After two days of this, Huo Xi and Shen Qianzhong had already settled the welfare of the craftsmen in the workshop.
Not many people have read books these days. The main reason is that studying costs a lot of money and cannot afford it.
It is one thing to know that reading can change one's family background, but people who don't have enough to eat are willing to tighten their belts and go hungry, and there are not many people who can educate their children.
Huo Xi and Shen Qianzhong discussed that they would hire a gentleman to teach the children of the craftsmen in the workshop, one place per family. This would increase the stickiness and loyalty between the craftsmen and their own workshop.
So I found a scholar in Qionghua Alley who had failed several exams, opened a classroom in the fan workshop, set up some tables and chairs, bought some books and pens, and that was it.
Applicants were enthusiastic.
Not only the fan workshops, but also the female workers in the female workshops all sent their children.
The old man's grandson Yuanqing, Granny Li's grandson Huzi, and Lou Qingyao's daughters Nannan, Youqing, and the first graders of junior high school were all sent there, while Vanilla and Xiahe also came to attend classes whenever they had time.
The workshop exempted these children from having to worry about repairs. They were also given a set of books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and they had to spend their own money to buy them when they were used up. In this way, they didn’t need much money in a year, so everyone with children gave them to the workshop.
Those who have two or three children at home also want to send them all.
Huo Xi did not agree.
One is for fairness, and the other is to create a sense of competition among the children.
Don't think that you don't value something you get without any effort, but that you are taking up the quota of your brothers and sisters by going to school. If you don't study well, you will be sorry for your family.
Although this small school only focuses on literacy, many children are trying to get into it.
Even in Qionghua Lane, they only took the work back to work. Women who did not work in the workshops brought their children and asked if they could accept them, or they could come to the workshops on time and work on time.
I pity all the parents in the world.
Women who take jobs and go back to work are all because they have to work at home and take care of the family. They squeeze some time in their free time to do the work and supplement the family income.
Nowadays, in order to send children to learn a few words, they are willing to work in class.
Huo Xi flipped through the book of the women's work and wages in the workshop, and enrolled some children from women whose jobs were stable and had relatively high output into the school.
Within a few days, her house was filled with all kinds of things sent by these craftswomen.
Mrs. Yang and Grandma Zou sighed while cleaning up, "They are all people who remember gratitude and love."
Huo Xi felt warm in her heart.
It is good to win over people's hearts and increase the loyalty of female craftsmen with such a move.
She only gave five taels of silver to the scholars who taught in January. Each of the dozens of children was given a set of books, pens, and ink. Each of them could not use one tael of silver. In this way, she only paid more than a hundred taels of silver a year, but she got a female craftsman. their hearts.
I'm afraid the workshop productivity rate will be even higher in the future. It's pretty good.
Mrs. Li couldn't work with women, so she spent some money to ask the female workers in the workshop to help Huzi make a book bag and a new set of clothes.
On Huzi's first day at school, he pulled him up early, put on new clothes and put his school bag on his back. Seeing his grandson in high spirits, his heart was as sweet as honey.
Because of her, her grandson will never be able to go to school.
Now her grandson can go to school and can read.
He stretched his grandson's wrinkle-free clothes back and forth, and kept telling him: "Study hard in school, study hard, learn more skills, and you will have the ability to stand up in the future and support yourself. If you don't learn well, the master does not need to chase you away." , grandma personally brought you back. Did you know?"
"I got it. Don't worry, grandma, Huzi will definitely study hard. Learn your skills well and help your master in the future!"
Hu Zi was so happy that he touched the book bag on his body cautiously and looked a little nervous.
After checking back and forth that everything was fine, I said goodbye to grandma and trotted towards the school.
Mrs. Li watched her grandson go away, turned around with a grin, and found Mrs. Zhao standing next to her.
"You don't have any grandchildren. Just stand here and watch for a long time."
"I don't have any grandchildren, why can't I watch them?"
Mrs. Zhao couldn't hide her envy. She had been miserable for half her life, childless. Although Mrs. Li was also miserable, she still had a grandson by her side.
Mrs. Li didn't want to make her sad, so she pushed her: "Let's go, I will help you in the kitchen. From now on, you will work hard for the master, and the master's family will provide for us in our old age. Huzi is also your grandson, and he will take care of us two in the future."
Immortal."
Pushing Mrs. Zhao away.
Within two days, news of a small class opening in the workshop spread throughout Qionghua Lane and nearby streets.
Huo Xi didn't expect that she just set up a small class. As a benefit to female workers and craftsmen, the number of people who wanted to come to the workshop to get work doubled. There were also many women and girls from nearby streets who were also vying to enter the workshop.
work.
Huo Xi was a little surprised.
He told Qin Huaiyu to check their work and character, and accept all the qualified ones.
Now we need to send some female workers to the north, and we also need some manpower. Nowadays, there is no machinery, and the work is all done by hand. There are not too many female workers.
After finishing the class work, Huo Xi began to prepare gifts for the wedding banquet at Pei's house.
Wu Youcai, who had followed Yulou to watch the show for several days, finally thought about choosing a reading companion for his nephew.
That day I entered the Xincheng Hou Mansion with a big belly.
When I told Mrs. Wu, Mrs. Wu's face became angry: "There are many people in the Zhang family who come to fawn over and want to send their children to brother Xie. Even if there is no suitable one at home, they will drag the children from their in-laws' old home to get them."
Send it here. We, Brother Xie, have a lot of candidates, so we have to work hard to choose."
Then the Fang family is so shameless.
How big is the face of a small eighth-grade city gate official? He can't look down on the Marquis Mansion and her son!
The more I think about it, the angrier I get.
The Marquis is now fighting in the north with the emperor, and when he comes back he will have a great military exploit. Nowadays, people come to her door to flatter her, and they receive a lot of greeting cards every day. She is too lazy to deal with it.
Does this house feel that life is too comfortable, or is there someone noble in the palace?
Zhang Jie heard that his uncle was coming, so he ran over. His uncle was at Shibosi, and every time he came back, he would bring him many novelties.
As he trotted outside the hall, he heard that his uncle and mother were talking about someone refusing to be his companion, and his temper immediately rose.
"Hmph, the Fang family's child and his friend are just blind. If they dare to refuse me, I want them to look good!"
Wu Youcai had always given his nephew whatever he asked for. Except for the stars in the sky, as long as he could do it, he would definitely do it for his nephew.
He is not stupid, and it is true that he is married to his brother-in-law, but his brother-in-law does not care much about his Wu family. It would be nice to invite him three or five times, and if he can give him a favor once, it would be nice.
It is better to please his brother-in-law than to please his nephew. His nephew is the future Marquis of Xincheng and has the blood of their Wu family in his body.
The nephew wanted to show some respect to the Fang family's children, so Wu Youcai naturally had to do it for him.