Just when Jinling City was turned upside down by tens of thousands of officers and soldiers dispatched by Wu Jingxian, Xu Hongji and others, Zhu Daolin was not idle......

In order to eliminate the bad impact of the assassination incident as soon as possible and stabilize the morale of the army and the people, Zhu Dao stood on the high platform on the north side of the martial arts gym playground before dawn, and as usual, motionless overlooking the more than 400 disciples who were exercising in the morning below.

The only difference is that the person standing silently behind Zhu Daolin is not the inseparable Yang Dading, but the martial arts kendo instructor Yuhu Daoist, Yuhu has a middle-aged scribe wearing a simple robe and holding his head high next to Yuhu, this person is the newly appointed chief teacher of liberal arts Xi Ruan Dayue.

Ruan Dayue served as the chief teacher of liberal arts at the Ziyang Martial Arts Museum for only ten days, and what he saw and heard in the past ten days completely subverted Ruan Dayue's outlook on life, and the strong financial resources, strict discipline, generous treatment, diligent teachers and students, novel knowledge and completely different ideological and moral values deeply shocked Ruan Dayue and the sixteen cultural teachers who came with him.

In just ten days, Ruan Dayue and the sixteen scribes he brought with him experienced a process of ups and downs of ideological transformation, from initial curiosity to panic after contact, from panic to in-depth exploration after calming, from in-depth exploration to gradual understanding, and then to the ensuing painful reflection, the stimulation and shock far exceeded the sum of what they had endured in the past ten years.

During this period, Zhu Daolin communicated with them twice, and after the two conversations, Zhu Daolin made it clear that if anyone could not adapt to the new ideas and concepts pursued by the Ziyang Martial Arts Pavilion, they could leave at any time, not only would he not blame him, but he would also send Cheng Yi 10 taels of silver, which was equivalent to half a year's income of ordinary people.

But in the end, no one left, not to mention that the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall had perfect facilities and a generous salary of no less than 10 taels of silver per month, just a full set of eye-opening teaching materials and unheard of exquisite teaching utensils were enough to indulge Ruan Dayue and his literary friends.

And Zhu Daolin talked twice about subverting traditional education. In the end, it led to a drastic change in the ideology of 17 scribes including Ruan Dayue, who decided to stay and devote themselves to it to see if it was really as Zhu Daolin said, creating a new road of revitalization.

Today, the number of martial arts disciples has increased to 409, divided into eight classes according to age and acceptance. As a scum of Confucianism and a public enemy of the Donglin Party, Ruan Dayue served as the chief teacher of liberal arts, who was very dedicated to the children and made up for many teaching deficiencies.

At the end of the morning exercise, seeing that Zhu Daolin was about to leave, Ruan Dayue hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "My lord, I have something to ask for advice from my lord." ”

Zhu Daolin thought for a while: "Let's go to the big canteen for breakfast, let's talk while eating, and I will rush to the barracks to deal with military affairs later, and then I will go to the shipbuilding workshop and the iron workshop to attend the meeting." Time is tight. ”

Ruan Dayue gradually became familiar with Zhu Daolin's vigorous and resolute style, and immediately stopped and hurried to report: "Then don't delay the adult's time, there are two things to ask the adult, the first thing is that our liberal arts teaching has been separated from martial arts, and in accordance with the instructions of the adult, four teaching groups of literature, arithmetic, gewu, and history and geography have been established, and a five-person teaching and research group has been formed. He studied the use of two new textbooks, "Chemistry" and "Nature" and various precision teaching aids, and served as the team leader. ”

"Everyone heard that there is a library with thousands of books in the Ziyang Temple over there in Wuxue. Therefore, they have asked to make a case to the adults and set up a library for our liberal arts. ”

Zhu Daolin pointed to the two rows of horse pens and open space that had just been cleared on the east side of the playground: "Those piles of rebar and dozens of rebars were brought ......in to build a three-story library and renovate the dormitory on the east side."

"The next step will be to tear down the entire fence and build four buildings and a library that can easily accommodate 1,000 students, if Mr. is interested. You might as well go to Monsan's brother to see the construction drawings. ”

"My request was to finish it in four months, then move to the west and build two large buildings with 16 classrooms in reinforced concrete."

"I will bring back more than 10,000 books in four months, and during this time, I will be working with you to compile and print textbooks if needed. You can go to the backyard to find the printing workshop Manager Xie, I told him that no matter how busy you are, you must give priority to ensuring that the textbooks of Ziyang Martial Arts and Ziyang Academy are printed. ”

Ruan Dayue smiled with satisfaction: "There is another thing, I went to the printing workshop yesterday, and I was fascinated by the machines and metal movable type typesetting and printing inside, and stayed inside all day to ask Uncle Xie Jiu and the craftsmen for advice, and watched the five craftsmen who were proficient in the mechanism study how to imitate." ”

"Uncle Xie Jiu quietly told me that there are still 4 identical printing machines in the warehouse, which are specially reserved for printing newspapers, so I feel that the time has come to start a newspaper, and I only need to recruit four or five more like-minded people, and it will be officially published and distributed within a month."

Zhu Daolin thought about it for a long time, and finally made a decision: "In this way, I will give you a month to prepare, open a special account belonging to the newspaper for you in Bofu General Account, and deposit 10,000 taels of silver for the start-up fee, which is not enough to ask me again. ”

"I asked Uncle Xie Jiu to select a group of skilled craftsmen, along with two sets of printing machines in stock, to move to Zizhuyuan West Cross Courtyard, where the place is large enough, and the safety is also guaranteed, it is more convenient for the newspaper to be located there, and you are the general manager of the newspaper, and the financial rights, personnel rights, and editorial rights of the newspaper are in your hands."

"Remember, you must recruit more like-minded people, even if there are 100 people, it is not too much, as long as you can write your wishes, the monthly salary of ordinary clerks is tentatively 5 taels of silver, and another 2 taels of silver per month for carriage and horses, you can give me a plan on how to do it."

Ruan Dayue was overjoyed when he got what he wanted, and bent down deeply and made a big salute: "I will never live up to the trust of adults, and I will not give up!" ”

Zhu Daolin accepted it calmly: "Mr.'s two masterpieces have been handed over to Uncle Xie Jiu, and the initial number of printed copies is set at 20,000 copies, which will be distributed by Mo Linzhai, a subordinate of the Ying family. ”

"Mr. has time, you might as well have a good chat with Ying Sangongzi, he is now the strongest and most famous bookseller in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the high-ranking literary leaders of Nanjing Liubu and Guozijian will also pat his ass from now on, haha! It's okay, I'm leaving! ”

Ruan Dayue stared blankly at Zhu Daolin's distant back, and two lines of tears burst out of his eyes and wet his cheeks. (To be continued......)