Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1817, Children's Education

Inside Liu Jin's mansion in the capital.

Liu Jin is reading the newspaper leisurely, enjoying the weekend leisure.

Ever since he joined the cabinet, Liu Jin has been very busy. There are too many big and small affairs in the court, and it is better to deal with state affairs. Sometimes, intrigue, scheming and arithmetic are the most troublesome and hurtful things. brain matter.

There are too many people staring at the position of chief minister of the cabinet, and even more people want to replace it.

Fortunately, Emperor Hongzhi was a good emperor. If he changed to another emperor, Liu Jin felt that if he worked for a few years, it would be better to retire early.

"The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has finally been completed and opened to traffic. It's really not easy. It's really not easy to have such a majestic and majestic century-old project as the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in this era."

Looking at the newspaper, Liu Jin also sighed.

It's already twenty-eight years of Hongzhi, counting the time, I have already traveled through eighteen years, and I am already thirty-six years old, and in a few years I will be forty years old.

For the average life expectancy in ancient times was less than forty years old, in the next few years, I will almost be a grandfather.

"Father~"

Really thinking about being a grandfather, Liu Jin's eldest son, Liu Xin, came to find him.

Liu Xin is the first child born to Liu Jin and Xu Wan'er, and also the eldest son of the Liu family. There are several younger siblings under him, including Liu Da, Liu Cheng, Liu Yu, Liu Ren, Liu Yi, and Liu Qing. Seven sons and four daughters.

From the perspective of later generations, Liu Jin is quite high-yielding, but for the big celebrities in this period, Liu Jin can only be considered average. After all, there are only two women. Xu Waner gave birth to five children for Liu Jin. Zhen gave birth to six children to Liu Jin, which reached the general level of this period.

Thanks to the improvement of medical technology in the Ming Dynasty and the popularization of reproductive technology and ideas, every household in the Ming Dynasty gave birth to more children, as few as five or six, as many as seven or eight, and more than a dozen were very common.

Like Zhu Houzhao's planter, there are many women and he likes to sow. Now he has more than 100 sons, and he is the most fertile prince among all dynasties.

So much so that the most troublesome thing for Emperor Hongzhi now is to name his grandson. There is no way, the old Zhu family has its own set of rules for naming.

First of all, the second word must be based on seniority. Zhu Houzhao is of the thick character generation, and his son is the "zai" character generation according to what Zhu Yuanzhang had set for the descendants of each line.

The next thing is the most troublesome thing. The royal family of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to the principle of the mutual generation of the five elements, that is, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, water generates wood, and wood generates fire.

Therefore, the descendants of the old Zhu family also follow this principle when choosing their names. When the first three characters are used, they must have corresponding radicals, or have corresponding meanings in them.

For example, Emperor Hongzhi’s name is Zhu Youtang. He is of the seniority of the word You, and at the same time he is wood. Because his father Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen’s third character is water, and water grows wood, so when it comes to Zhu Youtang, it is next to the character Daimu.

When it comes to Zhu Houzhao, according to the principle of wood making fire, Zhu Houzhao's third character "Zhao" has the meaning of fire in it.

On the side of Zhu Houzhao's son, according to the five elements principle that fire produces earth, when naming Zhu Houzhong's son, the third one should bring earth.

That is to say, Zhu Houzhao's sons are basically called Zhu Zai or something, with a name with an earthen character.

Fortunately, it is a character with earthy characters. There are still a lot of characters next to earth characters, and it is relatively easy to pick. If it is a character with gold radicals, it is estimated that the periodic table of elements is not enough, because this product is too strong. up.

But even so, Emperor Hongzhi still has a lot of headaches now. Zhu Houzhao is the planter, he is only responsible for planting, naming, raising children and so on are none of his business.

"What's going on?"

Liu Jin looked at his son, then motioned him to sit on a chair beside him and talk.

Liu Xin is also fifteen years old now, he is already a young man, he looks more like his mother Xu Wan'er, with delicate features, a bit more delicate, and lacks a bit of masculinity.

But people are still very smart, and his mother Xu Wan'er came from the wealthy Dingguo Mansion, and the education of the children in the family has always been extremely strict. In terms of pampering the children, I often take the children out to watch football games and the like when I have free time.

Therefore, these children of Liu Jin are all well-educated, and they don't have the slightest habit of being a playboy.

Liu Xin respectfully sat down on a chair beside him. He is the oldest and most sensible. He is the eldest son of the family and shoulders many responsibilities. Xu Wan'er has always been very strict.

"Father, I don't understand why everyone else is going to study in an academy, but I am going to study at Imperial College?"

Liu Xin expressed the doubts in his heart.

For a long time, Liu Jin has adopted a method of integrating new and old education in the education of his children, allowing Liu Xin, Liu Da, and Liu Cheng to go to a new school, and they still go to school with children from ordinary families. They were not sent to traditional academies to study.

But at the same time, they invited famous Confucians to give them some traditional education at home, which focused more on history, calligraphy, some Confucian classics, classic poems, etc., and did not completely follow Confucianism. taught by traditional education.

In Liu Jin's view, new learning has its advantages, and traditional Confucian education also has many merits, and many thoughts and spirits are worthy of recognition and inheritance.

The result of this kind of education method is that now that Liu Xin has graduated from middle school, he is faced with a choice, whether to study in a traditional academy, follow the old routine of stereotyped scholarship, or go to a new type of college to study.

And Liu Jin decisively chose the latter path for his son.

The traditional stereotyped selection of scholars greatly restricts people's thinking, and binds everything about people in a few Confucian classics. Over the millennia, it has become more and more biased and sharp.

Liu Jin doesn't want his children to be unable to get out of it. It's better to study a new school to expand their knowledge and cognition, and what they learn is also useful knowledge and content.

As for the fact that he could not be an official after studying in the new school, Liu Jin never considered letting his children continue to be officials in the Ming Dynasty.

I got a hereditary state father's iron rice bowl, and I can just pass it on to my son, as long as there is only one person in the court, there is no need for all the children to go to the court to be officials.

This is not allowed by the emperor. You must know that these nobles in the court, the children of the family are basically not officials in the court, only those with hereditary titles will be officials in the court.

It is impossible to say that someone of you has mastered the soldiers and horses and became a civil servant in the court, so it is easy to change Jiangshan's surname.

So Liu Jin's plan is that in the future, except for the eldest son Liu Xin, the other children will go to the South African colony. The South African colony is completely different from Ming Dynasty. There is no need for imperial examinations, and there is no need to worry about the suspicion of the emperor. some type of.

Liu Jin is the major shareholder of the South African colonial firm, and the top and bottom members of the South African colonial firm are also from various shareholder families. In the future, letting his children go here can also consolidate his family's position and control in the South African colony.

It is also to stay away from Daming, the power center of the storm, away from the place of right and wrong, and firmly consolidate its territory in South Africa, so that the family can last for a long time.

That is to say, in Liu Jin's plan, the future family will be divided into two branches, one is Liu Xin's side, and the other is on the local side of Daming, who will inherit his title and maintain his family's influence in Daming.

In addition, other sons have been going to South Africa to maintain and consolidate their family's position and control in the South African colony, and maintain their influence in the South African colony.

In fact, there is a third branch in Liu Jin's plan, which is the branch that is in charge of the huge wealth of the Liu family.

Liu Jin has an extremely large industry and wealth under his command. Over the years, he has invested in commercial banks, established factories, shares in Daming First Bank, Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., and many colonies.

This amount of wealth is so huge that it is beyond imagination, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as rich and enemy.

After that, this huge wealth must be handed over to my children to take care of, and I was thinking in my heart whether I should make a special one to manage this huge wealth.

"Do you prefer to study in traditional academies, or do you prefer to study new learning content?"

Liu Jin looked at his son. He has grown up, has his own ideas, and will also think about some of his own things.

"In comparison, I still prefer the courses and content in Xinxue."

Liu Xin thought for a while and said.

"That's right, if you like it, then do what you like to do."

"What other people do is other people's business. It has nothing to do with me. Never follow the crowd, but learn to use your own brain to think and think about problems."

Liu Jin smiled and said, Liu Jin's education method is naturally the education method of later generations, and more is to advocate guidance and cultivate children's ability and habit of independent thinking and self-learning.

"I understand~"

"Then can I join the army in the future?"

"I want to join the army and be an imperial soldier."

Liu Xin nodded half-understood, then thought about it and asked again.

"Of course, after you graduate from Imperial College, I will send you to study at the Royal Military Academy."

Liu Jin smiled and promised.

"awesome!"

When Liu Xin heard this, he immediately jumped up happily. Like many young people in this era, he admires soldiers very much and thinks that wearing military uniforms is very handsome.

PS: How do you think such a big family should plan for their children?
(End of this chapter)