Old Norman was very much in favor of Qi Jingchen's idea, and immediately asked, "What job opportunities can you offer?"
"I want them to make this." Qi Jingchen took out a drawing book full of white paper and gave it to Old Norman.
Old Norman flipped through the book curiously, and asked in confusion, "What is this for?"
"Draw something, write." Qi Jingchen took out another drawing book, which he used to draw and write plans for the West District. Now he has drawn some drawings with several colors of strokes, and also used Yeer. A lot of things are written densely in the language.
After taking a few glances, Old Norman knew what Qi Jingchen had written. He flipped through the book and asked in surprise, "Can you give me a pen?" He knew very well that Qi Jingchen used The pen that came to write was certainly not the bone pen they used to write.
Of course, Qi Jingchen couldn't disagree. After Old Norman asked, he immediately took out a blue pen and gave it to Old Norman.
Old Norman took a pen and first wrote his beautiful flower name on the notebook Qi Jingchen gave him, then after thinking about it, he sketched a one-horned horse in three or two strokes.
Old Norman's paintings are very beautiful and very realistic. Qi Jingchen didn't expect this old man to have such talent, so he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"Good things! You have a lot of good things in your hands!" Old Norman said. He didn't have many hobbies, but he liked painting and drinking. The ability to paint was learned by painting murals for churches when he was young. But when his level is high and he can't paint anymore, he won't paint anymore... No way, parchment is really not suitable for painting.
"Lord Norman likes to paint?" Qi Jingchen said with a smile, then took out a box of watercolor pens to old Norman: "Then this is the perfect gift for you."
Old Norman, as a person who had never obtained many painting tools, did not dislike the fact that Qi Jingchen gave him a few dollars to buy a box of watercolor pens with only twelve colors. On the contrary, he was very pleasantly surprised.
He took a pen and scribbled in his notebook, and soon he drew a beautiful bird.
"Qi Jingchen, are you willing to be my student?" Old Norman suddenly said, "If you are willing, I will teach you everything I know, and you will become my heir."
"Of course I would, but the Sixth Elder may not." Qi Jingchen said, Old Norman was a magician and his strength was not bad, but he felt that the Pope would definitely not want him to be a student of Old Norman.
Old Norman suddenly thought that it seemed that because Qi Jingchen was coming, the Sixth Elder drove him away from the Central Branch. Qi Jingchen's identity is definitely not ordinary... With a sigh, Old Norman no longer mentioned the matter of accepting students, he only said: "If you don't understand anything, feel free to ask me."
"I will, thank you Lord Norman." Qi Jingchen said.
"In this case, let's continue to study how to make this thing." Old Norman pointed to the notebook in his hand and said.
Papermaking is relatively simple, that is, the papermaking workshop cannot be built in the West District, it must be built by the river.
There are several big rivers near the holy city, and one of them can be seen from the west area... Qi Jingchen planned to build a paper workshop there.
After briefly introducing his plans to Old Norman, Old Norman nodded quickly: "That's it! You can do the specific things, and I will let the people below cooperate with you."
"Thank you." Qi Jingchen thanked.
Qi Jingchen plans to recruit workers in the Western District, and the first thing he has to do is to register all the people in the Western District.
There are nearly 100,000 people here, but these 100,000 people don't even have a household registration, and many children don't even have names...
One hundred thousand people have to register. This is definitely a huge project. In order to complete it as soon as possible, Qi Jingchen specially hired some ordinary people who are literate to help with the registration.
The registration is done on parchment, in two copies, one for the people of the West District and one for them to keep for the record.
This kind of registration is actually very common. At least the people in the holy city have household registration, but the people in the western district are very excited when they hold the parchment with their name and age written on them. However, most of them do not recognize the words on it. .
These people are illiterate, which is not conducive to their own management... Qi Jingchen felt that the first thing he had to do was to let the children in the West District read.
Orphans or families with children were the first to be registered, and all the children were assigned someone to take care of them. Basically, an old man took care of a small child and an older child. Then, Qi Jingchen informed these children that in the future, among them of school-age children have to go to school to study, and their three meals a day will also be given to them by the school.
In short, if they don't go to school, they have nothing to eat.
Qi Jingchen said that school is a place where you can learn things, so no one in the West District felt bad about his request, and they were even very happy.
When Qi Jingchen went to see the progress of the school's construction, he also saw some parents brought their children over, and then looked at the newly built school and said, "You recognize this place, you will come here to learn your skills in the future, if you can Learn a skill, such as learning how to make shoes, and I won't have to worry that you will starve to death in the future!"
The orphans also gathered around the new school, looking at it with interest: "It's so beautiful here! Can I learn how to build a house here?"
Qi Jingchen touched the bare head of one of the children: "You can learn anything you want, but this is not what you need to learn first."
The child whose head was touched by Qi Jingchen was so excited that he was about to faint. There were still quite a few ordinary people who could read and write, but they all had jobs or signed contracts with them long ago, so it was impossible for him to work in the West District. Moreover, Qi Jingchen had already looked for a lot of people to register his household registration before, so he almost couldn't find anyone now.
Fortunately, at this time, old Norman lent him his servants and asked others for some servants.
The servants who serve the magician are basically literate, and these servants of old Norman know how to read, and they are very willing to teach the children to read - they have always done the work of waiting for people, and now they can Being a teacher to someone else can't be that great!
There are very, very many children in the West District. The youngest do not need to go to school, and those over thirteen are considered adults in Yere. In the end, Qi Jingchen stipulated that children from seven to twelve years old should go to school. Thirteen. From the age of fifteen to the age of fifteen, you can study if you want.
In the end, there were almost 5,000 children who were going to study, and Qi Jingchen finally divided them into 100 classes with 50 students in each class.
The household registration has not been fully registered, and the papermaking workshop has not yet opened, so the people in the western district are quite empty, and many simply go to the school.
Children in the same age group can enter the classroom and have a seat, and the older children can also sit in, and the other adults stay outside the classroom, waiting to see what these children can learn.
"I learned it in the house, should I learn woodworking?"
"Why don't you have tools?"
"What is the teacher posting? Is that parchment?"
"Parchment is expensive. What do you do with parchment for these brats?"
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The adults outside the classroom looked at the situation inside in confusion, and then saw the teacher on the podium suddenly write a few words on a white stone on the black-painted wall.
When the lecturers were still wondering what the wall was, the teacher asked, "Do you know these words?"
Of course I don't know, the people here are illiterate.
Everyone was at a loss, and finally a teenager sitting in the back raised a hand.
"Tell me, what is this word?" The teacher called the boy up.
"It's the light!" The boy stood up: "I saw the pastor write it before!"
"Yes, this is 'Bright'," the teacher said. "Today, I am here to teach you how to read, and the first thing I want to teach you is these words."
Can read? This teacher is not teaching these children to do carpentry, but to teach them to read
The adults who looked out the window at the situation inside were stunned.
Before they fled to the Holy City, they were all people living at the bottom. They knew nothing but farming. In their opinion, it was a very, very lucky thing to be able to learn a craft, such as carpentry. , Literacy is something they dare not even think about.
If these children are literate, they will be able to find very good jobs in the future, and maybe even become servants to those grown-ups!
In the holy city, being a servant of a warrior or a magician is definitely the best way out for ordinary people, and sometimes you can earn a few gold coins a month!
Even if they can't become the servants of those adults, they can still find good jobs after literacy. It can be said that as long as they can read, their future life is destined to undergo earth-shaking changes, and they will no longer have to rely on relief.
The people outside the window couldn't help but start to be jealous of the children sitting in the classroom, but they were jealous, but at this time they didn't dare to talk anymore, instead they quietly looked at the direction of the blackboard, and also wanted to learn to recognize. Character.
The whole school suddenly fell silent.
In Yere, there are no teaching materials for character recognition. Some big families have special methods for teaching their children, but ordinary people can recognize characters as they are taught by their teachers.
In the Holy City, because the influence of religion is too great, most teachers learn the words "light" and "light gods" on the first day of teaching children to read.
Those students looked at the blackboard and carefully traced the word "Bright" on their own parchment, and some of the parents outside also traced it on their own hands.
For those who have already learned Chinese characters, it is very easy to learn these few characters, but the people here have never read characters before, so they learn very slowly. Fortunately, those teachers also know this and do not force them. Just let them learn to draw with their fingers on top of their desks - parchment isn't cheap, and neither teacher nor student use much.
After all, it was the first day of class, and neither the teachers nor the students had adapted to their own province, so a class was over soon, and there were no other people today, everyone just needed to learn a few words on the blackboard.
Qi Jingchen came to visit and felt helpless when he saw the situation. In his opinion, such a class was really boring... However, there are no suitable teaching materials here...
However, he found it boring. Those students and parents who came to read, and even those who simply came to watch, did not find it boring at all, but were very excited: "I can write! When I play with Dora in the future, I can Write to her."
"You're stupid! Dora has also come to learn to write, just not in our class."
"that's true… "
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"Boy, you must study hard. If you study well, maybe you can become Lord Qi Jingchen's entourage in the future!"
"Really?"
"You must work hard! Come home and teach me, so that I can read too."
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Of course, some people are very interested in literacy, and some people scoff at it. At least a few lazy people who were forced to work by Nie Yi before, most of them are lazy now and feel that literacy is useless.
The guy who was the first to attack Qi Jingchen when Qi Jingchen came to the West District once said to others, "What's the use of knowing the words? Could it be that if you know the words, you can get an extra portion of food?"
The one who was talking to him was a woman who came here with her daughter fleeing. She couldn't say anything to refute, so in the end she could only drag her daughter away, and said to the woman, "You must be good at reading, if you can read , maybe I can become a maid in the future, and then marry someone from the North District, so that we can live in the holy city." For those who fled here, the holy city is really a beautiful place Couldn't be a better place.
When Qi Jingchen heard such a conversation, he couldn't help but smile, and then he became more and more determined to clean up the Western District. He didn't want the people here to become like those lazy people, completely counting on the Light God Cult. of relief.
Of course, the top priority, maybe he should write some textbooks, and Arabic numerals can also be promoted.
There are also numbers here, but they are difficult to write and inconvenient to use for calculations. In Qi Jingchen's opinion, Arabic numerals are the best to use.
But it might just be his psychological effect.
Qi Jingchen went to Old Norman and asked if there were any children's songs that were simple to write and clear in meaning.
Old Norman thought for a while, and then said a few songs, Qi Jingchen wrote them down, and then asked, "Do you think it would be appropriate for the school to teach such children's songs?"
Old Norman was a little puzzled at first, but then quickly said: "Appropriate! If it is such a children's song, those children should also like to learn it!"
On the afternoon of the first day of school, when the students went home, Qi Jingchen simply brought all the teachers into the classroom and taught them a nursery rhyme, and asked them to teach the children tomorrow.
These servants were not arrogant in the slightest. They only felt that it was a great honor to be taught by a noble priest. At the moment, they all said that they must teach well tomorrow. When Qi Jingchen said that he could tell some stories to the children, he also They all said they would do it well.
"I can tell them about the magic lamp!"
"I'm a horse-drawn carriage driver. I've been in contact with a lot of magical beasts. They must like it."
"I'm in the kitchen, there's a magic oven there, I've told people so many times, it couldn't be better!"
"My master's fireplace is so beautiful that it keeps us warm without having to light it!"
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Uh... well, it's actually good to talk about that.
After Qi Jingchen got these teachers, he planned to train some math teachers.
However, there are not enough manpower... Qi Jingchen also thought about going to find a slave, but with a slave brand engraved on it, that person is no longer a person, just an item, the people in the West District will look down on them, and there are many restrictions on slaves now , at least they must never engage in such work as teaching others.
"When I worked with those people before, I felt that some young people were very flexible, so I can help you find some. When the time comes, let Yu Yuehui teach them addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and they can go to class." Nie Yi gave Qi Jingchen had only one idea.
Qi Jingchen nodded immediately, but Yu Yuehui couldn't believe it.
When she was in school, she got really bad grades in math! As a result, she is so poor in math, so she can be a math teacher? No, she is not just a math teacher, she is going to train a group of math teachers!
This world is too mysterious.
Yu Yuehui, who always felt that a math teacher was unattainable, walked up to the podium and taught a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old children, teaching them 12345, teaching them to count, and then learning addition and subtraction within ten.
Yu Yuehui, who had memorized multiplication formulas by heart, looked at these people who had to count their fingers for addition and subtraction within ten, and suddenly became confident.
She is now one of the top math performers in the world!
When Yu Yuehui's students followed Yu Yuehui to study for two days and could teach the children to learn ten numbers, the construction of the paper factory began.
Qi Jingchen recruited a lot of workers, and then took them outside the city to dig a foundation to build a factory building, and began to buy some raw materials.
The holy city is so prosperous that it is quite expensive to buy wood or anything else, but with the money printing machine of Chenguang Restaurant, Qi Jingchen spends money without any hesitation, and he can buy whatever he wants.
Because they were busy with the construction of the paper mill, Qi Jingchen and Nie Yi had been living in the West District almost all the time, so they didn't know the Central Academy at all. In the villa next to the villa they lived in, a brother and sister had been entangled for several days.
Louise took the whip and slapped the seven-year-old child on the ground angrily, choking while pumping: "Why! Why!"
Louise has always liked to make others feel more miserable when she felt miserable, but now she shows no mercy when she whips someone. Prince Eric and Jon have both become accustomed to it. They used to be very sympathetic to Louise. The soldier who was responsible for protecting Louise, who came up with the idea, had an extremely ugly face.
He thought Louise was pitiful at first, but after he gave Louise the idea of buying drinks, he lost a lot of money in the end, and made Louise lose a few general-level magic crystals. I felt the horror of Louise.
Originally, when Louise threw something to pinch people, he thought it was all girls being petty. Anyway, he was a soldier who was smashed and pinched, and it didn't hurt at all, so he didn't take it seriously. However... Louise's way of tossing people, How could there be only these two
Even if he was a warrior, before Eric arrived, he was tossed so hard that he was even forced to eat terrible food... Fortunately, Eric came and let Louise let him go.
Now, when he watched Louise beat the child, he couldn't bear it, but he didn't dare to speak for the child.
"Louis, stop fighting, aren't you tired?" Eric looked at his sister tenderly.
Louise threw herself into Eric's arms: "Brother! Why is that Qi Jingchen?"
"Maybe there's something special about him." Eric reassured Louise.
"I don't want to beg him! Not at all." Louise said.
"I'll help you find a way." Eric said, and quickly smiled: "There is a way."
Eric looked at the child lying on the ground and suddenly said, "Cut this child's tongue and throw it in front of Qi Jingchen!"