Often origin can indeed determine fate!

Although they don't want to admit it, when faced with the facts, people can't avoid all this, and many times, there are some people whose identity has been decided as soon as they are born.

Just like the current Qinghe School, it is also the so-called "noble school" in the newspaper, which gathers the descendants of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps many of them did not just get the current status just after birth, but the merits of their fathers allow them to have a status that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. In fact, in this school, there are not only the noble children of the Ming Dynasty, but also the noble children from the vassal kingdom. For example, as a pro-vassal of the Ming Dynasty, according to the newly formulated suzerainty system, the princes of Joseon, and the eldest son of the two classes of nobles will leave North Korea at the age of 12 and enter this "noble school" school, where they will receive education in line with their status in the Celestial Empire.

Of course, this is not an ancient "proton", but a kind of education, they can return to China after six years of academic qualification, or they can continue to study in Daming. In fact, the feelings for the Ming Dynasty in North Korea are quite complicated, on the one hand, although it is regarded as a "pro-vassal", and North Korea is also extremely deferential to the Ming Dynasty. But on the other hand, on the issue of whether to annex Korea, there was also a dispute in the court, and in the end, the emperor made a decision to re-canonize Li Li as the king of Joseon, not to include him as a province, but the royal family and nobles of Korea had to be sent to the Ming Dynasty for education, so as not to make another "act of abandoning China". In this regard, the Korean royal family and nobles not only did not resist in the slightest, but even excitedly sent their children to the Celestial Empire to accept the education of the Celestial Empire.

Of course, they didn't know that this and the "Heavenly Grace Gate" set up in various cities in Korea - grateful for the grace of the Celestial Empire, are all for the future annexation, not now, nor the next ten or twenty years, but a more distant future, and eventually North Korea will take the initiative to become a province in the Ming Dynasty.

And it was the Korean aristocracy who studied in this school that drove all this. They will be the most committed faction in North Korea in the future. They would also become a group of people who advocated the annexation of Korea to the Ming Dynasty.

Thirteen-year-old Lee Yong-sin is a member of the Korean royal family and one of the first North Koreans to study here, and like his classmates, it has taken them up to a year to adjust to the school over the past two years. Now they have long since adapted to this place, and they think that they have fully integrated into the Celestial Empire, and they are proud of it.

When another group of students from North Korea entered the school wearing Ming-style Confucian robes, they were originally full of various longings for the Celestial Empire. I didn't expect that the first lesson to greet them was a reprimand from the seniors.

"Take off all these silk and satin clothes......

The freshmen who were surrounded by the seniors all looked at this person with some uneasiness.

"I, I'm from the Zheng family in Rongzhou, and my father is ......"

Before Zheng Zelin could speak, someone over there took the initiative to introduce him.

"Senior Li's father is Linping Dajun, but here, he is only a student, this is the most ordinary student."

"Remember, here, there is no royal family, and there is no son of two classes of scholars, there is only one identity, that is, students."

Seeing the group of North Korean students over there, showing their majesty in front of their own people, Zhang Wanqi just smiled slightly, and did not speak, no matter how expensive the status of North Korean students in North Korea is, it is not worth mentioning here, because here, not to mention the son of a loyal and righteous uncle like him, even the son of the Hou Ye is not alone, and there is no shortage of clan children.

But here, they are all ordinary students. No one cares who they are, actually. Their identities are also not enough to see.

After all, Shi Lei, the principal of Qinghe School, is not only a close minister of His Majesty, but also a relative, in front of him, even Daming's own clan and princess are not enough to see, let alone the two classes of nobles in North Korea?

However, Zhang Wanqi does not object to such a dismount, because the next dismount will be even more powerful. In fact, although it was nominally a "noble school" established by the royal family to educate the children of the nobles, this school was completely different from any royal academy in ancient China.

This school is a militarized school, and unlike the so-called "training of the children of the Holy Gates" in the old school, the purpose of this school is to cultivate students in a comprehensive way from the moral, physical and intellectual aspects to become masculine and noble. The education in the school was also about science, virtue, sports, and the military, but of course, it was a strict management of militarization, and even life here was "ascetic", in fact, "Spartan". Each boy lived in a small bedroom of 1.8 fathoms wide and 3 fathoms (meters), which contained only a bed, a desk and a chair, and the configuration of each room of the students was the same, there was no wardrobe in the room, instead of a coat hook nailed to the window, and each person's room had no door and was replaced by a curtain. Even the blankets they were covered with were the coarsest of coarse wool blankets, designed to make them uncomfortable to sleep.

At school, students get up at 6 a.m., run around the playground for six miles a day, switch to indoor exercise if it rains, and then go into the public bathroom to take a cold shower, even if the water drips into ice outside, they have to wipe themselves with cold water. After breakfast, it was early in the morning, and it was three classes in the morning, and everything was carried out in seconds. Lunch is the main meal of the day, followed by two cultural classes in the afternoon, followed by physical education. After exercise, students take another cold shower and then have a late dinner. All students are required to wear their uniforms at dinner, followed by an evening of self-study.

Although many of the students here have been well-fed since childhood, they are well adapted to the strict discipline here. But the so-called brocade clothes and jade food, often refers to the Koreans, in fact, the vast majority of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty when they were young, are not brocade clothes and jade food, and can even be said to have "suffered hardship", even Zhang Wanqi, because of his father's anti-Qing Dynasty, and his mother have suffered a lot.

It is precisely because of this that compared to the "coquettishness" of the North Koreans, the noble children of the Ming Dynasty can adapt to the life here, of course, many of them, because they were born poor, so they are always lacking in knowledge, and can only study hard here to strive for "not to lose the face of the Ming Dynasty".

But this did not have any effect on Zhang Wanqi, maybe his father was not around, but his mother, who was born in a scholarly family, could still tutor him in his studies, so here, he only had to focus on other schoolwork that he had not studied, although he wrote a letter to his father every other week, but he never complained in the letter. In addition to not being able to adapt to taking a cold shower, he replaced his life of strict discipline with another mentality. In his opinion, the school is undoubtedly perfect, especially with the successive football games from spring to autumn, which always excites him, and cheers for the players even if he is not a player. In the winter, competitions such as ice skating and skiing replace team sports, and in the spring, rowing and swimming begin. Even in the summer, it's a great excitement for most of the boys, like a sailor about to set sail.

They would go on vacation to Haizhou Island, where they could have fun to their heart's content, a private property of the royal family, and a garden under construction that was open to them. And they will sail a small sailboat like sailors, and learn to be brave and persevering in the wind and waves.

Of course, compared with the Qinghe Academy, the curriculum in the Qinghe School is very orthodox, and the Confucian scriptures and practical courses need to be learned, and the course teaching is also very careful and rigorous. As the emperor's teacher, Zhu Zhiyu would personally teach all the scripture courses.

However, as the founder of this school, Zhu Mingzhong knew very well that even in this Spartan poor environment, it was difficult not to spoil the children, and it was not enough to ensure the quality of the noble class as the pillar of the ruling class, so in addition to sharpening their minds with Spartan education in the middle school stage, which had the most important impact on their character in their lives, emphasizing character development and moral education to stereotype their characters, they even formulated their pocket money - each person's weekly pocket money was 30 wen, of which 10 wen money must be donated to the temple, It is used for the relief of the poor and for charity.

It is precisely because of this that almost all students are so excited about the arrival of new students, because whether it is the nobles of the Ming Dynasty or the two classes of nobles in Korea, when their children arrive, they often carry a large amount of money - as little as hundreds of taels and as many as thousands of taels.

According to the unwritten rules, the excess money on the freshmen, in addition to leaving a year's pocket money, the rest of the money will be donated to the temple for the workhouse and the workhouse in the city, but the seniors can get a 15% "rebate", which will be arranged by the seniors to use, as for how to use it, it is naturally deposited in the bank, and when it is summer, the money will become their small treasury. for them to splurge. It is precisely because of this that they treat these new students as "small moving vaults".

"Oh, Senior Zhang, it's really a pity, there are only fifty-six freshmen this year, and forty of them are from North Korea, and they only got more than 46,000 taels in total, just such a little money, it's really a small state!"

Li Longxin, who was holding a thick stack of banknotes, did not feel the slightest discomfort when he mentioned the "small state of the country", as if he was not a North Korean, indeed, after two years here, he had already regarded himself as a Ming man.

Even many times he imagined that if it were possible, he would prefer to stay in the Celestial Empire rather than return to Korea. After all, North Korea is nowhere near as prosperous as the Celestial Empire.

It was not easy to stay in Daming, especially for a royal family like him. Of course, it doesn't mean that there are no opportunities, for example, the one in front of him can give him some help. After all, his father was the first minister of the dynasty. As long as he is willing to say a word. Then there won't be any problems staying in Daming.

"A few thousand taels is really not much, wait a few more years, wait a few years, when the time comes, the sons of those Hou Ye's families will grow up, and when the time comes, it will be a group of fat sheep!"

But no, there are the most Korean students in this school now, after all, the royal family and nobles have been passed down for hundreds of years, in contrast, after several catastrophes, the nobles of the Ming Dynasty are very few. Most of the noble children of the Ming Dynasty are very young, and many of them are just enlightened, and it will be at least a few more years before they enter this school.

"In a few years? Fat sheep. ”

Li Longxin, who was holding a banknote in his hand, suddenly thought of a question,

"If I remember correctly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he is already five years old this year, if he waits for him to come here to go to school, will he search or not?"

"Search!"

After spitting out a word, Zhang Wanqi said expectantly.

"Of course I have to search, it's a pity that I will graduate in two years, if I can wait a few years, maybe I can still search the prince's pocket, no, we have to set the rules, when the crown prince comes, I must search my body, and no one can be an exception......"

No one is exempt. Even if it's the crown prince.

"And you must know that the richest person in the world is the royal family, and this is not because the world belongs to His Majesty the Emperor. It's because His Majesty the Emperor of ours is particularly good at buying property. With royal opulence. In the future, when the crown prince comes to school, I am afraid that he will have at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on his body, if we can knock on a penny. ”

As soon as the words came to his mouth, Zhang Wanqi said with some annoyance,

"It's a pity that you and I don't have this opportunity, and when the crown prince comes to our school, I'm afraid we will all have graduated by then."

Thinking that I missed such an opportunity to make a fortune. Zhang Wanqi was annoyed. Someone next to him said.

"I guess it's a bit of a hanging. Haven't you heard? His Majesty the Emperor is extremely strict with the Crown Prince. I heard that the crown prince's pocket money is not much more than ours, and I want to scrape the silver out of him. Maybe it's just a fool's dream. ”

In fact, although they are all noble children, they are still strangers to the crown prince. The reason for this is that the crown prince is too young, so they have little contact. There are many things about the Huang family, and they are just hearsay.

"It doesn't matter if he is dreaming or not, anyway, when the time comes, the body of this crown prince must be searched, and he must find a way to get some money from him, otherwise how can he convince the younger generations in the future."

For Zhang Wanqi, what he is concerned about now is not the money, but how to establish the tradition of this school. And this tradition must be shown to the monkeys by killing chickens......