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For example, those textile workers from Fusang are particularly popular with factory owners because of their low salary requirements.

Those native women who lost their jobs because of this, are very hostile to these foreigners.

Of course, while they are despising foreigners, they are being despised by the people in the city.

To be precise, it is the urbanites in Nanjing and Shanghai who despise the rural folks.

In other places, because the development is not so rapid, this contradiction has not been highlighted.

But in Nanjing and Shanghai, it is already a little serious.

Shanghai, Huating County.

A little boy about ten years old came home with a schoolbag and said to his father, "Dad, our principal said that we will start paying tuition fees for school next year."

"What, didn't you say it's free?"

The man put down the bicycle chain in his hand and asked.

In Shanghai, primary and secondary schools have always been free, and only a lunch fee is charged.

The poor can even bring their own food to school for literally nothing.

Otherwise, Wei Dalang would not have brought his two children to live in Shanghai.

Wei Dalang is just an ordinary mechanic, and his wife is just an ordinary textile worker. This kind of income can be used to hang up the old folks in his hometown, but it is impossible to live in Shanghai.

They cannot afford accommodation in the city and live in Huating County, where rents are relatively cheap.

Not only do they have to rush to work every day, but even their two children need to start their journeys at 5 a.m. to go to school.

Even so, they persisted.

They want to give their children a better education and better knowledge.

Staying in the countryside and playing in the mud will make it much harder to be successful in the future.

However, now the child says that the school has to charge fees, which gives him a headache and makes his family, which is not rich, even worse.

"I don't know, anyway, people with Shanghai hukou can continue to be free, and those of us from the countryside will be charged."

Wei Xiaobao was also angry. Usually, he was discriminated against by the people in the city. Now they are not allowed to go to school and cut off his future, which is really embarrassing.

"Why, there is such a reason?"

Wei Dalang was immediately angry, this is not bullying outsiders.

On the second day, Wei Dalang and several people who shared the same anger as him came to the school to ask for an explanation.

The school dared to promulgate such a regulation, of course, is a bit emboldened, this cannot be a decision made by the brainless.

The principal said: "This school is a private school, not funded by the government, but a school that Jiang and several other masters donated money to run.

It is a kindness to you that they are willing to accept your children to study for free, and it is also reasonable not to accept your children. Even if you make trouble with the government, it is also Master Jiang and the others who will take care of you. "

In a word, these migrant workers are speechless.

Most of them are honest peasants. Those rich people don't bully them, they are thankful, how can they dare to play rogues and take advantage of the old rich.

As soon as they heard this, their momentum weakened.

Even they themselves feel that the school owes them nothing.

"However, there must be a reason why it was free before, but not now."

Wei Dalang said something reluctantly.

"Yes, yes."

Others chimed in.

"The reason? The reason is too simple. You villagers, desperately sending your children to our school, our school is so big, how can we hold so many people.

If you don’t send the children, our teacher only needs to teach ten children. If you send all the children here, they will teach thirty children by themselves. The children of those masters can’t get a better education.

Plus you kids in the countryside, all of you are naughty, don't study hard, and make two of our teachers angry..."

The principal said a lot, both true and false.

At least, children in the city are more naughty than those in the countryside, and they don't study hard.

The reason why the school does this is actually very simple.

Those local people are unbalanced in their hearts. They feel that it is the local old rich man who donated money, so the various resources of this school should also belong to the local people.

Now a large number of rural children come to compete with their children for learning resources, of course they are not happy.

In addition, those children from the countryside study very hard, and those themselves are worried that their children will be inferior to those from the countryside in the future.

It is naturally impossible for Shengdou common people to consider problems from the height of the whole country, they only care about their own little interests.

So those locals put pressure on schools to reduce the number of out-of-town students.

It just so happened that the principal of this school was also a local, so he naturally agreed without hesitation.

He is also very smart, and he did not directly say that students from other places are not allowed to come to the school, otherwise he would leave a story to others.

He just said that too many students increased the school's expenses, and in order to maintain the normal operation of the school, he charged tuition fees to foreign students.

He knew that as long as tuition was charged, a large number of families would not be able to afford it and would be forced to take their children away.

What the principal said made sense, but Wei Dalang and the others couldn't say it at all.

But they are not reconciled. Although they are a group of uneducated people, it is precisely because they do not

culture, so they are more aware of the importance of knowledge.

To deprive their children of educational opportunities, they certainly would not agree.

They don't know what correct means to use to achieve their goals, so they can only react instinctively.

Some people shouted that it was unfair, some people knelt down and begged the principal for mercy, and some people went to find a way to raise money.

"Stop arguing, I'll show you a clear way to go to Shanghai No. 1 Middle School opposite. It's a government-run school and it's free."

said the principal.

These people heard that there was still a way, and hurriedly went to the city No. 1 Middle School opposite.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Zhipeng, the principal of No.1 Middle School, had a big head.

He didn't reject these country folks, but the problem was that City No. 1 Middle School was so big and had so many teachers, so he couldn't accept so many students all at once.

Moreover, he still belongs to the staff of the imperial court, and he cannot reject these students like private schools.

After all, the laws of the imperial court stipulated that every child has the right to receive education.

In desperation, Zhao Zhipeng could only appease the migrant workers while reporting to the top and applying for more education funds.

Whether it's expanding the school or hiring more teachers, it's not a small expense.