With self-encouragement and encouragement, Jiang Zhixian quickly stabilized his position and made a new plan:
Expand production.
We still need to build another sweet potato workshop.
So, after half a month of running the sweet potato workshop in the county, he summoned the village chiefs of the county and prepared to draw another 6,000 people from the county.
Because there were no wars in these years, and both emperors were wise and powerful, Dasheng's population increased a lot.
It is not difficult to recruit another 6,000 people.
He wants to use up this year's sweet potato starch before spring so as not to affect spring plowing.
Work hard for three months for the next thirty years!
After hearing Jiang Zhixian's plan, the village chiefs of each village became excited, Emma, their village has another quota!
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make money, please God let their family win it!
Even a small landowner like Zhuang Fengshou couldn't calm down in front of the figure of three hundred yuan a day, not to mention that many village chiefs' families were not landlords.
However, the drawing of lots must be fair and just, and Magistrate Jiang is watching. If you want to enter a sweet potato workshop, it depends on God's will.
Alas, it would be great if we were in Sanliu Village.
Sanliu Village does not use drawing lots to decide who can enter the sweet potato workshop. In Sanliu Village, regardless of male or female, anyone who can make vermicelli can enter the sweet potato workshop to make vermicelli.
envious!
No, we can’t just look at you with envy, you must take practical actions.
They have to marry their girls and boys to Sanliu Village. If Li Qiao is not in their village, then they will take the initiative to join Sanliu Village!
Therefore, for a time, the situation of those unmarried people in Sanliu Village was much better than before.
Of course, the market prices for those unmarried people in Sanliu Village have been very good over the past year, but now that they are stimulated by the interests of vermicelli, the market prices are getting even better.
Especially Li Chuntao and Li Shu, who were close to Li Qiao, people came to visit them almost every day to propose marriage.
Moreover, many people are not seeking to marry these two people, but want to marry into their wives.
Only by entering Sanliu Village can you benefit from Li Qiao!
Regarding this situation, Li Qiao was busy studying and could not pay too much attention, but he kept telling Li Chuntao and Li Shu that although they met scumbags, they should not beat all men to death with one stick.
Besides, now that they have money, if they encounter a scumbag again, they will kick them out. Three-legged men are hard to find, but there are many two-legged men.
If a man is rich, he can have three wives and four concubines. If a woman is rich, of course, she can also have men.
Li Qiao's view was shocking at first, but after hearing it more often, no matter whether it was Li Chuntao or Li Shu, they became calm.
This makes sense and no one can fault it.
So Li Shu became serious and no longer resisted those who came to propose marriage.
The same goes for Li Chuntao. Compared with Li Shu, the guys she kissed were all about the same age or younger than her, so there were many suitable ones.
She was afraid of causing trouble to Li Qiao, so she didn't let anyone go.
Now she is serious. If she dares to cause trouble for Li Qiao, she will directly kick her!
Li Dashan also launched a more fierce offensive against Zheng Qianqian. He had been pursuing Zheng Qianqian for so long, but his two aunts were already married, and he had not yet been able to marry Brother Qian home.
The life of Li Qiao's family is still peaceful, and they are not involved in the sweet potato craze in the whole county.
Li Qiao's main task is to study.
He plans to give it a try in the county test next February.
Tao Zhu was worried about the money at home, which made him eager to take part in the imperial examination.
If he wanted to take part in the imperial examination, he must read the real questions, so he approached Zhuang Wen. Zhuang Wen had the habit of writing down the real questions after every exam.
Li Qiao looked at Zhuang Wen's past exam questions and quickly discovered a problem:
The questions in county and college examinations are basically taken from the Four Books and Five Classics.
how so?
You must ask Zhuang Wen about this.
Soon, he got the answer from Zhuang Wen:
Because the Tongsheng Examination is the entry-level examination for the imperial examination, the first two levels of the county examination and the government examination do not involve the privileges of scholars, and in order to encourage scholars, the test papers of these two levels basically revolve around the Four Books and Five Classics.
If the first two tests are all about three histories and three biographies, many people will not be able to pass the county and government examinations. As a result, there will probably be very few farmers who are willing to study. After all, just buying the Three Histories and Three Legends would cost a lot of money.
The farmer has to be given some sweetness and some hope, so that the farmer is willing to support one person in his family to study.
After hearing Zhuang Wen's words, Li Qiao just wanted to slap his former self.
Before, he thought that the scope of the county examination, government examination, and college examination were the Four Books, Five Classics, and Three Histories and Three Biography, so he immersed himself in studying and did not study the real questions.
If he had known this, he would not have spent so much time reading the Three Histories - the Three Histories are closely related to the Spring and Autumn Annals, so he still had to read them.
An Yi really confused his brain, he should have studied the real questions long ago!
Fortunately it's not too late.
There are still three months until February next year. He has already memorized the Four Books and Five Classics thoroughly. If he consolidates it, he should be 70% to 80% sure of next year's county examination.
But self-confidence is self-confidence, and he cannot be careless.
Speaking of which, he had only been studying seriously for one year, while others had been studying for at least three or four years, and more than ten years or decades.
He never thought that he was a talented player. He always followed the path of hard work. Compared with local scholars, he did not have 100% confidence.
For this reason, his daily practice time was reduced and he spent almost all his energy on reading.
Zhuang Wen saw that Li Qiao was really going to take the county examination next February, so he recommended someone to Li Qiao while Li Qiao was looking for him.
Zhuang Wen himself has to study every day and still lives in the county, so he can't solve Li Qiao's doubts every day. This is actually very bad. Any doubts should be solved on the spot, otherwise, it may affect the integration of other knowledge.
It happened that Zhuang Wen had already found a private tutor for Sanliu Village, so he wanted this person to go to Sanliu Village first to teach Li Qiao one-on-one.
Li Qiao thought for a moment and nodded.
What Zhuang Wen said makes sense, he really needs personal training now.
Zhuang Wenxun's name is Huang Youming. He is forty-seven years old. Like Zhuang Wen, he took the examination for thirty years before becoming a scholar.
Huang Youming's family background was average, and there was no hope of taking the imperial examination as he was getting older, so he stopped thinking about the imperial examination and concentrated on raising his family.
Huang Youming had rich experience in scientific examinations, but he had not read as many books as Zhuang Wen. The Huang family was in a poor family and could not afford many miscellaneous books.
However, regarding the Tongsheng Examination, Huang Youming's knowledge reserve was not inferior to Zhuang Wen's and was enough to guide Li Qiao.
Moreover, Huang Youming is a humble person with a gentle temperament. He has previous experience in teaching Huang family children, so Zhuang Wen feels that this person is very suitable for Li Qiao at this time.
So, while Zhuang Wen was resting, Li Qiao went to Huang Youming's village with him.
After a conversation, Li Qiao was very satisfied, so Li Qiao took Huang Youming back to Sanliu Village that day.
He packed up a room in the front yard, and from then on, Li Qiao had one-on-one personal training.
There is indeed a difference between a person with a master and a person without a master. In the past, he could only write down something he didn't understand, but this knowledge point may affect his understanding of another knowledge point.
As a result, there were more and more things I didn't understand, and the learning progress was not as good as expected.
Now that he has private tutoring, if he doesn't understand anything, he can ask on the spot, so his learning progress is much faster.
The first snow this winter came earlier than last year.
While people were sleeping soundly, heavy snow fell, and it lasted all night.
The next day, Li Qiao woke up from his sleep. As soon as he opened his eyes, he noticed that the brightness outside was wrong.
It's late at dawn in winter, and it's usually dark outside at this point, but now through the newly-pasted window paper, it's actually a little bright outside.
Thinking of yesterday's gloomy weather, he frowned.
It is snowing, and looking at the brightness, you can tell that the snow will not be light, and it will definitely dye the sky and the earth white.
Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest, but now the vermicelli from Sanliu Village and Zhujia Village have to be transported to the county every day. Now that it is snowing, it will be difficult to transport vermicelli.
Thinking like this, he lowered his head to look at the person in his arms.
Tao Zhu wrapped her hands and feet around him and buried her face in the crook of his neck. At this time, he could only see a strand of Tao Zhu's hair exposed outside the quilt.
Although Tao Zhu would always hug him in the past, it would not be the same as now, with her whole body huddled under the quilt.
This sleeping position would definitely affect his breathing. He was hesitating whether to move Tao Zhu to the pillow when the person in his arms moved.
"Brother Zhu?" Li Qiao called softly.
"Hmm..." Tao Zhu's confused voice came out, a little sticky. As usual, he first hugged Li Qiao, and then planned to stretch his arms and legs.
I lay on my side all night, feeling numb all over my body.
He put his right leg down from Li Qiao's legs and stretched it unpreparedly into the bed behind him.
The cold touch immediately wrapped around his right foot, making him shiver from the cold, and his right leg instantly rested on Li Qiao's leg.
Li Qiao was amused by his actions, and a low and deep laughter reached his ears. He couldn't help but raise his hand and pinch Li Qiao's waist.
"Why didn't you stop me?"
"I didn't have time." Li Qiao stopped laughing and made a cooperative "hiss" sound, as if he had been pinched.
Seeing this, Tao Zhu quickly patted the place where he pinched her, then arched her body upwards and got out of the bed.
As expected, the cold air hit him. Looking at the window, he exclaimed: "It's snowing."
"No." Li Qiao said, pulling up the quilt and hugging him tightly: "Let's get up later. After the mountain comes, there will definitely be hot water. If there is hot water, let's get up again."
Hearing this, Tao Zhu looked away from the window and looked at Li Qiao.
There was only weak light in the room, but he and Li Qiao were so close that he could barely see clearly the confidence on Li Qiao's face.
He couldn't help but laugh. When it snowed last year, the two of them sometimes didn't remember that they had to wait for Li Chuntao in Li Dashan to boil hot water before getting up.
However, this year is different: "Mr. Huang is here."
Li Qiao did not perform the apprenticeship ceremony, so he and Li Qiao called Huang Youming Mr. Huang.
"He is not pedantic and won't say anything." Li Qiao said and buried his face in Tao Zhu's neck.
