Villager of Daming

Chapter 746: Gourds are planted and goods arrive from overseas

The headmaster knows that the naive idea about children's education is simple. As long as the children learn simple literacy and arithmetic, they will love to learn or not.

It doesn't matter if you can understand the content of newspapers, but it doesn't matter if you can't write poetry. And arithmetic is basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and you can handle numbers in daily life. That's good.

As for children who want to change their destiny through knowledge, I believe they will work hard to pursue it.

When people who have become illiterate are actually taught how to breed, they themselves know how to learn and memorize, and they do not necessarily need to know algebra and geometry.

People who are proficient in calculus must be better at raising chickens than the villagers in Xihe Village?The villagers of Xihe Village have no plans for higher development, they just want to raise good chickens.

Children in Xiaqiu Village also don’t need to learn how to launch satellites, let alone build atomic bombs.

"Yi Chang, come on, let's go down and slide." Zhu Yuanzhang moved his shoulders. There was no heating here, and the tide, especially after the sun rose, created more water vapor. He wanted to exercise.

"Your Majesty, wait a minute." The village chief went to get the ice skates. The ice skates must be placed in Xiaqiu Village. If there is a problem, it will be Xiaqiu's problem.

If it is placed in the palace and the blade breaks when it slips, who is responsible?
The two put on their shoes and skated on the ice, followed by other guards with good skating skills.

Zhu Wentian is naturally on the other side. His role is to quickly reach out to catch Zhu Yuanzhang when he is about to fall. He has quick reaction speed and powerful skills.

Your head is invulnerable, and if you have a helmet, you are afraid of breaking your arm or sitting on the ice and causing problems with your tailbone.

"We can't move here. The more we eat, the fatter we get. Is there any good way?" Zhu Yuanzhang chatted while walking around.

"Your Majesty, you can build a swimming pool just for children, and spend time swimming every day." The village chief immediately gave a solution.

People in the village often swim, but only in artificial ponds. As a person from Jiangnan, I can't swim, which is obviously wrong.

"Where is the appropriate place to build it?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the children's swimming pool, which was relatively shallow. The girls' swimming pool was in charge of the palace maids, and the boys' swimming pool was in charge of the men in the village.

That's not one person watching, but two or three adults watching one child. There is no problem in terms of safety.

"It's built in the village." The mayor didn't want to build one in the palace and something would always happen.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Build a big one, we have good water resistance! We had water fights with Chen Youliang, and almost drowned in the water several times."

"We have been flooded a lot. We don't allow our children to take that risk now. It's not easy to raise a child." The head of the village did not praise Zhu Yuanzhang, but instead focused on the child.

"Yes! People drown every year. No matter how good the water is, there will always be danger.

It seems that the local government needs to be asked to arrange manpower to make more life jackets. The wooden ones would be good.

He also told them to go into the water less. I guess no one listened and they all thought they were awesome. "

As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he looked away, looking for the grid skater.

Then... he was grabbed by Zhu Wentian. With his skating skills, he dared not look at his feet.

After a few seconds, he slowly landed on the ice, regained the feeling, and continued skating.

The headmaster said from the side: "Just tie a rope to the swimmer and a gourd with no opening at the back.

This is still the way of the ancients. They wanted to cross the river but were afraid of drowning, so they used a big gourd, cut the top, put the clothes inside, and then stuffed it.

People would swim to the other side holding the gourd, take out their clothes and put them on, or soak them in pig urine.

There is no need for a sheepskin raft. It is better to use sheepskin to make other things. In the future, when shipbuilding technology is advanced, boats can be prepared for people who need to cross the river. "The chief didn't mention the matter of building the bridge. Generally speaking, sheepskin rafts are needed to cross the river. The river surface is basically wide and the current is fast. Otherwise, why not use wooden rafts?

"Grow gourds? Does our village know how to grow them?" Zhu Yuanzhang heard the meaning of the long words. He needed a lot of gourds. Where did the gourds come from?kind.

"It can be planted next year, first cultivate the seedlings, and then plant the seedlings. They can be used as food reserves for the winter. This is recorded in the agricultural books of the previous dynasty.

I didn’t mention the vigorous planting of gourds before, but the people were eager to restore crops after the war. Gourds are not considered a food crop.

If it is promoted, the people will focus on one thing and lose the other. At present, there is a huge demand for Ming Dynasty medicinal materials, and gourds are among them, which are cheap and easy to obtain.

The people spared some time, and the government organized manpower, or helped the people raise seedlings in a commercial way. The people planted them according to the requirements, and the yield was not small. "

"Alas~! In that case, where is the best place to plant one?"

"Grow them everywhere. First tell the local officials about the rewards. As long as the gourds grown are big, they will be rewarded, including the people who planted them." The head of the village didn't know where the best gourds were.

It seems that gourds can be grown everywhere, and they are generally used as gourds. People rarely grow gourds at home, but they do grow gourds, which are eaten purely as vegetables.

"Sure, especially in Ningguo Mansion, Taiping Mansion, Yingtian Mansion and other places, the people are willing to listen to the imperial court." Zhu Yuanzhang considered the arrangement.

In his mind, these three mansions were the best, and he would do whatever he was asked to do without any doubts, because when he followed the instructions, he would indeed increase production and income, and there would be surplus food at home.

After waiting and skating for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang felt comfortable and sat down to change his shoes.

The children ran to eat again. They didn't even think about eating enough. Now they changed to boiling skewers. After eating a skewer, they ran away to play for a while.

"Should we eat this for lunch? Hot pot or spicy hot pot?" Zhu Yuanzhang saw the skewers and remembered the way he used to eat them.

"Your Majesty, can we eat seafood today? Throw the seafood in and cook it, and drink warm rice wine." The chief saw what Zhu Yuanzhang meant, and if he didn't agree, he would change it.

"Okay! You make arrangements. Is our ship back?"

Zhu Yuanzhang understood as soon as he heard that he was guaranteed to have a boat arrive from the sea today, otherwise he would not change it to seafood.

Do what is good for you, otherwise it will disrupt the rhythm of Xiaqiu Village, although Xiaqiu Village can adjust.

The lieutenant changed his shoes and said, "Your Majesty's calculations were accurate. A large number of ice-carrying ships came back, and two steam-engine ships also returned. They brought a large amount of cod. The heads were gone, but the livers remained.

This year we started making cod liver oil to supplement vitamins for the people, so that they can supplement calcium when eating bones.

For diseases such as angular stomatitis, it is better to eat it. Children who are always in the library rarely have problems due to their balanced nutrition. "

Zhu Yuanzhang took a closer look: "Children who don't come to the library have a bad mouth? Can't they be treated with glycerin?"

"Applying glycerin treats the symptoms but not the root cause. We are still too poor. We should eat more vegetables and animal livers.

The cod liver oil technology has just been developed. You need to use a leather to hold the glue out, and then make the glue into a tube shape.

The dried fish is boiled to produce oil and then poured in. It is tied at regular intervals like making sausages, but no rope is used, and the method of heat sealing is used. When it is cool, it is ground and turned into a soft capsule.

The cost is relatively high, but it is still worth it for people who are sick. The village is researching new technologies and will work hard to reduce costs. "

Li Chang mentioned how to make soft capsules. First of all, gelatin is required, and each item represents a series of technologies.

(End of this chapter)