The three Tang Schools prepared by Li An, the largest Tanar School, can only piece together a dozen gentlemen, of which half are Tang Dynasty people, and the remaining half are language talents from the Lion Kingdom and Nantianzhu, and the teaching force can be described as extremely thin.

With such a weak number of gentlemen, it is difficult to achieve large-scale schooling without many years of accumulation, but the speed of learning is very fast, especially for some gifted talents, who can quickly learn obscure languages, so as to continuously expand the team of gentlemen.

"Why, you can only find these people? Can't you think of a way to get more qualified gentlemen? ”

Li An was quite dissatisfied with the ability of his subordinates, and felt that his subordinates had found too few talents, if there were more, the scale of the school would be much larger, and it would look more decent, otherwise, there would be more than a dozen gentlemen, plus more than 100 children, it would be too shabby, just like the rural primary schools in later generations, too unpopular.

"Li Shilang, there are also difficulties in humble positions! Merchants from all over the world, can speak the Chinese language, it is said that there are a lot, although only the basic language, that is enough, but the businessmen pay more attention to interests, they can earn a lot of money by trade, come here to be a gentleman, but the money earned is very small, no businessman is willing to put down their own interests, stay here to be a gentleman, Nan Tianzhu and the lion country of these gentlemen who are familiar with the Tang language, also because they can't do business, seeing that the gentleman can support himself, they came to sign up, several businessmen in the Tang who promised to stay, They are also frustrated businessmen who have failed in business. ”

The subordinates reported the situation truthfully.

Li An naturally understands that what his subordinates say is the truth, people live to chase profits, and the benefits that can be obtained from engaging in business activities are very large, and the salary of being a gentleman is very limited, in this case, as long as you are not a fool, you will choose to be a businessman.

In addition, in many important ports, there will also be some special translators who translate the prices of goods for merchants who do not understand the local language, so that merchants can trade smoothly.

Of course, only by mastering various languages yourself is the most assured, after all, translation is sometimes unreliable, in case the translator lies at both ends and becomes a shameful second-hand dealer, the interests of the merchant will suffer a great loss.

And many businessmen have to do trade in more than one area, each place is not the same language, and ordinary businessmen, the qualifications may not be very high, want to learn the language of many places, the pressure is still very great, but if you want to do big business, you can't run a few more ways.

Therefore, many powerful big merchants will support many subordinates who can speak various languages, so that when they go to different places, they can let different subordinates be responsible for trade.

In addition, even ordinary sailors, as long as they often visit a place, will learn the local language more or less and understand some of the most basic common languages.

Therefore, the development of business has led to language learning, so that many people have the ability to speak multiple languages, and it has also created conditions for Li Ang to open a class.

Especially in the future, Datang will fully operate the Maritime Silk Road, establish overseas territories in various critical places, and conduct frequent commercial exchanges with many small countries along the way.

In this case, the demand for translators is very large, so it is necessary to make comprehensive preparations in advance so that language does not become an obstacle to the Maritime Silk Road.

Of course, Ang Lee also has a bigger idea, that is, to promote the Datang language around the world, to open Datang schools in all countries, so that children in all countries can take the Datang language and Datang history as the most basic knowledge that their own readers must master.

Of course, this requires long-term efforts to achieve, and it takes step-by-step efforts to achieve, and in a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to achieve.

"Forget it! We can't offer our husband a sky-high price! Now these people are enough, and the number of gentlemen will definitely increase in the future, but the official is too impatient. ”

Li An said helplessly.

At this moment, there is no better way than to accept the reality, and you can't tie up a few people to be gentlemen! The twisted melon is not sweet, and Ang Lee is not willing to do this.

"Li Shilang, the school address has been chosen, this is the school planning map drawn by the humble job, please Li Shilang correct."

The subordinate handed a drawing to Li An's hand and spoke.

Li An looked at it and said, "It's too complicated, it costs a lot of money!" Now that the number of gentlemen is insufficient, and there are not many schoolchildren, it is better to save a little! Expanding the port, helping the people get rich, building water conservancy, etc., all need to spend money, and it costs a lot of money. ”

"Yes, yes, what Li Shilang taught me is that he was negligent in his duties, and I ask Li Shilang to correct him."

The subordinate said hurriedly.

Li An thought for a moment and said, "The scale of the temporary school is still very small, just build a temporary school, bring paper and pen." ”

At the time of industrialization, Li Ang had already invented the pencil, which was very well invented, only wood and graphite were needed, and both of these things were not difficult to make, so the pencil was invented very early, and this time he went south and brought a lot of them for ease of use.

Li An drew a few casually, and showed the map of the school, the school is square, and the gate is in the middle of the south direction.

After entering the gate, there is a large open space that can be used as a playground, and several huts have been built on the left against the wall, which are used as dining and cooking places for the school.

In order to increase the attractiveness of the school and make the people willing to come to work in the school, the school provides all gentlemen and children with a free lunch at noon, which is on the left side of the gate against the wall.

In addition to eating and drinking, a person also has to pull a sa sa place, and the position against the wall on the right side of the gate is the gong house, and it is still a relatively advanced water flushing toilet, not a backward dry toilet.

The reason why water flushing is naturally for hygiene, the dry toilet is too dirty, and the promotion of water flushing in the school will gradually affect the local people, perhaps, how many years later, the local rich people will also use water to flush the toilet, and then gradually affect the poor class.

This large playground can be used for teachers and students to exercise, and it is also a good choice to do recess exercises after class.

Behind this large playground are four school buildings, two on the left and two on the left and right, and a large open space behind it, which can be added if needed in the future.

Of the four existing school buildings, one can be used as a husband's office and dormitory, and the rest is for teachers, and if it is not used up, it can also be used as a warehouse, in short, a few more houses are good.

After a little explanation, the subordinates understood, and took the drawings, ready to collect manpower, and began to build the Tanar Academy, and the other two schools were also built according to this idea.

Although the specifications of the school do not look luxurious, the quality must be passed, and a dilapidated house of poor quality must not be built, otherwise, Datang's reputation will be ruined.

Although Li Ang has long developed the construction artifact of concrete, the speed of technology transmission is still too slow, and the buildings here in the Lion Kingdom are still made of the most primitive stone and wood, which is very time-consuming, and it is not strong enough.

Ang Lee wants to build the Datang Academy in order to educate the local people, no matter how simple the school is, it must also ensure that it is strong and safe, and let the locals see the technology and ability of Datang.

All buildings and courtyard walls must be made of concrete, which is the minimum requirement for Ang Lee and necessary to ensure safety.

However, there is no local production of cement and no concrete technology, which makes it difficult for Datang officials to construct the project.

That is to say, if you want to build a solid school, you first need to solve the problem of concrete, stone is still very easy to make, the difficulty is very small, sand can be made by the sea, but the core cement is not easy to do, this is a problem that plagues everyone.

In order to catch up with the schedule, the officials of the Tang Dynasty temporarily organized forces to break stones and sand, and soon raised a lot of small stones and a large amount of sand.

"Li Shilang, there is no cement in the Lion Country, what should I do?"

The subordinates were helpless and began to ask Li An for help.

"Why, on such a big island as the Lion Country, can't you even find a lime mine?"

Li An said very unhappily.

"No, I've asked about it, at least not yet."

The subordinate replied.

"This is troublesome, cement is not an ordinary commodity, the price is too low, if it is transported from a long distance, the cost is too great, so we can only take local materials, but will there be a lime mine in the South Tianzhu country opposite?"

Ang Lee asked.

"What Li Shilang said is that he can only go to Nan Tianzhu to ask, and his subordinates will send someone to investigate."

The subordinate answered.

In addition to cement, which is a necessary material for the construction of the school, many materials such as wooden pillars and wooden windows are also needed, which are all being prepared in an orderly manner, and many coolies have begun to excavate the foundation, and arrange the wood to create wooden windows.

Li Ang personally inspected the construction site of the Tanar School, and personally instructed the coolies who worked, and now everything is ready, and the core material of cement is owed, if the cement cannot be obtained within three days, the project will be completed.

The area of Nantianzhu is larger than that of the island of the Lion Country, and the resources are also richer, sure enough, as soon as the Datang officials went to ask, they learned that Nantianzhu really has a lime mine, and it has been contracted by Datang businessmen half a month ago, and now it has begun to produce cement, and there is still a lot of backlog of products.

The reason why this Datang businessman chose to open a cement workshop is because many other Datang businessmen want to make large-scale investment in Nantianzhu, and need to build houses and workshops, and in order to build stronger and more durable, they need cement, a better building material, so the cooperative Datang businessmen will naturally open a cement workshop in Nantianzhu, only a large number of Datang businessmen work together to get what they need and jointly obtain the greatest benefits.

Seeing the cement workshop that had already been put into operation, as well as the large amount of cement inventory inside, the Datang officials were naturally very happy, and immediately asked to purchase these cements to support the needs of Tanar and several other Datang schools.

When the Datang businessman heard that Li An was going to build the Datang Academy, he naturally didn't dare to object, and obediently sold the cement that should have been sold to other merchants first, and it was still at a relatively favorable price to show that he was a conscientious businessman.

There is not too much distance between Nantianzhu and Tanar, and the cement is quickly transported to the Tanar seaport through transmission, and after unloading, it can be transported to the construction site of the construction school by vehicle.

Li An was very happy to get a large amount of cement so smoothly, and asked his subordinates to personally supervise the construction of the Tanar School, so that the Tanar School would become a beautiful landscape of Datang in the local area.

Pebbles, sand, and cement are mixed together to form solid concrete, and the progress of construction is significantly faster than that of traditional construction methods, and the appearance is different every day, which is very appropriate to describe with each passing day.

The courtyard wall was built on the second day, it was very solid, and Li An personally kicked it, but there was no response at all, which made Li An very satisfied, this quality is reliable.

In order to prevent people from climbing over the courtyard wall at will, some thistles and broken glass that are easy to hurt people are fixed on the top.

Because the size of the kitchen and the water flushing toilet are relatively small, just taller than a person, the two buildings were completed on the fifth day.

The kitchen is equipped with a stove and other facilities, and the dining room next to it is large enough to hold many dining tables, but these tables have not yet been built.

Looking at the huge kitchen space, Li Ang was very satisfied, and praised all the people involved in the construction and affirmed their work results.

The water flushing toilet may not seem to have a large area, but the investment is definitely a lot, in order to build this water flushing toilet, a water tower was specially built, and the top of the water tower is full of water to supply water to the water tank for flushing.

Of course, in order to conserve water and avoid frequent lifting of water to the water tower, the water tower has a thin pipe to the flushing tank, and it takes a long time to fill the water tank.

There is a buoyancy device in the tank to ensure that the tank must be full of water before it is suddenly released, so as to use the potential energy of a large amount of water to flush away the feces in the toilet.

There is no doubt that the water flushing urinal is made of concrete, but the concrete is not smooth enough, and if the feces stick to the concrete, it will be difficult to be washed away by the water source.

In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to lay smooth things such as tiles inside the toilet sink, which is the best solution.