Chapter 185

Seeing that Wu Jin didn’t have any objections, Yu Bing continued, “Ever since the factory recruited more people, everyone has become proactive! I want to take the opportunity to set up a night school so that everyone can learn how to read. Then, we’ll go to the second-hand market in the city to buy some books related to agricultural farming and set up a small library in the village. On the one hand, it’s to let everyone read and consolidate their knowledge. On the other hand, I hope that everyone can learn more knowledge. After all, knowledge is power!”

Yu Bing had to let him see the benefits, so she said, “Everyone will learn planting and breeding techniques from books. Perhaps they can really double the production of our village! At that time, under your wise leadership, everyone will embark on a new path to becoming rich. Our village will go from being the poorest village to the richest village.”

Wu Jin teased, “Are you planning to instill the importance of knowledge in everyone?”

Yu Bing smiled and said, “I didn’t instill it. The importance of knowledge has been passed down for thousands of years.”

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Wu Jin smiled and shook his head. “Being literate is a good thing. You can acquire knowledge and learn the ways of the world. I support you!”

Previously, there were cadres in the village who had mentioned establishing night schools. After all, there were so many intellectuals in the village. Any one of them could teach the villagers a lot of things.

However, Sun Wang refused no matter what. He was worried that after the villagers learned how to read, they would understand basic legal knowledge, so he would be restricted in his actions. He was worried that as long as he did anything that harmed the collective interests of the village, the villagers would pull him down from his position as the village chief.

This was something Sun Wang didn’t want to see, so he kept using all kinds of excuses to threaten everyone. In the end, this matter was left unsettled, and he became the overlord of the village.

However, Wu Jin wasn’t a despicable person like Sun Wang. He would support anything that was good for the village!

After the two of them discussed the salary of the teacher, the matter of opening a night school was settled.

Yu Bing prepared to start looking for a night school teacher. She would set an hour of lecture time every night. This wasn’t too long or short, so the villagers wouldn’t think that studying was too boring.

Compared to the literacy class and other night schools that focused on literacy, Yu Bing hoped to make the class more interesting so that everyone could learn more knowledge besides simply acquiring literacy!

Most importantly, Yu Bing also hoped that the intellectuals could take the opportunity to pick up their studies. The college entrance examination would resume next year, but she couldn’t reveal the future. After all, this topic was still a sensitive political topic.

They could only use the excuse of night school to let everyone learn first. Because the college entrance examination had been terminated for ten years, the country didn’t know everyone’s level of knowledge very well. Therefore, the first year the college entrance examination was resumed, the questions were easier. The more Yu Bing thought about it, the more she felt that she, the captain of the intellectual team, was too competent!

After dinner, Yu Bing and Jiang Chun arrived at the intellectual youth dormitory together. The captains of the male and female teams had already gathered everyone in the hall on the first floor in advance.

Everyone sat upright with small stools. Yu Bing stood at the front. After scanning the surroundings, she said, “I gathered everyone here today to announce a major piece of news. Our village is preparing to open a night school!”

When this news came out, everyone was stunned.

Yu Bing continued, “Our night school will teach for an hour a day for the entire village. Whether it’s men, women, old, or young, anyone can come to listen. The scope of our teaching isn’t just literacy. I hope there will be some small innovations as well. For example, whoever is good at physics can do some small physics experiments to reveal the physics principles used by the villagers and let us villagers experience what scientific knowledge is.”

“I won’t let everyone work for nothing. Everyone will get a small reward. Whoever has class that day will be the registrar who registers the farm equipment that day.”

In this day and age, there was no such thing as private land. The land was owned by the country, and everything belonged to the country. The collective could be a village or a unit. Everything was managed and distributed uniformly, including farm equipment. Everyone went to the warehouse to collect them before they went to work and had to return them when they got off work. Therefore, the registrar was in charge of receiving, sending, and registering. His job was very easy.