"What's wrong?"

Chen Jian rarely saw Hongyu like this, and Hongyu sighed and said, "Those people who were sent to the village farm are talking about you, and they are not happy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info said that he was a sage elected by everyone or had learned it in the academy, and he could read and count, so why was he thrown into that kind of barren place? They didn't want to go, they wanted to stay in Yucheng, they just said that if they were taught to farm, Xia Cheng would be a person, so why should they go? ”

"And...... And they're not happy that you're letting them teach those people to read in their spare time. Jian, you're in too much of a hurry. I know what you want to do, but it's too rushed. The entire Xia Cheng recognized two hundred words, which was not a few, but not many, and there were not many who could count to thousands. Now that Xia Cheng is short of manpower, you should wait, and in ten years, more children will be able to read and count, and then divide them, so that it will be fine. Even if you can't wait ten years, you can always wait five years, right? You're going to have people objecting to that. ”

"Against?"

"Yes. Everyone wants to be in the city, they all want to be in the summer city, and everyone learns to be an official, not to go to a wild village. It's not just these people, when Yu Qian'er asks those people from Xia Cheng to come, the discussion will be louder. ”

"If you force them to teach for three years to three years, they will hate you and oppose you. And these people are all very powerful people in our Xia City, if they are all against you, you can't do it. Ten years from now, it will be different, if you learn well, you will become an official, and if you don't learn well, you will teach people to read, and there will be fewer people who oppose you. ”

"Now if there are four hundred literate ones, and you take two hundred, half of them will oppose you, and these four hundred will be of some great name in the city. Ten years from now, there will be 4,000 literate ones, and you will catch 200 of them, but it will only be one of the twenty against you. That's not the same. ”

Jian Chen smiled bitterly: "How can I not know? But I also want a group of literate people, at least those who can count the syncopated sounds, what can I do? Just like the Xia Cheng Academy, the teachers and commanders of the school are all out of production, and the public property is responsible for the various needs of those children, I can't afford to raise it, even if Xia Cheng doesn't raise a single soldier, I can't afford to raise it. ”

"Let the children here pay corn every month to study, have you ever thought that the adults here and in the village will accept it? Twelve-year-olds can already cut wheat and mud and work in the workshop, will adults let them learn those things? ”

"I can't wait ten years, in ten years, Xia Cheng will be the same as the rest of the cities, the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, Xia Cheng has accumulated enough wealth, who would want to let their children come to a wild land? Ten years later, the person who knows how to count and hyphenate has become an official in Xia City, enjoying power and goods, what will he want to go to the village and take root? In addition to Ji Song, who is regarded as a madman and a fool by the Chinese people, how many will there be? ”

"If you want to build a house, you either smash the old one or build it in a wild place where there is no house. Xia Cheng had only been out of the wilderness for a few years, and those people had not yet had the idea of being naturally superior, but they already had the fact that they were superior. ”

"It's all like that now, and what about ten years from now? This kind of thinking will be the same as in the rest of the towns, they will pass on what they have to their children instead of everyone, and the first person to die is me who wants to make more people literate. Su Yue once told me not to teach these things to ordinary people, because these things are the reason why they and their descendants are superior. ”

"Those who are literate first do not like those who are illiterate to be literate."

"If I really want to live like this for ten years, I can't fight them anymore, and I dare not and can't break with them. Even if I still have prestige, even if you and Yu Qian'er are still on my side, they will find fault with you and force me to choose. Are you chosen? Or do you want to pick them? ”

"To choose you is to oppose the relatives and nobles of the entire Xia City and those who hope for generations to come, the unique top-down strict planning and control system of Xia City will collapse, and Xia City will be finished."

"If I choose them, I will have to stab you two to death with a sword myself, and I will have to hang up your bodies as an example: whoever listens to me will end up like this."

"Nowadays, there is no second way, because you can't produce so much food and so much money, everything is a pipe dream. Even if the people at the bottom break with the top, it will only take another twenty years to become the top, and some of those people in the upper class will pretend to be on my side when I break with them, relying on what they have learned and the fame they have accumulated before to remain as the ruling class, and they will not dare to kill me because of their prestige, and they will survive until I die, how long can I live? ”

"If no one has me, he can naturally be superior to others. But what if people have me? If you don't do it, someone else will do it, and if I leave those hundreds of people, I can still find a few hundred more people to manage the city; When the hereditary descendants are cut off from the hope of those who are literate but whose parents are not noble, 800 out of 20,000 oppose it, and 19,200 support it, am I afraid of them? ”

"These 800 people were hung on the streets during the day, and thousands of people clapped their hands at night. Rightly or wrongly, at least make room for hope for the rest. If I come up with some questions, such as arithmetic, literacy, farming, military formations, workshops, and management, and if I learn well and answer a lot correctly, I can fill the vacancy of these 800 people. ”

"I can't afford and can't manage other places, but at least in Xia City, I want to cut off the idea that their descendants are born superior to others before they grow up, before they are just individuals and not generations of families."

He took Redfish's hand and said softly, "You have to stand with me until the end." ”

Hongyu felt the rough hands holding his own, wrapped warmly, felt the deep marks left by the spinning thread and the raised cocoon of the other party's sword, buried his head in his chest, and responded: "Okay." After all these years, you and I still don't have children, so when I die, you are the only one with me. Without children, I don't have to think about letting children inherit everything you have. I have nothing but you, and of course I will stand with you until the end. ”

"A long time ago, when I was a clan priest, I was curious about how you managed to make such a large clay pot without breaking it, and after arriving in Xia City, I saw a lot of things that I had never seen before. At that time, I thought, how much can I watch all this weird stuff? How much new will you bring to the table? ”

"When the mill was first built, Yu Qian'er said that you want to sleep with me, and I thought you had the best, and you should sleep sooner or later, because I can't give birth to children alone, and I must be slept with by a man before I can be born as a continuation after my death. If that's the case, why don't I sleep with you? At that time, I was like a she-wolf in a pack, staring only at the first wolf, because it was the strongest, and the children born must be very good. ”

"After sleeping for a long time, I realized that I was like a kite, tied to a string by you. I want to fly high, see everything I haven't seen before, see everything I haven't thought about or even dare not think, so I can only be tied to you, because if the line is broken, I will fall, and I can only see the dirt, but I'm tired of seeing the dirt. ”

Lying on his chest for a long time, Hongyu gently pushed Chen Jian away, sighed, smiled, and said as if he had put something down in his heart: "If you lose in the future, you can't fight them, and when you really want to be forced to kill me by them, remember to smile at me between the swords." Secretly, they can't see it. (To be continued.) )