In the morning, Li Jie met one by one the former members of the Boxer Rebellion who arrived yesterday. Although the time spent communicating with each person was very short, he basically had a clear understanding of the basics of this group of people.
It has to be said that there are still several talents here, and the one who impressed him the most was a young man named Huang Han. Not only was this man good at both civil and military skills, but what was even more rare was that he also knew a lot about things in the military.
In addition, there was a young man named Xu Jing who also left a deep impression on Li Jie. He came from a good background and his parents were both rare and enlightened people.
When the new-style schools first emerged, Xu Jing's parents sent him to study in the new-style schools.
Although his parents died at the hands of corrupt officials and his family was in ruins, he had already achieved success in his studies at that time.
Later, in order to avenge his parents, he resolutely abandoned his studies and joined the Boxer Rebellion, and then successfully killed his enemies in this movement.
After handling the affairs of the security team, Li Jie went to Qiu's house as agreed.
After meeting, Li Jie first thanked the Qiu family for their help. Although Qiu Song kept saying it was not worth mentioning, looking at his performance, it was obvious that he was still very grateful.
After talking about the patrol camp, Li Jie talked to Qiu Song about running a school.
The Qiu family is the biggest local gangster in Yuanbao Town. They can't avoid running a school. What's more, Li Jie plans to make another fortune from the Qiu family.
As expected, the squires were full of enthusiasm for running a school. As soon as Li Jie mentioned it, Qiu Song immediately said that this was a good thing with immeasurable merit.
Later, Qiu Song took the initiative to propose that if he encounters any difficulties during the running of the school, just ask him. As long as the Qiu family can help, he will definitely do his best to help.
Adhering to the spirit of hitting two shots with dates and no dates, Li Jie took advantage of the situation and explained the difficulties.
Li Jie's main purpose of running a school is to cultivate new talents and reserve talents for future expansion. Therefore, he naturally hopes that the more students the better.
But in this feudal and ignorant era, most people are unaware of the importance of education. Even if Li Jie sets the tuition fees very low, many parents will not send their children to school.
Because in rural areas, seven or eight-year-old children are already half of the labor force. Although they are unable to engage in heavy physical labor due to physical reasons, they can still perform light physical labor such as raking pig grass, collecting dry firewood, and herding cattle.
Competent.
If you send your children to school, it means that the family will lose half of its labor force. Once they come and go, the gap will become even bigger.
Faced with this situation, Li Jie didn't have any particularly good solution. He couldn't force school-age children to go to school, right?
Even if he did this, the effect would probably not be too high. After all, even decades later, when compulsory education is officially formulated, many parents still think that reading is useless. After all, you have to eat when you study, and you still have to eat if you don't study.
Therefore, if you want to get more school-age children into school, you must adopt methods that are in line with the current era. For example, let the gentry of Yuanbao Town send people to the countryside to call on the people to send their children to school.
"President Qiu, I wonder if you can help me?"
Qiu Song was silent for a while after listening. He didn't quite understand why he did this.
Call for more farmers’ children to enroll in school?
This is obviously a thankless task. According to the charging standards set by Li Jie, the more students you accept, the more subsidies you will receive. The key is, how will the people in the countryside listen to you?
Since ancient times, reading has been an expensive thing. Pens, inks, paper, and inkstones are free of charge. Ordinary farmers, even with their whole family, cannot afford to support a scholar.
Compared with letting their children study, they are more concerned about what the weather is like today and whether the harvest in the fields is good this year.
Although Qiu Song was very confused, he did not refuse this request.
"It is naturally a good thing to let more people study. I will accept this matter."
Li Jie cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much!"
Qiu Song waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "It's just a matter of raising your hand. There's no need to be polite."
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Wushan Town.
In the study room of the Long family, the father and son of the Long family sat quietly facing each other. After a long time, Master Long Qi sighed and said.
"What a generous move."
Long Zhenhai nodded silently and agreed: "Indeed, this gift from the Qiu family is not light."
This morning, the Long family and his son received news from Fengtian that the Qiu family had asked Captain Zhu for a position. Although he was just a "supervisor", no matter what, the supervisor was also a registered official.
"By the way, has there been a message from Yuanbao Town?"
Long Zhenhai shook his head: "Not yet. If nothing unexpected happens, Zhu Chuanwen should be here tomorrow."
"Get ready, we will meet this Zhu Guan tomorrow."
"Well, everything is ready. The boy has taken over the Songhe Tower, and everyone who needs to be notified has been notified."
The next morning, the Long family father and son, protected by a group of servants, slowly rushed towards the center of the town. Fortunately, they walked peacefully and did not encounter any accidents along the way.
Rushing to the town without stopping, the two of them went straight to Songhe Tower without going anywhere. When the two of them arrived at Songhe Tower, the store was already bustling with people. Everyone in Wushan Town who could be named
Arrived at the scene.
Today's world is becoming more and more chaotic. Although there is news from the capital that big figures will come to Kanto next year to rectify the local public security, these are just 'rumors'.
When it will actually come, or even whether it will come, is still unknown.
Compared to the unknown, they prefer what they can grasp now.
"Sir, you are blessed."
As soon as the Long family father and son got off the carriage, a round-faced middle-aged man came forward.
"Lao Xu, have everything been arranged?"
The round-faced man bowed and said, "Everything has been arranged. The Shandong cuisine master invited from Fengtian is already in place. In addition, the theater troupe has also been lined up and is waiting for Captain Zhu to arrive."
"Well, we must let the other party..."
However, before Long Qiye could finish speaking, a gunshot suddenly rang out at the scene!
boom!
Long Qiye fell down in response.
"Someone is coming!"
"Enemy attack!"
"Dad! Dad!"
"Protect the young master!"
"Master!"
"Someone come quickly!"
As soon as Long Qiye fell, the scene suddenly became chaotic, with shouts and cries for help happening one after another.
Ho!
Ho!
Long Qiye covered his chest and wanted to open his mouth, but found that nothing could come out.
"Dad? Dad? Are you okay?" Long Zhenhai covered Long Qiye's injured chest and shouted loudly: "Quick! Call the doctor!"
have to!
have to!
Boom!
Boom!
At this time, everyone who was talking in the store heard the noise coming from outside, and one or two people ran out in panic. When everyone saw the situation clearly, they suddenly exclaimed.