When the four of Zhao Di came back, Zhao Yan was still struggling with Zhao Xiang about those exam questions.

Zhang Wen drank a large pot of water and complained to Zhao Xiang: "Sir, these classes are so boring, obviously I have already learned them well, but those people have said three or four times and still don't understand, it's too stupid." ”

Zhao Xiang said: "Now I know how I felt when I taught you, students are smart, like Zhao Di, who is very smart, and you can understand everything once you say it, what about you, I said it three or four times, and your brain hasn't turned around, I want to kick someone." It's the same with those nurses, teach them patiently, and when they learn all the basics, you don't need to teach them anymore. When the time comes, if there are new people coming in, just let the people who have learned teach them. ”

"But that fake show talent will too, why doesn't he teach it?"

"How do you know that he didn't teach, you are in class, he is going to talk to those people again after class, more than you do. If you don't believe it, he must still be surrounded by a group of people asking questions. ”

Li Lao Liu asked: "Sir, why do you want to teach the nursing home to read and write, can you just take care of the nursing home if you practice martial arts, and it is useless to read and write when you meet a thief." ”

"There is a saying in my hometown: knowledge is power. Reading and literacy is naturally better than not reading. ”

"But ......"

Li Qijin came over, snatched half an apple from Li Laoliu's hand, took a big bite and said: "Mr. said that it is useful and useful, what so much nonsense, you and Xiaowen don't want to go!" ”

"Why! I saw that it was too uncomfortable for more than 100 of them to be crowded together, and they had to speak loudly, for fear that the people behind them would not be able to hear them, and their voices would be hoarse after a class. ”

Zhao Xiang wanted to say that he had an artifact, but he didn't want to take it out, and when the words came to his lips, he just let them overcome it for a few days, and he also took throat lozenges and divided them among the four of them. It was still early, and they still had to listen to Zhao Xiang's lecture for twenty minutes, and then study on their own for a while before they could go to sleep. However, compared to modern students, they are already considered happy.

After the earliest enlightenment, Zhao Xiang taught them more learning methods than substance. It is more important to guide hobbies, such as literacy, and the texts of modern primary school students are already good with pictures and texts, and they are picked out and supplemented by fairy tales to make them interested in reading. In the process of reading, the literacy level goes up.

The requirements for the nursing team are simple and direct, directly under hard indicators, starting from the captain of the 100-person team, to the platoon leader, squad leader, each team leader must not only do a good job of learning first, but also like the usual physical training, so that no one will fall behind in learning.

The requirements for them are not very high, and the primary school level is fine.

Similarly, for the people of Zhishan, Zhao Xiang is also ready to educate them in illiteracy, but he has to wait until the nursing team finishes learning first, and then select some people from the nursing team to be teachers in the night school - Zhao Xiang drew a small pie: only those who pass the cultural assessment can go to the night school, and each class will be subsidized with ten yuan.

Money is little, but it's better than nothing. Just like the apprentice, which seems to be a good profession, there is still a silver tael to receive, and in the eyes of everyone, this is the happiest profession.

In the end, there were twenty-two apprentices admitted, and Zhao Xiang took a hose pen and neatly wrote the names of these people on the big red paper, and asked people to take them to the bulletin board outside the canteen to paste.

Xu Sande was one of the extra people, Zhao Xiang opened a back door for him and sent him directly to the mechanical class.

Aunt Xu is very unhappy about his "self-surrendering identity" to be an apprentice, after all, now that he is the captain of the machine, he also has six taels of silver a month, and there are a group of people under him, who have faces and faces. If she becomes an apprentice all of a sudden, there will only be one or two left, and she will have to listen to the call of others, and when she thinks of this, she is not happy.

But Xu Sande said that if he was not allowed to become an apprentice, he would directly sign up to be a member of the nursing home team.

Compared with working hard, Aunt Xu is more willing to accept that her son loses five taels of salary a month, but she doesn't know that the apprentice also belongs to the nursing team, and he has to practice together every morning and evening, and he also has to study with the nursing team members in the evening.

The daytime is when they are apprentices.

"As the first batch of apprentices in Zhishan, you are said to be apprentices, but in fact, you are the first batch of talents to receive formal vocational education, and you will be of great use when you graduate in the future." These are Zhao Xiang's original words. Of course, Zhao Xiang is not painting cakes, but directly treats them as "college students".

The fly in the ointment is that these people do not have teachers, or strictly speaking, none of them are qualified teachers that Zhao Xiang feels.

Almost all the carpenters who were a little famous within a radius of 100 miles were recruited by Zhao Xiang, and only nine people were willing to come, and these nine people were divided into two groups according to the utensils they were good at: three carpenters who made small objects were assigned to the mechanical group, and six carpenters with construction experience were assigned to the construction group.

At the same time, three of the six blacksmiths within a radius of a hundred miles were invited by Zhao Xiang to join the mechanical group.

These people were treated far better than apprentices, with six taels of silver a month and an unfinished house. As for why it can't be compared with Chen Hanlin, no one dares to put it forward. In Zhao Xiang's eyes, their symbolism is greater than their actual effect. But having said that, it doesn't allow these people to sit idle and eat white food.

Vocational training does not mean that there can be no output during the training period, and the emergence of furniture factories is a living example. The invited masters learned the operation of the machine tool and the standard of Zhao's weights and measures (modern metric), and at the same time made some furniture according to Zhao Xiang's drawings.

The site of the furniture factory is located on the river between the large and small Zhishan mountains, and now a canal has been built there to Zhangshui, and the operation area of the wharf is still left on both banks. The factory was undoubtedly built here to facilitate the transportation of timber.

The first ship to transport timber came from the shipyard town in the upper reaches of Zhangshui, the shipyard town was originally only built on the riverside of the shipyard, since the development of the navigation industry in the Zhao and Song dynasties, the shipbuilding industry rose, Quanzhou, Fuzhou and other places The shipyard construction speed could not keep up with the needs of maritime trade, so the shipyard expanded, and the surrounding area became a town.

The shipyard town to Zhishan is on the bank of Zhangshui, and it is only fifty miles down the river. As soon as the news of Zhao Xiang's purchase of timber was conveyed, some victims from the shipyard volunteered to run back to take the line. Then a large ship of unusable timber was pulled over.

A man-powered crane made of steel beams on the wharf easily loaded a shipload of timber into the wharf warehouse. The blacksmiths also went to help, but they were not happy when they came back, and they found Zhao Xiang and had to build a steel factory.