The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 181 Miscellaneous

Jiao Shun's provocative speech was undoubtedly quite successful.

As for this kind of utilitarian guidance, will it cultivate a group of corrupt officials...

Jiao Shun said that even if he is a corrupt official, he is at least a corrupt official under his own sect!
Besides, corrupt officials with a certain amount of industrial knowledge are better than those who follow the old ways and stick to the past. Isn’t it the greedy capitalists who led the first industrial revolution?
In short, under the eager gaze of all the work-students, Jiao Shun walked with the words "and" with his chest up and his belly folded, and found the residences of those old craftsmen again.

In fact, this place is no different from the small courtyard where I was teaching just now, but it looks more deserted and desolate.

The first batch of twelve old craftsmen had already had their breakfast and were chatting together in the corridor. Seeing the officials from the handyman's office coming in from outside, they hurriedly came up to them.

Jiao Shun took a closer look, and found that more than half of them were disabled.

The craftsmen with outstanding craftsmanship these days must be old and weak and unable to work, otherwise their income would far exceed that of ordinary people, so why would they be willing to be half-hearted craftsmen?
But Jiao Shun doesn't want those old and dim-witted masters, so he can only pick up these sick and disabled people?

Fortunately, this is not to let them work but to impart knowledge, even if the hands and feet are crippled, it is not a big problem.

These people are used to seeing the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and they fear and respect officials and masters, and they are more than ten times more cautious than those young and middle-aged working students.

But this does not mean that they are honest people.

Those who can be recommended to Mengxue as "craftsmen" after being disabled, either have connections behind them, or are masters who are all-round.

This time, Jiao Shun didn't give a lecture as soon as he came up, he warmly greeted everyone to form a circle, first inquired about what they lacked, asked Liu Changyi to record them one by one, and then began to give specific instructions.

According to his plan, the work-study class only taught characters and arithmetic for the first half of the month, and the artisans also had to sit in, so as to learn how the tutors taught and prepare lessons according to the gourd painting.

In February, the craftsmen only started classes on a trial basis, and each took turns to try two or three sessions. On weekdays, the teachers were still the main ones.

In the third month, the craftsmen will officially start classes.

Speaking of this, Jiao Shun looked around at all the old craftsmen, slightly restrained his smile, and said seriously: "I know that most of you are cherishing your own brooms, and there are some unique skills that you would rather bring in the coffin than pass on to outsiders."

"But the official has also made it clear that it's okay not to teach unique skills, but the foundation must be solid. After the official start of the class, students will vote by secret ballot every month to choose the worst craftsman!"

"If there is a craftsman who has been selected for two consecutive months, or more than three times in a year, then I'm sorry, I will be dismissed immediately and will never be hired!"

After these words, everyone who spoke was terrified, and some people even began to regret coming to this muddy water.

After all, if he was voted out by the students, he would be ashamed to go back to the workshop again.

But immediately after, Jiao Shun handed over another sweet date, saying that after the official start of the class, the Handy Work Institute will allocate a certain amount of teaching and research funds to each craftsman for the craftsmen to purchase tools and consumables.

This is actually a clever way to subsidize them.

The Ministry of Rites, fearing that the private school teachers would have opinions, stipulated that the salary of the craftsmen must be [-]% lower than that of the school teachers. However, with this so-called "teaching and research funds", the monthly salary of the craftsmen was [-]% higher than that of the school teachers.

Of course, if the teaching level is not enough, and all the teaching and research funds are greedy, and the students vote to dismiss him at that time, no one else will be blamed.

Jiao Shun explained clearly the benefits of the rules, leaving Liu Changyou to continue communicating with them on details, and then led Zhao Yan to inspect the kitchen and dormitory.

Shabby is inevitable.

However, the work-study students are not pampered masters, they just need to add some heating facilities in winter.

Whether to change the Datong shop to a kang, or to burn a coal stove separately, will have to wait for the officials below to discuss and decide.

Just after finishing these transfers, when I returned to the front yard where I was teaching, it suddenly began to rain.

Jiao Shun stood in the drizzle, listening to the sound of reading in the courtyards on both sides, and couldn't help but think of the phrase "the sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading", but the reading of the work-students was obviously uneven, far worse than that in the old school building. The teenagers are neat.

When the new work-study policy is on the right track, young people should still be admitted.

It was originally planned to communicate with the school at noon, but the dean kept avoiding him that week, and there was no second person in the school who was important enough.

Jiao Shun simply changed it to a work dinner.

In addition to the officials of the handyman's office, the twelve craftsmen were also taken there, and they ate a meal of noodles in fear.

After he was full of wine and food, Jiao Shun led his team back to the yamen, and started a closed-door meeting to summarize what he saw and heard today, as well as the problems and deficiencies in the elementary school.

After this trip, many mistakes were found.

Jiao Shun didn't say much in front of outsiders before, but he criticized Zhao Yan's work when he returned to the yamen, saying that these problems could have been avoided in the first place, and that he should do more solid work in the future to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

As for why he didn't inspect in advance...

That is naturally to avoid wrangling in the future, as it is now, if someone provokes troubles, the first one to bear the brunt will be Zhao Yan, the founder.

As for whether he will be accused of dereliction of duty...

hehe~
These days, officials above the middle level who are in a hurry to get down to the grassroots level and get along with the common people are the outliers in everyone's eyes!
After the meeting was over, Jiao Shun left Liu Changyou alone to inquire about the progress of the research and development of the airtightness of the magazine.

This is the second task that Jiao Shun entrusted to him after the successful research and development of kerosene extraction technology. Because the previous kerosene work really paid off, and this time the research is related to firearms, Liu Changyou, his mentor and his apprentice, were very active.

For the time being, however, little progress has been made.

For the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, airtightness is not difficult to achieve.

The difficulty is to withstand the expansion pressure caused by the explosion of gunpowder while maintaining airtightness.

It is not impossible to blindly stack materials, but the cost will inevitably remain high, and it will also affect the weight and practicality of the gun.

Fortunately, there is no rush.

At least for a short period of time, Xia Guo is still in a leading position in firearms-it's hard to say for a long time. After the defeat of the Wuxi army, they will inevitably start to develop breech-loading guns.

With their manufacturing process, imitation is only a matter of time.

Of course, Xia Guo is not idle here, and is also imitating iron-clad steamships.

I don't know whether after both sides have innovated their technologies, they will maintain a deterrent balance with each other, or conduct a new round of probing confrontation.

…………

It's been a really busy day.

When Jiao Shun got home, he collapsed on Luo Han's bed, letting Xiang Ling take off his shoes and socks like a dead pig.

It wasn't until Xiangling went outside to fetch hot water again that Jiao Shun realized that there were no people in the room, so he wondered, "Where's Yuchuan? It's raining again this evening, she's not staying at home, but she's running somewhere to play." went?"

"I didn't go out, I was at home."

Xiangling warmed Jiao Shun's feet with a hot towel, put it carefully into the basin, and replied, "Wu'er got rained in the morning, and got hot in the afternoon. I've invited a doctor here. Accompanying the diagnosis and treatment."

Jiao Shun hummed comfortably because of the hot ironing under her feet, and asked vaguely: "She is always weak, so why don't she know how to avoid it? Where did it rain? She usually doesn't have to go out on business, even if Playing in the Duke's Mansion, there is no place to shelter from the rain."

"I asked, but she didn't say anything."

Xiang Ling shook her head slightly, and carefully scrubbed Jiao Shun's toes. After washing one, she wrapped it in a dry towel and put it on her lap.

Jiao Shun closed his eyes and raised his toes, climbing up restlessly. When he finally washed the other one clean, all the five elements of the fragrant water chestnut that had been teased earlier were full of spring, and the rouge mark between the eyebrows seemed to be about to bleed. .

With a blushing face, she put Jiao Shun's feet back on the pedals, and was about to take out the dirty water, but Jiao Shun was already caught in her arms.

Xiang Ling groaned, then bowed his head and let him do what he did.

But Jiao Shun was very tired after all, and he hadn't recovered yet, so he just hugged her and searched up and down, without making any further progress.

Xiangling gradually regained her composure, and said in Jiao Shun's arms: "Xiuju came in the afternoon, and said that the eldest lady called the second girl yesterday, and said that her niece from her natal family will come in a few days, and she will probably live in the second girl by then. Where, let the second girl prepare early."

Xing what cigarettes are coming?

Jiao Shun's spirit was shaken, and he waited to ask further, he didn't want Yu Chuan to come in from the outside in a coir raincoat, seeing this scene, he couldn't help but said sadly: "My lord is Gao Le, pity me, who is in the wind and rain, but still makes people take the lead A few words."

"Who is leading you?"

Jiao Shun still embraced Xiangling, and asked lazily: "The doctor sent you away?"

"Send away."

Yu Chuan took off the coir raincoat on her own, and said, "It's said that she was caught with the wind and cold, so it's not a problem—this girl is also useless, she only got a little rain in the morning, and fell ill in the afternoon, I just said a few words to her, She kicked a bit!"

Knowing that she was always on good terms with Wu'er, Jiao Shun asked again: "She's very well behaved, why did she dare to kick you when she got caught in the rain?"

"Ah~"

Yu Chuan hurried to the bed, tried sticking the embroidered shoes on the basin, and seeing that the water was still hot, she smiled and took off her shoes and socks, saying that she wanted to touch the uncle's fortune.

After soaking the two tender water chestnuts in the water, she continued: "I was just about to tell the master, because she heard that Young Master Liu had arrived in the morning, she found it in the courtyard of the second master Bao, but she didn't dare to go in. I just stood there foolishly outside, refusing to leave even in the rain, just looking forward to seeing someone else."

"I just asked her again and again, but she refused to tell the truth. If I hadn't bumped into Qingwen at the gate of the courtyard just now, I'm afraid she would still be kept in the dark by now! It's also because I mentioned Mr. Liu, she I was annoyed."

Ever since she met Liu Xianglian on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Wu'er could never forget it. Later, Liu Xianglian shot down the flag of the Wuxi embassy and became famous in the capital, and she became more and more demented.

Hearing that he fell ill because he wanted to see Liu Xianglian, Jiao Shun secretly said 'he deserves it' sourly, and then he wondered: "Brother Liu has returned to Beijing? Has his arrest warrant been withdrawn yet?"

Yu Chuan brushed the water with his jade feet, leaned on Jiao Shun's lap, and said in a low voice, "It's true that we withdrew, but no one came to him at all. I heard that even the portraits pasted on the gate of the city were scribbled on." Yes, it doesn't look like Mr. Liu himself at all—Mr. Pian Liu is also a lively person, and he was really bored outside the city, so he just went back to the city."

"He didn't come to us?"

"They said they would come back when my father was taking a bath——Qingwen came here specifically to talk about this matter, and just happened to bump into me at the gate of the courtyard."

After a pause, Yu Chuan slightly lowered his voice and said, "She hasn't made any progress there, so she's naturally embarrassed to come in and see you."

"What's wrong."

Jiao Shun laughed and said, "I didn't urge her, so don't urge her too hard, otherwise Qingwen's temperament will cause trouble if she doesn't keep her temper."

"Whatever happens, it's also a headache for Master Bao!"

But Yu Chuan got up abruptly, and said seriously: "It's not that I insisted on urging Qingwen, she obviously agreed to it herself, and she was so procrastinating that she still didn't believe it—besides, that Mingyan almost killed her at the beginning." Master's life, we can't just let him off so lightly!"

At the beginning, Jiao Shun was also focused on revenge, and even developed Yang's tool man for this.

But now, with his status getting higher and higher, the matter of getting revenge on Mingyan is not so urgent.

But seeing Yu Chuan gnashing her teeth, wanting to avenge her revenge, Jiao Shunzi would not dampen her enthusiasm, and only told her not to be greedy for merit, and everything would be done by the instrumental Qing Wen.

After Yu Chuan dried his feet with a towel and rolled into Jiao Shun's arms, the three of them had a brazen brawl on the Arhat bed for a while.

Jiao Shun let go of the second daughter until the servants reported food at the door, and then ordered: "Since Wu'er is sick, let her go to the West Wing to rest for a while, and you two will take care of the wife for her to wash up in the morning." that is."

Xiang Ling thought for a while, and took the initiative to say: "Why don't I stay on duty in the living room of the main room today, my wife is now used to Wu'er serving by her side, I'm afraid it won't work if I don't have anyone to support me at night."

She has always rushed to get these troublesome things, if not for this, she would not have won Xu's favor.

Jiao Shun naturally had no objection.

Only let Xiangling pass the message to Wu'er, this time is not an example, if he delays the business because of being a nympho, and even gets angry with his wife and master, then don't blame him for being merciless.

Xiangling took the order and went.

Yu Chuan uploaded the food from the stove. Recently, the two sat down and drank a few cups, chewed some nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, and then rolled into the room like dry wood.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she took off her coat, Xiangling folded it back.

But it was Dong Mansion who sent an invitation card, inviting Jiao Shunming'er to come over and help with Jia Rong's wedding arrangement.

This is strange.

Jiao Shun had already got the news from Youshi that Jia Rong's marriage was scheduled for the first day of next month - the woman's father was the ambassador of the shipping warehouse of the Ministry of Households, and in terms of official position, he was only a ninth-rank official, but he had a lot of money and only this one girl.

But I have never heard that there is something about myself in it.

For a moment, he guessed, could it be that Youshi didn't come to the door for several days, and Youshi deliberately took this title to invite himself to go to see the sun.

But after thinking about it, I feel wrong.

Even if Youshi was looking for a reason, he should find someone more reliable, but using such an inconsequential argument, wouldn't it be more suspicious?
That's all~
It's useless to think so much. When Ming'er goes to Ningguo Mansion, he will naturally know what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd.

(End of this chapter)