After the whole sect traveled to ancient times, I led the rebellion

Night school uses less paper, so Mu Qing can afford it for now.

The cost of setting up a county school is very high.

In addition to iron smelting and coking, papermaking must also keep up.

Mu Qing picked out one or two farm disciples who were studying.

The raw materials for papermaking include bamboo, wood, cotton, hemp, etc.

There are bamboo forests and there are also timber.

Mu Qing picked up several kinds of materials.

I plan to try them one by one. There is no such thing as too much paper. Both soft and hard paper have a place for them.

Guangtu, a disciple of Master Xu, has been studying chemistry recently.

Papermaking technology involves a lot of chemistry-related knowledge. Mu Qing brought Guangtu to papermaking on the grounds of social practice.

Mu Wu first asked people to cut some mulberry bark and soak and boil it with lye.

The lye solution can precipitate lignin and disperse the wood into pulp. The lye solution is then cleaned and bleach is added to clean it, removing impurities at the same time.

After all the pulp is processed, it needs to be completely crushed and beaten.

Finally, the dehydrated pulp is poured into a pool and the paper is scooped up with a mold (bamboo mat) and dried.

This complete series of papermaking processes is relatively simple.

The alkali solution used for boiling can be lime water.

There are still many limestone mines mined for making glass and glaze.

The main component of limestone ore is calcium carbonate.

Calcination of calcium carbonate at high temperature can produce carbon dioxide and calcium oxide.

Quicklime, also known as burnt lime, is mainly composed of calcium oxide.

Limewater is made by adding quicklime to water.

Tianchi Dynasty has no bleach

The ingredient of bleach is sodium hypochlorite.

The easiest way to obtain sodium hypochlorite is to electrolyze brine.

Jiang Ji has a mutated thunder spiritual root, which is good. He also has electricity.

In fact, Mu Qing is now imagining making a light without a generator for fun, but he will put this idea aside for later, so he has to make the paper first.

Dissolve the salt water until it turns a light yellow color, which indicates the presence of sodium hypochlorite.

Mu Qing and Guangtu boiled mulberry bark for three hours, and then poured in the sodium hypochlorite that Jiang Ji had prepared in advance.

Page after page of paper came out from the bamboo mat.

The next day, the snow-white, brand new thin paper was bound and delivered to Mu Qing.

We have paper, teachers, and teaching materials.

The news of the county school's reopening of enrollment spread from the public notice office to every household.

Hu Miaomiao's sister Hu Xin just turned eight this year.

Hu Yin had already found a teacher to teach Hu Xin. Hu Miaomiao was on duty at the county government office, so as soon as she left the office, she persuaded Hu Yin to send Hu Xin to the county school.

Unexpectedly, before Hu Miaomiao could even open her mouth to persuade him.

Hu Yin had already taken Hu Xin to sign up.

As far as Hu Miaomiao knew, the reopened county school was different from the previous one.

The county society teaches the Four Books and Five Classics used in the imperial examinations, but Hu Miaomiao has seen that many of the textbooks have been deleted, and many texts have been added that are not related to the Four Books and Five Classics.

The county magistrate said this was a new textbook called Chinese.

However, Hu Miaomiao didn't care. There were precedents for women serving as officials in previous dynasties, but in today's dynasty, the path for women to become officials was completely cut off.

Hu Miaomiao didn't care whether the county academy would teach the content of the imperial examination. In her opinion, apart from Huang County, it would be extremely difficult to find another place where a woman could serve as an official.

She is now working as a minor official in Huang County.

As long as Hu Xin works hard to graduate from the county school and become an official in the future, that would be good enough.

Hu Miaomiao doesn't want Hu Xin to get married and have children early. In her opinion, women should have equal rights to choose as men.

Hu Xin is still young, and before she clearly knows what she wants, all Hu Miaomiao can do is to let Hu Xin read more books.

After seeing the announcement, Huang Cuiping hurried back home.

Huang Cuiping is different from Hu Yin and Hu Miaomiao.

She is the most true portrayal of the lower-class people in Huang County.

Huang Cuiping has been farming all her life. She has little education and little money.

I originally thought that my life would just pass by in such an uneventful manner.

Who would have thought that a natural disaster would come?

It seemed that their whole family was about to starve to death, but fortunately the county magistrate and his family arrived.

Huang Cuiping only found out later that Lord Mu had the audacity to threaten the landlords to release grain at such a young age.

Seeing that they had food to eat, her son and daughter-in-law also went to the factory to work and earn money.

Life became better and better, and Huang Cuiping even ate the marbling salt that was said to be affordable only by the rich.

How could Huang Cuiping not know how good the county magistrate was to the people of Huang County?

Now the county school is open, and any child of school age who pays 20 cents can go to the county school.

This was something Huang Cuiping had never dared to dream of.

Scholars, these three light words.

In Huang County, most people have to empty their family savings to afford it.

Huang Cuiping had learned that the Xinxian School in Huang County did teach some content related to the imperial examinations, but it was very little. The county school taught other knowledge.

For example, how to farm and how to keep accounts.

Huang Cuiping had already made up her mind that all five of her grandchildren would go to school since she saw the announcement!

It's just a hundred coins. The second and eldest sons won't pay. She is an old lady who helped cook when the canal was built and has saved some money. It's just one semester's tuition. She can still afford it.

The eldest brother is attending night school now. As long as he graduates, he will have the opportunity to get a promotion and a raise. This was specifically told to him by his factory manager because he has high hopes for him.

With night school in hand, it would be easy to find a job in Huang County if you graduated from the county school.

Huang Cuiping naturally had to consider her own grandson. Her family had been farmers all their lives, and if they could produce a scholar, the whole family would have a better life.

Even if the county magistrate is promoted to a higher position in the future, he can still make a living wherever he goes by spending a few dozen dollars to learn a skill.

Huang Cuiping made the decision and took her grandchildren and some money to register at the county school.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

Many people bring their children or grandchildren to register for the county school.

The people of Huang County had good food to eat and made a little money, but they didn't know where to spend the money and usually saved it.

After the county school opened, they naturally sent their children to study there for a year or two.

The registration fee is not expensive and you can save up the money by working for two days.

So when Huang Cuiping arrived, there was a huge crowd of people at the entrance of the county school.

Even the always stingy old man Li came with his grandson.

Mu Qing didn't expect so many people to sign up.

The ten-day registration began after the announcement reached the villages in Huang County.

Ten days later.

After comparing and counting the data of all the school-age children in Huang County, Mu Qing discovered that although the number seemed large, it was actually still too small.

Most of the students who sign up to study in the county school are boys, and there are very few girls.

The preference for sons over daughters has existed in many families since ancient times.

Huangxian was the first place where Mu Qing started his business.

It was originally thought that she encouraged women to work in factories and recruited women as officials to liberate women from the family.

The gender on the registration form can give us a glimpse of the situation.

In Huang County, most families still favor sons over daughters.