When he did not know what the officials and rich merchants in Shuzhou wanted to do, Zhang Zhong put his energy into government affairs. The struggle was just a distraction. What he really needed to do was to bring benefits to the people.
Li Xun pulled a portion of the commoners to build roads, scenic spots, and waterways. Zhang Zhong used his status as the provincial governor and Li Xun's status as the county prince to vouch for the commoners. They borrowed money from the commoners to implement three-dimensional farming.
Compared to the people in Lu Zhou, the people in Shuzhou had a much better life. After all, there was only one middle county here, and the rest were all upper counties. There was no such thing as working hard and starving.
It was just that they could not eat meat often. There was nothing they could do about it. Even in the whole Great Tang, there were only a few places where ordinary people could eat meat as they wished, let alone them. Now, there were only three places that could be confirmed: Sanshui County, some counties in Yaozhou, and Lu Zhou.
Zhang Zhong's name was written on the back of each place. Therefore, when Zhang Zhong first arrived in Shuzhou, the people did not know the situation. After a while, the people learned who Zhang Zhong was through various channels. They immediately changed their attitude and were very cooperative.
The people were not stupid. There were two kinds of people who judged the wealth of the officials. One was a very poor official, so the people could rest assured. If the official was poor, it meant that he was not greedy. The other was a rich official, such as Zhang Zhong, who came from a rich family, would not be greedy, especially when he knew that his family was in business.
The most frightening thing was that his family was rich and did not have any business. It would be troublesome if he met such an official.
With Zhang Zhong and Li Xun's guarantee, the commoners came over to draw and choose a project. The commoners who lived near rivers or lakes chose to rear pigs, ducks, and ponds. Those who did not have such conditions chose to rear pigs, chickens, crabs, and rice. If they did not even have rice and only had mountainous areas, they would use fruit trees or mulberry trees to rear forest frogs.
The Zhang family and Li Xun were responsible for the recycling, and the Zhang family was also responsible for providing the technology. This was not a technology that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan came up with. They only provided an idea, and the Zhang Family and the Wang Family figured it out after several years of experiments.
If it were any other aristocratic family or businessman, they would definitely selfishly keep the technology. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had already helped their family get through the most difficult days, so they didn't care about the technology and money that they were keeping.
Other than the industrial technology that they were afraid of being leaked and stolen by others, almost all of the agricultural technology had been made public. Only the technology of hatching chickens and planting fungus was still kept.
Among them, the technology of hatching chickens was also ready to be made public. When more people were willing to raise chickens, the technology of hatching poultry would be more important. Fungus was a luxury, so there was no need to tell others. Ordinary people did not have spare money to eat fungus, so it was fine if they didn't have it.
The people took the money and the technology to catch pigs and started to buy the poultry hatched by the Zhang family. None of them knew if they would succeed. If it weren't for the two big shots' guarantees and Zhang Zhong's reputation, they really wouldn't dare to try.
In order to make the people feel at ease, the Zhang Family and the Wang Family also sent people from the inner courtyard to guide them. There would be a 'technician' in every village. If there was something that they did not understand, they could look for him.
If this was the first time Zhang Zhong and Li Xun became officials, and the first time they went to a place to do things for the people, the officials in Shuzhou might have the idea of watching the bustle, and the surrounding provinces were the same.
However, it was not the first time the two of them came out. They had a lot of halos, so no one thought that the technology they showed was not successful.
There were not many bad officials in the Tang Empire now. This ratio was calculated according to the time of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
When the officials in Luzhou, Shou Zhou, and the counties near Shuzhou saw Zhang Zhong take action, they immediately sent people to learn. This was not a new idea. Before Zhang Zhong took office, they already had this idea.
They did not want to be like Qinzhou, who foolishly insisted on doing things. If they could learn something, they would learn it. The surrounding terrain was similar. As long as they could do it in Shuzhou, they could do it in Shuzhou.
As a result, a place was set up in the nearest county and a test site was set up according to the three patterns. From time to time, people were sent to the same place in Shuzhou to secretly learn. If they were successful, they could do the same next year.
Needless to say, those who sincerely cared for the people would be able to live a good life after learning it. Even if the officials wanted to be greedy, they would also support them. Greed could only be done if they had money. The richer the people were, the more they would be greedy. If the people were begging, who would they be greedy for?
After a period of busy work, it was already midsummer. The four little guys were already one year old. They could run and jog, and they would work hard to walk with their short legs. The most common action they would do was to walk and walk, and if they didn't walk properly, they would sit on the ground with their buttocks.
If the old people or adults were not careful, they could easily break their bones. However, the little ones were not affected at all. They were short. When they sat on the ground, they forgot to walk and randomly picked up something to play with.
Under the efforts of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, they could already speak more than five words. They could recognize many kinds of objects. If they wanted something, they had to think hard about the name of the object. If they could not think of it, they would cry.
Their curiosity was stronger. In fact, they were curious before, but they could not walk and could only crawl. It was difficult to go from one place to another. In the process of crawling, they had to turn again when they saw something else.
Now, it was different. When they were curious about something, they could run over and see it. If a butterfly or a dragonfly landed, they could see it from a distance. Then, they would run over and stretch out their little hands to take it. Yes, take it. The little guys thought that everything that could be taken belonged to them.
In the end, the dragonfly and butterfly flew away. The little guys were stunned. They raised their heads to look at the direction the butterfly and dragonfly flew, and then looked at the flowers and grass where the two stopped. They were lost in thought. No one knew what they were thinking.
"Cold melon, cold melon," Zhang Xiaobao held Wang Juan's younger brother in his arms and held a picture in his hand and said to him.
"Cucumber, cucumber," Wang Juan's younger brother looked at the picture and then at Zhang Xiaobao and said.
"Cold melon, drink Anhan, not drink Wuang Huang, cold melon."
"Cucumber, cucumber."
"So stupid. Didn't you say it was good yesterday? You forgot again? What is it? "
"Cold melon."
"Right, why did you say it wrong just now? Are you stupid? "
"You are stupid. I want to eat cucumber, cucumber."
"Oh, then you should have said it earlier. Next time, remember to finish your words. Bring me a cucumber and peel the skin." Zhang Xiaobao was very happy that he could be refuted. This showed that the little guy's intelligence was higher.
"See, as long as there is something that can attract them, it can make them use their brains more. If it weren't for the fear that they would develop bad habits, I would teach them to scold people now."
Zhang Xiaobao took the picture away and said to Wang Juan who was squatting next to another little guy to look at the ants.
"I have never heard that scolding people can train intelligence. Don't touch it, be careful that it crawls on your body." Wang Juan grabbed Zhang Xiaobao's younger brother's hand.
Zhang Xiaobao also brought Wang Juan's younger brother over to look at them and moved the insects with satisfaction. He personally pinched an ant and put it on his younger brother's hand.
"Don't worry, just touch it. This kind of ant can't cause any harm to people. Even if you eat it, it's fine. I often ate it when I was a child. Of course, it's useful to scold people. Scolding people is a very emotional behavior. Whether it's laughing or scolding, it's more emotional than usual.
When children feel emotions, they will imitate this kind of emotion, which has a great effect on training the brain. Therefore, children generally learn to scold people faster. "
"Oh, there's such a saying. This is the first time I've heard of it. Quickly throw the insect away. What do you want to do with it?" Wang Juan hit the insect that Zhang Xiaobao's younger brother had just caught.
"Eat." Zhang Xiaobao's younger brother looked very wronged. He pinched the ant with one hand and wanted to take the insect with the other.
Zhang Xiaobao saw that Wang Juan was going to hit the insect again and hurriedly stopped her.
"Just watch the child and don't put the insect into his mouth. Isn't this like treating the insect as an ant? You have to understand it from the child's point of view. If you interrupt, there will be two consequences. One is that the child still wants to feed the insect to the ant and continues the original action. The other is that he gives up.
If you continuously interrupted the child, the consequence would be that the child would no longer want to feed the ants. In other words, the child would have one less research direction. What you dispelled was the child's curiosity towards the unknown. Without curiosity, how could a person delve into it?
The real way to educate children is to adopt a guiding and understanding method, not an experiential and convenient method. For example, when children play with mud, many adults will directly tell them that it's dirty and they can't play with it. In fact, the most fundamental reason is not that. The adults are worried about it. What's there to be afraid of if it's dirty? Afraid of eating it? Can't you watch from the side?
My idea is that when a person is not prepared to bear the responsibility of raising a new life, then don't have children. Of course, in today's world, having children is sometimes passive.
In the past, I have seen it more than once. There were children who reached out to grab the food when they were being fed by the adults. The adults restricted the children's movements and told the children not to use their hands. Such adults don't understand that the children don't necessarily want to eat with their hands. They just want to feel what the rice looks like.
This has led to a result. Many children, if you ask them what the rice looks like, they will say that it's fragrant, oval-shaped, and white. They will not say that it's soft or sticky. If everything has to be done like this, how many talented children do you think will be killed? "
Wang Juan was confused. She didn't expect that her action of hitting the insect would be changed to killing geniuses by Zhang Xiaobao. This time, she didn't stop Zhang Xiaobao's younger brother from taking the insect as an ant, even if the ant in his hand didn't eat it.
"You have a lot of crooked ideas. If you feed it now, the ant won't eat it. What should we do?"
"Then find a way to let him see how ants eat. Catch more ants and put them in a glass jar. Cover it with a layer of sand and throw the insects in for the ants to eat. When they eat, look at it with a magnifying glass." Zhang Xiaobao immediately came up with a solution.
"Then he can understand how ants eat?" Wang Juan argued.
"No, but he may be interested in the magnifying glass or the glass jar. It's better than being an obedient child with no interests. I'm not afraid of trouble. We have professionals at home to take care of children. We don't need to raise them to be good children who don't move and don't make trouble for the adults."
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