Since the end of June, everyone related to Hong Tao has been busy, even the eldest princess will take Lian'er to the nearby village every once in a while to send warmth, but there is one person who has nothing to do all day.

Xu Dongzi entered the Horse Mansion and only engaged in one job, teaching in the children's group. But since he returned from the Daimyo's Mansion, he has been unemployed, and the fourth and fifth batches of children's regiments have all been evacuated to work and study under the hands of the senior brothers and sisters, and so far there is no conclusion on when it will be recalled and whether it will be recalled.

"Lord Wang, why don't villains participate in this school?"

Seeing that Hong Tao was either patrolling the river or going to the ground all day long, he was very busy, and he was embarrassed to mention ideas if he had them. Waiting and waiting, I finally waited for the good news, and the horse was going to run a school again, but the preparatory work in the early stage was actually handed over to a half-grown child in the local village, and Xu Donglai really couldn't help it.

"Running a school? Donglai misunderstood, it was not a school, just a literacy class, wouldn't it be useless to teach a literacy class with Donglai's ability? Hong Tao didn't forget Xu Donglai, nor did he deliberately want to press him, but he really didn't have a suitable job to explain.

"The villain dares to ask, will there be a children's group in the future?" Xu Donglai also felt that teaching literacy classes was not interesting, but he didn't want to be idle.

"Don't be in a hurry, you have been training this group of children day and night for the official over the years, and it's not a bad thing to take time to rest and rest." Hong Tao of the Children's League is not going to do it, it is too eye-catching and too criticizing, and some people in the DPRK and China have already used this matter to impeach themselves and support their private ministers.

"Thank you for the prince's kindness, the villain doesn't know what to do when he is idle......" Xu Donglai was very disappointed with this answer, without the children's group, he is not a waste, and there are no children in the children's group who can do things!

"Originally, I was going to let you rest for a while and then come to help this king do something big, since you don't want to rest, don't blame this official for not being considerate of his subordinates!" Hong Tao does have other arrangements for Xu Donglai, but he is not in a hurry.

"Please command!"

"This king has written some manuscripts intermittently over the years, but unfortunately he has not had time to sort them out. If Donglai doesn't dislike it, how about helping this king edit one or two? "Hong Tao hasn't written systematically for several years since he practiced the scriptures, but he has never forgotten about it.

As early as when he was on Ganliang Road, he wanted to write a book of agricultural scriptures, how to grow food is not his forte, but he has too much say in how to use agricultural fertilizers and greenhouses.

The promotion of new knowledge that the Song people have never been exposed to is particularly slow to rely on their own households, villages and towns, and they will not teach many people in a year. In fact, it is useless to write a book, and few farmers who farm land are literate and hyphenated, and few people who can understand it can go to farming.

Since no one reads it, why let Xu Dong come and go in vain? Isn't there a need for a school, the literacy textbooks in the school are mainly based on agricultural economics, while teaching everyone to read and write, by the way, agricultural knowledge is also imparted, killing two birds with one stone.

Another advantage of this is that the farmers are illiterate, but they attach great importance to books, and always feel that what is written on them makes sense, and it is more efficient to teach farmers new knowledge in the school than to pass it on by word of mouth.

"The villain will not fail in his mission!" Xu Donglai is no stranger to compiling books for the horses, Gao Cuifeng did it back then, and most of them think that it was written by two people when it comes to refining scriptures.

"Hey, don't be in a hurry to accept it yet, this king still has requirements. This book should be written in as popular writing as possible, focusing on the content rather than the style, it is for the farmers, and it is not beautiful if it is too gorgeous. ”

Xu Donglai agreed so happily, and with the joy on his face, he clearly told Hong Tao that he had misunderstood. This is not a book that will allow the writer to ascend to the hall of elegance, and compared to the Sutra of Calculation, the Book of Money and the Book of Refining, the Book of Agriculture will only be circulated at the bottom of society for a long time.

“…… Show the farmers!? "Xu Donglai really doesn't understand, the farmers are not very literate, what is the use of writing books for them?

The book is called the Book of Agriculture, and it teaches people how to grow good fields and grow more grain. From the east, the people take food as the sky, there is no ambiguity in this sentence, right? And so it is not only the people who will bring the bread on the day, but all the people of the earth. This Wang Gui is the first-class title of the Great Song Dynasty, and he is still inseparable from the grain grown by farmers. If a country or a nation wants to be strong, the first step is to eat well. Didn't the sages and saints you value say that Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing. They just talk, but you can do it, which is more important than the two? ”

Xu Donglai's reaction Hong Tao had long expected that in all dynasties from ancient times to the present, it would be said that there were many people who were important to the peasants, but it was always the peasants who had the lowest status and were the most exploited.

They are all saying one thing and doing another, and they are afraid that the peasants will not grow grain honestly if their status is high. Once the peasants could no longer exploit them, everyone from the king to the landlord had to be blinded.

“…… It depends on the prince's will. "Are you better than the sages? Xu Donglai really couldn't answer this question, because what Hong Tao said was all reasonable, and he had to admit it even if he pinched his nose.

"So good, these are manuscripts...... This king also has a suggestion, if you want to write this well, don't be in a hurry to start writing, you might as well go to the village to walk around first, talk to the farmers more, feel their language habits, sharpen the knife and not chop wood. ”

Not only Xu Dong couldn't look at this agricultural knowledge, but even the children of the children's group were the same. In the more than ten days when they returned home, they went to the study to steal their manuscripts, and even the lyrics were swept away several times, but the only one that did not suffer was the manuscript of the Agricultural Scripture.

Hong Tao didn't expect a few words to make Xu Donglai willingly compile a book for farmers, but the standards must be consistent with himself, otherwise it would be in vain.

But I don't know how to write myself, and I have to rely on Xu Dong to figure it out. I didn't have time to take him to experience life, and I had to go far away soon.

Where to go? Into the sea! Jeju Island, to be exact. Chen Niang built two training ships and trained a lot of sailors, is it just filial piety to give one to herself? That's impossible. This kid does everything for a purpose, and the purpose this time is to create conditions for himself to go to Jeju Island.

At the beginning, I chose to repair the river so that this position that does not sound bad, but in fact has no rights, and it is easy to take the blame in the event of a natural disaster, and the most important thing is relative freedom, and it seems that this is indeed the case now.

Taking a training ship to Jeju Island, it doesn't take more than a month to go back and forth, and it is almost impossible to put it in other official positions, even if you trust Emperor Shenzong, you will not let yourself disappear for a month, and the greater the power, the less it will be.

But the river repair system can make it, not only no one will blame, but there is also a particularly reasonable excuse to inspect the water situation! Even the water situation is not clear, how can we talk about repairing the river? And if you don't go out to patrol twice a year, you will be impeached by the imperial history.

Coming out of Yangzhou, there are canals and Huaishui in the north, as long as you go anywhere to inspect in the two Huai, it is work, and it is particularly necessary. What about south? More places to go. From Jiangxia in the west, to Haimen in the east, the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is also under the jurisdiction of the Lianghuai Xiuhe Envoy.

Jiangxia is the Wuhan of the later generations, and it is not clear where the Hongtao of Haimen is in the later generations, probably somewhere on the peninsula north of Chongming Island.

At this time, the Yangtze River estuary was not the same as that of later generations, it was too wide, and some of the land in later generations was still sea water at this time. For example, Chongming Island, it is just two small sandbanks, called Xisha and Dongsha. There are two ethnic groups living on Dongsha, surnamed Yao and Liu, also called Yao Liu Sha.

With this convenient condition, Hong Tao was able to drive the boat down the river and into the sea in one breath. Shouldn't it take a month to investigate the Yangtze River? Isn't it slow? Not to mention a month, even if you go for two or three months, it is still very reasonable, no one can find yourself, so free.

For the sake of insurance, except for the eight sailors Hong Tao, no one was brought, and even the special forces guards were left. As long as you get to the water, no one can hurt yourself, and there are Jiang Erlang and Chen Niang on Jeju Island, so you don't have to worry too much about safety.

The eldest princess couldn't tell the truth, so she took the opportunity to send Zhou Ri and Ziju to the Daimyo Mansion and Huangzhou Bank to check the accounts. Wang San is not qualified enough to get on the ship, she has no real sailing training, so she can only stay at home honestly.