Chapter Seventy-Six: The General Trend of the World

No matter how well planned many things are, they can't be seamless, and if they involve the whole body, a trivial detail, or a hundred dense links will trigger a chain reaction, just like when Zhen Qian forgot about the Zhen family's private school, the news actually reached the ears of the eldest master of the Zhen family, and he was mixed in by such a person, and he didn't know if it would fall short in the end.

For such a result, Zhen Qian didn't know what mood to use to describe it, after all, the way of thinking of later generations has not been fully integrated into a big family like the Zhen family, and mistakes are inevitable.

Zhen Qian and Wang Qun discussed what might happen next, since the patriarch of the Zhen family was alarmed, it was impossible for Zhen Qian, the person concerned, to hide and not see anyone, and it was inevitable to meet the patriarch of the Zhen family and listen to his opinion.

Discuss with Wang Qun, return to the Zhen family three days later, and if there is no accident, go to the Zhen family's old house to meet the head of the Zhen family in person.

Received more than a dozen adopted sons, his father-in-law is very relaxed, the four books and five classics want to teach themselves will not, the remaining trace of memory can barely understand some jerky ancient texts, even if later generations have learned some "Analects", but to explain the same unfamiliar, I am afraid that even the scholar next to Wang You is better than himself, fortunately, no one asks him about the article, otherwise he really doesn't know how to answer.

But fortunately, others know that they didn't take the Jinshi exam in Beijing at the beginning, but a subject, which is really not a problem for Zhen Qian, who has been dealing with numbers in later generations, and thinks that there will be no problem in dealing with those mathematics that have not been lost.

When these children were adopted, they didn't expect to train a few old masters, and the few old people around Zhen Qian who could read and write were also not as good as the gentlemen in the private school, and the goal was to teach these children to know a few more words.

In these years, the literacy rate is not high, and those who are illiterate are caught in a large handful, and those who can know a few words belong to the people.

Zhen Qian also took the time to make a cameo appearance as a private school teacher, but naturally he did not teach the ethics of the Four Books and Five Classics, but the arithmetic he was familiar with. Then there is a bunch of historical classics, such as "Historical Records", "Book of Han", etc., and even legal provisions such as Tang Shulu have been used by Zhen Qian, but fortunately, there is no Cheng Zhu Lixue in this era, otherwise it would have been refuted as deviant.

Although there is nothing disgraceful about being regarded as an adopted son in this year, most of the adopted sons are better than domestic slaves, and they are also worried all day long, at first these children are still trembling, especially when they are taken out of the city and come to a strange valley, they are not afraid that it is fake, but after a month, they found that life here is comparable to heaven, they have never eaten a full meal, and they find that they can not only eat a full stomach here, but also have a variety of delicious dishes and meat every day, and they have grown fat after a month.

People don't stand without faith, although they swore when they adopted these adopted sons, but after all, they didn't see anything at that time, but after waiting for a month and fulfilling their original promises, these children gradually recognized the identity of Zhen Qian's father-in-law, and they also held back their strength in their hearts when they started doing things.

Those military work and rest time that felt almost harsh in Zhen Qian's eyes, and made me worry for a while, every day before dawn I had to get up early to read and practice, after breakfast, I began to practice writing and copying articles in class, and then men and women were separated, girls learned women's red needlework and cooking and cooking, and boys were riding horses and archery to exercise, and from time to time they had to help do a lot of chores.

When more than a dozen children stood neatly in front of Zhen Qian, he had a feeling that he couldn't say anything, these children were like a blank sheet of paper, compared to the idea of transforming adult Tang people, these children were undoubtedly the best picture!

Regarding the fact that Zhen Qian did not ask a regular gentleman to teach these children to read, others did not think so, after all, reading is a luxury, and an ordinary family cannot afford to support a scholar at all. This is not only a problem of reducing a labor force, but also the cost of bunching (tuition), pen, ink, paper, inkstone and books, etc., these expenses can make a family breathless, equivalent to four or five people to supply a child to study, if you add friends, etc., it is equivalent to the extent that an ordinary family in later generations can supply children to study abroad, in the Tang Dynasty, where productivity was not high, some schoolchildren with better qualifications invested in some wealthy families early, which is why the early Tang Dynasty scholars controlled the main means of speech.

Unlike those children who are tired of school in later generations, there are not many opportunities to read books in this era, and there is no need for Zhen Qian to motivate these children, let alone say any big truths.

Today, Zhen Qian is reading Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to these children, and Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has not yet been written in this era? Of course, I have no interest in writing a Tang version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but I think that reading history is easier to understand the true meaning of life than reading Confucian classics, and there is no cost of preaching, and you can also have an interactive exchange with these children.

"Father-in-law, what is the general trend of the world, it must be together for a long time, and it must be divided for a long time?"

I don't know if it was imperceptibly influenced by the later "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhen Qian still came out of his mouth from time to time with some classic sentences, "Is the general trend of the world?" Zhen Qian was not ready to help the seedlings grow, thought for a while and said: "You also roughly spent Sima Qian's "Historical Records", starting from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, then the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and now the Tang Dynasty, and there have been many dynasties in the middle, each dynasty starts with a big turmoil/chaos, and ends with a big turmoil/chaos, this is the general trend of the world!" ”

"Then why is it necessary to divide for a long time, and why is it necessary to divide for a long time, and why not continue to do so?"

Zhen Qian glanced appreciatively at the child who asked the question, it was Tong Yan Wuji who would ask such a question, but he didn't want to answer them now, "This question is very profound, many scholars and Confucians are thinking about the same question, the answer varies from person to person, and when you really finish reading the "Historical Records", you will also have your own answer, and then we will discuss such a question?" ”

Of course, Zhen Qian will also take out books such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Getaway" to read with these children. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Turned into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is", these children began to fantasize about one day going to the East China Sea to find the legendary Dapeng ......, but they didn't know if they would be disappointed.