"Shaoning, I'll leave this crane to you. With this thing, I believe the construction of the academy will be much faster! Please be sure to finish building the bishop, the canteen, and the dormitory within a month! "
It was the first time they saw such a novel thing, so naturally, the students of the school couldn't help but try it themselves. After an hour, their enthusiasm faded, and they returned to their posts. Then, Li Zexuan found Yan Shaoning and said with a smile.
Yan Shaoning had also tried the crane himself. He nodded and said, "Yes, that's right! This crane is really helpful to us … Eh, no, Xiaoxuan, are you going back to slack off again? "
Li Zexuan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. Why is this guy so sensitive now? He hurriedly said, "No, I'll come here often when I'm free! You have to take care of the things here. If you have any problems, you can send someone to find me directly! "
Yan Shaoning had an "as expected" expression and said gloomily, "I knew you were going to slack off. You're not even as good as your students!"
Li Zexuan shook his head and said, "You can't say that. I'm not going home to slack off! You guys are responsible for the construction of the academy. I still have a lot of things to deal with! For example, the water supply of the academy, the hiring of teachers, the recruitment of students, the writing of teaching materials, and so on. I need to deal with all these as soon as possible. Compared to those students, I'm the one who's really working hard, okay? "
Hearing this, Yan Shaoning stopped complaining. He thought for a while and said, "Well, you're right. Go do your own things then! I'll take care of things here! "
Li Zexuan smiled and said, "Okay! Then I'll leave it to you! "
After that, he was ready to go home. What he said just now wasn't a perfunctory or an excuse. He was really short on time. He should have started doing these things a long time ago, but he was delayed by the matter of the Seven Cultivators of Virtue for a long time, so he really didn't have much time left.
Yan Shaoning suddenly thought of something and hurriedly said, "By the way, Xiaoxuan, there's one more thing I need to tell you!"
"What's the matter?"
"Recently, the autumn harvest is approaching. Many people want to ask for leave to go back to help with the harvest. However, the construction period here is getting more and more urgent. Moreover, if we recruit new people, the new people will definitely not be as skilled as them. Therefore, I did not allow them to go home for the time being! But this is definitely not a long-term solution. Do you have any good ideas ~? "
Li Zexuan frowned slightly. He had neglected this point. In ancient times, the spring planting and autumn harvest were important matters for the common people. Basically, the whole family counted on the grain in the fields to survive the year. He absolutely could not delay the autumn harvest of more than ten thousand families because of his own selfish interests. He pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go.
"More money ~! All the workers and craftsmen who are willing to stay will have their wages doubled this month. They can use this money to hire people to help with the autumn harvest. Besides, each of their families should have half-grown children, so it shouldn't be a big problem. Of course, if they don't want to stay, we won't force them. We'll allow them to take leave and go home after handing over their work. However, they won't get the double pay. We'll let them decide for themselves! "
Yan Shaoning raised his eyebrows and exclaimed, "Double pay? Xiao Xuan, are you crazy ~? Putting aside the sumptuous meals, the wages that we, Yun Shan, offer are already considered the most generous. Yet, you want to double the wages ~? Do you know that just based on this, you'll have to spend an extra 30,000 to 40,000 strings of cash this month ~? "
Li Zexuan shook his head and said, "Shaoning, you can't calculate it like this ~! Yunshan is a special case. Although the meals and wages are very good, don't you see that these people are also working very hard ~? Yanhuang College is such a big project. Which construction team can complete it in two months ~?
They can. Their efforts are completely worthy of this treatment ~! As for the double pay, isn't there no other way ~? No matter what, I can't affect the students' start of school because of the construction progress of the college. This is the most important ~! "
In this era, the students' field break was usually in the middle of September. Counting the days, it was only a little more than a month from now. Li Zexuan's anxiousness made sense.
Of course, he also had the capital to say this. Strange Interest Pavilion and Drunken Immortal House were now a group of hens that could lay golden eggs. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that they were raking in gold every day. Moreover, Datang Daily had long been on the right track and was no longer making a loss. Now, just the income from advertising alone was already very considerable.
Yan Shaoning said helplessly, "Alright, it's your money anyway. The rich ones are the masters. You can do whatever you want ~!"
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After coming down from Yunshan, Li Zexuan didn't go straight home. Instead, he went to the workshop. Yanhuang College's enrollment promotion needed the power of Datang Daily. At this time, he couldn't help but feel lucky that he started Datang Daily first. With this tool of public opinion, it would be much more convenient for him to do other things.
"Brother Ma, for the next few issues of Datang Daily, help me write a few promotional drafts for Yanhuang College. I will personally write the first draft. Arrange for people to study it seriously and let them understand my engineering skills. You guys will write the drafts for the next few issues. I want to recruit students ~!"
In the editorial department, Li Zexuan found Ma Zhou and began to instruct him.
Strictly speaking, Ma Zhou wasn't a pure Confucian disciple. He studied the art of governance and had a good understanding of the knowledge that was useful for governing a country. His character was flexible and flexible. Therefore, Li Zexuan felt assured to hand over such an important department like Datang Daily to Ma Zhou.
Ma Zhou understood what Li Zexuan meant when he heard this. He nodded and said, "Lord Jue, don't worry. We will do our best to cooperate."
After experiencing so many things with Li Zexuan, Ma Zhou had a very deep understanding of engineering. He didn't have any bad feelings towards engineering because the current success of Datang Daily couldn't be separated from Li Zexuan's support of engineering.
Moreover, he felt that engineering could make the people of Tang better. It could also make more people able to afford to study. The prosperity of the people's education could be brought about by engineering. Therefore, Ma Zhou still hoped that Li Zexuan's engineering could be carried forward.
"Okay, I will ask someone to send the draft up later. You have to save a good position for me in tomorrow's newspaper ~!"
Li Zexuan nodded and said his goodbyes before leaving. His time was really tight right now.
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