Chapter 560 Preparations before the start of school (please vote and subscribe)
Youfu's fleet does not have a clear destination. The ultimate goal of their mission is to explore as far as possible within a limited time, as long as they come back before the river freezes in winter. To put it bluntly, if Youfu can control the fleet and prevent them from returning, they may never come back.
Or if they have made a major discovery, such as the warm climate in the south, the river will not freeze at all, and they can replenish their own supplies, then they can stay in the south for a longer time. However,
Luo Chong does not think so. Even if this river is as long as the Yangtze River, more than 6,000 kilometers, it will only take two months at most according to the speed of the sailboat. By then, they can't be stupid enough to drive this small broken boat to the sea. Sooner or later, they will come back.
On the other hand, the crew members who went out have wives and children left in the Han tribe. With the ties of home, he will not worry that these people will not come back.
As the saying goes, if you doubt someone, don't employ him; if you employ someone, don't doubt him. Although Luo Chong is cautious in doing things, he is not so suspicious. If he is not sure about this or that, then he will not do anything.
The Barbarian Tribe waited for a few days, but after all, they did not wait for You Fu and his men to come back. Life returned to normal. The more than 20 people who died disappeared from people's sight and would soon be forgotten. However, there were always people who remembered the things left behind, such as the two magic weapons that the leader Ju Tiantian brought with him. Who would not like such a weapon against the heavens? So some people began to plan quietly.
In the last week of July, Luo Chong took You Ye's sailboat into the big lake and inspected the conditions of several candidate islands in the middle of the lake. According to the actual environment, he drew several more detailed maps, mainly for Luo Chong to take back for specific planning. There was no way, others did not understand how these chemical plants should be arranged.
After getting the first-hand detailed map, this territory inspection was over. Luo Chong led the team directly back to Hanyang City. At the beginning of autumn in August, he went back to prepare for various matters of the Han Tribe in the second half of the year.
There was a major event in August, which was the school enrollment. After all, it was related to the future of the Han tribe. Education was definitely the top priority for a country and could not be neglected.
After returning home and collecting several maps, Luo Chong looked at his two pregnant wives and brought them some specialties brought back from Liuyang County. After a day of warmth at home, he went to the teaching building the next day. The printing workshop of the Han tribe was currently here. If you want to teach, what can you teach without books?
When he came to the top floor of the No. 3 teaching building, Luo Chong immediately felt what it meant to be a scholarly family. Books really have fragrance. The inks all exuded a mixture of rosin and grease, which was very pleasant.
With the scale and batch production of book printing, the six classrooms on the third floor were all converted into printing workshops. Dozens of people were busy here. The sound of turning paper and the sound of typesetting and singing made Luo Chong very satisfied. The people behind him opened their mouths in surprise and stared at the scene here. Yes, Niuwei also came with him.
Bai Qi, as the person in charge here, has been accompanying Luo Chong, introducing the work here.
"Chief, the two books, Han Li and Selected Poems, have been printed for the time being. These two books are all capital Chinese characters, and there are no pictures, so it is faster to use movable type for typesetting. A few days ago, I found that some metal movable type was not enough, so I applied for a supplementary batch. Now 10,000 copies of each of these two books have been printed, which will be enough for our first school year. Our tribe now has nearly 80,000 people, and it is impossible to recruit 10,000 students of school age at once."
Luo Chong nodded after listening to his report. These were all arranged by himself. He was naturally very clear about these things. The number of prints was set by himself, and each book was not less than 10,000 copies. This was of course not the final number, but to cope with the first batch of compulsory education students in the Han tribe. These books will be printed more in the future.
The replenishment of metal movable type was also approved by himself. That thing is now made into coins. Replenishing movable type is equivalent to destroying the money and casting. Fortunately, the Han tribe now uses lead movable type, which does not have a great impact on the casting of currency.
As for the uppercase Chinese characters that Bai Qi mentioned, that was a name that Luo Chong came up with. Chinese characters are called uppercase Chinese characters, and Arabic numerals are called lowercase Chinese characters, also called lowercase numerals. Otherwise, if you come up with Arabic numerals, how can you explain to others what Arabic means? So just call them lowercase.
"Well, Chief, we are now printing two books, elementary mathematics and nature. The progress is relatively slow. The movable type of lowercase numbers and those symbols was also rushed to make a few days ago. Now they can finally be used. There are also a large number of wood engravings, many tables, geometric figures, and those paintings in nature. They all need to be engraved on wood engravings. Some of the engravings have just been engraved a few days ago, but they have been put into use now. I am confident that I can complete the task assigned by the chief before the end of August." Seeing that Luo Chong did not speak, Bai Qi continued to introduce the situation.
"Well, it's well done, but this wooden engraving is not a long-term thing after all. It is not convenient to store, and the wooden engraving is easy to deform and damage after being soaked in ink for a long time. Let's print this batch first. You can arrange people to cast metal printing plates from now on. Report it back and I will approve it for you."
Luo Chong looked at the workers skillfully printing the illustrations in those books and nodded.
"Ah? The whole page of pictures is also cast into metal printing plates?" Bai Qi asked in surprise, feeling a little incredible about the decision made by the leader.
"Well, metal printing plates are efficient and can be used and preserved for a long time. This book will definitely be printed in large quantities in the future. More quantity can reduce the cost. Don't worry about the cost problem. You just need to make the printing quality good. If I find typos in the book or the printing is unclear in the future, I will not forgive you then." Luo Chong said again.
"Yes, don't worry, Chief. I will check every time a new version is opened, and I will patrol here every day. If there are any problems in the final installation, I will pick them out directly and ask the printing team to reprint them. There are many inspection processes. Don't worry, Chief." Bai Qi stood up and assured Luo Chong when he heard what Luo Chong said.
"Well, you did a good job, but remember to train more people under you. This printing workshop will definitely expand in the future. By then, these workers now will definitely be masters and will have to manage many apprentices."
Luo Chong affirmed Bai Qi's work and also put forward his own requirements, asking him to train more capable people. There is no way. The Han tribe is now short of talents. It lacks all talents. If there are not enough people, the Han tribe will not be able to support Luo Chong's construction goals that are getting higher and higher every year, and the construction speed is getting faster and faster every year.
The two people were walking in front. Hong Fu, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple who was responsible for receiving foreign envoys, was also following behind with the members of the delegation headed by Niu Wei to visit, and they were discussing in a low voice from time to time.
"Is this the printing technology that the Han leader promised to pass on to our Xin tribe?! This is too amazing, it's so fast, much faster than carving words on bamboo strips." Niu Wei exclaimed in surprise.
"Yes, that's it. As long as the leader of your tribe agrees that our Han tribe's delegation will be stationed in the Xin tribe, our leader will soon send someone to teach you." Hong Fu, who was accompanying him, immediately explained to him.
At this point, Niu Wei couldn't help but sigh. Of course, he wanted the Han tribe's delegation to stay in Zhudao. He didn't know how much benefit it would bring to the Xin tribe. He just didn't know if his own leader would agree.
However, he had already told his trusted subordinates to go back and tell the leader what he should say. The rest could only be left to fate. He couldn't make the decision on other things. Although he was an elder, how much say could an elder who was not in the tribe have?
Shaking his head, throwing all these depressing thoughts out of his mind, Niu Wei soon became interested in the printing tools in front of him.
"Is this black ink for writing?" Niu Wei pointed at the ink used by the workers and asked.
"Well, it is. This is special ink for printing. It can also be used for writing. However, it is much more expensive than the ink sticks made with water. Most people can't afford it. These are inks. They are more expensive to make, but the effect of printing is better." Hong Fu thought for a while and then answered.
"Will the Han tribe teach us how to make this kind of ink?"
"They can teach us, as our leader promised before. But as you know, this requires that our Han tribe's delegation stay in the Xin tribe. On the other hand, I guess you can't use the formula of this ink.
The main thing is that I don't know if you have the same materials there. Many of the things used to make ink are obtained from trees. If there are no trees on your Bamboo Island, you have to think of other ways to solve it. Either you buy the prepared ink directly from our Han tribe, or you can only use your local resources to find a solution. At worst, you can just develop the ink from scratch.
I don't know much about printing, but I know one thing. This special ink is specially used on metal printing plates. If your tribe doesn't have so much metal to make printing plates, you can use wooden carvings directly. That thing is not picky about ink. Water-based and oil-based ones can be used. It doesn't matter if you don't have to make it at that time."
Niu Wei breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Hong Fu's explanation. Indeed, what he said was the truth. Even if the Han tribe agreed to teach them the production technology, there would be nothing they could do if the raw materials were not available on Bamboo Island.
Just like the iron of the Han tribe, during this period of time, Niu Wei has clearly known that iron is indeed a special metal, which is completely different from the three golds of their tribe. It is more difficult to smelt, and of course it is stronger and more suitable for making various tools and weapons.
However, the problem now is not where to get the technology of iron smelting and ironmaking, but whether there is an iron ore on Zhudao. If there is no iron ore, what is the use of obtaining the technology.
Niu Wei and his friends visited for a while and asked Hong Fu some questions. Luo Chong left these people and took a few guards to the top floor of the No. 2 teaching building. There are people in each of the six classrooms on the third floor of the No. 2 building, but they are not full. The people studying in them are actually teachers who will take office soon.
This was a solution that Luo Chong had come up with. Earlier, Luo Chong personally taught three literacy classes, with a total of 320 people. About 200 of them were assigned to various counties as officials. After all, people who could read and write were required to count household registration and register property. The remaining 100 people stayed in Hanyang City to continue studying. These people were the teaching staff that Luo Chong had prepared, but this was not enough.
Han Tribe currently has two schools, one in Hanyang City, with a total of four three-story teaching buildings, six classrooms on each floor, designed to accommodate 3,600 people at the same time. In fact, it is conservatively estimated that about 2,500 people will be enrolled. The remaining classrooms serve as teacher offices and printing workshops.
The main enrollment targets are the children of residents in Hanyang City and the children of residents in Ruyang City. The school in Ruyang City is under construction and has not yet been completed. However, it will take less than ten minutes for students from Ruyang City to come to Hanyang City to study by boat, so there is no problem with time. At that time, the government will fund a few "school ships" to pick up and drop off students in the morning and evening.
The other school is located in the government office area of Liuyang County. It is a large campus with an independent playground and flag-raising platform. It is not far from the prefectural government office of Liuyang County.
The Liuyang campus has a total of six teaching buildings, an office building, a printing building, a cafeteria, and more than a dozen public toilets. There are no dormitories at present. Students are enrolled nearby, so they can go home to live. The cafeteria is also used when there is no time to cook at home. In addition, it is dedicated to providing meals for teachers. Luo Chong must improve the treatment of teachers so as to attract more talents to enter the education industry.
It is worth mentioning that the teaching buildings in Liuyang County are relatively large. Like the teaching buildings in Hanyang City, they are all blue brick tube buildings with four-slope roofs, a ridge in the middle, and flying eaves around. There are corridors and classrooms with tiles, white walls, and green wall skirts inside, but the area and structure are much larger than the teaching buildings in Hanyang City.
The teaching building in Hanyang City has stairs on both sides and six classrooms on each floor. Liuyang County is a double building built according to this structure, with small stairs on both sides and a hall in the middle. There is a large staircase inside the hall opposite the door. There are six classrooms on each side of the large staircase, facing each other. There are twelve standard classrooms on each floor, which is twice as large as that of Hanyang County.
In fact, it is just the two teaching buildings of Hanyang County spliced together, with a symmetrical layout on both sides, so it is also called a double building.
There are six such buildings in total. Based on 50 students per class, twelve classrooms on the first floor can accommodate 600 people, three floors can accommodate 1,800 people, and six buildings can accommodate 10,800 students. Of course, this is the designed capacity. In fact, some teachers' offices or other special function classrooms cannot accommodate so many people, and there are not enough students and teachers at present.
(End of this chapter)
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