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With more nursing homes, plus those purchased servants, craftsmen and new villagers, Li Anran naturally won't waste time. After arranging the corresponding plans to different heads, with an order, the entire Xiaoyao Villa entered a busy state.

At the same time, Li Anran also received the news that a large number of servants and craftsmen he had purchased and hired had already gathered at the Preparation Academy, and immediately rushed over with manpower and corresponding materials. It took a whole day to finally arrange the planning and related preliminary work.

Thankfully, there are a few craftsmen who have spent a lot of money on this time who are not skilled and have very good brains. In addition, the construction of the academy does not need to be like that of modern time and space, and will still continue the characteristics of Datang time and space, so the corresponding work arrangement finally does not cause any problems that cannot be communicated and solved.

After Li Anran returned to the villa after a really busy day, while enjoying the intimate service of Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun, he had to sigh that no matter what era, talent is a scarce commodity. If I can have a group of talents now, even if there are only a dozen of them, I won't let myself be busy like this.

Seeing that the construction project of the villa and the academy had begun, in order to make the future life easier, and at the same time to provide some basic teachers for the future academy, Li Anran had to advance the plan of cultivating talents.

Under Li Anran's instructions, Wang Youde, the chief housekeeper, quickly cleaned up a small courtyard in the inner courtyard. He also asked the carpenters in the villa to use ready-made materials to create a batch of tables and benches according to the requirements, and purchased the corresponding pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Li Anran installed the small home projector he bought before into the classroom, and then prepared a large whiteboard for writing and the corresponding whiteboard pen black and other modern teaching tools. Even, considering the poor light transmission of the house in Datang Time and Space, I also got the portable gasoline generator I bought before.

After laying out the line and installing the energy-saving lamps, if you don't look at the style of this courtyard as a school, you can look at it at a glance, and it is no different from the school classrooms of modern time and space.

After the hardware environment was arranged, Li Anran began to teach Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun, as well as the two of them's maids, Xiangling and Qingwen.

Not to mention, although these four people are all from ** background, they have a very good foundation after the cultivation of Cuihong Mansion as a child. Especially Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun, who are Qing people, not only know everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also have very good comprehension ability and memory.

Considering the gap in knowledge between modern time and space and Datang time and space, Li Anran did not teach anything too deep at the beginning, but focused on teaching Chinese pinyin and basic mathematics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

As for the teaching materials, it is also simple, and I directly bought five lithographic learning machines equipped with all courses and teaching software from elementary school to university in modern time and space. The phrase is a familiar advertising slogan in modern time and space: "Where you won't order, soeasy!" ”

What makes Li Anran very satisfied is that in the face of such a learning opportunity, whether it is Su Xiaomei, Xiangyun, or Xiangling and Qingwen, who are maids, they must cherish it very much. In addition, at the beginning, they only learned Chinese pinyin and basic mathematics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and the four of them had some cultural foundation, so the learning progress was very fast.

If the cliché is so old-fashioned that it can't be old-fashioned, time flies and time flies. In the blink of an eye, the time of Datang time and space has entered August.

With the arrival of the midsummer season, the temperature is naturally getting higher and higher. Fortunately, Xiaoyao Mountain Villa is located on the periphery of the Taibai Mountains, and the temperature is much better than that of Lantian County. But even so, the servants, farmers, and craftsmen who were busy in the construction site were still sweating profusely and getting darker and darker under the sun.

In order to prevent these manpower from being damaged due to heat stroke and other problems, Li Anran cooperated with Sun Changgeng of Changchun Hall, in addition to ordering a batch of Rendan, he also used the recipe left by his grandfather to make Huoxiang Zhengqi Water.

With these two medicines for symptoms such as heat stroke and colds, plus mung beans and fresh lilies purchased from modern time and space, mung bean lily soup can prevent heatstroke and cool down, clear heat and detoxify, and soothe the nerves and lungs, as well as winter melon bone broth that can replenish the body and salt. According to Wang Youde's words, those servants, villagers, and craftsmen can find the master who treats his subordinates so well, which is really a blessing that has been cultivated for eight lifetimes.

Such a statement is actually not an exaggeration at all, not to mention those small families, even a few wealthy families will treat their subordinates so well. No, in addition to these medicines and soups that are openly supplied, there are three dry meals every morning, noon, and evening, either millet buns or corn, and they are all full. In terms of dishes, you can also see meat every day, especially at noon, either palm-wide fat meat or frighteningly large fat chicken legs, or roast goose and duck stew.

In order to solve the big neck disease caused by night blindness and lack of shyness in the ancients, noon and evening will also be made with seaweed egg soup or fish head kelp soup. With these oily, watery, and nutritious food and drink, even if it is very hard to work under the sun, no one below the servants, farmers, and craftsmen has even a single complaint, and they work harder than the other.

If it weren't for Li Anran's fear that these subordinates would have problems with overwork, he specially ordered that the hottest place at noon be used as a lunch break for an hour (two hours), and it is estimated that the progress of the projects on the two construction sites could be faster.

As the food and treatment prepared by Xiaoyao Villa for the subordinates slowly spread, some people began to take the initiative to ask if they still needed to use labor. Moreover, as time goes by, there are more and more such people, and there are even cases where people want to work by paying for them. Regarding this situation, Li Anran's attitude is that as long as he is an honest person who is hardworking and willing to work, he will come as much as he wants, but those who receive money will be severely punished, and those who are serious will be directly dismissed or resold, and will not be spared.

After a few guys who were not afraid of death were dealt with for committing crimes against the wind, whether it was the side of Xiaoyao Villa or the construction site of the academy, no one up and down dared to defy the law. All of a sudden, the atmosphere was very harmonious and steady.

What makes Li Anran happy is that during this period of time, he has not been going back and forth between modern time and space and Datang time and space in vain. Through the efforts of the craftsmen below, first the waterwheel was successfully copied by the carpenters Zhou, and then the cement and bricks were also successfully fired by the craftsmen in charge of the matter.

Before the waterwheel was built, Li Anran had already arranged for the nursing home headed by Cheng Chuhei to excavate the canal. Anyway, the soil in summer is relatively soft, and these children are all from the army, although they are not necessarily all good guys, but their physique is indeed much stronger than ordinary people. With these people, the ditch digging work went very smoothly.

In order to avoid the problem that the dirt canal is easy to collapse, Li Anran also had the cement and bricks successfully fired, and asked the sides and tops of the canal to be built according to the design drawings of Shi Jinshui. In this way, it not only reduces the possibility of the canal being washed out when heavy rain comes. Moreover, the farmers can also have a clean and smooth road to walk in and out of the fields to work.

Taking advantage of the work of building the canal, Zhou carpenters and their team worked day and night to make a batch of large waterwheels. After the waterwheels were manufactured and erected in the corresponding positions, the blades on the waterwheels quickly rotated from slow to fast along the water flow as the water wheels were lowered.

Whenever a bamboo tube lifts the water up, the clear river water will flow into the water tank of the stone platform along the inertia, splashing a piece of flying flowers and broken jade. At that time, after seeing this situation, a group of people, including Su Xiaomei, Xiangyun, Wang Youde and Cheng Chuhei, couldn't help but cheer.

With the concerted efforts of more than a dozen large waterwheels, the canal that covered the entire farmland of Xiaoyao Villa was soon filled with clear water. In order not to let the role of the canal be wasted, Li Anran also asked people to build a sluice gate and strainer at the outlet of the canal, and then stocked a batch of fish and shrimp and other aquatic products in the canal. At the same time, it can also prevent people from poisoning.