Chapter 785 Women's Technical College
After she took over the Jingcheng Girls' School, she not only reorganized the Jingcheng Girls' School itself, but also the girls' schools at all levels below.
In addition to the affairs of the textile factory, printing factory, and "Qi Ming Xun Bao", she is usually very busy.
She and Zhao Ruxi opened the Women's Technical College with money from the profits of the textile factory, printing factory, and "Qiming Xun Bao". She needed to reconcile the accounts with Zhao Ruxi, and also let Zhao Ruxi take a look at the teaching results of these women's technical colleges.
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She is now particularly proud of the teaching achievements of the Women's Technical College.
"Okay." Zhao Ruxi smiled and said, "Today is late. I will be free from tomorrow onwards. You can make arrangements based on your time."
"Then let's do it tomorrow. Is it convenient for you tomorrow?" Princess Shangde said.
"Can."
"Then I'll come and call you tomorrow."
Princess Shangde talked for a while, took another look at the baby, and then left.
The next day, Zhao Ruxi went to the Women's Technical College with Princess Sangde.
In the original plan of Zhao Ruxi and Princess Sangde, the women's technical college planned to be opened step by step in the same way as the women's academy.
That is to say, we will initially set up one in the capital. After gaining experience and making improvements, we will then spread it to all provincial capitals. After we have the money, we will then spread it to the state capitals, and finally we will set up one in every county.
As for funding, the Women's Technical College is different from the Women's College. The Women's College will charge a certain amount of tuition, and if it is insufficient, the powerful ladies will make donations to maintain it.
The Women's Technical College is a welfare institution, facing lower-class working women. Being free will make people not cherish the opportunity to study, resulting in a waste of manpower and material resources. Therefore, they will also charge tuition fees, but the tuition fees charged are very low. In the end, the tuition fees are very low.
The tuition fees collected will be distributed to female students with excellent academic performance in the form of scholarships.
Therefore, at the beginning of the preparations, Zhao Ruxi proposed that the construction of the college should be funded by the profits of several factories, but the daily expenses would depend on the college's own hematopoietic ability.
She gave an open-source suggestion at the time: when building the college, build shops in areas facing the street and build workshops in areas not facing the street.
The college operates a garment workshop, an embroidery workshop, a printing workshop, and a pastry shop. The finished products of the workshops are sold in shops facing the street. After students complete their studies, they are selected to work in these workshops, and the profits from the workshops are used to maintain the expenses of the college.
As for the printing shop, in addition to printing books that are in high demand on the market, the most important ones are the Qiming Xunbao and the Huaben Serial published by the Zhao family.
These two newspapers were originally only published in the capital city. Now they are published in various places to expand their influence and sell advertising space. Therefore, the newspapers do not charge fees for copyrighted content from various places. Printing houses in various places directly print the sample newspapers sent from the capital.
Come also, the profits from the sales can be used to donate blood to the local Women's Technical College.
"You are here." Seeing the carriage stop, Mrs. Cui came up to her with a smile. When she saw Zhao Ruxi, she bowed, "Cui Wen has met the Crown Princess."
"Master Cui, please be more polite." Zhao Ruxi went over and held her hand, "I have worked hard for you these past two years."
Princess Sang Deok was in charge of the affairs of the women's college, so she gave full power to the construction and establishment of the women's technical college to Mrs. Cui.
Mrs. Cui has been traveling around for the past two years, which has been very hard.
However, Zhao Ruxi found her to be full of energy, looking even younger and energetic than when she first met Mrs. Cui at Beining Women's College.
I think I have found a greater direction for my efforts.
"Look, although we spent a little more money when we bought the land, it was worth it to get such a large row of shops. In addition to the three shops we use to sell our own products, the others can be rented out.
Although the rent is not as high as the profit of running a workshop, it is better than stability." Mrs. Cui pointed to a row of eight or nine shops and said.
The Women's Technical College in the capital caters to lower-class working women, so the site selection was on the edge of Beicheng. The land price is not expensive, but the flow of people on this side of the street is not small. The things sold in the shops are not expensive, regardless of the price.
Whether it is a ready-made clothing shop or an embroidery workshop, it deals with the middle and lower class people.
"I think the business is pretty good." Zhao Ruxi saw people coming and going in the shop. Every woman came out of the shop with more or less something in her hands.
"It's not bad." Mrs. Cui's smile became even brighter, "Thanks to your suggestion, our clothes are cheaper than other clothes shops and the quality is good, so they are very popular."
The garments in the garment shop are patterned according to the large, medium and small sizes provided by Zhao Ruxi, and are produced in batches on the assembly line. In addition, the cloth is provided by the textile factory at the ex-factory price, so the profit margin is still considerable.
The college's shops are not only good at the garment shop, but also at the pastry shop.
No matter how good their skills are, cooks have little status in society. They cannot work as master chefs in restaurants, so they can only work as cooks in wealthy families. Even if they don't sell themselves, they still need to sign a living contract and they belong to the servants.
But if you join a women's technical college and become a wife, your status will be different. It can be said that your status will be raised a lot.
Therefore, at that time, the Women's Technical College let out the news and said that it wanted to hire highly skilled cooks. Many cooks with excellent cooking skills quietly came out to apply for the job. After being hired, they went to the master to redeem themselves.
Because the Women's Technical College was co-founded by Princess Shangde and Princess Qi, the owners did not dare to hold people captive.
Fortunately, the college did not require many cooks, only five or six, so it did not cause much impact.
Because the cook with the best cooking skills was selected as the master, the pastry shop in the college naturally did a good business.
Only the business of the embroidery workshop is average. After all, students' embroidery products cannot be compared with those of professional embroiderers. They only have lower prices.
As for the printing shop, it has been canceled here in Beijing.
And because the capital has a large population and stronger spending power than the local area, the three workshops and shops, as well as the rent of these shops, are enough to maintain the expenses of the Capital Women's Technical College.
After looking at the shops, Zhao Ruxi followed Mrs. Cui into the college. She was very satisfied when she saw the well-organized teaching area, dormitory area, canteen, and the smiles on the faces of the female students.
"Are you having any trouble recruiting students?" she asked.
Women's Technical College is different from women's academy. It recruits students from a very wide age range, from thirteen to thirty years old. Anyone with sound limbs and normal IQ can be admitted after passing the examination and paying low fees.
The duration of study can also be long or short. It can be divided into one month, three months, half a year and three years.
"Of course." Mrs. Cui didn't hide it. "It's okay for the unmarried ones; for those who are married, there are many mothers-in-law at home whose husbands don't agree with her studying, and some of them directly come to the academy."
Chapter completed!