Chapter 50: Knowledge Changes Destiny
[A person went to fortune telling, and after the fortune teller touched his bones and counted the eight characters, he said: "You fell in love at the age of twenty, got married at the age of twenty-five, gave birth to a child at the age of thirty, and were rich and peaceful in your life, a happy family, and worry-free in your old age. ”
This person was first shocked and then angry, and said, "I am thirty-five years old this Chinese New Year's Eve, a doctor, a bachelor, and I am not in love. ”
When the fortune teller heard this, he pondered for a while and said, "Young man, knowledge changes fate."
This is a very classic paragraph that Xu Yang has seen in later generations, although this paragraph is very funny, but it is undeniable that the last sentence is widely known in later generations: knowledge changes fate.
Deng Zu of New China once put forward the strategic principle of 'rejuvenating the country through science and education', and New China is taking off along this road; although China's education system still has problems of one kind or another, in the final analysis, China's rise in recent years is fundamentally inseparable from education, and knowledge has indeed changed the fate of generation after generation.
Xu Yang, who dreamed of returning to the Tang Dynasty, also firmly believes in this truth, and the country is strong when the youth is strong.
How strong is a teenager? Knowledge is power.
Therefore, Xu Yang plans to let all the school-age children of the 300 households in the village enter the school.
When Chen Yihu's children heard that they could read, they were all so excited that they couldn't sleep all night, but those farmers were all sad when they heard the news.
The original owner, Ouyang Yigong, dragged the corner of his clothes, and came to Xu Yang unspeakably, came up and made a big salute, and bowed his head.
"Lord Wanbless, the contemptible people represent 1,120 people up and down the village, and I implore the lord to take back his life." The old farmer had gray hair and looked quite pitiful.
Xu Yang was very curious: "What kind of fate can be recovered?" ”
"Build a academy for the village dolls to study."
Xu Yang was shocked, he thought that the people would be grateful to Dade, why are they still unwilling to let their children go to school now? You'll have to ask.
"Why can't we build a academy here for children to study? You are also a reader, you know the way of Confucius and Mencius, you are a teacher, everyone has a heart to learn, how can you object to children reading? Xu Yang asked curiously.
"The lord doesn't know, this peasant family, there is no need to go through the official career, An An Ben has to feed his field well is his duty, these dolls want to go to school, not only do they have to spend the family's money and food, but they can't help the family do some farm work on weekdays, and now the farmers in the village are secretly wiping their tears." The owner of the village also sighed, this year's drought, grain production is estimated to have fallen by more than 30%, it is difficult to endure tightly, and now the family has to provide the doll to study, and this day will not be able to live.
Xu Yang's face was incredible, he was really ignorant, alas, there was no way, who made them unable to understand the importance of knowledge.
In the field all day long to loosen the soil, there is a cow in good conditions at home can help several other families to plough the land, look at the tool of the plough, it is simply garbage, a plank is placed horizontally on the plow, this is the tool for ploughing, if you take out the plough is not an artifact.
The whole Zhuangzi is backward, poor, and ignorant, and he must change it.
"Did Ben Jue say that these children have to be paid for their studies?" Xu Yang said magnificently, this sentence is about righteousness and Haoran, looking like a master.
When Ouyang Yigong heard this, he glared, shouldn't he pay tuition for studying?
"The Book of Rites: Shaoyi" says: "It takes a wine jug and a bundle, and a dog gives or dedicates people." Students have to pay at least five pieces of jerky tied together for admission, and even Confucius is not exempt from vulgarity, doesn't this new lord know this truth?
"Benjue cares about the world, and the people in our Zhuangzi are even more like Benjue's people, now that the people are so poor, how can Benjue still exploit them?" Xu Yang resolutely said: "Let the children study, in order to let them grow up to become more useful people, education, this is a good thing in the future, Benjue not only does not collect money, but gives money, a child studying in Benjue's academy, the family will pay a consistent amount of money every month!" ”
Mao's Zhuangzi was boiling.
"you, how much do you say?"
"The master, a whole thousand Wen!"
"you, how much do you say?"
"A thousand texts, a thousand texts, I've said it five or six times, why don't you still ask."
"I don't believe it, how much more can you tell me?"
The farmers of the entire Maojiazhuang are now discussing this topic, and the new lord announced that every time the family goes to the Taoist Academy to study, the academy will give the family a consistent amount of money every other month, a consistent money, a whole thousand Wen!
After a month's military exercise after the autumn harvest every year, the inner government can only pay the fifty yuan, which is not comparable to the new lord's scattered money.
Now the entire Zhuangzi people are discussing the authenticity of this news, and in the end, it was the owner of the village, Ouyang Yigong, who came forward, and everyone really believed in the authenticity of this news.
This is not light for the head of the village Liu Lao Sile, his mother-in-law can give birth, first gave birth to two in the first three years, and then gave birth to a quadruplets at a time, which worries the whole family, six small family birds scream every day and say that they are hungry, Liu Lao Sijiao has a slight disability, it is not easy to feed a family, digging wild vegetables every day, fishing for fish in the sea, hoeing and ploughing, and relying on the relief of the elder brother and the third brother in the disaster year, which can barely pull these children up. The six children were miraculously all fed to the age of seven or eight, and they were worried about how to survive this year's drought, but they didn't expect the new lord to say that all the children would be sent to the academy to study this year.
This is sad for Liu Laosi, I can't live if I don't study, this is going to be for the children to study, and the family can't open the pot, the mother-in-law at home is crying and saying that she plans to hang herself, and the old Wang next door is here, saying what to give money for reading, and after asking for a long time, I learned that a child goes to the academy to study, and the academy will give the same money every month.
At that time, Liu Laosi was shocked, what is the concept of money, a bucket of rice is sold for five yuan, and it has always been a thousand copper coins, you can buy two hundred buckets of rice, two hundred buckets of rice, which in a disaster year, can not count the ten hands of people who can be saved.
"Lao Wang, don't lie to me."
"Fourth, you said that our two families have been friends for so many years, brother, can I lie to you, don't you believe yourself and ask Ouyang Zhuang Owner."
Liu Laosi's half-lame leg was no longer lame, and he flew to the village head of Ouyang Zhuang's house and knocked on the door to ask for a meeting.
"Well, that's right, when a child enters the academy to study, he will give the family a consistent amount of money in January, there is no upper limit, the more the merrier, the lord said so." Ouyang Yigong didn't even look at Liu Laosi who was kneeling below, just stared at the cup of tea cup in his hand, looking at the green tea in the tea cup and secretly fascinated; This is called the tea of Huangshan Maofeng, which is simply the best in the world, and the taste is too good.
When Liu Laosi returned home, he hugged his daughter-in-law for a while, developed, and the Liu family was developed.
One child is 1,000 Wen, and the six children of the Liu family are 6,000 Wen, 6,000 Wen a month! Liu Laosi can sleep at home all day.
Liu Laosi's mother-in-law also cried with joy, and she couldn't hang it, so she scooped out the last bowl of millet from the big vat at home, saying that she wanted to have a full meal to celebrate
Mao Zhuang, the owner's house.
"Sir, is it inappropriate for you to scatter your wealth like this?" Steward Liu stood respectfully next to Xu Yang, who was sitting there eating.
"What's wrong?" Xu Yang tore a chicken leg brought from Youzhou and gnawed it with relish. In the past two days in Maozhuang, the food was too bad, and I basically only drank water, and now I finally sent two cooks from the Youzhou Hotel, and I had to treat myself.
"There are a total of 410 school-age children in Maozhuang Village, and they have to give out 410 yuan every month, 400 yuan is not a small amount of money, and these farmers can get money every month without doing anything, isn't it too cheap for them?" Steward Liu said cautiously.
"Cheap them? Tell me how much your silk silk robe is worth? ”
"It's worth eighty times."
"I'll take your skin off and send eighty kids to school for a month!" Xu Yang said sharply: "In the future, don't look at these people in the tone of a superior person, they are my people, that is, Benjue's relatives, if I find that someone looks down on them, I don't mind letting him taste the feeling of being stripped naked!" ”
"No!" Steward Liu was sweating profusely and said tremblingly.