The billionaire girl: Daddy and Mommy, love me again

Time flies, and it’s the end of the year in a blink of an eye.

Cangwu Town and Pingyang County have been completely transformed. The streets are clean and spacious, and the houses are neatly and beautifully planned, like a work of art, pleasing to the eye.

Rich families directly spent money to buy the shops and houses built by the Cheng family.

People without savings could find a job in the Cheng family as long as they were diligent. They could use the wages to buy a piece of land. If they didn't have money to buy bricks, they could buy on credit and pay them back when they had money, or they could use their work to pay off debts.

There are only a very small number of really cunning and dishonest people who are unwilling to work and just want to sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor. They spend any money they have on eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. When everyone else is happily moving into new houses, they are still huddled in their shacks.

The Liu family and the Wang family also returned to Cangwu Town. They had made some money with the Cheng family during this period. It was hard to leave their hometown, so they returned to their original village and built new houses.

After this flood and plague, the population of Cangwu Town has been reduced by more than half, and many families have not even left a single person alive.

Those fields that had no owner were redivided.

Every citizen who settled in Cangwu Town was allocated his own land.

The biting cold wind in winter blows to every corner. The northwest wind blows so hard that it hurts people's faces and makes people feel the biting cold.

The bare trees stood pitifully on both sides of the road. The once vibrant flowers and plants finally couldn't hold on. They withered and turned yellow, turning into a thick quilt covering the earth, bringing the last warmth to all living things.

But there was a different scene in the fields.

Walking along the path through the fields.

At a glance, there are endless rapeseed fields, and the green rapeseed is thick and tall.

Suddenly a gust of north wind blew, and the rapeseed was swaying gently, like rippling water in a green lake, wave after wave, one after another, very spectacular.

The fields were full of busy people. Even the children followed the adults, helping to catch insects and weeds, and doing whatever work they could.

Looking at the rapeseed growing vigorously and thrivingly, everyone's face was filled with joyful smiles.

Every head of rapeseed is their hope for a better life.

A school was also built in the town, and teachers were being recruited.

After Cheng Zeli returned from Pingyang County, he has been busy with the affairs of the two colleges.

Yuan Qingping and Zhang Shizhong are involved in Pingyang County, so he doesn't need to worry about recruiting teachers.

Cangwu Town is different. It is a remote and poor place and no one is willing to teach here.

Cheng Zeli was helpless and could only turn to Master Li for help.

Master Li did not refuse. After a little thought, he wrote a few letters and asked him to send them out.

"I have a few classmates who used to be teachers in several private schools in Yinzhou. Yinzhou was hit hard this time. I will write them a letter to test their attitude, but I can't guarantee whether they are willing to come."

Cheng Zeli was overjoyed. Master Li’s classmates were all at least scholars. If they could bring such talents to Cangwu Town, their descendants would have no worries about their future.

"Father, you might as well write down our treatment here. We will pay them five taels of silver per month, including food and lodging, and two sets of clothes per season. If they move here with their families, we will also allocate them a house. If they have taught for ten years, the house will be given to them for free.

In addition, if they still plan to take the imperial examination, we can also provide them with travel expenses."

This is equivalent to investing in potential stocks and sponsoring them in advance. If they can move to a higher level with the help of Chengjia Village in the future, they will certainly not forget the friendship.

When Master Li heard his words, his eyes lit up instantly. With such good conditions, why would he be afraid of not being able to dig into the wall? He could even peel off the wall for him.

He hurriedly snatched the envelope back from Cheng Zeli's hand, wrote the treatment on a piece of paper in one go, and resealed the envelope.

"Here, go ahead. I'm 80% sure this time. Those old guys will definitely be tempted by such good conditions. Just wait for them to come to you."

Cheng Zeli called Cheng Laowu and handed him the letter.

"Fifth brother, go find a messenger and send these letters out. Be careful. These letters are very important."

Cheng Laowu took the letter and turned away.

"Ze Li, you seem to have forgotten one thing. The school has been built, and you let the children in our village and the children of workers go to school for free, but have you ever considered that paying tuition is not the most difficult thing, but the most difficult thing is writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone.

Even the most basic "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Classic" and "Youxue Qionglin" cost one or two taels of silver.

The worst white linen paper costs two hundred coins each, not to mention brushes and inkstones.

Even if we exempt them from tuition fees, most of them still cannot afford to go to school."

Cheng Zeli was silent. He really had forgotten about this.

We have to find a way to solve this problem. Otherwise, even if we recruit teachers, if there are no students, the school will be built in vain.

It would definitely not be feasible to ask the village to fund the purchase of books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones for the children. In this era, scholars are money-shredding machines and bottomless pits. Even if Chengjia Village earned a mountain of gold and silver, it would not be enough to fill this hole.

By the way, the reason why books are expensive is because paper is expensive, so they can just make paper.

Papermaking is not difficult. Paper can be made from mulberry trees, zelkova trees, ramie, wheat straw, rice straw, reeds, bamboo and even sugarcane.

It can be said that most plants can be used to make paper.

There is a huge demand for books, and hand copying alone is not only costly but also slow, so movable type printing can be used.

Making a brush is even simpler. As long as there is a good source of brush hair, Old Man Cheng can make it.

The difficult part is the production of the ink sticks, which is not only tedious but also time-consuming. He had seen others making Hui ink, and it took four years for the ink sticks to dry.

The children naturally couldn't wait that long, nor did they need such a good ink stick. It seemed that he still needed to go to his daughter's space to look for information and learn from her.

Thinking of this, Cheng Zeli could no longer sit still. He said something to Master Li and hurried back to the valley.

When I got home, I asked my daughter to take me into the space, and I dove into the pile of books, looking for methods of papermaking, movable type printing, and making brushes and ink sticks.

There are hundreds of thousands of books piled up in the huge study, and each type of book is arranged according to the classification of modern libraries.

It didn't take Cheng Zeli much time to find the books he wanted. Cheng Xingwan had collected professional books from all walks of life, and even many rare copies appeared here.

Not to mention all kinds of papermaking books, she even collected a lot of secret recipes for making gunpowder through the black market.

Cheng Zeli held the book and read it diligently until he had copied all the prescriptions and memorized them deeply in his mind, then he left the space with satisfaction.

In the yard of Old Man Cheng's house, a group of old men were surrounding Old Man Cheng and discussing something.

Nowadays, every household has planted rapeseed, and they can't help with other things. The old men have nothing to do every day, so they study making furniture with Old Man Cheng.

Seeing that Old Man Cheng was too busy, Cheng Zeli gave him some design drawings of modern simple fabric sofas and solid wooden beds, and also painted a big promise for him that if he did a good job, he would open a furniture shop for them in Cangwu Town.

When the old men in Chengjia Village heard about it, they all asked to join. Those who had no basic knowledge learned on the spot, and those who were too old to work just sat aside and watched stubbornly, and could even offer advice from time to time.

When Cheng Zeli walked over, he saw that the old men had already made the main body of the sofa and were discussing the production of the soft cushion.

"I think the cushion should be filled with catkins or straw."

"I think we should use reed flowers."

"No, no, you should use sand."

"Maybe wood ash would be more appropriate."

"......"

Cheng Zeli felt a little amused when he saw them arguing with red faces and thick necks, but they were full of energy.

"Use cotton!"