Chapter 379 Sending Tiger
Not to mention that Madam Lu wanted to return to the capital, in fact, Su sometimes thought of the capital and missed it a lot.
However, her mentality was different from that of Mrs. Lu. Although she missed the capital, life in Taiwan was more interesting and gave her a greater sense of accomplishment.
This was something she had never experienced when she was in the capital.
This sense of accomplishment also made Su gradually dissatisfied with just staying in Taiwan and governing the island. She wanted to change places and do something more challenging.
Coincidentally, she also noticed that Mrs. Lu was homesick and wanted to return to the capital. After much deliberation, Su found Jiang Tangtang and told her what she was thinking.
However, she did not do so as a mother-in-law, but rather as an official below, writing a document to clearly describe the situation on the island.
However, the relationship between the two is mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and it is impossible for them to be as serious as they treat other officials.
Jiang Tangtang brought tea and cakes over for Su. While drinking tea, Su said, "It's not even spring yet, and everyone has started to clean up the land, planning to pull up the cacti and plant crops.
Many families took some cacti home to plant on their walls, while others carried mud to the rocky beaches on the island and planted cacti in the cracks of the rocks.
As early as the end of last year, everyone tried it and found that cactus can be grown with just a little soil.
And it doesn't require normal management. The only trouble may be that the cactus is covered with thorns, which makes it a bit difficult to harvest.
But the residents on the island have been growing cacti for so long that they already have experience and don't care about this little trouble.
What they care more about is the benefits that cactus can bring to everyone.
Although the workshop had not yet been built, everyone knew that cacti could be processed and sold for money. Furthermore, a workshop was planned for the island, and large quantities of cacti would be harvested there.
The cactus can be exchanged for money as long as it is sent to the workshop. How could the villagers miss such a good opportunity to make money?
Everyone is working hard to find a place to plant cacti.
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the villagers, all the rocky land on the island that was originally uncultivable has been fully utilized.
However, because the villagers planted so many cacti, even though they tried their best to plant cacti everywhere, there were still a lot of cacti left.
Su bought all of these cacti in the name of the government. She processed the tender ones and planted the old ones along the city walls.
The city walls of Baodao are probably the most unique city walls in the world, as they are covered with densely packed cacti.
The harvesting and planting of these cacti are all done by the soldiers on the island, and all the economic benefits generated by the cacti also go to the military.
This can also be regarded as another way to achieve self-sufficiency of the army.
Of course, these cacti have not been planted for long, and it will take some time for them to generate economic benefits.
But at least the foundation has been laid.
In addition, the workshop Jiang Tangtang had originally planned has now been built. And one island resident actually came up with a product that can easily remove burrs from cacti and entered it into a design competition.
Speaking of the design competition, Su couldn't help but sigh, "Besides coming up with a machine for deburring cacti, Maozi has also made a number of other small gadgets. Although I can't see what they're used for, he's a really clever kid. If we train him well, he might have a bright future."
Jiang Tangtang said, "I plan to set up a special school. In addition to the Four Books and Five Classics, we will also systematically teach some new knowledge. When the selection exam comes, I can let him take a try. If he can pass the test, I will let him study in the school."
Su asked, "The new knowledge is from the books you gave to the study to print?"
Jiang Tangtang smiled and said, "Exactly."
In fact, I had this idea a long time ago, but I was too busy before and never had the time to implement it.
Coupled with the lack of money, she couldn't take care of so many things for the time being.
But when it comes to cultivating talent, we cannot delay.
In particular, she wanted to vigorously develop industry and agriculture, and bring this backward era closer to modernity.
People of this era don’t even know many basic knowledge of physics and chemistry. It would be too slow for them to figure things out on their own.
And teaching classes is a shortcut.
Su was slightly surprised and asked, "So you plan to teach them yourself?"
Jiang Tangtang had never been a teacher before, but now she had to be a teacher in a new time and space. She was actually a little nervous, but still nodded.
"When will the school be opened? When the time comes, we must let Jingcheng and his siblings attend classes as well." In Su's view, the knowledge that Jiang Tangtang taught was from heaven, and their own children must not be left behind.
Jiang Tangtang smiled and said, "Even if Mom didn't tell me, I would still have called them. But don't the two brothers want to follow their uncle to Nan'an? Can they stay and attend the class if they have time?"
"That's because they didn't know you were going to teach. If they knew, even if their uncle begged them, the two brothers wouldn't go."
The Su family actually did not support Lu Jingcheng and his brother following their youngest son to Nan'an. In addition to the unsafe sea conditions, Lu Jingcheng, as the eldest son, would inherit the throne in the future.
In his opinion, he was the one who should learn how to govern the country and be a good monarch.
If he wanted to learn how to govern a country, he should stay and learn from his eldest son and daughter-in-law.
Although she was often proud of her youngest son, in her mind, her youngest son was not as good as her eldest son and daughter-in-law in every aspect.
Jiang Tangtang smiled and said, "That's not necessarily true. I'll ask them to come over and ask later."
She hadn't cared much about her brothers and sisters before, and now she respected their wishes. If they wanted to follow Lu Shili to Nan'an, she wouldn't stop them.
Regardless of whether the two go to Nan'an or not, she plans to pick two tigers from the space to follow them and protect them.
In addition, the guards also need to prepare more.
When they heard that Jiang Tangtang was going to give them a tiger, the two brothers didn't bother to pretend to be mature and both smiled foolishly.
In fact, the two of them have always liked Haihai, but the two brothers love their sister more, so even if they like her very much, they give her to her.
However, the two accepted the big tiger given by Jiang Tangtang, but refused the guards she sent to them.
The two brothers said in unison: "Mom, we don't need guards, we can protect ourselves."
"Why don't you use guards?" Jiang Tangtang looked at the two of them and said, "What if the Xirong general brings thousands of soldiers to capture you? With your own abilities, are you sure you can escape?"
She usually doesn't need guards because she has a space. When she encounters danger, she can hide in the space at any time.
She can also summon a group of tigers in space to help her.
But they are still children.
In the past, the island was heavily guarded, and those who could go to the island had to go through layers of screening, so she was not worried about their safety.
But once outside the treasure island, there were countless people hiding in the dark, trying to catch them and threaten her.
She couldn't just let them do that.
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