Therefore, the main function of these containers is to be used as school buildings and classrooms---- according to Ren Ke's plan, only these containers need to be fenced, which is a ready-made, relatively safe closed campus.

Because Ren Ke has never forgotten that there are more than 200 minors in this group of immigrants, and these children and teenagers are all under the age of 16, Ren Ke believes that it only takes a few years of education to become the talents he needs.

What's more, there will definitely be a steady stream of immigrants coming to the island in the future, and minors will also come in a steady stream, so running a school to cultivate his own talents is an important business that he, the governor, must do.

At present, there are 215 underage boys and girls on the island, including 156 schoolchildren and teenagers, and his predecessor Ke has submitted a report to the Federal Education Commission, proposing that he hopes to establish a full-time school on Zixia Island, the school system is exactly the same as Zhuyuan and Sunflower Public School, and the teaching materials and curriculum are the same, the only difference is that it is a co-educational school.

The Federal Board of Education fully agreed, and quickly provided Zixia Island with teaching materials, some desks, chairs, blackboards, paper and stationery, etc., all of which were shipped with the Pride this time.

In addition, the Board of Education has requested a special budget from the Federal Ministry of Finance, which will be used to procure various materials for the construction of the school, including various building materials from the cement and brick factories owned by Pacific Construction.

After all, container classrooms are only a stopgap measure, and Aunt Du Na, the chairman of the Education Committee, believes that Zixia Island needs more than one school, because it will be the main flow of Han immigrants for a long time to come, and the population there will grow sharply in the foreseeable future.

Therefore, there was also a large amount of grain and dry-cured meat with the ship, which were mainly for the school, because Ren Ke planned to make the school fully closed, and the school would include the students' accommodation and three meals a day, and in the near future, Huasheng Textile would also provide him with boys and girls uniforms.

In other words, Ren Ke intends to make it possible for immigrants to send their children to school consciously---- because it will not increase the burden on their families.

However, it turned out that the seemingly good conditions did not deter immigrants from sending their children to school.

The main reason is that immigrants are not particularly interested in their children's school literacy, although the Han people know that their children have the opportunity to study is an extremely rare good thing, but obviously this is far from quenching their thirst---- especially at present, reclamation is the most direct and most important thing for every family, although going to school is good, but it will also directly reduce the labor force at home, especially in those families where the children are older.

In this era, because people generally do not have the concept of adolescence and minors, usually after the age of ten, the child must be used as half of the labor force, about fourteen or five years old is considered to be an adult, at that time should marry a wife and have children, marry a wife and have children, should marry a person, must marry their own family obligations---- this is deeply rooted in the bone marrow of the Han people, a thousand-year-old tradition and way of life.

However, Ren Ke's school requires all children under the age of 16 to attend school, which is obviously difficult for people to accept.

Especially for those families with children over the age of 10, parents believe that such children are already an indispensable labor force in the family, and now every family is busy with reclamation, and now not only has to take care of the land allocated to them, but also has the ambition to reclaim new wasteland in the coming year, for a family, as long as they can, the more reclamation is of course, the better, so for a long time, the labor force at home will definitely be in a very tight state.

No way, since the beginning of the landing, Ren Ke announced a series of land policies, and every household is actively cultivating wasteland.

And an ordinary state of the family is basically a couple plus an old man and one or two children, now, in these families, as long as the people who can do it are desperately cultivating the land, each family is even in the open and dark competition, people feel that the land is the same as falling from the sky---- no reclamation in vain, and as long as the land is not abandoned, it will be planted for eight consecutive years, such a policy is indeed very tempting, so at this juncture, no one wants to let the child, Especially those children who can work go to school.

So Ren Ke could only take two hands, soft and hard, of course, the hard hand was mandatory to issue an order: he first called the old patriarchs of the land council and asked them to go back and make it clear to their people that it is the rule of Australians for boys and girls under the age of sixteen to go to school, and it is the royal law here, whether you want to or not, you must obey it! If you don't let your children go to school, you won't be counted for your newly cultivated land in the future!

The soft hand is: Ren Ke said to these farmers, the children come to school, the school will eat and live, which can save a lot of expenses at home, as the saying goes, half the size, eat the old man, send the child to school, you don't have to worry about being eaten to death.

Of course, Ren Ke also had concessions, he finally had to narrow the age range of school---- children older than thirteen years old, it is up to the parents and children to decide whether to go to school, but Ren Ke emphasized that if the child himself is willing to come to school, the parents must not stop it, otherwise it will violate the king's law and will be fined! And confiscate the land!

The end result was that there were more girls and fewer boys than girls, and there were 63 girls and 41 boys.

Obviously, many parents think that the girl is the family's money-losing goods, let alone any decent labor, plus the school also takes care of the food, and I heard that the clothes are also distributed, so they try to send everything they can.

In short, there are 215 minors in this group of immigrants, excluding those under the age of six, there should be more than 150 people of appropriate age, and the total number of children who come to school is just over 100.

All of them who didn't come were over thirteen years old, and Ren Ke didn't have anything to do about it, he thought that as long as the reclamation expansion period passed, there was no compulsion, and the immigrants would slowly send their children over.

What's more, the facts will prove in the future: the children who graduate from school will have more prospects in the future, and they should earn more money with them in the future than the people who nest on the land.

In short, from this time on, Ren Ke has put a considerable amount of energy into the teaching of the school, of course, as the governor, he has a lot of things to ask, fortunately, if he wants to be a hands-off shopkeeper, it is not impossible, after all, things like building houses, reclamation, repairing canals, digging wells and planting crops on the ground, he really can't interfere, so most of his daily life is the group of patriarchs and villagers of the land council are taking the immigrants to operate---- for Ren Ke, As long as there are no disputes and contradictions that the patriarch and the village elders cannot resolve, he, the governor, does not need to ask in every detail at all.

Of course, Ren Ke is still very busy, in addition to teaching in the school like a general subject teacher in a rural primary school, and being a veritable child king, his other routine is to lead the 80-member escort team to engage in military training and various constructions, especially the expansion of the wharf and the mining of the open-pit coal mine.

Yes, digging coal is another major task that Ren Ke is currently shouldering.

Because Captain Gu has always been thinking about the open-pit coal mine on Zixia Island, the coal on Zixia Island is not only of good quality, but also has the conditions to supply it regularly, and the Nicole really needs a supply station that can be refueled halfway.