Quick travel to save a miserable life

In fact, Lin Hui had already observed and understood that there are several connected hills in the west of Yongning County. They are covered with rocks, with only some scattered trees and some weeds. It is difficult to find even a larger tree. According to Lin Hui, Judging, those gray-white stones should be limestone.

Clay is not difficult to find. There are two ready-made caves in the Lin family's village, which are used to bake some household ceramics. The clay is dug freshly in the village.

Lin Hui inquired and found out that those hills were not owned by individuals, but by the government, so she went to the county government office to visit Magistrate Huang, hoping to buy those hills and the surrounding land.

Magistrate Huang caught the attention of the emperor because of the two contributions made by the Lin family during his tenure. The last one was a major move related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Now he has received the attention of the superiors. When his term of office expires, , you can be transferred to the capital to serve, at least fifth grade.

Being a fifth-grade official in the capital was something he never dared to think about in the past, and all of this was thanks to the Lin family. How could he not value the Lin family's father and daughter!

In addition, Lin Hui is now the titled head of Hui'an County, and her status is different from before, so Magistrate Huang seemed particularly solemn when he received her.

Hearing that Lin Hui wanted to buy the barren mountains connected to the west, County Magistrate Huang didn't say anything, and immediately asked the clerk of the household to bring the title deed and handle the transfer for Lin Hui, and the price quoted was incredibly low. Confidence.

Lin Hui didn't want to take advantage of this and asked him to repay the actual price, but Huang County Magistrate explained that those barren hills had no output because they could not be planted, and the stones on them were not hard enough to build houses and pave roads. , so no one paid attention to it for many years. Lin Hui's move can be regarded as solving a problem for the government. He really did not intend to lower the price.

Lin Hui gave up after hearing this, as long as she didn't intentionally lower the price, and she wasn't someone who had to pay a high price to buy things.

Since the raw materials were all available and the masters of Zhuangzi's cave dwellings and kilns were ready, he began to gradually test. Because Lin Hui only knew the approximate raw materials and did not know the specific ratio, so repeated trials were needed to arrive at the final suitable recipe.

As for how to conduct the experiment, that is a matter for the steward. Lin Hui has specially designated a steward to be responsible for this matter. She only needs to report the progress to her regularly.

As for Lin Hui herself, she began to prepare for the establishment of a women's school.

In fact, Lin Hui had this plan for a long time, but she was originally unable to implement it due to her limited status. Now she has become the county head personally granted by the imperial court. Her biological father is a super-grade earl, and there is no one in the entire Ganlong land who has a higher status than her. The number of female relatives can be counted on one hand. Now if they come forward to say that they want to set up a girls' school, there will definitely be no resistance.

Lin Hui plans to open a girls' school in Yongning County as a pilot first, and then promote it to other places after the school-running procedures are smoothed out.

In fact, Lin Hui also knew from other places that there were also schools for girls in Beijing and other places, which taught women skills such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, embroidery, and tea ceremony. Most of the students who enrolled were girls from official families or wealthy businessmen, which could be considered upper-class families. A small circle of female relatives.

But the girls' school Lin Hui wants to run is not this kind of school, but a girls' school for girls from ordinary families, or it can be said to be a girls' vocational school.

It is very rare for girls from ordinary families to even have the opportunity to learn to read, let alone play music, chess, calligraphy and painting. For them, what is more important is the means of making a living, not those flashy things.

The girls' school that Lin Hui wants to open will of course start by teaching girls how to read, at least to the point where they can almost recognize common words, and then teach embroidery, arithmetic, tailoring, medical skills, etc. in categories based on their strengths and interests. Skills strives to enable everyone who graduates from female school to have a skill, be able to support themselves without relying on anyone, and be independent financially and mentally.

So Lin Hui bought a piece of land on the edge of the city and started building a girls' school.

The biggest advantage of this land is that it is large enough and the land price is cheap. It is not that Lin Hui is reluctant to spend money, but for the long-term plan. Lin Hui is planning to promote girls' schools across the country for a long time. It is definitely not possible with the current financial resources of the Lin family. , then we should try to reduce unnecessary expenditures and spend money wisely.

Since Yongning is just an ordinary small county, there will certainly not be too many students in the first batch of enrollment, so not many school buildings were built. However, two rows of eight classrooms, four dormitories, and necessary canteens and teaching facilities were built. We will leave the rest of the staff offices empty until the need arises and build them later.

While building the school building, Lin Hui was also looking for suitable teachers. Due to the current trend, she could only find teachers among women. In fact, the Lin family had ready-made candidates for embroidery, arithmetic, and tailoring.

Due to the literacy classes established by the Lin family in the past two years, more than [-]% of the servants of the Lin family have graduated from literacy classes, and the girls are the ones who learn better.

What's hard to find is teachers who teach medicine. Doctors nowadays are basically all men. Only midwives are women and have something to do with medicine. However, most of them are old and illiterate, so they are not very suitable.

Later, I finally found a woman who knew medical skills. She was Dr. Lin’s sister. She was less than 30 years old. She was interested in medical skills before she got married and learned a lot from her father and brother. However, because she was a woman, she could not really practice medicine. After visiting a doctor, she later married out of town. Her husband died unexpectedly last year and her husband's family had no one, so she took her children to live with her family.

She was born in a medical family, knew medical skills, and was a married woman. It was convenient for her to teach childbirth knowledge and common women's diseases. It was perfect. Lin Hui came to the door in person and asked for help several times, and finally she was invited to be the daughter-in-law. medical teacher.

Once the school building is built and teachers are available, enrollment can begin.

Lin Hui named the girls' school "Yuzheng Girls' School", which means "Yu Zheng Girls' School", hoping that the girls who come out of the school will be upright.

The girls' school recruits girls between the ages of 7 and 10. The school takes care of food and housing, and distributes two pieces of clothing every quarter. Because it is aimed at girls from ordinary people's families, there is no need to pay tuition fees in the early stage. After graduation, you can go to work, and a portion of your monthly wages must be deducted and given to the school as tuition.

I heard that they don’t have to pay school fees, they also have food and shelter, and they can learn crafts. Many families send their girls to girls’ schools. In addition, the Salesian Bureau also has some girls who meet the age limit. Therefore, It didn't take long for more than sixty female students to be recruited.

On the third day of the third lunar month, the Shangsi Festival, Yuzheng Girls' School in Yongning County started school on this day.

The first thing when school starts is not teaching, but arranging for people to bathe all the girls, use lotion to remove lice, and then put them into uniforms.

After the school officially started, everyone had to run three times around the inner wall of the school every morning to exercise their physical strength. Because many of them had not been able to eat enough before and their physical strength could not keep up, they gradually got better after a week after the school started.

Then there is morning reading. After reading for half an hour, I can go to have breakfast.

The school food is not good, but it is not bad either. Each person has an egg every morning, unlimited steamed buns, porridge and pickles, and two dishes and one soup for lunch and dinner. There is enough mixed noodles and steamed buns to eat once every five days. Meat has caused many children to say that this day is simply great.

When all the female students were on summer vacation, cement was finally developed.