Bashang is a highland southeast of Chang'an, with a unique terrain and a victorious military strategist. Two rivers on the east and west sides flow together with the Bashang plateau, and Bailu County is on the plateau.

There are many such plaza terrain in Guanzhong, especially in the northwest of Guanzhong.

"Didn't you say you're here to fish? Why did you come to the plateau?"

The plateaus are all gentle slopes along the way, and the weather is beautiful. You can already see Chang'an City dozens of miles away from the high plateau.

There are customs and folk customs on the plateau that are completely different from Chang'an City. For example, caves are not visible in Chang'an City, and it is also rare on the Guanzhong Plain. However, caves are very common ways to live on the plateau.

The plateau is short of water, so the people's income is not high. They are in poorer areas and have no money to build any houses. Just dig holes directly on the slopes of the plateau. Having a place to live can always bring warmth to the family.

Only those landlords and wealthy people will build more luxurious caves, and even use brickwork.

Ma Zhou discovered for the first time that the glorious Chang'an City was far away from the sky, but it actually seemed very small.

"I like this place and can see Chang'an. The loess is yellow, but also simple, reminding me of my hometown."

Qin Lang smiled, "Standing on this plateau is similar to the Leyouyuan in Chang'an City? It's just higher than Leyouyuan and can see farther. Leyouyuan can only take half of Chang'an into your eyes, but it can be seen here at a glance, and it can also be far away from the hustle and bustle of the city."

He led Ma Zhou all the way to a place, and there was a large courtyard in front of him.

The white walls and green tiles actually have a completely different architectural style from Guanzhong and the plateau, and it stands out suddenly like a mirage.

"Do you like this style?" Qin Lang said proudly. The Qin family's glass workshop was actually built in Bailuyuan, Bashang.

In recent years, many clever apprentice workers selected by the Qin family from all over the country have gathered here, and many experienced old craftsmen have also gathered here. The glass industry is getting bigger and bigger, and other industries of the Qin family have also expanded rapidly in recent years.

Qin Lang is no longer satisfied with poaching people from other families, and it is not easy to poach people. After all, in the past, the Qin family's industry was small in scale, and as long as the treatment was good, it was still possible to poach people. But now the Qin family's business has become a giant, and it is no longer enough to just poach people.

The Qin family began to train themselves.

This micro-style building was designed by Qin Lang himself. He traveled to Huangshan, Wuyuan and other places in later generations, and loved the old Huizhou-style buildings there.

The overall layout of horse head walls and small green tiles is always exquisitely conceived, natural and appropriate, and it emphasizes the perspective of being on the mountain. In terms of plan layout, the scale is flexible and endless. In terms of spatial structure and utilization, the shape is rich and full of rhythmic beauty.

Not to mention that it has reached the pinnacle in the comprehensive application of carving art, with the addition of stone carving, wood carving and brick carving as one.

Hui-style buildings are as small but exquisite as women in Jiangnan. They are full of charm, especially in Guanzhong. In places like Bailuyuan, when compared with the roughness of Guanzhong, the style and elegance are increasingly highlighted.

Qin Lang led Ma Zhou into these yards.

Ma Zhou was amazed.

"There are layers of buildings, high ridges, flying eaves, winding paths, pavilions, towers, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, and pavilions. This pink wall, green tiles, horse head wall, these bricks, wood and stone sculptures are natural. You have created a Jiangnan garden here silently?"

"Is this your newly built villa?"

Ma Zhou was a little jealous. He was not jealous of Qin Lang being rich, but he was jealous of Qin Lang being able to enjoy such elegance.

"This is my newly built Bailu Technical School!"

Ma Zhou was confused.

"Is Bailu Technical School a school a school? Why isn't it called a college?"

"Because this is a school that specializes in teaching business skills to the people's children. It does not learn the great way of sages, nor does it learn classics and history, but learns technology. All crafts, agriculture, craftsmen, and businessmen all teach, but they do not teach the great way."

This time, Ma Zhou was even more puzzled, "Why?"

"Because not everyone in the world is as capable as you, nor is everyone as lucky as you. How many poor children can read? Although the saints have now let go of the imperial examinations, giving countless poor scholars the imperial examinations and the opportunity to jump into the dragon gate, in fact, it is not enough to support a scholar without a hundred acres of land. The vast majority of people's families cannot support a scholar for a long time."

For most people, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the son of a mouse can dig holes. What is the profession of a father and what is the profession of a son in the future. The father is a stonemason, and the son will also be a stonemason in the future. The father is a farmer, and the son will only be a farmer.

It is almost impossible to cross the class, and even cross the profession is extremely difficult.

People work hard and busy all year round, just for the few taels of silver, but the money they earn is also used with their left hand and the right hand. It is extremely rare to be able to barely maintain a family's food and clothing, let alone have extra money or the remaining energy to do other things.

Any disaster can overturn a family.

"Bailu Academy can teach literacy, arithmetic, and various skills. Every student is selected by the Qin family from the apprentices recruited from various places. Once they are selected, they will ask to sign an employment contract with the Qin family. After signing the contract, the Qin family will pay them to come here to study, and assign them to learn different skills according to their talents. After graduation, they will be assigned to various workshops or caravans and shops in various places."

What the Qin family gets is loyal and stable craftsmen and management, and those children can also get better treatment after learning skills, and both sides will have a win-win situation.

"Some people will specialize in arithmetic here, and when they go out in the future, they will become accountants, cashiers, or learn to drive, or take the boat, or learn to manufacture, or learn to manage. They are all targeted training."

Ma Zhoushen was shocked. He had never thought that there would be such a school.

Scholars look down on industry and commerce, and look down on strange techniques and tricks, but not only technology cannot be separated from these, but also economic development cannot be separated from these.

In tradition, the master takes the apprentice, carefully selects the disciples, teaches and teaches one-on-one one day, and is a teacher for life. It takes a long apprenticeship period and then a long period of work. When you can truly be independent, the master is basically old.

No one will easily teach his skills to his disciples. Even if he teaches, he always hides a few tricks to prevent the teacher from starving his disciples to death.

Therefore, even if you want to learn craftsmanship, it is not easy.

Often, I start to learn from the school at a age. The apprenticeship period is at least ten years. These ten years are almost like a slave. Not only do I have to learn skills, but I also have to do all kinds of miscellaneous work. After the apprenticeship period, I have to have a work period of at least ten years, and I can only receive a little wage and help the master work.

For ordinary people, sending a child to learn skills is actually very expensive. The child is like giving away someone. It may take more than ten or twenty years before he can return to his family and be filial to his parents. It is actually not much different from sending his child to a temple to become a monk.

The imperial court was the Imperial College, with four schools, including Chongxian Pavilion, Hongwen Pavilion, and various prefectures and county schools, famous gentry and family schools. However, learning is not something that ordinary people have the opportunity to come into contact with and can get in touch with.

Although paper, ink, pen, ink, inkstone and books are now very cheap, they are still very expensive. A book may take more than ten acres of land a year. A pen may take several loads of millet.

The Qin family needs more craftsmen, and cannot be satisfied with the traditional master's apprenticeship model and expanding industry expansion. There are too many people needed to break old rules and regulations.

Bailu Technical School is Qin Lang's proposal, a surprising innovation, and a lot of money is invited to invite many experienced masters, craftsmen and managers from all walks of life to let them teach in batches, train in batches, and then allocate them.

As long as they are selected and signed the contract, they can start to receive wages during the apprenticeship period. Although it is not too much, their daily daily food, clothing, accommodation, etc. are all covered by the Qin family, so this wage can be taken home to respect their parents and subsidize their family income.

As the year increases, this wage becomes more and more. When they formally assign their jobs, they can get much higher wages than ordinary people with their own skills.

From an apprentice to a technical worker, it takes three years to five years, which greatly shortens the time. After arriving at the position, you can also study while working. The Qin family not only sets a level of twenty-nine for all the managers, but even all the workers have levels.

Different levels, different wages, technical improvements, or management capabilities can be improved, and wages can be improved.

"Your idea is so strange. You actually built such a beautiful academy for your own apprentices!"

"It's a technical school, not a college. If I call it a college, I'm afraid there will be countless famous families and families who will scold me. I dare not insult my ethics!" Qin Lang laughed.

Ma Zhou was in a bit complicated.

"These houses are so beautifully built. If they were converted into academy, hundreds or thousands of students would recite the books of sages here."

Qin Lang smiled, "How many schools can read books of sages in the world? There are 8,000 students in the Imperial College in Chang'an alone. The eastern capital Luoyang is also preparing to build a new Imperial College in Dongdu. At that time, thousands of students will be recruited, not to mention more than 300 states and more than 1,000 counties in the world, there are officials, so many students? But there is not a special technical college."

"No matter how many schools there are in the world, not many are truly open to the children of the people. This Bailu Technical School will be a change. This is the first technical school. I will build more technical schools in the future. I will have my own special mining and smelting technical schools, professors can explore mining and smelting, and there will also be special manufacturing technical schools, car manufacturing, ship manufacturing, agricultural tools, special construction technical schools, special construction technical schools, special road construction, cities and house construction, special textile technical schools, and special animal husbandry technical schools...."

Ma Zhou was shocked when he heard this.

There are more ordinary people in the world, not those noble families of the gentry. So what if the imperial examinations are opened by the imperial examination? A single-plank bridge of thousands of troops and thousands of horses, a Jinshi exam for three years, and only one subject can be recorded in one subject. How many are the children of those famous families of the gentry or bureaucrats and landlords and powerful people? How many can ordinary people break through?

For ordinary people, what is really true is to learn craftsmanship and have craftsmanship, and you can eat anywhere you go.

It is impossible to be rich by just farming facing the loess and facing the sky. Only farmers who are good at farming can live a good life. This is a fact. Even in later generations, farmers have to go out to work to build a new house and marry a wife. Only by farming alone can few people save money.
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