Chapter 22: Professor
"Mr. Teaching? We? β
After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, Chen Qian's eyes suddenly widened.
In this moment, he thought he had misheard.
"Yes, Mr. Teach."
Putting down the chopsticks in his hand, Li Yuanjia, who had almost eaten four or five minutes full, leaned back comfortably, nodded with a smile and said: "You also know that there are many half-sized guys in the house, who just follow their parents to do chores every day, or learn some crafts from the craftsmen in the house...... But I lack a few people who can write and calculate, so it's better to take advantage of the cold and freezing, when everyone is idle, and the two gentlemen help me teach a few people who can write at least a few words? β
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Looking at the sincere face of the king, Chen Qian and Huang Licheng looked at each other and were speechless at the same time.
The king's words seem to be irrefutable?
Although he and Huang Licheng were also upright court officials, they still had ranksβnormally, their power was even greater than that of officials of the same level in Luzhou City. But everyone knows that they are essentially the staff of King Xu's mansion, that is, they serve King Yu alone.
However, it has been a few months since they arrived in Luzhou, does King Yu need them?
Except for important times such as the autumn harvest, Li Yuanjia showed his face as the assassin of Luzhou, which can be regarded as fulfilling his obligations, and at other times he basically nested in this Luzhou government office, and he rarely even went out of the door! Even when officials such as Luzhou Beijia and Changshi visited, Li Yuanjia basically didn't talk about political affairs, and blindly waved his hand to let these officials deal with themselves......
If he stayed like this, Chen Qian suspected that he was going to grow hair.
However, since he wrote a letter to Fang Gong and complained faintly once, he has never persuaded King Yu for this, because Wei Guogong only said two things in his reply to him: the first thing was that the Emperor died in a foreign land; The second thing is that Fang Gong once talked to Yu Wenshi about Li Yuanjia, and the other party praised Wang Yu many times that although he was young, his temperament was calm and abnormal, and he knew how to advance and retreat......
The matter of the king suddenly made Chen Qian break out in a cold sweat!
So he gradually understood something, and no longer persuaded Li Yuanjia to pay more attention to political affairs, and he slowly slacked off. But no matter how idle you are, you won't be able to teach the sons of a bunch of house slaves to read and read, right?
It's insulting!
If it was someone else who said these words, Chen Qian would definitely not even have a breath of time, and he would definitely stand up and scold the other party loudly. But when the person who said these words was Li Yuanjia, the king of Yu, Chen Qian could only try his best to suppress this anger.
"Alas!"
Seeing him like this, can Li Yuanjia still understand? At that moment, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
If there were people, he really didn't want to invite these two to come out.
Don't look at Ya's official is not big, but whether it is Chen Qian or Huang Licheng, the shelf is not small! In addition to always being respectful to himself, the prince, and never daring to despise him because of his age, the other people in the house, even the guy from Han Shan, these two people all look at people with their nostrils!
It's a bit embarrassing to ask them to teach the children of those domestic slaves to read.
But there is no way, who let Li Yuanjia have no one under him!
I thought I was also a prince, and even if most of the people under my hands were illiterate, there were always more than a dozen people who could read and hyphenation, right? I didn't expect to ask Han Shan when I was employing people, there were only three people who were as young as Wang Pu and could help......
Three people, what can they do?
So after thinking about it, Li Yuanjia could only hit the idea on those little guys in the house - they are basically born in the family, and there should be no problem with loyalty...... Or in other words, they are Li Yuanjia's private property, and there is no possibility of betrayal at all.
Being young and malleable, it is the most suitable.
The only thing that bothers him is that these little guys don't have any foundation, and they are all illiterate. And considering that all the exams are all traditional Chinese characters, and there is no such a big killer as pinyin, he expects Li Yuanjia to teach them literacy by hand, or thousands of Chinese characters, he feels that it is more reliable for him to give up this idea.
So after thinking about it, Li Yuanjia thought of the two "idlers" raised in the house......
At this time, Huang Licheng, who has always been relatively taciturn, suddenly spoke: "King, I don't know what you need someone who can write and calculate?" I don't know if we can help? β
"You guys? You can't! β
Glancing at him and Chen Qian, Li Yuanjia shook his head with a smile and said, "What I plan to let them do in the future is not very good on the table, so it is not suitable for the two gentlemen." Also, I don't ask you to teach any complicated knowledge, as long as you can know a thousand words! β
"This ...... Just a thousand words? β
After listening to Li Yuanjia's words, both of them frowned suspiciously.
If it is said that the king wants to cultivate talents for himself, it is actually not such a strange thing, after all, as a prince, he does need some shrewd and capable manpower under his hands. But if you only know about a thousand words, and you don't need to read any books, what use can these people have?
And......
What is it that can't be put on the table?
"Your ......, King"
Suddenly, as if he thought of something, Huang Licheng's eyebrows furrowed, and he exclaimed: "You want a house slave who can read and write, won't it be ...... It can't be that you want to do the businessman's thing, right? β
"What? Business?! β
Hearing Huang Licheng say this, Chen Qian was suddenly shocked.
"Businessman's business? Ha ha! β
Picking up the cup placed next to him, Li Yuanjia took a sip of it, and said with a seemingly casual smile: "This king doesn't want to be reprimanded by His Majesty's decree, so I don't have that idea for the time being...... But Mr. Chen, are there really fewer pro-kingdom princes in the court? β
"This ......"
The expression on Chen Qian's face quickly converged and he was silent.
He didn't know about other people, but he had faintly heard some fur about the affairs of Fang Gong's family. You must know that the ancestors of the Fang family were already in a high position during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and after hundreds of years of accumulation, it can be said that they can save a huge family business just by relying on the production of officials or fields......
Chen Qian didn't dare to think about it anymore, and quickly shook his head to dispel those boring thoughts.
However, after looking at Li Yuanjia, who was expectantly waiting for his answer, and then turning his head to look at Huang Licheng, who also had a bitter face and never said yes, Chen Qian sighed secretly, and found that the aroma of hot pot that made people babble just now suddenly became no longer appetizing at all.