In addition to supporting local education, the most common behavior of the county magistrates in educating the people is to let the head of the village preach some stories about loyalty, righteousness and integrity, and strengthen the construction of the rule of law, etc.
But teaching arithmetic is something that has never happened before, but both Man Bao and Bai Shan think it is necessary.
Literacy is too difficult, and the vast majority of people in the world are illiterate, and to be able to read, you have to have books and have someone around you who can read.
But numeracy is different. Man Bao thinks that numeracy is the simplest mind-opening game in the world. It doesn't need any materials. You can count with your fingers and grab a handful of stones on the ground.
Know the number first, know the number, and then add and subtract by yourself, and the addition of the same number is multiplication, and the subtraction of the same number is division. There is no easier and cheaper way to open up wisdom than knowing numbers in this world.
And counting is also very important to life, as you can see from today's accounting, when she was very young, her mother and sister-in-law began to teach her to count her fingers and toes, and she could only speak at that time.
Of course, she couldn't remember these things clearly, they were just flashes in her mind, but Keke remembered them.
Man Bao felt that the people in her fief should also be enlightened, um, let's chat with the village chiefs later.
After walking through the road section where Guo County Magistrate and Xun County Magistrate cooperated, they came to the road section funded and built by Zhou Man, and then reached the fork in the road. Nodding in satisfaction, he continued to head towards the new town.
This is Mingda's Huangzhuang, she has a residence here.
In the past, this Huangzhuang did not specially prepare a courtyard for the master to live in. After all, this Huangzhuang was not the closest to the capital, nor was it the largest nearby.
But when the emperor wanted to build this row of houses, he allocated money to build a house for his daughter in Zhuangzi, specially for Mingda to live in when he came to inspect the property.
Otherwise, what should I do? The new city is still a little far away from the capital. If she is tired from inspecting the industry, where can she rest
So this time Mingda and the others went directly to Mingda's manor.
After unloading all the luggage and most of the people, they took some entourage and went to the new city.
Now there are more people in the new city than last time, the steward who is in charge of the shops on this street immediately rushed to pay his respects, and reported to Princess Mingda: "Now there are nine shops rented out, and six are under renovation. But for some reason, many people in the capital sent stewards over to reserve small shops early this morning, and some even asked the rented out shops to be vacated for them..."
Mingda asked curiously, "Which families are there?"
The steward said: "The county prince's mansion came to reserve two rooms, and Princess Danyang's mansion came to reserve one..."
They are all relatives of the royal family.
The steward quietly raised his eyes to look at Mingda and said: "The Zhao Guogong's mansion also came to book a room, but it was the Duke who reserved one, and the young man reserved one himself."
The steward paused and continued: "Young master said that his shop will be next to Mr. Zhou's shop."
Upon hearing this, Man Bao asked, "By the way, what does my shop sell?"
Everyone: ...
Your boss asks what everyone wants to sell
Man Bao looked innocent, "I originally wanted to sell ointments, ointments and creams, but Chang Yu and Li Jun made an agreement. Will Zhou Ji not open a shop in Yongzhou in the future?"
The steward smiled and said, "The servant asked Mrs. Tuesday, and the second lady said that the Zhou family only has some strengths in medicine and food, so this shop is going to be used for food, and now they are planning to open a restaurant."
But this time the restaurant is very high-end, unlike the one in the outer city, because there are a lot of houses rented to scholars nearby, so Zhou Lijun wanted to make it more elegant.
Man Bao is busy recently, and Zhou Lijun is also busy, so the two of them hardly meet each other, and naturally they haven't talked about it.
After all, this shop is full of treasures, and the rent, handover and decoration are all from Zhou Lijun.
Unlike Princess Changyu, she has no problem putting how much property she has in her own name, but Zhou Man obviously can't, so this shop is leased under Xiang Mingxue's name.
When he was punished back then, he could not be an official, and even his children would find it difficult to be an official again. After all, assassinating the royal family is a serious crime, so it is not bad for him not to be exiled.
At this point the store is half filled.
Zhou Lijun stepped forward to greet them with a smile.
Changyu and Zhou Lijun have met several times. They are about the same age and have similar temperaments, so they hit it off very well. Before Manbao could speak, Changyu invited her first, "Come on, let's go back to Huangzhuang to rest together."
So Zhou Lijun accompanied them from the end of the street to the street, and then from the street to the end of the street, and then went to Huangzhuang.
Only then did the steward whisper to Princess Mingda, "The county prince's mansion has taken a fancy to Mr. Zhou's current shop..."
Ming Da frowned and asked, "Which county king is it?"
The steward confessed his crime in advance, and then said: "It's the king of Hejian County, but the one who came here is a steward."
"Didn't you say that the shop has been rented out?"
"At that time, he was in a hurry, so he just circled the place on the blueprint to make it easy for him to leave. When the little one found out, he chased him out, and he had already returned."
Mingda glanced at him coldly and said, "Then you should come to the door and apologize in person."
The steward froze, immediately knelt down, lowered his head in fear and said: "Yes, the servant will come to the door in person tomorrow."
Ming Da looked at him condescendingly, and asked, "What else is there besides this?"
The steward paused and said: "Princess Danyang's mansion said that the princess and her son-in-law will come to Yongzhou in the near future, and they would like to borrow the princess's house to rest."
Princess Mingda's face turned pale, she nodded and said: "Yes."
The steward knelt on the ground and stared for a long time, but seeing that the princess didn't order, he kowtowed and quietly retreated.
Mingda lowered his eyes and thought for a while, but still couldn't help sighing, and said to his confidant maid: "There are too few people around."
The palace lady smiled and said: "That's because your highness is asking too much, he is not easy to use, just take it easy. Your majesty and empress have given you a lot of manpower, you have to say that there are few people who are useful, other princesses will be angry when they hear it Understand."
Mingda shook his head and said: "They are useless, let's replace a group of young governors with them."
She said: "Look at Zhou's family and you will know. If they can't understand my thoughts, then they should know how to obey the rules. If everything is done according to the rules, then there will be no mistakes. Even if they are wrong, it is a small mistake."
"But he can't figure out my thoughts, but he insists on trying to figure it out, and he still has to think from the position of my own palace." Mingda sneered, "It's already a taboo to speculate, but it's still such an unwise speculation. How can people use it?"
The maid stopped talking.
Mingda didn't expect that the people carefully selected by her father and mother would have so many faults.
I don't know if those people under the father's hands will also have problems.
Mingda was thinking about such a serious question, while Changyu and others who were resting on the other side directly sat down cross-legged on both sides. Knowing that Princess Danyang was coming, Changyu happily said to Manbao: "Aunt Danyang and uncle have a very good relationship. Alright, when she comes, let's invite them to go to Yongzhou City to eat delicious food together."
Happy Lantern Festival
There is one more chapter, I will make it up tomorrow, I am tired tonight, and the efficiency is so slow, I need to write a chapter for two or three hours