"Workers' Children's School" sounds great, doesn't it?

However, Doug's purpose is not to give the children of workers the opportunity to change their fate with knowledge. Instead, we should start from the doll and cultivate our own henchmen.

The plasticity of the child is the strongest.

Instilling in them the spiritual concept of "serving Master Doug" from an early age should reap a group of the most loyal slaves.

Doug even planned to use the chicken soup article in the New Haven Times as a textbook for the Workers' Children's School. Although it seems to be only used to teach children to read and write, it actually subtly strengthens their affection for Doug.

Unfortunately, since the Industrial Revolution, education has become more and more popular. However, there are still no specialized normal colleges and universities in the United States, or there are teachers in colleges and universities.

Moreover, no one knows what kind of rope the workers' children's school should be. Therefore, for the formation of the school for the children of workers, Doug could only do it himself.

The classroom is temporarily the vacant building of the printing and dyeing factory.

The desk asked the supplier of the butt of the Winchester Arms Company and the supplier of the wooden model of "Monopoly", and ordered more than a dozen sets each.

Because the economy is still sluggish and orders are not improving, these table and chair suppliers don't even ask for money, just want to have a stable order.

As for the other teaching equipment, Doug directly asked a few workers to get it done.

A large piece of formwork is painted with black paint and a long strip of hydrated lime in the mold. The chalkboard and chalk are complete.

In addition to this, Doug also intends to teach children some basic math knowledge.

You don't have to build your own gages, you have a full set of large gages right from Freeman.

"Sir!...... Will my child really come to school?"

More than a month ago, Ruth, who had knelt down and begged Doug to take in his child as a child laborer, her mouth trembled and she was a little disobedient.

"Absolutely. Doug replied with a kind eyebrow.

The establishment of a school seems to be a great thing.

However, it is really not a good thing, but it is about the purpose of running the school and who the students are serving.

Doug suddenly remembered that in this era, there seemed to be a beggar named Wu Xun.

This martial arts training, if viewed from the perspective of begging to run a school, is undoubtedly a model of the times.

However, under the reputation of running a school, he engaged in usury.

The students taught in the school, in turn, became accomplices of oppression and exploitation.

Taking advantage of the monopoly of knowledge, the illiterate peasants were fooled into putting their fingerprints on the deeds of usury.

The laboring villagers who couldn't live their lives and sold their children to the old man's family actually had to pay back the money to the old man's family.

If it is not broken, it will not stand, and if it does not break the tattered old world, what shame can be covered by just sewing and mending?

"I'm afraid it's not, it's an American martial arts training?"

Doug thought to himself.

"However, for the time being, conditions are limited. For every family that works in a printing and dyeing factory, only the first child is sent to study, all fees are waived, and three meals are provided. The rest of the children still want to come, but it will cost money. ”

"You! you're so nice!" said Ruth, who suddenly fell to her knees and began to cry.

The other workers, hearing that they were able to send their children to school, did not react much. After all, like the boss and those top students in Yale Academy, although they breathe the same air, they are facing a completely different fate.

The women workers could not imagine that their children would be like them.

However, three meals is too much.

You know, even if you are an adult, you usually eat two meals in this era.

White people are strong not because of racial superiority.

Rather, it is because the Industrial Revolution has greatly increased productivity, and the production of grain and meat has increased steadily. After generations of abundant food and clothing, they became taller and stronger.

Otherwise, Doug would not have gone from being less than 1.4 meters tall two months ago to more than 1.5 meters now.

In this era of lack of recreation and contraception among the common people.

It is an indisputable fact that there are many children.

Even if the husband and wife are both workers, it is not easy to work hard every day to make all the children live healthy.

Not to mention, there are countless irresponsible men who have enlarged women's bellies without taking responsibility. A woman, pulling several children.

Moreover, when the child grows up, it is precisely the time when he can eat the most.

When the female workers heard that Master Doug was going to spend money to support the rice bucket, they enthusiastically picked up their names one by one, for fear that Doug would regret it.

How could Doug, who wanted to reap the rewards of a loyal servant, regret it?

At the beginning, he also took matters into his own hands, grading every child who was a female worker who came to school.

However, he underestimated these female workers a little too much.

There are more than 100 female workers, and almost all of them have children.

The school is too small to be expanded.

But in the face of these twittering women, who don't have much plasticity, he doesn't have much patience.

Therefore, he left the matter of recording the list to Rose.

When he left the women's workshop, Nathan and a few security guards came over, "Boss, we all have children...... You see......"

"Let's register with Rose. ”

Freeman, who was still full of oil, but had built a stove and warmed up the entire printing and dyeing factory, also walked over with a big belly and a smile.

Without waiting for him to speak, Doug asked, "Freeman, you have kids coming to school too?"

"My son, he went to sea a few years ago, and he was caught in a hurricane and died. I want my apprentices to learn something from you. You can rest assured that you don't have to spend money on their meals. As long as you don't think they're stupid and teach them something. ”

Freeman said sincerely.

As a middle-aged man who lost his son in middle age, Freeman was not very strong on the inside.

After losing his child, his only support was his career.

However, not long after the loss of his son, his vision also fell into a low ebb.

Although the steam engine is the main theme of this era, it is not needed everywhere.

At his lowest point, it was Doug's appearance that turned it all around.

And the three apprentices he accepted were regarded by him as the continuation of his career and life.

He wants to give these three children from poor backgrounds a future.

When Doug finally saw a "parent" who really wanted his child to learn knowledge, he patted Freeman on the shoulder with satisfaction and recited a famous sentence in his mouth, "The nineteenth century is the century of science and the century of knowledge." Freeman, give them to me, don't worry. ”

"Yes!" Freeman said, "if they don't listen......! You tell me...... I'll beat them up!"

"You bastards! Don't call Mr. Doug yet!" Freeman exclaimed angrily and anxiously.