flstandardbreds Chapter 354: The Number One Scholar's Guide
Chapter 354: The Number One Scholar's Guide
"As for road construction, it basically costs nothing, as long as the villagers are willing to contribute."
"The village chief has forgotten that the emperor's previous decree stated that our village has made great contributions to the discovery of limestone. Villagers can privately mine the limestone on the mountain for their own use, but they cannot privately mine and sell it."
"Is it for our village chief to repair the road for his own use?"
“Does the villagers building houses count as their own use?”
“Since we can make bricks and tiles to build a school, why can’t we make bricks and tiles to build our own house?
"We already have the bricks, tiles and lime. All we need is the beams, doors and windows. It doesn't seem like it would cost that much, right?"
"Although it doesn't cost much, it still requires the efforts of all villagers and the hard work of rolling up their sleeves to achieve our goal."
"Of course, these are long-term goals, so we have to achieve small goals one by one to achieve the big goal."
Village Chief Li nodded repeatedly, but he also had his own concerns and doubts: "Will there really be tourists coming here to enjoy the flowers?"
"Are we going to be working in vain?"
"No, I have ways to attract tourists. You forgot that there is a real top scholar teaching in our village."
"If he can teach a few top scholars in the future, will our Hegou Village become famous?"
"The most important thing is this library." Lin Shuangshuang said and pointed to the library on the map.
"A copy of the Analects costs two taels of silver, not to mention the collection of classics collected by aristocratic families. Those are the precious collections accumulated by aristocratic families from generation to generation. They are the capital of their prosperity and wealth, and they cannot be bought with any amount of money."
"So it's hard for scholars, especially for poor students."
“If we had a library that collected world-famous works and opened it to readers all over the world for free, they could read it for free.”
"Do you think it will attract a large number of readers to come here?"
"Those scholars who stay in the village to study and learn cannot naturally learn everything in one day. Will they stay in the village?"
"Do they have to pay for accommodation, food, drink, toilet paper, writing brushes, and inkstones? Do they have to pay for entertainment?"
"Where did the money they spent go? Didn't it go to our village?"
The more the village chief listened, the brighter his eyes became. He couldn't help but slap his thigh excitedly: "Great, great, why didn't I think of such a good way to make money."
"Let's go, let's go and discuss it with the clan leader, and then work out a detailed implementation plan, distribute it to each household, and implement it immediately."
Lin Shuangshuang nodded: "Okay, I'm just about to go find the clan leader, there are some things that require him to step in."
The two men went to the clan leader's house and called several other respected elders in the village to discuss the matter together.
The beards of several old men were standing up with excitement, only the patriarch was relatively steady.
He stroked his beard and said, "Mrs. Lin's method is good, but it is difficult to implement."
"You also know that good books are hard to find. If we want to build a large library in our village, we must have books in it."
"But where can we collect these books?"
"Yes, it's not enough to just have an empty shell without books inside."
"Even if we have a collection of books, how can we spread the news that the library is open to readers for free?"
Lin Shuangshuang said confidently: "I have my own ways to deal with these."
"We can print the books that are available on the market ourselves."
"For books that are not available on the market, we can exchange them for the Zhuangyuan Collection."
"It's a good deal to exchange one hundred books for a guaranteed No. 1 Scholar's Guide."
"If it makes the list, the books will belong to us. If it doesn't, the books will be returned to the original owner."
"We have movable type printing, so we don't need to carve templates. We can print all of them overnight, so we won't lose money even if we return them."
Everyone's eyes lit up after hearing this, but they soon had a new question: "But where can we get the No. 1 Scholar's Guide?"
"Those who can produce a hundred books are all from aristocratic families. They are not fools. They can't be fooled by a fake book, right?"
Lin Shuangshuang smiled and said, "Who said our book is fake?"
"Doesn't our village have a ready-made top scholar?"
"Since Master Li was able to pass the exam and become the top scholar, he must be very experienced in taking exams."
"When the time comes, let him compile and summarize his exam thoughts, exam experience, exam question types, exam answers, analysis and classification into a book. Wouldn't that be a ready-made guide for the top scorer?"
"What Master Li shared was pure and useful information. It is a real treasure for the scholars who are taking the imperial examinations."
"Holding the treasure book in hand, there is no panic in the heart."
"What is the purpose of studying? Isn't it just for the examiner?"
"Isn't it also for the examiners that you have so many books at home?"
"If you can exchange your collection of books at home for a chance to be on the list, would you do it?"
"What's more, it's a handwritten copy, not the original one."
The village chief and clan leaders became more and more excited as they listened. Why not return it?
Not to mention a hundred books, even if it's a thousand books, as long as you have them at home, take them all and exchange them.
Everyone discussed until the evening and then dispersed and went home.
Lin Shuangshuang also went to prepare things. She paid for the peach seedlings and the villagers helped her plant them. When the peach trees bore fruit, the profits would be distributed in proportion to the villagers who helped plant the trees.
She provides rapeseed seeds for villagers to plant for free, and then buys them when the rapeseed is harvested.
The village head and clan leader took the lead in clearing wasteland, building roads, digging ponds, and building schools and libraries, and the villagers did the labor on a voluntary basis.
It would be easy to deal with those who are unwilling to do voluntary labor. First of all, they will not receive any share of the village dividends, and Lin Shuangshuang’s factory will not consider them when recruiting workers.
After the construction of the new village is completed, those who do not participate in the labor will have to pay stall fees, and they will not be allowed to open homestays to attract tourists.
After discussing the matter, the village chief held a meeting in the village early the next morning and asked the villagers to put aside the work they were doing.
Spend two days picking up wild vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, herbs and firewood on the mountain, and then prepare to open up the land and sow seeds.
Lin Shuangshuang also promised that she would buy back all the wild vegetables, fruits, mushrooms and herbs that everyone picked up, but at a slightly lower price than the market price.
If you find it troublesome and don't want to take it to the town to sell, you can sell it directly to her.
"Clearing the land? Sowing seeds? Planting trees? Digging a pond?"
"Village Chief, what are you doing?"
"What happened in the village?"
The village chief waved his hand, laughed heartily, and said with great pride: "Of course it is a good thing to lead everyone to become rich and prosperous. It is a great thing."
Although he doesn’t understand what it means to achieve moderate prosperity?
But he often heard this word from Lin Shuangshuang's mouth. He knew it was a good word as soon as he heard it. It was also very smooth to say and made him seem very knowledgeable.
When the villagers heard that it was a great opportunity to make a fortune, they were all excited.
"Village head, please stop keeping us in suspense and tell us what's going on and how to make money?"
"Don't ask now. Time is urgent. Let's go to the mountains to collect mountain products and make the money we can see first."