After defeating the arrogant Luo Zhen, Yang Peng returned to his new Tianjing city. Now that Luo Zhen was escorted to Beijing and imprisoned by the Ministry of Punishment, no one dared to covet Yang Peng's property easily. Yang Peng's status has been consolidated a lot. With this
After consolidating his power, Yang Peng had to consider the long-term development of the territory. The first problem to be solved was the issue of education.
An educated soldier or official is far better able to cope with changing situations than an illiterate person. The world of an illiterate person is narrow and monotonous, but a literate person can gain insights from books and understand account books.
They can understand signs and know things thousands of miles away. If the people in the territory can read and write, the speed of industrial and military development will increase a lot.
For the long-term development of the territory, Yang Peng decided to popularize literacy among all the children and soldiers in the territory. Yang Peng made a simple statistics based on the yellow book: Tianjing Xincheng, Dagou, and Yanshan counties currently have more than 2,000 worker families.
There are less than 2,000 migrant merchant families and more than 2,000 peasant families, with a total of 10,723 underage children. Li Zhi plans to let these children attend school during the day. Yang Peng and the Huben Division soldiers have 14,000
People, Yang Peng is going to let them go to class in the evening after training every day.
If these children and soldiers are gathered together to learn literacy and arithmetic, in about three years the children and soldiers will be able to recognize common words and learn basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Yang Peng divided more than 10,000 children into three groups according to age. Currently, only
Let the oldest group of more than 3,000 children enter the class to learn literacy. After this group graduates, they will educate the next group until all three groups of children have been taught. Estimating that there are 40 children in a class, Yang Peng will need 80
With multiple teachers, 40 teaching literacy and 40 teaching arithmetic, more than 80 classrooms need to be built.
These eighty classrooms are used by children during the day and by soldiers at night. Of course, soldiers have to be in a class of fifty students. However, soldiers have excellent discipline, and classroom discipline is definitely better than that of children. A class of fifty students is not enough.
It was more suitable. After making up his mind, Yang Peng asked the masons who had been expanding the villa to stop the construction of the villa and start building eighty large classrooms. At the same time, he built a cathedral in Dagou and Yanshan. Yang Peng began to build a cathedral in various states.
The county posted a notice to recruit 120 teachers with a salary of 20 or 2 months and three meals a day with meat - 80 would teach children during the day and 40 would work at night to teach soldiers. The teachers did not need to be scholars, they only needed to be literate or able to read.
Just arithmetic.
On November 20, the construction of irrigation canals has been two months. In some places, irrigation canals have been built and some dragon tail trucks have been put in place. Seeing the gradually repaired water conservancy facilities, the people who have divided their fields are happy and energetic.
The Dai Quan family were refugees rescued by the Dagou army. It has been three months since they escaped from the clutches of the Khitan soldiers. In these three months, the situation of the Dai family has been getting better and better - better than ever before.
Dai Quan is 30 years old this year. He has a 28-year-old daughter-in-law at home, a 50-year-old father, and two teenage children. They are a family of five. His home used to be in Baodi County.
The Wang family rents 30 acres of farmland from Mr. Wang’s family. The family has three mud houses. There is no water source next to the field, so they have to fetch water from a river a mile away to irrigate the fields. Due to insufficient irrigation, they can only grow two crops a year.
Fifteen to six kilo of rice and noodles, but 50% of it has to be given to Mr. Wang for rent, and he can only keep 12 to 3 kilo at home. Every year during the lean period, the family goes hungry.
To make matters worse, the Khitan soldiers came later, and Dai Quan and his family hid in the county. As a result, the county town was also captured by the Khitan soldiers, and the family became slaves of the Khitan. The Khitans shaved their hair and left their pigtails in pigtails.
They were captured and made slaves in the bitter cold land of Liaodong, doing hard labor every day and being whipped. At that time, in the Tatar camp, at night, there was a murmur of cries all around.
The ten days that he was taken away by the Khitan soldiers were not long, but in Dai Quan's memory, those ten days were extremely long. During those ten days, Dai Quan once thought that his life was over, and the next step was to do something.
Cows and horses, after more than ten years of hard labor, were whipped to death. Who knew that when they arrived at the big ditch of Tianjing New City, the vicious Khitan soldiers were defeated by the officers and soldiers of Tianjing New City, and all the people who had been plundered by the Khitan were rescued.
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The lord of Tianjing New City is Yang Peng, a great philanthropist. He allowed the people to settle in the north of Dagou City and gave everyone thick porridge to eat. Because of his contribution to defeating the Khitan soldiers, he was promoted to a guerrilla general by the court, and everyone called him
He is the lord of the city. Later, the Khitan soldiers came out of seclusion, and the surrounding people returned to their hometowns one after another. But Dai Quan and his family could not go back, and they would have no food to eat. The landowner Wang's family also suffered from the military disaster, and he was the same as himself.
He was caught in the Khitan slave camp, and the Wang family's food stash was probably robbed by the Khitan soldiers. What will he eat this year when he returns to the Wang family to collect food?
When Dai Quan was hesitant and desperate, the road was boundless, and news came that the city lord was going to lead everyone to reclaim new fields. When he heard the news, Dai Quan shed tears. Good news came one after another. It is said that
The Lord of the City will allocate twenty acres of dry land to each adult and strong girl, and only collects 30% of the land rent a year to pay back the land rent and food, which means there is no land rent. Moreover, the dry fields that the Lord of the City allocates to the poor are all equipped with canals.
Good irrigated fields.
Hearing the news, Dai Quan's family cheered and cheered. Forty acres of good land, 30% of the land rent. Although Dai Quan was not good at arithmetic, he knew how to ask literate people and found out that these fields were well cultivated, and he could have 20% of the land rent a year.
Seventeen or eight stones of grain can enable his family to live a good life. The city lord sent Zheng Baihu to organize everyone to build irrigation canals, install dragon-tail trucks, and also summoned a large number of masons from all over Cangzhou to build houses for the poor. By ten
In January, half of the irrigation canals had been repaired, and half of the dragon tail carts were said to have been installed. Zheng Baihu sent someone to allocate a piece of land next to the canal to Dai's family, which is really 40 acres, and they are waiting for the start of the next spring.
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Dai Quan tried out the dragon-tail cart. He asked his wife to dig the ditch next to his field, and he shook the dragon-tail cart by the river. He saw the trickling river water being pumped into the ditch by the water truck, and all of it flowed into him.
In the dry fields. At this rate, during the irrigation season, I can irrigate my family’s 40 acres of paddy field by driving the water truck in one day. I no longer have to work hard to fetch water from the river.
What makes Dai Quan even more delighted is that the house assigned to him has also been repaired. It is a two-room brick house, very spacious, built in a planned small village. The house is made of fine red bricks, with paving on it.
It has black tiles and is said to have used the cement invented by the city lord. In short, the house is very strong and does not leak even in heavy rain. Dai's family used to live in a mud house with a thatched roof that leaked rain and air. Where have they ever lived in such a good place?
A brick house? It’s the house where Mr. Wang lives, but it’s nothing more than that!
On the day they were allotted the house, the whole family sang, danced and had fun all day long. The person who gave the house to Dai Quan said that the two houses cost ten taels of silver and were lent to the Dai family by the city lord. They would repay them in five years and in the next five years.
When Dai Quan paid the land rent, he had to pay one more stone of rice and flour. One stone of rice and flour was not much, and the general only collected 30% of the land rent. Dai Quan knew that he now had a surplus of twenty-seven or eight stone every year, so he could afford one stone of rice and flour.
Dai Quan felt that good times were just around the corner, so he worked hard with his wife on the canal construction site every day, very actively. His efforts were noticed by the officials in Tianjing New City, and he was labeled as an activist by the officials.
In daily life, the officials gave priority to Dai Quan's daughter-in-law to do light tasks such as lighting fires and cooking. They also asked Dai Quan to do the honorable tasks of sharing meals with the poor.
With the appreciation of the officials, Dai Quan worked even harder. On this day, Dai Quan was ramming soil on the construction site, but he heard his name being called by the poor man, saying that the cattle were divided. Did the Lord of the City give us the cattle? Dai Quan
He handed his rope to a farmer next to him, patted the dirt on his hands, and followed the poor man to the place where the cattle were divided. When he arrived at the place where the cattle were divided, Dai Quan saw hundreds of cattle gathered under a slope.
, a dozen "activists" stood there waiting to share the cattle. Zheng Baihu, the manager, came in person to check the account books.
The chai who brought Dai Quan said to Dai Quan: "Your Majesty, the Lord of the City is kind enough to lend you one cattle for every five people in your family, and leave it to an honest man to take care of it. You, your wife, and the three people in your village will share one cattle."
.The price of the cattle is thirty taels. It is lent to you by the Lord of the City. It will be returned to the Lord of the City in five years. On average, each person in the family will pay an additional six dou of grain per year."
We used to rent cattle from Mr. Wang, but now we have cattle of our own! Farmers have a natural love for cattle. Dai Quan’s eyes lit up when he looked at those strong cattle. The Lord of the City is really kind to us, Dai Quan
He hurriedly agreed to what Mr. Cha said. Seeing that Dai Quan didn't ask clearly, Mr. Cha said, "Do you know how much food you will have left in a year after paying for the cattle?" Dai Quan was stunned and said: "Go back.
Mr. Chai, I can’t figure it out.” The Chaiye smiled and said, “The two of your family rent forty acres of dry land, and based on the harvest of one stone, the grain harvest is forty stone a year. Twelve stone will be given to you.
General, if you rent a house, you will still have twenty-eight shi. If you pay one shi of food for the house, you will have 27 shi left. For the two of you, you will pay another one shi and two bullfights, and you will have 25 shi and eight buckets left. Five people per year.
After eating fourteen shi of grain, there is still a surplus of eleven shi and eight measures, which is equivalent to twenty-three taels of silver."
He could have a surplus of more than 20 taels of silver a year, which was enough to make cotton-padded jackets and quilts for the children and buy meat. When he heard that he had such a surplus, Dai Quan flushed with joy and said: "My lord, the general, is so kind to me.
Always remember!" The poor man smiled and said: "The harvest of spring wheat planting in the first year is lower and more difficult, but the city lord only collects 15% of the land rent in the first year, and your family can still have a balance of fifteen taels of silver!
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After being able to save so much money immediately in the first year, Dai Quan had nothing to say and just nodded desperately. Seeing that Dai Quan was happy, the poor man taught him a lesson: "You can take care of the cattle for these five people. How can you take care of them?"
It must be managed well. The cowshed must be built securely and the cow dung in the cowshed must be cleaned up in time. Bean cakes must be fed during working hours, the cows must be fed green feed in the summer, and the cows must be combed and cleaned in the winter to prevent epidemic diseases. Did you know?
"After a pause, Mr. Cha added: "Of course you are not doing these things alone, the five people assigned to use the cows are responsible for it in turn, but you have to manage it and not let the cows get sick and die."
Dai Quan just nodded hurriedly. The poor man gave Dai Quan a lesson and took him up to collect the cattle. When it was Dai Quan's turn to queue up, Zheng Baihu walked around the herd and gave Dai Quan a majestic bull.
Quan. Dai Quan smiled happily when he saw the cow's strong limbs and shiny hair, with its head held high and looking strong. Zheng Baihu saw Dai Quan's happy look and said with a smile: "The good cow is given to you, you can take care of it."
Okay!" Tang Shidian was a Tongsheng. A Tongsheng is a scholar who has passed the county examination, the government examination, but not the academy examination. Those who have passed the academy examination are scholars. Tongsheng does not have any privileges, but he can be regarded as a decent scholar.
But Tang Shidian, a boy, is not decent. He is thirty-two years old this year, his parents are dead, and he has never been married. Originally, he taught in the Tang Family School and made a living. But this year, Cangzhou suffered a military disaster, and Tangjia Village
The one hundred stones of grain in the barn that could not be moved in time were looted by Khitan soldiers, and the ancestral hall in the village was burned by Khitan soldiers. The funds and venue for running the school were all gone, and the clan school had no money to continue, and Tang Shidian lost his life.
Finished the business.
Fortunately, Tang Shidian still had more than ten taels of silver in savings, so he would not starve to death for a while. In the past few months, he rented a shabby house in Cangzhou City and went around asking if there was a shortage of teachers. He went around looking for a few teachers.
After months of not being able to find a job for my husband, I was even willing to work as a cashier, and finally I was even willing to work as a clerk, but I still couldn't find anything to do.
These days, there is a war and chaos everywhere, and there are fewer and fewer places to hire people day by day. There are more monks and less gruel. Tang Shidian has not found a job, and is afraid that he will starve to death when he runs out of money, so he only dares to drink two bowls of gruel every day. After a few months,
His face was yellow and skinny from hunger. He was worried that day and was wandering around when he saw a new notice in front of the county government office. Tang Shidian was fine anyway, so he went up to take a look, but he was surprised when he saw:
Tianjing New City wants to recruit 120 teachers to teach! No student status is required, as long as you can read and do arithmetic. Tang Shidian had heard of Tianjing New City and knew that it was the richest place near Cangzhou, where everyone
Eat well and wear warm clothes. Tianjing New City is recruiting teachers. Isn't this a good thing that falls from the sky? Tang Shidian felt refreshed and rushed to Fanjiazhuang.
On the way, when passing by the Liuhe River, Tang Shidian saw more than a thousand people building irrigation canals by the river. Today, the guerrilla generals in Tianjing New City were engaged in water conservancy to reclaim new fields? I had never heard that the military attachés of the Song Dynasty were so energetic.
Tang Shidian watched for a while by the river and found that the farmers were well organized and very efficient in ramming soil to build canals by the river. The irrigation canals were one foot above the river, and they obviously needed water trucks to lift them up.
Still using waterwheels? Organizing such a complicated water conservancy project? Tang Shidian suddenly felt that the chief official of Tianjing New City was different from other military attachés of the Song Dynasty. When he arrived at Tianjing New City, Tang Shidian explained his origin at the city gate, and was greeted by a
The soldiers took them to the official hall. Although Tang Shidian had heard about the wealth of Tianjing New City, Tang Shidian was still shocked when he walked into Tianjing New City for the first time:
The weather is cold in November at this time. The pedestrians in Tianjing New City are all wearing half-new or even brand-new coats. Even if they have patches on them, they are not many. They are not as poor as the people in Cangzhou City, who are all patched. In the city
Pedestrians walked calmly one by one, with no trace of malnutrition on their faces. They all obviously had enough to eat every day, and even ate meat from time to time. People like Tang Shidian, who wore a coat full of patches,
He has a disheveled face and looks like an outsider at first glance.
Both sides of the road are covered with two-story houses, with snow-white walls and black tile roofs. They are rows of unspeakable style. There are shops under the houses along the street. Customers are coming in and out of the shops, and the business is booming.
Occasionally I pass by a few teahouses and restaurants, and they are full of people, all of whom are wealthy residents drinking tea. There are many children playing on the road, and the innocent and carefree appearance of the groups makes people not feel at all like the troubled times.
atmosphere.
Tang Shidian was led by soldiers as he passed a market and heard a commotion. There were meat sellers, vegetable sellers, chicken sellers, fish sellers, pot sellers, pot sellers, and sellers in the market.
There were everything, there were shouts and shouts, there were voices of bargaining everywhere, people were coming in and out, and it was a bustling scene.
Nowadays, the war is raging, and every town outside is in a very depressed state. But here in Tianjing New City, there is a vibrant and prosperous economy, and it seems that it is not affected by the war at all. Even the roads under your feet are different. The spacious streets of Tianjing New City
The road is paved with bluestone and is very clean. There is no garbage on the road. It is not as dirty as other cities. The road is high in the middle and low on both sides. The dirty water flows along the road into the sewers on both sides. The sewers are also covered with
People can walk on the bluestone. Every few dozen meters on the road there is a big bucket for garbage, and people throw their garbage into the bucket.
The whole city looks prosperous and clean. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a paradise. The Tianjing New City under the rule of the city lord of Tianjing New City is actually so rich and clean! Tang Shidian passed by Tianjing New City a few years ago. It was still a
The poor settlement is dirty and messy. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have believed that Tianjing New City has turned into such a good place in just a few years.
If I can find a position as a teacher here, I will be worthy of the rest of my life. Tang Shidian walked with praises all the way, and slowly walked to the official hall. The soldiers who led the way led him into a side room in the official hall to wait. The official in charge of the official hall gave Tang Shidian
Dian handed out a wooden sign with "Number 21" written in red paint and asked him to come out for an "interview" when his number was called.
There were already several scholars sitting in the wing, probably all here to apply for jobs as teachers. The soldier who took Tang Shidian into the city did not leave, but stood outside the wing waiting for Tang Shidian, as if he was afraid that no one would be his guarantor.
Tokidori was doing bad things in the city. Not only was this one soldier waiting outside, but there were also five soldiers standing next to him. Probably one soldier was watching each applicant.
Tang Shidian understood this. A city like this Taoyuan should build more defenses, otherwise it would be destroyed by gangsters. Tang Shidian sat in the side room for a while, and then was called out by an official. In the official hall
In the main hall, I met the city lord Yang Peng. It turned out that the job of checking the applicants' details was done by the city lord himself. Tang Shidian was very nervous when he saw such a high official. When he walked into the lobby, he was about to kneel down and salute, but he heard that the city lord
The adult shouted "no courtesy".
Yang Peng pointed to a chair in the lobby and asked Tang Shidian to sit across from him. Tang Shidian was very grateful at that time. He was grateful to the Lord of the City, Corporal Li Xian, for allowing him, a child, to sit and talk. He sat there tremblingly.
He sat down on the chair with only half his butt on the chair when he heard the Lord City Lord asking: "Have you ever been a gentleman?"
Tang Shidian quickly replied: "I have taught students for ten years and taught the village children in the village's ethnic studies." "Oh? You teach people to read?" Yang Peng became interested and said: "How many years can an average child teach?
Can you understand announcement documents?" Tang Shidian raised his hand and said, "If a child is ten years old and wants to understand general announcement documents, three years of teaching is enough. If it is a child under ten years old and his intelligence is not developed, four,
Five years.”
Yang Peng nodded and asked: "Do you have any fame?" Tang Shidian's face turned red and he said: "The student has no fame, he is just a child." Yang Peng said with a smile: "A child is not bad! Have you read it?
A book written by a saint, right? However, when I teach people how to read here, I only teach ordinary words. The purpose is to allow children and soldiers to understand proclamations and documents. I don’t teach the enlightenment of saints. Do you have any questions?"
Tang Shidian raised his hands and said, "If we don't teach the saints, we can only teach literacy, and the students will be willing to do so!" "Oh?" Tang Shidian thought for a while and said, "Wars are raging all over the world. It's the time for heroes to wear swords and make achievements.
It would be a bit pedantic to continue to preach and educate saints every day. At this time, it is important to recruit warriors for war and practice bows and armor. Only then can the peace of Jiuzhou be possible. When the world is peaceful, it will not be too late to teach the teachings of saints.
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Hearing Tang Shidian's words, the city lord nodded, secretly thinking that this boy had read so many sage books, but he was not stupid at all. Yang Peng smiled and said, "What books do you read?" Tang Shidian raised his hand and said, "Besides the sages, there are no students."
I have also read "Six Tao", "Han Feizi", "Sun Tzu", "Tao Te Ching", "Mozi", etc., and I have read quite a lot!"
Yang Peng secretly thought that this was a sensible person, and asked: "I want the people and soldiers in Tianjing New City to be literate and able to read books. What do you think?"
Tang Shidian said: "If the people can read and write, they will not be easily deceived by gangsters. When the government publishes notices and provisions, the people will soon know about them. There are many talented people among the people, and the government will choose officials more easily.
More. If a soldier can read well, he will understand good and bad, and his knowledge and reaction will be better than that of an illiterate man. He will advance and retreat in a controlled manner, and his morale will be higher on the battlefield."
Yang Peng nodded and said: "Okay, that's good. I'll ask you to be the leader of the forty teachers in the Chinese language group of the children's class. You will be responsible for organizing teaching and researching teaching content. You will be paid three taels a month! You will also be responsible for three meals a day.
!" When Tang Shidian heard these words, his face flushed with excitement, and he felt like he was overjoyed. Months of gloom were swept away. He staggered up from his chair, raised his hands and said, "Student, thank you, Lord City Lord!
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If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.