Chapter 2: Becoming the King of Children (This chapter is free)

Seeing that Zhao Xing was still hesitating, Cheng Tong boasted proudly, "This place has a thousand miles of mountains and is sparsely populated. Among the nearby mountains, the villages in Chengjiaao are the largest and the most Dingkou..."

——Is this big? Zhao Xing couldn't help but contempt: This village with more than 20 households and more than 100 people is considered large? He hasn't seen a city with a population of tens of millions.

Cheng Tong didn't know that Zhao Xing was criticizing him, so he continued: "My family of Cheng comes from the Cheng family of Jiangxia, which is a large family in Jiangxia, and it is incomparable to the barbarians in the mountains.

Thinking back to the time when my Yuanzu and the founding emperor fought against the country (of course, they fought as a small barbarian), there was still a group of Hu people living here. Later, when Yuanzu was old, he was given a gift from Taizu to resign and return home. However, he was not recognized by the Jiangxia Cheng clan. Yuanzu came here with anger and defeated the forest with his bare hands and kicked..."

Cheng Tong's words were actually very exaggerated, but the information he revealed in his words made Zhao Xing very puzzled - when did the Hu people go to the Yangtze River to shed their horses?

The Yuan Grandfather meant the sixth generation ancestor. Cheng Tong's Yuan Grandfather had fought on the battlefield. He was brave and cruel and knowledgeable. He relied on his own ruthlessness and could easily gain a foothold in the mountains. After the efforts of his grandfather, Xuan, great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and himself, six generations of efforts, and the reproduction of nearly two thousand years, the Chengjiaao natural village was formed.

Due to the strength of the Cheng clan, most of the people who depended on Chengjiaao's family members became the Cheng clan's employers or the Cheng clan's son-in-law. They could only obtain the right of residence recognized by the Cheng clan through marriage. In addition, through more than a hundred years of marriage, the Cheng clan established a connection between the Cheng clan and several surrounding natural villages, and also made the Cheng clan a natural strongman in the mountains thousands of miles away.

After describing the power of the Cheng clan, Cheng Tong then advised again in a gentle tone: "If the guest is not interested, he will live here! I think that although my Chengjiaao is small, it will be no problem to support the husband!"

What else can it be done? Zhao Xing bowed as he learned from the TV: "That's what I'm up to!"

Zhao Xing's answer made Cheng Tong stunned, but he did not reveal his surprise.

With Zhao Xing’s village, the first change was the improvement of medical conditions.

The medical conditions in the Song Dynasty were extremely harsh. Even as emperors, 70% of the children they gave birth to were less than adults. But for modern people, parenting knowledge has been called into question by TV programs...

Zhao Xing’s treatment is a bowl of bone soup!

Replenish calcium and nutrition! It will be immediate.

In addition, under Zhao Xing's strong encouragement, the living conditions of infants and young children were immediately improved. Zhao Xing's requirements are: ventilation, improve lighting conditions, and allow children to light more outdoors.

Of course, southern China has always been stubborn clan forces. After Zhao Xing learned about the origin of Cheng Jiaao, he was not interested in challenging the thousand-year tradition. Therefore, when doing things, he was cautious and did not interfere with Cheng Tong's exercise of clan power. This carefulness made Cheng Tong extremely satisfied, and it was also the mountain people surnamed Cheng who quickly recognized his existence.

In a remote mountain village like Chengjiaao, even a doctor who "has a good move" will gain a high status. However, Zhao Xing's several actions have caused the incidence of children in the village to plummet. As a result, the doctors who walk around the streets are no longer popular with mountain people, and replaced them with the gradual increase of Zhao Xing's status. This winter, Zhao Xing has been in a busy state, and has ushered in another year of full-year lunar calendar (Spring Festival).

Zhao Xing's second move was at this time when he was in trouble.

Previously, he had been living on the free support of the villagers. How much saving can the villagers have? As the Spring Festival approaches, Chengjiaao, a village with more than 20 households and more than 100 people, was dragged down by him, an idle person, and the grain storage was exhausted.

In this case, Zhao Xing summoned the children from the village to teach them his knowledge of survival in the wild, and taught them to improve hunting tools, make hunting nets, traps, live traps, and explore the traces of wild animals...

As a result, the children returned with great gains and the villagers got food and clothing. Zhao Xing became the king of children.

Zhao Xing's third move was in Qingming Festival.

On this day, the adults went to the fields to farm. The bored Zhao Xing chatted with the children. When he heard the children say that it was "Qingming" that day, he wrote the words "Qingming" on the ground and recited Du Mu's "The rain is everywhere during the Qingming Festival". By the way, he also talked to the children about the proverbs of "24 solar terms" - such as: "In the Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans", "The Jingzhe land is free and the farmer is busy" and so on.

In this era, most teachers pay attention to "reading a book a hundred times will make the meaning clear", that is, students are required to learn through rote memorization and photographic memory. Zhao Xing's lecture was vivid and unique, and he started with the radicals and word structure of "Qingming" - that is, retelling the literacy process of elementary school... But children have never seen this in this era.

After he gave such a vivid lecture, the child immediately remembered the six words "Qingming, water, green, sun, and moon". That night, the parents who returned from the field were shocked when they saw their children's showing off. They came to the door with the ceremony of apprenticeship...

Afterwards, Zhao Xing became a "teacher".

The word "teacher" originated from the Song Dynasty, and it was used to refer to rural teachers. The word "sir" was used to refer to the Doctor of the Sword and Taoist priest in the Song Dynasty. It was not until the Revolution of 1911 that "sir" was used to refer to the teacher.

With a group of children, Zhao Xing leisurely spent the remaining spring and summer of the year. During this period, he led the children to the nearby Qishui and Yingshan several times... Finally confirmed: This was indeed the Song Dynasty, and it was around the end of Wang Anshi's reform, but at this time Wang Anshi had stopped his preaching many times.

When another autumn comes, Zhao Xing, who knows the truth, ushers in the season of falling leaves everywhere in the sky in loneliness. This season is the season of harvest, but Zhao Xing doesn't know how to deal with himself - how to position himself.

In order to hide his identity, he could only use the attitude of "being cautious in words and actions", patiently hide in the countryside to teach his children, and strive to learn the language of this era and the habits of this era. During this period, he occasionally used his half-baked medical knowledge to treat villagers.

Under his care, this year, more than 20 households in the village miraculously passed away. This miracle made Zhao Xing famous, so that the name of "miracle doctor" spread throughout Sigou and Ba Township. The young wife of nearby villages often carried her children through mountain roads for dozens of miles. Whether she was sick or not, she had to let the "miracle doctor" in Chengjiaao see the development of the children.

Zhao Xing was depressed this autumn. Although the villagers never lacked the support for him, and he relied on the professions of "teacher" and "doctor" to fill the house with various gains, but he always felt lonely when he was used to modern life, so he found trouble for himself. Under his guidance, the villagers began to learn to "package" their prey and mountain goods - this can be regarded as "deep processing of agricultural products".

The main force of "deep processing of agricultural products" is the child, because Zhao Xing can only command the child. The child is weak and cannot do energy work, so Zhao Xing instructed the children to make various auxiliary tools - fix the blades on the wooden table to cut bamboo strips; steam the cut bamboo strips in a steamer, and then shaped at high temperature and weave them into various exquisite bamboo tools...

These mountain goods and delicacies contained in exquisite bamboo baskets and bamboo utensils have given the villagers a rich and fat year. At the same time, the children also learned to read and write 300 words.

After the incident came out, parents near the village came to visit and sent their children to Zhao Xing for foster care and sent a large amount of "tuition and miscellaneous fees" - this was called "shu Xiu" in the Song Dynasty. Of course, they were all mountain goods, and the best mountain goods that villagers could find - wild mushrooms, wind chickens, mountain pigs, etc. These things were packed in baskets by Zhao Xing and sold at high prices.

By the end of the year, Zhao Xing's reputation in the mountainous areas became more and more popular, and he received more and more repairs, so that Zhao Xing could not put down his simple wooden house. So he recruited several potters from the neighboring county town, dug a large kiln near Chengjiaao, burned bricks, and built a brick house for himself to block the wind and rain...

Therefore, after learning the skills of bamboo tools, his students learned to burn kilns and led Cheng Jiaao into the era of great transformation.

More than 20 households have completely renovated into brick houses, and only more than 20 rooms are needed to be built. In order to save brick materials, Zhao Xing designed the house adjacent to each other. In this way, most residents only need to build two walls on the front and back, and borrow the brick walls on the left and right... As a result, they accidentally built a fortress-style village similar to Tujia Houses in southern Hunan.

By the twelfth month of the second year, all the people of Chengjiaao lived in a new-style large brick house. On the 1st day of the year, the nearby mountain people who came to pay New Year greetings saw the changes in Chengjiaao, so they simply moved the whole village to the vicinity of Chengjiaao. The adults looked for some work in the village, and the prey was directly handed over to Chengjiaao for purchase. The children were taught by Zhao Xing, and they were asked to treat them when they were sick.

After just one official day, Chengjiaao doubled its size and gradually developed into Baihu Village.

Fortunately, the clay resources near Chengjiaao were extremely rich, and the excess labor was immediately digested, which also quickly upgraded the brick kiln to a pottery kiln.

With more labor, Zhao Xing's management methods have also come up. Under Zhao Xing's plan, the children in the village were divided into six cooperative groups (the cooperation groups were formed into "society" in the Song Dynasty), and each was in charge of digging soil, burning bricks, burning pottery, hunting, weaving, accounting and external sales.

By the spring of the third year, the entire Chengjiaao had become a brick village of 200 households. The entire village built walls against the mountains, and formed a large building complex of six square or round Tujia buildings. The village walls made of bluestone were surrounded outside the aus, and each villager lived in a brick and stone house.

But even with this expansion speed, the village still seemed to be inadequate in labor. The villagers had begun to recruit friends and were preparing to incorporate several mountain villages further away into Chengjiaao.

In this way, the time slowly came to Qingming Festival, which was the annual sacrificial day for the Song people to replace the "new fire". On this day, people need to extinguish their own fire and celebrate the "Cold Food Festival". At midnight on the Qingming Festival, the elderly in the village will come forward to assign "new fire" to each family, and also announce the annual farming plan.

In the morning light, the newly bought copper bell in the village rang, and the sound was melodious. The villagers began to extinguish their own stove fires and walked to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors. After the bells subsided, Zhao Xing did not extinguish the fire. He still sat by his own fire pit, looking through a book with the help of the flames.

The door rang, and his student Cheng Xia walked in respectfully.

Cheng Xia’s original name is Cheng Qi, and "Qi" is his ranking. Because he was born in Xiatian, Zhao Xing finally named him Cheng Xia. He knelt on the ground and bowed to the teacher, and then said respectfully: "Teacher, Ah Da told you to go to the ancestral hall for a meeting."

The "Ada" mentioned in Cheng Xia refers to his father, the clan leader Cheng Tong.

Hearing Cheng Xia’s call, Zhao Xing raised his eyelids, turned a page of the book, and asked calmly: “I’m going? It’s not appropriate!

Cheng Xia did not say anything, but kowtowed and replied: "Ada said: I will listen to the teacher's arrangement this year, so I will invite the teacher to the ancestral hall."

The firelight in the fire pit gradually weakened, and Zhao Xing stopped flipping the book. He looked at the fire pit and said hesitantly: "The Cheng family's plan... I have no right to interrupt, but..."

Cheng Xia kowtowed: "Ada said: The teacher is here, sit down!"

This is a matter of particularity. What he meant was: Zhao Xing entered the ancestral hall not to accept the questioning of the Cheng clan, but appeared as a decision-maker, had a seat in the ancestral hall and sat on the upper head.

Zhao Xing closed the book.

It is really sad to have no lighting. The mountainous areas are relatively humid, and even if they live in brick houses, the fire pit cannot be extinguished for a moment. In addition, it is difficult to make fire in this era, and retaining the fire is a difficult problem. "Reading" has become Zhao Xing's privilege, and Zhao Xing needs this fire to illuminate it, so even during the Cold Food Festival, Zhao Xing does not have the desire to extinguish the fire.

But now Cheng Jiaao invites him to enter the ancestral hall and participate in the "New Fire" ceremony, and the fire needs to be extinguished.

Cheng Xia was still kneeling on the wooden floor waiting for the reply. Zhao Xing thought for a while, poured a cup of tea on the fire and said, "Then go."

Beside the fire pit in the ancestral hall, there are two chairs at the first seat, one sitting in Cheng Tong and the other empty.

Seeing Zhao Xing coming, Cheng Tong pointed to the chair next to him with the fire stick in his hand and signaled Zhao Xing to sit down. However, Zhao Xing shook his head and replied: "It's not suitable!"

Cheng Tong did not get up, and the other elders sitting by the fire pit owed their lower body and insisted on Zhao Xing to sit down. But Zhao Xing still refused... In the end, the empty chair was slightly moved out of the fire pit and re-placed behind Cheng Tong's shoulders, and Zhao Xing was willing to sit down.

After Zhao Xing sat down, Cheng Tong cleared his throat and said, "Before the teacher came, we discussed what to do this year... Well, in recent years, we have made money in the pottery kilns and bamboo utensils. Men and women have worked hard for a year in the fields. It is better to work in two kilns for a month. Therefore, if there are children in the house at home, they are unwilling to suffer in the fields, and they are willing to go to the market to help their children... Cough cough, the teacher tells me how to allocate this task."

Cheng Tong mentioned the word "things" which is equivalent to the modern word "things". It is said that the word "things" was brought by the Mongols. Before the Northern Song Dynasty, there was another more elegant word in China called "things and things".

Zhao Xing opened his mouth, but immediately shut up again. He muttered to himself: "Be careful of your words! Be careful of your words!"
Chapter completed!