The environment of the capital city was different from that of the local provinces and counties. This meant that the Imperial Court had to be responsible for the preparation of universal schools in the vast number of provinces and counties. It had to be appropriated from the national treasury, but the merchants of the provinces and counties could also donate some money and put it on the Merit Book.
As for the villages and extremely remote areas that were one level lower than the provinces and counties, they would all be borne by the Imperial Court. Fortunately, the national treasury was now very rich, so this investment was still bearable. In the face of huge profits, this investment was very worthwhile.
After leaving the Yu Cai School, Ang Lee continued to visit more than a dozen universal education schools that were being built. He was interested in a few schools and even went in to inspect them personally. Overall, he was quite satisfied. These nobles and big merchants had done a good job. In about half a year, most of the schools would be completed, and then they could begin to educate the poor children.
Ang Lee's universal school was the first to be completed. After half a month of intensive discipline training, very good results had been achieved. The naughty children had also begun to develop the habit of obeying discipline. Thus, formal cultural education had begun.
The teachers in the school began to teach the simplest words and imparted knowledge to the children bit by bit, so that they could grasp the simplest knowledge.
When Ang Lee went to the school again, he heard the children reading loudly from afar. Of course, these children were still illiterate, so naturally there was no real reading. As the teacher read a sentence, they learned a sentence. The teacher's voice was relatively low, but the children's voices were very loud. Therefore, outside the school, only the children's reading voices could be heard, and the teacher's voice could not be heard.
"Not bad, not bad. The voices are quite orderly. It sounds very pleasing to the ear!"
Ang Lee said with great satisfaction.
These children could learn so orderly naturally because of the results of the discipline training in the first half of the month. If the discipline training was not carried out, who knew what trouble these children would cause? In a school for young children, discipline was always the most important. Only when all the children obeyed discipline could the school be truly filled with a learning atmosphere and have the most basic learning effect.
At the same time, the main body of the teaching building at the back of the school and the main body of the two-story dining hall had all been completed. The next step was to repair and renovate.
Since they had spent so much money to build the school, they naturally had to do it well. Whether it was the teaching room or the dining room, they had to make it as elegant and high-end as possible.
Elegance meant writing poems and pictures on the walls, filling the room with a scholarly atmosphere. High-class meant that it was equipped with good hardware facilities. For example, the tables and chairs had to be made better, the blackboard had to be flat enough, and there had to be brighter electric lights in the classroom. That way, when the sun was not up yet, they could use the electric lights to add light in the morning.
These hardware facilities were not difficult to set up, and they could be completed within ten days.
These students were already studying loudly, but his Tang Er was still playing alone at home. This was obviously inappropriate. It was not fun to play alone. It was more fun to play with many people. Even if he asked a teacher to teach his children, it would be too lonely. He did not even have any classmates.
For a child to not have any playmates or classmates when he was young, how devastating would it feel? Such a childhood was inevitably incomplete. In ancient society, many aristocratic children's childhood was actually incomplete. Many of them were cooped up at home to study. Even if a few aristocrats gathered together to study, it would only be a few classmates. If there were only a few people, it would obviously be very lonely. What's worse was that these few people were usually of the same sex. Just thinking about a school without girls was scary.
Universal schools were for younger children, so boys and girls could go to school. In such a school, they could play with many children, especially boys and girls playing together. It was bound to be a very happy thing. Maybe there would be some sparks or something. That would be more interesting. In short, the more classmates there were, the more interesting it would be. Three to five classmates were far from enough.
Ang Lee wanted his Tang Er to have hundreds or thousands of classmates. In this way, he could know more people and better understand this society, especially the living conditions of the people at the bottom. His childhood would also be faster.
Of course, there would be a lot of interactions with aristocratic children. During the spring outing, the Tang Er met many children of aristocrats and played very well. It was just that these children of aristocrats were too precious. Basically, they had their own teachers at home. Therefore, they could know each other, but it was difficult for them to be classmates. Unless they were older, at the age of fourteen, they could enter higher institutions like the Imperial College. In this way, they would become classmates.
Li An's plan for Tang'er was very accurate. When she was young, she would be classmates with the children of the poor and get to know some of the children of the aristocrats. After the age of fourteen, Tang'er's classmates would all be children of the aristocrats. In this way, Tang'er would be able to understand the differences between the children of the poor and the children of the aristocrats. Thus, it would be easier for her to understand the entire society.
There was still half a month to prepare. Half a month later, Yan Ruyu would come to the School of Sound Transmission for an inspection. Only if she liked this place and felt that the School of Sound Transmission was not bad, would Tang'er be able to enter the School of Sound Transmission as a student. This was what Li An had promised Yan Ruyu. It was also out of respect for his wife and confidence in the School of Sound Transmission he had built.
"Assistant Minister Li."
Seeing that Ang Lee came for an inspection, Li Chuandao came to accompany him. Because several teachers had been recruited recently, Li Chuandao, Zhang Yucai, and Wei Zhongyi were separated from the teaching team. They were responsible for the management because there were indeed a lot of things to do in the school's daily management. If they had to attend classes and manage the school's daily life, they would be too busy.
In addition, if there were teachers who were sick and asked for leave, the three of them could fill in at any time. In this way, the teaching task would not be interrupted.
"Well, not bad! The children's reading is very catchy. It's very good! However, don't be proud. You have to continue to work hard. In half a month, my wife will come here to take a look. If you do well, my Tang Er will immediately come to this school to study. "
Ang Lee said.
Li Chuandao was taken aback and said, "Assistant Minister Li, this school teaches poor children. Your worker's status is so noble. Why would he come here to study?"
Ang Lee said with a smile, "It's too lonely to have a private school at home. The Guozi Academy only recruits children over the age of 14. There's no other way. It's better to put him in the school. When the time comes, please take care of him."
"Oh, I see."
Li Chuandao was naturally not qualified to object. He smiled and said, "Assistant Minister Li, don't worry. I will do my best."
"That's good. Don't let me down."
After giving some instructions, Ang Lee walked to the construction site behind.
Now that the main body had been completed, the decoration had begun. Ang Lee gave them ten days to finish the work. With the large number of construction workers, they would definitely be able to finish the work in ten days. After spending so much money, it would be a waste if they could not finish the work on time.
Ang Lee had relatively high requirements for the decoration. First of all, the quality of the decoration must be guaranteed, especially the pipes and wires buried in the walls. They must be of the best quality because if these things were broken, it would be quite troublesome to repair. Therefore, they must be done in one go and of the best quality.
Ordinary teaching rooms naturally didn't need water pipes, only wires were needed. However, the toilets on every floor definitely needed water. The dry toilets were too smelly. Since they were going to establish a school, it was naturally more appropriate to use water to flush the toilets. This was something that ordinary poor families didn't have. Only the wealthy aristocrats could afford to use water to flush the toilets. It was considered a benefit for these children.
Ang Lee sometimes thought that if these children were used to using the school's water to flush the toilets, would they be able to stand the smelly dry toilets at home? In this way, would they hold their bowels and then run to the school's toilet? That would be interesting.
The demand for water to flush the toilets was relatively high. In the era of the Tang dynasty, there was no running water. Even Ang Lee did not invent this thing. Although there was running water at home, it was actually the water from the water tower at a high place. First, the well water was brought to the water tower at a high place by manpower. Then, the water from the water tower was led to each room with pipes, thus creating the effect of running water.
If the school used water to flush the toilets, it naturally required a large amount of water to be stored on the roof. As long as the construction quality of the building was up to standard, there was no pressure to store dozens of tons of clean water on the roof. However, it was definitely a hard job to transport a large amount of clean water to the roof every day. It was obviously not realistic to use wooden buckets to carry it. The consumption of manpower was too great. A suspension device must be set up on the roof so that the buckets downstairs could be directly lifted to the roof with pulleys. This was very labor-saving and the efficiency of the work was relatively high.
There was a well in the school, so it was more convenient to get water. However, the original well in the school was too dangerous. Naughty children could easily fall into the well. Therefore, when he just bought the house, Ang Lee had already asked the craftsmen to transform the well. Not only did they install the necessary water pumping equipment at the mouth of the well to make it easier to draw water, but they also made a very strong fence around the periphery. They could only enter through a small door. When the well was not in use, the small door was locked. Therefore, no one could get close to the well.
This could ensure that the children in the school would not fall into the well by mistake and cause a huge case of human life. At the same time, the well was well protected, which also protected the lives of the teachers and students. If anyone wanted to poison them, they would not be able to do it because they could not get close to the well.
The school cafeteria needed water all the time. One well was already very difficult. If the teaching building was equipped with water to flush the toilets, the demand for water would be even higher. As a result, one well was not enough. Therefore, a new well was being dug.
Digging a well in this era was very primitive with extremely simple tools. When digging, people needed to enter the well. The deeper they dug, the farther they were from the ground. The air quality at the bottom was not very good. If there was a lack of oxygen, the person digging the well was likely to not be able to come up. If there was a collapse, the person digging the well would be buried alive. This kind of thing had happened before. Since ancient times, too many people had lost their lives because of digging wells. This was not an easy job.
In fact, as long as the well was dug larger, the probability of danger would be greatly reduced. However, the larger the well was, the higher the amount of labor needed. The total work would even increase by ten times or even dozens of times. If the work was really increased by so much, it would be difficult for the person digging the well to make money.
In addition, the site would also be limited. If the well was dug in the courtyard, and the courtyard itself was not big enough, if the well was constantly expanded, the courtyard would not be enough. Therefore, there was a realistic limit to digging a well. They could only dig from a very small well bit by bit. As for the risk of danger, they could only pay more attention. If the soil was soft, then they had to stop digging and inform the employer of the situation.
The renovation of the school was really fast. After ten days, all the rooms were renovated. Even the new cafeteria was renovated. However, because the renovation had just been completed, all the rooms would exude the smell of building materials.
Of course, these smells were not poisonous. They were all made of pure natural materials. How could they be poisonous? Whether it was wooden planks or cement, it was impossible for them to be poisonous. As for the poisonous substances produced in the later years, most of them were caused by paint and woodworking glue.
Paint contained volatile poisonous substances. After the renovation, it would always float in the air, seriously affecting the air quality in the room. All kinds of composite boards needed to be made with woodworking glue. Therefore, these wooden objects would continue to volatilize poisonous gases, seriously polluting the environment in the room.
There would be no poisonous gases in the room of the sound transmission school at all. First of all, the paint used in the room was pure natural paint. There were no poisonous substances added in the paint, and there were no poisonous substances to be added.
The wooden objects would not produce poisonous gases. These wooden tables, wooden stools, and other wooden objects were all made of solid wood riveted. There was no woodworking glue, so naturally, they would not contain poisonous substances. As for the lime on the walls, it would not contain volatile poisonous substances.
Each classroom was decorated with pure natural materials. All the rooms were absolutely safe and reliable. The students could move into these new and bright classrooms at any time.
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