After the issue of engineering was resolved, the next step was to set up garment factories, schools, and conscription.

The garment factory is located in a small two-story building next to Gordon Hall. This small building covers an area of about 800 square meters, the first floor is used as a factory, the second floor is used as an office and staff dormitory, and half of the roof is an attic, half is a terrace, which can be used as a warehouse and drying area, and there is a large vacant space behind the small building, and there is enough space to expand the plant in the future. In addition, next to Gordon Hall, you can also consider connecting wires from Gordon Hall in the future to ensure the production of lighting.

After the crossing army captured the concession, the small building remained empty, and it is said that the owner had escaped from the concession, so it was directly requisitioned.

The employees of the garment factory, first of all, considered the women of the first batch of naturalized people who were still traversers, and had already arranged for some women to make clothes during their time at Dagukou, and then recruited them from the city of Tianjin and the concession. However, there are no machines yet, so for the time being, they are all made by hand.

The establishment of the school was the result of some discussion, and it was finally decided to divide the school into two parts, one is the normal school, that is, to recruit minors to enroll in school, and to carry out systematic learning.

By this time, the crossing group had taken in 183 minors, including 147 boys and 36 girls, the oldest being 14 years old and the youngest being 10 years old, and now there are about 30,000 Chinese in Tianjin City and the concession combined, and about 1,000 minors of appropriate age.

The address of the school is located in Zizhulin Church, which was built in 1872, also known as St. Louis Church, located at the intersection of Baotutu Road (Yingkou Road) and Heba Road (Zhang Zizhong Road), covering an area of 6.8 acres and a construction area of 779 square meters. It is a green brick and wood structure, and then decorated with traditional Chinese brick carvings, the appearance is majestic and elegant, and the interior furnishings are also very elegant and chic. This is also the largest and highest-level church in the Tianjin Concession at present, and most of the people who enter and leave the church are foreign believers with status and those with status among Chinese believers, and it is difficult for ordinary believers to be among them. In the old time, the church still exists.

During the period of the Boxer Rebellion, Western churches became the first targets of the Boxers. Most of the churches in Tianjin's urban and rural areas were burned down, but the Zizhulin Church was spared because of the geographical advantage of the concession, and became a refuge for Christians and refugees from all over the world, and at its peak, it housed as many as 2,000 Chinese and foreign Christians. When the traversers first occupied the concession, they had placed some of the concession houses in the Zizhulin Church, about 2,000 people, but now all of them have been released, and only a few dozen foreign monks and some nuns are left in the church.

Although the traversers will not take the church as a key target like the Boxers, they will never allow the Catholic church to develop missions in the areas under their control, which does not mean that the traversers will ban Catholicism, in fact, there are many Catholics within the traversal group, but Catholicism must be brought into their control.

In the old time and space, the Catholic Church in China had a total of 100 dioceses, 5,000 churches and clubs, and nearly 6 million believers, but until the time of travel, China had not established diplomatic relations with the Vatican, the headquarters of the Catholic Church, and theoretically speaking, all the Catholic churches in China were not recognized by the Vatican. The main obstacle to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Vatican is the form of appointment of bishops in China. China only accepts the formal appointment of Chinese bishops by the Vatican, but only with the substantive consent of the Chinese government, otherwise the unilateral appointment is invalid and illegal, and this condition is obviously unacceptable to the Vatican.

Of course, from another point of view, without the appointment of the Vatican, the Catholic Church in China can still develop very well, and this is also the attitude of the time-travelers towards Catholicism in this time and space. It's just that now is not the time to show off your religious ideas, but the churches in the Tianjin Concession will not be open to the public for a considerable period of time.

However, a church with perfect facilities and a considerable scale like the Zizhulin Church is so empty for the foreign monks to live, which is obviously too wasteful, and it is naturally good to use it as a school, because the current students are still mainly orphans, not only to have a place to attend classes, but also to have enough living rooms, and other supporting living settings, Zizhulin Church of course meets this condition, but for the time being, it is not considered to electrify the school.

The candidate for the teacher has been determined, and the principal is Colonel Fang Bin, because there are not many professional teachers among the traversers, and Colonel Fang Bin is also a full-fledged professor of the National Defense University, and this qualification is naturally the highest among all the traversers.

There are 16 teachers in the first batch, eight men and eight women, all of whom are recruited through open recruitment and voluntary registration, and then screened out, three of whom still hold teaching certificates, and the rest also have experience in training institutions or in their own units. Because Fang Bin only served as the principal, he also arranged a deputy for him.

And now it's too late to compile textbooks, but fortunately, I found a few primary and secondary school textbooks in the old time and space among the traversers, although they can't be used directly, but they can also be used as references, and they can be taught while compiling textbooks.

However, the name of the school is very uncompetitive, called Hope School, because the Interim Executive Committee does not pay too much attention to the name of the school, thinking that the name of Hope School is very good, and believes that it not only represents the future of the Crossing Group, but also the future of China in this time and space. And this has become one of the things that has been complained about by the crossing crowd for a long time later.

Of course, there were also proposals to let the minors in the Traveler also study in the Hope School, but it was quickly rejected, because the Hope School starts from the most basic teaching, that is, from the elementary school, and most of the minors in the Traveler have a primary school degree or above, which is not suitable for studying in the Hope School. Moreover, most of the non-military personnel still live on three ro-ro passenger boats, and less than 400 people live in the Tianjin concession, so if the minors among the traversers are allowed to study in the Hope School, then how can their parents arrange for them, and if they let their parents come with them, it will add a lot of work, after all, they have to arrange a place to live, work, and live. If they didn't let their parents come, would they be able to reassure their parents, so in the end, it was decided whether they should stay in Dagukou or stay in Dagukou, and wait until the official base area in Shandong was established.

The other kind of school is for adults, and more precisely, mainly for naturalized people who cross the group, as well as for the army that will be recruited in the future. Because the crossing group wants to build a modern country, it needs not a group of people who don't know anything, but people with a certain level of knowledge, so it is also very important to improve the education level of the people.

However, the education of adults cannot be carried out systematically like that of minors, after all, adults still need to work, so a model similar to the night in the old time and space, using the free time at night, to teach them some basic knowledge, at least to be able to do basic reading, writing and calculation, and this teaching mode will also be extended to all industrial workers in the future. Of course, if there are people who wish to further their studies, other opportunities will be arranged in the future.

The name of the school for adults is not too exaggerated, it is called the Workers' Night School, the address is located in the former Zizhulin Barracks, which was originally used as a dormitory for naturalized people across the group, so that these naturalized people can attend classes nearby, and it is not far from the Zizhulin Church, which can facilitate the teachers to come and go.

The conscription process will also begin in earnest, of course, and the operation of the corps will be considered by the Military Council, and will not be discussed too much in the Provisional Executive Committee.

In addition, although the personnel involved in the concession project, education and service are now free of charge, the working hours of each person are also recorded, and the salary standard will be calculated later.

The next topic is the management of rural areas.

For this reason, although the traversal group has completely controlled the Tianjin area, the main scope of activities of the traversers is still in Tianjin City and the concession area, and has not yet expanded to the surrounding countryside. However, despite the developed commercial economy in Tianjin, the rural population and regions still account for more than half, so it is impossible for the group to let the countryside go unchecked, and after the city of Tianjin and the concession are stabilized, the management of the countryside will naturally be put on the agenda.

In addition, China is still a large agricultural country, the countryside and the rural population account for the vast majority, and the goal of the traveler is to unify the whole of China and establish a republic, so it is necessary to establish a set of plans to manage the countryside.

However, the experience of the old time and space is only a principled experience, whether it can be completely grafted into the time and space, it is not certain, after all, the age of the time and space and the old time and space are almost 30 years apart, although the difference in social structure is not big, but whether it is the domestic environment or the foreign environment, it is obviously very different, and Tianjin also has a certain particularity. On the other hand, the travelers do not have much experience in the countryside, even if some people come from the countryside, but the countryside in the old time and space is obviously not the same as the countryside in this time and space, so they do not know the rural situation in this time and space, so it is necessary to conduct an investigation of the countryside and understand the rural situation in Tianjin, so as to decide on the plan to manage the countryside.

Of course, the examination of candidates in the rural areas was still based on the principle of voluntariness, and the executive committee members and alternate executive committee members who attended the meeting signed up on their own, but in the end, Li Songchen, Wang Sheng, and Zeng Dong, three alternate executive committee members, took the initiative to sign up and were willing to go to the rural areas to conduct the examination. Of course, the Provisional Executive Committee also decided that they could choose a few assistants of their own and would send a part of the army to protect them.

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