There are a lot of wealthy people in these places, and Xu Ping doesn't bother to pay attention to them, so he shouldn't have seen them. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After chatting a few words of gossip, Zhou Zhenghai took an opportunity to stand up again and saluted Xu parallelly: "When officials go to the place, we all know that we can't accept local property, so we haven't prepared any generous gifts." There are only a few big carps caught in the river, and they are given to the officials to make a fish soup to sober up in their spare time, and they are not too ugly, and they accept this point of our local people's intentions. ”

As soon as the words ended, some villagers brought in several large baskets from the outside, which were filled with large carp weighing several catties.

Xu Ping looked at the carp in the basket and couldn't laugh or cry. It is common practice to send local products locally, looking at the big fish, the countryside is actually not worth a few dollars, just the mind, of course, to collect. But now that the weather is hot, the fish can't be put away, they sent so many fresh fish, what should Xu Ping do if he takes it? Even if the people who accompanied him ate everything, they couldn't finish a single meal.

After being silent for a while, Xu Ping said: "You are close to the Yellow River and Bishui here, and a new dam has been built not far away, so there will be a lot of fish and shrimp and other aquatic products in the future." These are all local products that can be sold for money, have you ever thought about how to exchange them for money? ”

Zhou Zhenghai said with a smile: "What the official said, we naturally think. It's just that although there are many fish in the water, it can be unlucky and not long after, how to exchange money? In the city and the grass market in the countryside, these are all worthless, and you can just fish in the river, which will spend money to buy food. Unless there is a big event to feast, no one buys fish. ”

The north is not better than the south, there is no habit of eating fish every day, and when it is cheap, it will buy two tails, and cook and eat it casually. If it were a normal day, who would spend this kind of money indiscriminately? Even on the banks of the Yellow River, unless it is close to a big city, there are no fishermen who specialize in fishing.

Xu Ping said: "I'm afraid I can't put it down, I can make it into salted fish, as long as the craftsmanship is there, those can be put for a long time." You are here on the bank of the Yellow River, and it is convenient for Shaanxi to solve salt here, and the price of salt is not high, which is not comparable to other places. Transporting the prepared salted fish to the city always has some living money to use. ”

Zhou Zhenghai shook his head again and again: "We northerners, where do we have the craft of making fish?" Besides, the fish and shrimp that Jiangnan people eat are not used to eating by us Central Plains people. Even if it's made, there's nowhere to sell it. ”

Zheng Zhongpan on the side also shook his head: "I'm not used to eating, I'm not used to eating!" ”

What else can Xu Ping say? He just mentioned that the times are developing, and the component of the commodity economy is getting heavier and heavier, even the countrymen have to think of doing everything possible to get money in their hands, and they can't just think about self-sufficiency in farming and weaving. These people have not changed their minds and have no choice, so they have to let reality slowly educate. When they don't have money, they find a way to make money.

There are few fish in the north, and the important thing is that there is no habit of eating fish, and there is no skill in making fish, either it is cooked and eaten as meat, or it is just a fish soup, which is a little more complicated and will not be made. For example, there are many salted fish in the south, and they are also paid to the palace as tribute, but there are also many places in the north that produce fish, but they will not do it.

Seeing Tang Congli sitting on the side and not speaking, Xu Ping said to him: "Tang Xiucai, you are a rare scholar in your hometown, what do you have to say?" Persuading students to teach and re-educating is an important matter for the local government, but how is the local government doing? ”

Tang Congli got up and saluted: "Yudu Cao, the magistrate of this county has always re-studied, and since he came, he has built the Temple of Literature and established a county school." Especially since the beginning of this year, I have advised all townships to set up school societies, and now the township is eager to learn. ”

"Well, I also heard that Zhang Zhixian is very attentive to persuasion, and the surrounding states and counties are second to none. Although the township school club only allows the villagers to be enlightened and literate, they should not be underestimated. In the future, more and more people will need to read and write, and it will depend on you people to train students. One day, if you can't read and write, you will be like a blind person, and you will not be able to walk an inch outside! ”

Tang Congli bowed and saluted: "Thanks to Du Cao's teachings, the students will do their best." ”

Zhou Zhenghai, who had just sat down on the side, heard this, hurriedly stood up again, and said loudly: "The official is really a learned person, and this is the most reasonable." If you walk outside, you can't read and write, but it's not like being blind! When I was a child, my grandfather and my mother taught me to study hard with my husband, but unfortunately I couldn't listen to it, and now I really regret it! ”

Xu Ping couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and was silent for a while before saying to Zhou Zhenghai: "Listen to your accent, is it a reformed person from the south?" ”

Zhou Zhenghai was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Back to the official, the little one is not a reformed person, but the little grandfather is." When my grandfather was young, he returned south with an official, and saw that the nearby mountains and rivers were good, so he settled here for decades. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "Okay, it's rare that your family cares about the court, sit down." ”

Calling the parents grandmother is influenced by the Hu people who went south after the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the scope of use is not small, Du Fu has a poem "Grandma's wife goes to see each other", at least it shows that some people in Guanzhong in the Tang Dynasty called it so. However, in the Song Dynasty, the distinction between Huayi and Huayi became stricter again, and the Han people would not use this title, the most common was Daddy, and some places used Daddy. Dad and dad are both transferred from the sound of the father, and the range of use is becoming more and more widespread, but dad is relatively rare, and dad is the most common. Ma is also the most common name for mother in Han people. In contrast, the title of mother is not, at this time it is mainly used to refer to women, which is the original meaning in ancient times. There are also those used to call mothers, but they are all used in conjunction with the word "Niangniang", and there is basically no single name. Parents used the word "daddy and mother" symmetrically appeared the latest, and it was used on a large scale until after the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as he heard Zhou Zhenghai call his parents his grandmother, Xu Ping could basically conclude that he was from the Khitan region, and the Han region would not use such a name, otherwise he would be seen as an outlier in another eye. The land between the two capitals is flat and the population is sparse, and many reformers who went south were arranged here. There is nothing strange about Zhou Zhenghai being a reformed person who went south, that is, a Han Chinese who once lived under Khitan rule. Xu Ping frowned because this person spoke vulgarly and brought some of the customs of the Hu people.

Ignoring Zhou Zhenghai, Xu Ping said to Tang Congli: "How is the society doing now?" Do villagers send their children to school? What's the difficulty? If you tell me, if it is convenient, I will do it. ”

"Yudu Cao, in the past year, because of the lack of service, even if the government levies and uses the people, the money will be sent down after the work is done, and the strong men in the township have time, and the villagers have a little spare money in their hands, and the school is still prosperous. Three or five of our ten households here have sent their children to school, so that they can learn a few words. It's just that the students' knowledge is limited, and they can only teach them some enlightenment such as "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Essays", and the poetry and books are capable. ”

Xu Ping said: "It's enough for you to teach these, if you don't do anything, you can learn some arithmetic by knowing Braille and learning some arithmetic, which is also useful to yourself." ”

"Du Cao is right, this year, the government said some simple arithmetic books, and students can still teach them. It is also useful to learn these things, and the people in the village also like them. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "Yes, the village school should be like this." If you really want to read poetry and books, it is natural to have county and state studies, not village studies. By the way, what are the difficulties of the school? ”

Tang Congli glanced at Zhou Zhenghai and Zheng Zhongpan on the side: "There is a difficulty, because it is a school, it is not a serious school, and students don't care about the salary." But the schoolchildren inside are really hard in the cold in winter and cool in summer, and it is really inappropriate to have no bricks to shelter from the wind and rain. ”

Xu Ping was stunned: "What, doesn't the school have a serious school?" ”

Tang Congli smiled bitterly: "Where are those?" It's all the students who find their own place, and they teach in the open space by the river at the head of the village in the summer, and it's okay to say in spring and autumn, but it's sad in winter. There is no firewood to bake, and there is a place to block the wind, which is really unbearable. ”

Xu Ping couldn't help frowning: "In the countryside, it's not difficult to find a vacant land, how can this be?" ”

"Even if there is a place, if you want to build a house, you can't do without people and things. Manpower is easy to say, the people in the countryside have nothing else, but they work hard and do their work. The difficult thing is the materials used to build the house, even to build a thatched house, and you have to have large timber to make the roof beams. Now the students in the school club are all poor people, where can they run it? ”

Xu Ping turned his head and glanced at Zhou Zhenghai and Zheng Zhongpan, who were sitting, and said, "You two don't have an enrollment club?" ”

Zhou Zhenghai puffed up his chest: "Back to the official, I'm in!" ”

Xu Ping looked at Zheng Zhongpan again, and Zheng Zhongpan hurriedly said: "Back to the official, my son is nearly thirty years old, and he has no children, and there are no young children to go to enlightenment, so naturally he has not entered." ”

Xu Ping looked at them back and forth several times before he said to Tang Congli: "Since this Zhou Yuan's family has also joined the school, he is a big family, and he is just in the local area, how can he not make up the materials." ”

Tang Congli smiled bitterly: "Zhou Yuanwai joined the school, but there is only one schoolchild in the family, and he pays a lot of money." ”

Xu Ping suddenly said that since the society is called a society, it is naturally a self-help organization of the villagers, and the club pays attention to fairness. Zhou Zhenghai looked vulgar, he didn't expect to do things so finely, he really came according to the rules, and he didn't pay a penny more.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping said to Zhou Zhenghai: "You also have schoolchildren at home, since you are a big family, it is not difficult to make a few beams and burn some bricks and tiles." It's been almost a year, and Tang Xiucai has been teaching in the open field with schoolchildren. ”

Zhou Zhenghai said confidently: "Back to the official, although the small one has some family wealth, but it is just right, this is a big difference, and if you are not careful, the family wealth will be gone." In the past few years, I have been careful everywhere, and a copper coin has to be broken into two petals, where can I afford it? ”

In this era, it is not an official, but an errand servant, and it is a heavy difference, and it is not uncommon for a family to be ruined and die after one term. Zhou Zhenghai said the truth, and he was so arrogant that Xu Ping couldn't say anything.