Chapter 53: Xu Xiaoqing is born

It was in the evening that a baby cry came from Xu Qing's house, and a new life was born!

Xu Qing was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot in the patio, and he was finally relieved. After a while, Xiaoyue ran out and said to Xu Qing: "Mother and son are safe!" Xu Qing was about to enter the delivery room with his feet, but Xiao Yue hurriedly stopped: "There is no evil in it yet, and men can't go in." ”

As soon as Xu cleared the crocodile and came back, Xun Xue'er's stomach was aching day by day. Xu Qing was afraid that Xun Xue'er was going to give birth, so he called all the stable women who could be found in the surrounding fifty miles in one breath, and took care of them day and night.

The child has been carried by the nurse and fell asleep, Xu Qing stayed next to Xun Xue'er, looked at her who was extremely tired, and called softly: "Xue'er ......" Xun Xue'er pillowed Xu Qing's hand, squinted her eyes and rested for a long time, and asked:

"Xu Lang, how is the child? Is it male or female? ”

After Xun Xueer learned that Huang Shimei also called Xu Qing "Brother Xu", she changed her title - "Xu Lang", Xu Lang also means Brother Xu, more accurately, it is a handsome guy Xu.

Xu Qing was stunned when he heard this, his heart was not good, he didn't know whether the child was a man or a woman! He squirmed, "This ......"

"Xu Lang, how can you be such a father......" Xun Xue'er scolded with a smile, half disgusted, half happy. A man loves her more than he loves his children, shouldn't he be happy to talk about his wife's identity?

Xun Xue'er looked at Xu Qing's face and begged, "Go, take the child and come and see ......"

Xu Qing heard this, and ran out with a smoke, but when he wanted to hold the child, he was entangled for a long time. Why? Because he doesn't know how to hold a child! After studying with the nurse for a long time, I held it in front of Xun Xue'er like a heart.

Xun Xue'er stood up, took the child, and kissed happily. However, Xu Qing looked at the child, but he was wrinkled and a little ugly.

"Xue'er, why is such a young child hairy?"

"......" Xun Xue'er rolled her eyes.

"Xue'er, why do you say this kid looks like me, or like you?"

"......" Xun Xue'er smiled.

"Xue'er, how about you look at him like that, just call him a dog?"

"......" Xun Xue'er snorted.

"Cher, is it a boy or a girl?" Xu Qing finally cared about the issue of gender.

"Is it a son...... Xun Xue'er also spoke, for women in ancient times, there was nothing more proud of giving birth to a man.

"Scared, why is it a son......"

Schrödinger's cat, if you don't open the box, you never know if the cat is dead or alive. After Xu Qing knew that he was a boy, he realized that he liked his daughter a little more than a boy.

"Is the boy bad?" Xun Xue'er asked rhetorically.

"No, no, no, I'm just a boy, if I look like me, it's not as good as a girl who looks like you......" Xu Qing hurriedly explained.

Xun Xue'er sneered, but in a blink of an eye, she felt that Xu Qing didn't praise her for giving birth to a good baby, so she didn't follow it, and took a bite of Xu Qing gently. Xu Qing also responded, and then said, "Xue'er, what do you say is a good name for him?" ”

"You are the father, naturally you come to take it, you can take the milk name first, and the correct name can be taken later."

"I'll call you for a while for the time being!" At the same time, in another parallel world, in a hutong in Beijing, an editor sneezed and sneezed.

The child slept deeply, and the two of them couldn't tease. Got it, and rested together.

The new parents are happy, and everything about the child, Xu Qingxun Xueer and both of them are curious. Fortunately, the nurse is experienced, otherwise with Xu Qing's hairy hands and feet, it is really possible that she will not be able to raise this child.

Soon, the news that Xu Qing had a child spread all over Cangzhou. Officials at all levels, all from all over the world, came to congratulate.

The grass warbler flies in February, and the real spring is coming.

What Xu Qing said to Li Yuan at the beginning was that after food and clothing, the law should be clarified and education should be revitalized. Now that food and clothing have been temporarily safe, after getting rid of the bandits and clans in Cangzhou, ordinary people do not steal or rob, and they don't need to know the law at all. There are often some civil disputes that cannot be eliminated by the law. As a result, the revitalization of education was put on the agenda.

In the past, the government grabbed the eyebrows and nose, and the civil affairs, criminal law, land, and education were all in charge of the county lord alone. Naturally, this will not work. You must know that a person's energy is limited, and cognition is different, even if it is a saint, it is difficult to balance a bowl of water. The county magistrate is in charge of so many things alone, either he despises civil affairs or criminal law, and he can't manage it comprehensively anyway.

Therefore, to do things, you have to have a special person and a person to take responsibility, which is also one of the purposes of Xu Qing's previous establishment of the Commercial Tax Department.

The wisdom of the youth is the wisdom of the country, and the cause of education is related to generations to come, and Xu Qing does not dare to slack off. As soon as the weather improves, preparations will be made for the establishment of the school.

Teachers are at the heart of education. Xu Qing decided to establish an education bureau first and recruit teachers.

"Notice: Assassinate the herdsmen, so that they have food and clothing, know the law, and know the etiquette law. I know that there is a monarch's father's court, and I know that there are parents and brothers, loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, wisdom, beauty, and labor. Today, the Education Bureau has been established to oversee the education of the four counties, and 28 schools have been built, and the population of each county is different. Sixty more teachers were recruited, and they were fed and housed by the imperial court and given to the officials. ”

"Notice: The original private schools in the four counties of Cangzhou must be registered, and they will be assessed every year.

"Notice: New schools, tuition fees and books are provided by the government, and all eight-year-old children can be enrolled."

Three notices were posted at a time, and the responses were overwhelming. The last time the recruiting officer patrolled the streets, many people sighed that their pace was too slow and they were not selected, and this time, even if they broke their heads, they had to come back with an official body. It's a pity that this time it's a teacher. Some people who dig dung and work in the fields come to apply, but they themselves can't read a word. can only go away with sorrow.

There is also a director of the Education Bureau, Xu Qing struggled for a long time, and finally chose to make an internal decision and gave Wei Xian, one of the four people from Chang'an. He was not admitted to the Jinshi, but because there were too many dragons and tigers in the first imperial examination of the founding of the country, it cannot be said that he was not excellent.

Xu Qing ran the school, not to train scholars who were poor and well-educated, but only to spread cultural knowledge, and secondly, to cultivate some talents who are good at secular affairs. After all, in the future of Cangzhou, Xu Qing wants to build it into an economic center in the east.

Each school is equipped with two teachers, one to teach the scriptures and the other to teach arithmetic. From the age of six to enter school, four years of study, can memorize the "Analects", can calculate the chicken and rabbit in the same cage, the important thing is to know a word. Select its outstanding ones to cultivate, and then read hundreds of scriptures, secular skills. As for sports and labor, Xu Qing thought about it or forgot it, those children, isn't that a good hand at catching fish in the water and digging birds in trees?

The selection of teachers, teaching arithmetic, Xu Qing plans to directly transfer thirty officials from the Department of Commerce and Taxation, and those who teach scriptures are not worried, anyway, Xu Qing still has a fan in Cangzhou. Those scholars, although they are not as good as Wei Xian from Chang'an, but it is always enough to teach a little doll.

At the teacher recruitment fair, Xu Qing met one by one students and had a preliminary check on their temperament. As for verifying their true talents and learning, Xu Qing still threw his hand to Wei Xian.

Wei Xian received the order, posted the scriptures and ink meanings, wrote poems and lyrics, and made a lively selection of forty scholars, some old and young, but most of them were poor children.

If there are people, what about the venue? School buildings or something, you can recycle the big houses left by the previous generations. The table is simply made of wooden planks, and the chairs are not needed, and they sit directly on the ground. The conditions are a little worse, but fortunately, you don't have to be exposed to rain and sun.

In addition, Xu Qing also wanted to make a textbook for children. If we use the Analects alone, it is too simple, and the things of the sages have been passed down for so long that there are various interpretations of one sentence. Therefore, compared with the Analects, Xu Qing is more fond of a three-character rhyme he memorized when he was a child - "Disciple Rules".

"Di Zi Gui" is easy to learn and remember, and the text is interspersed with relevant literary and historical knowledge, idioms and allusions. It can be said that it is a top three books, treating both the symptoms and the root cause. It's a pity that Xu Qing can't recite half of it now, and some of the allusions that have been memorized can't be read by the Tang Dynasty, so they need to be greatly changed.

The most headache is printing.

Xu Qing inquired in Cangzhou and learned that all the books in Cangzhou are now manuscripts, and no one knows how to print. Xu Qing remembered that Bi Sheng of the Song Dynasty invented movable type printing, but the time of the invention of this engraving printing is unknown.

There was no ready-made one, so Xu Qing had to explore it on his own.

For Chinese, especially at this time of the Tang Dynasty, the cost of movable type printing was almost the same as that of block printing. Xu Qing decided that it was better to use engraving printing for the time being.

Although the art of printing in the early Tang Dynasty has not been developed, the art of gate engraving has been inherited for thousands of years. It can be seen from the jade seal of the country that as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, the art of engraving was mature. The process of stereotyping is a bit like the process of carving a seal, except that there are more words engraved, and the process of printing is the opposite of that of a seal. The seal is printed on top and the paper is on the bottom, and the print is on the top and the board is on the bottom.

After finding a craftsman, Xu Qing prepared a sturdy pine wood, and asked the Fang family, who was writing, to write a short poem carefully and prepare to be stereotyped. The paper is relatively thin, and in turn you can see the words through the paper, and the words are reversed. It is this reverse word engraved on the stereotype.

Xu Qing ordered the engravers to use different forms of carving knives to carve the inverted characters on the woodblock into raised yang characters, and at the same time removed the remaining blank parts of the woodblock and made it concave. The words carved on the board are about two meters wide on the convex surface. After carving, rinse the carved board with hot water, wash off the sawdust, etc., and this is it.

The carving skills are exquisite, and a short poem is a good one. Xu Qing couldn't wait to brush a layer of ink on the stereotype, then took a thick layer of rice paper to cover it, patted it, and when it was slightly dry, carefully peeled it off.

Take it out and look at it, every word is clearly visible, and it is indeed usable. It's not okay to print one, then brush the ink, and then sticker until there are more than forty sheets, and something goes wrong. The words that were printed at first were still visible, but later they became bloated...... When Xu Qing was about to study it again, Huanghua County Kuaima sent a piece of bad news:

Thieves from the sea, the people of Koro!