Old Norman agreed with Qi Jingchen's idea and asked immediately: "What job opportunities can you provide?"

"I want them to make this." Qi Jingchen took out a picture book full of white paper and gave it to Old Norman.

Old Norman looked through the book curiously and asked in confusion: "What is this for?"

"Draw things and write." Qi Jingchen took out another drawing book. The book was used by him to draw design drawings and plans in the West District. Now he used several colors of strokes to draw some drawings, and wrote a lot of things in the language of Yeer.

Old Norman looked at it a few times and knew what Qi Jingchen had painted. He looked through the book and asked in surprise: "Can you give me a pen?" He knew very well that the pen used by Qi Jingchen to write was definitely not the bone pen they often used.

Of course, Qi Jingchen could not disagree. After Old Norman requested, he immediately took out a blue pen and gave it to Old Norman.

Old Norman took the pen and first wrote his beautiful flower name on Qi Jingchen's notebook. Then he thought about it and drew a single-wife horse in a few strokes.

The paintings by Old Norman are very beautiful and very real. Qi Jingchen didn't expect that this old man had such talent, so he was a little surprised.

"Good things! You have so many good things in your hands!" said Old Norman. He didn't like much, but he liked painting and drinking. The painting skills were learned by him when he was young. But when he was at a high level and it was hard to draw, he wouldn't draw anymore... There was no way, parchment was really not suitable for painting.

"Lord Norman likes painting?" Qi Jingchen smiled, then took out a box of watercolor pens and gave them to Old Norman: "Then this is the most suitable gift for you."

As a person who has not obtained many painting tools, Old Norman did not dislike the fact that Qi Jingchen could buy a box of watercolor pens with only twelve colors, on the contrary, it was very surprising.

He took a pen and graffitied it on his notebook, and soon drew another beautiful bird.

"Qi Jingchen, are you willing to be my student?" Old Norman suddenly said: "If you want, I will teach you all the knowledge I know, and you will become my heir."

"Of course I do, but the Sixth Elder may not." Qi Jingchen said that Old Norman is a magician and has good strength, but he felt that the Pope would not want to become Old Norman's student.

Old Norman suddenly thought that it seemed that it was because Qi Jingchen was coming that the Sixth Elder drove him away from the Central Branch. Qi Jingchen's identity must be extraordinary... Sighing, Old Norman no longer mentioned the matter of accepting students, but said, "If you don't understand, just ask me."

"I can do it, thank you Lord Norman." Qi Jingchen said.

"Since that's the case, let's continue to study how to make this thing." Old Norman pointed to the notebook in his hand and said.

Papermaking is relatively simple, just papermaking workshops cannot be built in the west area, they must be built by the river.

There are several big rivers near the Holy City, and you can see one of them when you go out from the western area... Qi Jingchen planned to build a papermaking workshop there.

I briefly introduced my plans to Old Norman. Old Norman nodded quickly: "That's it! You can do the specific things, and I will ask the people below to cooperate with you."

"Thank you." Qi Jingchen thanked.

Qi Jingchen plans to recruit workers in the West District, and the first thing he needs to do is to register all the people in the West District.

There are nearly 100,000 people here, but these 100,000 people don’t even have a household registration, and many children don’t even have names...

One hundred thousand people have to register, which is definitely a huge project. In order to complete it as soon as possible, Qi Jingchen specially hired some ordinary people who are literate to help register.

The registration is made on parchment paper, one for the people of the West District, and the other for the registration here.

This kind of registration is actually very ordinary. At least the people in the Holy City have household registration, but people in the West District are very excited with parchment paper with their names and ages written on them. However, most of them do not recognize the words on it.

These people are illiterate, which is not conducive to their management... Qi Jingchen thinks that the first thing he needs to do is to let children in the West District study.

Orphans or families with children are first registered, and all the children are also arranged to take care of them, basically an elderly person taking care of a child and a older child. Then, Qi Jingchen informed these children that in the future, all children of their age will go to school to study, and their three meals a day will be given to them by the school.

In short, if they don't go to school, they will have no food to eat.

Qi Jingchen said that schools are places where you can learn things, so no one in the West District found that his request was bad, and they were even very happy.

When Qi Jingchen went to see the progress of the school's construction, he saw a parent bringing his children over, then looked at the newly built school and said, "If you recognize this, you will come here to learn skills in the future. If you can learn a certain skill, such as how to make shoes, I don't have to worry that you will starve to death in the future!"

The orphans also surrounded the new school and looked at the school with interest: "It's so beautiful here! Can I learn how to build a house here?"

Qi Jingchen touched one of the children's heads: "You can learn anything you want, but this is not the first thing you need to learn."

There are still many ordinary people who are literate, but they have all jobs or have signed contracts with others long ago, so it is impossible to come to work in the western area. Moreover, Qi Jingchen had already found a lot of people to register for household registration before, so now he almost couldn't find anyone.

Fortunately, at this time, Old Norman lent his servant to him and asked someone else for some servants.

The servants who served the magicians basically recognized words, and the servants of old Norman knew words, and they were very willing to teach children to recognize words.

What they have always done is to serve others, and it is the first time they can be a teacher for others!

There are many children in the West District, among which the youngest do not have to go to school. Those over thirteen years old are regarded as adults in Yell. In the end, Qi Jingchen stipulated that children aged seven to twelve should study, and those aged thirteen to fifteen can study if they are willing.

There were almost 5,000 children who were going to study in the end, and Qi Jingchen finally divided them into 100 classes, each with fifty people.

The household registration has not been fully registered and the papermaking workshop has not yet been opened, so the people in the West District are quite empty. Children of the age group can enter the classroom and have seats. Children who are slightly older can also listen inside. Other adults stay outside the classroom, waiting to see what these children can learn.

"I learned it in the house, should I learn carpentry?"

"Why don't you have tools?"

"What is the teacher sending? Is that parchment paper?"

"Parchment is very expensive, what are you doing for these bastard parchment?"

...

The adults outside the classroom looked at the situation inside in confusion, and then they saw the teacher on the podium suddenly wrote a few words on the black-painted wall.

When the lecturer was still curious about what the wall was, the teacher asked, "Do you know these words?"

Of course I don’t know each other, and the people here are illiterate.

Everyone was confused, and finally a young man sitting behind him raised his hand.

"Tell me, what is this?" the teacher called the young man.

"It's light!" The young man stood up: "I saw the pastor write it before!"

"Yes, this is 'light'," said the teacher. "Today, I am here to teach you how to read, and the first thing I want to teach you is these words."

Recognizing words? This teacher didn’t teach these children how to do carpenters, but to teach them how to recognize words?

The adults who looked outside the window were shocked.

Before they fled to the Holy City, they were all people living at the bottom of the world and could not do anything except farming. In their opinion, it was already a very, very lucky thing to be able to learn the same craft, such as learning woodworking. They dared not even think about literacy.

If these children are literate, they will be able to find very good jobs in the future and may even become servants of those adults!

In the Holy City, being able to become a warrior or a magician's servant is definitely the best way out for ordinary people!

Even if they cannot become servants of those adults, they can find good jobs after learning to read. It can be said that as long as they learn to read, their future lives will be destined to undergo earth-shaking changes, and they will no longer have to rely on relief to live.

The people outside the window couldn't help but start to be jealous of the children sitting in the classroom. However, even though they were jealous, they didn't dare to speak anymore. Instead, they looked quietly at the direction of the blackboard and wanted to learn to recognize words.

The whole school suddenly became quiet.

In Yeer, there is no textbook for recognizing words. Some big families have special methods to teach children. However, ordinary people recognizing words basically means how the teacher teaches them.

In the Holy City, because the image of religion is too large, most teachers learn words like "light" and "light God Cult" on the first day of teaching children to recognize words.

The students looked at the blackboard and carefully described the words "light" in the corner of their parchment paper. The parents outside also described them in their own hands.

For those who have learned words, it is very simple to learn these few words, but the people here have never recognized words before, so they learn very slowly. Fortunately, the teachers also know this and did not force them to learn to draw with their fingers on the desk - parchment is not cheap, and neither teachers nor students will use it too much.

After all, it was the first day of class, and neither the teacher nor the student had adapted to their own provinces, so the class ended soon, and there were no other people today. Everyone just need to learn a few words on the blackboard.

Qi Jingchen came to visit and couldn't help feeling helpless when he saw this situation. Such a class seemed boring to him... However, there were no suitable textbooks here...

However, he found it boring. Those students and parents who came to recognize words, and even those who came to watch simply, did not find it boring at all. Instead, he was very excited: "I can write! When I play with Dora in the future, I can write for her."

"You are stupid! Dora has come to learn to write, but she is not in our class."

“That’s right…”

...

"Boy, you must study hard. If you learn well, you may become a follower of Lord Qi Jingchen in the future!"

"Really?"

"You must work hard! Teach me when you go home so that I can read the word."

...

Of course, some people are interested in recognizing words, while others sneer. At least those lazy people who were forced to work by Nie Yi before are now mostly lazy and think recognizing words is useless.

The guy who was the first to attack Qi Jingchen when he came to the west area said to others: "What's the use of recognizing words? Can you get more food after recognizing words? Can we eat meat?"

The person who spoke to him was a woman who fled here with her daughter. She couldn't say anything to argue, so she could only pull her daughter away in the end. She said to the woman: "You must recognize words well. If you recognize words, you may be a maid and then marry someone from the North District, so that we can live in the Holy City." For those who fled here, the Holy City is really a beautiful place but not a better place.

When Qi Jingchen heard this conversation, he couldn't help but smile, and then became more determined to clean up the western area. He didn't want the people here to become like those lazy people, completely counting on the relief of the God of Light.

Of course, it is urgent that he should write some textbooks and also promote Arabic numerals.

There are numbers here, but it is difficult to write and it is not convenient to use for calculation. In Qi Jingchen's opinion, Arabic numerals are the best.

But this may be just his psychological effect.

Qi Jingchen went to Old Norman and asked if there were any children's songs that were simple to write and had clear meanings.

Old Norman thought about it and said a few songs. Qi Jingchen wrote them down and asked, "Do you think it's appropriate to let the school teach such children's songs?"

Old Norman was a little puzzled at first, but later he quickly said: "It's appropriate! If it's such a nursery rhyme, those children should also like to learn it!"

On the afternoon of the first day of school, the students went home, and Qi Jingchen simply brought all the teachers to the classroom and taught them a nursery rhyme, asking them to teach the children tomorrow.

These servants were not arrogant at all, but felt that it was an extremely honor to be taught by a noble pastor. They said they would teach them well tomorrow. When Qi Jingchen said he could tell some stories to the children, they also said that they would do it well.

"I can tell them about magic lamps!"

"I am a carriage driver. I have come into contact with many monsters, and they must like it."
To be continued...