1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 48 [Reclaiming Farmland and Establishing Primary School]

(Changes in the first few chapters at the beginning will not affect the subsequent plot)

In the United States of later generations, Kansas, as an unremarkable central state, really has no sense of existence.

Being in China's horse post, the main cognition of this state is: Kansas in the comic book movie is the place where Superman Clark Kent grew up.

Superman was never real, it was just a Kansas farmer's dream—a line that seemed to say that farming conditions in Kansas were fine.

And indeed, Kansas is one of the most important agricultural states in the United States.

Ma Shao has almost no experience in agricultural practice, but he can see that the surrounding agricultural conditions are very good, the soil is soft and fertile, and the water resources are abundant, which is very suitable for farming.

There are still a lot of such high-quality unowned land in Kansas at this time, which is undoubtedly good news for the Sleeping Bear clan.

Afterwards, he and the soil block led a dozen people to inspect and select along the Arkansas River, and on the same day they determined an area that was most suitable for reclamation—the land was flat enough and close to the clan.

In fact, there is no need to choose much at all, almost all nearby areas are suitable.

The only problem now is the lack of agricultural tools. In the previous transaction with Smith, the horse sentry also bought agricultural tools, and most of the Indians with planting experience such as soil blocks also carried some agricultural tools, but the number was insufficient after all, and it was difficult to support large-scale reclamation to plant.

However, Ma Shuo didn't expect the Mianxiong clan to transform from a hunting nation to an agricultural nation this year.

In his view, the main agricultural goal this year is to accumulate and disseminate experience among the clan and cultivate a group of farmers who can go to the fields.

As for the source of food, it is still natural to hunt bison. The bison herd in Kansas is still prosperous enough, and there should be no problems in recent years.

"Mud, from today onwards, you will lead your clansmen to reclaim farmland here." The horse sentry stopped by the Arkansas River, looking at the surging river in front of him, and said slowly.

The clod asked: "Is there someone with the Plantation Department?"

"All tribesmen, as long as they have the ability to work, must come to learn agricultural technology." Ma Shao said.

"All the clansmen!" The people in the planting department were all shocked, after all, there were only a dozen of them in total.

Ma Shao explained: "Of course not at the same time. I plan to set up a primary school and include planting as one of the courses, just like the character class. You will act as teachers and teach the whole tribe in batches."

"Hopefully by this time next year, we'll have food as a staple food..."

How long does it take to build the first primary school in Sleeping Bear Clan?
The answer is two days.

A large wooden shed enough to shelter from the wind and rain, and a blackboard, these are the physical entities of the Sleeping Bear Clan Primary School.

It is said to be an elementary school, but in fact it is mainly a literacy class, and the students are regardless of gender, age or age.That kind of serious school will not be able to run for a while. After all, there is only one qualified teacher, Ma Shao.

Compared with the previous literacy classrooms on the battlefield, the biggest difference of this elementary school is that it has two grades, lower grades and upper grades.

There are three courses in the lower grades: writing, arithmetic, and common sense.

The curriculum in the upper grades changes: words, arithmetic, the world.

Needless to say, the writing class and arithmetic class, the general knowledge class is also literal, and it talks about some basic common sense, such as the earth revolving around the sun and so on.

As for the so-called world class, it is actually a high-end version of the general knowledge class, which can also be called the "21st century general knowledge hodgepodge class", to broaden the knowledge of the tribe and know what the outside world is like.

In the world class, Ma Shao will talk about all kinds of common sense that almost everyone knows in the 21st century, starting from the big bang of the universe and all the way to "Das Kapital".

Oh no, "Das Kapital" has not yet been published, and Marx may have just met Engels at this time.

Then there's Robert Irving -- the utopian socialist who started and failed about 20 years ago in the United States with a "New Harmony Community."

The course of the lecture is very clear. After the big bang, the celestial body was formed, and then the earth revolved around the sun, and then elements formed compounds, inorganic substances synthesized organic matter, organic matter formed organisms, organisms evolved into human beings, and human beings developed civilization...

Although some knowledge seems to be advanced, it is actually not considered advanced because it is all in a flash and does not involve details.It can be said that it is seen from newspapers and books.

For example, the theory of evolution existed before Darwin, but it has many flaws. If you talk about it roughly, it will not attract much attention if it is spread out.

Another example is the big bang theory, which was born after the theory of relativity. If the horse whistle is really made clear, after it is spread, the eyes of the whole world will gather.

Of course he wants to become the greatest physicist in the world, but the Sleeping Bear Clan can't bear the eyes of the whole world. They are all pregnant, and they don't know what the consequences will be.

So the big bang he wants to talk about is actually similar to a myth. The universe exploded a bunch of celestial bodies inexplicably, without mentioning the details.

The lower grades and upper grades share classrooms, but the class time is staggered.

After the students in the lower grades pass the exam, they can transfer to the higher grades to study, and at the same time obtain the basic qualifications for holding positions.

There is only one teacher in the upper grades, and that is Ma Shao himself.

In addition to characters, arithmetic, general knowledge, and world, there are two special courses that have nothing to do with grades, one is planting and the other is physical education.

Undoubtedly, in the education system of later generations, agriculture and sports are one of the components, but now these two courses have little to do with Mianxiong Primary School. directly responsible.

When one grade is in cultural class, the other grade has to take physical education class or planting class, exercise outdoors, learn first aid knowledge, and learn planting techniques.

In the upper grade classroom.

The first world class is underway.

The students in the upper grades all graduated from the field literacy class at the beginning. There are three to 40 students, including several teachers in the lower grades such as the long stick.Now, the Whistle is adding some novel knowledge to their brains.

"Our universe was born in a big bang, throwing out countless elements, and then condensing into celestial bodies, just like blooming gunpowder..." Ma Whistle slowly narrated.

The minimalist version of the big bang theory is just a few words, but he talks about it for a few minutes.

Because in order to describe these things, he created a lot of new words in the Apache language, and he had to keep emphasizing and repeating them so that the students could adapt.This is roughly equivalent to the "extracurricular reading" of the text class.

What happened next was no surprise.

The long stick asked a question, a question that almost everyone would be puzzled: "Teacher, what was before the birth of the universe?"

(End of this chapter)