On November 21st, Li Qingzhang got up early.
He did not cook today. Instead, he went outside to the bun shop to get the buns he had asked the bun shop to make yesterday. He then went to the soy milk shop and bought a bucket of hot soy milk.
In Chongcheng County, people drink soy milk in a light or salty way. Adding sugar to soy milk is something only rich people do.
Sugar is too expensive.
Jin Xiaoye and his friends don’t like bland drinks, they all prefer salty soy milk.
The salty soy milk sold outside would have soy sauce, chopped green onions, pickled mustard tubers and fried dough sticks added to it, but when Li Qingzhi brought the soy milk home, it was no longer that hot, so he didn't bother adding anything but a little soy sauce.
Li Damao and his friends didn't care at all. The four children ate the buns in one hand and drank soy milk with a spoon in the other, looking very contented.
The female workers at the Jinye Embroidery Workshop were rewarded with buns because they did well on their homework yesterday, so they were even more satisfied when eating!
After eating, Li Qingzhi first sent Li Damao and others to the school, and then went to his own school.
He named his school "Chongcheng Primary School". The name may seem a bit modern, but it was his school and he could name it whatever he wanted.
In the future... maybe this will become the first elementary school in history
There are two rows of teaching buildings in Chongcheng Primary School, with twenty houses in each row. The ten houses facing south are used as classrooms, and the ten houses facing north are used as dormitories.
That is to say, they can recruit ten classes of girls and ten classes of boys.
But they only have fifteen teachers now, which is a bit insufficient. Li Qingzhi temporarily only plans to recruit seven classes of boys and seven classes of girls, with thirty students in each class... That means he will recruit about two hundred male students and two hundred female students.
In modern times, this number of students is quite small, but in this era, it is definitely a large-scale enrollment!
Of course, before recruiting students, he has to train the school’s teachers and teach them.
When Li Qingzhi arrived at the school, several teachers whose homes lived far away had not yet arrived. He waited for a while, and after everyone gathered, he took them to print textbooks.
They first typeset the front part of the textbook and printed it on paper. Then Li Qingzhi took the paper and taught the teachers in the school: "Everyone, you can teach your students like me in the future. I will demonstrate the first few classes, and you can try to teach the rest of the classes when the time comes."
He planned to teach these teachers for the first two days, and then... let these teachers take turns teaching, so that he could also see their level.
Li Qingzhi was very busy. While training these teachers, he also hired four cooks to cook for his school and a doorman to guard the door.
As for the doorman, Li Qingzhi found Zhao Laosan. As for the four cooks, they were Jin Xiaogu, Zhao Laosan's wife, Jin Sangshu's wife, and the aunt who had accompanied Fang Jinniang to the provincial capital to live for a period of time.
This aunt was the wife of the Zhu family's housekeeper. Li Qingzhi met her when he first went to the provincial capital. Later, he discovered that her home was quite close to the Jinye Embroidery Workshop, so they began to have contact.
The cooks who cook for the students in the school don’t need to have very good skills, so Li Qingzhi found some relatives with connections.