Chapter 14: The Bull Strikes

Zhao Yingfu returned to the palace, opened the list of applicants who came to apply for the job, and looked carefully, and his brows were furrowed.

"I'm rubbing, others cross that is a little bit of gold, the artifact can't be used up, as soon as the spirit of the king is revealed, the big bulls from all sides will come to the court from all directions, why is it so difficult to get to the master? It seems that the only way to win over the bull is to use some unconventional means. Zhao Yingfu muttered depressedly.

"There are too many cattle in this Great Song Dynasty, which ones are you looking for? It's nerve-wracking! No matter what you want to get its name, let's go through it, cast a wide net, and focus on cultivating. Zhao Fuyi knocked on his brain and wrote down the names of the people he could think of and the approximate place of origin. There may be some people who have passed away or have not made a sound, and time has passed too long, and the major events in history can still be reached, but the details are not necessarily clear.

"Xiao Shunzi, come here...... Zhao Ying beckoned to Xiao Shunzi. Now, send someone to Prince Ben to arrest the people on the list, uh, no, please come back. Yes, please, remember. ”

"Gotta you! The small ones will do it. Xiao Shunzi put it away and ran out as fast as tomorrow.

"Xiao Linglong, come and wait for the prince to rest, this day, the prince is tired to death." Zhao Ying ordered Xiao Linglong to stay aside.

"Your Highness, you are so busy all day, the slaves and maids can't help you, the slaves and maids are really useless......" Xiao Linglong made a gesture to cry.

"Oh, yes, don't cry, you want to drown Prince Ben with tears!" Zhao Fufu exclaimed with an exaggerated expression.

"Your Highness, you are joking with slaves and maids again." Xiao Linglong burst into tears and laughed, amused by Zhao's funny benefits.

"Okay, okay, no kidding. You've been tired all day, so go down and rest, for the prince is going to bed. Zhao Yingying drove everyone away and slept under the covers.

After more than a month, Zhao Yingfu and the teachers of the college were busy with enrollment and course arrangement, and they were basically on the right track. There are relatively few students enrolled in the first year, after all, the new opening is not yet a literary master, and the attraction is not enough, especially for scholars who want to take the imperial examination. What I was able to come this time was basically some side houses that were not welcomed by big families and some poor scholars who had no hope of gaining fame and were forced by life.

In the end, according to statistics, most of the nearly 200 students recruited plan to work as assistants to other officials in the future. Of course, there are also some second ancestors who don't care about life and are purely here to complete the task.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the person you wanted, the little one found one for you, just waiting outside, do you want to see it?" Zhao Yingying, who came from Xiaoshunzi, asked in his ear.

"Well, so fast! Take Prince Ben to see it. Zhao Yingfu followed Xiao Shunzi to the side hall of hospitality, and he had to move into the East Palace when he was crowned prince, which was also a royal rule.

"Weichen gathers to celebrate the military festival and envoy Fan Zhongyan to participate in His Royal Highness the Prince." At this time, Fan Zhongyan, who had reached the age of 29, had an official position that was still very small, and he had to make a big gift when he saw the prince from the eighth grade.

Zhao Yingying looked at the young man in front of him, and his eyes began to glow green, Yayaya, the young master finally met a living one after so long.

Xiao Shunzi saw that his little master had fallen into the realm of the unity of heaven and man again, and he couldn't stand it anymore, so he touched Zhao Yingfu and reminded: "Your Highness, people are still waiting!" Can you stop drooling! ”

"Uh......, I'm really sorry, Prince Ben is so excited to see Fan Aiqing, please hurry up, let's go in and talk. Xiao Shunzi quickly look at the seat, Xiao Linglong is on the tea, and he wants the best tea. Zhao Yingying led Fan Zhongyan into the living room.

Speaking of this Fan Zhongyan, it has to be elaborated, he should be regarded as the top bull in the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Wuyang of the Northern Song Dynasty, is Fan Zhongyan and the Yang generals, which are also familiar in later generations.

Fan Zhongyan, whose name is Xiwen, once remarried with his mother and named Zhu Shuo. A native of Wuxian County, Suzhou, he was a politician and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was nicknamed "Wenzheng". Don't underestimate this nickname, "Wenzheng" represents the highest honor of Wencheng, and the emperors of the subsequent dynasties will never give the rest of the people lightly, and there are very few people who can get it.

When he was young, his family was poor, but he was very studious, and he was admitted to Xiucai at a young age, but he was late in the Jinshi examination. When he was a showman, he often took the world as his own responsibility, and was famous in the countryside for his courage to speak, and he was a famous angry youth in the Northern Song Dynasty. As a scholar, this product has written many times to criticize the prime minister of the dynasty, and he has been demoted three times, but he still does not change.

In history, he also came out of the Song Renzong period, that is, the dynasty after Zhao Yingying. He finally got involved in the governor's political affairs, which is equivalent to the deputy prime minister, and put forward 10 suggestions, such as tightening the official system, exhorting agriculture and mulberry education, rectifying military equipment, reducing forced labor, and implementing the legal system.

However, his proposal infringed on the interests of many people, was strongly opposed by conservatives, and Song Renzong did not give any help, so he was driven out of the central government and served as the Xuanfu envoy of the Fourth Route of Shaanxi. As a result, he died of illness on the way to Yingzhou.

Fan Zhongyanniu B is that he has strong ability, not only in literature, but also in government affairs and military affairs.

He is good at poetry and prose, and his style is fresh and bright. There is "Fan Wenzheng's Public Collection", leaving the spiritual wealth of "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", which can be described as a household name......

Fan Zhongyan studied hard since he was a child, lived a very simple life, only ate a bowl of gruel every day, divided into four portions after it was cold, mixed a few pickles and vinegar, ate two portions in the morning and evening, and continued to study after eating.

The reason why Zhao Yingfu cares so much about Fan Zhongyan is that he intends to regard him as his number one confidant. Fan Zhongyan is not only capable, but the most important thing is that he is a person who climbed up from the bottom of society, and it is rare to maintain the nature of angry youth from beginning to end, you must know that it is rare to be angry in later generations.

Historically, Fan Zhongyan was deeply loved by the people, and everywhere he went, he made outstanding political achievements. During the Song and Xia wars, Fan Zhongyan, who is already 52 years old, was appointed as the envoy of Shaanxi's pacification strategy and visited the front line to inspect in person. He gave strict orders, caressed soldiers, rewarded talents, prevented the invasion of Western Xia, and successfully resolved many border crises.

It was also his many years of career and military career that made Fan Zhongyan see many shortcomings in the political and military aspects of the Northern Song Dynasty, and if there was no reform, the country would face a catastrophe.

Later, he finally persuaded Song Renzong, and with his support, he became the governor of the government and began to preside over the reform affairs, which is the famous "Qingli New Deal". At the beginning, the effect of the New Deal was okay, and the Song Dynasty entered the most prosperous stage since the founding of the People's Republic of China. But in the end, he was crushed by the conservatives, and he died depressed.

During this period of the New Deal, Fan Zhongyan's most important move was to attach great importance to education and education. When he was not yet a jinshi, he presided over the Yingtianfu Mansion School, and he has always been tireless. He also contacted and sponsored many famous scholars, such as "Mr. Song Chusan" and Zhang Zai, who later achieved quite good results.

In order to train practical talents for the country, Fan Zhongyan also proposed that the content of education and imperial examinations should be shifted to the study of righteousness and reasoning, which emphasized the purpose of the scriptures, and the study of economics, which emphasized practical aspects. This proposal seems simple, but in the Song Dynasty, when Confucianism was still orthodox, he had some rhythm against the whole people, and it was unreasonable not to be killed. However, it was really done by him, and since then, the content of the examination has begun to focus on the theoretical thinking of students, and school education has reduced rote memorization, chapter and sentence memorization and word assignment knowledge that are detached from social reality, and the ability is really not covered.

Fan Zhongyan was not only a famous politician and commander of the Northern Song Dynasty, but also an outstanding writer and educator. His significant contributions in various fields laid the foundation for the prosperity and academic prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty; The idea of worrying first and then being happy and the discipline of people with lofty ideals advocated by him are the shining spiritual wealth in the history of Chinese civilization: Zhu Xi called him "the first-rate person in heaven and earth in history"!

is such a bull, Zhao Yingyi can't let go even if he is killed, otherwise he should find a piece of tofu and kill him, it will be too embarrassing for the majority of people to cross the face. Fan Zhongyan is destined to be the only person in this era who can barely keep up with Zhao Ying's rhythm.

Of course, Fan Zhongyan's ability at this time is not so strong, and his experience is not rich enough, no matter what, he is the most potential. He can have so much success in history, and Zhao believes that under his guidance, he will definitely be able to reach a higher level.

"Fan Aiqing, this prince will tell you clearly. I recruited you here today because this prince found that Aiqing's talent and character are outstanding, which is very much in line with me. This prince wants to nominate Aiqing to serve as the superintendent of my Great Song Dynasty Royal Academy, I don't know what Aiqing wants? Zhao Yingying stared at Fan Zhongyan with his representative big eyes, expressing his sincerity.

At this time, Fan Zhongyan, who was almost thirty, was excited when he heard this, thinking about how he was noticed by the prince because he was only a petty official from the eighth grade, and he had to vigorously promote himself, it was really green smoke on the ancestral grave. As a pioneer of this era, he obviously had an understanding of the newly emerged Great Song Dynasty Royal Academy.

Fan Zhongyan thought at first that this was the crown prince's idle egg pain, and he had nothing to do, and he was still lamenting that the Great Song Dynasty was going to live in a mixed house. Unexpectedly, he took a detailed look at the announcement released, and saw that Zhao Yingyi was actually rewarded with a thousand taels of silver because of the "Miscellaneous Talks on Farming" written by Huo Qisheng, and he stayed in the college as a teacher, and announced to the world, which is a typical daughter buying bones.

So Fan Zhongyan found someone to learn about Zhao Yingying's anecdote in detail. I was scared to see this, I didn't expect such a little kid to do so many things in a few years after he was born, he was quite creative, and he even had an appetite for himself, if he didn't have an official, he would have thrown it to the academy to join in the fun.

Seeing that Zhao Yingying invited him so sincerely, Fan Zhongyan said movingly: "Wechen thanks His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for his love, but Wechen feels that his qualifications don't seem to be enough, right?" Wechen was worried about affecting His Highness's plans. ”

"Don't worry about this Aiqing, your ability is fully believed by the prince, and you don't have to worry about other problems, the prince will solve them." Zhao Yingying comforted: "In the future, the academy will be handed over to Aiqing, and the current faculty of the academy is not enough, most of them are new disciples taught by this prince, and they are mainly responsible for teaching new learning." Therefore, you have to borrow the prestige of Aiqing, and find more people who you think are passable in terms of knowledge, ability, and character, and this prince will definitely not treat them badly. Education is the foundation of a country, please love Qing! After Zhao Yingfu finished speaking, he gave Fan Zhongyan a big bow.

"Your Highness's trust, the ministers are ashamed, and the ministers will live up to Your Highness!" Fan Zhongyan, who was in the prime of life, impassionedly expressed his loyalty to Zhao Yingli.