I am engaged in construction in Datang

The weather in May is a bit hotter.

It started to drizzle in Huaihai.

When the information came, Li Yin looked into the distance with a worried look on her face: "Could it be that it will start so soon?"

"System, is this the beginning?"

【Unknown】

According to intelligence, there will be some light rain in the Huaihai area in recent days, and the flood season is expected to arrive in a month or two.

"Channel opening and dredging has begun. There are people working on all river sections, with the most people on the Huaihai side... I hope we can make it in time."

After each river channel is dredged, draining the river water out is much better than blocking it.

"Penicillin should be able to be transported long distances, right?"

The first version of penicillin was developed last year, but it has not yet been used on humans due to fears of problems.

This year should be about the same.

"The owner of the village."

A tenant ran in from outside the house and said, "Mr. Rui is coming to the farm."

How does Lu Kuan have free time?

"Ask me to go and welcome him." Li Yin put down the work in her hands. The arrival of Duke Rui must mean that there is a problem with the implementation of compulsory education in Hebei Province.

as predicted.

Soon, the two of them sat in the study, and Lu Kuan had a worried look on his face.

"Master Li, it is too difficult to implement compulsory education."

“The first is the issue of funding.”

Lu Kuan took a sip of tea. The tea and fruits on the farm were really top-quality treasures. "Currently, the funding is borne by both the national treasury and the private treasury. We plan to build 50 national primary schools."

"The construction costs alone have almost consumed all of the first phase of funding. If the teachers arrive one after another in the future, it doesn't matter if we can't pay them, but the problem is that we can't not give them food."

As he spoke, Lu Kuan looked even more distressed: “The second problem is food.

"Some of the children live far from home and have to eat lunch at school. Not only do those from well-off families have to worry about losing their meager labor force, but they also have to prepare extra lunch, which is a heavier burden."

"The third is the safety of the children on their way to school."

"How can the adults at home have the time to run so far to send the children to school? The children have to walk by themselves, so they won't run into bad people."

"The last one is the issue of universal access. Many families are unwilling to send their children to school."

It's not just girls, sometimes people are unwilling to let boys go to school.

Children in their teens are already an indispensable labor force in the family and can help reduce a lot of the family’s burden during the busy farming season.

Moreover, in the eyes of ordinary people, studying is something for nobles to learn. What can they achieve by studying?

Not to mention girls, they will get married sooner or later, so why should they study?

It would be better to do some housework.

“Don’t worry about the funding.”

The village has previously prepared a lot of money for compulsory education, and we can just advertise the donation in the newspaper in the next two days.

The funds in the national treasury are gradually becoming surplus, and Li Shimin plans to change the tax policy to make it more rational, so that there will be more money in the national treasury.

Many more factories will be built this year than last year. All the major families are seeking change, and industrial development will soon become popular throughout the Tang Dynasty.

The form of personal income tax also needs to change, as the rent-labor and labor service system has gradually failed to keep up with the pace of development.

"As for the children's meals, the village plans to launch the Project Hope program."

It is still affordable if only the lunch meal is subsidized.

There are many poor families there nowadays. It is unrealistic to collect tuition fees or ask people to prepare meals for their children themselves. If they only eat black steamed buns with pickles every day, how can they be nutritious?

With the development of the Tang Dynasty, when the children graduate in three years, the people in that area probably won’t lack meat or vegetables anymore.

Of course, she couldn't distinguish the dolls from the wealthy families and charge separate fees.

Moreover, people may not necessarily think highly of the meals provided by the school, so they may take the children home for lunch at noon.

"As for the safety of the children, parents are required to pick them up if the distance is short, and those who live far away can apply for a safety officer and receive a subsidy."

For those children in particularly remote areas, men from their respective villages would take turns to pick them up. If anything happened, they would set off fireworks and the bailiffs would arrive quickly.

"Don't worry about universalization, Duke Rui. Compulsory education will soon become one of the Tang laws. Anyone who doesn't send their children to school, regardless of whether they are boys or girls, will be dragged out and beaten with a stick."

"Even if the kids don't want to study, they have to finish. If they skip school... they will be spanked and his mother's buttocks will be spanked. Of course, this is not the kind of spanking with a stick."

In special times and with special methods, if you want to transmit so many new ideas all of a sudden, you must take a drastic measure.

Lu Kuan smacked his lips, this, this is so crazy.

Before, everyone wanted to study but there was no place to go. Now, if you don’t study, your mother will spank you!

If your mother got spanked, wouldn't you get beaten up when you got home?

Oh!

If one day this compulsory education were to be universal throughout the Tang Dynasty...

Sweat kept dripping down Lu Kuan's forehead.

"Any more questions?" Li Yin looked at Lu Kuan, encouraging him to finish speaking at once so that they could solve them together.

"No, no more, no more." Lu Kuan shook his head like a rattle.

"Then let's go eat. Today the farm has a new dish—"

Li Yin paused for a moment and said, "Nine turns of the large intestine."

"It tastes delicious. Duke Rui will definitely like it."

……

Alcohol factory.

Li Xiaochun has been in the important factory area of ​​the village for more than a month, selling dried meat, sausage, rock sugar, dry noodles, fried flour and bean powder...

All items that are convenient for storage and can quickly restore physical strength are being produced at an expedited pace.

In addition, the production of relief items such as alcohol, soap, stretchers, gauze, and masks has never stopped.

"Warm-up items are also needed, in case someone loses body temperature due to the river water."

Li Xiaochun looked at the list in his hand and checked and prepared each item.

"Xiaochun is in charge."

Lu Liangxi came over with He Qizhen: "The woolen yarn factory produced a batch of towel blankets, which have good water absorption performance and should be useful."

Nowadays, woolen yarn factories no longer only produce woolen yarn, but also have production lines using silk, cotton, linen and other raw materials.

More and more ladies from the neighborhood came here to work, and no one said anymore that it was immoral for young ladies to show their faces in public.

Some men would even boast that their wives are team leaders when they are drinking with their brothers!

When talking about the female workers in the woolen yarn factory, we have to give them a thumbs up.

"Have you brought any samples? Let me take a look."

Lu Liangxi asked the ladies behind him to bring the items forward. Although they were not as exquisite as those sold on weekdays, they were powerful.

Water absorption and warmth retention are both excellent.

“Are these difficult to produce?”

If it consumes too much manpower and material resources, it is not worth producing.

"It's not difficult. It's two or three times faster than the usual production of silk and satin cloth, and the cost is also low."

"Well...then make about 1,200."

"Xiaochun is in charge."

As soon as the matter here was settled, a few more people came running over there, holding drawings in their hands.

"We have developed a new transportation route..."