206. Mobilizing the Masses (A Big, Long Chapter)
After Wang Qilin came back from the meeting, he felt that the eyes of the black bean were wrong.
He asked, "What's the matter with you? What kind of eyes are these?"
Black Bean gave him a contemptuous squint: "Uncle, you're actually not powerful, not at all!"
Wang Qilin couldn't react a little: "What do you mean by this? Secretly drinking, drunk, itchy buttocks, and want to be beaten?"
Black Bean stood up and said loudly: "You are not invincible in the world at all!"
Wang Qilin asked, "You just want to be beaten, right?"
Black Bean shrunk his neck back and asked, "Then are you invincible in the world?"
Wang Qilin said: "I'm not. β
Black Bean was angry: "Then why are you beating me?"
Wang Qilin said: "Then can you beat me?"
Black Bean said, "I can't beat it." β
Wang Qilin asked coldly, "Then why are you messing with me?"
Black Bean blinked and stopped talking.
Wang Qilin sat beside him and asked, "Pig Gu Lidou, have you been idle and bored lately?"
Black Bean said, "Yes." β
He has been bored for a long time, and since he met his uncle, there are no children to play with.
Wang Qilin suggested: "In this way, I will send you to a fun place, where you can make friends, where you can learn the skills of eating in the future, where there is plenty of time every day, not only will you not be bored, but you will feel that there is not enough time!"
Black Bean nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay, are you talking about this being heavenly?
Wang Qilin smiled slightly: "No, I'm talking about official learning!"
In the New Han Dynasty, there were two types of places where learning was taught, one was official learning and the other was private school.
Most of the teachers in the official school are the talents sent by the imperial court, and their teaching is more serious and rigorous, because the children who are educated are their protΓ©gΓ©s, and they will have the opportunity to be officials in the future.
The education level of the private school is mixed, the excellent private school is a local famous literati who are invited at a high price, and the ordinary private school can find a literate person to teach the child to read, the latter is the enlightenment education, as long as the child can write the name and know the number, so as not to be arrested by the government in the future and will not sign and draw.
If there are conditions, they will be sent to official schools, but there is no school district in the New Han Dynasty, and the selection of students by official schools is to look at talent and recommenders.
Therefore, in this era, the class barriers are strict, and the children of scholars are born with the opportunity to read, and the children of rural people do not even have the opportunity to be recommended unless they have the money to make friends with scholars, so how can they study?
Wang Qilin is a powerful official in the county, so he naturally wants to send his younger generation to the official school, and the chief principal of the county official school is to teach Meng Zhongxian.
The relationship between them is average, Meng Zhongxian is a confidant of Li Ying's faction, but he wants to send his nephew to school, Meng Zhongxian never dares to refuse.
Power repression.
Knowing that her younger brother was going to send her son to school, Wang Qiaoniang was overjoyed, and she asked, "Xiao Qi, will this be a little early?"
Black Bean hurriedly shouted: "It's not early, I'm going to school, I'm going to school!"
There are many friends there, where you can learn the skills of eating well in the future, there is not boring, that is where the gods live!
Her son's thirsty attitude made Wang Qiaoniang's eyes wet, and she hugged her son and said, "Okay, good, Dou has grown up and is going to study." β
Black Bean: "Wait, aren't you going to school? Why do you still have to study?"
He suddenly panicked.
Wang Qiaoniang didn't take his words to heart, first changed him into a new coat, changed him into new shorts and shoes, washed his hair and face, and finally spat on the palm of his hand, braiding him like the tail of a calf that had been licked by an old cow.
She happened to make a new green shirt for Wang Qilin, so she let him wear it, and muttered: "Go to Confucius's place to be solemn, Xiao Qi, you go to wash your face again, now that the weather is hot, you see that your face is oily." β
Wang Qilin thought about it, took the green shirt and changed out of his official uniform.
He is the Great Seal of the Heavenly Eunuch, and this identity is very majestic to the outside world, but it is not a good thing for children.
If he wants Black Bean to make friends, then he can't reveal his identity.
Otherwise, either some parents want to befriend him and let their children deliberately get close to black beans, or some parents are afraid of their own identity and do not let their children get close to black beans.
In addition, children like to form gangs among themselves, and their identities are related to ghosts and gods, which will create a lot of gossip for children, and they are easy to exclude black beans because of this.
The uncle and nephew took on a new look, and then went to the study with a bag of pastries.
The lower study room is not so much an official school, but a kindergarten in the New Han Dynasty, where it bears the responsibility of enlightenment education, and only after learning seven or eight years old here will it be sent to the formal school, at this time it is officially counted as a child.
The lower study of the official family is in the west of the inner city, there is a school club, the learning atmosphere is strong, the people who live here are those who are learned or famous, ordinary people can't live in, how many people want to buy a house for the atmosphere here, but they can't buy it at all, and they can't have money.
At this time, although the business has developed vigorously, the scholars are arrogant and still look down on businessmen.
So after the Li family got rich, they sent Li Ying to study, and then became an official.
For ordinary people, being an official is always the best way out.
After the end of the meeting, the yamen invited all the officials to go to the Dingsheng Building to rub it, so that Wang Qilin came to the study with black beans in the afternoon, and it happened to be the time when parents sent students to school.
However, most of the children sent to study are older children, the youngest has to be five or six years old, and there are very few people like black beans who are more than three years old and less than four years old, and occasionally I see a silly cub who also drags his nose and dull eyes.
Wang Qilin always felt that Black Bean was a stupid child, and after seeing other people's three or four-year-old children today, he knew how clever Black Bean was.
Those children are simply, born with a dull energy, and some of that stupidity makes him mistakenly think that he was frightened by the ghost and lost his soul, and subconsciously wanted to shout to the child.
This is an occupational disease.
In the study, there is an old man holding a book and shaking his head.
Wang Qilin knocked on the door and said, "The old gentleman is polite, may I ask who is in charge of the school here? I want to send my child to school, what should I do?"
The old man looked at him from head to toe and said, "It's Dr. Meng who is in charge of the study, and you have to get his permission to send the child into the study." β
Wang Qilin asked, "Then how to get to Dr. Meng's place?"
The old man put down the scroll and asked, "I will ask you in the next life, do you have merit and fame?"
"There has never been fame. β
"Where did you go to school?"
"Haven't been on it. β
The old man shook his head and said, "Then I advise you to die of this heart, this child of your family can't enter the official school, you go to a private school for him to study." But he's still young, you don't have to worry, you can wait for ten or eight years before sending him to read and hyphenation. β
Wang Qilin smiled, this is to regard himself as a nouveau riche in the countryside, he said: "Thank you for the old man's suggestion, but I still want to meet Dr. Meng, oh, please accept this." β
Hades saw that he understood the truth of the imp's indiscretion, so he took out a silver baht from his bosom and quietly handed it to the old man.
The old man's face turned red, and he said: "Kong said that Chengren Meng said to take righteousness, and the sons have a saying, money is like dung, and benevolence and righteousness are worth a thousand gold." β
Wang Qilin asked: "But money is like dung, and that gold is also dung, right?
A middle-aged man dressed as a scholar entered the door with a book in his hand, and when he heard the words of the two, he laughed and said to Wang Qilin: "You young man is really interesting, but you are sophistry, this is bullying our porter uncle is not good at words." β
Wang Qilin clenched his fists and apologized.
The middle-aged man asked them what was going on, and after figuring it out, he took the silver baht and said, "Uncle, you haven't read well, Confucius said, rich and noble are what people want, and they don't get it by their way, and they don't get it anywhere; β
The porter shook his head and said: "Mr. Su is a learned person, I admire him, but Mr. Su, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, and this money is not the right way......
Mr. Su smiled again: "What is the right way? Confucius said, rich and can be sought, although the whip is a man, I will also do it, if you can't ask for it, follow my please." See, in order to gain wealth and wealth, the masters and sages were willing to do inferior errands that made way for people to be whipped. β
The porter was puzzled, but he didn't expect Kong Qiu to be such a master.
Mr. Su handed him the silver baht, and this time he took it and took Wang Qilin into the door.
Wang Qilin felt a headache, there wouldn't be such a person in this official school all day long, right?
He looked down at Black Bean, who was already dazed.
Dr. Meng was a thin old man, with gray hair and a short white beard, and his face was serious, and his eyes were like torches, and the people around him avoided him when they saw it.
The two sides happened to meet at the inner door of the school, and the porter saluted and said, "Hello Dr. Meng, there are two fathers and sons here who want to see you." β
Dr. Meng glanced at Wang Qilin with a sinking face, and also swept it from top to bottom, and then he said solemnly to the porter: "You said that there are two fathers and sons here, are they two fathers, two sons, or two fathers and sons?"
Wang Qilin felt that this person's brain was not very right.
The porter was obviously familiar with his style, and smiled embarrassedly: "It was a father who brought a son to meet you." β
Dr. Meng swept his hand and motioned for him to leave, and asked Wang Qilin, "Where is Mr. from?"
Wang Qilin said: "The ...... of Dawang Village, Archway Township"
"Can Lang Jun be famous?"
"Nope. β
"Where did the next generation go to school?"
Wang Qilin shook his head, he understood the purpose of the porter uncle's previous questions.
Seeing him shake his head, Dr. Meng smiled noncommittally and asked, "Then where do you live now?"
Wang Qilin said: "I live on Jixiang Street. β
Jixiang Street is the main street that runs through Jixiang County, and the post house and the Yamen, Dingsheng Building and Yicui Building are all on this street, which is also the rich street in the county.
Dr. Meng shook his head and smiled: "If my guess is right, you will have a clever brain and do a good business in the future, right?"
Wang Qilin smiled slightly, and said softly: "No, under Wang Qilin, he is an official rather than a businessman, and this official is to listen to the Great Seal of Jixiang County, the Heavenly Supervisor." β
I originally planned to let my children get along with the cubs here as ordinary people, but in exchange for interrogation and contempt, forget it, I don't pretend, I have a showdown, I am actually listening to the Great Seal of the Heavenly Prison!
He thought that if he showed his identity, the old master would definitely immediately bend down and bow and accept the disciple of Black Bean ecstatically.
This is the power of power.
But he guessed wrong!
After Wang Qilin reported his home, he was indeed stunned for a moment, but then he was furious, strode out and said sharply to the parents who came to send their children to school:
"I understand that you want to glorify your ancestors by studying, but this official school is not something that everyone can enter, let alone that you think you can come in casually if you have money. This is the place where Confucius and Mengzi preached and received karma to solve their doubts, and you should not humiliate it with money and authority!"
These words made Wang Qilin stunned, what is going on? Power also has a bad day?
He met an old master with an iron backbone who was not afraid of power?
If so, he is ready to pick up the black beans and run away honestly.
But soon he realized that something was wrong, many parents here were sending their children in, and after hearing Dr. Meng's words, they quickly echoed and accused him:
"Yes, this is a saint's disciple, and I want the smell of ink, not the smell of copper. β
"What Dr. Meng said is very true, now everyone wants their children to study, can anyone touch this sage book?"
"Such people should not be led into the official school in the future, they should hang a sign outside the door and let them stop outside the door!"
Criticized and accused, Wang Qilin quickly analyzed in his heart: these people don't know their identities, and there is still a distance between them and the old master when they talk to the old master just now.
And the old master's words are very guided, he guides everyone to regard themselves as a businessman, a nouveau riche businessman who wants to go through the back door and send his children to the official school!
It's roasting him on the fire!
Knowing this, Wang Qilin's face remained unchanged, he hugged the black bean and continued to analyze: he didn't offend the old master, the old master didn't know his identity just now, and he seemed to just want to reject himself, but he went crazy when he knew his identity.
And also agitated the masses against themselves!
Why?
The reason is self-evident: the old master deliberately embarrassed him!
But I didn't offend the other party.
So why did he insult himself for no reason?
The reason came out: someone arranged it all!
Dr. Meng is the confidant of Meng Zhongxian, the county's teaching, and Meng Zhongxian is Li Ying's confidant-
The person who arranged all this was Li Ying, and he released the information about his discord with Wang Qilin, so Dr. Meng would deliberately make trouble after knowing his identity in order to curry favor with Li Ying.
And the old man is cunning to mobilize the masses to criticize himself!
Wang Qilin stared at Dr. Meng with his spare eyes, and sure enough, he saw a smug smile on the old man's face.
After understanding what was going on, he immediately launched a counterattack, wasn't he just using the masses to fight?
This trick Lao Tzu has seen a lot on the earth in his dreams!
He immediately showed the Great Seal and shouted: "What do you mean by Mr. Meng and the people? This official listens to the Heavenly Prison Great Seal King Qilin, today he brings the younger generations of his family to study, whether it is successful or not, why do you insult me?"
When they heard this, the people who were denouncing him panicked, and someone shouted, "Lord Wang, I know that he has no son!"
"Black Bean, what do you call me?"
"Whatever my uncle says, it's what it is!"
Black Bean thinks he's a little clever ghost.
Wang Qilin patted the old master on the shoulder and said: "Dr. Meng, we have to talk about today's matter, and a few of you, I have memorized what you said just now, don't leave after school later, take the child to our post house to report the way, insult the court officials, do you know what kind of crime this is?!"
Speaking of which, he regretted that he didn't bring Xu Da with him, he lacked a compliment, and the lethality of these words was not very strong.
But it's enough to bluff people.
The faces of several parents changed, and the sun was blazing fiercely, but they felt cold and pale.
Dr. Meng was ready to fight, he smiled slightly and wanted to refute Wang Qilin, and continue to mobilize the masses to embarrass him.
But Wang Qilin usually sees a lot of scenes of Xu Da spraying people, and he also has experience in this area, and he knows the key point of rhythm: it is not whether you are reasonable or not, nor whether you tell the truth, but to have a loud voice and fast voice, so as to calm people.
So when he saw that the old master was about to speak, he hurriedly roared and said, "Mr. Meng is so unreasonable! I didn't reveal my identity just now, I just communicated with you as a peasant child, but you looked down on me." Why, because I'm a mud leg, because I'm a farmer, then I'm not qualified to send my children to study at the official school?"
"Confucius said that there is no class in education! Mencius said that Confucianism is the foundation of a country, and Lu Xun said -- forget this, let's not talk about it, in short, Mr. Meng is so majestic, what's wrong, I am a farmer, a businessman, or a craftsman, so I am not qualified to send my children to your disciples? Who gave you the authority?"
When the parents heard this, they couldn't help but nod.
Dr. Meng said in a panic: "Lord Wang, you are ......?"
"Don't call me Lord Wang! I'm the son of a peasant, I'm the son of the people of the whole county, what's the matter, can't a person like me send a child to study with you? Is it only a matter of Lord Wang? Why, knowing that I'm an adult now, are you willing to accept my child? Ahh
Wang Qilin didn't come down after occupying the moral high ground, and pointed at Dr. Meng for a while.
Eight meows came out and meowed, although I don't know what Dad is talking about, but it definitely makes sense.
It screamed for a while and then went back to drag the sleeping Jiuliu out, and called with Jiuliu to give him a strong momentum.
Dr. Meng was full of knowledge and reasoning, but he couldn't interject, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Wang Qilin sprayed him back.
Only then did he realize that he had made a big mistake: the other party was a martial arts practitioner, his dantian was full of energy, and the most important thing was that he was unreasonable! He wanted to use the scholar's argument to argue with him, but it was useless, and if people didn't fight with him, they would just scold him!
Vixen scolds the street like that!
Wang Qilin caught him and sprayed for a while, and after spraying, he went to the porter and said: "At first, I felt that you were a snob, uncle, but now I know that you are a good person, uncle, because you were afraid that I would be humiliated when I went in, so you wanted to stop me at first, right?"
The porter laughed with him.
Wang Qilin said: "Go and call Meng Zhongxian Meng Sect over, I have something to ask him." Oh, by the way, this Meng Jiao and Dr. Meng are both surnamed Meng, what is the relationship between them?"
The porter was embarrassed, he couldn't afford to offend anyone, so he simply sloppied his eyes: "My lord, wait a minute, I'll call Master Meng over immediately." β
The old man was stunned by the speed of the strong guy.
Next to the study is the county school Hangfan Academy, that is, the county-level official school, Meng Zhongxian's specific position in it is called literary sacrifice wine, I heard that Dr. Meng next door offended Wang Qilin, he squirted out the tea on the spot: "How could Wen Yuan offend this evil star?, I know, this old pedant!"
They are all confidants of Li Ying, the magistrate of the county, and when Li Ying invited them to a banquet, he scolded Wang Qilin and asked the big guy to find a way to rectify him, and it was best to take him away from Jixiang County.
But this matter is to say that he didn't think that Li Ying could take Wang Qilin away, so he didn't interfere in the pickling of the two.
He still remembers the shame of being stripped of his robe by Wang Qilin in Qingqiu Mansion, he was bent on revenge, but he didn't dare to do it at all.
Dou Dachun made it clear that he was Wang Qilin's little brother, he couldn't even provoke Dou Dachun, how could he provoke Wang Qilin?
Moreover, he also heard that Yu Shuai, who listened to the heavenly prison, was very optimistic about this evil star, and personally came to the county post office to reward him.
How dare he, an old teacher, provoke others?
However, Dr. Meng, an old pedant, had a rigid brain, and he took Li Ying's words as a guideline, and he really took the initiative to provoke Wang Qilin.
What is this called? This is called a vicious dog going out of the hut and the shell lang coming out of the hole, looking for death!
Meng Zhongxian trotted out all the way, but the Hanging Sail Academy was on a hill, and he was tired when he ran down the mountain.
When he reached the door of the lower study, he remembered his identity, so he changed to walk slowly, but he was still out of breath.
His official rank is not as high as Wang Qilin, and he has to take the initiative to salute when he meets.
Wang Qilin, who was guarding many people, gave him a face, politely replied, and then hooked his hand to Dr. Meng and said, "Come, tell Lord Meng what you just said about me again, and let him hear how you insulted the Son of Heaven Guards and the officials of the Heavenly Prison." Hmph, you are really bold, you are a scholar, you should know that insulting the Son of Heaven is insulting the Son of Heaven!"
After dealing with the yamen, he didn't learn anything else, he first learned to buckle his hat.
These words made Dr. Meng want to shed tears: "Lord Wang, you are deceiving people too much, Meng Jiaojiao, fellow villagers, please listen to me......"
"What a clever old pedant! You still don't know how to repent, what a vain reading the books of the sages! You look down on the peasants, the merchants, and the officials of the imperial court, do you think that the scholars are superior? Ha, fortunately, you are just an old pedant, if you are the top student in high school, then the people of the world will not even have the qualifications to breathe?"
Wang Qilin's words were full of righteous indignation, his voice was loud and fast, as if he was holding a rapid-fire cannon in his mouth, and he was stunned.
Meng Zhongxian wiped his sweat and said: "Lord Wang, the weather is too hot, the old body is too weak, I can't stand under the sun for too long, please have a lot of Haihan, let's go to the inner room to talk, okay?"
He whispered again, "I'll ask Dr. Meng to apologize to you!"
Wang Qilin said: "Apologize, I have no face and no skin, and I don't feel anything about being abused for a few words, I just think there is something wrong with Dr. Meng's morality." If such a virtuous person comes to educate a child, what good child can he educate?"
Meng Zhongxian's eyes froze, and he asked, "What does Lord Wang mean?"
Wang Qilin said: "Let's replace him first, I don't think the doctor's position is suitable for Mr. Meng, let's change someone." β
Dr. Meng lost his soul and shouted, "Lord Wang, you are ......"
"Do you want to apologize to me? You don't have to apologize! You didn't offend me, I mean what I said, for the sake of the many children in the study, for the sake of the children's morality. As the saying goes, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and a person of moral character like you is a doctor in the study, what good children can be educated? Fathers of children, do you think what the official's words are reasonable?" Wang Qilin asked around.
The parents hurriedly echoed it, and the few who were named by him echoed it especially hard:
"My child has been studying in this study for two years, and he is very knowledgeable, but he is much worse, alas, this must be the reason for Dr. Meng, he can no longer be a doctor. β
Confucius said that those who become gentlemen must have the three virtues of benevolence, wisdom and courage. Dr. Meng is not benevolent because he is not sympathetic to the difficulties of the people in studying; he is unwise because he cannot recognize Lord Wang; and he is not brave because he cannot admit his mistakes and repent after making mistakes, so he is not benevolent, unwise and brave, and he is not a gentleman! How can he be a doctor again?"
Meng Yasheng once said that the way of being a human being, in short, is just a benevolence. Dr. Meng is unkind, he is not a person, let alone a doctor!"
The crowd pointed fingers and talked more and more, and finally they all expelled him.
Dr. Meng's old face turned purple, and he looked at Meng Zhongxian with pleading eyes, Meng Zhongxian had the heart to talk to Wang Qilin, but Wang Qilin had already taken the black bean's hand and walked back.
It's a big deal to send him to a private school, he doesn't want to send his child to this kind of place to study, this is not educating children, this is destroying children!