Chapter 550: Three Sects and Nine Streams

The problem of planning and budgeting of the Culinary Academy has been solved, and since Yang Huairen has chosen to trust his two senior brothers, Roushi and Lishui, then let them take care of the entire construction.

However, after all, the two gentlemen are only professionals in design and budgeting, and the specific construction of the project still needs more professional craftsmen to complete.

Compressing the deadline to four months meant three times as many craftsmen as usual. There are craftsmen who build ordinary houses, but they only have experience in building houses, and they are also powerless and powerless to build some large-scale buildings.

Therefore, Yang Huairen feels that the biggest problem at present is where to recruit so many experienced craftsmen.

This reminded him of the purpose of going out in a hurry before the two gentlemen Roushi and Lishui came to visit.

What kind of craftsman is best? The answer is actually very simple, those craftsmen who can be recruited by the imperial court and build palaces in the palace must be the best craftsmen in the whole Song Dynasty.

But such craftsmen are not recruited by Yang Huairen to make people come obediently, and there are so many of them, you can't invite them one by one.

Yang Huairen remembered that Zhao Hao had mentioned to him in a casual chat that his nephew Duan Wang Zhao Ji's Duanwang Mansion had built a new nave in the mansion a year later.

Those craftsmen who can build palaces for Duanwang's Mansion should be some of the best craftsmen in that batch.

As long as you can contact them and invite them to join the engineering team of the construction of the Kitchen Academy, the quality of the project of the college will be guaranteed.

And by recruiting them and asking them to help contact more companions, they can join the construction army of Yang Huairen's Culinary Academy.

Originally, Yang Huairen wanted to send someone into the city to visit Duanwang's mansion, and then ask Zhao Ji to contact him. But he was afraid that this would be too insincere for those craftsmen?

Spending more money and using higher remuneration may be able to attract them, but in doing so, Yang Huairen always feels as if something is not right in his heart.

For example, a rich man who paid a high price to invite him to his house to make a banquet, but did not show up himself, but sent a servant casually, for a person with an arrogant temperament like Yang Huairen, it was a great disrespect.

This kind of thing has not happened before, and Yang Huairen rejected them all.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that such a thing happens. Neither cooks nor other craftsmen seem to be considered very respected by society in this era.

From the perspective of the atmosphere and cultural atmosphere of the entire era, it has been inherited for thousands of years, and the division of professional status of the three religions and nine streams is still recognized by the whole society.

In such a division of professional status, the nine streams refer to the noble emperors, literati and officials; Medicants, monks, and soldiers of medium status; Peasants, artisans and merchants of the lowest status.

In addition to the aristocratic class, the status of the literati is undoubtedly the highest, although the martial arts are lower, but the martial artists who have official positions or real skills are also respected among the people.

Because the peasants are the most numerous in the entire occupational division, their status is actually that of civilians, which is actually similar to that of doctors, monks, and soldiers.

In addition to the lowly slaves who went out to sell their bodies in small quantities, there were only merchants and artisans, and their status in the whole social system was relatively low.

Although the status of businessmen is low, because they have accumulated a lot of social wealth and used this wealth to establish relationships with the upper class, their status has been greatly improved in the eyes of the people.

In the end, the remaining artisans became the lowest ranks.

The most surprising thing is that in the law, it is even clear that there are certain types of professions, and their rights in society are much less than that of commoners, and the descendants of some professions are not even allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

Even if Yang Huairen can't understand that the most important and grassroots craftsmen who promote the progress of the entire social civilization have such a low social status, he is powerless to change this kind of cognition that has been passed down by the general public for thousands of years.

He, as a cook, belongs to the category of craftsmen. Not only is he not ashamed of this, but he feels that a group of people like him, who have worked hard to change people's lives, should be the main force in this society, and they should feel proud.

Therefore, when he wanted to go into the city to invite craftsmen, he felt that he should personally invite them, and show sincerity and respect to those craftsmen, which was not only for his own profession as a cook, but also for himself.

He can't control the holy decree that wants him to be grounded in the Zhuangzi, and perhaps in his heart, it is this deviant behavior that he uses to defend his cognition and beliefs.

Of course, if you want to enter the city, you can't go directly into the city with a swagger and blatant resistance, and there is no need to give a handle to those who have been eyeing you and waiting to catch your sore feet.

He Zhiyun is a master of disguise, Yang Huairen decided to let her dress herself up, for example, pretending to be a young man from an ordinary Zhuang family, and entering the city will not attract the attention of others.

Brother Hei Niu, Brother Tianba and Xiao Qi somehow knew the news that Yang Huairen was going to sneak into the city, and they also wanted to follow him back to the city.

Yang Huairen knew that what they said was also reasonable, and there had indeed been many accidents on him, but he stared at these three good brothers, and he was indeed grateful in his heart, but he couldn't let them follow him.

The reason is really simple, the body shape of these three people is too distinctive, the three of them stand behind him, as long as they have seen them before, even a fool can guess who they are, then Yang Huairen's identity is extremely easy to expose.

didn't let them follow, He Zhiyun was very stubborn and didn't worry about him going into the city alone.

Yang Huairen had no choice but to bring a few soldiers who had just become the government of Tongyuan County, and those soldiers who were originally border soldiers to accompany him into the city.

He Zhiyun shook his head and said that although they could fight, they were not familiar with Tokyo City, and they didn't know a few roads, and if something happened, they wouldn't even be able to find someone.

Yang Huairen should have said that he should bring a few internal guards, but He Zhiyun disagreed. She recognizes the martial arts of the internal guards, but there are still many internal guards in the city who are the eyes of the Empress Dowager Gao, so that the internal guards will follow and protect, and it will inevitably not be discovered by the internal guards of the Empress Dowager Gao who are hidden.

Yang Huairen was just about to say no, so he would bring a few servants from the family as his entourage to follow him, but then he thought that He Zhiyun would definitely say that they didn't know martial arts and couldn't protect him, so he swallowed the words back.

Just when he was at a loss, Lan Ruoxin had already changed into a child's costume and stood in front of them......