Ping Nangong personally supervised the road construction, who would dare to be sloppy?Therefore, the progress of this road construction is very fast.

Mr. Liang looked at the cement workshop under the name of the government office, and squinted his eyes happily. It wasn't Yan Mu. How could this cement workshop be built? If he wanted to build it, he had to invite someone who knew how to do it from the capital, and it was also the beginning of the workshop. After the cement was produced, he realized that the cement was made from these few things.

In the letter written by Yan Mu to Gu Zhao, he complained that the people who repaired the cement road were not skilled enough. Gu Zhao saw that two construction teams were idle, and asked them if they would like to take over the work in the southwest. What are you waiting for? , I was so busy that I felt something was wrong when I was idle, so I immediately went to the southwest to repair the cement road.

As soon as these two teams came, they were all skilled workers, so Yan Mu's speed of cement road construction was greatly increased. Mr. Liang deliberately understood the operation mode of these construction teams, and secretly thought that it is no wonder His Majesty values ​​Mr. Gu, this brain is definitely very active , where do other people think so long-term.

Occasionally, I went to the construction site to listen to those people from Yaochang Mansion talk about the situation in their Yaochang Mansion. I heard that Mr. Liang wanted to see it. The products there were not available in the southwest, and they could only be obtained through those well-connected merchants. Team, to transport the items produced there, but the price is really not low.

Look, the items produced in a workshop in Yaochang Mansion are all sold to the southwest. You can imagine how much money they make. In the past, Yaochang Mansion was a poor place that no one wanted to go to.

This road has not been repaired yet, and another special product of Yaochang Mansion has been shipped to the southwest. Mr. Liang first got a pack of snacks called five-spice melon seeds from Yan Mu, which is very strange: "This is made by Mr. Gu again." ?”

Yan Mu was very proud of this: "Of course, my brother will be the first to miss me when he has something good. This is for Mr. Liang to try something new. Mr. Liang should have heard of a wonderful scene in Yaochang Mansion. In summer, A large area of ​​yellow sunflowers bloomed outside the city of Yaochang Mansion, attracting many literati to watch, and many poems have been handed down, and these melon seeds are the seeds of sunflower blossoms."

Mr. Liang immediately understood that this beautiful scenery has spread to the capital. There are a few rich and leisure young masters who don't believe that such a ghostly place can have such a beautiful scenery. In order to verify their point of view, they personally went to Yaochang Mansion After reading it, I didn't want to leave after watching it, and after I came back, I gave Yaochang House a lot of publicity.

After the poems were circulated, Mr. Liang specially found some excellent works to appreciate, and he also yearned for the beautiful scenery depicted in the poems. Now when he saw the sunflower seeds, he felt very different: "It turned out to be sunflower seeds, Mr. Gu Sure enough, there is a set, and I would never plant crops that are only of appreciation value.”

Then Mr. Liang tasted it cherishedly, the taste is very good, it is most suitable to pass the time, presumably many people will like it.

Seeing Mr. Liang's great praise, Yan Mu was also elated.

On the other side, Gu Zhao packed a lot of roasted sunflower seeds for Qi Yunfei and Gu Ren, and asked them to take them to the capital city and Qingling mansion respectively. Yes, they are going back, and this long time is enough for them to cultivate a set of sunflower seeds. The team, the workshop will not fail to operate without them, not to mention Gu Zhao, a knowledgeable person, is here, and the two of them can leave with confidence.

It's not that they don't miss their family after being away from home for so long. Gu Zhao also urged them several times, and they stayed and stayed. This time they took the opportunity to help Yaochang Mansion sell sunflower seeds and set off.

Qi Yunfei patted Gu Zhao on the shoulder: "Don't worry, such delicious five-spice melon seeds will definitely be very popular in the capital. We will come to see you when we are free."

Gu Zhao hugged him and Gu Ren, they didn't say a word, they put down their own affairs and came to help him, it was for him, and how many things he delayed, this friendship Gu Zhao will always remember In the heart, so there is no need to say more on the lips.

After hugging them and releasing them, Gu Zhao took a step back: "You have a safe journey, send me a safety letter when you get home."

"Okay, you should go back earlier."

Qi Yunfei and Gu Zhao got on their horses and waved to Gu Zhao and his party. The motorcade started to move with shouts, and kept moving away in Gu Zhao's and his group's field of vision.

The departure of his friend's nephew made Gu Zhao slightly reluctant, but he was soon overwhelmed by his busy life and couldn't care about it.

Gu Zhao wants to mobilize the people to send their children to school, not only boys, but also girls. Gu Zhao takes workshops as an example. Nowadays, in several workshops, except for the construction team, male and female workers are divided in half. There are more male workers in the workshops, but the wool workshops recruit almost all female workers. Anyone who can enter these workshops is envied by the common people. Therefore, many people are shaken by the question of whether girls should study.

A man from a family said to his wife: "Send it, send it if you want, don't look at who said it, this is what the magistrate said, and the magistrate said yes, wouldn't it be bad?"

"Then who will do the work at home? The family has raised several more sheep this year."

"Then let's work harder as parents. Besides, they can help the family when they come back from school. We are not such a wealthy family. It doesn't mean that we don't have to work in the fields after studying. Even the dignified magistrate The adults will work in the fields, I heard that the magistrate is also from a farming family, and we can't afford to support a delicate young master."

The younger daughter quickly promised that she would work hard to help the family before going to school and after school, and her brother nodded repeatedly, and he would do the same. In the end, the wife had no choice but to agree. Let the grown-ups sing a different tune.

There are many cases like this, so on the first day of school, there are also a lot of female students in the school. This is also because the atmosphere of Yaochang Mansion is not as conservative as that of the capital and the south. Robbing men on the street has long been overwhelmed by the saliva of those literati, and Gu Zhao's prestige here is extremely high now, and the people are willing to respond to Gu Zhao's request and send their girls to the school, so that they can read some words In the future, if you have the opportunity to enter the workshop, you can earn no more money than staying at home and doing housework.

The difficulty of matching these schools with teachers is no less difficult than persuading parents to send girls to schools. Gu Zhao not only increased the monthly salary of these teachers, but also included this in the evaluation, and also threw out the bait of teaching them personally .

He implemented a weekly system, not one day off every ten days, but the students and masters would have one day off after six days of class, and he would start classes every Sunday, making those masters his students, and no longer taught in government schools.It has to be said that some scholars went to the school to be teachers for this point, and those who listened to his class felt that they had gained a lot, so they were not willing to stop here.

For scholars from poor families, such opportunities are even better, and this monthly salary can definitely support them to continue their studies.

Afterwards, Gu Zhao introduced preferential measures in terms of taxation, giving tax cuts to those who have wives in their families, and so on, which indeed attracted many scholars to come out to be wives.

Because the level of masters varies, Gu Zhao also summoned people to compile textbooks during this period. His original purpose of promoting education was to make more people literate, not to let them all take the scientific examination. Therefore, this textbook belongs to the general education category. At the same time, it is also to broaden the horizons of students, and those students who have performed well in various schools can obtain the opportunity for further study after screening, that is, to take the road of imperial examination.

Hearing about this, Gu Yang and Mr. Peng, who were traveling in the southwest, came back specially. They participated in the compilation of teaching materials with great interest, and they all volunteered to be teachers in the school. care.

With them joining, of course Gu Zhao will not push it out. In addition to the regular three-character scriptures and hundred surnames, Gu Zhao has added the subject of arithmetic. This is a course that is widely used in people's daily life. Gu Zhao asked himself He is considered a strong point in arithmetic, so this textbook was written by him and others himself.

In the end, the Gewu course was added, making it even more difficult to write this textbook, and Gu Zhao had to come in person. According to his idea, this Gewu course is a hodgepodge, integrating the physical chemistry of later generations into one, or equivalent to Science lessons for later generations, but this era doesn't pay much attention to it. How many people with outstanding craftsmanship can only be reduced to craftsmen, and how many craftsmanship have been interrupted in the historical development.

Gu Zhao wanted to enlighten these students on Gewu, and also hoped that they could learn one or two skills in the future, so that they would not have the ability to make a living after leaving school.

For this reason, Gu Zhao also hired a lot of craftsmen to join the teaching in the school, and even specially wrote to the craftsmen he met in the Ministry of Industry, asking if they would like to come out to teach students, he did not expect everyone to come, But it would be good if one or two of them can come. There are these people to train other masters. The professor is enough for these students.

Before the start of school, all these tedious tasks were finally completed. Many students happily walked into the newly built concrete building with homemade schoolbags on their backs, and received the books distributed by the school without charging them. , the students were even happier, and while cherishing the books, they also chatted with each other. Every student kept in mind that it was because of their prefect that they had such a good chance of literacy.

After these textbooks were compiled, Gu Zhao also sent several copies to the capital, always reporting to the emperor for the record, so as not to be caught by others and say something.

Therefore, the emperor, who was in the imperial palace in the capital, received a big package from Gu Zhao of Yaochang Mansion. Gu Zhao came up with a tribute, but I didn't expect to receive something from Gu Zhao so soon.

The emperor smiled to the princess and Yao Shoufu and others who were present: "I don't know what Gu Aiqing sent me this time. The five-spice melon seeds from earlier tasted good. How many of the Qing family have tasted it?"

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