The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1139 Recruiting Students

These households in Zhuangzi in Dongshan County have shared weal and woe with the Dongshan Hou Mansion until today. When the Hou Mansion was poor, they were in Zhuangzi. The people under Xuan Shijing’s own hands are wrong. If they are good, who can they count on to be good to them?
The time when these veterans came was also wrong. Most of the spring plowing had passed, and they had not yet registered in Dongshan County. Naturally, they could not be allocated land. Don’t think about farming this year, so we have to arrange for them as soon as possible. As for the work, Feng Hao will arrange it after the household registration is obtained. In the past few days, the Hou Mansion will buy a lot of things and send them to them. Let them spend this time first.

These veterans don’t care much about moving, but the Gao family is different. When decorating the house, Taoist priests were invited from Chang’an City, and they walked around the house with a compass. Move all the purchased furniture over.

Gao Shilian is also getting older, and he is living a leisurely life in Dongshan County Zhuangzi. .

Moving also requires a treat. Two former disciples, Xuan Shijing and Jin Yang, attended Gao Shilian's family banquet, and talked about Zhuangzi's enrollment in the school at the banquet.

"In a few days, the people in this village will be free for a few days. Let's wait a few days for this baby to enter school." Gao Shilian said.

"They're all children who rolled out of the mud. I'm afraid they can't meet the teacher's expectations, so they need to be taught now. The teacher will have to work hard when the school starts." Xuan Shijing held up the wine glass: "Students first A toast to the teacher."

Gao Shilian picked up the wine glass with a smile: "What's the hard work? Back then, the old man was teaching in the palace. Although the children of each family knew how to read early, they were really so obedient and easy to teach? I see a lot about students. Yes, this teaching and educating people can be regarded as experienced, the old man did not expect that when he was old and retired from the court, he lived such a leisurely life, I have to thank you very much."

"The teacher is serious. Although the teacher is not in the court now, teaching and educating people in Dongshan County and cultivating talents for the Tang Dynasty will definitely not contribute less than the contribution in the court." Xuan Shijing said.

The school that Chuang Tzu attends enrolls students. The school age is generally around eight to 13 years old. They study and study in the school. After ten years of hard work, they are only in their early 20s. No matter how incompetent they are, they can still become county magistrates in official careers. The children who came out of the mud and hung out with the adults in the crop fields since childhood are better able to understand the people's sentiments than those officials' children who came from high-ranking families. It may be worse, but from the perspective of farming experience, they have inherent advantages. As parents and officials in a local area, they not only need to stand in the hall, slap the gavel, and put on the official airs.

"Teaching and educating people is also a one-hundred-year plan. It takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to educate people. There is never too little talent." Xuan Shijing laughed.

"It's reasonable to say that it takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to educate people." Hearing such a sentence from Xuan Shijing's mouth, Gao Shilian chewed it very seriously: "This statement should be written in the On the wall of the academy."

Such a sentence is firstly used to teach the students, and secondly, it is also used to warn the teacher. Although he is the only teacher in the school now, if he can walk into the college every day and look up like this, it will be for him. , is also a spur.

"The decoration at the academy is still going on. Apart from the decoration, all the books have been bought. If the teacher wants to alert the students, please give the teacher a calligraphy. The students send someone to powder the teacher's calligraphy on the wall. Come on." Xuan Shijing said.

"Well, I wrote a picture in the study, and when you go back after dinner, you can take it back with you." Gao Shilian said.

"Yes." Xuan Shijing replied.

After having dinner at Gao Shilian's house, Xuan Shijing and Jin Yang went back to the house, wrote the notice to recruit students in the school, stamped their own seal, and sent someone to post it on Zhuangzi's notice board.

In the evening, the farmer households in the field finished their work and walked home with their farm tools. Passing by the bulletin board, they found a new notice posted on it, and they all stopped to watch it. It’s not like they haven’t seen the notice posted by the government before, but this time the notice It seems a little different, look at the inscription on the lower left, Dongshan Hou Xuan Shijing, a seal as big as a baby's fist is stamped on it.

A literate person among them read the content of the notice, which caused a stir among a group of farmers.

"The school built above Zhuangzi will recruit students in a few days? So soon?"

"Yeah, the school was built just a year ago, and students are going to be recruited this spring. No wonder there was so much rush before the year."

"Spring is a good day. Even we farmers know that spring plowing and autumn harvesting, not to mention things like reading, it says to recruit children between the ages of eight and 13, Da Niu, your second and third children are just right How about it, do you want the child to study?"

The man named Daniel smiled naively: "It costs a lot of money to study."

"Stupid!" Uncle Lizheng slapped Daniel on the back of the head: "Is there any family in Zhuangzi who can't afford to eat now? Is there a shortage of money? Those who can't eat, the old man, I have steamed buns at home, so I can't starve him, the child is studying It's a big deal, you fathers and grandfathers have spent your whole life wallowing in the mud, and now that your child has a chance to be able to study well, how much money is the family short of?"

There is nothing wrong with what Uncle Wei said. Nowadays, as long as the farmers in Dongshan County Zhuangzi are diligent, they will not be short of food or clothes. Although they earn a lot, some families can't afford to have a baby a year like this. , so although there is no shortage of food and clothing, it is still more compact to spend money to live. Moreover, where is the consciousness of the householder's door?
There is surplus food at home, and there is no panic in my heart. This is probably such a mentality.

Uncle Wei is kind, and that doesn't mean that Daniel will go bankrupt to provide for two children to go to school. If he can give up one and become a talent, it will be a matter of glory to his ancestors.

Think about it, reading, who was able to read in the past, who was not a son or daughter of a high family, a son of a rich family?If you read the book, you will be promising in the future. If you don't study?What else to do besides messing around in the fields and planting crops?Apprentice for others?Be a craftsman?Have a bite to eat?
(End of this chapter)