When Qin Shuyun heard Zhao Hao say that he had agreed with Princess Lianyuan to get to know each other slowly first and then confirm the relationship, she was immediately overjoyed.
At the end, he said proudly: "They say Princess Lian Yuan doesn't want to get married and doesn't say anything to anyone, but that's not true at all! Look at my son's action, and it's done, isn't it?"
Zhao Hao was speechless for a while: "Okay, mom, you can enjoy yourself, I'm going to go out and do it!"
Back in the courtyard, Zhao Hao continued to work on the printing press.
The workers are making good progress, some are still cutting copper blocks, and some have already started engraving.
Although they could not read, they could carve them out by following the characters.
I have to say it’s quite awesome.
However, after teaching Princess Lian Yuan for a whole morning, he discovered a very serious problem.
That is, even if the printing press was built, who would use it?
These days, it's extremely difficult to find a worker who can read.
There are too few people who read books, and those who can afford to read books are all rich people.
But who among the rich would come out to work as a worker and be ordered around by others?
His printing press also requires literate workers.
It definitely won’t work if you haven’t read any books.
This is where it gets tricky.
We can't let Wang Mengyu and Zheng Zhiqian use the printing press in the workshop every day, right?
It's totally unrealistic.
This matter must be resolved, and it must be resolved quickly.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hao went out and went to the imperial farm again.
First discuss it with Wang Mengyu and Zheng Zhiqian.
Seeing him coming, Wang Mengyu hurriedly asked: "Brother Hao, why are you back again?"
Zheng Zhiqian also said: "Yeah, I thought you were going to stay at home for a few days!"
Zhao Hao waved his hands at the two of them: "There is something I need to discuss with you. Lao Luo, you come too!"
When the three of them saw that he looked very serious, they quickly followed him into the house.
Wang Mengyu quickly asked, "Brother Hao, what happened?"
Zhao Hao said, "I told you before that we want to print all the white hemp paper we make into books."
"I also briefly told you the general method of printing."
"But there is a problem now. We need people who can read and write to print."
“And we don’t have such workers.”
After hearing what he said, Wang Mengyu and the other two immediately understood.
With the number of books they wanted to print, it would indeed take a large number of workers to complete it.
Luo Bi said: "Sir, it is indeed difficult to find workers who have received education and are literate. Three or five are fine, ten or eight are not bad, but the number of people we need..."
Zhao Hao said: "At least hundreds, or even several thousand."
Wang Mengyu took a deep breath and said, "Brother Hao, if there are so many words, there is no way to find them!"
Zheng Zhiqian nodded: "Yes!"
Zhao Hao said: "What I mean is this. Let's proceed in two steps. Lao Wang, Lao Zheng, you two should mobilize your connections and try to find someone."
"Of course, although it's hard to find, we'd rather have nothing than something less than perfect. We definitely won't accept unreliable ones!"
“We’ll find as many as we can find!”
"The second step is to train them ourselves. There are so many people in this village. Let's find more teachers to teach these tenant farmers how to read and write."
"Open a school in the village."
"If we pick some people and just teach them how to read, it will only take about a year or two, and they can basically start working!"
"What do you think?"
The three of them paused in silence, and Luo Bi spoke first: "Sir, this is the only way we can do now!"
"There are so many tenant farmers in the village, there must be many with good memories, maybe it won't take more than a year or two."
"Besides, Sir, this is creating opportunities for them. I believe all the tenant farmers will study hard!"
"In my opinion, it will take at most half a year for you to meet the requirements for employment!"
Wang Mengyu said, "Brother Hao, what Lao Luo said is right. Now it is just about to enter winter. We can take advantage of these few months of winter to invite more teachers to come and teach these tenant farmers to read and write."
Zheng Zhiqian also nodded in agreement.
Zhao Hao nodded and said, "Okay, let's do this. Lao Luo, you choose the right person, between the ages of sixteen to thirty-five... to forty-five."
"It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman."
“Select as many people as possible, then screen them and divide them into classes.”
"I'll teach you the rest too, but don't worry, just take your time."
"Let's open a school right here in the village and book ten first!"
"Food provided by the school!"
“Three meals!”
If there were no benefits, no one would come to study, because for these tenant farmers, studying has no meaning at all.
Because there wasn’t even an imperial examination.
The appointment and dismissal of officials was mostly based on recommendation or hereditary system.
This is also the main reason why the imperial court is controlled by the aristocratic families.
Everyone knows that this isn't the right approach, but no one can change this ridiculous situation.
Because there are too few people who read.
It's a vicious cycle.
The reason why Zhao Hao invented paper and printed books was that he wanted to change this situation and completely uproot the family.
Wang Mengyu said, "Brother Hao, if we do this, isn't it too big a business?"
Zheng Zhiqian also said: "Brother Hao, if we just want to teach the tenant farmers to read and work in the workshop in the future, it is totally unnecessary!"
"Besides, our current investment is already quite large. If we open ten more schools, we will have to provide three meals a day and hire dozens of teachers."
“Even if you put in all the share of the dry wine, I’m afraid we would still have a hard time sustaining it.”
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