Chapter 683: The Control Group of the Crossing (Twenty-Three)
The eldest princess of ten thousand years is gone, and the Taoist temple is more than half empty.
Anne didn't worry too much, there are too many poor women in the world, and even fewer women who are not allowed by the world.
The reputation of Qingquanguan has been beaten, and Anne's "master" character is also very well managed.
Whether it is medical skills or martial arts, they are very attractive to children from poor families.
Anne ordered the news to spread that Qingquanguan was preparing to open a "Dogen class".
Instead of imparting Taoist knowledge, the Dao Yuan class teaches students free medical skills, cooking, weaving and even printing and dyeing skills.
Since ancient times, the people of the country have believed in the words of "craftsmen who will not die of hunger in famine years", as long as there is a craft, it is like holding an iron rice bowl, and they will not die of hunger in famine years, let alone the peaceful and prosperous times.
Medical skills, cooking, weaving and so on are closely related to people's lives.
Ordinary people who want to learn such a skill either have no way, or they have a way but are exploited by others.
In these years, if you want to learn other people's skills, you must be an apprentice.
During the apprenticeship, not only must you work for free, but you must also work for the master for a few years for free according to the agreement, or "honor" the master for a few years.
Many children from poor families, in order to learn a craft, can be used as cattle and horses for their masters for half their lives.
But now, Qingquan Guan teaches people the craft for free, and the medical skills of the Qingquan Guan are very sought after by the nobles in the capital, and the skills are absolutely superb.
If she came to teach in person, it would cost money, and some people would rush to come.
Not to mention free.
As soon as the news came out, countless people came to sign up, and the newly built mountain gate was almost squeezed by the crowd of people.
It's a pity that Qingquan Temple is a female Taoist temple, and people's "Daoyuan class" only recruits girls.
However, girls are girls, children can learn one more trade, and it will be a great capital when they get married in the future.
Besides, if your daughter learns the skill, she can secretly teach it to her brother at home when she goes home.
The Spiegel viewer did not say it explicitly, and the skills were not allowed to be passed on!
In this way, many families who don't value their daughters, with this thought, endure the heartache of losing a laborer, and send their daughters.
In just half a month, Anne's "Daoyuan class" enrolled more than 300 female students.
In addition, Anne hired a group of female workers to reclaim the land around the nameless mountain.
As for what to plant after ploughing the land, Anne did not say, and only asked the female workers to make more fertilizer.
After the enrollment of the Dogen class was completed, Anne divided the more than 300 people into six classes according to the wishes of the students and their personal circumstances.
Some classes are dedicated to medical skills, while others are dedicated to weaving and embroidery...... There are so many classes, forty or fifty people in each class, and Anne can't teach it alone.
Fortunately, the female Taoists of Qingquan Temple have already learned, and they may not be able to reach Annie's level, but there is no problem in teaching some children who have no foundation.
Not to mention, Anne also wrote corresponding textbooks, and the female Taoist priests only need to follow those textbooks to take lessons.
Anne is not completely uninvolved in teaching, and for some talented girls, she will also personally open small stoves for them.
The "Dogen class" is free of charge, and room and board are also provided.
But that doesn't mean that students can be here to be big ladies who need to work in their spare time.
The sanitation of the dormitory and the sprinkling and cleaning of the school house are the foundation, and they also have to reclaim wasteland in the mountains, pick wild fruits and vegetables, collect firewood, hunt pigweed, or concoct medicinal materials.
It sounds like a lot, but it's actually not very tiring. At least for the peasant girls who have been accustomed to working since childhood, it is a very casual thing.
They even felt that it was much better to be in the "Dogen class" than in their own home.
At least in the Dogen class, as long as you work hard and study hard, you can be well fed and clothed.
But in his own home, he didn't do much work, but he couldn't eat enough. Not for anything else, just because I'm a woman!
Therefore, the students of the Dogen class cherish this hard-won opportunity.
I study very hard, and I never slack off in my work.
The time soon entered March, and spring ploughing began.
The eldest princess, who had arrived at the northwest border, was busy with military affairs, but she did not forget Anne's request.
She ordered people to collect a lot of cotton seeds, as well as some seedlings that had been raised, and sent them to Qingquanguan with more than a dozen experienced local old farmers.
Hundreds of acres of land have been reclaimed, fertilized, and canals have been dug up, just waiting for the seeds to go to the ground.
Now that the seeds came, Anne hired the peasant women and women around her to do the work.
Farming is hard, but who hasn't worked hard these days?
Those female workers soon had the same feelings as the female students in the Dogen class: they were all working, but they were not enough to eat at home and were looked down upon, but in Qingquanguan, they were able to eat and dress warmly, and they could straighten their waists.
The female workers are also much better than the female students, they work for Qingquanguan, and in addition to free food, they can also get paid.
Six copper plates a day is one hundred and eighty dollars a month.
Their own men go to work in the town and city when they are not working, and they may not be able to earn so much money in a month.
The thought that they could also make money for their families, and that the income was no less than that of the "pillars", those female workers felt proud from the bottom of their hearts.
It's a pity that there is only so much work for Qingquanguan, there are so many of them, they can be completed in a month.
It would be nice if Qingquan Guan could hire them all year round.
The female workers had ambition in their hearts, and when they chatted with Miao Shan, who was in charge of the farm, they said a few words casually.
They were just tempted by luck, but they didn't expect that they really got the answer they wanted from Miaoshan's mouth-
"We brought a lot of wool from the northwest, and this wool can also be spun into thread, and then made into blankets and clothes. ”
The Lord said that whether it is spinning threads, carpets, or clothes, it requires a large number of hired workers. Our Qingquan Temple is a female Taoist temple, and the helpers hired can only be women......"
The female workers were so excited that they couldn't wait to look up to the sky and scream.
Isn't it just spinning and weaving, how can a peasant woman not know it?
It's a lot easier than working in the fields.
If Qingquanguan really invites them to do the work, it doesn't matter if the salary is less, just want to have work all year round!
The subsequent facts told the female workers that Qingquanguan not only had work all year round, but also paid a lot of wages.
When the time came in May, the wool from the northwest arrived.
He was accompanied by a few Hu people who the eldest princess helped to get, and those people were proficient in carpet weaving, printing and dyeing. With their professors, the wool weaving workshop of Qingquanguan was quickly established.
The first batch hired 200 female workers, and when the exotic carpets, tapestries and other woolen textiles were sent to the east and west cities, they were quickly sold out, and the workshops expanded again.
Anne also ordered the second, third, and Nth batches of female workers to be hired.
Those female workers sat in comfortable rooms and worked, and the wind and rain did not blow, but they spun and weaved cloth, which was much lighter than working in the fields, but they could earn a lot of copper coins.
It is perfectly true that the economic base determines the superstructure.
Unconsciously, the lives of ordinary people around Qingquanguan and even in the entire capital have been quietly changed, and the status of women has been unconsciously improved......