Chapter 16 Daily Life
"How are you preparing for this year's exam?" Feng Xue suddenly asked on the ox cart when he returned home. Xu Fu, who was following the cart, immediately responded: "Young master, you are ready. You can start when the spring plowing is over. In addition, several travelers asked if it is available every year, as if they want to bring their children here next year..."
"Well, just tell them directly. I don't care if he is a local from Sheyang. Anyway, as long as he comes, he will definitely stay in Sheyang to study." Feng Xue waved his hand and then said, "Where is the academy? How are you prepared?"
"The classroom has been built, the multiplication formula table, nursery rhymes, exercise books, and exercise books have been prepared, but..." Xu Fu said this, hesitated for a while before continuing: "According to the results asked from the county magistrate, there are 20,000 children aged 3-12 in Sheyang County (even in modern age, the proportion of school-age children is 10,500, and the fertility rate in ancient times was very high. Even if the premature death is considered, it is definitely not an exaggeration to have school-age children reach 20% of the total population). It would be fine to print so many textbooks, but the key is that it is difficult for academy to accommodate so many students!"
"I didn't say that we will teach them all together." Feng Xue gave Xu Fu a white look, and then explained, "A child can maintain concentration for about three quarters of hours, so each child learns three quarters of words every day, rests for two quarters of hours, and then calculates for three quarters of hours. This is an hour.
A class can accommodate 60 students. The college offers two hours of classes every morning and evening. A teacher can teach 240 students a day. I now have thirteen students who have fully mastered basic arithmetic and common words. In the calculation, it can teach up to 3,000 children a day, and 20,000 students are only seven days.
Students have one class every ten days, and the teacher can rest for three days every ten days. In this way, students will not delay family affairs, but also have time to remember what they have learned, and teachers also have time to study and rest.
Moreover, in this process, the fastest learning of children and slow learning will be gradually layered. We can also select those who learn fast and re-establish classes, tutor the students who learn slowly, and slowly lead the new. Before next winter, Zhang San and the others will be able to liberate themselves from basic teaching, and the fastest learning group of students will become new basic teachers. After that, we can also open advanced classes to teach more advanced knowledge..."
Feng Xue introduced the glorious future of his academy with a crackling sound, and Xu Fu nodded repeatedly as he heard it. As a housekeeper, he still knows how to do basic arithmetics and quickly figured out Feng Xue's meaning. Although if you take a class once every ten days, you will probably be able to learn common words and addition and subtraction in a year, but for most families, this is enough, and those who are eager for knowledge will naturally be more attentive in private.
Moreover, improving the literacy rate is the basis for Feng Xue's next major plans such as medical treatment in the countryside, popularizing newspapers, and establishing county libraries. There must be no sloppy.
In fact, compared with the lesson plans of medical science, workers and peasants, Feng Xue’s most headache is the part that children’s literacy, because he can’t choose the things that the time traveler predecessors like.
The Thousand Character Classic contains lines such as "Suppressing the people and punishing crimes, Zhou Fa Yin Tang"; Li Weng's rhymes include "Zhuang Zhou dreams of turning into a butterfly, Lu Wangzhao flying bear"; the Hundred Family Surnames have many surnames inside. As for the Three Character Classic, even if the historical part is deleted, there are also parts of the Zhou Yi, the Book of Songs, the Analects of Confucius, and the Three Bonds and Five Constant Permanences... Allusions are even more troublesome, such as Meng Mu's Three Moves, what do you do?
In the end, Feng Xue could only produce 300 children's songs that were completely different from history, and counted them as textbooks for children's literacy. As for the others - please slowly change them yourself.
At present, Feng Xue is most hopeful to launch "Zengguang Xianwen" before the start of school. Although it uses allusions such as a word of money, it does not involve people's names, and it is no problem to treat it as an education that he encourages to learn. Moreover, Zengguang Xianwen itself is not a system, so it can be deleted at will, and everything is inferior, and it is just deleted directly. As for many vulgar things that are almost commonplace and problems that make people's hearts look too sinister, it is more appropriate to use them as enlightenment in this era, or if you do something, your child probably won't understand it.
The ox cart quickly returned to the Gongzi Mansion. Feng Xue spent dinner under the service of the servants, walked into the study and began his great career of copying books. In this era, there should be only two meals a day, but who made Feng Xue rich? With the increasing maturity of hybrid rice technology, Feng Xue was determined to let all county residents, no, all humans can eat three meals a day...
(A big man from Huoyun Cave suddenly felt something and then liked it from a distance)
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“Ah…”
The knock on the door sounded again in the early morning. Feng Xue, who was used to being awakened by the maid every morning, shouted sleepyly, "Come in", then squinted her eyes again, and quietly waited for being served to dress and wash-
Not only the maid at the door, but also the one lying on his bed.
As the princes and the princes who are already seventeen years old, Feng Xue has a maid. Although she is not actually a slave, according to the current universal values (referring to the class), the only difference between them compared to real slaves is that they have wages and cannot be executed at will.
Therefore, this kind of girl will never have the same personality as commonly seen in the previous life's online articles, such as talking too much, arrogance, rebelliousness, and liveliness, because a servant with this personality is qualified to become a personal maid, even if he succeeds, he will not live long.
Even if Feng Xue likes it, it won’t work, because theoretically, even if he likes it, he can only like vases and other utensils. Otherwise, Feng Xue himself would have no problem, but this girl might be “accidentally”…
Enjoying the maid's gentle brushing of teeth, Feng Xue's originally hazy spirit slowly recovered, but when he really woke up completely, he was already sitting at the dining table and ate a breakfast that was not rich but not so bad.
The combination of rice porridge and pickles will never go out of date. But after eating it for a long time, Feng Xue will inevitably think of foods such as tofu brain. Sheyang County does not lack salt-boiled brine. Soybeans were also grown in this era, but their status was a bit embarrassing. If it was made, it would undoubtedly add a channel for the prehistoric humans to absorb protein, which is probably another merit.
Thinking of this, Feng Xue didn't hesitate and immediately recruited domestic craftsmen and started experimenting. At the beginning, the slaves were certainly not used to the situation where his son thought about it one after another, but now they have long been used to it.
The principle of soy milk is not difficult, and brine in coastal areas is not difficult to find. As for beans, as one of the grains, it is naturally not uncommon, not to mention that Feng Xue and Jiangcheng even proposed a soybean field in his life. The only troublesome thing is the most basic tool - stone mill.
Fortunately, this era is not a historical fact, but a mythical world. The stone mill that should not have appeared in the Bronze Age was already there at this time.
I just tinkered with it. When the first bucket of soy milk began to solidify, it was already afternoon. Although as the leader of a farm, Feng Xue had nothing to be busy with on weekdays. The only thing he was working for was teaching his apprentice. However, his apprentice is now studying tofu in the backyard...
Not to mention not doing the job properly, after all, Feng Xue teaches not the articles of sages, but medical science, workers and peasants. At this time, those who study medicine are dialecting the medicinal possibilities and edible taboos of soy milk; those who study science and engineering study together to study how to design the patterns of stone mills to achieve the best grinding effect; those who study agriculture are thinking about the changes that the emergence of tofu may bring to the breeding and planting industry.
Feng Xue, who had nothing to do, was lying leisurely on the rocking chair he directed his apprentice to make, quietly looking at the sky, and occasionally opened her mouth to eat the snacks handed over by the girl, and she was in a good mood.
But at this moment, a servant suddenly walked over without any haste. Although he was calm, the time when a servant came over himself meant that Feng Xue's leisurely daily life would be interrupted.
"Young Master, County Magistrate Luo is looking for a meeting outside."
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Chapter completed!