Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 333: Chapter 323: Specialties of Liaodong

After entering late October, the temperature in the Liaodong Region dropped sharply. In just a few days, the temperature had fallen below zero.

However, the cold weather did not affect the development of Tenglong Guard.

The training of the soldiers continued, whether they were regular soldiers, camp soldiers, or the navy, none of them stopped training.

Of course, some things were affected by the temperature, such as the salt fields. As the temperature dropped, the salt fields entered the closed period, which would last until next March before they could restart salt production.

Although this would cause the salt fields to be unable to produce salt for four to five months, the production over the past two months had increased. In just two months, the salt fields had produced over a million catties of salt, enough to support the entire population of Jing’an Prefecture for a year.

In addition to the salt fields, construction teams were also impacted, but the construction tasks within the city were essentially complete. The remaining carpentry work was not affected by the temperature.

And road construction tasks were postponed to the next year, as the government office planned to finish the overall road planning for Tenglong Guard before the end of the year.

According to Yang Zhenshan’s requirements, Tenglong Guard planned to build four official roads, leading to Jing’an Prefecture, Qinghua Prefecture, Liao’an Prefecture, and the dock, all of which would be constructed according to official road standards.

Besides that, Yang Zhenshan also planned to renovate the roads leading to the thousand households, hundred households, and garrisons.

He did not strive for every road to be wide, but for every road to be flat and not muddy in rainy weather.

To get rich, build roads first.

Building roads is the most practical construction.

Besides building roads, Yang Zhenshan also prepared to carry out a literacy campaign.

The training of soldiers actually included learning to read and write, but regular soldiers only learned a few basic characters. Most soldiers could only learn a few dozen simple characters during their basic training of a little over a month.

For camp soldiers, they were required to be proficient in reciting and writing everyday characters.

When he was in An Yuan City, Yang Zhenshan had the same requirements, and the soldiers in the garrison were literate, with many soldiers in the garrison also being able to recognize characters.

Now in Tenglong Guard, Yang Zhenshan would do the same.

He could not guarantee that every soldier would be fluent in reading and writing everyday characters, but he would plant the seed, allowing the children of military households to learn reading and writing if they were willing.

Among the new military households, there were quite a few literate people who could play the role of teachers.

Yang Zhenshan required every hundred households to have a school, and children aged eight to twelve had to enter school for education.

Actually achieving this was not difficult, as there were only about a hundred military households in each hundred households, and at most just over a hundred children aged eight to twelve.

Two classrooms and two teachers would be sufficient.

There are a total of just over two hundred hundred households within Tenglong Guard, and finding just over five hundred literate people would be enough.

Yang Zhenshan was only promoting literacy, not preparing them for the imperial examination. The garrison school was only meant to teach people to recognize characters, so they didn’t need highly qualified teachers.

The salaries for these teachers would be uniformly distributed by the government office, according to the standard of camp soldiers’ rations and salary silver, without the need for extra high pay.

Training and establishing schools were tasks for the next year, but the government office needed to be prepared before the end of this year.

In addition to these two tasks, there were two more matters that needed to be handled next year, the first was sea trade, and the second was attracting business to Guard City.

In early November, Luo Shang brought Luo Zhen to Tenglong Guard again.

In the government office’s tea room, Yang Zhenshan looked at the increasingly mature Luo Zhen and asked gently, ”How is everything in An Yuan City, have you encountered any trouble?”