It's mid-November, late autumn.

After nearly a year of busy work, fifty miles away from Julu City, along the coast of Dalu Ze, the basic housing for the barracks has been built, and 80% of the soldiers in the city have moved to the new barracks.

At the same time, papermaking, fishing, carpentry, pharmaceuticals, brewing, and other industries all rely on water sources. Moreover, fishing and shipbuilding industries must be close to rivers, and woodworking requires soaking the wood in water.

Hydraulic tools such as waterwheels and water mills also need to be close to the river. In addition, the paper industry pollutes too much and needs to facilitate the discharge of sewage. Due to these factors, 80% of Julu's industries need to be moved out of the city to work near the water.

In the past, industries were not moved to the waterside. Firstly, because the situation was unclear, they did not dare to disperse rashly. Secondly, because housing, food and other things were insufficient, the only option was to concentrate manpower as much as possible to facilitate the unified deployment of materials.

The difference now is that Liu Bei has become the officially appointed governor of Julu County and the general of Zhendong. The situation in Julu has stabilized. In addition, after a year of operation and construction, workshops and the like have been built and are waiting for people to move there.

There is enough food, and there is no need to centralize and coordinate the distribution of manpower.

After 80% of the troops in Julu City were gone and 90% of the craftsmen were gone, Julu City was suddenly one-third empty.

With enough space in the city, Li Mengxi was finally able to bring the old, weak, women and children scattered in the countryside of Julu into the city.

There are 550,000 people in Julu throughout the territory. Based on the population ratio, the proportion of minors under the age of twelve should account for one-sixth of the total population. This is the population ratio in modern society. In ancient times, the average life expectancy was insufficient.

Forty, people's life span is short, so it stands to reason that the population of minors should be larger.

However, according to statistics, less than one-fifteenth of the population in Julu is underage.

The population ratio of Julu is very wrong, and it is sad to think about the reasons.

Julu has gone through a big chaos, and you will know where those underage children have gone.

Julu has a population of 550,000, and there are more than 30,000 children under the age of twelve.

The total capacity of Julu City can only accommodate 50,000 people. Previously, there was no place to accommodate them, so many children were forced to be placed in villages near Julu City, under the supervision of dedicated personnel.

Now that the city was free, Li Mengxi moved all the children, old and weak women and children into the city.

According to Julu's unified education and unified support plan, every twenty children need to be arranged for a woman to take care of them, and every sixty children need to be arranged for a teacher, plus someone who is responsible for cooking for the children and sewing and washing clothes.

In order to accommodate a total of more than 30,000 children, plus the manpower needed to take care of these children, the education industry directly occupied 70% of Julu City, and the remaining 30% was the military camp, the military medical camp, and the city lord.

The government, as well as the offices of various ministries.

Once upon a time, Li Mengxi's plan for Julu was that he would use the southeast and northwest main roads of Julu City as the axis, and plan to use half of Julu City as an industrial area and half as a residential area, while schools, government offices, and barracks would be located on the main axis of the southeast and northwest areas. At that time, Li Mengxi

When he made this plan, he had 150,000 refugees under his command. He did not expect that the population in the entire territory would be so large. He did not expect that one Julu City could not accommodate so many people.

Julu City has completely become a city full of children. Li Mengxi was so busy with the resettlement matters that his feet did not touch the ground. Xiao Bian, on the other hand, saw many children coming. He saw children everywhere, Xiao Bian

Jumping up and down happily. Extremely happy.

Julu’s education career has fully begun in the true sense.

Those who still remain in the main city of Julu City are the most elite combat forces in the army, such as the [Lishi Camp] formed from the old troops of the Yellow Turban Hercules, and the [Xiliang Camp] formed from the captives of the Xiliang Cavalry.

On November 18th, the weather was cool and cold.

After half a morning of queue training, there was another half morning of running training, and in the afternoon, there was another half afternoon of fighting training. In the last remaining time of the day, I started learning calligraphy.

Somewhere, a teacher stood in front of a door panel with palm-sized characters posted on the door panel. The teacher pointed at the words and read them over and over, and the soldiers below read them one by one.

After reading for a while, the teacher ordered the people below to learn to write by themselves.

Below, a tall and thick man sitting cross-legged on the ground like a primary school student. They put a wooden board on their knees, with snow-white paper spread out on the wooden board. They looked up and wrote on the paper with a brush in their hand.

one time.

You can buy top-quality white paper that you can't buy anywhere else. In Julu, it's like getting a thick wad of paper for free. It's very luxurious.

The soldiers wrote very attentively. When Li Mengxi came, the teacher went over to greet him, but few of the soldiers looked up.

Li Mengxi chatted with the teacher for a while. He asked the teacher, "How many words have been taught now?"

The teacher thought for a moment and replied, "I estimate there are three to four hundred."

Li Mengxi nodded. Cultural education in the army has always been carried out. As early as the middle of the Yellow Turban campaign, the soldiers camped at night, using black charcoal as pens and shields as boards, and they were learning calligraphy every day.

Since settling in Julu, apart from daily training and sometimes having to be busy with military affairs, learning Chinese calligraphy has been non-stop.

It's just that for more than a year, affairs have been busy, and apart from the old, weak, women and children, the only available people in the city are soldiers, which makes the soldiers study intermittently.

Now that he has finally stabilized and there are no distractions, Li Mengxi looked at the teacher and said, "In the future, I will spend an hour and a half learning calligraphy every day. Do you think it will be too busy?"

There were too few scholars, and the number of officials in Julu was extremely small. Most of the scholars were arranged to be teachers. The teachers not only had to teach children, but also craftsmen, and soldiers. One person had to be used by several people.

Because there are not enough teachers, the daily class time for the soldiers is very short. In fact, if Li Mengxi thinks about it, how can there be so much training? Three days of training for the soldiers and one day off is enough, and the day off is perfect for learning calligraphy.

However, due to the shortage of teachers, there was no one to teach the soldiers even if they had time. This resulted in only one and a half hours of study time per day.

When talking about the hard work of teaching, in front of Li Mengxi, the teacher could not say whether he was busy or not. He just sighed that it would be better if there were more manpower.

Li Mengxi raised his head and looked at the sky. He saw that the sun was gradually setting in the west.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but said to himself, "It would be great if I could have classes at night."

The teacher smiled and said, "It would be fine if there was a light."

In fact, whether they are craftsmen or soldiers, their work is often not long. They get up in the morning to work and finish their work in the evening. Then they go to bed when it gets dark and sleep until dawn the next day. There is no need to go to bed so early. They sleep all day

It's enough for eight hours, and it's not too late to go to bed at ten o'clock at night. In other words, there are at least three hours at night that can be used.

However, lighting at night is a problem. Oil lamps are too expensive. In the whole city, only the city lord's palace can keep the lights on all night. Wood can also be used for lighting, but wood is also scarce, and even wood cannot be used.

Night is such a good time. If night can be used, the working time of teachers can be increased by 30%, which greatly solves the shortage of manpower.

Lighting was really difficult. Li Mengxi shook his head and thought no more.

Walking down and making a circle, Li Mengxi passed by the soldiers who were immersed in writing. Suddenly, Li Mengxi saw a big man with a bearded face as strong as an iron tower. Li Mengxi glanced at this man, and then looked at the words written by this man.

Looking at the paper, Li Mengxi was happy.

This person was Zhou Cang, and Zhou Cang was illiterate. Li Mengxi knew this. After learning calligraphy for almost a year, Zhou Cang was still clumsy in holding a pen, and his writing was crooked and crooked, just like being poked with a stick.

Seeing the awkward look on Zhou Cang's hand when holding the pen, Li Mengxi smiled and asked, "Is the pen easy to use?"

Zhou Cang raised his head and saw that it was Li Mengxi. He quickly wanted to stand up to greet him, but Li Mengxi held him down.

Zhou Cang grinned and looked at the pen in his hand, "It's okay."

The writing brush is too difficult to use, and it takes a long time for beginners to master it. If you want to speed up the progress of soldiers learning calligraphy, a hard brush is a good choice.

Li Mengxi remembered that among the things Jian Yong brought back were some pieces of graphite for making pencils.
Chapter completed!