Infrastructure masters in the red building

Jia Fang returned to Taoyuan Village in his official robes. Not long after he came out of Xianliang Temple, he saw Jia Yi and Bing Ding.

Jia Daishan had already sent a messenger to inform this side of the time when Jia Fang arrived in Taoyuan Village, and Jia Yi and Bingding rushed to Taoyuan Village in advance to perform their duties.

Jia Fang nodded to the two to express his thanks.He knew that these two people were actually Jia Daishan, and they could not be dispatched at will like Li Qingsong and Zhao Cheng.

"Jia Zifang—"

Jia Fang left the Xianliang Temple like this, and suddenly saw a person rushing towards him with excitement, it was Gui Xiaxue.

As soon as this guy ran to the front, Jia Yi suddenly stretched out his foot and tripped Gui Xiaxue. Bingding immediately followed up and pressed Gui Xiaxue firmly on the ground, which made Gui Xiaxue realize again what he had done earlier. The experience of the Jiedu envoy's office visiting Jia Fang at night.

"Okay, let him get up! I guess he is really anxious."

Gui Xiaxue lay on the ground and said loudly: "Thank you two big brothers for coming to welcome me!"

Jia Fang immediately shook his head: I thought, this guy really knows me well.

Jia Yi and Bing Ding released Gui Yaxue, let him get up from the ground, ran to Jia Fang, and looked up and down: "Why does it seem to be thinner?" He looked very familiar with Jia Fang.

Jia Fang was very speechless: "Speak the business!"

Gui Xiaxue immediately said: "The sugar workshop has produced rock sugar, single crystal rock sugar, very pure!"

Jia Fang: "Good!"

Gui Xiaxue: "The textile factory has made a hydraulic spinning machine, with 32 spindles at a time, all driven by hydraulic power."

Jia Fang: "Good!"

After Gui Xiaxue finished speaking, he lowered his head and said, "But the hydraulic loom is still not working. The students have thought of many ways, but they don't seem to work."

Jia Fang: "I have long thought that you may encounter difficulties here. I have roughly thought of a way for you - let's go to the textile factory to have a look!"

Gui Xiaxue was overjoyed, jumped up immediately, and cheered loudly: "Master Jia is back, he is going to the textile factory with me!"

Jia Fang immediately raised his forehead and looked around, only to see Jia Yi and Bing Ding turning their heads away.Jia Fang could only sigh helplessly: "This Gui Xiaxue has such a temper—"

He can't do anything with this guy.

County Magistrate Yuan and Master Li happened to catch up with Jia Fang back in Taoyuan Village, both of them were both surprised and happy, thinking that the Lord would come back, so no matter what, they would go to pay a visit.

But at this time, Gui Xiaxue had long since disappeared. As a last resort, County Magistrate Yuan had no choice but to beg the female staff member of the Outreach Office whom he had despised before.

"Your request is very reasonable, Your Excellency the County!" The staff replied to him sternly, "You wait here, and our department will find a way to meet your request."

After she left, she came back in a hurry after a stick of incense, and said, "Master Xian, your activity arrangement has been temporarily changed to visit the Jinhua Textile Factory."

Yuan County Magistrate shouted loudly in the noisy crowd: "I want to see Master Jia——"

Unexpectedly, the surrounding environment was too noisy, and the other party couldn't hear him clearly, so he yelled back: "Master Jia is at the textile factory—"

Yuan Hua immediately lost his temper, and silently followed the visitors to the next visit.

The textile factory is on the other side of the river. Yuan Hua and Master Li crossed the Qingfang Bridge with the staff.Both of them saw the three big characters engraved on the stone tablet next to Qingfang Bridge, which were not at all the three big characters "Jimin Bridge" inscribed by Yuan Hua back then, but now neither of them dared to say anything.

Of course, Master Jia named this bridge whatever he thought of.

A group of people crossed the Qingfang Bridge and went upstream along the river. They only heard the rumble of the water, and saw a small dam built on the upper reaches of the Qingfang River. The river water poured down from the opening left in the dam, pushing a The waterwheel, the waterwheel keeps turning.

Next to the waterwheel, there is a yard with a large area. Entering from the gate of the yard is a large open space, where various things are piled up: cotton that needs to be deseeded and dried, green hemp soaked in water, which is drying The yarn and the cloth that has been woven - but there is no dye here, and the thread and cloth that are woven are all natural khaki and turquoise.

Yuan Hua and Master Li continued to be led by the woman and walked towards a long row of houses by the river.These houses are the same as the offices they have seen just now. They are all simple houses made of logs, with bamboo slices piled on top, and bamboo mats installed around them.But compared with those offices in the past, there is no partition in the middle of the factory building of this textile factory.

When Yuan Hua walked into the textile factory, he could vaguely hear human voices, which were men's voices. He expected Jia Fang to be inside, so he couldn't help but secretly pleased.

But the sound of the water here is so loud that Yuan Hua couldn't hear what Jia Fang said at all. When he got closer, he saw Jia Fang and Gui Xiaxue in official robes squatting on a loom in front of.

"What's so special about this loom?" Yuan Hua thought to himself.His family is not well-off, and in the early years, his mother paid for all his studies by weaving cloth inch by inch. Even now, as long as he reads, he can hear the "crack, crack, crack" sound of the old-fashioned loom.

Gui Xiaxue shouted annoyedly: "The main thing is this shuttle. The shuttle cannot be fixed. If it is fixed on the transmission device, there is no way to throw the thread."

Unexpectedly, Jia Fang yelled at Gui Xia: "Then don't use the shuttle!"

——No shuttle?

Even Yuan Hua, who was following behind, was dumbfounded. How can we weave without a shuttle?

Unexpectedly, when Gui Xiaxue heard this, he was completely stunned on the spot, staring at Jia Fang intently.But just looking at his expression, one can tell that he must be wandering away at this moment, and he has long been thinking of where he is going.

Gui Xiaxue just stayed like this for a while, then suddenly sat down on the floor, clapped his hands on the floor, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "I understand, I understand—"

"Jia Zifang, Jia Zifang, it's really you!" Gui Xiaxue laughed three times, got up, pushed Yuan Hua away and rushed outside.After Yuan Hua died, Master Li was pushed and staggered by him.

"Let him go, he just had an idea, let him draw it down." Jia Fang also stood up at this time, smiling, looking at the two people from Wuyuan County.

In fact, he was whispering in his heart that he was lucky—his understanding of this loom was definitely not as much as that of Gui Xia, who had worked hard at this stage.

But he had heard of the "shuttleless weaving technique". Since Gui Xiaxue felt that the shuttle could not handle it, it was better to lead him to think in that direction.

At this time, Yuan Hua hurriedly stepped forward to pay homage to Mr. Jia, and at the same time, he was about to speak up and praise Taoyuan Village.

Unexpectedly, Jia Fang helped him up, pointed to the loom and asked, "Is this kind of loom common? Do people in Wuyuan County also use this kind of loom?"

Yuan Hua really knew this question, and immediately answered: "My lord, this loom is common in the Central Plains and Jiangnan areas, and it was rare in Wuyuan Township. But 40 years ago, a large number of people moved south and brought the loom with them. I came to the local area. Now the local weaving households use this kind.”

He said proudly, "Xianci used this kind of loom to support Xia Guan to study all the way, and Xia Guan is still grateful for Xianci's kindness in nurturing."

Jia Fang immediately asked, "Then do you know how to use this kind of loom?"

Yuan Hua: ...

But he did see his mother using the loom. Standing in front of Jia Fang at this moment, Yuan Hua's heart became hot, and he stepped forward immediately, sat down in front of the loom, kicked his feet, and pushed it with his hands. He actually showed how to use the loom, and said casually. Explanation: "The left hand of the lower official is the weft insertion lead, and the right hand is the beating knife to beat the weft. Tighten the front and back..."

The loom made a heavy roar.Facing the densely packed warp threads on the loom, Yuan Hua couldn't help feeling amazed - he didn't expect the loom to be so complicated and heavy.To be honest, he never thought about using his brain on this loom to improve it so that his mother would not have to work so hard.

Having said that, this loom is so complicated, if it is to be improved, it may not be as easy as passing the school exam-but why have men been obsessed with being promoted to officials in the exams for hundreds of years, but they didn't want to use the old mother's weaving machine? How about improving the machine?

I'm afraid it's not refusal, but disdain—everything is low-grade, only high-grade reading, the four grades of scholars, agriculture, industry and commerce, and industry and commerce are always placed last.

But if you really want to ask scholars to do the business, I'm afraid none of them can do it.

Yuan Hua couldn't help but sighed, and then realized that this was in front of Lord Jiedushi.But the surrounding water was rumbling, Jia Fang didn't seem to hear his words clearly, and asked again: "Master Yuan, what did you say?"

Yuan Hua quickly shook his head and said no.Jia Fang watched him demonstrate the loom for a while, nodded to show he understood, and said, "The sound of the water here is too loud, let's talk elsewhere."

Yuan Hua and Master Li quickly followed.Jia Fang took the two of them to see the hydraulic spinning machine that Gui Xiaxue had realized.Yuan Hua has seen old-fashioned spinning wheels and knows that a spinning wheel can usually only spin two or three spindles at the same time.But seeing that this large hydraulic spinning wheel can spin twenty or thirty pieces of yarn at the same time, he was quite amazed as well as shocked.

Later, under the leadership of Jia Fang and the staff of the Outreach Office, Yuan and Li visited the sugar mill and bee farm.Seeing the newly produced single crystal rock sugar from the sugar workshop and the newly collected honey from the bee farm, Yuan Hua asked again that these two places were built by the immigrants from Yujiang in just one year. I couldn't help but sigh: "At the beginning, the lower officials should have left some people from Yu Jiang in Wuyuan County..."

The woman from the Liaison Office next to her had personally experienced the whole process of relocating from Yujiang to Taoyuan Village. Hearing what Yuan Hua said, she smiled and said, "But we are also very grateful to Mr. Yuan for sending us to Taoyuan Village. !"

There was something in the words, and the two of Yuan and Li blushed immediately.Jia Fang just smiled and didn't say much.Yuan Hua saw that it was getting late, so he asked Jia Fang to say goodbye, but Jia Fang said, "Master Yuan, let's stay overnight in Taoyuan Village today!"

Jia Fang had personally sent a message to stay overnight, Yuan Hua couldn't ask for it, but on the surface he pretended to refuse, until he heard that all the bearers he brought from Wuyuan County had been sent back by Jia Fang, then he pretended to reluctantly accept it.

"I just have time to take Mr. Yuan to visit Xiaoxiang Academy in the evening."

Yuan Hua had heard about Xiaoxiang Academy for a long time. Gui Xiaxue resigned from his job as a secretary in the Wuyuan county government office and was willing to be a "teacher" in the academy. After Yuan Hua heard about it, he was always full of curiosity about Xiaoxiang Academy. .

But he didn't understand why it was night.

Around evening, Jia Fang took Yuan and Li to the food street beside Qingfang Bridge, and tasted some snacks to fill their stomachs.Yuan Hua was amazed at the rice rolls steamed out of a drawer, while Mr. Li was so hot by a red sauce that his tongue was so hot that his eyes were watery for a long time, and he felt better after drinking a lot of herbal tea.

Afterwards, Jia Fang took the two of them to Xiaoxiang Academy—when they entered Xiaoxiang Academy, both Yuan and Li were surprised: they thought that all the students studying in the academy were school-age children, at least young scholars.Unexpectedly, there are people of all ages in this academy, men and women, some dressed up like those from Yu Jiang, and some local girls wearing complicated silver ornaments, sitting in front of a small desk and listening attentively.

Yuan and Li couldn't understand what they were listening to, what was the "Four Arithmetic Operations", and the symbols written on the black wooden board, each one of them looked like tadpoles, what were those?

Jia placed next to him and explained to Yuan and Li in a low voice: "This is an arithmetic class, mainly teaching the students the principles of counting. The ones written on the blackboard are Arabic numerals - the first is Dashi characters, and later spread from Persia and other places." , These numbers are easier to use than our own numbers.”

Yuan Hua listened: Dashi characters?He hurriedly said: "Lord Jia, the lower officials think that the school in the village is the first to promote the merits of the sages, but the adults teach the skills of the barbarians. What is the reason for this?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he regretted it, and never thought that he would have the courage to say this in front of Jia Fang.This is really the difference between Huayi and Yi infiltrated into his bones, and he just reacted like this without thinking.

Unexpectedly, Jia Fang gave him a cold look, and replied: "Teach the barbarians to master their skills to control the barbarians." Yuan Hua immediately held back, thinking about it, he really couldn't refute a word.

When I was young, after the arithmetic class here, Jia Fang took Yuan and Li to the literacy class.

Yuan Hua was once again amazed by the large scale of the literacy class, the large number of students, and the seriousness of the attitude.He said: "Now Wu Yuan's county school, can there be 50 people studying?"

Master Li shook his head: "No."

However, the Wuyuan County private schools are all children of wealthy families, who are preparing for the examination of merit. The books they read are all from the "Four Books". Unlike the literacy classes here, they only teach common characters, pronunciation, writing, Make a sentence or something.

Yuan Hua wanted to ask about the "education of saints" again, but seeing Jia Fang was listening intently, he held back his words.

"The goal of the students here in the first stage is to learn to recognize a thousand commonly used characters, to be able to form sentences, and to write simple essays. In addition to passing the arithmetic test, they will be able to obtain the 'Basic Cultural Education Diploma'." Coming out of Xiaoxiang Academy, Jia Fang explained to Yuan and Li.

Yuan Hua finally understood: this "diploma" is completely different from the advanced imperial examination system.No wonder these people can get a diploma in two or three months, which is completely different from scholars who have studied hard for more than ten years.

"This...isn't it too...easy?" Yuan Hua asked in surprise.

Jia Fang replied casually: "Easy is easy, but think about it, if these people get this diploma, can they be able to do jobs in your county government?"

Yuan Hua suddenly remembered again: some of his people are illiterate old men.

"Furthermore, receiving this basic education does not mean that this study is over. Those who have enough energy to continue their studies can naturally continue their studies. If they do not want to study, it means that their future can only reach the 'Basic Diploma'. This step. The energy invested is directly proportional to the return, and this official feels that this is fair."

A scholar like Yuan Hua, who studied hard for more than ten years, became famous all over the world in one fell swoop, became the king of a county, greeted and hugged him when he went in and out, and all the people knelt down to worship him. The time he invested was rewarded.

And what Jia Fang did was to subdivide this road into many stages, so that every ordinary person can make a choice and walk to the section he wants to go.

Yuan Hua was shocked by this "unique" concept, but wanted to criticize him, but felt that he couldn't point out any particular faults.

He asked again: "Then how much do the students in these literacy and arithmetic classes have to pay?"

Jia Fang smiled: "Shu Xiu? Master Yuan, do you know that when this Xiaoxiang Academy was first opened, the official simply begged the people to come and read and read, how dare they accept Shu Xiu?"

Yuan Hua was shocked again, he only felt that when he came to Taoyuan Village this time, what he saw was different from what he had always known, and the inherent thoughts in his heart were completely subverted.

But now he walked out of Xiaoxiang Academy with Jia Fang, and saw with his own eyes that on both sides of the road in the Taoyuan Village, some unknown lamps were lit, illuminating the village in the night.

On the spacious road, villagers who have not finished work for a long time go home together in groups, and there are countless laughter and laughter on the road.The office is still brightly lit, the food street is still open, and the waterwheel on the upper reaches of the Qingfang River is still turning——Yuan Hua looked at it, and suddenly felt a feeling in his heart: Could it be that this is Haiyan Heqing in front of him, the prosperous age is approaching scene?Although it is only a small village with a population of several thousand.

Are those practices and methods that he can't agree with and whose cognition has been subverted, are the main reasons for the scene in front of him?

Yuan Hua just stood on a high place, looking greedily at Taoyuan Village.Master Li's book behind him is almost full, but he feels that there are still many things that should be written down for the county lord.

Unexpectedly, Jia Fang turned around suddenly and said to the two, "Let's go and have a good meal with me. I haven't eaten in Taoyuan Village for a long time."

He also didn't forget the "financial discipline", and specifically declared: "This will not be taken away from the funds of the Outreach Office. It is regarded as my official's. I am happy today, treat me!"