The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

In a few months, all the academic staff of Kaifeng Prefecture were in place. The teachers were a small number of hired personnel and Kaifeng Prefecture officials. The students were mainly from the counties of the Prefecture, and the number was about 200.

Zheng Rong, 13 years old this year, is one of them.

Just look at the name. Zheng Rong belongs to the Zheng family. He is the son of Uncle Zheng Ling. He has been very smart since he was only thirteen years old, enough to go to university.

When choosing a school, Zheng Rong's parents originally wanted to send him to Taixue, where conditions were better after all.

Zheng Ling had no opinion on this matter, but after learning that Kaifeng Prefecture would set up a government school, he proposed that Zheng Rong go to Kaifeng government to go to school.

Zheng Rong himself is a bit reluctant, he is ready to go to school.

This Kaifeng school has just been established, and it is enrolling the first batch of students. How can it be compared to the school?

However, Zheng Ling said very seriously that he believes that Kaifeng prestigious school is not inferior to Tai school. First of all, a large part of Kaifeng prestigious school teachers will be officials with practical political experience. For the future, Zheng Rong will definitely be in politics. Said it helps a lot.

Secondly, there is no need to worry about academics. In addition to these officials, Kaifeng Prefecture will hire Confucian scholars to give lectures from time to time. Zheng Li learned from Zheng Ling that Yun Yanhui had been stalking and had decided that many Hanlin would go to class in the future.

The teaching method that Kaifeng Fuxue will adopt is also highly desirable in Zheng Li's eyes. This method has not yet been officially launched by Taixue.

Under Zheng Lin's reasoning and facts, Zheng Lin's parents had no choice but to agree to send him to Kaifeng Fu to have a trial, but he could not transfer to another school.

Zheng Rong's father sent Zheng Rong to the gate of the Fuxue, and he was not allowed to enter here. Not only was Zheng Rong's father, but no one could bring him.

The people in Kaifeng Mansion explained it this way, “One is that our place is small, not only today, but in the future, we can only allow students to live in and out, and the second mansion hopes to cultivate the ability of students to be self-reliant.”

Zheng Rong's father complained for a while, so he had to hand over the luggage to Zheng Rong and let him go in by himself.

Zheng Rong looked very tender among a group of 16-year-old students. He and several other students went down under the leadership of the traction staff to report and check which school he lived in.

On the way, Zheng Rong heard someone say, "Yes, have you heard that? In the school, all food and drink are provided by the chef of Kaifeng."

"Wow, Xiongtai, how did you know, are you a local?"

"Yes, my neighbor's uncle is in Kaifeng Mansion!"

"My God, can we actually eat the Kaifeng Mansion Canteen? This is much happier than going to school!"

——The last man is obviously a delicious person.

Zheng Rong's mood is a bit subtle, because he knows that the Kaifeng Mansion canteen has something to do with one of his relatives. However, he didn't eat it because of it. In the past few years, he even avoided it. A cousin in his family had eaten it.

After the report arrived, Zheng Rong looked at his dormitory number and took the key.

After dragging his luggage to the dormitory, Zheng Rong was already out of breath. He opened the door and saw that there was no one inside, but the furnishings shocked him.

The beds here are all double-layered, and they are also numbered.

Zheng Rong's eyes widened, and he was going to sleep on top of each other? He went to school and went to many colleges for advice, but he had never seen a bed like this before!

Although there are guardrails on the upper bunk, why does Zheng Song still find it inconvenient? If you have to get up at night, don't you have to climb down a ladder?

If such a bed is placed at home, Zheng Rong will still find it interesting. After all, he has never seen it before, but it is in the school, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

More importantly, the school only allows students to come in by themselves, so don't they have to climb up to make the bed by themselves?

Zheng Rong was rather sad, but still gritted his teeth, took out his bedding, lifted it up and stuffed it up.

In addition to studying, Zheng Rong is studying, otherwise he would not have entered university at the age of thirteen, so his physical strength is very average. The bedding was very heavy, and when Zheng Song stood on tiptoe and stuffed it up, he felt that it was crumbling, as if it was about to turn over.

Bad. Zheng Song thought.

At this moment, a hand stretched over, held Zheng Song's bedding, pushed it onto the bed.

As soon as Zheng Song's arm relaxed, his heart also relaxed. Thinking that the person who helped should be a classmate, he turned around and took a step back, thinking of thanking him, but saw that the person standing behind him had a familiar face.

Zheng Song stayed for a moment.

This person is the son of his sister Aweng, who is also his cousin. In their family, he is also a legend. Back then, Aweng's sister eloped and left home without admitting it to the family. She gave birth to her cousin outside and raised it alone.

Zheng Rong has witnessed the growth of his cousin indirectly since he was a child. In the beginning, the cousin had a close relationship with him, saying that he was working in Daxiangguo Temple and hoped that Aon would recognize each other, but he did not succeed, because Aon did not want to recognize it, and the cousin did not want to.

Zheng Rong's parents sighed privately that this child was very smart, but it seemed that he could only hang around in the market.

Who knows, afterwards Zheng Rong heard that he went to Kaifeng Mansion and made a lot of achievements in Kaifeng Mansion. These are all that Aon is paying attention to. Zheng Rong often goes to Aon to study, and he knows.

Later, it turned out to be out of control, and he was transferred to several yamen to do things, and they did it very beautifully. In the end, he even completed a thing that had troubled the officials for a long time, and it was a success that surpassed everyone's expectations.

Step by step, how can we not shock the Zheng family who knows his growth trajectory best? By this year, Aon even swallowed what he had said, insisting to recognize his uncle.

It was also during the few days when his cousin came back to live that Zheng Rong met him. He didn't say a few words. He felt a little embarrassed in his heart, or most of the Zheng family was a little embarrassed.

Now, this cousin appeared in front of him—yes, as Aon said, the cousin also assisted in the management of the school.

Yun Yanhui looked at the half-year-old child who had just reached his chest, with a dazed expression, and smiled: "Brother Lin? Do you still remember me? We met, I am Yun Yanhui. Hearing uncle said you want Come here to go to school, I’ll say hello to you. If you have any needs, you can come to me. I should stay at the Academic Affairs Office from time to time in the future."

As he said, he rubbed Zheng Rong's head.

Zheng Rong blushed inexplicably, and shouted in a low voice: "Well, uncle cousin."

The cousin he imagined for so many years is a very unruly person. The last time I saw him at home, I only saw Li, and now they meet in private, but they feel that they are a very gentle and amiable person. No wonder My cousin went to see him especially.

Yun Yan looked back at Zheng Rong and was shy, quite fond of him, smiled slightly, and asked: "Don't be polite, you are more independent in your school. But you are only thirteen years old, and there are inevitably some minor problems in life and study. If so, When you encounter something that cannot be solved, don’t try to behave yourself, just come to me. By the way, you are required to choose a subject before enrolling. If you live here, you should choose Jingyizhai. Which subject is your major and minor? What is it?"

Zheng Rong heard this, feeling very warm in his heart, "My major is Shujing, and I also chose astronomy and arithmetic."

"Well, not bad." Yun Yan patted his shoulder back, "I'll let someone adjust and transfer you to the lower bunk." Zheng Rong hasn't developed well yet and is relatively short. This upper bunk is really for him. Some are tall, even if they are not relatives, the school has to take care of the children if they find out.

Zheng Rong's original dissatisfaction with this place in his heart suddenly disappeared, and he nodded vigorously.

Yun Yan accompany him to clean up the dormitory again. The dormitory here is equipped with sanitary tools. He swept the floor and mopped it clean, and wiped all the beds.

Before Yun Yan replied that he wanted to do sanitation, Zheng Rong wanted to say that he could not, but when he saw Yun Yan roll up his sleeves and work, he was embarrassed to say it, so he followed the posture of Yun Yan. Up.

When cleaning the bed and windows, Yun Yan went back to clean the top. He cleaned the bottom, and gradually became more proficient. Although he was tired, Zheng Rong was very reluctant to be looked down upon by Yun Yan, so he gritted his teeth and persisted.

After cleaning up the dormitory in this way, Zheng Rong also feels a sense of accomplishment.

...

After cleaning, Yun Yanhui stayed here to accompany Zheng Rong to organize his luggage. When all his classmates in the same dormitory came, he discussed with one of the students in the lower berth to change. The Academic Affairs Office also revised the entries in the register.

When the man saw that Zheng Rong was young, he naturally agreed, and thought that because Zheng Rong was young, he had the privilege, and he could even ask his parents to accompany him.

Yun Yan only laughed and said that he was working here, so he stopped by to visit relatives.

When everyone heard that he was working here, they didn’t think he was an academic officer, but naturally thought he was a logistics staff, so they asked questions, such as the level of Professor Na Zhai they were assigned to, and whether the meals were really provided by the Kaifeng Canteen. .

Regarding the latter question, Yun Yan replied: "Naturally it is true. It will be provided from school day. Registration today will not be open. However, if you are interested, I can take you to experience it in advance."

The students boiled over and asked Yun Yan if he was working in the kitchen.

Yun Yan smiled back and said: "I think so."

Everyone, can this be fake? So they were ready to go for a big meal.

Zheng Rong didn't excuse Yun Yanhui's recognition as a small kitchen worker, and wanted to explain, but seeing Yun Yanhui didn't care at all, he slowly relieved himself, just staying behind him.

Yun Yanhui took these students to the cafeteria for a meal. The people in the cafeteria of this prefecture were transferred from Kaifeng prefecture, and the ingredients will be uniformly dispatched by the chef. This is equivalent to a share. Department.

Although the door is not open today, everyone is tidying up the place. Yun Yan brought people to eat. They naturally opened the back door and made a table of food.

When Zheng Rong’s roommates ate, they all said they were in favor of Zheng Rong. Seeing that he was still young, they all replaced the wine with tea and toasted a cup.

Yun Yan looked back at Zheng Rong's roommate and found that there was nothing to get along with, so he settled down. He was entrusted by Zheng Li to take care of Zheng Rong. He was entrusted to be loyal to others, not to mention that this child was indeed very interesting.

After eating, Yun Yanhui took them around the school. Everyone was very interested in the playground and classroom.

As for the classroom, a sign was hung outside, stating which fast it was. The inside is bright, with green plants inside, the podium has been specially raised, and a very large blackboard is fixed on the wall. The seats below are neatly arranged, and there are about 30 people in a single room.

Yun Yanhui seems to have mentioned inadvertently that in the future, each vegetarian will select a chief from the students to help manage the students' study and life, organize student activities and so on.

When someone heard it, they immediately became very interested. A leading goose with an official title? It looks so cool!

Zheng Rong looked up at Yun Yanhui, and was pinched, "Are you interested in running for chief executive?"

Zheng Rong's face was squeezed red. Before he changed his voice, he said crisply: "I want to be the head of the fast!"

Everyone just found him funny when he looked childish.

Yun Yan replied earnestly: "Then you have to work hard. The chief of the fast must be able to convince the people in all aspects, and organize and care about the study and life of the students in the whole fast. It is very hard."

"I can!" Zheng Rong stood tall and ambitious.

——In the future, Yun Yanhui really learned that because Zheng Rong was tenacious, he had not given up in the face of various new regulations in the government, and he studied very hard. Therefore, he actually became a member of Shujing Yizhai. Zhaichang.

And because the age is the youngest in the whole government, so the Shujing Yizhai, and even the students of the other ones, nicknamed Zheng Rong as the "Xiaozhaichang".

"That's good." Yun Yan took them to see the playground again. Now everyone doesn't know that this is for morning exercises and there are various exercise equipment. In the equipment room next to the playground, there are also many Cuju **** and many other farm tools.

Someone asked if this was not for students studying farmland, but Yun Yan returned with a mysterious smile, "You will know after school starts."

Everyone didn't take it seriously. Some people are still looking forward to going to Kaifeng Mansion for practice classes in the future.

Yun Yan smiled back and said, "Don't worry, you will have this opportunity as soon as school starts."

"What? Is it there as soon as school starts? Oh my god, I thought it would take us at least two years before we had a chance!"

"Great! It will be of great benefit to us if we can see how we actually handle official duties. It is precisely this that my father thought of, and he agreed to come to study at the residence."

Zheng Rong looked at Yun Yanhui's smile, but he always felt that there was something different from his classmates, Kaifeng Mansion's practice class? Zheng Rong always felt that he had caught some key points, but he was so fascinating that he couldn't tell.

It wasn't until the school started, about the fourth day or so, that all the excited students were dragged to the vegetable field in Kaifeng Mansion, and each handed out a **** or bucket, that the students reacted in disbelief.

"So, the practice class is just such a practice...?"

The so-called guarantee of employment means that if you do not become an official, you will at least cultivate the land?

The students were in a trance, and they couldn't help but suspect that they were living. From the beginning of the new teaching and accommodation conditions to the current practical courses, they were very shocked.

How can there be schools in the world that give students practical lessons like this? Are they really here to go to school? Are they really official school? Did you go to a fake school? !

Zheng Rong even saw his cousin and smiled treacherously.

=_=! Isn't it right? An errand his cousin did in the Kaifeng Mansion was to mobilize all the officials, large and small, to grow vegetables to increase income and reduce expenditure!