Chapter 162: Grandson, Son
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"Wenwen, slow down! Watch out for falls! "Today's weather is good, after waking up from a nap, Geng Jimao took his little grandson Geng Wanchang to play in the garden. The children's names, surnames and generations are set by the ancestors, and only the last Chang character is Geng Jimao. The first male of the Geng family's 10,000-character generation is naturally doubly favored. Before you know it, the children have grown to three years old.
In the past two years, Geng Jimao's health has not been very good, and he can no longer ride a fierce horse and bend a bow and shoot arrows like before. Now, I can only walk slowly, and I can't do this action anymore. In the first two years, Geng Jimao rarely went out, and he cultivated in the palace. Fortunately, the palace is big enough, and I don't feel bored; What's more, since the birth of his little grandson, he also has something to do. His only joy now is to play with his little grandson every day.
Boys are naughty and love to run around. Since he was not yet old enough to go to school, Geng Jingzhong did not go to the house to ask for a gentleman. Geng Jingzhong means that now it is okay for children to play, learn to draw, play with mud or do some handicrafts. When the child is a year or two older, he will be sent to the Future School to study with other children.
The current future school is no longer the humble scale when it was first built, and the 150 future schools in Fujian have begun to implement nine-year compulsory education. Children begin school at the age of five and continue to learn literacy until they graduate at the age of fourteen. This plan has only been in place for less than two years, and the following plans need to be further refined. But in the initial children's education, the teachers in the school are already familiar with it.
For more than three years. The academy has also cultivated a number of useful talents, such as the Flame Intelligence Organization headed by Tian Xin, who was previously sent to the Wa Kingdom. It's the best of them. According to Geng Jingzhong's original intention, it is necessary to eliminate a large number of contents of the Four Books and Five Classics. Instead, students will mainly study mathematics, astronomy, geography and other Western studies; But this idea was opposed by the vast majority of people, and the gentlemen in the academy even demanded a collective resignation. There was no way, Geng Jingzhong had to change his original mind.
But after thinking about it, my thoughts are indeed a bit extreme. Although there is some dross in Chinese studies, it is more of the essence, and it is really a stupid way to discard it. After discussion, the school began to teach Chinese Studies, Mathematics and other subjects in parallel, Chinese Studies and Mathematics are compulsory subjects, and other astronomy, geography, medicine, foreign languages, etc. Choose one to further your studies.
The so-called ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, education is a long-term process, and it is unrealistic to want to improve it all at once, and you can only grope forward step by step. In the past two years, Geng Jingzhong has indeed asked the school to do this.
Children begin to enter school, and the learning tasks in the first two years are very simple, learn pinyin and recognize words, and then learn addition and subtraction within 100. It is the same as the first and second grade students in the later elementary schools. When Xiao Wenwen reached the age of five, Geng Jingzhong was also ready to send him to the school to receive education with other children. Presumably, in another two years, the system in the school will be more perfect.
"Giggles. Grandpa, you're too slow to catch me! Xiao Wenwen ran far ahead, turned around and smiled like a little hen and said to Geng Jimao.
"Little one. Grandpa is old, not as powerful as Xiao Wenwen! You run slowly. If you fall, grandpa won't help you! Geng Jimao heard the words of his little grandson. The folds on the smiling face were piled together.
Xiao Wenwen was even happier. "No, I can get up on my own if I fall! Daddy said that where you fall, you have to get up from there! ”
"Good! Good! Hahaha! Ahem, ahem! Geng Jimao laughed happily, and then coughed violently a few times. Your dad is right! Ahem, ahem! ”
"Grandpa, are you alright?" Xiao Wenwen saw Geng Jimao coughing and hurriedly ran back. The little hand grabbed the hem of Geng Jimao's clothes and asked with concern.
Geng Jimao only coughed a few times and stopped. "Grandpa is fine, Wenwen is good, just accompany grandpa to sit in the pavilion!"
The sun at four o'clock is no longer as warm as at noon, and the sun shines obliquely, and the grandparents and grandchildren only feel warm. Geng Jimao was lying on the rattan chair, and the little guy was lying next to his grandfather, his simple eyes wide open. "Grandpa, tell me a story! The last havoc in the Heavenly Palace is not over yet! The little guy was lying next to him and was not honest, shaking Geng Jimao's body as he spoke.
"Okay, okay, grandpa!" Geng Jimao moved to a more comfortable position, and began to talk to the little guy. Old and young, it is not wrong at all, a small child, an old child complements each other the most. Geng Jimao's voice was full of emotion, and the little guy listened attentively, and his expression changed from time to time with the storyline, sometimes happy and sometimes surprised.
Since the novel "Journey to the West" came out, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various editions have emerged in endlessly. Over the past hundred years, the image of Monkey King has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is the favorite of children. This mythical world is already magical and gorgeous, and the storyline is so fascinating, it is really suitable for all ages.
Geng Jingzhong had already returned to the palace, and knew that the grandfather and grandson were playing in the garden, so he came to see it alone. He had stopped at the end of the corridor to watch for more than ten minutes, waved his hand to stop the report of the people on the side, and he did not come forward to disturb, but listened attentively.
In this situation, if you choose the most appropriate word to describe it, there is only the joy of family. This kind of day is exactly what the old people dream of the most, no matter what it was like before, people in their twilight years, thinking about this one thing. After about half an hour, Geng Jimao finished the paragraph of the Pan Tao Club, as if to tease the little guy, he deliberately stopped the narration and said, "Continue tomorrow!" ”
"No, no, I still want to hear it!" The little guy is attracted to the storyline every time, which is also normal, and it was the same when Geng Jingzhong used to tell him the story himself.
Geng Jingzhong raised his steps and walked straight to the pavilion. "I'll tell you about it next time, and I'll give your grandfather a cup of tea!"
"Daddy!" The little guy shouted loudly with joy when he saw Geng Jingzhong. Then he turned over and rushed towards Geng Jingzhong.
Geng Jingzhong went up, picked up the little guy, and scratched his little nose. "Have you missed your dad for the past two months?"
"I thought about it, I wanted it very much! But my mother and grandmother didn't tell me where you went, they just said that you went to a far away place. Dad, can you take me with you next time you go out? The little guy asked with a pouting in Geng Jingzhong's arms.
"Play?" Geng Jingzhong and Geng Jimao glanced at each other, and then laughed at the same time. "Hahaha! Okay, next time Daddy goes out to play, he will definitely bring you little naughty with him! ”
"Come, come down and go to your mother to play with you first, Daddy has something to tell your grandfather!" Geng Jingzhong gently put the little guy down, pinched his little face and said.
The little guy reluctantly looked at Geng Jimao and Geng Jingzhong, and then nodded. "Got it! But Daddy, you're going to tell me a story at night! ”
"Good! No problem! ”
The servant left with the little one, and the figure quickly disappeared into the hallway. "The child is not filial, he can't always accompany his father, and he worries his father, please punish him!" Geng Jingzhong knelt on his knees and said to Geng Jimao.
"We don't need these politenesses. My old bones will be fine for a while, and the most important thing is for you to do your own thing. Get up, sit down and talk. Geng Jimao was still lying on the recliner and raised his arm to get Geng Jingzhong up.
"Yes!" Geng Jingzhong sat down on a chair beside him.
"Looking at your expression, it seems that the harvest of this expedition is not small. I'll hear it! When Geng Jimao saw him sit down, he asked, which was what he desperately wanted to know. Geng Jingzhong was out on the expedition, and the people in the palace were worried about his safety, and now that he is back, this heart has been put down, and as for the results of the battle, he must be explained to him in 1510.
"It's Father! As you might expect, the Wako were only superficially powerful, and the children completely destroyed the Shimazu family sailor and the Edo sailor, forcing the Tokugawa shogunate to sign a treaty. The treaty is the same as you saw it before, the only thing that has changed is that their compensation has been extended by two years. Geng Jingzhong talked about the harvest, and a smile quickly appeared on his face.
"Oh?! 10 million taels of gold they didn't make a counteroffer? Geng Jimao was taken aback, sat up straight from the recliner and asked.
Unscathed, the boy destroyed the Edo sailors and at least 30,000 elite samurai of the Japanese invaders, and the warships went up the river to bombard Edo Castle. The children did not let go, and they could not help but disagree. Geng Jingzhong said confidently.
"Really? Does the Mawei Army already have such combat power? Geng Jimao was really surprised, he had also seen the warriors of the Japanese Kingdom, they were indeed powerful, almost comparable to the elite white-armored soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It is unbelievable that the Mawei fleet was able to destroy a sailor intact and more than 30,000 Japanese warriors.
Geng Jingzhong saw that he was puzzled, so he explained out loud. "We didn't die against each other, but all of us under our guns. Thousands of artillery salvos are fired, and even the most elite samurai will be finished. ”
"Oh, I see!" At the end of last year, Geng Jimao also went to the Mawei Barracks, carefully inspected the armament in the army, and saw the power of artillery, so he was relieved. "Ten million taels of gold, that's ten thousand taels of silver! Back then, Li Zicheng copied the entire city of Beijing, but he only copied out 30 million taels, and you are 10,000 taels now, really"
"The advance delivery was five million taels of gold, which had already been shipped back with the ship. However, the child took the lead in destroying the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain of Wakoku, and also got back 50 million taels from the treasury of Kagoshima Castle and other castles, of which 15 million were distributed to all the soldiers of the army, and now there are 35 million taels left! (To be continued......)