Chapter 1309 Hard Study

"Old Feng, are you going to the parade tomorrow?!"

On the way home, a worker walked quickly to Feng Shi's side and said loudly.

"Go! Of course I have to go. It just so happens that I don't have a day off this time."

When Feng Shi heard this, he shouted loudly.

The so-called parade is not just a stroll, but a response to the call of the new country. Workers, students, farmers..., everything unites to shout out the development direction of the new country, so as to awaken those numb people's hearts.

After all, the new country was born not long ago. Some old and rotten things that are deeply rooted in people's hearts have been removed on the surface, but in the hearts of many people, some things are still deeply rooted.

In order to destroy this rotten remnant, there is a parade.

At the beginning of this matter, the enthusiasm of the people in the new country was not high.

But as time passed, the night school was opened, the Taoist officials lectured day and night, and life was indeed getting better day by day. The change is visible. Under this circumstance, the fire in the hearts of many people was gradually ignited, coupled with the power of habit.

Therefore, this matter, from the initial spark, has become a prairie fire in a very short time.

Not only that, because of this activity, the workers' enthusiasm for work, the students' enthusiasm for learning, and the farmers' enthusiasm for labor have also been ignited.

As for the reason, it is naturally because such activities give them a strong sense of participating in the construction and change of the country, making them deeply realize that they are part of this country, not a piece of grass that can be dispensable, a grass citizen.

Feng Shi's home is in the factory, and the factory has allocated it uniformly. Although everyone calls him Lao Feng, in fact, Lao Feng is not old, only in his early twenties, but his face is more mature. At first glance, he is about thirty or forty years old, so everyone calls him that.

Because he has not married yet, he only got a 20-square-meter house, but this area is already very spacious for one person.

After all, eating and drinking are all in the canteen, as for the toilet, it is a collective public toilet, the house is only used for living, naturally not crowded.

When he got home, it was still light, so he took out a stack of paper tied with twine and began to memorize the words on it.

When he was in night school, he studied hard. He worked overtime when he had free time on weekdays, but because the time was too short and he was a little old, he found it very difficult to learn, or rather, difficult and painful.

Often, he finally remembered something, but after a good night's sleep, he forgot everything, and his head was always empty.

Of course, this is also the norm for those who started learning halfway.

However, he did not give up. Indeed, being a worker is good now, but when he read the newspapers in the outside world and knew about the various things happening in many places, he had a strong desire to go out and see.

And the first step to do this is to learn to read.

After learning to read, if the production performance is good, you can go to study and become a technician. The route of technicians is divided into three levels: low, medium and high. If you reach the advanced level, you can participate in engineer training. If you learn well, you can become an engineer.

If you reach this step, you don’t have to work hard in a factory to smelt iron, but the court will fund it to guide production all over the country.

Otherwise, in this era, people can’t go far away casually, even if they visit relatives and friends, if they exceed a hundred miles of the local area, they must be approved by the relevant local departments and must return within the specified time.

The sky gradually darkened. The paper was dark yellow straw paper, very rough, and there were many spots. Undoubtedly, this was the lowest quality paper. Not only did it not look good, but it also had a pungent smell.

But Feng Shi was very satisfied.

We also have to thank the new country for building several paper mills in a row. Large-scale papermaking was only limited by technology, or in other words, in order to speed up the national literacy, the cost of paper and production efficiency were kept to the lowest.

The papermaking technology of the old dynasty required nearly half a year to produce a batch of good paper.

In the new country, if good paper is produced, it only takes one month. This is certainly not comparable to the modern papermaking which only takes a few hours, but considering the lack of chemical reagents and machine power in this era, even the new country is still in the situation of using water power to drive the machine. Thirty days is already a magical speed.

As for straw paper, because fermentation, pulping and boiling do not need to be so thorough, filtering does not need to be filtered so many times, and it is mixed with by-products produced during iron smelting, the time is compressed to ten days.

Ten days to produce a batch of paper, and several large factories, day and night, this is in a very short time, so that some people who are interested in studying can also afford paper.

Feng Shi also heard about paper from the teacher in the night school, but he did not understand it more deeply.

As for good paper, it is currently only used exclusively for official business of the court. It is said that when more factories are built and the output increases, good paper will also be popularized, but that will be at least a few years later.

As the sky got darker, Feng Shi gestured on the paper and recited quietly to deepen his memory.

The structure of these characters was very simple. They were simplified characters created by General Yingtian to help eliminate blindness. The difficulty of learning them was much lower than that of the traditional characters.

And above the words, there are pinyin, but Feng Shi no longer needs them.

It was not until the sky was so dim that he could not see anything that Feng Shi lit an oil lamp. In this oil lamp, coal tar was extracted when coal was distilled, which was also a by-product of iron smelting.

Because it was produced in the factory, there was no transportation cost, so the merit required for exchange was lower than that outside, which was also a small benefit.

But despite this, Feng Shi was still very frugal.

The burning coal tar gave off a pungent smell, and the smoke made his eyes a little blurry, but he didn't care.

It was not until late at night that Feng Shi fell asleep.

When it was dawn, he took a basin to the riverside and washed himself simply. It was far before the time for the parade to gather, but Feng Shi had already arrived at the gathering point. Although he came very early, there were many people who came earlier than him.

Everyone was excited at this moment, but they were all waiting peacefully, and no one had the idea of ​​starting early.

Because this activity has been reported from the beginning to the end, it is okay to report it half a minute in advance, but if it is reported too early, it will be disciplined and regarded as unorganized and undisciplined. Not only will the person be criticized, but he will also have to review himself in public.