Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 14 Teaching
When Qiu Tianxing arrived at the training ground, all the militiamen had already arrived.In addition to the militiamen of these four teams, there were other people sitting neatly on the ground waiting for his arrival.Most of these people are young people who entered Laohugou later and some children.

For these other people, Qiu Tianxing has always welcomed them with an encouraging gesture.He wants to hand over all the knowledge he has to these people and arm them with knowledge so that they can resist the Tartars and carry the banner of national rejuvenation!
After seeing Qiu Tianxing coming, everyone in the audience stood up and bowed to Qiu Tianxing.Each of them had eyes full of respect.

In fact, they all respected and appreciated Qiu Tianxing very much.Although they are all farmers facing the loess and their backs to the sky, they don't know a single character.But it does not mean that they do not respect knowledge and are not eager to learn.When they were told that Qiu Tianxing was going to teach them to learn, everyone was so excited that they couldn't believe it.

Heaven and earth are kings, relatives and teachers, and teachers only come after relatives.As the saying goes, parents are the ones who give birth to me, and teachers who teach me.Some teachers only accept one student in their life, and the relationship between their apprentices is stronger than that of their parents.Qiu Tianxing's behavior of teaching them characters is no different from that of a teacher.

Qiu Tianxing announced that he was born as a scholar, so they all believed in Qiu Tianxing's knowledge.Now, a dignified scholar is willing to teach his gang of mud-legged people how to read and read, how can they not be grateful?Some parents with children even knelt down to Qiu Tianxing excitedly.If my children can read and write, then they may break away from the status of farmers in the future. If they can be admitted to the scholar or something in the future, it will really be smoke from the ancestral grave, which is something that generations of people dare not even think about!

Why are you working so hard to farm?Isn't it just to support the family, and after having enough money, the children can go to school for a few years.Is there a chance to change the court, to honor the ancestors?Now, this once-in-a-hundred-year opportunity is placed in front of him, how can he not firmly grasp it?
Of course, if these people know that Professor Qiu Tianxing's Chinese characters are simplified characters, which means that they will never be able to participate in the imperial examination after learning this kind of characters, will their gratitude turn into hatred?

Qiu Tianxing didn't care what they thought, he just taught the class seriously.The course he teaches today is divided into three stages.The first stage is to teach ten simplified Chinese characters; the second stage is to teach the arithmetic of seven one to seven nine in the ninety-nine multiplication table; the third stage is to talk about the geography of the world, talk about the world outside China, and develop The vision of these people.

Thanks to Zhao Rong, he hurriedly finished the blackboard that Qiu Tianxing ordered.The blackboard is mounted on a wooden stand so that it can be moved anywhere and stands firmly.The chalk is also ready. It is made of plaster of paris after being heated with raw gypsum, and then the plaster of paris is mixed with water and put into a mold to solidify.The principle is the chemistry knowledge in high school, but the specific method made Qiu Tianxing put a lot of effort into it.Now it's finally done, which makes Qiu Tianxing really happy.I finally got rid of the history of scratching sand with a brush.

After a while, Qiu Tianxing wrote down the ten simplified characters to be recognized today on the blackboard.

Because I saw the blackboard and chalk a few days ago, everyone was not as excited as before, and everyone sat down in their seats.It's just that some newcomers who just came yesterday were making a commotion.This is the first time they have seen a blackboard, and chalk.

Looking at the densely packed hundreds of people in front of him, Qiu Tianxing seemed to have seen the scene of the lecture theater in his previous life.The hundreds of people in front of me will one day become a torch of hope to ignite more people!Let everyone become the light of hope breaking through this dark world together!
After calming down, Qiu Tianxing picked up a big iron horn from the simple podium, and started teaching.

"The ten characters we need to know today are 'I am a glorious Chinese'!"

"Everyone read with me!"

"I!"

"Yes!"

"one!"

"name!"

"Light!"

"Rong!"

"of!"

"middle!"

"country!"

"people!"

Qiu Tianxing taught everyone to read the words word by word, pausing from time to time, calling people to stand up and dictate, and then correcting his pronunciation.Take this opportunity to promote your Mandarin.After reading, let everyone practice on the sandboard with the quills in their hands.Then, Qiu Tianxing checked one by one to see if there were any typos.

In this way, the professors hand in hand, checking them one by one for any typos.Watching these huge crooked Chinese characters clumsily written one after another on the sandboard with trembling hands.Qiu Tianxing's eyes were a little moist. He thought of the frequent skipping of classes in the university classroom in his previous life, and it was really wrong not to cherish such good learning conditions.

Before I knew it, half an hour passed.Qiu Tianxing checked everyone's words, and after confirming that there were no mistakes, he started the math tutorial.

In the few months since the class started, the most troublesome thing for Qiu Tianxing is teaching mathematics.Perhaps it is because people are not interested in these curved numbers, and feel that they are very different from the horizontal and vertical Chinese characters, so it is difficult to understand and it is very difficult to learn.Therefore, Qiu Tianxing could only use force-feeding education to let the 'students' learn repeatedly every day.Finally, it took more than a month to finish teaching ten Arabic numerals.

The next step is addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and it took more than a month to finish teaching addition and subtraction within one hundred. Now I start to learn the ninety-nine multiplication table, and today I just learned seven one to seven nine.

After wiping off the Chinese characters with a slightly damp cloth, Qiu Tianxing waited for the blackboard to dry before continuing to write on it.

7 * 1 = 7
7 * 2 = 14
7 * 3 = 21
.........

7 * 9 = 63
After finishing writing, Qiu Tianxing grabbed the horn and shouted loudly.

"Everyone follow me, one in seven gets one"

"One out of seven gets one!"

After hearing Qiu Tianxing's words, the 'students' read aloud one after another.Although their tongues are very clumsy, their expressions are very serious.

Some of these students were men in their thirties, and some were just a few years old, but they all blushed and shouted out Professor Qiu Tianxing's content.

In the past three months, they have learned to write their own names, learned to add and subtract within a hundred, and learned that there is a bigger world outside of China.They are no longer the farmers who were trapped and died on the land in the past. Under Qiu Tianxing's hints, they understand that they may have a greater future.

People with active minds even thought that maybe they could still take the imperial examination, become a gentry, and fulfill the dreams of generations of their families.This kind of thinking makes them feel excited, and they are more motivated to devote themselves to learning.

Feeling the learning enthusiasm of the 'students', Qiu Tianxing understood their thoughts after talking with them.Can't help thinking.

"Sure enough, class produces motivation! If there is no room for upward advancement, people will lose their motivation. Even though the imperial examination is very bad, at least it gave some poor people hope that studying can change their destiny. Although this hope may be ten thousand None of them will come. But as long as the hope is still there, there will be a group of people who will continue to work hard for it! Even if you give your life, you will have no regrets!"

In fact, the imperial examination not only gave some people a way out and hope, it also maintained social stability.After the Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination, it perished in a few years.Although there are many factors involved, it is undeniable that the abolition of the imperial examination is also one of the important reasons.After the scholar had no way out, he no longer wanted the court.

As time went by, Qiu Tianxing saw that it was getting late and get out of class was about to end.So, at the last moment, he talked about anecdotes from the foreign world.There are giraffes with necks that are taller than humans, kangaroos that tuck their babies back into their stomachs, and koalas that spend their entire lives sleeping in trees until they die and fall.

Listening to Qiu Tianxing's anecdote, everyone's eyes are shining, they really hope that one day they can see these things with their own eyes, and see if they are really as miraculous as the teacher said?
(End of this chapter)