Next, Brother Jiu started an educational innovation in his own house.

The key to the revolution was that he allowed girls to be educated as well.

This incident caused a lot of sensation inside and outside.

In fact, everyone is a student, and there are parents who cherish their daughters very much, and they also invite a separate west seat for their children.

But like Brother Jiu, it is really a precedent to let a foreigner teach boys and children together.

Yinzhen and they are all envious. Because they had similar thoughts, but they couldn't overcome the huge resistance at home. It is generally believed that girls can study, but don't be too serious, and if you really work hard like boys, it will ruin the "boudoir temperament". Including those little girls themselves, they are not very active about this, Yinzhen once taught her daughter some basic common sense, but the reaction she got was "What is the use of Amma teaching me this?" At one point, Yinzhen thought that there was something wrong with his education method, but later he talked to the eighth elder brother and them, only to find out that all the daughters of each family had this reaction.

It seems that they have a deeply educated cognition, and they feel that they should not learn more things except those that their mothers know, "women are virtuous if they are not talented".

Only those girls in the Nine Elder Brothers' Mansion, for some reason, generally lack this "self-awareness", and they are very happy when they hear that they can listen to classes with the boys.

In fact, this is the result of the connivance of Brother Jiu, earlier, in the years before he left the Qing Dynasty, he unconsciously raised his daughters as children, and after he came back, he often had small disputes with Jiufujin over his daughter's education. But he himself is proud to believe that it is hereditary.

At the beginning, Brother Jiu thought that Sjepan was exploring, and since it was exploration, it was impossible to be very serious and standardized. But he soon knew he had been mistaken.

Sjepan brought out a detailed syllabus and even a self-compiled textbook.

"It's not my fault." He said, "I made it up with Andre in a discussion. He was also interested in these. ”

André is currently in the capital, and the exploration work has been completed, and he is now concentrating on finishing the work, so he can take time to discuss the teaching with Sjepan.

"We have some plans further afield." "Andrey has a new idea, and he wants to bring the children with him when the time comes." ”

The reason was that the eighth elder brother was reluctant to Hongwang, and he asked Andre, can he really only leave the child in the Qing Dynasty?

"I knew it was going to be tough at first, and it was a problem for a few of us to make a living. But what if, after a few years, things get better? ”

If that's the case, Andrei said, then maybe the passage could be kept and the children could be brought over.

Brother Jiu shook his head when he heard this, if it continues to develop like this, Brother Eight will bring Bafujin over, the child is easy to say, it is easy to adapt, can adults really accept such a big change? It's not appropriate for someone to be a good Fujin grandmother, follow you over to be a working girl?

But for now, these are just distant plans. Sjepan is now focused on the teaching project he is working on.

As required in the newly revised contract, he taught not only mathematics, but also astronomy, geography and even natural knowledge. Sjepan is very smart, he does not deliberately highlight the content that contradicts the "Qing Dynasty cognition" in his teaching, but only tells the children that there are many possibilities for things, they can believe that the earth is carried by a big turtle, or they can believe that the earth is a sphere, and he will not force them to choose one or the other and discard the others.

To Brother Jiu's surprise, the girls' math scores were significantly better than the boys', and it was easier for them to accept new knowledge and quickly integrate it. Their homework is clean and beautiful, and they are better than their brothers in all aspects.

"The advantages of elementary school girls have become apparent so quickly." Brother Jiu secretly wondered if his daughters' homework would really fall behind in high school.

He half-jokingly and half-urgingly told his sons not to fall behind the sisters, "They have to embroider and do needlework after school." ”

"But after we get out of school, we still have to read the Four Books and the Five Classics." Hongyang was unconvinced, "We are also working hard!" ”

"Yes, why does Amma want us to read the Four Books and the Five Classics? Girls can not read it. Another boy complained, "I don't miss those, it's boring, it's not fun at all." ”

Brother Jiu joked: "You want to be a girl?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with being a girl," the children said gloomily, "and men and women are equal!" ”

Brother Jiu was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Who taught you this?" Yes? You can say that! ”

Unexpectedly, Hongyan pointed at him and said, "It's Ama who said it yourself, E-Niang is not happy that her sisters are studying, it is you who said that men and women are equal, and they all have to be recited, E-Niang is relieved of this mouth-why don't you remember it yourself?" ”

Brother Jiu stood up: "Didn't I fight for your sister's right to education?" A few of you boys have listened to me, what kind of equality between men and women, just talk about it at home, don't open your mouth when you are outside, you can get me a car when the trouble comes! ”

Hongyu giggled: "That's okay, isn't Amma a 'Trouble Terminator'?" ”

Brother Jiu was almost angry: "Who taught this!" ”

"It's Sjepan!"

This is really a development trend that Brother Jiu didn't expect.

In this way, Sjepan has an indelible credit for not forcing children to accept knowledge, nor completely ignoring the effectiveness of teaching. He assigns homework to the children, praises them for doing a good job, does not scold them if they don't do well, asks where they got it wrong and what they don't understand, and then he improves it himself in teaching. In this way, the children's learning enthusiasm will be greater, and Sjepan will never accuse the children of "seeing how frivolous you are" like those old masters, even if the small class sometimes makes a lot of noise, he will not get angry, but will only cover his ears and lament, "The eardrum is perforated!" Call 120! ”

With the connivance of his husband, the children have noticeably become more lively and energetic than before.

In contrast, the traditional teaching of forcing children to memorize dead books with a ruler, shouting "guard against arrogance and rashness" every day, and always asking students to be humble and stingy with praise, is naturally not popular.

Among them, the one who made Brother Jiu the most happy was Honghui.

That day, Honghui brought a painting.

Brother Nine was shocked by the painting, which was the nine planets of the solar system painted on heavy snow-white mulberry paper. Honghui used a color pen and used a homemade compass. So whether it is the distance or the position or the state of the planet, it is exactly the same.

"You drew it?!" Brother Jiu was very surprised.

Honghui nodded: "Sjepan told me about it, I wrote it down and drew it for him, this is the fifth draft." The previous ones are all wrong. ”

This kid owes him this patience.

"Amma knows what it is?"

Brother Jiu nodded: "The nine planets of the solar system, but Hongxi, Pluto has been classified as a dwarf planet, didn't Sjepan tell you?" ”

Honghui lowered his eyes: "Tell me." However, after being a planet for so many years, it is so good, and suddenly it is changed to a dwarf planet, how pitiful it is! It was on the sidelines, and it didn't make any mistakes, and it was kicked out - that would be unfair. I'm not happy to change it. ”

Brother Jiu was amused, and thought to himself, Pluto should not be a planet, and my son has to have the final say.

Honghui asked again: "Amma, why don't the rest of the people know about it, only you and Sjepan know this?" ”

Brother Jiu couldn't answer for a while.

He thought for a while: "Your fourth and eighth uncles also know, your tenth uncle also knows, and your thirteenth uncle also knows." Your imperial grandfather ......"

Kangxi should know, but he doesn't promote this much in the prince's teaching, let alone talk about what universe and what planets in the father-son conversation.

Hongyang raised his eyebrows: "So that means that those who know this can count it on less than ten fingers?" ”

Brother Jiu laughed: "Even if people don't know, so what? ”

Hongyan didn't know why, and sighed: "Why doesn't Grandpa Huang let people teach everyone these things?" Why only a few people know? Amma, the imperial grandfather himself knows a lot, right? But he refused to teach others, and the last time I went into the palace, I saw him holding the same compass as me, doing geometry problems, and there was a big ball in the palace, and Sjepan said that it was called a globe, and the imperial grandfather looked at that globe every day, and he knew everything. But he didn't let the people of the world learn what he knew, and I asked too much about the ball at that time, and the imperial grandfather was not happy. “

Brother Jiu was taken aback: "What are you asking, the imperial grandfather is not happy?" ”

"I didn't ask anything terrible, I just asked the emperor's grandfather, since there are so many countries on this big ball, why is our Qing Dynasty the heaven/dynasty kingdom? Can't people go to the kingdom on the same day? ”

Brother Jiu almost turned his back on his anger: "This bear child! I know why the emperor has been looking at me for the past two days, and you dare to make trouble! actually ran to the emperor to make a big fuss, the emperor's grandfather didn't beat you at that time, it's not bad, what did he say? ”

Honghui blinked aggrievedly: "It's not ...... What do you say, but his face is not very good, and then he told me to concentrate on reading poetry and books, and said that this is a 'strange trick' so that I don't have to think about it too much - then why is he himself soaked in 'tricks and tricks' all day long? He can, why can't others? What is the rationale for this? Isn't it selfish for the imperial grandfather to keep this knowledge and not tell others? ”

This stopped Brother Jiu, and he hesitated for a long time before he said, "Grandpa Huang thinks it's not good for everyone to know......"

How could Kangxi promote Western learning in the Qing Dynasty? He's stupid! The people are enlightened and civilized, and the information resources are equal, who will still offer him as a god? Such a simple imperial technique, ordinary people know. Kangxi wouldn't do such a stupid thing of self-destructing the door wall.

Of course, Honghui couldn't understand such a deep matter, he just raised his face and asked his father with a childish face: "Let everyone know, what's wrong?" Amma, in the future, I want to teach you what I have learned, like Sjepan. ”

Well, the royal teenager is interested in civilian education. Brother Jiu thought that this child had a future, but unfortunately, it was not a place......

And seeing that there is already the germ of betrayal, he is still talking so presumptuously, and he will not be able to do it well in the future, and he will really become a small revolutionary party.

Brother Jiu and Si Jie Pan relayed the children's complaints about the Four Books and the Five Classics, and he said that if this continues, they will not want to touch the ancient books at all, although these children do not need to participate in the scientific examination, but the consequences of reading the ancient books are so slack. A girl is no good, even if she aspires to be Marie Curie, as long as she is willing, her parents will choose a generous husband in the future, even if she makes an atomic bomb in the boudoir, no one will blame her.

However, the boy cannot be separated from society, or rather, from officialdom in the future.

"Also, Hongxi's ancient and Manchu teachers have come to me to complain about you." Brother Jiu said in a joking tone, "Say that you occupy the children's limited energy, and when you return to them, Hongyang will doze off." ”

Although Brother Jiu himself didn't care about such complaints at all, Sjepan's daily lessons were only two hours, halfway between traditional education and riding and archery classes, so the children would not be tired at all. And because considering that the children's bodies can't bear it, Brother Jiu even had the courage to risk being counted down by Kangxi, and cut down a lot of the courses that the children should have completed, and the children couldn't get up in the morning, so he would run to his sons to "ask for leave" with his face in his face, which made those masters very dissatisfied and felt that Brother Jiu doted on the children too much.

So Hongyang dozed off listening to the ancient literature class, not because he didn't have enough energy, but because he felt too bored, but Sjepan was concerned about it.

Later, he told the children that the Four Books and the Five Classics should not be left behind.

"You just think of it as some kind of password, you know?" "You see, because I don't know this code, I can only talk to your Amma. When others speak, as long as it's in a crepe, I can't understand it. If you don't understand the password, people quote scriptures to ridicule you, and you don't even know what people are talking about......"

"Sjepan, why don't you study the Four Books and the Five Classics?" One of the children asked suddenly.

They don't call Mr. or Teacher, they still call him by his first name, which is what Sjepan demands.

Sjepan grinned, "Because I didn't teach these things where I used to live." No one in our country knows the Four Books and the Five Classics, and they can't buy them. ”

"Then I'll grow up and go to the place where you used to live." Honghui said seriously, "I won't stay in Daqing anymore." ”

Sjepan deliberately teased him: "But everything there is different from the Qing Dynasty, and there are few people like me who can speak official language, how can you live if you go there?" ”

"I will live as you live." Honghui said confidently, "Since someone can survive there, then I can also survive, and people are no different." ”

For this reason, Si Jie Pan asked Jiu Ge Duoduo to pay more attention to Honghui.

"This kid is unusual. He doesn't care about the rules limit. It's not that he doesn't know that routine will bind him, but he is not afraid of this bondage, and he is not bound by fear. It's like having an inexplicable confidence that I can always figure out a way to break free from this bondage. And he neither thinks highly of himself, nor does he belittle himself, he is more calm and realistic than adults. He is only seven years old, but it is very rare to have such an idea. ”

Although Sjepan was praising Hongyan, Brother Jiu didn't feel very happy.

"No matter how smart and mature Hongyang is, he can only succumb to Hongli in the future. In this state, the smarter he is, the more painful he becomes, and if he wants to break free from the shackles, he can only do great rebellious things. ”

Sjepan shook his head: "You can't compare Honghui to that little monster, that's not fair. ”

Brother Jiu smiled bitterly: "Look, it's here again." ”

The "little monster" is now protected by his father at home, and the father and son are inseparable every day, except for the fact that they have to be distracted on business, Yinzhen accompanies Hongli for almost more time than a nurse. He doesn't care if the child understands it or not, he always tells him all kinds of stories he has read, and sometimes even sings to him.

Because of the lack of children's picture books, Brother Ten drew a lot of fairy tales for Hongli and other young children, when he serialized fantasy comics, he saw a lot of excellent foreign picture books, so Brother Ten drew all the good-looking picture books he remembered, including his own favorite "Crocodile Afraid, Dentist Afraid".

This pirated picture book, currently "treasured" in the Yongwang Mansion, Hongli every night before going to bed, must listen to "Crocodile Afraid, Dentist Afraid", no matter how many times Yinzhen told him, Hongli listened to it every time he giggled, although he had never seen a crocodile or a dentist.

…… Therefore, sometimes, Brother Jiu will also think, if they never leave the Qing Dynasty, if these children are allowed to develop like this, what kind of ending will everyone usher in in the future? (To be continued.) )