Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 153 Xu Xiaoqing's Birth
It was in the evening that a baby was crying from Xu Qing's house, and a new life was born!
Xu Qing was anxious like ants on a hot pan in the courtyard, and finally felt relieved.After a while, Xiaoyue ran out and said to Xu Qing: "Mother and child are safe!" Xu Qing was about to step into the delivery room, but Xiaoyue hurriedly stopped her: "The evil has not been cleaned up inside, so men cannot go in."

Ever since Xu Qingqing's crocodile came back, Xun Xue'er's stomach was throbbing day by day.Xu Qing was afraid that Xun Xue'er was going to give birth, so she called all the Wen women who could be found in the fifty miles around in one breath, and took care of her day and night.

The child had already been carried by the wet nurse and fell asleep. Xu Qing stayed beside Xun Xueer, looked at her who was extremely tired, and called softly: "Xueer..." Xun Xueer rested with Xu Qing's hand on her pillow, squinting her eyes For half a day, he asked:

"Xu Lang, how is the child? Is it a boy or a girl?"

After Xun Xueer learned that Huang Shimei also called Xu Qing "Brother Xu", she changed her title to "Xu Lang". Xu Lang also means Brother Xu, more precisely, handsome guy Xu.

Xu Qing was taken aback for a moment, feeling bad, he still doesn't know whether the child is a boy or a girl!He coyly said: "This..."

"Xu Lang, how can you be such a father..." Xun Xue'er cursed with a smile, half resentment, half joy.A man loves her more than his child, so talking about his wife's status shouldn't be joy.

Xun Xueer looked at Xu Qing's face and begged, "Go, take the child to see..."

After hearing this, Xu Qing ran out quickly, but struggled for a long time when he wanted to hold the child.Why?Because he doesn't know how to hold a baby!After studying with the wet nurse for a long time, she held it in front of Xun Xueer like her heart.

Xun Xueer braced herself up, took the child, and kissed it happily.But when Xu Qing looked at the child, he was wrinkled and somewhat ugly.

"Xue'er, why does such a young child have hair?"

"..." Xun Xueer rolled her eyes.

"Xue'er, why do you think this child looks like me or you?"

"..." Xun Xueer smiled.

"Xue'er, look at how he looks, how about calling him Goudan?"

"..." Xun Xueer snorted.

"Xue'er, is it a boy or a girl?" Xu Qing finally cared about the issue of gender.

"It's a son..." Xun Xueer also spoke. For women in ancient times, there was nothing more proud of having a boy.

"Scared, why is he a son..."

Schrödinger's cat, if you don't open the box, you will never know whether the cat is dead or alive.After Xu Qing knew it was a boy, he realized that he liked daughters more than boys.

"Is the boy okay?" Xun Xueer asked back.

"No, no, I'm just a boy who looks like me, not as good as a girl who looks like you..." Xu Qing hurriedly explained.

Xun Xueer chuckled, but in a blink of an eye, she felt that Xu Qing didn't praise her for having a good baby, so she just didn't follow her, so she lightly bit Xu Qing.Xu Qing also responded, and then said: "Xue'er, what name do you think should be given to him?"

"You are the father, so naturally you can take it. You can take the baby name first, and you can take the name later."

"Let's call you Yiqiu for now!" At the same time, in another parallel world, in a certain alley in Beijing, an editor sneezed and sneezed loudly.

The child was in a deep sleep, and the two of them couldn't make fun of it, so they rested together.

The new parents are very happy, Xu Qing and Xun Xueer are curious about everything about their children.Fortunately, the wet nurse has rich experience, otherwise, with Xu Qing's careless hands, it is really possible that she would not be able to raise this child.

Soon, the news that Xu Qing had a child spread throughout Cangzhou.Officials at all levels, all over the world, came to congratulate.

The grass grows and the warbler flies in February, the real spring has come.

What Xu Qing said to Li Yuan at the beginning was that after food and clothing, laws and regulations will be established and education will be promoted.Now that food and clothing are safe for the time being, after the Cangzhou bandits and aristocratic clans have been eliminated, ordinary people will not steal or rob, and there is no need to clarify the law.There are often some civil disputes that cannot be resolved by clear laws.So Xingjiaohua was put on the agenda.

In the previous government, the county magistrate was in charge of civil affairs, criminal law, land, and education.Of course not.You must know that a person's energy is limited, and cognition is different. Even a saint can hardly hold a bowl of water.The magistrate of the county manages so many things by himself, either he despises the civil affairs or the criminal law, and he can't manage everything anyway.

Therefore, in order to do things, there must be a person who is responsible for the task. This is also one of the purposes of Xu Qing's previous establishment of the Commercial and Taxation Department.

The wisdom of youth is the wisdom of the country. Education is related to the future generations. Xu Qing dare not neglect it.As soon as the weather improves, preparations will be made for the establishment of the school.

Teacher are the base of education plan.Xu Qing decided to establish an education bureau first and recruit teachers.

"Notice: Assassinate the herdsmen so that they have enough food and clothing, understand the laws and regulations, and know the etiquette. The superiors know that there are monarchs and courts, and the inferiors know that there are parents and brothers. Loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, wisdom, beauty, physical labor and so on. Today, an Education Bureau will be built to manage the education of the four counties. Another 28 schools will be built, and the population of each county will be divided according to the size of the population. Sixty more teachers will be recruited, food and lodging will be provided by the court, and officials will be provided."

"Notice: All the original private schools in the four counties of Cangzhou must be registered in the register, and they will be assessed every year. If there is any one who misuses the number and misleads his children, he will be punished immediately."

"Announcement: In the newly built school, all tuition and books will be provided by the government, and all eight-year-old children can enroll."

Three notices were posted at a time, and the response was overwhelming.The last time the recruiting officer patrolled the streets, many people sighed that their pace was too slow and they were not selected. This time, even if they squeezed their heads, they had to come back as an official.It's a pity that this time they recruited teachers.Some dung diggers and field workers applied for the job, but they didn't know a word.Can only go away in sorrow.

There is also a Director of the Education Bureau. Xu Qing struggled for a long time, and finally chose to appoint internally, and gave it to Wei Xian, one of the four people from Chang'an.He was not admitted to Jinshi, but because there were too many dragons and tigers in the first imperial examination in the founding of the country, it does not mean that he is not outstanding.

The purpose of Xu Qing's school is not to cultivate scholars who are poor and brilliant, but to spread cultural knowledge, and secondly to cultivate talents who are good at common affairs.After all, Xu Qing wants to build Cangzhou into the economic center of the east in the future.

Each school is equipped with two teachers, one teaching sentences and reading scriptures, and the other teaching arithmetic and physical labor.Starting school at the age of six, studying for four years, and being able to memorize "The Analects of Confucius", it is enough to calculate that chickens and rabbits are in the same cage. The most important thing is to know a word.Select the outstanding ones to train them, and then read hundreds of scriptures and worldly skills.As for sports and labor, Xu Qing thought about it or forgot it. Those children, aren't they good at catching fish in the water and picking birds from trees?

For the selection of teachers, those who teach arithmetic, Xu Qing plans to directly transfer [-] officers from the Commercial and Taxation Department, and don't worry about those who teach scriptures. Anyway, Xu Qing still has a fan base in Cangzhou.Although those scholars are not as good as those from Chang'an like Wei Xian, they are still enough to teach a little doll.

At the teacher recruitment fair, Xu Qing met the students one by one and checked their temperaments.As for verifying their real talents and learning, Xu Qing still gave Wei Xian his hands.

Wei Xian took the order, posting scriptures and ink meanings, writing poems and prose, and selected forty scholars in a lively manner, some old and young, but most of them were poor children.

Now that there are people, what about the venue?School buildings and the like can recycle the big houses left by the previous generations.The table is simply made of wooden boards, and the chairs are not used, just sit on the ground.The conditions are a bit poor, but fortunately, you can avoid the rain and the sun.

In addition, Xu Qing also wants to personally produce a textbook for children to learn.If you only use "The Analects of Confucius", it is too simple, and the things of the saints have been passed down for so long, and there are various interpretations for one sentence.Therefore, compared with the Analects of Confucius, Xu Qing is more interested in a three-character rhyme that he memorized when he was a child——"Disciple Regulations".

"Disciples Regulations" has three characters and one sentence, which is easy to learn and remember. The text is interspersed with relevant cultural and historical knowledge, idioms and allusions.It can be said that one book is worth three books, treating both the symptoms and the root cause.It's a pity that Xu Qing can't recite a small part of it now, and there are some allusions in the recited ones, which people in the Tang Dynasty can't understand, so they need to be greatly revised.

The thing that needs the most headache is typography.

Xu Qing found out after inquiring in Cangzhou that all the books in Cangzhou are manuscripts now, and no one knows how to print.Xu Qing remembered that Bi Sheng invented movable type printing in the Song Dynasty, but he did not know when the block printing was invented.

Without ready-made ones, Xu Qing had to explore by himself.

For Chinese, especially at this time in the Tang Dynasty, the cost of movable type printing was almost the same as woodblock printing.Xu Qing decided to use block printing for the time being.

Although the printing technique in the early Tang Dynasty had not been developed, the gate engraving technique has been passed down for thousands of years.It can be seen from the Chuanguo Yuxi that the technique of engraving was mature as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties.The process of engraving is a bit like the process of engraving a seal, except that there are many characters engraved, and the process of engraving is the opposite of the process of engraving a seal.The seal is printed on the top and the paper is on the bottom, and the printing is on the paper and the board is on the bottom.

A craftsman was called, Xu Qing prepared strong pine wood, and asked Fang's family, who was writing, to carefully write a short poem, preparing to be rigid.The paper is relatively thin, and the words can be seen through the paper in reverse, and the words are reversed.What is engraved on the stereotype is this anti-character.

Xu Qing ordered the engraver to use different types of carving knives to carve the anti-style ink on the wood block into raised Yang characters, and at the same time remove the remaining blank parts on the wood block to make it concave.The words engraved on the board are about two meters wide from the board.After carving, rinse the carved board with hot water to remove sawdust, etc., and that's it.

The engraving skills are exquisite, and a short poem is actually a good deal.Xu Qing couldn't wait to paint a layer of ink on the engraved board, then covered it with thick rice paper, patted it, and when it was a little dry, carefully peeled it off.

Take it out and see that each word is clearly visible, and it is indeed usable.It’s not enough to print one sheet, and then ink, and then stickers, until there are more than 40 sheets, something went wrong.At the beginning, the printed words were still clearly visible, but later, these words became bloated... When Xu Qing was about to study it again, Huanghua County sent a bad news:

Thieves from the sea, invade the people!
(End of this chapter)