Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 205

"The contract is signed for five years. If you are not satisfied with the treatment and want to leave within these five years, you must resign one month in advance because we need this month to find someone who can take over your position. Of course, if If you encounter something irresistible, you can immediately submit your resignation, and we will approve it within one day, and pay the salary in full..." Xiao Yufang handed the still-dry contract to Chen Suxue and explained it thoughtfully. Some things to note.

Chen Suxue's eyes were still fixed on the geometry problem that he couldn't solve, obviously he ignored the words of this beautiful and gentle woman.Mrs. Chen took the contract cautiously, smiled, and said, "Don't worry, big sister, he won't resign! In order to learn arithmetic, he lost all his family property, and the whole family almost starved to death with him! It was hard to find a If he doesn't do a good job, I will be the first to spare him!"

Xiao Yufang smiled: "Sister, don't say that, we don't do things that force people, if he really doesn't want to do it anymore, we won't force him, as long as he acts according to the contract."

Mrs. Chen opened her eyes and said, "Why don't he give it a try!" She dragged Chen Suxue away like a chicken.It seems that life has tempered this woman to be very tough. The nerd Chen Suxue is no match for her at all. If he doesn't work hard, his leg will definitely be broken by the rolling pin.You earn a net profit of three taels of silver every month. When have you ever seen so much money in your life?Now she can't wait for her husband to start working tomorrow!And Chen Suxue can really start working tomorrow, because Yang Menglong gave him an additional task, which is to ask him to report to Wuyang tomorrow and write a mathematics textbook suitable for children. You will also get a bonus after you finish.

What's amazing is that even if he was taken away by the shrew, that nerd didn't forget to take away the geometry problem full of words!It seems that he will not rest until he solves this problem.

Finally achieved a zero breakthrough, Yang Menglong's morale was greatly boosted, and he shouted vigorously: "Everyone saw it? A math teacher has been recruited! There is one less position! Those who want to apply should be early, and they will be gone if they are late." !"

Many people were a little ready to move, and an old farmer with shabby clothes and a beard walked over from the crowd, and said timidly: "My... my lord, I want to apply!"

Yang Menglong smiled openly: "Okay, what position do you want to apply for?"

The old farmer said: "The old man has no other skills except farming..."

Everyone laughed: "What kind of skill is it to be able to farm, who here can't farm?"

The old farmer blushed a little, and said: "I... the harvest of the crops I plant is generally better than that of others. In the same field and the same fertilizer, the harvest of the crops I plant can be tens of catties more than others..."

Everyone laughed louder: "What does it mean to have dozens of kilograms more than others? Mr. Yang can grow more than twenty kilograms of grain in one acre of land!" It is difficult for even farmers to understand what dozens of kilograms of grain means. For them, For a farmer, it may be just one month's worth of food, but for farmers, it's a month's hard work. They must work harder than others to harvest this little bit more food.

Yang Menglong waved his hand to signal everyone not to laugh, and asked the old farmer very kindly: "Why can the harvest of your field be tens of catties more than others?"

The old farmer said: "I...I will choose the best seeds, and I will also accumulate fertilizer, fertilize the crops when they need fertilizer most, and prepare some potions to spray when the crops are sick to get rid of the diseases... …”

Yang Menglong was surprised: "You can also make pesticides yourself?"

The old farmer said: "Yes. The craftsmanship passed down by my grandfather is very useful... It's just that my fields have been taken away by Mr. Yue to pay off the debt. If there is no land to grow, this craft will not be useful..."

Yang Menglong said: "Tell me, what diseases do wheat usually suffer from, and what kind of potions should be used to spray them?"

The old farmer's one-fifth and ten-ten way is like a treasure.For a person who has dealt with crops all his life, his understanding of crops is based on his understanding of his wife. They know exactly what diseases crops may suffer from at what time and what harm they will cause.It’s just that there are no pesticides these days. Even if they know that the crops are sick, they can only stare blankly. However, this old farmer obviously has a unique skill. He can use some plants and minerals to prepare soil pesticides. I dare not say that the medicine will cure the disease, but at least it is effective. Can keep a little harvest, which is why his crops are a little higher than others.Yang Menglong was amazed, he really is a talent, this old farmer relied on his own talent and the experience passed down from generation to generation, and found out a set of effective soil technology, so that his crops can harvest dozens of catties of grain per mu of land, This number may not be very eye-catching, but what if it is 100 mu of land? What about 50 million mu of land?Even, what about [-] million mu?How much more food should be harvested and how many more people should be fed!He patted the table and said: "Okay, you really have real talents! You can come to our school to be an agronomist. You don't have to do other work, just teach everyone how to farm...Of course, if you are really bored, you can do it. You can go to the fields and teach everyone how to weed and pest control." After thinking for a while, he added: "As for the salary, I will give you a little more. The annual salary is [-] taels of silver, including board and lodging, and there is a bonus at the end of the year. Are you satisfied? ?”

Everyone was shocked, including the old farmer: "The annual...annual salary is 50 taels of silver!" God, a farmer may not be able to save so much money in his life!
Yang Menglong said: "The annual salary is 50 taels, which is a good deal! You can increase the yield of each mu of land by tens of catties. The military farmland in our guard has hundreds of thousands of mu, and the increase of yield of tens of catties per mu is tens of millions." It’s a catty, more than [-] shi! I think the money is well spent.”

The old farmer said nonchalantly, "I...I can't read..."

Yang Menglong said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to read. In the future, few people who will learn how to farm with you will be able to read. Don't laugh at anyone. However, you should learn how to read, otherwise it will be very inconvenient... that's fine, if you don't If there is any problem, let's sign the contract!"

The man signed the contract neatly.It's just that when he left with the contract in hand, he was not at all brisk, and he looked like he was sleepwalking...

This time the scene was completely shocked. Damn it, you can get 50 taels of silver every year for teaching arithmetic and farming. Where can you find such a good job!The guys who thought they had special skills struggled to separate themselves from the crowd and squeezed to the front. They rushed to introduce their technical expertise to Yang Menglong. Each one was more anxious than the other. In the end, they were so crowded that they almost started fighting!It's completely opposite to what happened just now.No way, who wouldn't want such a beautiful job?But the space is limited, so I have to rush to grab it.However, this teacher is not something they can become if they want to. They have to take exams.Only a genius knows what is going on with Yang Menglong. No matter which professional talent he is, he can ask highly targeted questions. Those who do not have rich relevant knowledge and experience are mercilessly discarded by him. After a day of tossing, he also Only six people were recruited, and Liu Ziyan and Cheng Qi had already recruited enough enlightenment teachers. Alas, the efficiency was too far behind!

The job fair on the second day was even more popular. Yang Menglong hadn't set up his booth yet, and the scene was already crowded with people.Local people from other places flocked to his stall, vying to recommend their skills to him, trying to get reused, but unfortunately, Yang Menglong’s standards are very high, it’s not enough to have a skill, what he wants is Someone who has mastered that craft!In this way, nine out of ten of those who came to apply for the job came here in good spirits and returned in disappointment.Despite this, Yang Menglong still recruited some talents he wanted one after another:
Three short and fat chefs who looked like round oil drums. When one of them started working, he heard his apprentice talk about how they were recruiting people with high salaries and could earn several taels of silver a month. Throw it and rush over to apply.This man was very good at knife skills, and he was very good at using a kitchen knife. Yang Menglong was thinking about whether to transfer him to his house to help him cook.

A skinny veterinarian with a faint smell of poultry droppings.This man is about 40 years old, he likes to deal with livestock and poultry, and he has excellent medical skills, but this profession is a profession that is highly discriminated against, so he is not a bachelor until now, and his family is too poor to let go.Yang Menglong generously gave him an annual salary of 40 taels of silver. By the way, he hired him as a technical guide for his farm, specifically instructing military households to prevent and control various poultry and livestock diseases, improve breeding techniques, and increase breeding efficiency. The salary is not included.Adding up these two salaries, he probably has an income of nearly a hundred taels of silver a year, and the big girls present are staring at stars!

Two unprofessional alchemists.What these two dear friends usually like to do most is not alchemy, but to put all kinds of messy things into the alchemy furnace, and use all kinds of messy methods to refine them, to see what they can refine.According to their own statement, they put the pyrite sand into the alchemy furnace for refining, and then recovered the gas produced during the refining process in a furnace, and then added appropriate water to form green vitriol oil, and finally made green vitriol oil again. Adding high-purity nitrate to the alum oil, a very terrible strong acid is finally refined, no matter how powerful the metal is, it will be corroded by it!Yang Menglong slapped his thigh, isn't this fucking nitric acid!These two living treasures can be regarded as daring. They dared to use this kind of technology and equipment to produce nitric acid.The two became chemistry teachers.

A few old Chinese doctors who came to Nanyang from other places to make a living.These few have dealt with patients all their lives, all kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases are cured by medicine, and they have high medical ethics and a good reputation. Yang Menglong hopes that they can teach batches of students with superb medical skills and noble medical ethics like them. Promote Chinese medicine.

A young man who looks silly, but when he talks about Venus and Jupiter, his eyes shine brightly.This old man has no other hobbies. He likes to think about the orbits of the major planets and the resulting seasons and climate changes. He is considered an ancient astronomer.He learned his skills from a monk, and his attainment is not enough, but his strong interest is enough to make up for it. He can learn while teaching!Yang Menglong accepted him generously, there was no other way, there are too few people who understand astronomy now, compared with the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties, it is like a world of difference.In ancient times, the status of astronomers was extremely honorable. They had to study astronomy and geography, compile almanacs, perform divination based on various astronomical phenomena, and make predictions... In a word, they are the bridges between the Son of Heaven and God, and their status can be imagined And know.Astronomers don't have much power, but their reputation is extremely high. It's okay for the emperor to kill all the prime ministers, but if an astronomer is killed for no reason, the whole country will call him a fool.Leaving aside the messy things like astrology, astronomers were indeed very important in ancient times, because they had to compile almanacs based on the movement of celestial bodies. Ancient almanacs were not just about dates, they would have a lot of content to remind citizens when to Sowing and when to fertilize are extremely important for agricultural production.After each new dynasty is established, the first thing to do is to compile the almanac and then distribute it to the people. It must be distributed once a year. If the almanac is not compiled or distributed, the people will think that the court is doomed. Important things are ignored.The accumulation of various factors made ancient China's astronomy extremely developed, far ahead of the world, but it failed in the Ming Dynasty. For nearly 300 years, the Ming Dynasty used the "Shoushi Calendar" compiled by the Yuan Dynasty, and did not have its own calendar.Until the end of Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi, Li Tianjing and others cooperated with European missionaries and absorbed a lot of European astronomical knowledge. It took nine years to compile the "Chongzhen Almanac", which is the swan song of astronomy in the Ming Dynasty and the last almanac in ancient China.Regrettably, the Ming Dynasty died before this almanac could be published. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty became the first dynasty in China that did not have its own almanac since the Qin Dynasty. "The data on" was sorted out and renamed "Shixian Calendar", which has been used for hundreds of years.What does it mean that the predecessors plant trees and the descendants enjoy the shade?That's it.Yang Menglong accepts this guy who is not doing his job properly, hoping that he can cultivate more people who like to observe astrology, so that the once brilliant ancient Chinese astronomy will not sink.

A lot of things are not worth doing unless they can get you back a lot of benefits.Some things may not bring you direct benefits, but passing them on is a mission, a mission that cannot be avoided.

By the way, he also recruited two missionaries from Holland.Although the two missionaries didn't like to do exercises, and the smell of sweat on their bodies almost made Xiao Yufang faint, Yang Menglong still felt like a treasure.Missionaries these days are just like college students in the 80s, full of gold. They have dabbled in various fields such as mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and medical skills, and many of them are even masters in certain fields!Matteo Ricci and Tang Ruowang are very famous masters, and they are also extremely incompetent missionaries. What they do most when they come to China is to spread the knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, geometry and other aspects from Europe. Translating European science and technology works!For example, Matteo Ricci is a typical representative. He cooperated with Xu Guangqi to translate "The Elements of Geometry". The translation of "Taixi Water Conservancy" that Matthew failed to finish was completed.

Yang Menglong generously offered the two missionaries a monthly salary of five taels of silver, but there was one thing: they had to take a bath every day!The poisonous body odor on them, not to mention Xiao Yufang, even he couldn't stand it!
(End of this chapter)