The school was built on an open space. This open space was bare and looked quite deserted, so it looked a little empty.
Although the school was a place for learning, the environment could not be too bad. If the environment was not good, it would also affect the physical and mental health of the students.
Learning in a bare campus would give people a sad feeling, and it would cause a certain amount of pressure in their hearts. It would not be helpful for learning.
Although the will to learn was the most direct reason for good grades, the construction of the learning environment could not be ignored. The environment could also determine whether the students liked to learn.
In an environment with beautiful scenery, people's mood would become very good, and they would be very relaxed when learning. If they were in an environment with garbage everywhere, they probably would not have any mood to learn.
Of course, the learning environment was not only clean and tidy, but also a certain cultural environment, which was the most important learning atmosphere. If they were in a school where no one liked to learn, even the most studious people would slowly become less studious.
Because the people around you are playing, you will feel lonely if you study seriously. Over time, you will develop psychological pressure. Moreover, people who don't study will be quite unhappy when they see you studying. They will think of ways to disturb you so that you won't be able to study. This kind of situation is the most terrifying.
It was because the environment would affect one's studies that there was an ancient story in Hua Xia where Meng Mu's mother moved three times. From this, it could be seen that the environment had a great impact on people.
Ang Lee had not been in the subcontinent for a long time, but he still had some general understanding of this place. The local children were definitely not easy to deal with. There was almost no learning and cultural atmosphere. It was very difficult to build a school with an atmosphere in the local area.
However, for the future of the Tang Empire and for the development of all mankind, it was necessary to build a good education here no matter how difficult it was. At least, the local children had to learn the language of the Tang Empire and the most basic common sense. This small goal must be achieved.
The cultural environment needed to be changed step by step. It could not be completed without a hundred years. The natural environment of the school also needed to be improved. Anyway, there were many trees and flowers in the local area. They could just transplant some and make a few gardens. The cost of this was very low, much lower than building a school.
"Along the perimeter of the courtyard walls, landscape trees should be planted both inside and outside. Also, in front of each teaching building, there should be a small garden with some flowers and plants. At the Saint's statue on the sports field, there should be a circular flower bed. The Saint's statue should be in the middle of the flower bed surrounded by flowers to show respect to the Saint. Also, some small trees can be planted on the sides of the buildings to make the whole school look beautiful. Like this, it looks too bare."
Ang Lee looked at his subordinates behind him and said.....
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. Soon... The subordinates went to arrange the planting of trees and the building of flower beds.
On this island that was much bigger than Yazhou, there were many beautiful plants. Moreover, they were absolutely free. As long as you needed them, you could dig them up yourself. If you were willing to spend a little money, you could hire labourers to help you dig them up. In short, it did not cost much.
If they were placed in the future, these landscape trees would be very valuable! They would be worth a lot of money. If they were older and had a more unique shape, they could probably be sold for a sky-high price.
Because the cities in the future were expanding rapidly, the expanding cities needed trees to embellish them. There was a huge demand for beautiful trees. Even ordinary trees were very expensive.
Among them, the prevalence of corruption increased the scarcity of landscape trees. Many trees on both sides of the city's roads could not stay for long.
Basically, they would be dug up as soon as they had recovered. Then, they would be replaced with new trees. After the new trees had grown for a few years, they would be dug up again and replaced with new species. This continued until there were no large-sized trees on both sides of the road. Walking on all the streets in the city, all you could see were newly planted trees.
When he was young, Ang Lee liked to watch such a bustle. He watched the workers use machinery to dig up the trees on both sides of the road. Then, they would plant the trees they liked. This was repeated all the time. But why did they have to change the trees regularly? At that time, he was too young to understand this question. When he asked the teachers in school, the teachers were also very secretive about it and were unwilling to answer.
Later on, when he went deep into society, Ang Lee finally understood that there was a secret of corruption. Changing a batch of trees required money. Who had the final say on the price of the trees? Why was the price so much more expensive than what Ang Lee understood?
Moreover, after the trees on both sides of the road were planted, they would only be watered once. The survival rate was not high. After the trees died, they would buy another batch and then continue to plant them again.
Of course, the number of trees would always be limited. Changing the trees could not be done too frequently. Otherwise, it would be too obvious. However, the city's environment also required a lot of flowers and plants besides trees. In many gardens, small squares, and on iron shelves attached to street lamps, there would be flower pots. The beautiful flowers in the pots could only last for one or two months at most before they withered. After they withered, these flower pots would affect the environment and had to be changed. Therefore, the city would constantly change the flowers and plants at various major roads every year to maintain the beauty of the environment.
These flowers and plants were very valuable. With so many of them, they were worth more than ordinary people could earn in a lifetime. However, these flowers and plants could only last for a few months before they withered. It was really too wasteful.
Of course, people were greedy. Corruption was not a patent of later generations. Corruption could be seen everywhere in the Tang dynasty. He would take the opportunity to embezzle a sum of money from the flower pots in the palace. However, now the treasury of the Tang dynasty was very full. Ang Lee was too lazy to care about this matter. It was not a good thing to offend people for no reason.
Looking at the bare school, Ang Lee also wanted to make a rockery or something in the school. However, after thinking about it carefully, these children were too naughty. If he really made a rockery or something, these children would definitely climb up the rockery. In this way, not only would the rockery be destroyed, but it would also cause unnecessary harm. It was not worth the loss.
Water was flexible. It was also good to have running water in the school. However, this would require a special river to be used. This was too troublesome. After thinking about it again and again, he gave up this idea.
Although he could not stay in this place for too long, Ang Lee still liked to run this place. Seeing the place he ran become more and more prosperous, Ang Lee felt an indescribable sense of achievement. This feeling was much happier than eating meat.
For the time being, the three subjects were the Tang dynasty language, mathematics, and the history of the Tang dynasty. These subjects could be the main subjects of the school. However, if there was a main subject, there must be a secondary subject. If the children were only allowed to study these main subjects, they would definitely want to die. In this case, it was a very good idea to use the secondary subjects to adjust.
The secondary subjects could be physical exercise, science, singing, drawing, and other less important subjects. These subjects had very low requirements for the teachers and did not require too much professional knowledge.
For example, sports. As long as some simple sports equipment was set up in the school playground, the requirements for the teachers were almost zero. When Ang Lee was in school in his previous life, the physical exercise was taught by the language teacher.
Science was also very simple. For example, why does wood float on water? Why does it rain? Why does thunder occur? Why does an apple fall to the ground? How does a small tadpole turn into a frog? How does a silkworm egg grow day by day? These interesting knowledge would definitely arouse the interest of the children.
Singing was even more interesting. All you had to do was shout out loud. There was probably no child who wouldn't be interested in this. In Li An's previous life, he loved singing the most when he was in elementary school. He would often stand in the crowd and sing. Because of this, he won the favor of many girls. He was very cocky throughout his youth.
Drawing was necessary to cultivate a person's cultural temperament. Children who could calm down to draw must be children with good self-cultivation. It was absolutely feasible to be a secondary subject in the school.
Sports, singing, drawing, and science. These were the four subjects again. However, these four subjects did not require a specialized teacher. They could be taught by the teacher of the main subject. Anyway, these secondary subjects did not have many chances to attend classes. Knowledge would only be taught occasionally. For example, today there would be a lesson on sports, tomorrow there would be a lesson on singing, and the day after tomorrow there would be a lesson on drawing.
However, overall, the pressure of having more than a dozen teachers to manage more than three hundred children was still very huge and very hard.
In order to reduce the pressure on the teachers, Ang Lee felt that the recruited security personnel could take some responsibility and let them patrol in the school. The people patrolling at night were responsible for anti-theft. The people patrolling during the day were responsible for watching all the children to prevent them from fighting and other phenomena. For the children who were not obedient, they could be appropriately taught a lesson.
There was no need for a lot of sports equipment. The horizontal bar and parallel bars were indispensable. Some rings could also be equipped. Football was too dangerous, so there was no need to equip it. However, a few shooting rings could be installed to let the children learn to shoot. The more they shot, the better the results.
"Assistant Minister Li, all the teaching materials have been printed. Please take a look."
An official brought a large group of subordinates and moved the printed teaching materials to the school.
Ang Lee casually flipped through a few books. He was quite satisfied with the printing quality. He nodded and asked his subordinates to put all these teaching materials into the storage room in the back row. When the children came to school the day after tomorrow, they would be distributed to these children.
Soon, ten young adults in charge of the school's security entered the school. They would be divided into three groups. Three shifts were responsible for the school's security work. The extra person was a junior leader who was responsible for leading these nine people. With these ten young adults, unless they encountered a large number of robbers, the school would not have an accident.
The four cooks in charge of cooking were also quickly in place. Among them, only one was the head chef. The other three were the head chef's subordinates. They were responsible for doing odd jobs beside the head chef. After the teachers and students finished their lunch, they were also responsible for washing the dishes and chopsticks.
Because the school was only responsible for one full lunch a day, the cooks did not need to be in three shifts. Only one shift was enough.
Not far from the school, there was a big pit half a person deep. This big pit was the school's garbage pit. The garbage that was cleaned out in the school every day would be transported to this garbage pit. When the garbage pit was full, it would be filled. Then, they would continue to find a place to dig a pit. They would dig a pit repeatedly to meet the school's need to dump the garbage.
After personally visiting the school, Ang Lee gave many suggestions for improvement. Then, he went back to rest.
At night, the school was still busy. According to Ang Lee's suggestions, his subordinates quickly got a large number of landscape trees and planted them overnight. Because the sports equipment was not too difficult, it was quickly done and immediately installed in the school.
The three guards in charge of the night shift were also officially on duty. After all, a large number of items had been transported to the school. There was indeed a need for protection.
Because there was no power generation equipment, the people working overnight could only use torches to light up the place. Little torches filled the entire school. From afar, it was a beautiful scenery, a scenery of hard work.
The next morning, Ang Lee came to the school early because it was the day when the students entered the school to visit. How could Ang Lee not be present?
When he was still far away from the school, Li An saw that there were too many people gathered at the gate of the school. There were many children, far more than three hundred people. There were also a lot of adults. All of them added together, it was estimated that there were more than three thousand people. They occupied the open space in front of the school. Many people accidentally fell into the garbage pit that had just been dug not long ago. Because the pit was surrounded by people, the people who fell into the pit could only helplessly stay in the pit because there was no place to stand at all.
Seeing so many people gathered at the gate of the school, many officials of the Tang dynasty were very happy. They thought that this was the phenomenon of the local people attaching importance to education. In fact, Ang Lee thought that these people were bored and came to watch the fun. Or, they were a little moved when they heard that going to school was free and they could even eat lunch.
As soon as Ang Lee's carriage arrived, the crowd consciously separated to two sides. This caused some people to fall into the garbage pit again, which immediately set off a wave of complaints.
"Assistant Minister Li, there are too many people today. If we let them all into the school, I'm afraid that they will destroy the things in the school. Therefore, I can only keep them outside."
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