All dynasties have attached great importance to the teaching of the prince, and the Ming Dynasty is no exception, in the early years of Hongwu, the Ming Taizu, Zhu Yuanzhang placed the main hall to collect ancient and modern books, and called the famous Confucianism of the Quartet to teach the prince.

Later, the prince's East Palace subordinate officials gradually increased, in addition to the prince's young master, young master, young protection, guests, there are also left and right Zhan affairs, Tongzhi Zhan affairs, deputy Zhan affairs, Zhan Shicheng, left and right government envoys, Tongzhi left and right government affairs, left and right government deputy envoys, Yude, Zanshan doctors, these are all honored old ministers and lead their duties, as well as literature, middle house, orthography, waiting, horse washing, concubines and praise and other subordinate officials, it can be said that there are many talents.

Later, because there were too many subordinate officials in the East Palace and there was no command, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the Zhan Mansion in short, and changed its name to Zhan Shifu in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, so far, Zhan Shifu has become an institution dedicated to tutoring the prince.

It should be said that Zhu Yuanzhang is still very attentive to the prince's teachings, and the same is true of the emperors of the following generations, so the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty are relatively powerful, and the Ming Dynasty is a prosperous era after a prosperous era, and soon it will become the legendary Heavenly Empire.

However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, several emperors did not know whether they considered that the officials of Zhan Shifu had too much influence on the prince or what, and they no longer let Zhan Shifu be responsible for teaching the prince, but chose other officials to serve as part-timers.

At this time, Zhan Shifu has become the promotion level of Hanlin, that is, the so-called reserve of the Hanlin Academy, the place where the qualifications are boiled and the grade is promoted, like Wen Zhenmeng, he is not teaching the prince at this time, his main job is to give Chongzhen a feast.

This sutra feast is actually to explain the four books and five classics or other ancient classics to the emperor, a bit similar to the later generations to translate classical Chinese into the vernacular, that is, to explain the esoteric and difficult ancient texts in the vernacular, of course, everyone has their own ideas, have their own understanding, and even the high level can infiltrate their own thoughts into the sutra feast, and guide the emperor who listens to the sutra feast.

Wen Zhenmeng has this talent, he wants to guide Chongzhen to punish evil and promote good, but unfortunately, Chongzhen has already entered Wen Tiren's trap, and he can't change Chongzhen's mind no matter how he says.

Zhang Bin is very dissatisfied with their idea of just trying to change reality with their mouths, there are many people, it is useless for you to persuade them, you must educate them with facts, if the facts can't be educated, then this person is basically hopeless.

At this time, he just wants to educate Chongzhen with facts, and see what he can do with the traitors such as Wen Tiren, Tang Shiji, and Wang Yingxiong, and eliminate Jiannu and anti-thieves within a year, which is simply a fool's dream!

Since Chongzhen asked him to be responsible for teaching the prince, then he would teach the prince well, and Chongzhen didn't let him take care of other things, and he didn't want to care, but it was up to them to see what tricks they could play.

After reporting to Chongzhen about the plan to teach the prince, he relaxed and walked slowly to the yamen of Zhan Shifu.

Zhan Shifu Yamen is located in the southeast of the imperial city, about a mile away from the right Chang'an Gate, out of the right Chang'an Gate, along the East Chang'an Street to the east for half a mile, and then along the Xiaowei Hutong to the south for half a mile, it is there, this location almost corresponds to Zhang Bin's current mansion, if Zhang Bin buys the mansion in the south of East Chang'an Street, then the Zhan Mansion Yamen is next door to his mansion, but unfortunately, he bought the south of West Chang'an Street, so the Zhan Mansion Yamen is about two miles away from his mansion.

Of course, this distance is nothing, anyway, he is now nothing, there is time, walked for about a quarter of an hour, he finally came to the Zhan Mansion Yamen, at this time, there was a Jiupin official waiting at the gate of the Zhan Shifu Yamen, Zhang Bin naturally did not know the little official, but the little official recognized him, because the Ming Dynasty stipulated that a bit of a fucked Jiupin official must participate in the early dynasty, the little official naturally participated, but he has been paying attention to Zhang Bin, Zhang Bin did not notice him.

As soon as the little official saw Zhang Bin coming, he immediately greeted him warmly, nodded and said: "Lord Zhang, you are here, Lord Wen and Master Kong let the little one wait for you here, you haven't been to the Yamen of Zhan Shifu yet, please come with the little one." ”

With that, he made a gesture of invitation, and then walked slowly inside.

Zhang Bin really hasn't entered the Yamen of Zhan Shifu, he just walked around a bunch of yamen outside Chang'an Gate when he had nothing to do during the Chinese New Year, he knew how to go to the Yamen of Zhan Shifu, but what it was like inside the Yamen of Zhan Shifu, he really didn't know, and even, he didn't even know where his study was.

This into the Zhan Mansion Yamen, he was immediately shocked by the scale of the Yamen, this Zhan Mansion Yamen covers an area of at least two or three hundred acres, it is full of pavilions, flowers and trees, just like a garden, the rows of study rooms are hidden between the flowers and trees, it looks so exquisite, and it is a leisure benefit!

Of course, this is not leisure, but office, in the middle of the study shaded by flowers and trees, there is a tall hall, look at the area is afraid of two or three hundred square meters, here, should be their own study where it is.

Sure enough, the little official pointed to the main hall in the middle and introduced: "My lord, this is where you and the two young Zhan Shi are in the study, and there are two ministers in it, two in it, two in the book, two in the record and two in the general office, the small one is the general affairs house, if you want anything, just greet the small one." ”

Zhang Bin nodded and asked kindly, "What is your surname?" ”

The messenger hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The little surname is Wang, you can just call me Xiao Wang." ”

Zhang Bin nodded again, pointed to both sides and said, "These two sides are the left spring fang and the right spring fang, right?" ”

Xiao Wang, the general officer, nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, if you have something to do, the little one will immediately summon the adults from the left and right Chunfang to come over." ”

Zhang Bin shook his head and said, "It's nothing for the time being, don't bother them, take me to the study first." ”

Tongshi Xiao Wang hurriedly nodded and led him to the main hall, this hall is a whole from the outside, but there is no hole after entering, as soon as you enter the door, it is a big hall, I think it is a place to ascend to the hall, but at this time there is no one in the hall, there is a small door on both sides of the hall, after entering it is a horizontal aisle, his study is directly behind the hall, that is, in the middle of the aisle, there are two small points of study on both sides of his study, according to the introduction of Tongshi Xiao Wang, That is the office location of the two Shao Zhan affairs, and there are two large rooms parallel to the lobby on the opposite side of the corridor, which are the office locations of the ministers, the lord, the recorder and the general secretary that Xiao Wang Gang said.

Zhang Bin walked into his study and did not let Xiao Wang call anyone, he just waved his hand to let Xiao Wang retreat, and then carefully observed his study, this study is about sixty square meters, facing the door is a row of exquisite wooden windows, on the left is a large desk, two bookshelves and a large chair, on the right is two sets of coffee tables and chairs, the furnishings are very simple, but it looks like there is a sense of atmosphere, presumably designed by a special person.

After he looked around carefully, he came to sit down behind his desk, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk were all ready-made, and even the ink was half polished, presumably this was deliberately done by the people below in order to please him.

He sat down to rest for a while, then simply picked up the thinnest brush, dipped it in ink, took out another piece of manuscript paper, and began to draw seriously!

Soon he drew a simple figure of the sun, but instead of stopping, he pulled out a new piece of paper and continued to draw, this time with a simple drawing of the moon.

Immediately after that, he pulled out one blank piece of paper after another, and drew a lot of simple drawings, what landscapes, woods, stones, people, hands, etc., I don't know how long he drew until his desk was full of drawn simple drawings, and he stopped and sighed.

Just as this was happening, someone outside said aloud: "My lord, can my subordinates come in?" ”

It turned out to be Wen Zhenmeng's voice, and he hurriedly said aloud: "Please come in." ”

Soon, Wen Zhenmeng pushed open the door and walked in, he originally wanted to give Zhang Bin a courtesy gift, but when he saw the simple paintings on the table, he couldn't help but be stunned.

This adult is really interested, he has been relegated to this idle yamen, and he is still interested in practicing painting.

He was stunned for a moment, and then said embarrassedly: "My lord, who are you?" ”

Zhang Bin said seriously: "Prepare for tomorrow's teaching." ”

When Wen Zhenmeng heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, he thought that Zhang Bin was relegated here to be idle, but he didn't expect that Zhang Bin really wanted to teach the prince to read and write!

He said in disbelief: "Isn't the prince's teaching generally in charge of the six books or cabinet scholars?" ”

This is indeed the case at this time, no one in the Zhan Mansion has been recruited to teach the prince at all, and they don't even know what the prince looks like!

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but ask with interest: "Oh, then what do you usually do?" ”

Wen Zhenmeng sighed and said: "Don't hide it from your lordship, we usually have nothing to do, but when it's someone's turn to preach the scriptures, we will go into the palace to give a lecture to the emperor. There is actually no difference between this and the Hanlin Academy, but the Hanlin Academy sometimes has to be responsible for editing history books, but Zhan Shifu doesn't need to edit history books, and most of the time there is nothing to do! ”

This is indeed the truth, Zhan Shifu has basically been abolished since the Wanli Dynasty, and there is only the function of a ladder for the Hanlin Prince, and there are no other functions.

Zhang Bin thought for a while, smiled and asked, "Do you want to find something to do?" ”

Wen Zhenmeng said with a little shame: "Who doesn't want to find something to do, although I have been here for three years and my qualifications have gone up, but in fact I haven't done anything, it's a waste of food!" ”

This is the only thing that can be said by these two explosive goods, and other people will never say this about themselves.

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "That's okay, you watch it carefully, and after reading it, we will discuss how to teach His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

After that, he picked up the brush he had been writing with, picked up the sketch he had just drawn, and wrote it below.

He wrote two big characters under each picture, one is a pictograph, and the other is a man who is now in the Ming Dynasty.

Wen Zhenmeng looked at it for a while, and his face showed a sudden look, it turned out that Zhang Bin's meaning was to convert it into hieroglyphs through graphics, and then into the corresponding Chinese characters, so that the memory would be profound, and those who were a little smarter might remember it at a glance.

High, it's really high, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up, and said with heartfelt approval: "My lord is really superior, this method can be figured out, if you teach His Royal Highness like this, His Royal Highness the Prince's literacy will definitely be a thousand miles a day." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his face turned a little red, which he came up with, this is the atlas used to teach children literacy in kindergartens in later generations, he just painted a scoop according to the gourd.

He couldn't help but say modestly: "This is just a small way, not enough to worry about the teeth, not enough to worry about the teeth, this is what I said, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is going to learn the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" this year, I think, if you have time, it is better to draw the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" in this way, so that the teaching speed will be fast, and His Royal Highness the Prince will not feel bored." ”

When Wen Zhenmeng heard this, he couldn't help clapping his hands and said, "Good idea!" ”

However, he soon frowned again and said: "My lord, forgive your subordinates for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, many of these pictographs have been lost, and some of them are extremely complicated, I am afraid it will be difficult to draw all the characters on the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" like this, and besides, some of the pictographs are too complicated, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is afraid that the more he looks at it, the more confused he becomes." ”

Zhang Bin said with a wry smile: "I didn't say that it must be matched with pictographs, simple Chinese characters can be matched with pictographs, and complex ones should not be matched with pictographs, just match a picture and write Chinese characters, let's start with the simple, and wait for His Royal Highness the Prince to learn the simple words almost, and then teach the complex words, at that time, His Royal Highness the Prince as long as he can remember the graphics is almost the same, there is no difference whether there are pictographs or not." ”

When Wen Zhenmeng heard this, he praised again: "Your Excellency is wise, so step by step, I believe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will soon be able to complete the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text". ”

Zhang Bin smiled bitterly again: "Okay, don't praise me, just like this, all the words of the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" are matched with pictures, the simple ones are matched with pictograms, and the complex ones are directly matched with a picture, is it difficult?" ”

Wen Zhenmeng couldn't help but smile heartily: "What's so difficult about this, Zhan Shifu, who is good at painting, grabbed a lot of them, and handed over the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" to the left and right Chunfang respectively, and they can definitely be drawn within a month." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Bin nodded and said: "Okay, you arrange this matter, and show it to me after the painting is finished, we will teach while drawing, in addition, it is best to bind it into a book after the painting is completed, so as to facilitate His Royal Highness the Prince's reference, this is no problem, right?" ”

Wen Zhenmeng nodded without hesitation and said: "No problem, the horse washing, school books, and orthography of the Department of Economic Affairs are for this, they are afraid that they will be idle, and with such a good thing, they naturally can't ask for it." ”

Zhang Bin said with relief: "That's good, you go and call Master Kong over, from today onwards, you are in charge of Zuo Chunfang, and Master Kong is in charge of Right Chunfang, and we will work together to edit out the atlas of "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" as soon as possible. ”

When Wen Zhenmeng heard this, he said excitedly: "Okay, my lord, you just wait for acceptance." ”