The connection between Tongren and Tixi suddenly became close, and horses traveled back and forth every day, delivering news. The news that the seedlings came out of the mountain finally couldn't be concealed and gradually spread, but the people of Tongren City didn't have any special feelings about this matter.
It's just that the seedlings have come out of the mountain, and it's not that foreign enemies are coming, so why be surprised. Speaking of which, we just haven't seen each other for a long time, and we are strangers to each other. Maybe we were still a family five hundred years ago. It feels like a distant cousin who has never met since childhood moved to the village next door to them.
The history of this nation is so long that they talked about things that happened thousands or eight hundred years ago, as if they were talking about their childhood, which was both strange and intimate, without any sense of remoteness. The only ones who were really nervous were the Zhang family and the Yu family.
There is a branch of the Zhang family in Tixisi, the chief of Tixi is Zhang Duo's cousin, and there is also Yujiazhai, a branch of the Yu family. As for the third party, it is the Liangyuegu Guoji family. The Geduolai's tribe wanted to move to Tixi, which would occupy their territory and compress their living space.
Dai Tongzhi returned in a state of embarrassment, so Zhang Duo ordered the chief of Tixi Division to directly contact the Gedolao Department. The two sides contacted, approached, negotiated, and negotiated. The final reply from the Gedolao Ministry:
The Gedoldols agreed that since they left the mountain, they would be brought under the jurisdiction of Tongren Mansion according to the rules of people outside the mountain, and accepted the management of Tongren Mansion, and they could ask Huke to go to their village to make a register for them, and establish household stickers, yellow books, etc. , officially became a tribe under the jurisdiction of Tongren Prefecture.
But in exchange, Geduolao asked his parents to provide food, agricultural tools, and seeds to the tribe he had just moved to, and sent people to teach how to open terraces and grow crops, and they also asked for no food, just like the Liangyuegu Guoji family. , Do not serve, only pay offerings to the chieftain directly under him.
How could Zhang Duo agree to such a condition? Tixisi’s land is divided into three parts, the largest one belongs to his Zhang family, the one near the Mercury Mountain belongs to Yu’s family, and the Liangyuegu Guoji family owns a small piece However, the main territory of Liangyue Valley is still in the mountains.
The Gedola tribe wants to take root there, build cottages, open terraced fields, and hunt in the mountains. This is what they snatch from the rice bowls of the Yu family, the Zhang family and the Guoji family. If he is willing to agree, the Guoji family and the Yu family will agree
So far, Zhang Duo's appeasement policy has completely gone bankrupt, breaking all illusions, and the only choice is to fight each other. Zhang Duo immediately sent a message to the chieftains from all over the government, ordering them to go to Tongren to discuss the matter, so as to unite the soldiers and horses of the chieftains from all walks of life to attack the Gedolao tribe.
The Gedolo tribe used to live in the deep mountains, and there was no record in the official household registration register. It is also convenient for them to take action against the Gedolas.
This crusade, Zhang Duo himself can make the decision, as long as the matter can be quelled quickly, it will not attract the attention of the court or interfere, and the chieftains in other places will not be hindered. Even if the court finds out, he can reply to quell small local riots, and he can do whatever he wants.
When Duo Ni heard about this, she panicked and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Brother Xiaotian, the prefect of Zhang is going to call all chieftains to attack my father, what should I do, brother Xiaotian, you should give orders to other ministries Let's support."
Ye Xiaotian shook his head and said: "Aside from the relationship in the church, your father has made some friends over the years, right? If necessary, he will ask someone to help. Don't worry about this matter, I will Can't control it!"
Ye Xiaotian got up and walked out, seeing that Douni was still flustered, he comforted him: "You don't have to worry too much, Zhifu Zhang is the one who is most afraid of accidents, so even if he wins, he won't do anything to your father !"
Doni looked at Ye Xiaotian's back, and couldn't figure out why Ye Xiaotian wanted to let go. After thinking for a long time, her eyes gradually lit up, and she understood that she believed that everything Brother Xiaotian did was actually an oracle. Brother's refusal to use the power of the venerable is also a test of God, a test of her father's piety.
Of course, Ye Xiaotian would not be so bored as to test his father-in-law’s piety for God. When he made the decision to let Shengmiao come out of the mountain, he expected that it would not be so easy. Without bloodshed or struggle, he would be able to let others give up Your own territory is too unrealistic.
However, trapped deep in the mountains, those pure-hearted and simple mountain people can only become more ignorant and backward, and continue to be left far behind by the world outside the mountains. One day they will end up in a tragic end like monkeys for people to play and enslave.
And step by step contact, through communication, communication, business, marriage, long-term planning, step-by-step penetration, and natural evolution over hundreds of years to carry out this process, who can guarantee that his successor will continue to implement his ideas? If his father asked him to return to Beijing to continue working as a jailer, he would definitely not go. He is so filial that he can't guarantee that he will obey his father's expectations. Why should he trust his successor so much
So when Zhang Duo decided to use force to drive the Gedolos back to the mountains and spread the message to chieftains all over the prefecture, Ye Xiaotian did not give Gedolos any more instructions, just as when Gedolos first came out of the mountain, he only pointed out that he should go Well, as for how to go, what reason to use, and how to stand firm, he doesn't care.
Gedolao's tribe is only a small part of his hundreds of thousands of people. If he wants to be an old mother who does everything by himself, he will only become Zhuge Liang who died before he was born. The world outside the mountains is prosperous and rich, far better than the difficult conditions in the mountains. The people here have bright clothes, various diets, fast cars, and complex interpersonal relationships...
Those mountain people and their patriarchs, chiefs, and elders, what they need to face in the future is no longer the harsh natural environment and animals, mosquitoes and flies, but the road is not smooth. What they are dealing with is far more complicated than the mountains, rocks, trees, tigers and wolves. They need to adapt and learn the ability to survive in the world outside the mountains.
"There, stand still!"
When Gedole sent someone to ask Ye Xiaotian for instructions, Ye Xiaotian still passed these six words to him. As for how to do it, he didn't give any instructions or provide any suggestions. At this time, he was preoccupied with the establishment of the academy and martial arts competition, at least on the surface.
Sometimes, just a single thought of a great person may have the effect of turning stone into gold and calling the wind and rain. There will be countless people in many places, because of his single thought, his life and destiny will be completely changed.
But what he wants to do must be within his ability, otherwise it is whimsical and beyond the scope of his control, his ideas can only become radical and leap forward, there will be countless people or many places, because of him Victimized by this impractical idea.
Ye Xiaotian is now a big shot, although invisible. Perhaps it was a conversation with the brick-moving kid that touched his childhood memories. He thought...maybe he could do something. It was this thought that led to the proposal to build a common people's academy and martial arts club.
However, Ye Xiaotian's request for the establishment of an academy was delivered to Guiyang Xuezheng, but it was rejected. He had no chance to be sent to the imperial court, and was discussed by the academy and Taoists.
Guizhou Xuezheng is concurrently held by Guizhou Procuratorate, who is Wang Haoming, who is in the same school as Cui Xiangsheng, a great Confucian in the south of the Yangtze River, and has never had a good impression of Ye Xiaotian. With a swipe of the pen, only four words were written: "Not doing business properly!"
Since Wang Haoming's main job is to mention punishments and inspectors, he is in charge of a province's criminal names, and he is busy with official duties, so there is also a deputy student administrator who is in charge of the daily affairs of the student administration. His tone was too dismissive, so he turned around for him.
The vice-educated student eloquently listed more than a dozen questions to prove that Tongren could not establish an academy. For example, an academy is an institution with both collection of books, teaching and inquiry. How many great Confucians have been hired? Do you have the ability to study moral knowledge and so on.
Ye Xiaotian's original intention was just to let those illiterate children grow up so that they would not be blind when they grow up. It is enough if they can write and count. What he wants to do is to popularize education, not elite education. Ability will produce a few disciples who are scholars, candidates, and champions.
Where did he go to buy a large collection of books that could be called an academy? Where can he hire enough great Confucian scholars to come here to give lectures? As a seventh-rank official, and without prestige among scholars, this is a task that he can't accomplish even if he has money.
Li Qiuchi asked Ming Ye Xiaotian what he wanted, and he couldn't help laughing: "Dong Weng, the name of the academy is indeed a little ostentatious. Even the smallest academy must have at least a learned scholar sitting in charge to be worthy of the name. Since Dong Weng just wants these children to be literate If you can read, write, and count, then there is no need to call it an academy. Let’s build a private school, but the average private school only has a dozen or twenty students. Our private school is much larger. Since it cannot be called a courtyard, we can call it a private school. It is a school to distinguish it from what a school is. In this way, there is no need for the approval of the academy, Taoist officials, and Xuezheng lords!"
Ye Xiaotian was awakened by his words. Ye Xiaotian always valued the purpose and the result when doing things, and didn't care about the process and means. He didn't expect this because he had no experience in running schools. Now that Li Qiuchi reminded him, Ye Xiaotian simply put aside the government's preparations. Go it alone.
Ye Xiaotian immediately asked Li Qiuchi to choose a school site in order to build two schools, one literary and one military, specially recruiting those children who have no money to study and play on the streets every day, and entrusted Li Jiaoyu to help him find scholars to serve as teaching chairs, Ye Xiaotian's The requirements are not high, and it is okay to have no fame.
Regarding these actions of Ye Xiaotian, the Tongren officials and gentry are not ignorant, but most people just watched the jokes with cold eyes. In their opinion, this Ye Tui official must have lost his nerve and followed a rich but Fatty Luo, who is a flower, is tossing around.
In a place where chieftains walk everywhere, where there are as many tutelages as dogs, and where one's birth determines one's destiny, one can promote enlightenment. What cultural and educational merits can one build
At this time in Tongren, the chieftains were indeed walking all over the place, and there were as many houses as dogs, because the prefect Zhang spread his message to various places to discuss the plan to send troops. Occasionally there will be small fights among the chieftains, but the tricks of various princes uniting against rebellion will not happen once in a hundred years, so chieftains from all over the country attend the meeting one after another, and naturally nobles can be seen everywhere in Tongren City.
On this day, after Li Qiuchi visited Tongren, he finally selected two places. The literary school is located in the east of Fuxue, which was originally a sparse forest area. The establishment of the school in the place where they study can let the students of their literary school cultivate the style of learning.
However, Ye Xiaotian has long seen what the young chieftains in prefectural and county schools look like, and he doubts that letting his students be so close to these young masters will cultivate a style of learning, but Seeing that the place was still quiet, and it was an open space, it would be easy to build a school building, so he agreed.
As for the place where the martial arts association is established, it is very close to Ye Xiaotian's mansion, because this place is also in Dongshan, but Ye's mansion is in Shanyang, and the martial arts school is in Shanyin. Ye Xiaotian didn't go to check this place, and just settled it according to Li Qiuchi's prescription.
In Ye Xiaotian's view, reading should of course pay attention to the environment, which is quiet and quiet, so that people can have no distractions. As for practicing martial arts, there is no need to be so particular about it. If a warrior is so particular about martial arts, what kind of martial arts should he practice. Ye Xiaotian made the decision, and the funds were sufficient, and the construction of the two school buildings started at the same time.
Ye Xiaotian didn't expect that this act of kindness done on the spur of the moment would give him something back in the end. After the construction of the two school buildings started, he finally turned his attention back to the yamen, because the princes from all walks of life had already rushed to Tongren City, and the prefect Zhang's council meeting was about to begin!