Three Kingdoms, I open a tavern in Xudu

Soon, Chen Yang put those muddled thoughts behind him.

Chen Yang looked at Cao Lan and the others, and pondered: "I can't see their strength yet, and I want to conduct an assessment on them."

"Assessment?"

Cao Ang thought for a moment, then asked, "How should the assessment be done?"

"You go to compile a list of the big families in Xudu, and then tell Cao Lan and the others to monitor those families for one night."

Chen Yang thought for a while, and then said: "Tomorrow night, I will report what they saw during the monitoring process, record it on paper, and then determine whether they can become part of the shadow based on the results of the report."

"That's fine!" Cao Ang said in agreement.

Next, Chen Yang left Cao Lan and the others on the school grounds, ordered them to stand in a military posture, and first laid a foundation of discipline for them.

Now that the person has been found, the shadow will be formally established, and Cao Ang will be responsible for it in the early stage. After the whole group grows, Chen Yang will make other arrangements.

There is also the matter of selling salt, which has to start.

Chen Yang looked at the snow-white refined salt piled up in the salt factory, and said, "Xiao Cao, we're going to sell salt tomorrow. As for how to sell it, you and Wen Ruo can discuss it. That's right! Jia Xu will be responsible for selling the salt." , I want to see how strong he is."

Cao Ang said: "Selling salt is doing business. The status of a businessman is not high. Jia Xu is a counselor. I'm afraid it would be wrong to let him be a businessman?"

"What's wrong? Don't forget that I am a businessman."

Chen Yang didn't think so, and continued: "Selling salt is a trivial matter, but if he can't even sell salt well, how can he be a counselor? Besides, there is a system for salt and iron, it's not just as simple as doing business."

Cao Ang felt that his words were reasonable, so he didn't say anything else, and went back to his study to draw up the list of aristocratic families.

After ordering everything here, Chen Yang planned to be a hands-off shopkeeper, he just waited to collect the money.

Although the price of salt sold may not be too high, it must be guaranteed that the common people can afford it, but small profits but quick turnover is the money that is earned, and the cost of making salt is not too high.

Chen Yang continued to patrol as usual, and walked to the dormitory where the workers lived without knowing it.

"Lord!"

As soon as Chen Yang walked near the dormitory, he saw a little girl trotting over. She held up a wild flower picked by the roadside, brought it to Chen Yang, and said with a smile, "Does it look good?"

When facing Chen Yang alone, the little girl didn't feel scared, and looked at Chen Yang innocently and curiously.

The little girl is a child of those refugees. After living here, they no longer have to suffer from hunger or cold.

Not only those refugees respected Chen Yang very much, even many children were very friendly to Chen Yang under the guidance of their parents.

"Rou'er, come back!"

A woman saw this, she hurried over, knelt down and said: "Rou'er is young and ignorant, offended the lord, please let the lord let Rou'er go, if the lord wants to punish, punish the villain!"

Chen Yang laughed. He took the little flower, then picked up the little girl, and said with a smile, "Am I that scary? The little flower is so beautiful, but I will call you brother in the future, you know?"

The little girl's eyes were bent into crescent moons, and she said sweetly, "Brother!"

"That's good!"

As Chen Yang spoke, he inserted the little flower in her bun, and said, "It's so beautiful!"

Seeing Chen Yang being so approachable and being so kind to her daughter, the woman finally breathed a sigh of relief, but of course she was still cautious.

In the past, Chen Yang had relatively little contact with refugees and workers.

In the eyes of these people, Chen Yang is naturally a superior existence, and it is impossible to lower his status and get close to them, but now Chen Yang's actions have subverted their cognition.

Seeing this scene, other old and weak women and children looked at Chen Yang strangely.

Holding the little girl in his arms, Chen Yang continued to walk towards the dormitory, and asked, "How many children are there in our factory?"

The woman who followed Chen Yang quickly said, "It seems that there are more than 100."

Chen Yang teased the little girl, and said again: "There are so many children, if they don't have to do anything in the factory, it won't work!"

No one knew that as soon as he said these words, everyone panicked.

"My lord, it's not what you think. They will help us with laundry and cooking. It's not just living and eating for free."

"Yes! The children are very hardworking, please don't drive us away, my lord."

"I would like to do more work, and I implore my lord to keep the children!"

They all knelt in front of Chen Yang, begging bitterly.

Even the little girl who was hugged by Chen Yang widened her eyes at this moment, looking at Chen Yang in puzzlement.

"You all misunderstood. We have so many children here. I want to build a private school and invite some learned people to come back and teach the children to read and write. The children can't be mediocre like you, right?"

After speaking, Chen Yang put down the little girl, walked up to a little boy and asked, "Little guy, do you want to be a high official when you grow up?"

The little boy nodded nervously, and Chen Yang asked him again: "Why do you want to be an official?"

The little boy said nervously: "Because Daddy said that you don't have to starve to be an official, but we poor people can't be an official."

Chen Yang raised his head and looked at them, and said with a smile, "Have you all heard that? That's how the school is settled. From now on, all school-age children, regardless of gender, can go to school. There is no limit. Get up!"

Then, Chen Yang rubbed the little boy's head, and said: "It's not that poor people cannot be officials. As long as you study and read well, brother guarantees that you will be a high-ranking official in the future."

The little boy jumped up and said, "Really? Thank you brother!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard what Chen Yang said. They couldn't believe it was true.

You must know that private schools in this era are basically monopolized by the gentry. It is not that they have not thought of sending their children to study in order to obtain an official position, but they do not have the qualifications.

But now Chen Yang directly gave them this opportunity, gave them hope, such a big surprise, they couldn't react for a while.

"Thank you my lord!"

After a while, an old man said excitedly.

"Thank you my lord!"

Soon, everyone knelt down and shouted in unison, and the voices rang out in unison.

"You all get up!"

Chen Yang pointed to the open space near the dormitory, and he said: "This area is used as a private school, but I have one condition, I will not provide you with a place for class, and you need to build it yourself, is that okay?" ?”

"can!"

This time, they spoke in unison again.

Seeing their satisfied expressions, Chen Yang also became happy, and the progress of his blueprint for developing this area of ​​the factory has increased a little.

I hope that these children will succeed in their studies and become officials in the future, which will help Lao Cao and the others.

If they want to study, simply having a school is not enough, they need books, and the people who can have books are also those wealthy families.

Chen Yang wasn't worried about this, because Lao Cao's family definitely had too many books, and he would ask Xiao Cao to bring all the books from Cao's family to the factory later, and then print them in large quantities.

That's right, printing.

After an improvement in papermaking, paper can be used for writing, and printing is not a problem.

The carrier of Chen Yang's writing has officially changed from bamboo slips and cloth to paper.

Under the impetus of Cao Cao, a paper mill has been built in Xudu City, but the scale is small, and the paper is temporarily useless.

Then, Chen Yang will "invent" another printing technique, and when the time comes, he will buy a printing factory and a paper mill here, and add his private school to establish, killing two birds with one stone.

Thinking of this, Chen Yang felt a little excited and excited.

So, he went directly to Ma Jun, told Ma Jun about his idea, and asked them to temporarily put down their bows and crossbows to finish the printing process first.

The printing method that Chen Yang mentioned was movable type printing.

Ma Jun didn't quite understand at first, but after Chen Yang explained many times, his eyes suddenly lit up.