Chapter 505: The sea of ??questions is boundless, and it is difficult to serve as a foil
Even if Hong Shan makes such a fuss, his daughter Hong is indeed the best candidate for the eldest princess in the eyes of outsiders - as long as they are not crazy, most people who are qualified to marry the royal family will never be willing to give up.
The daughter jumped into this fire pit - but the Queen Mother, as the grandmother of the eldest prince, was about to summon the Hong family. After the news spread, it still caused quite a commotion.
And Zhang Shou was very sure that if people knew that the Queen Mother actually ordered him and Zhu Ying to accompany him to meet the Hong family, then the public opinion would probably be even more uproar. Princess Yongping was definitely more suitable than Zhu Ying for this occasion, and the third prince
A kid like the Fourth Prince is far more suitable than him. Why does the Queen Mother insist on taking him with her?
Well, excluding the unrealistic reason why the Queen Mother treats him differently, is this normal? Now it seems that his life experience should not be shocking, but the Queen Mother seems to treat Zhu Ying better than her own granddaughter.
Is it possible that Zhu Ying’s life experience is shady?
Although he felt that tomorrow's matter was ridiculous and illogical, Zhang Shou argued with the Queen Mother in Qingning Palace until the end and could not shirk it. The matter still became a certainty. So, after leaving the palace at noon, he missed class all morning
He taught a group of fresh students all afternoon, and then...
Since he couldn't attend class tomorrow morning, he gave the students enough exercises to do for the whole morning tomorrow!
If placed in future generations, Zhang Shou would probably become the most hated devil teacher. However, today, as in the past, instead of being hated by his students, his behavior was praised by everyone after class ended that day -
- Of course, the third prince who insisted on staying to listen to the lecture in the afternoon because Zhang Shou came to the palace in the morning was Zhang Shou's most die-hard supporter.
"Teacher didn't forget about us even if he had some business. He is really conscientious... I will definitely tell my father when I return to the palace that I won't be going back tomorrow afternoon. Whoever wants him to always have nothing to do will summon the teacher to the palace!"
Third Prince, if our young teacher doesn’t come to the palace often and rarely has to go to court, wouldn’t it mean that he has no influence at all in the court? Besides, if a person is not so outstanding in front of the emperor, how could you become him?
s student?
Ji Jiu, the chief of the village, was originally Zhang Shou's biggest admirer. His talent was not as good as Lu Sanlang's, so he could only achieve his own transcendence in this aspect. At this time, he was criticizing the naivety of the third prince, and immediately followed the third prince's words.
Started to praise.
"To come up with so many questions, the teacher must not know how much effort it took! In "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", there are only one or two questions for each type of question, but after we learn a little, we can do a lot of questions to consolidate what we have learned.
What a blessing..."
When Zhang Shou left Jiuzhangtang to go home that day, because Ah Liu had been watching silently, when he learned that Ji Jiu and a group of students led by the third prince were "flattery", he only felt that his
The mood is very complicated. One day, Tihai tactics are praised. What kind of world is this? This is probably something that future generations of students will never imagine.
But yes, the most valued ability of scholars these days is rote memorization. Memorize "The Great Learning" which is less than 2,000 words! Memorize "The Doctrine of the Mean" which is only about 3,000 words! It has more than 13,000 words.
The Analects of Confucius... As long as you work hard, you can grind an iron pestle into a needle! Although the "Mencius" with more than 34,000 words is a bit difficult, if you want to take the imperial examination, you must be thoroughly familiar with it!
These are still the Four Books. In addition to the Four Books, there are also the Five Classics! Especially the Spring and Autumn Annals. Because the original version is too brief, it is often combined with the Three Chuanqiu Chuanzhuan. However, Zuozhuan, Gu Liang and Gongyang are all quite formidable tomes, although most students
Choose one of them for training, but you still have to face the length of Gu Liang and Gong Yang, which is often 40,000 words, and Zuo Zhuan is even more eloquent and eloquent, 190,000 words!
Even if the ancients studied hard for ten years, they might not be able to memorize all these books. How would they have time to learn other books?
So there were so many questions in the Four Books, from college examinations, provincial examinations, general examinations, to various low-level annual scientific examinations, and acquaintances asked each other's questions, and there were countless questions and sample essays.
It has supported so many eight-part essay anthologists and formed a huge industry. But even so, there are still a large number of students from poor families who cannot get enough practice writing and are outside the threshold.
As for mathematics, that is, arithmetic, the number of people studying it is seriously insufficient. How can there be so many people who are capable enough to solve problems?
"This moment, that moment, I am not a fish, how can I know the happiness of a fish?"
Zhang Shou read this sentence softly, and then he felt relieved. As long as the students are satisfied, then everything will be fine, right? He chuckled, and then said to Ah Liu beside him: "Go back and see Cao
Five, just let him calm down for a while. If he feels uncomfortable being idle, do me a favor. You can transfer Yang Hao and the others in turn and let them help with the grinding."
Ah Liu, who was originally a little listless, immediately cheered up. He even took two quick steps and walked directly in front of Zhang Shou. There was a kind of intimidating look in his eyes. This kind of look would never be seen by people who are familiar with him.
Guessed wrong.
Zhang Shou was naturally the person who knew him best. At this time, he couldn't help but smile helplessly and said simply: "Okay, if you want to find someone to satisfy your hand addiction, you can go at any time. If you want to invite someone back to practice, you can do it. Anyway,
There are many empty rooms at home.”
Hearing Zhang Shou's promise, Ah Liu, whose expression had never changed much, finally beamed with joy. He nodded heavily, then thought about it again, and suddenly mentioned what Fourth Master Hua said to Xiao Huahua. Seeing Zhang Shou's expression, he was confused.
Without a surprised look on his face, he told his reply to Xiaohuahua again, and saw Zhang Shou smiling at him.
"There is no one who knows me better than you. You are right. The villagers in Rongshui Village who know everything about me leave their children alone without selecting and cultivating them and buy them from outside. Am I not looking for those who are near and far away? As long as the children from the village are willing to be sent to the capital, I will
They will all stay, even if they can’t work here, there are other places that need manpower.”
"It's easy to buy and raise some three- or four-year-old children who are still ignorant, and it's also easy to train them with strict rules and instill concepts of loyalty and bravery from an early age. But such demand will undoubtedly give rise to human trafficking. Everyone will
Do you know the darkness behind those people’s teeth? There’s no way, I’m not Zhao Guogong, I can’t pick up so many orphans to raise.”
"I am the orphan my wife picked up..."
Hearing Ah Liu's whisper, Zhang Shou couldn't help but was speechless for a while. Are you kidding me? Can you be counted among them? You, Hua Qi, dropped it near my house on purpose, and watched Wu go to pick it up, OK? But I thought of this.
, he suddenly thought of the group of guards surnamed Zhu in Zhao Guogong's mansion, from Zhu Hong, Zhu Yu to Zhu Yi and others, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
Excluding Zhu Yu who has betrayed, Zhu Hong and others can't all be abandoned babies, right? And according to the time of Ruizong in the past, Zhu Hong and others are not counted at all. So, what happened to these people?
Orphaned?
Judging by their ages, could it be...the Karma King Rebellion?
Although he was thinking about it for a while, it was the Zhu family's business after all, not his own. Zhang Shou thought about it and let it go. But before dinner, Zhu Ying sent Zhu Hong to see him. He thought the eldest lady was in a hurry.
He was so furious because he wanted to ask about tomorrow's events, but what he didn't expect was that Zhu Hong, with a look of embarrassment on his face, actually brought him a piece of silver that looked like four or five taels at most.
At the same time, Zhu Ying also brought something that stunned him: "Fourth Master Hua sold a chair. It was customized by the Duke of Chu. He wanted the best wood and the best workmanship. Pay in advance."
He paid fifty guan of money, so he immediately sent five guan of money. The five guan of money was a total of 5,000 wen, which was too heavy, so I exchanged it for silver and asked Zhu Hong to send it to you as a good idea!"
If the Duke of Zhao, Zhu Jing, or the Duke of Qin, Zhang Chuan, had nothing to do and bought a chair to play with, Zhang Shou would not find it strange at all. However, he would find it a bit ridiculous that the Duke of Chu would actually intervene.
And when he looked at Zhu Hong, he saw this shrewd and capable guard of the Zhu Mansion with a wry smile on his face. He could only shake his head and sighed: "By the way, I am really curious. The emperor asked her to give the five pieces of gold to Marquis Huaiqing and the others."
Is it possible that she has already prepared the rocking chair and given it away? Guan Qiu is not free these days, so she is still fussing with the pendulum clock!"
"The five rocking chairs were made by Fourth Master Hua." Zhu Hong did not try to excuse his eldest lady, but directly told the truth, "The eldest lady said that it saved little brother Guan Qiu a lot of trouble. He originally wanted to settle the accounts with me.
It’s about money. If Fourth Master Hua insists, she’ll let it go.”
Zhang Shou suddenly burst into laughter. This Zhu Ying really knows when to catch and when to let go! The emperor directly pushed Fourth Master Hua to cooperate. Did he see that Zhu Ying wanted to make money on the one hand, but on the other
Don't want to waste your brain?
Early in the morning the next day, after he had washed up and had breakfast, and was about to call Ah Liu to go out, he heard shouting outside, and then the little peanut who came to deliver the message brought an unexpected surprise.
Reasonable news.
Zhu Ying sat directly in the Madam's special carriage to take him into the palace!
Although this was not the first time he had sat in that loaded sedan, when Zhang Shou hurriedly went out and boarded the tall sedan from the special step ladder, he saw Zhu Yingyu opening the curtain with her hands, revealing her face that was both smiling and angry.
Face, he couldn't help but joked: "Yingying, you really have the right time at this time. One moment early, I was still having breakfast, and one moment later, I was probably leaving."
"Of course." Zhu Ying raised her eyebrows proudly. After Zhang Shou entered and sat down, she let go and put down the sapphire blue Ruyi-trimmed curtain she had just put on, and then said with a smile, "I asked them to catch up.
The horse has circled your Zhangyuan twice!"
This time, the stunned Zhang Shou finally had nothing to say. Along the way, he did not mention the serious matter of the Empress Dowager asking him and Zhu Ying to serve as escorts today, and Zhu Ying also tacitly said nothing.
Instead, the two of them talked with great interest about the recliner chair that the Duke of Chu had designated to buy, and the topic became more and more crooked.
Zhu Ying even tilted her head and said: "I heard that Wang Datou was in Xuanda. He was killing people at the front, and the Duke of Chu was cleaning up the mess behind and was exhausted. The two of them, civil and military, seemed to be upside down. Wang Datou looked like the other way around.
Military attache, the Duke of Chu is more like a civil servant. I heard that the Duke of Chu couldn't hold on any longer, so he repeatedly wrote letters requesting to come back for retirement..."
Well, there is a decapitated Liu in the front, and a big head in the back. They all behead people. Will the gods and devils be worried?
Zhang Shou composed a limerick directly in his mind, but that was just thinking about it in his mind. Otherwise, Zhu Ying would be amused by such a chant, but when those outside heard it, it might spread.
He is even more famous.
So, he simply brought the topic back to the Marquis of Nanyang who had gone to the front to fight with the Duke of Chu. He heard that he won the battle but was impeached for siphoning off military resources and even killing prisoners for taking credit.
, he remembered that Zhang Jingzhou, the Marquis of Huaiqing, had said confidently that he was greedy for money, and he had to feel that Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing's rotten evaluation was actually not excessive.
Just talking and laughing like this, the loaded sedan drove straight in from Bei'anmen and finally stopped at Xuanwu Gate. Zhang Shou, who got off the loaded sedan first, couldn't stretch himself, so he could only move his hands and feet quietly, but then he saw Xuanwu Gate.
There was only a row of nail-like jailers in front of him, and there were no eunuchs coming in and out like the eunuchs he had seen on Jingshan Mountain. Instead, there were two small sedans waiting there.
At this time, Zhu Ying, who was a step behind, couldn't help shouting: "It's so close from Xuanwu Gate to Qingning Palace, what kind of sedan are you taking?"
If it were a treatment that would be too late for others to be overjoyed, it would be given to Miss Zhu... But she would avoid it. Even today, if she didn't want to avoid people's attention and talk to Zhang Shou in a sedan chair, she would not be willing to be bored in it.
In the sedan chair.
Seeing that she was not happy, the four stout eunuchs carrying the sedan couldn't help but look at each other. Yuquan, who had been standing quietly behind them, stepped forward helplessly. Before she could say anything, Zhu Ying covered her face when he saw her.
Eye.
"The Queen Mother has even sent you, Aunt Yuquan, how can I say no? Okay, okay, I'll sit in the sedan, isn't that okay? Really, only the palace can see the shoulder carriage and this warm sedan... isn't it?
To avoid people’s eyes and ears? Is there anything to avoid!”
Zhu Ying gave in, but it was just a trivial matter of sitting in a sedan chair. Of course Zhang Shou would not argue. When he sat in the small green cloth sedan chair, the sedan chair was lifted up in a moment, and he felt the swaying motion in all directions.
Feeling unreliable, he gradually became dizzy.
This feeling of dizziness... is much worse than being carried on a sedan chair!
Emperor Taizu forbade most people to sit in sedan chairs. In addition to being extravagant and a waste of manpower... was it also because he fainted in sedan chairs?
The sedan entered the Qingning Gate and stopped in front of the Qingning Palace. Zhu Ying got off the sedan glumly, and then yawned rudely. Seeing that Zhang Shou was obviously tired, she went straight forward to pull him away.
Just walk inside, not caring about the sight of people around you.
When she entered the main hall of Qingning Palace, she said bluntly: "Queen Mother, when will the Hong family come? Ah Shou is very busy, and I have a lot of things to do, so I don't have time to wait for her here."
Zhang Shou saw that Zhu Ying was holding on to him and wouldn't let go, so he had no choice but to let it go. When the Queen Mother looked at him, he smiled and said, "I have arranged all the morning classes at Jiuzhang Hall. Yingying is just impatient."
Seeing Zhu Ying suddenly angry and staring at Zhang Shou, with an expression like "Why are you trying to make trouble?", the Queen Mother smiled and said: "Counting the time, someone has already come in through Donghua Gate. When entering the palace for the first time, let her look around first.
It’s good to watch.”
Zhang Shou was speechless. Is this called... showing off his power? In this case, what else do you want him and Zhu Ying to do as foils?