Chapter 2 The Eunuch Reads

Li Gouwa's first hope of being a eunuch was finally realized, and he was elected to the inner study hall, where he could read openly, although he had the insight and knowledge of the 21st century, but in this era, his little insight and knowledge was obviously out of place, and he belonged to sub-literacy. Eunuchs also need to read, and there is still a huge difference between eunuchs who read and eunuchs who don't. In this era of the Ming Dynasty, there were still relatively few literate people, and the eunuchs who went out of the inner study hall were basically in charge, and the eunuchs who did not know how to read could only sell coolies and do dirty work.

Although he became a eunuch sadly, how could he be salted if he could live. Being a eunuch also has a pursuit, being a literate eunuch still has to have ideals, and being a eunuch who has left a name in history is also successful. In the same chase shop, Li Gouwa, who slept in it, slowly fell asleep in fantasy.

On the second day, under the arrangement of the steward and eunuch, they began to learn relevant etiquette and prepare for the start of school. There are 40 students enrolled in this batch of little eunuchs, but there are 8 new eunuchs, and the other little eunuchs are all selected from other places to study.

On the third day of entering the inner study hall, Li Gouwa was taken away and saw He Da Eunuch, the chief eunuch who bought him, and He Ding, the chief eunuch of ceremonies. The figure is slightly fat, the face is white, the temples are long and the hair is fluttering, a splendid python robe, and the feet are wearing Dengyun boots, although he has a kind face in the face of Li Gouwa, but the prestige of the high position has also made even the mayor of the town have not seen Li Gouwa face-to-face, and he has a lot of pressure on him, and under the guidance of the steward eunuch, he kowtowed to Eunuch He nine times.

"Get up, let our family see!" He Ding said in a unique voice of the eunuch.

Li Gouwa got up very quickly, stood aside in a proper manner, and let Eunuch He look at it.

"Since you have been sold into my He family, you are a member of my He family, and today I will give you the surname He, the big name 'He Fu', so that you can study in the inner study hall, and you will be rich and noble in the future!"

Li Gouwa, oh, now "He Fu", after coming to Daming, he finally has a legal name, and the depression in his heart can't be said, while complaining that this name is really earthy, he kowtows to thank him, and sighs that he hugged a thick thigh.

After being given the name "He Fu", Eunuch He arranged for other eunuchs to teach him to write his name with a brush a hundred times, and recited it a hundred times before he was taken away, and told him that he had been prepared for him, and the eunuch in charge told him to study hard and not to disappoint He Gonggong Yunyun after sending him back to the inner study hall.

The day before the start of school, Eunuch He sent his stewards to lead He Fu and many little eunuchs to greet Mr. Instructor. The presiding officer first apologized on behalf of the admiral and eunuch, saying that the admiral was busy with official business and could not accompany him personally, so he was represented below. I paid tribute to the new instructors Yuan Zonggao, and his attitude was very sincere. After the speech, the new instructor Yuan Zonggao and others stood facing south, the presiding eunuch stood to the east, and the little eunuchs stood to the north. So the banquet was opened, the stewards and eunuchs were hospitable, and the little eunuchs were busy. Since it was the first time to meet, the chairmen were far away, and there were not many Q&A greetings, just frequent gestures. But the host will do his best, and the cup will always be bright. Yuan Zonggao and the others didn't dare to accompany them, but they just responded to the wine ceremony. After the banquet was dismissed, the host led the little eunuchs to bid farewell.

The next day, He Fu and other 40 people lined up outside the Chengtian Gate to greet them early. After the new instructor Yuan Zonggao met in the west board room, changed his auspicious clothes, cleaned up, according to the custom, set the meal in the end of the door, after the meal, from the left by the door through the pole gate, turned to the East River, to the eunuch of the priest Bingbi seven or eight or nine people to send a post, the person used is a long post on red paper, on which is written "the first bow of the waiter in the study hall", each person also sent two square handkerchiefs for the meeting gift, covered with red paper, still write "the study hall waiter a certain ", but also to the admiral in the book hall eunuch to send a post of a paper, a square handkerchief. After sending the post, you have to go to the north of the inner study hall to kneel and worship the statue of the Holy Master Confucius. The instructor entered solemnly, led by the seniors to salute, the new person bowed four times, and then turned to the south of the inner study hall, still respectfully entered, but the south statue of the inner study hall only bowed and did not kneel, and then the old and new instructors stood in the east and west columns, standing in turn, the departing person stood in the east, and the new person stood in the west, saluting each other. After the worship, all the beings bow to the instructor at the foot of the hall, and the instructor stands obliquely downward. Then go to the classroom to sit and book, and then set up a banquet, and after the banquet, then carry the door out from the back.

He Fu, who had a great eunuch background, was selected as one of the six head of the class, specifically responsible for managing the same batch of new little eunuchs as him, including 8 people, and He Fu began his study career in the inner study hall.

In the first year of learning the basic courses, "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", "Prodigy Poems", "Thousand Family Poems", "Filial Piety", "Copying Copybooks", instructor Yuan Zonggao and other Hanlin level is very high, citing scriptures, talking about the sound and hearsay, so that He Fu listened to it as if he was fascinated, and could not extricate himself from learning, and the instructor Yuan Zonggao also liked this smart, humble, and studious little eunuch very much.

On the first and fifteenth days of each month and festivals, students can be suspended for school holidays, and the rest must be enrolled in school regardless of cold or summer. Study every day, "If you can't endorse the book, write it badly, or damage the copy, or foul it, the teacher will approve the number and pay the commander to punish it." The light ones are beaten by the seniors with a special wooden ruler, the heavy ones are punished by kneeling, and the heavier ones should stand upright and bend over facing the Confucius tablet, holding the feet with both hands at 180 degrees. The time to bend over at the penalty station is based on the burning of one pillar of incense, and there are also several pillars of incense. Due to the strict punishment, the punished little eunuchs often felt dizzy, vomited, and even fainted to the ground after burning less than half a pillar of incense.

Although the discipline is very strict, He Fu is sometimes beaten in the palm of his hand, and overall it is relatively small. Because of the soul wearing, the soul seems to have been baptized by time and space, and after the two are fused, He Fu's memory has been greatly increased, and he can remember it once in a thousand words, so that he will be beaten a lot.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the little eunuchs began to form gangs after getting acquainted with each other for a long time, among which the little eunuchs selected from the internal government were the most serious, and He Fu, who relied on as the background of the eunuch who had the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch, also became the target of the other five eunuchs in charge, and there was often gossip to pass on to him.

In the second year, Neishutang began to study the four books studied by the scholars at that time: "The University", "The Analects", "Mencius", and "The Mean". Then there is the practice of the word that is the "number book", after the four books began to the eunuch professional course content is the ideological education course learning, such as: the emperor's admonition to the eunuchs "internal order", the eunuch of the past dynasties to abide by the law of the deeds of the "Zhong Jian Lu", and in order to train the inner servants after the courtiers to reply to the chapter, the cabinet ministers' votes to be criticized for the red training of the "imitation".

At the end of the ninth year of Hongzhi, just after the Laba Festival, He Fu got a piece of news from his classmates that shocked him.

"The Demon Sect, the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, a month ago, several elders attacked the Wudang Sect at night and snatched the True Martial Sword and the Tai Chi Quan Sutra" like a comet hitting the earth, smashing into He Fu's heart.