When the funeral was still going on, the young attendant who wanted to fight with Shi Shi at the beginning was dressed in sackcloth and brought to Shi in front of Shi.

He looked at the young man, or the eldest child he was qualified to call a young man.

I have to admit that Gongsun Ze, who has received samurai education since he was a child, has a good eye for picking people, this child is a good seedling who draws a bow and shoots arrows, his figure is already a little burly, and the muscles on his back can support the wide Mai.

The two have met for a long time, and if you add the six fingers standing behind the suit, it can be said that the three of them have met a long time ago.

In just a few years, the six-finger archery has not grown, I am afraid it has already been surpassed by this young man, the initial three-finger shooting method that was easy to learn at that time, in the era when thumb shooting is the mainstream, it will be overtaken after a little time.

Before his death, Gongsun Ze begged Shi to find a Confucian professor to teach the child in order to complete the gambling contract for the next ten years, and by the way, it was extended for three years because of the mourning.

Of course, this also means that before Gongsun Ze died, he admitted that this child was his disciple, not just an attendant, otherwise there would be no need to mourn for so long.

Before Shi could speak, the six fingers behind him were also a big child after all, so he spoke: "If you want to mourn for so long, you can only drink gruel, won't you be hungry?" Is it only when you are hungry that you have fulfilled your etiquette? ”

The attendant said with a straight face: "I can only eat coarse corn and sunflower vegetables, but later I can eat meat, which is given by the gentleman." He's happy, and I'm supposed to do it. ”

After speaking, he hesitated a little, glanced at Shi, and said for a long time: "The gentleman asked you to find a master for me and continue to teach archery art." Ten years from now, what am I going to do after the competition? ”

"At that time, I was still a commoner, and I didn't have the status of a scholar. If you have an empty body of archery, how can you continue to eat meat? ”

The attendant was not ashamed, and said after a while: "The gentleman asked me to keep the courtesy, and he can die for the king." And I am not a king's soldier, and if I want to die in ten years, who should I die for? ”

This simple question made the six fingers standing behind Shi scratch his head, and suddenly felt that it was really a very happy thing to be able to know what he could die for.

Six fingers thought, I can die for the benefit of the world. It is appropriate to say, death does not spin, I will not spin.

Looking at the attendant who was competing with him at the beginning, he wanted to say something, but he said first: "What is the current matter, where can I say it accurately?" After you mourn, go to Peixian first, go there to find me, and I will arrange for you to learn writing first. After that, I will fulfill Gongsun Ze's last wish, maybe then you will know why you can die. ”

The attendant bowed three times to Shishi, and then took out a silk silk from his bosom, and said: "This is given to me by the gentleman before, when he decided to go down to the city, he knew that he would die, even if he did not die in the chaos, he would kill himself or go to your Mo family's executioner to beg for death, in order to uphold the order of the Duke of Song." ”

"The gentleman said, please keep it for you. If one day, the rules of the Mo family become the rules of the world, please sacrifice this silk silk to his tomb and let him know that he is dying well. ”

Shi stretched out his hand to take it, and after thanking him, the attendant left first.

Six Fingers asked softly, "Sui, do you really want to shoot with him later?" I learned the sword with Gongzao, and he said that you need to be single-minded in doing things, and don't spend any energy learning to shoot before you learn the sword well. When the time comes, if I lose, I am always afraid that I will lose the reputation of my Mo family. ”

Shi shook his head and smiled: "You won't lose." I didn't say I had to use a bow. At that time, Gongsun Ze said that anything would work. You don't care about this, just learn what you want to learn. ”

"Besides, my Mo family's reputation doesn't depend on this. In terms of shooting, the giant can't be compared with Zhongni. By the way, you follow the public to make smelting swords, and those words don't fall behind. ”

Six Fingers hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I've learned a lot." I can write a lot of words. ”

With that, he crouched on the ground and began to write a few familiar words with the bronze sword he had obtained in Pei County.

Now I am a literate person: to be a literate person, you don't have to learn, you can teach.

Cangjie was illiterate before the rest of him could read.

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Many people in the Mo family can write, and they can write the kind of words that are suitable for understanding, and there are also many people in Pei County who can write that kind of words.

The common people were originally illiterate, and the cheap characters that were suitable for learning were not originally words, but when there were more people who knew them, they became words.

The word is very important, this is the basis for the world to be one and the same as the world, so the people of Shangqiu also have to learn this kind of word.

While they were busy electing representatives of each company, they were also electing some young people to follow the Mo family to Shangqiu to learn the nine numbers of writing and the acres of fields and so on, according to the Mo family's propaganda, and these people needed the help of the rest of the family to plant.

According to Guan Zhong's practice, there are four miles in a company, ten tracks in one mile, and five families in one track, which is two hundred households for a company.

Since Shangqiu was going to set up a righteous division, this company was both a basic administrative unit and a basic military unit.

All the inquiry can do is to discuss the law, and what will happen after the law is discussed is not something that the existing officials such as Nongzheng can do.

New planting techniques, new acre systems, new taxation systems, all these require corresponding cultural knowledge to complete.

Therefore, after explaining the reasoning clearly, each company must elect a trustworthy, intelligent and clever young man to follow the Mo family to Peiyi to study for a period of time.

The Mo family is now rich, and they can provide food and clothing for their education, but their land still needs the help of other families to plant.

The Mohists promised to dispatch manpower to help the people of Shangqiu to open wells and fields, pass through the fields, and divide the land after formulating the law and the new system of land and acres.

A whole set of things requires a lot of energy, and the Mo family is short of manpower, which has become a very serious problem restricting the development of the Mo family.

It's just that people are not crops, they can be harvested once a year.

If you want to learn basic words, nine numbers, and the like, it will take three or five years to say the least.

In a few years, when the people of these companies return, they will become company commanders and lieutenants at the grassroots level.

In addition to these young people, the Xuanyi Department also hopes to send one child from each mile to Pei County to learn calligraphy with the Mo family, and when they return, they will teach the rest of the children to learn calligraphy, and then each family will jointly provide the person's room and board.

At this time, if you can learn words, it is a luxury, and it is difficult to have the opportunity to learn words unless you are a scholar.

The original bird seals are extremely complicated and troublesome to learn, resulting in very few literate people.

The Mo family now has iron-smelting technology in hand, and the funds are endless, and it is not a problem to provide food and lodging for hundreds of children, which is a major event to monopolize knowledge in the future, and everyone in the Mo family attaches great importance to it.

The people of Shangqiu also attach great importance to it, saying that they all know that if such a good thing can be their child's turn, it will be like a cake falling from the sky.

As for saying that they are too far away from home and can't see each other for several years, there is not so much hypocrisy for ordinary people who have children who die at every turn and whose families eat sunflower and corn every day.

For a while, for the sake of fairness, there was only one way to choose the lottery method, after all, even if too many children in the Mo family could afford to support them, there were not so many teachers to teach all this.

In order to improve the status of women, this time the lottery did not discriminate between boys and girls.

All the eligible children in 50 households in one mile are gathered together, and they draw lots by themselves, and those who are selected can follow and study.

For a while, in addition to discussing the first meeting of the Commonwealth of the Government Yuan, the selection of children to study in Peiyi became the first major event in Shangqiu.

Naturally, the people would not care about Song Gong's condolences to the deceased, and it had nothing to do with them anyway.

In the streets and alleys, people are either discussing the upcoming changes or whose children have won the lottery to go to Pei County.

The families who won the lottery were overjoyed, and those who did not win the lottery could only scold a few times: these children who were selected in the lottery came back to teach words, but when they came back, they were afraid that five or six years had passed, and it was impossible to teach their peers at this time, which meant that the children of those families were afraid that they would not have the opportunity to learn words.

The list has been set, and there is no more anxiety among the neighbors.

Just like the story that Zi Yan told to the king of Chu Gong back then: when a rabbit runs on the street, hundreds of people will chase it, but when the rabbit belongs to one person, then the rest of the people will not chase it.

The lottery was not the best choice, but it was an acceptable choice for all, and Shi Shi, who was in charge of this matter, did not have time to see which child was smarter in this Shangqiu.

The neighborhood, which had regained its peaceful relationship, began to discuss what would happen after the meeting of the Inquiry Council.

"I heard that after the meeting of the Inquiry Council decided the law, we will go outside to cut wood, prepare to make ink carts, and go to Pei County to transport grain."

"Yes, I met Shi yesterday, he said so. In addition to transporting grain, some people had to be dispatched to level the roads. He said that this is for ourselves, not for the gentlemen, nobles and princes, which makes sense. ”

"When the time comes, those selected children will sit in the ink cart and send them all the way to Pei County. I've heard that's the case. ”

A group of people discussed, and then imagined a scene.

On the yellow road, thousands of people pushed ink carts, and some children, both men and women, sat on them. People carried simple dry food items to Pei County to transport grain, and when they returned, the places where children were sitting were replaced by large bamboo baskets filled with seeds of hope......

It's a beautiful scene, because it's full of hope, not despair. It is suitable for everyone in the Mo family, and they have also fantasized that they will never let the ink car become a standard tool for the people to escape the famine.

While the people were discussing hope, the nobles and the Song Duke were full of uneasiness and fear about this unprecedented event.