An agreement was reached between Li Jing, Wang Jin, and Feng Zhang, and the dark clouds of war hanging over Shamen Town were temporarily dispersed.

From the next day, the families of the 700 weapons workshops were allowed to move to Salmon Island one after another. Most of the craftsmen in the weapons workshop are some Dengzhou locals, and some of them are still military craftsmen. They had secretly crafted weapons on Salmon Island, and their families stayed in their hometowns, and some of the families of the master craftsmen and official craftsmen still lived in Wang Jin's various farms in Dengzhou, which not only arranged the life of the craftsmen's families, but also played the role of hostages.

Li Jing moved the underground workshop to Shamen Town, and although some of the craftsmen were forced to stay by him, many people were still worried about the family in Wang Jin's hands, and they had always been unhappy to cooperate. This time, Li Jing and Wang Jin reached an agreement, and Wang Jin did not embarrass him, and immediately notified the families of those craftsmen and let them leave the manor and come to Salmon Island.

When Li Jing informed the craftsmen that their families were about to go to the island, they were still full of incredulity, not believing that Wang Jin would let their family go. When hundreds of craftsmen's families were picked up on the island, the craftsmen who had been waiting on the pier were excited. For the past few years, they have worked in two shifts, working all day in the underground workshop, where no light of day is seen. Although Wang Jinbi's remuneration is not low, the kind of days when they can only go home to visit their relatives once in three years is really uncomfortable for them.

Now they have been transferred to Li Jing's subordinates in Shamen Town, and the workshop has also been transferred from there to the new workshop area planned in the town, and the new workshop is under construction. Even their families have begun to come to the island one after another, and Li Jing even publicly announced it to them. Although for the time being, they can only live in the barracks in the city. Their families were to be placed in makeshift camps outside the city. But it has been promised. According to the Seven Dawn Calendar, every seven days is a week, and they can return to their homes in the camp on Saturday and Sunday. Every week, they also have one day off.

Moreover, Li Jing treats this group of craftsmen very preferentially, and the craftsmen of the four grades are divided into three levels, a total of twelve grades, and they all have a very generous basic salary. They are then paid according to the quantity and quality of the ordnance they make. The more ordnance they make, the higher the quality level, and the more piece-rate wages they will receive. Many craftsmen have calculated that if they are at the same level as before, even if they are an entry-level apprentice, they can get at least four times a month's basic salary and piece-rate salary, which is more than twice the money earned by a strong man carrying a bag on the dock.

And a senior apprentice can earn at least six times a month, which is already a high salary, and if it is a third-level senior apprentice, he can even get eight times. And the formal craftsman. Even if you are a full-fledged craftsman with only a first grade, you can get eight times a month. How can you get ten times at the third level? As for the small number of old craftsmen, their monthly salary is at least twenty yuan.

The result of this calculation has excited many craftsmen, and although the price of rice is getting higher and higher, they can still buy five buckets of rice. They work in the workshop, eat every day, and have a monthly food subsidy. The family is now all on the island, and even if the family has no land to cultivate, if they go to these newly opened workshops on the island to do something, basically the family's food can still be solved. Many people even calculated that they could basically save most or even all of the money they earned in the workshop, so that after working for a few years, they could buy a big house in the town or even build one for themselves outside the city.

Li Jing didn't promise too much to those craftsmen, but took their families over, and then gave a salary plan that he could see and touch, and depicted a beautiful future blueprint for them. None of these craftsmen had any second thoughts, and all of them immediately threw themselves into the construction of the new workshop.

Since the day of the Shangyuan Festival, the families of the craftsmen on the island have come in batches. There are more than 700 craftsmen, as well as dozens of management buddies of the former Wang family who are willing to stay on the island, and there are nearly 4,000 people in their families.

Originally, more than 600 people were lost on the island, but now it has increased by more than 4,000 people at once, plus the 600 captive slaves of the pirates, the current population of Shamen Town has finally exceeded the upper limit of 10,000.

Tens of thousands of people gathered on the small island of Shamen, and the surroundings of Xinzhen City were suddenly densely packed with four large camps.

After the three-day Shangyuan holiday, on the eighteenth day of the first month, a new and magnificent building in the city of Shamen Town was officially completed.

"Everyone report to the team, and bring the children to come forward one by one to get good books and paper and ink, don't mess up."

Zhang Hong stood next to Li Jing and kept shouting loudly at the endless crowd. However, although his voice was about to shout hoarse, today Zhang Hong has the spirit of being famous, and even changed the habit of always liking to wear old robes and not wearing new clothes before the New Year, and put on a white cross-collared right Confucian robe and Confucian scarf, which is full of Confucian attire. Not only him, but also those who have studied in Shamen Town today, are dressed like this today, which is very solemn.

Today is the day of the completion of the Confucius Temple on the island, and it is also the official opening day of the first school in Shamen Town. On the first day of school, Li Jing and Zhang Hong personally set up a table at the entrance of the Confucian Temple to register new books for parents who came to sign up, and distributed textbooks, pen, ink and paper. Then after the registration, the first wash of the school will be released.

The memorial service is an activity to commemorate Confucius at the beginning of spring every year. The Book of Rites. King Wen's son": "Where to learn, the spring official release is laid by his ancestors, and the same is true in autumn and winter." Whoever is the first scholar will be laid in the first saint and the first teacher. "In the imperial court, every year the emperor will take his ministers to hold a grand ceremony. In other places, all teachers and students will hold a memorial ceremony in the school. The first school in Shamen Town opened this year, and the Confucian Temple had just been completed.

The establishment of a school in the town is a matter that Li Jing has long planned and planned, although everything is complicated at the moment, but after the Yuan Festival, Li Jing is still the first to get the school out. This move was strongly praised by Zhang Hong, Cui Zhiyuan, Du Zhongwu and other people who were officially scholars. In their opinion, the opening of the school also shows Li Jing's importance to literati.

For the first enrollment of the school, Li Jing did not make compulsory education, but took into account the current reality and proposed voluntary enrollment. All school-age children who voluntarily enroll in school will be exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees, and the school will also issue a batch of pen, ink and paper free of charge every semester, and parents of students who are enrolled in the school can enjoy some preferential treatment in taxes and fees. In addition, the school has also set up some scholarships, and students with excellent academic performance will receive generous scholarships provided by the town general's government.

After this series of enrollment conditions were announced, Li Jing announced that he and some civilian officials in the town, such as Zhang Hong, Cui Zhiyuan, and Du Zhongwu, would serve as guest teachers in the school and go to the school to give lectures to students from time to time. As soon as this news came out, many sergeants and craftsmen in Shamen Town couldn't help but be moved when they heard that their children could become town generals when they went to school, and that there were so many preferential conditions. Many parents bring their children to school for the first time, and many children who do not go to school in the past are mainly unable to read.

Textbooks, pen, ink, and paper are not affordable for ordinary people, not to mention that reading has to be repaired by teachers, which costs a lot of money. Well, now, not only do you not need money to study, but you can also get money if you read well, where can you find such a good thing?

From early morning to early afternoon, Li Jing had to send more people to register several times, and it was past lunch time before he finally finished the registration work. According to statistics, there were more than 100 students who came to sign up. Li Jing calculated that there are more than 10,000 people in Shamen Town at present, with an average of five people in a household and about 2,000 households. If there is an average of one school-age child per household, there are two hundred people. However, although Datang is open, there are only a small number of women enrolled in the school, and only large families will invite Professor Xixi at home. Get rid of the girls, and if you count them like this, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of new students.

Putting a sheep is a herding, and putting a flock of sheep is also a herding. Although the number of students is a little beyond Li Jing's expectations, but fortunately, the new school is large enough, and there are more than ten specially invited gentlemen, and they can be taught with a little hard work.

In the afternoon, Li Jing and the newly invited gentleman and the town's civil and military officials took the one hundred and three students to hold a grand memorial ceremony in the Confucian Temple. Then I went back to the newly renovated school and divided the students into classes.

One hundred and three students, ranging in age from five-year-old boys to eight- and nine-year-old boys, Li Jing divided them into four classes according to their ages, and divided them into classes A, B, C, and D. The classrooms are all built according to Li Jing's requirements, the classrooms are spacious and bright, with two doors in the front and back of each room, and two large rows of large windows for ventilation. The desks and benches are all brand new, and chalkboards and chalk are specially made for the gentlemen. Even the textbooks were ordered and bought by Li Jing in advance in the Dengzhou bookstore.

After the classes were divided, the parents of the one hundred and three new students all presented the gentlemen with bundles of cultivation according to the old practice. Two pieces of pork, twenty eggs, and some of their own local goods, cloth shoes, linen and so on. Although Li Jing said that the school does not charge tuition, no one dares to forget this bundle of cultivation rites. In the eyes of these soldiers and craftsmen, apprenticeship is a very sacred thing.

The gentlemen all accepted these gifts calmly according to Li Jing's intentions, and it was not good not to accept them. After receiving the gift, it is the last thing for the new students to enter the school, and it is also the most solemn thing.

All parents bring a lantern carefully prepared in advance to the child, and let the new student carry the lantern and put it in front of the child, who will light the lantern for the child. It is a tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation, and the teacher lights lanterns for new students, which means that the future of the students is bright.

After the lanterns were lit, the entrance ceremony for the new students of the new school in Shamen Town officially ended, and from the next day, the school will officially open for teaching.

PS: This chapter has been revised a little, and one of the errors pointed out by Lin Jaqing is very accurate. When Muzi coded words, he made a mistake for a while. Shi represents Buddhism, not Confucianism. The interpretation here is used in conjunction with the teaching, rather than being interpreted separately. (To be continued.) )