After Mr. Zhu came back, the second thing he did was to write a township covenant for Bailu Village.

"1. 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 can choose friends, be honest, be generous, be able to be trusted, and save people in trouble..." He handed over this rural contract to Bai Jiaxuan and other clan elders.

"Mr. Zhu's township agreement is well written. If it can really be done like this, then our Bailu Village will really become Renyi Village." Lu Taiheng said with a smile.

"It's just that 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, what's written on it is stricter than the notice in the county." A clan elder said, "I wonder if the villagers will accept it."

"The common people follow the education, so what is education? That is to say, there must be certain rules in speaking, walking, behaving, and doing things in the world. These rural covenants are the rules." Mr. Zhu explained, "The so-called "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 should be strict from the beginning, only in this way can we get good results.

Just like fire and water, the fire is so fierce that it can't be sustained even if it gets closer. 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, and they like to take a bath in the water when the weather is hot. 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 clan elders heard this, they all nodded.

…

Afterwards, Bai Jiaxuan carved the rural covenant 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 who read the Four Books and Five Classics, the Legend of Loyal Ministers, and the Legend of Erchen, they often do double-dealing and betrayal.

There are not many people who are as honest and self-respecting as Mr. Zhu, who sacrifice their lives for justice.

Therefore, it is nothing to break the promise of hometown. It is the most difficult thing to be able to apply what you have learned and unite your knowledge and practice.

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 climbing up, doing bad is like falling down. Learning well is not easy, but learning bad will slip away.

People like those who have been gambling for several years have already become addicted to gambling. People like Bai Xing'er, Bai Shitou'er and others have become addicted to drugs.

And these addictions cannot be controlled by just one township contract.

Therefore, they still reneged on the local covenant, but they still played around with money and smoked cigarettes. There was no change at all.

…

When Bai Jiaxuan found out that the villagers were violating the law, 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 will cost 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 anymore, not anymore!" Bai Xing'er, Shitou'er, Sang Laoba and others all shouted.

"Shut up, how many times have you said this? If you don't say it's annoying, all the young and old men are tired of hearing it." Bai Jiaxuan scolded, "I'll treat the problem on your hands today. I'll treat the problem on your mouth today." Treat your mouth."

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

The beatings were so painful that Bai Xing'er, Sang Laoba, Bai Shitou'er and others bared their teeth and cried.

And this approach also scared the 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 for him to see such a cruel father.

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

Then they set up a pot in the ancestral hall, poured boiling water into the pot, and then threw the money in and asked them to fish for it. As a result, they all got burned so hard that they grinned and called their father and mother.

"Keep in mind the pain. 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."

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

The people in the whole village were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their limbs became weak. No one dared not to take the village agreement seriously.

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 must 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 thirty or forty children in the village now. Except for Zhaopeng Zhaohai and Xiaowen Xiaowu, all the other children have no education. They urinate in the mud every day, chase chickens and dogs, play like crazy, and have trouble with human affairs. don't know.

I think they should be allowed to study. Only by studying can they be sensible, only by studying can they be knowledgeable, and only by studying can they be motivated. I fully support it. Uncle Jiaxuan, in this way, I will pay for the children’s books, and each child will have one bucket of food per month. It’s used 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.

It is not uncommon for children of the so-called poor to head home early. It is not uncommon for children as young as five or six to work in the fields, weeding, collecting firewood, feeding cattle, catching insects, etc. Even at the age of thirteen or fourteen, they are already strong laborers.

Therefore, Bai Jiaxuan had good intentions in setting up a school, but not all families had the conditions. In ancient times, it took three generations to support a scholar.

Therefore, Xiang Nan proposed that each child should be given a dou of grain every month. A dou of grain weighs twelve and a half kilograms, which is barely enough to feed one 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.
Chapter completed!