Early the next morning, Zhang Kewen took people out to survey the terrain of the new school.

Before Li Changxian sat down to drink tea, Zhang Kewen brought people back and said that he had found a suitable place for the new school, near a small hill about 500 meters away from the old military camp.

For this reason, Li Changxian took a tea cup and went out to take a look. The location was not bad. There were mountains and water nearby (a small hill and a small river behind it). The terrain was relatively gentle. The key was that it was close to the military camp. In case of any

Whatever happens, the military camp can still provide support in time.

It was built as soon as it was built, and Li Changxian transferred most of the paving crews to build the school. After all, the roads in Wanling County were not bad every day or two, but the children could not wait in a hurry.

If you are short of stones, go dig in the surrounding mountains!

If there is a shortage of bricks and tiles, please bring in the bricks and tiles for building my house first.

If there is a shortage of cement, go to Liu Xiaoer to ask for it, and supply it to the school first.

There is a shortage of iron tools, and there is nothing I can do about it!

Wanling County is short of iron tools and blacksmiths. Everyone knows that there is a shortage of iron tools. You can buy these. Li Changxian has arranged for many times to greet the merchants in Xiangyang Town and ask them to transport more iron tools.

, whether it is for civilian or military use, as long as it is iron, Li Changxian will buy it.

At the same time, Li Changxian has expressed goodwill many times, and you merchants can come to Wanling County to open shops and build storage centers. However, the merchants have not yet given a definite answer. Only a small number of people came to the old county government trading market to temporarily sell goods.

The key is the lack of mutual trust! Li Changxian is also deeply helpless about this. A foot of ice is not frozen in a day!

As for the lack of blacksmiths, there are only two blacksmith shops in such a large Wanling County, and one of them was actually set up by Li Changxian. These were the two blacksmith apprentices Li Changxian discovered when he arranged for Zhang Kewen to conduct a census of the military camp last time.

After playing with the hammer for a few days with a blacksmith, even though his craftsmanship was not very good, Li Changxian regarded it as a treasure and directly used it to open a blacksmith shop.

Even if the blacksmith shop can make new iron tools, without a master craftsman, all we can do is burn a coal stove and repair the damaged iron tools.

This time Zhang Kewen is still doing a census of new arrivals, and it is said that he has discovered several people who used to be blacksmiths.

If you don't have iron tools, then use wooden or stone tools, or if that doesn't work, use your hands.

Li Changxian has no choice. If the tools are not good, then manpower can be used to make up for them.

The new school was built very quickly. In less than a week, the originally desolate hill was already covered with blue brick houses and stone courtyard walls. The courtyard was paved with gravel mixed with cement, and trees dug from outside had been transplanted in the vacant areas.

The flowers and plants that decorate the school are no different from schools in later generations.

The buildings in the school are made of bricks and tiles, and the walls and floors are all made smooth with cement. After the walls are dry, Li Changxian plans to paint them again with lime and white lime to make the school brighter.

Regarding the issue of tables and stools, Zhang Kewen has already contacted a carpentry shop in Wanling County and will send a batch of tables and stools after the school is completed.

The school is almost finished, but now we just need students!

The enrollment notice has been posted for three days, and Li Changxian also told everyone that he wanted everyone to go back and promote it more and call on families with children to sign up.

The current situation is that the thirty or forty children who first came with Li Changxian have all come, and only a dozen children from Sangualiangzao have signed up.

What is going on? Last time Li Changxian asked the children, most of them wanted to come to school.

Zhang Kewen cried and laughed on the side and said: "Adults, it's not that children don't want to go to school, but that children can't live without it at home!"

At this time, children at the age of five or six start to do housework, take care of younger siblings, cook and wash, and can do any kind of work.

If he goes to school, who will look after his younger siblings? Who will cook the food at home? Who will wash the clothes?

Besides, going to school also requires a lot of money to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones, as well as three meals a day for the children.

"If tuition is waived, where will the school provide three meals a day and pen, ink, paper and inkstones for free?"

Li Changxian had no choice but to grit his teeth and bear the pain and forget about the heavy bleeding.

Anyway, these children are trained to serve themselves, and I don’t want all of my subordinates to be poor, illiterate, etc.

Just think of yourself as investing first, and you will slowly recover your profits later.

It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people!

No, I can't wait for a hundred years. How many years of compulsory education should I give you? Nine years is too long. After these children have learned enough, Li Changxian doesn't intend to let them take the exam.

Five years of compulsory education? Not bad, at least like later generations, just graduate from high school and have the equivalent of junior high school!

The next day, more people signed up. After all, children are left at home, wasting food, and can't do much at home. If a stupid person takes care of three meals a day, how can you not go? Unless your family is stupid, this

Who wouldn’t take advantage of something?

If Li Changxian knew that they thought this way, he would definitely gnash his teeth and shout, "I'm not stupid. Let's see who will be stupid in the future?"

Even the residents of Wanling County came to ask if their children would be enrolled. After receiving a positive answer, they hurried home and sent their children to sign up.

Li Changxian was very happy to see so many children signing up. He was very pleased.

But when he saw that many of the children who had signed up were dragging along some small children, and some who could not walk yet, Li Changxian was confused.

To collect or not to collect?

Don't accept it. These children go to school and there is no one at home to take care of their younger siblings. So they are not destined to be out of school!

I can't bear it! I've taken in even those who can't walk. You can't let the parents of young children work for you and leave the children at home alone! Let's have a companion with the two babies at home. At the worst, I can open a nursery by myself.

, kindergarten or something.

This is a lot of money! Look at this situation, if you don't support these children for ten or twenty years, you won't be able to get rid of them.

Thinking that his money was flowing out like water, Li Changxian felt heartache.

In this way, the school enrolled two to three hundred children who could attend school normally and more than one hundred children aged one to three or four.

Li Changxian had no choice but to carve out a small courtyard on one side of the school and set up an ancient kindergarten.

For this reason, Li Changxian temporarily appointed Erya as the director of the kindergarten, and recruited seven or eight women to take care of the children in the courtyard.

The newly recruited children are divided into five classes, starting from learning the Three Character Classic, so they can be regarded as elementary school students, first grade students!

As for the thirty or forty children who went to school with Wang Jingmei before, Li Changxian saw that they had all finished learning the Three-Character Classic and had begun to learn the Thousand-Character Classic of Hundred Family Surnames, so they were all classified as second grade.

There are too many children, so it would be too much pressure for just four or five of them, Li Changxian, to teach.

Li Changxian still has to look at the overall situation and take charge of the economy, political affairs, health and other work of the entire Wanling County. He can't come here often to teach! Even if it takes a day or two, Li Changxian will feel bored after a long time.

I am not good at dealing with children, so I am not suitable to be a people's teacher! Zhang Kewen and He Yue are busy with county government affairs all day long, so how can they have so much time to teach?

Wang Jingmei didn't say anything.

Looking at Li Zhu's grimace, he knew what this kid was going to say, and Li Changxian quickly told him to shut up!

Zhao Ling'er was so happy! She dragged Zhao Yuan over to inspect the school, as if these children were the future disciples of her Zhao family and could inherit the Zhao family's martial arts and carry them forward.

Go and recruit some experienced scholars from other places. You can’t rely on the few existing people to die!

But recruiting teaching people cannot be completed in a day or two. Whether they come or not is a matter of course!

In the end, Li Changxian thought of a way. Since the second grade students can read and write the Three Character Classic, it is better to find a good and flexible child in the second grade to temporarily teach the first grade students.

If they are tired, can’t the second grade children take turns teaching?

Lee Chang-hyun is very proud of his wit!

Am I proud?
Chapter completed!