Chapter 330: Change
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, three years have passed,
In three years, the small Niujia Village has undergone earth-shaking changes.
All the adobe houses in the village were demolished and rebuilt, and they were replaced by small courtyards with blue bricks and black tiles.
Niujia Village originally had only about 20 households with a population of nearly 100, but after three years of painstaking development, there were more than 20 households and nearly 100 people in the village, showing an image of prosperity.
Not to mention, the three additional tofu workshops and the bargaining oil workshop in the village alone have brought huge profits to the small village of Niujia and enough money to change the quality of life of the villagers.
Because of these workshops, the road at the entrance of the village is often bustling with people and cars, the tofu and vegetable oil and soybean oil produced in the workshop, as well as the bean dregs with various functions, are the daily necessities that the people in the nearby villages and towns are very fond of, and even several restaurants in Lin'an have tofu and soybean oil produced in Niujia Village.
Niujia Village suddenly became very popular, naturally attracting a lot of merchants and itinerant hawkers who specialize in serving the villages and towns, and even gradually formed a small lively market in the corner of the big grain field at the entrance of the village, attracting the patronage and consumption of villagers from neighboring villages and towns.
If you want to say that the biggest change is the private school in the village.
Two years ago, the private school moved out of the ancestral hall and rebuilt a three-hall compound in an open area near the mountain forest, which became the new site of the private school.
There are two tofu workshops and soybean oil workshops for students' practical learning, and although the daily output is not much, it is enough to maintain the normal operation of the private school, including providing students with lunch and necessary learning consumables such as straw paper for writing.
Now it is not only the villagers of Niujia Village who send their children to private schools to study and read, but also the nearby villagers have begged to send their children over. Reading and literacy is still secondary, and being able to learn a craft that will not worry about eating and drinking in the future. It is the biggest motivation to attract nearby villagers to send their children.
It can't be helped, the eyeball effect is not small!
That is, last year. The first batch of students from Niujiacun Private School officially graduated, a total of eight children around fifteen years old, because of the relationship between talent and age, none of them took the road to study.
But their nearly three years of study were not in vain, not only did they finish reading 300,000 and basic mathematical operations, but they also learned one or several eating skills.
As soon as they graduated, they either went to the county shop to apply for a job as a bookkeeper, or they opened their own tofu workshop or partnered to open an oil mill, and the great changes that have taken place in Niujia Village in just three years have at least half of the credit of these private school graduates.
It's true that those workshops have a lot of money, but they need raw materials to make tofu or extract oil. And as the business gradually expanded, the amount of raw materials required increased rapidly.
After all, they are all spearhead boys, and there is too little social experience, such as procurement, so they naturally have to be handed over to the young and strong villagers in the village, although the oil and water here is not much, it is enough for the villagers to earn a lot of copper plates to improve the living conditions of their families.
The nearby villages and towns are also willing to sell the beans grown at home to the procurement staff of Niujia Village, and there is no way for them to sell the beans to the town's oil extraction and tofu workshops, the price is less than half of the unified purchase price of Niujia Village.
With such a living example, it is not surprising that the villagers in the neighboring villages do not want to send their children to the private school in Niujia Village. In any case, the private school does not participate in the fierce external business competition, and has a conflict of interest with similar workshops in the town. No one can say that the pure teaching technique is not a single one.
Not only the villagers in the neighboring villages, but also the nearest townspeople, after hearing the news, they personally came to Niujia Village to investigate, and after they returned, they also pondered sending their own children to study and learn art.
Although Niujia Village is talking to the villagers, they all openly and secretly said to Lin Sha. I don't want the private school to accept students from other villages, but Lin Sha didn't take it seriously, and only relied on the child's age to be right and there was no hidden illness. He opened the door of convenience and took it right.
His reasons are also very strong, Niujia Village's lack of strength is too eye-catching. If you don't take advantage of the intervention of powerful people in the town, recruit more foreign students to expand your influence. A wide network of interests has formed a powerful network of interests, forcing those with evil intentions not to dare to come nonsense, and it will be too late to wait for the matter to come.
Although Li Zheng and the villagers were still reluctant to hear this, they had to admit that what Lin Sha said was reasonable.
Through the mouths of those 'procurement personnel', Lin Sha did detect the redness and jealousy of the villages and towns outside the village for the sudden prosperity of Niujia Village, and these 'procurement personnel' also began to be harassed and blackmailed by the local snakes outside, although the situation was not serious, it was a bad sign.
The scale of the private school has expanded, and the number of students has exceeded 100 at once, so it is a bit inappropriate to open a large class like before.
Since the beginning of this year, under the overall guidance of Lin Sha, and the private school gentlemen have checked and filled in the gaps to improve together, and the private school has implemented the class system in a big way.
According to their age, literacy level and learning progress, the 100 or so students are divided into five classes, ranging from 20 to 30 students each, and are taught according to different teaching plans and textbooks.
Also according to the model of modern comprehensive schools, an exam is organized every month, and students who rank in the bottom three of the three consecutive exams will be expelled directly and sent home if they are sorry.
This thing is a slap in the face, when the parents of the students know this regulation of the private school, they are full of approval and wait for the child to go home and beat it less, and some even directly use the whip, sternly warning their own children must study well, and resolutely cannot be expelled from the private school because of their academic performance is too scummy, if this happens, the face of the family will be lost, and don't want to look up and see people in the village.
Because the private school is very well paid, and has its own industry to provide a steady stream of financial support, the private school not only provides free straw paper and ink strips for students to learn to practice, but also provides a lunch with oil and water, at least you can see the meat that may not be eaten at home for a year, just for the sake of this 'hearty' lunch at noon every day, the students in the private school are all hard work, and do not want to lose such a great opportunity.
Not to mention, the children of the poor are in charge of the family early, that is, they are very precocious, they have already experienced the torture of poor life, and they attach great importance to the opportunity to study that can change their destiny in life.
Although in the eyes of Lin Sha and several private school gentlemen, there are only two or three of the hundreds of students who really have the talent to read, but after less than a year of hard study, at least more than one-tenth of the students have shown the potential to forget to fight in the imperial examination.
Other students can't say that they don't have opportunities, but their current level of effort is not enough, or their minds are not focused on studying at all, but they are specifically going to the private school to learn the craft.
It can't be said that these students are too utilitarian, and they can only say that life is difficult.
The life of the villagers is too difficult, the children in the family are generally ten years old, and some are even from the age of six, but they have to bear part of the burden of life at home, and they have already understood the importance of copper plates, and they have also seen the difficulties and difficulties of the bottom of the society, and their strong desire to make money to subsidize the family is understandable.
However, their desire is strong, but Lin Sha can't open a back door for them, if they want to learn a life skill, they can, but they must learn the three hundred thousand enlightenment books to meet the requirements, and they will not be easily taught any life skills before.
The school's student base has greatly expanded, and it is naturally not enough to rely on Lin Sha and Qu Lingfeng alone. That's right, Qu Lingfeng is not only a gentleman who teaches miscellaneous science, but also has enough to teach students to take the exam!
No way, Huang Yaoshi is such a cow, Qu Lingfeng, as the eldest disciple of Huang Yaoshi, has studied with Huang Yaoshi for the longest time, although he does not have Huang Yaoshi's talent for learning against the sky, but he is also familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics and some miscellaneous classics, and his attainments in the number of organs are also quite high.
The miscellaneous subjects of the private school are completely supported by Qu Lingfeng alone, of course, those students who graduated early have not escaped, as long as they have free time, they will be caught by Lin Sha and Qu Lingfeng as temporary professors, and they will draw gourds as they learned at the beginning.
Of course, this is far from enough, and after all the tofu and oil workshops in the private school were opened, Lin Sha, who had money in hand, waved his hand, and hired five Tong Shengxiu talents from other villages as teachers, including Yang Tiexin's wife, Bao Xi's weak father, Bao Old Man.
With the help of Mr. Xinlai, Lin Sha's teaching burden has been reduced a lot, and he can free up more time and energy to plan the teaching plan and various subjects of the private school, so as to achieve the best teaching effect and strive for everyone to achieve success and income.
At present, Niujiacun Private School has 126 students, 7 formal gentlemen, and nearly 10 temporary gentlemen.
At the beginning, there were still rigid gentlemen who put forward different opinions, thinking that private schools are places for reading and scientific examinations, how can they include such decent things as miscellaneous studies in the teaching plan, and it is not insulting?
Lin Sha couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, if he wasn't afraid of making this gentleman who was so easy to invite angry, he really wanted to spray him with a spittle.
This guy must have been fooled by Song Zhenzong's encouragement to read the few limericks, saying 'There are thousands of free chestnuts in the book, and there is a golden house in the book', that is the qualification that can only be obtained after taking the Jinshi examination, the children in front of them are not farts, but how many students in the country can't even pass the children's and lifting people's exams, if the students don't learn one or two survival skills, the days will not pass? (To be continued......)