The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 55 The Immortals Picking Beans
After resting in Bailu Village for a few days, Zhou Yuan from Pangjia Village in Nanyuan came to Bailu Village and invited them to go to Chang'an City together, so they had a companion on the way.

Those who came with Zhou Yuan were not only the groom who drove the carriage, but also an eleven or twelve-year-old girl who was young and beautiful and had no bound feet.This should have something to do with the Zhou family doing business in the city.

The three agreed and packed their bags together.

When he was about to leave the house, Bai Youde was a little bit reluctant. He touched Bai Gui's smooth forehead and said nothing more.

When they walked to Yuanxia, ​​Bai Guipo was surprised that Lu Zilin and Liu Mouer rushed over and gave him the half-big black horse that he had been raising in the stable, saying that he was familiar with it. The newly hired groom couldn't raise the fat he had raised at that time.If he hadn't seen a dark horse that was stronger than a few months ago, Bai Gui might have believed this nonsense.

A carriage, followed by several strong horses.

Going to a high school to study and study is not just teaching Western learning. People from rich and noble families will prepare horses, and when they go to the school, teachers will teach them how to ride horses.Speaking of which, riding a horse is also one of the six Confucian arts, namely, ritual, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics.

This can also be regarded as a characteristic of the Northwest. It is located in a frontier area, and wars have continued for thousands of years.Basically, wealthy households with a little wealth in the Guanzhong area can ride horses.

"Is this the third girl from your family?"

Bai Xiaowen sat on the shaft of the carriage, leaning against the door of the carriage, and said with a suppressed smile.He still remembered that when he was in spring, Zhou Yuan said that he would betroth his younger sister to Bai Gui as his wife.

However, he also knows some etiquettes. Men and women are not allowed to kiss each other. Although the feudal ethics at this time are not as strong as in the past, if gossip ruins the chastity of a daughter's family, it is not a good thing.

So he spoke in code words.

Only a few men present knew about this.

"My younger sister originally hired Mr. Xixi to teach at home, but a few days ago I went home and told my dad about the government examination. My dad felt that times have changed now, and my daughter's house can't stay at home all day long. at home……"

"So I inquired about the girls' schools in the city, and planned to send my younger sister to Yage Girls' School to study, lest her future husband's family dislike her for being uneducated."

Zhou Yuan said carefully with his words.He is going to study in the provincial capital, and he has to get rid of the habit of speaking in tongues all the time, otherwise the students in the higher school will laugh at him.

Talking about dialects once in a while will enhance the nostalgia.But if you keep talking, you will inevitably be looked down upon.

Yage Girls' School is the first private girls' school opened in Qin Province five years ago.

Following the defeat of the Two Crows, missionaries came to China to preach. For the convenience of preaching, they often established church schools. For example, the first girls' school in the Qing Dynasty was the Ningbo Girls' School founded by the English female missionary Edward in Ningbo.

For example, in 1868, the Qing court and Ameiken State stipulated in the seventh provision of the "Renewal Treaty", that Ameiken people could establish schools in places where Westerners lived.

Zhou Yuan's ignorance here also needs to be put in quotation marks, and only some of the Four Books and Five Classics don't seem to be considered literate now.

"Isn't it considered literate to ask a teacher to study?"

Bai Xiaowen was taken aback.

In this way, he seems to be almost illiterate.

"Different!"

Bai Gui, who was learning how to ride a horse, shook his head, "Many overseas students who come back from studying abroad are unwilling to marry at home. The girls who are engaged may not be uneducated, but they are not of Western culture. We can't chat with them." Go, brother Zhou must have thought the same way, nowadays, anyone with a little wealth will send their children to study abroad, and when they come back..."

He paused, "High status! Get promoted quickly!"

For example, in 1871, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang proposed in the "Regulations for Discussion on the Selection of Young Children to Study in the United States" that: "After 15 years, [-] students will return to China every year, and the committee members stationed in foreign countries will list their individual directors. After listening to it, send it to use, and play the rewards, ranks, and errands respectively..."

There is also the 1904 "Regulations for Rewarding Graduates of Study Tours", etc., which have given great convenience to these international students who have returned from studying abroad. They only need a certain assessment to be able to be an official.

Therefore, if conditions permit, they will work hard to let their children study abroad in the West.At this time, going to study in the European powers is the first class, it is the second class to study in the country of Ameiken, and the third class is to study in Japan.

"Yes, my father also has this consideration."

"That's why I let him go to Yage Girls' School to study."

Zhou Yuan paused, and pondered.

On the one hand, he didn't say that he wanted his sister to marry a good husband-in-law. Going to a women's school would undoubtedly add to his resume. When talking about marriage in the future, the threshold will be much higher.

After some girls learn it, they become a preparatory school for officials' wives.

As soon as he graduated, he was looted!

Which marshal does not marry a female student, it is as if he is a head shorter than others in his life.

"I heard from my father that there have been several cases of marriage abandonment in the city. Those daughters whose marriages were repentant couldn't bear the accusations of others and died!"

"The reason why you go with me is so that I can take care of her."

Zhou Yuan sighed.

"Maybe who will take care of whom!"

The girl on Wednesday in the carriage popped her head out from the curtain, her cheeks blushed, she gritted her teeth and said to Zhou Yuan.

Several people suddenly laughed.

From Bailu Village to the provincial capital, there are several roads, but at the moment everyone is taking the road of Chang'an County.Chang'an County is located in the south of the provincial capital, and is the cultural and educational center of Jingzhaofu. Most of the higher education institutions, such as Jingzhaofu School, Guanzhong Academy, Chang'an County School, Xianning County School, and Confucian Temple are all located in the southwest.

In Tang Dynasty, Chang'an County and Wannian County were Fuguo County of Chang'an.

The current Wannian County is called Xianning County, which was abolished in later generations, and most of them are Beilin District, which is the Confucian Temple of Jingzhao Mansion.

Chang’an City in the Tang Dynasty basically included Chang’an County and Wannian County, with Zhuque Street as the dividing line. However, at the end of Tang Dynasty, Tang Zhaozong was carried to Luoyang by Zhu Wen, and Tang Chang’an City was also demolished by the stationed Jiedushi. Most of the residents were moved to Tanghuang City.

The current Ming city wall was built separately based on the Tang imperial city. The inside is the rammed earth of the Tang imperial city wall, and the outside is covered with bricks from the Ming Dynasty.

With a carriage, it is much faster than walking.

After walking for more than two hours, we arrived at Yongning Gate in the provincial capital.

Yongning Gate is the south gate of the provincial capital.

After experiencing the population explosion since Kangxi and Qianlong, the original small provincial capital could no longer accommodate so many residents, so buildings were built outside the city walls.

At the entrance, there are a lot of things to see.

There are hawkers and vendors everywhere, and some are jugglers, the most common ones are boulders in the chest, swallowing swords, and some Western gadgets, such as dioramas.

There is also a magician who holds two rough porcelain bowls, holds a bamboo chopsticks in his right hand, and touches a pea on the red silk table. In an instant, the pea disappears. This is the fairy picking beans.

　Thank you for the 100 starting coins

　　
　
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