Bai Chun took a breath. If His Highness said so, wouldn't there be hundreds of children hidden in this small village? But... I haven't seen that many.
But Bai Chun also believes that the truth is probably not far from what His Highness guessed, right
After all, she had seen several households with two or three children in this household. According to this ratio, a hundred or so should be considered the closest number.
But what made her anxious next was, what should she teach? What will be taught? What can be taught
Li Hong thought for a while and said, "Just give each of them a name first, so that they can learn to write their own names during this period of time."
Bai Chun, who was sitting next to Li Hong, looked at Li Hong strangely. Then he lay on Li Hong's lap with his entire upper body. He looked at Li Hong's angular cheeks from bottom to top and murmured: "You What else do you want to do? Why just teach them how to write names?”
Li Hong looked down at Bai Chun's beautiful cheek and smiled, kissed her on the side and said: "In this Xingyang rebellion, do you think the Zheng family in Xingyang was involved? I'm afraid it's not the mastermind. They are involved in it. Since they have the leisure to engage in these struggles, they might as well use their thoughts and influence on teaching and educating people... "
"Wouldn't that be contrary to the ideals of the imperial court? If so, when these people become scholars..." Bai Chun hurriedly reminded Li Hongdao.
Li Hong k Can we just leave it to the Xingyang Zheng family to handle some practical matters for the villagers? As for various expenses, these are the Xingyang Zheng family's top priority. In this way, they can not only cultivate a group of loyal people for the court and the prince, Literary people can also weaken their financial, material and human resources in a disguised way. In a few years, they will also be lost. People who can read have been cultivated, and schools in various states and counties have been established. Who will still Remember, it was the foundation they laid, isn’t it the royal grace that can be remembered?”
What's more, Li Hong is not the only one who cheated on the Zheng family in Xingyang. The other six names, including the five surnames and Qi Wang, are now listed by Li Hong.
If he hadn't stayed in this small mountain village temporarily this time, he probably wouldn't have been able to think of such a method, nor would he have lowered his goals from high to low.
Today, he does not seek to make all the people of the Tang Dynasty literate. Unless he is really crazy, he would think so. But if he can make children and teenagers literate, read, and know how to write names in a regional way, even if there is one Name is enough.
At weddings and funerals, you no longer have to travel thirty miles away and spend a day or even two days asking the only gentleman to come and preside over the ceremony.
Sometimes, I even have to call out other male villagers in the village, firstly to show their respect for the husband, and secondly, in the hope that if other villages happen to invite the husband, I can overwhelm them in terms of momentum, and then take the lead. Invite Mr. to the village.
Bai Chun continued to lie on Li Hong's lap anxiously. Li Hong stroked Bai Chun's hair. The two of them were like an ordinary couple who couldn't live together, sitting at the door basking in the sun and chatting quietly. sky.
In the next few days, in addition to going up to the mountains to hunt or receiving some corn from the villagers, Li Hong went on field inspections from house to house to see how many children each family had, regardless of gender, and he counted them all. Inside.
In the past few days, Bai Chun had been quietly and peacefully thinking about whether he could teach these children well. Then he followed the suggestions given to him by Li Hong and combined them with his own ideas to start thinking about every step in the school.
At this time, both Li Hong and Bai Chun missed Mang Zhong and others a little. If they were around, they wouldn't need to take care of these trivial matters personally.
But having said that, after a short period of laziness, they began to find the fun in such small things that they did personally, which made the two of them enjoy it and plan tirelessly.
But... not everything goes smoothly, after counting a total of ninety-seven boys and girls. It was about to start a new round of hard lobbying, hoping that the villagers would be willing to hand over their children to them and learn to read and write.
Li Hong thought that it would be very difficult, but what he didn't expect was that it would be even more difficult than reasoning with the courtiers who had been in the court for many years and had become old men one by one.
He could still convince the courtiers with facts and arguments, but that didn't work. If he encountered someone like Wei Zheng, who would rather die than obey, he had no choice but to use the authority of the Shangshu Order to enforce it.
But these villagers cannot be persuaded by various reasons. Even if they are thirsty and flushed, the villagers will squat in the corner and keep their heads down without speaking. As for letting the children learn to read and read, in their hearts I would disagree.
He is illiterate, hasn't he married a wife, given birth to children, and lived for most of his life
Why do you have to recognize those twists and turns? Besides, it is enough to have a gentleman thirty miles away. There is no need to waste labor on learning calligraphy and reading.
If you don’t know them, it doesn’t mean that you can’t support yourself. Those who are literate all learned from noble families. Their children... forget it, let’s just herd sheep.
At the end of the day, Li Hong had not received any water, and half of the more than 30 farmers had fled. In the end, he persuaded less than two, and only one completely agreed. The other gave him a diplomatic explanation: agree in principle.
As a result, Li Hong was angry and stood at the door of his house, just like a villager in this mountain village, pointing at more than 30 households and cursing, "Do you understand that knowledge can change your destiny!" If you don't let your children read and read, you will have to live here generation after generation, never being able to go out, never being able to see the outside world.
Bai Chun stood at the door, looking at her furious husband quietly like a good wife, yelling at Shancun, and occasionally trying to help her husband with a few words, hoping to calm him down.
Someone who was not in high spirits all night, at dawn the next day, after washing up under Bai Chun's service, he picked up the crossbow behind the door and went out.
This shocked the wise wife Bai Chun. She wouldn't give up so quickly, would she? Or are you planning to go hunting to let off some steam
"You... you're not going to persuade me, and you're going to go hunting in the mountains?" Bai Chun wiped his hands, looked at Li Hong who was about to go out, and asked softly.
"Why are you hunting me? These unscrupulous people are afraid of the tough. I will go with my bow and crossbow to see who dares not to agree. I can't scare him to death!" After the villager Yamano finished answering Bai Chun's words, he continued cursing. The road to lobbying has gone.
The wise wife was left behind, holding on to the doorframe, looking astonished and not knowing what to say. Is this lobbying? Or coercion
Looking at the back of my husband, he looked like a bandit was about to go down the mountain to rob him.
Sighing helplessly, after packing everything, he continued to clean their warm home.
The sun was supposed to arrive as promised, but today it has been hiding in the green sky and refused to come out. In the cold mountain air, there is a trace of moisture, like lines of water flowing.
Looking up at the sky, Bai Chun touched his cheek and murmured: "The first snow this winter seems to be coming soon. Oh, by the way, let's see if the food at home is enough for the winter."
Holding on to the door frame and looking at her husband's back, she had just finished sighing when she was immediately pulled into reality by the gray sky and began to worry about the oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea.
After running from house to house for a day, when I came out of the last house, the sky was getting dark. The sky had been dark for a day, like a big girl getting into a sedan chair, refusing to let the first piece of snow fall. She looked up at the gray and cold sky. The sky is looking forward to the first snowflake falling quickly.
Li Hong, who returned home with a crossbow on his back, smelled a hint of wine before he entered the door. It was not like the wine he often drinks now, but more like the smell of newly brewed rice wine. It smelled like nothing. On the tip of the nose, it seems to go away immediately after being touched, but it also makes people feel that the mellow fragrance has been lingering on the tip of the nose and never left.
"Where did you get the wine?" Li Hong handed the crossbow to Bai Chun and put it away. Li Hong asked, looking at a crude red clay stove that was burning with flames.
"I can't tell you the name. It was delivered not long after you left today. It smells quite good." Bai Chun looked at the small earthen jar, opened it and smelled it, and said intoxicatedly.
He washed his face casually, took the cheesecloth handed by Bai Chun and wiped his face: "You dare to accept it if you don't know the name, you are awesome."
Bai Chunjiao laughed, pointed at the small stove and said, "This family lent me this too. I am afraid that because you went to their house today carrying a crossbow, they were afraid again, so I gave you some wine to bribe you."
"I think it seems like I'm bribing you. After today's trip, haha, no one dares not to agree. If I encounter someone who is hesitant and refuses to give you a definite answer, I will take the crossbow from my back. Take it down, sit in someone's yard and start winding it up. As soon as the winch sounded, they all readily agreed without waiting for the arrow to be attached. Oh, by the way, when they knew that it was you who taught their children. , but there was an expression of relief on their faces, so they said these are bribes for you." Li Hong picked up a small bowl of pure rice wine, smelled the mellow aroma of the rice wine, and then took a sip happily.
Bai Chun listened to Li Hong's explanation of how he persuaded others, listened to the simple and crude methods, and imagined Li Hong's rogue appearance and domineering expression in his mind. He couldn't help but burst out laughing in the warm little room. Chichi said: "I'm afraid they all succumbed to your lustful power."
"Is it lustful?"
"is it wrong?"
"What do you think?"
"Young lady, I think so, Your Highness..." Bai Chun's beautiful eyes wandered, and a trace of amorous feelings, like peach blossoms in March, rippled in the room.
Looking at Bai Chun's appearance, Li Hong silently pulled Bai Chun into his arms, and immediately placed his lips on Bai Chun's cherry lips.
The hands had just warmed up, and although they still had a hint of coolness, when they touched Bai Chun's satin-like skin, Bai Chun still responded to Li Hong's big hands with her lips with great enjoyment.
As the clothes on the two of them gradually decreased, the first snowflakes of this winter fell quietly outside the half-opened window for ventilation.
(End of chapter)