After the verdict, the young man withdrew from the crowd of onlookers. After thinking about it, he turned around and walked in another direction.
Someone who was familiar with him in the crowd saw him and quickly shouted: "Xu Maoxue, the restaurant is over there, where are you going?"
Xu Maoxue looked back and said, "I'm not going to the restaurant, I'm going to Taixue."
The man burst out laughing and asked, "How old are you? Do you still want to go to Taixue to study?"
"Every kid with a yellow mouth has great ambitions. I'm in my prime, why can't I?" In the past, young people thought of just going with the flow, lying down and watching the changes in the world.
He is arrogant and feels that the world is hopeless, so he just makes a little money and watches the people in this world struggle.
In his eyes, Zhao Hanzhang and Gou Xi are both fools.
Gou Xi has a good reputation, has military power, and is valued by the emperor. As long as he continues to be cautious in his words and deeds, returns power to the emperor, or co-rules with the emperor, it is only a matter of time before the world surrenders;
Looking at the world, the only one who can compare with him in terms of military ability is Beigong Jun. In terms of power, he should be number one in the world.
As long as he makes the right mistakes and stays with the emperor for two years, he can become the second Cao Mengde, and maybe the world will be unified under him.
But he got carried away and became arrogant. The good situation was shattered by him.
Zhao Hanzhang is also stupid.
She is a woman and has her own advantages. As long as she is willing to give up Fu Tinghan, marry the emperor or Gou Xi, the two forces will become one, and now most of the world will be in her hands. If she points directly to the north, who knows?
Can’t regain lost ground?
So he had always looked down on these two people from the bottom of his heart, but now, the young man felt that his face was burning.
What Zhao Hanzhang and Chen Pei said hit him hard in the face.
She didn't take the path he thought was right, not necessarily because she didn't know the path, but because she had the courage to choose a more difficult path.
Even Chen Pei, a child with a yellow mouth, has the courage to risk his life to follow her. What should he be afraid of after living for ten more years?
Xu Maoxue walked faster and faster, and soon reached the gate of Taixue.
He raised his head and glanced at the plaque on the Imperial College, picked up his robe and walked forward.
The gate of Taixue is wide open, no one is guarding it, and people can come in and out at will.
When you walk into the courtyard, you can hear the sound of reading aloud from all directions.
Xu Maoxue paused for a moment, and then walked towards the offices of the doctors in his memory.
There was no one in the office, but there was a desk with a lot of papers on it, and there were bookshelves on both sides with a lot of books on the shelves.
This was different from the office in his memory, and he was a little surprised.
Walking forward to look at the books, I found that there were all kinds of classics and history collections, and even many miscellaneous books.
Looking at the papers on the case again, he couldn't help but reach out and pick up one to read.
He is very familiar with this kind of paper. Now the paper in Luoyang City is this kind of paper, called Zhao paper, also called Yuzhou paper.
Currently, most of the paper used is shipped from Yuzhou. The papermaking workshop belongs to Zhao Hanzhang. I heard that she and Fu Tinghan made this new paper together.
After she captured Luoyang, paper mills began to be built in workshops outside the city. However, papermaking requires a process. At present, the paper mills in Luoyang can only provide the paper needs of the Yamen, Taixue and various schools.
Most of the paper circulating in the market has to be shipped from Yuzhou, so although the price of paper is cheaper than before, it is still expensive.
Xu Maoxue was a little short of money and used every piece of paper sparingly. He didn't expect that the gentleman in Taixue would be so arrogant and put so many papers on every desk.
He put down the paper with some envy, stood at the door and looked back and forth, then chose a direction to walk.
Sure enough, after walking for a while, he saw people and students in class.
It was a group of older students, each of them fourteen or fifteen years old. They were not sitting in the classroom, but in an open pavilion. There was a young gentleman in a Confucian shirt sitting across from them.
This is also where Zhao Hanzhang has been criticized by scholars. She has held several important positions in the Zhao family, which makes people think that her current achievements are mostly due to the Zhao family, rather than her own abilities.
Especially for such an important place as Taixue, she actually handed over the management of Taixue directly to Zhao Cheng without going through the court.
It's simply... I'm envious and jealous, but I can't help but question it.
Zhao Cheng's voice was gentle, and he spoke as if he were telling a story. After finishing the lesson, he turned his head and looked around.
Seeing Xu Maoxue, Zhao Cheng said to the students: "Read it for yourself and ask me if you have any questions."
The students bowed in agreement and picked up their textbooks to read.
Zhao Cheng walked down and asked, "Mao Xue is here to find me?"
Xu Maoxue said: "I'm going back to my old place and come to see Superintendent Zhao on the way."
Zhao Cheng looked calm and said, "I'm not the superintendent. You can either call me by my name or call me sir."
Xu Maoxue looked disgusted, "Be my husband, you are so shameless."
Zhao Cheng glanced at him indifferently, turned around and left.
Seeing this, Xu Maoxue hurriedly followed him and chased after him: "Of course, you are a few years older than me. You can't call me sir, but you can call me brother. Brother Zitu, I wonder if you still lack a teacher in Taixue...
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During dinner in the evening, Zhao Cheng came to visit. Zhao Hanzhang quickly asked someone to bring more bowls and chopsticks, "But is there something wrong with the Imperial Academy?"
Zhao Cheng nodded and said, "I'm here to ask for an official on behalf of someone?"
"who?"
"Yongzhou Xu Maoxue," Zhao Cheng said: "He lives in Luoyang. Before the war in Luoyang, he fled Luoyang with the refugees. Later, you all drove him back and he was not allowed to leave Luoyang again. Now he has ambitions to become a Taixue student. I want to hire him as a Taixue student."
Study as a doctor and teach your disciples.”
Zhao Hanzhang agreed, "Okay, I will ask Fan Ying to issue the appointment letter tomorrow."
Zhao Cheng nodded and took the opportunity to take out the accumulated problems of Taixue, "There are many new disciples enrolling this year, and the registered books have not been distributed yet. This is too delayed for teaching. Please urge me to remind the bookstore."
First, hold on to the seal on our side."
Zhao Hanzhang agreed immediately.
The speed was so fast that Zhao Cheng couldn't help but look up at her, "When can I give it? Can it be at the end of the month?"
Zhao Hanzhang thought for a while and then said: "Before the fifteenth of next month, not only printing, but also binding is required. This all requires effort."
The bookstore in Luoyang was newly opened. The King of Donghai left and took away a lot of engravings. However, the engraving plates of Yuzhou Bookstore could only distribute the engravings of a few books to Luoyang. The rest are now being carved by Luoyang Bookstore, and there are also engravings from the imperial palace.
There are some engravings found there.
However, the books on the engravings that were not taken away by the imperial court were rarely used, and the current printing value was very low. Finally, they still had to engrave the commonly used books themselves.
Zhao Hanzhang is urging the Ministry of Industry to make movable type for this reason. It takes too long to carve a book, and among the craftsmen gathered so far, there are only a few with good skills. They often damage the engraving plates, and sometimes not many are damaged in one edition.
Yes, they also used it for printing.
So much so that the books used by students in schools and universities now occasionally have ink smudges, which are incorrectly engraved characters that have been crossed out and then corrected.