Chapter 3077 Chapter 3079 [Renyi Bailu Village]
The county magistrate He came to Bailu Village this time, and also brought a stone tablet of Renyi Bailu Village.
Bailu Village builds a school, builds a warehouse, establishes a township covenant, destroys tobacco seedlings, educates the people, and relieves the villagers. These are all very benevolent things.
These behaviors are worth rewarding.
And County Magistrate He wants to take the credit for educating the people, so these superficial articles are naturally inevitable.
It’s like the fact that ancient officials would take the initiative to report to the court to ask for praise for the chaste women under their rule.
The chaste woman got the chastity archway, the local officials also got the merit of enlightenment, and the imperial court also set up an example of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, killing three birds with one stone.
After County Magistrate He left, Bai Jiaxuan formally invited Mr. Xu to be the teaching teacher of Bailu Academy.
Mr. Xu came here for this matter, and immediately agreed, so the White Deer Academy was officially opened.
Basically all school-age boys in the village have entered school. Brothers Lu Zhaopeng, Lu Zhaohai, Bai Xiaowen, and Bai Xiaowu also transferred from the school in Shenhe Village and came to Bailu Academy to continue their studies.
The sound of reading books resounded in the village, and the people in the village could not help but smile when they heard it.
Everything is inferior, only reading is high.
Although the villagers are feudal and ignorant, they all know that reading is a good thing.
Xiang Nan provided all the children with books and a bucket of food per month as agreed.
After Mr. Xu learned of this, he complained to Mr. Zhu, "Your speech is strange. That man calls himself a **** and fools the common people. It's shameless. You don't want to expose him. How can you still be with him?" "
But Mr. Zhu waved his hand, "You didn't understand it when you came here. This person is quite miraculous, and he is not completely pretending to be a ghost. Moreover, Zi is not talking about strange powers, but not denying its existence. Otherwise, tell me, Confucius went hunting and saw a unicorn, what happened to this unicorn?"
"Oh, you were also deceived by him." Mr. Xu still said, not believing in Xiang Nan's magic.
Mr. Zhu smiled when he saw this, and didn't think he was disobedient.
Although Xiang Nan might be suspected of pretending to be a ghost, he did not act unjustly. On the contrary, he helped the people, rescued the dying and healed the wounded, captured the bandits, bravely killed the beasts, built schools...everything he did was a good deed.
Mr. Xu has just arrived, so it is normal to doubt him if you don’t know him well. After getting in touch for a long time, you will know that Xiang Nan is actually very good.
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Two days later, Bai Shitouer secretly left the village with a few young people in the village, and wanted to go out to earn money as a wheat maker.
Mike, that is, a person who sells his labor and helps others harvest wheat.
Under the scorching sun, helping people harvest wheat is of course extremely hard work.
It turned out that he colluded with the kidnappers to kidnap Bai Jiaxuan, but after all, he still didn't hide it and was leaked out.
He had no choice but to go out in the village.
Several other young people also went out with him because their families were poor and they had little income in the village.
After Bai Jiaxuan heard the news, he immediately went to stop him, but he still didn't stop him, so he had to let him go.
Afterwards, he had a big fight with Lu Zilin.
Because Bai Shitouer colluded with the kidnappers, except for Xiang Nan, Mr. Zhu, Bai Jiaxuan, Lu Zilin and himself, no one knew about it.
Mr. Xiang Nan and Mr. Zhu are not talkative people. Bai Shitouer himself would not tell the outside world, and Bai Jiaxuan naturally knew that he didn't say anything, so Lu Zilin could only be the one who said it.
It must be that he retaliated against Bai Shitou, so Shitou couldn't gain a foothold in the village, so Shitou was forced to go out to be a wheat guest.
Lu Zilin refused to admit it, so the two had a big fight, and even shook their fists at each other.
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Another month later, brothers Lu Zhaopeng and Lu Zhaohai left Bailu Academy to study in a new school in the city.
It turned out that Lu Zhaopeng and Mr. Xu had a conflict about Bai Ling's foot binding.
Mr. Xu is an old master, and he still has an old idea that women should bind their feet. But Lu Zhaopeng thinks this kind of practice is wrong, it is a kind of persecution to women.
The two had a dispute because of this.
Lu Zhaopeng didn't want to listen to Mr. Xu's old-fashioned and pedantic words, so after discussing with Lu Zilin, he went to the new school in Xi'an.
Lu Zilin is not good at anything else, but he is very open about education.
He knows that it is not the Qing Dynasty now. There are no more emperors, no more imperial examinations, and it is useless to read the Four Books and Five Classics now. You have to learn new knowledge and culture so that you can become a high-ranking official in the city in the future.
So he supported his son's idea and sent both of them to the new school.
As for Bai Jiaxuan, although he feels sorry for his daughter and doesn't want her to have her feet bound, but he doesn't object to Mr. Xu's teaching of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, three principles and five constant principles.
Because he, the patriarch himself, restrained his clansmen by relying on loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, and the three principles and five constant principles, so Bai Xiaowen and Bai Xiaowu stayed in Bailu Academy and did not go to the city to study together.
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Xiang Nan also knew that binding feet was an absolute bad habit, so he went to find Bai Jiaxuan.
"Uncle Jiaxuan, don't bind the children's feet anymore, the times are different." He said to Bai Jiaxuan, "Go to the city and see, girls can go to school. We must keep up with the times, not be abandoned by the times. "
"Hei Wa, is it really out of fashion to bind feet?" Bai Jiaxuan asked curiously.
"It's out of fashion." Xiang Nan nodded and said, "Go to the city and see, those ladies from rich families don't bind their feet, and they all go to school, and even go abroad to study.
We Lingling are so smart, we should also go to school to study. When he grows up in the future, he will be promising. Uncle Jiaxuan, the times have changed, and it will be the same for boys and girls in the future. "
"How can it be the same?" Bai Jiaxuan asked suspiciously, he firmly didn't believe it.
There is an essential difference between a male baby and a female baby.
Xiang Nan smiled, "Uncle Jiaxuan, in ancient times, it was because of farming. Men are stronger and more durable than women, and they are more suitable for doing farm work, so it is better to have boys than girls.
But it’s different in the city. The factories in big cities rely on machines for spinning, weaving, grinding and so on. It took little strength to operate the machines, so there were more and more female workers in the cities.
The so-called economic base determines social status. When both men and women can make money, what is the difference between having a boy or a girl? "
Bai Jiaxuan blinked.
He couldn't quite understand what Xiang Nan said.
So after that, he went to see Mr. Zhu again and asked him for advice on this matter.
He knew that his brother-in-law traveled all over the world in his early years, went to many places, and even traveled to the south to study, so he must have a high level of knowledge, and he might understand what Xiang Nan said.
"Hei Wa is right." Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "When I went to study in the south, there were indeed a lot of female workers in the factories there. Moreover, the women's family status there is much higher, and it is true that there is no need to bind their feet.
Economic base determines social status, this sentence still makes sense. Just like why only you, Lu Zilin, and Heiwa have status in our village, isn't it because your three families are the richest?
Jiaxuan, times have changed, the emperor is gone, you should keep up with the times. That's all about binding the feet, don't force the child anymore. "
Bai Jiaxuan nodded.
(end of this chapter)