Yunxi sent Mei Yin away and immediately asked Chang Ruijiang to call Wenyao, Baoqing and the others over.
Two days ago, Yunxi promised to hold Qin to enlighten Wenyao personally. Later, he thought that in this case, he would call Baoqing and the others to go to school together, so he told Xiyao the next day.
Of course Xiyao would not object. He told her in the morning and four small tables were packed and sent to Qianqing Palace in the afternoon.
But I don’t know what happened in the past two days. Yunxi felt that there were too many things to do, so he never took time out. He didn’t have time until today.
Wang Xi instructed the young eunuch to put everything out. After a while, four children came.
Baoqing walked in, smiled and said to Yunxi: "Eldest nephew, do you want to teach us how to read?"
When Yunxi heard her name, he suddenly felt a big headache. He already had a premonition that if today's lecture was unsuccessful, Baoqing would be the biggest problem.
The fact is exactly as Yunxi expected. Baoqing always interrupts Yunxi in class, and from time to time asks some questions that have nothing to do with the class, and tries to talk to Miner and others. Siqi and Wenyao naturally He wouldn't talk to her; Min'er didn't talk to her at first, but later she couldn't help it.
It was not easy for Yunxi to punish Miner in front of Baoqing, let alone Baoqing, so it was delayed for an hour.
During this period, Princess Ningguo came and asked to go to Chuzhou with Mei Yin, and Yunxi agreed without much thought.
In the evening, Yunxi brought Wenyao to Chengqian Palace. He casually mentioned to Baoqin the matter of enlightening them this afternoon.
Of course Baoqin was dissatisfied with Baoqing, but as a child, she couldn't argue with him. She had to make a nonchalant expression to comfort Yunxi.
In the afternoon of the next day, Yunxi once again summoned several children to come to enlightenment. Yunxi was already prepared for a long-term war with Baoqing, but today Baoqing's mother Zhang Meiren came.
When Zhang Meiren saw Yunxi, she immediately saluted Yunxi and said, "Your Majesty, Baoqing is young and ignorant, please don't argue with her." Then she knelt on the ground and kept buttoning her head.
Zhang Meiren originally didn't know about this yesterday. She knew that Baoqing was playing with Min'er and Siqi outside the West Sixth Palace, but since Xiyao didn't come to her, and in her opinion, the princess was teasing her. A few servants don't mean much, so I just said a few words to pull him down.
But after Bao Qing went to bed last night, Zhang Meiren accidentally heard the maid serving Bao Qing talking about today's events, and was shocked. The next morning, Bao Qing had just gotten up and had not even put on his clothes, so Zhang Meiren came in to teach Bao Qing a lesson. .
Zhang Meiren was really angry at that time. It’s okay to play tricks on her servants. It’s okay to destroy something as long as Yunxi doesn’t care. But when she made trouble during Yunxi’s enlightenment, why didn’t she hate her to death even if she hugged Qin? Even Xiyao couldn’t do it. happy.
Baoqing was beaten for the first time in his life, and he cried so much that he could not hear it. Fortunately, Zhang Meiren closed the door tightly before the beating, so no one in the other palace heard.
After the beating, Zhang Meiren reasoned with Bao Qing again, then cleaned her up at noon, and took her to Qianqing Palace in the afternoon.
When Yunxi saw Zhang Meiren who was getting more and more discounts, he knew what was going on. Yunxi smiled and said: "Zhang Taifei (honorary title), Baoqing is still young, so I don't care. Taifei, please get up quickly."
Zhang Meiren said: "Even if Your Majesty doesn't care, I still have to plead guilty."
Yunxi talked to her for a long time before Zhang Mei stood up and gave Baoqing a few words in private before returning to her bedroom.
Today, Baoqing sat on his futon very honestly and didn't say a word. Yunxi also knew the reason, so he didn't speak either.
Yunxi decided to repeat what he said yesterday. Yunxi said: "Let's read the "Three Character Classic" first. I will read one sentence, and you will follow the same sentence. In the beginning, human nature is good."
The four children said: "When humans are born, their nature is good."
"Sex is similar, habits are far apart."
"Sex is similar, habits are far apart."
…
After reading it once, Yunxi said: "I will explain it today."
"..., and then the next sentence. Mother Meng, do you know who she is? Raise your hands to answer."
Siqi raised his hand and said: "Uncle, I know, she is Mencius's mother."
Yunxi said: "Yes, thinking about Qi is really good. In the past, Meng's mother chose a neighbor. These two sentences are an allusion, telling the story of Meng's mother moving three times."
"Mencius's father died when he was young, and his mother was no longer married. Mencius and his mother lived next to the cemetery. Mencius and his neighbor's children imitated adults' kneeling and crying, and played with funeral arrangements.
Mencius's mother saw it and frowned and said: "This place is not suitable for my children to live!" Mencius's mother took Mencius to the market... and they moved to the vicinity of the slaughterhouse.
..., they moved again. This time, they moved near the school..., Mencius's mother said with satisfaction: "This is the place where my son should live!" So they lived in this place."
Yunxi asked the four children below, "Have you remembered these two sentences now?"
Min'er argued and said: "So these two sentences mean this. I remember: Xi Meng's mother, choose a neighbor." The other three people also nodded and said: "Remember: Xi Meng's mother, choose a neighbor."
"
Yunxi praised them again.
Then Yunxi explained the last two sentences, and also explained the four sentences "Dou Yanshan, who has a righteous prescription, taught the five sons, and they all became famous."
Then because Yunxi explained very slowly, half an hour passed. Yunxi felt that it was not good for such a young child to learn too much, so he said: "That's it for today."
Min'er was the first to stand up and said: "Father, we are going back."
Yunxi said: "Well, you can go back."
Miner took Baoqing and Siqi away.
Yunxi took out things again to write and do calculations. When it was almost time to eat, he took Wen Yao to the Chengqian Palace where Qin was held.
After going to court the next day, Yunxi said to all the auxiliary officials and several members of the Zhongshushe: "I plan to enlighten the emperor's eldest son Wenyao and the two princesses, and I am looking for a gentleman."
"I have requirements for enlightened teachers. They must be very patient with children, be very familiar with classic books such as the Three Character Classic, and be able to explain the words in a simple and easy-to-understand way."
"Also, if you want to make the child feel friendly, you can't look evil..."
"Someone has come forward with a recommendation, and I want to personally interview him. Let him lecture the princes and princesses in front of me. Those who don't suit my liking will not be accepted."
"As long as the above requirements are met, regardless of whether you have fame or not, and regardless of your age, I will accept it."
The people below looked at each other. At first, Yunxi told the prince and princess to find Mr. Kaimeng, and everyone was very happy. Now he is just giving lectures to the eldest son and princess. If the emperor appreciates it, he will teach the prince in the future.
They were just thinking about recommending people they knew and thought were suitable for teaching, when they heard a lot of requests from Yunxi, and then they didn't know whether they should recommend their friends.
Fang Xiaoru said: "Your Majesty, regardless of fame or age, I understand it, but why do you have other requirements?"
Yunxi said: "My royal children, regardless of gender, do not have to work hard for the imperial examination. They only study for the sake of understanding."
"If you want to understand the truth, you must not only write down the contents of the book, but also know what the words written in the book mean."
"But you don't need to figure out the meaning of these words word for word. You only need to know what the saint wants to explain. Therefore, it is required to be very familiar with classic books such as "The Three Character Classic" and be able to explain the words in a simple and profound way."
"As a child, you must have a lot of questions to ask when you are just studying. What happens naturally at this time is not that you have doubts about what the saint said. At this time, you need your husband to answer patiently, and you can't just answer things perfunctorily, and know the answers.
If you don’t know, you don’t know. You can’t give random answers.”
"In addition, the reason why children should feel friendly is because they are often reluctant to ask questions of their own when faced with fearful people. Asking your husband to teach your children to read is not for psychological comfort, but for real need.
Let the children be sensible, so if it doesn’t work, it’s better not to invite them.”
"I want to find people who are neither humble nor arrogant because my family is a royal family after all, and many people have the idea of being afraid or fawning. Whether they are fawning or frightened, it is not easy to teach them well. If it were not for the fear of keeping secrets, I would want them to go to the private sector.
Studying in a private school."
Yunxi continued to talk a lot. When Yunxi finished speaking, Fang Xiaoru pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty's words are deeply understood by the saint's true meaning of making people read. If everyone in the world can read like your Majesty, then all the people in the world will be able to read."
You are a sensible person." After saying this, Fang Xiaoru bowed his head to the end.
Fang Xiaoru was a great Confucian of the time, and even Yunxi couldn't help but feel a little proud to receive such praise from him. But he didn't expect that Fang Xiaoru immediately said after getting up: "Your Majesty knows that the purpose of studying is this, why do you still need to take the imperial examination?"
"Even if there is an imperial examination, why should the eight-legged essay be based on Zhu Xi's "Collected Commentary on Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" as the correct interpretation? Although Zhu Xi is a great Confucian scholar, his meaning may not be the original intention of Confucius." Fang Xiaoru really respects the Zhou rites.
, and advocated following Confucius’ original intention. There was obviously no imperial examination system in the Zhou Dynasty, so he would say this.
What other reason could there be? In fact, it was just to imprison the thoughts of intellectuals. However, although Yunxi also had his own thoughts that he wanted to promote, they were not, or were not entirely, Zhu Xi's thoughts. There are also good things in Zhu Xi's thoughts, and the overlap is
normal.
So Yunxi said: "I already know it. When I have time, I will discuss it with the ministers." Then without waiting for them to say anything else, he turned to his own topic and said: "If you ministers agree with what I just said,
Sir, recommend it to me."
Then he immediately started to deal with the government affairs in a piecemeal manner, so Fang Xiaoru, who still had something to say, had no choice but to retreat.
