The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 423 Hidden dangers of sweet potatoes

The villager looked at Mr. Fugui and wanted to say something more, and then persuaded him: "In fact, none of the three scholars have ever attended a school. Shengwen from Lizheng's family passed the Tongsheng exam long before the school was built in the village. Went to the county college to study, Zheng Xiucai was enlightened by Mrs. Zheng. After passing the Tongsheng exam, he also went to the county college to study directly. The Lin family's Zong'er is similar. If you want to go to the school to see how they passed the exam? Yes, the school in our village is for the enlightenment of children, and the children who pass the Tongsheng all go to the county college, and the county college teaches well."

The county magistrate did not expect the villagers to tell the truth so honestly. He was speechless, and a guard behind the county magistrate wanted to speak up, but was stopped by the county magistrate.

The county magistrate continued to ask politely: "I was the one to be abrupt. I don't know what the school is like? I'll visit Mr. Zheng when the children are out of school."

Seeing that the master was not unreasonable, the villagers of Linjia Village informed the county magistrate of the school's dismissal time and address.

There was still a short time before the end of Molin Academy, and the county magistrate took a walk around the village with his guards.

The first season of this year's potatoes and sweet potatoes will be planted soon. Many villagers bring their own cattle to loosen the soil in the fields. It is much easier to have cattle to help everyone do farm work, and they talk while doing things.

Such a picture of busy farming put the county magistrate in a very good mood. Almost every household has cattle, which means that the life of the people in Linjia Village is not bad, much better than that of many ordinary villages.

"My lord, why didn't you tell that farmer your identity?" The guard following the county magistrate didn't understand.

As the county magistrate, no one in the land of Jiangning County dared to be disobedient, let alone stop him from going to the school, why bother to come here disguised as an ordinary wealthy businessman.

"Go back and get five boards yourself." The county magistrate didn't explain his willingness, and directly let the guard who almost did something bad with good intentions receive the punishment.

This guard is good at martial arts, but he lacks a thread in his mind and is too straightforward when thinking about problems.

"Are you stupid? If the county magistrate directly revealed his identity, how could he see such a real peasant family? Didn't you see that the lord just wanted to visit privately?"

"But it's not that my lord wants to go to see that school. Those villagers won't let them go, so if they just show their identity—"

Before he finished speaking, the person next to him knocked him hard: "Then you can go if you don't have a superficial identity, just wait, you don't have so many problems, be honest and protect your lord It’s enough if your safety is not enough, you deserve to be punished!”

"Oh." The guard didn't actually understand, but he chose to shut up.

The county magistrate walked ahead and listened to the whispering of the two guards, but ignored them. Seeing that the time was almost up, he walked towards Molin Academy.

When I arrived at the Molin Academy, the children were still in class. Today happened to be Mr. Zheng, and the county magistrate was outside the door listening to Mr. Zheng reading the sages' articles aloud, patiently explaining the meaning of these awkward words to these ignorant children.

The county magistrate has been to more than one school, and those schools that give children enlightenment usually repeatedly make these children recite books, perfectly complying with the old saying: read a book a hundred times and you will see its meaning.

This way of reading is very difficult for Mongolian children who cannot understand the meaning of the article. They can only memorize it by rote. After a long time, they lose their enthusiasm for reading and become unwilling to read.

The county magistrate's teacher when he was a child was also a traditional and old-fashioned teacher. Fortunately, although the county magistrate was not flexible enough, he had a good memory. He studied by rote for many years, and finally passed the exam. I have been a county magistrate in this fairly affluent place for so many years.

After listening to the second half of Mr. Zheng's class, the county magistrate couldn't help thinking that if he could meet a master like Mr. Zheng when he was enlightened, would his imperial examination results not only stop at Juren, but also have the opportunity to fight hard? A Jinshi becomes a student of the emperor.

It's a pity that this is just the imagination of the county magistrate, he is already past the age of reading.

When the children all left the school and returned home, Master Zheng still stayed in the room. He first tidied up everyone's desks, then cleaned up himself, and sorted out the contents of the afternoon lecture before coming out of the room to prepare go home for lunch.

"My lord, you have been standing outside for a long time, what's the matter?" Master Zheng saw someone outside the house just now.

At the beginning of class, he didn't pay attention, thinking that the adult of some child came to pick up the baby. Later, he went to work and didn't pay attention to whether the people outside had left. He didn't expect that people were still outside at this moment.

"Master Zheng, I take the liberty to come here, I hope I didn't disturb you." The county magistrate bowed his hands to Master Zheng.

The county magistrate still did not reveal his identity. He enthusiastically communicated with Master Zheng about how to better enlighten children and make them interested in reading.

Although the county magistrate has never been a teacher, but he has taught his own children, he is a Juren, and he was born in the capital.

Mr. Zheng has been thinking about how to make the children like reading more after he came to Linjiacun as his master. He has put in a lot of effort to make the class the way the children like it just now. Some people are willing to talk to him about this issue. , he was so excited that he pulled people into the room and explained in detail.

When it comes to topics of interest, it is easy to forget the time, until Zheng Fulang came to find someone to have lunch, they were still not finished, Zheng Fuzi directly invited the county magistrate to his house for dinner, the county magistrate was just saying that he was excited, so he agreed.

Just like that, the county magistrate had a rough lunch at a teacher's house in the Molin Academy in Linjia Village. Although the food tasted mediocre, he was very satisfied.

After talking with Mrs. Zheng, the county magistrate really wanted to renovate all the private schools and schools in Jiangning County, not all of them, even if one-third of them could become the Molin School in Linjia Village, absolutely no one in his jurisdiction Can produce more talents.

Zheng Fuzi and Zheng Fulang didn't know that the wealthy businessman they received at noon was actually a local parent official in Jiangning County. Since Zheng Fuzi had to go to class in the afternoon, the county magistrate left after lunch after chatting for a while.

Mr. Zheng didn't take this matter to heart. He didn't know the identity of the person he was chatting with until a few months later when other private school masters came to his class to study one after another.

The turmoil caused by the county examination gradually dissipated, and everyone returned to normal life. Those who passed the examination can continue to study or teach in the county college, or they can choose to be admitted to the school in the county, it depends on personal choice.

The school in the county city enrolls students twice a year, in March and August, and now their group of students who have passed the examination of scholar, if they want to go to the county city, they have to wait for the recruitment in August this year.

The county college is more difficult than the county college, and it is not easy for a scholar to get in and study. Lin Chengzong and the others were hit after they made a set of county college admission questions at the county college.

This was done intentionally by the masters of the county college. They chose a set of the most difficult questions to motivate them and tell them not to think that they are very good if they pass the exam.

It's also time to plant the first round of potatoes, sweet potatoes and soybeans this year. Many villages in Jiangning County know that the Lin family needs a lot of soybeans. In addition, the soybeans that the Lin family provides are very good and have a high yield, so everyone is willing to grow a variety Two acres of soybeans.

As for potatoes, no one needs to be persuaded, as long as people who have grown and eaten potatoes will continue to grow them, the more this high-yielding, delicious food that can fill their stomachs, the better.

In contrast, the planting volume of sweet potatoes has dropped significantly compared to before, and there are actually a lot of sweet potato seeds left in the warehouse full of grain when the planting season is almost over.

Eating too much sweet potato is easy to bloat, and there are not many ways to eat it. Unlike potatoes, which can be mixed with various foods to fry or stew, everyone thinks that it is not cost-effective to grow sweet potatoes.

Fortunately, he knew that this might happen. In order to let everyone grow sweet potatoes, Lin Chengzu promised that the nearby villages would pay a penny higher for sweet potatoes than potatoes this year.

The Lin family uses sweet potatoes for several kinds of food. Without sweet potatoes, there will be no raw materials. The only way is to increase the price to attract more varieties.

With the words of the Lin family, there are a little more people growing sweet potatoes.In fact, growing sweet potatoes is not troublesome, and the yield is also high. In fact, it is no different from growing potatoes in essence. It is all about making money to fill your stomach.

Now that the Lin family is willing to pay a higher price for sweet potatoes, it is also good for everyone to choose to grow sweet potatoes in the extra fields.

This problem has been solved temporarily, but if things go on like this in the long run, if there are fewer and fewer people who grow sweet potatoes in the future, the price of harvesting sweet potatoes will become higher and higher, so the price of food made from sweet potatoes will become more expensive.

Lin Chengzu hurried to find Cheng Wenliu and asked him what to do.

Cheng Wenliu listened to Lin Chengzu's words and told him not to worry: "The price of sweet potatoes has risen, so the price of the vermicelli made will be raised."

"Brother, think about it, everyone sees that the price of sweet potatoes continues to rise, and the number of people who grow sweet potatoes will gradually increase. As the number of people who grow sweet potatoes increases, the price of sweet potatoes will gradually drop again. In the end, the price and planting volume on both sides will increase. will stabilize."

"At present, the output of vermicelli is in short supply. Even if the price rises slightly, people who like to eat vermicelli will still be willing to buy it, so the problem you are worried about will not appear in recent years."

"If one day, the price of sweet potatoes is too high, the price of food made from sweet potatoes is so high that no one wants to buy it, and fewer and fewer people grow sweet potatoes, so that no one grows sweet potatoes in the end. We need sweet potatoes, so there is no need to worry about this problem."

"If the worst happens, if we still want to make sweet potatoes, then we can buy land and find tenant farmers to grow them. We are not afraid that there will be no sweet potatoes."

Cheng Wenliu combined Lin Xiazhi's words from time to time with his own analysis, and told Lin Chengzu one by one.