The school's teaching materials are also all unified, which is compiled by Li Yi, Yuan Guoce, Lin Yi and others, and a group of local Confucians.

The content of the textbook is limited to easy to understand, and practical content such as arithmetic is added, which is generally very targeted.

There are two sets of these textbooks per year, for a total of five sets of ten.

At present, due to the lack of time, we can only prepare the first year's textbooks, and the others will temporarily continue to use the previous teaching list, and then revise them according to the teaching situation.

The content of the textbook was determined, but it was difficult to print the book.

With so many school-age children, the number of books used is very large when there is a sudden need to unify the teaching materials.

You know, there is no movable type printing yet!

Handwriting textbooks consumes a lot of manpower.

Even today's more advanced engraving printing is time-consuming, laborious, and very costly.

There are less than two months left until the start of school on August 17.

At the speed of manual copying or engraving, it may be too late for everyone to have a textbook.

So Li Yi took the opportunity to put forward a new concept of movable type printing.

Although the vast majority of people are dewy about this, this is the trend of the times!

In another hundred years or so, Bi Sheng's movable type printing will come out.

If you are the first to take the lead, you will advance the appearance of movable type printing by a hundred years, and I don't know if it counts as plagiarism.

In any case, it has also made outstanding contributions to Chinese civilization.

However, although Li Yi's idea is good, the materials for the production of movable type are difficult to obtain.

Yunnan does not have that kind of fine soil, and the clay type cannot be promoted.

Not to mention the lead type, there was no lead mining in Yunnan at that time!

Although iron ore is not a problem, the iron type cannot be inked, and the effect is not ideal.

Although copper movable type is good, the production of copper is limited, and the cost is too high, and it is not easy to promote.

It is a good choice to use wood to make movable type, such as jujube wood is a very ideal material.

But at that time, there was very little cultivation in the south, and it was difficult to obtain a sufficient amount of ready-made materials in this time of chaos.

In the end, it was Lin Yi who provided information in time, that is, a large number of wild Tieli wood around Yunnan.

This wood is very hard and fine-grained, which should be very suitable for making movable type.

When Li Yi heard this, of course he was very happy, so he let people harvest some, and after testing, it was found that this was indeed the best material for making wooden movable type.

Moreover, this kind of wood is planted in a wide area, and the material is very convenient, and the cost is correspondingly reduced.

Li Yi immediately sent people to collect dozens of local experts who were good at engraving, and through their own words and deeds, they quickly became familiar with the process of movable type printing, and carved wooden movable type with ease.

With so many people working together, there will definitely be no problem in printing the required textbooks within two months.

In order to form a scale advantage, Li Yi ordered the establishment of the government-run Yunnan Printing Bureau, and a new industry of printing books with movable type was opened.

In addition, in order to facilitate the selection of movable type, Li Yi also 'invented' the rotary typesetting plate, which greatly improved the speed of movable type printing.

As for paper and other materials, the paper industry in Yunnan was relatively prosperous.

Although it is not as good as the famous Poyang Bai and Shezhou Chengxintang paper, due to the geographical advantages of Yunnan, there are countless papermaking materials, which also makes hemp paper and bamboo paper very popular.

And because the paper is tough and white, resistant to water immersion, more and more materials are used, such as bamboo, bark, straw, Chu bark, kapok and other materials, which have made the types of paper have been rich in development.

It is believed that it will not be long before the paper industry will rise to become a pillar industry in Yunnan.

In the future, it is necessary to expand the scale of the printing bureau to take over the printing business of books for government use and commercial books, and as long as the books are not prohibited by the imperial court from being disseminated, they can be published and printed and sold to the surrounding areas of Yunnan, and the profits obtained will be used for the expenditure of textbooks.

Not only can you make huge profits, but you can also reduce government expenses, isn't this a double win!

The training of government teachers has also begun.

The new edition of the textbook puts forward higher requirements for the quality of teachers, all teachers must not only have the ability to read and hyphenation, but also be proficient in arithmetic, and have good teaching ethics.

These conditions must be met in order to become a teacher with teaching qualifications recognized by the government.

Although the threshold for working as a government teacher is relatively high, the income is also very ideal.

Every qualified teacher can earn more than 20,000 yuan a year, no matter how poor he is, he can't be poor in education!

This money is enough for a family of four or five to live without food and clothing for a year.

This time, due to the arrival of a large number of victims in southern Sichuan, the government counted all the people living in Yunnan, including the fortified villages scattered throughout Yunnan.

There was considerable resistance at first as the indigenous people feared that the purpose of the population count was to prepare for higher taxes.

Through the combination of the tireless work of government officials at all levels and the timely introduction of policies to benefit the people, coupled with the active participation of major local forces such as Linjiabao and Guojiazhai, the doubts of the aborigines were quickly dispelled, and the statistical work was carried out in an orderly manner.

With the help of the government, the victims of the disaster in southern Sichuan have begun to build their homes, which is the main content of the 'living and working in peace and contentment' project advocated by Li Yi, with the aim of achieving the goal of 'the homeless have their own houses and the cultivators have their fields'.

In order to help these victims live in stability for a long time, Li Yi prepared to build a large number of villages along the banks of the Nanpan River according to Qian Shitang's suggestion.

Since the government's current strength is limited, it can only adopt the method of self-reliance and limited assistance from the government, and the main construction work will be completed by the victims themselves.

The government then provides them with some building materials and housing subsidies according to their population and age, as well as an appropriate amount of agricultural tools according to the size of their families.

During this period, Yunnan received a large number of donations, not counting the gifts from Tonghai and Dayi Ningguo, only the wealthy households and officials in Yunnan donated coins, grain, cloth and other things worth more than 70,000 taels of silver.

Coupled with the 70,000 taels of silver donated by Li Yi himself, this is about 150,000 taels of silver, if it is only used in key places, it should not be a problem to maintain the cost of half a year.

Of course, the most important place now is to build houses, reclaim wasteland, build schools, and provide living subsidies for the victims in southern Sichuan.

In this half a year, it is more urgent to find a way to make money as soon as possible, so as not to sit on the mountain.

The construction of the school, since it is all funded by the government, is also expensive.

According to the different regions and village locations, it is determined that the cost of building seventeen schools is about more than 10,000 taels of silver, plus the cost of hiring teachers, which is not a small amount.

However, although the cost is high, it is still worth it, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education!

At the current pace of construction, there will be no delay in the start of school in two months.