Hong Yun'er felt in a trance when she woke up early in the morning, and occasionally felt bursts of heart palpitations, in short, she had a bad premonition. After breakfast, she went to the backyard to take a look at Xiao Youfu, the little doll is three years old, and the Chinese culture enlightenment teacher that the couple invited him is Huang Shisan, a Confucian from Jiangsu and Zhejiang University, and there are many other Western studies and other teachers, such as Hua Yufang, and Rong Hong, who has just returned to China.

Huang Shisan is a native of Dinghai, Zhejiang, the word Weixiang, the number of the residence, the twelfth year of Daoguang (1832) Gongsheng, the fourteenth year to the township test, due to the death of his mother's illness, so he no longer took the exam, lifelong study. This old gentleman is over 60 years old, and although he was born as a tribute student, he has learned to see things from the door, read the scriptures and history, and consider the past and the present. After the age of 30, he studied the "Analects", from the age of 40 to study the rules and regulations of the past dynasties, and after the age of 50, he specialized in the "Book of Shang", and in his twilight years, he believed that "etiquette can be pleasant, can be ladylike, and can be fate", and wrote "Fuli Said", "Chongli Said", "Covenant Rite Said" and other articles. He is the author of 110 volumes, including The Analects of the Later Case, The Poems of the Series, The Preface of the Poems, The Spring and Autumn Interpretation, The Chronicles of the Zhou Season, The Collection of the Classics, The Historical Sayings, The Book of Enlightenment, and The Lessons of the Huang School. After the British army invaded Dinghai in the 20th year of Daoguang, he moved to Huangjiaqiao, Haiyan Township, Zhenhai County, imitating Han Yu's "Five Proverbs" in the Tang Dynasty, satirizing the ambitions of foreign invaders.

After the Taiping army captured Dinghai, Huang Shisan was still at home, but after Hong Yuner heard about the deeds of this old gentleman, admired his name, and under the recommendation of Yu Songnian and others, Hong Yuner made a special trip to visit Huang Shisan, and discussed with him the changes in Confucianism before and after the Qing Dynasty. Huang Shisan was very interested in the idea of reviving ancient Han Confucianism advocated by Hong Yun'er. He also helped the edict of the Taiping Army to proofread or annotate some ancient books. At this age, Xiao Youfu will be enlightened, so Hong Yuner hired Huang Shisan as Xiao Youfu's enlightenment teacher of Chinese culture.

Originally, Huang Shisan was old. I just want to study at home, and in the end, Yu Songnian came to persuade him before he should go out of the mountain. Yu Songnian's persuasion is also very simple, everyone knows that the king of the west does not like the eldest son, so he sent him to study at the military academy early, and takes good care of the second son, the king of the west will definitely ascend the throne and become the emperor in the future, because everyone thinks that the second son of the king of the west will be the actual successor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future. Yu Songnian and other literati in Jiangsu and Zhejiang did business. They also had a lot of contact with foreigners, but they still believed in Han culture in their bones, and they didn't want the heir of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to be a person who overly admired Western learning. So Yu Songnian persuaded Huang Shisan that in order to continue the revival of Confucianism in the Han family in the future, he must teach the second son of Guoxue well.

Since the Qing Dynasty, most of the emperors who succeeded to the throne were not the eldest sons, but those who had the ability to be selected as the heirs. It was the folk scribes who gradually accepted this theory. Although the eldest son still has a certain advantage in inheritance in many cases, in the succession to the throne, the scribes still prefer the talented and virtuous to take over. Xiao Youhe was almost a hostage in his childhood, he had missed the age of enlightenment and school, and he was mostly influenced by the God Worship Sect when he was young, and the old gentlemen were not optimistic about the eldest son of the king of the West, so they were more inclined to cultivate a successor who echoed the image of Mingjun in their hearts, and this person was Xiao Youfu.

So Huang Shisan went out of the mountain and became Xiao Youfu's enlightenment teacher. And Hua Yufang was Xiao Youfu's enlightenment teacher of Western subjects such as arithmetic from the beginning. Although the old gentlemen despise Western disciplines from the bottom of their hearts, there are still a lot of practical learnings in Western studies. In addition, Hong Yun'er proposed that middle school is the body and Western learning is used, and that there will be more Western learning in what the second son has learned.

However, Hua Yufang also had to translate Western scientific works, conduct scientific research on her own, and also take care of some educational matters, so she gradually felt powerless in teaching the second son. So he recommended Rong Hong, a Chinese who returned from studying in the United States, to take over as the teacher of Western studies for the second son.

Yung Hong was one of several Chinese who went to the United States to study in 1846, first at the Monson Preparatory School in Massachusetts, and after graduating in 1850, he was admitted to Yale College, the first Chinese to study at Yale College. In 1852, Yung Hong became a naturalized American. After graduating magna laude from Yale University in 1854 with a B.A., Yung returned to China and served at the American Legation in Guangzhou and the High Court of Justice in Hong Kong. During his time in Hong Kong, he also met Hong Renji, who came to Shanghai last year. Rong Hong has always hated the brutality and corruption of the Qing government, and he was already curious and had a good impression of the Taiping Army, and after he saw the prosperous Shanghai under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Rong Hong did not plan to return to the United States.

Later, Rong Hong ran a silk tea business for Shanghai Baoshun Foreign Company, and was then recommended by Hua Yufang to serve as a Western teacher of the second son of the Western King, Rong Hong gladly accepted the invitation and came to Tianjing to serve as Xiao Youfu's Western teacher.

Hong Yun'er didn't disturb Huang Shisan's teaching, she just stood outside the window of Xiao Youfu's study and peeked a few times. When she saw that Xiao Youfu was punished by the yellow three-purpose ring ruler for reciting the wrong endorsement, Hong Yuner forcibly endured the pity in her heart, and turned around and left ruthlessly. Xiao Youfu is studying for ten hours a day and night, and the courses are very full, which is very boring for a three-year-old child, but fortunately, there are also those more interesting subjects and outdoor physical education classes in Western studies, otherwise Xiao Youfu will not be able to support it.

From the beginning, Hong Yuner doted on Xiao Youfu very much, but Xiao Yungui argued with her many times about this, and in the end Hong Yuner still obeyed Xiao Yungui's words, and she didn't want the child to become a second generation of inactive officials in the future, so she could only ruthlessly hand over the child to the rigorous Huang Shisan and the diligent and famous Rong Hong to teach. It's not that Hong Yun'er's own knowledge is not enough to teach children, but she can't bear to force children to learn at all, as long as Xiao Youfu is coquettish, Hong Yun'er is basically based on the child's temperament, so it's better to leave teaching to others.

After Hong Yun'er left the Xiwang Mansion, she came to the Imperial Palace, and her main trip today was to inspect the Imperial Palace. Today's edict is no longer a cultural extermination machine that collected all the books of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and served as the main institution for collecting ancient books and improving them. In addition, the Imperial Decree was also responsible for the proofreading, engraving, printing, and distribution of books.

At the same time, the Imperial Decree also had an important task, that is, to review the books issued by the private sector in various provinces, which was somewhat similar to the responsibilities of the General Administration of Publications in later generations. Therefore, those books that advocate the Manchu Qing Dynasty or criticize the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will naturally not be censored. The Xiwang couple still needed only one voice in the country, and other reactionary books naturally disappeared.

Last year, more than 500,000 books were issued, and of course these books were books that encouraged the revival of Confucianism in the Han family and exposed the evils of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. And these books are still on sale, and Hong Yuner even introduced marketing science in later generations. I found some great Confucians to write post-reading reviews for the booklet, and advertised in the newspaper that the book was about to be released. The price of the book is also within the affordable range of the average reader, although the price is not high. However, the edict was still able to recover the cost and make a profit, because according to the instructions of Xiao Yungui, a man who saw money, they sold the back cover of the page as an advertising space to some merchants as advertising pages.

Therefore, the publication of the book also made the edict a lot of money, and those who read the book scolded this kind of philistine practice at first. It is believed that this practice is to make the copper smell insult Sven. And there has been a heated debate in the newspapers. And businessmen also say that since there must be sponsorship on the side of the book, otherwise it is not conducive to the circulation of book culture if it is posted with money, you don't like to watch advertisements and skip it automatically, so why bother? The debate lasted for a long time, and the major newspapers published statements from both sides, so the sales of the newspapers gradually increased, and Hong Yuner sometimes suspected that Xiao Yungui did it on purpose. Deliberately finding some topics for the people to debate, on the one hand, the truth can be more and more clear in this kind of debate. On the other hand, the guy still intends to make more money for the newspaper.

Hong Yun'er doesn't often participate in the morning meeting of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Center, that's what Xiao Yungui should do, she, the Queen of the West, only shows up to participate when necessary, and she spends more of her energy on the battle to occupy the commanding heights of culture, which is an invisible war, but it is a very critical part.

After looking at the bookstore of the edict office, Hong Yuner felt that it was necessary to expand here, more and more rare ancient books need to be properly preserved, in addition to the ancient books, there are precious calligraphy and paintings of the past dynasties, these are all treasures, if they are lost because of improper preservation of man, then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a sinner through the ages. So Hong Yun'er asked Fu Shanxiang of the Imperial Decree to record the requirements for expansion on the spot, and prepared to organize the performance.

Fu Shanxiang has always been a person that Hong Yuner is optimistic about, she is also very knowledgeable, and knowledgeable, meticulous as dust, for the management of the edict is what is needed to be careful, whether it is to review the issuance of books or keep precious ancient books, you need to be careful. Fu Shanxiang is in charge of the edict to make Hong Yun'er very relieved, and Fu Shanxiang is also one of the few female ministers, she is different from Zhou Xiuying, Mu Yinghong, Han Baoying and other female generals in Shanghai Wutang, and also different from Su Sanniang, a female general who is in charge of northern Jiangsu, Fu Shanxiang is the first woman in heaven in civil and political affairs, and is a representative of emerging intellectual women.

Moreover, Xiao Yungui often goes in and out of the edict office, and Mingli says that it is to guide the work, Hong Yuner actually knows that this guy is here to see Fu Shanxiang. Fu Shanxiang is young and beautiful, talented and good-looking, and gentle and virtuous, Hong Yun'er knows that Xiao Yungui has always been eager for beautiful creatures, and this guy must have coveted Fu Shanxiang for a long time. But every time Hong Yun'er picked out and told Xiao Yungui to let him accept a few more princesses, but this guy didn't know what was wrong, and he always shirked it, which once made Hong Yun'er think that it was really better for a wife to be a concubine, a concubine than a concubine, and a concubine to steal, and a thief to steal?

In short, Xiao Yungui still kept a certain distance from Fu Shanxiang, and the same was true of the foxy children in Shanghai, which made Hong Yuner secretly angry.

After turning around, Hong Yun'er held a short meeting at the scene, and encouraged the officials of the edict to have a few words, preparing to have lunch with Fu Shanxiang and others, but at this time, the staff of the West Wangfu hurriedly came to report, saying that the West King had something important to let the West Queen return to the house. (To be continued......)