Chapter 1008 Ecstasy to Learn the Secret

Zhao Xing's courtyard was not built in the architectural style of the Song Dynasty, because he did not know what style of Song Dynasty architecture was.

In addition, most of the houses in the Song Dynasty were wooden structures, which made Zhao Xing have no reference. So he sketched a courtyard structure in Beijing: the main hall in the middle, the west chamber next to it, and the moon gate on the east side led to the backyard, which was used to pile firewood and grain.

On both sides of the main hall, there are two rooms, one large and one small, symmetrical on the left and right. The large room is now used as a classroom for the children, so that the children are divided into two classes according to their age and learning pace. There are two small rooms on both sides, one side is a workshop for children to do handicrafts; On the other side is the study, stacked with miscellaneous books collected by Zhao Xing in the past two years.

Cheng Azhu stayed in the West Chamber. There was already a big bed in the west wing, which was originally intended for children to stay overnight - those mountain people who went into the mountains to hunt often put their children here in Zhao Xing, and this room became a nest for those children.

Now that there is a bed, it is easy to set it in. Pull the children's things, put Cheng Azhu's things in, and this small courtyard can be regarded as having a hostess.

Cheng Xia cleaned up, and Ah Zhu continued to look for work in the house, wiping the table and windows, and it seemed that he was not suitable for the change of identity, so he didn't know how to face it.

Cheng Xia led his classmates to stand there for a long time, unable to find a topic, so he had to lead his classmates to the main hall, intending to say hello to the teacher.

In the hall, Zhao Xing's face was calm, and he didn't seem to have much joy, he lowered his head, his fingers kept comparing on the illustrations of the book, and his mood didn't seem to be high. Cheng Xia hesitated for a moment, not daring to go over to say hello.

When Zhao Xing first came, because he didn't understand the local language, he had to open as little as possible, and if he had to speak, he had to go to no one else, imitate what he was going to say a few times, and only then did he say what he meant in as short a language as possible after he was sure that there was no difference in accent. In the long run, it has formed a unique "majesty".

With the passage of time, Zhao Xing, who has experienced the explosion of knowledge, has shown a lot of experience, and in the eyes of the children, he is the embodiment of omniscience, no matter how strange the questions asked by the children, he can always answer them immediately. After a long time, the children were a little in awe, and they didn't dare to disturb him when they saw him pondering.

After waiting for a while, the children who couldn't bear it pushed Cheng Xia hard, Cheng Xia mustered up his courage, stood on tiptoe, turned sideways, walked to Zhao Xing's side step by step, looked at the teacher who didn't raise his head, opened his mouth a few times, but didn't have the courage to speak. I only heard the teacher muttering there: "This should be the inlet, this is the condenser pipe......"

Cheng Xia forgot his purpose, curiously looked at the drawing with the teacher's fingers, and after looking at it for a while, he found that the teacher didn't look at the illustrations on the side of the drawings, and only used his fingers to follow the drawing process in turn, he couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, how do you pronounce the words on the side of this picture?" What is it talking about? ”

Zhao Xing didn't know how to pronounce the words on the side of the picture, because the words on it were very cold, and these words were no longer used in modern society. But in this era, Zhao Xing couldn't find a "Modern Chinese Dictionary", and he just couldn't find those words that he couldn't. So, he had to be vague.

"Do you know Fenjiu? This is the full process of Fenjiu...... What, I don't understand the words 'craft' and process, it doesn't matter, I'll explain it slowly later - to put it simply, this is a set of sake making techniques, and according to the picture, you can make the best Fen sake. ”

Hearing that it was a set of wine-making techniques, Cheng Xia no longer asked the bottom of it. Because he knows that such methods are generally family heirlooms, the kind that is passed on to children but not daughters, so it is inconvenient to ask. However, he saw that Zhao Xing didn't look at the illustration at all, and felt very strange.

I secretly looked at the book cover, and the title of the book was "Qi Min's Technique". After enduring it for a long time, Cheng Xia finally confirmed his guess: the teacher didn't read the explanation, but just followed the diagram and calculated there one by one - extrapolation, this is amazing.

He finally couldn't help but ask, "Teacher, you really didn't look at the annotations on the side of the picture, why didn't you look at it?" ”

Because I can't read it.

Those words are so obscure that they have been replaced by other words in modern times.

But although Zhao Xing didn't know those words, he knew what these words should mean in modern times. Because he has mastered a scientific method that the ancients did not understand—logical reasoning.

"The teacher doesn't have to read the instructions to know why? Because the teacher has mastered a unique kind of knowledge - 'the study of wisdom'", Zhao Xing folded the book and said proudly: "What is wisdom, after reading the beginning of things, you will know the end, this is reasoning, reasoning is wisdom." During the Three Kingdoms era, the world was mediocre and didn't know how things would develop at the beginning, but Duge Wuhou knew, so he became a peerless Homo sapiens through the ages - this is the power of logical reasoning. ”

Zhuge Wuhou, that's Zhuge Liang. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms already had a prototype in the Song Dynasty, and the Zhengshuo concept should be implemented for the Song court, so Liu Bei became the object of praise and determined the basic structure of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the countryside, Zhuge Liang's story is not well known, but Zhuge Liang's wisdom readers know that even the hat he wears is also called "Wuhou Crown", which has become a popular fashion for hundreds of years.

Previously, Zhao Xing's mentorship had been shrouded in mystery. Because the Song Dynasty did not yet have that kind of "factory assembly line" school education, every scholar must have a teacher. Zhao Xing's omniscience made everyone wonder a lot, this time he said by chance, which made Cheng Xia feel that he knew something, his body trembled, his heart was ecstatic to learn the secret, and his eyes were eager.

Zhao Xing casually put the book aside, looked at Cheng Xia excitedly, and asked very calmly, "Do you want to learn?" If you want to learn, I will teach you the 'Principle of Ten Thousand Laws'...... Okay, let's go home first, and we'll go to Fucheng tomorrow. ”

On this day, Cheng Jiaao was destined to be unpeaceful, and the news brought back by the children made the adults excited and sleepless all night.

Zhuge Wuhou, that is a "smart egg" that has been praised through the ages, and he is still a prime minister, and he has been made a marquis! If you can learn the skills of the Hou Ye back then, why should the children worry about this life?

In the early morning, the parents rubbed their red eyes and quietly touched each other's heads. At this time, Zhao Xing had already taken the child on the road, and the result of the parents' secret discussion was that the patriarch reiterated the gag order again. Several of the children present that night were also called to repeatedly admonish them afterwards - even Cheng Azhu, who was busy alone in the West Chamber, was no exception.

The imperial examination system in the Song Dynasty was divided into three levels: state examination, provincial examination and palace examination. Shortly before Zhao Xing's examination, Song Renzong, according to the suggestions of Fan Zhongyan, Song Qi and others, ordered all prefectures and counties to set up schools, and stipulated that only those who had studied in the school for 300 days could participate in the examination. Later, this system was opposed, and Renzong had no choice but to abolish it and restore the old examination system.

Once every three years, the imperial court holds a "solution ceremony" in various states, and those who pass the examination are called "Gongshi" - because similar examinations in the Tang Dynasty are called "lifting people", so the people also call them "lifting people", and those who fail to pass the examination are called Xiucai. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial examination increased the Xiucai test, and the lifting of people and Xiucai became the official name.

The "solution-oriented" examination is held in the autumn, so it is called "Qiufu", and those who pass the examination participate in the provincial examination held in the Ministry of Rites in the spring of the following year, which is called "Chunfu", and those who pass the provincial examination can participate in the palace examination, and those who pass the examination are called "Jinshi".

Zhao Xing's itinerary was to take a river boat down the river, change to a medium-sized river boat in Huangzhou to go to Jiangzhou (Jiujiang), and then change to a large cargo ship to cross Pengli Lake (Poyang Lake).

In this era, the development of southern China was not perfect, and Huangzhou was a place for degraded officials, as was Jiangzhou. When the ship passed through Huangzhou, the officials on the river were not very conscientious - this is conceivable, because the promotion of the degraded officials has nothing to do with political performance, but only related to politics, so the energy of the degraded officials is not in the political performance, but in the camp.

Before the ship entered Huangzhou, it was subjected to an interrogation by the officials, and this discriminatory investigation made the people of Chengjiaao, who had never experienced the exploitation of the officials, angry—for example, the lack of goods on the ship also made them pay taxes, which was called "false drinking".

In addition, some small commodities were transported on the boat, and the officials on the river exaggerated the amount and demanded that the tax be paid according to the inflated amount, which was called "flower number"; Even if the ship is empty, it has to pay taxes, which is called "strength is better than money"; The commercial tax collected, which is responsible for cash, is originally worth ten yuan, and is only converted into two or three yuan, which is called "discounting".

The mountain people of Chengjiaao have never been oppressed by the officials, they feel that they are just passers-by, and they have to pay for their "passing by", how can there be such a reason in the world.

Among the students, Cheng Xun, the son of Cheng Lao's second son, was grumpy, and he yelled: "Dry waterlogging man (Song language, refers to people who do not do their job), the master's money ......"