After farming, I opened a family tree

Chapter 216 Li Ze teaches

Shen Tang’s ambition is actually quite big.

In fact, the Great Qi Dynasty did not have many restrictions on women. The restrictions on women basically came from the traditional ethics.

What Shen Tang needs to do is to break the shackles on women, since Da Qi is still relatively tolerant towards women.

But teaching nearly a hundred girls to read and write is no small task.

There are few female teachers, and the good ones are usually hired by wealthy families to be their teachers.

The news that Tangji was looking for a female teacher spread throughout Qingshan Town and even reached the surrounding counties.

However, being a tutor for young girls was a respectable job. One had to go to workshops to teach the female workers, and most of them were even married women. Those female teachers who could read and write were unwilling to come to their homes.

Just when Shen Tang was at a loss, Master Li and Li Ze came to his house.

"I heard that your cotton mill wants to hire someone to teach the female workers how to read and write. What do you think of your senior brother?"

Li Ze sat next to Master Li. Although his face did not look very healthy, he was not sick at all.

But one can tell at a glance that he is not in good health.

Does Master Li mean to have Li Ze teach the female workers in the cotton mill?

"Master, this is really inappropriate."

Regardless of what Li Ze himself was thinking, it was really a waste of talent to let someone who had studied for more than ten years teach the workers in the workshop.

At this time, Li Ze took the initiative to speak:

"I took the initiative to come here. Although my health is much better than before, it will still be quite difficult if I take the path of the imperial examination.

I'm not young anymore, and my parents are old too. I'd rather find a job, as I can't lift anything.

I don’t want to miss such a good opportunity.”

At the end of the conversation, Shen Tang could hear a hint of joking in the other party's words.

Indeed, Li Zeben is a few years older than her.

Young men of Li Ze's age, not only have already started a family early, but have also become the pillars of the family.

"I trust your cotton mill, so just consider it a favor to me."

Master Li also spoke again.

"I wish Master and Senior Brother wouldn't despise my small cotton mill. It would be a great help to have a talented man like Senior Brother, who has studied poetry and literature for more than ten years, to teach me!"

Shen Tang spoke sincerely.

Naturally, the Li family made this decision after careful discussion.

Even if no one says anything, the world will tie Master Li's family together with Shen Tang.

The Li family is living a good life now, and Master Li has already achieved the title of scholar.

But after I really passed the exam and became a scholar, I found that the phrase "poor scholar" was not just a saying.

In the early years, the Li family almost exhausted their family property on Li Ze's medical treatment and medicine. Now, the only thing that maintains the business is the tuition fees from students and the gifts from various families when Master Li passed the imperial examination, as well as the filial piety from Shen Tang during the holidays.

Li Ze was well protected by the Li family. He was kind and innocent and had no knowledge of the world. He had originally wanted his son to take over his teaching job at Hope School.

But Li Ze said he was not up to the task.

Mr. Li hopes that the students in the school will be taught in the most orthodox way and that they will take the imperial examinations in the future. Li Ze is not suitable for this.

Although he had studied for more than ten years, when he was in poor health in the early days, he often read some miscellaneous books and did not regard the Four Books and Five Classics as important.

So when the cotton mill announced that it was looking for a female tutor, Fang thought, since the cotton mill was looking for a female tutor.

Their family has such a close relationship with Shen Tang, why can't they go for a walk?

In fact, everyone is really overthinking this matter.

Shen Tang felt that most literate men would not be willing to come to the cotton mill to teach the female workers. Moreover, there were many women in the cotton mill, and it would be inappropriate and inconvenient to invite an unfamiliar male teacher.

But Li Ze is different. Shen Tang has known Master Li's family for many years. The Li family has a very good reputation in Shenjia Village, Lijia Village and even several surrounding villages. He is also his fellow disciple and Shen Tang knows him inside and out.

Sure enough, everyone in the cotton mill was surprised when they learned that it was Li Ze who came to give the lecture.

But no one dared to raise any objections, instead they studied even more seriously.

See? In order to make everyone learn to read and write, Ning Anhou actually invited the teacher's sons to teach them.

This counts for Brother Houye! He has studied for more than ten years!

Therefore, everyone listened to the class more seriously than before.

Similarly, a watershed moment in the cotton workshop's studies also appeared.

Most of the students who study well are young girls, but there are also a few older sisters who are already married.

Time flies, three months have passed.

The cotton is ripe, and it is time for everyone to take the test.

The content of the examination is not difficult.

The first assessment in the cotton mill tests everyone’s most basic knowledge, and as long as you listen carefully, you can answer them.

Besides, Shen Tang set up the assessment not to really fire those people, but to make them feel a sense of urgency.

Cotton mills need healthy competition. Giving them enough pressure from within can stimulate their independent enthusiasm.

On the day of the exam, the workshop will be closed for one day.

Ever since Li Ze took over the teaching of everyone in the cotton mill, they have been starting their education as normal children.

Starting from the "Three Hundred Thousand", namely "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames" and "Thousand Character Classic".

Their assessment today is to recite the Three Character Classic and write the characters of the teaching.

Divide into groups of five and enter different rooms.

Li Ze, Lu Zhu, Shen Tang and others have become assessment teachers, it all depends on their luck.

Perhaps because the cost of failing the test was too high, there were only a few people who couldn't recite the questions in this first test.

Those who couldn't recite it didn't do so because they were deliberately not serious, but because they were nervous or they got stuck and forgot the words.

So, three days after the assessment, when the results were posted, the entire cotton mill was filled with enthusiastic cheers, as they all passed the assessment.

It was these three months of study that made these girls have a great desire to learn to read and write.

Some people even go to Li Ze and Lu Zhu for advice when they have free time.

These are all phenomena that Shen Tang is happy to see.

And it's time to harvest cotton.

The Tao family's tea garden is developing smoothly this year because of their experience in picking cotton last year.

But a small incident occurred when purchasing cotton.

At the beginning of spring, many families planted cotton, so Tangji started purchasing cotton after it was ripe.

The price of cotton ranges from forty to fifty wen per pound.

"Why is your basket of cotton so much heavier than others'?"

"Manager, don't look at my backpack as small. I packed it tightly so that I can carry more.

If you are worried, I will show it to you right away."