you'll have a place to work and a place to live."

Old Guo shamelessly asked, "Master, now that I'm your apprentice, could you teach me how to treat the illness caused by the cold I had last time?"

If you asked about other illnesses, Li Zhen might hesitate. As a modern person, he is extremely familiar with common illnesses like the common cold.

Li Zhen: "We can't call this disease typhoid fever indiscriminately. Its scientific name should be the common cold. And the common cold is divided into the cold caused by wind and the cold caused by viruses. The cold caused by wind can be cured by taking your medicine, while the cold caused by viruses can be fatal if it is severe."

Guo: "What is a virus?"

Li Zhen: "..."

Finally, Li Zhen took out a book on basic theories of modern medicine from his jade pendant space and threw it directly to Lao Guo.

"Try to understand this book thoroughly first, and then I'll explain it to you in detail later. You must be tired from the journey, so go and get some rest."

What a joke! Li Zhen himself doesn't even know the basics of modern medicine, how could he possibly teach Lao Guo? However, Li Zhen decided that when he travels back to the modern world again, he must acquire a complete set of systematic theoretical knowledge of modern medicine. Otherwise, wouldn't he be hindering Lao Guo's studies? Although the old man is over sixty, his enthusiasm for learning is no less than that of a young person.

Back in his house, Li Zhen picked up the teapot on the table and started drinking straight from it.

Zhao Yingluo, who had just entered the room, saw it and snatched it away, saying, "This tea is cold, why are you still drinking it? What if you get a stomach upset?"

Li Zhen pulled Zhao Yingluo into his arms, and his wicked hands began to wander.

"Yingluo, after I finish these few days of work, I'll take you back to the modern world. We need to hold our wedding there so you can experience a different atmosphere."

Hearing this, Zhao Yingluo blushed and said, "I'll do whatever you say, my husband."

During this time, Li Zhen had been planning this. Although he had held the wedding here, his parents in the modern world didn't know yet. If he delayed for a few more months until the baby was born before going back, his father would probably break his legs. Li Zhen's parents would be too ashamed to face their relatives and friends.

I've been so busy dealing with the refugees lately that Li Zhen's grand plan to make a fortune has been delayed. Luckily, this time we defeated the refugees and plundered some gold and silver jewelry, plus the gold that Lao Guo brought, which is quite a large sum of money.