Chapter 457: The Princes
"Zi said, three hundred poems, one ......"
In the school, Huang Zongxi, dressed in Confucian clothes, was sitting on the main seat, and opposite him, the crown prince Su Weize was standing and reciting the text, looking at him shaking his head, like an old pedant.
Su Yan looked a little depressed outside, he didn't want his heir to be cultivated into a Confucian with a mouthful of people, he always had an idea, and after the prince's wedding, he would send him to Jiangning University for further study and learn some other knowledge.
As a traverser, Su Yan is not very in favor of getting married too early, the children of the royal family generally get married at the age of 14, and an old beloved family can have children at the age of 12, Su Yan is ready to raise the age of marriage to 18 years old, so it will not be too early, nor too late.
After getting married, the prince still needs to go to Jiangning University to study for four years, and he will not be able to graduate until he is twenty-two years old, and return to the court to contact government affairs according to the situation, so as to pave the way for his future accession to the throne.
Before going to university, in addition to teaching the Four Books and Five Classics, the main hall also has to learn mathematics and foreign languages, mathematics to the university is a very important subject, if you have zero foundation, it will be quite difficult, as for foreign languages - even if the Xia Dynasty dominates the East, it still needs to communicate with Western countries, after all, so much science knowledge is invented in the West, and you can't master those science knowledge as soon as possible without learning foreign languages.
Just when Su Yan was thinking, the prince in the school had stopped reciting, Huang Zongxi nodded with satisfaction, said "Tong", let the prince sit down, and then began to spot check the second prince.
The second prince, Su Chen'an, has been smart and clever since he was a child, although he has only been enlightened for a year, he has already been able to memorize many of the Analects, so Huang Zongxi also announced that he had passed the assessment after a few random checks.
Then, Huang Zongxi looked at the sky and announced a temporary rest, the two princes immediately looked happy after hearing this, their companions helped pack up their things on the side, and they themselves ran towards the outside of the school after bowing to Huang Zongxi.
Before he could run a few steps, the prince saw Su Yan standing outside, the joy on his face condensed, and he quickly retracted it, bowed to Su Yan in a proper manner, and said, "Daddy."
Su Chen'an, who ran out behind him, didn't react to what was happening, and bumped into the back of the saluting prince, he groaned, rubbed his forehead and walked over, shouting, "Big brother, why did you stop suddenly, it hurts me to death."
"How much does it hurt?"
A familiar voice came into Su Chen'an's ears, he rubbed his forehead for a while, and found that Su Yan didn't know when he came, he didn't care about the pain on his forehead, and hurriedly followed to salute, Su Yan smiled, wrapped his hands around, and took the two sons in the crook of his arm, and said, "How can there be so much etiquette between our father and son, let's go, follow me over there to sit for a meeting, I haven't chatted for a long time."
When Su Chenan heard this, he immediately let go of the restrictions, ran at the front with a howl, and ran to the stone table and stone bench in the small garden in one breath, puffed up his chest with some pride, and said, "Daddy, am I running fast?"
"Quick." Su Yan said with a smile.
"Well, none of my companions can outrun me!" The second prince pouted and said loudly.
Su Yan rubbed his head with a smile and sat on the somewhat cold stone bench, his two children sat on one side, although the prince was only 11 years old, he looked like a little adult, sitting upright like his teacher, and the second prince was lying on the table with his hands propped up, shaking his head, looking at his father, who was the king of a country.
Su Yan looked at the prince with a serious appearance, frowning slightly, but still said softly: "Eldest brother, this is not a court, you don't have to be so solemn."
"Daddy, big brother is like this every day, not pretending." Su Chenan said on the side.
The crown prince nodded and said, "Daddy, as a prince, the child should always maintain the royal majesty, and he has been used to it for so many years."
Su Yan slapped him on the back directly when he heard this, and scolded with a smile: "What royal majesty, your father and I are majestic when we should be majestic to the courtiers on weekdays, and never talk about those shelves in private, you have to learn this for me, as my son, or the current prince, who dares to say you?"
Although Su Yan's slap was not forceful, it was still
It was the prince who grinned his teeth, and while rubbing his back, he said, "Knowing Daddy, the child will definitely remember Daddy's teachings from now on."
Hearing his assurance, the Emperor snorted lightly, but did not continue to dwell on the issue, and asked the two of them, "I ask you, what do you all want to do?"
"The child just wants to learn how to govern the country, to be able to share his father's worries, and to become a qualified prince." The prince was the first to reply.
Su Yan slapped him on the back again, and said, "I want to hear the truth, how old are you thinking about this."
After another slap, the prince was almost crying, he endured the pain in his back, and said with a bitter face: "Back to Daddy, the child has nothing to do at present, if you want to do it the most, you still want to go out of the palace to walk."
"Oh?" Su Yan raised his eyebrows, reluctantly let him go, and looked at the second prince again, the latter watched his own brother being slapped twice, his face turned a little pale with fright, he opened his mouth, and said with some expectation: "Daddy, the child wants to ...... I also want to go out of the palace more often, especially to those places in Luzon Cochin."
"Why?" Su Yan asked him rhetorically.
Seeing his father's gentle attitude, Su Chen'an was obviously much bolder, and he replied, "Because the book says that those places were occupied by barbarians before, the child wants to go and see how it has become under the rule of his father, and the child is also very interested in the local customs."
Su Yan listened to his words, nodded, and with an approving look on his face, he then looked at the prince again and asked, "What about you?" Why do you want to go out of the palace to see more?"
"The child also wants to go to the people to walk more and get close to the people, and the child thinks that the monarch should be sympathetic to the people's suffering, understand the people's life, so that the people can have enough food and clothing, live and work in peace and contentment, in order to become a wise man, and the child wants to be such a wise man." The prince replied sincerely.
The prince's answer was honestly beyond Su Yan's expectations, he thought for a moment, and suddenly asked, "These thoughts were taught to you by Huang Zongxi, right?"
Huang Zongxi has always advocated people-oriented thinking and put the people first, and under his teaching, it is not surprising that the prince would give birth to such ideas.
The prince nodded, not denying it.
Seeing this, Su Yan smiled slightly, and said, "Close to the people, you think this is very good, but you are still too young, when you grow up, I will let you out of the palace and go outside to experience the life of the people."
The prince really needs to go deep into the people and feel the suffering of the people, just like that sentence, the high-ranking meat eaters will not know the suffering of the small people, and they will not pay attention to the people at the bottom like ants, only if they personally feel the suffering of the people, they will make changes for this.
Su Yan's words were expected by the two princes, and they also knew that they were not very old now, and their father would not let them out of the palace easily, so they did not show regret.
Afterwards, Su Yan said: "Study hard, starting tomorrow, I will invite a few teachers from Jiangning University to teach you the knowledge of mathematics and other subjects, the times have changed, you can't always learn the four books and five classics, which are useless."
"Daddy, why is it useless knowledge?" The second prince asked puzzledly, "Obviously, all the scholars in the world are studying."
"Because times are different." Su Yan patiently explained, "The future world is a world of scientific and technological theories, and if we want Daxia to continue to be strong, we must pay attention to the development of science, and we cannot only rely on the Four Books and Five Classics and Confucianism to govern the country."
After speaking, he looked at the crown prince and said solemnly, "Eldest brother, this is also what I want you to keep in mind."
"Daddy, the kid remembers." The prince bowed and said.
Su Yan nodded and said, "You guys go back to class."
The two immediately saluted, and walked in the direction of the school together, Su Yan's eyes followed their backs, and saw Huang Zongxi standing at the door at some point, he bowed deeply in the direction of Su Yan, and after getting up, he beckoned the two princes to go back to class.
Su Yan didn't leave immediately, he sat for a while before leaving the main hall with his attendants, and another urgent note sent back from Japan was placed on the imperial case in the imperial study, and Su Yan needed to deal with it quickly.
After reading the contents of the report, Su Yan thought it was a good idea, so he put it up for review and ordered someone to convene a meeting between the cabinet and the six ministries to discuss it.
So, the six chief officials who had just arrived at their respective yamen could only go to the palace after being summoned, and they soon converged, and Fu Dingquan still had the mind to joke with his friend Jie Chongxi:
"Now we are in the prime of life and can afford to walk back and forth like this, and when we are old for more than ten years, I am afraid we will not be able to bear to be carried by someone."
"I believe that Your Majesty will also prepare a sedan chair for us at that time." Jie Chongxi also replied jokingly.
Soon the attendees gathered again, and the emperor ordered the recital of the Joseon governor to be circulated to the ministers, so that they could all express their thoughts.
The ministers circulated it among themselves, and then there was a lot of discussion, and their opinions were all unanimous, and they all thought that Su Fu's proposal was worth implementing.
After some discussion, the imperial court finally approved Su Fu's recital, and the next order was to set up a political envoy on Kyushu Island, and each of them abolished the feudal domain, and Fukuoka was the residence of the three divisions.
Since the establishment of the political envoy in Kyushu Island, its original name Kyushu overlapped with Kyushu in China, so it could no longer be used, so the name used to be called by the Japanese was adopted and designated as the Chikushi Cloth Political Envoy.
The first Zhuzi Bu political envoy was sent from an official in the Beijing Division, who was Zhang Shizhen, the leader of the imperial examination in the second year of Wu'an, who was transferred to the household department as an official after a few years in the Hanlin Academy, and worshiped under Ma Guozhu, the secretary of the household department, so Ma Guozhu took this opportunity to push him out.
According to the inspection envoy, Chen Xiaolong, the tanhua of the imperial examination in the same period, commanded the envoy to serve temporarily as Ma Tengyun, the deputy general of Zhengdong, and in order to facilitate Su Fu's affairs, he also changed his position as governor of North Korea to the governor of Zhengdong.
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