As a result, not to mention the long hospitality, even the Zhou Mansion specially entertained Ah Hao and Ah Xuan Liu Zhihua and other five people this time, although Ah Hao has been to the Zhou Mansion many times, but it is the first time to really deal with Master Zhou.

As soon as the five of them saw Master Zhou, they knelt down and saluted. The Zhou Governor's Mansion is a four-grade official, the largest official in a government, which is not comparable to the magistrate of Beixian County.

Master Zhou stroked his short beard and said: "Hurry up, please get up, five talented people, but they have added a lot of glory to our Jianghuai Mansion, Beixian County, and Shannan Town." ”

During his tenure, a small town produced five talented people, and one was the head of the case, which was not only the honor of these five people, but also his political achievements. So he specially set up a banquet to entertain five people, of course, in addition, he also had to take the opportunity to pull Ah Yi out and lay the foundation for Ah Wan. During the period, it was actually the county lord of Beixian County as an accompaniment. Of course, he also brought one of his confidants, Professor Wang, an education-related official.

The five of them have seen the prefect of Zhou, and they have met the magistrate of Beixian County and Professor Wang and others, but this time there is no need to kneel and bow down, the lord of Beixian County is more polite than the prefect of Zhou, he can also be regarded as a stain, and he has the opportunity for the prefect to speak alone, which is not better than usual when he goes to Shangguan to report affairs. Instead, the prefect specially invited him to accompany the rookie to eat and talk. This made him very face-saving and very excited.

In addition to the last full moon banquet of Ah Wan, this is the first time that Zhou Zhifu has feasted guests in his own courtyard, which shows that he still values Ah Hao's five people very much. And took this opportunity to introduce the five people to the powerful class in Beixian and Shannan Town.

Sure enough, during the period, the magistrate of Beixian County and Professor Wang asked Ah Hao, who did he study with? The other four are all in school, some are studying in private schools, and some are studying at home. There is only Ah Hao, but it came out of thin air, in order to let him refer to it, it was Ah Yi who privately invited the endowment to protect him. That's his grandfather's name. Although Ah Yi has lived in another courtyard for nearly ten years, he has hardly come out to do activities, and he has let his life be a guarantor, using his grandfather's name, plus he himself is the prefect's monarch, so that he can easily succeed. Otherwise, if Ah Hao wants to refer to it, he will have to be in trouble.

Ah Hao's identity record, he has been studying at a relative's house since he was a child, and those are all people who can't be found. So he said, "When I was a child, I sent my studies to a relative's house, but then my father and father passed away, and I didn't study anymore." After a year, something happened to the relatives who sent the study, and there was no one left. Later, he was instructed and educated by Mr. Zhou's Zhengjun and Mr. Yu. ”

As soon as he said this, not to mention that Liu Zhihua and the other four were stunned, even Professor Wang and Fang Zhixian were stunned.

For a long time, Professor Wang said: "I didn't expect Yu Zhengjun, the prefect, to be a talented person. ”

Fang Zhixian was even more eager to pull Yu Mingyi out and bow down. With such great ability, he must not make the education cause of Beixian County flourish, and his own political performance can rise accordingly. You must know that Beixian County is located in a remote mountainous area, and several towns under its jurisdiction are small and poor, with a small population and wide distribution.

The children's reading is almost always in private acquaintance or home schooling, which is one of the reasons why Yu Lao Jinshi's home school was so successful. That is, there is no official school in North County now. However, educating the people is a very important assessment score for local officials, so the county master of Beixian County does not pass the assessment results every year, and he has stayed in this ghost place for more than ten years, and he has not moved to a safe nest.

If he has this achievement, his promotion will be just around the corner. In fact, he completely took shit luck this time, and Beixian actually produced five talents at once. In the previous sessions, it was normal to have one, and there was even one when one didn't hit. It is conceivable that he will definitely get an excellent word in this year's assessment.

"Neizi, surnamed Yu, is still the grandson of Master Yu Jinshi in Shannan. Since he was a child, he studied with Mr. Yu, and because he was a father-in-law and frail, he rarely went out. After we got married, he has been living here to raise his body, and he is also destined for Hao Gongzi. Master Zhou said modestly.

"Disrespectful, disrespectful." Professor Wang and Fang Zhixian both saluted. Professor Wang is in charge of education. Of course, the two knew that Shannan had been a Jinshi, including this Zhou Governor, and Yu Jinshi, in the first ten or twenty years, was quite famous, and he taught a lot of students. It's a pity that Yu Lao Jinshi's knees are empty, and in the end only one grandson is left. After his death, the Yu family's academy was also disbanded. But there are not many people who know that Yu Mingyi is married to Zhou Zhifu. Because Master Zhou has locked Yu Mingyi here for nearly ten years, Yu Mingyi has basically not gone out much. If it weren't for the fact that Young Master Zhou was incompetent now, he would have sex with him again. Yu Mingyi gave birth to Ah Wan again, who knows what Yu Mingyi's old age is like?

Several people recalled the demeanor of Yu Lao Jinshi together, when Master Zhou followed Yu Lao Jinshi to study, Yu Lao just agreed to take care of and guide Master Zhou, the two are not serious master-apprentice relationships, but there is a master-apprentice reality. is different from the current relationship between Ah Hao and Yu Mingyi, and now Yu Mingyi can only be regarded as half of Ah Hao's master at most. But Master Zhou obviously wants the world to know that Ah Hao's mentor is Yu Mingyi. not only made a name for Yu Mingyi, but also set Ah Hao in Yu Mingyi's apprentice position.

Ah Hao didn't think of this question at first, but as soon as Zhou Zhifu mentioned Yu Mingyi, he understood. It's just that he didn't get Yu Mingyi's approval, and he was embarrassed to recognize Yu Mingyi as his teacher directly, so he only said that he was guided by Mr. Yu.

Fortunately, Yu Mingyi solved this problem for him, everyone proposed to meet Yu Mingyi, of course Master Zhou readily agreed, Yu Mingyi understood Master Zhou's thoughts very well, and of course she also saw everyone's thoughts. But he also refused to be called a master by Ah Hao, after all, he also knew that even if Ah Hao did not have his guidance, he would be able to be admitted to Xiucai if he studied for another year and a half, and slowly managed, after all, the foundation of the family is here, but it is just a little hot.

So he said with good reason: "I have no fame, and I dare not be a master." ”

However, his words moved Professor Wang and Fang Zhixian even more, and in the end, under the witness of everyone, Ah Hao and him still had a half-teacher ceremony. From then on, Ah Hao called him Mr. And because Liu Zhihua and the other four people all benefited from the Yu family, Liu Zhihua's family still had the handwritten letter left by the old man Yu back then, and his father was the son of the old man Yu, but he fell ill and died halfway, and later the Yu family also helped his family. Liu Zhihua relied on Old Man Yu's handwriting to enter the master's door to study.

Therefore, Liu Zhihua also insisted on recognizing Yu Mingyi as a half-teacher, and his friend and classmate Zhu Ming also advanced and retreated with him. Ah Xuan and Li Wu are also serious about Yu Mingyi's two books, of course, they are a group of five people, and they keep discussing all the way, including many of Yu Mingyi's concepts. Therefore, these two people also felt that Yu Mingyi should be recognized as a half-teacher.

Yu Mingyi taught two talents without making a sound, a total of five talents, and his ability is very optimistic to everyone. Sure enough, within a few days, the entire Beixian County and Jianghuai Mansion spread that Yu Gongzi, the Zhengjun of the Zhou Governor's Mansion, taught five talents in one science, which became a major event that caused a sensation in the literary world. And this Yu Gongzi is a descendant of the Yu family, and the Yu family's popular school was immediately raised.

In this way, the Zhou Governor's Mansion did not need to think much about it at all, and Professor Wang reported that Professor Wang was originally under the management of the Guozijian Office, the highest institution of learning in Kyoto, and his official position was not high, and his rights in related teaching were not small. He could ignore the local governor and report directly to the Guozijian about the indoctrination of the people.

Zhou Zhifu took the opportunity to express Ah Wan's surname Yu, and he let his sister-in-law take the surname Yu, but in order to glorify the Yu family and contribute to the education of the entire Beixian County. From then on, who would think that Ah Wan's surname Yu was a slap in his face, and would only say that he was righteous. Yu Mingyi only smiled when she knew the news. He still doesn't know Master Zhou's psychology, this person is the best at planning, but he just finds a place for his own benefit at the same time.

However, since Ah Wan has already entered the genealogy of the Yu family, and his purpose has been achieved, he is too lazy to bother with Master Zhou. Not only that, but he also gave peaches and gifts, and took the initiative to wait for Master Zhou at night. Anyway, they are husband and wife, and Ah Wan and he also need Master Zhou's support.

It's just that for such a big play, Zhou Zhifu is famous, and the awards from above have come down, and he feels that the husband and wife have made contributions to the cause of education. However, the reward for Yu Mingyi made the major officials of the DPRK and China dizzy.

Because Governor Zhou has two wives, if Yu Mingyi, as his family member, is rewarded, he should also be rewarded by the Fang family. Of course, the people who said these words were the Fang family's mother's family and the people concerned, including the crown prince, who had spoken. But another group of people felt that Yu Mingyi had made meritorious contributions to his education and should be rewarded, and he should be given a unique reward, instead of being regarded as a family member of the Zhou Governor's Mansion. At the same time, some people took out Yu Lao Jinshi to speak. even mentioned the demeanor of Yu Mingyi, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old at the time.

The two sides quarreled non-stop. Some people advocate that both the Fang family and Yu Mingyi should be named a four-rank lady. But the people who support Yu Mingyi don't agree, and they also joined some of the ministers who read and took the scientific examination together, and went to the book together, obviously Yu Mingyi is his own function, but this award is completely stained with the light of his husband. These people also elevated this issue to the level of fighting for the status of the prime minister. After all, as the third largest gender group in this dynasty, there are quite a few people.

In the end, some people said that Yu Mingyi didn't teach and educate people meritoriously, so he simply sealed an eight-grade teaching edict and let him continue to contribute to the cause of education. But immediately some people thought it was inappropriate, after all, the Fang family got the four-rank Lady because of the Zhou Governor's Mansion, but Yu Mingyi only got the eight-grade, although the two could not be compared, but when I heard that the eight-grade was much lower than the fourth-grade. In short, under deliberate manipulation, the development of this matter is no longer something that one or two can control.

The emperor was so noisy that he had a headache, and with a stroke of his pen, Yu Mingyi got a low-level hereditary title baron, allowing him to expand the Yu family and continue to contribute to the cause of education, and also rewarded 50 taels of gold, 500 taels of silver, and many items such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc. The title of baron is the first since the founding of the country. Although there is no real power and fiefdom, there is only Yulu, four hundred taels of silver a year, and ten stones of rice and grain. It took the officials a long time to get it, because there was no precedent to follow. In any case, this result is basically satisfactory to everyone, and if they are not satisfied, the emperor will be angry.

Then Yu Mingyi's name went from being popular all over Jianghuai Mansion to spreading throughout the Daqing Dynasty. Almost everyone who reads books knows his name. For a time, Yu Mingyi became a god-like figure worshiped by scholars, and it also became the goal of the ministers' lifelong pursuit. The matter is so big, not to mention the group of people in the Zhou Governor's Mansion, even the people who lit the fire and fan the wind at the beginning were a little dumbfounded. During this period, there were many people who took advantage of the fire, and of course there were unlucky people.

Along with the emperor's commendation, there was also a holy oracle, which ordered Yu Mingyi to set up a school and expand the cause of education, and also brought him two teachings with good fortune. At the same time, it also made Ah Hao and other five people work hard to go to high school as soon as possible and share worries for the country. It means that these five people should hurry up and go to study, continue the road of scientific research, and get a jinshi as soon as possible, and become an official and a knight.

The emperor's will to run the school made everyone very curious. Not to mention that people in Kyoto are talking about Yu Mingyi every day, even the emperor is secretly curious about how much ability Yu Mingyi has. So he gave Yu Mingyi a problem. The emperor wanted Yu Mingyi to run a county school that was half official and half civilian. You must know that government schools generally exist in every county, and even some wealthy towns have official schools.

But there is no county school in Beixian County, because Beixian County is poor and small, and there are few readers, just like the students in Beixian County who went to refer to this time, although five people were selected, but the people who took the exam were only about 50 people, which was one-third or half less than other counties. In the past, there was a home school run by Yu Lao Jinshi in Shannan Town, and the quality of this kind of home school was quite high, so the small county school that originally existed was squeezed out of the way to survive, and then it was slowly closed. But it's hard to open this closure again. This is what we are today. There is only North County in the whole country that does not have a county school.

Now that I want to open a county school in Beixian, without Yu Mingyi in charge, it is estimated that it is unlikely to do well. So the emperor simply made such a decree. It was Yu Mingyi who came out of the way, and it was basically a privately funded county school. Because the emperor only gave him two staff members who had a fortune. Of course, he has his own fortunes. But if you really want to set up a county school, it will cost a lot of money.

As soon as the baron's reward came, the people who congratulated him almost broke through the threshold of the Zhou family's courtyard, especially the people who came from all over the country to come and want to vote for Yu Mingyi's disciples, it was simply an endless stream.

Yu Mingyi lost his temper in the house: "Look, look, I know that he is not at ease." Hmph, now he's famous, and he's getting a lot of benefits. Promotion and fortune are just around the corner. But it weighed such a big mess on my head. No one has no money, no place, but what should I do to go to the county school? ”

"Anyway, the baron has also benefited. In the future, there is no need to worry about no one to support Ah Wan. And you can also walk out of this gate, the sky is high outside, and the great talent of Mr. can also be displayed. Ah Hao persuaded.

Now he's miserable. Originally, I just wanted to take the test to be counted, but this time it was set up, and I had to go to spelling for the township test. A lot of people are looking at him. Three years later, if he fails in the township test, it will be Yu Mingyi's face. is to slap Governor Zhou in the face, if it is not good, it will implicate the county school that Yu Mingyi wants to open.

"Alas, now the fame is so great. I can't do it if I don't do it. I'm also going to be at home for three years with peace of mind, and I'll take Ah Wan bigger first. Yu Mingyi sighed and said. He can imagine how busy his days will be, and it is obvious that it is impossible to take care of the children at home.

If you want to run a school, you have to choose a place, this is a county school, and it is obvious that it cannot be opened in Shannan Town, so they have to move. The county seat in Beixian County, where the palm is big, how can there be any good place, I can't help Yu Mingyi not have a headache.

Within a few days, Yu Mingyi had to go to Beixian. Fortunately, the county magistrate of Beixian County is quite supportive of this matter, and it will be of great benefit to him that this county school will be run in this county, so of course he must support it. Not to mention his support, even the slightly influential people in Beixian County are fully supportive, everyone has silver and silver, and those who don't have silver will give manpower. Before Yu Mingyi came to Beixian, Beixian was already preparing to learn in Beixian County.

Yu Mingyi stayed in Beixian for a little two days and came back satisfied. It's just that the county school drawings designed by Beixian made him extremely dissatisfied. The county magistrate immediately asked Baron Yu to design it himself. But after Yu Mingyi drew drawings at home for a few days, she always felt dissatisfied. I couldn't find anyone who could design for a while. Ah Hao recommended Geng Qiu.

Ah Hao and the others have to concentrate on studying, and it is obvious that no one helps Yu Mingyi take care of these chores. But Ah Hao and Geng Qiu's small home in the mountains, Geng Qiu made some changes at the beginning, although it was a small action, but it made the whole house more reasonable, and all the furniture in the house was designed by Geng Qiu, such as cabinets and recliners. This qiē shows that Geng Qiu has a unique ability to build houses and decorate their homes. On the premise that Yu Mingyi really couldn't find anyone, Ah Hao pulled Geng Qiu out.

Geng Qiu gave Yu Mingyi a great help, and the modern three-dimensional school drawings he painted with carbon simply stunned Yu Mingyi. The two discussed some things that needed to be changed together, Geng Qiu redrew the drawings, and Yu Mingyi handed them over directly to the county master. After receiving the drawings, the county magistrate and the small officials who specialize in taking care of this matter worship Yu Mingyi like the water of the Yangtze River. The renderings of the county school building, which combines the essence of modern and ancient, are pleasing to the eye and unique at first glance.

Then, Yu Mingyi set up a shelf and went home. On the way, he whispered to Geng Qiu: "I'm afraid that I will have to supervise it myself, but now it's good." I don't need to pay money, and I don't need to do my work. It's still your drawings that are good. ”

"Don't dare to be. Or the baron has a good eye. Geng Qiu said respectfully. Now Yu Mingyi is a person with a title, he can't be as casual as before, Geng Qiu is just an ordinary cane farmer, which makes him extremely unaccustomed to it, but fortunately, Yu Mingyi won't let him kneel and salute. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare get involved.

"Don't be inhibited, just be the same as before. I see that your drawings are very good, why do the words look like they are written by children? Baron Yu asked curiously.

"I've also been reading for a few years, and I'm not interested in scientific research, I just like miscellaneous things, but I can't write well." Geng Qiu replied. Yu Mingyi is very knowledgeable, and his family has a large collection of books, so he is involved in a wide range of subjects. Recently, the two have often discussed things together, and Geng Qiu inadvertently revealed a lot of knowledge that others don't understand, such as writing, drawing, calculation, etc., especially his arithmetic ability, which surprised Yu Mingyi.

Yu Mingyi had long seen that Geng Qiu was a person who had read books, so Geng Qiu didn't dare to hide it, saying that he was a person who hadn't studied for a few days. But he really can't write this calligraphy. In fact, what he writes now is much better than what he wrote to Ah Hao at the beginning, at least it is neat and neat, one stroke at a time. But it does look like a child's handwriting.

"Words need to be practiced more." Yu Mingyi said with a smile. He knew that Geng Qiu didn't have this heart, so he didn't mention it much. After all, it is impossible for Geng Qiu to go to the imperial examination to become an official. His identity is really embarrassing.