There are some unspoken rules in everything, just like Tang Monk who is seeking scriptures from the West. Even though he knows clearly that a monster is coming to his door, he always has to pretend to be stupid because he knows that to obtain the scriptures, he needs to go through nine or eight steps. It's difficult. If you try to find a simple method, the result may not be ideal.
Just like Liu Dan now. Does Liu Dan know that Fei Qian is somewhat suspicious of him? This goes without saying, but can he just give up? Obviously he can't, so he can only obey Fei Qian's arrangement.
But Liu Dan soon learned that the so-called patrol officer's job of educating the barbarians was not a good job...
Although many places were relatively desolate during the Han Dynasty, the high loess slopes in the north were even more prominent. The yellow dust blown from the Gobi Desert in the north for tens of thousands of years accumulated here, coupled with the rainwater in the east and the river in the west. The erosion has resulted in ravines all over the place, full of enjoyment up and down.
It's obviously on the opposite side, but you have to go around in a circle and go through the ravine to reach it. There are too many roads like this...
At first, Liu Dan was still interested in the vastness of the sky, but then he became numb to these extremely desolate scenes. No matter who it was, for two or three days in a row, there was not a single ghost like him among the group. , no matter how big-hearted the person is, they are a little tired of aesthetics.
"How far is it?"
"Ah, this is coming soon, coming soon..."
This conversation had been repeated many times, and by the end Liu Dan was so numb that he didn't even bother to ask.
Not only is the road boring, but also the communication between people is equally boring.
I won’t talk about the Hu guides. Anyway, they will only giggle when they meet. The rest is to choose one of the four "eat, stop, sleep, and walk". The rest of the Han guards are also ordinary big-headed soldiers, not that Is there any problem with daily communication? It’s just that the levels of the two parties are too different. Even the most common "the narrow alleys where cattle and sheep are born are the characters. The flat forest where the birth is, the flat forest will be cut down..." I don’t understand the sentences at all, which makes Liu Danqing so embarrassed...
Fortunately, on the fifth day, I finally saw a residential camp built far to the south of Yinshan Mountain. It was also the destination this time, one of the so-called preset points for civilizing the barbarians.
Liu Dan and his party stopped outside the residential area.
This is also a good gathering point. It seems that there are quite a lot of people there. Not only are there houses built by Han people inside the camp, but there are also some outside the camp. Some tents can even be vaguely seen in the distance. It is said that It is where some Hu people who came to listen to the lecture live. Overall, the address of this residential area is well chosen. There is a small river on the side, which solves the problem of water intake. There are also many aquatic plants on the river bank, whether for grazing or farming. is allowed.
The person in charge of the settlement had already stood at the camp with several minor officials to greet them.
Although the sparrow is small and well-equipped, although there are not many people in the settlement, and there may not be any administrative affairs, there must be a leader. As the person who coordinates and handles the trivial matters of daily life, this is usually the person The chief of the clan with the largest number of people in the village also serves as the chief.
There must also be an archer who is responsible for commanding the hunters, counting the iron tools if there is a blacksmith, and catching thieves. In addition, there is also a scribe who is responsible for counting household accounts, settling taxes, and is also responsible for correspondence, personnel, handover and registration, like this
The three people are the Big Three in a residential area.
However, such three giants can only dominate a residential area. Therefore, when they saw Liu Dan and his entourage coming, they naturally greeted them respectfully.
Liu Dan was already exhausted from the bumpy journey. He managed to put on a smile and bow his hands to the three of them, which was already the limit.
"I wonder if the envoy wants to inspect the teaching place?"
Although Liu Dan wanted to say that I need to rest and eat, under the bright eyes around him, he couldn't murmur and could only nod numbly...
However, in the eyes of the three big men in the village, Liu Dan's indifference seemed like the majesty and reserve that a Shangguan should have, so they hurriedly led the way and led Liu Dan and his party into the camp, heading towards a few thatched huts on one side.
go.
Originally, the three giants of the village wanted to ask Wang Ling and Wang Yanyun, the instructors in the village, to go out to greet him, but Wang Ling refused, saying that what the patrol wanted to see was the result of the education, not to flatter him, so he did not go out of the village at all.
, but teaches students in thatched cottages...
The thatched hut is in a sunny place, bathed in sunshine. More than twenty children are sitting upright in the thatched hut. At the top, a young scribe is holding a scroll of bamboo slips, shaking his head and reciting word for word:
"...The day is white and the night is dark, the sun is shining and the moon is blowing, the wind is blowing and the snow is dancing, the lightning is thundering. The clouds are making rain, the dew is forming frost in the morning, the rainbow is shining, the fog is falling and the hail is falling. Spring is growing and summer is growing, autumn is harvesting and winter is hiding, the seasons are
In response, the cold comes and the heat comes..."
More than two dozen children also read along word for word, their little eyes sparkling, full of desire for knowledge. During the entire period when the young scribes were reading, all the children sat upright and looked attentive. Even the thatched cottage
There were a few more people who didn't even notice.
Books in the Han Dynasty were quite scarce, so scarce that it was really not a shame to be illiterate, because the vast majority of people were like this, and had never even seen a few words in their lives.
Civilization must be recorded in writing. Without writing, civilization cannot be effectively passed down and will inevitably decline quickly.
The Huns may have developed slightly before, but unlike the Han people, their tool for recording text and graphics was parchment scrolls. However, in ancient times without chemical industry, it was quite difficult to preserve parchment scrolls without damage for a long time.
Things like mildew or insect bites can quickly cause damage to the parchment rolls.
After all, sheepskin is inherently more complex than bamboo and wood, and is harder to preserve. Therefore, the Huns may have had writing, but unfortunately, it was not preserved and passed down.
"Good, today's teaching is convenient for this..." Instructor Wang Ling coughed lightly, then put down the bamboo slips and said to the children, "After you go back, you need to practice diligently, do you understand?"
All the children bowed together: "Thank you for teaching me!"
Instructor Wang Ling also slowly put away the bamboo slips, put them in his arms, nodded, then slowly stood up and walked out of the thatched cottage.
After their instructor Wang Ling left the thatched hut, the children raised their heads from the ground. Some of them suddenly discovered that there were many people outside the house, including the three big men of the village, and they couldn't help but panic.
Instructor Wang Ling calmly bowed to Liu Dan and others.
Liu Dan returned the half salute, looked at Wang Ling who was smiling slightly, and without waiting for Wang Ling to say anything, he casually waved to one of the children in the thatched house who was casting curious eyes, and called him in front of him.
The little boy came to Liu Dan tremblingly and prostrated himself on the ground.
Liu Dan looked at the child's clothes and said softly: "You... um, are you Han?"
The child got stuck for a moment and muttered a few words, then stammered into Chinese and said: "To tell you what to say to the adults, I am...Hu Min..."
"Hu Min?" Liu Dan looked at the clothes on the little boy again. He wanted to let the Hu boy go back, but he was worried that what he had done was too obvious and would have some bad effects. He hesitated for a moment and said, "...
Also, I am not your 'adult', your father is your 'adult'..."
The little boy raised his head, with a puzzled look on his face, and said, "But... should I treat him the same as my father? Why am I not an adult anymore?"
"Ah haha, not bad, not bad. I still understand this. It means 'disciples serve as teachers and respect their father'. Good, but... In this way, you can call me 'Master' instead of 'Sir'... But you
Clothes..." After hearing the boy's answer, Liu Dan was a little surprised and couldn't help laughing.
However, Liu Dan was still a little unclear. He originally thought that all the children in this room were Han family children. After all, they were all wearing Han family clothes. However, he did not expect that there were actually children of Hu people among them, and they called themselves Hu Min...
"I have received an order from the General on the Western Expedition. If you want to learn the classics of the Han family, you need to start at a young age, wear Han clothes, know Han rituals, study in Cambodia, and accept the precepts and training before you can study the classics in the hall..."
Wang Ling saw that Liu Dan didn't seem to understand, so he folded his hands and read a book and explained in a low voice.
"That's so good..." Liu Dan nodded, praised, and then asked Wang Ling, "How many Han boys are there in the hall now? How many Hu boys are there?"
Wang Ling replied: "There are seventeen Han boys and six Hu boys."
Liu Dan nodded, then turned to the little Hutong and asked, "Do you understand what Master taught you?"
"...some understand, some...don't understand..." Hu Tong replied.
Liu Dan nodded, not dissatisfied because Hu Tong didn't understand his answer, because it's normal for such a young child to have some things he doesn't understand. It would be abnormal if he understood everything.
"Can you remember the words you understand?"
"...can remember some..."
"Okay, okay..." The smile on Liu Dan's face became thicker. What he just listened to Wang Ling read outside the house was also a basic book on elementary education, but it was all-inclusive and quite interesting.
Liu Dan pondered for a moment and suddenly said: "What is day?"
"Well... when the day comes..." Hu Tong replied.
"Not bad!" Liu Dan nodded, "What is a cloud?"
Hu Tong pointed to the white clouds floating in the sky and said: "That, that's the cloud..."
"It seems that I have indeed remembered a lot..." Liu Dan nodded and asked, "...then what is wind?"
Wind comes and goes without a trace. It is indeed difficult for children to tell what exactly is wind. Hu Tong frowned and looked left and right, and suddenly pointed at Liu Dan who was blown by the wind.
The robe shouted: "Wind, this wind, the wind is late...this robe..."
"Well, not bad...it's just 'Fengchi', Fengchixuewu..."
Liu Dan chuckled. In between questions and answers, he had already asked Hu Tong more than a dozen words, and Hu Tong could answer seven or eight of them. It could be seen that Hu Tong did understand these words and knew them.
What does the word mean? When the child answered, he also showed that these memories were very firm and there was not much slowness or hesitation.
This is already very rare.
The three giants of the village on the side looked at each other, and they were also a little proud. After all, no matter what time it was, the achievements of enlightenment were real achievements that could be ranked high.
Perhaps in future generations, children like this who are eight or nine years old, or even younger, five or six years old, may be able to recognize more words than these twenty-odd children combined. There are also some geniuses who may be studying junior high school courses.
, but now, in the Han Dynasty, which has no systematic educational theory, generations of chaotic teachings and generations of Hu Xue have become a process that most people will inevitably experience.
There is no large-scale cultural exchange, and most teachers and students work behind closed doors. Even if they finally have educational experience, there is no soil for spreading it. The absolute illiteracy rate has reached a social environment of almost 99.9999%. Illiterate people are everywhere, and most of them
People can only rely on ten fingers to compare the amount, and when the amount exceeds the limit, they immediately scratch their heads...
Of course, even for additions and subtractions within ten, you need to move your fingers over and over again before you can half-confidently confirm that it seems to be the family property of ordinary people who are not wrong, and you almost never need to use mathematics.
, anyway, for those things, the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy mostly involves barter.
With all these circumstances brought together, it is amazing and commendable that the learning progress and content of the Han Dynasty can achieve such results now.
"Good!" Liu Dan waved his hand to ask the child to step back, and then said to Wang Ling, "Teach him in a proper way and apply what he has learned! Wang Jiaoxi's teaching can be the best!" In the Han Dynasty, the evaluation was generally ninth grade, starting from
From top to bottom, there are some prototypes of the ninth grade that Chen Qun created later.
"The patrolman has won the award, so I dare not take credit..." Wang Ling took out the scroll of bamboo slips from his arms and said, "This book is a gift from the Cai family of Pingyang Bookstore... Using this book to enlighten students is indeed twice the result with half the effort...
"
"Hmm..." Liu Dan nodded and agreed, "Cai Zhonglang's character is really admirable... But Wang Jiaoxi is also quite effective. If he has made merit in teaching, there is no need to be too modest... I wonder who Wang Jiaoxi is?"
For Liu Dan, although he is the queen of the royal family, he is still alone now, so getting to know more people and even making more friends has become what Liu Dan urgently needs to do right now. Therefore, meeting Wang Ling is quite interesting.
After learning this skill, he couldn't wait to get close to Wang Ling.
"A certain person is from Qi County..." Wang Ling said.
"...Qi County? But after the Wang family in Taiyuan?" Liu Dan's eyes lit up and he asked immediately.
"...I dare not hide anything from the envoy," Wang Ling said, cupping his hands, "Wang Situ is an uncle of a certain clan..."
"Oh?!" Liu Danxiao couldn't help but hurriedly stepped forward and said, "...Oh, I'm so disrespectful...I never thought I would meet Brother Wang Xiandi through this place..."
