Chapter 31: The Difficulty of Learning

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Emperor Zhengyang is really not joking, he made an order early in the morning, and at this time he has risen to a height. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info This time it's not for Xiaoge'er to rush ahead. The first will was that Zeng Ze, the son of a scholar and a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was of good character and was crowned as the captain of the Dragon Court. The second will is that Zeng Ze, the captain of Long Ting, will accompany Anhai, and Huang Ge will travel to England to learn in order to know the other.

Basically, Long Tingwei is just an honorary title, but this title is not for the son of a commoner like Zeng Fan. For example, when An Xiang's eldest grandson was born, he was Long Tingwei, why, people's grandfather was Xiangye. There is the rank of Wenhou on his body. But Zeng Fan is only a second-grade bachelor, and he is really nothing except that he is a close minister of the Son of Heaven. At this time, why did the old man want to seal the little monkey, and then let the little monkey take the lead in this matter? It's just that other people don't have this qualification. The grace of the An family has been used by An Hai's eldest brother, and Xiao Ge'er doesn't have to think about it at all, she can only use the little monkey!

Zeng Fan took the little monkey to receive the order, but his heart did not relax, the matter was decided, and the matter was also handled by the Ministry of Rites. So many people doubted whether this was what Zeng Fan meant. Everyone also laughed at Zeng Fanlai, who really gave up his only son.

Zeng Fan really didn't bother to say anything, let people start to discuss, when should they go, and should someone take care of them if they go? These things are really complicated. Here are his beloved disciples, sons, and sons-in-law.

And the little monkey got busy, pointing to what the bureaucrats could know. He went directly to the priest he was familiar with. Emperor Zhengyang told them to go to England, and the priest also happened to be from England. He was very happy to know that the little monkey was going to study in England, and felt that it was the right decision. But he regretted to tell him that this was not something they could do.

The schools in England are not something they can go to if they want to, and their education system is completely different from here, even if the three of them play here a lot and like their books. But after all, they don't study well and systematically, and they don't have the foundation to be admitted to the university there. They may not even be able to get into secondary school.

The little monkey is a little difficult, but he is a famous young genius in Kyoto. As a result, if he really goes out, everything about himself will be ruined, not only a matter of self-confidence. It's that all the three of them have learned have been ruined, making them feel that everything they have learned is useless waste. So, what should they do?

Silently returned home, Zeng Fan had already returned, sitting alone in the study office, there were many people in the department, and his work was not only in the Ministry of Rites, so he took some of the work of the Ministry of Indecency to do it at home. Generally, a second-class member like him will have a few staff members at home. But Zeng Fan didn't have one, it wasn't a small device, and he was reluctant to take out the money to invite people, but he hated being nagged by people around him. If he has a problem, he will discuss it with his students and his own children, so his students and children are not like fish in water in officialdom, but they are not lacking in political wisdom.

Of course, as Zeng Fan's official became bigger and bigger, the things he had to deal with became more and more complicated, and now he really felt a little powerless. But at this time, it is a little difficult to find someone again, what kind of one? It's really a family like An Yuan that can cultivate its own team, and like him, he can only pay a high salary, but with a high salary, I am afraid that he has to worry about loyalty. Now Zeng Fan feels that he is really a little family, he cultivated one by himself earlier, and now, he doesn't worry about this. However, at that time, I was afraid that it would not be suitable for training, and I was loyal and had no intelligence, and I was still blind.

"Daddy!" The little monkey stood down and saluted earnestly.

"Did you ask? What are we going to do? Zeng Fan glanced up at his son and asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, even if the sons go, I'm afraid they will have to throw away everything they have learned before and start over." This mother and sister are gone, and there is only their father and son in the study, so there is no need to pretend to be heartless.

"Are you scared?" Zeng Fan thought about it and put down the pen, and put his hands together with each other. This is an expression that he wants to listen to his son. Over the years, Zeng Fan felt that he had not changed, in fact, he had changed a long time ago, and his official authority was no less than An Yuan, but he didn't know it.

"Yes, my son is afraid that one day I will feel that what I have learned in the first eighteen years is a waste of time." The little monkey grinded his teeth lightly before looking at his father.

"In the past ten years, I have asked you to go to church to study with the priests, do you think there is a conflict between what you have learned and what I have taught you?" Zeng Fan thought for a moment, got up and went to get the little monkey learned from the church, the books that he had written out silently. The little monkey was also taught by them, and what they learned, they came back and wrote it down silently. So over the years, the little monkey has inadvertently translated a lot of foreign books. Put it in the study room for everyone to see. Sometimes, Zeng Fan will also take a look.

The little monkey was stunned for a moment, he followed the priest to study foreign language for ten years, he didn't have any pressure to learn things, and he also looked at the priest's book indiscriminately. If he doesn't understand, he will discuss it with the priest, and he doesn't know how much he has learned. Ten years, he looked at the books he had written silently in the cabinet, and before he knew it, the books in the bookcase had actually been reduced a lot. The various versions of the books written by the little uncle slowly left only the most essential versions, and the rest were distributed to them in the bookcases in their respective rooms. But the bookcases here are not decreasing, but more and more, more and more varied. They can all stand here, pick the books they want to read, and broaden their knowledge.

In the past ten years, they have also discussed the contents of the foreign books he has read in this study, and then my father will pick out an ancient book, and then read it out to them, so that they can know that some of the theories of foreigners have long been discussed in the books of our ancestors, but we have said it too concisely, and it is difficult for people who are not as well-read as our father to understand the deep meaning. And there's the application. My father could figure out the source, but it was hard to find an application. From this, they can also see the difference between the East and the West. They focused on practicality, and the wisdom of the East was vast, so in the end, it became ethereal.

These are all things they have discussed, and they have been proud and discouraged about. But come to think of it, would he despise his own culture because he went to someone else's place?

The little monkey asked himself again, and this time he did not dare to say anything, but his state of mind was not as gloomy as it had been when he had just come out of the priesthood.

Leidewen said

China's first batch of government-sent students began in 1872, led by Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, and sent a group of young children. However, these young children were placed in ordinary families in the United States, and were taken care of by special personnel sent by the Qing government, and these children pursued the policy of taking middle school as the body and Western learning as the use, and when they were in the United States, they also had to study the Four Books and the Five Classics and learn the laws of the Qing Dynasty. However, after the death of Zeng Guofan, some of the actions of these children and students were not tolerated by the old masters, and Li Hongzhang could not keep them, so in 1881, these students returned to China in batches. At that time, the people who participated in studying abroad were all the sons of commoners in the south, and there were none of the children of the Eight Banners.