Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 101 Literacy
The settlements near the Xinhang Mine can no longer be described as 'villages'.

The heart of the mountain was razed to the ground by the mining team, and about [-] square kilometers of flat land were sorted out.

Crowds of disaster victims are doing urgent urban planning work under the leadership of the priests of the Longevity Sect.

The pavement after simple rolling and compaction is covered with fine sand and gravel, which has been solidified with soil cement, and can be used for trolleys to run quickly on it.

On both sides of the road, you can see yellow-turban wrestlers with expressionless faces doing various construction work.

With the concerted efforts of the Yellow Turban Warriors and the victims, the simple mud and water houses rose up, forming the prototype of a small county town along the Cross Avenue.

In the center of the city, an antique Taoist temple is located here.

There are a few large characters written on the plaque hanging outside the Taoist temple: Longevity Temple Xinhang Fenguan.

Zhang Yuqing was sitting in the worship hall of the Taoist temple, with his back to the statue of the Immortal God, and was reading documents.

Since this period of time, there have been more and more documents that have to be processed within the Longevity Sect. Every day, special personnel must deliver letters quickly, and go back and forth between Bianliang and Lin'an City to exchange information.

"A total of 820 students in the first class of Changsheng Academy have reached the graduation standard. They have all passed the test papers I left behind. It is confirmed that the teaching of simplified Chinese characters, basic mathematics and physics have reached a level that can enlighten people."

"Xinhang has transferred 100 graduates here, and it is expected that they will be transferred to the teaching team of Xinhang Branch of Changsheng Academy. Well, it is not enough. Write back to the chief financial officer and ask her to send another [-] people."

"The envoys of various companies are asking when the fire-power spinning machine can be delivered? Tell them to wait a little longer, and say that we are intensively scheduling production."

Zhang Yuqing paused slightly when he browsed here, turned his head and asked Lu Liang, "How is the preparation of the factory here in Xinhang?"

Lin'an has a well-developed water system. Before the railway project is completed, it is best to use the water system if you want to quickly deploy machinery and coal from various places.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yuqing took time out of his busy schedule to go to the Xinhang Mine to lead the work.

All the work in Bianliang has come to an end for the time being, and it is enough for Zixuan and her subordinates to do it.

Zhang Yuqing will personally lead the work of landing the first city of the Longevity Sect. In the future, the disciples of the Longevity Sect will follow the same steps to gather the people to establish political power and cities in various places.

"Back to the head teacher, the site is already being selected." Lu Liang replied with his head bowed.

"Well, I'll take a look with you this afternoon."

Zhang Yuqing frowned and thought about it, then asked: "How is the work of literacy for the common people going?"

Lu Liang was slightly bitter when he heard the words, and complained: "The teacher doesn't know something, these... the people are not willing to participate in the literacy class, if not for every household who volunteers to participate in the literacy class after work and can receive a bowl of rice porridge , I am afraid that the literacy work will not continue for a long time.”

"Even so, most of the people who came to participate in the literacy class had the mentality of dawdling. They all took advantage of the time when our disciples were lecturing and took a nap, and didn't study the simplified characters and mathematics seriously."

Zhang Yuqing nodded, but did not criticize Lu Liang.

He also didn't expect these common people to be rich in learning. In the past life experience of these common people, literacy did not bring substantial benefits, so they lack the motivation to learn, which is human nature.

At the beginning, the requirements he set were not high. It was enough for the common people to be able to recognize a hundred or so simplified characters, to be able to do some simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations with Arabic numerals, and to be able to sing the "Song of Longevity" compiled by him.

But he did not expect that the common people would reject the literacy work so much, and they seemed to be complaining that the literacy class delayed their progress in building their homes.

In the past few days, Zhang Yuqing went around in hiding after dinner, and heard many people complaining about this matter, so he asked Lu Liang for details.

Seeing that Lu Liang was also frowning, Zhang Yuqing frowned and said: "After the literacy class in the future, the water curtain circle will be opened for half an hour for the people who have participated in the literacy class and completed their homework to watch."

Lu Liang was slightly startled when he heard the words, and said: "But Master, the fairy curtain is left in Bianliang, we don't have it here."

"I know, I will redraw a water curtain circle for you."

Zhang Yuqing thought: "Anyway, the water curtain array is not expensive, and it ranks at the bottom of the mountain protection array. No one thought that this thing would be used to play movies with first-rate effects. I bought it when I was looking for food from Yaren last time." three sets. '

Three sets of magic circles asked him for sixty spirit stones, and Zhang Yuqing chose to barter.

The more than 20 low-grade spirit weapons in the Li family's warehouse were of little use in his hands, so he took this opportunity to sell them all to the Yaren, and exchanged for more than a hundred spirit stones.

During this period of time, Zhang Yuqing has been running the huge Changsheng sect, and he has long since shed the small family spirit he had when he was a tenant.

The transaction of more than 100 spirit stones was done casually, but on the surface, it seemed to be completely ignored.

It made the Yaman look amazed, and secretly speculated that Zhang Yuqing might come from an extraordinary background, so he must be the head of a big family.

Sure enough, he was a kid from a big family who moved and was still thinking about buying food for mortals. This temperament of not treating spirit stones as spirit stones is too right.

Yaren became more respectful, and gave Zhang Yuqing the most preferential rights within the scope of his authority, just to keep a good relationship.

I bought three new magic circles, and I don't know where to use them for a while.

Now that the pilot city has been officially launched in Xinhang, it is better to come up with a set of tools to reward common people for literacy.

Let these people gradually get used to the process of literacy. When various machines are replaced in the future, these people who know some basic simplified characters will be of great use.

For every more literate common people, the future working class will have more power.

In addition to literacy, the promotion of "Kaifeng Mandarin" is not easy.

The spoken language here in Lin'an is more inclined to Wu Nong's soft language, and it really doesn't match the open and close Kaifeng dialect.

But Zhang Yuqing didn't forcefully demand that everyone must speak Kaifeng dialect. His requirement was that everyone should be able to understand it, and being able to speak some simple spoken language was enough.

The importance of cars on the same track and books on the same text is self-evident.

Homophones are actually more important.

In order to create a cultural subject that all people agree with, phonetic homophony is the basic requirement.

Otherwise, Zhang Yuqing couldn't even imagine how many dubbings would be required for the film to be successfully promoted in the future.

But no matter how difficult it was, Zhang Yuqing did not intend to give up the promotion of these two things. The reason why Lu Liang was asked to show movies to the people was also the significance of this.

If you want to understand what the people say in the movie, you should learn the characters honestly, or learn Kaifeng Mandarin, otherwise, no matter how excited you are just looking at the grotesque pictures, you will feel boring after a long time.

After finalizing these two matters, Zhang Yuqing continued to ask: "How is the railway plan?"

Lu Liang wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, and said honestly: "Basically, it's still in the preliminary planning stage."

"His Highness Headmaster's plan is too grand. It is estimated that the eighteen mines in the Song Dynasty will be connected by 'railway' to consume an astronomical figure of iron ore and wood!"

"Moreover, we still need to recruit enough people to carry out the construction. The disciple just received a reply from the Taoist temple, and it is estimated that it will take at least eighteen months!"

The Daoist Academy is the most popular administrative unit of the Longevity Sect recently.

It is full of qualified craftsmen and physicists who have passed the appraisal of faith value.

Zhang Yuqing taught these smart people in the Song Dynasty some of the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind, such as the concept of 'train', 'airplane', 'steam engine', 'spinning machine' and 'powder ratio'.

Then I talked about the idea of ​​"universal gravitation", "the effect of force is mutual" and "piston connecting rod".

And personally led and led this group of people to come up with a prototype steam engine.

After that, it got out of hand, and various machines powered by steam engines were continuously developed.

Recently, they are tinkering with the composition of the first-generation train, which has reached the stage of model casting.

The train, scaled down by three hundred times, has been successfully tested in the Xishan main altar. Except for the brakes, it is very close to the idea in Zhang Yuqing's mind.

The braking system is still under development, but Zhang Yuqing has issued a decree, strictly ordering that mines in various places must allocate some manpower to participate in this railway construction.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build roads first.

Waterways cannot last for a lifetime, and qualified transportation facilities must be built on land in order to truly make government orders accessible.

The estimated total length of the railway to be built with 200 mines as the core is more than 900 kilometers, of which the estimated construction time of more than [-] kilometers from Bianliang to Lin'an is more than [-] months.

About 2000 million yuan will be consumed. For this reason, most of the profits from selling fire-powered spinning machines must be invested in railway construction.

But Zhang Yuqing didn't care.

These copper coins are just a series of numbers to him, as long as the Longevity Cult retains the right to mobilize resources, even spending an extra 2000 million coins will not make him frown.

Because Zhang Yuqing knows that if he wants to maximize the use of these rich mineral resources, he must be inseparable from the developed railway transportation system.

After all, he is just a mid-stage Qi refining monk with limited means.

Even if all the five storage bags on his body are used to store coal, iron ore, and quarry, they can't hold too much at all.

If this continues, the efficiency of material operation in various places will be terribly low, and the real arrival of industrialization will be delayed again and again.

Whether the railway can be officially launched is an important sign to judge whether it has entered the stage of full industrialization.

For this reason, the unit named "Changshengjiao Railway Transportation Bureau" has already put up a sign in the general altar of Xishan Changsheng temple. Zixuan is in charge of finance...

Basically, the entire senior management of the Longevity Sect held concurrent positions in the General Administration of Railways, and everyone knew how much the head teacher cared about the railway.

It is also because of this that the people in the monastery are so impatient to study the model of the train every day and night.

After lunch, accompanied by Lu Liang, Zhang Yuqing left the still-under-construction Xinhang City and arrived at the intersection of the coal mine and the city center.

This is a large valley that was additionally blasted out when the mine was blasted. The terrain is fairly stable, and the Bobo River flows not far away.

Only a little modification is needed to build a large factory building.

The most important thing is that the railway connecting the Xinhangchenggen Coal Mine must bypass the mountains and pass here, which can well connect the three places as a line.

Zhang Yuqing nodded and said to Lu Liang, "You did a good job."

Lu Liang was flattered and said: "It's all thanks to His Highness Headmaster's cultivation!"

He felt something in his heart, recalling that he had followed Zhangjiao Daozi during this period of time, and he was surprised by these "immortal things" from the beginning, but now he is so proficient that he can even control a large area of ​​these mysterious things by himself. The construction of unpredictable things and the final product have mixed feelings in my heart.

After all, he is an old man over half a hundred years old, and he is not very receptive to new things.

For the so-called "factory", "railway" and "machine", these words can only be repeated, but they can't understand the meaning at all.

Lu Liang just proceeded the procedure step by step according to Zhang Yuqing's instructions and decrees, and all the specific affairs were handed over to those young people who had just graduated from the Changsheng Academy.

Those young people were full of energy. After reading a few textbooks compiled by Zhang Yuqing in the academy, for some reason, they thought about leading the people to live a life of adequate food and clothing every day.

For this reason, no one complained about arranging them to teach these victims every day and every night.

Even when they saw that the common people were not interested in the class, they would show expressions of sorrow and anger, and they insisted on forcing everyone to listen to the class honestly before giving up.

Whenever seeing such a scene, Lu Liang couldn't help sighing that he was still old after all.

Not as good as these young people.

Even Lu Zhixin, who had studied in the academy for a period of time, seemed to know better than himself what the so-called factories and railways were.

Lu Zhixin really wanted to explain to him that every student entering the academy had to take a course in the "Handbook of Immortal World Knowledge" compiled by the head teacher himself.

In this class, everyone has to read in detail what Zhangjiao Daozi saw and heard when he visited the fairy world.

They know that in the fairy world, everyone is born equal, so they don't have to worry about three meals a day.

The food in the field will grow smoothly, and people don't need to waste energy to wait for it.

There are fairy artifacts in the world, which can take a person to another place quickly in an instant, and everyone in the common people can take it without practicing at all, and it doesn't have to be as slow and uncomfortable as riding a carriage.

Moreover, in the fairy world, people can communicate with each other at any time, and a thought can reach relatives far away in the sky.

According to Zhangjiao Daozi's description, as long as they work hard to learn Taoism and how to make these fairy artifacts, one day they will be able to improve the living standards of Song Dynasty to the level of the fairy world.

Lu Zhixin has also longed for this kind of life for a long time.

(sick, two days off)
(End of this chapter)