"Yuanzhao, Uncle Wu and others are kind. When you were established, you made so many concessions, but you just asked them to learn. Why didn't they take it seriously? What's more, there are flour mills and brick mills that rely on your machines now, and they are even more attentive than they were at the beginning!"

Yang Yuanzhao was puzzled and asked with a little puzzled look: "Then why is this result? The literacy rate is still so low now?"

Liu Shu smiled bitterly and said, "I started to be in the hilarious world since I was six years old and have been studying for more than ten years. It is the current state. It takes me a few years to achieve it. These are just ignorant farmers. If you want to read, the difficulty is not ordinary, especially at this age, which is even more difficult! Since you left, Uncle Wu and Uncle Zhao have started teaching, and even hired 7 scholars to teach together. In more than a month, only 5 people have received 15 kilograms of white flour."

"The five people, although there are a little fewer, have achieved results. With such demonstration effects, I think these workers should have worked hard to learn!"

"They gave up because the five people who got the flour were all working in the store and were very knowledgeable about writing. They also knew three or four hundred words. With this foundation, 500 words were easy to achieve, but for illiterate who was not self-literate, the requirement of 500 words was too high. Although 15 kilograms of white flour was very large, no one was willing to continue learning when it was completely impossible to achieve. Now, no one learned it anymore!"

Yang Yuanzhao didn't expect that this was the result. He opened his mouth but didn't say a word. It was really not easy to literate. Otherwise, when the future life was liberated, it would not be regarded as an important task.

"Or, just stop for a while. This is wasted. The workers' day's fatigue is already enough, and they still have to study!"

"Stop, absolutely not!" Yang Yuanzhao's head shook like a rattle, and he decisively rejected it.

"But……"

Yang Yuanzhao interrupted Liu Shu, frowned, and said, "Then we still have to continue. I'll go over and take a look in a few days!"

"Hey, I really don't know what you are thinking. It's really thankless to let them literate!"

Looking at Liu Shu who was nagging, Yang Yuanzhao had no way to talk about it. Industrialization not only requires a large number of machines, financial resources, and raw materials, but also countless industrial workers. Illiterate can be a worker and a good worker, but illiterate has no future for development. Yang Yuanzhao wants a new generation of workers, not only knowing knowledge and studying, but also developing continuously. Only in this way can a huge industrial zone be built in a barren land like Baotou in a few years, and only by seizing the favorable opportunity in the next few years and recovering the lost time in China.

After knowing the literacy situation of Baotou workers, Yang Yuanzhao didn't have time to check it out at this time. Literacy is very important, but the cement factory in front of him is even more important. This is the first large mechanized industrial enterprise in Baotou in the true sense, flour mill and brick and tile factory. In a certain sense, it can only be considered a small workshop. In later generations, ordinary villages and towns, and even some villagers could start production by purchasing some machines.

Cement plants are completely different, use more machines, have very high degree of automation, and have no knowledge reserves or mastery of some technology, which is too difficult.

Yang Yuanzhao looked at the information on hand and said that this was the bottom of Baoken Company. Most of the people were from Baotou, and a small number of them were from other places. He thought for a long time before asking, "Can all these people be summoned?"

Liu Shu nodded and said, "Yes, I have recorded their address in detail, and some of them have been temporarily settled. If you want it, you can let them report tomorrow, but your factory is still in ruins?"

"It is precisely because of the ruins that I want to gather them now. Modern factories cannot be produced casually, but just a trial production, which will take at least a few months. This is still a situation of complete preparations!"

"It will take so long?" Liu Shu was stunned. The only factories he knew were from Taiyuan, as well as flour mills and brick factories in front of him. These two factories that were valuable and worth a lot of money every day. In his opinion, as long as the machines were installed and the personnel were in place, they would continue to produce. It was not expected that the ash field would be so difficult.

In fact, as far as Yang Yuanzhao knows, it will take a while for a cement factory to be completed even in later generations. Among them, the process of running-in and trial production is as short as three to five months, or as many as one or two years. There are as many as a thousand people, with various machines and hundreds of huge factories. It takes a lot of time to run-in, not to mention that in 1908, in China, which was poor and abandoned, it takes a long time to initially gather all the workers.

"By the way, Liu Shu, when will the workers recruited through the Yang family and the Wei family be able to be in place?"

Liu Shu casually searched in the pile of documents, and then said: "According to yesterday's news, they have already gotten off the bus in Taiyuan and are heading here with the help of the Yang family caravan!"

Yang Yuanzhao walked this path. If it was fast, it would take more than 2 days. If it was slow, it would take only three days at most. After pondering for a while, he said, "Brother Zelin, next, I will leave the personnel matters to you. I will give you two days of buffering time. When the personnel recruited outside arrive, I will start training!"

"Okay!" Liu Shu nodded. After all, there were still 2 days left, which was not too nervous for him.

After leaving Baoken Company, which is still crowded, there are at least a few thousand people outside Baoken Company at this time. Unfortunately, it is impossible to recruit all of these people, so they can only be carefully selected.

Yang Yuanzhao left Baoken Company and did not return to his residence. Instead, he went to his previous yard. After leaving, the yard expanded a little. Part of it was used as a warehouse and part of it as a steel structure to be studied. In fact, the steel structure is really simple. With enough steel, electric welding, and a little bit of mechanical knowledge, the high-rise building cannot be built, and one or two floors of buildings are still possible.

When he walked into the room, a wave of heat came. In the closed room, there was a unique smell of electric welding. Several blacksmiths were still concentrating on the experiment. There were about a dozen structures of different sizes on the shelves. These were calculated by Yang Yuanzhao based on the memories of later generations and computers. After reducing the proportions, he used a certain amount of pressure to determine them gradually.

When Yang Yuanzhao entered the room, the strong man who was operating the welding was operating the electric welding. When he heard the movement, he stood up. Yang Yuanzhao asked him: "Qian Hu, how are you doing? Are you familiar with it?"

Qian Hu is the leader among the remaining blacksmiths. Although the blacksmith has not very good skills, he is flexible and has a strong ability to accept. He is the best one to master the steel structure and is also well used for electric welding.

"Boss, I'm familiar with it. If I give us enough materials, I can build one now!" Qian Hu said indifferently.

It has been almost a month since they studied steel structures. They have been tossing and turning, familiar with electric welding, familiar with the nodes and support points between steel structures, in order to establish the steel structure houses in the wilderness. Now it is finally time for them to move.

After checking Qian Hu's works, it is related to the architecture and cannot tolerate any of Ma Hu. The steel provided by Yang Yuanzhao is not ordinary iron or steel structures in later generations. He was Yang Yuanzhao through screening and selected the best welding effect, the strongest structure, and the best flexibility. Some of them are special materials in BMW engines. In later generations, due to the cost, it is impossible to use ordinary steel structures. There is an all-in-one machine. As long as there are enough materials, these things can still be produced.

The 3-level all-in-one machine can only have a steel structure of 2 meters long, which may be quite complicated. Under Yang Yuanzhao's exquisite design, a house with a length of about 6 meters can reach a length of about 6 meters. It is not as spacious as the steel structure in later generations, but it is also sufficient to use it. At least, small rooms and enough support will make the house stronger.
Chapter completed!