The second thing Mr. Zhu did after he came back was to write a township covenant for Bailu Village.


    "First, virtue and karma encourage each other. Virtue means that you must do good when you see it, correct your mistakes after hearing them, be able to manage your body, be able to cultivate your family, be able to serve your father and brothers, be able to teach your children, be able to control children and servants, be able to respect your elders, and be able to live in harmony with your relatives. Neighbors, able to choose friends, able to be honest, able to extend benefits, able to be trusted, able to save people in trouble..." He handed over this rural contract to Bai Jiaxuan and other clan elders.


    “Mr. Zhu’s village contract is well written. If it can be done like this, then our Bailu Village will really become a Renyi Village.” Lu Taiheng said with a smile.


    "The restrictions are too strict, and I''m afraid the villagers won''t be able to abide by them." A clan elder said worriedly.


    "Yes, the notices written on it are stricter than those in the county." A clan elder said, "I wonder if the villagers will accept it."


    "The people follow the education, so what is education? There are certain rules for speaking, walking, behaving, and dealing with the world. These rural covenants are the rules." Mr. Zhu explained, "Those who seek the best will get it. Those who seek the best will get the best, and those who seek the worst will get nothing. The rules must be strict from the beginning, so as to achieve good results.


    Just like fire and water, fire is so fierce that it cannot be sustained even if it is too close. Therefore, people are afraid of fire and stay away from fire, so they rarely get burned to death by fire.


    The water is soft, so everyone likes to get close to the water. When the weather is hot, they also like to take a bath in the water. As a result, people drown every year. "


    Everyone heard what he said and felt it made sense.


    "Brother-in-law is right." Bai Jiaxuan agreed very much, "I will ask everyone to copy this rural covenant home and memorize it all. I will also engrave this rural covenant into a monument and erect it on the Our ancestral hall allows future generations to abide by it.”


    When the elders heard this, they all nodded.


    …


    ?Subsequently, Bai Jiaxuan carved the township agreement into a monument and erected it in the Bailu Ancestral Hall.


    ?The villagers also began to memorize the village covenant, and even the old men who could not read followed suit.


    ?But Xiang Nan knows that this is basically formalism.


    Just like scholars, they all read the Four Books and Five Classics, including the Biography of Loyal Ministers and the Biography of Erchen Chen, but they often do double-dealing and betrayal.


    ?There are few people who can be as honest and self-reliant as Mr. Zhu, who sacrifice their lives for righteousness.


    ?Therefore, it is nothing to break one''s hometown promise. Being able to apply what you have learned and integrate what you know and what you do is the most difficult thing.


    ?Sure enough, although Bailu Village built an ancestral hall, plowed smoke seedlings, and established village covenants, the people''s hearts and customs were not so easy to change.


    After all, doing good is like ascending, doing evil is like falling. It''s not easy to learn well, but it''s easy to learn bad things.


    ?Those people have been gambling for several years and have developed a gambling addiction. And people like Bai Xing''er, Bai Shitou''er and others are even more addicted to drugs.


    These addictions cannot be controlled by just one township contract.


    ?Hence, they still reneged on their rural covenants, but they still played with money and smoked cigarettes. There was no change at all.


    …


    When Bai Jiaxuan found out that the villagers were violating the rules, he was furious. He took the villagers who were still playing money and smoking to the ancestral hall and tortured them.


    ??Bai Jiaxuan first asked them to memorize the township covenant, and then began to ask for help, picking up a jujube stick as thick as an egg.


    “Oh, Jiaxuan, you can’t do it, it’s someone’s life.” When Lu Zilin saw it, he quickly advised. "I will pay for the loss of life." Bai Jiaxuan said, carrying a stick and walked over.


    “Oh, patriarch, we don’t dare, not anymore!” Bai Xing’er, Shitou’er, Sang Laoba and others all shouted.


    "Shut up, how many times have you said this? You didn''t say it was annoying. All the young and old men are tired of hearing it." Bai Jiaxuan scolded, "I will treat the problem on your hands today. I will treat the problem on your mouth today." Treat your mouth."


    After saying that, he picked up the stick and hit the boards with all the villagers in front of them.


    The beatings were so painful that Bai Xing''er, Sang Laoba, Bai Shitou''er and others grimaced and cried for their fathers and mothers.


    ?And this approach also frightened other villagers.


    ?Most of them are honest people. They have never seen such a scene. Many of them were frightened. Bai Xiaowen was so frightened that he peed his pants because it was the first time he had seen such a cruel father.


    After finishing the game, Bai Jiaxuan asked them to tell how much they won and how much they lost, and then asked the winner to go home and get the money back.


    Then he set up a pot in the ancestral hall, poured boiling water into the pot, threw the money in, and asked them to catch it. As a result, they were all burnt to the point of grinning and calling them daddy and mommy.


    "You should remember this painful feeling, and next time you dare to bet, I will let you get into the frying pan!" Bai Jiaxuan scolded, "Okay, I will treat your hand problems, and now I will treat your mouth problems. Mouth."


    Subsequently, he asked people to dig out two spoonfuls of yellow soup from the manure pit, opened their mouths and poured it in.


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    And after those smokers suffered such torture, they really didn’t dare to smoke anymore.


    Of course, this is a later story.


    …


    After punishing these people, Bai Jiaxuan found Lu Zilin and Xiang Nan to discuss building a school in the village.


    "If you want to change customs, you have to pay attention to education. What education means is education and influence. How to educate and influence, then we need to build a school." Bai Jiaxuan explained, "I want to build a school in our village so that children can study. Literacy, what do you think?”


    "Uncle Jiaxuan, this is a good idea. There are currently thirty or forty children in the village. Except for Zhaopeng Zhaohai and Xiaowen Xiaowu, all the other children have no education. They urinate in mud every day, chase chickens and dogs, play crazy and make trouble. don''t know.


    I think they should be allowed to read, so that they can be sensible, knowledgeable, and motivated. I fully support it. Uncle Jiaxuan, in this way, I will pay for the children’s books. In addition, each child will receive a bucket of food per month to make up for the family’s shortfall while studying. Xiang Nan said.


    The reason why many children do not study is because their families are poor.


    The so-called children of the poor start their own families at an early age, and it is not uncommon for children as young as five or six to work in the fields, such as weeding, collecting firewood, feeding cattle, catching insects, etc. Even at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he was already a strong laborer.


    For this reason, Bai Jiaxuan had good intentions in wanting to open a school, but not everyone had the conditions. In ancient times, it took three generations to support a scholar.


    That’s why Xiang Nan proposed that each child should be given a bushel of grain every month. A bucket of grain weighs twelve and a half kilograms, which is barely enough to feed a child.


    ??The school in Bailuyuan does not have a nine-year compulsory system. Most children learn the Three-Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, Thousand-Character Classic, etc. It is enough for them to be able to write their own names and count.


    So the children who go to school are basically between six and eleven or twelve years old. No matter how old they are, they cannot be allowed to go to school. For children of this age, half a pound of food a day should be enough.