After Deng Qifan finished writing home letters for the guards, he thought about Wu Shigong arranging errands for him.
Then Deng Qifan still had a scholar's mentality. Although he was forcibly retained by Wu Shigong, Deng Qifan still imagined that Wu Shigong could treat him like Liu Bei treated Zhuge Liang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Deng Qifan suggested that Wu Shigong first come to visit the thatched cottage three times, and then Deng Qifan played "Longzhong Dui", which shocked Wu Shigong to the core. Wu Shigong immediately bowed to Deng Qifan and said, "If you don't come out, sir, the world will be uneasy."
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But would Wu Shigong do such a brainless thing? He did not have any tone of discussion at all, and directly arranged for Deng Qifan to teach his illiterate subordinates to read and write.
Although Wu Shigong's own cultural level in his previous life was not high, he still respected knowledgeable people (except Yu Zilian). Besides, he found that the illiteracy rate of people in the Ming Dynasty was too high. If this continues
, in the future, even the transmission of orders will be problematic in my own army. Even the illiterate people cannot understand the handwritten orders.
But after listening to Wu Shigong's arrangement, Deng Qifan was even more reluctant. But he didn't dare to go against Wu Shigong, so Deng Qifan found a reason: "Sir, there is only one student. Teaching so many people to study, the student is too busy.
Come on. Your Excellency needs to find some more gentlemen to teach."
After listening to Deng Qifan's words, Wu Shigong felt that his words made sense. But where could he find a teacher? Wu Shigong remembered the teacher Gong Haoran who he had talked back to when he was guarding the county town.
That day, Wu Shigong rummaged through the box, found out his scholar's robe from the box containing his clothes, and asked Xiuzhu to dress him up.
When Wu Shigong put on his robe and scribe's scarf, looking at his appearance, all the wives of Wu Shigong in the inner house couldn't help but laugh out loud. Wu Shigong looked like a martial artist, but he dressed like a scholar.
, it really verifies an idiom - the monkey wears the crown.
Wu Shigong brought the gift and came to the residence of Gong Haoran, the county magistrate, under the strange eyes of others.
As soon as Wu Shigong and Gong Haoran met, they immediately bowed and said: "The teacher's teachings to the students that day are still in the students' hearts. Today, the students are here to listen to the teacher's teachings."
Gong Haoran was very happy after hearing Wu Shigong's words. He said repeatedly: "You're welcome. You're welcome." He took Wu Shigong and welcomed him into the house.
After the two of them sat down, Wu Shigong said to Gong Haoran: "The student came to see the teacher this time because he still had something to ask for help. The student arrested some rioters this time, including some children. The student thought that the rioters rebelled.
We must not only make them fearful with severe punishments, but also teach them about etiquette and loyalty. In this way, they will be able to support themselves and become useful people in the future. Therefore, here we have to ask for teachers and find some teachers for the students.
, so that they can teach those children."
Gong Haoran was very impressed by Wu Shigong's words. He smiled and said: "The enlightenment of the saint is indeed true. How can I not help Wu Qianhu's current enlightenment?"
As a result, Wu Shigong and Gong Haoran talked happily. When Gong Haoran learned that Wu Shigong was also a supervisor, the relationship between them became even closer. Because Gong Haoran was Wu Shigong's supervisor for several previous terms. Therefore, Gong Haoran also insisted on
I dragged Wu Shigong to stay for a family dinner.
Within a few days, Gong Haoran arranged for five children from the county to come to Wu Shigong to teach. Those five children were basically old people who had no hope of taking the imperial examination. But their arrival, for Wu Shigong now,
But it was a treasure. Wu Shigong immediately gave each of them eight taels of silver per month to repair. This made these children very satisfied.
Wu Shigong immediately arranged for all the orphan boys he took in to learn literacy. He also arranged for all his officers to have night classes to learn literacy after training in the morning.
This rule of Wu Shigong made the officers feel a little resistant. Wu Shigong was very simple and stipulated that if anyone did not meet the standard of literacy within the specified time, his military pay would be deducted immediately. Under the power of money, all the officers also obeyed.
Wu Shigong's order.
After that, Wu Shigong inspected the teaching situation. The five children taught the children and officers how to read, and they taught them very hard. However, Wu Shigong discovered a problem.
Those children were taught according to the teaching methods of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, teaching people to read meant asking those who were literate to memorize all the textbook contents first, regardless of whether they understood the textbooks or not.
The true meaning and explanation of the content.
After memorizing the contents of the textbook, the teacher will combine the contents of the textbook with some great principles from the saints. Under normal circumstances, this is considered to be the end of the teaching.
If there are some smarter students who can draw inferences from one example, then the teacher will focus on training this student. To be honest, the education in the Ming Dynasty is an elite education after casting a net in the sky. That is, only the best students are educated.
Knowledge, other people just don't let them become blind.
As for Wu Shigong's purpose of running a school, he didn't want to run a university at all. He just wanted to run a technical school. Moreover, although the great principles of the saints were also taught, they could only be taught selectively. Wu Shigong had to let Wu Shigong teach some of the principles.
It became vague and did not want to be instilled in the minds of the children and officers who were studying.
For example, Wu Shigong thought about those thoughts of loyalty to the emperor: These people eat from me and wear from me, so they should be loyal to themselves and not care about the emperor.
So Wu Shigong felt that he should compile a supplementary textbook for learning. In this supplementary textbook, there is no need to talk about the deeds of saints. Those saints are too far away from Wu Shigong's era. Not to mention those cats and mice.
The fairy tale of loving rice. Talk more about current events and things around you. Connect theory with practice.
He did what he said. After Wu Shigong returned to the inner house, he called his four wives and asked them to help him compile such a supplementary textbook.
After hearing Wu Shigong's ideas, Li Xin asked with some confusion: "Husband, how should I write that textbook?"
Wu Shigong explained to the four ladies: "For example, the first sentence of the "Three Character Classic" - at the beginning of human beings, nature is good. Nature is similar, but habits are far apart. The conventional explanation means: everyone is good when he is born.
It’s just that the learning environment is different during the growth process, so everyone’s temperament will be different between good and bad.”
"After we teach those literate people and children conventional explanations, we then connect it with reality and tell stories that happen around us to deepen the impressions of these literate people and children."
"For example, you can say: Their Lord Qianhu is a man of very noble character. So he will exterminate those rebellious people, and take in those who are kidnapped by the rebels, let them work and have enough to eat, and now he still lets them
They are literate. In this way, they will have such a noble Senhu-sama as a role model, and they will become very good people in the future."
"Tell me, what do you think of my teaching method?" Wu Shigong asked proudly.
His four wives stared blankly at this shameless husband, with their mouths open and speechless.
Xiuzhu, who has a more straightforward personality, answered Wu Shigong's words. She said: "I don't understand whether what the young master said is good or not. I only know that you are really shameless, young master."
Xiuzhu's words caused a burst of laughter from the other three women. Wu Shigong, who was so angry, grabbed Xiuzhu and carried her to the bedroom. As he walked, Wu Shigong said bitterly: "Today the young master will
Let me show you what it means to be truly shameless."
After the ladies compiled this supplementary textbook according to Wu Shigong's wishes, Wu Shigong showed the textbook to Deng Qifan and asked him to make some comments and suggestions. Deng Qifan's eyes almost fell out of his sockets when he saw it.
However, Deng Qifan responded quickly. After reading it carefully, he suggested to Wu Shigong: "Sir, your textbook is of course very good. It can make those literate people have the idea of repaying kindness. However, in
The teaching materials should also highlight the words of the saints and the saints, so that it is not easy for others to catch you in your pigtails."
Wu Shigong understood it all at once. This textbook of his stood out too much for him. If it spread out and was used by people with ulterior motives, it would bring him a lot of trouble.
Wu Shigong immediately followed his advice and asked Deng Qifan to help improve it. It was the first time that Deng Qifan showed his skills in front of Wu Shigong, and he tried his best to supplement the content in the textbook.
Finally, this textbook became: What does the original text mean? What did the saints do in the past? Under the wise leadership of the emperor, how does the noble Qianhu do things now? Such a form.
Wu Shigong was quite satisfied with the supplementary textbook finalized by Deng Qifan. He could now use the power of culture to brainwash his subordinates. Wu Shigong also greatly praised Deng Qifan and was impressed by the role Deng Qifan could play.
