Be a matchmaker in an otome game

Chapter 400 The first lesson of school

Soon came the day of school.

Since there is no age limit for enrollment in this school, there are people of all ages. The youngest, like Anna, is only five or six years old, and the older ones are in their thirties and forties.

Sitting in a mess in the classroom is not decent.

Riley instructed them to change seats, the younger one sat in the front, the older one sat in the back, and it took a while to settle down.

"Everyone, we meet again." Riley said while sitting on the podium with a smile. The students here have heard him teach how to read and count, and he has an impression of every face.

Everyone respectfully called him teacher.

Riley said: "Today is the first day of school and the first class. I can't take this class."

Just when everyone was wondering if it wasn't Riley who got it, Felisa stepped in from the door.

"Miss Felisa?" Someone blurted out in surprise, and then quickly covered his mouth.

"It's me," Felisa nodded, and stood on the podium, "I will teach you the first class of the school."

The students felt very strange and excited at first, after all, Felisa is a nobleman, but after thinking about it, it is not surprising, after all, the school is run by Felisa, she always has to say a few words to prove her For her existence, let them be grateful to her.

Felisa has already prepared a draft: "Hello everyone, in today's class, I am here to talk to you about why I want to open this school."

Sure enough, someone thought to herself that she must be kind, saying that she did all this for the common people, and asked the common people to work for her.

However, Felisa said lightly: "I am for Cliff City, and I am also for Viscount Cliff."

Um?Why is it different from what was expected?
"You all know that after learning how to read and count, you can choose more jobs, and jobs that require reading and counting will definitely have higher income than pure manual labor."

The students nodded one after another. Except for Anna, who is too young, children around ten years old already know a lot about the world. Of course they know that pure manual labor is the least profitable, and handicraft work is better, but they are willing to devote themselves to handicraft work. There are not many people who teach it, and the most profitable is to work in the city lord's mansion.

"Let me give you an example, just like the new employees I recruited in the hospital this time, did they increase the family's income?"

Felisa recruits all women, and these women usually can't find work. At most, they can do some laundry work. With the hospital as a stable source of income, the quality of life will improve a lot.

"So what will the increased revenue be used for?"

Although the answer was obvious, most people didn't dare to answer, which made Anna's childish voice very loud: "Buy meat!"

Anna remembers very clearly that on the day when the admission notice was posted, her mother bought a lot of meat and cooked a big meal. Anna still recalls the taste of the meat that day.

"Anna is right," Felisa affirmed, "Then, has the income of the meat stall owner increased? Because consumers who don't usually eat much meat decided to improve their food because of their income increase. The owner of the stall directly makes a profit, and the owner of the meat stall will buy more meat from the pig slaughterhouse to sell in order to supply so many people's demand for meat, and the pig slaughterhouse will sell more pigs. In the process, taxes will be generated, and the taxes will eventually go to Cliff City."

This kind of interlocking relationship stunned all the students. They had never thought about it, but it was indeed the case when they thought about it carefully.

The student whose family owns a shop quickly realized: "However, the increase in income of only a few people does not make the butcher stall owner willing to take the risk of killing an extra pig."

After all, if the meat is not sold out on the same day, it will not taste good.

Felisa nodded: "So we want many people to make more money." The more people who make money, the more people are willing to eat meat.

The same student from the shop answered, "But even if everyone can read and count, there aren't that many jobs."

Due to the nature of the society, most people still conduct group activities with the family as a unit. If there is any good thing, the first thing that comes to mind is to find someone in the family to do it together, and it is difficult for outsiders to join in.

Unless it is like Richard, the family members are not enough, so they want to recruit people from outside.

Felisa glanced at the student and suddenly asked, "What's your name? What do you do at home?"

The student who was asked immediately replied: "My name is Michael, and my family runs a cloth shop."

Felisa knew who he was. His family opened the largest cloth store in Cliff City. He probably sent such a young man in his twenties here because he wanted to get close to Felisa after seeing Richard ascend to heaven. Going to school After all, according to their family background, Michael has learned everything he should learn, including reading and counting, so it is useless to go to school here.

Felisa ordered him to come up, and then handed him a stack of papers, asking him to distribute two sheets each.

After the paper was handed out, Felisa said, "This is the paper I have someone research it, Michael, what do you think of this paper?"

Michael replied thoughtfully: "It's very average, and it feels much worse than the usual paper."

"Would you buy a hundred sheets of this paper for ten copper coins?"

Michael replied without hesitation: “I will buy it.”

He would feel distressed for a long time if he lost a piece of paper that he usually used, because there are only fifty pieces of one hundred copper coins, that is to say, two copper coins for one piece of paper. He won't even blink his eyes.

Felisa advertised the paper workshop: "Your Excellency, the Viscount decided to set up a paper workshop. We need to recruit workers, and the paper produced will not only be used by schools, but also be sold."

The focus of everyone's hearing is different. Some people hear that the workshop needs to recruit workers, and some people hear that the paper will be sold.

Michael obviously thought more: "You mean, if you want everyone to make more money, you can make new products?"

The difference in background determines the difference in vision. The cloth shop in Michael’s family not only sells cloth, but also has a weaving and dyeing factory. He knows very well that a stable supply of goods is the foundation of business, so he quickly learned I understood what Felicia meant.

Felisa smiled slightly: "Of course, the premise is that you can research new products."

Why is it so easy to research new products? Thomas was able to research and produce the paper so quickly because Felisa knew the direction in advance and asked them to explore a little bit and eliminate the wrong answers one by one. The paper has not been used yet.

But no matter what research you do, you must at least be able to write. If you can’t write, how can you record the cause of failure?Some studies have to use arithmetic.

In fact, Michael has been aware of these truths, but no one has told him in systematic language, and now he is very enlightened after listening to Felisa's words.

The school founded by Felisa seems to let common people learn to read and write, but it is Viscount Cliff who benefits in the end. No matter what kind of new products, as long as they can form a trading market, they will eventually need to collect taxes.

(End of this chapter)