Capítulo 48: Chapter 48: Reclaiming farmland and building a primary school
In later America, Kansas, as an unremarkable midwestern state, had little presence.
Being in Mashao, China, my main understanding of this state is that Kansas in comic movies is the place where Superman Clark Kent grew up.
Superman was never real, he was just a Kansas farmer's dream - this line seems to indicate that agricultural conditions in Kansas are pretty good.
This is indeed the case. Kansas is one of the most important agricultural states in the United States.
Ma Shao had almost no experience in agricultural practice, but when he looked around, he could see that the surrounding agricultural conditions were excellent, with soft and fertile soil and abundant water resources, which were very suitable for agricultural development.
There was still a lot of such high-quality unowned land in Kansas at that time, which was undoubtedly good news for the Sleeping Bear Clan.
Afterwards, he and Tukua each led a dozen people to investigate and select along the Arkansas River. 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 at all, almost all areas nearby are suitable.
The only problem now is the lack of farm tools. In the previous transaction with Smith, Ma Shao also bought farm tools, such as soil clods. Most Indians with planting experience also brought some farm tools, but the number was ultimately insufficient to support large-scale reclamation and planting.
However, Ma Shao did not expect that the Mianxiong clan would be able to transform from a nomadic tribe into an agricultural tribe this year.
In his opinion, the most important agricultural goal this year is to accumulate and spread experience among the tribe and cultivate a group of farmers who can work in the fields.
As for the source of food, it is naturally still hunting bison. The bison herds in Kansas are still prosperous enough, so there should be no problem in recent years.
"Tukuai, from today on, you will lead your people to reclaim farmland here." Ma Shao stopped by the Arkansas River, looking at the surging river in front of him, and said slowly.
The clod asked, "Are you bringing people from the planting department?"
"All members of the tribe, as long as they are able to work, must come and learn agricultural technology," said Ma Shao.
"All the tribesmen!" Everyone in the planting department was 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 writing course. You will be the teachers and teach all the tribesmen in batches."
"I hope that by this time next year, we can already use grain as our staple food..."
How long did it take to build the first elementary school in the Sleeping Bear Clan?
The answer was two days.
A large wooden shed that can shelter from wind and rain and a blackboard; this is the physical entity of the Mianxiong Clan Primary School.
It was called a primary school, but in fact it was mainly a literacy class, with students of all ages and genders. It would take a while for a proper school to be established, after all, there was only one qualified teacher, Ma Shao.
Compared with the previous literacy classes on the battlefield, the biggest difference of this primary school is that it has two grades, lower grades and higher grades.
There are three courses in the lower grades: literacy, arithmetic, and general knowledge.
The curriculum for the upper grades has changed: writing, arithmetic, and the world.
There is no need to say much about the literacy and arithmetic classes. The common sense classes are also literal, teaching some of the most basic common sense, such as the earth revolves around the sun.
As for the so-called world class, it is actually a high-end version of the common sense class, or it can be called the "21st Century Common Sense Hodgepodge Class", which is to broaden the horizons of the tribe members and let them 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 all the way to "Das Kapital".
Oh, no, "Das Kapital" had not been published yet, and Marx might have just met Engels at that time.
Let's talk about Robert Owen - about twenty years ago, this utopian socialist set up a "New Harmony Community" in the United States, but it failed.
The course is very clear: after the Big Bang, celestial bodies were formed, then the earth revolved around the sun, then elements formed compounds, inorganic matter synthesized organic matter, organic matter formed organisms, organisms evolved into humans, and humans developed civilization...
Although some of the knowledge seems to be advanced, it is not advanced because it is only briefly mentioned without involving details. It can be said that it is just from newspapers and books.
For example, the theory of evolution already existed before Darwin, but it had many flaws. If Ma Shao only talked about it roughly, it would not attract much attention if it was spread out.
Another example is the Big Bang theory, which was born after the theory of relativity. If Ma Shao really explained it clearly and it spread, the attention of the whole world would be focused on it.
Of course he wanted to become the greatest physicist in the world, but the current Mianxiong clan could not afford the attention from the whole world. If a man holds a treasure in his hands, who knows what consequences will be caused.
So the Big Bang he wanted to talk about is actually similar to a myth. A bunch of celestial bodies exploded in the universe for no apparent reason, and no details were mentioned at all.
Lower and upper grades share classrooms, but have staggered class times.
After passing the exam, lower-level students can transfer to higher-level studies and also obtain the basic qualifications for holding positions.
There is only one teacher in the senior grades, and that is Ma Shao himself.
In addition to literacy, arithmetic, general knowledge, and world studies, there are two special courses that are not related to grade, one is planting and the other is physical education.
There is no doubt that agriculture and sports are both components of the education system in later generations, but now these two subjects have little to do with Mianxiong Primary School. Although they are included in the primary school curriculum, they are actually directly under the responsibility of the Planting Department and the Military Department.
While one grade is taking cultural classes, another grade will take physical education or planting classes, exercising outdoors, learning first aid knowledge, and learning planting techniques.
In a senior class.
The first world class is in progress.
The senior students were all graduates of the battlefield literacy class, about 30 or 40 people, including several junior teachers such as Chang Gun. Now, Ma Shao was adding some new knowledge to their brains.
"Our universe was born in a big bang, ejecting countless elements, which then condensed into celestial bodies, like blooming gunpowder..." Ma Shao narrated slowly.
The minimalist version of the Big Bang theory consisted of only a few words, but he still spoke for several minutes.
Because in order to describe these things, he created a lot of new words in the Apache language, and he had to constantly emphasize and repeat them so that the students could adapt to them. This is roughly equivalent to the "extracurricular reading" of the text class.
There was nothing unexpected about what happened next.
The long stick asked a question, a question that almost everyone would be puzzled about: "Teacher, what was there before the birth of the universe?"
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