A young man in coarse cloth clothes hurriedly knelt on the ground, and the emperor said gently, "Hurry up, what is your name, where are you from?" ”

"The small one is called Ding Dezhi, a native of Loudi, Hunan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" The student hurriedly replied.

"Then your fellow won't give you a seal?"

"Yes." Ding Dezhi said with a hint of sadness, "Not only that, but the original uncle was an official in Beijing, but now he has also severed his relationship with Xiao. ”

"What a fool!" Emperor Tongzhi shook his head, "Huang Eniang and I said, 'The general trend of the world, Haohao soup, if you go with it, you will prosper, and if you go against it, you will die.'" 'If you want the things of the previous dynasty to happen again, only if you want to be strong, what about your guarantee? ”

Ding Dezhi was still in a trance, the promotion officer hurriedly pushed him, Ding Dezhi took a thin piece of paper from his chest, the emperor asked the eunuch to take his fan, took a bag from the sleeve, took a small seal, and covered it on the back of the eunuch on the side, and looked at the "imperial reward" with satisfaction, Prince Gong didn't have time to speak, the emperor returned the guarantee with the imperial reward seal to Ding Dezhi, "I personally give you a guarantee, now you can rest assured!" ”

Ding Dezhi stayed on the ground, and then couldn't help crying quietly, the promotion officer hurriedly pulled him down, Emperor Tongzhi sat on the table, the emperor had a table for one person, and saw that there were more than ten vegetable bowls, chickens, ducks, meat and eggs were both, and they were hearty and tight, "But it was specially prepared?" ”

"That's how the Tongwen Pavilion eats," Wen Xiang said, and asked the promoter to come and tell him: "The students stationed in the museum, except for their clothes, are in charge of the rest, and the so-called kerosene candles, which are as small as paper fires, are all supplied by the museum." The diet is the best, six people a table, a total of four large pots, six bowls, a sea in summer, as well as lotus leaf porridge, fruit root and so on. In winter, there is no sea, but a hot pot is added. Needless to say, the dishes in the bowl are divided into three kinds of hot pot, let the students order, one is the assorted pot, the second is the white meat pot, the third is the mutton pot, all kinds of mutton slices, fish slices, liver slices, kidney slices and eggs, frozen tofu, etc., with all the ingredients, everything, in short, the same as Zhengyang Building, eat not enough to add more. That's not all, if you don't want to eat, you can still ask for dishes casually, not only do you not have to spend a penny on food, but you also have a reward. "What the promoter said was interesting, and the emperor listened to it interestingly, "Several foreign teachers told me that there is no school in the world that treats students better than Tongwenguan!" ”

"Very good," Emperor Tongzhi nodded, and saw that he was eating alone, it was really boring, let Wen Xiang pick a few students to eat together, Wen Xiang selected Ding Dezhi and other outstanding students, a few students from Guangzhou, sat down next to the emperor to dine, the emperor was very happy to eat while laughing, asked those students at home or in the south of the anecdotes, Beijing Tongwenguan Ding Dezhi and others were also restrained, but the students from Guangzhou had seen the world, very fearless, the foreigners in Guangzhou and Hong Kong people and things one by one, the emperor listened happily, It took lunch before driving back to the Old Summer Palace.

The next day, the Military Aircraft Department issued the emperor's decree, stipulating that the students of Tongwenkan could receive salaries. The annual salary is 36 taels of silver, 120 taels after the fourth grade, and 140 taels after the sixth grade. Each is tried according to the grade. At that time, the annual salary of the seventh-rank official was only 45 taels, and the fifth-rank official was only about 80 taels.

On the second day, it was decreed: "The children of the Eight Banners under the age of 20 who are not inferior will be selected to enter the Tongwen Museum for further study." ”

Then the emperor frequently appeared in the Tongwen Pavilion, and often chatted with the students, and often attended classes, the king of Chu had a thin waist, and the palace people starved to death. In this way, the Tongwen Pavilion is full of people, and it is no longer in the cold and cold predicament of the past.

Many years later, Ding Dezhi, the first batch of veteran students of the Tongwen Museum, recalled in his diary: "The museum was established, but it could not recruit students, because the atmosphere was not opened, no one was willing to enter, and everyone thought that if they learned foreign languages, they would be reduced to foreign ...... And there is another layer, after these students entered the Tongwen Hall, because he was a child, he did not have any contempt, but for the students' families, they looked down on them, saying that they were degenerate, and many people cut off their relatives and cut off contact with them. Even as for the daughter-in-law of the family, because her younger brother entered the Tongwen Pavilion, the family looked down on this daughter-in-law, and because of this, she was angry with her in-laws. The thinking of the society is so serious about this matter that everyone's children not only do not want to enter, but also dare not enter. However, all these circumstances changed in the first year of Tongzhi! …… My uncle, who was in Beijing as a seven-grade small Beijing official, knew that His Majesty the Emperor personally issued a letter of guarantee to me, and hurriedly came to the door to apologize, although the villagers were still indifferent to me at first, but after I graduated from the Tongwen Pavilion, I showed my strength in the local foreign affairs, and the officials became bigger and bigger, so I was re-accepted, probably not because of my reasons, but after more than ten years, the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the King of Yizheng insisted on running the Tongwen Museum, which changed the atmosphere of the whole society. (To be continued.) )