Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

However, after he really determined 'innovating schools' as his main goal for the coming year, Lu Ci quickly realized that it would not be so easy to achieve it.

Not to mention anything else, there are simply too many prerequisites that need to be met.

Zhao Heng, an official, has always encouraged and supported schools in prefectures and counties, and even personally awarded Yingtianfu Academy, which is not to say that he did not take it lightly.

In cities such as Mizhou, which are not as prosperous as those brought by Liangzhe or Jingshi, this point has also received considerable attention and been implemented.

Otherwise, Lu Ci, who was quite poor at that time, would not have received so much food subsidies to continue his studies.

But in Fenzhou, where the household registration is scattered and there is no need to be assigned even if you are connected to the court, there is no official school at all. If the local people want to send their children to school, they can only choose village schools, township schools, private schools, free schools, and even family halls.

Without further ado, Lu Ci dug up the relevant records of Xuetian, and after looking at one of them, he couldn't help rubbing his eyebrows, feeling a little bit as big as a bucket.

If you want to start a school, it is not a matter of touching your lips and saying a word lightly.

Once you want to be down-to-earth, you have to face the biggest problem in front of you - the lack of learning and food.

However, after checking the records, we can know that those school fields that are used as financial aid for government schools have been allocated, and even a lot of them have been allocated, and the people in charge of them can be said to be dedicated.

It's a pity that the harvest has been unsatisfactory. If it doesn't get better, it is difficult to maintain the basic operation. How can we talk about distributing food subsidies to poor students?

After seeing the situation of the school buildings with his own eyes, Lu Ci couldn't believe that the narrowness and dilapidation of these dilapidated houses could be even higher than the government offices.

Even the most basic function of sheltering from wind and rain may be difficult to achieve.

I could hear the sound of reading aloud coming from inside, but those children who were eager to learn couldn't even drink the hot soup...

Lu Ci didn't show up, he just walked around outside, still feeling very uncomfortable, even the stone cakes he likes can't be eaten anymore.

No matter how poor you are, you can't afford poor education, and no matter how hard you are, you can't suffer children.

However, even though he looked uncomfortable, it was not impossible for him to understand the difficulties of the former magistrate.

Matters were prioritized, and with Fenzhou's lackluster financial resources, it was impossible to take care of them at all.

Any attempt to expand or improve these buildings, at least in the short term, would be impossible.

Even if there is a rare surplus, it will only be allocated to the construction of other more important infrastructure, and will not be put on the state school.

——We still have to start with Xuetian.

Lu Ci sighed, looking at the account book that recorded a deficit, and felt the embarrassment of being stretched for a long time.

Ever since he gained a firm foothold in Mizhou, racked his brains to earn money everywhere, and improved his family's situation, he never tasted this bitter taste again.

Fortunately, he is not the only one who is short of money, but the unsustainable government school, and even the whole Fenzhou.

Lu Ci only felt that the pressure was unprecedented, but he didn't show it on the surface. He just smiled and ordered the assistant officers to sort out all the reports about the school fields and local farming.

In the next half month, under the trembling vigilance of those officials who thought he was going to check the accounts and bring a new official to take office, the new magistrate devoted himself to studying these things.

As for agricultural tools, Lu Ci was only used to the products of automatic machinery in the later generations. Naturally, he was at a loss for these initial versions, and it was impossible to give any suggestions for changes.

Fertilizers, rice seed improvement and other aspects are also a piece of heaven for him.

...Thousands of thousands of years have produced only one Yuan Longping.

Lu Ci was calm. He didn't intend to mess around with these aspects that he knew nothing about from the very beginning.

After searching for a needle in a haystack for a few days, he found his best and most core problem.

- Agricultural management.

This is obviously Lu Ci's strong point.

Moreover, as early as when he was still working in the pavilion, the books he read most selectively, except for military ones, were related to farming.

The agricultural books I have read before, combined with some knowledge learned by later generations, of course can come in handy at this time.

But for Lu Ci, these most useful places still allowed him to quickly realize the real shortcomings.

Cultivation and production techniques that have been featured in countless agricultural books are important, but what really determines the success or failure of production and agricultural economy is the planting plan of crops.

With limited resources and limited manpower, during the Song Dynasty when the yield per mu was generally one stone, Lu Ci felt that the most important thing was to maximize performance.

That is, the planting scale of the school field should be compared with the existing financial and human resources allocated; the selection of crop varieties, the time and sequence of planting, and the rational use of different soils should all be flexible; As far as the state is concerned, it can also appropriately introduce high-quality seeds from neighboring countries, such as the "Champa rice" that was all the rage a few years ago; Too much is too much, and it is easy to gain more than the loss, so we need to take precautions...

At the beginning, Lu Ci hesitated to write, and wrote with bumps and bumps. Later, his writing was full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and he couldn't control it.

Every time he expounds a point of view, he habitually cites examples from recent years.

He is especially cautious about the new concept of "commodity food", which has become a general trend in recent years.

Don't look at the steady-state structure of crop varieties as rice farming moves northward and wheat beans move southward. However, it is not difficult to draw a simple comparison of the yield per mu. It is also a kind of grain, but because of its natural conditional advantages, The grain output per unit in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions can easily be three, four, or even five times that of the Northland.

If it was difficult to transport in the past and had to grow grain locally, that’s all. But now, thanks to His Majesty’s wise administration, water transport has developed unprecedentedly. In the private market, countless grains are sent from south to north every day. Wouldn't government procurement be more conducive to controlling price fluctuations?

Go back to the school field.

Even if the same school field is planted by the same people, just by changing crops that are more suitable for the local soil, it can create much greater economic value than self-cultivated rice.

After selling the crops, it will not only help the local economy, but also buy more school food...

It has been another ten days since Lu Ci finally completed this summary of the basic principles of farming management.

Although the number of words is quite large, compared to the things involved and to be implemented one by one later, it is at best a simple outline.

Even if there is no general judgment to check it in, Lu Ci will never make his own claims and act recklessly when it comes to planning and farming.

As the governor of the state, he has the power to directly submit memorials to the court, so he naturally used it at this time.

I don't know how long it will take for the imperial court to give the final instructions, but before that, he will not be idle, and he can start other small things, such as... severely punishing the bookstore that is in full swing for stealing and engraving various books.

Lu Ci was thinking about it silently. As soon as he stepped out of the bookstore, he saw a healthy servant waiting respectfully aside with snacks and letters from friends from all over the place.

After placing all these objects on the wooden table, he asked routinely: "Master Lang, do you want to take them apart now?"

Lu Ci was about to nod reflexively, but he inadvertently remembered the children who came here with their studies, willingly living under the ruined house, and devoutly reading the words in the book.

As soon as his heart softened, he changed his words unknowingly: "Leave the letter, and send the things to the state school."

When he got this order, the healthy servant hadn't reacted yet, but the next moment, he opened his eyes wide as if he was greatly frightened, and stared directly at Lu Ci in a very awkward manner.

Lu Ci was feeling heartbroken, seeing his reaction as if he had seen a ghost in daylight, he couldn't help but cry.

As for such an exaggeration?

Lu Ci raised his eyebrows and urged, "Go quickly."

"Yes Yes……"

Only then did Jianfu come back to his senses, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that his face was full of disbelief.

Especially when he walked away with those big bags of snacks, his steps were very vain.

Regarding this, Lu Ci squinted his eyes, and only snorted softly, not bothering with the other party.

He first opened Zhu Shuo's letter and read it carefully.

When he was unprepared, the first thing that caught his eyes was a very majestic and impassioned poem depicting the starry night and the rushing river.

Lu Ci subconsciously closed his eyes.

That's not right, unless Zhu said that he had given birth to a thousand-mile battalion, where can he see the Yangtze River rushing in the city where he works?

After reading it carefully a few times, Lu Ci could taste the longing that was contained in it very implicitly, and realized that this was another masterpiece of pure imagination at all. The year shrouded in "Yueyang Tower".

——You only need to reply to the letter, instead of reciting the full text.

Lu Ci breathed a sigh of relief, and was not in a hurry to reply to Zhu Shuo's letter, but unfolded Liu Qi's first.

As a result, before reading a few lines, his eyelids were already twitching wildly at the accusation, which was full of sorrow and gracefulness.

Isn't it because he came to Fenzhou to take a job, so he couldn't go back to Mizhou to meet him for a year or two?

Seeing Liu Qi's raging anger, he almost beat him as a heartless person in the boudoir grievances.

Lu Ci: "..."

However, the cannibal's mouth is soft, so he still has to reply to people in a good voice and comfort him.

When Lu Ci was thinking about how to reply to the letter, he didn't expect that although all the snacks he saved on purpose had been handed out, most of them were being packed in clean bags by the students so precious that they didn't even touch them.

As a result, until the snacks were forcefully put to mold, almost no one was willing to touch the food given by Lu Ci, the current governor of Fenzhou, who came down to earth from Sanyuan Jidi Wenquxing.

After Lu Ci accidentally learned of this, his heart ached so much that even the fingers holding the pen trembled for the first time.

——Knowing this, he would rather give paper and pen instead than waste his beloved snacks that he didn't even have time to taste!

In contrast, Di Qing, who stuffed the pastry into his mouth at night when he got it, and chewed it happily, was undoubtedly an outlier.

Di Qing didn't care about their gazes at all, and he didn't think much of them holding the treasures and not daring to touch them.

Eating food is doomed to spoil, and if it is not useful, it will waste Lu Zhizhou's care for them.

After Di Qing drank generously, he licked the cake foam on the corner of his lips cherishingly, and patted his belly contentedly.

——Is there any place in the world that is safer than eating it in your own stomach?

The more precious something is, the sooner it should be eaten.