"You're so daring."

"Weichen said that he leaked his mouth."

"You kid, I can also tell you the truth, it is rumored that Meng Chang died unclear, I am the most wronged, you respect Cao Bin, Wang Renzhen also admires Cao Bin, but no one is perfect, when Meng Chang went to Beijing, Cao Bin said that he wanted me to kill him to get rid of future troubles, I wrote a note to scold him and said that he had a small belly and chicken intestines!"

"Ahh

"Do you understand this time? Meng Chang died of illness and unaccustomed to water and soil, but the more I distinguished, the more people talked about it, and the more I thought that I had harmed him. If you harm him, why do you want to go to the capital? There are rumors in the capital, and I have heard about them, but so many people spread them, did I kill them one by one? In that case, I will still be the elder of your mouth? ”

"yes."

"So you kid thought I was doing the harm?"

"It's not."

"Isn't it? I can tolerate Wang Quanbin, why can't I tolerate Meng Chang? In the past, when I was in the barracks, I also liked to use my hands and feet, but since Zhang Qiong's death, I don't dare to use my feet. You say that I am the Emperor of the Elders, but do you know how difficult it is for Lu Dao to be an Elder? ”

"Yes, there have been dozens of Ming monarchs since the ages, but your majesty still don't do your feet, who can hold your majesty's fist?" Song Jiu said timidly.

"Tell me about Xu." But Zhao Kuangyin compared his big fist to himself, and he was very complacent.

Song Jiu still didn't believe it in his heart, was it true that Meng Chang died of illness? I'm afraid this is a real mystery. As to whether the Xu family and Zhao Kuangyin have a leg, Song Jiu also did not dare to confirm it, and said: "Your Majesty, the prince also has to teach." Great Confucian, the minister of the elders. But it's just teaching, and you can't get too close. Spring and autumn are in full bloom under His Majesty. If you get close as a courtier, you may cause trouble. Mrs. Xu is alone in Beijing, and it is understandable that she wants to climb to power and be noble, but she is the concubine of the former Shu lord, and it is not good if she gets too close to the prince, this is Weichen's opinion. That day, Wei Chen slightly persuaded him, but the persuasion was vague. ”

Zhao Kuangyin was silent, not knowing what Lu Dao was thinking.

The group continued to walk forward. Li Chongju asked: "Can that kind of train really be built?" ”

"Yes, but not only the skills of the train, but also the skills of the railway, it is not difficult to lay the tracks, only the amount of iron used in the tracks can bear it, but all the way through, there are many mountains and rivers, it is not a white jade bridge, and the carrying capacity is not large. It was an iron bridge that weighed 10,000 stones. There is also the seismic force of driving, this bridge uses a large amount of iron, and the technique is even more difficult. Then there is the big mountain, and the small hill can be built into a flint cave. It is unlikely that the mountain wants to build a flint cave, and it must be blown up alive to make a road. Even pulled with a figure-eight railway. The country does not have so much money, and the difficulty of its skills is unimaginable. Especially to Hebei. Unless it is a river going in the direction of Jingzhaofu, it is not very wide. If you build an iron bridge over the Yellow River......" Song Jiu shook his head. This bridge is not a white jade bridge.

"Isn't that a pipe dream?"

"How can it be a fantasy, if the amount of class iron keeps up. Reaching 100 million catties, all kinds of techniques have also kept up, the cost has fallen, and the country's income has increased, can it still be a utopia? Although the construction will cost a lot of money, if there are several railways in the country, troops and materials can reach all directions in a short time. How stable will the country become? Especially in the future, the army will be used in the north. ”

But Song Jiu was very pessimistic in his heart.

There are many unexpected factors in it, whether the first physicality can be carried forward, if it can't do Confucianism, it becomes a crooked way, maybe it spreads to the West, but it will cause disaster to come early.

The second is the external troubles of the Song Dynasty, if the Northwest Party is not solved, and the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are recovered, as long as Song Huizong is alive, the nomads can still be allowed to kill the Song Dynasty. Change will not come.

The third is the issue of grain production, and now the number of households in the entire Song Dynasty, including the Northern Han Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty, Wuyue, and the Southern Tang Dynasty, is only about 3 million, including the most densely populated Southern Tang Dynasty, and there are only 600,000 households, and after a hundred years, it will be more than 20 million households, an increase of seven or eight times. If in another 100 years, there is no problem with a threefold increase, it will be more than 60 million households. Once so many people appeared in the Song Dynasty, they didn't have to deal with foreign enemies, and they were in chaos. The introduction of cereals will not solve the problem.

But it's not hopeless, all this is exactly Song Jiu. After the actual school was opened, the biggest improvement was not the student, but Song Jiu, who was slowly adapting to the productivity and skills of this era, combined with the knowledge memorized in his previous life, and evolved many things step by step. And not the kind of evolution that takes a detour. It's just that there are too few helpers, there are helpers, as many as they want, but there is no helper who really works, including his twenty-one personal disciples.

The graduation exam is over.

This examination was much stricter, the two doctors opened the back door, but Song Jiu held the pass, and the students went out, mainly arithmetic and accounting, and a small amount of physical knowledge to improve their understanding. As for the scriptures and laws, they are not very important, and Song Jiu doesn't care about the two doctors opening the back door.

However, Song Jiuyi guarded, many students did not qualify, there were forty students in the second grade, and twelve of them were unqualified, including three personal disciples, seven of whom had to repeat the grade. Of the 150 first-year students, 46 were unqualified, and 32 of them had to repeat a grade.

When the results were sent, there was a wail.

Song Jiu smiled, asked those students who had repeated grades to stand up, and said to them: "Repeating a grade is not a scandal, the longer you grind, the more skilled you will be in knowledge." Learn for another year, then level up, and you'll be better than everyone else. If the academy is built, there are still students in the fourth and fifth grades, no matter how good your qualifications are, there will be a repeat process in the middle of the way. Needless to say, the students who decided to stay, the students who want to get out of the rut, since they repeat the grade, they must stay, otherwise I will hurt you. Please believe my words, others will have all kinds of intentions, but I will not harm you. Since then, there is only a graduation certificate, not a certificate of completion. When the academy is built, the rules will be stricter. ”

There are eighteen students who are embarrassed, they want to go out because of their family background, but now they have repeated a grade, and their families are waiting for money. How is this good?

Song Jiu said again: "Don't be embarrassed by some of you, since you stay, there will be projects next year, you will help, and I will also give you a subsidy, a month of money, to supplement the family." Let's get through it first, just this year. But it wasn't for long. The college was established, and more students were recruited. That is really recruiting for the country, and when I subsidize students, I will become buying people's hearts from the people of the imperial court. It's been more than a year...... Let's cherish it, everyone. ”

stayed, so only sixty-nine students were released. None of the second-year students were released, and 33 of them were promoted to the third grade, and the remaining seven were merged into the second-year class of the third semester with the 50 students who were promoted. Thirty-two students continued to stay in the first-year class.

Then fifty people were selected for the imperial court, and the remaining nineteen students were released for the various big businessmen to divide.

Many of the stewards who came to ask for men were also wailing, where is there enough for nineteen? The outside almost broke his head, which had nothing to do with Song Jiu. Divide and merge. In the second year, Song Jiu was in a much better mood. In the end, these students basically have to get out of the rut. Moreover, because this group of students has handled many affairs and has been trained, it is also better than the quality of the first batch of students.

Song Jiu began to recruit the third batch of students, first assessing the second-grade students, layer by layer assessment, those who pass the three levels, come to the school on the eighth day of the winter month for the final examination, and finally decide to admit the number of second-year students. This is not a question of repeating or upgrading in the schoolhouse, but for the entire capital. Even students from other states and counties who studied on their own through Song Jiu's set of textbooks. The enrollment is very wide, but the results are not too optimistic.

The previous assessment was handed over to five gentlemen and a few students.

Song Jiu prepared to go to court.

This made Song Jiu very unaccustomed.

After watching the Kaiyuan ceremony three times, don't think that you have no enemies, and take this position at your age. There will still be a red-eyed minister, and if there is a mistake in the early court, just wait to be criticized. I even consulted some of the yameni. Finally figured it out. Generally, in the early dynasty, it was called to the Hajj, which was equivalent to about five o'clock in later generations. Because the timing is timed with a leaky pot. There will be some mistakes, as long as there is no difference of about ten minutes. will not be held responsible. That is, he may meet the emperor before five o'clock. If the emperor abides by the rules, he will come out to see his courtiers at five or three o'clock, around five and twelve minutes.

It takes more than ten minutes to wait in the middle, but you must arrive at the hospital at five o'clock, because there will be an error in the leaky pot, and the time will be earlier, otherwise it will be sad. Generally, the emperor will not be absent from the court, but if the emperor does not come out to see the ministers, the eunuchs come out to announce the decree, and the ministers are grateful, so they have to obediently retreat and go back to their respective ministries to be on duty. Or the emperor is not punctual, I heard that Zhao Kuangyin likes to do this, sometimes the ministers are waiting before dawn, two or three o'clock in the evening, three or four o'clock in the evening (one o'clock twenty-four minutes, one quarter 14.4 minutes) is a very normal thing.

Waiting for twelve minutes is very fast, if you wait for an hour, everyone can't complain, so everyone is in the courtyard to be leaked.

However, this is not a sad thing, if you get up early, or see the wrong time, you will not be released when you miss the hospital, so you stand outside and wait, especially in winter, the first official to stand in the cold wind, the black light blind, it will be very uncomfortable.

Song Jiu is not lazy, in this era, there are many things, sleep soundly at night, and slowly develop a good habit of getting up early and going to bed early. However, it was the fifth watch when he was in the hospital, where did Song Jiu get used to it.

On the night of the thirtieth, Song Jiuyang asked Yuping and Cui'er to take turns on duty, and they must wake themselves up at that time, otherwise they would sleep until five or two o'clock, and it would be over. Then put on the court clothes, wash and comb, and then go to the main hall to wait for the court staff.

I went to bed early, but I couldn't sleep, and it seemed that I didn't fall asleep until the third watch.

Just after falling asleep for a while, Yuping came over to wake him up, she got up with Cui'er, and also boiled the washing water, Song Jiu hurriedly washed his face and brushed his teeth, and asked sleepily, "What time is it?" ”

Jade Ping looked at the hourglass and said, "It's three o'clock on the fourth shift (four twelve). ”

There were still forty minutes left, Song Jiu didn't dare to delay, and rode Da Hei in the direction of the imperial city.

Not late, but also not early, most of the ministers came, and when they saw Song Jiu coming, they were silent one by one. Song Jiu arched: "I've seen all the seniors." ”

Someone smiled kindly, someone was silent, Chu Zhaofu pulled him over and said, "Song Jiu, here is the official of the Third Division." The old man will introduce you. ”

There are not many officials in the three divisions who can go to the early dynasty, more than forty people. There are no deputy envoys of the three divisions, that is, three envoys, including two judges of the three divisions, the chief and deputy envoys of the three ministries and judges, and some ministers and officials who supervise and audit accounts. There are also Confucian officials, case divisions, hook officials, hook officials, etc., but these officials can only participate in the Great Dynasty meeting, and are not eligible to participate in the living court. There were many more to come, all of them were low-level petty bureaucrats and petty officials of various departments. Whatever the pilgrimage is, it has nothing to do with them.

Song Jiu saluted one by one, and then said: "Seeing that you are young and respectful, and the junior official is not down-to-earth, Chu Si Envoy, either you impeach me after today and I can't make a difference, and ask Your Majesty to take away my official position, or degrade it, just like the martial seniors, it is okay to be a collusion official, and I am the best at checking the accounts." ”

Originally, many ministers were not very happy, but when they heard this, they finally laughed together. Liu Wensuo said angrily: "This is the court meeting, don't play monkey anywhere, otherwise the old man will definitely impeach you." ”

"Liu Zhongcheng, what I said is the truth, this can't be impeached, or you impeach me, let Your Majesty demote my official early."

"If you really let the old man impeach you, the old man will suggest that His Majesty demote you to a certain county with strict rules as the chief secretary, and let the magistrate hone your stubbornness."

"Lao Liu, don't scare him, he will get better slowly." Chu Zhaofu said.

Song Jiu is helpless, others can't do it, this Lao Liu will definitely be able to do it. So he stood there and pretended to be dumb.

Several ministers came in a hurry, and began to put the ministers into the waiting courtyard, fortunately, there was a charcoal fire inside, and there were more than a dozen coal stoves, some ministers came early, and they were old, and they were so cold outside that they began to stretch out their hands to warm their hands on the coal stoves.

It was not as serious as Liu Wensuo said, and after a while, he began to talk about the mountains. Song Jiu listened, listened for a while, and almost said in his heart, it turned out that they were all old horsesmen. (To be continued......)