Wang Yuan had six students, the youngest was six years old and the oldest was ten years old. They were named Hong Gui, Lu Yu, Lu Sheng, Fang Xiaoyan and Li Erya.
Among them, Hong Gui is the son of Hong Laifu.
Lu Yu and Lu Sheng were both the sons of Master Lu's former slaves.
Fang Xiaoyan's original name was Fang Xiaoyan, and Li Erya's original name was Li Erya. They were both children of tenant farmers. Wang Yuan thought their names were ugly, so he helped change them.
The elementary education of these children was all given to Hong Laifu, and Wang Yuan had no time to attend to it. However, Arabic numerals and basic mathematics were taught by Wang Yuan himself, and Hong Laifu, Zhong An and Li Wan also had to attend the classes.
"Master, there is a visit from Mr. Wang outside." The servant came over to report and handed over a greeting card.
Wang Yuan took the invitation and saw that the person who came was a Jinshi in the same discipline. He aspired to learn the royal ways of his fellow sect, so he stood up and said, "Invite him to the living room and serve him tea."
Wang Dao was very young, and was also known as a child prodigy. It is said that he could read ten lines with one glance, and he could recite ten lines with every glance. He was the first name in the Shandong Provincial Examination, Jie Yuan, and was selected as a Shujishi at the age of twenty-three. He cupped his fists and saluted, "I have accepted you as my disciple.
I have never visited my senior brother before, so I took the liberty to come to see him today because it was actually to say goodbye."
Wang Yuan stood up and returned the greeting, curiously asking: "Brother Chunfu is a concubine, and the three-year term has not been completed. Why do you want to say goodbye?"
Wang Dao replied: "Although the main force of thieves in Shandong has been wiped out, small groups of thieves are still wreaking havoc all over the place. There is only one widowed mother in my family. She is old and frail, so I am really worried about it. And because I have relatives in Nanjing who want to take my mother to join me, I requested to be released.
Nanjing."
Wang Yuan asked: "Do you have any position in Nanjing?"
"Professor of the Imperial College." Wang Dao said.
Wang Yuan sighed: "You are a filial person!"
Wang Dao was a 23-year-old Shujishi with a bright future. However, in order to take care of his widowed mother, he asked to be an official in Nanjing before the three-year semester was completed. This was tantamount to giving up his status as a Shujishi and giving up his position as a central reserve cadre.
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The imperial court must take special care of such a filial son. Therefore, although the closing date was not yet in sight, it was decided to do something special and let Wang Dao go to Nanjing to be a professor at the Imperial College, and directly gave him a sixth-grade academic officer.
Wang Yuan took Wang Dao's hand and said, "Brother Chunfu, come with me!"
Wang Dao didn't know what was going on and followed him to the classroom.
Three laboratory members and six children and students all looked at them.
Wang Yuan introduced: "This is Wang Chunfu, a scholar from the Hanlin Academy. He has been hailed as a child prodigy since he was a child. He has a photographic memory and ranks first in the Shandong Provincial Examination! Do you know why I brought Brother Chunfu here?"
No one else knew how to respond. Only Hong Laifu said: "Sir, please enlighten me."
Wang Yuan said: "Brother Chunfu did not even become a concubine in order to serve his widowed mother. This is an act of direct filial piety. You should learn from it!"
The children didn't understand, but Hong Laifu did, and he bowed respectfully to the king.
Wang Dao still didn't understand what he was doing. He only knew that he had become Wang Yuan's educational template and accepted Hong Laifu's etiquette with a smile.
Wang Yuan had no other ideas and just educated his students casually. Loyalty and filial piety were integrated into one body. In name, he showed filial piety, but in fact he taught his disciples to respect their teachers and be loyal to their masters.
Hong Laifu, Zhong An and Li Wan all understood the words, and then Wang Yuan explained the content of his lecture to Wang Dao.
At this moment, the servant came to report again: "Sir, there are three young masters outside who are asking for an audience. They don't give me a greeting, and they even show me a Jin Yiwei waist badge."
Two Mr. Zhu, Jin Yiwei’s waist card?
It's obviously Zhu Houzhao and his followers!
"Invite them to come in," Wang Yuan whispered to Wang Dao, "Your Majesty has come incognito, please come with me to see them."
Wang Dao was a little surprised. He had never met the emperor in private except during court meetings and palace examinations.
The two waited in the living room for a while, and Zhu Houzhao, Qian Ning and Li Ying arrived.
"I pay homage to Your Majesty!" Wang Yuan and Wang Dao saluted together.
Zhu Houzhao said impatiently: "Everyone, get up. The leopard room was so noisy that I came here to relax and not get involved in all these red tapes." He pointed at Wang Dao again, "Who is this person?"
Wang Yuan introduced: "Wang Chunfu, the king of Shujishi in the Hanlin Academy, resigned from his position as a Shujishi because his widowed mother was old and frail, and was awarded the title of Professor of Nanjing Imperial Academy by the Ministry of Personnel. Brother Chunfu was a good friend of the minister, and he was about to
Leaving Beijing, I came here to say goodbye today."
Zhu Houzhao hated hypocritical civil servants, but admired civil servants who were serious about their work and simple in character. He immediately glanced at Wang Dao in surprise, nodded in approval and said, "You are very good!"
Wang Dao quickly saluted: "Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty. I can only do my duty as a son of man."
Zhu Houzhao said to Qian Ning: "Go back and inform Dongge that Wang Chunfu should be rewarded for his filial piety. After he served in Nanjing for three years, he was immediately transferred back to Beijing. He was still a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and a member of the Ministry of Industry.
Arrange a residence for his mother and son."
Qian Ning took the order.
Wang Dao was overjoyed and immediately knelt down to thank him. He could finally fulfill his filial piety and keep his future, but it only took three years.
At the same time, Wang Dao was also particularly grateful to Wang Yuan. Although it was just a casual introduction, it helped him avoid countless detours in his official career.
Zhu Houzhao no longer paid attention to Wang Dao, but asked Wang Yuan: "What do you want to do here? I am bored to death in the Leopard Room!"
Wang Yuan smiled and asked, "Why is your Majesty troubled?"
"You guys say it!" Zhu Houzhao asked Qian Ning and Li Ying to speak.
Li Sanlang didn't dare to steal Qian Ning's limelight and stood silently beside him.
Qian Ning smiled and said: "Yang Yingning (Yang Yiqing), the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, requested to eliminate redundant officials, streamline departments, and save expenses. Although Yang Jiefu (Yang Tinghe), the cabinet boss, agreed to the reduction of officials, he believed that too many should not be eliminated, otherwise he would inevitably cause trouble in the court.
It is unstable and all officials are fluctuating. These two people have been quarreling from the East Pavilion to the Leopard Room. From last year to this year, His Majesty is really annoyed by them."
Wang Yuan asked again: "What does Mr. Li Ge (Li Dongyang) mean?"
Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "He only has one intention, to ask for an official position!"
Yang Yiqing is a radical reformer. He has taken drastic measures in reforming the government in the past. This time he has raised his knife against the official system and wants to eliminate a lot of redundant officials. Jiuqing is within his scope of elimination and plans to directly eliminate thousands of officials.
, even the Shangbaosi, Jinyiwei, Imperial Hospital, Sengdaolu and other yamen want to streamline.
Yang Tinghe originally planned to put things to rest and just lay off a few casualties. After all, they are all civil servants. Ten years of hard work is not easy, so why not make such a big layoff?
Yang Yiqing, however, was extremely stubborn and believed that since reform was to be carried out, the root cause should be dug out. It would be better not to cut a few casualties than to cut them at all.
The two had been having trouble since last winter, and Yang Yiqing resigned twice in a row because of this incident. Just a few days ago, Yang Yiqing suddenly became entangled with Yan Guan and directly attacked Yang Tinghe in the form of a memorial. Yang Tinghe was so angry that he almost resigned.
, rushed into the leopard room and made it difficult for Zhu Houzhao to clean up.
When the situation reached this point, Yang Yiqing was still unable to fight against it. The layoff plan for thousands of people ended up laying off only five unlucky people.
The prevalence of imperial examinations will inevitably bring about the disadvantage of redundant officials. With so many Jinshi every year, candidates must find their way out!
Take the Ministry of Household Affairs at this time as an example. According to the system, there is one left minister and one right minister. But what is the reality? There is only one left minister of the household ministry, but there are several right ministers of the household ministry. The extra ones are redundant officials!
Yang Yiqing was too radical. Even if Wang Yuan came to govern, it would be more difficult to directly attack the civil servants than to reform the taxation and land system.
Even if the reform can be successful, Yang Yiqing's position as Minister of Household Affairs will be over!
Yang Shangshu has a very strong head. He is worthy of being the person who drew the circle for Wang Yuandian's examination articles. He really has a firm heart for reform.
Zhu Houzhao said depressedly: "Stop talking about this, what are you busy with recently?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "I have accepted six students and want to set up a laboratory."
"What is a laboratory?" Zhu Houzhao suddenly became interested.