The children have all gone to school.
There are nurseries and kindergartens for younger children. Older children go to primary school.
People started working at the age of twelve or thirteen after graduating from primary school. In this era, the working age is generally early.
There are Mongolian and Chinese teachers in primary schools, and others take courses such as agriculture, animal husbandry, accounting, veterinary medicine, carpentry, and blacksmithing.
You can find a job after graduation. The courses offered are all very practical knowledge.
Yang Fan didn't want them to waste time learning knowledge they couldn't use. Everything was focused on quick results and practicality.
Of course, if outstanding students are found, they will be sent to the new city to attend middle school and further training will be provided at public expense.
Such people will generally become reserve officials and managers of large factories in the future. Some will also go to military academies and become officers.
Without the burden of taking care of children, Mongolian women are liberated.
An additional labor force is of great significance to the family. After all, there is a big difference between one person making money and the whole family spending it, and two people making money.
Some of the women who had a surplus worked with their husbands in animal husbandry teams, herding horses and sheep to earn work points. Some simply found new jobs in the city.
New workshops are popping up in the city like mushrooms after a rain.
There are various shops, restaurants, carriage shops, boat shops, leather workshops, pickle factories, laundries, mills, basket weaving workshops, etc., there are many types.
Even the newly opened gunpowder bureaus and ordnance repair factories are recruiting female workers. Women are delicate in mind, meticulous in work, and have good patience. They are suitable for doing delicate, tedious, boring and repetitive work.
I heard that in the future I will go to a woolen mill and weave wool into clothing.
I heard that the woolen mill needs 20,000 jobs.
After the news came out, the labor prices in various workshops increased.
All the bosses and shopkeepers took the opportunity to recruit people quickly, so as not to have a large number of people recruited after the woolen mill opened and there would be insufficient remaining labor force in the city.
As a family, both people have income, and their living standards suddenly improve.
Even some old people found jobs as warehouse janitors and street sweepers in the morning.
The most disadvantaged housewives need to take care of their babies at home. They can also receive jobs such as paper boxes from shops, peeling garlic, pickling pickles and sauerkraut in restaurants, which can be done at home, which is still an income.
The Rex Rabbit family was a poor family on the grassland without cattle or sheep. The couple herded sheep for the herder and raised a total of eight children on goat milk.
The eldest daughter is sixteen years old this year. There are two elderly people at home, Rex Rabbit’s parents.
After being captured by An Sanxi, he initially made money by doing public construction work for the Yamen. He obtained some skins by hunting and saved some money. He bought a lele cart and a bucket.
The Rex Rabbit was driving a cart with a large wooden bucket on it.
The clear and sweet mountain spring water is collected from the mountains more than 70 miles to the north. It takes a round trip of 150 miles, transports it back to the city, and sells the water to several teahouses in the city for making tea.
This job is very hard.
We set out before dawn, arrived at the spring at noon, started loading water, and then walked back. We couldn't return to the city until dark.
But the income is very generous.
After working for more than half a year, as the city of Duolun gradually became prosperous, the teahouse business in the city was getting better and better. The tea brewed with spring water was much better than well water, and more water was needed.
Encouraged by the Yamen Industrial and Commercial Department, he applied for a business license for Rex Rabbit Water Shop.
I took a loan from the Duolun branch of Xinghe Bank and bought three heavy-duty draft horses and a caravan with a steel structure, bearing axles, and rubber tires.
This kind of caravan can carry seven tons of water at a time, while the original Lele car can only carry half a ton of water. The transportation capacity has increased fourteen times.
He rented a small shop in the square, with the sign "Rex Rabbit Water Shop" written in Mongolian and Chinese. He asked his mother, wife and eldest daughter to look after the shop.
In addition to giving priority to the spring water supplied to teahouses and restaurants, many wealthy families in Duolun now come to him to buy drinking water. The business is very good.
He, his father, and several older sons drove a caravan to transport water.
The family's seven wolfhounds followed the caravan, driving away gray wolves blocking the road and in the wild.
He also bought a fire door gun.
When you see there are too many wolves, fire a few shots to drive them away.
If you don't drive the wolves away, the wolves will frighten the horses.
If the horse goes crazy and overturns the cart, the loss will be great.
Now that the business has grown, a seven-ton water tank has been replaced. It can't be done without a small number of people. It won't be full in a while.
This large water tank was custom-made from Xincheng. It was riveted with open-hearth steel plates and then waterproofed. It cost a lot of money, and it makes me feel sick every time I think about it. It was all financed by a loan.
Rex Rabbit and his wife calculated that it would cost a lot of money to buy three heavy draft horses, a carriage and a water tank.
But depending on how prosperous the water element is, it will all be paid off within a year or two. At that time, this will be a family fortune that can be passed on to children and grandchildren.
Rex Rabbit was very thoughtful and took out a loan to buy the best spring in the mountains from the Yamen, built a pond with cement, covered it with an iron roof, and locked it up at all times. He could not only monopolize the water source, but also keep the water clean.
Like Rex Rabbit, there are countless Mongolians who have quickly rediscovered their place of survival in the changing times.
They began to learn Chinese, and the same Han people also began to learn Mongolian. This made it easier for them to do business with each other.
Now, they have become accustomed to the new life. If anyone wants them to go back to the days when they were slaves, the Mongolians will turn red-eyed, pull out their Mongolian swords, and fight him to the death.
The Mongolians have lived a good life. The Han people have also transformed from impoverished refugees to well-off families who go out to the fields of cattle and sheep and return home to their wives and children.
Today, the master led his army to fight away. The news that the Tatars and slave-building armies who came to rob were coming to Duolun City soon came, and the whole city was boiling.
As Yang Fan's cavalry entered, there were cheering crowds on both sides of the road. The militiamen were in a tight siege and had to use long-handled weapons to block the enthusiastic crowd.
Mr. Wu rode on his horse and followed the team towards the government office in the center of the city. Looking at the enthusiastic faces below, he said: "What the people want, the people can use it."
This time he came here mainly because Yang Fan wanted to build a mansion here. Duolun is of great significance to Yang Fan's control of the grassland. It is very important to build a mansion here. Mr. Wu came to see the Feng Shui site selection and to review the design drawings.
Express views.
In this era, every relatively high-ranking official is surrounded by some strange people who understand Feng Shui, supernatural things, deep channel magic, the Five Elements, and the Book of Changes. Naturally, Yang Fan is no exception.
Mr. Wu has been an official and is quite familiar with the situation in the officialdom. He is not only a Feng Shui teacher, but also plays the role of a master for Yang Fan. Mr. Wu is rich in education, and the little girl plans to hire him as a tutor when she has children in the future.
Therefore, in Yang Fan's system, Mr. Wu has a special status and is very respected. Zhang Goda and others often come to Mr. Wu for help in calculating good and bad luck. People in this era believe in this.
Yang Fan actually believed it too. Because all the officials and rich people believe it. It is definitely not a lie. It must have good results. These people are not fools, and they cannot survive without the real thing.
Surrounded by everyone, the group moved into the backyard of the Yamen. The place had been tidied up and ready to welcome the master and his wife.
This chapter has been completed!