What Gu Zhengchen wants to run is actually not one social school, but seven, one for each county.
It is just limited to manpower and experience. In the early stage, resources were concentrated mainly to build Quanzhou Jinjiang Sociology, in order to gain enough experience, set a benchmark, and clear obstacles for the subsequent establishment of sociology.
Li Lie listened for a long time before he understood Gu Zhengchen's intention. In the final analysis, it was to change one community for fifty households into one community for one county or three communities for one county in the future, and to concentrate on absorbing school-age children into community schools.
What Gu Zhengchen wanted was not a simple sociology, but many sociology stacked together to form a large sociology, which followed a similar path to Jinling's Guoxue.
Although there are many problems and difficulties in using the Guozixue model to manage social studies, Li Lie also admitted that this model does have its advantages. Compared with countless small social studies that are too scattered, good and bad, and difficult to manage, this method Obviously it helps to ensure the quality of teaching.
Wang Jing and Du Sanjia supported Gu Zhengchen’s proposal and finally decided on the plan of “social studies in Jinjiang in one year and social studies in six counties in three years”.
Faced with the difficult problem of recruiting students, Gu Zhengchen solved it neatly and neatly: "One monthly payment will be given, and the outstanding students will be evaluated once a year. Those who get the first prize will receive two monthly payment in the next year, and they will apply again."
Li Lie looked at Gu Zhengchen in surprise and said quickly: "In this way, the government will have to spend a lot of money. Even if it only recruits twenty gentlemen, it will cost more than two hundred dollars a year. After many evaluations, it will still cost more It will double..."
Gu Zhengchen nodded: "It doesn't matter, the store in the hands of the government is about to be sold. Two stores are enough to support social studies students for decades, so let's do it this way. After the summer harvest, the government will collect corvee again."
Li Lie opened his mouth and realized that he had made a mistake by talking to Gu Zhengchen about money...
After returning to the magistrate's house, Gu Zhengchen always felt that something was wrong with his mother-in-law. She stared at him while walking, staring at him while eating, and even while lying down, she was still staring at him.
"Possessed?"
"Whatever my husband said, I heard the news and Uncle Chengyi left on the 16th."
"Um."
"On the nights of the 15th, 16th, and 17th, my husband kept looking at the night sky and said some inexplicable words. I didn't realize it at the time, but now that I saw the date of Uncle Chengyi's departure, I realized it later. I always feel that my husband is determined that Uncle Cheng will leave in those few days..."
Zhang Xiwan recalled those nights. Her husband would rather yawn from sleepiness than watch the night sky in the patio.
It seemed like he was seeing him off.
Gu Zhengchen pulled Zhang Xiwan, felt the softness in his chest, closed his eyes and said, "I'm overthinking it, this is just a coincidence."
"Is this really a coincidence?"
"nature."
"All right."
"I dare to doubt my husband."
"ah--"
Thunder suddenly rolled in, drowning out the sound in the room.
Lin Baifan raised his head and looked at the thunder and lightning across the sky. The thick black clouds seemed unable to split open and swallowed up the lightning in just a moment.
The heavy rain fell suddenly, and soon there was water on the ground.
When the rain falls, it can even stir up a faint splash.
For an hour, the heavy rain showed no signs of stopping.
Boom!
The dull sound kept coming. Lin Baifan came to the door wearing a raincoat and shouted: "Who is it?"
"Nie Yuanji asks to see Magistrate Gu!"
"Prefect Gu has gone to bed."
"It's urgent!"
Lin Baifan had no choice but to say wait a moment, then walked outside the room and knocked on the door.
Gu Zhengchen woke up, took his coat from the screen, walked to the door, opened the door and looked at Lin Baifan.
Lin Baifan said quickly.
Gu Zhengchen looked at the heavy rain in front of him, his brows furrowed, and his face became serious: "Ask Nie Yuanji to the study and get me some cold water."
After returning to the room, Gu Zhengchen felt relieved when he saw that Zhang Xiwan had not been awakened. She is afraid of thunder and lightning. When she wakes up, she is afraid that she will never be able to sleep again.
After cleansing my face, I finally feel better.
Gu Zhengchen took Lin Baifan to the study room and said, "Let Xiao He accompany my wife. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight."
Lin Baifan agreed, turned and left.
Entering the study, Gu Zhengchen looked at Nie Yuanji who was all wet and frowned: "Nie Tongzhi, what are you doing?"
When Nie Yuanji saw Gu Zhengchen coming, he hurried forward and handed over an official document: "I have just received an urgent report. Heavy rains are pouring in the upper reaches of Jinjiang River, and the water level of the river has surged. To the south of Jiufeng Mountain, especially at the intersection of Taolin Creek and Lan Creek The area near Xizhou cannot sustain it for long. If the heavy rain continues like this, the dams in Daeseok, Silla, Hopo and other places are likely to burst!"
Gu Zhengchen quickly took the document, looked at it, and said in a deep voice, "Hasn't the dam there been repaired?"
Nie Yuanji was filled with bitterness: "I practiced it before Magistrate Gu came!"
Obviously, the previous officials of Quanzhou Prefecture built rivers and embankments just in the name of recruiting corvees and dividing money and food. As for how much of the river was dug and what kind of embankments were built, it did not matter.
Gu Zhengchen came to Quanzhou Prefecture in August last year. There was little rainfall in Quanzhou Prefecture in autumn and winter, but now in summer, the rainfall here is not only abundant, but also very rapid.
If God is kind, the rain will lighten and stop for a while, and it will not cause a big disaster. But if God doesn't show mercy and the rain keeps falling, once the embankment breaks, many people will die!
Taolin Creek and Lan Creek are also called East Creek and West Creek. Their names are creeks, but they are actually rivers! Two large rivers converged in Nan'an to form the Jinjiang River, which flows all the way to Quanzhou Port and flows into the sea.
There are many plains on both sides of the Jinjiang River, and there are some mountains to the north of the Jinjiang River to cover it, but to the south of the Jinjiang River, it is really a flat plain area!
Plains means suitable for farming, which means there are many people!
Gu Zhengchen looked a little pale, took out the badge of the commander of the Quanzhou Guard, handed it to Lin Baifan, and said sternly: "Rush to the Quanzhou Guard immediately, order the entire army to assemble, and remove all the straw bags, sacks, cloth bags, and shovels in the guard camp. Bring all the pickaxes, axes, saws, etc., and go west along the Jinjiang embankment to gather at Houpu and tell Huang Senping that they only have half an hour to move forward at full speed!"
"yes!"
Lin Baifan knew that the situation was urgent and immediately went to deliver the message in person.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Nie Yuanji, gritted his teeth and said: "Order all officials and servants in the government office and Jinjiang to dispatch, send a message to all the li chiefs and armor chiefs in Jinjiang and Nan'an counties, and organize young people to go to the embankment to inspect immediately! And order them to make a notice All the people, drop all supplies and take people to higher ground to avoid the worst situation!"
"I am responsible for the ten miles east and west of Houpu. You are responsible for the downstream dam! Nie Tongzhi, you know that we probably don't have time to transfer so many people. Therefore, in order to gain more time and for the people to no longer suffer, we must live and die with the dam. Bar!"
Nie Yuanji was shocked, looked deeply at Gu Zhengchen, and said solemnly: "If the dike is destroyed, we will not be able to see the people of Quanzhou Prefecture! We are even more ashamed to face the court! In this case, we have to risk our lives to defend the dike. !”
Gu Zhengchen put on his raincoat, walked to the door, looked at the rain curtain in the thunder and lightning, glanced sideways at the room where Zhang Xiwan was, and then stepped out resolutely.
The rain hit me instantly, and a chill arose from beneath my feet.
"Let's talk about February's update. There will be slightly less new book updates this month. One reason is that during the Chinese New Year, there are a lot of things at home, and we need to visit relatives and friends and spend time with our family. Another reason is that Jingxue needs to take time to finish the old book. The new book will be steadily updated and more explosive content will be released in the future. Thank you for your understanding and support."
