The meeting with Marbury was constructive - everyone said his own thing. Both parties expressed their opinions without any quarrels. This is a good thing.
The plan to attract talents also went very smoothly. Zhou Qingfeng invited more than a hundred young people to dinner and selected 23 decent candidates.
These people all come from all over the North, and they gather in Cold Wind City, where there are the most opportunities, to seek development. After begging, they often end up with no other way out.
According to Rubio's report, these people have different abilities and personalities, and none of them meet Zhou Qingfeng's requirements. However, their qualifications are acceptable. At least they did not deliberately lie or act particularly greedy in last night's test.
That's enough.
After all, poor abilities can still be cultivated, and some shortcomings are often due to poverty and can be tolerated. If you keep talking in a panic, you have not dealt with it. If you don't change after repeated beatings, you will be eliminated.
In an era of barbarism, the requirements cannot be too high.
Most people in Harmony Village are completely illiterate, and training is difficult. The manpower recruited by Hanfeng City has some basic skills. Therefore, similar recruitment will continue to provide talents for Zhou Qingfeng.
There are two troubles now. One is that the act of inviting people to dinner caused quite a stir. It became the biggest news in Cold Wind City the next day. There is an endless stream of people coming to seek refuge. The second is how to arrange these people, eat and drink.
Lazarus is not easy to control.
The matter became quite serious, and Zhou Qingfeng's identity was revealed - His Excellency Victor Hugo from Harmony Village in the Black Forest.
Regarding all this, Lorraine, who was recruited, was basically in a state of ignorance. She paid attention to her companions who had experienced the same situation as herself, and found that anyone who knew how to write basically got a chance.
Mr. Hugo only cares about ability, and does not seem to care much about character performance. At most, it is a more pleasant two silver coins per week allowance on the night of the test, and if you lie, it will be halved or nothing.
The key is ability. If you lack ability, you will be eliminated.
Lorraine was summoned anxiously and arrived at the house that served as a school. This was the venue Zhou Qingfeng borrowed from Jason. The girl found that what greeted her first was not a complicated and profound course, but...
"In order for you to study hard, my master will take care of your board and lodging, even your daily clothes, and the accommodation of your family members. Your family members will also be given priority to be hired by my master to do some simple jobs."
The person who actually manages the apprentices is Rubio. He stands on the stage and lectures like a dean, and the people who have been gathered are stunned.
Several tailors came to the room and made tailor-made 'school uniforms' for everyone. Lorraine was at the mercy of others like a puppet, and asked Rubio in a low voice: "Sir, you just said that you would give priority to hiring our family members.
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"Yes. Mr. Hugo has high expectations for you, and he will try his best to let you focus all your attention on learning and improvement.
Since we provide food and accommodation, you need someone to cook, wash, and clean for you. In short, you need to hire people, so why not hire the students’ family members? Food and accommodation are included, and the monthly salary is five silver coins. If you have a family, what are you willing to do?"
"Yes." Lorraine responded crisply, the loudness of her voice startling the others, "My parents are willing to come."
You can earn five silver coins a month by doing such easy work as cooking, laundry, and cleaning. Food and accommodation are also included. Is there any better job than this? Lorraine wanted to do it herself, so she rushed to answer.
Rubio only responded with a 'hmm', "You are Eve, and you performed well on the night of the test. Let your parents come over tomorrow. Tell them to work harder. Master hates people who just take money and don't work."
"Absolutely, my parents are absolutely diligent." Lorraine twirled her fingers and laughed uncontrollably.
Only then did other students realize that "hiring family members first" was not just a talk, and immediately several people rushed to get positions. But not everyone's family members would be hired.
In addition to announcing school rules, measuring clothes and hiring people, the next step is to distribute a large amount of papyrus and require all students to copy textbooks.
Zhou Qingfeng plans to popularize primary school knowledge, including basic common language, mathematics, geography, and science. Without papermaking and printing, all textbooks can only be written by Rubio with charcoal on a whiteboard, and others copy them on papyrus.
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This copying lasted for four or five days, with breakfast, lunch and dinner. There were enough staple and non-staple food for three meals, so that every student could eat as much as possible, and occasionally there was meat.
When Lorraine found out that breakfast was bread with salt, lunch was baked potatoes with vegetable soup, and dinner was macaroni with hot sauce, she ate several meals and cried.
People who have never struggled with hunger cannot imagine how happy it is to have a full stomach.
Of course, good treatment also comes with extremely strict discipline. Punctuality and trustworthiness are the most basic. At 6:30 in the morning, Rubio, who wears a watch, will ring the bell to wake up and line up to do exercises.
That’s right, do morning exercises!
Neat formation, coordinated movements, and collective consciousness are things that people in modern society take for granted, and they are all cultivated bit by bit from childhood. Even shouting out numbers from 1 to 10 is a problem for a loose group.
Arranging on-duty students every day and cleaning are the most basic. All disciplines must be remembered. Any violator will be punished for the first time and corporal punishment for the second time. If the number of violations is too many, he will have to pack up and get out.
For those at the bottom of society, many bad habits are caused by the perennially embarrassing living environment. Faced with Rubio's cold and ruthless face, all students have basically made several mistakes, including Lorraine. This must be forcibly reversed through strict discipline.
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Only by emphasizing discipline can a person be transformed. Once a slave loses control, he will become disordered, which is absolutely not allowed in Zhou Qingfeng's system. What he requires is a team that can cooperate with each other.
Normal nobles never do this, and wizards can only train a small number of apprentices. Large-scale education is a fantasy. Twenty-three selected students receive collective education and training, which is an amazing initiative.
Zhou Qingfeng used the same method to train the militiamen in Harmony Village. As a result, when Inisha left, she kept half of the food and gold coins, but took away all the militiamen who had received several months of training and education.
Those militiamen look inconspicuous, but they are actually very useful. They may not have strong individual strength, but they can do patrolling, guarding, messaging, and investigating all tasks very efficiently.
Inisha admired the militiamen in Harmony Village and believed that these people could greatly improve her management and response capabilities. So when Her Royal Highness the Princess left, not a single militiaman was left for Zhou Qingfeng. So he had to train from scratch.
One batch.
Lorraine and others are the people retrained by Zhou Qingfeng. Their training will be more and deeper, and their abilities will be stronger.
This group of people has never lived such a good life, and has never experienced collective life. In Zhou Qingfeng's system, everything is a challenge. This is not only learning some knowledge, but also transforming thinking.
Just as such an education and training system was gradually taking shape, another item belonging to Zhou Qingfeng was also being scrutinized by the dignitaries of Cold Wind City - the hand-centrifuge.