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"Let's have lunch too." Dean Dahn greeted, and the administrator brought lunch.
Their lunches were similar to those of the children, except for a small extra piece of steak.
Folan looked hesitant and said, "Isn't this bad?"
It would be a bit excessive for the children to eat white bread while I eat delicious steak.
Dean Dahn looked embarrassed and said apologetically: "I didn't think carefully enough."
As he spoke, he ordered the administrators on the side to order them to distribute all the steaks at noon to the children.
"Dean Dahn, you are really a kind person." Folan was very satisfied with Dean Dahn's approach.
Professor Wayne and Hastur just watched quietly without commenting.
Adhering to the eating rule of not talking during sleep or eating, Hastur and the others did not speak aloud. After lunch, Dean Dahn asked someone to take them around the workhouse.
The entire workhouse can be roughly divided into five areas, living area, residential area, teaching area, work area, and confinement area.
The living area refers to an area where you can move and play freely. Children can move freely in the living area for a certain period of time after finishing their classes and adults finishing their work.
The residential area is divided into three parts. The first part is where children under the age of fourteen live. The second part is where the poorhouse administrator, cook, workers, etc. live. The third part is where children over the age of fourteen live.
The area where people who have a job in the poorhouse live.
The place where the children live is in the innermost part of the building on the left. The workhouse administrator and others are in the middle, and the staff are on the outermost side.
There are iron gates between each other. Except for the guards responsible for patrolling, ordinary people can enter and exit without keys.
Once someone is caught crossing the border, the punishment will be very severe. This is also to protect those children from being harmed as much as possible.
The teaching area is where children learn knowledge in class. The teaching here is very basic. If you can learn and use Rune script, and add and subtract within 100, you can be considered a graduate.
In addition, there is another kind of teaching, which is to learn some skills that can be used to find jobs, such as basic survival skills such as sewing clothes, pasting matchboxes, and washing clothes.
The work area is an area that can only be entered by people over the age of fourteen. The workhouse will take some simple jobs from outside and let them work. Firstly, they can exercise their work ability, and secondly, they can earn some money to subsidize the workhouse. The third reason for finance is to keep these people occupied and avoid causing other bigger troubles.
Take the workhouse here as an example. Because it is built halfway up the mountain, it is convenient to quarry stone. Many workers' daily job is to dig stones from the mountain. Women who are smaller or in weaker health are responsible for secondary processing of the transported stones. .
The confinement area is used to detain people who have made mistakes, such as noisy children or workers who get into fights.
This area is mainly located in the basement so as not to affect normal life on the ground.
After walking around for an entire hour and a half, Professor Wayne told the administrator that he would stay here tonight.
After receiving the news, Dean Dahn smiled and agreed to the matter and said that they could stay in the workhouse as long as they wanted.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Professor Wayne led Lecturers Hastur and Foren, as well as two administrators of the workhouse, out of the workhouse to the dock area.
This time, Professor Wayne came to the dock area. In addition to resting at the Sunrise Workhouse for a night, he also wanted to popularize legal knowledge for the unfairly treated workers here during the day, and also provided certain legal knowledge for free. assistance.
Professor Wayne told Hastur that during this period, the Kingdom of Loen had revised its laws many times regarding workers and the economy in an attempt to improve the treatment of workers. This information was very valuable to the workers in the dock area. .
If they do not know certain legal knowledge, they will not know how to fight for corresponding rights and interests for themselves. This will keep them being squeezed, and the harder they work, the harder it will be.
Professor Wayne is an idealistic lawyer?
With in-depth contact with Professor Wayne, Hastur felt more and more from him his compassion for the poor people.
Since the first contact, he felt that Professor Wayne was a little different.
Commonly speaking, when dealing with noble children like myself, many teachers teach in a perfunctory manner, and generally do not expect a nobleman to concentrate on being a lawyer.
After all, the profession of lawyer cannot be compared with a noble title.
But Professor Wayne still taught very seriously, and also consciously told himself that there were many injustices in the current law.
It was both bold and fearless to tell a nobleman that there was something wrong with the laws that protected the nobles.
As they walked and chatted, a few people came to the area where workers lived in the dock area. Two workhouse administrators were responsible for notifying nearby residents who were free to come here to attend free classes.
Instructors Hastur and Foren moved in two tables and a dozen benches.
Professor Wayne found a blank board and a piece of burned charcoal.
After about twenty minutes, people came one after another out of curiosity to see what these outsiders were going to do here.
When more than twenty residents came to watch, Professor Wayne started his small class to popularize legal knowledge.
Chapter 23 Curly-haired baboon, the story of the village
Most of the onlookers were elderly people and some children who liked to join in the fun. The real breadwinner of the family hardly had time to come here to listen to any lectures.
For them, if they have this free time, they might as well hurry up and work, earn more money, and have a full meal.
But there are always some adults who happen to have nothing to do and come to join in the fun.
Professor Wayne didn't pay too much attention and was very tolerant of some children who liked to cause trouble.
"You feel that you work hard every day but often don't have enough to eat. Is this problem your own responsibility or is it due to other reasons?"
When Professor Wayne opened his mouth, he was the old fire arching master.
"Bah! We work hard and use our own hands to make money to support ourselves. What can we do wrong!"
"If it weren't for those aristocratic men who run factories lying on us to suck our blood, how could we live so tiredly!"
"They would rather donate a large amount of money than increase our wages!"
"Our jobs are not secure at all. They can fire us at any time without compensating us even a penny."
Professor Wayne's words successfully ignited the anger in these people's hearts. The discussion became more and more noisy, and the more people came to watch.
Most people use this issue to vent their daily dissatisfaction. They really have too many grievances to express.
Professor Wayne listened quietly and did not stop him. When their emotions were almost vented, he said calmly:
"The reason why you are in this situation is not only because you were bullied by bad people, but also because you are too stupid and ignorant."
These words caused a new wave of anger.
Lecturer Foulun looked slightly sideways and glanced at Professor Wayne in confusion. Aren't he and others here to popularize some legal knowledge?
Why does it sound like you are here looking for a beating?
"We respect you, but that doesn't mean you can insult us at will!"
"You should apologize for your offensive words!"
Several bolder adult men are already inclined to take action.
Professor Wayne's expression remained normal and he said calmly: "Have any of you ever understood the laws of the Kingdom of Loen?"
“We don’t even know every word of it, how can we possibly understand any law!”
"Bah! The law is just a means devised by the powerful to oppress us!"
"Sir, are you kidding me? If we knew the law, the judges sitting in the courtroom trying criminals shouldn't be those mindless curly baboons."
This sentence soon aroused roars of laughter from the onlookers present, and they even added several words enthusiastically.
The general idea is that people in high positions are brainless curly baboons, and a puppet sitting in their position can do better than them.
Professor Wayne was not angry, and used the charcoal in his hand to draw a curly baboon on the blank board, and specially hollowed out its brain.
The onlookers couldn't help laughing, and someone suggested: "Sir, not only do they have no brains, their limbs have also degenerated. Otherwise, why would they always ride in a carriage when traveling?"
Professor Wayne took this suggestion with a smile and let the brainless curly-haired baboon
Lie on the ground.
Such a move allowed Professor Wayne to suddenly reach a consensus with the onlookers, and the originally tense atmosphere became much better, and even became a bit intimate.
After the onlookers laughed, Professor Wayne glanced at them and said slowly: "So are you willing to admit that you are ruled and oppressed by such a group of curly-haired baboons with no brains and degenerated limbs?"
The laughter disappeared instantly, and many people's faces became ugly.
Of course they cannot admit that they are inferior to a curly baboon.
But the group of powerful people and big businessmen whom he regarded as curly-haired baboons were indeed above him and could give orders to him at will.
After a while, someone stood up and said angrily: "They are just in that position. If we were sitting in that position, we would definitely do better than them!"
Professor Wayne said calmly: "Then you also turned into a brainless curly baboon?"
"..."
The man blushed, retreated into the crowd, and did not speak casually again.
Then someone else stood up and said, "Sir, this is just because they are too cunning and we are too kind, so we are destined to be bullied by them."
Professor Wayne still maintained a calm tone and replied: "So you are trying to say that a person who is a miracle in all things is no better than a brainless curly baboon when it comes to using his brain?"
"..."
The man also blushed and retreated into the crowd.
Immediately afterwards, several people refused to admit defeat and wanted to come forward to debate with Professor Wayne, but without exception, they were evaluated as inferior to curly-haired baboons.
Lecturer Foulen smiled happily and thought to himself: "If they can win this debate with a law professor, then Backlund University will welcome them to teach."
After there was no opposition around him, Professor Wayne sighed and said: "There may be people in high positions who are not as stupid as curly baboons, but most people in power are very smart and very capable, otherwise it would be reckless." The En Kingdom cannot rise quickly, and Backlund cannot become the capital of Mandu."
"Your curses and disdain may be just to vent your emotions, but you must remember not to look down on any group that is above you, admit your own shortcomings, and don't be limited by your own understanding, so that you can see further. .”
"I am here today to teach you, just to let you understand some basic laws, broaden your knowledge, and let you understand what your legal rights are."
Professor Wayne's calm and soothing tone made the onlookers calm down. Some people who wanted to learn eagerly sat in front of Professor Wayne so that they could hear more clearly.
Soon, the benches prepared by Professors Hastur and Foran were filled. Some nearby residents brought benches and chairs from their homes to form a circle around Professor Wayne.
"Let me tell you a story first. Maybe after listening to it, you will have some insights into the law."
Professor Wayne considered that the residents in the dock area had not read much. If the complicated legal provisions were explained at the beginning, they would not be able to understand them, and they would even question them one after another.
This
Why are these laws written like this? They are obviously irrational. They must have been written down by a curly-haired baboon while he was using the toilet...
If you want to make them empathize, you must start from the world they know.
So, he prepared a story about a village.
There is a village located in the mountains. They have never contacted the outside world because they believe that there are still mountains outside, and there are wild beasts on the mountains, and the wild beasts can eat people.
At the beginning, there were only a dozen families and about fifty people in the village. The villagers all knew each other well and could clearly know whose child this person was and whose daughter-in-law that person was.