From Chief to Ball

The best effect is to wait for this group of children to grow up and throw them into a desolate colony, where they can quickly elect committee members or authority agencies and agree to form a small community.Or become a hired worker ready to fight for interests and know how to form a group.

On top of the Kaimeng School, Chen Jian had already started preparing for a secondary school when he took root in Nan'an.Scholarships can be provided in order to allow more gifted children who are enlightened but unable to go to school due to financial problems to have the opportunity to learn.

The textbooks written by Li Yun and others, as well as the various textbooks completed later, are the textbooks of this school.

In addition to these popular science textbooks, the name of this school is Lanxiang Technical School.

The schooling period is four years. In the first two years, the popular science textbooks and foundations of mathematics and literature for the journey are completed, and the sub-subject examinations are completed after two years.

In the next two years, we will use the sea of ​​questions tactics and scientific advantages to take the route of the national examination and grab the vacancy of the matter officer.

The other part took two years to become specialized technical workers, including simple chemical engineering, acid and alkali manufacturing, simple lathe use, crude mechanical principles, ore frying, new textiles and other industries that are planned or already in progress.

For the mine blasting part, Chen Jian has already found a candidate.In the mining area, there was a fringe member of the party who had studied with the mine master for seven years, and he had learned six or seven points of his skills. Chen Jian could not understand some things, but this person could understand them.

After sorting out the skills passed down by word of mouth, relying on Chen Jian's half-baked mechanics, he sorted out a rough basis for enlightenment that is full of loopholes.

In this way, we can quickly cultivate and support the new generation of talents in mining areas across the country, and use this as an entry point to establish an organization within the miners.

First, take the easiest to organize and the few real hired workers at this time to practice and cultivate the backbone.In order to avoid the lack of experience and difficulty in quickly carrying out work after the great development of handicraft factories.

As for whether those old masters would open their mouths, Chen Jian felt that the best way was to spend money, and he would not hesitate to take [-]% of the profit of his own glass factory or [-]% of the profit of the explosives factory as dry stocks.

There may be some who stick to the tradition, but there must also be those who are loose. Money can solve many problems.

Once money becomes a means rather than an end, taking money out will not cause the slightest heartache, and it will be generous and forthright.

In this regard, the mine blasters had not had time to feel it, but the two assistants who followed Wang Zhe felt it first.

On the way back, Chen Jian paid [-] silver coins for surveying and mapping, which was considered a huge sum of money at this time, especially for those businesses or practitioners who didn't have much money.

From what I heard along the way, I already knew about Chen Jian's property in Nan'an, Fujian City.Since they opened their mouths, the two of them had no doubts, and their hearts were full of joy.

Wang Zhe was bored for a while, and asked, "Mr. Chen, how are you going to fix it?"

Seeing that Wang Zhe let go, Chen Jian hurriedly said: "I want to build that kind of wooden track road between the nearby mining areas and connect them to one place. With the coal mine I went to yesterday as the center, a canal leading to the Min River will be built. There is a small river near the coal mine, which cannot pass ships, but it can store water as a water source for the canal."

"There are not many wooden tracks, and the canal is a big one. Rough calculations, at least [-] miles will be built. Twelve steps wide and three steps deep, just enough to pass the flat-bottomed boats transporting coal in the inland river. It doesn't need to be too wide for the time being."

"It would be the best if you can go down the river from the mining area to the Min River. Brother Wang doesn't have to worry about the construction of canals, ship locks, and someone else will take care of it. All I want is a perfect route and a high level along the way."

"There are a lot of explosives, and labor should be enough. The three hundred silver coins are only the cost of surveying and mapping. I will pay for the rest of the ropes, lime, manpower, wooden poles, etc. There is only one thing. Within two months, take out one Approximate feasible path."

"Of course it is impossible to go to Qi in the past two months. I have to prepare a lot of things. In addition, there are some new tools such as goniometers. I hope you are familiar with them. There are also measurements, estimates, and predictions after the balloon flies into the sky. , the use of the telescope, it will take these two months to try."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhe nodded in agreement.I want to see the new goniometer in my heart, and I also want to experience the feeling of flying to the sky and looking down at the earth.

That must be a completely different feeling from previous measurements.

"Tools and manpower, I will prepare them as soon as possible. I will also pay in advance for money, carriage and horse expenses. In short, the sooner the better."

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At the same time, in a certain wasteland in Nan'an, Zhao Si and others sat on a rock, staring at the busy people in the distance, and a few came over with malicious intentions. They were all hooligans at first glance, and they were not too provocative. .

Zhao Si couldn't understand what these people were doing.

This is a large wasteland, sparsely populated, but there are many small houses nearby.

There is a small river in the wasteland, and puddles are dug everywhere near the small river, and many places are full of potholes.

On top of these puddles, there is a layer of dark things floating, and some bubbles will appear from time to time in some puddles.

In the puddle, there were many pieces of wood lying horizontally, and the dark fat floating on the water was gathered together.

Or hold the jar with your hands to collect the black oil floating on the water into a wooden barrel, or gather together those wood chips soaked in a lot of black oil.

There are still many people nearby who are still digging pits, and there is a wonderful brilliance reflected on the water surface, which glows in seven colors under the sun.

The puddles near the creek were obviously dug by hand, relying on the kind of oil that floats on the water and enriched with standing water or wood chips.

A person next to him said: "Fourth brother, this must be the tartar seedling that Mr. Chen asked us to find? Didn't he say that there is one for sale in Mincheng? We asked many people, and this place should be the right one."

"This place is really a bit out of the way. Have you asked? Who owns this land?"

"It doesn't belong to anyone else. It's a group of people nearby who do this here. Collect it in barrels and sell it to Mincheng. It's either used as medicine, or as fire thorns for the navy, or it's used in some workshops. For lubricating ironware. This piece of land can be sold for [-] silver coins a year."

Zhao Si was a little strange and asked, "No one bought this land?"

"Some people wanted to buy it, but the house burned down just a few days after they arrived, and they knew they couldn't stay, so they left. Besides, they can't make much money in a year, and those who are really rich will not buy this, digging puddles every day , It is not a good job to scrape with a ladle in the pit.

One person wondered: "What do you think Mr. Chen asked us to find this place for? Why does he have an industry of tens of thousands of silver coins a year, so why do he still look at a place with hundreds of silver coins this year?"

Zhao Si yelled and cursed: "You know what? Since Mr. Chen is interested, let us look for it after he comes back. It must be a lot of money. There will be disadvantages when following him? He came back from the capital, isn't he Didn't you forget to bring us a few bottles of capital wine? How much is the wine? The friendship is here. Besides, we also share a lot of money every year. If it is really a property of hundreds of silver coins, you really think Mr. Chen likes it ?”

In fact, he was also very strange. After Chen Jian accidentally discovered Shizhi in Mincheng pharmacy a few months ago, he asked Zhao Si to find out where these things came from.

I didn't take it seriously at the time, but when Chen Jian asked again while drinking after returning from the capital, Zhao Si remembered it and hurried to do it.

Before going to the mining area, Chen Jian told Zhao Si: If you find the oil seedlings he mentioned, ask who owns the land.

As soon as Zhao Si heard it, he understood that Chen Jian wanted this piece of land.

He is familiar with this line.If it is arable land, we can talk about it if we can.If you can't talk, light a fire at night, or sprinkle salt and lime on it; play tricks to deceive people into the pit; block the road and prohibit entry and exit, etc., forcing people to move.

At the same time, Chen Jianyou told him that if he found it, he would buy a batch of cattle immediately, as well as a large amount of moso bamboo and a master who could repair moso bamboo, and spend a lot of money to find it.

Zhao Si never thought that the matter of buying cattle had something to do with this oil seedling.A few years ago, Chen Jian asked him to contact some farms or big butchers to see how the big butchers in Mincheng sold their cattle blood, and asked him to find a way to get all the blood into his own hands.

He thought that Chen Jian asked him to buy the cow for the sake of the cow's blood, it was simple.The matter of moso bamboo is not difficult. There are bamboos nearby, and there are many craftsmen who are proficient in bamboo crafts. Chen Jian said that the bamboo joints of a whole moso bamboo can be opened from the inside, and two thick and thin bamboos can be plugged together. Although no one uses these strange postures, any good bamboo craftsman can do it.

Now it seems that the land has been found, although it is far away, it is still in Nan'an.Zhao Si felt that Chen Jian would handle the obvious things, and left the rest to himself.

At this time, a few people with sticks came up from the opposite side, and they raised their eyebrows and shouted: "What are you doing?"

Zhao Si saw that there were many people on the opposite side, so he muttered: "It's nothing, just take a look."

The other person scolded him a few words and told him to leave. He guessed that he would not be able to beat him, so he obediently led him away.

"Go back. I'll inform Mr. Chen that you should contact some friends."

"How to say?"

"Eat first, don't talk about things. It may or may not be useful."

Chapter 1 The Students, the Potwheel, and the Well