After listening to Jiang Dejing's reasoning, Zhu Youzhen also had to be silent, building a few reservoirs in Changping is already the limit, if he moves the ancestral mountain, it is estimated that he will be sprayed to death by those civil servants and the clans in various places.

After continuing to walk on the river embankment for a while, Lian Shanxiang stood up and reminded the emperor: "Your Majesty, it's not too early, we should hurry back." If you don't go back to the city after dark, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to come out next time. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked up at the sky, and couldn't help muttering: "It's still early, how can you not return to the city in time." Let's go over there and see, what is that shed for? ”

Chongzhen ignored Lian Shanxiang's persuasion and walked towards the shed where Sun Boyang was teaching. It was rare to come out for a walk in the name of inspecting the river control project, so he didn't want to return to the depressing Sifang City so soon.

The field in May was verdant, and there was no end in sight, but it was much more pleasing to the eye than when he looked up in the palace and was blocked by the tall palace walls everywhere.

“… Leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered..."Sun Boyang explained the meaning of the poem to the students, and did not feel the arrival of a group of uninvited guests at all.

Sun Boyang did not explain to the students how the poem rhymes, but used the poem to teach a few new words and briefly describe the meaning of the poem.

He also has his own considerations for teaching this, and in his opinion, it is enough for these students to be able to recognize some words and learn simple arithmetic. After all, these students are not studying for scientific examinations, but just want to learn some knowledge that can be used in daily life.

The brightest of them all was probably sent to a shop to be apprenticed. Therefore, Sun Boyang did not start teaching with a hundred family names and thousand-character texts, but chose some poems containing commonly used words as model texts. These catchy words and phrases will help them remember the words they have just learned to the greatest extent.

After Sun Boyang finished teaching this lesson, he realized that the entrance of the shed was full of people at some point.

He subconsciously stepped forward to see who was standing there, but he was taken aback.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, and a guard behind him suddenly stepped forward to support Sun Boyang, stopped him from kneeling down, and whispered to him not to show off.

Although Chongzhen is wearing regular clothes, the dragon pattern is not so conspicuous. Except for the officials, ordinary people couldn't recognize Chongzhen wearing the emperor's clothes at all, they would only regard Chongzhen as a nobleman in the capital.

For the attendants and officials who accompanied the emperor, Chongzhen's identity could not be exposed in front of the people as much as possible, and the emperor's safety would be more guaranteed.

Sun Boyang watched Chongzhen walk in front of him and stopped, but he couldn't kneel down and salute, and suddenly became a little dazed and at a loss.

Zhu Youzhen glanced him up and down, and then smiled and praised: "The lesson you just taught is very good." ”

Without waiting for Sun Boyang to answer, he had already bypassed Sun Boyang and walked to the blackboard, and asked a group of students with great interest: "You have taken Mr.'s course and learned knowledge, what are you going to do in the future?" ”

A cadre of students looked at it with some fear, this gorgeously dressed young nobleman, did not dare to answer Chongzhen's question.

The little official in charge of the construction site was a little anxious, and when he wanted to step forward to urge the students, he was stopped by Jiang Dejing.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, then untied a piece of jade from his waist, he grabbed the red rope on the jade, and said to the students encouragingly: "If any of you can answer to my satisfaction, I will reward him with this piece of jade." ”

These students still did not answer immediately, but turned their heads to look at their husbands, and after seeing Sun Boyang nodding at them, some students had the courage to answer Chongzhen's question.

The students' answers were varied, either to make money, or to get ahead, and some even thought of learning to become a martial artist and sell it to the emperor's family.

But obviously, none of these answers are the answers Chongzhen wants. Zhu Youzhen sighed and said to the students: "Why don't any of you think about learning knowledge well and then changing your hometown to make the villagers more comfortable?" ”

Most of the students didn't understand what this noble man meant, but many of them began to think about what the noble man said and changed the words of their hometown.

Compared with these ignorant students, it was Jiang Dejing and Sun Boyang, who were standing on the side, who felt the emperor's words the most profoundly.

For Jiang Dejing, although the Confucian classics he is familiar with pursue are self-cultivation and rule the country and level the world. But in the final analysis, you still have to go out first and gain the emperor's appreciation in order to have this opportunity.

For the emperor, it is the most correct idea to let the world's scholars think all day long that studying is to pass the imperial examination and get a chance to get ahead for themselves. Reading is not for the sake of selling to the emperor's family, and it is never a good thing for the emperor.

Sun Boyang's expression seemed to be a little dazed, and he seemed to understand a little why the Emperor of Guozijian had reprimanded him at the beginning.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the jade jue in his hand, hung the jade jue in the corner of the blackboard, and then said again: "None of your answers can satisfy me, so I won't send the jade out today."

But I thought that perhaps someone would be able to give me a satisfactory answer in the future, so I have hung this jade here, so that your husband may reward it to him for me..."

Zhu Youzhen then asked Sun Boyang to accompany him for a walk and asked him about some things about teaching.

After the two talked for a while, Zhu Youzhen said to him: "Compared with the original time in Guozijian, you are really very different. What you're doing very well now, it's a great thing to set up a school on the site and teach these children to read and write in your free time.

I will have people prepare some supplies to make your mobile school on the construction site better. Of course, you can't just teach these children, you should also expand the scope so that those young people who have the spare ability can also learn a little bit of culture.

Not only that, but I also plan to appoint you as the teacher of Shunyi County and set up a mobile school on the construction sites along the river. ”

The emperor's words did not make Sun Boyang ecstatic, but he asked the emperor with some hesitation: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, why are you so interested in establishing schools, and these schools teach only some common words and simple numbers. Do you really think that if they learn this, they will be able to change their lives? ”

Zhu Youzhen stopped, looked at Sun Boyang unexpectedly, he was silent for a while before saying to Sun Boyang: "Actually, I'm not sure, but I understand one thing, if you want to change your life, the important thing is not to know a few words, but whether you have the determination to change the status quo." ”

Sun Boyang looked at the emperor in surprise, and couldn't help asking, "Then why is Your Majesty still..."

Zhu Youzhen looked up at the scenery in the distance, and then said uncertainly: "I just want to give them a hope, let them believe that reading can change their lives, and only with this hope will they have the courage to change the unchanged lives of their ancestors." ”

Until the emperor left with his entourage, Sun Boyang continued to stand on the river embankment, watching the emperor's departing back, and fell into contemplation.

On the way back to the capital, Jiang Dejing, who had been silent, asked Chongzhen carefully: "Your Majesty, it seems that you want everyone in the world to receive an education, so that everyone can know a few words..."

Zhu Youzhen replied briskly: "What you said is right, that's what I think, I want everyone in the Ming Dynasty to be literate and arithmetic." ”

Jiang Dejing pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Your Majesty, the sage once said: The people can make it, but they can't know it. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked back, the minister beside him with low eyebrows, and then said, "Why do I think that Qing seems to understand this sentence a little differently from me?" ”

Jiang Dejing looked up at Chongzhen slightly, and asked cautiously: "Dare to ask how Your Majesty understands?" ”

Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at the road ahead, and after slowing down the speed of the red wind, he said calmly: "I think that maybe what the sage said at the beginning was: the people can make it; No, let it be known.

Or: the people may make it, and let it be; You can't make it, you know it.

Or, "The people can do it." It can be known.

After all, the age of the saints is too far away from us, and the present world is very different from the era of the saints. Sticking to the old paper pile will not help much in today's situation.

I think that what matters now is not what the saints think, but what we think. Since we are in this position, we have to shoulder the responsibility of leading this country and changing the way of the world.

If we are reluctant to make changes that benefit the people just because of the words of the saints or for personal fame, then we are really a clay statue enshrined in a temple. ”

The emperor's words made Jiang Dejing fall into silence for a long time, and it was not until he was about to enter the Dongzhi Gate that Jiang Dejing suddenly said to the emperor: "The minister is willing to be by Your Majesty's side and witness with your own eyes what kind of world Your Majesty wants to build." ”

Zhu Youzhen turned around and nodded at him, smiled and said, "Then let's work together, I believe you will not regret it." ”

After parting with the emperor's team at the crossroads, Jiang Dejing led his horse aimlessly down the street, and he suddenly felt a little curious in his heart, curious about what the world was like that the emperor would not regret.

At about the same time, a group of scholars entered the city from Xizhimen in a carriage, and one of the scholars happily said to his companions: "Sure enough, the atmosphere is pressurized, and the height of the mercury column under this mountain and on the mountain is indeed different." Zhao Sicheng, have you calculated the result? ”

Another gentleman, who was sitting in the carriage with his head down and calculating the data, looked up and said, "According to these data, for every 13 meters of rise, the mercury column falls by about 1 millimeter..."