Chapter 118 Rong Hui's Ambition
Chapter 118 Rong Hui's Ambition
Shao Quanzhong took it and looked at it. It was an embroidered picture of the full picture of Jin Ping Mei...
"Well, you are a young lady from a Jinshi family, and you are reading such an immoral book. I will punish you according to my family rules!"
Shao Quanzhong was just trying to scare people. Pregnant women have privileges, but they cannot be beaten.
"What's wrong with that? This is the education of female virtues that all girls from scholarly families should prepare before getting married, okay?"
"I won't let you see what's going on - hey, it's really good..."
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The next morning, Shao Quanzhong got up very late. He drank too much, right? I can understand that.
Yesterday, Grant and Emery received 5,000 taels of resettlement money from Le Sen. Early in the morning, Rong Hui was responsible for translation and Sister-in-law Qiao was responsible for communication. Grant immediately began to discuss the purchase of the house with Shao Quanzhong's neighbor.
Julia and her four children have hardly taken Chinese seriously. They got along very well with Rong Hui these past two days and really hope to be neighbors with Shao Quanzhong.
The family next door was living well, but if the prefect asks you to move out, you have to move out immediately and smoothly.
Fortunately, Grant now possesses a huge sum of 5,000 taels of silver, and is a high-income earner with a monthly salary of 400 taels, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of taels of silver in modern terms. We cannot afford to shortchange him with money.
After spending one thousand and two taels of silver, Grant's family of eleven moved in with their luggage, buying the furniture and the rice, flour, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar for the house.
While Grant was busy buying a house and moving, Emery went to Wen's Money House and entrusted them to transfer the money to the account he had set up for his family at Standard Chartered Bank when he left North America, and deposited all the five thousand taels into the account.
Emery, who became a pauper again, started working immediately.
He took Le Sen with him and went to Wen Fu Ji first, asking them to go to the Shanghai Bund foreign companies to order a large number of binoculars for the artillery. Then he went to Hailing Arsenal and asked the senior craftsmen there to imitate the artillery sights he brought, and urged the arsenal to quickly imitate the hot air balloon.
What Emery learned at West Point was the latest artillery ranging technology invented by the French not long ago. It was an era more advanced than Ding Gongchen's rough ranging with a quadrant. This is why Shao Quanzhong had to wait for first-class foreign instructors to come and train the artillery.
After getting up, the first thing Shao Quanzhong did was to draw a picture and ask Wen Fu Ji to make the epaulettes according to the sample as they would be used three days later.
Hailing has strong manual processing capabilities. He doesn't need to be like a certain uneducated warlord in his previous life. The army was expanded too quickly, and the officers' shoulder straps were temporarily covered with tin foil...
Then he found that the managers of the Wen Group came to his home in batches to report on their work, and Wen Xiu changed to working from home.
"Xiu'er, the child is important, you can't get tired."
"I'm just listening to the report, it's okay. I've asked Shao Yuan to take the machines and some technicians brought by your father-in-law to Xuzhou to manage the coal and iron mine."
"Ah? If he does a good job, shouldn't he be promoted to the head manager of the drugstore?"
"As for me, I can still listen to reports now. I will let him take turns to be in charge of Wen's various businesses in the next few months. When I give birth, I can appoint him as the president of the consortium and temporarily replace me."
Yung Wing first briefed Shao Yigu on the new coal and iron mining and steel smelting equipment and experts, then went to the Wen's Arsenal to take over the steam-powered spindle, processing machine tools and experts, and also went to the Hailing Arsenal to take over the steam engine samples, which was also a lot of work.
As for Ronghui, she is now four months pregnant and actually does not need any special care at all. The presence of her mother-in-law and mother is simply out of excessive concern.
Nowadays, it is common for people to still work when they are about to give birth. Old Russian women are very tough and don’t rest at all during maternity leave. They don’t take confinement leave. Yes, they don’t take confinement leave. Now Rong Hui walks around more, which can make her health better. She can’t sit still. She and Julia take care of four children together and immediately found the problem.
Grant had three sons and one daughter, aged twelve, nine, six, and three, standing shoulder to shoulder.
The three-year-old youngest son was fine, but the eldest and second sons dropped out of school as soon as they came to Qing Dynasty, and the six-year-old one was about to have no chance of continuing to study.
Rong Hui couldn't bear to see the children drop out of school, so she discussed it with Wen Xiu, and soon, a bilingual nine-year school funded by the Wen Group opened in Hailing.
Originally, Ronghui relied on her high school level knowledge to teach a small class of three children in different grades.
Who would have thought that once the school with the prefect's wife as the principal was opened, Hailing City immediately caused a sensation.
There are three or four hundred salt merchants and big businessmen gathered in Hailing City. Most of them are from Yangzhou and have close business dealings with Shanghai, an international window. None of them are country bumpkins.
Not only does this place teach elementary and middle school courses, it also provides bilingual education. The eldest son in the family attempts the imperial examination, and the other children are sent here to learn foreign languages and knowledge.
The school classrooms in the newly purchased courtyard were immediately insufficient, so they had to be expanded immediately.
What about money? With so many children from wealthy families coming to school, why would they worry about not having money? On the second day of school, the list of directors had grown to more than 200 people, and it was still growing.
How could Rong Hui teach all this by herself? First, they hired a teacher to teach the basics of Chinese studies. Liao Rong and Rong Hui wrote letters to their alma mater, St. Paul's College in Hong Kong and the French Mission Girls' School respectively, and sent a telegram from Shanghai to Hong Kong, requesting urgent tactical guidance.
At the same time, the next move of father Yung Wing was also arranged by his beloved daughter, which was to go to the United States again to recruit primary and secondary school teachers.
Rong Hong and his daughter Rong Hui had a common insistence that the primary and secondary schools in Hailing should not be turned into church schools, but into formal and professional primary and secondary schools.
Preparations for personnel for high schools, university preparatory schools, and even Hailing University have also begun.
It's because the school directors gave too much money, which increased Principal Rong Hui's ambition.
It is expected that it will be difficult for students to study in the United States in history. We will spend a lot of money to get American teachers and teaching equipment to Hailing to teach.
As for the engineering practice site, when Hailing University was built, it was hard to tell how far the Wen Group’s industrial sector had developed…
Yung Wing took a long leave of absence, and his position had already been taken by someone else at the company, but Yung Wing was not laid off.
He is now the link between the Huai Army and Britain. The Huai Army and the territory controlled by the Huai Army are a huge market. He has become a manager-level specialist in the connection between the Bowring Company and the Huai Army.
The Wen Fu Ji employee who Rong Hui urgently sent to Shanghai to send a telegram also took on Shao Quanzhong's mission to urgently hire a foreign band to match the Western-style military uniforms and shoulder badges on their bodies.
The use of Western-style military rank awarding and traditional gongs and drums as background music always feels a bit inconsistent.
After completing the arrangements, Shao Quanzhong went to Xiaoxiang Cliff to report on his work leisurely.
Shao Quanzhong was in no hurry to see his godfather. He had already said everything he needed to say in the military intelligence report, so he was just going there to clock in.
Unexpectedly, when the father and son met, Lord Qiao did not ask about the war. Instead, he looked serious and patted Shao Quanzhong on the shoulder.
"Yuting, your loan from the British has finally caused trouble. Several British foreign companies want to set up warehouses and open trade routes in the territory governed by the Jiangning Provincial Government. This far exceeds the promises of the five ports of trade and the Tianjin Treaty. What can we do about this?"
(End of this chapter)