In the end, it was Li Chengqian who took the lead in defeat because he didn't want to scare the first disciple of the technical school, and took back his stinky face.

Lu Heng clapped his hands and said:

"Okay, okay, let's get down to business, have you found any other good seedlings in that beggar alley besides Xiaoliu?"

"Actually, there should be the most ghosts and ghosts in the beggars......

"Why did you only bring back Xiaoliu alone?"

Cheng Chumo didn't answer, but Li Chengqian spoke.

Li Chengqian took a sip of tea, shook his head and sighed.

"I had already considered this when I was chatting with Xiaoliu at the time, but the situation really didn't allow it."

"There are too many kids in the alley."

"Just handing Xiao Liu a piece of cake, they stared at me as if they were going to tear me down and eat me, where do we dare to stay there for so long? I had to find a way to catch one and leave quickly. ”

"You don't see it......"

"The scene in Beggar's Alley is exactly the same as the broken poem you said earlier."

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!"

"I don't know how many children there have starved to death and froze to death, and I really doubt that even if we came to find someone to enter the palace as eunuchs, they would swarm and follow. It's horrible! ”

In these years, there are not many people who are willing to sell their children into the palace as eunuchs.

Zhenguan's rule, although it is not as good as the Kaiyuan Dynasty when the Tang Dynasty took off completely, but now after all, there are high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, and there is no foreign invasion, and the people have hope for life after all.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't survive, no one would be willing to castrate the child and send it to the palace.

But beggars, it's very different.

No one cares if they have offspring, only they themselves are struggling to survive, so survival is particularly cruel and cruel among young beggars.

Lu Heng was silent for a long time.

After a while, he sighed and said:

"I really hadn't thought about it before. I thought it would be no dangerous for you two big men to go to a place like Beggar's Alley, but now it seems that I was wrong. ”

"Next time, don't make a big fuss, but there's no need to pretend to be an ordinary person to go there, bring more hundred horsemen to protect you, and pick some good seedlings like Xiaoliu to come back."

"We are not open-minded, and we have to pick a child with a little talent. But how many can you choose, anyway, you can fit it in the school. ”

………………

Temple of Manna.

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian in front of him, although he still had doubts about many things, he didn't lose his temper this time, but asked calmly.

"Gao Ming, I heard that you recently went to the school on Daying Mountain in the western suburbs with Cheng Chumo's kid to look for children in various beggar alleys in Chang'an City, and then took them to the school on Daying Mountain in the western suburbs."

"I know about the Tech School, but why are I looking for these beggars? Can't you find a suitable child among ordinary people from good families? What's more, if you want the prince to find it yourself, there's no need for it. ”

Li Shimin will question this, and this is something that Li Chengqian has long expected.

Not because of anything else.

Just from the aspect of the selection of students, Lu Heng has already committed a big taboo!

Throughout the ages, there have been too many people who have raised dead soldiers, and the threshold for these people to choose dead soldiers is similar to the threshold for Lu Heng to pick students now.

Fatherless orphans, beggars, abandoned babies, in short, easy to control.

Lu Heng sent so many children in Qi'er Lane to the mountain, and the most important thing is that he only accepts this, which makes it difficult for the emperor not to be suspicious. Even if it is a colt, even if it has made many contributions to Datang, it is still doubtful.

After sorting out his thoughts, Li Chengqian arched his hand at his father.

"Father, there is a reason why Lu Heng chose these children."

"He said that if it is an ordinary child of a poor family, whose ancestors are from the scholar family, and now you have done good deeds and distributed books for free, the chances of them being able to enter the government by relying on the imperial examination have greatly increased, and it is naturally impossible for them to be willing to enter the technical school and settle for a job."

"As for ordinary children of good families...... One truth, there are four kinds of people in Shinong, industry and commerce, the first two will not be willing to become the latter two if they have a way to live. ”

"Looking at it this way, maybe the craftsman background is the best choice, but the knowledge taught in the technical school is very different from the traditional craftsman's science, and it is much more difficult to teach people whose ideas have been solidified than to write on white paper."

"Merchants, don't mention the sons, you also understand that few of the children of rich merchants can endure hardships, and ordinary merchants, when their children reach the age of being able to study, they have already begun to follow their elders to start business, and there is no need to go to the school to start from scratch."

"Erchen didn't understand it before, but according to what he said, the most suitable people are indeed only those beggars."

After listening to Li Chengqian's discussion, His Majesty Li Er's frowning brows finally loosened a little.

It's not that he wants to be overwhelmed.

The lesson of Xuanwumen's past is in front of him, and this kind of thing appears, so he can't help but think about it a little more.

There was a moment of silence.

Li Shimin took a sip of tea and asked lightly:

"The master of the academy has been decided?"

"It is not only a teaching technique, but also a technique that only Lu Heng understands, so many students can't let him teach it all by himself."

It just so happened that Li Chengqian had also asked curiously about this matter before, so he was able to answer on the spot.

He laughed and said:

"Father, you don't have to worry about this!"

"Nowadays, there are about 100 suitable students from the beggar alley, both men and women, but at the moment there are more girls. Lu Heng had already begun to teach this knowledge when he was in Luoyang. ”

"At present, there are three people who have the ability to teach."

"Medicine King Sun Simiao, a female apprentice named Wu Zhao, and Yu'er!"

"Lu Heng and Old Man Sun teach male students, and Yu'er and the two of them can teach female students, basically there is no problem."

"Oh, as for why you want to accept female students, I'll wait for Lu Heng to explain to you by himself, although Erchen has heard it, he always feels that it is not very clear."

The son has already said it so well, and Li Shimin did not continue to hold on.

He nodded, and was about to let Li Chengqian go back to his own business.

But I heard Li Chengqian suddenly speak again:

"By the way, father, Lu Heng asked his son to bring you a message!"

"He wants you to register your name in the technical school and ask you what you would like to be, is it the honorary principal or the director of the teaching office?"

Li Shimin: ???

What's that???