Chapter Twenty-Four: The Rebellion Begins with the Doll
"In the first year of the ancestors, the first banknotes were made, based on silk, and each silver fifty taels was easy silk banknotes of one thousand taels, and all things were straight, and from the silk example. In October of that year, the Zhongtong Yuan Bao banknote was made......"
In the morning, the rotten wooden windows of the grass room were propped up, and the sunlight squeezed in happened to spread on the wooden table, and Li Shi spread out a book and read leisurely in the light.
Lai Yipin has been dead for seven or eight days, and there is an old Xiucai to support him, Li Zhushou slashed Zhong Shangshou, and I heard that he was almost dragged into the class room, which scared the old man Zhong so much that his liver and gallbladder were cracked, so he kept shrinking at home, and never came out of the door. Until now, he hasn't bothered to clean up Fengtian Village, let alone investigate the details and figure out who started it.
Lai Yipin's death hit Master Zhong very hard, originally he had two places to rely on, one was Lai Yipin, who was a Xu official, and Master Zhong relied on Lai Yipin to connect to the yamen and coerce the township, and the other was the general soldier Bai who had "special business" dealings with him, using this signboard fox and fake tiger power. With these two places to rely on, Master Zhong didn't bend over Li Zhushou in Shangzhi County. Now that Lai Yipin has been cleaned up, and Mr. Bai is still involved in this matter, Zhong Shangwei naturally feels that the building is about to collapse, it's not that the bad things between him and Mr. Bai have not been cleared up, Li Zhushou really has the intention of completely getting rid of this guy.
This is an excellent opportunity, usually the official master cleans up a certain squire, and the other squires will stretch out their hands, and if they are forced to be anxious, everyone will join forces to fight against the official master. But this time the surname is different, Zhong Shang's family is not strict, and the indulgence of Lai Yipin has poked out a big hole, so no squire has come out to speak for Zhong Shang.
It's a pity that things only fell on Lai Yipin after all, and Mr. Bai didn't think about destroying this dog who held him too many bad things, so there was only so much Li Zhushou could do.
It was just this shock, but it gave Fengtian Village a respite, and Li Shi was able to calm down and began to study Duan Hongshi's "Imperial Technique".
But after the formal apprenticeship, Lao Xiucai in Duan Hong's period neither gave him a special lecture nor a manuscript of the cheats, but threw him such a book: "Yuan History-Food and Goods"!
"You read it for two months, and after two months, see what you read, and then the old man decides how to teach you."
Holding this book and recalling Duan Hongshi's words, Li Xian felt in a trance that this old man was a Mongolian, and he was a sheep under his whip.
Yuan Shi Li Shi is really not familiar with it, he knows Zhang Hongfan, Shi Tianze, Kublai Khan and Totok or something, and there is a very powerful Wang Baobao...... And the so-called Da Yuan, in his opinion, is also a puppet dynasty, and he is also a Tartar, but he is much more stupid than the Manchu Tartar. Duan Hongshi asked him to read the history of the Yuan, and he was really a little resistant in his heart.
If Duan Hongshi gave him the entire Yuan History, maybe he would have lost it to the foot of the bed, but he just asked him to read "Food and Goods", Li Shi was very curious. He worships Lao Xiucai as a teacher, half of it is to take advantage of the favor behind this old man, and half of it is also to see what he can learn. And this imperial technique, in his understanding, probably, maybe, is mostly a power strategy of intrigue, how can it be involved with food and goods?
With questions, Li Shi casually flipped to the banknote law chapter, and what he saw was a pair of gold yuan coupon cups hundreds of years ago, so he was patient with his surname and insisted on reading it.
The book is going to be read, because there is the memory of "Li Si", and it is not too difficult to read this traditional Chinese character. But this right-to-left, top-to-bottom vertical layout is really a bit tricky, and what's even more unbearable is that the mud horse doesn't even have a punctuation mark, and it reads like a cow eating grass, and you have to chew back and forth! Li Xi fully experienced the feeling of the traveler who returned to ancient times and regarded punctuation as the top priority.
Barely read a few pages, estimated that there were less than a thousand words, Li Xi began to feel dizzy, at first that bit of leisurely heart dissipated, his chest was irritable and depressed, he slapped the table, and rebelled! The anti-that made this ancient book first!
slapped down, cheers rang out outside the house, of course, this was not a horn or voiceover, but Li Shi's "Fengtian Village Mengxue" was out of class, and dozens of suffocated children poured out to frolic.
Li Shi has not been casual enough to become a "graduate student", he got rid of Lai Yipin, but just moved away from a stone that blocked his way, and whether he just wanted to get rich or put the rebellion into action, he had to have talents under his hands. Thinking that he was only seventeen years old, there was time, and Li Xi set the first long-term strategy he had crossed over: the rebellion started from the baby.
Taking advantage of the high fame in the village, Li Xi proposed the idea of setting up a Mongolian school, allowing all boys from the age of six and under the age of 14 in the village to come to school, and also stated that he would not charge tuition, and he would take care of it single-handedly.
Where did Li Shi get the money?
He had renovated the iron-smelting furnace in the mine before, and in the past ten days, not only has the charcoal saved more than 30%, but also opened one or two more furnaces every day, and the benefits are obvious to all. Guan Fengsheng Tian Dayou proposed, the villagers in the mine nodded, and Li Shi ate five portions of furnace silver, which is equivalent to half of Guan Fengsheng's salary as a furnace head, sixty taels a year.
This bit of silver is naturally insignificant compared to the benefits brought by Li Shi to the mine, but everyone is poor, and the benefits brought by the transformation of the iron-smelting furnace can only be filled in the liabilities on the books, but Li Xi wants to share the silver that everyone gets, so he also feels that the sincerity of the villagers is already very sufficient.
Like other time-travelers, he directly instilled "scientific knowledge" and "revolutionary spirit" in the children, and cultivated them into the backbone of his career, and Li Xi did not enjoy that kind of blessing. Although he has established a reputation in the village now, he can't do anything too out of the ordinary because the villagers are still full of Kangxi's Shengming's surname.
Therefore, Li Xian's positioning of this Mengxue is a serious Mengxue. Starting from the "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names", and finally the "Thousand Character Text", this is the so-called "Three Hundred Thousand". At this time, Mengxue originally wanted to teach "Guwen Guan Zhi" and "Four Books", but Li Xi had no such plan, and there was only one purpose: to let children learn to read and write as soon as possible.
It's a good thing that Mongolian school is still free. There are twenty or thirty children of this age in the village, and the villagers are also having a headache with the problem of control, so they all nodded one after another, and agreed to let the children come to study every time from the time of day to the end of the day, that is, from nine o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon.
Five taels of silver a month can't do any formal Mongolian education, and Li Xi is just paying to rent a teaching house and invite Mr. The villagers supported it, and the classroom was immediately available, that is, the three rooms next to Li Shi's dilapidated grass house, which were originally his Li family's property, but they were sold to Lin Dashu three years ago for the funeral of Li's father. Seeing that Li Shi wanted to run a Mongolian school, Lin Dashu gave up the three rooms and did not collect rent, so Li Shi said that he only reluctantly agreed to receive one penny of silver per month.
There is a classroom, and a teacher is needed, since it is Mengxue, Li Shi did not think about spending all his energy on it, but asked Duan Hongshi to recommend a poor child to be a teacher, three taels of silver per month, and the food is managed by the villagers in turn......
Speaking of this show...... I'm a little speechless.
When Li Xi came out of the house, he saw a group of children of different ages, with tattered and dirty clothes, squeezed into the open space in front of the house and writhing around, which was very much like a rural primary school in later generations. A young man in his twenties, dressed in a white-washed Confucian shirt, snuggled up to the door, staring blankly at these mud monkey-like children, writhing with a face that didn't know whether it was bitterness or sweat.
Seeing that this teacher had already shown signs of internal injury, Li Xian felt that he could no longer stand idly by. The teaching content is not easy to change for the time being, but Li Xi wants to make a breakthrough in the form, no matter how little money there is, he has to listen to the sound of smashing in the water. And looking at Mr. like that, I know that this little change is difficult to accept.
"Fan Xiucai, haven't you gotten used to it?"
While walking, Li Xi picked up two little tricksters who were playing eagles and catching chickens around him, and threw them away, and the young man in the Confucian shirt sighed, and stretched out his hand from a distance of seven or eight meters, as if he wanted to catch the two seven or eight-year-old children, for fear that they would break, but unexpectedly, the two boys were like monkeys, rolling on the ground a few times, and then jumped up, haha Zhile.
"Poor children, their skin is rough and their flesh is tight, and if you beat them with a ring ruler, you have to add three points of strength to it."
Li Xian said casually, although the other party is a showman, but he is also a disciple of Duan Hongshi, and everyone is a senior brother, so there is no need to be too polite.
"Brother Li's words are wrong, quitting the ruler and flogging the meat, not for the sound of pain, but for the students to remember ......"
Fan Xiucai opened his mouth and began to run sour, Li Xian had to quickly wave his hand and shout to stop, frowning, but also more and more suspicious that this guy was really the prototype of the character in the book.
When I first met Fan Xiucai in Xiniudu, and when I heard him report to his home, I let Li Xian take a look, Fan Jin?
"In and out?"
"Yu Mengjin is a crowd, this Jin."
Li Xi was slightly annoyed and couldn't understand...... Whether it is Li Shi or Li Si, their knowledge is not deep enough to memorize Bangu's "Youtong Fu".
"The forbidden forbidden?"
It shouldn't be so famous, right, forbidden?
"The Jin of Zixia Zhijin."
I still don't understand, Li Xi wanted to pump people at that time, this guy deliberately made trouble......
"Uh...... That, no...... I don't know if there is a man, but there is no ...... Regardless of the Jin of Wei and Jin. ”
Seeing that the two big Yangchun white hairs were blown away by the breeze, Fan Xiucai had to stumble in the ground aggrievedly, which was exchanged for Li Xian's sudden and elongated Oh, he still has an impression of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring". This sound is both a blessing and a pity, not the Fan Jin of "Fan Jinzhongju" in "The History of Confucianism".
Fan Jin Fan Xiu is a native of Guangzhou, because of "something at home", he had to go to live with relatives in England and Germany, Duan Hongshi was his teacher of the school, Li Shi mentioned that he wanted to invite Mr. Mengxue, Duan Hongshi recommended him.
What is there at home that can make a Xiucai leave his hometown and flee from the prosperous city of Guangzhou to Yingde, a poor village in northern Guangdong, Li Xi didn't ask much. Looking at this Fan Xiucai's surname, he is also the master who is difficult to fart if he is pinched to death, and most of them have been oppressed by the wicked. Anyway, he is looking for a gentleman who teaches children to read and write, not a master who is a friend of the scene, not so picky, this Fan Jin is still a showman, better.
After figuring out the name, Li Xi took him back to Fengtian Village, but he didn't expect things to go so smoothly, Fan Jin was very grateful: "Brother Li, don't call me Xiucai, just call the words, I ...... the words."
Li Xian, who was walking in front, twisted his ankle and almost threw himself into the paddy field under the ridge.