After being exiled, I led my whole family to rebel.

"How is it possible?!" These old men were not easy to fool. Even the village chief of Zhangjia Village was in disbelief. "Little Qian girl, you are bragging. We have never been to school, but we know how to read through enlightenment." It will take three to five years. You said that Mrs. Zhao will be able to read in ten or twenty days, haha, who would believe it!"

Qian Zhenniang is not in a hurry. The task she received today is to receive the village chiefs. In fact, it is to let the tens of thousands of people in the villages who have never had the opportunity to come to Lan County know about the changes in Lan County and not forget about it. No longer resist their policies and sincerely accept their Xu family team.

This is crucial to the city lord's important event!

This also affects whether they can take root in Lan County!

"You don't know, our city lord invented something called Pinyin, which has more than 60 characters in total. As long as you know these 60 characters, you can spell out all the words and you will recognize these words. It's just that , if you want to reach the level of thorough reading, you still have to work hard on your own. Alas, it’s useless to tell you this. Anyway, you don’t need it for the time being. Our teachers are in short supply, and even the children in Lan County can’t take care of them. Woolen cloth!"

"Hey, hey, hey -" Everyone was really anxious when they heard this. Who said that everyone didn't know what the pinyin was, but seeing Qian Zhenniang's serious look, and the observation after entering Lan County, these ten Several village chiefs were more or less shaken, not to mention that this was related to the future of the children in the village. Not to mention pinyin, it would be good to learn a few more words!

"Little money girl, how can the city lord be so kind to one another? Doesn't she dislike us from the countryside? Why are all the benefits only given to people in Lan County? We are also from Lan County, why can't we get any benefits? These craftsmen It doesn’t matter if you don’t recruit Murakami, it’s a big deal for these kids to study!”

"Yes, even though we don't understand your pinyin, we kids in the countryside should have the same things that kids in the city have!"

Qian Zhenniang thought that Xu Yinxi's trick of retreating into progress was really useful. The so-called pursuit was not about buying and selling, but her refusal made people believe in the authenticity of this matter.

She could only shake her head and sigh: "Village chiefs, it's useless for you to tell me. I'm just an errand boy. The city lord said that the current teachers are not enough. She wants to teach the children to learn Pinyin. Once they learn Pinyin, they can learn arithmetic. and the Four Books and Five Classics. Even if we leave in the future, our children will have a good foundation and a good future. This is considered a merit. And now there is a policy that as long as they pass the elementary literacy class exam, they will be able to make a career in Lan County. The work must be no less than 20 cents per day. Not only that, those who have studied the elementary class can also take the intermediate class. After the intermediate class, they can come to work for the city lord and get paid and eat public food. By the way, you don’t know yet, right? , when we leave Lan County later, we will see several high-rise buildings. They are the city lord’s newly built medical school. Where do the famous doctors in Lan County go to teach? As for the students, the students are directly selected from the graduates of the intermediate class. !”

"What?" The old men were all shocked.

Qian Zhenniang was very satisfied, but kept a calm expression on her face as she continued: "Isn't that right? Studying medicine is free. The teachers are ready-made and the teaching buildings are ready-made. As for what you learn, it all depends on your personal nature. What do you think? How can the people of Lan County not rush for such a pie-from-the-sky thing? Our ten literacy classes are already fully booked, and we are running out of teachers. How can we spread it to your village?"

"This...this..." This made the village chiefs extremely anxious. Seeing that the affairs of the institute were not going well, and the children's schooling was also delayed, can they still study medicine for free now?

Even if you don’t study medicine, it’s still good to eat two mouthfuls of white rice!

If this step is slow, then every step will be slow.

Opportunities are fleeting. Who knows when the new king will be recruited by the court. Maybe these benefits will be gone before they get their turn.

A strong sense of crisis spread among everyone. Without even saying it clearly, a dozen old men looked at each other and almost confirmed their respective ideas.

In this literacy class, they have to fight for a few spots!

Village Chief Fan immediately spoke: "Little money girl, you can't stick to the people in the city for everything! The people in our village are also the people of Lan County. Besides, the people in the city have money and don't have to worry about food and drink. We in the countryside Children have been running around naked since childhood, and some families are reluctant to even part with a diaper. They are poor, and precisely because they are poor, they need opportunities even more!"

"That's right, little money girl. When we country people get sick, we have to survive. As long as we get through it, it will be fine. If we can't get through it, it will be our fate. There is no doctor in our village. If someone has a headache and a fever, he will have to walk all day and all night. You have to take the mountain road to get to the city for medical treatment. If a child from our village can go to Lan County to study, or even go to a medical school, then after he returns to our village, won’t the people in our village have their own doctor?”

Qian Zhenniang couldn't help laughing in her heart.

Although the city lord also wanted to train directional doctors. After these doctors went to medical school for free, they would go back to their villages to practice medicine for a few years. However, the city lord planned the strategy, and these village chiefs immediately came up with the idea.

It seems that as long as interests are involved, everyone's minds will be clear at once.

Qian Zhenniang laughed in her heart, but she could only hold back on her face: "This... you tell me this, I can't help it. I've already said, I'm just a business person, I don't have that power. You still have to do specific things. It's only useful to tell the city lord. As long as the city lord gives the order, not to mention one or two children, even a dozen children will be fine!"

The village chiefs looked at each other, hesitant to make a request to the city lord?

They don't dare.

So someone touched the arm of the village chief of Zhangjiacun, "Old Zhang, didn't you say you had met the city lord? How is he? Is he easy to talk to? Is he very fierce?"

Village Chief Zhang thought of that winter night when the sound of killings filled the sky, that night of brutal looting, and the way the young man raised his arms and shouted, and he felt mixed emotions in his heart.

"It's fierce, why not be fierce." The village chief of Zhangjia Village was telling the truth.

How can a person who can chop off Li Datou's head and conquer thousands of refugees with a stick of incense not be cruel?

However, Old Man Zhang still told the truth, "However, he is quite easy-going and polite in his words."

These words made everyone even more confused.

"Is this bad or not?"

Village Chief Fan said fiercely: "What the hell, for the sake of the children, our old bones have to stand up! Otherwise, in the future, the children in the city will be able to read and write, and the children in our mountains will still only know how to read and write." Digging out bird eggs! You have to study, you have to know how to read, otherwise, what can you do if you spend your whole life in those ravines?"

"Yes!"

Qian Zhenniang smiled, "Village chiefs, don't be afraid. The city lord is the most amiable person. After entering the city, except for the Chen family who refused to give food to the people, he didn't kill anyone. Even serious criminals, then It was also a sentence strictly in accordance with the laws of Dazhou. Not only that, she also forced the wealthy households in the city to donate food to the people, and asked teachers to let everyone read and read. If you don’t believe me, you can go to Lan County to find out later. We The city lord has a good reputation! People say she is more capable than County Magistrate Sun!"

The village chiefs still had a good impression of Magistrate Sun. When they heard this, they immediately remembered it and asked with some embarrassment: "Then... where is the Magistrate now?"

"He has been following our city lord for a while. The city lord asks him for advice on any official matters. The two of them have a good relationship like a teacher and a student. But now that Mr. Sun is sick, the city lord has asked him to go home to recuperate."

Qian Zhenniang convinced herself that Magistrate Sun followed the city lord inseparably. Although he was disrespectful to the city lord and often abused him, the relationship should be good, right?

Yes, that's true.

"So, Magistrate Sun is not dead?" "Didn't he say that when the king entered the city, he killed the magistrate and his family?"

Qian Zhenniang smiled, "What's the matter? As the saying goes, what you hear is false and what you see is true. If you don't believe it, you can ask the people in Lan County. Ask them if they saw Sun Yat-sen in the past few days. County magistrate?"

The village chiefs stopped talking now.

The more I think about it, the more I find this new king to be very weird.

Generally, when bandits enter a city, they must be burned or tortured.

Just like Ye County before, it was completely robbed and the city was almost massacred!

However, here in Lan County, the weather has obviously changed, but there is a scene of singing and dancing, oh no, since entering the city, the scene I have seen is many times more prosperous than before.

The roads seem to be wider and cleaner, there are more tall buildings, and there are obviously more people.

The streets are full of stalls and hawkers, but the ground is very clean. Looking at it, passers-by are all in a hurry, regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young. They seem to have something on hand and no one knows what they are busy with. .

If they looked more carefully, they could even see that the clothes of the people in the city seemed to have become neater, their appearance became more energetic, and their conversations seemed to have more depth.

The most surprising thing is that in broad daylight, there are actually men and women walking together!

These girls and boys did not avoid outsiders at all, they just walked side by side in such a grand manner, talking and laughing all the way, but the people around them were not surprised, and it seemed as if they were used to it.

The restrictions on men and women in the Great Zhou Dynasty were extremely strict. Generally speaking, even if married couples went out on the street, they would deliberately keep one or two steps away from each other.

It was so immoral for them to walk side by side and talk and laugh like this!

But after all, it was someone else's territory, and they had people to ask for. Even if they disliked it, they could only pull down the curtains, but they felt very contemptuous in their hearts.

After finally having a hot meal at the county government office, the village chiefs finally got the dinner plate they had been longing for. Holding these four-lattice wooden dinner plates in their hands really gave them a special feeling.

There are not many people in the county government, only a few soldiers. Speaking of which, after looking at it all the way, the thing that made Village Chief Zhang and the others feel the biggest change was the soldiers in the city.

In the past, the soldiers in Lan County were considered to be crooked melons and cracked jujubes to say something unpleasant. The word "bingliuzi" was not a joke or a contemptuous term.

Most of them are thin, with sallow faces and lack of energy. They either hide somewhere in the county government office and drink heavily, or they eat and drink at the city gate, or they only appear when collecting taxes or arresting people.

Most of the people don't have a good impression of these soldiers.

But now the soldiers in Lan County look so different!

Those soldiers all wore the same uniform and were easily identifiable among the crowd. Most of them are tall, muscular, and extremely heroic. Especially those sharp eyes, so piercing and piercing that they are intimidating upon contact!

You can even tell the clues from their standing, walking, and behavior. Their backs are always straight, never curled up or slanted, and they stand like a straight wall.

They advance and retreat in a controlled manner, neither humble nor arrogant, and their voices are high-pitched but not aggressive. They can be seen everywhere in the city.

"Oh my God, why do you think there are girls serving as soldiers?"

The village chief of Xiaoshui Village shouted something, which immediately attracted the attention of other village chiefs.

"Oh my god, it's really a female soldier! How can women be soldiers? They are so weak. Don't go to the battlefield so scared that they wet their pants!"

"This king is really weird. He even allowed a woman to enter the military camp without fear of bad luck."

And the person they were pointing at was Wang Sanniang, who came to the county government office to handle the handover procedures.

Wang Sanniang wanted to scold this country bumpkin, but she thought that she was no longer what she used to be. She was already the chief instructor of the female soldiers. In addition, the city lord said that he would select a thousand female soldiers from the newly arrived refugees. , then she is considered a big shot in charge of a city's defense.

What big shot would curse at a bunch of old men and shrews who have no vision?

Thinking of this, Wang Sanniang calmed down and said with a smile: "Dear old men, there are not only female soldiers in our city, but also girls going to school, and there are also female doctors in the medical school. The girls in our Lan County can do it. Now you can make money to support your family. Instead of pointing fingers here, you should go back quickly and let your granddaughters and daughters-in-law attend literacy classes. As long as you pass the exam, it will only cost thirty cents a day. If you become a girl, you can make money to support your family. Soldiers and female doctors are even worse, they only earn at least one tael of silver a month!"

The village chiefs gasped and even walked out from the place where they had prepared the meal to surround Wang Sanniang. Once they heard that they had money to take, they didn't care about men and women. They just asked: "Girl, how much do you pay per month?" Money?”

Wang Sanniang said with a smile: "I have graduated from the elementary literacy class, and I earn five taels of silver a month."

"Oh, it's amazing, it's amazing!"

"Oh my god, the world has really changed. Five taels of silver a month is probably more than the county magistrate!"

"Then...there are really female soldiers in Lan County. How many are there and what are the conditions?"

Wang Sanniang was overjoyed. Most of the girls in the country were strong, hard-working and good candidates for the army!

Since the city lord had plans to expand his troops, Wang Sanniang was originally worried that there would be insufficient recruitment of female soldiers this year.

But these people just happened to come to her door. This year's recruitment task for female soldiers will definitely be overfulfilled, how unhappy she is!

Wang Sanniang calmed down now, and did not care about the rudeness of this group of people before. She put down the work at hand and said: "Female soldiers must be over thirteen years old, hardworking, and able to endure hardships. After entering the military camp, they must be employed for at least two years. Soldiers, one tael of silver per month, including three meals a day, open to the public. Every six days of training, one day off, oh, and you have to attend cultural classes every day, which means you have to read and practice calligraphy. The rest of the time is to listen to the city master Dispatch basically involves assisting the refugees in dividing their fields or maintaining order. When necessary, they also help the people build houses, collect grain, and go to the countryside to promote propaganda, etc."