Be a matchmaker in an otome game

Chapter 400 The first lesson of school

The first day of school soon arrived.

Since there is no age limit for enrollment in this school, there are students of all ages. The youngest ones like Anna are only five or six years old, and the older ones are in their thirties or forties.

It's not nice to sit in the classroom in a mess.

Riley then directed them to change seats, with the younger ones sitting in the front and the older ones sitting in the back. It took a while before they settled down.

"Everyone, we meet again." Riley sat on the podium and said with a smile. The students here have all heard him teach literacy and arithmetic, and he has an impression of every face.

Everyone respectfully called him teacher.

Riley said: "Today is the first day of school and the first class. I don't have to teach this class."

Just when everyone was wondering who was going up if it wasn't Riley, Felissa stepped in from the door.

"Miss Felicia?" Someone blurted out in surprise, and then quickly covered his mouth.

"It's me," Felissa nodded and stood on the podium, "I will teach you the first lesson of school."

The students felt very strange and excited at first. After all, Felissa was a noble after all. But after thinking about it, it was not surprising. After all, the school was run by Felissa, and she always had to say a few words to prove her

Her existence made them grateful to her.

Felissa had already prepared a plan: "Hello everyone, in today's class, I'm here to talk to you about why I want to open this school."

Sure enough, some people thought to themselves that she must be showing mercy, saying that she did all this for the common people and wanted them to sacrifice their lives for her.

However, Felissa said calmly: "I am doing it for Cliff City and also for Viscount Cliff."

Huh? Why is it different from what was expected?

"You all know that after you learn to read and arithmetic, you will have more jobs to choose from, and the income of jobs that require reading and arithmetic will definitely be higher than that of pure physical work."

The students nodded one after another. Except for Anna, who was too young, the children around ten years old already knew a lot about the world. Of course, they knew that purely physical work was the least profitable, and that handicraft work was better, but they were willing to put their craftsmanship into practice.

There are not many people who can teach, and the most profitable thing is to work in the city lord's mansion.

"Let me give you an example, just like the new employees I hired in the hospital this time, did they increase the income of the family?"

Felissa recruits all women. These women usually can't find work. They can only do some laundry work. With the hospital as a stable source of income, the quality of life will improve a lot.

“So where will the increased revenue go?”

Although the answer is obvious, most people don't dare to answer it, which makes Anna's milky voice particularly loud: "Buy meat!"

Anna remembers clearly that on the day the admission notice was posted, her mother bought a lot of meat and cooked a big meal. Anna still recalls the taste of the meat she ate that day.

"What Anna said is right," Felissa confirmed, "then has the income of the butcher stall owner also increased? Because consumers who usually don't eat much meat decided to improve their meals because of the increase in their income.

The stall owner directly profits. In order to supply so many people's demand for meat, the butcher stall owner will buy more meat from the pig killing farm to sell, and the pig killing farm will sell more pigs. The money changes hands so many times.

, taxes will be generated, and the taxes will eventually go to Cliff City."

This interlocking relationship made all the students stunned. They had never thought about this, but if they think about it carefully, it is indeed the case.

Students whose families own shops quickly reacted: "However, the increase in income of only a few people does not make the butcher stall owner willing to take the risk of killing one more pig."

After all, if the meat can’t be sold out on the same day, it won’t taste good.

Felissa nodded: "So we want many people to make more money." The more people make money, the more people are willing to eat meat.

The same student from the shop answered: "But even if everyone can read and write, there won't be that many jobs."

Due to the nature of society, most people still conduct collective activities as a family unit. If there is any good thing, the first thing they think of is to find someone in the family to do it together. It is difficult for outsiders to join in.

Unless you are like Richard, you don’t have enough people at home, so you want to recruit people from outside.

Felissa glanced at the student and suddenly asked: "What's your name? What does your family do?"

The student who was asked immediately replied: "My name is Michael, and my family owns a cloth shop."

Felissa knew who he was. The largest cloth store in Cliff City was owned by his family. She probably saw Richard ascending to heaven and wanted to get close to Felissa, so she sent such a young man in his twenties here.

After all, according to their family's background, Michael has learned everything he should learn and is good at reading and arithmetic. There is no point in going to school here.

Felissa ordered him to come up, then handed him a stack of papers and asked him to give two to each person.

After the paper was handed out, Felissa said: "This is the paper I asked people to research. Michael, what do you think of this paper?"

Michael replied thoughtfully: "It's very ordinary. It feels much worse than the paper I usually use."

"If the price were ten copper coins to buy a hundred pieces of paper, would you buy it?"

Michael replied without hesitation: "I will buy it."

He would feel distressed for a long time if he lost even one piece of ordinary paper, because there were only fifty pieces of paper with one hundred copper coins, which meant two copper coins for one piece of paper, and ten pieces of such paper could be bought for one copper coin.

He wouldn't even blink.

Felissa then placed an advertisement for the paper-making workshop: "His Excellency the Viscount has decided to set up a paper-making workshop and needs to recruit workers. In addition to supplying the paper to schools, it will also be sold."

The key points that everyone heard were different. Some heard that the workshop was recruiting workers, while others heard that the paper was going to be sold.

Michael was obviously thinking more: "You mean, if you want everyone to make more money, just create new products?"

Different backgrounds determine different horizons. Michael's family's cloth shop not only sells cloth, but also has a weaving and dyeing factory. He knows very well that a stable supply of goods is the basis for doing business, so he quickly

I understood what Felissa meant.

Felicia smiled slightly: "Of course, the premise is that you can develop new products."

How can researching a new product be so easy? Thomas was able to research and produce the paper so quickly because Felicia knew the direction in advance and asked them to explore bit by bit and eliminate wrong answers one by one. This paper has not been used yet.

But no matter what research you do, you must at least be able to write. How can you record the reasons for failure if you can't write? Some research also requires arithmetic.

In fact, Michael was vaguely aware of these truths, but no one told him in a systematic way. Now after listening to Felissa's words, he has a deep understanding.

The school founded by Felissa seems to be to let the common people learn to read and write, but in the end it is Viscount Cliff who benefits. No matter what kind of new product, as long as it can form a trading market, it will eventually need to collect taxes.

(End of chapter)