He didn't want to tell his uncle that he didn't follow his uncle's proposal, so his work was messed up. Although the uncle will soon find out.

"Aren't you sleepy? If you are not sleepy, get up first, I brought fresh lotus seeds, and boiled lotus seed white fungus soup for you to replenish your body. Zhu Xiang said, "It's only been half a month, and there is less flesh on my face." ”

Zhu Xiang dug his nephew out of the pillow and pinched his nephew's cheek distressedly.

The meat is still very soft, but the baby fat has subsided a lot.

Ying Xiaozheng was pinched to slurred his words: "It's good if there is less meat." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Take a nap or drink lotus seed soup?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng said: "I can't sleep, I'm angry." ”

Zhu Xiang was curious: "What makes you so angry?" Meng Tian and Li Si's abilities are not bad, right? ”

Ying Xiaozheng snorted coldly: "It's far from it." ”

Zhu Xiang guessed something in his heart, and rubbed the little tugs on his nephew's head: "Rest first, what they haven't handled well, uncle will help you deal with it." ”

After speaking, Zhu Xiang hugged Ying Xiaozheng.

Ying Xiaozheng put his arms around Zhu Xiang's neck and whispered, "I can walk by myself." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Now let my uncle hug him a few more times, and when he grows up, his uncle won't be able to hold it." ”

Ying Xiaozheng was lying on Zhu Xiang's shoulder, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a little sleepy.

He yawned, put his face on Zhu Xiang's shoulder, and closed his eyes.

Zhu Xiang glanced at Ying Xiaozheng's tired face, smiled helplessly and sighed.

It seems that he shouldn't trust his nephew too much this time. I thought that Zheng'er did a good job in Xianyang and Shu County, but this time it should be about the same, so he left with confidence.

Zhu Xiang hugged Ying Xiaozheng and pretended to go out, and after Ying Xiaozheng breathed evenly, he took Ying Xiaozheng back to the small bed behind the screen, helped Ying Xiaozheng take off his shoes and clothes, and covered it with a thin quilt.

Ying Xiaozheng is still the same as before, sleeping like a well-fed little pig, when Zhu Xiang tossed him, he hummed a few times, his eyes were closed all the time, and he slept very soundly,

Zhu Xiang rubbed Ying Xiaozheng's face, returned to the outside of the screen, and gestured to Meng Tian and Li Si, who were holding their breath and concentrating, and asked them to hold the documents on the table and go to another room to deal with them.

Meng Tian and Li Si hurriedly followed Zhu Xiang's footsteps.

Zhu Xiang looked through the paperwork that Ying Xiaozheng had crumpled, and shook his head with a smile.

He suggested that Ying Xiaozheng teach the two of them numeric symbols and chart tools first, but Ying Xiaozheng was too anxious and hoped that the two of them would learn while working. As a result, half a month passed, and the two of them didn't get started at all, so he was in a hurry.

Ying Xiaozheng is like this, and professors often encounter it when they take students.

He is a professor who leads students, of course, not hand-in-hand teaching, basically the students lead them into the door and leave them to the seniors to work together.

The old students, who are already familiar with the experimental process, always think that these tools are very simple, and the new students can learn while working; The freshmen have black eyes, the bold will ask, and the timid will ponder by themselves, and the more they ponder, the more they can't keep up.

Meng Tian and Li Si obviously didn't dare to grasp Ying Xiaozheng and ask what they didn't understand, so they kept being confused.

Zhu Xiang regretted a little, shouldn't he have let Meng Tian and Li Si establish a different concept from Ying Xiaozheng and Junchen in his heart so early.

If he deliberately closes the relationship between Meng Tian, Li Si and Zheng'er, Zheng'er may be more tolerant of them for the sake of his own face.

But as soon as this idea came to him, he pressed it.

Zhu Xiang's mode of not interfering in Ying Xiaozheng and getting along with the newly acquired courtiers is that he knows that his stomach is full of inappropriateness, not to say that he deliberately teaches, that is, other people just look at their own behavior, and accidentally learn a little bit, which is a disaster.

He can maintain his current appearance because of the title of Daxian, the help of his friends, the friendship with Xia Tong since the end of his life, and the grace of raising Zheng'er.

If Meng Tian and Li Si want to be important ministers under Ying Xiaozheng, the sooner they understand the difference between monarchs and ministers, the better.

"How can Zheng'er be wrong" is not only a conniving remark when he jokes, but also a "fact".

Qin Wangzheng and Qin Shi Huang will not be wrong, and even if there is a mistake, it is his courtiers, not the king, who bear the responsibility for the mistake.

He once hoped that the children of Meng Tian and other friends could become friends with Ying Xiaozheng, just like Xia Tong and himself.

But over the years, Zhu Xiang has learned more and more about Ying Xiaozheng, and he knows that this is impossible.

It's like if Xia Tong met him after meeting Lü Buwei, he and Xia Tong would not become friends.

When they became friends, Xia Tong never thought that he would have a chance to become the king of Qin, so the two could fellowship on an equal footing.

Zhu Xiang put away the sorrow in his heart, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work." You've done a good job, Zheng'er is too demanding. But you still have to learn more to keep up with the government. I'll teach you before I leave. ”

Li Si and Meng Tian hurriedly thanked each other.

Zhu Xiang sighed: "I should have opened an arithmetic class in the Xianyang Academy, why did you both study in the Xianyang Academy, but you still don't know anything about it?" ”

Li Si and Meng Tian looked at each other.

Did the Xianyang Academy teach these symbols?

Zhu Xiang didn't interfere too much in the affairs of the Xianyang Academy. Xianyang Academy Palace brings together talents from all over the world and is a very sensitive place.

He was already too powerful, and he was a relative. Xianyang Xuegong is closely related to him, and no matter how much he pays attention to it, it is easy to arouse the jealousy of King Qin.

Even if Qin Wangzhu is generous now, King Qin is the King of Qin, and Zhu Xiang must remember his duty.

Although Zhu Xiang and King Qin got along "crazy", they actually always paid attention to proportion. He stayed away from the center of power, and if he did not intervene, he would shake the real power of Qin's rule, and put himself in a weak position as much as possible - Zhu Xiang did not even have a doorman, no family members to act as a guard, and his honor and disgrace were tied to the king of Qin.

The power of any doctor in Xianyang City to protect himself is stronger than Zhu Xiang, let alone a feudal monarch with a fief.

Because Zhu Xiang was very "weak", he was able to take away King Qin's sheep without punishment after arguing with King Qin.

But thinking that he had formulated so many useful homework for the Xianyang Academy, maybe the Xianyang Academy had not implemented it, Zhu Xiang couldn't help but transgress a little.

"I will write a letter to the King of Qin, these things are very useful to officials, and they must be learned." Zhu Xiang sighed, "You can't just learn laws and moral articles, if you don't know arithmetic, how can you manage general affairs?" You can't always hire a clerk to take care of your official duties, and the official will only stamp it. ”

This was the case with many feudal officials in later generations.

Because they were promoted by the imperial examination, they only studied the scriptures and meanings all their lives, and they didn't know anything about general affairs, they didn't even know arithmetic, and they couldn't understand the account books.

So when they were magistrates, they hired many scribes. And the real power of the local government is in the hands of these clerks. Most of the scribes are from local tyrants, so it is equivalent to these local tyrants holding the real power of the local government and becoming the actual rulers of the local government.

The strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake, and this is the case.

This is not the case in the Qin State now.

Because the laws of the Qin State are very detailed, the duties of the officials are very many, and they must do every trivial matter by themselves, and almost every official who does not make mistakes in the evaluation is a capable official who is proficient in general affairs.

It is also because the officials of the Qin State are too capable of doing business, so after the Qin State unifies the world, it will not be able to recruit so many capable officials, so that the grassroots are almost out of control.

Zhu Xiang proposed the construction of the Xianyang School Palace, originally to make up for this future deficiency as soon as possible. But if the Xianyang Academy only cultivates "high-level talents", then this proposal will not achieve the effect that Zhu Xiang wants.

Zhu Xiang sighed.

He interfered in the affairs of the Xianyang School Palace, and I don't know if Xunzi will be angry again. Xunzi shouldn't be, but now so many "professors" in Xianyang Academy may question it.

If he didn't question it, the course he set, Li Si and Meng Tian wouldn't be ignorant.

Zhu Xiang scratched his head in annoyance.

Obviously, he is in Xianyang, but he doesn't know about Xianyang School Palace. If you don't deliberately inquire, you are deaf and blind in this era without media.

I don't know about the Xianyang School Palace in Xianyang, and the news between various places is even less well-informed.

But even if Zhu Xiang knew about such drawbacks, he did not dare to propose that King Qin run a newspaper.

Now that the foolish people are the mainstream, he can ask for the opening of official schools on the grounds of cultivating officials, and he is already jumping on the side of the king's nerves. If it is a way to speak, it is estimated that Qin Wangzhu will draw his own two ring rulers.

In fact, Zhu Xiang had tried it, and Lin Zhen hurriedly told him to shut up.

Although the Zhou Dynasty inhabited the city, that is, the lower class scholars, were able to talk in taverns, the Zhou Dynasty also had a collection of folk speeches, that is, the predecessors of the family.

But with the gradual establishment of a centralized feudal system, such things will become less and less.

What's more, this is the Qin State. Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, those who dared to discuss the government and government would be punished with capital punishment.

The ideas of a hundred schools of thought also converge with the "foolish people", that is, to make the people simple and not to think too much. The unrestricted way of speaking among the common people is something that can only be done when the feudal system has gone downhill and the imperial system is gradually collapsing.

For example, what is needed today is unity, and unity requires unification of thinking, but it is necessary to curb speech.

This is why Qin Shi Huang burned books.

Not only Qin Shi Huang burned books, but most of the emperors of later generations would control the circulation of books in the name of repairing books. Qin Shi Huang just did it too roughly, and the copy he left in Xianyang Palace was burned by the reckless man Xiang Yu.

In most of the changes of dynasties, the new rulers were the first to protect the books of the previous dynasties. They all knew that the establishment of a new dynasty would require the crystallization of the knowledge of the previous generations.

Zhu Xiang shook his head, shook off his cranky thoughts, and let the tired Li Si and Meng Tian go home to rest and deal with these documents by themselves.

Chapter 128: Sweet and Sour Perch Flowers

The work that Ying Xiaozheng handed over to Li Si and Meng Tian was mostly mechanical statistics.

Zhu Xiang copied the numbers in the paperwork, filled in the form, and recalculated the accounts with an abacus. He wondered if he should get more printed prefabricated forms, maybe the efficiency would be much better.

Zhu Xiang's work speed is very fast. Meng Tian and Li Si sorted out the information for a few days, and Zhu Xiang had already done most of it when Ying Xiaozheng woke up.

Li Si and Meng Tian have sorted out the information almost completely, and the mistakes and omissions have been circled, which is also one of the reasons for Zhu Xiang's high work efficiency.

After Ying Xiaozheng got up, he freshened up under the service of the old servant, and the two small tugs on his head were still scattered, so he ran to find his uncle.

Seeing his uncle working, Ying Xiaozheng arched into his uncle's arms and climbed onto his uncle's knee to sit.

"Uncle, you are much better than them!" Ying Xiaozheng casually flipped through the paperwork handled by Zhu Xiang and muttered, "Uncle is really suitable to be Xiangguo." ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "I'm impatient to be that." Zheng'er, don't be too disappointed in Meng Tian and Li Si because of a lack of once. Nurture them well and give them the opportunity to grow. ”

Ying Xiaozheng was dissatisfied: "I am only nine years old and I am better than them, and they have more time to grow up than me!" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Compared with you, do you give others a way to live?" ”

Zhu Xiang half-jokingly rubbed Ying Xiaozheng's head: "Your uncle and aunt are rare talents in the world, you are our child, isn't it natural that you are better than others?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng pursed his face, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bend upward: "Even if my uncle and aunt are not virtuous, I am also very powerful." ”

Zhu Xiang nodded: "Of course, but with uncles and aunts like me and Xue, you must be more powerful." ”

The corners of Ying Xiaozheng's mouth were so bent that he couldn't suppress it: "Okay, barely." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "You play outside for a while, and I will soon finish processing these documents." ”

Ying Xiaozheng shook his head: "Let's do it together." ”

Zhu Xiang divided the documents into two stacks, one large and one small, and carried Ying Xiaozheng to the chair next to him, and the two worked together.

Coincidentally, when Zhu Xiang finished the work at hand, Ying Xiaozheng also happened to close the last paperwork. The two uncles and nephews have a tacit understanding.