Without further ado, Gu Nanxi decided to set up a glass business, with Fang Yinnian as the chief technical director and Su Yunyan as the director of the glass business, a fifth-rank official.
At present, the glass business is led by Gu Nanxi alone. After the glass business reaches a certain scale, it will be transferred to Baigong Company.
Su Yunyan was stunned. Is she now an official?
"Mother, can I really do it?" Although Su Yunyan had been handling government affairs, she was just helping her mother and did not have a formal official position.
This was the first time Su Yunyan entered the officialdom as a female official.
Su Yunyan was very worried, afraid that she would disappoint her mother and cause rumors outside.
Gu Nanxi nodded to Su Yunyan and encouraged her, "What are you afraid of? You did so well before. What's more, you are not fighting alone this time."
Fang Yinnian repeatedly expressed his loyalty: "Miss, please rest assured. You will be responsible for finding sales channels, and I will be responsible for technical matters. Together, we will make a fortune for you!"
With the encouragement from the two, Su Yunyan became more confident, and several trade routes immediately emerged in her mind.
This time, she not only wanted to sell the glass to Kyoto, but also to Xixia and Tubo!
Gu Nanxi deeply felt that Fang Yinnian was a savior sent by God, so he assigned a team of ten guards to protect Fang Yinnian.
The next day, Gu Nanxi rushed to Wuchuan Town without stopping.
The size of the military workshop has expanded three times, with two entrances and exits, both heavily guarded.
Important technical personnel in the military workshop are not allowed to go out easily.
Their whole family, young and old, were also taken to the military workshop and arranged in the living area.
The living area is full of courtyards of the same size. Although they are not big, they provide independent space.
There are markets, academies and health clinics nearby, making it like a small town.
Qin Bohuai led Gu Nanxi to the living area and said, "In order to ensure the safety of the military workshop, our family, young and old, also live in the living area. The academy is holding a parents' meeting today. Pu Chang and Wang Ziting didn't know you were coming, so they all asked for leave to attend the parents' meeting."
The streets in the living area are very clean, with two ditches on both sides of the streets for discharging domestic sewage.
Gu Nanxi sniffed. There was no stench of feces or urine in the air. "I remember Wang Ziting's youngest son has already started a family. Could it be that his grandson is going to school?"
Qin Bohuai has been following Gu Nanxi for many years and is no longer the firecracker he used to be.
He was now very observant and explained very considerately: "Sir, you may not remember. Wang Ziting's wife gave birth to a daughter two years ago. His wife has made great achievements in textile machines. In recent years, she has been studying how to improve textile machines. I heard that there is some progress."
Speaking of the couple, Qin Bohuai could not hide his admiration: "In order to study technology, they have no time to take care of the children. Our military workshop is of a special nature and it is not convenient for outsiders to come in and out at will. So the academy opened a nursery class to take care of children under five years old."
This kindergarten is the product of a special period.
During the Yunzhou War, the military factory worked in three shifts like crazy to produce explosives and gunpowder.
Even the employees’ families are doing what they can, such as helping to transport ore.
In order to free up more labor, the academy proposed to open kindergarten classes.
Unexpectedly, the unexpected result paid off. After the war, the military workshop employees and their families strongly demanded that the kindergarten be retained.
After all, dual-income families earn more money.
The kindergarten class provides food and drink, and also teaches people to recognize words and the "Three Character Classic", and charges only a symbolic 100 coins per month!
If the kindergarten only accepted children from the military workshop, the people of Wuchuan Town would have been eager to stuff their own children in.
Qin Bohuai introduced as he walked: "The living area was also rebuilt. We set up water pipes to bring river water into every household. In fact, Wang Ziting wanted to build an underground sewage pipe, but was stopped by Mr. Xu. Mr. Xu said that manure is a very important fertilizer and should not be wasted easily."
Qin Bohuai did not dare to interrupt the argument between the two.
Gu Nanxi teased, "Did you move here because you think life in the living area is more convenient?"
For a large family with servants working, having water brought into the house, nurseries, sewage pipes, etc., is really not an advantage.
All the miscellaneous odd jobs were done by servants.
However, because Gu Nanxi lived a frugal life, the officials under her did not dare to be extravagant.
A family of four or five people employing thirty or forty servants is a very common thing in Kyoto, but in Yunzhou, you would never find such a thing even with a lantern.
Qin Bohuai laughed: "Has the adult discovered it? My wife doesn't want to help her son take care of his grandson, and thinks it's fine to put him in the nursery class."
The two of them laughed all the way and soon arrived at the academy.
The academy is divided into kindergarten class, elementary education department, various crafts department, and imperial examination department.
After graduating from the Department of Elementary Education, students will start to be divided into different groups. Those who want to learn martial arts will go to the Military Academy. Those who want to continue to participate in the imperial examination will be promoted to the Imperial Examination Department. Those who want to continue to study various trades will enter the Department of Various Trades.
This system is based on the Baichuan Academy. Basically, all the academies in Yunzhou and Shuozhou have been changed to this, but each has its own strengths.
Some literature departments are stronger, some imperial examination departments are stronger, and the academy in the military workshop is naturally the strongest among the various departments!
When Gu Nanxi arrived at the academy, he happened to see students from the Department of Engineering doing experiments.
"What's this?"
Gu Nanxi moved closer curiously.
The students had not seen Gu Nanxi and did not know him, but when they took one look at Lord Qin beside her, they knew that he was one of their own.
"What I made is a water-powered millstone. This is a water wheel. I used a vertical water wheel with a mixed iron and wood structure. This is the water diversion system, and the gate can be used to control the intensity of the water flow hitting the water wheel. In the previous dynasty, there were water mills, but they were never popular. The hydraulic mill I designed can process hundreds of kilograms of materials per day!"
Gu Nanxi glanced at the group of young men, each of whom looked to be in their teens, and asked curiously, "How did you come up with the idea of doing this?"
The students chattered, "Mr. Xu got a great harvest from the saline-alkali land in Woye Town. We all went to watch. Grinding wheat by hand is such a waste of time and manpower! I thought of the water mill! We have few rivers in Yunzhou, but it's different in Hezhong County. We can make full use of the water power!"
Someone was not convinced and said, "What's that? My wind-driven millstone is more powerful! Our Yunzhou has such strong winds, this is the millstone suitable for our Yunzhou!"
Another student interrupted, "What you are doing is nothing! The wooden seed drill I designed is the most practical! Only with a seed drill can we sow seeds evenly, save seeds, and save manpower!"
"Mine is the best!"
"Mine is even better!"
"Mine is better than yours!"
The young men were full of youthful vigor and neither of them would give in to the other, so they started fighting while talking.
Qin Bohuai was worried that Gu Nanxi would be angry, but he saw that his master's face was almost broken by laughter. (End of this chapter)
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