Fang Jishi is a historical illiterate, he doesn't know whether the later Confucius lived in Qufu City, or has he always lived in the old place in the countryside? At the request of Confucius, he still asked people to inquire around.

He didn't want to go to Lu Zhaogong, let alone Ji Pingzi. If you go to these two people, not to mention looking for a house, renting a house, or buying a house in Qufu City, they will definitely give you a house. Lu Zhaogong and Ji Pingzi and others are worried that they don't have a chance to slap you.

Nominally it was given to Confucius, but in fact! It was given for the sake of your foundation's face.

So! Fang Jishi would not go to Lu Zhaogong, Ji Pingzi and others, so as not to owe others a favor. No matter who you owe a favor, the two of them will do it against each other in the future, so that you will be caught in the middle and it will be difficult to be a person.

It doesn't matter who you help or who you don't help, whether you're neutral or you don't care, you're offended.

In Qufu City, he still has many personal relationships. When he was in the army, he trained so many special forces. Many of them were assigned to Qufu City as security guards or small leaders to guard the city. Let these people help, not only will people be happy, but it will not cost much. These people are the same, and they are willing to help with this.

These people all live in Qufu City and know the situation in Qufu City well. And also! They are more realistic because they understand the market.

Soon! Someone inquired about it, a Qi merchant who lived in Qufu City, Lu State, was going to move out of Qufu City and return to Qi State. For some reason, he was in a hurry, so! The house was sold cheaply. But! The courtyard of his house is large, and although it is cheap, not many people can afford it.

People who want to buy a house can't afford it, and rich people don't care about such old houses. In this way, the house has to be renovated after being bought, so! Rich people think that it is better to buy a piece of land and build a new house than to buy such a house.

At that time, rich people were very superstitious and did not want to live in a house where others had lived or in a room where others had slept in. They think: this will bring bad luck. In particular, what is unlucky in this house or room is even more psychologically shadowy.

Fang Jishi didn't come forward, and directly asked the person who inquired to come forward to talk to the other party. At last! The other party was in a hurry to move and leave, so he had to agree, as long as 100 catties of raw copper.

One hundred catties of raw copper was quite valuable at that time. Raw copper was already very common for those days. Raw copper is a strategic material and cannot be obtained by ordinary people.

But! This 100 catties of raw copper is still insignificant compared to his house. His house is worth far more than that.

His family's house has five frontage houses facing the street, with a courtyard at the back. At the back, there are two floors. In the past, during the ancestral period, their family opened a trading house. The houses in the back, all in the form of warehouses, have no compartments.

There is a cheap and not to take advantage of, bastard.

Fang Jishi went to see the house and was very satisfied. The next day, he also took Confucius to see it, and Confucius was also very satisfied. The large warehouse in the house is just right for running a school.

When I was in my hometown in the countryside, Confucius's school was run in his own courtyard. Students write on the ground, with branches, and when they are done, they can write again with the soles of their feet.

When I came to Qufu City to run a school, I should recruit all "college students". These students are generally literate and can write, so they don't need to be taught. Teaching these "college students" no longer wrote on the ground with branches, but with pen and ink and bamboo slips. The characters should be written on the bamboo slips, or burned on the bamboo slips and then described in ink.

"College students" learn different content and are more suitable for teaching indoors and quietly. Or! Open teaching, take students to the field, and carry out relevant training.

"A hundred pounds of raw copper?" When Confucius heard that he wanted 100 catties of raw copper, he was deterred on the spot.

He is a small official, and his salary is not much, so he can't get it at all. The tuition fee of the private school opened by the family has just been flat, and the people who pay the tuition have just subsidized those who have not paid the tuition fees, and there is no surplus at all.

"Huh!" Fang Jishi smiled: "This is not a problem! Deal! Bought! ”

According to the law of Lu at that time, the property rights transfer procedures were handled, and one hundred catties of raw copper were naturally issued by Lu Zhaogong, and they were taken out of the gift money placed by him from the cornerstone. The owner of the house became the cornerstone of the square, and later this house became the home of Confucius.

Later, Fang Jishi has been living in the countryside. His two concubines were unwilling to return to Qufu City to live, let alone to live in the Lu Palace.

And Confucius was the opposite! The family moved into Qufu City. The home in the countryside became a teaching point for him. During the outing, when he practiced archery, he took his students to his hometown in the countryside.

Later Confucius, since Confucius moved to Qufu City to run a school, no longer admits young children, only primary school students and literate college students. Fang Jishi's two concubines have been living in the countryside and continue to run kindergartens. Of course! They only recruit children from their own village, not from other places.

Education starts with the child, and early childhood education is also very important.

Another purpose of the two concubines to continue to run kindergartens is that they are unwilling to return to Qufu City to live and to live in the Lu Palace.

The life in the Lu Palace, although there is no worry about food and clothing, can be sent to the fence, there is no freedom is small, and there are always worries about life. Growing up in the Lu Palace since childhood, they would rather be poor in their hometown for the rest of their lives than live the kind of life that is envied by outsiders in the Lu Palace.

Running a kindergarten in the countryside is not only happy, but also free. And! It can also reduce the burden of life and education for others, and it can also mingle with the people.

After the house was bought, I replaced a few of the beams and pillars and renovated the roof. Paint the house inside and out, and it becomes a new house.

At that time, there was no will to protect the environment, and Confucius moved his home just after painting. The school also moved over.

Five façade rooms, four for rent. The middle room was converted into a gatehouse in the courtyard. In fact! There are only four façade rooms. In the past, when the Qi people lived, because it was their own home, there was a door at the back of the middle room that led directly to the backyard. On the side facing the main street, there is a side door, which is used for the entry and exit of horse-drawn carriages, convenient for loading and unloading goods, and the entry and exit of idle people. The important people all enter the backyard from this side of the store, and then go to the living room at the back.

Confucius was stationed as a tenant, he was not the owner of the house, the owner was the cornerstone of the square. After the owner Fang Cornerstone renovated the house, he came in and only did a "remodel", converting the warehouse into a "classroom". The yard was also renovated and turned into a "playground".

Elsewhere, some changes have been made.

For example! Upstairs, converted into student dormitories, paid dormitories. Wealthy students live in single rooms above, and students without money live in "coachman's room" and "lower room" for free.

The dormitory fee is also an income of Confucius, which collects students' tuition fees in disguise.

Confucius lived with Qi Guan, Kong Li, and his niece (Meng Pi's daughter) on the first floor in a sunny and bright place.

The reception of Confucius's private school is located in the renovated façade room in the middle. There is a large desk at the gate, with seats in front and back, a person in charge and a student who serves. The person in charge is responsible for answering the questions of the counselors, and the students are responsible for serving. Only when there is a problem that cannot be solved, do you ask Confucius.

Confucius's private school was thus set up in Qufu City.

(End of chapter)