North and South groceries

Now in this court, the image of Luo Yong's coffin board has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It's not that he has a bad temper, the main thing is that he is difficult to deal with. The typical oil and salt do not eat soft and hard.

He looks stubborn, yet shrewd, seldom greedy, and courageous. Ordinary tricks don't work on him at all.

The situation in the court is also changing rapidly. When the new textile machines came out earlier, it was clear that some people in the court wanted to kill the donkey and pull Luo Yong away.

Now those people have calmed down again. The saint has the intention of defending Luo Yongyin, but he doesn't promote him very much. Many people in the court have guessed in their hearts that the saint should plan to leave Luo Yongyin to the new generation in the future. Jun.

This is also a common technique used by emperors to control subordinates. If a sage uses Luo Yong too much now, then he will be prone to pride when he is under the new emperor in the future. The higher the starting point, the higher the requirements will naturally be. There will be a gap with the new king in the future, and it may even become a disaster.

So the old emperor just refuses to use him very much now, and has been grinding him. When the new king comes to power in the future, and then promote him in one fell swoop, then Luo Yong will have a grateful attitude towards the new king, and he will do his best to die. It is easy to feel dissatisfied.

To put it bluntly, these methods are also a bit suspicious of treating people as fools, but since you want to be an official in this court, you have to follow the routine of the court.

In any case, for Luo Yong, the future is promising, and many people in the court think so.

This time, some people in the court wanted Luo Yong to issue an official document prohibiting the people in Chang'an County and Wannian County from wearing clothes of various colors. If you don't do it, those people have nothing to do with it in the end, so they have to let it go.

Recently, many gentlemen have told the young people in their families not to touch the coffin board if they have nothing to do, so as not to embarrass themselves and fail to come down.

Although Luo Yong is only in his 20s, he looks like an ordinary young official, but now he is not an ordinary young official, whether it is his stability in the court or the broad-mindedness shown in his behavior. Comparable.

In the past, everyone looked at Luo Yong as just a farm boy with a lot of intelligence and ability, but now it is quite different. Many well-educated people in Chang'an City all recognize Luo Yong's knowledge, mainly because of his arithmetic. Outstanding.

Luo used to teach arithmetic in the machine workshop. People who went to hear it said it was extremely profound. If you are not very proficient in arithmetic here, you will not understand it at all.

To this day, in Chang'an City, there are still many people who dismiss Luo Yong and the knowledge he spreads as small ways.

However, his trail really brings in a lot of money. Among the many schools in Chang'an City, although the engineering school has been opened for the shortest time, it is the most generous. The various rewards set up by the monthly exam are beyond the reach of other schools.

The exam rewards in engineering are not only for those with good overall grades, but also for those with good grades in individual subjects, and even reward questions can often be seen on some exam papers.

The meaning of the reward question is that no matter how many points you get on the whole paper, as long as you get that question right, you can get the corresponding reward.

With such a rich reward system, the learning enthusiasm of these students in engineering is not comparable to that of other schools.

Of course, this school’s ability to earn money is not comparable to other schools. They are still constantly adjusting and improving the new loom. There are some precision parts that only they can make. The monthly income is a lot.

There is an engraver at Nanbei Groceries. He has a son who is studying engineering, and he is not a very top student. Every time he takes an exam every ten days and a month, he can often take some bamboo sticks worth ten or twenty coins back.

The bamboo sticks can be used in many shops in Chang'an City, and the students can go to whichever one they like, just exchange it for what they want, and at the end of each month, these shops will settle the settlement with Gongxue.

There are a total of more than a dozen craftsmen in charge of engraving at Nanbei Grocery, and they work in a big room in the backyard. They can manage two meals a day, and their wages are calculated on a piece-by-piece basis.

Usually, the amount of money to engrave a template is set. If the work is done beautifully, you can also get some bonuses. Some young ladies who want to publish books will even appoint craftsmen to carve for them.

These craftsmen work in groceries in the north and south, and earn a few hundred coins a month, which is considered stable.

However, they all have to support their families, and most of them live very frugally. They are also quite envious of the craftsman who can often get bamboo sticks from his son.

That bamboo stick cost ten or twenty yuan, mainly to exchange some sauces from the North and South grocery stores, so the whole family had enough sauces to eat.

Sometimes if there is no shortage of sauce at home, you can exchange some pastries and go home. There is no child in the family who does not love it.

On this day, just after the ten-day examination, the craftsman came to work at Nanbei Groceries, still looking happy.

"Your Erlang won the exam again?" Someone asked him.

"The score in the operation class was in the top five in the class, and I got [-] essays. This time, there is another reward question in the ten-day exam, asking how high is the city wall of Chang'an City, and how high is the square wall. I told him earlier, this time He got the answer right, and got another ten Wen." When the craftsman heard someone ask him, he told everything, and he was very happy and wanted to talk to others.

"That's ten Wen coins?" Other craftsmen said one after another: "I can also do this question."

"My son also said the same thing, saying that this is their engineering school giving benefits to the students." The craftsman said with a smile: "But there is something wrong, this time, their engineering students will go outside to measure The width of the street, the depth of the canal, so as not to come up with such a problem next time, and do it wrong again.”

"Your son is really promising."

"It's not very promising, only one or two homework is not bad, and the rest is just about to be able to keep up."

"That's very good. In the engineering study, he was not the only one who worked hard. I heard that everyone worked hard."

"It's really hard work. I heard that many students have to go to the third shift every night, and they don't want to rest until the lights are turned off in the engineering school."

"Although the engineering school was established late, but now some of their arithmetic papers in the engineering school are taken to the Imperial Academy, and the students there are not very good at it."

"How can a gentleman from a good family work so hard like a poor family."

"I'm afraid it's because the teacher didn't teach well."

"I heard that the rewards of those schools are still the standards set by Magistrate Luo when he was a teaching assistant at Taixue."

"Why did I hear someone say that there are noble men who send their sons to study in engineering?"

"I heard from my son about this. He also took the exam and got good grades before he was allowed to enter the engineering school."

"You still have an exam?"

"Naturally, according to the rules set by County Magistrate Luo, anyone who wants to enter engineering will have to take an exam in the future."

"If those young people from aristocratic families can't pass the exam, how can they face it?"

"Then don't take the exam."

"Tsk tsk..."

While talking, all the craftsmen set up their work tools and started the day's work. Once they started working, few people talked anymore.

It wasn't until lunch time that they became lively again. Everyone took their own rice bowls to the cafeteria to cook food, and made a big bowl with rice and vegetables, and ate while talking.

A craftsman said that in their workshop, there was a very promising little lady who was studying in the Luo's machine workshop. She could get hundreds of cash back home with rewards and wages every month. Three hundred, more than 600 at most once.

"I've heard of that family before. Her Aye and her uncle specialize in digging biogas pits. Every day, they get some biogas residue and biogas slurry, and go to the countryside to exchange some flour and rice with farmers. Sometimes, if the day’s biogas waste cannot be transported out of the city in time, it will be piled up in the yard of one’s own house, making the place smelly and often causing neighbors to complain.”

"Then what can be done, someone has to dig out the biogas digester."

"It's also a dangerous job. In the past, the Luo county magistrate and the others always told people that you should be very careful when digging out the biogas tank. If you don't pay attention, you will be smoked to death in the pool."

"It's impossible to light the lamps under there. The black lamps are blind. It's smelly and stuffy."

"It's really not easy to eat that meal."

"That's better than nothing."

"I also know the brothers in their family. They lost Aye a long time ago. There is only one old woman struggling to support them. The brothers came out to carry water and pound rice with others when they were very young."

"Originally, there was a baby girl, who was very clever and clever, but she couldn't take care of her after all. When she was seven or eight years old, she contracted typhoid fever, and she died."

"Oh...it's so strange."

"Because of this experience, her grandmother has to tell people all day long that this granddaughter is the reincarnation of her little aunt."

"Could it be that you are crazy?"

"Maybe it's really a little crazy."

"It's pitiful..."

In that Luo's Machine Workshop, there are more than one or two women with poor backgrounds, and outside of this Machine Workshop, there are countless women who want to come in.

Now that Luo's Machine Workshop has a relatively stable income, Luo Yong asked people to buy land around the Machine Workshop, planning to expand the place and then carry out another round of enrollment expansion.

Chongxianfang is quite close to the West Market. To the west is Changshoufang, where the Chang'an County Government is located. Going east, passing Chongdefang and Anyefang is Suzaku Street, which is also relatively close to Miyagi.

Most of the people living here are from good families, and the price of the land in Chang'an City has been rising steadily in the past few years. The Luo's Machinery Workshop next to it is also very optimistic about the future market, so they are reluctant to sell it easily.

But because Luo Yong and the others were in urgent need of land, the price they offered was very high. In the end, one family among the surrounding neighbors was willing to sell it.

The location of that family is across the street from Luoshi Machinery Workshop, and the place is also very spacious. The young people in their family want to move to live in the more prosperous Guangdefang, and the house there is also promising, but the price is very high. It is across the street from Luo's Machine Workshop, instead of adjacent to the left and right. At first, I was a little worried that they would not want it, or that they would not be able to sell it at a good price.

I didn't expect that the people from Luo's Machine Workshop were surprisingly straightforward. The price given to his family was the same as that of the neighbors. They even helped to say hello to the family in Guangdefang. , lest the house be bought by others in the end.

Within a few days, the family happily moved to live in Guangdefang.

As for the Roche Machinery Workshop, in order to connect the two areas separated by the street, a sky bridge was built above the street.

Such a bridge over the street is just a small project for Hengzhi and others who used to work at heights in the canyon.

For those engineering students who have not been exposed to bridge construction, as well as students from the Roche Machine Workshop, this is a rare opportunity to learn and practice.

Because of the high price of iron, learning opportunities like this are not often available at this time.

However, due to the necessity of social development, road and bridge engineering is a highly valued discipline, whether it is in engineering or in Roche Machine Workshop.

The common people have always only known that someone built a bridge over the river, but never heard of a bridge built over the street.

So in the following days, people came to Chongxian Square every day to watch the excitement, and watched those young men and women build a sky bridge over this street with their own hands using those reinforced concrete and other things.

After this overpass is erected, the surrounding people will often see some young ladies in the uniform of the machine shop going to and fro on this overpass, and occasionally there will be some young lords or young lords.

Most of them are in a hurry, and there will be laughter from time to time, especially when the bell in the cafeteria rings, a group of little ladies ran across the bridge that day, calling for friends in groups, often The women on the surrounding streets were very envious.

Now that the new campus has already been established, the enrollment will naturally be expanded in the future. The Roche Machinery Workshop has also posted a notice saying that on the first day of August this year, there will be an autumn recruitment, and it is estimated that 300 new students will be recruited. Please advance Get ready and sign up.

The reason why the notice is so long in advance and the enrollment time is pushed so late is that on the one hand, the machine workshop also needs to make some preparations to recruit new teachers in advance and prepare the teacher's dormitory. On the other hand, it is also to consider Some students may come from far away places.

Three hundred places, in Luo Yong's opinion, are still too few.

"I heard that your machine shop is going to expand its enrollment this autumn?" Luo Yong entered the palace city one day when he was going to court, and a colleague came over to talk to him as he was walking on the road.

"Exactly." Luo Yong didn't have any contact with this person before, and he didn't quite know whether he was an enemy or a friend.

"Now there are five or six hundred, and if we keep recruiting like this, it will soon be over a thousand?" The man said again.

"It should be over a thousand." Luo Yong nodded.

"Teaching women some skills is indeed a good thing, but you have recruited so many people, I am afraid it will be difficult to teach them carefully."

The official sighed, and said earnestly to Luo Yong: "I set up the schools in Chang'an with the power of a country. The total number of students is only more than [-], and the newly established engineering school is also less than [-]." , you use your own strength..."

Knowing that the other party had no malicious intentions, Luo Yong put down his guard, listened to his chanting all the way, and went to the main hall where he went up.

This official had never seen a school with tens of thousands of people in later generations, so he thought that for a school, having a population of more than a thousand is very important.

This is the vision that is limited by the background of the times, and it is a framework that many people cannot surpass.