Wang Yuan had six students, the youngest was six years old, and the oldest was ten years old, 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 sons of the former master Lu's house slaves.

Fang Xiaoyan's original name was Fang Xiaoyan, and Li Erya's original name was Li Erya, both of whom were children of tenants. Wang Yuan thought their names were ugly, so he helped change them.

The education of these children was handed over to Hong Laifu to teach, and Wang Yuan had no time to deal with it. However, Arabic numerals and basic mathematics were taught by Wang Yuan himself, including Hong Laifu, Zhong An and Li Wan.

"Master, there's a prince visiting outside." The servant came to give an offer and handed a note.

Wang Yuan took the post and looked at it, but the person who came was the same scholar and the same king, so he got up and said, "Invite him to the living room and entertain him with tea." ”

Wang Dao is very young, also known as a prodigy, the legend of a glance ten lines, through the eyes into the recitation, is the first name of the Shandong Township Examination Xie Yuan, at the age of twenty-three was selected as a Ji Shi. He clasped his fists and saluted: "Since I entered the door of Mr., I have never visited my senior brother, and I took the liberty to come to see him today, which is really the reason for my resignation." ”

Wang Yuan got up and returned the salute, and asked curiously: "Brother Chunfu is a Shu Jishi, and the three-year semester is not yet complete, why do you want to resign?" ”

Wang Dao replied: "Although the main force of the Shandong thieves has been wiped out, a small group of thieves are wreaking havoc all over the land. I have only one widow in my family, who is old and frail, and I really can't rest assured. And because there were relatives in Nanjing, he wanted to take his mother to defect, so he asked to be released to Nanjing. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "What position do you hold in Nanjing?" ”

"Professor Guozijian." Wang Dao said.

Wang Yuan sighed with emotion: "Jun and even filial piety! ”

Wang Dao is a twenty-three-year-old Ji Jishi, and he has a bright future. However, in order to take care of his widowed mother, before the three-year semester was completed, he asked to go to Nanjing to be an official, which was tantamount to giving up the identity of Shu Jishi and the identity of the central reserve cadre.

For this kind of filial piety, the imperial court must take special care of it. Therefore, although it was not until the date of disbandment, it was decided to make a special case and let Wang Dao go to Nanjing to be a professor of Guozijian, and directly gave it to a scholar from Liupin.

Wang Yuan took Wang Dao's hand and said, "Brother Chunfu, come with me!" ”

The king didn't know what to do, so he followed him to the class.

The three members of the laboratory and the six children and students all looked at them in unison.

Wang Yuan introduced: "This is Wang Chunfu, the king of the Hanlin Academy, who has been known as a prodigy since he was a child, and has the ability to never forget, and the first place in the Shandong Township Examination!" Do you know why I brought Brother Chunfu here? ”

The others didn't know how to respond, only Hong Laifu said, "Sir, please advise." ”

Wang Yuan said: "In order to serve his widowed mother, Brother Chunfu didn't even do it, this is a direct filial piety, you should learn!" ”

The children didn't understand, but Hong Laifu did, and respectfully saluted the royal road.

Wang Dao still didn't understand what he was doing, but he knew that he had become Wang Yuan's education template, and accepted Hong Laifu's etiquette with a smile.

Wang Yuan didn't have any other ideas, just educated the students casually. The integration of loyalty and filial piety, nominally showing filial piety, is actually teaching disciples to be filial to their teachers and loyal to their masters.

After a few words, Hong Laifu, Zhong An and Li Wan had already understood, and Wang Yuan explained the content of his lecture to Wang Dao.

At this moment, the servant came to report again: "Master, there are three Zhu Gongzi outside who ask to see him, and they don't give them a post, and they also show a brocade guard waist card." ”

Two Zhu Gongzi, brocade clothes and waist cards?

It's obviously Zhu Houzhao and his followers!

"Please let them in," Wang Yuan whispered to Wang Dao, "Your Majesty has come with me." ”

Wang Dao was a little surprised, he hadn't seen the emperor in private except for the court meeting and the palace test.

The two waited in the living room for a while, and Zhu Houzhao, Qian Ning and Li Ying came.

"Bow to your majesty!" Wang Yuan saluted with Wang Dao.

Zhu Houzhao said impatiently: "Get up." I was noisy in the leopard room, and I wanted to be more relaxed when I came here, and I didn't get into all this red tape. Then he pointed to the king, "Who is this man?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "Wang Chunfu, the king of the Hanlin Academy, resigned from the position of the widow because of his widowed mother's old age and frailty, and was exceptionally awarded the title of professor of Nanjing Guozijian by the Ministry of Officials. Brother Chunfu is a friend of the minister, and he is about to leave Beijing, so he is here to resign today. ”

Zhu Houzhao hates hypocritical civil officials, but he admires civil officials who are serious and have a simple personality. Immediately glanced at Wang Dao in surprise, nodded approvingly: "You are very good!" ”

Wang Dao hurriedly saluted: "Thank you for your praise, the minister is not doing his duty." ”

Zhu Houzhao said to Qian Ning: "Go back and inform the East Pavilion that Wang Chunfu will be rewarded for his filial piety." After he served in Nanjing for three years, he was immediately transferred back to Beijing, where he was still a member of the Hanlin Academy, and arranged for his mother and son to live in the Ministry of Industry. ”

Channing took the order.

The king was overjoyed and immediately knelt on the ground to thank him. He was finally able to fulfill his filial piety and keep his future again, but it was only a three-year delay.

At the same time, Wang Dao was also very grateful to Wang Yuan, although he only introduced it casually, but it allowed him to avoid countless detours in his career.

Zhu Houzhao no longer paid attention to Wang Dao, but asked Wang Yuan: "What do you have to play here?" I'm sick of it in the leopard room! ”

Wang Yuan smiled and asked, "What is Your Majesty worried about?" ”

"You say!" Zhu Houzhao asked Qian Ning and Li Ying to speak.

Li Sanlang didn't dare to steal Qian Ning's limelight, and stood silently next to him.

Qian Ning said with a smile: "Yang Yingning (Yang Yiqing), the secretary of the ministry, requests to abolish redundant officials, streamline departments, and save expenses. Although the elder Yang Jiefu (Yang Tinghe) agreed to lay off officials, he believed that too many should not be cut, otherwise it would inevitably lead to instability in the court and a fluctuation of officials. These two people quarreled from the East Pavilion to the Leopard Room, from last year to this year, His Majesty was really annoyed by them. ”

Wang Yuan asked again: "What does Li Ge Lao (Li Dongyang) mean?" ”

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "He only has one meaning, ask for Zhishi!" ”

Yang Yiqing is a radical reformer, who has been drastic in reforming Ma Zheng in the past, but this time he has raised a knife against the government and wants to eliminate a large number of redundant officials. Jiuqing is within the scope of his removal, and plans to directly lay off thousands of officials, and even the Yamen such as Shangbaosi, Jinyiwei, Tai Hospital, and Monk Daolu Division want to streamline.

Yang Tinghe originally planned to settle the matter, and just cut a few meanings. After all, they are all civil officials, and it is not easy to have a cold window for ten years, so such a big layoff is not fried?

Yang Yiqing is extremely stubborn, thinking that since he wants to reform, he should dig up the roots, and it is better not to cut a few at all.

The two have been quarreling since last winter, and Yang Yiqing resigned twice in a row because of this incident. Just a few days ago, Yang Yiqing suddenly entangled with the official and directly challenged Yang Tinghe in the form of a concerto, so angry that Yang Tinghe almost resigned, and rushed into the leopard room to make Zhu Houzhao difficult to clean.

At this point, Yang Yiqing still couldn't fight after all, and the layoff plan of thousands of people only laid off five unlucky people in the end.

The prevalence of the imperial examination will inevitably bring about the disadvantages of redundant officials, and so many scholars and people have to arrange a way out every year!

Take the household department at this time, there is one person on the left and one on the right. But what about the reality? There is only one left waiter in the household department, but there are several right waiters in the household department, and the extra ones belong to redundant officials!

Yang Yiqing is really too radical, even if Wang Yuan is allowed to govern, otherwise he will directly use the knife against the civil officials, which is more difficult than reforming the tax and land system.

Even if the reform can be successful, Yang Yiqing's household book will come to an end!

Yang Shangshu's head is very iron, he is worthy of being the person who drew a circle for Wang Yuandian's trial article, and he really has a firm heart for reform.

Zhu Houzhao said depressedly: "Don't talk about this, what have you been busy with lately?" ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "The minister has accepted six students, and he also wants to set up a laboratory. ”

"What is a laboratory?" Zhu Houzhao suddenly became interested.