Chapter 840: The Little Academy

In the past, when the capital was still in Beiping, because it was necessary to guard against the invasion of the Mongol and Yuan Empires, the warehouse factories and so on were all built in the city, and there were Fucheng Bamboo and Wood Factory, Guangping Warehouse, Xichengfang Grassland, Wang Gong Factory and so on in Xicheng alone. The first three are all in Hecao Xifang in the west of Wu'anhou Hutong, of which Fucheng Factory is next to the gatehouse Hutong. But the gate of Fucheng Factory is open on the west side, and the area here is full of high walls, and it is still quiet near the gatehouse alley, and there are no idle people waiting to enter and exit. Except for a few houses, the surrounding houses were all built by the government on that day, but Fucheng Factory didn't need so many houses, so they were sold in Tiancaiku, and Zhang Yue easily bought them.

After buying it, he transferred the title deed to Fang Jing together. These days, Fang Jing took advantage of the opportunity of the same holiday in Shuntian Fuxue, and carried Li Guoxiu Rui Yixiang up and down to work, packed up the house, printed and issued notices, and invited the tutor, and finally succeeded in connecting all the area, even repairing the house with furniture, etc., and the money spent made him smack. And the selection of students also made a few old masters busy, but their faces were full of joy.

This day was the penultimate day of the winter solstice holiday, and Fang Jing, who was so busy that he went back to sleep every day, and had almost no time to run to Zhang's house, finally came to the door excitedly. As soon as he saw Zhang Yue in the study, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Third brother, tomorrow the academy will be officially listed, and there were six or seven hundred people selected a few days ago, and finally two hundred were accepted." By the way, all the mansions have also sent people to ask, but there is no conclusive letter, do you really plan to send Jingguan and the others to this school? ”

Zhang Yue saw that Fang Jing took off his coat as soon as he entered the door in the cold weather, and his head was sweating, so he hurriedly asked people to fetch water to serve him to wash his face, and then smiled: "Naturally, it's true." It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books, and it is not possible to let them go out to travel 10,000 miles now, but it is always feasible to go out of the house. Although it is not completely with those ordinary children, it is also a good thing to come into contact with it. ”

Fang Jing wiped his face and washed his hands before sitting down. After taking the tea that Zhang Yue personally poured out of the purple clay pot, he smiled and nodded: "The third brother is right, I used to think that I knew the people's livelihood very well, but in Guangzhou, you asked me to visit various academies, as well as those Fanxue books, and I took care of the Gongyuan for a while, so I really have an in-depth understanding of the people's livelihood...... By the way, the third brother ordered me to do this at that time, could it be that he had already had the intention to build a academy? ”

Faced with this question, Zhang Yue smiled and didn't answer, just looked at Fang Jing with interest, and asked for a while: "You used to call me Third Brother Zhang, but now you have saved a Zhang character, but the eldest aunt has already mentioned it to you?" ”

Fang Jing had been running outside for many days, and as soon as he entered the house, he talked excitedly, and then he picked up the small teacup and drank it all. But before he could fully swallow the saliva, he was stunned for a moment, and then choked on a mouthful of water and squirted out. Fortunately, Zhang Yue dodged quickly, and the saliva just splashed on the ground.

"This ...... This ......" Fang Jing easily regained his breath, and then said, "My parents died early, and although my aunt is my distant relative, she has always taken care of her, since she said it, I naturally ...... Nature......"

Although he knew that Fang Jing's face was tender, but seeing that his voice was getting lower and lower at this time, and in the end, he was like a mosquito, Zhang Yue was suddenly angry and funny, thinking that Zhang Jing's girl's house was just shy and passed, but Fang Jing was still in this situation. coughed lightly, and he said with a straight face: "The words of the matchmaker are naturally true, but the most important thing is your own meaning. You've seen the third sister, she's hot, outgoing, and sometimes she really doesn't look like a girl......"

"Third brother!"

Fang Jing finally couldn't help it, and suddenly interrupted Zhang Yue's words: "How can you talk about your sister like this?" There's nothing wrong with being outgoing, the important thing is to be good-hearted......"

Before he finished speaking, he immediately realized that he had made a mistake in his mouth, and hurriedly closed his mouth, but found that Zhang Yue was looking at him with a smile, and his face suddenly turned red, thinking that if Zhang Yue asked, how should he answer himself, how did he know that Zhang Jing was good-hearted? However, he waited for a while, but after all, he didn't wait for the joke, and Zhang Yue had already sat down behind the table.

"Alright, let's get down to business. I have already told the eldest uncle, when the uncle comes back, let him be the main media, and the marriage will be finalized first, as for your brother, it is not convenient for him to come forward, after all, it is difficult to ensure that there are still people in the capital who recognize him. However, you will have to wait for the third sister for two years, she is still too young to get married......"

Although it was his sister's marriage, Zhang Yue watched Zhang Jing fall to the ground, watching the little girl grow up little by little from a little girl who was tired of her sister-in-law, and she really had the taste of marrying a daughter, and unconsciously said a few more words. After talking for a while, seeing that Fang Jing was stupid and only nodded, he couldn't help coughing lightly and pulled back the topic that had already diverged to the edge of the sky.

"When the vacation is over, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to spare time, and Master Shen is the same, so you are in time for this. Tomorrow the academy will officially hang a plaque, although I haven't posted anything, but there should be a lot of distinguished guests who come to watch, you have enough manpower, and the house utensils are all packed? You must know that except for the Lianhu family, I gave them citizenship, and I can't allocate the rest of the people to you from the Zhang family, after all, this will be your academy from now on, and it has nothing to do with the Zhang family. ”

"Third brother, don't worry."

Different from the stupidity just now, Fang Jing nodded confidently at this moment: "The preparations that should be made have been made, just in case, those old masters have already pulled people from the family to help, and they have all practiced before, so there will be no mistakes." This is a good thing for the future, and I will never let it mess up in my hands! ”

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously advocated official learning, and at that time, the Central Plains was devastated and there were not many literate people, so a few people read floating astronomy, and private schools were naturally not among the advocates - not only did not advocate or support, but on the contrary, there was suppression. Therefore, throughout the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, private academies withered very much, especially in the north. Therefore, to open a academy in a place like Shuntianfu, the official background is naturally important, but even so, when Zhang Yue was brainstorming to think of a name for the academy, he chose the most inconspicuous one from many majestic names - a small academy.

Even Shen Du couldn't help but laugh when Zhang Yue came to the door in person and asked him to help write the plaque of the academy. So, the news spread from outside the palace to the palace, and the people who originally knew that it was the Zhang family knew who the people behind it were, but they didn't know it, but when they learned that the students were all under the age of fifteen and were aiming for enlightenment, they put away their nonsense. After all, not every official in the DPRK and China was born rich, and people still remember the suffering they endured in order to study when they were poor.

The plaque of the small academy is chosen on an auspicious day of the zodiac, because it is the last day of the winter solstice holiday, even if there is no big post, but after all, the court and nobles in Beijing are well-informed, early in the morning, an endless stream of carriages come and go on the small bridges on the river, and soon, not only the small gatehouse alley is stuffed, even the front and rear two alleys are also so. Coupled with the civilians who sent their children to school, for a while, countless pairs of eyes were staring at the gate in front of the academy.

The gate of the three rooms and five frames is used on the top of the hard mountain, the glazed ditch head is dripping, the empty flower ridge, the fang beam is just an ordinary wood carving, and there is no slightest painting, and the white wall and green tile look at it is even more graceful and atmospheric. Only now the gatehouse was empty, and the pillars on both sides were covered with red paper. At this time, there are big red papers pasted on the two white walls, all of which are densely packed with names, but they are the students of the small academy this time, but they are divided into levels 1 to 6 according to the progress of each person's reading and literacy, plus a class specially opened for the children of the nobles, a total of seven classes. Naturally, those nobles would not get out of the car and rush to the front to see this, but many of the domestic servants they brought with them were desperately crowded in the crowd to inquire.

I don't know how long it took, but someone in the crowd at the mouth of the alley suddenly shouted: "Master Shen is here!" ”

For a while, there was a lot of commotion around, and almost all the nobles on the carriage along the base of the wall opened the curtains. Seeing Fang Jing, who was wearing a blue silk shirt, riding on a horse, escorting a simple green mantle cloud head car slowly over, people on both sides took the initiative to give way to a way, so a few people squeezed to the side of the nobles' carriages. On weekdays, this is an extremely forbidden thing, but today it didn't attract any reprimand, and those well-dressed people saw Fang Jing dismount in front of the gate, and personally stepped forward to help Shen Du out, and couldn't help but glance at the old man with gray hair and gray beard.

Yongren Xuan Three Dynasties, Shen Du has always been deeply trusted, even if he is not waiting in the edict room at any time to write and convey the world's edict, but as soon as there is an important will, there will always be a little eunuch to invite people from the Hanlin Academy. When he came over like this today, he undoubtedly came on behalf of Hanlin Qinggui, not to mention the plaque written by him, the golden version of the jade book!

Although Zhang Yue came early, today he is Fang Jing's master, he naturally will not show up in front of people, and he is also sitting in a carriage next to the wall on the west side of the gatehouse at this moment. Beside him, Zhang Jingzheng lifted a slit in the curtain and stared at it intently, his face full of curiosity. It's just that from her constantly turning eyes, it is not difficult for Zhang Yue to see that in addition to his curiosity about this small academy, his precious sister's gaze is still on Fang Jing, who is about to become the head of the mountain.

Although in these years, the big families are the words of the matchmaker of their parents, and nine times out of ten they are blind marriages and dumb marriages, if there are no bits and pieces of memories that can make people's hearts move, the first thing men and women see is the night of candles in the cave room, isn't this a lot less meaningful?

"Third brother, look, the plaque is hung!"

"Oh, Master Shen's handwriting is so good!"

"Brother, look at it, the students have crossed the mountain gate, and they want to go in to worship the teacher!"

The sound of chirping in her ears kept coming, and in the end, Zhang Yue couldn't help but pull the little girl whose head was about to stick out and sit down, and flicked a finger on her head: "Settle down, in order to take you out, my mother has read me a lot, if you let people outside see any gossip, don't blame me for your punishment in the end!" ”

"Got it......"

Zhang Jing sat down sullenly, kneaded the handkerchief in her hand, and suddenly raised her head and asked Zhang Yue: "Third brother, since you have asked Brother Xiaofang to open this small academy, and you have written to let the imperial court run any martial arts, can you run a women's school?" There are a lot of girls from this noble family! ”

Yes, the son is grinding, and this sister is also grinding!

Seeing Zhang Jing looking at him with a blank eye, Zhang Yue wanted to say yes, but the answer could only be a sigh, and he reached out and rubbed his sister's hair, and then said leisurely: "The three of them become tigers, for this small academy, I don't know how long it has been a detour to have the current situation, and it is even more difficult to build a women's school, after all, it is a matter of women's reputation." Even if I dare to open the women's school at the risk of the world's condemnation, I guarantee that you are the only student, believe it or not? ”

Mentions, Zhang Jing herself knew that this was just a fantasy, so her face was full of amazement, but there was not much disappointment, but her eyes revealed deep envy when she looked out of the car window. At this moment, she suddenly saw a few people coming this way, hurriedly lowered the curtains, and sat down in an orderly manner.

Not long after, a voice came from outside: "Young Master, Marquis Wuding is here." ”

Zhang Yue couldn't help frowning when he heard this, seeing that Zhang Jing on the side was just fine, knowing that the little girl didn't take this unsuccessful marriage to heart at all, she opened the curtain and got out of the car after a little groaning. When he got outside, he saw Guo Xuan, who had already dismounted.

He hadn't seen Guo Ying, who was the first to posthumously present the Ying Guogong, so he naturally couldn't understand whether what others said about Guo Xuanxiao as his father was true or false, but at this time, Guo Ying was wearing a mink warm hat, wearing a fox skin face, and the horsewhip handle in his hand was also inlaid with a side of jade, and all of his body were exquisite accessories, even the bridle saddle was also precious.

"I've seen Master Hou."

"Virtuous nephews don't need to be polite." Guo Xuan helped Zhang Yue with a smile, and said with a smile, "I happened to be passing by today, so I came to take a look, I didn't expect that this small academy in your house is lively......

"Master Hou, in the future, this place will not only accept the children of the Zhang family, so it will not be the Zhang family's academy."

was interrupted before he said a word, Guo Xuan felt a little unhappy in his heart, and then thought of the moment when Zhang Yue lifted the curtain and got out of the car, he clearly saw that there seemed to be a girl inside-thinking of Zhang Yue's not lustful temperament, he could guess who was in it with his toes. His own door-to-door petition was refused, but Zhang Yue chose a distant relative of the British Duchess who didn't know how far away as his future sister-in-law, and also set up such a college with great fanfare, Guo Ying only felt very uncomfortable.

"Yes, yes, look at my memory!" Laughing stiffly twice to bring this embarrassment over, Guo Xuan asked with a smile, "I heard that the eldest son of the British duke, the eldest grandson of the Marquis of Baoding, the eldest grandson of the Marquis of Anyuan, and your son and other children are going to come here to study?" The kid at home is also at his age, and I want to send it over to let him take it over. ”

"This small academy is for teaching children, and the Hou Ye will send it if he is happy."

Zhang Yue naturally did not have the temperament to reject people thousands of miles away, seeing that Guo Xuan nodded happily, and said a few words of greetings before leaving, he rubbed his almost stiff face, turned around and got into the carriage.

I hope Zhu Ning can help with that, otherwise, Tianci and a few other children who know the roots are okay, but the rest of the famous nobles are not easy to deal with - but let them suffer, things will be easy to do.