Just as the merchant ship docked, Xu Nianzu and others got out of the cabin to breathe, when suddenly there was a crackling sound from the pier.
Then the gongs and drums sounded, and the suona blew joyful music.
True, the gongs and drums are loud, and the firecrackers are all!
But seeing a Confucian scholar get off the boat, eight people immediately stopped beside him with blue woolen sedan chairs.
Many gentry and aristocrats came to greet them, and a master of ceremonies shouted: "Mr. Lu, please get on the sedan chair!"
The Confucian student surnamed Lu couldn't laugh or cry, and waved his hands again and again: "You don't have to, you don't have to, I'm here to be a teacher."
A gentry stepped forward and said, "Without Mr. Lu, the Hukou County Middle School would not have been established. Mr. Lu is my great benefactor in Hukou County. Please don't refuse and go to the school in a sedan chair."
The Confucian scholar still wanted to decline, but a group of gentry rushed forward, surrounded him and pushed him into the sedan chair.
Standing on the boat, Xu Fengcai asked in confusion, "Why is it that a great Confucian enters the city in eight blue sedan chairs?"
"Hahaha," Li Fenglai couldn't help laughing, "you can tell by the badge on his chest that he belongs to the Mathematics Society. Daxing Culture and Education in the main town, no matter boys or girls, have to go to elementary school for three years. Above elementary school, there is middle school. Many states and counties have not yet set up. There must be mathematics and geometry teachers before new middle schools can be established. This person must have been invited to teach mathematics and geometry.¡±
"Jiangxi pays so much attention to mathematics and geometry?" Xu Fengcai was shocked.
Li Fenglai said: "The general town attaches great importance to it, and the gentry naturally attaches great importance to it. In the future, I am afraid that these exams will also be taken in the exams to obtain scholars. All states and counties are secretly competing. Opening a middle school a year earlier can produce many more students. Go first."
Xu Nianzu asked: "How many middle schools are there in Jiangxi?"
"More than ten, maybe twenty, and many more are added every year." Li Fenglai replied.
Liu Rushi asked suddenly: "If the county has set up a middle school, will the previous county school be abandoned?"
"Of course not," Li Fenglai explained, "directly change the county school to the county middle school, and still have to study the Four Books and Five Classics, and add courses such as mathematics, geometry, and Datong."
"So that's the case, Mr. Zhao really advocates practical learning." Xu Fengcai said happily.
The merchant ship entered Poyang Lake after a little supply, and took them to Ji'an Mansion.
The Confucian student surnamed Lu was also sent into the city by eight sedan chairs.
Outside the city, inn.
Xu Du, Xu Jiaying, Zhou Gui, Wang He, Ding Ruzhang and more than a dozen scholars silently watched the sedan chair enter the city.
Suddenly, they closed the window.
Xu Du said: "Let's make a decision, who doesn't want to start trouble?"
No one said anything.
Xu Du asked again: "Who wants to start trouble?"
All stand up.
Ding Ruzhang said: "The emperor is stupid, and the court is immoral. There have been catastrophes in Zhejiang for several years, and now they have increased their salaries. This year and next two years, it will be a tragic situation of cannibalism again. This Mr. Zhao has not come to Zhejiang for a long time. Then we Just take down Zhejiang and send him the territory!"
"We have been in Jiangxi for three months to observe the government," Wang He said, "If the Jiangxi government can be implemented in Zhejiang, tens of millions of starving people will be saved!"
Xu Jiaying said with a smile: "Your family has a lot of land."
"After returning home, divide my land first!"
Wang He clenched his fists tightly: "The elders in the family are all ungrateful and ungrateful. When the time comes, I will need your help. Anyone in my family who dares to obstruct the division of land will be arrested and placed under house arrest."
"good!"
Xu Du patted the table and said: "I will lead the soldiers to divide your land, and you lead the soldiers to divide my land!"
Zhou Gui also stood up: "My family doesn't have a few acres of land, so it doesn't matter whether we divide it or not. If anyone else refuses to do it, I will lead soldiers to help his family divide the land."
Ding Ruzhang said: "There is no need to rush to divide the land. Let's fight all the way from Dongyang, Yiwu, and Jinhua to Jiangshan County. After the territory borders Jiangxi, immediately ask Mr. Zhao to send people to Zhejiang. Send troops quickly, so that the government cannot react in time!"
"Also." Xu Du nodded.
Wang He said: "Let's make an alliance!"
More than a dozen scholars from Zhejiang took out the statue of Guan Gong, cut the palms of their hands, and made an oath of blood.
Guan Gong, the god of imperial examinations.
This thing originated from the Wanli period, when Xinke Jinshi assigned work. Due to the serious phenomenon of favoritism and fraud, the Ministry of Officials switched to the method of drawing lots.
The Ministry of Officials specially produced a "Guanhou Sign" to mark the location, size, simplified and traditional, etc. After the Xinke Jinshi draws lots, according to the content of the draw, they will be assigned to a certain place to be a county magistrate.
Although nonsense, it is fair.
It's a pity that after a few years of fairness, open cheating began.
&??, you can wear anything. Of course, you can't wear official uniforms, military uniforms and official uniforms, and you will be beaten immediately after you are caught. "
When Liu Rushi saw the Nanchang Wharf, there were actually many women, who looked like wealthy families.
They should have gone out of the city to pay respects to the Buddha, and their skirts and jackets are out of place. Anyway, they have changed randomly, but overall they are quite pleasing to the eye.
Li Fenglai said: "That is the improved style of Mr. Fei's family. It was first worn in Ji'an Mansion and soon spread to Nanchang. The hair accessories have also been improved a lot. Ladies like it very much, and ordinary women have also started to follow suit."
Wang Wei sighed and said: "It's really a scene of prosperity!"
Everyone looked at it strangely all the way, and came to Ji'an mansion along the river.
It happened to be noon at this time, when a group of coolies sat down to rest, the peddler came with a load and set up a fire to cook soup and noodles.
"Old Li, buy a few ounces of wine!" said a coolie.
"Hey, fifth brother, do you still want to drink today? Don't fall when you carry your bag in the afternoon."
"What's so scary about two taels of wine?"
"I'll come to Erliang too!"
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A group of coolies were sitting on the pier eating noodles, and everyone was selling wine and drinking, and the noodle soup was full of oil and water, with a layer of oil and spicy pepper floating on it.
Xu Nianzu stood there stupidly, watching the coolies drinking and eating noodles, his eyes suddenly became moist.
"What's wrong, brother?" Xu Fengcai asked.
Xu Nianzu murmured to himself: "I should have come to Jiangxi long ago, and stayed in Jiangnan, wasting a few years for nothing. During the holy period, I can see the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it will come within thirty years!"
(Recommend Da Luoluo's "Buried the Qing Dynasty Alive", a great history master, don't worry about the quality, the content can be known from the title of the book. ?