Wen Chen stood in the huge mansion, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

Unexpectedly, the school site that Lingyu found for herself turned out to be the mansion of the cheap Lao Tzu Wen Yuli, who was in the estuary before!

But it's no wonder that the requirements for the school environment are also quite demanding, not only to look decent, but also to occupy a large enough area.

As the saying goes, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, no matter how hard you can't be bitter for children, since you decide to run a school, you must have high standards and high standards!

And the house that best suits your own requirements in the city is this old palace that has been uninhabited for many years!

The expensive furniture in the original hall was sent away one by one, and in its place were newly built desks and benches, and the east walls of each room were dyed black with paint to serve as blackboards.

"This row of houses in front is a tentative teaching location, which can accommodate almost four to five hundred children, and in the back, the slave family plans to use them as dormitories, as well as a canteen, and as for the garden in the house, it can be used as the playground mentioned by the child!"

Lingyu arranged everything in an orderly manner, and Wen Chen nodded with satisfaction.

"This can be regarded as waste utilization, my father has left me some useful assets anyway."

But the biggest problem at present is that you still need to find a suitable teacher, it stands to reason that Lingyu and Miss Tan Er, two women who came out of the scholarly family, read more textbooks to study, plus their own knowledge, according to the book to teach liberal arts courses, it should not be a big problem.

However, the most important science subjects require some talent to study thoroughly.

Wen Chen himself also has plans to come to teach courses occasionally, but this is not a long-term solution, after all, he has a lot of things to do.

At this time, Pei Zhi, who learned the news, limped in from outside the gate with a wooden stick, and it seemed that his butt had not completely healed.

"Just in time!"

Wen Chen greeted him with a smile, "Master Pei, borrow twenty of the masters in your yamen, and this king will be useful." ”

Like this kind of government agency, the most important thing under the Taishou is the master who calculates accounts and makes ideas, some rich places, more than hundreds, less dozens, are all proficient in arithmetic readers, and their ability to understand is not too bad.

Pei Zhi frowned and looked at Lingyu, "I heard that the girl is going to run a school in the old prince's mansion, and this official thinks this matter is inappropriate......"

Since the last time I saw Wen Chen's ability to make glass, this Taishou Lord, who is five big and three thick on weekdays, has been a little more respectful in his words at this time.

"This is the palace before the prince, where can ordinary people enter and exit at will, I have seen the enrollment notices in the city, and when the time comes, hundreds of people will be put in together, what will be the chaos? Where is the majesty of the prince? ”

Although running a school is a good thing, it is also necessary to pay attention to etiquette and humility.

Wen Chen laughed, "This is also what this king means, it is a waste for the old king's mansion to be empty, if my father knows that this king uses it to do good deeds, he will not blame it." ”

"Master Pei only needs to cooperate, and this king will arrange to deal with the problems of student transfer."

Hearing that it was Wen Chen's instruction to choose the site for the old king's mansion to run the school, Pei Zhi sneered, "If it is His Royal Highness the Sea King, it is okay to let them in......

The son spends Lao Tzu's assets, that is a matter of course, and he is not an outsider to say much.

Wen Chen's expression was weird, why did this sound so awkward? Like Lao Tzu wants to insult you?

"It's just that when I passed by the enrollment office in the city, I found that there were very few people who intended to send their children to the school, and His Royal Highness the Sea King worked hard, I'm afraid everyone didn't want to appreciate it......

Pei Zhi sighed slightly.

"Why is that?" Lingyu looked dazed, "Isn't it a great thing that His Highness teaches their children to read for free?" Why would anyone still be unwilling? ”

Wen Chen smiled and waved his hand, which was also expected by him, "Most of the students we recruit are between ten and fifteen years old, which is an indispensable labor force for ordinary families, and for short-term interests, few parents will have the consciousness to send their children out to study." ”

"What then?" Lingyu was helpless, "If we can't receive students, won't our previous preparations be in vain?" ”

Smack-

Wen Chen snapped his fingers and patted Pei Zhi's shoulder, "I also ask Master Pei to post a notice, every time ordinary people send a child from their family to study in the school, this king will subsidize them with one or two taels of silver per month according to the head!" ”

Pei Zhi was taken aback, spending money to invite someone to study, isn't this idle and having nothing to do? Some even can't help but want to explode at this "bad idea."

"Your Highness, one person has one tael a month, and those five hundred people can have six thousand taels a year! Do you have so much money that you have nowhere to spend it? ”

"That's right!" Wen Chen smiled and nodded, "This school is just the beginning, in the future, this king will let all school-age children in the city go to school, so that they can inherit this king's knowledge!" ”

In another five or ten years, the children in the school may not become the top leaders of the imperial court, but each of them will become useful talents for the country and society!

"His Highness's Knowledge ......"

Pei Zhi scratched his head, "Is it the way to make glass?" ”

Wen Chen shook his head slightly, knowing that he might not be able to explain to him for a while, so he chose to divert the topic.

"Master Pei, how did you proceed with the glass buyer you were looking for?"

Pei Zhi patted his head, "This time I want to report this matter to His Highness!" ”

"The humble post has sent out an invitation, inviting famous businessmen in the three counties within a radius of 100 miles to come to Hekou City to participate in the Liuli Appreciation Conference on November 11, and many people have already given a reply."

Wen Chen smiled dumbly, did you make a Double 11 trade fair by mistake? I hope this day will bring good luck to Kawaguchi Castle as well.

"Don't just send the local one, if you can, send the invitation to the south......"

"Further south is the sea!" Before the words fell, Pei Zhi's face suddenly changed, and he lost his voice, "What His Royal Highness the Sea King said about Nanqi? ”

Wen Chen nodded, "That's right, since the two sides don't plan to go to war recently, we must make reasonable use of resources and transport local specialties to generate corresponding value!" ”

He did some homework in private, unlike the barren estuary city, Nanqi has several extremely rich cities in the two states close to Jiaozhou, which means that his glass products can quickly occupy the market through a short journey!

This is a lot of time and transportation costs compared to the painstaking transportation of glass from the local area to various parts of Dasheng and then exchanged for silver taels.

"But Nanqi has always had the heart of a tiger and a wolf, even if there has been no war between the two sides in recent years, there is still constant friction in secret, and the prince is not afraid of luring wolves into the house?" Pei Zhi frowned.

In terms of chewing words, he may not be very good at it, but when it comes to fighting and observing battlefield dynamics, he is an expert, otherwise the king of Zhennan would not have arranged him to guard the fortress in the estuary!

Wen Chen snorted, "This is the second thing this king wants you to do!" ”

"What's the matter?"

"Bright Sword!"

As he spoke, he took out a few drawings from his arms and handed them over, "Let people hurry up and make this batch of firearms, and wait until the day of the Liuli Appreciation Conference, at least ten will be made." ”

Dasheng has never lacked exquisite craftsmen, but only the production technology and creativity that keep pace with the times.

Wen Chen's design drawings are drawn in the Italian Velita M1870, which only appeared in the nineteenth century in the previous life, and in terms of design and improvement, it is definitely much stronger than the batch of firearms that Reddick gave to Wen Yuli!

It is no exaggeration to say that once the rifle in the picture is made, it represents the world's top firepower level!

Pei Zhi was smashed into a trance by this sudden happiness, and he couldn't believe that this kind of good thing would fall on his head one day!

"This ...... This...... Your Highness, you are really Lao Tzu's father! ”

Pei Zhi was so happy that he was a little incoherent.

He used the firearms of the golden retriever, but the king of Zhennan was really stingy, and later he only rewarded him with twenty, which was really not enough to see, and he disassembled and studied it privately, and he was afraid that he would damage the treasure and lose more than he lost.

But Wen Chen's diagram not only clearly marked the size of the parts, but also the role played by each component in the use process is clearly written!

Even if those craftsmen are all fools, making ten rifles in twenty days is more than enough!

At that time, only five hundred such firearms will be needed, not to mention resisting Nanqi, even if he asks Pei Zhi to lead people to defeat a state of Nanqi, it will not be a problem!