"Your Majesty, please be careful, Your Majesty! These people have evil intentions. God knows what they will do!" King Yu said. "During the conflict just now, these people were carrying weapons such as wrenches and pliers. Our police officers were all Injured!"
Xin Jian sneered, "We just came back from the workshop. It's normal to bring the tools we carry with us. If you are afraid of these tools, I really don't know what your foreign guns are for!"
"Your Majesty! I don't mean anything else. I just want to give the Emperor a piece of advice. It's not a big deal in the first place, but these policemen and these thugs blocked us and even beat us!"
"We had no choice but to take action in self-defense. The cause and effect of the matter are very clear. Is there anything we don't understand?"
"Now in front of His Majesty, I want to ask, do your words of long live your words count? If they don't count, I will shut up and go back to Tanggu!"
"I have the leisure to give my opinions to our Chinese people, wouldn't it be a good idea?"
Zai Chun stretched out his hand to stop King Yu who was still about to speak. He jumped off his horse and kicked the boards, pliers and other tools on the ground, "Get out of the way..."
"Your Majesty..." King Yu still wanted to stop him.
"I want you to get out of the way! Get out of the way..." With a low roar, Xiao Huang quickly moved the boss and the others out of the way, and the roadblocks blocking the road were also moved away.
Zai Chun strode out of the safe area designed by King Yu, so frightened that Ma Ming, Na Sanbao and others quickly followed him for personal protection.
At this time, a group of important ministers also came to the imperial road, and the six or three princes of the Japanese army also came over. However, the ministers in the court did not dare to get too close to them for fear of getting involved.
Zai Chun ignored the people following him. He walked up to Xin Jian and looked at him calmly. Xin Jian bent down and saluted Zai Chun, while Guang Liang and others behind him yelled curses.
"How brave you are, how dare you not kneel down..." After saying that, he went up and kicked Xin Jian's knee, and with a thud, Xin Jian fell to his knees.
"What are you doing?" The workers were noisy and wanted to take action, but Xin Jian fought back and stopped them. "Don't make any noise! Long live everything here is in charge!"
Zai Chun glanced at Guang Liang coldly. It was obvious that Uncle Guang Liang's flattery was wrong and he slapped it directly on the horse's hoof.
"Xin Jian, you are a Chinese, so just follow Chinese customs! No need to kneel, just follow Chinese etiquette...get up!"
"If you have anything to do, you can tell me. Of course, what I promised you back then will count!"
Xin Jian stood up and patted the dirt on his knees. "What I have to do is very simple. There are only two things. The first one is that I hope your Majesty can approve some funds for us..."
"Those of us who come to the capital are not just to work, but our more important task is to help His Majesty train qualified workers... This job is very difficult, because modern workers must first know the alphabet and learn simple arithmetic!"
"It's too difficult for many young men from rural areas! They have not received education since they were young, and their foundation is too poor!"
"Your Majesty, do you know how high the automatic dropout rate is at my night training school? Generally, within a month, 70% of the students will drop out on their own and just won't attend!"
"In three months, the remaining 30% will have to be taken away by another 20%... Only one person can really persist in learning!"
"I sincerely advise these workers to endure the hardships of study, and it will be great when they start working in the future! The salary and income will be much different in the future!"
"But these people would rather suffer the hardship of working than write or read. Even if they can withstand a bag weighing 100 kilograms, they are unwilling to write a word with a pen!"
"If this continues, Your Majesty may not be able to find enough workers in ten years! So I hope Your Majesty can grant us some scholarships!"
"There is no other way... we can only reward them with money! I hope your majesty can allocate 3,000 silver coins to us every month..."
"That's it..." Zai Chun opened his eyes and said, "It's just three thousand silver coins. Do you need to ask me directly for it?"
"If I don't look for Your Majesty, who should I look for? The Sixth Ministry? That prince? Who is responsible? I have asked Prince Yu for instructions before, and I have asked for instructions from the director of Nanliu Road, Guang Liang... but all of them fell into stone, and no one took any notice. I don’t have anyone to reply to me!”
In fact, when Xin Jian just mentioned the scholarship, King Yu Benge, Guang Liang and Xiao Huang all breathed a sigh of relief.
When they saw that Xin Jian was not trying to scapegoat him or make a complaint, they felt relieved. At this moment, they felt a little regretful for stopping him.
If he had known that Xin Jian was reporting to the emperor about the night school, why would he have come out to make a bad show?
But I didn't expect that Xin Jian was really vindictive. He was fine at the beginning, but then he got involved immediately.
King Yu quickly said, "Hey... I have already arranged for my subordinates to take care of this matter? There are ten lines in the Capital Iron Works, that is, the general manager of the ten lines..."
"Xin Jian's place belongs to South Sixth Road, and this slave Guang Liang is in charge... He can make the decision with such a small amount of money. I have arranged for him to do it!"
When Guang Liang heard this, he complained in his heart, "Oh, this is making me take the blame. When did you tell me?" Bullying!
But isn't the slave just for taking the blame? Guang Liang knelt on the ground and kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic. "It's a capital crime for a slave, it's a capital crime for a slave! Things are so busy in the iron factory, and the slave forgot..."
"Slave, let's do it now. Starting from this month, it will be done!"
Zai Chun was angry, glared at the two of them, turned around and said to Xin Jian, "I'm sure about this! And instead of three thousand silver dollars a month, I'll give you nine thousand, and you can train more good workers for me!" "
"Come here, bring me my riding whip..." Zai Chun handed the cowhide whip wrapped with bright yellow silk thread into Xin Jian's hand, "I will reward you with this whip..."
"I give you a privilege. With this whip, you can whip those officials who prevent you from teaching with the top, and whip those disobedient students with the bottom! You will kill them, no matter what! Take it..."
Ouch, this is Shang Fang’s sword! The eyes of the courtiers behind him turned blue with envy.
Xin Jian took the riding crop and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Zai Chun smiled and asked, "How many people are there in your night school now?"
"Now the night school is divided into four classes, with more than 60 people in each class. My co-workers and I teach the classes separately... I teach the class with the fastest progress and the most difficult course..."
"Ah? There are only more than a hundred people? That's not enough! How come there are only so few skilled workers in such a big iron factory? You can find people for me. I'm not afraid of spending money, I just want more talents!"
Xin Jian clasped his fists and said, "With the scholarship and the encouragement given by His Majesty, I believe there will be more and more students in the future..."
Zai Chun nodded, "Just now you said there is one more thing, just tell me and I will do it for you!"
