The villagers of Xiangshui were in an uproar. The scene was filled with heated discussion.
"Village chief, how much will it cost to build a clan school in our village? Who will pay for it?"
Besides, hiring a tutor costs a lot of money! How are we going to pay for our children's tuition?
Villager Bai Dongsheng asked, "But he has several sons."
Bai Yinchuan raised his hand to quiet the room, and the scene became much quieter.
"This is the main issue we're going to discuss with you today."
Our village isn't as lucky as Zhao Family Village. Their village has a successful scholar who paid for building a school and hiring teachers.
If our village wants to build a school, we all have to chip in to pay for it.
This money can be divided equally among our families.
Every family has children, but in our village I don't require both boys and girls to go to school.
It's good for girls to stay at home and do chores.
I was thinking, our village isn't that well-off, so we just haul mud bricks and build our own houses.
The wood is free; you can just cut down a few trees on the mountain and that's it.
Building a school won't cost much. Hiring a teacher might cost more.
The village chief of Zhao Family Village said that they were going to invite several scholars to come to the village to teach.
They hired several children because there are many children in their village, both boys and girls go to school together.
If only boys in our village are studying, hiring a scholar to complete the imperial examinations would be about right.
In this way, the monthly tuition fee would be about three taels of silver.
How about we distribute the money for the children's schooling in our village according to the number of children?
That means if ten children in the family go to school, each child would receive 300 coins per month.
If there are 100 children in our village who go to school, their monthly tuition will be 30 coins.
What do you all think?
Putting everything else aside, even if our children don't take the imperial examinations, just a couple of years of schooling, enough to learn to write and do math, and then they could find a job as an accountant in town, would be much better off than they are now.”
Bai Yinchuan was shouting and lobbying at the front, when someone below timidly asked a question.
"Village chief, could you please hire a cheaper teacher? That way, we can send one more child to school."
Bai Yinchuan suddenly felt that this idea was good.
"If everyone agrees to build a village school, then we can sign up whose child will attend."
If there are too few children, then we won't be able to continue running this village school.
Another way is for the women who married into the village from other villages to go back to their hometowns and spread the word.
"If more children from other villages come to study, the tuition fees for the children in our village will be significantly reduced."
They were having a good time on the Baiyinchuan River when another voice interrupted them.
"Village chief, do you think it's possible that if students from other villages pay their teachers' fees, then the fees for our village's children could be reduced or waived?"
Bai Yinchuan was shocked. This guy was a real talent; he was even better at scheming than he was.
And so, a village school was built in Xiangshui Village.
After the village school was built in Zhao Village, very few children from other villages came to enroll.
The reason was simple: the tuition fees in Xiangshui Village were cheap. This surprised Zhao Jinfeng, but it was also within his expectations.
After all, quite a few people have come to Zhao Family Village recently seeking advice, as every village wants to build a school.
Zhao Jinfeng was very open about this, sharing as much as he knew, without any sense of pressure that the children in his village might feel pressured by the large number of educated people in the village.
Half a month later, the Zhao family school was established.
Not only were the classrooms built, but the teachers' dormitories, canteen, and playground were also completed.
The tables and chairs were custom-made by a carpenter in town, paid for by the Zhao family.
It just goes to show how powerful unity can be. Otherwise, the ethnic school wouldn't have been established so quickly.
Through Wang Guangzong's connections, two scholars were introduced to the area.
Zhao Qianci had communicated with the other party and found that they were not the kind of people who were pedantic and that they were also decent people.
On the second day after Mr. Zhao arrived, a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony for the clan school was held in Zhao Village.
This ceremony was specially arranged by Zhao Jinfeng, inspired by the opening of the Zhao Family Snack Shop.
That old man is really wicked; everything was provided by his cousin's family, and he didn't care at all.
"Fellow villagers, today is the opening day of our Zhao family school."
Reading can make people wise, reading can…
Just as Zhao Qingyan felt her neck was about to be stretched out, Zhao Jinfeng finished his impassioned opening speech.
This was met with thunderous applause.
The Zhao family school has temporarily divided into two classes, one for boys and one for girls.
The two teachers were mainly in charge of the boys' class, while Zhao Qingyi was in charge of the arithmetic course for the girls' class.
In addition, two female tutors were hired: one to teach the girls needlework, and the other to teach them to read and write.
At the same time, the Zhao clan school also has physical education classes every morning.
This was Zhao Jinfeng's special request, since he had seen his cousin's family doing morning exercises.
Well, the Zhao family's guards have also been requisitioned.
Soon, the Zhao clan school stabilized in all aspects, and the children were very enthusiastic about studying.
After all, Zhao Qingyang or Zhao Qingyi would occasionally make a guest appearance to teach the boys arithmetic lessons.
This is infuriating! Why is it that you're friends of similar age, and one minute they're playing and peeing in the mud with you, and the next minute they're your husband?
What's despicable is that this teacher even asks you questions in class, and if you don't know the answer, you're punished by being made to stand. It's so humiliating.
Look at how enthusiastic the child is about reading!
This was welcomed by everyone in the village, young and old.
As for families where there are no daughters to help with chores, now that their daughters come home every day and can teach them to read and write, their parents...
Once they can write their own names, they won't be so upset or opposed anymore.
On the contrary, many marriage proposals have recently come from Zhao Family Village.
The reason is simple: marrying a wife who can read and write means that the children born to her can learn to read without going to a private school. What a worthwhile deal!
Naturally, the boys also became highly sought after.
If the man I marry happens to pass the imperial examinations and become a scholar or even a top scholar, then I'll be living a life of luxury and endless wealth.
Initially, the people of Zhao Village were quite enthusiastic when they heard that someone was going to arrange marriages for their sons and daughters.
One day, I heard that the reason why the Zhao family's daughters and sons were not getting engaged was that they hoped to improve the family's social standing before getting married, and then I understood.
In Zhao Family Village, none of the young men and women were engaged in the short term. They were simply waiting for their value to rise.
Zhao Qingyan had nothing to do lately, so she dragged Yunyou into the mountains for a stroll.
The discovery of the robber's hole and the tropical plants still bothered her.
So the first place the two of them went to explore was that tomb robber's hole.
Standing by the cave entrance, Yunyou asked,
"Girl, are you sure you want to go down? Is it out of curiosity or greed?"
Do you know that digging up graves is very immoral and damages one's karma?
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