Although there was this small episode of Lin Lao Hu coming to report the news, Zhang Shou did not leave the last exercise class in Jiuzhang Hall and return to the inner city. Instead, he returned to the classroom as if nothing had happened, inspected the progress of everyone's exercises, and severely criticized some students who had been distracted by Lin Lao Hu's arrival and had not done any exercises.
When he returned to the office, he found that Lu Wan and Liu Zhiyuan were not there at all. He thought he would have to deal with their questions, but he immediately felt relieved. He prepared for the lesson for a while, and then began to recall the short stories in vernacular Chinese that were deeply engraved in his mind, changed some things that were too contemporary, re-set the background of the times, and then recorded them.
As for changing it into classical Chinese or something like that... not to mention that he doesn't have the ability to do so, even if he really finds a famous writer with first-class writing skills to translate the vernacular into classical Chinese, it would lose that specific literary flavor.
Anyway, he has never been a talented person who wins with his writing, and he is not afraid of being laughed at for being superficial. Moreover, he does not intend to show it to those famous scholars and talented people. This is specially for the third prince, who has little chance to come into contact with ordinary people's livelihood. Of course, he will carefully choose the scope of the subject matter.
Farmers, petty citizens, scholars, officials, scholars... In order to let the third prince understand the various aspects of people's lives, he needs to see more people and let him know that people are not stereotyped, but complex and changeable. If this is the case, novels such as "The Scholars" and "Officialdom Unmasked" are also good.
Well, since he had already mentioned Mr. Ye and Mr. Zhou, he could just expand the number of his own teachers - Mr. Wu Jingzi and Mr. Li Boyuan. What about Dream of the Red Chamber? Should he create another Mr. Cao Xueqin, whose family was broken and who died of depression
As for others' suspicion that he wrote those books... That's simply impossible. Who would believe that a young boy with extraordinary talent and proficiency in mathematics could actually write a lot of social novels that are full of knowledge of the world and human nature? As for the banned book "First Golden Plum", even if he said it was written by an anonymous teacher, I'm afraid it would cause an uproar...
While the outside world was in chaos, Zhang Shou was in the warm and cozy public hall, silently writing those short stories. As for the long story, he was just thinking about it in his mind. He was more planning to tell the third prince a few paragraphs later to see the reaction before deciding whether to write it out. After all, he was in the officialdom but satirized the officialdom... Then there would be more people who disliked him in the future!
Besides, he really couldn't do everything in two places. If only some of the talented people who came to Beijing to rebuild the calendar could come to help!
When the sun set, Zhang Shou returned to Jiuzhang Hall to announce the end of get out of class, but he went to Banshan Hall again. He had let these people discuss the course by themselves before, but in the end, what you are interested in is not interesting to me, and what you are not interested in is interesting to me. After endless arguments, they finally decided on the only course - history.
Therefore, Zhang Shou invited Mr. Tang, a famous pseudo-Song history expert in the capital, through Lu Wan and Liu Zhiyuan. The reason why he was called pseudo was because the academic community disagreed with Mr. Tang's radical arguments. He told everyone that the reason why the Song Dynasty had the Jingkang Change and the tragic fall of the country at Yashan was because when the country was founded, widows and orphans were bullied, and the country was not obtained in a legitimate way. It was karma!