In April, each province held a provincial examination examination. Because there were too many students in each province, prefecture, prefecture, and county, and the capacity of the examination room was limited, in order to avoid those with poor academic ability from vain, there must be a screening before the three-year competition. This screening is called a scientific examination. The scientific examination is chaired by the academic and political education of each province, and the provincial examination is only allowed if the academic examination is ranked first and second and third grades according to the rules.

However, those who have not taken the third grade of the scientific examination can take the retake exam once a month before the provincial examination. The admitted candidates are allowed to be admitted to the provincial examination, which is called "records".

In addition, students who are elected as Confucians can also be exempted from taking the scientific examination without taking the examination. Students who are elected as Confucians can also be exempted from taking the autumn examination.

The prefectures and counties also have one or two mobile quotas in their hands. Usually, the academic and political officials will not reject their recommendations, so as to show that they will be clear when they are both listened and have no wise men left behind.

So, by this time, most of the students in Yufeng Academy rushed home to take the exam, and only a half of them had obtained the provincial examination qualification through various channels and were still staying in the academy for classes.

In short, the academy has become quiet for the time being, and Zhao Hao no longer has to show his presence from time to time to show his presence. Finally, he has time to go to Kunshan Agricultural College next to Huazang Temple.

On this day, Yufeng Primary School was on holiday. Zhao Hao, the incompetent master, finally remembered that he had two disciples, so he asked Secretary Ma to call Xu Guangqi and Wang Heng and take the two dolls to see what's new.

Wang Heng is Wang Xijue's only son. Zhao Hao has always regretted that he could not accept Chef Wang as his disciple. When he went to Taicang to visit Wang Mengxiang, he took his son to comfort himself. Anyway, he was the second place, so it was no different.

But because he was a six-year-old kid at that time, Mr. Zhao used the excuse that the child was too young and asked him to be at home first.

In fact, Zhao Hao wanted to accept Wang Xijue's daughter Tan Yangzi as his disciple, but unfortunately he couldn't open his mouth...

As for Xu Guangqi, he was the apprentice who was ordered to take office in Chongming when he passed by Shanghai. The child was also six years old at that time, and Zhao Hao didn't even let Wang Zheng go, how could he let this big cow go? Although he is still a calf now, he has been raising it since he was a child and the milk he squeezed out is easy.

The Xu family was originally a wealthy business family, but they were repeatedly looted by the Japanese scourge. When it was reported to his father Xu Sicheng, the family had already fallen. Xu Sicheng worked hard to manage it and finally gradually improved. As a result, in the first year of Longqing, he lost all his money and owed a lot of debts.

Just as the family was in despair, Jin Xuezeng appeared. He was a new Jinshi and the magistrate of the neighboring county wanted to accept disciples on behalf of his master. Xu Sicheng certainly agreed to such a good thing, so Xu Guangqi also became the registered disciple of Mr. Zhao.

At that time, Jin Xuezeng was short of people, so he simply asked the Xu family to go to Chongming with him to take office. Can Xu Sicheng write and calculate? He became the manuscript he signed and signed the house and the private account of the county magistrate. Now he is Jin Xuezeng's right-hand man.

Last year, Mr. Zhao opened Yufeng Primary School, so he asked someone to take these two children to school. Although they were not taught by themselves, the textbooks used were compiled by Mr. Zhao himself? It is worthy of them.

Now eight years old Xu Guangqi and Wang Heng are already second-grade elementary school students.

The two of them were wearing white and black edges in Yufeng Primary School? They were tied with a boy bun. One had a round face, and the other was a pointed face, and the other was a pointed face, and the other was very cute like a little adult. When they saw Zhao Hao, they quickly bowed and said to their master.

"Well, it's not bad." Zhao Hao smiled and said to the round-faced child: "Wang Heng..."

"Master? I am Guangqi..." The round-faced child said helplessly.

"Haha, is that so, why are you so fat? Master can't recognize him." Zhao Hao pinched Xu Guangqi's cheeks embarrassedly. He was forgetful and had never met these two children a few times, so he made a mistake.

"My grandfather also said that I was greedy for gaining weight." Wang Heng hurriedly rescued his master and said, "It will change if you don't see me for a few days."

"Oh? Hahaha." Zhao Hao couldn't help but laugh and touched his head, saying, "This kid? His little mouth is so sweet."

"Let's go, Master will take you to have a long experience." As he said that, he took a child in one hand and walked towards the gate of Kunshan Agricultural College.

Secretary Ma followed behind, thinking that these two apprentices and the young master seemed to be much more coordinated. Others are too old...

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Kunshan Agricultural College covers an area of ​​more than 200 acres and is surrounded by clear water on all sides. The fields and vegetable beds, mulberry and apricot forests, and water wheel mills and barns are all pastoral.

In fact, this is the original Wuben Academy in Liyang. After moving to Kunshan, Zhao Hao felt that it would be good to use the original name. But Ma Yilong disagreed. He had long been upset with the scholars who were called "Study Agriculture" but were actually devoted to careers. He felt that these people were wasting their time. So he insisted on not using the word "Academy" and changed the name to the more straightforward "Agriculture College", so that those who want to go to Yufeng Academy, leaving only disciples who really studied agriculture.

As a result, 90% of the disciples transferred to school, and only Shi Jizhi and Kitten stayed. Although the country is based on agriculture, who is willing to plant rice all over the world?

Although he was prepared, Ma Yilong was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Fortunately, some of the Jiangnan Group are farm managers who need training urgently. Most of the farm managers and agricultural technicians are familiar with farming, and the most important thing is that they really want to study farming well, be able to endure hardships, and be willing to use their brains. This comforts Ma Yilong, and feels much happier than teaching those reluctant sour sons.

Over the past year, he has trained two batches of 200 qualified agricultural technicians. He has left twenty graduates to teach, and now more than 300 students are at school at the same time.

When everyone entered the gate, they saw a six vigorous big words about 100 meters high and as white as snow on the Kunshi stone, which read "Thanks the hardships of life and people", which were written by Mr. Meng He, Ma Yilong.

"This scholar cannot forget the people no matter what he does." Zhao Hao smiled and taught the two disciples, asking Shi Jizhi who came to greet him, "Where is Mr. Meng He?"

"I'm teaching agricultural technicians." Shi Jizhi is the executive vice president of the Agricultural College. His teacher is old and can't worry so much, so he has to take care of all the major and minor affairs of the college.

"Let's go, take a look." Zhao Hao smiled.

"Please take me here." Shi Jizhi took Zhao Hao through the I-shaped teaching hall. There were agricultural technicians in the teaching hall, and the professors were graduates who stayed at school last year. In a series of schools founded by Zhao Hao, "leading the old with the new" is a very common phenomenon, otherwise where can we find so many teachers?

We can only solve the problem from nothing to something first. It takes time to cultivate a qualified teaching team from rough to fine.

After passing through the teaching hall, there were green farmland in front of me, with small signs inserted on the ground, with different class student numbers and names written on it.

Shi Jizhi told Zhao Hao that this is the students' field of learning. With the spirit of "it is always shallow to learn from paper and you must practice it yourself", Ma Yilong assigned each student half acre of land, starting from land preparation and seedling cultivation, and taught them how to farm scientifically. When the students completed the harvest by themselves and the granules were returned to the warehouse, it would be time to graduate.

During the entire farming process, Ma Yilong would tirelessly teach them how to plant rice seedlings, how to weed and insect-kill, fertilize and drain water, and devote great effort to it.

"In addition to teaching, the teacher is still learning from the strengths of each school in his own experimental field and constantly improving agronomics." Shi Jizhi smiled and said to Zhao Hao: "But everyone combined is not as inspiring as the teacher alone."

"Hey, don't say that, I'm just talking nonsense." Zhao Hao waved his hand modestly.

"It's nothing nonsense." Shi Jizhi pointed to the rice seedlings in the field and said: "This year, the cold spring is in the middle of the spring, and the temperature has not met the standard. If it weren't for the use of Gongzi's smoke-black seedling cultivation method, early rice would have been delayed."

"It works, it works." Mr. Zhao nodded with a smile. The so-called smoke-black seedling cultivation method is actually a thick layer of chimney ash in the cellar where Ma Yilong seedling cultivation.

The black heat absorption during the day and the ash layer is heated at night. It can increase the temperature of the soil by several degrees and also provide nutrients to the seedlings, which will naturally not delay the farming time. In later generations, before the popularization of mulch film, rural areas used this method to cultivate seedlings.

As the two of them spoke, they came to the place where Ma Yilong taught, next to a string of ponds in the farmland.

The students were holding notebooks in their hands and surrounded Ma Yilong, listening to the old man's voice loudly:

"Mulberry fish pond is not a new method. It has been used in Huzhou for many years and has become very mature. It is especially suitable for collective production on your farm. Go back and dig deep into a pond. The dug mulberry is piled up around the pond to form a high foundation, plant mulberry on the foundation, raise fish in the pond, raise silkworms in the mulberry leaves, and feed the silkworm manure. The mulberry in the fish pond can be used to feed mulberry. This cycle can be repeated and both benefits can be ten times more crops."

The students were lit up as soon as they heard this. Their income was linked to the income of the farm. How could they not learn such a magical technique?

"It is not that easy to achieve a virtuous cycle and achieve the highest benefits. Generally, the ratio of the pond to the foundation is between six to four and seven to three, but after my exploration, it is actually best to have five to five. The pond should be dug into such a rectangle, with six to ten centipedes connected in the shape of a centipede..."

The wind was warm in mid-spring. Zhao Hao took two disciples and Shi Jizhi to listen quietly, and Ma Yilong explained the secrets of high yields in the Sangji Fish Pond.

The old man broke it and said, "As soon as he knew it, he taught me all his heart. When it came to the important point, he bent down and grabbed the dark and wet soil, and explained to these agricultural technicians who had no interest in them, how to judge the soil quality and improve soil and maintain fertilizer...

Zhao Hao's eyes suddenly felt a little wet. If he didn't know who Mr. Meng He was, who could connect this old farmer with his legs rolled up, a straw hat, and a rough skin like tree bark to a former Hanlin?

Speaking of which, Ma Yilong is a Shujishi of the same period as Zhang Juzheng. Zhang idol is already a high-powered and dignified Grand Secretary, but Mr. Meng He returned to his simplicity and started farming.

So the question is, which of these two is greater?
Chapter completed!