System, help me be an empress

Chapter 174 A Father and Daughter

In addition to solving the problem of bagasse waste, Xu Youxi also conducted a major inspection of all nearby public schools, accompanied by the admiral Xuezheng Yan Sui of Guangdong Province.

It's not that Xu Youxi didn't think about sneaking into the public school to inquire about the situation, but it didn't work.

This is also due to her own request: public schools are responsible for the safety of every child, all public school teachers, cooks, and even sweepers must be educated and clean, and non-public school personnel are prohibited from doing so. enter.

The old man at the gate of the public school here has said that even if the emperor visits the public school, he has to report to the higher authorities according to the rules. His task is to stop all idlers.

no way.

Xu Youxi can only follow the rules of the public school. Outsiders who want to enter the public school must report to the higher officials level by level.She reported honestly, but the governor still had some face. Early the next morning, the admiral Xue Zhengyan brought a dozen of his subordinates to visit with extra graciousness.

Guangzhou Admiral Xue Zheng Yan Sui is a middle-aged man who is slightly fat, but his body is not bloated.With a ruddy complexion and an easy-going attitude, he has a very comfortable literati temperament.

"Master Governor, this way please."

Under the guidance of Admiral Yan, Xu Youxi went to the nearest public school. However, before she stepped into the gate of the public school, she heard the clear and clear sound of children reading. These are articles extolling the feats of emperors.

There must be an element of acting in this, but Xu Youxi also said that he can understand, after all, it has long been a tradition to prepare in advance for inspections by superiors.

Xu Youxi walked from the back door to the last row of the classroom and sat down. He sat in on a science class and watched these children skillfully use the microscope. There was basically no need to doubt the quality of teaching here.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Youxi went to several other classes. These children had basically learned pinyin in their Chinese textbooks. The young teacher was leading the children to read a seven-character quatrain in pinyin.

Before leaving the public school.

Xu Youxi also went to check the kitchen environment, and finally came to the conclusion that Guangzhou Public School is indeed running very well, and at the same time, her evaluation of Yan Sui has become higher.

But one public school is good, but not all of them are good. Xu Youxi insisted on running through five public schools. The learning environment in them was similar, and the children were very lively. Some naughty ones even took the initiative to reach out to Xu Youxi's side to say hello.

"Admiral Yan, the public school here seems to have only started at the beginning of this year? Your teaching speed is really fast. You have already learned more than half of the second textbook. It can be seen that Admiral Yan has put in a lot of effort."

"Wherever it is, it's all the credit of the public school teachers, and these children are fighting for themselves." Yan Sui said with a humble attitude.

Xu Youxi's gaze was suddenly attracted by an academy not far from the public school, and he pointed to the house in the distance and asked, "Is that Yuehai Academy over there?"

Yan Sui's expression was obviously a bit stunned: "Master Li, have you heard of this?"

"Of course. Tian Yun and Liu Wan'er from Shengong Bureau; Geng Yun from Xinyige; and Mu Lin, Dong Xi, and Huang Ming'er who participated in the imperial court's plan to go to the countryside and counties, aren't they all from Yuehai Academy? I can tell you There are so many people by name, not to mention many others that I can't remember."

Xu Youxi found that Yan Sui's expression was a bit strange, but since she has come here, she must go to see what is so special about this academy that has sent so many talents to Dagan.

"Go in and have a look."

Fortunately, Yuehai Academy was built opposite the public school, otherwise Xu Youxi would have missed it this time.

"This..." Yan Sui hesitated to speak, "The students of this academy have always been disobedient, which may disappoint Master Li."

Xu Youxi didn't pay attention to what Yan Sui said, and had already strode towards Yuehai Academy.

The structure inside the Yuehai Academy is extraordinarily grand. Even the gate made of ordinary wood can smell a special fragrance. A huge cornucopia, engraved next to it is the phrase "gather the world's spiritual energy here".

At this time, a teacher in the academy who had just finished class looked at several people, and greeted Yan Sui familiarly: "Admiral Yan, are you here today? Yan Yan hasn't finished class yet."

"Master Meng, I misunderstood. Let me introduce you, this is the governor who came to Beijing, and he came here especially for the Yuehai Academy."

"Come to Beijing?" Meng Fuzi adjusted his unilateral glasses, and his tone was full of pride, "Many of my students have gone to Beijing, and Shenjiying specially recruited two to go, there are Shengong Bureau, and there are also Xinyige .”

"Yuehai Academy is really powerful. It has cultivated so many talents for the country. Li came here this time just to learn from it. All major academies should learn how to train students like Yuehai Academy."

Meng Fuzi shook his head with a smile: "They are all young people who deviate from the norm."

After Meng Fuzi finished speaking, he turned and left slowly.

Xu Youxi was also embarrassed to stop someone from asking, and looked around, and found a classroom where a class was being taught.

At this time, a heated debate was taking place in the classroom.

"On the journey of the Great Dao, the greatest place should be the saying that the world is for the public, this is the highest state of the world!"

The teacher's words on the stage were almost shouted out, and his face turned red with anger.

"Great unity under heaven is nothing but absurd fantasy, which is not correct. Thousands of years have passed, and this wish still cannot be realized. On the contrary, the social atmosphere is getting worse and worse, and people's hearts are becoming more and more sinister. Teacher, how do you explain this?"

"Okay, okay, I strictly say that since you criticize this article is wrong. Can you explain why countless great scholars have regarded this article as a masterpiece for thousands of years? Since there are problems with the article, why didn't you delete it early? To burn it?"

Yan Yan thought for a while, and seriously replied: "A great Confucian is a great Confucian, Yan Yan is a strict Yan, how can the master use other people's words and deeds to restrict my thoughts! This is wrong! Since ancient times, there have been countless great Confucians Is it true that a great Confucian must be right to say that the status of women is low?"

After listening to just a few words, Xu Youxi was already impressed by the quick thinking of the girl in the classroom who looked only eleven or twelve years old.

Are today's children so powerful!
The master sighed for a long time, unexpectedly, his eyes just fell on a group of people outside the house, he immediately put away the grief and indignation on his face, quickly opened the door and said vigilantly: "Who are you?"

Yan Sui's expression was a bit awkward, Master may be confused by anger, and he didn't even recognize him: "Master, this is the governor who came to Beijing... Is Yan's unworthy daughter making you angry again?"

The master sighed: "Whether you are angry or not is not the key, the key is which of you will persuade her."

Yan Yan looks like Yan Sui, his skin is not white, his facial features are rather rigid, when he purses his lips and doesn't speak, he looks like an uncivilized stone.

Xu Youxi looked at Yan Yan with grievances in his eyes, couldn't help being a little moved, and took the initiative to ask, "Can you memorize the article on the trip to the great road?"

Yan Yan was bored for a while before he said, "Yes!"

"Since you think its content is wrong, why can you still memorize it?" Xu Youxi asked back.

"The process of constantly arguing and pursuing the only answer is suitable for mathematical sciences, but it is unnecessary in literature. You keep your ideas, your teacher keeps your teacher's ideas, and it is best not to interfere with each other."

"Besides, the trip to the great road may not be all fantasy. Our country has provided so many jobs for men and women all over the world. As long as we work hard enough in the future, there will be no starvation. Is this a gradual realization of 'Men have a share and women have a return' '?"

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Xu Youxi's impression of Yan Yan was the deepest, a girl who was far more mature than her actual age.

After leaving Yuehai Academy, Yan Suanran returned with his subordinates, and Xu Youxi arranged for Jin Yiwei to inquire about Yuehai Academy.

About six or seven years ago, all the academies in Guangzhou had to take the academies admissions examination to enroll students. Each academie only accepted dozens of students each year on average, and they did not recruit merchants' children at all.

The reason is also very simple. The purpose of these academies to recruit students is to train these students to take the imperial examination. One day, they will all be able to enter the court as officials.But the sons of their merchants had no chance to take the imperial examination at all. These academies certainly didn't want to waste this time, so they all refused to accept them.

Some local wealthy businessmen and landlords are very dissatisfied with this. Who doesn't want their son to become a dragon?Even if you don't take the imperial examination, you can still learn some principles of life in the academy, or make some friends.

Whether you can take the imperial examination and whether you will be admitted to an academy are clearly two different things!

Why mix it up?
So these wealthy businessmen pooled a large sum of money to bribe Admiral Yan, hoping that he could represent the imperial court to set up an additional academy in the local area to recruit students who were unsuccessful in these academies but were eager to learn.

Yan Sui accepted the bribe from the wealthy businessman, thinking about how to handle the matter well.But Yan Sui is smart and knows how to cherish feathers. Surely he can't just say that he wants to build an academy for the merchant's children because he received a bribe from the merchant?

Therefore, Yan Sui began to prepare for this academy under the banner of Confucius' teaching without distinction. He also directly admitted to the outside world that these wealthy businessmen gave him a lot of money, but he also denied that the money was a bribe.

Anyway, what Yan Sui said to the outside world was that the money was used by wealthy businessmen to fund his construction of the academy, and what he did was a matter of immeasurable merit.

Of course, no one believed this word, and it even caused ridicule from those very famous academies.These wealthy businessmen were also angry and felt that these people were inferior to others, so they named the newly built academy 'Yuehai Academy'.

Yue means to go beyond.

Crossing the sea is declaring that their academy will surpass the most prestigious Wanghai Academy in the world.

After Xu Youxi learned about the 'Yuehai Academy', she couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

During the scientific examination last year, Wanghai Academy was completely wiped out.

Secondly, because almost all the students of Wanghai Academy who became officials in the imperial court joined the Jingxian Party, the reputation of the Jingxian Party was completely stink after the border battle, and by the way, everyone in Wanghai Academy also became yelled at.

There are fewer and fewer students in Wanghai Academy, and no one expected that this old academy, which has been passed down for more than 60 years, would be closed so easily.

Later, the former "Wanghai Academy" was reopened and transformed into today's public school.

Much of the information collected was beyond Xu Youxi's imagination. For example, Yan Sui, who she thought was a good official, turned out to be a corrupt official, and was often impeached by his colleagues in the past.

His most famous deeds are the following.

Yan Sui had previously served as the governor of Zhejiang, but the second year after he arrived there, there was a severe drought in Zhejiang and no crops were harvested, and this was the case all over the country. Countless innocent people were starved to death in the end.

At that time, in the face of the scene of people's lives being ruined, countless officials began to lead by example, not allowing their subordinates to be extravagant and wasteful, not allowed to do things with great fanfare, and even dared not participate in any entertainment activities.

They were afraid that they would be caught if they were not careful, so they behaved with their tails between their legs.

In this very urgent and anxious situation, he was the only one in the whole country who strictly followed him, drinking and having fun, talking about poetry and doing right things with the local wealthy businessmen every day, and spending extravagant food and clothing.

When the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching, we raised funds to hold a dragon boat race and a rice dumpling competition. At that time, people all over the world scolded this dog official, saying that he had no regard for the life and death of the people and could not set an example. He also colluded with these wealthy businessmen for profit.

His political opponents couldn't stand it anymore, and began to desperately write a letter to impeach Yan Sui, but at this time, the emperor was busy with new construction projects, and he didn't care about such trivial matters at all. He hadn't approved a memorial for half a year, and all government affairs It's the cabinet that handles it.

In the end, Bao Changnian wrote a letter in his own hand, asking Yan Sui what he wanted to do!
Yan Sui immediately replied with a letter stating the whole story, immediately convinced Bao Changnian, and Bao Changnian even helped him suppress the incident.

In the spring of the second year, countless civilians starved to death. Surprisingly, Hangzhou was saved, and almost all the refugees in Hangzhou survived.

How did they survive without food?

It is precisely because Yan Sui took the rich businessmen to eat, drink and have fun everywhere, and every time there is a big noodle dish, then this kind of big noodle must be prepared by a lot of people. food and compensation.

Especially the dragon boat race, because there are too many wealthy businessmen onlookers, everyone thinks it is novel and interesting, and keeps throwing money into this event.

No, another batch of refugees were fed.

However, because officials in other places advocate frugal living, those rich people would dare to stand up at such a critical juncture when they saw this situation.

The food has not been grown, and he is not needed for other tasks, and the relief food is also available for the last meal, so can a group of people not starve to death?
After finally waiting for this matter to pass, Emperor Chongjiu came to have a look at it when he had time, but met Yan Sui's political opponents who continued to ridicule him, and Emperor Chongjiu believed it, and was so angry that Yan Sui was relegated to Guangzhou.

It's not that Yan Sui is not greedy, on the contrary, he also enjoys a luxurious life. The conditions in Guangzhou are not good, so he creates good conditions by himself.

If you want to eat sugar, encourage farmers to grow more sugar cane;
If you want to drink, provide a lot of wine-making benefits;
If he wants to wear silk, he encourages fashion merchants to do business and strives for the silk trade, so that he can take the opportunity to get the goods.

This life is simply more nourishing than in Shangjing.

(End of this chapter)