The daily life of a science genius who travels through the book group

Chapter 494 Taiyuan City ()

On the day Li Zhao returned to Taiyuan, Song Qingyue went to pick him up at the gate of the city.

Her car was set up quite big, right next to the city gate, and she could be seen from a long distance away.

Li Zhao's heart throbbed, and he galloped over on his horse.

Song Qingyue also saw Li Zhao's convoy, and slowly got off the car while holding Nanny Bai's hand.

"You are pregnant, what are you here to pick up!" Li Zhaofei jumped off the horse, stepped forward and grabbed Song Qingyue's arm.

Song Qingyue put her arms around his neck, and Jiaojiao smiled softly: "I miss my husband."

"You..." I didn't know what to say for a while, sighed lowly, bent down and kissed his wife's lips.

Cough!

Bai Momo coughed twice at the side, reminding her princes and concubines to pay attention to the influence, and to kiss in the car, standing at the entrance of the city gate where people come and go, so many people are watching!
The two seemed to be unable to hear each other, looking at each other's brows and eyes, smirking and hugging each other, not wanting to move at all.

"Okay, get in the car, let's go home first."

Li Zhao hugged Song Qingyue into the car, and couldn't help stroking her protruding belly.

"Five months?"

"Well, five and a half months, almost six months."

"Is the child bothering you?"

Song Qingyue smiled and shook her head: "It's much better than Li Kun's time."

"What about your appetite?"

"It's also better than last time. I especially like to eat fruits, and I also feel sleepy and love to sleep."

She rested her head on Li Zhao's shoulder, and slowly closed her eyes. Now Li Zhao makes people feel safe, and she likes it very much.

Li Zhao hugged her tightly, feeling that her shoulders were still as thin as before.

"Why don't you eat more?"

Song Qingyue closed her eyes and said, "Don't dare to eat more, for fear that the child will grow too big. The meals are arranged by Jiang Zizheng and the others. Don't worry, it will be fine."

During this period of time, there were still frequent disputes in the capital because of women giving birth.

Fortunately, Master Xiao Su is an aspiring young man, and he doesn't want to waste time in the position of Governor of Shuntian Prefecture. He is the type of official who wants to do something practical, so he immediately reported the recent lawsuits related to midwives in the capital to The emperor knew.

The matter of having a child can be small or big. If it is a family matter, it is a small matter. If it is related to the population problem, it is a big matter.

So the emperor wanted the cabinet to come up with a solution.

Of course, the emperor didn't have much hope for the people in the cabinet, so he sent a telegram to Taiyuan to ask Song Qingyue if there was a similar situation in Taiyuan and how to solve it.

Song Qingyue explained in detail the matter of requiring all midwives to go to the gynecological hospital to study and test.

This also involves the use of school propaganda to encourage people to go to the hospital to give birth. After giving birth, they have to stay in the hospital for three days before returning home, and the hospital will send students or midwives to the house every seven days to check on the mother. Physical condition, and make a detailed record.Because the medical officers in the hospital are all appointed by the imperial court, that is to say, these people are all endorsed by the imperial court, and ordinary people do not dare to question the decisions of those medical officers.

In addition, the most important point is that in the past three months, Song Qingyue said that she herself subsidized a full 3000 taels of silver into this plan.

On average, each mother is subsidized with ten taels of silver. Of course, the mothers are well taken care of.

Another reason is that so far, 310 and eight women of all ages have given birth in the obstetrics hospital, and less than women have died.

Give birth in a hospital, and the maternal mortality rate is less than percent!
In addition, the care of babies in hospitals is better than other places.

Doctors know heart massage and artificial respiration. For children born without vital signs, the gynecology hospital's response methods are much better than those of untrained midwives.

In addition, like the common jaundice, Jiang Zizheng also has the treatment methods handed down by his old Jiang family, and now he has given it out for free and taught it to all the students and those midwives.

Finally, there is the most cutting-edge cutting-edge medical technology in these years—the lateral incision method, which is also a sharp tool for protecting mothers, infants and young children.

This is a tangible achievement.

There are even wealthy local businessmen who donated 300 taels of silver to the hospital because their daughter-in-law gave birth successfully in the hospital.

The common people speak out for the women's hospital, even if there is a little dispute, there will be no trouble.

After these three months, most of the midwives have obtained the qualification certificate of temporary midwives, and a small number of midwives have not obtained the qualification certificate. Song Qingyue allows them to continue their studies. There will be an exam after three months, but they will not be allowed in these three months. They went out to give birth.

Another change is that the gynecological hospital is no longer completely free.

If it is a parturient who gives birth on the same day and the delivery is particularly smooth, only five taels of silver will be charged; if the parturient needs side cutting, it will be charged three taels of silver; if it is more complicated and needs to be hospitalized for more than seven days, five taels of silver will be charged .

The extra part will be subsidized by Song Qingyue from the medical fund.

These bits and pieces, Song Qingyue told the emperor in detail, and the girl who took the telegram took a whole day to send the telegram.

At the end of the telegram, Song Qingyue also said that Jiang Zizheng was already finishing a medical book on women's childbirth and postpartum care. After the book was completed, it would be sent to the capital to be printed in large quantities as soon as possible.

The fact is, now that there are professional female medical officers, many women are unwilling to ask Jiang Zizheng to be seen by a big man. Jiang Zizheng now has a lot of time to do when he has nothing to do except take care of Song Qingyue and teach, so he almost uses it. To write a book.

After the emperor read the telegram, he felt a lot of emotion for a while.

Running schools and hospitals are all things that pay money. The court does nothing, but Song Qingyue, the princess, does the most hard work.

As an emperor, he actually felt a little ashamed.

Soon after, the imperial court issued an imperial edict requiring all prefectures, prefectures, and counties to follow the model of Zhaoyue Primary School and open free Kaimeng Schools before June next year.

Unlike Zhaoyue Elementary School, there are stricter regulations on the age of children entering school: only boys whose household registration belongs to the area, and boys between the ages of six and 12 are not limited.

The time is three years, learning writing, arithmetic and health and hygiene classes.

As for the free lunch, it is up to the local magistrates, prefectures, and prefectures to decide on their own, depending on the financial situation of each locality.

In addition, the emperor gave Zhang Guangjian, Minister of Rites, a task: to compile a set of simplified Chinese teaching materials suitable for ordinary people's literacy enlightenment by referring to the enlightenment textbook of Zhaoyue Primary School.

The teaching materials for the arithmetic class and the health and hygiene class adopt the teaching materials currently used by Zhaoyue Primary School.

Mr. Lu, Minister of the Ministry of Accounting, also got a new task: to calculate the education expenditure needed to open free government-run primary schools nationwide, and see if the Ministry of Accounting has enough money to spend. If it is too tight, he will allocate funds from the internal treasury.

Song Qingyue was very happy when she got the news that the imperial court had also started running a primary school.

But I heard that the government-run primary school only enrolls boys, so her semi-official Zhaoyue Primary School has to continue to run!
In this way, Song Qingyue asked several of her servants to run schools in all the counties under the jurisdiction of Datong, Fenzhou, Liaozhou and Qinzhou, and at least five villages under the jurisdiction of the counties.

What's different is that this time, boys' and girls' schools in the prefectural city and the county are run separately. The boys' school has a quota of 50 students, but there is no age limit for admission, while the girls' school has no restrictions, not even a quota limit. There is no distinction between male and female schools in rural primary schools, and there is only one teacher who is fully responsible for all school affairs. The three subjects of literacy, arithmetic, and health and hygiene are all taught by this teacher.

The new school needs to start on time on February next year, and the deadline for registration is at the end of the twelfth lunar month this year. Song Qingyue still leaves enough time to print teaching materials and make school uniforms.

In order to meet the growing demand for printing, Song Qingyue had no choice but to send someone to the capital to ask her father how many printing factory technicians she wanted, and she wanted to set up another printing factory by herself in Taiyuan.

Mainly engaged in three businesses:

First, there are various teaching materials and supplementary books;
Second, a scientific journal is needed;
Third, increase the production of various comic book picture books.

In fact, Song Qingyue originally wanted to run a newspaper, but the newspaper she wanted to run was not for the upper-class scholars, but for the working people at the bottom.

But some people can't read at all, and there is no market for such a big effort to get newspapers out.

But Song Qingyue went out these few days and found that the comic book of "Health and Hygiene" that she made had received unprecedented popularity!It is not only loved by children, but also by parents who cannot read.

One time when she went out to buy sesame seed cakes with oil residue, she saw with her own eyes that the owner of the sesame seed cakes was holding the comic strip she had drawn for a textbook and was reading it with gusto. what to say.

Both families have children studying in Zhaoyue Primary School, and the children have told them the short stories in the picture books when they come home, so the two bosses who can’t read well just talk to each other and complement each other’s inadequacy. As far as I remember, I have read the picture book thoroughly.

This incident immediately inspired Song Qingyue.

As far as the current stage is concerned, as long as they are sold cheaply, picture books will be an excellent medium of communication.

In October, at the gates of the yamen and city gates of the major counties under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan Prefecture, as well as on the pavilions of the pier, that is, on the notice boards, there were posted recruitment advertisements for painters in Taiyuan Jinwang Mansion, asking for good painting of animals, figures, and monthly salary. Five taels of silver.

"The monthly salary is five taels of silver!"

There were three handsome middle-aged women who were suddenly attracted by this notice at the gate of the government office. Judging from their accents, they were all from Henan.

They are said to be middle-aged, but in fact they are only in their early 30s. They used to be oiran ladies in their respective brothels, each with their own strengths in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Now that I am older, my body has been poisoned by contraceptives, and I can no longer conceive. Even businessmen are unwilling to marry. Congliang lived the life of ordinary people.

In Kaifeng Mansion, there were too many people who knew them, so they wanted to find a place where no one knew them, settle down, and live a quiet life with the three of them.

"This job is good. I wonder if women can apply for it." One of the famous prostitutes named Dou Xueer said.

Another one named Xie Lifen encouraged: "It's definitely possible. There are so many girls' schools in Shanxi, and women can be teachers, let alone painters! Sister Xue'er, you are the best at painting, why don't you try it!"

In fact, they chose to come to Shanxi at the beginning because there is a girls' school in Shanxi.

At first, they saw the girls' school and the female teacher for the first time in Yuanqu County under the jurisdiction of Pingyang Prefecture in the southernmost part of Shanxi Province, and then saw the girls again in Pengjia Village under the jurisdiction of Yuanqu County. The rural primary school taught by Mr.

The three of them are all talented women who can write poems and poems. They want to find a rural lady to be a gentleman, leisurely, respected, and get a monthly salary!Such a life makes me happy just thinking about it.

But after chatting with the country lady, I found that it is not easy to be a female school teacher, for example, they don't understand the math books that those girls take out.

In addition, in running a school in the countryside, it is the Princess Jin of Taiyuan Mansion who is in charge of this matter, and the monthly salary is distributed by the princess.

"If you guys are interested in this, you can go to Jinwang Mansion in Taiyuan City and ask." The rural lady suggested, "If you guys want to save money, you can go back to Yuanqu County and find Zhaoyue Horse Company. Take a public carriage to Pingyang Fucheng first. At Pingyang Fucheng, transfer to a carriage that goes directly to Taiyuan City."

"The stagecoach?"

The three went back to Yuanqu County and found Zhaoyue Mahang.The so-called public carriage is a carriage with a carriage about two meters wide and three meters long pulled by three horses.

About twelve adults can be stuffed inside, but horse dealers usually pack three or four more people in order to make more money.Fortunately, the walls of the carriage were not airtight. In fact, the walls of the carriage were nailed to the frame with wooden strips, and there were gaps in the middle, which made it very breathable.

However, it will be miserable when encountering a dusty road section. Everyone sitting in the carriage is covered in dust.

The conditions are tough, but it's cheap!

Not only cheap, but also convenient, there is a bus almost every day.

Just like that, the three of them took the public carriage of Zhaoyue Horse Company all the way to the north and headed for Taiyuan Mansion.

But when I arrived in Taiyuan City, I realized that the housing prices in Taiyuan City were really not cheap, and even the rent was more expensive than other places, and there were very few houses that were sold out.

If you want a large amount of money, you can go to Zhaoyue Bank and Royal Bank to apply for a mortgage. If the house is vacant, you can rent it out.Isn't it good to use the rent to repay the interest on the loan?
As a result, there are basically no houses in Taiyuan Mansion.

Yaren took the three sisters to look at several houses one after another, but because the rent was too high, the three hesitated.

They have no income now, and the savings they saved when they were oirans were basically used to redeem themselves. Later, they thought about hiring two women to cook, wash, and clean. They really didn't expect the living expenses in Taiyuan City to be so high.

"Ladies, if you feel that the rent in the city is too high, there is a low-rent house built by the princesses outside the city, do you want to take a look?" the female tooth woman asked.

"Low-rent housing? Will the environment be bad?" Dou Xueer asked worriedly.

The female teether hurriedly waved her hand: "It's not bad at all, not only not bad, but also very good. There are a lot of rules, and if you don't follow the rules, you will be kicked out easily."

"Then please take us to have a look first."

With the increasing population of Taiyuan Prefecture, the second phase of the low-rent housing project has begun, in the west of the city.

The first phase of the project in the east of the city was originally prepared for the branch school of the Academy of Sciences.However, the branch campus of the Academy of Sciences has not been able to toss because of the shortage of talents, and the student dormitory prepared for the academy has been transformed into low-rent housing.

The three former oiran ladies came to the low-rent housing area, feeling that this place is simply another town, and there is even a wall as high as one person!

"Third lady, look, there is the men's section over there, the couple's section in the middle, and the women's section here. If you are not married and have no children, you can live in the women's section. They are all women, and there are security patrols at night to ensure everyone's safety. It's safe. Of course, if several people want to live in the husband and wife area, there is no problem."

"Then live in the women's section."

At the entrance of the women's area, there is a small shop selling canned fruit, tea, candy, soap, rouge, needlework, cloth shoes, tableware... really sells everything!There are sweet potatoes and pears in syrup roasting on the stove at the door, and the aroma wafts everywhere, making the spirit happy.

Going to the gate of the women's quarter, I found that there are rows of very neat two-story small buildings inside, all of which are brick and concrete houses with wooden frames, seven rooms in a row.

"There are stairs on both sides, and there is a living room in the middle of the first floor. The kitchen is here, and there is a water well in it. You can get water yourself. The bathroom is also there, and you can wash clothes in the kitchen yard. The public latrine is Go a little farther, over there." The dentist led them to look over one by one, "Every twelve bedrooms share a living room and a kitchen. Go to the latrine and empty the bucket in the bedroom, and then empty it into the public latrine."

"Is there only one kitchen for twelve rooms?" Dai Yuqin among the three asked worriedly, "Besides, if you live on the second floor, how do you take a shower? How hard it is to carry buckets of water up! "

Yaren smiled and said: "You don't have to worry about this lady. There is a public canteen and a public bathhouse in the middle of this low-rent housing. The price is very fair! If the three of you go out to work as hired workers, you can cook by yourself. You have to hire a woman to cook, wash, and clean? Isn’t it cheaper to go to the cafeteria than to hire a woman?”

The three looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

But Dou Xueer asked again: "What about the laundry? What if we don't want to do it ourselves?"

"It's simple!" the tooth man laughed, pointing to the couple's section in the middle and said: "There is a notice board at the entrance of each district, if you three want to find help, you can post an advertisement on the notice board, especially the couple's area , you can definitely find someone! The price is negotiable."

(End of this chapter)