Chapter 287 If you want to change your mindset, the most practical thing is money!
Darling, there is such a good thing!
Their eyes were shining when they looked at Fan Jin!
Fan Jin burst out laughing. He didn't know why the conversation changed from building a house to pulling a plow to plow the land, and then from plowing the land to donkeys.
"Well, this is what Shui Qing promised before. When the donkey gives birth, you can buy them in order."
After hearing that it was Hu Shuiqing who agreed, many men immediately laughed even more heartily!
Sometimes a man wants to save face and will agree first, but when he returns home and is scolded by his mother-in-law, he will easily go back on his word after sobering up. Or the couple has a conflict and becomes irritated when someone comes to the door. That would be embarrassing.
But women at home are different. If they decide something, they usually have already thought about it. As long as the man doesn't hold back, things will often be done brightly and beautifully!
Fan Xiaoliu thought happily, since the second sister-in-law Fan had decided on the sale of the donkey cubs, it was like a done deal.
From now on, he will never have to pull a plow again. Thank God, thank you Sister-in-law Fan!
The old village chief coughed and brought the topic back to business: "Jin boy, where are you going to build your house? How many rooms are you going to build? If you are in a hurry, we will send a few more people from our family. If you are not in a hurry, just send one over. "
Hearing the old village chief talking about business, the men stopped talking, but the excitement on their faces had not completely faded away, and they all looked at Fan Jin.
The only farm work left is to sow winter wheat in the fields, but the number of acres is small, so the sowing can be completed before early October, so it is not urgent.
"The workshop is still built on my land. For three kinds of medicinal materials, three main rooms are needed, more warehouses are needed, and there is also a kitchen for cooking, etc. It is estimated that there will be about ten rooms together.
It would be best to build it earlier. Shuiqing picked the people today and they can start work tomorrow. They will operate in my yard first, and then move them all over after the workshop is built. After all, there are more and more medicinal materials behind it. , the space is too small to be used. "Fan Jin said truthfully.
There are so many people, noisy, coming and going which also affects my family’s life.
Li Wen calculated: "A dozen or so houses can be built quickly. If there are more than 30 people, they can be built in five or six days, just by making adobe."
Fan Jin said warmly: "Instead of making adobe, we should buy bricks and tiles and build a blue brick house with large tiles."
The men opened their mouths in shock when they heard that the medicinal materials workshop turned out to be a large building with blue bricks and tiles.
The workshop for making medicinal materials turned out to be a brick building! This is too good.
And for more than ten houses, it costs at least forty taels of silver, which is too much to give up.
Fan Jin turned to look at the old village chief again and asked, "There is one more thing I need to ask the old village chief for help."
The old village chief was slightly surprised, "You said it."
"Shui Qing and I discussed it. In the future, whether our village sells rabbits or medicinal materials, especially medicinal materials, the purchase, shipment, and price of large quantities cannot be accomplished by just remembering them in the head. Accounting is required. And you need to be literate to keep accounts.”
When Fan Jin said this, the old village chief slowly stood up from where he was sitting.
The expressions of many men turned serious and they listened quietly, for fear of missing even a little bit!
They had heard the old man in the village say before that Fan Jin and his wife wanted to lead them to grow medicinal materials and build the village into a medicinal medicinal village famous in Ming Dynasty.
But that was just hearsay after all, and now Fan Jin was standing in front of them and talking about the matter, which really made them feel the possibility of becoming a medicinal village.
Just reading and literacy? They barely have enough to eat. Can they afford to send their children to study and read?
Thinking of Rabbit's income, some men gritted their teeth and thought, how about sending the smartest child in the family to a private school next year? There is no need for a scientific examination, just study for a year or two and learn some common words and numbers!
If you don't read and write, you won't be able to read. You won't be able to understand what others write, and you won't even know if you are being deceived.
Fan Jinjiang planned to say: "We are about to build a house this time. We plan to buy more bricks and tiles together and build a two or three-room brick house. All the children in the village who want to know how to read and learn arithmetic can come over. I will teach them together." , I don’t want to take the imperial examination, I just want to be able to read and not be cheated when I go out.”
"We can only provide some money to buy bricks and tiles. You have to worry about transporting them back to the village and building them. In addition, the site for building the house must be left to you, okay?"
The old village chief's hand on the crutch tightened again and again.
You could hear needles dropping in the yard, and all you could hear was the rustling of leaves in the wind.
Li Qiang and Li Wu took a deep breath. Did they hear it correctly?
Not only did Fan Jin and his wife spend money to build the school, but they also had to personally teach the children to read and write?
You must know that their whole family has spent all their efforts to support Chang Lin in studying and literacy in the official school! And now their children, Chang Lin's younger brothers, can also read and write?
"It's done! Why can't it be done? Don't worry, I can definitely do it!" The old village chief's voice trembled slightly with excitement.
The difference is that people who are literate and numerate can go higher and further in the future.
It doesn't matter if there is someone in the village who is unwilling to build a bookstore. His descendants will not be able to go there to study. Naturally, the trend of cheating and cheating will be curbed!
The man with the baby had just recovered from the shock and asked incredulously: "Build a bookstore? All we have to do is go to work?"
They don't need to pay for it, but it's still a brick-and-mortar study room? And they just need to devote some energy to building houses?
"Brother Jin, will you teach them yourself?"
"Can all boys go? No matter their age?"
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They just felt that the time at this moment was extremely long, and they received a lot of news at once, one after another, and it seemed that their brains could not react.
Fan Jin explained patiently: "This is not only a library, but also a meeting place for important matters in the village, or a gathering place for collective matters in the village.
For example, in the future, when we purchase medicinal materials in a unified manner, we need to register and weigh them, so we can put them here;
The celebration after the harvest can also be held here, so it is better to build a kitchen and a large venue to accommodate our entire village, so that everyone in the village can participate in the banquet in the future."
This is what Shuiqing said, she said that this is more cohesive.
A village is equivalent to a collective, and everyone makes money for themselves and makes the whole village better.
Shuiqing also said a very nice thing: when they gather together, they are a ball of fire, and when they disperse, they are full of stars. He likes it very much.
Shuiqing:.....I see what others say, not what I think, I don’t have that talent.
"And it’s not just boys, girls are the same, they can all come. We will hire those who learn well as female accountants, one or two silver a month."
Shuiqing said that if you want to change your mindset, no matter how much you say, it’s not as good as the most practical and visible thing: silver!
Later, when their business became bigger and stronger, they did need an accountant. What did it matter whether the accountant was a man or a woman? Ability was the key!
He privately thought that Shuiqing could use a few more helpers, and these girls he trained could just help Shuiqing.