Chapter Seventy-Three: The Nautical School

If these Li princesses can be as mature as Senya, Hong Tao's resistance in his heart is not very big, the problem is that they are probably not even fifteen years old, plus Li Ren is relatively short, and he looks like a primary school student. However, they pointed out that he was going to marry the leader of the Tan family, and when he came, Hong Tao deliberately pretended to be forced, and walked in the middle with his chest and belly stacked, and now he knows that if he doesn't pretend to be good, he will become a fool.

Old man Rong must not be able to marry, he is not happy with the Li people, Hong Tao after being slapped by the old man, he reluctantly chose a slightly pleasing looking daughter-in-law from the few Li primary school students. Fortunately, they didn't get tattoos on their faces before they got married, otherwise Hong Tao really wouldn't be able to marry, and when he opened his eyes at night, there was a blue-faced beast Yang Zhi lying next to him, which didn't let people live. The Li people have a bit of a matriarchal society, they marry not to marry a daughter, but to marry a son-in-law, and the man has to go to the woman's house to do family affairs. So Hong Tao didn't even have a chance to delay, and two days later he became the son-in-law of the Li family in the Li family's village, and his new daughter-in-law was called Ugeya Baixiang. According to the habits of the Li people, Wu is a virtual word, which has no meaning, Geya is her family name, and worship incense is her name.

The ancient people were interesting, they felt that after marriage, they were their own people, not only the people thought so, even the top of the country also thought so, not only the Chinese thought so, but also on the European side. This is the difference of the times, in Hong Tao's view, the marriage is not as effective as the domestic contract in the nineties, not even as good as a butt paper, but there are still many people who believe in that paper, and the result is that they were deceived to the core, and triangular debts are flying all over the sky. The contract must have a common criterion for adjudication, and it is not a mode of thinking at all. Relying on a contract to maintain interests is too fragile.

However, they were willing to believe it, and they didn't have to object, anyway, after becoming the son-in-law of the Li people, the three Li people immediately packed up their belongings and followed the old man Rong down the mountain. Take a sea boat to Jinhe Bay for a visit. After they lived for a while, if it was really good, they would come back and tell the chief, and then more Li people would start to migrate. For the results of the investigation, Hong Tao is not worried at all, Jinhewan cannot be said to be more prosperous than the city of the Great Song Dynasty, but it must be more vibrant and free than any other place in the Great Song Dynasty. There are not too many rules and regulations there, anyone can use their skills to gain the respect they deserve, and the standard of living is higher than most places in the Great Song Dynasty. If this is going to be something that some people don't look up to. Then Hong Tao will be dead, these people can't afford to raise themselves at all, they are too picky, let's let them come back and continue to eat cassava.

In order to make the Li people more assured, Hong Tao also reserved some places for the Li children in the school. The desire for knowledge is human beings, and the Li people are the same, they also want to read and write, and they also want to go to the big city to become officials. It's a pity that there is no such condition. Now Hong Tao has given them this opportunity, although he said that he could not participate in the scientific examination and become officials. They were still busy sending the children selected from the stockade who they thought were the most promising and the smartest to Ximaozhou. When he saw that there were children from all over the country and all ethnic groups in the three large courtyards, the leader of the Li people was completely relieved. They don't see any essential difference between the Li children and other children here, everyone is together, there is no care, no privilege, but a kind of identification, a kind of respect, more acceptable.

With a school. With students, school can open. The early students in Jinhe Bay were substitute teachers for new students, especially girls, who were more suitable as teachers than midshipmen. Except for Weng Ya, you let her give a lecture. I can cry several children in one class, my temper is too violent, and I am a woman.

"This is called a potato, it is produced in South America, everyone remember what it looks like, and in a few years I will take you to that continent for a walk, and whoever can find it, or the corn and sweet potatoes we talked about last time, I will reward him with a ship and make him the captain." Rome America...... Tell me, the America in your name is on the side of our school? "Hong Tao, the principal, can't be lazy, as long as he has time, he will come over to live with the children for a few days, and become a substitute teacher by the way. He likes to be a teacher for a large group of obedient and willing children, watching them listen carefully below and memorize every word of the teacher's words, Hong Tao feels that he is planting flowers in the garden. Children are small seedlings, and as long as they are watered carefully, they will grow, blossom, and bear fruit. This kind of sense of accomplishment is generally not found in work, and it is no wonder that teachers are compared to gardeners, which is indeed very vivid.

"In ...... ...... on the right, "Luo Meimei is Luo Youde's youngest son, and his father changed his son's name in order to remind Hong Tao all the time not to forget to go to America to find potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, and insisted on sending him to a navigation school to receive professional education." For Luo Youde, it is enough to have an eldest son to fight for fame, and Hong Tao values it more, if it weren't for the fact that his youngest daughter is not old enough, he would have to send it over. And he has already made preparations in advance, and changed his youngest daughter's name to Luo Australia, it seems that he still wants to go to Hong Tao's hometown to see.

"Whoosh...... Syllable...... Yes! What left and right, say southeast, northwest! As soon as the answer was spoken, the little fat man Luo Meimei was attacked by Hong Tao's unique secret weapon, and a small ball made of whale bone hit him accurately. This thing is Hong Tao invented for children to play pinball, here the class time is short, the recess is long, there is a special pachinko court in the playground, boys like to play this kind of win can take away other people's pinball, lose by others to take their own pinball game. Hong Tao sometimes plays with the children, and he is sure to be a big winner, so he always has a handful of bone pinballs in his pocket. When he was in class, this thing was a hidden weapon, and whoever made him angry would have to be attacked by this thing, it hurt, and the bones were no softer than stones.

“…… Up East Down West ...... Left-South-Right-North...... Yes, yes...... Whoosh, pop, oops......" Luo Meimei pursed her mouth, stretched out her fat fingers, and tried to recall the formula, but before she could answer, she received another bouncing ball on her head. This time the force was even harder, and the tears rolled in his eyes, but he didn't dare to cry. Because the rules here are different from those at his home, when he cries at home, there are nannies, maids, and mothers who come to coax him, and when he cries here, he immediately goes to the outside of the classroom to stand and punish, and there will be no other children playing with crying people for a day, and he can't speak, which is stipulated by the big principal. Luo Meimei wondered why his father had sent him to this hellish school to study, and he was not allowed to go home after school, and he had to live with these children in a place called a student dormitory, and he had to take care of his daily life.

"Sit down and take a good look at what is written in the book. Today, let's learn a new thing called tobacco leaves! It is also found in South America. This thing is dripping like this...... See clearly, the headmaster needs this thing very much, if anyone finds this in the future, the headmaster will let him go to the battleship and shoot thunderbolts, and he can shoot as many as he wants! Hong Tao did not punish Luo Meimei, this child has attended a private school at home and knows how to read, but he is not very accustomed to the learning environment here, and his brain has not inherited his father's aura, except for liking to eat, he has no other strengths.

Hong Tao doesn't discriminate against him, he doesn't hate him, children, it's normal to learn quickly, as long as he can adapt slowly, he is a good child, and compared with those Li children who climb up the tree when they have nothing to do, Luo Mei is a good child who is worry-free. However, Hong Tao, the principal, is not very qualified, he not only teaches children to know serious things, but also draws a huge picture of tobacco and hangs it on the blackboard. If this is placed in the next generation, the parents of the students can eat him, okay, you taught our children to find tobacco in the last school, what kind of broken school is this! However, no one here dares to oppose Principal Hong, even if he tells the children about the West Chamber, the parents of the children will not say more.

Because this school is free, not only is it free but also pays for the students to buy clothes and stationery, and there are fish, meat, milk, and fruit for four meals a day. No tuition is not tuition, but Hong Tao collects donations, and whoever donates money will engrave his name on the wall at the entrance of the school. The maritime merchants never expected to be able to leave their names on any public buildings in their lives, donate some money to the school, and there are also their own children and nephews, don't be wronged, donate it, so Hong Tao not only didn't pay a penny to subsidize the school, but also made a lot of money.

Of course, all this money is accounted for, and not a penny will be diverted for other purposes, and all of it will be invested in the construction of the school. At present, the school is still a wooden house, and Hong Tao has already planned to buy some stones from the mountains by the way when collecting the iron ore of the Li people, and pull them to Ximaozhou by boat. In their spare time, the children were asked to dig and move stones, and then at the foot of the mountain in Ximaozhou, that is, next to their own small courtyard, they built two two-story stone houses, in the shape of a zigzag, which will be the school's classrooms and dormitories in the future. Although the climate of Ximao Chau is tropical, the island is relatively humid, and children may be affected if they live in wooden houses for a long time.

Speaking of the problem of school, Hong Tao actually miscalculated at the beginning, he thought that the universal education in the Song Dynasty was very poor, because those dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties were really poor, and many poor people could not enter the school to receive education, not only could not afford to spend that money, but also did not have so many opportunities. Therefore, when he ran this school, he was full of confidence, and always thought that as long as he taught knowledge to others for free, the common people of the Song Dynasty would desperately stuff their children to him. (To be continued.) )