The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 30 Western Books
For example, some wealthy families in the south will not only invite teachers to teach them, but also invite another teacher to teach Confucian classics and crafts.

Bailu Academy is the county school in the county, and it is only for the students in the county to study. The so-called students are commonly known as scholars.Therefore, other students are generally not recruited here.

Otherwise, with Mr. Zhu's knowledge, Bai Jiaxuan would definitely talk badly, let his two sons go to Bailu Academy and listen to Mr. Zhu's teachings, how could Xu Xiucai come to teach...

However, with the invasion of the Qing Dynasty by foreign barbarians, the Qing court was also forced to make concessions in some systems.

Many old academies have been converted into schools.

For example, Guanzhong Academy, one of the four major academies in Guanzhong, was also the place where people entered the bank after being tempted to become catering students. Now it is also renamed the First Normal School in Qin Province. It not only recruits students, but also begins to add practical studies. Practical students do not need to be students...

(Ru Pan, "Book of Rites King System": "The Taixue is in the suburbs, the emperor is called Piyong, and the princes are called Pan Palace." The name of Taixue existed in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Taixue as the highest institution of learning, Pan Palace It is a local (vassal) official school, so these students are often called Rupan when they enter school.)
Zishui County is barren and remote, and the new school has not yet been restructured, so Bailu Academy is still called Bailu Academy, and some non-students can be enrolled.

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Just now when Bai Jiaxuan left in a hurry, Bai Gui immediately realized that this should be a gift for Bai Jiaxuan to buy as an apprentice.With Bai Jiaxuan as a person, he would definitely prepare a copy for them when buying gifts.

They are not officially apprentices, but just let Mr. Zhu teach them how to make art, so they only need to buy some gifts, and there is no need to prepare a separate ceremony for the ceremony.

but……

Bai Gui has tasted the benefits of respecting a teacher.

If there was no comparison between his five liters of polished rice and five liters of brown rice, no matter how loyal Xu Xiucai was to his teacher, he would not be impatient to give him a small lesson.

With Xu Xiucai's status, five liters of polished rice is nothing, he has no shortage of food and clothing.

But what is missing is respect.

"A suggestion, with the money we have on us, we don't need to buy the most expensive gifts for the husband, but pick some pens, ink, paper and inkstones, or books for the husband. This is also our own heart as disciples..."

Bai Gui swallowed a mouthful of the noodles, took a sip of the hot soup, and said.

"That's a good idea."

Several people agree.

"I know what Uncle E likes. We'll wait for Dad to come back later and we'll go over and pick books together." Bai Xiaowen thought for a while, and took the opportunity to say that his uncle was so valued by his classmates, and he was also happy in his heart.

After a while, Bai Jiaxuan walked into the food shop carrying a large and small bag.

"What? You use your own money to pick some gifts for Mr. Zhu. Is that good? You are indeed a good doll in our Bailu Village." Bai Jiaxuan smiled and opened his eyes. Whether it was sincere or false, he could realize this. Point is not bad.

Everything is discussed regardless of the heart.

On the way to the bookstore.

After knowing that this was Bai Gui's idea, Bai Jiaxuan also praised Bai Gui lavishly, thinking that he had given them a good start, and took out a snack for them to share.

Bai Gui visited the book shop in Bailu Town several times to buy paper and pens.The bookstores in the town only have the Four Books and Five Classics with the largest circulation, and Zhu Xi's "Four Books Chapters and Sentences", and some current affairs essays, as well as medical books are extremely scarce.

The name of the bookstore in the county is Wenchang Bookstore, and the plaque painted with gold is erected.

Close to the Confucian Temple, standing at the door of the book shop, you can smell the incense in the Confucian Temple.

"Crossing this street to the west is the Shanxi Guild Hall, and Jin Province is to the northeast of us." Bai Jiaxuan squinted his eyes, and glanced at the tall courtyard wall of the Shanxi Guild Hall, standing out from a group of low buildings.

Looking at the surrounding buildings at a glance, the Shanxi Guild Hall must be the first to attract attention.

"Patriarch, we also have a Shanxi guild hall here?"

"Well, I heard that Shanxi merchants are very good at doing business, and it is unlikely that they will open the hall to us."

Bai Gui was puzzled.

Shanxi merchants were not only famous in the late Ming Dynasty, but also in the late Qing Dynasty.Shanxi merchants relied on their mastery of the tea trade in the Qing Dynasty to sell tea to the Luocha Kingdom. This is another newly opened tea road after the Silk Road was cut off.During the Kangxi and Qianlong years, Shanxi merchants made a lot of money by selling tea, but with the signing of a series of traitorous treaties such as the Aihui Treaty, the Qing Dynasty reduced and exempted Russian merchants from tariffs, and at the same time the development of the Siberia Railway, plus The Qing Dynasty forced Shanxi merchants to donate apportioned silver. It can be said that the apportioned silver for the eradication of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom accounted for 37% of the merchants in Jin Province. Shanxi merchants donated more than 200 million taels of silver, which hurt their vitality...

By the Guangxu period, Shanxi merchants had become lonely.

In addition, Shanxi merchants and Shanxi merchants have always had a good relationship, and there are new Shanxi guild halls in various places.

What Bai Gui doubted was that Zishui County is a barren land, and it would be more suitable to open the Shanxi Guild Hall in Chang'an City. Of course, there must be a Shanxi Guild Hall in Chang'an City. He just wondered why the Shanxi Guild Hall opened in Zishui County. or something.

He will also be involved in business in the future.

Among the people who are best at doing business in each province, people from Jin Province are definitely in the top three.

"This... this is the silk and cloth we collect here."

Bai Jiaxuan laughed and refused to say more. He used to go to the Shanxi Guild Hall, but since Mr. Zhu almost smashed the archway in Bailu Village, he stopped doing this business.

You can't tell the truth to the dolls.

Since Grandpa Lin banned smoking, although some people planted it, everyone knew that it was a disaster, ruining the fortune of the ancestors and affecting the business of the next generation.

You must know that he planted this thing at that time. After Bai Xiaowen and Bai Xiaowu were born, the Bai Wu family gave birth to three boys and one girl every year according to the ratio of one or two every three years, but none of them escaped the bad luck of four or six, that is, four or six winds. , the baby died.The death process of the four children was exactly the same. They began to cry on the fourth day of life, rolled their eyes on the sixth day, hung themselves, and died!

It was not until the crops were replanted that the third son, Calf, was born and escaped the four or six winds.

"So it is."

Although Bai Gui was curious and had some doubts in his heart, it was not easy to study further.What Bai Jiaxuan said is also reasonable. Shaanxi merchants have always been engaged in textile technology, which is quite famous throughout the country and has always been a pillar industry.

But his intuition told him that Bai Jiaxuan must be telling lies.

However, it was not easy for him to inquire. Anyway, he was in Zishui County during this period of time, so he would know one day.

Entered the bookstore.

The bookshops in the county are indeed more than twice as grand as the ones in the town. Not only do they have the four treasures of the study of various qualities, but among them the jade pens and inkstones carved from jade that are abundant in Zishui County are the most exquisite and luxurious. Fine rice paper as white as snow.

In addition to these standing four treasures of the study, there is no shortage of other four books and five classics, historical books and albums.

There is even a separate section, in which are placed foreign language classics that have been translated, sometimes the best-selling Huxley's "Evolution of Heaven", translated by Yan Fu, and "New Treatise on the Whole Body" written by an English doctor about Western medicine. ", there are also "Questions and Answers on Astronomy" by Haba Ande, a missionary in the country of Amei, "A Brief Introduction to Heavy Learning" jointly translated by Wei Lie Yali and Wang Tao, "Outline of World History" jointly translated by Yang Shu and Zhang Xiu, and "Chemical Interpretation of the original "and so on.

(End of this chapter)