When Yang Fan came in, Song Yingsheng was having a meeting with the teachers to discuss the final draft of the textbook.
"This Chinese Pinyin program is really great. As long as you learn Pinyin, you can study by yourself with a dictionary."
"Yes, these dictionaries sent by Dongzhu Yang are also very good, and they also have explanations of words and words. Each student is given one, and they can study by themselves by comparing the pinyin. I don't understand the simplified and traditional Chinese comparison table. In this dictionary,
The characters we commonly use are called traditional Chinese characters, and each character also corresponds to a simplified character. Some of these simplified characters are useful to the people and are called short-stroke characters, but I don’t recognize most of them," said Chen Guanya.
Yang Fan said: "The so-called simplified characters are simplified strokes of Chinese characters. They are used by those who farm and work. They don't have much time to study and they can't remember complex characters. Complete characters are used by scholars. These missing characters are
Let the common people use the pen and calligraphy. This also reflects the dignity of scholars."
When everyone saw Yang Fan coming, they all stood up and bowed. Yang Fan waved his hand to tell everyone not to be polite.
After Yang Fan sat down, he began to listen to Song Yingsheng's report on the recent school situation. He knew that Yang Fan came here to inspect the situation, and if there were any difficulties, he should try to raise them while Yang Fan was here.
Chen Guanya was a scholar. His family originally had a small amount of land, and they always supported his studies. However, the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was too difficult. After he passed the examination and became a scholar, he could no longer make any progress.
Now that the family's property has been almost spent, he has been studying all year round and is not physically strong enough to work or farm. Moreover, he is already forty years old, so he has to give up the imperial examination.
I worked as a teacher in a private school run by my own family in my hometown, teaching fourteen or five children and barely supporting my family.
His classmate Chen Juren received a letter from Song Yingsheng and recommended him to work as a teacher at Xinghe Academy. Scholars were given three coins a month, housing, and free board and lodging for the whole family. Four sets of spring, summer, autumn, and winter apartments were also distributed a year.
clothing.
He was so excited about such a good treatment. He hurried home to discuss it with his wife. She also supported him. The money he makes is too little now, and his children are growing up and there are too many places to spend money.
He immediately resigned and rushed to Zunhua with his wife, three daughters and a young son.
When I arrived here, I saw that the conditions were very difficult. New dormitories and classrooms were still under construction, so we could only live in cotton tents.
But Song Yingshengshan was a very kind man and eager for talents, so he promised that the first one to build a new house would be assigned to him.
Three months' salary was paid in advance to facilitate settling in. An extra one or two silver was also given for settling-in expenses. If you are not used to living in a tent, you can rent a house in the city.
He discussed with his wife that the tent is made of cotton and it is very warm now. You can also buy meals in the school cafeteria here, which will save money. In recent years, their family has many children and has little savings.
They planned to save money.
Mr. Song Shan saw that it was difficult for his family to have many children, so he arranged for his wife to work in the cafeteria, and she was paid one cent and five cents a month. Those children who should go to kindergarten go to kindergarten, and those who should go to school go to school. All the food and accommodation are free.
, the family was well arranged, and he devoted himself to his work.
Although he could not pass the imperial examination, he found that he was very good at teaching. During this period, he assisted Master Song in managing various complicated affairs and achieved great results, and Master Song was also impressed.
"I came here this time to solve the problem. Everyone should mention the difficulties the school still has." Yang Fan said.
Chen Guanya hesitated for a moment and said: "Proprietor, the weather is getting colder and colder. Cotton-padded clothes have not been distributed yet. In addition, although the tents are made of cotton, they still need to be heated in the cold winter. The refugees gathered outside the city were trying to make
For food and heating, the nearby mountains and forests have been cut down. Now we have to walk a long way to collect firewood, and firewood is very expensive now."
"This is easy to handle. I asked the iron factory to cast 300 iron stoves and send them over. The recent experiment with briquettes was also successful. I arranged for people to install heating equipment in all the tents before winter. I will urge you to purchase cotton and cotton cloth.
We have all arrived, and the quilt factory is sewing. There may be a shortage of manpower there, so we will recruit people internally. If there are women or girls in the family who are good at making clothes, they can go to the quilt factory to work."
Song Yingsheng said: "That's great. It can also increase the income of the family members. But if we use female workers, we are afraid that the opinions will not be good and there will be gossip."
"This is easy to handle. Set up a special workshop for female workers and use women to manage it. Men are not allowed to enter." Yang Fan said.
"That's great. The proprietor is very considerate." Everyone praised.
In this way, our wives and daughters will be able to earn more. Previously, everyone was jealous when Chen Guanya arrived early and his wife helped cook in the cafeteria, earning one cent and five cents a month.
"By the way, how's it going at the women's school?" Speaking of female workers, Yang Fan thought of the women's school.
"The proprietor, all the female students are staying in the old factory area of Xinghe. Currently, the only female teachers are Master Song Gua's wife and three daughters. At present, many families are very resistant to letting girls go to school. Only the proprietor's domestic slaves let their girls go to school.
, there are not many sent by other families. Currently there are only more than 70 students." Song Yingsheng said.
"There's nothing you can do about it, just take your time." Yang Fan knew that customs and habits were very stubborn. Fortunately, a hole was finally opened for women's education, so let's take it slow little by little.
"If any of the teachers' wives or young ladies are literate, you can recommend yourself to Mr. Song to be a female teacher. The salary will be the same as yours. If there are those who are illiterate, you can take the lead and send them to a girls' school.
"Yeah," Yang Fan said.
Everyone thought that this was a good thing. Anyway, everyone in the women's school knew that they were all women, and they were not exposed to the public. They had no problem with their reputation and integrity. They didn't spend money to study. They were also given clothes and took care of three meals a day. Go and be a
Female gentlemen can also earn more money.
"The most lacking thing now is arithmetic teachers. Generally, those who know arithmetic are in imperial institutions such as Qintianjian. There are not many private ones, and there are no imperial examinations. Now so many students need arithmetic teachers, it is hard to find them for a while."
A teacher named Li said.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I don't have any good solution for this. I have a maid here named Yao Guang, and I asked her to be a teacher and give three days to the teachers who are willing to learn arithmetic.
For each class, I will provide a batch of teaching materials and let the teachers study on their own. If you don’t know how to teach, ask Yaoguang during class. Anyone who can pass the graduation exam will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Those who pass the exam and serve as arithmetic teachers will receive another salary.
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Yaoguang Xiaonizi just got a thousand dollars from Yang Fan. How could she waste such a good educational resource? It was hard for her to refuse.
As soon as Yang Fan finished speaking, the teachers suddenly became shocked and were all moved. They came here to teach actually for the high salary and good treatment here. Ten taels of silver is a lot of money, and it is enough to give a dowry gift to his son's wife.
. And if I receive another salary, the monthly salary will be six taels of silver. That is more than seven taels a year.
Suddenly everyone was gearing up and eager to break up the meeting and went straight to the maid named Yao Guang.
"But I have agreed in advance that this Yaoguang girl is not an ordinary maid. You must not neglect her. Remember not to get angry with her. She has a bad temper. Even I dare to hit her when she gets angry. If you learn to slack off, be careful when she uses the board.
Hit you."
Yang Fan first inoculated these old gentlemen, lest they act like scholars in front of Yao Guang and be beaten by Yao Guang.
"No, no, although we are stupid, we still know the principle of respecting teachers. If we don't learn knowledge, it is only natural that we will be criticized by our master. How can we get angry with you?" All the old gentlemen shook their heads.
, promised Yang Fan that he would never disrespect this female gentleman.
This is more than seventeen taels of silver. How can you be so in trouble with money?
"Miss Yaoguang is very knowledgeable. In addition to arithmetic, she is also proficient in dozens of subjects such as chemistry, physics, geography, biology, medicine, literature, etc. If you have the ability and please her and be willing to teach you, you can learn every subject."
I will reward everyone up to junior high school level with ten taels of silver." Yang Fan said.
The eyes of all the old boys and old scholars were almost wide-eyed. There were dozens of subjects, whichever they learned to a preliminary level would be rewarded with ten taels of silver. If they learned all these, how much money could they earn?
Yang Fan looked red-eyed at them, and continued: "These subjects will be opened in schools in the future, and the teachers who teach these knowledge will have a monthly salary of five coins."
There was another buzz in the venue, and everyone was excited.
Yang Fanxin said, as long as you want to make money, as long as you are willing to study hard, there is nothing you can't learn. As long as you can learn it, I am willing to spend money.
I just sold my antiques and have lots of money.
This chapter has been completed!