Shen Xi knew that his qualifications were shallow, and there were so many academic officials in the Hanlin Academy, and if he wanted to enter the banquet and the Japanese lecturer, he would not be able to get his turn in terms of seniority. He can become a lecturer in the East Palace, just because he is the same age as the prince, and he is transferred to the official yamen at his age, which will only make people feel "unorthodox".

However, since he went to Zhan Shifu on an errand, as the initial appreciation period passed, Emperor Hongzhi had many opinions on his teaching methods and methods, so he took advantage of the opportunity of his return home to save his relatives and sent Quanzhou on business to "introspect".

It is not so much that this assessment is a shortcut to promotion given by Emperor Hongzhi, but that it is the royal family preparing to find a suitable excuse to remove unqualified speakers.

put it on Shen Xi, it was to send him back to the Hanlin Academy, let him stay in the Hanlin Academy for seven or eight years, and sharpen his strength before appointing him.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "I can wait for seven or eight years, but I'm afraid that the emperor won't live that long, so I still have to plan early." ”

This Xie Qian and Xie Duo successively told Shen Xi that Emperor Hongzhi would assess the crown prince Zhu Houzhao, but it was not until late July that his direct boss Wang Hua officially informed him that Emperor Hongzhi Zhu Youzhu was going to assess the prince's learning progress and asked him to prepare a lesson plan to hand in.

The emperor's examination of the son's academic level is naturally the top priority of this examination, but in fact, it is also a comprehensive assessment of the lecturers of the East Palace.

The teaching progress of each lecturer in the East Palace has been recorded by the attendants such as Zhongyun and other attendants in the Zhan Mansion, and now that the assessment is imminent, he can only honestly sort out the recent teaching plans and prepare the prince for the exam according to the progress.

Wang Hua said to Shen Xi: "Among so many officials in the East Palace, the most optimistic about this official is Shen Yude...... The future of the prince is in the hands of you and me, and we must not be negligent. After you sorted it out, you will see it with me, and then you will look at it with Wu Zhan. ”

After Wang Wei stepped down as the lecturer of the East Palace, all the courses and personnel arrangements for the lectures in the East Palace were all in charge of Wu Kuan, the Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion. Wang Hua asked Shen Xi to show him the sorted out teaching progress first, perhaps to help him sort out and make additions and changes, and Shen Xi understood that this was Wang Hua's kindness.

Wang Hua is still very kind on weekdays, and he won't play tricks with his lesson plans, but it may not be in the hands of others, maybe he will add or subtract some content to him, and give him small shoes to make him stumble.

There are countless such people in the court, all of them are sanctimonious, but they are not so bright and upright when they do things.

"Thank you, Mr. Wang." Shen Xi saluted.

"Don't dare to be."

Wang Hua smiled generously, because Shen Xi had helped his son, he had always been polite to Shen Xi.

Shen Xi has not been back in Beijing for a long time, but he has already inquired, and no one else has taken over the twenty-first history he taught before, that is to say, this part of the content he has taught recently, whether the prince has mastered it well or badly, is only his responsibility.

Shen Xi turned out his lesson plan and outline and read it carefully, it seemed like a lot, but in fact, it was nothing more than a question from those history books, and it might be okay to ask Zhu Houzhao a few small historical questions, but I was afraid that the emperor's assessment content was to let the prince memorize a large section of history books, and then it would be the time for him to cry and mourn.

Shen Xi went to Zhan Shifu for the next few days to work, and the case was not only sorted out in Zhan Shifu, but he was not free when he got home, so he needed to figure it out...... He had no experience in sorting out lesson plans, and Emperor Hongzhi himself said on a whim that he wanted to inspect the crown prince, but he did not even delineate the specific requirements for the inspection.

If Emperor Hongzhi asks a few questions casually, even the lecturer of the East Palace may have to ponder for a long time, and a bear child who is not good at studying can only stare dryly.

This assessment completely depends on how high Emperor Hongzhi's expectations for the crown prince Zhu Houzhao are, if Zhu Youzhu just treats the prince as a child, maybe he can ask a simpler question, so that the face of the royal and East Palace speakers can be saved.

I am afraid that Emperor Hongzhi will feel that his health is deteriorating, and his expectations for the prince are too great, and the requirements for the prince and the officials of the East Palace will be greatly increased at that time.

When Shen Xi was sorting out the lesson plan, Xie Pi came to Shen Xi once, and he arranged an academic forum for Shen Xi, hoping that Shen Xi would find time to give lectures to those young scholars who were interested in Xinxue.

Shen Xi was busy with business, and secondly, he remembered Xie Duo's advice and did not promise Xie Pi, hoping that the other party would postpone the time.

Although Xie Pi is older than Shen Xi, he has always asked Shen Xi for teaching questions as a student, and he is not qualified to force Mr. to do things, so he has to go back gloomily.

Shen Xi could see Xie Pi's sincerity, this was not a madman who wanted to make a name for himself in his own way, but a Confucian who was a poor man who really did learning, and it was not easy to find such a pragmatic "preacher" in the capital.

Waiting for Shen Xi to sort out the lesson plan and hand it over to Wang Hua, Wang Hua was very surprised after reading it, and then shook his head again and again: "Shen Yude handed it over like this, isn't it causing trouble for himself?" No matter how studious the prince is, he can't learn so much......"

One sentence made Shen Xi understand that other lecturers in the East Palace had deleted the learning progress in the lesson plans they had sorted out, in order to ensure that they could pass the emperor's assessment.

As a teacher, it is irresponsible to do this, and it will even make people feel dereliction of duty, but from the perspective of a human minister, there is nothing wrong with doing so.

Teaching badly means that his errand has not been completed, and the emperor is like a tiger, and the emperor can't be dealt with it by saying two words of guilt.

"Shen Yude went back to tidy it up, and then sent it back." Wang Hua spoke with a commanding tone this time.

Shen Xi vaguely understood that the reason why Wang Hua was so enthusiastic about helping him check the lesson plan may not be to help him, but to supervise him, for fear that he, a hairy boy, would be too conspicuous and provoke right and wrong.

Your kid went out on business for more than half a year, and when you came back, you reported to the emperor that you had taught so many things, did you want to show that we old lecturers are not as good as you?

Perhaps it was Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang who saw that the prince continuing to study after class that day that touched the other East Palace speakers, and the people in the East Palace currently have more or less opinions about Shen Xi.

No matter what kind of work you do, it is best to complete the errand tepidly, or even be a little lazy, so that others will think that you are "the same kind", you have to do something out of the ordinary, and show yourself hard, the official is satisfied, but your colleagues will have an opinion of you.

Shen Xi shook his head helplessly, thinking: "I hope that my villain has a lot of eyes, otherwise Zhan Shifu will become a place of office politics, and even giving lessons to the prince has to be intrigued and consider the gains and losses, which is really tiring!" ”

The prince is greedy for fun, Shen Xi feels that he has enough content in the East Palace, what will it look like if he deletes the lesson plan? It's just that he doesn't know that others can't do anything about bear children, and there is less content to teach.

In Zhu Houzhao's eyes, the history lessons taught by Shen Xi were barely able to listen, and those taught by others were also so good that he was asked to memorize and write silently, which had already upset him, let alone study hard.

Shen Xi deleted and revised his lesson plan many times in a row, so that Wang Hua was satisfied, and finally handed over the lesson plan to Wu Kuan.

At the end of July, Wu Kuan summoned all the speakers of the Eastern Palace together to convey the will of Emperor Hongzhi and explain the details of the assessment.

The assessment time is set for August 14, and the next day is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, which is equivalent to the pre-holiday examination.

Shen Xi thought, if the prince doesn't answer well and the emperor's family is not comfortable with the festival, then the speaker should not think about having a good holiday, which is probably what it means.

Wu Kuan specially explained that in the half month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, only the prince needs to consolidate and review, and the new content does not need to be taught, so that the prince can review the old and know the new.

The words are good, but no matter how Shen Xi thinks about it, he thinks that Wu Kuan is afraid that he will not be able to deal with this assessment, and wants the speakers of the East Palace to hurry up and temporarily let the prince learn the content of the exam.

Ordinary children study, and the school can also have an assessment similar to the midterm and final exams in later generations, which is used as a comparison among all students, but the prince is not good, because he does not have to deal with the imperial examination, he naturally will not learn how to make articles, and learning the subset of classics and history is also to govern the country well.

Judging how well the prince learns depends on the emperor's mood during the assessment, and the emperor's mood is simple, and everyone can easily pass the test, otherwise they will have to eat collectively deflated. Because the prince is young after all, he has learned so many things, and whether he will or not is actually clear, it depends on whether he is accommodating or not.

Normally, students are examined in the juku, but in the royal examination, it is the husband.

Shen Xi felt a little ridiculous when he thought about it.

After the lesson plan was done, Shen Xi breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, he hadn't been so busy for a long time, he was a little uncomfortable, and he thought back a little that more than a year ago, in order to cope with the imperial examination, he was more tired than in the past few days when he was reading and writing articles every day.

Time has passed, and after being idle for a long time, I feel a little powerless when I put down the book and pick it up again.

When he returned home and stretched out in his room, Shen Xi was relieved, but after thinking about it carefully, in fact, the prince's assessment had just begun, and it would be impossible to relax now with the official career.

"At noon today, Gongzi Xie came to visit, and because his father-in-law was not at home, he didn't enter the door but just sent an invitation."

Xie Yun'er finally changed her words and resumed her previous address to Shen Xi, making Shen Xi sound much more cordial. However, she only changed her words, and Lin Dai was still "ordered" by Xie Yun'er to call Shen Xi her master, but she didn't know that Lin Dai had already changed her name in private.

Shen Xi took the invitation card and took a look, it was an invitation letter for Xie Pi to hold an academic forum, Xie Pi specially explained that no matter whether Shen Xi went or not, this forum would be held as scheduled.

Xie Duo warned Shen Xi not to touch Xinxue for the time being, for fear that he would set himself on fire.

After all, Shen Xi is a "person who has come over", and he knows that this world is resistant to the study of mind, and he is afraid that Xie Pi and these young people will make too much trouble regardless of the importance of the situation, and at that time it will inevitably attract the attention of the Confucian academic community, which will affect not only his reputation Shen Xi, but also the path of these young people's imperial examinations.

There are many future celebrities around Xie Pi, although these people are young, many of them are the backbone of the future Ming Dynasty, Shen Xi doesn't want to let Xinxue harm these young people.

They must be "saved".

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