Volume 1 Chapter 0037 Next Generation
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Nan Yi climbed up a tung tree, sat on a branch, held a pen and paper, looked out over the entire Wenchang area, and drew a simple topographic map.
After he finished, he made a mark at a certain location and then came down from the tree.
"Uncle Xian, I've taken a look and this is the most suitable place to build a primary school. It's not too far from any corner of the brigade to this location, and it's also far from the village center, so teaching won't be affected too much."
"Nan Yi, are you planning to build a primary school or a complete primary school?"
"Of course it is a complete primary school. I hope this school is different from other primary schools. Children will go to school at the age of five, receive early childhood education first, and enter primary school courses at the age of seven.
In addition to the three subjects of mathematics, Chinese, and ideology and morality, English, music, physical education, labor skills, farming, computer, and martial arts courses are also offered.
The others are compulsory, and computer and martial arts are minor subjects. It is up to the children themselves to decide whether to study them or not."
“Although I don’t quite understand the other things, it’s always good to learn more; but as for farming, sending children to school is to help them escape from farming, so why do we need to teach them this?
Besides, do I need to learn this?
There is no child in the brigade who did not grow up helping with farm work.”
I really can’t understand why Xian Yaodong offers farming courses in Nanyi.
"This farming is different from farming. Although I call it farming, it doesn't mean working blindly in the fields like we did before. The course I want to teach should be more accurately called agronomy.
When we used to farm, we knew which month to plant rice and which month to harvest. But why do we do this at this time instead of other months? How many people in the brigade know this?
Isn’t it still based on the traditions left over from the past and the teachings of the agricultural technicians at the agricultural technology station?
The children of the brigade will basically not stay at home to farm.
But not doing farming doesn't mean they don't understand farming. Since they come from a farming family, they have to look like farmers. How can they not know how to farm?
In addition, I also want to let the children experience some hardship, so that they know how hard it is to farm, so that they will study hard in order not to farm. "
Nan Yi rubbed his hands, took out a pack of unopened cigarettes, opened it from the bottom, took out a cigarette and gave it to Xian Yaodong, then put one in his own mouth.
"Uncle Xian, have you ever seen a place where there is no distinction between the three, six, and nine classes?"
"No, rice seedlings have to be sorted into different groups, let alone people." Xian Yaodong said without hesitation.
“Yes, nothing is equal for everyone.
Look at this tree, its roots are thick and its top is thin. Doesn't it want to grow to be as thick from top to bottom?
It wants to, but it can't.
Because only when it grows like this can it better receive sunlight, absorb nutrients from the soil, and survive.
The same is true for people. The rewards God bestows on each person vary. Some people have good luck and get more, while some people have bad luck and get less.
A dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse’s son will dig holes.
What are the children of Wenchangwei like in this unequal society ?
They are the sons of mice, and they are the daughters of mice. Don’t you want to see them still be able to dig holes or repair the earth in the future?
In the past, there was a shortage of materials, so the country created a money scissors gap to ensure the supply of cities. Now, we need to develop the economy, but the country has no money and the local governments have no money either. Where do you think the funds for development will come from?
Don't even think about it. Just wait and see. In addition to paying the imperial grain, no matter under what name, we have to pay one more.
Uncle Xian, if you are honored in front of people, you will suffer behind their backs.
If children want to live a better life, they must suffer more than others and suffer first. "
Nan Yi put his hands behind his back, looked at Shencun Bay not far away, and chanted: "No one cared about me for ten years, but I became famous overnight. Forty and fifty are the foundation, sixty is the frame, seventy is the wind and rain protection, eighty is the interior decoration, and ninety is the blessing.
Starting this year, anyone who gets admitted to university can get a reward of 5,000 yuan; anyone who gets admitted to Baozhong will get 3,000 yuan; anyone who gets admitted to a public technical secondary school will get 1,500 yuan; and anyone who gets admitted to a regular high school will get 1,000 yuan.
For other honors received in school, there are rewards of different amounts. You can discuss and come up with a specific charter.
The reward is given in the name of the brigade, but the money is paid by me personally."
"How can I let you pay? Let the brigade pay for it." Xian Yaodong said hurriedly, "If the brigade can't pay, I should pay for it. I am a good man and my last name is Xian."
"Haha, Uncle Xian, although my last name is not Xian, I consider myself a member of Wenchangwei, so it's okay for me to pay. There's no need to argue about this matter. I'll pay for it."
"That won't do. Since you paid, you have to let the children remember your kindness. I have to let the children know that it was you who paid."
"Well, you can tell them what you want to tell them, but not now. Tell them in two years. Now, being too rich is not a good thing. I don't want to be in the spotlight."
Obviously, Nan Yi never thought of being an unsung hero. He gave money just to make everyone remember his kindness. When he needs people in the future, the people he rewarded will come to work for him.
Even if Xian Yaodong didn't mention telling others that the money was paid by Nan Yi, Nan Yi would guide Xian Yaodong and tell him not to keep it to himself, but to tell everyone loudly about his dissatisfaction.
Alas, Xian Yaodong is too knowledgeable and tactful, which deprives Nan Yi of another opportunity to show off.
Unfortunately, Nan Yi had already thought of the lines he would use in the future. So he had to discard them and make some changes so that he could use them in other places later.
"Okay, then we'll tell them two years later. The brigade will just bear this empty title first."
"Come on, let's go over and take a look at this area. I'll tell you how this school should be built."
The two came to the place marked by Nan Yi, and Nan Yi began to explain his plan with gestures, "Build a big wall outside, open two gates in the front and back, and the school will be fully closed. Only teachers and students can enter. Parents cannot enter without receiving notification from the school.
The wall starts from here and goes all the way to there..." Nan Yi pointed to the distance and said, "The front half is a primary school, and the back half is where I plan to build an orphanage.
The trend of family planning has been launched, but most families prefer sons to daughters, hoping to have a boy as the first child, and then a boy or a girl as the second child.
If the country only allows one child, and the first child is a girl, or the child has defects, and they want to have more children, what will they do? "
"It's easy. Just fight guerrilla warfare. Go out and give birth, then come back. The government can't strangle the baby to death, right?"
"Well, what you said is one possibility. Another possibility is to throw the child away and pretend that you never gave birth to him.
The heartless ones would just throw the bodies into the grass by the roadside or on the hillside, not caring whether their children can survive or not; the ones with a conscience might even leave a token or a note and throw it at someone else’s doorstep.”
"You want to help the children? If family planning is really implemented, how many people in the country will throw their children away? It must be tens of thousands. Can you help so many people?"
Nan Yi said compassionately: "I'll help as many people as I can. Besides, the country won't ignore it. I'll just be a substitute to fill in the gaps."
