Chapter 49: Grand Occasion (Seeking Recommendation Tickets and Bookmarks)

  "What kind of national system?"

  "Dr. Yan, don't ask," Song Jiu said with a hint of sadness, not blaming the officials of the Song Dynasty, but rather himself. As a transmigrator, he couldn't think of a good solution. He walked to the backyard and first looked at several painters.

  When Song Jiuxiao was not around, the painter did not slack off either and painted four more large scrolls. Now he understood some of Song Jiuxiao's ideas - whether they could be realized or not, Song Jiuxiao would paint however he wanted to, painting towards beauty, exaggerating towards magnificence. As a result, auspicious clouds and radiant glows appeared on the surface of several paintings.

  "You can't paint like this! That's not painting, it's trying to get me killed!"

  Seeking beauty, after the actual object appears, it cannot be considered exaggerated. A bit exaggerated, but not out of bounds. Must destroy and repaint. Then went to the street again with two things prepared, and some other things, returned home, Duan Xiaoxun and Chen Sifeng's parents were waiting for him. In reality, the river was very poor, many people did not have formal names, such as Song Jiu being called Jiu, Duan Xiaoxun being called Xiao Xun, and Chen Sifeng originally named Chen Xiaosi. Women didn't even bother to take a name, Da Niang Er Niang San Niang Xiao Niangzi, if someone shouted Wang Xiaoniang, several women would stick out their heads to see if they were being called.

  Duan Chen's parents said a lot of nagging words, talking about how difficult and embarrassing their family was, making Xiaojiu lose hope. Song Jiu sighed: "You don't need to say more, everyone is suffering, suffering for a lifetime, when the opportunity comes, who can let it go? But why do they have this opportunity, that's because they learned some knowledge, now they are seven taels of silver per month, if they learn for another year, how many taels of silver will they be? You're not helping your son, but harming him."

  Duan Chen's parents were extremely ashamed.

  Song Jiuxiao can be said to have done a good deed. Zhao Kuangyin was worried about the various metal mines, and did not want to harm ordinary people, so he targeted the wealthy households. Song Jiuxiao is similar in some ways, asking for money from the imperial court or making profits from rich people in the future, which is a justified act. The poor laborers on the riverbank are struggling to make ends meet, with no food to eat from morning till night, and cannot even stretch out their hands. As the scholars' status becomes more prestigious, as parents they finally realize that they had grasped a great opportunity back then, and come to thank Song Jiuxiao with gifts. Song Jiuxiao uniformly declines these gifts, which is a righteous act praised by both Yan Zhang doctors.

  Both sides were in the wrong.

  Song Ji didn't say much, it's a common psychology among people. For example, like Dajie, seeing that Yiping is not bad, you can marry Yiping. Originally, marrying was afraid that Yiping's beauty would become a disaster, but now an eighth-rank official can get married. This is someone who can be married to, can Pan Mei's daughter be married to? For example, Zhang Zhao Yun, who came to propose to the Pan family, as soon as he became an official, he was already a Da Li Ping Shi, also a regular eighth-rank official, but with real power and authority. The two are about the same age, not to mention that he has a powerful father behind him. Can the two be compared?

  So can get early get it.

  Don't want to say more, don't want to listen more, tactfully send the two families away. No need to explain, just leave. Happen to fill in the two vacancies, and squeeze in Father's two old subordinates' children.

  The next morning, Song Jiuxu anxiously waited for the students to arrive. If a few people left, it didn't matter, but if half of them left, it would still disappoint him. The result neither disappointed nor satisfied him. After letting them go, eight students asked to leave, all of whom had already found new jobs with decent salaries and benefits. These eight students were also among the better performers. Those businessmen were clever and wouldn't poach underperforming students, especially the twenty handpicked by Song Jiuxu himself, who received even more offers, with the highest salary reaching 15 guan per month. Zhang Yan's two PhD students were terrified.

  Song Jiu then gathered the remaining students and said, "Have you all decided to stay?"

  "It's settled."

  "It's settled then. You've only been studying for four months and already ten of you have left, which is disappointing to me. But since you're leaving, that's it. As for those who stay, I can tell you that you will be grateful for your decision. I selected twenty students to study abroad, and even stay there afterwards. I signed a contract with them, and had the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, Da Wang, as the witness. For the first four years, the focus is on studying, so in the first year, I only gave them one guan per month, two guans in the second year, four guans in the third year, and eight guans in the fourth year. In the fifth year, it's half-study and half-apprenticeship, which is sixteen guans. In the sixth year, they will officially become masters, so it's thirty-two guans. Qin Wawa and Li Zhu said that this is too much, but I'm telling you, it's not only not too much, but also too little. I have another contract, according to which, in the future, the salary can be increased by two to three times. Why? Knowledge is power, as long as you are willing to learn, your future will be a golden road, with money, beautiful women, luxury cars, and mansions all within reach. At that time, a monthly salary of one hundred guans won't even be a dream. But now, since you're leaving, you only have a little knowledge, and your prospects are limited."

  Stunned, with a monthly salary of 100 yuan, what kind of concept is that?

  "I'm sorry to say that from now on, I won't be holding you back. If you want to leave, you can leave, but it will be difficult to stay. Take a look at these two books," Song Jiu said, handing out the two books he had prepared yesterday. "One is a graduation certificate and the other is a completion certificate. One year from now, I will conduct an assessment, and only those who pass will receive their graduation certificates. I will also acknowledge them as my disciples from this school. Those who do not pass must stay behind to continue studying. If they are in financial difficulties and must leave, they can only take the completion certificate with them. I will only recognize him as half a disciple of this school. As for those who leave before one year is up, no matter how grateful they are or what their prospects are, whether good or bad, I hereby declare that they have nothing to do with this school. Another thing is that when you leave, I will summon ten new students to come in. Please spread the word when you return home. One last thing: from now on, you will take turns helping with the accounting at the dock. Except for rainy or extremely cold days, all classes will be held on the riverbank, teaching the people of the river to read and do arithmetic. It is required that within three to four years, most people in the river can recognize a few hundred characters and perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division calculations. Dismissed."

  There's no other way, so I'll have to make grades the priority. Otherwise, with these businessmen stirring up trouble, everyone's morale will be completely gone. By the time a year is up and Zhao Kuangyin comes looking for people, there will only be twenty empty commanders left. I won't be able to explain it to myself, let alone to Zhao Kuangyin.

  Huī zé nà shì wèi hé zhōng, yě wèi zì jǐ hǎo tiāo xuǎn zī zhì de xué zǐ. bù néng zài yǐ mén dì lùn yīng xióng, ér shì yǐ chéng jì lùn yīng xióng. tè bié shì wèi lái, wèi lai kāi shū yuàn, nà shí hòu zhāo de xué zǐ huì hěn duō, jīng yì bù yòng jiǎng le, guān jiàn jiù shì suàn fǎ, suàn fǎ yě bù yào jǐn, guān jiàn jiù shì zhè ge ā lā bó shù zì yǔ gè gè zì mǔ. zhè ge dà guī mó shì de jiào yù, wèi bì zhǐ wàng néng jiào chū duō shǎo hǎo xué shēng, dàn néng dǎ xià yī xiē dǐ zi, wèi yǐ hòu kuò zhāo xué shēng tiāo xuǎn xué zǐ pù xià jī chǔ.

  One hundred and fourteen students did not expect Song Jiu's long-term plan, the two words "Hui Ze" shocked them again, quietly walking into the classroom, but a resolute gaze flashed in everyone's eyes.

  This is the most bizarre place, where opinions about Song Ji are both good and bad, but no matter which one, none of them would consider Song Jiu as a gentleman. However, under Song Jiu's guidance, one after another emerged from the river to become gentlemen with excellent virtues, scattering their golden virtues all over the Song Dynasty.

  Song Jiubegan to work busily, the first item of technology must be kept secret, only with those twenty disciples to the newly built new courtyard for research and development. Song Jiuhad already spent a lot of money, the painter's salary, the rent of the wall, this new courtyard and eight large houses, more than 400 yuan were used up.

  The next day at sunset, Song Jiu began to lead the students in "Hui Ze", which was a good deed. Several wealthy households in the river, including the Liu family, voluntarily contributed funds. At this time, the Liu family regretted it the most. How did an ugly duckling slowly turn into a swan? Not only a swan, but also evolving towards a phoenix. The young daughter of the Liu family was making a fuss and refused to get married, wanting to cancel the engagement. It was unrealistic, and Song Jiu would not agree to it now. In fact, her parents were regretting it so much at home that their intestines turned green. Moreover, under Song Jiu's leadership, the river's appearance gradually changed for the better, becoming more united and loving. Even when someone encountered difficulties, many neighbors stretched out a helping hand. This was the trend, and they had no choice but to follow it, unless they moved away.

  Donations of money were not accepted, but many pens, paper and inkstones were donated. Some people even made small blackboards and chalk. In the early evening, Hu Xingtao announced that work was over for the day. Regardless of whether they had tasks or not, all the adults and children rushed to the riverbank, forming a sea of dark heads as far as the eye could see.

  A student is in charge of a region, distributing small blackboards and chalk, a small amount of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. Women are still discriminated against, no, old people, you can rest assured, onlookers are fine, but learning is not allowed, missed the age, especially young children are not allowed either.

  In addition, some scholars copied the "Thousand Character Essay" by hand and distributed them, but the number was very small, and only a few people received it. It was only given to boys between the ages of 15 and 18 or 19 before they began their studies.

  Dr. Yan and Dr. Zhang insisted on not going back, wanting to see this grand scene.

  This is the scene of tens of thousands of people learning, and of course, there won't be even one-tenth of them who study diligently. However, seeing this scene, two PhDs were moved to tears, excitedly saying that "teaching without discrimination" indeed means teaching without discrimination.

  But without a blackboard and chalk, can it be implemented? This caused the two doctors to automatically ignore it.

  It's a rare sight, including the boatmen and people from Hebei Province, even many tourists gathered around, many out-of-town merchants saw this scene, one by one with their mouths agape, marveling that even education in the capital city is so advanced.

  The next day, this matter shook the entire capital city.

  Due to the constraints of productivity, people's pace of life was slow in this era, and entertainment activities were scarce. Moreover, it was in the evening, so countless people came to watch the excitement. The Kaifeng county magistrate thought it was not good and hastily dispatched yamen runners to maintain order.

  Yu Ping also came, the children of Pan's family, Han's family and Fu's family all came, even many officials came, dressed in casual clothes, mixed in the crowd, squeezing back and forth to watch the excitement.

  Song Jiu saw that things were not going well, I just wanted these students to teach the people in the river and let them have a sense of honor, cultivate self-confidence, and also review what they had learned. But these people are annoying, why did they all come together? Dr. Zhang also said: "Song Jiu, ask the yamen for help, otherwise something will happen."

  "Need I say more?" Song Jiu fetched the bailiffs and also asked Fu Zhao-shou and others to come over and help maintain order. They stood at the edge, watching, without squeezing into the crowd of common people by the river, so as not to delay the preaching and learning.

  These people went down, but it was not right either. Song Jiu didn't know many people, and these people could recognize him, on the one hand maintaining, on the other hand nodding and bowing, Zhang Gong, Li Gong, Wang Gong, Zhao Gong, Liu Gong, were all high-ranking officials, and Fu Zhao Shou also dared not to offend them.

  Song Jiuyi said in a low voice: "Dr. Zhang, Dr. Yan, this won't do, it's not preaching, but holding a grand meeting."

  The two doctors nodded in unison.

  "Dr. Zhang, Dr. Yan, what good methods do you have?"

  Two PhDs stared at each other, it was a grand scene, the two PhDs were so excited that they didn't sleep well last night, and even participated in the teaching. Is there any good way? Yes, immediately stop this outdoor teaching, then the crowd will disperse. However, among thousands of methods, stopping is what they would never choose.