Compulsory education in ancient times

Tao Xiran was obviously overwhelmed with excitement, he stared at the food on the table eagerly, but didn't dare to do anything.Tao Jianran pinched his cheek, and said, "What are you doing so stupidly? Eat quickly." After speaking, he grabbed a big chicken leg for each of his siblings.

Xiaomei Tao was overwhelmed with flattery, and quickly said: "I'll just eat chicken, brother, you eat chicken legs." Saying that, she was about to pinch the chicken legs back.

"This is specially reserved for you. I don't like to eat chicken legs." Tao Jianran was telling the truth. He ate too many chicken legs in his previous life, so he really didn't care about this one.But Tao Xiaomei only thought that he was lying. When her parents were still there, every time the family ate meat, her parents would say that she didn't like meat, so that the three brothers and sisters could eat more.

Thinking of this, Tao Xiaomei's eyes turned red, but she didn't expose her brother's "lie". Instead, she picked up a piece of fat pork belly for Tao Jianran and whispered, "Elder brother also eat more."

Tao Xiran imitated the example, and also took a piece of chicken for Tao Jianran, and said excitedly: "Elder brother, eat more!"

Although the cold wind was howling outside, seeing the satisfied smiling faces of his siblings, Tao Jianran felt a warm current in his heart.Although this year will be spent in a foreign land, it is enough to be accompanied by family members.

Visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year, the village was really lively for a few days.The Tao family has no relatives, but Tao Jianran brought his younger siblings, eggs, brown sugar and rice, to visit the family who used to help them to pay New Year's greetings.Nowadays, no one in the village knows that Tao Jianran has been favored by nobles and runs a free school in the village.I heard that a primary school was going to be built in the village before, so I couldn't help asking Tao Jianran a lot. Although Tao Jianran answered many times, he still patiently answered everyone's questions.

Those who got the exact news were overjoyed in their hearts, good days are coming!Now that the children have free school, maybe this year the man in the family can earn money without going out to find a part-time job. These are all brought to them by Teacher Tao.At this time, whoever in the village dares to speak ill of Tao Jianran, the spittle of other people can drown him!Although the villagers have not gone to school, they still have the most basic sense of gratitude, and there are still a few people who have no conscience.

When it comes to the third day of junior high school, it is the day when the daughter who married far away will return home.On this day, many people in Lejing Village left early in the morning with big bags and small bags, and then many strange faces came with big bags and small bags.

So on this day, many people were surprised to find that their nephew/grandson/cousin/cousin actually went to school!No need to ask, these parents in Lejing Village are helping Xingzhi Primary School to advertise while they are frightened.After such a period of time, the parents have noticed the changes in the children, and the doubts in their hearts about Xingzhi Primary School have long since dissipated.So when talking to relatives and friends, Xingzhi Primary School is praised as having nothing in the sky or anything on earth.

In fact, strictly speaking, this is not an exaggeration, free school, this is the first time in the world!So this year, the people in the surrounding villages have been absent-minded, and they can't wait to go directly to Lejing Village to see if the free school is real!

Within a few days, the entire Tongkou Town knew that there was a free school called Xingzhi Elementary School in Lejing Village. Not only did the classes not need to be completed, but also people could learn to read without buying paper, pen, ink and books. !

For a while, people who were idle during the New Year came to Lejing Village to visit relatives and friends, and then heard a big news: Xingzhi Primary School was going to build a school, and after the spring plowing, part-time workers would be hired!Compared with the free school that doesn't know the true or false, and has a holiday until after the Lantern Festival, recruiting part-time workers is a real benefit!

Compared with other villagers' lively New Year's Eve, the Tao family had nothing to do on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Tao Jianran called Tian Da over and began to give the three of them extra lessons.

The focus was on math class, and Tao Xiran couldn't keep up with the progress, so Tao Yanran asked him to memorize the multiplication formula by himself.On the other hand, I taught Tao Xiaomei and Tian Da the concepts in the book, and let them do the rest of the questions and digest them slowly.Moreover, the two are progressing at the same level, and they can learn from each other, so they can't save trouble.

Tao Yanran was not idle either, he wanted to copy out the school building drawings provided by the system.Tao Jianran discussed with the system for a long time before finally deciding to choose blue bricks as the main building material.

Green bricks are more fire-resistant than wooden houses, and they are also stronger and more durable.Although the construction cost is much more expensive than that of wood, one mu is not much. Thinking of accommodating more students in the future, Tao Jianran wanted a house with at least two floors.It is too technically difficult to build a two-story house with wood, and it is necessary to hire a carpenter who specializes in building the house. Ordinary day laborers are basically useless. The sum of the wages is not much cheaper than that of a blue brick house.

As for the construction of green brick and tile houses, at that time, as long as a craftsman who can lay bricks is invited back, he can guide a group of day laborers to build the house.Tao Jianran counted the silver in his hands, feeling pain again.But after copying the drawings, I couldn't help but look forward to it.

I saw that the drawing showed a courtyard with two entrances, and the front yard was smaller than the back yard, accounting for only one-third of the area.

There is only one two-story teaching building in the front yard, with seven large rooms and two small rooms.Each large room is 25 square meters, and the small room is [-] square meters.The six large rooms are classrooms for each grade, the remaining one is planned as a library, one of the small rooms is a teacher's office, and the other is a storage and archive room.There is also a yard for rest and activities in front of the teaching building, and there is a notice board in the yard.

The backyard is the living area, with a canteen and kitchen, as well as a teacher's dormitory building and two student dormitory buildings.Although each room in the two dormitory buildings is the same size, one person lives in one room in the teacher's dormitory, and two people live in one room in the student dormitory.Among them, there are ten teachers' dormitories and forty students' dormitories.

There are two independent toilets in the front and back yards, not the common dry toilets in the village, but somewhat similar to modern squat toilets.The squat toilet is also connected to a septic tank, which is not only convenient and hygienic, but also the collected feces can be used as fertilizer, killing two birds with one stone!And this is a method of making fertilizer that comes with the system for free. Tao Jianran, who has evolved the trend of iron cock, is secretly happy in his heart.

Tao Jianran looked at it for a long time, and carefully put the blueprint into the system space.These blueprints were not only architectural drawings, but also all the furniture styles. After copying, there were a dozen papers, and it took Tao Jianran half a month to finish copying.If he accidentally broke it, he would have to love himself to death.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xingzhi Primary School resumed classes.And the farmers who had been idle for nearly a month because of the Chinese New Year began to go to the fields again.After a winter, the soil in the field will harden. Before spring plowing, the field must be hoeed loose, and then some fertilizer is used to nourish the field.In this era, there is fertilizer, but it is simple plant ash or a small amount of manure, and the land that is relatively poor is occasionally practiced in rotation.

The task of the Tian family is even more arduous. So far, only a few acres of the canal with the most damage and the highest terrain have been repaired.After Tian Da started school, he finished his Chinese class every morning and went back to help in a hurry. When making up classes on weekends, his thinking was much slower than before, and he seemed very tired.It is estimated that after the spring plowing is over, he will lose a lot of weight.Tao Jianran was a little dissatisfied with this. This kind of learning efficiency is not good. If it goes on for a long time, he will be crushed before he grows up!

At this moment, good news came from the town that the waterwheel that Tao Jianran asked a carpenter to make years ago has been completed!

The carpenter from Tuolejing Village sent a message to Tao Jianran and said that he would send the water truck over by himself the next day.

The next day was Wednesday, so Tao Yanran simply took the students to the entrance of the village to welcome the water truck, and also took a social practice class.

Before making them wait long, a donkey cart came to the entrance of the village.A whole load of wooden boards of different sizes and shapes was tied to the donkey cart, and there were two people on the cart.A man in his twenties was driving a car, and the other was the carpenter Tao Yanran had met last time. It should be his son who accompanied him this time.

Seeing Tao Jianran, the carpenter only called out "Tao Dalang" and stopped talking, but his expression was very anxious.The young man who followed him knew that he was reticent, so he took the initiative to ask: "Tao Dalang, where is this water tank going to be installed?"

Tao Yanran was also very anxious to see how powerful the waterwheel was that was boasted in the book, and without greetings, he directly brought people to the selected location: "This is it."

Hearing this, Carpenter Zhang and his son started unloading the planks without saying a word, and Tao Jianran waved his hands to ask the students to help too.

After this period of make-up lessons, Tian Da was not as cautious towards Tao Jianran as before. He stared at the shape of the wooden board for a long time, and couldn't help asking: "Teacher, are you going to assemble a round thing?"

Tao Jianran was shocked when he heard this.Although he drew the blueprints, just looking at these wooden boards, he really couldn't imagine what he could make in the end. Tian Da could see through them at a glance? !This three-dimensional geometry talent is too amazing!But the surprise was the surprise, Tao Jianran still valued this proud student very much, so he patiently answered Tian Da's question and told him the function of the waterwheel.

At this time, there were many villagers working in the field. Watching the cart of wooden boards being brought over, Tao Jianran also led a group of students to help. Everyone now knows that today is a school day, so is this also a school day?So many people gathered around, and some villagers couldn't help asking curiously: "Teacher, what is this?"

"This is a waterwheel. It's a good thing. You'll know it later." Tao Yanran pretended to be mysterious.

Hearing what he said, the hearts of the surrounding villagers were as if they had been scratched by a cat's paw. They were extremely curious, and many people ran back to call for friends.

When many villagers heard that Mr. Tao had appeared in the field with a group of students, and they were still tossing a thing called a waterwheel, they put down their farm work and went to watch.